Notes Blog Core is available from wordpress.org.
You can also download and install the theme from within your WordPress install. Just go to Themes and then Add New. Search for “Notes Blog Core” or the author “tdh” and you’ll find it!
Core is licensed under GPL version 3.
Requirements
The Core needs WordPress 2.8 or newer to work, so if you’re running that, you can use the Notes Blog Core theme.
It will probably not run on versions of WordPress prior to 2.8, and there are no plans to support these at this time.
Language Files
The Core theme is localization ready, and in the theme package you’ll find a language file called notesblog.po. Use translation software such as poEdit to translate this to your language, unless there already is one available below, and save the translation in accordance with your language code (see here, sv_SE for Sweden for example). Put the translation in the Core theme folder and the theme will use it, assuming that you’ve got WordPress setup to use the particular language in the first place.
Available Translations
The following translations are available within the theme package. More will be added as they get released and approved for addition.
- Swedish (sv_SE) courtesy of TDH
- French (fr_FR) courtesy of Tams Design
- German (de_DE) courtesy of Martin Anton Müller
- Polish (pl_PL) courtesy of M@kowiec
- Turkish (tr_TR) courtesy of Ersan Özdil
Translations temporarily hosted on notesblog.com (to be added in next release):
- None at the moment.
Translations located elsewhere:
- Danish (da_DK) download
Have you done your own translation? Be sure to let me know so that I can include it here!
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It’s April now. When will it be available for download?
Any news when the theme will be available?
Expect news soon. Too much work!
I´m a hugh fan of your work, and I´m waiting for this theme too. Any news?
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As you guys have probably seen, the theme is available now, in beta and free, as promised.
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it a beautiful one ,i love it
thx for you work
Thank you, enjoy!
i am finding a theme like the new york time’ blog style like http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/trash-stalking/
it is simple and clean
and so i get here
and i hope you can update with more progress
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Any updates on the child theme?
The first child themes will be released within the month. Reality kicked in, a bunch of sites already run Notes Blog Core, including a blog network, so expect more soonish.
Unless I’m blind, I still don’t see the child theme?
Still not out, sorry.
Ahh okay. Glad I’m not blind!
Feature request:
http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/11/16/everything-you-need-to-know-about-wordpress-2-9s-post-image-feature
Thanks:)
Support for post images will be added in the next version. More on this in January.
Bonjour,
Comment cher Monsieur peut-on vous joindre…cela parait très compliquer pour vous acheter un livre à 10€….Personnellement je suis interressée mais le paiement ne me convient pas…sauf un paiement par mes soins se fera par “”chèque”"au-dela de cette proposition, Je ne donne pas suite…Salutations.
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Thord:
I apologies for disturb you, but I have a problem with your WordPress Theme.
I did installing your theme (Notes Blog Core) because is simple, clean, and wonderfull!
Now I want put a background image in the blog’s title, reaching one side to the other of the big black line placed in the bottom of the title, and I don’t know how to do this.
Maybe you can give me the code to do this.
The second question is:
When I try to install a widget (Pages) on the submenu, the word “Páginas” appears over the submenu. I don’t know how take out that word.
Well, if you can’t help me with this, don’t worry about, I know you are busy. I will find the way to do it.
You can check my site at http://www.juliosandovalberti.com.ar
By the way, your Theme is realy great!
I live in Argentina, regards!
Hi Julio. This post will hopefully solve your problem. Good luck!
Thord:
Yesssss! I did it, just like you said!!!
Excellent!!! Great!!!
I did use the text widget to configurate de submenu, and look’s great now! Thank you very much!!!
I am happy now.
That’s great!
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Hello
I wonder if you can give me some advice.
I have tried everything but cannot get my RSS feeds to work in Opera, Firefox or IE 8.0. They do work in Safari. I am using the standard WordPress Meta widget.
This is Opera’s error but fundamentally they are all the same: Error!
