WPCandy v1 WordPress Theme

As the proud owner and creator of WPCandy, I am pleased to present you my very first public WordPress theme. I’m not very creative with names, so I’ll just be releasing the theme as WPCandy v1, since after all, it was the WPCandy’s first theme. If you’re a long time visitor/reader of WPCandy, you’ll probably know which theme I’m referring to. Let’s find out more about this theme, shall we?

Included Features

  • Scrollovers navigation
  • Widget-ready sidebar
  • Valid CSS/XHTML
  • Page templates:
    • Archives
    • Links

Live Demo

A live demo of this theme can be found here.

Preview

Support

If you have any comments, questions, or concerns about this theme please contact me through the contact form.

Other Notes

  • I’ve included a readme.txt file in this theme so please read it. It contains crucial information about this theme.
  • A PSD of the logo has been included in the download folder

Download

WPCandy v1 WordPress Theme

Changelog

Version 1.0 - First Release
Version 1.1 - IE7 Footer Bug Fixed
Version 1.2 - Post Nav Link Bug Fixed

88 Responses to “WPCandy v1 WordPress Theme”

Thássius V.
Posted on March 8th, 2008 at 5:55 PM

This theme is great. Thanks!

Bram
Posted on March 8th, 2008 at 5:58 PM

Very nice! This is most welcome for some people I bet, and I think also a great way of winning some new visitors!

Lewis
Posted on March 8th, 2008 at 5:59 PM

Thanks for releasing! it really is awesome.

Sammie
Posted on March 8th, 2008 at 6:12 PM

Great theme - simple and clean, but with lots of little niceties thrown in. :-)

Michael Cromarty
Posted on March 8th, 2008 at 6:26 PM

Its great tht u finally got this out :) Its great to finally see it released.

Nice work.

Ptah Dunbar
Posted on March 8th, 2008 at 7:01 PM

So that’s where that theme was hiding. lol

It’s looking good!

Brady Valentino
Posted on March 8th, 2008 at 7:30 PM

Finally you release thing, and it’s nice to see you fixed all the IE bugs.

Jacky
Posted on March 9th, 2008 at 12:08 AM

I like it.

Mike Young
Posted on March 9th, 2008 at 1:39 AM

Love the theme.. Nice work..

Thanks :-)

PJ
Posted on March 9th, 2008 at 6:53 AM

I’ve definitely missed that theme, it has a nice charm to it.

Michael Castilla
Posted on March 9th, 2008 at 6:56 AM

Thanks everyone! I’m glad you all like it :) I worked hard on it so I’m glad you guys approve.

FMatt
Posted on March 9th, 2008 at 12:47 PM

There is a bug at the end os single pages? I cant see the Submit when the sidebar is too short.

Anyway, its a gr8 theme! Gratz

FMatt
Posted on March 9th, 2008 at 12:58 PM

ps. That happens with Internet Explorer 7.0.6

Them same happens with the sidebar when the post is too short.

Michael Castilla
Posted on March 9th, 2008 at 1:06 PM

@FMatt - Hey thanks for the heads up. Can you send me a screenshot or link to a live site with the bug?

Kotsengkuba
Posted on March 10th, 2008 at 11:07 AM

sweet as candy, simple yet classy. while everyone is diggin in outlandish display of graphics, you created a simple and elegant (almost) purely text-based template.

i’ll try it on one of my blogs.

rez0
Posted on March 10th, 2008 at 1:52 PM

Love the theme, minimalist, clean, nice job

Michael Castilla
Posted on March 10th, 2008 at 2:51 PM

@FMatt - Thanks I’ll get to working on that ASAP!

@Kotsengkuba - Hehe thanks! If you decide to keep the theme on your site, send us a link!

FMatt
Posted on March 10th, 2008 at 3:32 PM

=)

Im waiting the fix. This theme is really gr8.

Mostly Lisa
Posted on March 10th, 2008 at 11:06 PM

sweet. uber slick. i like it.

Beth
Posted on March 11th, 2008 at 6:01 AM

Minimalistic and clean. I like it!

Ben
Posted on March 11th, 2008 at 9:57 AM

Very nice & clean theme, thanks.
How easy is it to add tag support to it?

