Today, we are glad to release a Free Minimalist WordPress Theme designed by Brendon Grobler and eFrog Themes for Onextrapixel and its readers. Aqualine is a unique and minimalist WordPress theme, that you can easily make customization to suit your needs. It is packed with an extensive options page – easily customise your theme without touching any code: Pick your own colour accent, choose a thumbnail with excerpts layout, or display your full posts, amongst many other built in options.
About the Design
Simplicity was the key idea behind the theme - Minimalism with an added visual punch of whatever colour you choose. Ideal as a blog or portfolio site, the goal was to create a beautiful minimalist theme that combines simplicity with a little abstract visual flair.
Posts Listing
Single post
Comment Section
Widgetized Footer
Options Page in the WordPress Backend
Theme Features Include:
- Widget ready – 2 widgetized areas in the footer
- Automatic thumbnail generation
- Customizable jQuery navigation – choose which categories & pages are displayed
- Social bookmarking for your posts (can be disabled in the options panel)
- Easily insert your Google analytics and RSS feeds
- Choose your colour and upload your own favicon
- Twitter & Flickr streams
- Display your various social media profiles
- Threaded comments
- Custom pagination
- Cross browser compatible – Tested in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, IE 8, IE 7, even IE6 (with a few minor quirks)
- Work on WordPress 2.7 and above
Download the Theme for Free
This WordPress theme is released under GPL. You are free to use it for any of your projects without any restrictions. You may modify the theme as you wish. Please help us spread the word by linking back to this original article.
- Live Demo
- Large Preview (Main Site)
- Large Preview (Single Page)
- Download (.zip 111KBs)
We offer our sincere thanks to Brendon Grobler and eFrog Themes for creating this Free WordPress theme.
Our freebies are especially for our readers and the design community at Onextrapixel. If you'd like to release any Free WordPress theme to others, feel free to contact us and we will be more than happy to assist you with that.
I really like this theme, its very clean and sharp! I will retweet this on all my twitter accounts:)
Really awesome theme!
Cool. I like it :) Thx onextrapixel :)
Thanks for beautiful theme. Love it
Thanks for the nice theme. I like minimalist themes, and bookmarked that!
Rad! I hope everyone enjoys the theme :)
Really like it guys, great work! Really really clean too :)
Cheers,
James
Awesome theme, but make me feel like the site isn't fully loaded or like error on my browser because the margin between post header and little bit messy typo..
Nice set themes..impressed...thanks for share
Very nice, I particularly like how clean the design is. Makes room for modifications.
it'a a pretty cool theme. thanks for sharing.
wow.... i love it... but its a shame that i couldn´t use it =/ too bad
A stylish theme :) Thanks for sharing.
I like theme very creative.
Great theme guys - UberClean and I like the fact that it has been made easy to customize & has its own Options Page . Great job !
Great theme. I'm trying to use it for my blog but I keep getting an error in the footer.
"Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /homepages/13/d202551683/htdocs/wp-content/themes/aqualine/footer.php on line 58"
Is there something that I'm missing or doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Hi Matt,
It would appear that line 58 references a Twitter related function - What comes to mind immediately is whether you've set up your Twitter account correctly?
I hope that helps..
this is JUST what I've been looking for. I need to redo my pfolio site, don't code for the life of me, and wanted a site that I could maintain and update easily. All I have to do now is figure out how to use it... @-) Thank you for this generous and quality template!
More awesome work from The Forge. Those guys rock!
That means a great deal coming from you Matt. Thanks man.
Ye, really awesome work Brendon!
Really Neat Theme. Love the Minimal apporach
Very good theme. I love it :)
If anyone has installed the theme and is using it, please do drop a link here for us to see :)
Thanks for the theme, it fit perfectly with what I had in mind and saved me a ton of development time. I am using a modified version on my site PulpToPixels.com.
I also want to thank Brendon for writing clean and straight forward code so I didn't have to waste hours deciphering what was going on.
Thanks for sharing Jeff.
Ye, Brendon's code is incredibly neat :)
do we have a fix for the twitter feed at the footer for wordpress 3.0? cause it doesn't work for me :(
nevermind, i got it working now, nothing wrong with your script. just some disabled functions on my host's php.
Glad you came right Jeffrey :)
Hi, this theme is awesome, but I'm having a problem... in your screenshots the "posts listing" has an image that sits right under the posted date. When I insert an image into the post, it's only there at the single-post page and not on the post listing.
Am I missing something? Is there a specific way to upload a photo?
I just realized I probably wasn't specific enough.
Here's what I did:
- I turned on Show Thumbnail under Aqualine's Post Settings.
- I tried to insert a thumbnail into my post.
- I get a black rectangle in my post listing.
- I tried inserting the image in different ways.
- I get a black rectangle.
When I view the source, there's no src for any image. I have an enclosed div tag for "thumb-show", and a link to the post, but nothing that refers to any image.
If you can give me any pointers, they'd be much appreciated! Thanks.
I'm having the same problem as Terry. Any suggestions for fixes?
Hey guys.
Sorry you are having problems. I'm 99% sure that the problems you are having are related to the script called timthumb which generates the cropped images.
Try making sure that the scripts and cache folder are writable. You can either try ’777′ writable or ’755′ writable. If the script can't write to the cache folder the images wont be generated.
Thanks, Terry. Will do!
@Opal - Please let us know if you come right..16
Ah ha. Found something which might be causing a problem with some setups.
If the permissions change doesn't work, open up the file functions.php in the theme folder, go to line 211 and find the code starting with
//Get the First Image
Paste the following code over the snippet that follows:
function catch_that_image() {global $post, $posts;
$first_img = '';
$url = get_bloginfo('url');
ob_start();
ob_end_clean();
$output = preg_match_all('/<img.+src=[\'"]([^\'"]+)[\'"].*>/i', $post->post_content, $matches);
$first_img = $matches [1] [0];
//$not_broken = @fopen("$first_img","r"); // checks if the image existsif(empty($first_img)){ //Defines a default image
unset($first_img);
} else {
$first_img = str_replace($url, '', $first_img);
}
return $first_img;
}
Can you post the link for the part 1 of this article?
There was no part 1, spammer ;)
Wow, what a lovely, clean theme!
If for whatever reason I was unable to download this template, could someone offer maybe just the code itself?
Just a thought. Thanks! :)
@Amanda - Thank you for the kind words. What exactly do you mean by just the code?
I am using it
On what site Zak?
I would love to use this.
However, I am totally new at this. I just made my wordpress account today and started with a free theme. Worked on it all day but it's crap (doesnt embed video on the frontpage).
I'm very sorry but can some-one tell me how to switch from my template to this one !? I'm using the free structure-theme.
Thank you so much!
Grtz Casper
Thanks for sharing this great theme.
Cool minimal WordPress themes. Thanks for such a nice share
wicked theme! :P
Cool Theme... !