XML parsing failed
XML parsing failed: syntax error (Line: 2, Character: 0)
Error:XML declaration not at beginning of document
Specification:http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/
1:
2:
3: <rss version="2.0"
4: xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
5: xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
I have installed and run the feedburner plug in but to no avail. The strange thing is that the feeds don't work with any themes including your Notes Blog or the WordPress Default.
I think I am being a bit stupid and missing something obvious?
Please can you help?
Tracey
Hello
Firstly my profuse apologies. It was me, I have taken the whole thing off and started again and now everything works.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with your theme (as I knew there wouldn’t be).
My RSS feeds are now fine.
The book is excellent, thank you very much!
Tracey
I’m glad it worked out for you!
Doesn’t render correctly with ie6
Where are you seeing this?
I emailed it to you over 6 months ago. You said you were going to fix it.
The items at the bottom scroll up into the middle of the page on IE6. I’ve tried it on my computer, on browsershots.org, and even on browserlab.adobe.com and it always does this.
http://i42.tinypic.com/308xflx.jpg
Sorry, must have fallen off the todo (unless I fixed it already). I’ll try to recreate and see what I can do.
Any chance you can provide a testing version or something so I can test it?
I’ve managed to recreate the problem. Will try to solve it whenever I get a minute or two over this week. Tight schedule so chances are it will slip to the next I’m afraid.
Any chance of solving it this week
Yep. It’s on my list for the week.
Version 1.0.2 is released. Let’s hope this fixes the issues you’re having.
Hej, jag vill bara säga tack för en snygg sida, jag letade länge efter ett tema som jag ville ha men fastnade inte för något. Sedan hittade jag din sida när jag surfade omkring och är superglad. Nu ska jag börja lära mig hur man utvecklar sidan med widgets etc… det var 15 år sedan jag höll på med html och det jag lärde mig då är stenålder jämfört med vad man kan göra idag.. så från en glad amatör säger jag tack och glad påsk!
I’m glad you like it!
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Hej Thord Daniel Hedengren!
Har jag fattat det rätt? Har jag köpt en bok på engelska (Smashing WordPress) från dig som verkar vara från Sverige?
Låt mig säga att jag gärna vill lära mig hur man bygger upp en blogg, men att jag har jobbigt med engelskan. Men som sagt jag ska försöka att ta mig igenom boken och lära mig av exemplet som du har på wordpress/themes, stort tack för den!… Vi får väl se hur det går, vill så gärna ha en blogg som nyhets sida till min hemsida och kanske en dag…..
Kram Kim
Great them for WPress. Today I started use it. Very good code inside. I love it and wait for future progres
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Just noticed a slight mistake which confused me for while (I’m easily confused) -
In index.php previous_image_link and next_image_link seem to be the wrong way round here:
Not a big deal, but just thought you might want to fix it
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Hi, are there any child themes available for this one, yet?
I’m currently using the core theme on my main web site and my blog.
I’ve seen a few child themes but most of them are yet unreleased.
Great theme, I already am using in my main blog, my customers were delighted.
This theme is what i was looking for I will share with some of friends.
This core theme is so easy , Fast , simple to make it perfect .
I will be waiting for the update .
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Temat är till största delen en egen skapelse med några rader (alternativt innehåll i sidebar) från TDH:s eminenta NotesBlog Core-tema för WordPress. NotesBlog som jag kör i beta hä
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Great theme, about to use it for a development project I’m working on, thanks for making it available.
Any probs with sidebar dropping when looking at single.php while NOT LOGGED IN? Built my blog on Core and LOVE IT! Beautiful work on this theme. It has been a joy to work with! Cannot locate this one glitch. Anybody else met with this challenge?
Are you experiencing the same thing here, on this site?
P.S. once logged in… sidebar moves back to its correct location.
Hi TDH,
Reading your first edition of Smashing WordPress: Beyond the blog currently. I have found a bug on line 52 of the comments.php file. The ‘e’ for “You must be logged in to post a comment.”, “notesblog” is the wrong way round with the underscore.
