Description
Mimbo is a magazine-style Wordpress theme which makes extensive use of WP’s template tag system to create a non-traditional layout. It contains no images and only minimal CSS styling. Mainly it exists as a clean, grid-based starter layout for designers to install and style to their own liking:
Live Demo
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Installation
- Download and unzip the file
- Dump the theme into your “/wp-content/themes/” folder
- Log in into your WordPress control panel
- Click the Presentation tab
- Select the “Mimbo” screenshot
Support and Discussion
Getting things configured
- Mimbo is built to support the current version of Wordpress (2.3). If you get fatal errors related to tags (”Call to undefined function: is_tag”), please upgrade.
- In the “index.php” and “sidebar.php” templates, you will find a series of query_posts functions which refer to specific category ID numbers from my database. Example:
<?php query_posts('showposts=1&cat=4'); ?>You will need to change them to reflect the ID numbers in your own database. They can be found in your control panel under Manage->Categories. Read more about this process.
- Images on the homepage are displayed using Custom Fields. Read more about this process.
- For the layout to work, some image dimensions must be exact. The “Feature” images are 255×88 pixels while the various category thumbnails are 51×51 pixels each.
- For the author bio photo to work, you must upload a photo with the author’s first name (ex: “Darren.jpg”). Read more about this process.
- If you are upgrading from a previous version of Mimbo, please view details in the Changelog to see what’s new. Most importantly: if you are having trouble displaying the homepage, please note that this configuration step is no longer necessary! The latest version of Mimbo works like any other theme - it uses index.php as its homepage template.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How much do you charge for customizations?
Sorry, I am not available for freelance jobs currently. - How do I add images to the homepage?
As mentioned before, the images are pulled in using Custom Fields. For this to work, images must be stored in the /images/ folder of your theme. You can either upload them there via FTP, or go to Options->Miscellaneous in your control panel, set the correct path, and upload them through the Upload panel below your Write->Posts editor. - Why does the formatting of my excerpts look strange?
By default, the_excerpt function uses the first 55 words of the post, including the original formatting. This can make things look strange on your homepage. If you’d like to write a separate excerpt for your posts, use the Optional Excerpt field. - How do I add my own logo to the masthead?
First make sure your logo image is no wider than 625px. After it’s been uploaded, open the style.css document and make this change to the H1 properties:h1 { text-indent:-9999px; background: url(images/logo.gif) no-repeat; width: whatever; height: whatever; } - How do I add photos and formatting to the body of my posts?
There are two CSS classes, .picleft and .picright, as well as styling provided for blockquotes and lists. See this post for examples. - Why do I see errors saying, “Call to undefined function: is_tag”?
The Mimbo templates contain references to tags because tags are now a Wordpress feature. I’m currently trying to make Mimbo backwards-compatible but in the meantime, you’ll need to upgrade to version 2.3.
Changelog
• Version 2.2 | Nov 27, 2007 | Details
• Version 2.1 | Nov 3, 2007 | Details
• Version 2.0 | Oct 18, 2007 | Details
• Version 1.1 | Aug 11, 2007 | Details
• Version 1.0 | Aug 5, 2007
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Darren,
--August 5, 2007 @ 9:33 pmThanks for your generous effort with this. I’ve been playing around with the WP tags since your previous article in this series, and having a reference example like this theme is a great help.
Keep up the good work.
Cheers - GD
This is an amazing theme! Really - you did such a good job with it. I love it!
--August 6, 2007 @ 1:27 amVery unique theme!
--August 6, 2007 @ 10:36 amI never thought you will release it when I first read your tutorial. :D
Thanks for the feedback, guys. If you choose to use the theme for an online magazine you’re launching, send me the link and I’ll include it in a roundup of Mimbo-enabled sites sometime soon (I’m already seeing a few popping up in the referrers).
--August 6, 2007 @ 9:38 pmGreat theme Darren.
--August 7, 2007 @ 2:06 amI’m trying it out on a music blog/net label site.
Nice theme, i like the magazine style. I’m already using it on my site.
--August 8, 2007 @ 8:30 amI’m using this theme for my upcoming magazine. Check the link out. I promise I’m actually going to do some customization of the theme soon, I’ve just been busy. What is the license on Mimbo by the way?
--August 8, 2007 @ 1:07 pmMimbo is under the GNU/GPL license, for what that’s worth. I urge people to do whatever they want with the theme — leaving the credit link in the footer or in the CSS is always appreciated.
A few people have asked about the “Read More” function inside the Lead Story. Please see item #8 in the Release Notes for further explanation.
--August 8, 2007 @ 1:14 pmI still don’t know how to make the features images to show up. I’ve uploaded them into the main article but didn’t worked. How do I do this?
--August 8, 2007 @ 7:47 pmBruno, check out #8 in the original article. The images should be referenced in the_excerpt (make sure to use an absolute path), or you can always create a custom field for them instead.
--August 8, 2007 @ 11:05 pmGreat theme, love the simplicity of it. Thanks for sharing it.
--August 12, 2007 @ 4:57 pmThanks for making this theme!
--August 20, 2007 @ 9:43 amHey. I should have said this much earlier (I was one of the people who requested this), but I got sidetracked with other stuff. Anyway, I want to say thank you for putting the theme together. I really appreciate it. Thanks again.
--August 26, 2007 @ 7:08 pmI’m trying this theme out for a new blog that I’m working on. I really really like what you’ve done with the custom homepage template. It has gotten me to look at templates in a whole new light. It really goes to show the extendability of good old Wordpress.
--September 11, 2007 @ 10:09 pmWow, its so clean and neat. i will be using it.
--September 13, 2007 @ 8:45 amIt looks really good in fact. I am planning on a redesign of my site and your layout is some what similar to what I had in mind for my site.
--September 23, 2007 @ 11:47 pmi have been looking for sometime for a theme that does just this, awesome…however being a bear of very little brain i find it a leetle tricky, as my daughter would say. any chance of a “dummies guide to mimbo” for thicko mountaineers like me! seriously i think it is a swee piece of work and will no doubt spawn a thousand on-line magazines - Rock on !!
