Digg (116.5 KiB, 4,808 hits)
Theme information
- Description: A 3-column, widget-ready theme.
Author’s note
Digg 3 Columns is an extended version of my Digg-like WordPress theme (two columns). Instead of releasing a theme with a unique design for today, I’m releasing only an extended version of one of my previous themes, to take a much needed break from designing.
I don’t want to sacrifice quality just to say that I’ve put out another unique design. After all, I started WPTheme4Free because I wasn’t satisfied with the quality of
free wordpress themes out there. So, see you tomorrow. Hopefully, I’ll get a good night sleep and feel replenished by tomorrow morning.
***Digg is a trademark of digg.com. WPTheme4Free is not affiliated with digg.com.
INSTALLATION
- Unzip the downloaded file. You'll get a folder named "digg"
- Upload the entire "digg" folder to your 'wp-content/themes/" folder
- Login into WordPress administration
- Click on the 'Presentation" tab
- Click on the "digg" theme thumbnail/screenshot or title
That's it. Go back to the front page of your blog and hit refresh to see your newly installed theme.
CUSTOMIZATION
Adding items to the top Menu:
- The top menu features two links: Home and About
- To add more links, use a text editor (i.e: Notepad) to open the header.php file and copy and paste:
<li><a href="<?php echo get_permalink(2); ?>" title="<?php _e('About'); ?>"><?php _e('About'); ?></a></li>
- Remember to edit your link title and the destination of your link within href=" ".
Download this Header to customize:
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Different Header Background:
- By default, the header uses the bg_header.gif image for the background.
- Check the "images/" sub-folder to see if your like the alternate header background (bg_header_alt.gif).
- Use a text editor (i.e: Notepad) to open up the style.css file, look for #header and change the background image from 'bg_header.gif' to 'bg_header_alt.gif'
Unlocking Author Description and Calendar:
- Use a text editor (i.e: Notepad) to open the sidebar.php file and un-comment the author description and calendar areas.
- Remember to also remove the phrase "This...is...hidden."
- If you don't know how to uncomment in HTML, DON'T!!!
TIPS
- Use alignleft or alignright to make your images float left or right. For example: <img src="yourimage.gif" class="alignleft">
THEME USAGE WITH WIDGET ENABLED
By default, this theme has a search form in the header region. If you enable the widget plugin, don't add the search box to your widget list. If you rather have the search form in the sidebar then add the search box to the widget list, but remember to remove the search form in the header region.
Hey there, i’m getting an error from the footer file from this theme:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function credits() in /html/wp-content/themes/digg-3-col/footer.php(2) : eval()’d code(1) : eval()’d code on line 2
Any idea how I can fix it?
10.27.08 at 2:59 pm
I’ve updated the theme. It should work now. Just redownload the theme and upload to your site.
Thank you for reporting the error.
10.27.08 at 11:12 pm
I’ve installed this theme on my wordpress site, however whenever I add more pages, it only adds them to the pages box, but does not create a tab for the new page. Any thoughts?
11.04.08 at 5:43 am
I’ve updated the post to help people customize the theme.
You will manually have to add tabs for each page you create
11.04.08 at 10:36 am
Absolutely great list. Great resource. I must say I do miss one in the category ‘Simple, Minimalistic Themes’: White Space by Brian Gardner.
11.28.08 at 8:45 am
Hi – I’m using the hosted version of WordPress with the extended CSS option. Using CSS I’ve hidden the div with the search box and I’ve inserted the search widget in one of the sidebars. Problem is that it’s not showing up. I suspect that this is because the code for the search field is still in the header — the CSS didn’t actually delete it of course. Does this seem right to you? And do you see any way around this – any potential CSS fix that would address the issue? Or is this only doable with the installed version of WordPress? Thanks in advance for your help and also of course for creating a great theme!!
03.03.09 at 3:31 pm
I find it impossible to remove or rename the “Home” tab. I have a Welcome and am able to direct the home to the Welcome page, but I only want the welcome tab, not both as I need the space. I attempted to edit the css to do this but made a mess. The Home is not listed in the pages list for easy removal or renaming. Any suggestions?
