Agregado is a WordPress theme by Darren Hoyt and Matt Dawson, commissioned by the folks at Smashing Magazine. It features a built-in lifestream module and contact form with custom control panel options.
The motivation was to preserve the personal website, aggregate your data from sources around the web like Flickr, Delicious and Twitter, and publish it all in one convenient place in a consistent format. More details & documentation»
Live Demo
Download the Theme
Download the PSD
Requirements
- WordPress 2.6+
- Tested in: Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, IE7+
- Host server with PHP5+ and cURL installed
Support and Discussion
If you are using Agregado for a project and have emergency questions, I strongly recommend using one of the Experts over at WPQuestions.com, a problem-solving community for WordPress.
Features
- Lifestream module with carousel
- Animated dropdown menus
- Custom archives page
- Built-in contact form module with AJAX sent/fail message
- Built-in drop caps for paragraphs
- Numerical pagination on archive and search pages
- Author-highlighting for comments
- User profile module
- Widgetized bottom bar on homepage
- Widgetized sidebar on single post pages
- ‘More in this Category’ sidebar module
- Control panel options for lifestream and contact form
Getting things configured
- Go to Settings->Permalinks and ensure your URLs use names, so the “Archives” icon links correctly
- Go to Write->Page, and create a new page called Archives, selecting “archives” from the Template pulldown menu.
- Go to Design->Agregado Options and input your RSS information from services you want featured in your lifestream, such as Flickr, Delicious or Twitter.
- Go to Design->Agregado Options and input your email address and success message for the contact form
- Go to Users->Your Profile and fill out the First Name, Last Name and Biographical Info fields.
Frequently Asked Questions
- I installed Agregado – why isn’t WP finding my stylesheets and javascript? Why are subpage menus not working on certain pages?
Check to make sure none of your plugins are colliding with any of the theme’s jQuery. Starting by turning them all off. If you find specific collisions, please email me. - Why does the lifestream load slowly sometimes?
Sometimes fetching certain feeds (ex: Twitter) takes a second longer. Also make sure permissions are set to 0777 on the /includes/ and /includes/cache/ folders, though this should happen automatically upon install.In the control panel options, you can also set the intervals feeds are retrieved (ex: 60 minutes).
I would also recommend Donncha’s awesome WP Super Cache plugin to speed things up.
- Why doesn’t my link to the Archives page work?
Make sure you have created a new Page called “Archives” and selected your custom template from the pulldown. - How does the user profile pic work?
If you haven’t already, visit Gravatar and sign up for an account using the same email address as your WordPress admin account.
Big Thanks…
…to Chris Coyier, Ben Gillbanks, Ian Stewart and Hafiz Rahman for beta testing.
Changelog
• Version 1.2 | Sep 10, 2008
• Version 1.1 | Sep 9, 2008
• Version 1.0 | Sep 8, 2008
11:08 am
nice theme, thx
11:14 am
Gorgeous work, I love how it looks and works without getting too crowded.
11:45 am
Really nice work. A very nice looking and working Interface. Is it possible to use it with a childtheme very well?
Greets from Germany,
marcus
11:58 am
Wow. Very nice work, guys. Thanks for giving it away – this blows most premium themes out of the water!
12:02 pm
Looks fantastic Darren. Nice one.
12:30 pm
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.
12:35 pm
That’s beautiful. And free? Are you nuts?
12:41 pm
Great Theme! I will test it.
1:06 pm
Really impressive. The attention to detail on this theme is amazing. So many things to love about it: the drop downs, the pagination, and archive page are my favs.
1:09 pm
you guys are amazing! who needs sweetcron ;)
1:16 pm
Beautiful work guys. I’m really impressed.
1:58 pm
Congrats !
2:34 pm
Thanks to all! We’re thrilled by the feedback so far.
@Chris: We fixed a few permissions in the zip file just now, but I’m not sure that would affect it. Anyone else getting that error?
2:58 pm
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.
3:32 pm
Congratulations, incredible theme.
4:02 pm
I think that’s related to the permissions change we made a little while ago. Try downloading once more.
Unfortunately Twitter is one of the least reliable feeds.
5:34 pm
Really great, thanks very much!
8:04 pm
Working on the jQuery calls right now, to make sure they don’t collide with plugins like Lightbox. Will post an update soon.
8:09 pm
Nice theme, thank you.
