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, Comment 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. Removed in Version 1.5
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.
Version 1.5 June 16th, 2009
- Advanced Theme Settings Page
- New Front Page Layout Control: Default, Page or Blog Posts
- Page Navigation Tabs
- Threaded Comments
Is there a way to customize so that tabs with the pages appear at the top of the blog?
Hi Whitney,
Where there’s a will, there’s a way! To clarify, are you seeking to display the list of pages in a tab format, across the top of the site?
Yes, I would like to have the pages listed in tabbed format across the top of the page. Ideally, some of the pages are nested, so it would be great if the nested pages had a dropdown menu for the nested pages.
You’ll want to open header.php in the theme directory, and add this code to wherever you’d like the pages to appear.
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">Home</a></li>
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>
</ul>
</div>
Next you’ll want to style that with CSS. I suggest googling around for some prebuilt options. Here’s an option, and another.
JJ:
When I add your snipped of code, it breaks everything. I haven’t added the CSS yet, will that fix it?
JJ:
I’m getting closer! I finally figured out how to not “break” the code and get the tabs in. However, the problem I’m having is figuring out where to insert the HTML code so that the tabs sit right under the subtitle of the blog.
Here’s the link to my page… can you help?
http://whitneyclaire.com/blog/
Hi JJ,
DeskSpace issues.
I have the adsense working. Thanks! Still minor issues listed below with the RSS, Search, comment buttons.
I took out the twitter tools and the 4 buttons on the top still do not work. Would you suggest I delete the theme from my host and upload again?
The Deskspace is still my favorite theme. What is your per hour charge for coding?
Thanks!
Mark
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Hi Mark,
I believe I have found your problem. Do you by chance happen to have 2 directories named “deskspace”?
The directory structure should be wp-content/themes/deskspace/
and appears that you may have wp-content/themes/deskspace/deskspace/
JJ,
I fixed the Deskspace problem of having 2 directories named “deskspace”. I still cannot get the Feedburner RSS working. It keeps giving an error that the url does not exist.
Mark
Hi JJ,
I have the Deskspace theme nearly working. I get this error “Feed Address: http://feeds.feedburner.com/2878966?format=xml
HTTP Error (Code) and Message: (404) Feed not found error: FeedBurner cannot locate this feed URI.”
I did delete the second directory as you suggest in your last comments.
Thanks,
Mark
Thanks for this theme! I love it
Love the new theme and thinking of using it for my blog redesign. How difficult is it to customize a few simple things?
I need to add a centered box at the bottom for additional widgets, etc. that fits with the theme and have the links show up when you mouse over the 4 buttons at the top right instead of only when you click them?
Hi Tyler, If you’re not familiar with xHTML, CSS, PHP and Wordpress, the process can be difficult. Please let us know if you’re interested in our services. We can modify the theme to suit your needs.
Hey ! Great job, I love your theme and I’ve adopted it for my own blog, but there’s only one thing that annoy me : smooth scrolling …
Would you said me how erase it please ?
Have a good day !
hi, thanks for this great theme.
I’ve just one problem : when i want to add a widget, the flickrss photos disappear on the sidebar…
2 questions:
1) On the main page, my post appears with no styling; for example, if I have a numbered list, or have changed the style of the font for a particular area, these changes don’t show up. Why not?
2) I’d like to have my paragraphs formatted in “block” styling with no indent. Where would I look in the css documents to change this?
Hi Whitney,
1) Particular styles were removed because they would get cut off in the middle, and cause HTML problems. If you would still rather have them, you can edit home.php. Anywhere in that template file that you see the_excerpt_reloaded you’ll see a list of allowed html tags to be output. add any additional tags that you’d like to appear.
2) To remove paragraph indentation, edit line 117 in style.css which is #main .mainbody
I’m getting reports that Deskspace isn’t working on IE 8!! Eek! Does anyone know about this?
We’re planning on releasing an updated version of the Deskspace Theme. It will support all of the WP 2.7 features and more. We’ll also check it against IE8.
I love your theme. What changes do I have to make to make an entire post show on the home page?
Any projected release date for the new Desk Space version?
The new Desk Space theme is up! Check out the demo for some of the minor design mods. The theme settings page now gives you much more control over your front page and sidebar.