--September 26, 2007 @ 8:52 amDarren this theme/cms is great and I have also been looking to do something like this for my tech site and for a video game site I’m launching. I’m sure this it straight forward to a lot of people but I’m pretty new to WP. What would you charge to get my layout done and arranged so I can work on writing and reviewing products.
I can learn it on the back in and take it apart to figure it out, but putting it together is my challenge.
--October 9, 2007 @ 4:30 pmhow to insert widgets? i’ve inserted it into the sidebars wizard in the WP dashboard but the widgets don’t show up.. can anyone help me??
--October 13, 2007 @ 3:29 pmMan… thanks… I’ll be converting my current magazine blog - http://www.hoodgrownonline.com to use mimbo over the weekend….
if all goes well… i’ll have it done by Monday…
--October 19, 2007 @ 10:26 amFantastic Theme
My blog http://www.cycling-challenge.com using Mimbo 2.0
Many thx
--October 19, 2007 @ 3:50 pmI’ve got my Mimbo site up and running… A LOT quicker than I thought I would…
though I’m still making improvements here and there….
thanks for a great template…
you can check out my modifications to the template here:
--October 20, 2007 @ 12:28 amhttp://www.hoodgrownonline.com/online/
Wow. Amazing one. Very covenient desgin! Upgrading my blog right now! ;)
--October 20, 2007 @ 2:30 pmThank you for the tremendous job.
Men I love this one, how much you want for add one more column, wigetize both columns and footer and make it liquid?
--October 21, 2007 @ 7:52 pmI mean, I think It worth pay something for a amazing concept. Please sont take it wrong.
--October 21, 2007 @ 8:03 pmone word!….AMAZINE!
--October 22, 2007 @ 4:40 amgood theme, iam going to use it. can i modify it
--October 22, 2007 @ 11:09 amThis looks fabulous! :D Thank you! I was wondering if the menu features any dropdown function for sub menus at all please?
--October 22, 2007 @ 6:32 pm@sms_sunder: please modify it as much as you want - Mimbo is very unstyled on purpose.
@Mosey: you could edit the CSS to incorporate Suckerfish menus, or you could edit the sidebar to incorporate code like this:
< ?php if(wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=2")) { ?> < ?php } ?>
That will print a list of sub-level pages for category 2 (in this case). You can also see it in action here (”Explore”).
--October 22, 2007 @ 7:01 pmWell, what I just read is nothing like what I expected from the kid who climbed trees and chased my daughter, his sister’s best friend. Actually, I understood your chasing better than whatever the heck it is I read above. Mimbo, bimbo…one day ya gotta clue me, buddy!
--October 22, 2007 @ 7:44 pmCongratulations Daren,
--October 24, 2007 @ 12:37 pmCan I use this magazine theme like blog theme? I want the main page in sequence , like a blog, the first post at the top(lead story), after the second, third, (right col) etc. I want to preserve the “features” at the left side. Victoria Theme at http://www.writerspace.net/index.php/2007/05/24/victoria-wordpress-theme/ have this structure.
If you have any idea, send-me one feedback.
thanks…
Hi
--October 25, 2007 @ 2:42 ami have a question
the homepage.php file where´s save?
i don´t configure yet im newbie!
i will try this one, looks promising!
--October 25, 2007 @ 6:14 amI get this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: the_tags() in /home/bycoddot/public_html/tinerisararie/wp-content/themes/mimbo2/archive.php on line 39
--October 25, 2007 @ 10:11 amWe’re getting a lot of the same comments about tag errors. Please read the config instructions closely before posting:
“Mimbo 2.0 is built to support the current version of Wordpress (2.3). If you get fatal errors related to tags (â€?Call to undefined function: is_tagâ€?), please upgrade.”
--October 25, 2007 @ 10:21 amGreat theme Darren. I’m already using Mimbo 1.x on my photoblog/site. Here is how I have built/think my site: phimagery relooking. Note: my site is for private use, i open it for some days as demo of your fantastic template. PhG
--October 27, 2007 @ 11:09 amhi Darren !
It’s really an amazing theme !!! REALLY !!!
I modified it a little to work with WPmu (no is_tag and other features).
I’m using it for an online communities and a french association (don’t know if it’s the correct word in english).
Really thank you for releasing it.
Mat_
--October 28, 2007 @ 12:31 pmDarren,
Thank you for the theme design. It is a logical layout which provides maximum content for a limited space. It is now in place on the U.S. Common Sense web site, and I look forward to using the design to its maximum potential.
--October 28, 2007 @ 4:08 pmHi,
I want to use this theme really bad, but I am hosting with Godaddy and their wordpress package is still the older version. Is it compatible yet?
Thanks,
--October 28, 2007 @ 8:28 pmPhillip,
--October 29, 2007 @ 1:20 pmSounds like you need to ask GoDaddy to upgrade your wordpress version.
we really like the theme.
and a question…
is it possible to showing ads in sidebar only in post pages?
--October 30, 2007 @ 6:16 amHoodgrown is nice!! I love the site and the splash screen loads quick. You will have to email me to tell me how you did it. I’m loving the look of it and how professional the template looks.
Great work on the template Darren. I haven’t installed changed things over yet for my site but I’m working on it.
Does anyone know if there is a sandbox feature for Wordpress?
--October 30, 2007 @ 12:11 pmThanks for this theme. It’s by far been my favorite to work with yet. :) I just set up a free press release writing guide on Mimbo yesterday, and it’s absolutely perfect for it. :)
--October 31, 2007 @ 10:20 amHey Darren, I love this theme, but I cant get to load on my homepage properly. I have upgraded to the latest version of wordpress. And it gives me this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function language_attributes() in /mounted-storage/home28b/sub002/sc25305-JTLA/www/wp-content/themes/mimbo2/header.php on line 2
What on earth is the problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
THx, and keep up the good work.
