Desk Space Wordpress Theme
Desk Space is a premium free and feature rich Wordpress theme.
It comes with a robust set of built in features and plugins, including the ability to switch out the background wood finish color to one you like.
Everything you see in this demo is using built in plugins.
Feature List
- Built in plugins for Twitter, Flickr, Recent Comments, WMD Editor, and Shadowbox.
- Built in google adsense strip. Just paste in your client ID in the theme options page.
- Built in feedburner linkage. Just paste in your feedburner ID in the theme options page.
- Comments and Trackbacks are seperated. (example)
- Gravatar support.
- Widget ready.
- Background image wood finish color choice. See screenshots below.
- jQuery fancy pants effects like smooth scrolling
- Page template that includes comments.
- Attractive Printed Pages via print.css
- Sidebar profile with info that is pulled from the admin user account like the gravatar.
- IE6 compatible.
Background options
Theme Options & and Printed page
Nods, Props, Credits Etc
The home page idea of older posts fading and shrinking was entirely influenced by Darren Hoyt’s Agregado Theme.
The background images are courtesy of Wolfgang Bartelme’s Solid Wood Devkit.
We love Wordpress. But not in “that” kind of way.
The comment box editor is a built in WMD Editor plugin by Chad Coleman.
Shadowbox is also built in. Just add rel=”shadowbox” to any link tag. You can find more tricks on usage at the shadowbox site.
Download Desk Space
Release Notes
Version 1.0
It launches. After one day, we received some constructive criticism via our twitter friends.
- “It sucks. Start over”. We’ll have to take that one with a grain of salt.
- “The background fading to white is a bit too stark.” So we figured we’ll update the file with a fixed background image. Which brings us to version 1.1 now available for download.
Version 1.1
Applied a “fixed” background image. Let us know what you think.
Added max-width restriction to images used in posts.
Updated archive.php to inform the viewer what date, tag, or category they are viewing.
Good job, really clean design.
Thanks for checking it out Curtis.
Simple & clean. Really good job.
Not only simple and clean - very cool. I love wood!
cool theme. Blue and wood are all my favorite.
Wow, really nice! I think i used it for another Porjekt. Good Work!
I downloaded the theme and installed in on my blog, but now I’m having trouble with my profile avatar. I recieve the following error on my page when I view my blog.
Any suggestions on whats going on?
DavidR
Great job, its beautiful
Nice theme!
Hi David, Have you modified the sidebar.php theme file at all? Please make sure that the email address in your user profile is the same thats associated with your gravatar account. I also am noticing in your pasted in error code, that get_gavatar is missing a r in gravatar. Is that right?
The author info is based on the author of the very first post. Do you have multiple authors on your site?
Very nice!!
I couldn’t get to work at all on my self-hosted wordpress all I get is a blank page and then I have to go in and delete the theme in order to have access to my admin page again. Could this be caused by a plugin I’m using or what? I wanted to try this theme it’s really beautiful. Any ideas? Thanx.
@Divageekdesigns
My suggestion would be to deactivate all your plugins, activate the theme, then follow the theme installation instructions at the bottom of the theme options page. Then go back in and activate one plugin at a time, to find which one is breaking the theme.
Once we know what plugin is causing the issue, we’ll be able to give you a better idea of how to fix it.
I like your theme man. It’s so elegant and fresh. Thanks for share it free and keep the good work
Great lookin’ theme, JJ. Excellent work. Just voted for you in the contest mentioned above.
I’ve installed and begun messing around at my site (linked), I think it could be a great fit for me as I ramp up and write more.
Couple of quick issues:
Am I missing an ‘excerpt’ setting somewhere with respect to the home page most recent posts? After the fresh install it only shows a brief excerpt of the post on the front page, with no “more” or “read the rest” link option, and I’m not using excerpts in the posts themselves.
My nav buttons appear dead, and after digging around the code for an hour or so, I’m no closer to understanding why.
I’ve learned from experience that it’s easy to miss things that later seem extremely obvious, and I’m sure that’s the case here on at least one of these issues. I appreciate any help pointing out that fact.
Thanks kindly.
