Wordpress Theme SuperMini reloaded

Thursday 15 January, 2009

WordPress Theme SuperMini reloaded

A long time ago Smashing Magazine listed 100 of the best WordPress themes. That list totally kicked ass to be honest. At one point I decided to restyle my poetry site. I took a look at their list and when I found the SuperMini theme, my choice was immediately made.

After I downloaded the theme I realized a lot of features were missing: No searchbox, no searchresults page, no archives, no global archives, no blogroll support, no pages support, no 404 pages and a few design flaws…

I actually went on, and built those things myself. Later on I wanted to contact the orginal author (Patrick Behrend) of the theme to send him my updates but by the time I got to send my mail, his site was down and he completely dissappeared from the web. I never received an aswer regarding the theme updates I sent him.

UPDATE: Patrick commented in on this post and I got in touch with him. Patrick seemed pleased I kept the theme alive. I updated the URL in the footer which now links to Patrick’s (new) site. Make sure you go check it out and leave him a comment

By now the original download isn’t even online anymore, and Smashing Magazine disabled the link to the SuperMini theme (as it is a 404). So I recently decided to finish the theme, and translate it back to English and re-publish it. I thought the initial theme was awesome, and I figured it would be cool if other people would be able to actually use the completed theme.

I think Patrick did a great job designing a very clean and simple theme, which doesn’t look like most other WordPress themes.

SuperMini V1.0

Download: Click
Preview: ikDicht.be

Screenshots

It’s a one column theme, showing the latest post. Other posts are shown, but only the title and post date is visible.Pages and blogroll links are also featured in the same column, in almost the same style as the links to the other posts.

The searchbox is initially hidden and replaced by text in order to keep the layout as clean as possible.
Clicking the search links reveals the search box.

The list of other posts, blogroll links, pages, and the searchbox is set up as clean as possible, yet very transparent.

(Click to see the different sections)

You can enable the Archives page by adding a new page (leave it empty), and then choosing the ‘Archives’ page template.

The comments area is as clean as the rest of the theme. No gravaters in order to keep the comments area pretty light.

I hope you guys like it. Feel free to report bugs, or browser errors.

Tags: CSS, Download, freebies, Open-source, Wordpress theme

88 Comments

Guus De Graeve says:

15 January 2009 at 19:13

Het is een leuke template, al denk ik dat sommige dingen echt moeilijk te onderscheiden zijn. Tussen het kleur van de background en het kleur van de content container zit bijvoorbeeld echt heel weinig verschil. Voor de rest vind ik het eigenlijk gewoon kwa design niet zo heel super speciaal. Het is proper, maar het geeft me geen wow-gevoel. Maar de edits die je gemaakt hebt zijn alleszins proper!

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AC says:

21 January 2009 at 3:20

I Saw exactly this theme on Smashing Magazine, i saw that same theme and i thought it was awesome! and then i realized the link was gone!

Thank you so much for having it and making it better!!

Trying it now =)

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Stefan says:

30 January 2009 at 0:39

Hey, thanks for this one. I was very dissapointed that Smashing Magazine deleted the link.

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Ben says:

10 February 2009 at 14:17

Hi!

Nice theme and nice work, thankyou!

2 problems/questions:

- if you are using the ie7 (some still do…) the “hello-world” jpg is not visible, any idea?
- what about the “wallpaper.php” and “wallpaper.swf”, at the moment they have no function?

Thanx
Ben

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Ronny says:

10 February 2009 at 18:51

-IE7: good call… I shall look into that asap! I’ll keep you posted.
-Wallpaper shouldn’t be in there… Nothing to worry about. (Something I was playing around with, but I decided not to keep it in there).

Awesome thanks for your feedback. Will look into that IE7 thing asap!

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Ben says:

10 February 2009 at 22:32

Thanks for the reply!

I think the wallpaper.swf would be nice as a background, but don´t know yet how to realise that, can you or somebody give me a hint?
Thanx
Ben

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Ronny says:

10 February 2009 at 22:36

Take a look at my home page (http://noCreativity.com). You should find the same ‘wallpaper.swf’ in the source

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Ben says:

13 February 2009 at 13:45

Thankyou Ronny, ill have a try.