--November 1, 2007 @ 3:41 pmMC ,
You need to be running Wordpress 2.3. I had the same problem and the minute I upgraded.. it went away…
BJ, thanks for the comments… I could tell you.. but then I’d have to kill you… lol
Jenn, I think your site would be of great interest to the visitors of my site.. i’m going to add a link sometime today.
--November 2, 2007 @ 7:57 amHey Hoodgrown Magazine.. How did you get the categories on the top menu? You have pages in the top menu and shows blog items from each site there..
--November 4, 2007 @ 2:42 pmYou know what I mean? I loved it.. And i want to do the same thing on my site so please tell me :)
I wondering in the same as sunipeyk does.
--November 4, 2007 @ 3:43 pmIs it possible to have ads in sidebar only in posts pages and not on the frontpage?
Hey Darren, just wanted to drop a note and let you know that I’ve installed this theme on my blog. It’s a great theme, and it’s written so well. I’m not a theme writer, but I was able to modify it quite easily to meet my needs. Thanks for the great work!
--November 4, 2007 @ 8:58 pmDarren,
--November 4, 2007 @ 11:20 pmGreat theme!
I am preparing me to use this issue, but it would be better for SEO, if you put the title of the posts tagged in the index.
What do you think?
Hi, Darren
--November 5, 2007 @ 12:22 pmI’ve just finished tweaking your theme to the look that i want. There’re some of my friends want it, and i cheer them to use it, can i redistribute it. I’ll just add my link on the css file and leave your credit intact. And i will not do that if you say no.
How can I use images in Custom Fields at the archive pages where the articles/news are listed down? Is it hard to configure?
--November 11, 2007 @ 11:20 amFatal error: Call to undefined function is_tag() in C:\root\main\wp-content\themes\mimbo2.1\archive.php on line 4
--November 11, 2007 @ 11:50 amThis is a great theme! Thanks for offering to the public.
I was wonder if there’s away to avoid duplicate posts on the front page.
If someone posts to Gadgets AND Features, for example, is there a way to ensure that the post only shows up under one of those categories (but only on the front page).
Thanks again. Great theme.
--November 13, 2007 @ 6:08 pmHi Darren,
Well, a thousand thanks for this great theme :)
I have made a logo of dimention 388/100 i.e. width of 388px and a height of about 100px. But when I upload it to the your said directory for logo images, and make the changes to style.css page as you have said, I’m not getting the complete image displayed:( and without that logo my blog is incomplete. To be frank I’m completely new for all these things, so I’m not technically that sound. So plz help me to make my complete image shown as the logo of my site. Hope you will help me regarding this.
Once again thanks for this great theme darren. Looking for your reply. Thanks in advance :)
--November 14, 2007 @ 1:04 amthanks very much for sharing this! the best them i’ve ever seen!
PinoyBanda.com will be reborn with this new cool theme!
Thanks again!
--November 15, 2007 @ 2:53 amHi, does anyone had this problem:
--November 16, 2007 @ 2:32 amif I would change just encoding of index.php to UTF8, save it and upload to server, formating of index page would be broken, but just on IE 7. If I would re-save it with ANSI format, everything comes back to normal. Otherwise very good theme :) I’m using latest version of Mimbo.
Interesting, that WinMerge shows both files (UTF8 and ANSI) are identical. And other php files of the theme are doing OK with UTF8 encoding. I really need it because I will use this theme with other language than English. Does anyone has any ideas? Thanks!
--November 16, 2007 @ 1:07 pmStill fooling around with a new idea, but,
In the left Column, Instead of using the first 3 articles in a selected category.
I have set it up so that it selects Random articles from a selected category using the Random Posts Plug-in: Basically I wanted to feature articles but not in chronological order, and wanted a bit of variety from randomness
http://rmarsh.com/plugins/random-posts/
Its a bit complicated adding images and styling but the concept is likely useful for some people that want to rotate through certain old content that is relatively timeless - So on my personal site - currently - I have 8 articles in the feature category and at any one time 4 are shown.
Just brainstorming
regards
--November 16, 2007 @ 5:42 pmUTF8 problem is solved. You have to save php file using UTF without BOM. I’m using notepad++ so it allows to do this. You can read more on:
--November 16, 2007 @ 11:19 pmhttp://juicystudio.com/article/utf-byte-order-mark.php
Hello,
plz can anyone help me? My header image is not showing fully. Only the half part is showing & the below half part is not showing. It has a height of 100px. Plz say what should I have to do to m ake my image show-up fully?
Plz help, just because of this problem my site is pending totally. PLz anyone help, plz…..
--November 19, 2007 @ 4:43 amDarren
Really nice work…I’m wondering how the Lead Story could be used to display a video versus an image? I’d like to use the theme for a videoblog and the Lead Story would be used for the latest video. I’d use the Features area to display screenshot images of older episodes of the show and when you click through you’d view the video on its own page.
By creating a new key in the custom fields called “video” and then providing the path to the hosted video (in a player of the same height/width), would this not duplicate the Lead Story use for images? I suspect you’d also need to make the appropriate changes in the Index file to reference the “video” versus the “image”. Am I on the right track here or is this just not possible?
Thx
--November 19, 2007 @ 10:11 pmScot, just used the custom fields gui plugin (http://rhymedcode.net/projects/custom-field-gui/)
--November 21, 2007 @ 1:03 amBtw is this theme compitable with WordPress MU?
--November 21, 2007 @ 9:32 amWhy there’s no comment section on pages? How can I add this?
--November 22, 2007 @ 12:48 pmHi Darren,
--November 24, 2007 @ 12:50 pmjust wanted to let you know I’ve downloaded your amazing theme for a website I’m doing for my father. I hope he loves it as much as I do! It’ll be used for a business-site — hopefully, one day, that business will actually *make* money :) — we won’t forget to donate for the theme at that point!
Again, thank you for an amazing, beautiful & flexible theme!!
