WordPress Theme: Upstart Blogger Minim

I’m releasing my first WordPress theme, Upstart Blogger Minim, based on an old design I used on Futurosity. This WordPress theme is compatible with WordPress 2.3 and is designed to be:

  1. Minimalist: Very clean and easy to read.
  2. Fast: Lightweight, for speed.
  3. Ad-friendly: The columns are sized specifically to accept standard ad formats. See the README file for examples.
  4. Easy to install: You can install without plugins, though three simple plugins are recommended and included.

Here’s a preview (click to enlarge):

ubminim.jpg

Or, view the demo.

Download

Download Upstart Blogger Minim

You can download the theme, Upstart Blogger Minim, by clicking here.

Be sure to subscribe to Upstart Blogger to be notified of updates!

Instructions

  1. Open the UpstartBloggerMinim folder, then upload the ubminim folder to your WordPress theme folder.
  2. Open the Plugins folder inside the UpstartBloggerMinim folder. Open each plugin folder and read the readme files for installation instructions.
  3. If you’re using WordPress 2.2 or higher, you are already widget compatible. If not, if you don’t already have the WordPress Widgets plugin, go get it and follow the instructions to install it.
  4. To select the theme, go to the Presentations tab of your WordPress admin and select Upstart Blogger Minim.
  5. If you have the WordPress Widgets plugin installed and activated, a new tab, Sidebar Widgets, will appear. Click on the tab to arrange your widgets. To find more widgets, check out Plugins/WordPress Widgets.
  6. Edit the sidebar by opening and editing sidebar.php.
  7. Replace the /images/header.jpg image with your own. I recommend using an image with the name of your blog, in which case you can delete these lines from sidebar.php:

    < ?php bloginfo('name'); ?>

    < ?php bloginfo('description'); ?>

  8. If you want to use a separate Archives page, create an Archives page in WordPress admin and select Archives as the page template.

Plugins

Three plugins are recommended and are included. Here are the links, if you want to check that you have the latest versions:

Upgrading from Earlier Versions

This update added the new tags for WordPress 2.3 and cleaned up various files. If you have an earlier version installed and you’ve thoroughly tested all of your pages after making any modifications you’ve made, you’re probably all right. There were no changes to styles.css.

License

This WordPress theme is released under the Creative Commons Attribution v3.0, meaning you can do pretty much whatever you want with it, but you should (please) keep the link back to Upstart Blogger, either in the sidebar or the footer. See the README for details.

History

0.1 First released 04.12.07.
0.2 Updated 04.23.07. Removed a few overlooked remnants of my old site. Fixed 404 page.
0.3 Updated 04.24.07. UB Minim is now widgetized!
0.4 Updated 04.30.07. Fixed broken links in the archive page. (Thanks, dissi!)
0.4.1 Updated 04.30.07. Oops! Fixed a typo introduced when I updated to 0.4.
0.5 Updated 05.02.07. Fixed a number of missing or misplaced tags that were causing problems in IE. Also, a little dusting and cleaning, e.g., removing extra lines at the ends of files (which might cause feed problems).
0.6 Added note to edit sidebar.php if you want to change the About or Clickage sections. Fixed archive and category pages so they now match the style and font sizes of the front page.
1.0 I think I’m through making changes (unless I’ve introduced any new problems), so I’m calling this 1.0. Minim is now compatible with WordPress 2.3. Fixed a number of missing or misplaced tags, cleaned up some extraneous code, fixed search results to match other pages.

Mods

Will Wilkins of IAMWW has released a beautiful mod of Minim. You can grab it at Wordpress Theme IAMWW w2.

Mohsin Naqi of Blogging Bits has released another beautiful mod of Minim. Check it out at Release: Content Cream WordPress Theme.

Patrick Dumarché has released a French localization of Minim. Download Upstart Blogger Minim en français and replace the files in the original Minim theme with the translated files in Patrick’s release.

Categories : Themes, WordPress, Wordpress Theme

196 Comments For This Post

  1. Bonita in Pink April 13th, 2007 at 1:22 pm

    Very nice!
    Thanks for sharing with us. =)

  2. seramar April 17th, 2007 at 8:56 pm

    Very nice! I’ll be adding this to my wordpress resources compilation (as of right now, personal only, not published anywhere on the web). BTW, what tool do you use to display the image in the page like that? I’ve seen it all over but never see any indication as to what tool it is.

  3. Robert Ellis April 18th, 2007 at 7:22 am

    Thanks, seramar. The tool for displaying the enlarged image is Lightbox JS.

  4. Stefson April 22nd, 2007 at 2:45 am

    A PS to my previous post
    Any idea how to create a “Read the full story” link after the cutoff […] ?

  5. Robert Ellis April 22nd, 2007 at 8:12 am

    Stefson, you can change the the_excerpt() tag to the_content(), which allows you to specify the more_link_text, but then you have to use the ‹!– more –› Quicktag. Or, you could use the_excerpt Reloaded plugin, which is what I use.

  6. Derek C. F. Pegritz April 22nd, 2007 at 10:09 am

    In reply to the comment that you left recently on my blog: As soon as I’m done proofing the PHP in my implementation of the Minim theme, I’ll zip the files up and send ‘em back to you to incorporate into the original theme! I’ll annotate all of the changes carefully so you can readily identify them.

    It’s a great theme, and I’ll be sure to help you out with cleaning up the WordPress tags!

  7. Robert Ellis April 22nd, 2007 at 10:14 am

    Hey, Derek, thanks very much. I appreciate the help. I plan to do more WordPress themes, but I’ll start from scratch so the code is clean.

  8. Stefson April 22nd, 2007 at 1:42 pm

    Thanks a lot Robert.
    Great theme you made btw. I love it.

  9. Robert Ellis April 22nd, 2007 at 1:53 pm

    Stefson, you’re welcome. Glad you like it. More to come :)

  10. James April 24th, 2007 at 6:35 am

    Ive found the problem with the layout not working.

    Wordpress uses an absolute path . It must have came with the use of a backup database stored locally so it was looking for the style in the wrong place.

    Thanks

  11. Robert Ellis April 24th, 2007 at 8:10 am

    James, glad you found the problem and that it’s working for you now.

  12. Scott Johnson April 24th, 2007 at 4:37 pm

    Hello, I think you’ve come up a very nice, minimalist theme. I was wondering if anyone had any input on a bug I seem to be having in IE7 and Safari- where on the single post/comments page, the sidebar div is getting displayed underneath the post. Works fine in Firefox (Mac).

    example(pardon the test post):
    http://datastream.irregulara.org/2007/04/21/new-user-testitunes-negotiations/

  13. Robert Ellis April 24th, 2007 at 4:50 pm

    Scott, this isn’t a problem with Safari or IE7. I think you accidently deleted a <div> tag. Try adding a tag to your single.php file, like this:


    The theme looks great in black, btw!