FACTOR2
Posted on March 11th, 2008 at 12:16 PM

Good Work.

Michael Castilla
Posted on March 11th, 2008 at 9:22 PM

@Ben - What do you mean by ‘tag support’?

Ben
Posted on March 12th, 2008 at 4:13 AM

@Michael Castilla - I probably didn’t word that in the best way, I would like to add the list of tags to each post.

FMatt
Posted on March 12th, 2008 at 10:35 AM

Hey =)

and a new release with a bug fix? :P
ehehhe Waiting! Its a really gr8 theme ;)

Michael Castilla
Posted on March 12th, 2008 at 7:01 PM

Hey guys I’ve uploaded a new version with a fix to that bug. Thanks for waiting so patiently. Enjoy!

If there are any more bugs, let me know.

FACTOR2
Posted on March 13th, 2008 at 12:12 PM

Opera Browser Bug;

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/4993/operazn9.jpg

Michael Castilla
Posted on March 14th, 2008 at 4:15 PM

@Factor2 - Dang! How do you even fix Opera bugs?

Anto
Posted on March 17th, 2008 at 8:34 PM

Fucking sex.

Anto
Posted on March 17th, 2008 at 8:51 PM

Errm, how do i save the image? Im using ps cs3.. there isnt just…

Have a look at this, what do i pick?

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/5182/98000593xq6.png

Michael Castilla
Posted on March 17th, 2008 at 8:55 PM

@Anto - Select Diffusion Transparency Dither and you should be good to go.

Anto
Posted on March 17th, 2008 at 8:59 PM

It still aint working :(
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/5070/77571861jw5.png

This is what i saved as. Anything wrong here?
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/9030/84551087th9.png

Michael Castilla
Posted on March 17th, 2008 at 9:10 PM

@Anto - Hmm can you send me a link to the site you’re testing it on?

Ben
Posted on March 19th, 2008 at 4:20 AM

@Anto & Michael Castilla - The same happens when I use CS3 too.

Michael Castilla
Posted on March 19th, 2008 at 4:48 AM

@Ben - I ended up explaining to Anto how to save the image correctly. Try the following steps and see if it works:

1. Edit the text
2. Crop the image to fit the text
3. Hide the Background layer
3. Go to File > Save For Web with the following settings: http://wpcandy.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/settings.png

Anto
Posted on March 19th, 2008 at 11:27 AM

Yea works to a charm.

If its outta place, just play about with the padding in the css or just move your text up near the top and right to the left :P on the psd.

Good luck get back to us, let us know if it worked for you.

Anto
Posted on March 19th, 2008 at 7:39 PM

Michael.

1 Thing mate. I dont know if anyone else has commented with this, well none that i have seen. But in FF, i dunno about IE, but FF, when you scroll to the botom of the page, and try to click the edit link for the post, it doesnt let ya.

I dont know if its just me, does it happen for you?

Michael Castilla
Posted on March 19th, 2008 at 7:50 PM

@Anto - Which post are you referring to?

Anto
Posted on March 19th, 2008 at 8:39 PM

Like the last post on the page, of this theme.

If your loged in as admin, and try to click the edit button it doesnt work. lol.

Ben
Posted on March 23rd, 2008 at 6:44 AM

@Michael Castilla - I’m still having problems editing the PSD, these are the setting I used, you can see the results on my site.

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/7007/capturevo5.jpg

Michael Castilla
Posted on March 23rd, 2008 at 11:00 PM

@Ben - Alright let’s see. It looks like your Matte color is off. The following settings should work.

http://mt13.quickshareit.com/share/picture1483ff.png

Ben
Posted on March 24th, 2008 at 4:20 AM

@Michael Castilla - Almost there, I can see that there is no white border now, but, it is still not aligned properly, I opened the PSD file and edited the text, I have not done any re-sizing.

Anto
Posted on April 2nd, 2008 at 7:08 PM

Problems in wp2.5 anyone? Mike?