– Marti
Bugger. Had a wrong URL under my paste *oops* Here’s the right one, sorry!
--November 24, 2007 @ 12:51 pmgreat theme!
i’m currently playing around with it a little bit. the site is not online yet.
now, i was wondering, how i could use the index.php template for arhives and maybe even pages…
thx
--November 24, 2007 @ 7:27 pmI thought you might be interested to know that I was going to use your theme, but due to vision problems with your site being only in black with the grey and blue tones of writing, it is too impossible to understand or even read how to use it.
You should consider accessibility I think.
--November 25, 2007 @ 12:16 pmDarren, Great job on this theme, thank you so much, I plan to spend a lot of time playing with it later htis evening. Will post a link when the site looks good.
Rory — the theme contains both a layout and a style. If you like the layout, you can simple change the style.css page to use colors that are accessible. If Darren, or anyone else, is going ot make an accessible version for color blind or other poor vision peeps, do you have a link to a color palette that works well?
I know it could be googled, but a source from someone who actually knows would be great.
--November 25, 2007 @ 5:19 pmUsing the theme for my Southern Sundress portal for sundress information. Still working on getting it perfect but I love this theme
--November 26, 2007 @ 10:02 pmcongratulations darren!
i was wondering the same thing as frido. is there a walk around for that?
--November 27, 2007 @ 4:01 amJust want to let you know that we are using a tweaked version of Mimbo on Amisnet network, you can see it live on http://amisnet.org and in some subdomains (like http://scirocco.amisnet.org, http://radiocarta.amisnet.org and http://radiolaser.amisnet.org).
I’ve written a template management page, to let users choose categories without hand-tweaking the theme files, and we’ll send you some code as soon as we get it cleaned. Hope you’ll like it :-)
--November 27, 2007 @ 1:21 pmHELP ! ! !! !
--November 27, 2007 @ 2:49 pmhi can i upload this theme on my on my free wordpress blog .
Hi,
I have tried to make a drop down menu comparable to the one displaying archives but for categories, so far without success. Would you know how I should modify the code in the sidebar template ?
Any clue would be highly appreciated. :)
--November 27, 2007 @ 5:39 pmHi, just moved my blog over to this theme, and I am really linking it! Very nice job, it’s great. I’ll be customising it more over the next few weeks…
Thanks!
m
--November 29, 2007 @ 7:15 amsolid layout, very functional. I like the mouse over gray background on the main page.
--November 29, 2007 @ 6:59 pmHi Darren,
we are thinking about usage of this theme. You might will see this theme at http://www.bigup.cz
Bye.
--December 2, 2007 @ 10:54 amHello Darren,
This is such a great theme and I think with this single theme, I could integrate my three blogs into one site.
I have one request though, could you help me create a code that I can place in the single page so I could enable navigation within the same category. Like
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Because right now, I could only make a code that can navigate previous and next posts regardless of the category. I know this is a free theme and I’m in no place to demand for more but I’m hoping you could grant me this simple request.
Thanks again for a great free theme and more power to you.
--December 3, 2007 @ 3:11 amHi,
Great THEME!
quick question, is there a plugin that would show random lead story? something similar like http://www.wp-magazine.com/ where it shows ramdom features articles.
Thank you.
Brian
--December 3, 2007 @ 11:07 amThanks for this wonderful theme. I am very impatient to install it! Keep the good work!
--December 4, 2007 @ 3:02 pmim just so in love wit this theme i just installed it and tweaked about with it to get the look that i wanted and made a quick design for it I just have to say thanks for sharing this Its awesome!
http://pl-rg.com/
--December 8, 2007 @ 11:25 pmThanks Darren for a great theme. I was able to make many modifications to it for my website. Again thanks!
http://www.jacobmaentz.com (skip the intro to view the main site with the Mimbo Theme)
Jacob
--December 9, 2007 @ 7:07 amDarren…
I know this question will probably be marked as **DUMB**, but I cannot, for the life of me, figure this out on my own. On the main page under contributors, my name appears as a link. When I click my name, the URL that appears in the URL bar is passthetaters.com/author/Phil%20B I don’t have a directory called author. I could create one, but I’m not sure I should at this point. Where did you intent this link of the contributor’s name to direct to? All it brings up for me is a Error 404 - Not Found page. I LOVE your theme - props to ya!
--December 9, 2007 @ 10:23 pmliked this one. downloaded and will be used on a friend’s website.
--December 10, 2007 @ 9:48 amhi guys i want to tell u something
--December 12, 2007 @ 5:20 pmi have a another web sit it called
clubpenguin.com it so fun
it about a penguins and a place that u can go to and buy clost for your pennguin and also u have your own hour it called igoo and if u have a member
u can buy something fir it too and also it a puffle and they download a new puffle it yellow and also u will like it and u dont load anything at all just meet new friend and that stuff and i hope u like it also if u want to talk with me my penguin name is mumble20053 and i am in yeti secers in amrican flage u have to find yeti and on and i will be be there anywhere and also sometime i play a game so look at me ;) and also my email i s Ms._silly_girl_2009@hotmail.com please girl pnly add me not a boy because i dont like to talk with a boy thans u very much bye bye i wrote a long comment ‘)
Fanastic theme, really pushing the boundaries, and showing what can be done with Wordpress!
--December 14, 2007 @ 9:53 pmvery nice design, props for releasing this as GPL. The web is about open standards, actually being able to see the design of a site is only going to help everyone creating more accessible sites.
–tanner
--December 18, 2007 @ 1:08 pmHi Darren,
Thanks for this great template. I use it on http://www.adicie.com
However, I think it misses a display of the latest headlines on the homepage. I tried using but can’t get it to work :-(
If you get a chance, please let me know if you know of a solution.
Thanks
--December 18, 2007 @ 6:47 pmKeep up the good work :-)
Hi Darren,
This is great theme, i will use this for my official site. at http://teknoinfo.web.id/
The Question is:
How to change the state condition on sidebar ? because on front page its show no categories ?
