loading

Desk Space Wordpress Theme

Desk Space is a premium free and feature rich Wordpress theme.

Demo / Download »

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

Desk Space Theme 1.1 560K

Release Notes

Version 1.0
It launches. After one day, we received some constructive criticism via our twitter friends.

  1. “It sucks. Start over”. We’ll have to take that one with a grain of salt. ;)
  2. “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.

Share and Enjoy
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Design Float
  • Google
  • Technorati
Leave a Reply

38 Comments

  1. Curtis

    Good job, really clean design.

  2. Pete

    Simple & clean. Really good job.

  3. Brandon Cox | eGrace Creative

    Not only simple and clean - very cool. I love wood!

  4. kevin

    cool theme. Blue and wood are all my favorite.

  5. m.o.m.

    Wow, really nice! I think i used it for another Porjekt. Good Work!

  6. David

    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.

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_gavatar() in /home/a1920098/public_html/wp-content/themes/deskspace/sidebar.php on line

    Any suggestions on whats going on?

    DavidR

  7. Arnaldo

    Great job, its beautiful

  8. Divageekdesigns

    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. :)

  9. Adieska

    I like your theme man. It’s so elegant and fresh. Thanks for share it free and keep the good work :)

  10. Dave Johnston

    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.

  11. zawadi

    I love this theme, but i cannot get my adsense working at all. i have the correct pub id :(

  12. Dave Johnston

    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

  13. zawadi

    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.

  14. seoblackhat

    Awesome Wordpress Theme, very clean and professionell design, thumbs up for your design skillings.

    Will use the Theme for my new Project ;)

  15. Munki

    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.

  16. zawadi

    does anyone know how to add adsense to this template?

  17. libretto

    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 ?

  18. Soloman

    Very nice theme, thanks, I used it in my blog, My blog is in Chinese, so I made some customization.

  19. Andrei

    Great! but the pages button don’t work. Why?

  20. Jim C.

    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?

  21. Jim C.

    I was referring to having the pages listed by Default.

  22. Robin

    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/

  23. Robin

    Ok I tried both and as you can see I got an error: http://trubruproductions.com

16 Trackbacks

  1. John J. Honeycutt » Blog Archive » Introducing: “Desk Space” - Oct 1, 2008
  2. Desk Space — Simple Themes - Oct 1, 2008
  3. Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 10/03 | KaosKoxp Oyun Portali - Oct 3, 2008
  4. Thème WordPress Desk Space : un “premium” gratuit | WordPress tuto - Oct 3, 2008
  5. Wordpress Theme Desk Space | Art Hacker - Oct 3, 2008
  6. WordPress Theme Releases for 10/03 | BlogBroker24-7 - Oct 3, 2008
  7. ithemes.org - Oct 3, 2008
  8. 11 High-Quality Wordpress themes released in September 2008 | slayer's blog - Oct 3, 2008
  9. WordPress Theme Releases for 10/03 · Softonix.com - Oct 4, 2008
  10. Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 10/03 | Aslifm Blog - Oct 6, 2008
  11. WordPress theme Desk Space | Smartr.cn - Oct 7, 2008
  12. ZHAN.US » WordPress Theme Desk Space - Oct 8, 2008
  13. WordPress Theme Releases for 10/03 | PATRON DIGITAL.COM - Oct 13, 2008
  14. WordPress Theme Releases for 10/03 | PATRONIT.NET - Oct 14, 2008
  15. Plantilla Wordpress Gratis - Desk Space | Lobo-David - Oct 23, 2008
  16. My Top 5 Free Wordpress Themes | Blemble - Dec 22, 2008

Leave a Reply

Live Comment Preview