October 20th, 2007 WordPress

Magtastic: WordPress Theme

Theme Information:

  • Description: A 920px, fixed-width, 2-column, widget-ready theme. Its focus is for fun news blogs and sites. Features a custom home page, sidebars, and templates.
  • Requirement(s): Wordpress 2.1+
  • Download Theme (900) | Live Demo

Free header image:

The first 20 people that request it, will get a free header image customized by me. Nothing complicated, just something that looks like the header on the live demo.

Features:

  • Newspaper- / Magazine-style layout with a customized front page.
  • Feature article listed on front page with a thumbnail.
  • Specific styles for each type of page (category, archive, etc.).
  • Customized sidebars for different pages of the site.
  • Integrated WordPress 2.3 tag support.
  • Placeholder divs for ads. Great sidebar sizes for Google AdSense ads.
  • Three different sidebars that are all widget-ready.
  • DomTab for the for the front page to allows users to quickly access information.
  • Photoshop .psd files included for customizing your own images.

Need To Know:

  • You should at least glance at the readme.txt file because it explains in detail how to use the features of this theme.
  • See how to use optional excerpts to make a cleaner blog when using this theme.
  • Learn how to upload images.
  • Read up on using custom fields.
  • Get the latest version of WordPress to make use of tags.

Thoughts:

I started working on this theme immediately after I finished Newspaperize. I had a lot of issues with that theme that I tried to correct with this theme. Some problems were fixed easily. But, I also created a few other problems.

This is simply the journey of theme designing, I suppose.

For the most part, I’m satisfied with how this turned out. I’m not as satisfied as I was with Newspaperize, but I did reach a little outside the box as far as design and color schemes go with Magtastic. I wanted to brighten things up a little, add some color, and that’s exactly what I’ve done.

This theme’s a little “out there” for me, but I had fun with it. I’m sure there are millions of tiny bugs crawling around in it, so feel free to report them all.

Also, I will customize a header image for the first twenty people that ask for it here in the comments (I mean that I will just change the text in the image to your site name and add your site description if you want it).

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36 Responses to “Magtastic: WordPress Theme”

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  2. Ricardo Del Rio on Oct 20th, 2007 at 11:48 am

    Hi. I love your Magtastic WordPress Theme. As you can see, i am not techman, i am just one fan and hard user. I want to change my blogspot to word press. I will use your Magtastic WordPress Theme, and perhaps i am still with good fortune and i could be able to get your offer of Free Header Image. My header Image should be saying “Seikyo Criollo Digital” using some newspaper background image or compose.
    Lets go to be in touch.
    PS. I am VP at Pajamanation.com also (do you know about?) Please check it http://www.pajamanation.com There you will be able to find more customers also. Because I will be customer your in the next months. I have some websites and i will need your services.

    Thanks in advance from Caracas Venezuela

    PS2: the seikyo criollo has own domain http://www.seikyocriollo.org.ve and it is publishing Buddhist Materials (only in spanish language) because i am buddhist since 30 years ago. My buddhism website is http://www.sgi.org

  3. Justin on Oct 20th, 2007 at 12:30 pm

    Thanks Ricardo. No, you’re not too late for the free header image, but I think you may have misunderstood me a little. I’ve edited the post to make it a little clearer. When I said I’ll give the free header image, I meant that I’ll simply edit the text by adding “your site name” and “your site description,” like in the demo.

    I’ve put together your header image, and I’m ready to send it your way. Just let me know if you want a “site description” along with it. I’ll e-mail you.

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  5. K on Oct 21st, 2007 at 3:31 pm

    I have downloaded it and compared with your Newspaperized, I prefer the latter. This one is too “girlie” but nice.

    Does your themes, gravatar-enabled?

  6. Justin on Oct 21st, 2007 at 4:20 pm

    None of my themes come gravatar-enabled, but I’m thinking of adding the feature because I think WordPress bought Gravatar. I’ll have to look more into it.

    Generally, I don’t add plugins to the themes because with so many plugins out there, it’s hard to decide what the best things to add are. I try to leave everything open enough for the user to do what they want with the themes.

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  9. Tim on Oct 22nd, 2007 at 8:48 am

    Hi Justin,

    Great theme! I’d love to get a header if they’re still available - thanks!

    Tim

  10. vicki on Oct 22nd, 2007 at 10:03 am

    would love a customized header for my style/fashion blog.

  11. Mike on Oct 22nd, 2007 at 11:09 am

    Your demo is busted…

  12. Jenny on Oct 22nd, 2007 at 11:40 am

    Man I really need to know how to do that for my new theme. :( I’m off to study your theme. It looks really good btw.