--December 19, 2007 @ 2:44 amGreat theme Darren…
--December 26, 2007 @ 1:15 amI’m gonna try it in my new tech blog…
Great theme, thanks!
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Hi.
Thanks for a great theme.
Just wanted to tell you about a tweak we did. Sometimes we have a 605px-banner instead of the normal “feature”-section on the front page. Instead of hardcoding this each time, we created an IF statement. If the custom fields “type” is “picture”, we skip the normal feature section and show the picture with a link.
The statement looks like this, remember to set the appropriate values in Custom Fields.
query_posts(’showposts=1&cat=3′);
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
$type = get_post_custom_values(”type”);
if ($type[0] == “picture”) {
// print the picture and link
} else {
the feature section in the normal theme.
}
We created our own class (pictureclass) and skipped tweaking the “feature clearfloat”. So the section is printed “inside” the ifelse blocks, not on top as in the standard theme.
--December 29, 2007 @ 6:51 pmHi Darren,
Great work on this. I’ll give it a go to one of mine.
Hope i can get it right cause i really dont get aclue about some stuff like PHP etc.
Happy new year,
see ya in a few days
Veloso
--December 31, 2007 @ 8:53 amDarren, congrats for your theme! Awesome! For the categories, i´ve to edit all my categories? I have to put all the categories that i have at my blog? Hugs from Brazil and Haapy 2008 with more lovely themes.
--December 31, 2007 @ 9:20 amOne more thing, would you put a translate button, for visitors of another contries (like me) could read your site in an easy way?
--December 31, 2007 @ 9:23 amI have started a Nintendo Wii magazine, and I absolutely love using this theme.
I would like to know how I can put a line break in the author box that shows after each post? I have tried the common ( and ) but the code just gets stripped, and I can’t seem to format a break in the text. Can someone show me the light?
Thanks,
--December 31, 2007 @ 11:28 amBucky
Hello Darren!
Mimbo surely is the best magazine theme for WordPress I’ve seen. I installed and began to use your theme without any problems. However, there is one issue I’d like to point out: I cannot figure how to integrate Mimbo with my PunBB installation (1.2.15). Do you have any ideas?
--January 1, 2008 @ 11:56 amDarren,
Love this theme! Thank You for creating it and making it available to the world community.
Please visit my rendition of it in action at http://www.prescription4fitness.com/blog
Continued best wishes for your work and the years ahead.
--January 1, 2008 @ 2:26 pmImpressive!! Well done! :)
--January 2, 2008 @ 12:26 pmexcellent work ! Thanks…
--January 3, 2008 @ 9:39 pmDarren,
A shout-out from Richmond to you in C”ville.
Thanks for the work on Mimbo and for your generosity in sharing it.
It’s alive and well on my first site to use it
http://www.InternetMarketingDigest.com/
Bob Johnsen
--January 3, 2008 @ 11:44 pmExcellent theme! I’ve been waiting for one like this. Thanks for sharing!
--January 5, 2008 @ 9:25 amThanks Darren, amazing theme. Thank you for visiting my site to take a look at it too. Cheers!
--January 5, 2008 @ 9:50 amHas anyone out there successfully been able to use the default index home as the front page and then create another ‘blog’ page that has all the blog posts? If so, please tell me how to do it, because I’ve tried everything that I know how to do. I am surprised there has been no support for this. You can view my site at 20somethingfinance.com to see what I’m talking about. The home page and the blog page sync up and show the same content, and I don’t want that.
--January 5, 2008 @ 2:35 pmI like it! Thanks!
--January 6, 2008 @ 6:05 amGreat theme
Super theme man
--January 6, 2008 @ 11:26 amI keep getting the following error in the sidebar when I view a story… “Catchable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in /home/mrjames/public_html/wp-includes/category-template.php on line 31″. I was just wondering if anybody had the knowledge to help be with this? My footer isn’t showing on this page either. Thanks :)
--January 6, 2008 @ 1:57 pmThank you for your awesome theme. I use it for my legal agreements site.
--January 7, 2008 @ 9:20 amI love this theme. Once I get my head around how to customise, I’m going to be implementing it for sure!
Great work!
--January 8, 2008 @ 8:07 pmThat is the Theme I missed all the time. Looks like a lot of work in the next weeks to get my Blogs upgraded mith your great Theme, Darren.
Thank you for your excellent work!
Markus
--January 9, 2008 @ 3:56 pmHello Darren - and All,
I have chosen to implement and personalize Mimbo2.2 on F1Racing.DK - and with great pleasure!
It’s an awesome theme which enabled exactly that magazine layout I’d been looking for. Mimbo is very flexible once it’s in the fingers.
I have definitely been inspired by other creative Mimbo “users” as well - good forum - thanks.
--January 12, 2008 @ 9:51 amHI!
Respect for great work. I’m trying to import content from blogger. It went well but when entering posts in More from this category I get list of all entries in that category and as last entry I get this Error:
Catchable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in …/wp-includes/category-template.php on line 31
Help much appreciated!
thanx and keep up with the excellent work!
--January 12, 2008 @ 1:48 pmMy problem is that the google adsense ads can’t appear in my website..why this happen?
--January 13, 2008 @ 3:07 amVery good theme, thanks for sharing.
--January 13, 2008 @ 9:30 pmHey Darren,
This is a fantastic theme! I just wanted to let you know that I am using this on my new blog called Epiblogger: “The organic center of blogging”. Come check it out and thanks again for releasing such a solid theme.
Rhett
--January 13, 2008 @ 10:42 pmhttp://www.epiblogger.net
Excellent design! I guess we’ll be seeing more and more stylish blog themes such as this. Congrats!
--January 14, 2008 @ 1:50 pmDarren, normally i`m not the person writing mails or messages just to thank of to tell someone how great they are, but i would like take a moment to to tell how really fantastic your latest mambo is. I enjoy it very much.
--January 14, 2008 @ 7:30 pmVery easy to handle and a great layout.
