Obscure – Free Community Based Wordpress Theme

Obscure – Free Community Based Wordpress Theme

Obscure is a premium dark magazine wordpress theme suitable for any site nitche and best fit for community based site.

Few highlights of the theme:

  • elegant dark design
  • Built in theme option to customize the theme
  • Built in top earner advertisement block including 125×125 advertisement block on sidebar
  • Built in Featured content gallery
  • Feedburner RSS Subscription ready
  • Twitter integration
  • Works fine on latest wordpress version ( v2.8 )
  • Tested and works fine on all major browser.
  • Auto resize images
  • Auto catch images for thumbnails
  • widget and gravatar ready
  • Pagination ready
  • Social Bookmarking Ready
  • Easy logo change via theme option
  • Drop down menu with a MAXIMUM UP TO 4 LEVEL

The version 1.2 of this theme has already been released. Check the release announcement here

DEMO

See Live Preview

DOWNLOAD

Grab This Free Stuff

Please help us spread the word!

113 RESPONSES TO "Obscure – Free Community Based Wordpress Theme"

  1. TimmyJ. November 23, 2009 at 6:03 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

    Best theme I have seen! I'm actually using it for my blog (http://www.techspoiled.com).

    However, please excuse me if I sound stupid, but is there a way I can enable the drop down menu for the pages (ex. the tabs: About and Contact Me). I have searched through the options for Obscrue and it seems that there is no way for me to enable it. I already have “Contact Me” parenting about 3 pages and it seems that I am not able to enable the drop down menu feature. Please help. Thanks…

  2. Fiala06 November 24, 2009 at 9:48 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    I would love that feature also. Never figured it out if possible. How did you get your ad to work up near your logo??? I went under the basic theme options and put my code in, nothing shows up :(

  3. TimmyJ. November 24, 2009 at 9:04 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

    :( So sad that it can't be enabled. Hope the developer fixes that. Anyway, it was actually pretty easy into putting the ad code onto my website (I don't even have any experience with .php!)

    What I did was that I went into the header.php file in editor in Wordpress (obviously), scroll all the way down until you see the code: <?php if(get_option('obs_settings_ads468×60')) : ?><?php echo get_option('obs_settings_ads468×60'); ?>

    After that, just insert your adsense code into there, and it should work! It was completely experimental so I would recommend keeping a copy of the header.php before you start this.

    Hope this helped. Reply back if you have any more questions.

  4. mike November 27, 2009 at 9:26 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    i've got the same question. how can i change the footer? because i need to insert code for links to social networks there. Am I able to widgetize the Footer? so that i can add widgets, like in the sidebar? just as the footer, instead of reseant, archives and about me something other?
    greetings!

  5. Pratik November 28, 2009 at 4:54 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    Hi there,

    I am not able to load any ad or image on the header ad section…
    The one which is 486×60 …

    Regards,
    pratk

    • Matt December 15, 2009 at 8:48 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

      Hey Pratik,

      Did anyone help you out with that? I’m having the same problem, but only with the header ad.

    • akosipau December 16, 2009 at 6:20 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

      hello pratik,

      thanks for pointing out that problem. to fix follow instruction below:

      1. open header.php and find the code below

      < ?php if(get_option('obs_settings_ads468x60')) : ?>
      < ?php echo get_option('obs_settings_ads468x60'); ?>
      < ?php endif; ?>
      

      2. replace it with code below:

      < ?php if(get_option('obs_settings_ads468x60')) : ?>
      < ?php echo stripslashes(get_option('obs_settings_ads468x60')); ?>
      < ?php endif; ?>
      
  6. ritamasrex November 29, 2009 at 2:46 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    footer code has been encrypted by the author for not to edit this. He encrypt it so ant body couldn't change the footer hosting links. request him for a commercial theme to get rid of that.

    • Pepe December 9, 2009 at 10:03 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

      I’m interested in paid version with editable footer widgets and without encrypted code. Is it possible?

      • akosipau December 9, 2009 at 8:17 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

        hi pepe,

        thanks for your interest of using one of my themes. yes, i offer a footer copyright removal ( unencrypted footer ). check our license page.

