Announcing the ModernPaper Theme For WordPress

ModernPaper Wordpress ThemeWe are pleased to announce our second Brian Gardner designed theme ModernPaper For WordPress.

As is emblematic of his style, Brian has given us a clean, professional look with ease of customization.

The name ModernPaper hints at the fact that this theme is well suited for modern publishing of all kinds and straight out of the box has a nice journalistic feel. We wouldn’t be surprised to see this theme adopted by a wide variety of professional online publications, from traditional news to pop media.

As with the Nightlife theme, we want you to get the most out of your ModernPaper experience, which is why we’ve created this post to support the growth and maturation of the theme. Feel free to ask questions and make suggestions.

Click here for a live preview of ModernPaper.

Visit the official Performancing forum for ModernPaper support.

Comments

93 Responses to “Announcing the ModernPaper Theme For WordPress”

  1. urbanmike on April 16th, 2007 7:18 pm

    Any chance of some drupal themes?, these wordpress ones are great!

  2. Jonathan-C. Phillips on April 16th, 2007 9:59 pm

    Good job! looks pretty good! clean, simple, 3 columns, i like it :)

  3. Bill Hutchison on April 16th, 2007 11:24 pm

    I’ve been a fan of three column designs for a while and this one is definitely a nice clean one.

    Looking good.

  4. How do you add header images? on April 17th, 2007 5:19 am

    Nice theme , I love the layout but I can figure out for the life of me how to upload a logo

  5. Sergeant S.W. Foster on April 17th, 2007 1:24 pm

    This is cool…but where’s the download link?
    I’m serious, I want this for http://www.FastCashOnline.com Please advise.

    –SgtFoster
    http://www.IraqfromtheWindow.com

  6. Jim Kukral on April 17th, 2007 2:00 pm

    This is nice, thanks.

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  9. Mark Saunders on April 19th, 2007 4:28 am

    I agree. Great job, Brian!!

  10. admin on April 19th, 2007 4:31 am

    SgtFoster - the download link is the screenshot in the post introducing the theme, or the link in the first paragraph.

  11. Andrew Peacock on April 19th, 2007 1:10 pm

    Hi,
    Neat theme (both of them, actually).

    One issue though - if you have nested subcategories, there’s no indication on the site which ones are top-level and which are subcats. Would be great to have extra indentation for the subcats.

    Regards,
    Andy

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  14. billg on April 19th, 2007 9:15 pm

    Nice, Thanks! Did some quick adjustments and put on my little site.

  15. TJ on April 20th, 2007 1:54 am

    what? I’m not sexy enough top warrant a response? Does anyone know how to ad a logo to this theme?

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  17. Angela on April 20th, 2007 5:11 am

    This is the one theme I’m halfway interested in and there isn’t a way to download this puppie!?

  18. EXiT WEB on April 20th, 2007 6:19 am

    Thanks a loot! It’s just fine for my child school project.

    Hope to used it and contribute for it!

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  23. Axl on April 20th, 2007 9:39 pm

    Jonathan, If you want a good 3 columns Wordpress Theme, search for AndyBlue on themes.wordpress.net ;)

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  25. tobto on April 21st, 2007 12:18 pm

    basic everyoneuseit theme. sorry.

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  28. Jenny on April 22nd, 2007 6:17 pm

    Looks a lot like Brian Gardners theme. With a different header.

  29. Yanu on April 23rd, 2007 1:06 am

    Almost same like vertigo by Brian Gardner

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  31. admin on April 24th, 2007 1:46 am

    TJ, not sure where you are wanting to add the logo? Can you elaborate?

    Jenny & Yanu, yes, this theme was actually created by Brian, based on his Vertigo series. The intent was to offer a site that is easy on the eyes, focusing on a newspaper-type feel.

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  39. housne on May 12th, 2007 5:40 am

    hei,man,I edited your theme rencently, I want to ask abuot the permition to edit the theme ,you can view it at my site.

  40. krsgts on May 15th, 2007 4:24 am

    Great Site. Thanks for the great wordpress theme. I am using it right now on my site

  41. xiangge on May 23rd, 2007 1:48 pm

    Nice theme,I have already use in my blog.Thanks lot!

