Dark Theme Release

dark theme for WordPress

I will be evilly happy if you admit that you were fooled, but I'll be even happier if you say you've been waiting all along for the real deal. Tags are no longer going to be a part of WordPress 2.2, so I changed my mind and the theme is now available for download. Thank you for your patience. Now I give you Wolfgang Bartelme's "dark" theme.

The theme has been tested on WordPress 2.1.3 with Firefox and Safari, may play well with IE6/7 too. It validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.0, and supports the following plugins:

  • flickrRSS
  • Gravatar
  • Ultimate Tag Warrior
  • WP-PageNavi

Download dark v2.0

Change Log:

2.0 (2008-07-18):

  • Requires WordPress 2.5+
  • Added full widgets support (1 x sidebar + 3 x bottom)
  • Added native tagging support
  • Added native gravatar support
  • Slightly tweaked

1.01 (2007-04-23):

  • Fixed a CSS bug for Archives page
  • Fixed the alignment bug for search results

1.0 (2007-04-22):

  • Initial release

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  1. Jeannette left a comment

    April 22nd, 2007 5:29 am

    Wow . . . the theme looks great and I would love to test it . . . now, if only the download link would work . . . ;)

  2. Michael left a comment

    April 22nd, 2007 5:32 am

    Jeannette, You might want to try again, the link worked for me no problem.

  3. LEMONed left a comment

    April 22nd, 2007 5:38 am

    Jeannette's right, there was a small problem with the server.

    Make sure you re-download the theme, what you got might be broken!

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  5. Laurent Baumann left a comment

    April 22nd, 2007 6:02 am

    Like I said on Twitter : Just testing it - amazing work !! and thanks a lot wolfgang! :)

  6. Hanson left a comment

    April 22nd, 2007 9:41 am

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  9. Zip left a comment

    April 22nd, 2007 1:10 pm

    Very good ....

  10. Andor left a comment

    April 22nd, 2007 1:44 pm

    :-)终于放出了~

  11. begammer left a comment

    April 22nd, 2007 1:44 pm

    You are the coolest guy.

  12. Phoebus Osuns left a comment

    April 22nd, 2007 1:57 pm

    Thanks.

  13. jeriel left a comment

    April 22nd, 2007 1:58 pm

    Thank you so much! Finally i get this theme! Weee!!!

  14. SkyLanD left a comment

    April 22nd, 2007 7:41 pm

    能不能改个两栏版?

  15. 络小非 left a comment

    April 22nd, 2007 8:33 pm

    啊 柠檬坚贞不已Fans团上.

  16. Jenny left a comment

    April 22nd, 2007 11:53 pm

    Are tags not gonna be used anymore in WP? Or are they being included in the next release? I MUST KNOW!!

  17. Wolfgang Bartelme left a comment

    April 23rd, 2007 12:14 am

    Hey man, thanks - you've done an amazing job. @all: enjoy the theme :)

  18. LEMONed left a comment

    April 23rd, 2007 12:52 am

    @Jenny: Tags wont be coming with WordPress 2.2, but hopefully in 2.3

  19. Ariah Fine left a comment

    April 23rd, 2007 3:12 am

    Anyone going to widgetize this?

  20. Jenny left a comment

    April 23rd, 2007 5:51 am

    Would it be easy to add widgets? Or...no...

  21. LEMONed left a comment

    April 23rd, 2007 5:58 am

    It's not 100% true that a theme gets better or nicer when it goes widgetized. This depends on the layout of the theme. I personally don't think this theme is good to become widgets friendly. The layout is too unique and special.

  22. Darran left a comment

    April 23rd, 2007 10:05 am

    First of all, I really love the themes here, credit to Bartelme but also to the person in charge of iLEMONed.

    I want to put an image in my header instead of text, any ideas how I can achieve this?

    I noticed there is a bug with the dark theme.

    When I put the more tag ... I get a blank link

    http://darran.trap17.com/2007/04/22/saw-iii/

    It is after the picture.

    How can I solve this?

  23. Darran left a comment

    April 23rd, 2007 10:17 am

    Weird ... when I edited the CSS, this problem is fixed.

    But still I don't know how to add my own custom image in the header like your site ... :)

  24. LEMONed left a comment

    April 23rd, 2007 10:50 am

    @Darren: Thank you. Look carefully into header.php and you'll know where to put the codes. As for the image itself, use your photoshop. :)

  25. dandyna left a comment

    April 23rd, 2007 12:19 pm

    incredibly good. now I just have to make it valid and it's perfect. thanks for the great job, colleague!