  7. thedeadparrot November 30, 2009 at 5:25 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    Great theme, many thanks for making it available to world.
    Was wondering what would be the best way to add a second sidebar? So far I managed to to copy the first bit of sidebar code in the functions page and duplicated it to make the second sidebar bar it's not showing up on the browser?

    if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )

    register_sidebar(array(

    'before_widget' => '',

    'after_widget' => '</div><div class=”widget-foot”></div></div>',

    'before_title' => '<div class=”widget” id=”%1$s”><div class=”widget-body”><h2 class=”widget-title”>',

    'after_title' => '</h2>',
    'name' => 'sidebar2',

    ));

    Then added the following to index and single and so on but it's not generating a second sidebar, any ideas most welcome thanks =] (sorry in advance for being a such a noob)

    <!– sidebar –>

    <div id=”sidebar” class=”right”>
    <?php get_sidebar('1'); ?>
    </div>
    <div id=”sidebar2″ class=”right”>
    <?php get_sidebar('2'); ?>
    </div>

    Thanks

  8. Matt December 13, 2009 at 8:14 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

    My navigation is highlighting the wrong page. Is that a common issue? How would I fix that?

    • akosipau December 15, 2009 at 6:23 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

      no, there’s no issue on that. did you customize the theme? probably you mess up part. check if its has the same code below

    • class="current_page_item"< ?php endif; ?> style="border:0; ">">Home
      • Leah B. December 16, 2009 at 4:33 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

        I am having the same issue – it works in Firefox, but not IE..

        This is what I have
        <li class=”current_page_item” style=”border:0; “><a href="”>Home

        • akosipau December 16, 2009 at 10:15 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

          Hi Leah,

          sorry to say but i dropped ie support for my themes but you can rid of the ie error by putting the code below inside <body> tag

          
          
          • Leah B. December 17, 2009 at 6:42 am | Permalink |

            Thanks for the Reply – that didn’t do the trick, however. I’m using IE8 – I don’t blame you for dropping IE support, it is a big pain, but the problem is most corporate computers use it.

  9. simone December 14, 2009 at 5:04 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    Hello!
    Many compliments for your great works! I wish to donate and use one of your WP theme but I have a little problem… when I use your Obscure theme I cannot use the: read more button in the right way. Infact in the older and also newer articles I build the read more is not clickable and have not the hypertextual link to the full article.. I must click on the title to see it. Can you help me? Thanks a lot

  10. Katrina December 16, 2009 at 12:36 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

    Hello,

    I have not been able to get the slide show to work/jcarousel. It just shows as White Blank Box with the “What’s New” at the top left corner. I tried reloading the Theme and that didn’t work. I do have the URL Links listed for each image, for the posts. Help please :-)

    • akosipau December 16, 2009 at 10:08 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

      must configure it via theme option in your admin dashboard. after configuring, while on writing new post put the image url inside post option below the content textarea.

      • Katrina December 17, 2009 at 12:54 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

        Hello,
        I have the image URL in the post option already, but it still looks white. If you see my site, you will see what I mean.

  11. tips December 28, 2009 at 10:35 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

    Thanks for the template. After long hours of searching for the right template for my blog, I have finally found the best one.

    Again, thank you!
    :)

  12. Benny the Irish polyglot December 29, 2009 at 9:47 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    Hi! I ran a poll on my site and the majority (almost 150 readers who took the survey) agreed that this theme would suit my site very well!

    Unfortunately, when I tried to preview it in Wordpress, it just showed my previous theme. If I tried to activate it, I got a “jCarousel: No width/height set for items. This will cause an infinite loop. Aborting” error after seeing the page very briefly.

    If I get it working I’ll actually pay you to let me take off the credits in the footer, since I’ll be editing the theme a lot to my own style anyway

    To investigate, I deactivated all plugins and reactivated them and discovered that it was DISQUS causing the problem. How can I fix the theme to allow it to work with DISQUS? This plugin has greatly increased commenting on my site so I really would prefer to use it.. I’ll also contact Disqus to see if they’ve come across this error before.

    • Benny the Irish polyglot December 29, 2009 at 4:53 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

      They just got back to me and confirmed that the problem is on the theme’s side. Hope you can give me a solution; I’m afraid that it may be incompatible with other plugins that I may use in future, which would put me off using it at all… but if the problem has a simple file editing solution, great!
      Thanks for any help!