  14. diditho April 26th, 2007 at 3:08 am

    i found that the theme did not working.
    it’s only shows blank page
    what’s wrong?
    i’m using WP 2.1
    thankyou

  15. Robert Ellis April 26th, 2007 at 8:20 am

    diditho, that’s very odd. It should be working (I see that another theme is working on your site, so it’s not your WordPress installation).

    Can you see the preview image in your WordPress admin? If not, there’s probably something wrong with the install of Minim. Did you change any code? Try downloading the theme again and reinstalling (delete the old installation first).

  16. Courtney April 26th, 2007 at 6:37 pm

    I like your theme! Simple but unique design, just what I was looking for. Thanx

  17. Robert Ellis April 26th, 2007 at 6:42 pm

    Thanks, Courtney!

  18. diditho April 26th, 2007 at 6:47 pm

    still didin’t working..
    i’ve already re-download the theme, also activate the three plugin.

    i also cleanup my .htaccess file, but still nothing happen. the same blank page.
    yup..thats odd…, because other theme works fine.
    oh..similar problem also occurs at 2831 theme by elifoner http://elifoner.com/145#more-145

    thankyou

  19. Robert Ellis April 26th, 2007 at 6:52 pm

    I’m sorry, diditho, I’m stumped. I can’t think of any reason why you wouldn’t see it. If I think of anything, I’ll let you know.

  20. dissi April 30th, 2007 at 12:56 am

    sorry, actually i am a wordpress newbie but i directly started with your cool theme instead with the boring default stuff. ;)
    i am using 0.1 right now and made some small changes.
    my question would be:
    how can i upgrade to 0.3 without losing the changes i’ve done so far?
    can i copy&paste some code or should i make a clean re-install of the theme ?

    thanks for answering,
    dissi

  21. Robert Ellis April 30th, 2007 at 6:00 am

    dissi, you should be able to upgrade to 0.3 without too many problems. I don’t think I changed the CSS at all, so if your changes are mainly to the appearance, just swap the new style.css with your old file. The biggest changes are to the sidebar, which is also where you’ve likely made changes. These can be carefully copied and pasted. If you want to use widgets, you may need to copy changes from your old sidebar into new widgets.

    Be sure to keep a backup copy of your old theme. If you muck something up, just download Minim 0.3 again. Good luck!

  22. dissi April 30th, 2007 at 10:51 am

    thanks, it was pretty easy.
    but the upgrade didn’t solve a small bug i found. so perhaps you could take a look?

    if you look at the monthly archive
    (for example here: http://dissidenz.olifani.de/?m=200609)
    you won’t be able to get to the entry by clicking the title. but it works that way at the main page and at the archive by category.

    thanks in advance
    dissi

  23. Robert Ellis April 30th, 2007 at 11:14 am

    You’re right, dissi. I’ve fixed the problem and uploaded 0.4. You can download the file and replace the old archive.php with the new one. Thanks for catching this!

  24. dissi April 30th, 2007 at 11:48 am

    sorry, but the problem does not seem to have changed. :(

  25. Robert Ellis April 30th, 2007 at 11:55 am

    dissi, I think the theme is fine. You may have copied the corrupt tag. Look in your archive.php file for a tag that looks like this:

    %3Cphp?%20the_permalink();%3E

    and replace it with this:

    Let me know if that helps.

  26. dissi April 30th, 2007 at 12:16 pm

    weird, because i can see the change at my admin area online as well. i copied this out of my current “archive.php”:

  27. Robert Ellis April 30th, 2007 at 12:21 pm

    dissi, this is very strange. When I go to your page and look at the Status Bar, the links are broken, but when I look at your source, they’re fine.

    Try disabling your plugins and see if it works. I’m stumped.

  28. dissi April 30th, 2007 at 12:30 pm

    it isn’t that disastrous, i can disable this part of the sidebar if there is no other possibility.
    because i don’t see which plugin could be responsible for this weird problem.
    the only suspicious one was “o42-clean-umlauts” for automatically convert weird german letters, but deactivating didn’t help. the other ones seem very innocent to me (like “audio player”, “tag warrior”, “footnotes”).

  29. dissi April 30th, 2007 at 12:35 pm

    sorry, i realized something in the source view:

    when i look at the archive via category the source code looks like this:

    and it works.

    when i look at the archive via month the source code looks like this:

    Robert Ellis April 30th, 2007 at 12:47 pm

    diss, I’m very sorry! You’re right. I introduced a different typo in 0.4. I thought the problem was corrected, but I must have been looking at a category archive.

    This should be fixed now. Download the theme again and replace your old archive.php with the new one.

    Thanks for your help in bringing this to my attention!

  30. dissi April 30th, 2007 at 1:01 pm

    YES! you did it!
    thank you for this live support.
    i am happy now. :)

  31. Robert Ellis April 30th, 2007 at 1:02 pm

    You’re welcome! Thanks very much for helping me to troubleshoot this.

  32. Nikki May 2nd, 2007 at 12:22 pm

    I had the same problem as “Scott Johnson” .
    The div is missing from single.php

    Thanks for this wonderful theme!
    ~Nikki

  33. Robert Ellis May 2nd, 2007 at 1:37 pm

    Thanks, Nikki. I went through the files and did more testing in IE. I found a number of missing or misplaced tags, so I’ve just updated the theme to 0.5.

  34. danee May 12th, 2007 at 5:59 am

    I’ve really had some fun with this theme. Thanks for fixing the IE problems. My version can be seen here: www.daneevoorhees.com/blog

    cheers!

  35. Robert Ellis May 12th, 2007 at 7:35 am

    danee, I love what you’ve done with the theme, and I enjoyed perusing your blog. But what I loved most were your photographs. Great portfolio!

  36. danee May 13th, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Thanks for the nice words, Robert!! :) Appreciate it. I’m very much a fan of your design as well.

    I do have a funny problem though. If you view the blog in Firefox, up at the top just to the left of my logo img, a tiny “:)” and a tiny grey box appear. I’ve dug through all the code, and can’t seem to find where this might be coming from anywhere. I know its definitely not in the sidebar.php file. These little things don’t appear when the blog is viewed in IE.

    Any idea? I very much appreciate your time on this.

  37. Robert Ellis May 13th, 2007 at 6:36 pm

    danee, the problem is with some stats code that’s actually at the very bottom of your page, even though it appears at the top. Look for code containing an image tag #wpstats and an iframe with title=”What?”

    You might be able to hide this somewhere else on your page or try putting it in a div tag with visibility: hidden.

    BTW, you can easily troubleshoot this using Web Developer Extension and Firebug. See Panic Coda: What’s Missing? 19 Free Apps to Fill the Gaps.

    Hope this helps!