Just thought I’d let you know.
P.s. The book is great. Can’t wait to read the second edition
Thanks, I hope we fixed that in the second edition.
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Hi. I’m using your notes-blog theme. I found that if I try to use functions.php in my child theme, I get this error:
“Fatal error: Cannot redeclare site_header_style() (previously declared in /home/p52347r2/public_html/site/wp-content/themes/doww-console/functions.php:59) in /home/p52347r2/public_html/site/wp-content/themes/notes-blog/functions.php on line 73
”
From what I understand, it’s possible to use a functions.php in the child theme. Could you please point me to a solution?
You can but you need to unregister the site header in your child theme from the template theme if you want to change it. Looks like that’s what you’re doing.
Thanks for the quick reply, Martin. I’m new to WP. When you say “unregister the site header,” how would I do that?
Not sure exactly what you should do, but I think the problem is that there is a site header in the theme, and you’re trying to add another one. Maybe this can help?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_custom_image_header
I’ll look into that. I remember that I was suppose to add the header tag as part of the “Smashing WordPress” lesson. (The theme’s author has a book out.) Lot’s of holes in his book, which has been frustrating. Anyway, I’ll poke around some more.
I haven’t had that issue, what page are you on where this doesn’t work? Are you sure you should be doing this in a child theme?
Hi Community,
I just got the smashing wordpress book, im just wondering that if the theme showing in the book is slightly different. there was a part at page 75 where they used get_template_part to retrieve the loop, but the most current theme file I got actually has the entire loop in index.php
Can anyone explain why is this so ? Thanks, All help is appreciated !!
You’re using the wrong theme. The Core theme was used in the first edition of the book, but the second edition uses the Notes Blog theme. Follow the links in the book, or just download the beta version from here: http://notesblog.com/2011/notes-blog-public-beta/
TDH Thanks a million !!! I think i got mixed up, i did follow the links form the book which was http://notesblog.com, page 69. And I was trying to look for the public beta ! Thanks to you, I found it. Btw, great job on the book, looking forward to complete it.
Thanks!
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I’ve been using Notes Blog 0.2.9.1. However, I need to create the sub site in Spanish. I’ve copied over the two language files (es_ES.mo and es_ES.po) from the WP in Spanish, but they don’t seem to work. How can I get Spanish to work?
Thanks!
You need to create Spanish language files for the theme. The ones from WordPress are just for WordPress core I’m afraid.
I’m new to all this, so please bear with me a bit longer.
When I tested the Spanish language version on Thematic theme, items such as Comments translated over pretty well. So, I’m wondering what Thematic has that Notes Blog doesn’t. (I built my site using your book and theme. So, I’d like to stay with it if possible.) What can I do to make Notes Blog work like Thematic — in regards to the Spanish files?
That’s because Thematic uses a lot of WordPress default strings. What you need to do is use Poedit to translate the .po file that comes with Notes Blog to Spanish. Which book are you using? I believe there’s a section about internationalization in both the Smashing WordPress and Smashing WordPress Themes with instructions on how to translate a theme that is prepared for it, as Notes Blog is.
O site mais.me ultiliza o tema notes central ?
I’m trying to find the standard notes blog theme, the one you have used in your smashing word press second edition, and i cannot find it anywhere on this website, only the new core version which is different. is it still available?
The various Core versions are available here, and the Notes Blog theme’s beta and most recent version is still the one available here. Was that what you were looking for?
Thanks for the link, yes the 2.9 version is what i wanted, it may be worth making it more accessible as people buying your “second addition beyond the blog” may find it difficult to find the example noteblog theme that you are working from.
Thank you
I was highly impressed with the quality of work performed by this company.
Hi TDH, I’m reading your book the second edition but my book is using the version 0.2.8 and I’m a bit confuse reading the header.php in 77/78 page, it’s a bit different from actual theme.
Could you please let me download the version 0.2.8 ?
Thank you!