      • akosipau January 3, 2010 at 9:17 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

        what problem exactly your poiting out?

    • akosipau January 3, 2010 at 9:19 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

      that is a normal error mate as it is still not yet configured. just activate the theme and config it via theme option so featured post gallery will work

      • Benny the Irish polyglot January 4, 2010 at 1:45 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

        OK, I’ve solved the issue – you completely misunderstood me. This had nothing to do with the featured post gallery.
        I had to get some help to figure it out, but the DISQUS plugin did indeed need to be edited (despite what their support said). This is a popular plugin, so if others have the same issue, they should find the following code in the disqus php file:
        document.write(‘<script charset="utf-8" type="text/javascript" src="http://./get_num_replies_from_wpid.js?v=2.0′ + query + ‘”>’);
        and comment it out / delete it and replace it with
        jQuery.getScript(‘http://./get_num_replies_from_wpid.js?v=2.0′ + query);
        (Not sure if this code will appear in this comment or if it will be swallowed up)

  13. Melissa December 29, 2009 at 6:22 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

    Great theme! Except, I’m not sure how to fix the main page to not show a thumbnail when I don’t have an image in certain posts. Is there a way I can change that? Many of my posts don’t have images and I don’t want the default “http://wpcrunchy.com” image to be there.

    Thanks!

    • akosipau January 3, 2010 at 9:16 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

      for now just make your custom image to be replace on wpcrunchy image as that function will be on the next theme update

  14. Phaedra Holtzclaw December 29, 2009 at 6:25 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

    Hi, I am using your theme and I really like it…. however, I would like to make it where the categories navigation only showed the categories I determine…. I am sure that it is some “exclude” function but I am not sure and not sure where to put it if I did. Could you help me out with that please.

    thanks

    • akosipau January 3, 2010 at 9:13 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

      open functions.php, go look for this function wp_revamp_categories and find the code below:

      wp_list_categories(‘depth=4&title_li=&exclude=1&hide_empty=0&echo=0′);

      see the exclude part? just put the category ID which you want to be excluded ex. exclude=1,5,6

  15. robert January 7, 2010 at 1:28 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

    nice wordpress theme, like this

  16. Andrew January 8, 2010 at 10:06 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    My slider images don’t show up on the main page. Any solutions for this problem?

    • akosipau January 9, 2010 at 4:56 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

      configure it first in the theme option found in your admin dashboard

      • Mary January 14, 2010 at 3:17 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

        I have the slider config’d to show posts from the category featured. I upload a photo and get the URL and put that URL in the box directly under the post. I still get a white box in the carousel and no thumbnail in the post itself. What am I doing wrong?

        • akosipau January 15, 2010 at 9:23 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

          what version of my theme did you use? the version 1.2 of obscure has already been released you may want check it first here. your problem maybe cause of

          1. no folder named “cache” in your theme files
          2. folder named “cache” and timthumb.php file do not have the proper permission ( must be 777 )

          • Mary January 17, 2010 at 12:27 am | Permalink |

            It was the version *blush* Everything is working great now so thank you very much for your fast and helpful reply.

  17. Evan January 10, 2010 at 10:39 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    Wait, I don’t get it – what if I just remove whatever is in the footer.php file? What happens?

    • akosipau January 10, 2010 at 6:11 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

      the theme will stop working as protection for altering the footer which is prohibited under the theme licence

  18. angel January 11, 2010 at 5:26 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

    Hello! I don’t know why I don’t see the option to change the logo via theme like your other thmes?
    Do I have the problem while I download it? Or do I have to do somthing else?
    Thank you so much

    • akosipau January 15, 2010 at 9:38 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

      yes totally forgot to put that features on some other themes of mine, thanks for pointing it out. will put that on the next theme updates

  19. Jan January 14, 2010 at 7:52 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

    Hi! I’m having issue with the post thumbnail. For some reason, all the images are not showing up in the thumbnails 166×166. The feature post image, however, works just fine. I did not make any modifications on the theme except the logo. Is there supposed to be like another step for it to work?

