PlainBox V1.0

26 12 2006

jb1

About This Theme:

( Please let me know about any mistakes in grammar . I’m not so good at English but I’ll try to fix them ) Plainbox Bata1.0 is mostly K2, just with some minor design tweaks here and there. This is my Second times making a wp theme . I am not a programmer, so, maybe I’ve got many mistakes in this theme, If anybody found a mistakes , please tell me and i will try my best to fix them.

Download plainbox v1.0 :

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(last modified : 26Dec2006)

Screenshot :

**NOTE** This is not a style for k2, it is meant to be installed as a stand-alone theme. Requires WordPress 2.0 or higher.

Change Logs :

v1.0 (25/12/2006) : v1.0 release

Features :

Here’s a list of the major features K2/ Js Theme has to offer. Though for those who understand code, we recommend spending a little while to get to know the K2/ plainbox codebase, it has a few secrets here and there.

  • K2 Options Page: Write a blurp about yourself for the frontpage. Choose between traditional or livesearch. Set up the Delicious plugin without editing code. Create an archives page which employs the LiveArchives plugin. Select from dropdown between custom CSS files. This is what the options page does.
  • Livesearch: K2/ plainbox comes bundled with an AJAX-powered livesearch solution which works out of the box. No setting up, no code editing, it just works.
  • Live Commenting: AJAX-powered commenting; smooth, sexy, cyber. The technology of yester-year right here and now!
  • Plugin Support: K2/plainbox has code in place for supporting a wide range of useful plugins. All you have to do is upload and activate the plugins you want to use (pick from the list below).
  • Page Menu’s: Ehm… menu’s.
  • Page Templates: If you want to have comments on a static page or set up a nice archives page, it’s a little bit easier with plainbox ’s page templates.
  • Author Comments Highlighted: What it says. The author of an entry has his comments highlighted.
  • Content Style:

    class=“blue”

    class=“yellow”

    class=“pink”

    class=“light”

    class=“dark”

How To setup:

How To setup How to Plainbox your blog by /dev ( Thanks:) )




  1. Gravatar Icon 1 Rubs26 Dec 2006

    I would love to test your design…but the download link doesn’t works! XD
    I guess I’ve been just too fast that you haven’t uploaded it yet! hehe

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 Stefan Lucut26 Dec 2006

    but teh download zip file is missing :(

  3. Gravatar Icon 3 matilda26 Dec 2006

    Download link doesn’t work?

  4. Gravatar Icon 4 XYU26 Dec 2006

    Wonderful!! 不过下载似乎有问题,我只能下载到一个13kb大小的zip文件,请检查一下:p

  5. Gravatar Icon 5 Anshul26 Dec 2006

    brilliant theme.

  6. Gravatar Icon 6 Jay Kwong26 Dec 2006

    Oh, sorry, I’ve upload it again:$

  7. Gravatar Icon 7 Billy Hindson26 Dec 2006

    Awesome theme. Thank you so much. :)

  8. Gravatar Icon 8 blogunion26 Dec 2006

    好漂亮的模版!

  9. Gravatar Icon 9 blogunion26 Dec 2006

    呵呵,里面的桌面壁纸也很漂亮,多谢垃:)

  10. Gravatar Icon 10 turbohead27 Dec 2006

    等了好久终于发布了~非常感谢

  11. Gravatar Icon 11 tom28 Dec 2006

    hello, thx for sharing this wonderful theme with us. it took a lot of time i think, especially the tutorial in english, you made it well

    those days past christmas i have minor problem to reach your place here. it took a very long loading time, more then 300s until your page has been up and shown. i lost some speed i think, probably the routing to you sucks badly at the moment.

    but, i am glad to play around a lot tonight, awesome work - for me the best theme this year

  12. Gravatar Icon 12 Oo29 Dec 2006

    Hi Jay,

    Very good job for this theme ! :) Very glad to work on it. As i have said, i will provide as soon as possible the french version via pot files.

    Also, it seems that the theme is not fully valid HTML. Have you planned to have it valid ?

    Please advice !

    Oo ;)

  13. Gravatar Icon 13 Leif30 Dec 2006

    Awesome theme. Thank you so much (y)

  14. Gravatar Icon 14 Evan02 Jan 2007

    新年快樂(f)等左好耐啦(a)Joy的東東都是精品(l)
    多謝Jay的分享(g)
    2007年繼續加油哦!

  15. Gravatar Icon 15 Phoebus Osuns04 Jan 2007

    Amazing! But a bit complicated for me as I like simple designs! Anyway, thanks for your contributions to the community!