03.31.09 at 12:02 pm
Hi
I downloaded the zip file for Digg from the link above, and got the following error message when I tried to export the archive:
The archive is either in unknown format or damaged
Just thought you should know. Especially since I really want to use this theme
08.20.09 at 5:39 pm
Love the theme, but when I download, it downloads as a zip, but doesn’t unzip–just makes another zip file. Firefox tells me it’s not a zip file.
What gives?
09.04.09 at 2:56 pm
All corrupt zips have been fixed. Please try to download again.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
09.05.09 at 1:28 pm
Hi,
Thanks for the wonderful Digg 3 column theme. I’ve been using it for about 6 months as I build my heygrrrl.wordpress.com blog. Now that I’ve made some headway with the site, I’m migrating it off the wordpress server and over to heygrrrl.com.
Here’s the problem: On heygrrrl.wordpress, I have 7 links/tabs/items on the menu bar. On heygrrrl.com, besides Home and About, I want to add the additional 5 tabs/links/items onto the top menu.
So far I’ve succeeded in adding tabs that have one word in them. I run into problems, however, when the tab is more than one word. Is it possible to do this?
Second problem. I don’t know php and haven’t figured out how to make the tabs/links go live so that they actually link to the page they refer to when they are clicked.
In going into theme manager to the header.php file, do I add the permalink location where it says “get permalink” in the php? When I tried that, it just blew out the entire site.
Thanks for the great theme, which has served me well the past 5 months, and thanks for your help.
Sincerely,
Margaret
09.11.09 at 6:46 am
Widgets
No Sidebars Defined
The theme you are currently using isn’t widget-aware, meaning that it has no sidebars that you are able to change. For information on making your theme widget-aware, please follow these instructions.
09.21.09 at 10:38 am
I just installed this with WordPress Version 2.8.4 and only have the first two columns. I do not get a right column. I don’t see where to turn it on. Am I missing something?
Thanks,
Bill
09.22.09 at 1:38 pm
Same case, I just downloaded and used this theme with wordpress 2.8.4
I don’t see the third column for calender.
I checked into the sidebar.php,
there are no commented codes so that I uncomment them.
Any instructions to follow?
10.19.09 at 2:15 am
Very nice theme.I will add it to my blog.
10.26.09 at 12:18 pm
I created this blog at wordpress.com and tried to migrate over to godaddy wordpress hosting. The custom header feature did not follow. Is there a way to migrate without any problems or a way to create a custom header using a photo?
Thanks We love the theme otherwise.
11.26.09 at 10:18 pm
I love the theme, but every once in awhile, some hackers or something add a bunch of spam-links to the header file. They are invisible to most people unless you disable Java, then you can see all the spam-links. When I notice them every so often, I will re-install the theme and that works for awhile, but is there any way to prevent this from happening in the first place? Is anyone else having this problem?
05.30.10 at 12:27 am
I’m still having this problem of spammers adding links to the front page. The links are only visible when I disable Java, but there are there nonetheless. Is there anyway to stop this from happening? PLEASE e-mail me and let me know.
06.06.10 at 8:26 pm
its a nice theme
01.19.11 at 11:50 am
the best
02.12.11 at 6:43 pm
Love this theme on wordpress.com. HOWEVER, I just upgraded to Firefox 4.0 and it chopped my right side column off and moved it to the bottom. Any clue if there is a fix? What’s weird is that I view other blogs using Digg3 column using FF4 and they display fine
05.10.11 at 12:48 pm
e on wordpress.com. HOWEVER, I just upgraded to Firefox 4.0 and it chopped my right side column off and moved it to the bottom. Any c
08.23.11 at 6:15 am
Incompatible Archive. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Invalid End of Central Dir Record size : 15
HELP!!!
08.25.11 at 3:32 pm
Yes, December 2011 – I have downloaded the Zip file…and it is deemed to be corrupt by my system…wondering if you have a fix for that?
Liam
12.29.11 at 1:20 am