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Frank says:

26 February 2009 at 12:56

I was looking for a nice theme for days now.. and on google I always got the same 10-15 pages with different keywords.. I was soo angry, but on my last attempt I simply went to page 10 of the google results and found this amazing theme.. thank you very much!

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Computer Background says:

25 March 2009 at 17:43

Hey. Thanks a lot for this one.

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Ronny says:

17 April 2009 at 0:23

Hi Ben,
I recently updated the theme, and fixed the header image bug.
Enjoy (download link of the updated version is the same as above )

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Ben says:

23 April 2009 at 10:05

Thankyou und Danke Ronny!

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yauhui says:

27 June 2009 at 8:46

I think if, using some form of script, the older posts can be displayed dynamically on-the-spot and then hidden (replaced by another post) when another post on the list is clicked.

Great theme anyhow.

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?? says:

27 August 2009 at 8:56

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Very beautiful theme, download the down try.

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German says:

29 August 2009 at 16:25

Hi,

two questions:

1. how to put the following code in index.php to add widgets? if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’)
|| !dynamic_sidebar() ) :

2. I found in the header.php there is a function calling to archives… but no-one archive is showed in the theme…

Thank you!

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lordmat says:

17 September 2009 at 8:32

Hey!

First, this is a awsome Theme!

Second, i have a problem with the Archives i think:
if i browse my tags, there is only a page that show the empty inbox of “Archives” nothing more.

so whats the problem?

see it at the example: http://www.lordmat.de/tag/lordmat

greetings
mat

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Ronny says:

17 September 2009 at 11:15

Hi Lordmat.
You have to switch the page template for your arhive page from ‘Default’ to ‘Archives Page’ in the wordpress admin.

Go to your WP-admin.
Click ‘Edit pages’
Choose your archives page
Click the following combobox to switch templates: http://snapplr.com/3g23
Save the page
Enjoy your Archive!

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lordmat says:

17 September 2009 at 11:22

Hey, thx for ur fast answer!

I’ve created the page for the archives and yes i see now the archives!
But if i go back to my Example, there is stil the empty archives page and it doesnt show me the posts, that have the selected tag

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Ronny says:

17 September 2009 at 11:26

Oh I think I get the problem. I don’t think the archives show tags yet… I think I’ve only fixed the Categories… I’ll check it out asap and see what I can do.

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lordmat says:

17 September 2009 at 12:39

Many thanks!

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Ed says:

20 October 2009 at 0:57

Thanks a ton for your work! I was looking for a minimalist, yet cool design. This is it. Just a couple of questions: I want to be able to post a video in my entries, and to have the share buttons as in some of the cases shown (pervart, for example). Also, it occurs to me that it would be neat if the heather text could be random… any tips on how to achieve this would be much appreciated.

Best, and again, many thanks and lots of encouragement,

Ed

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Ademyr says:

7 November 2009 at 23:40

Hi man ! i writte from México City, sorry about my english
I found your blog looking for wordpress themes, and i think your blog theme really rocks !! you can shared whit us this beautiful blog theme, is free, open to use, or is private ?

I want use this for writte a design blog whit other friends, if the theme is free GREAT !!

well, i hope can help me ! good blog !!
keep blogging !!!

Saludos desde México !!

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Ronny says:

10 November 2009 at 16:23

HI Ademyr,
Currently my WP-blog theme is not for public use. I really would like to release it once I decide to start using another one
Thx for your interest

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Making Beat Software says:

7 August 2010 at 2:34

This is a really cool site. The layout,design and naviagation are very clean. I like it!

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J says:

5 October 2010 at 21:02

I was wondering if it is possible to make 2 blog post next to eachother, but with different categories? if so, could you tell me how?

regards.

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Pixelbits says:

20 October 2010 at 12:42

Thanks for releasing this updated theme. Now it’s 2010 with wordpress 3 and i’m going to use this theme in a new site. If I make drastic changes to make it work with the new menu-system etc i’ll let you know You can have the updated files back

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Ronny says:

20 October 2010 at 12:48

I’m glad you like it! It would be very cool if you updated the theme a bit! I’d be happy to see some contribution to this very potential theme. A lot of people have already done crazy things with it. Feel free to raise the bar

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