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  29. jfish left a comment

    April 23rd, 2007 5:08 pm

    赞一个,真漂亮!

  30. Gythialy left a comment

    April 23rd, 2007 5:26 pm

    发现一个小小的问题,不知道是不是算Bug了
    就是在使用了标签的话,会增加一个小小的方块
    我猜应该是的css定义引起的
    类似这样的

  31. Miguel left a comment

    April 23rd, 2007 6:11 pm

    Good theme!!

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  33. darran left a comment

    April 23rd, 2007 9:25 pm

    I did my header, take a look :) and some customization of my own.

    http://darran.trap17.com

  34. darran left a comment

    April 23rd, 2007 9:44 pm

    What could be the reason my gravatars are not showing?

    http://darran.trap17.com/2007/04/20/tertiary-in-a-nutshell/

    Would appreciate any help

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  36. Vaidas Žilionis left a comment

    April 24th, 2007 4:26 am

    Thanks, i like your style. I switched to it.

  37. KinK left a comment

    April 24th, 2007 3:23 pm

    Nice.

  38. Roman left a comment

    April 24th, 2007 3:39 pm

    Can I get the PSD Files please ? Please send it to smartphoner at gmail dot com

  39. Shimon left a comment

    April 24th, 2007 3:56 pm

    Thank you for making this theme to be availible for WP.

    BTW, what type of licence for this theme is?

  40. Shawn left a comment

    April 24th, 2007 10:31 pm

    I'm using it, thank you very much

  41. Shawn left a comment

    April 24th, 2007 10:56 pm

    will it support more plugins?

  42. Jeriel left a comment

    April 24th, 2007 11:49 pm

    May i know how to do with "SVN" file? where should i upload it? can help me?

  43. LEMONed left a comment

    April 25th, 2007 4:02 am

    @Jeriel: If you are not using WordPress alpha version, don't touch the 3 files in "svn" folder.

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  45. Kaol left a comment

    April 25th, 2007 10:51 am

    实习一个多月都没有上网,没想到一来就发现了好东西。Lemon,你真是太有才了:)

  46. lifishake left a comment

    April 25th, 2007 11:15 am

    自己开发也用subversion,是个好习惯,但是发布的时候记得要删干净哦:)

  47. kris left a comment

    April 25th, 2007 11:19 am

    Falbulm worked fine with fresh but seems to have broke here. any chance someone can have a look and see what i can do to fix it. heres the link to where the flickr photos should be.

    http://stealthfiction.com/photos/

  48. km left a comment

    April 25th, 2007 11:21 am

    nice work.

  49. Weeker left a comment

    April 25th, 2007 11:46 am

    hmmm,终于放出来了

    momo 柠檬

  50. Jaypee left a comment

    April 25th, 2007 12:18 pm

    I'm using this theme for my blog right now. Great work and thanks for sharing it with us. Btw, would you mind sending me a copy of your pdf file for the header image - iLEMONed.com? I just wanna know how to do that. Thanks in advance! :)

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  53. Dany left a comment

    April 25th, 2007 6:24 pm

    So cool ,just try it!

  54. Xujin left a comment

    April 26th, 2007 12:52 am

    友情链接好像有问题,只能显示部分

  55. rojoro left a comment

    April 26th, 2007 3:13 am

    very bad!

  56. Soul left a comment

    April 26th, 2007 5:12 am

    Awsom! Thanks!

  57. Anshul left a comment

    April 26th, 2007 9:54 am

    Nice work dude. If you had your way, even the current Bartelme design would be ported to wordpress. LOL

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  59. Dany left a comment

    April 26th, 2007 12:43 pm

    Test AJAX comment..

  60. Dany left a comment

    April 26th, 2007 12:46 pm

    为什么我放到我的站无法实现AJAX评论?

  61. kris left a comment

    April 26th, 2007 12:56 pm

    I'm having trouble getting a custom header to show up. I've uploaded an image with the name logo.gif without any results. anyone else having this problem? or is there another step i am missing?

  62. kris left a comment

    April 26th, 2007 1:03 pm

    Ah hah! got the answer by viewing the source code in firefox (differnt colored code) If you have uploaded a logo you must remove the ' !-- ' at the begining and the '--' at the end of the line of code, regarding the logo.gif, otherwise it will not work.

  63. Dany left a comment

    April 26th, 2007 1:03 pm

    Ajax comment effect can not work in my blog,why?