FMatt
Posted on April 2nd, 2008 at 7:12 PM

@Anto Its ok here.

wpcandyv1 at wp2.5

Anto
Posted on April 2nd, 2008 at 7:13 PM

My nav links are just staying green.. and not turning.. when mouse over…

Anto
Posted on April 2nd, 2008 at 7:18 PM

Nav Links stay green in FF, but in IE 7, Home stays green, and the rest are white. But still no rollover effect :D

What the hell ? :P

Kate
Posted on April 10th, 2008 at 6:12 AM

Simple and good!

rappel
Posted on April 15th, 2008 at 4:57 PM

dito - no rollover effect here in wp 2.5 :-(

Nathan Thoms
Posted on April 24th, 2008 at 4:09 PM

@Michael

I tried all of the methods listed in the comments and in the original post itself and I’m still coming up with garbage as a result. Nothing approaching the quality of the default logo. I e-mailed you with a PSD earlier to see if you advise me on what was going wrong, but received no response (leading me to think it may have been spam).

With the disappeared background, dither to 242424, GIF and all that jazz I end up with what was once beautiful text based entirely on the original logo, but with my site’s name, surrounded by like a halo of fuzzy whiteness. It’s quite strange.

Could you e-mail me and give me a hand? I can’t figure out what’s wrong and love the theme too much to give up on it. This is really the last thing I need to change before it’s perfect!

Jonathan
Posted on April 28th, 2008 at 2:24 AM

Hey Michael.

I’ve started using WP Candy as the theme for my blog and am very impressed with it. The problem I have come across is that there are no scroll-overs in the header - could this be because I have WP 2.5?

Thanks

Jonathan

Matt
Posted on May 20th, 2008 at 5:30 AM

Hi, I just wanted to say I’ve added this theme to our list of the best Wordpress themes available on the net, which you can find at http://www.bestwpthemes.com. Keep up the great work.

I hope you enjoy our listings as well.

Anto
Posted on June 8th, 2008 at 11:25 PM

Can you post a download link ?

Michael Castilla
Posted on June 10th, 2008 at 6:35 PM

@Anto The download link has been updated, sorry about that.

Steff
Posted on June 24th, 2008 at 6:55 AM

Glad to see you liked my scrollovers script :)
Looks good (even though I do say so myself!)

Tim
Posted on July 6th, 2008 at 2:16 AM

This is an awesome, clean, sexy template!!! Thanks for sharing!!

Nacho
Posted on August 29th, 2008 at 8:09 AM

The scrollovers don’t work! I’ve tried everything to fix them, but I had no luck. Can anyone help me?

Sam
Posted on October 3rd, 2008 at 5:11 AM

How would I remove the iframe and incorporate the navigation within the same frame as the content?

John Mark
Posted on October 14th, 2008 at 12:14 AM

I was just curious - I really like your wpcandy 1 theme - can we use the design for non-word press stuff? I was just curious - I wanted to play with it in a new rails app I am working on.

Thanks

Tuss
Posted on November 22nd, 2008 at 5:21 PM

Great theme! One question, though. I’d like MY logo to be 2-3X larger. Is there a way for me to do that without messing up the header/navbar? Or am I asking for trouble? Thanks!

Sajid Iqbal
Posted on December 2nd, 2008 at 2:43 AM

Very nice and clean layout. I’ll love to use it.

Enrico Ladogana
Posted on December 7th, 2008 at 7:33 AM

Hi, the sidebar seems to collapse with IE6, maybe duplicated margin/padding.
Keep your excellent Work!

WordPress Themes DB
Posted on December 9th, 2008 at 2:26 PM

I hope i can list your themes at my site.

Thank you.
Robert - wpthemesdb.com

George Smason
Posted on December 24th, 2008 at 1:23 AM

Looking for a name for this?

Why not “Maximize Content” or something like that.
I love the fact that you have a minimal header, so people don’t have to scroll right away.
Why do so many theme writers seem to like that kind of theme?

Steve Vale
Posted on December 29th, 2008 at 6:02 AM

I have just down loaded
WPCandy v1 WordPress Theme
but I the the last date that there seems to be any modifications is 18/3/08.
Is this the latest version?
I see that there have been fixes after this date

Love the look of this but I am too computer illiterate to be able
to fix anything my self.

Michael Castilla
Posted on December 29th, 2008 at 8:58 AM

@Steve - Yeah that’s the latest version. I do plan on updating the theme soon, so look for that soon.

nick
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 at 10:36 PM

image alignment with text wrap not working when published… anyone?

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