Rob Goodlatte

I’ve designed a new theme for WordPress called Abstractia. You can check it out in action through a sample blog I’ve set up here.

The design a simple two-column layout with header and footer focusing on color choice and type. It’s name and design borrow from an older personal project of mine. It’s free to download, share, and use under a Creative Commons license. Let me know what you think of the theme, if you find any bugs, and if you plan on using it. I’ll be submitting it to the WordPress Theme Viewer in a few days when I’m confident all the bugs are out. Read on for download links to the theme file and the .psd design.

Licensing: The Abstractia theme and design are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. This means you can do anything with the theme or the design as long as it is attributed to me, preferably through a simple link.

1. Bryan Veloso February 24th at 7:59 am

   Awesome theme Rob and glad to see that my archives aren’t all about leeching. ;P

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4. Patrick February 26th at 10:36 am

   Thanks for your theme

5. René C. Kiesler March 2nd at 12:12 pm

   Hi Rob, nice theme you got here! Do you consider porting it to phpWebSite? If so, I would feature it on http://themes.kiesler.at/ . phpWebSite uses a rather flexible templating concept which is not too far from CSS / HTML but has some nice goodies.

   I also got a phpWebSite theme creator forum on http://themes.kiesler.at/, so if you’d need support…

   Best Regards,

   René

6. March 2nd at 4:36 pm

   René,

   Unfortunately I barely have the time to get Abstractia running on WordPress, let alone other templating/blogging platforms. It’s licensed under a very loose Creative Commons license, so it’s available for others to port it to whichever platform you’d like. I’ll continue to update and support Abstractia on WordPress, but I don’t have the time to code for other platforms.

7. Ektz March 3rd at 2:49 pm

   If you don’t mind, i’ll upload the abstractia theme on wordpress theme viewer.

   Ekta.

8. March 4th at 2:08 am

   Ektz, that would be awesome. A lot of people have been having problems getting permission to upload. Please go ahead and add it to the theme viewer.

9. René C. Kiesler March 6th at 2:09 am

   Rob,

   thanks for the open license. I’ll ask around in the phpWebSite community, maybe I can find someone who would like to port it. Attribution should be no problem at all, it’s your work after all.

   Best Regards,

   René

10. blackhat March 10th at 2:02 pm

    hello my friend, please this bug –> title post, with VISUAL EDITOR, like chenpress, http://www.gworldfamily.com/t1/error.jpg please fix this ..i love this theme =) thanks n_n

11. March 13th at 8:47 pm

    Blackhat,

    That bug is likely because one or more of your posts has open HTML tags - probably an open div. I’ll look up chenpress and see if there is any kind of conflict with my theme, but more than likely the problem is an open tag.

    There is one rendering error that occurs when the right menu is very long and the page is not very tall, but your error is probably caused by some bad code in one of your posts.

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13. John March 16th at 12:43 pm

    Hi Rob,
    There is a bug if post is shorter than the sidebar.
    I can’t see my whole sidebar when searching.

    Bug page

14. March 16th at 3:30 pm

    John,
    Thanks for letting me know. I just updated the theme to fix that bug. Redownload it from the link above and let me know if it works for you.

15. Sebastian March 17th at 1:11 am

    I’ve listed your theme as a ‘Best Loved’ Wordpress theme on ‘Best Blog Themes’!

    Let me know if you want to post a shout out on the page =)

16. John March 17th at 9:56 am

    Rob,
    I can’t figure out why right sidebar is inactive. ㅜㅜ
    Did you fix the position of get sidebar and attribute of float?
    Thank you for your quick remedy.

17. John March 20th at 5:03 am

    Rob,
    I can’t figure out why comment popup link doesn’t work well.
    It won’t go to comment section, just related post.
    How to fix it?

18. March 20th at 10:06 am

    John, I fixed the right sidebar bug. I think I know what’s causing the comment link to not skip down to the comments - I’ll fix that and roll out an update this afternoon. Update: I fixed the comment link bug.

19. John March 20th at 7:39 pm

    Rob,
    Can you tell me the fixed files?
    I changed a bit index, single, sidebar, search, archive file so I want to change specific files.
    Thanks if you let me know.

20. Porky May 15th at 5:23 pm

    Kudos on the fantastic theme! This may be my favorite since I stopped using Regulus a year ago.

21. Rob Glazebrook July 24th at 1:03 pm

    This is a beautiful theme, Rob. Have you considered updating it to work with Wordpress’ sidebar widgets? I only tried widgets out just yesterday, but frankly, I’m a fan. Automattic has a good writeup on the process here.

22. jesse July 30th at 11:54 am

    Rob, when I do a search on the demo page, the sidebar is shoved way down the page.. any way of fixing this?