  64. Yee left a comment

    April 26th, 2007 3:12 pm

    great work! thx for sharing.

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  66. FlorianJensen left a comment

    April 27th, 2007 3:25 am

    Great port as usual :)

    Just a pity that there is no widget support :(

  67. Freeman left a comment

    April 27th, 2007 8:23 pm

    真的很不错,支持一下。

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  69. Bas left a comment

    April 28th, 2007 6:35 am

    Hi LEMONed,

    thank you so much for this awesome release. I am wondering why the gravaters are not working next to the comments in the post, see http://www.offersphoto.com/blog/?p=37#comment-9. Do you perhaps have any idea? I did not change anything in the comments.php, and the gravatars do work in the sidebar. Thank in advance!

  70. Azil left a comment

    April 28th, 2007 4:13 pm

    thx.

  71. LEMONed left a comment

    April 28th, 2007 4:39 pm

    @Bas: You need the plugin Gravatar.

  72. Bas left a comment

    April 28th, 2007 6:49 pm

    @ LEMONed: that seems to do the trick. Thanks mate!

  73. FlorianJensen left a comment

    April 29th, 2007 1:59 am

    @LEMONed: I have installed the gravatar plugin, but I can't find an option anywhere to set my users avatar.

  74. LEMONed left a comment

    April 29th, 2007 3:07 am

    @Florian: But Gravatar plugin is not configurable. lol

    Do you mean having your own gravatar? Then you need to go to http://www.gravatar.com to register.

  75. FlorianJensen left a comment

    April 29th, 2007 8:10 am

    @LEMONed: Ah thanks. I created an account and configured an Gravatar, but somehow I don't see it appear. Is there a way to check it manually, i.e. overriding potential cache?

  76. FlorianJensen left a comment

    April 29th, 2007 8:11 am

    Never mind my last comment. It works now. Though thanks for the info :)

  77. Pat left a comment

    April 29th, 2007 10:54 am

    It's so real!
    I love it.

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  79. Brandon left a comment

    April 30th, 2007 5:36 pm

    I installed the suggested gravatar plugin and have not changed any of the files from your release. I still have a problem with gravatars showing up. In the side bar on the main page they are all the ? pictures, but on the actual post pages there is nothing there. Can any suggest a possible fix for this or what may be going wrong?

    Brandon

  80. Xu.hel left a comment

    May 1st, 2007 1:50 am

    I like your theme.
    Since my blog is not WordPress,I can be transplanted to my blog, ah.My Blog is PJblog2.

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  82. shadie left a comment

    May 1st, 2007 8:50 am

    柠檬知不知道现在bartelme的blog里的archive页面效果怎么做出来的?

  83. Ariah Fine left a comment

    May 1st, 2007 11:49 am

    Hey, so I'd love to get ELA running on my blog like you have. You even included the nice CSS for it.
    But for some reason it's not working. Are you running WP2.1 and ELA? Just curious if you have it working before I waste my time.

  84. Brad Bowen left a comment

    May 2nd, 2007 2:55 am

    I love the layout of this theme, and have made several changes to the design and layout of it, really just playing around with it.

    I have created a "style" for the dark theme, and you can see it here

    I would really appreciate your opinion, and maybe we might be able to collab on a new color scheme? Please feel free to contact me.

    I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks, Brad Bowen

  85. Luca left a comment

    May 4th, 2007 6:46 am

    Hy, the theme looks great...

    ..but I have a problem with Share This plugin...

    Thanks

  86. Paul left a comment

    May 5th, 2007 12:31 am

    I love this theme - but my tags (on the left) are not showing up!!!!

    I'm using WordPress version 2.0.2

    Any clues on how to fix this?

  87. Paul left a comment

    May 5th, 2007 12:31 am

    Here is the work blog I'm using it on: http://www.jcolemanco.com/blog/

  88. Brad Bowen left a comment

    May 5th, 2007 1:33 am

    @Paul, make sure UTW (ultimate tag warrior) is enabled. You then have to set tags (different from categories) for each post you want to have tags.

    Hope that helps :)

    http://onemorerevision.com

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  90. Brad Bowen left a comment

    May 5th, 2007 4:20 am

    So, I decided to make another "flavor" if you will, for bartelme's awesome "dark" theme. You can check it out here.