  38. danee May 13th, 2007 at 6:40 pm

    Brilliant! I fixed it in 10 seconds! Thanks so much for your help!

  39. Robert Ellis May 13th, 2007 at 7:06 pm

    You’re welcome!

  40. Polle May 21st, 2007 at 11:28 am

    Great theme, I like it a lot!

    But is there any way to get it alligned in the center of your screen? I’m a complete fool when it comes to codes, and to cooking, but that’s another story.

    Thanks in advance for any solution, cheers!

  41. Robert Ellis May 21st, 2007 at 11:39 am

    Polle, centering the layout is easy. Just open up style.css and change this:

    #container {
    width: 840px;
    }

    to this:

    #container {
    width: 840px;
    margin: 0 auto;
    }

    Have fun!

  42. Polle May 21st, 2007 at 12:14 pm

    Fantastic, what a quick reply! Thanks a lot!

  43. Todd May 22nd, 2007 at 9:00 am

    Hi,

    Pretty fantastic theme, the best I’ve seen and I’m trying to get it up an running.

    Was having a problem with links generally on my front page (cursor doesn’t seem to recognize them. Links aren’t showing up in the posts themselves, but are once you go to the permalinks. Anything obvious I’ve done wrong?

    Thanks for your help.

  44. Robert Ellis May 22nd, 2007 at 9:06 am

    Todd, I just took a look at your site and the sidebar links and permalinks seem to be working fine. There are no links on the front page because the theme uses the_excerpt() tag, which doesn’t include links (which makes sense; you want visitors to click through to the post to read the whole story before they leave your site). If you want excerpts with links, try the_excerpt Reloaded plugin.

    Hope that helps!

  45. Todd May 22nd, 2007 at 9:16 am

    Thank you, helps a lot.

  46. Rodolfo Pilas May 23rd, 2007 at 2:44 pm

    Thank you for this excellent and clean theme. You can see at my site www.pilas.net.

    A little feedback: When I goes to previous comments, several pages (i.e. page 4) and enter to see single post there is not a link to return to such page 4. (you have previous post, next post and main page, but no to the page 4)

  47. Robert Ellis May 23rd, 2007 at 2:51 pm

    You’re welcome, Rodolfo. Your site looks great!

    Regarding the links, I don’t know of a WordPress tag that would let you do this. You’d just have to use your browser’s Back button.

  48. Dany May 25th, 2007 at 4:41 am

    Hello first of all tnx for your template it the best one !!
    I want to use Sociable and WP-PostRatings and WP-PostViews in this template could made your template ready to use for this template so more ppl can use it too

    And i can tell you already have done a great job

    If you could help me out i realy would like it

    I ask because i not so good whit php

    TXN

  49. Dany May 25th, 2007 at 6:24 am

    I am working new whit this templete WordPress Theme: IAMWW w2

    just to test so
    If dont see your temp on my site it is because of that

    I don’t now which one i gone use but i sill like to see an update template because it give the temp more fuctn and it looks good and also than ppl can vote :)

    Dany

  50. Dany May 25th, 2007 at 6:32 am

    I found your temp and it is great but i say it is not widget ready so if i may ask can you make it widget ready ?

    and also imculde Sociable and WP-PostRatings in your temp looks better and give more fucn and also because i am not so good whit php

    Stil great work and keep it up

    Dany

  51. Robert Ellis May 25th, 2007 at 8:30 am

    Dany, thanks for your comments. Unfortunately, it isn’t practical for me to take requests for including plugins. There are too many plugins available, they add complexity to the theme, I don’t have time to support them, and they have a tendency to create problems or break when WordPress is updated. I’m really sorry.

    Most plugins come with clear instructions on their use. You might also find help in the WordPress Plugins and Hacks forum.

    The IAMWW theme is based on Minim. It’s an excellent theme.

    Minim is widget ready, although it does include some extra content that will appear even if you are using widgets. If you want to use the widgets, you can edit or delete the extra content in sidebar.php.

  52. Dany May 25th, 2007 at 11:18 am

    Hi mate it worked have a look

    Just addes som php code that all so i was lazzy

  53. Robert Ellis May 25th, 2007 at 11:20 am

    Cool, Dany. Nice job!

  54. Polle May 28th, 2007 at 6:54 am

    Dear Robert,

    I’m currently working on my new blog (http://tallman.nl/) and I start to like your theme more and more; as said before you did a great job!

    Once again I run into a little css styling problem. I would like to have a slightly bigger font on the posttitle-link when checking out it’s category. How should I do this, make a new class and assign it?

    Sorry for all those silly questions,I promise to start studying css myself one day..

  55. Robert Ellis May 28th, 2007 at 7:40 am

    Polle, no problem. There is already an unstyled tag in category.php. If you want the titles on the category page to be bigger, add something like this to your style.css file:

    .results_content a {
    font-size: 18px;
    }

    Change “18px” to whatever size you want.

  56. Vladimir May 28th, 2007 at 11:08 am

    Hi, I love your theme. Only a little SEO suggestion - tags after body should be in order from H1 to H6 (as far I know). You use H3 first - category name and than follows H1 - name of post.

    Any idea how to make that header picture “random”? I want to use more pics that will change with reload of page.

  57. Robert Ellis May 28th, 2007 at 11:15 am

    Thanks, Vladimir. Using the H1 tag for the title is SEO-friendly. H1 tags should have more weight and you want the title to have more weight with a search engine than the category. I don’t think it matters significantly in what order the tags are used.

    To make the picture random you can use the Ad Rotator plugin.

  58. Vladimir May 28th, 2007 at 11:24 am

    Thanks, that’s really a quick answer!

  59. Robert Ellis May 28th, 2007 at 11:26 am

    You’re welcome! You happened to catch me at a good time :)

  60. Steve Mullen May 28th, 2007 at 8:48 pm

    Hi there!

    I posted in the iPod giveaway thread. Perhaps you remember the Startup BizCast?

    Anyhow, I’m having a little issue with category pages. When you click on a category to pull up all of the posts in that category, the format is extremely hard to read. There’s no breaker between posts and the headlines aren’t even larger. I’ve tried tinkering in an attempt to make it look just like the posts on the front page or the individual posts, but haven’t had any luck.

    Here’s a link to a category listing

    Any tips? I’m not sure I’m explaining this very well. Are you understanding what I’m getting at? I’m starting to get concerned that the “minimalist” idea of this theme isn’t for me. :(

  61. Polle May 29th, 2007 at 4:34 am

    Vladimir, concerning a rotating image as a header, check out the following link:

    http://alistapart.com/articles/randomizer/

    I implemented this script and it’s working fine for me, hope this helps.

  62. Robert Ellis May 29th, 2007 at 7:24 am

    Steve, you’re right. There is a problem with the category pages, which I hadn’t noticed before. I’m going to work on this today and post an update no later than tomorrow. I’ll fix it so the category and archive pages are easier to read.

