Gorgeous work, I love how it looks and works without getting too crowded.

Wow. Very nice work, guys. Thanks for giving it away – this blows most premium themes out of the water!

Are you _kidding_ me? This is wickedly or insanely nice.

One question that probably deserves more investigation on my part, but I assume folks who use this would want to link the “Browse Pages” and “Search” items to actual links in case javascript is turned off? Before I started using a text-based browser, I dinna care; but I use one nearly daily and it’s frustrating to try to use sites reliant on javascript.

Not a criticism, just a question/clarification for my own edification.

Great Theme! I will test it.

you guys are amazing! who needs sweetcron ;)

Congrats !

What is the code that disables something that’s embedded (i.e. a youtube video) into a post on the main page? Even if it’s just for the featured/most recent post.

I did ran into a few problems, getting the theme all settled in. My biggest issue is that I can’t access the pages, search, or sub-categories float menus. I suppose it’s some kind of plug-in that needs to be installed. Either way, I hope you could enlighten us, or at least me, on how to get that working.

I think that’s related to the permissions change we made a little while ago. Try downloading once more.

Lastly, I have some kind of issue with the feed being downloaded from the various social websites. For now Flickr seems to work fine, but my Twitter feed seems to be not coming down. You think it’ll need a bit more time to catch up?

Unfortunately Twitter is one of the least reliable feeds.

Working on the jQuery calls right now, to make sure they don’t collide with plugins like Lightbox. Will post an update soon.

Its beautiful! :)

Much Thanks….

Great theme, as always!

Tested it in IE6, works fine there too!

Good job man!

The one that works directs me to /blog/archives, whereas the one that 404’s goes to /blog/wp-content/themes/agregado/archives. I’ve followed the directions twice, but I’m still not getting it.

Check your permalink (just under the post title) and make sure it points to ‘http://brandonhays.com/blog/archives’.

A tl;dr version of the last comment: when I enter feed details the lower part of the site disappears (the my profile, popular topics, recent comment, get in touch and the footer); if I don’t enter anything in the feeds in the config everything is displayed OK.

Are you sure it’s not just slow to load? Have you tried turning plugins off one by one to see if there are any collisions?

’ve just install it but there is a problem with the icon for Extra Feed, my icon doesn’t appear on the front.

I just uploaded a ‘newyorktimes.gif’ image to my images folder, input the RSS feed and it worked fine.

The link to the image showing the problem is here http://img221.imageshack.us/my.php?image=imagens5.jpg (this one is with not feeds entered).

GORGEOUS theme. Great work! :D

My only comment: the theme is especially great for folks who don’t have a lot of categories, since they’re listed at top. I have a ton of categories, and they’re not looking quite so nice at the top. :( It looks like they’re throwing off the header.

I do know CSS, and will probably hack it a little to get my categories down at the bottom of the page. :)

Interesting theme. I’ve been aggressively in the “outsource everything” camp for the past couple of years now, but I’m slowly coming to the realization that blog posts can accomplish things and convey ideas that tweets, flickr photos, delicious bookmarks, etc. can’t do on their own.

so I was looking for examples of designs that give equal weight to both blog posts with feed activity and this appears to do a good job highlighting the two sides. great job!

Very superB theme. Not using wordpress, but this is really excellent balance of simplicity and good look ! 4.5/5

@Darren sorry, but how would I do that?

You’ll need to visit gravatar.com and sign up, using the same email address you use for WordPress.

Damn Darren….that’s some serious niceness you and Matt put together. Been awhile…I’ve been stupid busy…but had to give you your props on this. Hope all is well!

Since updating to v1.2 (I think? – I don’t recall noticing it with v1.1) the scrolling sidebar no longer works. I tried uploading a new version of the v1.2 theme and still nothing. The demo on your site works fine for me. Any thoughts?

Still an amazing theme. I hope all our Q’s aren’t frustrating you too much so that you never do a theme release like this again! :)

Yeah – I just tested in Mac/FF3 and it works. Seems I’ve got issues with Mac/SF 3.1.2. Good to know. Weird that the demo page works fine but mine doesn’t – though it did before. Have to think back to what else I might have changed.

How difficult would it be to add an asides category call to the sidebar? I see that the lifestream call is a PHP request so I suspect not easily duplicated (at least for someone of my WP Ninjaing ability) so if it’s beyond the scope of what a free WP theme offers, no worries.

I’m so used to having the last 4-5 entries in full on the main page that it’s a bit of a shift for me to only have 1 ‘featured’ article.

Actually just tested both and they were fine. Are you sure you have the latest version of Agregado?

