BlackSplat WordPress Theme
To celebrate the launch of my website I’m making available for free a WordPress theme called BlackSplat that I made last year in association with Tim Holt, a web developer with some mad skills.
Download and/or try it out…
The theme is available over at the official WordPress theme directory. The most recent version will always be over there. You can also try it out live right here and download it here (current version: 1.7).
Changelog…
1.7: Defined the custom gravatar shown to be local to your installation, as suggested by Alex (thanks!). You can modify the default gravatar to show by uploading your desired gravatar.gif image to the ‘images’ folder of the theme.
Fine prints!
This theme is available for free and you can use it for commercial or personal purposes. You can read the GPL license that comes with the theme for more info, or just contact me if you have any questions. Please refrain from using the theme for websites dedicated to: pornography/adult sites, warez, drugs and anything encouraging offensive//illegal behavior…
Credits
If you wish to take the credits off and still show some acknowledgment, it would be sweet of you to proceed with a donation of your choice (any amount, really, we all have different budgets).
Support
This free WordPress theme is provided as is and, although I’d love to tweak it and make it perfect for each and every user out there, I simply can’t provide individual support for everybody. So if you have a general question, that you think could be helpful for other users too, please address your support question through the comments option below or head out to the official WP support forum. I will do my best to follow through.
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Thanks for theme. Can you share psd file?
hi sam,
I would like to ask whether the navigation of the theme allow only 7 included the “home” that specified in the header file?
how could i edit to make it show more pages on the navigation menu.
thanks~
hi
Just wanted to say thanks for the theme, it is so user friendly!!! I’m no css or php coder but I’ve been able to make the changes I want with no fuss, not like other themes I’ve found. I’ve started with making a custom blog version now I am using this theme as the base for my online portfolio, added gallery functions, made it look more like a static site and messed with some content layout hope to have this running soon. So thanks once more, love your work.
Is there a way to alter some of the code to get a 728×90 banner into the title header without screwing up the alignment?
I have been trying to figure this out for a couple of days but not getting anywhere. Thought I’d ask you before I screw everything up.
Thanks!
Hi sam ,
Thanks a ton buddy, i am using your black splat theme, and i am quite satisfied with it!
Thanks again!
Like the many who have said this already, I want to do the same, so big THANK YOU for sharing such a good theme and spending your time making the theme for others to use.
I have changed the theme a little, but not by much you or anyone here can take a look here http://whoami-web.co.uk/
Once again, thank you.
consider to using it after nucleuscms to wordpress conversion has been finished.
will using it on my Rapidleech Skins blog http://indiestyle.us
thanks, download it now.
Thanks Beatiful Theme.
türkçe : sıradışı bir tema bence çok güzel olmuş
english : high quality theme. thanks admin .
low speak english sorry
Am using blackspat. And it’s awesome. Thanks !!!
i’m using blacksplat.. it’s interesting! good job! thanks!
Thanks beatiful theme
i’m using black splat for blogger and will use black splat for wordpress
hi there sam K..
nice themes you got here.. Can i change the themes a lil bit, but the footer intacts will remain yours.. All the credit’s will goes to you..
I love the themes looks.. Hoping i can be just like you..
Sorry for the extra-super-late reply. Yes, change the theme at will!
Hi, can anybody give me the link?
I want to use this blacksplat theme on blogger with blogspot.
Thanks!
Just installed this and I am impressed I would like to see this extended and built upon, your design is excellently measured and will be able to evolve with this theme…excellent work!!
Thank you!
Hi Sam! Thanks for this beautiful theme!!!
Only one question: can you share a PSD ?
Thanks! The PSD is not available at this time, sorry.
Best,
S
Hi Sam,
Made some more changes, added a bunch of ereas. Still have to retain that Blacksplat feeling, it is just too good.
JIM
Thanks Jim!
woow..thanks beatiful theme…
Happy you like it!
i’m using it, and it’s great theme!
Nice Theme Thanks
Excellent theme. Here is to that to learn.
nice themes, you rock sir
great theme! I would like to use this for a commercial project I am working on, can you please let me know how I can remove the footer credits? (of course I will be showing my gratitude by way of donation!)
keep up the good work!
Thanks, Mike. I’ve just emailed you the theme files without the credits; let me know if they don’t get through. Best of luck!
when i install the theme there are already Widgets on the right side, how can i remove them so i can use only my widgets?
Hi Daniel,
by adding your own widgets, the default ones will be replaced, except for the welcome message and recent post list. To take those out, go to the sidebar.php theme file and delete them manually.