  63. Steve Mullen May 29th, 2007 at 8:19 am

    Thanks, Robert. I’ll look forward to the update. The process of finding an appropriate three-column theme hasn’t been easy. Two-column themes are much more plentiful, and I suspect are generally easier to design. Yours works and looks just fine after some of my tinkering, with this one exception that I’ve found. I wasn’t looking forward to starting my search over!

    Thanks for being so available, and for supporting your theme!!!

  64. Robert Ellis May 29th, 2007 at 9:33 am

    Steve, I’ve just posted the update. Thanks for pointing out the problem with the category page. I’ve taken your advice and altered the archive and category pages so they match the style and fonts on the front page. Please let me know if you have any problems with the update.

  65. Mike Roussell May 29th, 2007 at 5:53 pm

    This is a great template. I was wondering how I can center it on the page????

    Thanks,
    Mike

  66. Robert Ellis May 29th, 2007 at 6:04 pm

    Mike, you’d need to edit the style.css file. Find the #container selector and change it to this:

    #container {
    width: 840px;
    text-align: center;
    margin: 0 auto;
    }

    Then you’ll need to add this to the #sidebars and #entries selectors:

    text-align: left;

    That should do it!

  67. Mike Roussell May 29th, 2007 at 6:33 pm

    Robert,

    Thanks so much! That was really quick and it was exactly what I needed.

    -Mike

  68. Steve Mullen May 29th, 2007 at 7:12 pm

    Thanks for the update, Robert. The categories page looks much better, but the archives pages don’t look any different.

    Here’s a link

    Now, all I did to update to the new version was copy over the categories.php and archives.php files. I was trying to avoid starting over making all my modifications. Did I need to do something else?

    PS - I switched the H1 font size and switched from the_excerpt to the_content. Those are the only changes I made as of right now.

    PS2 - I may as well ask while I’m typing, how do I get the bullets to show up in my post in the category view? Do I need to make a change to the li setting somewhere?

  69. Robert Ellis May 29th, 2007 at 7:28 pm

    Steve, you need to copy over the new archive.php file, not archives.php. An easy mistake :)

    If you want bullets, you’ll need to change the li selectors. Just delete this:

    list-style-type: none;

  70. Steve Mullen May 29th, 2007 at 9:03 pm

    You rock. Thanks for straightening that out for me!

  71. jt June 6th, 2007 at 7:16 pm

    Hi,

    Love the design of your blog. However, I’m wondering if there is a way to move all the sidebars to the right side like what you have on your site.

  72. Robert Ellis June 6th, 2007 at 7:27 pm

    Thanks, jt. Moving the sidebar is easy. You’ll need to edit the style.css file for Minim. Find this:

    #sidebar {
    width: 336px;
    float: left;
    font-size: .8em;
    line-height: 1.4em;
    padding: 0 10px 25px 0;
    }

    and change the float property to float: right;, then find this:

    #entries {
    width: 468px;
    float: right;
    }

    and change the float to float: left;.

    That should do it! Let me know if you have any problems.

  73. jt June 6th, 2007 at 7:59 pm

    Thanks. It worked.

    Next question is how to get the posts not to truncate video or links, also, how did you hack your futurosity site to have a 3rd sidebar displayed horizontally on the bottom. I tried to implement the problogger template that does the same. >> Click click click

  74. Robert Ellis June 6th, 2007 at 8:07 pm

    jt, if you don’t want the posts truncated, you can replace the < ?php the_excerpt(); ?> tag in index.php with < ?php the_content(); ?>.

    There’s nothing particularly special about the footer on http://www.futurosity.com/. If you know anything at all about CSS, just add another div to your page and float the images left.

  75. jt June 8th, 2007 at 1:42 am

    Can you tell me how to do it, I’d like to add my own feed farm to the footer , like futurosity.

  76. Robert Ellis June 8th, 2007 at 7:30 am

    jt, if you’re talking about the feed farm, you’ll need to get the SimplePie Plugin for Wordpress and follow the instructions.

  77. darla June 8th, 2007 at 11:00 am

    Hey Robert,

    Great theme! Is there a way to make images appear on the front page of the post like danee did?

  78. Robert Ellis June 8th, 2007 at 11:06 am

    darla, to display the images on the front page, you have two choices: you can display the entire post by replacing the < ?php the_excerpt(); ?> tag in index.php with the < ?php the_content(); ?> tag, or you can use the the_excerpt Reloaded plugin.

  79. jt June 8th, 2007 at 2:34 pm

    Hi,

    I did the sidebar / content switch as you suggested. It worked well. Looked great in firefox, but then I looked at it on IE 6 and the sidebar drops to directly below the content.

    I switched the sidebar back to the left and it looked fine again in IE 6.

  80. Robert Ellis June 8th, 2007 at 2:50 pm

    jt, I’m not sure why this would make a difference in IE6, but I looked at your site and noticed that you have some video files which look wider than the width of the main column. This can throw things off. Try finding this tag in your style.css file and making the width a tad larger:

    #container {
    width: 840px;
    }

  81. jt June 8th, 2007 at 2:50 pm

    Hi,

    I diagnosed the problem. It is when you change the index.php from excerpt to content.

    I’m going to try excerpt reloaded to see if it makes a difference or keep reducing the size of images.

    is there a quick fix by making the whole content area bigger?

  82. Robert Ellis June 8th, 2007 at 2:55 pm

    jt, you can give more room to the entries by increasing the width of this selector in your style.css file:

    #entries {
    width: 468px;
    float: right;
    }

    If you make the entries wider, you’ll need to add width to the container selector in my previous post. In fact, changing only the container won’t help unless you increase the width of the entries (it will just add more space between the entries and the sidebar).

  83. jt June 8th, 2007 at 3:06 pm

    You are right. I did both before you replied but thanks for the reply.

    I changed container to 900px and entries to 510px.

    I’m really enjoying your design. So simple, so elegant…

  84. Robert Ellis June 8th, 2007 at 3:07 pm

    Glad it’s working for!

  85. jt June 8th, 2007 at 6:01 pm

    So how exactly did you set up the feed farm? Was it a div tag inside index.php, or the footer?

  86. Robert Ellis June 9th, 2007 at 8:37 am

    jt, Futurosity has a separate home page for the feed farm. I’ll send it to you along with the CSS file and you can edit it to your needs.

  87. darla June 11th, 2007 at 2:31 pm

    thanks for the suggestion Robert so far my blog is coming out great. One problem though…how do you get the comments to align left and right margins…

  88. Robert Ellis June 16th, 2007 at 12:07 pm

    darla, if you want to justify the comments text (I assume that’s what you mean), you’ll need to edit the style.css file. Find the .commentlist li selector and add this:

    text-align: justify;

  89. vijay June 19th, 2007 at 9:34 am

    robert,

    does the plug-in have known issue with the image pages.

    i prefer to have a thumbnail in my post with a link to the ‘page’ - i use the link-to-page option when i upload the image…

    i’ve tried doing this with the minim theme but it has an error or has a 404 issue.

    help!!???

