There is good content and then there is great content.
If you write good content, Voidy may not be the theme for you. But, if you think your content is great, if you think your content should capture the hearts of people, you may just want to take a look at this theme.
Voidy is the perfect theme for great authors. It is clean, clear and beautiful. It is minimalistic two-columns theme with the widgets all arranged in the right sidebar. Voidy was designed to make your content stand out and make everything else get out of the way. Check it out and you will fall in love with it.
Features:
- Supports gravatars
- Supports threaded comments
- Supports custom menu feature in WordPress 3.0
etc.
This theme has a settings page where you can edit options including:
- Custom logo
- Custom favicon
- Add Twitter link
- Add RSS feed link
- Add a welcome message in the sidebar
- Show/Hide Tags
Demo: See the theme in action here
Before downloading, please consider supporting its development:
Download the theme (version 2.3.5) and let me know your comments.
If you are looking for a single column theme, you may be interested in Clear WordPress theme.
Simran,
Make sure you go through this page carefully: http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
Test your theme with the WordPress theme unit tests: http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test
Then read this page on further instructions to upload your theme and fix issues reported by the reviewers: http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review
Thanks for replying Niyaz. How much time WordPress team take to accept the themes ?
I noticed that your theme do not support custom header and custom background. Do they accept the themes without all WP 3.0 features ?
Simran,
I don’t think wordpress will accept themes which don’t fully support the 3.0 features. My theme was accepted because it was submitted before they finalized the reviewing policies.
For Voidy they took around 1 month. They will reject your theme if you don’t follow the guidelines (read my previous comment). You will have to resubmit it again after correcting the reported issues.
Thanks for your suggestions Niyaz
Hi Niyaz
Great theme, I’m new to wp.org, and installed this on a fresh site in localhost, playing around… created a few pages and then I came across permalinks and pretty URL’s. I enable these, they work for the home page and the default “hello world” post but not for the other pages, they just don’t load at all.
I’ve looked on WP forums and docs and not much other than a suggestion to reinstall the all thing and enable permalinks before creating new pages.
Do you know of any issues about permalinks? Did you just enabled them here or can you suggest any plugins to deal with with links?
Thanks… I haven’t given up on voidy yet it looks great
Update: it seems the problem was the localhost server set up! Not enough resources apparently, working fine in a live server!
Thanks
hi,
nice theme but it has a bug with “home” link under explorer8.
how this could be solved?
thank you
i’m also unable to save the theme options.
Last comment and I don’t know how I didn’t check this before but there are 18 HTML and 40 CSS errors on this page, which makes it areal pity for someone interested in SEO.
Anyway thanks all the same!
@mark try using a different browser!
Pedro,
The CSS errors are not really errors, but some browser hacks I am using to make your website look almost the same in all browsers.
Thanks for letting me know though because I have fixed a few HTML errors in the theme. Get those fixes in the version 1.8.0 (link provided at the top). Still there are 14 HTML errors, but they are coming from a plugin I am using.
Bill, mark and everyone else having trouble with the theme,
I have uploaded a newer version (v1.8.1) of the theme. Please get it from the link posted above in the article. This version fixes two issues:
- Not able to save the options.
- The home page link not working.
Even if you have not noticed any issue, there is a bug in the theme and it is highly recommended that you upgrade to the latest version.
(The WordPress themes gallery does not have this version yet.)
Thanks Niyaz
I am working with it still as I really like the clean feel and really there is nothing better for the same price, thanks for all the hard work.
Please note that I have uploaded another version (v 1.8.1) just now. I updated my previous comment to reflect this because I did not expect anyone to download a copy in between the releases.
this voidy theme is great, i use it on my blog..
but, a little note from me, it’s not totally show up entire theme in 1024x768, just a little missing on the right, this makes a scroll bar in the bottom appeared..
Love the theme. Can you advise how I can remove the ‘Home’ menu option/replace the home page with another page on the site?
Thanks
David,
You can use the custom menu option. Go to Admin >> Appearance >> Menus.
Read this for more info: http://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_SubPanel
Brilliant. Thanks for that. and thanks again for the theme.
hi niyaz, voidy didnt pass css validator..