9:17 pm
Its beautiful! :)
10:24 pm
Javascript issues should be fine now, just tested with Lightbox, plus a few more little tweaks. Anyone having trouble, go ahead and download again.
10:32 pm
Much Thanks….
10:44 pm
It’s a great theme. Will make sure to feature this on Happyblog Design! :)
5:26 am
Great theme, as always!
5:46 am
Hi Darren,
Oh Boy! Congrats to you both with another fine theme. You make it very difficult for me not to replace my Mimbo Pro custom with this beauty! I’m very tempted.
Great work you guys!
Cheers,
Patrick
6:04 am
Tested it in IE6, works fine there too!
Good job man!
6:37 am
Any chance of the PSD files? would make life so perfect :-)
9:53 am
Check your permalink (just under the post title) and make sure it points to ‘http://brandonhays.com/blog/archives'.
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?
I just uploaded a ‘newyorktimes.gif’ image to my images folder, input the RSS feed and it worked fine.
9:57 am
There aren’t any plugins except Askimet, it’s a fresh install of WordPress on that host. Also, the find me elsewhere is shown white on IE 7 and Firefox 3 on two internet connections so that’s not the problem.
9:58 am
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).
10:00 am
It’s always going to be white if there are no feeds entered.
Can you email me a user account and I can take a look?
11:26 am
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. :)
12:47 pm
@`o-o` I have the latest version running, with Lightbox 2 and I got no issues whatsoever. Maybe you need to check out the permissions of the JS folder, and each of the Javascript files in there. Should be executable.
Only issue I have left now is that my feed doesn’t grab any info from other sites, apart from Flickr. I got Delicious set up, as well as a custom RSS feed. But none of them are appearing. Anyone have a clue what I missed? Thanks!
5:26 pm
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!
9:25 pm
I love this theme–it’s so functional, and so thoughtfully, thoroughly, and artfully designed–so thank you!
I’m in the process of hacking it to suit the needs of a site i’m working on, but so far it’s all aesthetic and nothing much functional. That said, I have removed lifestream from the index page sidebar for now. I disabled all the plugins but the More in ‘Category’ feature isn’t working. Any ideas?
10:10 am
Very superB theme. Not using wordpress, but this is really excellent balance of simplicity and good look ! 4.5/5
12:58 pm
For the various feeds issues, version 1.2 has been released.
@adrian: I think the problem is that your blog is on a subdomain of your site. You might just want to copy the permalink from your post-edit page, open up header.php and index.php, and paste it within the link to the archives button.
3:00 pm
@Darren sorry, but how would I do that?
7:52 pm
Great job. Wonderful theme. Thanks..
9:25 pm
You’ll need to visit gravatar.com and sign up, using the same email address you use for WordPress.
10:46 pm
The custom archives page is astonishing.
Why not release it as a WordPress plugin?
12:21 am
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!
11:06 am
Hey and thank you for a magnificent theme.
After upgrading to the latest version today (1.2) I still have one lingering error code since the first install:
PHP Notice: XML error: Invalid document end at line 1, column 1 in …\wp-content\themes\agregado\includes\simplepie.inc on line 1783
Any clues as to what is causing this?
12:12 pm
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! :)
1:05 pm
@mahina: that’s either caused by non-supported characters in the feed URL (? marks or other symbols) or by a feed filled with errors. What additional feeds are you using?
@chris: seems to work fine for me (Win/FF3).
1:15 pm
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.
3:55 pm
Hmm, I can’t say I’ve had problems with Pownce, it’s pulling fine in the demo. I’ll see if I can test Tumblr.
3:59 pm
Actually just tested both and they were fine. Are you sure you have the latest version of Agregado?
4:07 pm
Yeah should be the correct one :)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3009/2848466555_31d4f49f69_o.jpg
Though the PHP Notice: XML error: Invalid document end at line 1, column 1 in …\wp-content\themes\agregado\includes\simplepie.inc on line 1783
error has been there since the first 1.0 release.
4:12 pm
Ah, I removed my Pownce user name and the error vanished, I’ll try to figure it out, cheers for the fast replies :)
5:25 pm
Has anyone else had problems with the More from ‘Category’ feature simply not displaying in the sidebar? I can’t figure out what’s causing the problem.