  13. Justin on Oct 22nd, 2007 at 11:56 am

    Tim and Vicki, I’ve sent you both e-mails. So, check your inbox for your header image.

    Mike, I don’t see anything wrong with it. What browser are you using? Do you have cookies disabled? And, what do you mean by busted, exactly?

    Jenny, thanks for the comment. What do you “really need to know how to do” for your theme? I might be able to help. By the way, I like the look of your site. I think Natalie done a wonderful job with the theme.

  14. Jane on Oct 23rd, 2007 at 11:56 am

    Am I number 14? Please?

    I love this theme and would love a free Header!

    Jane Devin
    “There’s Always More to the Story”

    Thank you in advance, so much!

  15. Eric on Oct 23rd, 2007 at 12:58 pm

    This is a wonderful design. Great job. With a free .psd even. I am using this for sure on one of my domains. If the free header is still available please LMK. I’ll give you a plug on one of my blogs too.
    Peace

  16. Justin on Oct 23rd, 2007 at 1:58 pm

    Jane, I’ve sent you an email with your custom header. Thanks for using the theme.

    Eric, I’m about to send you an email now. So, yep, the remaining header images are still up for grabs.

  17. Amy on Oct 24th, 2007 at 1:17 pm

    Hi, this theme is what I’ve been looking for - wish I had found it before I got started with the one I have now. I’ve loaded magtastic - now just have to figure out why my pages didn’t show.

    Have you got your 20 requests for a header? If not, I would like one! And I’d like it to say: My Dog Sky
    For Today’s Dog

    Thanks.

  18. Justin on Oct 24th, 2007 at 10:13 pm

    Amy, I’ve sent you an email, so make sure to check that.

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  20. Amy on Oct 25th, 2007 at 8:25 am

    Hey Justin, thanks for that. Hate to bother you again, but the email didn’t make it. Could you send it again? Thanks.

  21. Justin on Oct 25th, 2007 at 8:56 am

    Amy, I’ve sent the email again, so I hope it makes it there. You might want to check your junk mail folder if you haven’t already, just to be sure. If it doesn’t go through again, I’ll just upload it to the site or something.

  22. Amy on Oct 25th, 2007 at 10:23 am

    Hi again Justin,
    this is starting to get weird. I did as you suggested and checked the junk mail even the delete folder to be extra sure. And still nothing…Think it is Roadrunner???

  23. Justin on Oct 25th, 2007 at 10:31 am

    Amy, I’m thinking it’s got to be your email because I’m not getting any returned mail and everyone else I’ve emailed today has gotten their mail.

    Nevertheless, you can download your header here. My email address is in the instructions text file. If you have any trouble, feel free to send me an email.

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  25. iatitlan on Nov 1st, 2007 at 10:25 pm

    Great template.. I also looked at using a few others. one question I had, can you send a sniplet of code that would explain how to add a graphic image in the header ??

    I tried about everything i know, and I am sure I am missing something small.

    Cheers!

  26. Justin on Nov 1st, 2007 at 10:35 pm

    Iatitlan, open “readme.txt” included with your download. Scroll down to a section named “Add header image.” There are instructions on how to include a header image with the theme.

    The only thing you’ll need to do outside of that is replace “header.gif” with another file called “header.gif” in your /magtastic/images folder.

  27. iatitlan on Nov 1st, 2007 at 10:50 pm

    Justin thanks, more so I was thinking about this in the newspaper theme

  28. Justin on Nov 2nd, 2007 at 8:17 pm

    Iatitlan, I’ve sent you an email that explains everything.

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  30. Mario on Nov 6th, 2007 at 11:04 pm

    Justin;

    I am very interested in the header image:

    RUM en Línea
    Cursos a distancia para estudiantes de Escuela Superior

    Thanks a lot for this wonderful theme.

  31. Justin on Nov 6th, 2007 at 11:47 pm

    Mario, I’ll send you an email as soon as I get home from work tonight.

  32. BJohnM on Nov 18th, 2007 at 9:10 pm

    Most likely your offer for a free header image is already taken up, but just in case I thought I’d ask. I’ve got to update this church website I do, and I want to turn it into a Wordpress site, so I don’t have to do the updates.

    Thanks,
    John

  33. Justin on Nov 19th, 2007 at 10:00 am

    BJohnM, sorry. I have finished giving out the free header images. There is a .psd file included that you can edit though.

    Feel free to stop by and ask any questions you have. Thanks for deciding to use the theme.

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  35. shari on Apr 6th, 2008 at 12:57 pm

    hi, i tried downloading it and i got a 404. is this theme not available anymore? :(

    shari

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