  16. Gravatar Icon 16 CK06 Jan 2007

    It’s good to see this finally released. I’ve updated my plugins, yet I’m still having a few problems.

    If you take a look at the main page, I’ll take you through them: http://www.dialectic.org.uk/ck

    1) What files do I edit in order to shorten or lengthen the number of ‘Recent Posts’ and ‘Popular Posts’ shown in the sidebar?
    2) The ‘Links’ section in the header takes me to a page that no longer lists them.
    3) Nothing shows up in the ‘Sidenotes’ section. I have set Wordpress to ‘Inline’ Asides, and added a category, yet the posts in that asides category aren’t showing. Does it have to be a category named ‘Asides’, as mine is labelled ‘Quick Thoughts’?
    4) The ‘Blogroll’ shows a similar problem to ‘Links’; The Blogroll that is showed is displaying only 3 of about 15 links that should be there.

    Other than those four things, everything’s working very nicely.
    Any ideas on how to fix these issues?

    Regards,
    Craig

  17. Gravatar Icon 17 leif08 Jan 2007

    CK

    1. You have to edit the file: themes/plainbox/addon/recent.php
    Edit the number in the last line.

    3. You have to edit the file: themes/plainbox/addon/sidnote.php
    Edit the name of the category .

    I have one qestion: How do you set the Wordpress to ‘Inline’ Asides?

  18. Gravatar Icon 18 eben09 Jan 2007

    这里有点问题,可能rollingarchive.php有点问题.
    我的文章数量如果超过一页的话会一直loading,older 和 newer也不起作用.
    而用你之前的主题是没问题的-_-
    这是为啥呢?不清楚鸟~~~希望解答一下.
    另外,我担心是插件冲突,所以已经关掉了所有插件,可是还是没作用~

  19. Gravatar Icon 19 John Rays11 Jan 2007

    Thanks heaps.
    A great theme.
    -JR

  20. Gravatar Icon 20 痞子新13 Jan 2007

    偶尔发现的theme,惊艳:)
    准备使用,感谢你的辛苦劳动 ^_^

  21. Gravatar Icon 21 Sucharith16 Jan 2007

    Recent Listening : Edit “subcontent_a.php” ine 14 “get_links(14, ‘’, ‘’, ‘’, true, ‘_id’, false, false, 9, false)” 14 to your link Categories id

    Where do i find this.?

  22. Gravatar Icon 22 Jay Kwong17 Jan 2007

    Dear All, Sorry as I was very busy last month, so I’ haven’t time to reply you guy ‘s question.

    Hi Jay,

    Very good job for this theme ! :) Very glad to work on it. As i have said, i will provide as soon as possible the french version via pot files.

    Also, it seems that the theme is not fully valid HTML. Have you planned to have it valid ?

    Please advice !

    Oo ;)

    Um…I’ll try to make it fully valid HTML. Thank You.

    1) What files do I edit in order to shorten or lengthen the number of ‘Recent Posts’ and ‘Popular Posts’ shown in the sidebar?
    2) The ‘Links’ section in the header takes me to a page that no longer lists them.
    3) Nothing shows up in the ‘Sidenotes’ section. I have set Wordpress to ‘Inline’ Asides, and added a category, yet the posts in that asides category aren’t showing. Does it have to be a category named ‘Asides’, as mine is labelled ‘Quick Thoughts’?
    4) The ‘Blogroll’ shows a similar problem to ‘Links’; The Blogroll that is showed is displaying only 3 of about 15 links that should be there.

    1 - You have to edit : plainbox/addon/popular.php and recent.php
    2 - not understand
    3 - Need to name a Categories : Notes
    4 - ???

  23. Gravatar Icon 23 Jay Kwong17 Jan 2007

    CK

    1. You have to edit the file: themes/plainbox/addon/recent.php
    Edit the number in the last line.

    3. You have to edit the file: themes/plainbox/addon/sidnote.php
    Edit the name of the category .

    I have one qestion: How do you set the Wordpress to ‘Inline’ Asides?

    Thank You very much Leif, sorry, no inline asides…

    这里有点问题,可能rollingarchive.php有点问题.
    我的文章数量如果超过一页的话会一直loading,older 和 newer也不起作用.
    而用你之前的主题是没问题的-_-
    这是为啥呢?不清楚鸟~~~希望解答一下.
    另外,我担心是插件冲突,所以已经关掉了所有插件,可是还是没作用~

    我沒有這個問題呀, sorry呀, 我不太清楚…:$

    Recent Listening : Edit “subcontent_a.php” ine 14 “get_links(14, ‘’, ‘’, ‘’, true, ‘_id’, false, false, 9, false)” 14 to your link Categories id

    Where do i find this.?

