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This theme is based off of Upstart Blogger’s Wordpress theme "Modicus ". Thus aptly titled "Modicus Remix". The original Modicus theme may be a tad more versatile (such as a three-column option, which remix does NOT have). So if you plan on wanting another column, or a simpler starting point, I would recommend the original theme. To install Modicus Remix on your own Wordpress blog, follow the step-by-step instructions below.
Demo now up. Click Here
Updated 5/7/2008: Wordpress 2.5+ Support / Improved HTML/CSS / Dramatically optimized theme
Step One
- Download the theme package here
- Extract and upload the modicus-remix folder to your /wp-content/themes/ folder inside your blog.
Step Two
- Login to your Wordpress administration panel
- Click Presentation, and select Modicus Remix as your theme.
If you already have categories, or know what you want your navigation to look like, you can edit the header and footer files to reflect what categories you want to link to. These links need to be manually added in the files through the presentation section of Wordpress, once you decide what pages/categories you want to list.
Step Three
To create your archives page, you will need to create a new "Page" in wordpress. Name this page anything you like, most likely ‘Archives’. Make sure you set the template (on the right sidebar) to use the "Archives" template. You will also want to edit the actual Archives.php file from your presentation section of Wordpress to fill in or remove your author profile, which has links to the authors articles and a small about me paragraph.
This theme will be supported as best I can, but primarily this is an unsupported theme , and you will need to seek your own counsel when trying to use or modify it. The theme is free to use, spread, modify, do whatever you like with. Let me know with a comment if you decide to use the theme, and where I can check it out. Hope it’s enjoyed!
Post Tags: blog, wordpress, Wordpress Themes
Sep 11, 2007
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One of the best looking themes i’ve seen in along time. Great work!
Sep 29, 2007
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I would have to agree.
Oct 30, 2007
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Hello there. It’s a nice theme. But the header banner isn’t displaying. Do i need to do something to make it display?
Nov 8, 2007
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Fath — the easiest way seems to be just change the ‘#headerstripe’ property in the style.css file to match the banner you’d like… you lose the stripes, but that may not be a bad thing. The only problem (other than you now have only one banner for all pages) is on the 404 page, where you’ll now have two headers — the new banner plus the 404 banner. You can decide what you’d like to do about that..
More help would be nice — I did like the way each page had a different banner on the site but I think these bits were removed for the public download.
Great theme though…
best–
john.
Nov 24, 2007
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I’ve got 2.3 working on Modicus Remix with the latest version of live archive. Just an FWI.
Nov 24, 2007
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Or, just an FYI.
Jan 17, 2008
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this is great! however, maybe u could reconsider in your instructions the part overwriting all existing plugins. most might have existing plugins that they would want to continue using and/or they would needing in case they would want to change back to their old theme theme for whatever reason.
thanks alot!
Jan 18, 2008
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I clicked on the Modicus Remix link on Smash Magazine. I like your site even better, Brad! It took me the longest time to realize that this was not another version of Modicus Remix (with which I’m not familiar.) Boy did I feel like an idjut. Did you do this site yourself? It’s phenomenal.
Jan 22, 2008
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This theme does look nice but as you said, but it is a work in progress indeed! I don’t have a banner showing but worse: my posts appears in the side columns when one continues the lecture away from the home page!
May you help me?
Jan 30, 2008
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Hi,
It’s the end of January 2008 and I’m considering updating my current WP blog to use the Modicus Remix theme; can anyone help with a couple of questions?
1 - Any known compatibility issues with WordPress Version 2.3.2?
2 - Is the theme widget enabled? (I can’t see any statement on this)?
3 - What advice would you offer / check’s to be made / work-arounds that I should be aware of before implementing this theme?
4 - Other examples of the theme in use? - I’ve seen the excellent http://drew3000.net/
Another general questions to Brad…. I really like the ‘Featured Article’ functionality in the “Magazine News” theme:
1 - Any plans to include this in the “Remix” theme? Or, has anyone done this - would you care to share?
2 - Can you assign particular images / banners to individual posts? Or can only one be displayed at any one time?
Thanks for making the theme available.
Regards.
Feb 2, 2008
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anyone have this issue:
With “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” checked off in the admin area, and you’re logged out on the front end, the sidebar doesn’t float right anymore, it ends up under the posts. I found this issue on versions 2.2/x and 2.3.x. Anyone else run into this?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you
Adam
Feb 6, 2008
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Awesome looking theme, but i too am wondering where my ‘featured article’ is… How do i go about implementing this? I love it!