4:33 am
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 :)
10:26 am
1. I just tested one and it worked.
2. Not sure what you mean. The WP image-manager should be able to generate thumbs.
3. Considering the design, that’s a lot harder than it sounds ;)
11:29 am
Agregado Lifestream is nice… mind if I make a blogspot version? it il havethe images and css files uploaded elsewere :D
12:19 pm
Hi there,
So, like many, I’m giving it a go. One thing I notice today is that I’m getting a horizontal scrollbar on the whole viewport in FF 2.0.0.16 and IE 6.0.29, @1024×768.
I’ve tried to ascertain where the issue is; I assume it’s content-driven, something’s too wide for a container. I didn’t notice this yesterday, and now, upon looking, I see it in the demo site as well.
Scrollbars aren’t cool, but it’s not huge. Just thought you might like to know.
12:23 pm
@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.
1:04 pm
@Darren
Great point. I noticed those requirements first thing. It could easily take up all your time tuning for even small inconsistencies in these older browsers, as undoubtedly there’s a very slippery slope there.
4:53 pm
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!
5:49 pm
Yes, that’s not a bug.
I tested in Safari 3 and didn’t get that effect.
You’ll need to subscribe via RSS for updates.
12:48 am
I’m having some issues on the homepage with the paragraph formatting.
See: http://www.marcusandrhonda.com/
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.
9:25 am
@Marcus: the homepage is using a function called the_excerpt for that first box of content. The excerpt strips out HTML and just prints raw text. That includes blockquotes, images, videos, etc. You could always open index.php and change that to php the_content.
2:20 pm
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?
2:52 pm
Update to the comment above:
The lifestream will take the icon of the entry above it and apply it to the extra feeds.
For example, if I have a twitter feed above my google reader feed, both the twitter and the reader feeds will have the twitter icon.
10:57 pm
Thanks Darren. The theme is beautiful.
6:22 pm
doesn’t work. fantastic.
9:51 pm
hello Darren,
Can I define the lifestream sidebar to show pictures only from a named set of my flickr?
Thanks!
5:50 pm
First of all, thanks for a great theme!
I’m having trouble getting Lightbox to work with it without breaking it. Following the instructions here (http://zollinhofer.com/lightbox-faq) I managed to install Lightbox, however, this results in the subcategories failing to show up in Agregado’s top menu. Any idea where the problem may be? The menu will work fine if I comment out the Lightbox script lines in the header.
5:19 am
Great theme.
Btw, google syntax highlighter plugin didn’t work with your theme. Any thoughts why?
12:37 pm
Stunning work! Thank you for sharing…
10:16 am
It’s a beautiful theme. I’m certainly inspired by it. =)
11:30 am
Great theme, I will try it out on one of my blogs.
5:03 pm
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
12:09 am
Hi, my name is Guto. I’m from Brazil. I’ve saw your theme in Smashing Magazine and i really like it.
But i can’t use you theme in my website. I’ve try to install but I recive this message: “PHP Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in E:\home\gutodelarocha1\Web\blog\wp-content\themes\agregado\functions.php on line 656
PHP Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: No such file or directory in E:\home\gutodelarocha1\Web\blog\wp-content\themes\agregado\functions.php on line 658″
Do u have some ideia why this happen?
Thanks for this.
6:03 pm
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?
2:32 am
Wow!! Ok you win. I’ve been all over the web downloading themes, testing themes, customizing them and I’m never completely satisfied. Then I found this one and I have to say that this is the best one yet that I’ve seen and used besides “Purple Swirl” which I believe you did as well? Or at least the style looks like yours.
I also really like Charred by WPelements.com but this one is even better!
So yeah you rock and Thank you so much for offering this theme for free instead of as a premium theme which you could of easily done. Thank you 100X I’m finally happy with my theme and I won’t be changing it out anytime soon.
5:00 pm
@Tariq: you can change this in functions.php.
@DivaGeek: thanks, we’re glad you like it!
8:14 pm
I updated to wordpress 2.6+, shut off all the plugins. It only loads a blank page.
Can you help?
5:16 pm
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!
8:34 pm
@Pavel: I’m not sure I understand the question. The WP permalinks, or the feed links generated by the lifestream?
12:14 pm
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.
9:04 am
Great blog. I like layout!!!!
2:47 pm
Great theme, as always!
9:20 pm
Beautiful, beautiful theme. Thank you for creating this and sharing it with everyone!
9:53 am
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
5:40 am
The navigation buttons (up and down) from Find me Elsewhere just vanished. Anyone else having this problem?
