Obscure – Free Community Based Wordpress Theme
- June 23rd, 2009
- Free, Wpcrunchy
- 113 Comments
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
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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…
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
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.
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!
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
Hey Pratik,
Did anyone help you out with that? I’m having the same problem, but only with the header ad.
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; ?>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.
I’m interested in paid version with editable footer widgets and without encrypted code. Is it possible?
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.
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
My navigation is highlighting the wrong page. Is that a common issue? How would I fix that?
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
what problem exactly your poiting out?
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
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)
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!
for now just make your custom image to be replace on wpcrunchy image as that function will be on the next theme update
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
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
nice wordpress theme, like this
My slider images don’t show up on the main page. Any solutions for this problem?
configure it first in the theme option found in your admin dashboard
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?
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 )
It was the version *blush* Everything is working great now so thank you very much for your fast and helpful reply.
Wait, I don’t get it – what if I just remove whatever is in the footer.php file? What happens?
the theme will stop working as protection for altering the footer which is prohibited under the theme licence
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
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
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?
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.
Hey loving the theme but I can’t seem to get excerpts working in category pages. Any ideas?
Cheers
thanks. actually that how it should work, it intended to show only title and description of post ( date, comments, category )
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
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
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
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.
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
*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.
tnx for pointing that out. i will look on it
image should be uploaded in your wordpress then paste the url on post option.
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
none. it should be uploaded
html, script, your good ad codes
it works on local to me dont know why it didnt work on you. i guess i really need to updates my themes
yes, the slider has that but i removed the style for navigation didnt include any image for that
@ 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
do not use single quote.
it appears fine on my test blog i even use the code you trying to put on about page.
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
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
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?