HemingwayEx

Ever since I first installed the Hemingway theme on my wordpress blog, I have been a big fan of it. I love tinkering with it and every now and then I keep adding something new or changing something here or there in the theme. I have finally decided to make my modifications available to others for download as well.

So, I introduce HemingwayEx, a simple extension of Hemingway theme for WordPress blogs. I have tried to keep the original essence of the Hemingway theme and added some new features and fixed some small issues. This theme comes with an options page and is widgetized.

HemingwayEx 1.7.1 has been tested with WP 3.0.

Features

Here are some of the main features of HemingwayEx:

  • Widgetized: This theme is best used with Widgets. Out-of-box, it works only with widgets. This version removes the support for Hemingway Blocks. To have the option of using Hemingway Blocks instead of widgets, please stick with v1.1. By setting an option in v1.1, you can select whether you want to use the original blocks system of Hemingway themes or use widget enabled sidebars.
  • Options Page: You can go to Presentation -> HemingwayEx Options and set various options that give you more control over how the theme works for you.
  • Font Size: I have had some people complain about the small size of the theme. Though I like it and I have kept it same, I have provided a simple javascript tool that can be used to increase/decrease the font size of the theme. It is located just below the search form.
  • User Styles: The theme allows user to easily modify the theme’s CSS to their liking. It also comes packaged with a few CSS themes.
  • Comments: IMHO, comments are handled in a very nice manner. I love the comment numbering and you can have them displayed in ascending / descending order. Also, support has been added for WordPress Gravatar API.
  • Updates Notification: You will get automatic update notification in HemingwayEx Options page when a new update is out.
  • Dynamic Slidebar: Just like the Hemingway Bottombar, I have added a HemingwayEx Slidebar that gets displayed when the user clicks on an ‘Open Navigation’ button.
  • XHTML validated
  • Post and Page Navigation: The single post pages display links to previous/next posts. Similarly, the homepage can be paginated.
  • Out-of-box support for some plugins

Screenshots

HemingwayEx

Click thumbnails below to view larger screenshots:

HemingwayEx HemingwayEx

Latest version: 1.7.1

Testing
I have tested the latest version of this theme with WordPress 3.0. I used Firefox (version 2x, 3x on Ubuntu/Windows/Mac OS X), IE (5/6/7 on Windows), Safari (Mac OS X) and Opera (Windows). It seems to be working fine.

Demo

You can see latest version of HemingwayEx in action here.

Download

Download HemingwayEx v1.7.1.

Installation

Installation is very simple. Just download the zip file and upload the ‘hemingwayEx’ folder to themes folder in your WordPress installation. Goto the Admin Menu -> Presentation -> Themes and select the theme.

Once installed, you can go into Presentation -> HemingwayEx Options and customize the theme further to your liking.

Upgrading

If you are upgrading, you will need to reset/uninstall the previous version of HemingwayEx first. If you don’t you might find the display mixed up. Here are the steps you should follow:

  1. Goto HemingwayEx Options page and note down you settings.
  2. Now upload the new files for HemingwayEx theme.
  3. Click reset button at the bottom of the HemingwayEx options page.
  4. Refresh the HemingwayEx Options page and set the options to what they were before. Also, set more options if new settings have been made available.

Donations

If you liked HemingwayEx and have found it helpful, consider supporting it. If nothing else, how about buying me a beer/coffee? :)

Disclaimer

Please note that even after spending quite some time on this theme, I have little experience with PHP. I mostly play around with it and learn as I code. I have been using this theme on my site for sometime now and I have not had any problems, but if some issue does come up, please don’t hold me responsible. I would like to know about the bugs that could be fixed and some other features that could be added, and I would work on it, time permitting.

  1. #1 by Nalin on September 2, 2008 - 11:59 pm

    Yo, I had missed “http://” in the link and hence the error. It has been fixed. Download works fine now.

  2. #2 by Yo Friki on September 3, 2008 - 12:38 am

    Yep, it does. I’ll give it a post on bloggeo.org right away!