Ah, I removed my Pownce user name and the error vanished, I’ll try to figure it out, cheers for the fast replies :)

A very nice theme. I’m using it now. some suggestions:
1. the captions for images don’t work. perhaps you could fix it.
2. Is there any way to get a thumbnail for posts?
3. Theme color changer would be nice :)

Agregado Lifestream is nice… mind if I make a blogspot version? it il havethe images and css files uploaded elsewere :D

@Daniel: see the Requirements section of the documentation. If this were a paid project I’d be aggressive about testing in old browsers (that’s a conversation that could go on for days), but as it is, I’m happy designing it for current and future browsers.

Nice work.

I found a few bugs though:

1. For IE7: In the categories drop down the transparent background turns solid.

2. In Chrome, Safari too I guess, after the category drop down fade is done, a grey solid is shown for a milisecond or so. Spoils the nice look.

If you have a solution fort his please email me as I probably wont check here again.

Thanks!

I’m having some issues on the homepage with the paragraph formatting.

See: http://www.marcusandrhonda.com/

Don’t be shy!…

That line above should have the 15px margin space of the paragraph above, yet it doesn’t show. However on a single post page, the space is there. Am I missing something in the stylesheet?

I have askimet and super cache plugin installed.

Great theme! Love the lifestream!

I have my shared google reader items and a feed from yahoo pipes setup is extra feeds, but the icons for the feeds do not appear. How can I fix this?

Thanks Darren. The theme is beautiful.

hello Darren,

Can I define the lifestream sidebar to show pictures only from a named set of my flickr?

Thanks!

Great theme.

Btw, google syntax highlighter plugin didn’t work with your theme. Any thoughts why?

It’s a beautiful theme. I’m certainly inspired by it. =)

Awesome theme, thanks!!

Does anyone know how to add pixelpost to the lifestream? I got the rss working for the image titles but I was hoping to also show a thumbnail (like Flickr) on the lifestream. I just don’t want to go through flickr, is all.

Thanks

Hey great template I’m wondering is there a way to make the Flickr thumbnails smaller so I can fit more stuff on my site?

@Tariq: you can change this in functions.php.

@DivaGeek: thanks, we’re glad you like it!

Let me first of all express that AGREGADO .. is a big AGRGADO to the themes of WordPress. I installed manually WP 2.6.2 and so far everything is going very well … but feeds only work when used without PERMALINKS. Is it feasible to use them with PERMALINKS enabled?.
In the test page I see that you use RSS without permalinks enabled … Well, I hope you have an answer and again congratulations!

I was actually at WordCamp in NYC yesterday and this was one of the themes they mentioned. I knew I saw it before, but never really took a good look at it until then. Let me say, your coding talents are extraordinary and it shows. The template is really user-friendly too (after you get past the initial issues, but I saw some solutions on here and they worked when I implemented the fixes. I think that if your brain power was a 3 out of 5, you would be able to not only natvigate throughout this template, but find that some of it’s features (like pictures up top) are not difficult, but time-consuming. In essence, it will eventually be 2nd nature to log on and create pages in half the time it takes society today.

Great theme, as always!

Hi Darren,
Thanks for this great theme, I really like it.
But is there a possibility to have better image resolution for flickr in the lifestream ? The definition is very slow (100×75) and the images don’t look good enough on the home page, see http://www.cmic.ch

Just the one I’m looking for! The theme’s beyond perfect, very nice. And I’m actually using it ;)

Love the theme. I can’t seem to get to the url that supports the facebook news feed in the new Facebook layout. Any clues where to find the url?

@neil: I haven’t otherwise heard of that problem – anyone else?

@jeff: Hmm, every since the “new” Facebook, I can’t locate my mini-feed info. Anyone know where it’s located? You may be able to tweak the URI I’m using, which is here.

@tsquez: Thanks!

Great theme, as always!

I would like to know how to embed images into the teaser of each blog post, and also how to make it so I can have numerous blog posts listed on the front page….. Edits, edits…. I would also like to edit the sidebar on the right because it’s not working for me…

LOVE this theme. Love everything about it. Very nice work, and a million thanks for making it free!

Likewise, I’ve got a similar problem with the new facebook. Ideas appreciated.

Thanks for telling my how to change the flickr image sizes but there seems to be an error, this is the code that i have used, but it only changes the width of the image not the height, as you can see my site looks unprofessional with messed up images. Thanks for helping.

[code]
if($smpflickimg !== '' && get_option('l_flickr_thumbs') == 'true'){
echo '';
[/code]

@almost witty : I used my Twitter URL (http://twitter.com/xgravity23) and it worked just fine. It’s not the feed URL or anything. Hope that helps!

