Announcing the Too Newsy Theme for WordPress

Written by Performancing on January 26, 2009

Too Newsy WordPress theme image previewWe are pleased to announce the January, 2009 Performancing Theme release: Too Newsy. The Too Newsy Performancing Theme for WordPress is a three-column WordPress theme that uses minimal images and earthy colors, contributing to a touch of elegance.

The theme features widget-ready sidebars, which can accommodate several different image dimensions (suitable for button and banner ads). The theme is the first Performancing Theme to support new WordPress 2.7 features out of the box:

  • Threaded and paginated comments
  • Post classes
  • Image captions and gallery classes

Another highlight of Too Newsy is the use of the sidebar for snippets of the latest posts in a pre-defined category (which is by default the “features” category). This can be useful for bloggers who wish to highlight certain posts, such that they are not pushed down too soon by newer ones. The theme also supports gravatars out of the box.

Too Newsy is another collaboration with Splashpress Media designer Sophia Lucero, who previosuly brought us the Rubidious Theme, and various other Splashpress Media blog designs.

Usage Notes

You would need to make some sidebar edits, either through widgets or on the sidebar.php file itslf. This is particularly for the features column, where you can define a category that will have a few posts as “sticky” on the sidebar.

Also, you would need to edit the menu.php file once the theme is installed, so you can define the header and footer links. This menu is actually an unordered list (UL) and you can add or remove items as needed, and as long as the navigation bar does not get too crowded.

Update

We’ve received some complaints about the widget-capability of the theme, and apparently there was a small bug in sidebar.php that prevented widgets from properly appearing in sidebar 2. The download files have been updated (below) to fix that. If you’ve already installed Too Newsy, then you can simply replace style.css and sidebar.php.

Do note that the widgetized areas appear right below the blurb (for sidebar 1) and right after blogroll (for sidebar 2).

Download Too Newsy Theme

Too Newsy for WordPress download

See a live theme preview here.

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38 Responses to “Announcing the Too Newsy Theme for WordPress”

  1. labs
    On January 26, 2009 at 7:06 pm

    the best neatest theme ever…but the usage notes must be more elaborate..and there are a few bugs in 1.0b … eg: sidebar does not seem to take widegts.

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  4. Ehab
    On January 27, 2009 at 6:24 pm

    Trying out the live demo. But a very disturbing thing –

    Too Newsy 1.0a

    – This is completely unnecessary, from my point of view. We should be asking webmasters to upgrade their software, rather than letting them be lazy and later blame us that their site got hacked :)

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    • jangelo
      On February 6, 2009 at 8:33 am

      Hi. The theme was originally developed and finished before WP 2.7 was released. It was in the Perf Theme queue for some time. But when we were about to release it, we decided to update it for compatibility. And so we released both versions, in case there are people who, for some reason, are still using WP 2.6.x and below.

      Reply

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    On January 29, 2009 at 11:10 am

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  10. oscar
    On January 31, 2009 at 11:36 pm

    excellent thema
    But as I do, so that the pictures are on page principaly not just the text.

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  18. scoopman
    On February 22, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    Hey great theme.

    I’d like to use this on my blog, but you’ve got a small style sheet bug.

    Your menu.php shows using for the last entry for the top menu. However, if I modify menu.php to have less entries, the black bar doesn’t fill in the rest of the column.

    A quick look at the style.css for the theme shows that no definition for the .menu “last” class.

    Can you please fix this so that I can have a menu with less than 4 entries in it?

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  22. Kristyn
    On April 12, 2009 at 8:53 pm

    Hey there, I love your theme. I’m actually using it on my new blog, but I have a quick question…

    I would like to remove the “more” tag so rather than showing an excerpt it shows the whole entry. I have no idea how to do it, I’m a bit of a novice where coding is concerned and though I can make minor edits, this seems to have gone a bit above my head.

    I would appreciate any help you might be able to give. Many thanks.

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    • ia
      On June 11, 2009 at 6:50 pm

      Change this

      <?php if (is_single() || is_page()) { the_content(); } else { $excerpt = explode("[...]",get_the_excerpt()); echo $excerpt[0]; ?> <a class="more-link" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">More...</a><?php } ?>

      to this

      <?php the_content('More...'); ?>

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  24. Gary Speer
    On May 15, 2009 at 9:01 pm

    I downloaded the version of Too Newsy on your site today, May 14, 2009, and according to your comments above, the Widget issue has been resolved.

    But I’m trying to use it and looking at it in FF 3 — and the widgets are simply not working right at all. It appears as though the standard non-widget sidebar is showing above the widget enabled sidebar, so that I get one long double-side bar in each sidebar.

    Any ideas how to fix this?

    Beautiful theme which I’d really like to use.

    Thanks.

    Reply

  29. drupaler
    On August 10, 2009 at 4:12 am

    Beautiful theme. It looks realy nice and simple just the way I like.

    Reply

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