  3. #3 by Ant1Xr1st on September 5, 2008 - 3:08 pm

    hey, good work =))
    will try to update & translate to russian

  4. #4 by Ant1Xr1st on September 6, 2008 - 1:10 pm

    hey, there is a littl—É bag with “wp-smiley” – all smiles are rounded by the white line. To fix it just add this code to css:
    img.wp-smiley {
    padding: 0px !important;
    border: 0px !important;
    background: #0C0C0C !important;
    }
    *#0C0C0C – your background color
    **sorry 4 my eng)

  5. #5 by lodzi on September 6, 2008 - 7:52 pm

    Great wp theme i ever found. thank you Nalin. this makes better interface with wp 2.6.1. hope you up in your creation! take alook http://www.aliansi-petani-indonesia.org

  6. #6 by lodzi on September 7, 2008 - 7:21 pm

    finally able to set up my hemingway header..but how to use image from own site url? my image url is photobucket.

  7. #7 by lodzi on September 7, 2008 - 11:50 pm

    i found this problem: position of image in post can not be shown properly as we manage. then i add this in the end of style css:

    .alignleft
    {
    float:left;
    margin:0 0.5em 0.5em 0;
    }
    .alignright
    {
    float:right;
    margin:0 0 0.5em 0.5em;
    }
    .aligncenter,
    div.aligncenter {
    display: block;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
    }

    then put also this caption

    .wp-caption {
    border: 1px solid #ddd;
    text-align: center;
    background-color: #f3f3f3;
    padding-top: 4px;
    margin: 10px;
    /* optional rounded corners for browsers that support it */
    -moz-border-radius: 3px;
    -khtml-border-radius: 3px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
    border-radius: 3px;
    }
    .wp-caption img {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    border: 0 none;
    }
    .wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
    font-size: 11px;
    line-height: 17px;
    padding: 0 4px 5px;
    margin: 0;
    }

    thats alkl and it works

  8. #8 by Rishi on September 23, 2008 - 1:58 pm

    Has anyone been able to successfully paginate the comments on HemingwayEx?

  9. #9 by baron on September 27, 2008 - 2:56 pm

    hi. Thanks for theme

    perfect.

    Regards

  10. #10 by Christian Winkler on October 18, 2008 - 11:40 am

    Los felicito muy buen tema =)

  11. #11 by babylone on October 23, 2008 - 7:10 am

    tr?®s beau th?®me que j’ai adapt?© en fran?ßais sur mon site:
    http://robin.babylone.free.fr/

  12. #12 by web site design on October 27, 2008 - 6:44 pm

    love the theme, im wondering if there is a way to have the foooter fold down at initial page load, and have an option to slide back up if needed……

  13. #13 by Sameer Dhoot on November 7, 2008 - 8:31 pm

    Nailn,
    The theme is sleek and professional one. I have used it on my blog http://intellects.in/2008/11/07/a-new-look-with-professional-looking-theme/

    Well there were some minor issue if you can incorporate them

    1. XHTML validation : The related post plugin renders the Single post template invalid XHTML as the bar on left hand uses tags and related posts creates

    I have used the following piece of code inside the single.php to fix this

    <?php
    ob_start();
    wp_related_posts();
    $relPostsOld = ob_get_clean();
    $replaceOld = array(“”, “”, “<ul”, “”);
    $replaceNew = array(“”, “”, “<ul”, “”);
    $relPostNew = str_replace($replaceOld, $replaceNew, $relPostsOld);
    echo $relPostNew;
    ?>

    2. I had issues with pagination where i could not get all my posts. The issue is that i use 10 post in WordPress Reading Options and where as the theme only displays 2 posts and rest of the entries are skipped and when we move to next page we get the 11th and 12th post instead of 3rd and 4th.

    So if there are instruction somewhere i could have saved some time and may be save time for lot of other people. Also can you set this from your theme options page?

    Thanks again for all the hard work.

    Sameer Dhoot.

  14. #14 by Martin Misseyer on November 30, 2008 - 2:38 am

    Hi,

    I like to include the WP-Cumulus plug-in (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/installation/) under the tags section (open navigation). How can i do that?

    Greetings,

    Martin

  15. #15 by Popular Technology on December 5, 2008 - 12:20 am

    what a simple yet elegant template!

  16. #16 by Dan Hughes on January 2, 2009 - 9:55 am

    I just want you to know, I just recently installed this at my site (spheric.starraisers.com) and I am absolutely in love with it. Great job!

  17. #17 by Atra on February 3, 2009 - 10:29 pm

    Hi man, nice template i use your template and it’s work very well btw, i’m new in blogging.

    Take a lokk

    http://www.blog.reevky.com

  18. #18 by Markus on February 19, 2009 - 1:43 pm

    hi,
    how can I install Yoast Tweetback PlugIn in this? I can’t find the code needed to change and adapt.
    Pls help me.