So to you Darren,
T H A N K Y O U ! ! !
hey there, the Theme is great !!! Thanks for this! After the intsallation it works very well, only the drop down menu in the header doesnt work. What must I do to run it??? Tanks for helt
--January 20, 2008 @ 4:48 amAlex
How can I add a form to contacts ?
--January 20, 2008 @ 3:48 pmDarren,
I would describe myself as four levels below a noob, but I like your theme so much that I am using it on three sites. These are in the very early stages, but here they are. Thanks for your great work.
http://theidealresort.com/
http://photoescape.com/newhome/weddings/
--January 21, 2008 @ 1:05 amExcelent thems - many thansk - ewangelizacja http://www.ewangelizacja.pl/
--January 21, 2008 @ 8:16 pmGreat work. I like it ;-).
--January 23, 2008 @ 3:27 amnice cool theme. suitable for journalist or article writer. keep on good work. recommended!
--January 24, 2008 @ 10:37 amAwesome theme!!! We’ve updated The Georgia Jukebox with Mimbo, and made some CSS changes.
This seems to be easy to work with, and we’re still updating it.
--January 25, 2008 @ 12:50 amAmazing magazine style Wp theme! Thanks a lot.
--January 25, 2008 @ 10:48 amYou might be interested about the release of my new theme called “BranfordMagazine” which was partly inspired by your great “Mimbo” theme.
See a live demo here:
--January 25, 2008 @ 9:47 pmhttp://www.der-prinz.com/2008/01/20/wordpress-magazine-style-theme-branfordmagazine/
very nice theme :)
--January 25, 2008 @ 10:22 pmi have change my theme with mimbo!
--January 27, 2008 @ 6:32 amHi!
Thanks for this wonderful theme.
I would like to change the sentence “Archive for the…”
--January 27, 2008 @ 6:34 pmI change in archive.php:
…
Archive for the ‘ ’ Categoryes
…
but it dosen’t work. Please help me… thanks a lot.
Pretty nasty MIMBO rip-off theme posted
http://www.der-prinz.com/2008/01/20/wordpress-magazine-style-theme-branfordmagazine
even uses identical images sizes in left and right column. Tab features were probably just copied from the forum.
--January 28, 2008 @ 2:06 pmMan, thanks, great theme. I needed a lot of time to find a suitable theme for my website and i was very happy when I found this one. You can look what little changes I made: http://www.footballclub.ro
--January 28, 2008 @ 6:23 pmBeautiful design, very intuitive layout and organization. Thanks so much for sharing your template with us.
--January 29, 2008 @ 3:35 pmWow, I know you posted this awhile ago but I just have to tell you how much I love that theme. I’m switching to Wordpress soon and it will be my first WP theme. Thanks :)
--January 30, 2008 @ 12:21 amHi all -
Having a great time with this theme, thanks so much. Hoping someone can help debug an IE6/IE7 problem I’m having with it. Here’s the dev URL:
http://dev.crestmontschool.org/admissions/
Works fine in Firefox/Safari. In IE6, the page gets truncated about halfway down. Just stops short. In IE7 it renders, but if you roll over the nav menu, the lower part of the page changes color. Strangest thing. Anyone else seeing this problem with IE? Any suggestions? Thanks.
--January 30, 2008 @ 4:04 amFound the problem - the wp_footer function call in footer.php invokes some javascript that breaks the layout in IE. Not clear what the code is for - appears to be some kind of traffic tracking program bundled with Mimbo? Weird. Anyway, if this happens to you, just remove the wp_footer() function call and the layout un-breaks.
--February 2, 2008 @ 2:19 amCoda: Ah… I have the wordpress.com stats plugin installed. What appears to happen is that it inserts tracking javascript when wp_footer is found, and that’s what breaks the layout in IE6.
--February 2, 2008 @ 2:33 amHey Darren, just a quick note to so thankyou so much for offering this as a free theme. I have made a couple of very small modifications for my blog (above) and am really happy with the results so far!
--February 6, 2008 @ 6:31 pmis it in you?
http://www.thevideogamechampion.com
--February 6, 2008 @ 9:11 pmHi!
I just want to thank you for developing and sharing this great theme. I’m using it at my new personal homepage since one or two weeks.
It’s easy to use, to alter and nice looking…
There’s only one thing i don’t like - if i put pictures in my posts by editing space-values at the Wordpress-WYSIWYG-Editor (e.g. 10px), the values for vspace and hspace are ignored later in the post @ the frontend - the text appears directly next to the imagae - and i have no idea how to fix that.
But besides of that - keep on your great work!
P.S. sorry for my bad english
--February 8, 2008 @ 5:20 amLove the theme, excellent job well done
--February 9, 2008 @ 11:54 amHow do I get recent posts on the frontpage instead of “Features” ?
--February 9, 2008 @ 3:25 pmHello Darren,
I have been exploiting this theme for some time now while at the same time, it’s running on my blogsite.
I have one question though - is it possible to set a default image for the thumbnails according to each categories instead of manually keying in the custom fields each time you create a new post?
I hope you could help me with this, thanks!
--February 11, 2008 @ 10:11 amPhew! Major customization has finished.
Now I am into minor tweaks on the theme and stuck at this thing. I wanted to change some of the “pages” below the header into “links”. With this I mean that whenever menu is clicked, it will take you to a link e.g. “google.com” instead of opening a page.
Anyone can please help?
--February 13, 2008 @ 4:48 amVery good theme. thanks for sharing.
--February 14, 2008 @ 2:07 pmI will use this theme on my new sport news blog. Thank you.
--February 14, 2008 @ 2:10 pmVery useful theme. I realy intrested in this template because there is no theme like that including so much columns for each category.
--February 14, 2008 @ 2:12 pmSoon, I will use this theme in my directory’s blog.
--February 14, 2008 @ 2:14 pmHi there, just wanted to let you know we customized Mimbo to run our nonprofit theater’s website. Cheers!
