Announcing the Modern Paper Theme For WordPress

We 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.

Update: ModernPaper has been updated for compatibility with WordPress 2.7 and up. Download the latest version here.

Visit the official Performancing forum for ModernPaper support.

April 16th, 2007 Themes

98 Responses to “Announcing the Modern Paper Theme For WordPress”

Time for a change : Gustacci.com on June 28, 2007 at 4:06 am

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David on June 28, 2007 at 4:07 am

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

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On Themes : Listen on July 2, 2007 at 2:28 am

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Sue on July 14, 2007 at 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.
Perhaps you could offer it in a fluid width also, for others?

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Placement of Digg Button on ModernPaper Theme at Top 10 Tech Web Tips on July 27, 2007 at 2:51 pm

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davez on August 14, 2007 at 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?

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Barbara on August 15, 2007 at 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?

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Michelle Alexandria on September 10, 2007 at 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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50 Best 3 Column, Widget Ready Wordpress Themes (with Screen shots) | TechMalaya.com on September 13, 2007 at 10:00 am

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das on September 16, 2007 at 6:43 pm

created by Performancing

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Fortune Seeker Blog | Some Really Cool WordPress Themes......Really Cool. on October 28, 2007 at 7:49 pm

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Daves Blog » Blog Archive » Die besten 3-Column Wordpress Themes on November 3, 2007 at 2:08 pm

[...] ein recht schlichtes Theme (mit gefällt das ja) mit beiden Sidebars auf der rechten Seite. Download [...]

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Andrew on November 9, 2007 at 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

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Jason Benway on November 11, 2007 at 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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50 WOW Wordpress Themes | Wordpress Themes | Web Design & Graphic Design Blog on November 13, 2007 at 9:35 am

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rionya on November 15, 2007 at 11:05 am

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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梦想视觉-梦想设计» Blog Archive » wordpress theme [ModernPaper ] on November 19, 2007 at 8:32 pm

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New domain: SearchBeest.com : SearchBeest on November 20, 2007 at 6:08 pm

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Samantha on December 1, 2007 at 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.

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Samantha on December 1, 2007 at 6:33 pm

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

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levi on December 15, 2007 at 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

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Shankar on January 7, 2008 at 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!

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Ellwood on February 4, 2008 at 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.

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tukang on February 5, 2008 at 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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Tags: If you want a job done right… : logosmith.net on February 11, 2008 at 6:51 pm

[...] not a PHP expert, so mine may not be elegant, but they seem to work. My theme, by the way, is Modern Paper. Article Tags>> tags | [...]

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free credit report uk on March 3, 2008 at 7:29 pm

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

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Monchou on March 15, 2008 at 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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Confessions of a Wordpress Theme Junkie | Blogging | Success with Todd on March 27, 2008 at 4:03 am

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Four Favorite WordPress Theme Designers | PureBlogging on March 27, 2008 at 7:27 pm

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george on March 30, 2008 at 7:04 pm

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

Is it compatible with WordPRess 2.5?

I hope.

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Anirban on April 4, 2008 at 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.

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Mark on April 16, 2008 at 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

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Bruce Cat on April 19, 2008 at 5:12 pm

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

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Mark @ TheLocoMono on April 30, 2008 at 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?

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Travis on May 20, 2008 at 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

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Travis on May 20, 2008 at 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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Cluttered Desk » Here we go again (and again…) on June 12, 2008 at 9:29 am

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andy on August 21, 2008 at 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!

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andy on August 21, 2008 at 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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