4:17 am
Just the one I’m looking for! The theme’s beyond perfect, very nice. And I’m actually using it ;)
1:34 pm
Hi,
Great theme and almost up and running…
The contact form gives my success message but I never receive any email.
Any tips about the contact form?
5:54 pm
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?
10:23 pm
Just have to say I really like the dark colors used in this theme. Nicely done! Very exquisit!
11:00 pm
@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!
11:32 pm
I tried to modify the url you listed with my numerical Facebook ID, but it appears the key number in your url (2b5d9da831) doesn’t match with my id. Anyone have any ideas?
1:22 am
Great theme, as always!
12:53 pm
Fantastic theme – I absolutely love it.
However, I’m having two issues. (I’m assuming that they are specific to my site, because no one else has mentioned these in the comments)
First – all of my images are aligned right, so the text that should be between them ends up right next to the image, like this: http://isaacdowning.com/2008/10/30/test-post/. As you can see, the images are not displaying correctly.
Second – the “More in [category]” box on the sidebar only displays one category regardless of the post you are currently reading. You can see an example of that on the post I linked to above (which is categorized as “Weblogs”), but it doesn’t show the same category as what you are reading.
Thanks again for the work you guys did. It looks gorgeous!
2:28 am
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…
4:58 am
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6:54 am
LOVE this theme. Love everything about it. Very nice work, and a million thanks for making it free!
11:13 am
Thank you very much for this wonderful theme, it fits all that I’ve been looking for in a wp theme and more.
PS: the PSD file is a time saver.
5:18 pm
Likewise, I’ve got a similar problem with the new facebook. Ideas appreciated.
5:57 am
Yep, same New Facebook issue. I posted a question in Facebook’s help, but haven’t received any answers yet.
1:13 pm
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]
6:48 am
It’s a fantastic theme, and I love using it. The only problem is that when it asks for my Twitter Status Updates – is that my username, the URL to my main feed, my RSS feed? I’ve tried all three, and none of them work, alas!
But many thanks for creating it!
8:57 am
@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!
5:31 pm
this is a great theme for wordpress. thank you for this very nice job.
but I have a problem with this theme and it is with contact. any message sent from it will appear in my mailbox as something like this:
سلام دوباره
and I should say that I don’t mean messages in english but in persian language. in brief I should say I want the messages to be sent in UTF-8 encoding.
is it possible?
10:40 pm
@xgravity: thanks!
@mehrab: I’m not really sure how to ensure the contact form submissions are encoded correctly. Have you tried the WP forums?
12:10 am
Hi, is there any way i can make the theme show the last 10 posts completely not just the title?. like other themes, i love this theme but i don’t like that.
Israel
8:16 pm
Great theme, it looks like I’ll be changing the theme on my wordpress blog now.
2:16 pm
To everyone asking about Facebook feeds, you can find the link you’re looking for here:
http://www.new.facebook.com/minifeed.php?filter=11
At the bottom, there’s a link that says “My Status”. Click that and you’ll get the link that Agregado needs for your Facebook feed.
I’m having trouble with videos and links showing up in posts on the home page – they only show up when the title is clicked and the permalink page is displayed. How can I fix that?
I’m also interested in having more posts show up on the home page, if anyone has ideas for how to do that. Thanks!
5:49 pm
@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.
5:54 pm
That theme is gorgeous! I can’t believe you’re giving it away for free.
8:34 pm
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.
8:53 pm
@morgan – I managed to do that by basically replacing the entire central column in the main index template with some generic WordPress code for showing the traditional number of posts.
9:29 pm
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!
4:17 am
I am happy to find such a beautiful template for FREE!
You could even sell this template for some good bucks
i will definitely use it on another new blog of mine
6:17 am
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!
6:58 am
Darren been a fan of your templates for a long time now and once again you don’t disappoint
8:48 am
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.
10:15 am
@Samuel: I’m not sure where that chunk of Flickr styling is coming from (plugin?), but that shouldn’t be anything Agregado’s doing.
10:22 am
@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.
10:24 am
See comments further upthread. Category archives pages use php the_excerpt which is just raw text. You can always change it to php the_content.
3:01 pm
@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.
9:00 am
Hi Darren! Thanks for this lovely theme. Been testing it on WP 2.7 beta and it works beautifully! One small request though.. How do I add my Picasa (Web) updates to the lifestream? Adding RSS is pretty simple.. But how do I add pictures like in the Flickr feature? I guess it would take a bit of coding. Will this feature be included in the next release?