    • akosipau January 15, 2010 at 9:20 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

      what version of my theme did you use? the version 1.2 of obscure has already been released you may want check it first here. also, please include your site url so i can check the problem.

  20. Mark Weir January 19, 2010 at 5:28 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    Hey loving the theme but I can’t seem to get excerpts working in category pages. Any ideas?
    Cheers

    • akosipau January 19, 2010 at 8:13 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

      thanks. actually that how it should work, it intended to show only title and description of post ( date, comments, category )

      • Mark Weir January 20, 2010 at 3:34 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

        Ah right, thought I was setting it up wrong. Any way I can have control over the excerpts? I’ve reading around and have the general idea of what code to use but can’t seem to work out how to put it into this theme

  21. akosipau January 19, 2010 at 8:23 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

    it will be done once i implement the new theme option to obscure on the next update but as of now just bare with it. thanks

  22. Mark Weir January 21, 2010 at 5:02 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    Hey all, I’m pretty nifty with css and such but I can’t find where to change the text colour for just the feature box, it’s using what the body tag declares. I need to know where in the index page I tell it to go look for a new div with my colour.
    Main reason is the grey text looks great in the articles but the feature box is too dark, I want the text to be white in it.
    Cheers

  23. Joero February 22, 2010 at 12:23 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

    Hey I love the theme. I just have one quick question. Is there a way to put more of a delay on the featured posts banner? It just seems to go through the posts really fast, and since I just created my site there isn’t much content so it just keeps flipping back and forth between 2 posts. If someone could help me out with slowing down the featured posts banner I would greatly appreciate it thanks.

    • akosipau February 23, 2010 at 7:51 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

      thank your for the compliment. open header.php and find the code below:


      $('.ft-items').cycle({
      fx:'fade',
      timeout:3000,
      speed:1000,
      });

      and change the speed to value to your desired value. the higher the slower

  24. Joero March 4, 2010 at 8:32 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    *Sorry I think I posted this in the wrong spot originally, so I’m posting this again here.

    Hi I’m sorry to keep bothering you about this, but I was wondering is there a way I can change the way the image crops for the featured titles animator? Like with certain images it looks great, but then with others it either blows the image up to much. It also sometimes shows a really boring part of the image I post, so if I could edit that it would be perfect. If you could help me out with that that would be great thanks. Thanks Again for the help with the speed of the animator it moves just right now.

  25. akosipau July 30, 2009 at 11:24 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

    tnx for pointing that out. i will look on it

  26. akosipau September 20, 2009 at 3:06 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    image should be uploaded in your wordpress then paste the url on post option.

  27. akosipau September 21, 2009 at 10:44 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    maybe it only gives error at preview but not when you activate it. i havent look back at my old theme yet so no fixes as of now

  28. akosipau September 21, 2009 at 10:46 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    none. it should be uploaded

  29. akosipau September 25, 2009 at 2:26 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    html, script, your good ad codes

  30. akosipau September 26, 2009 at 3:35 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    it works on local to me dont know why it didnt work on you. i guess i really need to updates my themes

  31. akosipau September 27, 2009 at 12:07 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

    yes, the slider has that but i removed the style for navigation didnt include any image for that

  32. akosipau September 28, 2009 at 12:50 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    @ mandj

    copy the code from this link that intended for naviagation. it should start in code comment below:

    /**
    * Horizontal Buttons
    */

    then add it to skin.css

  33. akosipau September 29, 2009 at 7:50 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    do not use single quote.

  34. akosipau September 29, 2009 at 8:12 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    it appears fine on my test blog i even use the code you trying to put on about page.

  35. akosipau September 29, 2009 at 4:54 pm | Permalink | Reply ¬

    yes thats y i dropped support on ie but you can make user’s IE unusable by adding the javascript code below inside body tag

    
    
  36. akosipau September 30, 2009 at 12:50 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    from the code that i gave it drop only ie 6. change the code to the code below to drop ie version 5 and up

    
    
  37. akosipau December 17, 2009 at 7:41 am | Permalink | Reply ¬

    hello leah,

    i just checked my obscure theme in ie8 and found the top navigation highlighting is working fine. can you put the link of your on dev site so i can check?

Leave a Reply