  42. davidleeking on May 23rd, 2007 5:32 pm

    Hey… is this theme widget ready?

  43. Chris on May 25th, 2007 2:23 am

    Beautiful, simple yet elegant.

    Will be adding it to another blog today to complement my site at http://odps.org (no link from site to blog yet :))

    Thanks for all the work.

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    Weird issue. Theme loads fine at http://odps.arpss.com/odps/ but when I change the file/directory attributes it disappears!

    Deleted it and reloaded twice to make sure I hadn’t done something strange, but it still happens.

    I’d like to edit the ‘about’ lines in r_sidebar.php

    Any suggestions?

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  48. Igor on June 18th, 2007 1:00 am

    I liked it subject! Congratulations!

    A magazine style is same. I want to give a suggestion. When the author writes a notice, it appears the date of the notice, but the name of it does not appear as being the author of that notice. It has as to place this?

    Thanks! ;)

  49. David on June 24th, 2007 4:53 am

    Brian, this is a great theme. I’m thinking of using it on my blog. I’m tweaking it right now and have an issue with text wrapping around images in posts.

    When the posts were written I started the text on a separate paragraph from the image. In other themes this keeps the text from wrapping around the image, but not in the ModernPaper Theme. What can be influencing the wrapping of text around the image? The images are justified to the left and text wraps to the right of the image.

    My knowledge of CSS is somewhat limited. It would be nice if you could point me to the section of code that may be affecting text wrapping.

    Thank you in advance. I hope I can get this resolved and use your theme.

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    Brian, never mind on the text wrapping issue. I got it resolved.

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  54. Sue on July 14th, 2007 3:49 pm

    It’s a really nice and clean template. Thank you.
    I’m getting it ready to use this on my site. I’m changing it from fixed to fluid (I seem to have a lot of high resolution visitors…960 px is too small). Thank heavens for xampplite. :D
    Perhaps you could offer it in a fluid width also, for others?

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  56. davez on August 14th, 2007 4:50 pm

    Great theme! I am using it for my new blog
    http://www.wordpressprofit.com/
    However, why there is no Edit button/link next the post title even after logging in?

  57. Barbara on August 15th, 2007 5:47 am

    Beautiful theme. I’m using it on my site, but I have a question…

    Why am I not finding a “single post” theme file/template page? I checked the download from this site, although I downloaded it from Theme Viewer, and am not seeing it on either one.

    I have always used my “single post” page for stats, and some ads, but am not sure how to apply stats with this theme.

    I’m not a techie, so I am missing something?

  58. Michelle Alexandria on September 10th, 2007 8:36 pm

    Hello,

    I really like your theme and would like to hire you to make 3 simple modifications. 1) Would be to make it fluid width, 2) Add Author Info and 3) Put one column on the left and the other on the right (of the center column).

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    created by Performancing

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  66. Andrew on November 9th, 2007 6:04 pm

    Great template… not so keen on the comments style.

    One problem i cant get image/text alignment to work in my posts ie text to go under a image and not around it.

    AC

  67. Jason Benway on November 11th, 2007 1:59 am

    I upgraded to WP 2.3.1
    the theme still seems to work, but I can’t get the tag cloud to work with this theme. It just makes a long list.
    Any ideas?
    Thanks,jb

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    i try this theme in my new site. It look error when i open with firefox, but look good when i open with IE. What wrong?

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  72. Samantha on December 1st, 2007 6:31 pm

    I love this theme, but tweaking it has been a bear! I am trying to edit the index to use “stumbleupon” and it keeps adding things to the link! Anyone have a fix for this?

    I am using these instructions from Stumbleupon. I am putting the stumble link on my index as there is no “single.php” to this theme.

    While I am putting the link in correctly, this theme keeps adding “http:(permalinktomyarticle)/%EF%BF%BD” to everything I add to the template.

  73. Samantha on December 1st, 2007 6:33 pm

    Nevermind answering here. I see that question was more appropriate for the support forum!