It is not passing the CSS validation because of the many browser hacks used to make the theme look the same (or almost similar) in all of the popular browsers.
You can remove the “invalid” CSS lines from the file, but your website will be broken in many popular web browsers.
Don’t worry too much about CSS validation. It is important to validate CSS, but you will have to excuse a few browser hacks.
Hi again, I’ve downloaded the latest version, run the installer a few times it says it is installed but then the version still the same and I know this is true because I changed the CSS and the new version would override it.
Also the feedburner ID filed didn’t work for me, so I’m using a plugin instead, incidentally the instruction on the plugin says to create a new post after installation or it won’t work, wandering weather it is the same for your theme. Didn’t check!
Finally, yes still just one HTML validation error: caused by a <li not being closed. I think and yes there are also the 40 css, but i'm sure that can be tackled with time.
Anyway hope this helps
If the version is not coming up as 1.8.1, it isnot the latest version.
Please make sure that you are running the latest version of the theme (v 1.8.1 as of now). You cannot update the theme from your admin dashboard because this version is not yet available in the WordPress repository. Please download the zip from this link: http://www.diovo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/voidy.zip
If you don’t want to upgrade completely….
In function.php, method default_nav_menu,
Lines 272 and 274 require the following patch:
–Original——
if(is_home()){
$menu_content .= ‘class=”current_page_item”>’;
}
$menu_content .= ““. __(“Home”, “voidy” ).”“;
–v1.8.1——
if(is_home()){
$menu_content .= ‘class=”current_page_item”‘;
}
$menu_content .= “>“. __(“Home”, “voidy” ).”“;
–END——
Right, so that didn’t work.
Move the closing angle bracket from the “is_home()” if statement to the start of the next “$menu_content .=” line.
I have installed the Voidy WordPress theme, which I love. Unfortunately, I am unable to make any changes to the sidebar. I keep getting a popup message asking if I want to debug. I don’t have a clue what to do with that. Can you help?
Thanks
Please make sure that you have the latest version of WordPress installed. This is the first instance of this problem being reported and I suspect that this is not really caused by the theme.
Please make sure that you are running the latest version of the theme (v 1.8.1 as of now). You cannot update the theme from your admin dashboard because this version is not yet available in the WordPress repository. Please download the zip from this link: http://www.diovo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/voidy.zip
Besides that can you give me more details? When do you get the error? Any other details? What browser are you using? Which browser version?
Hi there- beautiful theme… I have just started and am having a similar problem with the sidebar. I go to the Voidy Options on my dashboard to select to remove the Twitter link, hide text in sidebar, and hide tags below posts, and then I push the “save changes” button at the bottom of the page. Nothing happens… I wait, but nothing happens. Have tried doing this several times, over several days to see if it was just a glitch but have had no luck. So- on my home page I have “What I say is immensely important than who I am. Let the search be for the meaning and substance in my words rather than the intricacies of my existence.
Go to the theme admin page to edit/remove this text.”
Would love your help in finding a way to remove this. Many thanks.
Btw- I have installed latest WP version as of tonight, and same results. I am using Voidy 1.7.8.
You cannot update the theme from your admin dashboard because this version is not yet available in the WordPress repository. Please download the zip from this link: http://www.diovo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/voidy.zip
Ok, had to first remove the old version and then install the new. Worked!
Thanks
Opss turns out the few html errors were from the widgets!
Thank God!
It seems validation is overrated, not even wordpress.org is validating today, nor google or most everyone else aside from W3c, that validates
Hello,
I have a problem using the theme :
when i go to http://blog.junelio.com/a-propos, i can’t click on ‘Home’, and it’s not correctly presented (smaller than “A propos”).
I didn’t modify the files, so i don’t understand where the problem comes from.
Do you have an idea ?
Thanks.
On my last reply i forgot to mention that in Firefox i don’t have the problem.
It appears in IE8 and Chrome.
Hi,
We love the look of your theme but wonder if it is possible to reduce the size of the font, and/or not have it fill the whole screen?
Thanks,
Andrew
You can edit the style.css file to change the font size. Let me know what exactly you need to change. I will send you the required css code changes.