    Sorry , this is not up date…

  24. Gravatar Icon 24 音符18 Jan 2007

    (y)嘩,係正嘢喎,好典雅嘅一個theme,仲要係自己友寫。所以為表鼓勵,我自己的blog都用咗你個theme喇!哈哈:p
    係一個好theme,繼續努力。
    有咩要幫手就出聲,哈。支持!

  25. Gravatar Icon 25 ~TheAngel~19 Jan 2007

    I luv this!

  26. Gravatar Icon 26 Xodus25 Jan 2007

    Very nice theme you’ve made. I had a question on how to set up the links the way you have. For one I’m using favicache plugin anf i cna get both the favicon and the name of the link to show up at the same time. And second when I go to my blogroll on the bottom only one link shows up. I know it’s something really simple. can someone please give me a kick in the right direction..thanks.

  27. Gravatar Icon 27 Xodus04 Feb 2007

    Really All I want is to be able to have both the tittle of the link and the image to show up next to each other. For some reason I can only get one or the other to display but not both together. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks.

  28. Gravatar Icon 28 Christina09 Feb 2007

    This is a great theme! Thanks for sharing it! I’ve just started using it on my blog and have finally gotten things working somewhat smoothly. So far, there are really only two things that have me stumped:

    1.) Noteworthy Posts - I have the plugin installed, have a category called Noteworthy, have edited Noteworthy.php so that the code includes the correct category #, but still, my Noteworthy Posts don’t show up in the sidebar.

    2.) Comments Tab - The Comments Tab at the bottom of my mainpage is working, but it’s a little messy - the link hovers mess things up.

    Do you have any suggestions?

    Thanks for your time and the lovely theme!

  29. Gravatar Icon 29 Maiev12 Feb 2007

    Hi Jay

    Your theme ho good :) Really appreciate for sharing ^^;
    But yaou 1 problem, I upgrade jor WP to 2.1 and ng g why on IE7, the background is all black. I try delete the theme and upload again, doh still have problem. I was wondering if its an IE7 bug ^^; Thank q sai~

  30. Gravatar Icon 30 Mutant13 Feb 2007

    Very nice Theme, but how do I get the “Blogroll”-Entrys into my Sidebar? I have 2 Entrys, but they are shown(?) nowhere.
    My second question: How can I delete the “Flickr- LastFM” thing out of the page?
    Third question: Where can I edit the link to “Enjoing”-”sidenotes”-”comments”-”blogroll” so that it links to anything?
    Many thanks, Mutant

  31. Gravatar Icon 31 mariagrace22 Feb 2007

    Great design, Jay! I’m really enjoying this template. :)

    A few questions if you have the time:

    (1) On your JS.blog, how did you get the “About me” / “Recent Works” / and “ToDo List” in three columns? In my blog, they are listing as entire rows instead of in three columns.

    (2) I am sure this is probably really easy, but how do you start a “ToDo List”? Is this another plug-in?

    (3) How do I get the “guest book” to be besides “Recent Comments” in the Comments sub-content? Nothing is showing up for me.

    I am sure I will have more questions, but for now I would appreciate any help on this, thank you!

  32. Gravatar Icon 32 mariagrace22 Feb 2007

    @Mutant

    I’m not Jay, but I think I can help you out with this one. I just figured it out and am pretty proud of myself. :)

    Third question: Where can I edit the link to “Enjoing”-”sidenotes”-”comments”-”blogroll” so that it links to anything?
    Many thanks, Mutant

    In the main folder for [plainbox], look for the SUB-CONTENT.PHP file. If you explore it a little, you can see that the .php files listed in the Sub-Content.php file references the various other .php files in the in the ADDONS folder (also in the main Plainbox directory). So basically if you copy the reference within the .php file and paste another ADDON .php file to that, then you’ll see the contents at the bottom of your mainpage change, too.

    Does this make sense?

    So open the Sub-Content.php file and really start reading the code and you’ll see what you need to make your changes.

    **Also, I think exploring the ADD-ONS folder with all the various .php files will help you with your question about deleting the Flickr/last.fm thing out of the page. All you may need to do is go into the Sub-Content.php file and just delete the references for that tab and replace it with something else.

    Hope this helps!

  33. Gravatar Icon 33 28 Feb 2007

    請問我碰到這個問題,點選 Categories 的資料夾會出現錯誤,我該怎麼做呢?

    WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘GROUP BY year(post_date), month(post_date), dayofmonth(post_date)’ at line 1]
    SELECT DISTINCT post_date FROM wp_posts LEFT JOIN wp_post2cat ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_post2cat.post_id) WHERE 1=1 AND category_id IN (3) AND (post_type = ‘post’ AND (post_status = ‘publish’ OR post_status = ‘private’)) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID GROUP BY year(post_date), month(post_date), dayofmonth(post_date)

    這真是個很棒的 Theme

  34. Gravatar Icon 34 Juan Manuel21 Mar 2007

    Hi Jay, first of all thanks for making such a nice theme for WP, I’ve looking for a good one for weeks, and now (finally) found yours.

    My questions are:

    1) HOW TO use the Enyoing / Sidenotes / Comments / Blogroll stuff at the bottom of the blog. I mean, I could set up the “Enjoying” but then nothing apperars in the other three. And, If I want to add one, how do I do it?

    2) How do I configure the flickrRSS thing. It seems it’s resizing the pics by HTML (my english sucks, sorry)… I mean, It´s like the pic is 100×100 and the HTML says 70×70 so it looks pretty awful.

    3) My blogroll is empty.

    Many Thanks!

  35. Gravatar Icon 35 Eric Taylor21 Mar 2007

    What plugin are you using for your photo gallery? Is plainbox made ready for the plugin?

  36. Gravatar Icon 36 Jose22 Mar 2007

    This is awesome. Thank you for these. I have to set up a personal professional portfolio for my Pharmacy Doctoracte program and I will use these theme. It is really incredible. Thank you so much.

    Jose

  37. Gravatar Icon 37 xxxl23 Mar 2007

    感谢你做的皮肤。我很喜欢。由衷的佩服。

  38. Gravatar Icon 38 Juan Manuel23 Mar 2007

    And, I forgot to tell you, get_links replaced wp_list_bookmarks in WP 2.1

  39. Gravatar Icon 39 Lindsey26 Mar 2007

    Gosh, a lot of missing. The images.. The header images are missing. :s

  40. Gravatar Icon 40 Christian A. Dalsvaag30 Mar 2007

    Hi Jay, first of all thanks for making such a nice theme for WP, I’ve looking for a good one for weeks, and now (finally) found yours.

    My questions are:

    1) HOW TO use the Enyoing / Sidenotes / Comments / Blogroll stuff at the bottom of the blog. I mean, I could set up the “Enjoying” but then nothing apperars in the other three. And, If I want to add one, how do I do it?

    2) How do I configure the flickrRSS thing. It seems it’s resizing the pics by HTML (my english sucks, sorry)… I mean, It´s like the pic is 100×100 and the HTML says 70×70 so it looks pretty awful.

    3) My blogroll is empty.

    Many Thanks!

    1) If you want to add another one: /theme/plainbox/sub-content.php — Just change the “display: none” to “display: block” or remove the whole string.

    2) I don’t exactly know what you mean; but I had a similar problem. What I did is: went to Options -> flickrRss (in the sub-menu), then into the Before/After edit-boxes i wrote and in the after.

    3) Your blogroll is empty because you haven’t set the categories property yet (I’m guessing). Go to Manage -> Comments; select all the boxes, make a new category called “Blogroll” and make sure to move all your links into this Category.

    Hope this works out for you.

  41. Gravatar Icon 41 Christian A. Dalsvaag31 Mar 2007

    Hi, all! I’ve noticed there’s been alot of fuzz around the problems people may stumble upon. I took the time to make a short, yet explaining tutorial on how to fix some of the problems that might occur. in my blog. Thanks for such a nice theme, Jay.

  42. Gravatar Icon 42 cabeen02 Apr 2007

    切换回K2这个皮会出错。。

  43. Gravatar Icon 43 Alessandro04 Apr 2007

    Thx for this awesome theme, i’ve suggested it to all of my friends!

    Even if i’m almost a newbee the customization has been very simple so far, though, i’ve encountered a problem: may sound stupid, but my sidebar shows just the “Recent Posts” category. I can’t manage to add the other voices listed above! :(

    I’ve installed the requested plugins and activated them, then tried to install the code manually into the sidebar.. but i guess this wasn’t really the meant way, as the stylesheet doesn’t apply..

    Help’d be really, really appreciated!