  90. Robert Ellis June 19th, 2007 at 9:37 am

    vijay, I’m not exactly sure what you’re referring to. But if you’re getting a 404 error, that shouldn’t have anything to do with the theme. There’s a problem with the path in the thumbnail. I would need to see your site to troubleshoot it. Post the URL and I’ll have a look.

  91. bonz June 19th, 2007 at 12:55 pm

    Hi Robert,

    This is just THE kind of template I’ve been trying to design myself, I was just looking for the references, and bam! I saw this template, and it’s just what I’ve been imagining—even better! Thank you so much for this well-designed template. :)

    Oh, one more thing. What if I want to change the typeface for the bodycopy and the blue+gray colors into something else? What’s the proper way to do that? Thanx beforehand.

    Cheers!

  92. Robert Ellis June 19th, 2007 at 1:00 pm

    bonz, thanks very much for your comment. Glad you like it.

    To change the typeface and colors, you’ll have to edit the style.css file. You can edit the body selector to change the font. The blue color is for the links, so edit the a selector. If you just want to play with the colors, just edit any of the color properties. Let me know if you have any specific questions.

  93. bonz June 20th, 2007 at 1:56 am

    Hi Robert.

    Thanx for your quick reply. The direction you gave is very clear.

    However, before I had a chance to try to tweak it, I encountered a major problem—the template went blank! It displayed nothing but a completely white page. Well it looks kinda cool though, but although I’m keen to a zen-like design, a completely blank page just way too minimalistic :D.

    I thoroughly followed your instruction, upload everything using Cyberduck and put everything in its rpoper place just as you instructed. It showed up in the theme panel, I clicked it, then I refreshed my blog, but to my surprise—it went completely blank.

    I’m using Safari 2.0 on a 1Ghz iMac G4 running OS X 10.4.8 and I’m using Yahoo hosting.

    I tested another template, uploaded W2 form IAMWW which is based from UB Mini—the result is just the same—blank. When I switch to the generic/included themes, it worked just fine.

    What gives? Am I cursed?

    Please enlighten me.

    Many thanx beforehand.

  94. Robert Ellis June 20th, 2007 at 7:47 am

    bonz, that’s very odd. I have heard of that before (see diditho above), I think it even happened to me once, but I can’t remember the fix. I’d be keen to find out what the problem is, however, so if you can post your URL I’ll have a look.

  95. manan June 22nd, 2007 at 8:48 am

    Hi,
    is it possible to align the top of the image in the side bar and the header on the right?

  96. Robert Ellis June 22nd, 2007 at 8:57 am

    manan, yes you can align the image and the header. Probably the easiest way to do this is to just drop the sidebar down a bit. Open style.css and find this:

    #sidebar {
    width: 336px;
    float: left;
    font-size: .8em;
    line-height: 1.4em;
    padding: 0 10px 25px 0;
    }

    Change the first number after padding: until you have the alignment you want. A value of 3em or so should do it, unless you’ve changed the size of your fonts.

  97. bonz June 22nd, 2007 at 6:25 pm

    Hi Rob,

    Sorry it took me a while to reply.

    I’ve tried to dig through the css codes, everything seems to be normal. I still can’t pinpoint what is the culprit, though.

    I thought it’s because of the Wordpress version incompatibility. (Yahoo is using version 2.0.2) But then again isn’t Mini also compatible for Wordpress 2.0 or 2.1?)

    By the way, my website is “the-bakery-jakarta.com” in case you want to have a look.

    Thank you.

  98. manan June 22nd, 2007 at 7:02 pm

    Thank you! that worked perfectly. And now to abuse your kindness, can I have a follow up?{Awesome theme!}

    http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/optical_character_recognition/sunday_reading_for_bloomers.html#comments

    If you look at the comments on that page, I am trying to figure out how to get the tag to appear _inside_ the comments div.

  99. Robert Ellis June 22nd, 2007 at 8:09 pm

    manan, the theme looks great on your site.

    Did you change something in the style.css file? Try this. Find:

    .commentlist li {
    margin: 5px 0 0 0;
    }

    and changing it to this:

    .commentlist li {
    margin: 5px 0 0 20px;
    }

    Is that what you’re after?

  100. manan June 23rd, 2007 at 6:42 am

    oh perfect! that worked great. Thank you again for this wonderful theme.

  101. darla June 25th, 2007 at 12:36 am

    Robert, thanks for your help. How do you put a border around the around the comment instructions box. I can manage to do it around the comments…(although I can seem to get the comments that aren’t alts aligned together) and it’s driving me nuts. I’m a newbie to the whole css thing. Thanks

  102. Robert Ellis June 25th, 2007 at 7:55 am

    daral, the css for this is inside the comments.php file (it doesn’t really belong there, but Minim was one of my first public themes and it’s a bit of a hack job).

    Open comments.php and find this:


    have your say

    Then add a border to the style tag, something like this:

    Change “1px” to whatever width you want and “red” to whatever color you want. That should do it.

  103. Sean June 25th, 2007 at 9:19 pm

    Great theme. Thanks for making it available.

    Any idea why my links are getting split into two?

    thanks,
    Sean

  104. Robert Ellis June 26th, 2007 at 7:01 am

    Sean, I’m not sure what you mean. I looked at your site and you’re using Upstart Blogger Modicus, and your links seem fine.

  105. Vijay June 26th, 2007 at 10:47 am

    Robert, basically I want to use this feature:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Image_and_File_Attachments#Inserting_Images

    Look for the ‘Linked to Page’ - its a feature within wordpress which should work, but doesnt seem to.

    as used here: http://artinsight.wordpress.com/gallery/horses/

  106. Vijay June 26th, 2007 at 10:50 am

    although, it links thumbnail linking to a bigger size and then a final link to the actual jpg.

    it would be nice if it just linked to full image on that template page.

    http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=458&page

    its a shame wordpress doesnt allow it to be used this way - from what i can tell, its something many users do really want.

  107. Robert Ellis June 26th, 2007 at 2:14 pm

    Vijay, I understand what you’re trying to do, but I don’t think this is a problem with the theme. If you’re willing to give me access to your blog, I’ll have a look when I find a minute. I’ll send you an email.

  108. Will June 26th, 2007 at 5:05 pm

    Thanks for the link Robert! Keep up the great work here!

  109. Sean June 26th, 2007 at 8:39 pm

    Hi Robert.