@darren: Again, awesome theme. The more I work with it, the more I love it. Great color scheme and design combined with the emphasis on content and lifestream… I’m planning a blog post about why I picked it and what I love about it. Should go up in the next two weeks. I’ll leave a comment with the URL!

@xgravity: thanks!

@mehrab: I’m not really sure how to ensure the contact form submissions are encoded correctly. Have you tried the WP forums?

Great theme, it looks like I’ll be changing the theme on my wordpress blog now.

@morgan: Thanks for the heads-up about FB. Agregado uses the_excerpt on the homepage, which only pulls the first 55 words, but nothing else. You could always change it to the_content.

Thanks Darren, I’d found a fix for the videos/images in the WP Codex.

One thing I wanted to customize but haven’t been able to so far is showing more than just the most recent post on the home page. I’d like to ideally show 5 or 10. I know a few others have posted this request too, I haven’t been able to find any answers yet and I only know enough PHP to get by if I have to. Can you offer any insight about how to do that? Thanks so much, and thanks again for an awesome theme!! It’s one of the best I’ve seen, paid or free.

Darren,

I’ve been following your blog since the release of your magazine theme (which I tried out and love). This theme, however, blows my mind… and it’s free. Thanks for sharing all your knowledge. I loved going through all the code in the magazine theme and just learning how to better utilize the power of WordPress. I can’t wait to get started on this one!

As a personal site and particularly, as you say, a place to aggregate social networking stuff, it works brilliantly. Colours and typography aren’t really my taste, but otherwise it looks great. Good job!

Hi,
Thanks for such a wonderful theme I love it. I’ve had a dickens of a time trying to get it to work but thanks in large part to the comments here I’ve figured out most of them. The only thing I can’t get around is that in the category list pages all my flickr posts show only code, once you click on the individual post you can see the picture ok but not in the list. See it here: http://www.samuelmateo.com/category/family/baby/

Any help would be appreciated.

@Darren – It’s not a plugin it’s the way flickr posts pictures to the blog with their post to blog option. It adds the style to the code to add border and a few other stylings. But my concerns is not the code, it’s the fact that you can see the code and not the picture or stylings. Its as if the theme is not rendering the html/css code, blocked maybe? Sort of like the the_excerpt issue. If you click into any of the posts in the category list it renders the code correctly, seen here: http://www.samuelmateo.com/invitation-for-the-ladies/

With the theme I used previously the category pages rendered correctly that’s why I’m thinking it’s a theme thing.

@Darren, That’s what I figured it was and before I asked I checked to see if the_excerpt was in any of the archives.php files and it isn’t. I did find it in loop.php but I doudbt that has anything to do with it.

Unless I’m missing a file, I have no idea how to fix it.

Thanks so much for your help.

The theme looks nice and interesting.

this is beautiful love the design..

Thank you Samuel. It has worked in the main page, but not in the single ones. I mean… if you go to my blog, the newest post now is not a summary, you can see the full post, and all the code is put correctly. But if I click in the title of that post and I see it as a single page, the code mess it up again. I’ve replaced all as you said, but in the loop i have this code:

I’ve replaced the first “excerpt” with “content”, but now I’ve two contents. Is that normal?

Thank you again :)

@Samuel

Here and here:

http://www.nitroglicerino.com/blog/viajes/costa-a-costa/zarzuela

http://www.nitroglicerino.com/blog/viajes/costa-a-costa/primer-dia-en-san-francisco

Thanks for the help :)

@nitroglicerino – Do you have the tag in where you want it to jump from? It seems to work fine on my setup. If you do I have no idea what wrong there. Sorry.

@nitroglicerino – I think the text to the right of the picture is on purpose. I think.

got it installed and looks great, thanks I really appreciate the great work

I’d love to customize the typography for the lifestream. I like your idea of making the newer items larger and brighter, but I’d still like the ability to customize that aspect. I’ll state right off the bat I’m no php coder, I looked around in all the files but none of the ones I searched through seem to have the colors & sizes you built.
Still a real standout theme!
Keep up the good work.

Love the background of this theme. thanks

Love the theme, but I can’t get it to work. Every time I try to activate it I get a fatal error. If I’m reading it correctly it’s trying to declare lifestream twice, once in the plugin folder (a file called _lifestream.php, line 858) and then again in the themes functions (line624).

Just wrote a post about why I love Agregado! Here’s the link: http://lindenamueller.com/blog/2008/11/why-i-chose-the-agregado-wordpress-theme/ Thanks again, Darren and Matt, for the awesome theme!

@linden: Thanks much for the great review. Looks like the “uncategorized” category in the top nav is knocking around your masthead, but that can be easily fixed. Otherwise, great implementation.

@samuel: Shouldn’t be too hard. There are also many WP contact form plugins with captchas that can be implemented easily.