  44. Gravatar Icon 44 Math15 Apr 2007

    The Best Wodpress Theme! :D (f), Thanks for it! ;)

  45. Gravatar Icon 45 dpms18 Apr 2007

    The Best Wodpress Theme! :D (f), Thanks for it! ;)

    Yes!

  46. Gravatar Icon 46 sunbo30 Apr 2007

    很好看,我下载了去调试下

    thanks very much~

  47. Gravatar Icon 47 cary01 May 2007

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_cat_posts() in D:\onlyhost\icary_cn\web\blog\wp-content\themes\J2bata\sidebar.php on line 96
    请问以下,这个错误怎么修正,还有,这个主题链接这些都没有了

  48. Gravatar Icon 48 cary03 May 2007

    为什么look for something,这个栏目下的东西都无法显示呢?急,希望您给与回复,谢谢

  49. Gravatar Icon 49 Nicole06 May 2007

    What layout are you using right now? I love it! Its so pretty! :)

  50. Gravatar Icon 50 Sol15 May 2007

    great!~:)

  51. Gravatar Icon 51 fdsfy20 May 2007

    hao!

  52. Gravatar Icon 52 yokomal29 Jun 2007

    nice work
    thx

  53. Gravatar Icon 53 akakumo03 Jul 2007

    it’s so wonderful you’ve got me to get off my lazy ass and start learning how to implement it as my blog!

    Great stuff!

  54. Gravatar Icon 54 Kelly23 Aug 2007

    Lovely theme!!! Now this is in my collection! :p THANKS JAY!

  55. Gravatar Icon 55 Wind24 Aug 2007

    Great Job! I love it and downloaded!
    But the connection is a bit slow from Malaysia. :(

  56. Gravatar Icon 56 Cristian O. Balan12 Sep 2007

    I have the same problem with fresh WP 2.2.3. Someone can help? Thanks…

    請問我碰到這個問題,點選 Categories 的資料夾會出現錯誤,我該怎麼做呢?

    WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘GROUP BY year(post_date), month(post_date), dayofmonth(post_date)’ at line 1]
    SELECT DISTINCT post_date FROM wp_posts LEFT JOIN wp_post2cat ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_post2cat.post_id) WHERE 1=1 AND category_id IN (3) AND (post_type = ‘post’ AND (post_status = ‘publish’ OR post_status = ‘private’)) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID GROUP BY year(post_date), month(post_date), dayofmonth(post_date)

    這真是個很棒的 Theme

  57. Gravatar Icon 57 Ace19 Sep 2007

    Wow man thats a really awsome theme, i really like it!!!!
    Really professional yet simple . Just what i like.

    Regards,
    Ace.

  58. Gravatar Icon 58 iacopo20 Sep 2007

    I got this problem too

    WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘GROUP BY year(post_date), month(post_date), dayofmonth(post_date)’ at line 1]
    SELECT DISTINCT post_date FROM GROUP BY year(post_date), month(post_date), dayofmonth(post_date)

    my wp version is the very latest!

    anyway grat work!

    p.s. and the image themes/plainbox/plainbox/images/bg_a.gif is missing

  59. Gravatar Icon 59 rZeta07 Nov 2007

    Any plans to make it work with the latest Wordpress? Come on Jay, this is such a GREAT theme!!! ;)
    BTW, thanks you for doing it

    :)

  60. Gravatar Icon 60 liezmaya20 Nov 2007

    u have great templates, i luv it…Thanks:p

  61. Gravatar Icon 61 ShowCast21 Dec 2007

    This mad! Your template is a irritating as it beautiful – thank you for this!

  62. Gravatar Icon 62 Prostoi09 Jan 2008

    […] PlainBox V1.0 [ Preview […]

    Cool theme!!! :)

  63. Gravatar Icon 63 Veronica09 Jan 2008

    Jay, please please please please please update this theme for it to work with the latest version of wordpress and k2? I love this theme to bits but it’s driving me crazy!

  64. Gravatar Icon 64 Nuno Coelho18 Jan 2008

    […] PlainBox V1.0 [ Preview […]

    Jay, please please please please please update this theme for it to work with the latest version of wordpress and k2? I love this theme to bits but it’s driving me crazy!

    Sama here… its my favourite one but it seems like its abandoned :(
    and now it seems ill be forced do change for a new one:'(

  65. Gravatar Icon 65 ken25 Mar 2008

    […] PlainBox V1.0 [ Preview […]

    Hi Jay,

    Love your skin. There seem to be a file missing called “plainbox/images/headers” Any chance you can look into and re-link the file for download. Appreciate the contribution you give to wordpress community.

    Thanks,

    ken