    Notice how my links are split into two sections on the right under “You May Also Like”. I’m only seeing one bit of code in the main page code, but still get two sets of links…

    Sean

  110. Onur July 1st, 2007 at 9:03 pm

    Hi Robert. Thanks for the great theme. Is there any way to turn on bullets for the lists in the posts, but keep them off for the side bar elements?
    Thanks, -onur

  111. Upstart Blogger July 2nd, 2007 at 7:04 am

    Onur, you’ll have to edit style.php. Just add a line like this:

    .post ul li {list-style-type: disc; margin-left:37px; }

    You might want to adjust the margin.

  112. darla July 2nd, 2007 at 1:24 pm

    Hi robert, have you heard about any issues with the comments entry form with Safari? I’m having that issue.

  113. Upstart Blogger July 2nd, 2007 at 1:29 pm

    No, I’m not aware of any problems with Safari. What kinds of problems are you having? Can you post a link to your site so we can have a look?

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  115. Izumino July 23rd, 2007 at 9:30 am

    Hi. I really like this Theme, and am using it on my website. I have one question that may go against the spirit of the theme, but I’ll ask anyway: Are there settings we can change to include the whole post and not just a portion of the post, and to include the heading photos I normally include with each of my posts?
    Thanks for all your work on this awesome theme.

  116. Izumino July 23rd, 2007 at 12:05 pm

    Hey! I figured it out myself, using this dusty thing called “My Brain”. Thanks! (I reviewed the notes from Users here, then copied a load to my PC, copied by website page to my PC, changed the reference to CSS file on my hard drive, and played around there, and it was increasing the container to 1000 px that did the trick.)

  117. Upstart Blogger July 23rd, 2007 at 12:20 pm

    lzumino, glad you’ve got it working the way you want! Nothing “goes against the spirit of theme.” I expect, and hope, that people will make tweaks (big or small) to suit their tastes and needs.

  118. Izumino July 24th, 2007 at 12:18 pm

    Hey there–I have another question. I changed the container size in the .CSS file, and everything looks swell in IE. However, in Firefox there is a much larger amount of white space between the regular section and the posts section. Has anyone else had these issues, and how do you handle? Thanks.

  119. Upstart Blogger July 24th, 2007 at 12:42 pm

    Izumino, just taking a quick glance at your site, you’ve got an image that is too wide for the main column (640×480), which can throw the layout out of whack. Trim the white space from your images and keep the width less than the width of the post column.

  120. Orien July 25th, 2007 at 9:51 pm

    Excellent theme! I just have one question. How would I make it so that #entries will expand as far right as possible in the window while the width of #sidebar remains the same?

    Thank you.

  121. Upstart Blogger July 26th, 2007 at 5:33 am

    Orien, you’d have to change a few selectors in the style.css file.

    First, find #container and change it to this:

    #container {width: 100%; min-width: 840px;}

    Find #sidebar and change it to this:

    #sidebar {
    width: 40%;
    max-width: 336px;
    float: left;
    font-size: .8em;
    line-height: 1.4em;
    padding: 0 10px 25px 0;
    }

    Find #entries and change it to this:

    #entries {width: 60%;
    	min-width: 460px;
    	position: absolute;
    	left: 400px;
    	}

    This doesn’t work perfectly if you increase the width of the window, but should give you close to what you’re looking for.

  122. ahmet July 26th, 2007 at 12:28 pm

    My images or thumbnails are not showing up, i have wp 2.2 and theme 0.6. Can you help me please? I really like the theme but it is a shame that my images are now showing up in the mainpage in the posts.

  123. Upstart Blogger July 26th, 2007 at 12:32 pm

    ahmet, WordPress does not display images in excerpts by default. I’ve answered this question above, but here it is again:

    to display the images on the front page, you have two choices: you can display the entire post by replacing the < ?php the_excerpt(); ?> tag in index.php with the < ?php the_content(); ?> tag, or you can use the the_excerpt Reloaded plugin.

  124. ahmet July 26th, 2007 at 12:44 pm

    thank you! I missed that one obviously.

  125. Upstart Blogger July 26th, 2007 at 12:45 pm

    You’re welcome! No problem.

  126. ahmet July 26th, 2007 at 12:48 pm

    Actually there is a plugin called evermore that will cut off extra length from the articles. it looks like it works well with your theme.

  127. Upstart Blogger July 26th, 2007 at 12:49 pm

    Thanks for the tip, ahmet!

  128. Orien July 26th, 2007 at 1:58 pm

    Thank you! :)

  129. Erik M August 12th, 2007 at 8:36 am

    wow, love the theme ! Could i trouble you to email me the source for the SimplePie driven page you mentioned above ? I created something with Magpie a long time ago at www.iemednis.com/sourcebook (feel free to delete the link, i’m not spamming) but this kicks it’s ass, and i want to make it integrated into my site.

    Also, any tip on how can I add that source as a third column ? (Long Horiz scroll) TIA for any help.

  130. Upstart Blogger August 12th, 2007 at 8:47 am

    @Erik: The source code wouldn’t do you any good since everything was hardcoded for my needs. Just download the SimplePie Plugin for Wordpress and follow the directions. It’s easy to use.

    As for adding a third column, you’d have to dig into the style.css, then add the markup and SimplePie tags to index.php and/or single.php.

  131. sonya August 17th, 2007 at 7:13 pm

    Hi there: I’ve tried uploading two of your wordpress templates to my site, and both times (MODIO and MINIMUM), what happens after everything has been uploaded and the theme changed on my wp-admin presentations page is, I go to my homepage and get a blank page with this:

  132. Upstart Blogger August 17th, 2007 at 7:19 pm

    @sonya: Your comment was missing your error message. But try this: make sure you have uploaded only the theme folder to your WordPress installation, not the download folder which contains a plugins folder and the theme folder. So, for example, look inside UpstartBloggerMinim and upload only the ubminim folder inside of it.

  133. Union August 19th, 2007 at 1:51 am

    This is a terrific theme. I am using it on my blog

    I am having a small problem and my coding skills are limited. I am using the podpress plugin on my sait, and for some reason the player is not showing up in the permalinks. Any Idea what could be happening here?

  134. Upstart Blogger August 19th, 2007 at 9:57 am

    @Union: I’m sorry, I’m not familiar with that plugin. You might contact the plugin author. If they are showing up in the individual posts, but not on the front page, see Jun 08 07 at 11:06 am.

  135. Upstart Blogger August 19th, 2007 at 11:04 am

    @sonya: Try replacing this line in the header.php:

    >

    with this:

  136. Union August 19th, 2007 at 8:25 pm

    Thanks for the fast response. I may look into it later, but I decided to forego the plugin altogether. It was a bit to bulk for what I had in mind for this blog. But I’m sticking with this terrific theme and tweaking it as the spirit moves me. You’ve done some really great work.. if you want to see it in action, it is here: http://www.fangbear.com

  137. Jason August 21st, 2007 at 12:02 am

    Anyway to get the author’s name into the post itself?