Hi Dave,
In the theme file home.php, around line 24, you’ll want to find this line:
<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(150, '<p><img><a><blockquote>', 'content', FALSE, 'more »', FALSE, 2); ?>
and change it to this:
<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(150, '<p><img><a><blockquote>', 'content', TRUE, 'more »', FALSE, 2); ?>
You can also modify the “more »” to whatever you’d like the text to read.
And as for why the nav buttons are not working, I am unable to figure out. All the JS files are being called, and the includes are all uploaded and working correctly. My one and only guess is that its due to the Godaddy hosting. I’ve had strange and unanswerable issues like this with them in the past. I’d suggest going with a hosting company like Dreamhost.
You can try asking Godaddy support for any help, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
I love this theme, but i cannot get my adsense working at all. i have the correct pub id
Hi JJ…and thank you.
I’m excited to discover that…GoDaddy potentially sucks! I’ve been running web services for major organizations and of course I decide to give GoDaddy a try on my own personal site. Way to play the odds, Dave! I cannot claim ignorance.
I’ll keep hacking away and see what I come up with. If and when I get serious about my own site I may change hosts, we’ll see.
Thanks again,
DJ
I really like this theme, but can u explain to me why is the Adsense module on the template not working for me? everything else is prefect.
good job thanks
Awesome Wordpress Theme, very clean and professionell design, thumbs up for your design skillings.
Will use the Theme for my new Project
Thank you for a lovely theme. I am using it. I could however not get flickr to work so I am using another flickr plugin.
does anyone know how to add adsense to this template?
The trouble for the Adsense come from the param “google_ad_slot =” which appear in the files of the theme.
You have to create an ad in the google adsense interface (I think that you have to chose a banner 468×15) and paste the ad_slot param int the theme files.
JJ, which color and ad format do you recommand ?
Will you add the ad_slot param in a next release of your very nice theme ?
Hi Zawadi,
In your WP admin center, click on Design > Desk Space Theme Options.
From there, you will be able to add your Google Adsense Client ID into the designated field. Once its in, hit Save Options, and the links will appear on your home page.
To find your client ID, you can look at the javascript code that Google gives you, and its starts with “pub-” and a string of numbers follows.
Hope this helps.
@libretto - That’s a good call. We’ll see about getting that set up for the next version.
Currently, it is using a ad_slot design that is already pre-designed. We’ll open it up to allow you to choose your own style of ad.
Very nice theme, thanks, I used it in my blog, My blog is in Chinese, so I made some customization.
Great! but the pages button don’t work. Why?
Hey JJ!
Great design! I have already installed it on my website as my personal blog! Doesn’t get much better then this. One question though. I would like to keep the pages links on the screen all the time. How do I go about changing that?
Hi Jim,
By “keep the pages links on the screen all the time”, do you mean to remove the other buttons? And only have pages listed?
Or do you mean to have the pages listed by default on the page load?
I was referring to having the pages listed by Default.
I think we actually tried to accomplish that originally, and the ajax dom-loading was giving us some beef. I’ll have the programmer attempt to accomplish it once more. Stay tuned.
Great theme!
I’m actually trying to setup a theme for my brother’s site (mostly videos) and on the main page you can’t see the videos, any idea why?
http://trubruproductions.com/
Hi Robin,
The theme was built to have as less clutter on the home page, so we actually used a custom content call from the plugin “excerpt reloaded”. You can try one of two things.
Swap this:
<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(150, '<p><img><a><blockquote>', 'content', FALSE, 'more »', FALSE, 2); ?>
with this:
<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(150, '<p><img><a><blockquote><embed><object><param>', 'content', FALSE, 'more »', FALSE, 2); ?>
If that fails to work, then you can go with removing the excerpt tag, and using the default content tag.
Swap line 24 in home.php with this
<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read more »</p>'); ?>
woah. that code got messed. don’t use that.
WMD Editor is letting me down. Lemme try again.
Ok I tried both and as you can see I got an error: http://trubruproductions.com
oops sorry.
You’re so fast! I was actually playin with my syntax plugin… and I didn’t realize you were grabbin the code. Try it again now.