7:08 am
The theme looks nice and interesting.
7:05 pm
Hi Darren. I think I have the same problem with Flickr as Samuel has. When I insert flickr code the pages become a complete mess. You can see it here:
http://www.nitroglicerino.com/blog/viajes/costa-a-costa/about-san-francisco
and here:
http://www.nitroglicerino.com/blog/viajes/costa-a-costa/zarzuela
Any suggestions? I love your theme, BTW, so I’d love to use it :)
8:37 am
this is beautiful love the design..
9:04 am
@nitroglicerino – What you want to do is go to themes and select agregado and make it the default.
Then go to theme editor and select index.php and find the line “the_excerpt” (without the quotes) replace that with “the_content”. Save it.
Now click on loop.php and find the line
and replace it
That should fix the raw code being output by the theme.
9:30 am
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 :)
9:37 am
nitroglicerino I just looked through your blog and everything looks correct. Where are you having the problem? Post a link.
9:39 am
@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 :)
9:45 am
For any reason the code can’t be shown :(
9:53 am
@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.
9:57 am
@Samuel
In your blog, in the posts of the pictures of the babies you seem to have the same problem as me. What you write is shown at the right of the pic, instead below it.
Does the author of the theme know that there is a problem of compatibility with the code of the images uploaded in Flickr?
9:59 am
@nitroglicerino – I think the text to the right of the picture is on purpose. I think.
10:06 am
@Samuel
I don’t think so. It looks terrible in some posts, and it’s never put the same way. Besides, if you want to write some text below a picture uploaded on Flickr you can’t. That text is put at the right when you finish the post.
I’ll try to fix it, but I think it’s not going to be a simple thing :(
9:38 pm
got it installed and looks great, thanks I really appreciate the great work
11:59 pm
BUMPING.. How do I add my Picasa (Web) updates to the lifestream? Adding RSS is pretty simple.. But how do I add pictures like in the Flickr feature? Someone please help!
1:11 am
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.
4:52 pm
Tremendously useful WordPress information.
I applaud you on providing a much needed website for the masses.
Thanks again.
11:43 pm
Love the background of this theme. thanks
3:24 am
I took your theme (because i love the interface of it, absolutely AMAZING) and just skinned it and added in a little of my own touches.. check it out and tell me what you think :) Also I will be adding credit in a “special thanks” section of the site rather than the footer, if that’s okay with you (i like to be a little more personal in giving credit than just a backlink).
4:05 pm
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).
1:10 pm
Great theme! I love the features – it was really easy to setup.
4:09 pm
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!
4:13 pm
Question: Is there a way to integrate the reCaptcha plugin with the form on the front page?
I am getting at least 2 or 3 spam submissions a day and I know it will only get worst.
7:32 pm
@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.
7:44 pm
@darren: Yeah, I know. I switched over from Blogger and I’m converting all my old tags to categories post by post. There are over 270, so it’s slow going, but “uncategorized” will be gone eventually. Plus, the categories don’t flow into two lines for me… I wonder what’s different between what you’re seeing and what I’m seeing. Weird.
10:28 am
Awesome template, and I just got it to work on my blog: http://mufflednoise.com
BUT, I was hoping I could customize it so that my blog content images aren’t aligned left. I really prefer centered images, in fact it throws some of my posts off.. :[
Example:
http://mufflednoise.com/2008/11/16/baby-jay-angelos-birthday-party/
Hope you could help. :]
5:16 pm
Hopefully someone can help me.
I’m trying to figure out how to change the number of posts that appear in full on the front page. I’ve changed “the_excerpt” to “the_content” in both index and loop and while more posts are appears, only the most recent appears in full. Best case scenario, I’d like to get the most recent 3-4 in full and the rest to “get smaller” as they get older. Sometimes I post more than once a day and I don’t want to bury a post simply because I posted an hour after that one.
See: http://carneymi.net
2:07 am
I tried it and loved it, but I couldn’t get the archives to work so I had to change it back. I was already using “names” permalinks. The archive page would display the words “Site Archives” but nothing else, no archives.
10:03 am
Wow! Beatiful Theme.
Downloading…
1:03 am
I’m really excited about this theme. If I can get everything running the way I need it to, it will be exactly what I’ve been searching for. Thank you!