--February 15, 2008 @ 10:08 amExcellent theme - brilliantly combining menus for WordPress pages AND posts whilst producing dynamic home page and smart easy-to-use layout.
Anyone care to share how to add addiional CSS for another level of page menus - I can produce the third level menu, but I can’t get it to display/hide properly.
--February 15, 2008 @ 2:17 pmrespect for you`re work
--February 17, 2008 @ 9:22 amHi Darren! Thanks for creating Mimbo, you’ve saved me months of work :D ! I’m trying to customise it so I can use it for my online magazine and so far everything is straightforwards, more or less.
I have a question: I’ve changed the index.php file so that in the “feature” section it now shows the latest post in the entire blog. Now, because in the left and right colums I have the latest post from each category, a duplicate appears when the latest post in the category is also the latest post in the entire blog. Is there any code I can use to avoid this?
--February 19, 2008 @ 7:21 amThanks for the very appreciated help!
Best regards from Italy,
Slawka
Hi Slawka,
--February 19, 2008 @ 7:56 amCould you please show your page? I think I can help you.
This is my page.
http://www.nepnha.com
Hi Tom,
my website is this http://www.ilpendolo.info
Thanks in advance!
--February 19, 2008 @ 8:00 amSlawka
Hi Slawka,
--February 19, 2008 @ 8:19 amI don’t see any duplicate appearing in you blog.
What is your problem?
Tom, the news in the header is the same as in the bottom news on the left column :(
--February 19, 2008 @ 8:51 amHi Slawka,
I think, your problem is here:
// this is where you enter the IDs of which categories you want to display
$display_categories = array(4,8,3,7,6);
You look for in index.php above command. The category number is in array(…). You should delete the category number which is in Lead Story section.
Kind regards,
--February 19, 2008 @ 9:04 amHi Tom,
my problem is exactly this, that because I don’t have a specific category going in the features section, I would have to eliminate all categories…
--February 19, 2008 @ 9:34 amLove the theme. Is there a way to change the default font size for all of the posts in the style sheets?
Thanks,
--February 19, 2008 @ 9:57 pmKeith
Hi Keith,
You can modify style.css file for changing font size. Please look for below command:
body, select, input, textarea {
font: 112% Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif;
You should change the number after “font”.
--February 20, 2008 @ 4:52 amKind regards,
http://www.vietra.net
I am using it. Works pretty good. Hope I do obey to the copyrights properly?
--February 20, 2008 @ 10:13 amDaniel
Wher in the stylesheet must I alter te parameters for de marging of the images in a single post
--February 21, 2008 @ 5:31 amFirst sorry voor calling you Daniel, Darren.
Second I found where I needed to adjust the parameters.
I would like to thank you very much for this very nice theme wich is running like sunshine.
René
--February 21, 2008 @ 8:23 amPlease…why isn’t it any single button or link on the top of each article stating: printer friendly output…export this as pdf, tip a friend… that would have been the answere to my quest!
--February 25, 2008 @ 4:31 pmHi! Great theme Darren!
I used Mimbo as the basic estructure for a new online cultural magazine and from there I started to modify everything.
You can see the results here:
http://www.culturapollensa.com/
--February 28, 2008 @ 10:44 amLove this theme and am using it to revitalise a site that I have left to stagnate for ages ( http://www.muxton.com ). I am also considering using it for my other site http://ukmac.net that currently uses the Morning After theme.
Cheers
--March 1, 2008 @ 4:51 amHow do I stop the ‘Features’ and ‘Lead Story’ categories appearing in the sidebar?
--March 1, 2008 @ 12:28 pmWonderful theme, however I’m having some issues related to the Category ID. I created Features before Lead Story and the front page displayed oddly (Features shows in place of the Lead Story and vice versa). I deleted the categories and recreated them (rather than wisely simply renaming them). Now they display in correct positions, but the section titles (Lead Story, Features, etc) no longer display at all. Instead they say “No Category”. Any thoughts?
--March 1, 2008 @ 10:19 pmStephen - you need to edit sidebar.php and change the categories to what you want to see.
Jason - do you have anything IN those categories? If you have no posts assigned to Features or Lead Story, or whatever you have called them it will show “no categories”.
There’s more information on this in the Forum that Darren has set up:
http://www.darrenhoyt.com/forums/mimbo/
And specifically this thread:
http://www.darrenhoyt.com/forums/mimbo/comments.php?DiscussionID=4&page=1#Item_0
Will give you the info you need.
--March 2, 2008 @ 5:06 amamazing theme !! good job..thanks
--March 4, 2008 @ 12:45 amThank you ..
--March 8, 2008 @ 9:05 pmthis is the best template i ever seen. thanks !! downloading… n trying on my blog….
--March 9, 2008 @ 8:48 amWow! This is a really awesome theme. Hopefully I can do it justice. Thanks.
--March 12, 2008 @ 7:05 pmreally pro theme. thank you very muchc
--March 13, 2008 @ 1:54 amIncredible theme.
--March 13, 2008 @ 6:16 amHi, I am using this great theme, but there is some problem when I am trying to access the Categorie Links or the Monthly Archives.
The error message as follow:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_tag()
And I have already updated my wordpress to v2.3.3.
Is there any advice about it?
--March 14, 2008 @ 7:04 amThank you!
very good teheme I’m now download
--March 15, 2008 @ 5:54 amthanks now download
--March 15, 2008 @ 5:55 am
--March 15, 2008 @ 7:42 amHi. I need help.
When I change the categories for Lead Story and Features (based on “cat=” ID), I get a “Features” category for my Lead Story, and a “No Categories” for my Features (please see my site http://www.nagkakaisangiskolar.com/)
Can anybody help me to rectify this? Thanks very much!
--March 17, 2008 @ 12:49 amMooN
--March 18, 2008 @ 8:38 pmGood theme, but I can not use it on my website. Somebody can help me?
--March 18, 2008 @ 10:02 pmThanks
nice theme.. i may use it
--March 19, 2008 @ 7:07 pmFantastic template. really.