    Please drop me a line and tell me what you think!

    http://test.onemorerevision.com/

  91. YILKA left a comment

    May 5th, 2007 11:37 am

    Amazing theme again, thank you and Bartelme a lot for sharing. Such spirit keeps us growing, all the best :)

  92. LEMONed left a comment

    May 5th, 2007 12:41 pm

    @Brad Bowen: Nicely done. Whatever you wanna do, just go ahead. As long as you keep proper credits to us.

  93. Sherlock Holmes left a comment

    May 5th, 2007 5:34 pm

    this theme doesn't work well with Extended Live Archives.

    In the By Date view, things kind of collapse together, but the By Category view works very well.

    Could you shed a light upon this issue?

    Thank you very much for this theme !

  94. YILKA left a comment

    May 6th, 2007 3:18 am

    Just wondering whether this Dark Theme is widget-ready :) Pardon me if I didn't read carefully. Thanks!

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  96. BONTB left a comment

    May 8th, 2007 7:48 am

    I might use this theme on http://www.bontb.com what do you think ?

  97. Kate left a comment

    May 8th, 2007 10:27 pm

    I would say WOW about this theme

  98. Vladimir left a comment

    May 9th, 2007 5:23 pm

    The Coolest Theme for Wordpress ever! :) I like it soooo much! great work! Keep on rockin'

  99. benoit left a comment

    May 9th, 2007 6:17 pm

    my flickr is not working can anybody help me? please....

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  101. Brad Bowen left a comment

    May 10th, 2007 12:05 am

    Hello All,

    Just wanted to let you guys know that the "Dark_Black" theme has been released, and you can view the release info here.

    Just adding a new flavor to the amazing Bartelme and LEMONed's "dark" theme.

  102. Brad Bowen left a comment

    May 10th, 2007 12:09 am

    whoops. bad link.

    Here, use this link to view the release info for the "Dark_Black" theme.

    http://onemorerevision.com/dark_black_release/

  103. SasaVtec left a comment

    May 10th, 2007 9:20 am

    Has anyone looked at this theme in IE 6, not sure if its the same as IE 7, but a lot of hover, and styles aren't the same as in firefox.

  104. Criminal left a comment

    May 10th, 2007 1:45 pm

    SasaVtec, that's why you should switch to firefox today!

  105. SasaVtec left a comment

    May 10th, 2007 3:59 pm

    @Criminal-I have ff, problem is in this world still most internet users have and use IE 6 or 7.

    Also having a small problem with Gravatars, I've uploaded all files, but nothing has changed.

  106. bob jim, i think... left a comment

    May 10th, 2007 6:17 pm

    rerro, nice templatey thingy, i love lemons, lemons 4eva
    8-)

  107. hairul azami left a comment

    May 11th, 2007 1:01 pm

    thank a lot for your theme

  108. ikoko left a comment

    May 11th, 2007 3:48 pm

    it's really cool~!

  109. Diego Ciconi left a comment

    May 14th, 2007 3:26 am

    Hey guys, this theme is awsome! I loved it!

    Just to let you know I made it ready for widgets, and now support Related Posts plugin.

    You may be interested, this direct link is:
    http://diegociconi.com/files/wptheme-dark-widgetized.zip

    If you wanna see a live demo just take a look at http://ciconi-invest.com

    You rock guys!

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  112. Marshal left a comment

    May 16th, 2007 3:39 pm

    It's so elegant and ultimate cool!I like it so much. Thanks for your genius work.

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  115. do left a comment

    May 18th, 2007 3:18 am

    I made a traduction of the Dark theme in spanish.
    The url is: http://www.proyectodo.com.ar/blog

    Thanks for the theme.

  116. MASA left a comment

    May 18th, 2007 8:20 am

    Aw dang Diego, you beat me to it.

    I was thinking about making this a widget theme.

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  119. wpthemes left a comment

    May 19th, 2007 4:29 am

    WordPress Themes DB > Dark Theme

  120. heyy left a comment

    May 19th, 2007 5:22 am

    its amazing!

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  122. Diego Ciconi left a comment

    May 20th, 2007 12:28 am

    @MASA:

    I just did it: http://diegociconi.com/wordpress-theme-dark-theme-widgets-82/

    You can use it, why not? :)

  123. MANIC left a comment

    May 20th, 2007 7:01 pm

    Nice skin,.. Im using it for my new blog right now...
    http://www.manicdeveloper.com

    Check it out... I dont have the same plugins...

    PS. Is this compatible with 2.2 sidebar widgets?

  124. doddo left a comment

    May 20th, 2007 7:21 pm

    I agree with begammer;
    You are the coolest guy.