I do have one glitch. I’ve read through the comments and it seems I’m the only one running into this, so I’m sure it’s something stupid that I’ve done. Anyway, my entries are mainly single images linked from my flickr account. In other themes the entries show the image. But under your theme I can’t seem to get it to work. Only text is viewable.
This is surely a simple fix. I just can’t wrap my brain around it. Help?
3:46 pm
@Manda: do you have permissions set on your photos? I’m seeing placeholder Flickr images and when I click them it says they’re protected.
6:19 pm
What a BEAUTIFUL theme! My favorite colors! Just in time too, because I haven’t blogged for a year (used to be an avid blogger for 4 years) and I’m going to be blogging again.
9:27 am
Great site. Interesting content. I love what you doing. Thanks for sharing. I will bookmark it. will back again later.
2:18 pm
I’ve been looking for a darker theme for another project and this fits the bill. Thanks!
11:00 am
nice theme…i will try it
Good job man!
4:20 pm
I love this theme and really want to use it, but I’m having a little problem with it. I wanted the full post of the newest one to appear, so I changed “the_excerpt” to “the_content” in the index file as suggested. Works great, except I also have photos in my posts so it is really throwing things off. Instead of my previous posts appearing UNDER the picture, they are appearing along side of them.
For example, see: http://carneymi.net
I’ve tried playing with settings in the loop and in the index, but nothing seems to work. If ANYONE can help me, it would be greatly appreciated. I’m pretty new at this so I dont know what I might be missing.
5:20 pm
Great Theme, beyond perfect…
1:11 am
Man you do know how to make awesome theme
9:09 am
Gorgeous work, I love how it looks and works without getting too crowded very nice plugin
9:16 am
@`o-o` I have the latest version running, with Lightbox 2 and I got no issues whatsoever. Maybe you need to check out the permissions of the JS folder, and each of the Javascript files in there. Should be executable.
9:18 am
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).
12:20 am
What an absolutely beautiful theme! I am very proud to have this on my blog. I am really liking this lifestream feature!
Great job, and thank you for your amazing contribution to the community.
-alextate
2:29 am
The facebook feed stopped working, which was working fine, suddenly stopped working. I wonder if Facebook changed the format of the Status RSS feed.
12:54 pm
This theme looks great! Great design.
There are particular things I like about it – the pagination and drop downs are my personal favorites.
Nice work.
9:55 am
Great theme, and thanks for the psd sources. I’ll be customizing this as soon as a I get the chance.
Great stuff.
8:00 am
Any word on updating the theme to be fully compliant to WordPress’ 2.7 comment system (threaded, multi-paged etc.)?
7:34 pm
Why doesnt the theme contact form work ? I have it installed on gf’s site.
I have tried sending test messages over and over…and it’s not working. I saved the email adress on options page, as the documentation suggests. Help please.
7:37 pm
The contact form isnt working. I have saved the email adress and completion message. It does not work even if i have tried to send several test messages.
What am i missing ? help please!!!
2:29 pm
thank you for sharing. this is fantastic. i love it.
11:32 am
Great theme, and thanks for the psd sources. I’ll be customizing this as soon as a I get the chance
7:21 am
Zuperzupercool theme,
One problem for me though. I’d like to use hyperlinks in my post.
How can I do this.
Does anyone have a fix or work around for it, I would really like to do this.
Thaaaaanks in advance!
10:36 am
I really like the Lifestream module with carousel in this theme. Is it possible to use only that part of the theme. Similar like the plugin SimpleLife on which the lifestream is based?
That would be great!
6:21 pm
Hello Darren,
I try to run your Agregado theme on my local PC. I use XAMPP for that sake. Well, everything fine and smooth except that the lifestream shows nothing.
I it because i run it on XAMPP?
Thanks in advance for your answer.
12:16 pm
Lo, first of all thanks for this great theme.
I have one problem with this theme I want to put an image at the first entry of the blog but I don’t now how, plz help me, I want something like this:
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/3748/justlikethisqi6.jpg
Thanks!!!!
9:11 pm
Nice themes! Very simple and visually stimulating design. Thanks
5:00 am
is it compatible with wordpress 2.7?
Thanks
7:23 am
Nice theme–works in both browsers–thanks for sharing–Andy
12:01 pm
How do I make all the entries full entries?
11:43 pm
thanks man for the psd file its really handy, great jobo, keep up
5:01 pm
Each time i post an image, there is a small problem. The text floats on the left of the image, thus i have use tage to make the text go below the image.
Help please