--March 20, 2008 @ 10:00 amthanks
We have used it on our site and the layout simply superb. Thanks a lot of putting this together and letting us use it.
Collagist.com
--March 21, 2008 @ 7:07 pmThank you Darren for this great magasine theme.
It is just as I need.
I tried to include imagerotator to put an slideshow instead the main article image but I experiment some probles with the menu. It opens below flash widget. z-index tag seems no works for me.
http://www.spotdecaro.info
--March 21, 2008 @ 7:10 pmThank you! great theme and I like it so much!
--March 23, 2008 @ 9:15 amhe he he … funny comments ….
--March 25, 2008 @ 7:45 pmAnyway … thanks for that .. my next big project will be base on that template/
Cheers - Matt.
thank you very much. i will try this theme
--March 26, 2008 @ 6:20 amthank you very much!
--March 30, 2008 @ 10:57 amI’ve used it here: http://www.pintamedicea.com
thanks for post, nice theme, i add my archive.
--March 30, 2008 @ 1:41 pmHi there, I am having trouble with the Mimbo custom field images on Wodpress 2.5. The actual image file name isn’t writing to the index page. This is mostly an FYI for those upgrading to Wordpress 2.5 — but if anyone can help me fix the image issue, I’d appreciate it.
MJ
--March 31, 2008 @ 2:22 amthank you
--March 31, 2008 @ 12:11 pmGreat theme! It made my list of Themes That Don’t Suck! Check it out http://www.themesthatdontsuck.com
--March 31, 2008 @ 4:13 pmHi Mr, Darren,
I like your theme Mimbo so much and this is the 3rd time Im using it. However, I am having problem modifying it on my new customization.
When the top menu was clicked, the footer goes on the middle of the page. But only in IE, preferably 7.0 I dont have thats why I cannot test it. Hope you can help me.
See it here: http://www.powerclickz.com/
Thanks
--April 1, 2008 @ 5:00 amAlready solved it. Thanks again for a very nice theme
--April 1, 2008 @ 9:26 amHi…
usually I admit I remove the footer links on wordpress themes I download and use, unless obviously I make them myself… but this theme is the first one I feel proud to keep it in there… even though I should have all along. Let’s face it, millions do it.
But i’m thankful for this theme - thank you. Very good, simple, hardly any graphics and looks sweet. Well done! You should do more themes… keep them at this standard.
--April 3, 2008 @ 11:13 amI’m loving this. Great theme to start. Is this tested already with the latest version 2.5? Thanks for sharing.
--April 4, 2008 @ 12:04 amThis is a very nice theme; it’s easy to modify and work with. Highly recommended.
--April 5, 2008 @ 11:01 pmPosted the theme with other magazine-style themes here: http://wpmagthemes.com/
--April 7, 2008 @ 3:00 pmOhhh very good theme thank you
--April 8, 2008 @ 12:01 pmLove the simplicity of your Mimbo theme! Is it possible to have the latest post display on the LEAD section?
--April 11, 2008 @ 10:15 amit is an awesome theme, thanks for this great theme.
--April 11, 2008 @ 7:43 pmi will use it on my new blog
Check out http://www.GOOntheROAD.com
Yea Yea
--April 14, 2008 @ 4:31 pmNice theme
--April 16, 2008 @ 5:34 pmThank you sir
--April 19, 2008 @ 7:45 amHi, I’m having the same problem as bongkph, when the top menu is clicked, the footer appears on the middle of the page. What is the solution to this?
--April 21, 2008 @ 6:02 pmGreat theme, really!
--April 22, 2008 @ 12:51 amThanks, Darren
super! I’ll use this template in less of a week I hope, yeah! this is web 2.0! wow!
--April 22, 2008 @ 4:59 amGreat theme, Thanks antonio
--April 26, 2008 @ 5:54 pmI want to know how to change the font of just main text. I think all the other font sizes are good except for the text on the pages or the descriptions I think are to small. I tried changing the font under #page but it changes all the fonts slightly.
--April 28, 2008 @ 11:58 amI would like to make the browse categories a drop down menu, but when i use the wordpress code for it, it won’t validate in W3C. Can someone offer code that is valid in place of what is in theme?
Thanks in advance for a fabulous theme!!
--April 30, 2008 @ 10:21 pmThank You Darrenhoyt
--May 5, 2008 @ 9:10 amGreat Theme.. Thank you Darren..
--May 6, 2008 @ 3:32 amReally nice theme. Impressed!
--May 6, 2008 @ 8:19 amReally nice theme. Impressed! I really like this one and will stumble it:)
--May 6, 2008 @ 8:20 amAmazing theme! i love it
--May 6, 2008 @ 2:07 pmThanks so much for your terrific theme! Forgive me for asking such a simple question, but is there any way to enlarge the text on the pages? I’m not great with CSS, but managed to enlarge the heading sizes, but not the rest of the text.
Sorry for asking, but I’ll be using this theme on a WordPress project I’ll be presenting at a conference and it’d be nice to have the text a bit larger so everyone in the audience can read it.
Again, great theme!
--May 6, 2008 @ 9:01 pmThank you !
welcome to my site!
--May 7, 2008 @ 6:14 amHow do you change the green colour bars?
This is a great and clean theme man. Very nice.
--May 8, 2008 @ 5:57 amHow do I change the green colour?
Great site, really nice
--May 8, 2008 @ 6:00 amthis is one of the best magazine style theme made for wordpress. Have used it for some time on my blog but found it quite hard to customize it to my preference.
--May 10, 2008 @ 6:37 amI love this theme. Is this compatible with the latest version of Wordpress? Thanks for the reply.
--May 11, 2008 @ 10:34 amI like it very much - thank you. I would like to replace comments with pages and use it only as an ordinary website without blog-function. Is that easy to do for me who only know some ASP but nothing about php (yet ;)) How?
--May 11, 2008 @ 11:18 amThanks nice theme ;)
--May 12, 2008 @ 2:01 pm