  74. levi on December 15th, 2007 10:52 am

    The is a little flaw in this theme. If one sets users must be registred to comment, then l_sidebar and r_sidebar will appear below content_left instead of next to it. (only when one is not logged in..)

    i found, i dont know how and why, that in comments.php the last div close tag and the 2 php_endif tags are in the wrong order. At first the div is above the two endif’s but when you make the div close tag the last line, the theme works fine again

  75. Shankar on January 7th, 2008 9:35 am

    Brian and Everyone behind Performancing: I have used this theme for my site for the last 6 months (from its start), and it has been great with lot of flexibility. Wish you all a great new year ahead!

  76. Ellwood on February 4th, 2008 10:54 pm

    I started using this theme. Thanks, I like how clean it is.
    Any update on:
    “However, why there is no Edit button/link next the post title even after logging in?”

    It would be nice to have this. Thanks, again.

  77. tukang on February 5th, 2008 2:06 am

    hi brian, one of my reader ask me to port this template enable work on the blogspot platform. Since i found no word ‘free theme’ on your modernpaper so will you give me a permit to work it out?

    thanking you for the feedback.

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    Does any one know how to convert this into a 2 column theme instead of the 3 existing columns?

  80. Monchou on March 15th, 2008 3:59 pm

    @free credit..: You can delete the include of one of the sidebars in your theme editor.

    I actually love this theme, it is very clean and useful, but the pagination simply doesn’t work. It always shows the newest post, when Page 2 has been clicked for example.
    Any solutions?
    Thank you very much.

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  83. george on March 30th, 2008 7:04 pm

    I love this theme too. It’s very useful.

    Is it compatible with WordPRess 2.5?

    I hope.

  84. Anirban on April 4th, 2008 11:02 am

    Its a very good website that i found from Google. But i cant find the download link for this Modern paper theme. :(

  85. Mark on April 16th, 2008 6:37 am

    Great theme. Customised it, used it, credited it.

    Now, is it 2.5 friendly? I’d like to know before I upgrade

    Thanks

  86. Bruce Cat on April 19th, 2008 5:12 pm

    Thanx for this great looking theme..very nice and clean

  87. Mark @ TheLocoMono on April 30th, 2008 4:03 pm

    I am having trouble with the RSS icon. I have the feed set up using Feedburner along with the FeedSmith plugin installed/activated.

    For some reason, when you click on the feed icon in the header, a 404 page shows up. What is missing here?

  88. Travis on May 20th, 2008 4:59 am

    Would really be nice to get an answer about compatibility with WP 2.5. I have been waiting for a response from you not only in here and in the forum for the theme support. It’s been over a month and there has been questions by more than just myself It would be a shame to see this great theme discontinue.
    Bueller!!! Bueller!!! LOL

  89. Travis on May 20th, 2008 8:54 pm

    Not sure why but my comment yesterday was deleted from this site???? I wasn’t trying to be derogatory towards performancing for not supporting their themes or answering questions about the modernpaper theme being compatible with WP 2.5. I think it poses an honest question about their theme, why shouldn’t i expect the designer of this theme to answer that simple question. Is It Compatible with 2.5 or not???

    I am not the only person to ask this unanswered question since the release of 2.5. If you look in the support forum for this theme, I asked this same question over 7 weeks ago with no answer yet. Why is it called a support forum if there is no support? I think you have some valuable content on your blog as a whole and some great WP themes but where is the support at?

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  92. andy on August 21st, 2008 9:04 pm

    thanks for providing this theme, folks at Performancing.

    i noticed the same bug as levi reported above, when viewing a blog post page with comments enabled as an anonymous user.

    i believe the correct fix is:

    1) remove the </div> from line 59
    2) move the </div> from line 102 to line 105 (after the penultimate endif)

    hope that’s helpful to someone!

  93. andy on August 21st, 2008 9:25 pm

    oops, sorry. i believe the correct fix for the bug in comments.php that levi reported is this:

    1) remove the </div> from line 59

    2) move the </div> from line 102 to the last line of the file (after the ultimate endif, as levi had reported)

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