  138. Upstart Blogger August 21st, 2007 at 7:30 am

    @Jason: Just add the author tag where you want it to appear:

    < ?php the_author(); ?>

    If you want it to be a link to all posts by the same author, use this tag instead:

    < ?php the_author_link(); ?>

  139. Jason August 21st, 2007 at 11:08 am

    seems like the_author_link points to the url set in the user’s profile and not the posts. I’ve verified this. You can see the link at www.nucleardonut.com.

    Also, is there a way to put a image with the article on the main page?

  140. Upstart Blogger August 21st, 2007 at 11:28 am

    Sorry, the correct tag is:

    < ?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>

    To display images in the posts on the main page, see Jun 08 07 at 11:06 am.

  141. João Amaro August 26th, 2007 at 9:02 am

    Hello.
    Please can you teel me why my flash videos/youtube videos don’t appear in my posts??

    Thank u!
    ;)

  142. Upstart Blogger August 26th, 2007 at 9:20 am

    Videos won’t appear on the front page, but should appear in your single posts. If you want to change that, see Jun 06 07 at 8:07 pm.

  143. sarah August 27th, 2007 at 9:13 pm

    hey! i love this design. i am having one problem though. links are not appearing as links on the front page as my blog, until you click into an individual post. is there any way to change this? i would prefer the spacing to not be condensed on the front page either.

  144. Upstart Blogger August 28th, 2007 at 8:26 am

    @sarah, I’m using excerpts on the front page, and excerpts in WP don’t include links by default. If you want to change that, see 22 May 07.

    I’m not sure what you mean about spacing being condensed, but you can increase the line spacing if you like. Just change the line-height for the body selector in the style.css file.

  145. Chris September 10th, 2007 at 10:42 am

    I’m having a bit of trouble with bulleted lists. They don’t show up with bullets in the post. I see the ul style in the CSS file but when I remove the list-style line, the navigation links in the sidebar end up with bullets next to them.

    Is it possible to have a bulleted list style for the posts only?

  146. Upstart Blogger September 10th, 2007 at 10:56 am

    I’ve already answered this question above (see 01 Jul 07).

    Please read before posting, and please post support questions in the Forums. Thanks.

  147. v September 16th, 2007 at 6:56 pm

    hi robert…

    ive been tweeaking my site, but still having an issue with one thing, and hoping you can help.

    i have posts that are in mutiple categories - but on the frontpage the first category on the list (next to the post title) is not a link. whilst all the others seem to be fine… any ideas?

    thanks again for all your help. much appreciated.

  148. Upstart Blogger September 16th, 2007 at 7:33 pm

    Have you changed anything in the index.php template file? The category tag should create links for all of the categories. See the Codex: the_category.

  149. v September 17th, 2007 at 2:47 am

    got it! thanks very much!

  150. sarah September 18th, 2007 at 12:02 am

    Hi, Robert! I’m still loving your theme. I am trying to figure out something with the pages widget — I want pages that belong to a parent page to be indented (i.e. if i make a “bio” page whose parent page is “about”, it would be indented under “about” in the sidebar).

    Is that possible? When I tried, “bio” was in line with all my other pages in the sidebar

  151. Upstart Blogger September 18th, 2007 at 9:19 am

    @sarah: You’ll have to edit style.php to indent your list. This might work:

    ul li ul li {margin-left: 10px;}

    You’ll have to play with the margin spacing and you might have to add more nested selectors if your child pages are going to have children, like this:

    ul li ul li ul li {margin-left: 10px;}

    BTW, in future, please post support questions in the forums. It makes it easier for people to find help. Thanks.

  152. sarah September 18th, 2007 at 10:11 am

    thanks, it worked! will use the forum next time.
    best,
    sarah

  153. Anonymous September 22nd, 2007 at 3:48 pm

    Hello and thanks so much! We just underwent a blog redesign using Minim as the foundation. I really love this theme (and I couldn’t resist with how close the color scheme was to ours). Anyway, I did a good amount of tweaking and am really happy with the results. Working with your theme was much easier than others that I modified.
    I really appreciate it!

    Justin
    inkblot robot
    inkblot robot blog

  154. Upstart Blogger September 23rd, 2007 at 6:06 am

    @Justin: Inblot Robot is looking good! Glad you like the theme.

  155. Shelley September 27th, 2007 at 8:48 am

    You’re missing a closing div tag on single.php and index.php between < ?php get_sidebar(); ? > and < ?php get_footer(); ? >. This causes anything put in the footer to fall within the container div.

    For reference, I also took the padding out of the body style and put it on the container so things outside the container wouldn’t be affected by it (like the University header/footer that go on all our sites).

  156. lainie liberti September 30th, 2007 at 11:32 am

    Wow! Thanks for this theme. Just finished uploading and customizing for our agency blog. I love this! Check out our variation, “in green”. Love this theme so much. Thanks!!!

  157. Upstart Blogger October 1st, 2007 at 1:56 pm

    @Shelley: Thanks for pointing out the problem. I’ll fix it in the next update, when I make the theme compatible with 2.3.

    @lainie: You’re welcome! Your site looks great.

  158. Rodolfo Pilas October 1st, 2007 at 8:37 pm

    Attached plugins to v0.6 are obsolete, it is required upgrade to be compatible with WP 2.3:

    Get recent comments need v2.0 or newer
    Popularity Contest need 1.3 or newer
    Related Post: a new plugin WP-23-Related-Post that makes relation with tags
    Also the theme needs tags support. I will try with these plugins at my site with WP-2.3.

  159. Upstart Blogger October 2nd, 2007 at 7:37 am

    @Rodolfo: None of my themes have been updated to 2.3 yet. It’s in the works.

  160. Erik Even October 2nd, 2007 at 11:07 pm

    Hi. I’m having two issues with my new site, maybe you can help.

    1.) Popularity scores show up twice on the front page.
    2.) Links and blank lines disappear in the summary on the front page.

    Also, does this theme support multiple-page posts? It doesn’t seem to.

    Thanks for your help!

  161. Upstart Blogger October 3rd, 2007 at 6:37 am

    @Erik: I can’t help you with the popularity scores. My suggestion is to turn it off.

    Regarding links on the front page, see the Upstart Blogger WordPress Themes FAQ.

    No, it doesn’t include the tag for multiple posts, but you can easily add it. See wp_link_pages in the Codex.

  162. Malachi October 24th, 2007 at 12:46 pm

    Would you happen to have a Blogger/Blogspot compatible version of Upstart Blogger Minum? I love the theme but just can’t fork up the extra cash for the CSS upgrade in Wordpress.