    Markus

  19. #19 by Gireesh on March 9, 2009 - 12:24 am

    nice work

  20. #20 by KrzysztofUW on March 17, 2009 - 12:31 pm

    Great theme. Is there any update planned?

  21. #21 by Landon on March 29, 2009 - 8:22 pm

    does anyone have an updated theme that will work with 2.7? I have not been able to test functionality that much, but it looks like the comments are broken under 2.7 any help would be greatly appreciated.

  22. #22 by ds handbags on July 15, 2009 - 12:44 am

    It is good information!

  23. #23 by sambit on July 29, 2009 - 10:28 pm

    hi,

    im having a slight problem after i installed “intense debate”

    now i have TWO “comments” headings.

    how do i remove the one provided by hemingwayex?

    i would really really appreciate if i could get your feedback about this problem…

    check out any post on http://sumuse.grinlink.com

  24. #24 by sambit on July 29, 2009 - 11:10 pm

    sorry to bother you again… but i fixed it!

    it was in the “Single Post” php file.

    thanks for the wonderful work on the theme!!

  25. #25 by Paul on July 30, 2009 - 6:16 am

    Very nice looking Theme.

    But…

    There is no information regarding the compatibility with the latest wordpress version ( now at this moment wp 2.8.2)

    It would be nice if this theme is in constant development.

    The final release (hemingwayex1.5) really says that it will never be any update from now and wordpress just announce that it already stopped support for wp2.x branch.

    Very sad.

  26. #26 by resourcesMix.info on August 10, 2009 - 6:59 am

    Great theme, thanks for sharing!

  27. #27 by Paulo on August 21, 2009 - 12:34 pm

    Great theme!

  28. #28 by Fabian H. on September 1, 2009 - 5:31 pm

    Hey why can not I put pictures with nextgen in the post?

  29. #29 by New Wordpress Themes on November 10, 2009 - 10:01 am

    I’m not a huge fan of dark themes, but this one isn’t too bad.

  30. #30 by Sanjeev on November 12, 2009 - 7:23 am

    Excellent theme Nalin, will move my blog to this theme.

  31. #31 by El Skate Shop on November 13, 2009 - 6:14 pm

    Yeah, I can’t upload images. I get this error:

    The uploaded file could not be moved to /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/wp-content.

    How do I fix this?

  32. #32 by Rick on December 11, 2009 - 3:08 pm

    impossible to put a drop-down menu
    which would be compatible with IE8 on Vista. (menu won’t drop-down visibly)

    I have tried a lot

    do you know one?

    Thanks a lot if you know that issue ant tell something.

  33. #33 by yokser on December 21, 2009 - 1:42 am

    do you have HemingwayEx in white version) ?

  34. #34 by Rick on December 21, 2009 - 12:44 pm

    yokser :
    do you have HemingwayEx in white version) ?

    no white version no.

    I tried final 1.5 and another version too.

    Where is the white version please?
    Thanks

  35. #35 by Nalin on December 21, 2009 - 11:33 pm

    @Rick/@yokser: Did you try going to HemingwayEx’s options and selecting the white CSS? It’s there. You can look at HemingwayEx theme’s style folder. There is also a blue/black theme.

  36. #36 by Rick on December 24, 2009 - 2:23 pm

    hi! thanks for interest.

    I tried the white css, and always same issue: no drop down menu.

  37. #37 by ernst on March 14, 2010 - 1:39 pm

    Hi guys
    How can i change the name of page taged as Home.
    Thanks

  38. #38 by CarcoPC on April 18, 2010 - 6:01 pm

    merhaba. tema için te?ekkürler

    mükemmel.

    Sayg?lar

  39. #39 by Modestos on June 24, 2010 - 8:18 am

    there seems to be a problem with wordpress 3.0
    The Open Navigation drop menu does not work properly.

    I’ll have a look at it.

  40. #40 by 2bione on July 5, 2010 - 1:46 pm

    Hi,
    Open Navigation functionality is broken with wordpress 3.0

    Any updates?

  41. #41 by Nalin on July 18, 2010 - 12:02 pm

    I have fixed the issue with WP 3.0. You can download the latest version from http://github.com/downloads/nullin/hemingwayex/hemingwayEx_1.7.zip.

    I’ll be updating this page sometime soon.

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