Best,
S
hi sam, how should I display the menu bar as drop down if I have a children page under a parent?!
I created a new page and put it in a parent page but nothing shows up in the menu bar…
is there any mod or codin I shld add?!
Nice themes thank you
Thank you!!!
hello
is it ok to remove the search form at the top of the theme?
Hi,
yes, you are free to modify the theme
Best,
S
Its a nice theme and I have used it for my website http://www.freecalltips.coma nd its very good to use adsense
Hi Sam,
I am creating a blogging platform and need to adapt BlackSplat for it. However, I need options for Sign In | Sign Up to be present as well in the theme. I just need the HTML, CSS and images only (not the PHP or .Net code.) Of course it would be mentioned that theme is created by you. Is this possible?
Thanks for consideration.
Regards,
Ankur
Hi Ankur,
unfortunately, I don’t have the html/css version of the theme; it was done right away as a WP theme.
Best of luck, let me know how it goes!
S
can you tell me how to remove the search box at the top of the theme?
Hi,
to do this, you need to manually modify the header.php file. In this file, find the “search” division and delete it. That should do it. Best of luck!
S
Hi Sam,
Regarding my previous post, would you mind, if I adapt it to suit my requirement and use it.
Thanks
-Ankur
Yes, no problem! Let me know how it goes!
Thank you very much, it is really nice to use!
Thanks so much for this amazing theme! I’m currently using it right now on my blog. I have one concern though. I’m not sure if you still check these comments out but anyway, when I create a page, I can’t comment on the posts made on there. Is this a problem on my end or is it made like that? Any replies would be appreciated!
Hi Alex,
comments are not included in the page.php theme file for this theme. It is however not very complicated to add. You can cut and paste it from the single.php file, for instance.
Hope this helps,
S
Loved your theme and have been using it for more than a year, ever since my blog went live.
I want to implement Google Custom Search but want to keep the default search box and the way search results are displayed right now. I don’t see a separate search.php or a searchpage.php file, only a searchform.php. Which file displays the search results?
Hi,
as is, the search results are displayed via the index.php theme file.
S
Have you tried buddypress compatibility as this has the look/features I want but so many templates cause bp to crash php. Any bp demo’s?
Hi Steve,
I haven’t tried it yet, no.
Best,
S
any way of removing the widgets? archives, tagcloud??
You can remove those manually in the sidebar.php theme file.
i have sent several messages and still no response
when i try to add a copyright to my footer in the blacksplat theme you created, it does not work???
Hi. Apologies for that. It seems a certain number of comments are being filtered as spam by mistake. I had to take yours out of the spam box. To answer your question, there is no feature in that theme stopping you from modifying the footer. This section is associated to the footer.php theme file, which can be edited entirely.
why is your theme encoded?
Encoded? What do you mean?
when i try to take edit the footer file, the entire footer is gone!!
here is the footer code you have:
i tried to add the code but it did not work
can i have your email address instead?
You can try downloading the files again at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/black-splat-wr.
The files are entirely editable from the WordPress theme editor. (or a text editor)
Can you share your url?
i already did that
the problems started when i updated your theme to the newest version
also, in the footer
what is with the acne thing?
here is my url: jvazjrsblog.com
That acne link is not in the default theme files, we did not put it there. If you downloaded the theme from the directory, and did not modify it, it probably means that your installation is being hacked.
i am currently using the 1.7 version
how do i stop it from being hacked
then i dont understand that when i updated to the 1.8 version of your theme, the problems started to happen
If you suspect your hosting account of being hacked, you might wish to contact your host to investigate the issue. I have not included any malware in the theme, and I doubt that the guys at WordPress would be that careless (if that’s where you got it from). You might wish to try installing the theme again (actually, the version at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/black-splat-wr is 1.8) and see if this incident is still happening. If you’re not using the latest WordPress version, you can update that as well.
one more question:
why is it that when i look at my blog, some of my navigation menu at the top does not show up?
underneath the home menu button, my disclaimer appears here instead of next to the “contact” button in the menu
There is a maximum width for menu items to fit on the same line. If all items don’t fit in that width, the ones most to the right go underneath. So yeah, it looks better if they can all fit in the bar. I’m noticing that it’s appearing inline right now, not underneath, so you probably tweaked it to work out I guess…
what if i removed the search box, would that work so that all of the items fit in the navigation menu?
well??
what if i removed the search box, would that work so that all of the items fit in the navigation menu?
Yes, that way you could increase the width of the menu, so it could do the trick.
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