  163. Mork November 1st, 2007 at 3:24 pm

    We are using the IAMWW mod of MINIM for our blog at Trademork.com. Its clean and clear and one of the best Wordpress themes available. Thank you!

  164. seo dubai November 13th, 2007 at 9:11 pm

    thanks, it works!
    best,
    jon

  165. Corp. Identity Fan November 19th, 2007 at 7:14 pm

    Thank you for the this theme.
    I’ve just started using it here: My design blog
    and left your link in the footer :)

    greets from BG!

  166. Nemo November 20th, 2007 at 7:10 pm

    Hi, thank you for this great theme.
    Here’s my problem:
    I switched from the_excerpt to the_content in the index.php, but it doesn’t work. The index page show “” instead of the post. I wrote it correctly in the editor.

    Thank you again!

  167. Upstart Blogger November 20th, 2007 at 7:15 pm

    @Nemo: If you’ve edited the file properly, there shouldn’t be any problem. You have an error somewhere in your code.

  168. Nemo November 20th, 2007 at 7:28 pm

    But I’ve only made that change, actually.
    Look: http://momenevado.altervista.org/

  169. Nemo November 20th, 2007 at 7:42 pm

    Uh, no. I corrected it, you were right.
    Sorry, and thank you again!

  170. Upstart Blogger November 20th, 2007 at 8:20 pm

    @Nemo: No problem. Glad you’ve got it working!

  171. le blognoteur November 25th, 2007 at 6:57 am

    i’ve made for my own site a translation in french of your theme, if you’re interested mail me….

  172. Ludovic January 5th, 2008 at 11:04 am

    Thanks for this theme. I’ve just a little trouble with links perhaps wordpress widget dont like many sort ok links, now there’s more than one id=”links”. Someone did he seen alreday this problem? (Sorry for my frenglish)

  173. anna January 14th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    hi! how can i display only 2 0r 3 news in the index page?

  174. k January 28th, 2008 at 12:59 pm

    Thanks for this theme, simple and easy.

  175. David February 12th, 2008 at 6:05 pm

    Great theme! You can check out my implementation of it at:

    http://www.broccoliandchee.se

  176. David February 12th, 2008 at 6:10 pm

    Oops, and one thing: I’m teaching myself CSS in my spare time, and I’m having trouble with the way the stylesheet handles unordered lists. I want to keep the bullets out of the sidebar elements, but keep them in the ULs in the posts. Right now I’ve got a workaround going, but the left indent is a little weird. Any ideas?

    For instance, see this post….

    http://broccoliandchee.se/2008/02/11/toiletech/

  177. John March 31st, 2008 at 1:51 am

    I love this theme. But …

    I cannot for the life of me change the Sidebar IMAGE (Header.jpeg). I’d love to put in place my sites LOGO.

    I have tried the tutorial and everything I can think of. Can anyone please help out in detail a CSS Noob ?

    Thanks in advance !

  178. rex March 31st, 2008 at 1:25 pm

    hi, firstly thanks for the theme its really great.

    secondly, i have a little problem. The widgets allow me to add a 2nd category but when i did, its displaying the sub-categories of the 1st main category. visit my website to know what i am talking about. zubairenterprises.biz

    Please help, i have created this for my dad and he is just about ready to kill me if i cannot fix this.

    Thanks again.

  179. Paul B April 9th, 2008 at 7:52 am

    Hi,
    This is a great theme! Very clean and smooth. I have one question about the description that floats over the category name when you roll over it. Where would I find the code to change the phrasing of the line “View all posts in…”

    Many Thanks,
    Paul

  180. Frank April 19th, 2008 at 1:23 pm

    Hi there. I made a german translation of ubminim. See here: http://1000ff.de/wordpress-theme-upstart-blogger-minim_de/

    I really like that theme, you’ve done a good job with the design.

  181. Ev dekorasyon April 28th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

    I love this theme. But …

    I cannot for the life of me change the Sidebar IMAGE (Header.jpeg). I’d love to put in place my sites LOGO.

  182. mobilya April 28th, 2008 at 9:32 pm

    i’ve made for my own site a translation in french of your theme, if you’re interested mail me….

  183. deVilly May 7th, 2008 at 5:54 am

    Hi there,

    How (where) can I setup number of showed items of tagcloud?
    After 46 it doesn’t work (9 row)

    Thanks!

  184. Ceese May 30th, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    Hi! Congratulations for your theme, but I have a problem with that and I would fix it because it’s essential for the use I want to. The problem is that objects (images, video, links) to insert in the posts, do not appear on the homepage of the blog, but we must come to the home page of each individual post in order to see these objects. Why does this happen? Is there any solution? I think that I have not broken anything :)

    I hope your response. Thanks in advance.

    José Manuel. Córdoba, Spain.

  185. K June 11th, 2008 at 7:17 pm

    I have a question, how do I add tags to show on each posts?

  186. K June 11th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

    Oppps, I got the code for the tags. Thanks anyway.

  187. Sarah June 22nd, 2008 at 11:04 pm

    I installed this theme for my blog and I love it..however, I would like to show the whole post on the front page…how would I do that?
    if you could shoot me an email I would really appreciate it.

    -Sarah
    http://randomsarah.com

  188. Steve Weaver June 30th, 2008 at 7:15 pm

    I am pretty new to wordpress. I really do like the clean look of this widget. Thank you very much. I do have a question. Is there a way to rotate out the header.jpg? Either a different one for each page or a random selection from a library of files.

    Thanks,
    -Steve

  189. Jack July 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 pm

    I love the theme, but I just want to add another sidebar to the right of the posts, and possibly another on the footer.

    I tried to implement some tutorials, but ended up with 6 sidebars!? Help would be appreciated!

  190. mikee23 July 15th, 2008 at 2:44 am

    Great theme! I love it. Wanted to know if it would be possible to place navigation under the header.jpg. how can i go about this?

  191. Lennartg@web.de September 5th, 2008 at 11:32 am

    Hi,
    thanks for publishing this theme. I am quite happy with it and just changed some minor things, like adding the page navigation on top. Have a look if you like.
    l.

  192. Ivy September 24th, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    hi! amazing theme… how can i show more than 5 posts in home page? thanks!

  193. basetta September 30th, 2008 at 12:59 am

    great theme, thax you guys for developing it.
    I’ve used it in my brand new blog, check it out http://www.thesparetimetyper.com/ (ok it’s in italian so i dont know how much you’ll get)
    thanxxx!

  194. Sheraz Ahmed December 2nd, 2008 at 5:29 am

    Its look like a nice theme
    Thanks for sharing

  195. James December 22nd, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    Hello:

    I desperately want to switch over to the Minim theme but it is defaulting to a summary of my posts as oppopsed to full text. I have full text selected in the wordpress “reading” settings. Alsom the pics I have inserted into each post are not loading on the home page. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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