Feb 11, 2008
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adam
Haven’t seen it, if you link the problem blog I’ll take a quick peek.
Feb 20, 2008
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What’s an amazing theme. I like this one.
Great job~
Mar 22, 2008
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I am having the same problem as adam
brad, loggin to your theme and/or check it, then please try to logged out and check the single page so you can see the error we were referring to. i’d been through all files but can’t seem to find the error :/
Apr 9, 2008
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It seems that your fabulous theme doesn’t work with the new Wordpress 2.5. I am so sad… Are there any plans to make the theme compatible? It would be a shame if it were to get lost in the upgrade shuffle.
Apr 16, 2008
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hi, i really appreciate your modicus remix theme. since i use it for my art weblog (in german language) i never had the feeling to search another wp-design. it’s really fantastic work.
Apr 18, 2008
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Maggie, what issues have you encountered with WP 2.5? I just installed it along with Modicus Remix and am just about to publish my first post on my new blog. The only thing I’ve noticed so far is that the Preview Post function doesn’t work.
Brad, I really like the theme. Looking to get a compatible version as well with the new WP install.
Apr 18, 2008
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i am geting errors (WP 2.5)
i activated all plugins. i don’t know how to solve this. any idea?
thanks
kux
FATAL ERROR: CALL TO UNDEFINED FUNCTION AKST_SHARE_LINK() IN/HOME/HTTPD/VHOSTS/PUREPASSION.CH/HTTPDOCS/WORDPRESS/WP-CONTENT/THEMES/MODICUS-REMIX/INDEX.PHPON LINE 7
Apr 18, 2008
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I’ll be updating the theme soon to support Wordpress 2.5 - Probably no more then a week
Apr 23, 2008
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How far along are you with the update? I have a brand new blog I’d like to use this wonderful theme for.
Apr 26, 2008
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That’s a brilliant theme, thanks. I’m gonna use it for my wife’s blog.
Apr 26, 2008
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Hi,
Im getting this error on the page. Does anyone know what is causing this?
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: akst_share_link() in /mnt/w0706/d34/s26/b02783b1/www/adamsback.com/wp-content/themes/modicus-remix/index.php on line 7
Apr 27, 2008
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Nice
Apr 27, 2008
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http://www.jahn.ic.cz/
Apr 27, 2008
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Awesome theme, dude. Thumbs up!
Apr 27, 2008
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hey people with the akst_share_link() problem, i think that’s because you didn’t install the required plugin. put a conditional in there if you don’t want to use it (i guess the theme could have done a function_exists()…
Apr 28, 2008
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hey brad if you’re updating this soon, it would be cool too if category links and page links were generated dynamically…
Apr 30, 2008
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Nice artc. thank
May 5, 2008
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hey,
any word on when the new release supporting 2.5 will be ready?? dying to use the theme, but getting the same errors as above ^^
Thanks
May 5, 2008
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Really nice theme! Thank you very much, I may just have to switch over to this new one…
ndt
May 8, 2008
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All outstanding issues should be resolved. Theme has been updated, post here with any bugs. Thanks!
May 8, 2008
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Hey i love the theme, well done sir and thank you kindly for putting it out there. I have but one question, is there a way by default to keep the large picture header or do I need to go in and edit the html and put it in myself.?
Thanks again.
May 8, 2008
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Kerry: You would need to go in and add it yourself into the header, or wherever else. When I was using them on the first versions of artculture, I setup different category pages, so I could use different header graphics on different categories.
Jun 3, 2008
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Wow! This is an outstanding theme. One of the best minimalistic themes for Wordpress. Period.
I’ve using it on my blog!
http://www.thesecondpress.com/blog/
Jun 22, 2008
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A wonderfull theme i use it on my own website now, i changed it a little bit but its great!
internetanddesign.com
Jun 24, 2008
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Sorry if this is a silly question. How do I get rid of the blog title on the sidebar and replace is with something like what you have “About the author: Brad Mahaffey”
Jun 28, 2008
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Using in my blog with some modifications (and french translation). Nice !
Jul 5, 2008
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nice theme
Jul 11, 2008
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Awesome theme, dude. Thumbs up!
Jul 17, 2008
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Hi,
As my understanding, this is widget-enable WordPress theme. However, when I tried to use some features from the widget, it just can’t show in my page.
For example, I activate the calendar at my widget section, but it doesn’t show at my blog. Why?
Anything I missed here?
Thanks.
Jul 17, 2008
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The theme looks great in Firefox but it’s not dispalying properly in IE7 ??
Any suggestions?
Jul 20, 2008
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Awesome, so SEO friendly