  125. Diego Ciconi left a comment

    May 20th, 2007 10:45 pm

    @MANIC:

    The default version isn't compatible with widgets, but I made a hack to it:
    http://diegociconi.com/wordpress-theme-dark-theme-widgets-82/

    And it works fine with 2.2 ;)

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  127. Vaughn left a comment

    May 21st, 2007 8:57 pm

  128. GuardRail left a comment

    May 22nd, 2007 11:40 pm

    I dude, very nice work..so i've used it for my website.
    Could you think to realize the same theme for phpbb? ;-)

    bye

  129. GuardRail left a comment

    May 23rd, 2007 4:54 am

    ..or..better.. for bbpress ;)

  130. prattmic left a comment

    May 24th, 2007 5:11 am

    Very nice theme, I'm considering using it on my site.

  131. Birger Nordølum left a comment

    May 27th, 2007 7:52 am

    Maybe the wrong place to ask. But how can I get the Share-this plugin by Alex King to function right with your theme?

    Feature request: Please add support for Simple Tagger instead of UTW.

  132. kris left a comment

    May 28th, 2007 2:21 am

    I'm having a problem with tags i was hoping you could help out on.

    I converted categories to Tags and when ever you click on a tag it only shows the latest 3 Posts with that tag and for some reason does not include a page navigation function to see older posts with the same tag.

    I am not to good at code, so I was hoping you could tell em what i need to change so I can get tags to work properly.

    Thanks mate. As always, great theme.

  133. LEMONed left a comment

    May 28th, 2007 11:54 am

    @Birger: Where do you want to put the "Share This" button?

    @kris: Disable WP-PageNavi.

  134. Florian Jensen left a comment

    May 28th, 2007 6:39 pm

    Hi, I just visited the Website of Wolfgang Bartelme, as I downloaded the customization kit. I noticed the notify of replies button at the end of the comments box. Is there a way to integrate it in this theme?

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  136. LEMONed left a comment

    May 29th, 2007 4:11 pm

    @Florian Jensen: You'll need a plugin to do that. But sorry I've no idea which because I never use such plugins. So please do some search.

  137. Slavo left a comment

    May 29th, 2007 8:03 pm

    Great thanks for this theme! It looks really nice.

    Is there any simple way to change Gravatar to MyAvatars in sidebar and comments?

  138. begammer left a comment

    May 30th, 2007 12:03 am

    hello. Thers is a little problem in using your theme.
    In the archive page, using the Extended Live Archives plugin, a the texts, .....loading , appeared when i am clicking the bottom, is in the above of the Chronology, other than in the right of the the bottom like what show in your page.

    I think there need a html code need to add somewhere , and i am wondering where it is.

    Thanks for your reply and this wonderful theme.

  139. tomos left a comment

    May 30th, 2007 1:41 am

    Awesome theme!

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  143. OmegaMan left a comment

    May 31st, 2007 12:02 am

    I have been using Dark for a couple of weeks and like the look and feel. But my problem is quotes. For some reason posts get published with this html (Brackets removed so its visible to the user.

    {p}“This is a quote”{/p}

    Which was "This is a quote". The problem is when someone copies a code snippet from my site the 8221 quote is an extended character and not the actual ascii quote which I intended...this site appears not to change them...any thoughts

  144. OmegaMan left a comment

    May 31st, 2007 12:04 am

    The actual looked like this

    {p}{amp}#8220;This is a quote{amp}#8221;{/p}

  145. Amaresh left a comment

    June 1st, 2007 4:30 am

    Check out my custom light version of the dark theme at my site

    http://www.zaldoe.com

    Thanks a lot for this theme.

  146. Adrian left a comment

    June 4th, 2007 10:01 pm

    I love it!
    That's why it's part of my list "Die besten Wordpress Themes":
    http://blog.akpix.de/design/die-besten-wordpress-themes/

  147. lobohoo left a comment

    June 5th, 2007 5:35 pm

    这个皮肤很漂亮:)所以拿来改了改(有保存LEMONed同学的链接)
    但是实在不是太懂程序,有好多问题。。。
    My flickr部分每个图片后面会有一个小圆点,不知道怎么回事。。。
    还有请问Archives Links Guestbooks这几个页面要怎么让他显示相应内容?

  148. SEO digg left a comment

    June 6th, 2007 3:12 am

    I love the theme. I wish I could adopt it to my directory. I have looked through over a hundred templates and even the paid ones were nowhere as good as this one.

  149. Patrick Sikorski left a comment

    June 6th, 2007 7:51 am

    I love it!