23. Barry August 5th at 6:55 pm

    Absolutely gorgeous theme. And it would be my favorite…BUT, I can’t use it. Need it to be widget friendly. But look out world…if you ever get it to see those wascally widgets…you’ll have to pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

    Anyway, thanks for your efforts. In a world of color blind and no taste designers, you’re a breath of fresh air.

    Barry

    http://adwriter.org/TheWritersLife

24. Chris Hutcheson August 6th at 3:33 pm

    Wonderful template - lovely to look at. Widget capability would be a great enhancement.

    Thanks for creating this!

    Chris

25. Keith Ellis August 21st at 3:42 pm

    Rob,

    The theme looks great but I might have found a bug on the search result template. The body of the sidebar is being nudged below the search results….have at it :)

    http://abstractia.robgoodlatte.com/?s=lorem&x=0&y=0

    Keith

26. Keely August 26th at 8:28 pm

    Hi, I like the design: but it isn’t widget ready, and when I added code to make it widget ready - in sidebar.php . . from http://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/

    which is . . .

    and created a functions.php file, I got this error:

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/worthd/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/abstractia/sidebar.php on line 32

    Any ideas?

    Thanks Rob

27. John Allen August 29th at 3:32 pm

    Rob,
    First I have to thank you for this great design!

    Is there a way to make the blog not be the default page. I have a main page I would like to use, but when I set wordpress to go there, I can no longer access the Blog.

    Ideas?

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29. Sergio October 5th at 6:54 pm

    my congratulations for the beautiful theme.

    Sergio

30. Norm October 8th at 7:41 am

    Hi, I absolutely love the theme, my only problem is that when I activate it I no longer have the ability to change the static page template , the drop down box disappears (basically, there’s a page on which I need to remove the sidebar). I’m using wordpress 2.3

    I understand you’re busy but any help would be greatly appreciated,
    thanks so much!!

31. Keith October 11th at 10:26 am

    Awesome theme! There seems to be a weird issue regarding plugins that add links to the bottom of a post. I was using obsocialbookmarker with my old theme (WP 2.0.5) and it still worked after I upgraded to WP 2.3. When I switch to Abstractia, the links show up, the markup looks correct, but the links don’t function. The links act like they are disabled. Bookmarks work with pages and posts that are accessed if you go through an archive link first (strange as it may seem).

    Any ideas? TIA…

32. Keith October 14th at 2:26 pm

    Somethings I solved on my own:

    1. Search results and sidebar misaligned: in search.php, move from the bottom of the template to the top just below . The search page will now display correctly, without the sidebar being shoved to the bottom.

    2. ‘Disabled’ bookmarking links were due to the subpostmeta css class using the full width of the post area and a default z-order that put that element over the links causing them to behave as if they were disabled. I added the following change to the layout css:

    .subpostmeta {
    width: 405px;
    }

    There was a bit more to this such as floating my bookmark links to the right and the subpostmeta to the left. The width prevented the element overlap which was causing the problem.

    Cheers!

33. Dave November 24th at 12:04 pm

    Hi…
    I am new to blogging. I have a WordPress page and a hosting service.
    I would like to use your “ABSTRACTIA” theme. I tried once to download a theme but there were no instructions as to what to do once I got it downloaded. I will try your directions. How do I “upload the unzipped folder into your wp-content/themes folder and activate the theme in your WordPress control panel?”
    I appreciate your assistance. It’s a great theme.
    Thanks,
    Dave

34. Phanta January 1st at 9:47 pm

    Hello,
    thanks for the theme. I’m using it on my site.

    Subcategories don’t seem to be working. It doesn’t display parent categories (mine are all empty, I want to use them as headers).

    Is there an easy fix? Thanks!

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49. maruschka January 31st at 11:09 am

    Love the theme! Wanted to add a sidebar widget for login. I’m getting an error message from WP that the theme is not “widget aware” and though I’ve tried a little hacking, I can’t get the sidebar login widget to work.

    Any suggestions? I wanted users to be able to easily login.

    Thanks!

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    PERFECT WORDPRESS THEME!..

    THANKS A LOT.

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55. Spamboy March 23rd at 7:28 pm

    Rob, thanks for the theme also. I just utilized it on my own website at http://www.spamboy.com, and it really enhances the feel I am attempting to project. Keep up the wonderful design work.

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59. Otto Kar April 26th at 1:52 am

    Very, very nice theme. Thanks.

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    Thanks Rob. Check out what I’ve done with this theme at http://obsessionfitness.com

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66. angelo June 11th at 9:12 pm

    I’m a novice, any pointers on expanding the sidebar to include blogroll, and other like lists? This is an absolutely fine piece of work…thank you for sharing!

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