ProudBlack – Free Wordpress Theme

Posted on Feb 28, 2009 in Freebies
ProudBlack – Free Wordpress Theme

Today I’m glad to release my first free Wordpress Theme . Proudblack , a simple , 2-column design theme , is best suited for personal blogs .

    Features :

  • Tabbed sidebar area (Mootools) containing : Latest Posts , Latest Comments and Tags
  • Widget Ready Sidebar
  • Integrated Theme Options : You can enter your Twitter and Flickr ID’s and customize the copyright area
  • Lifestream Support
  • Custom page template for Archives page
  • Gravatar support for comments


    Changelog :
    Ver 1.1

  • Minor CSS bugs fixed
  • Dropdown menus added
  • Minor design changes


Remember that this is the first version , so I’m waiting for feedback on the theme .

Live Demo

Download Proudblack Wordpress Theme

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45 Comments

  1. R0b says:

    Wow . Simple and clean . Good job!

  2. Matt says:

    Just downloaded your theme . Congrats

  3. Mike Smith says:

    I like it a lot. Really clean and seems easy to edit design wise. The only thing that stuck out to me was the categories in the post area under the post title. They seem to dominate more than they should IMO.

    Nice work though (and I love your portfolio)

  4. ebflute says:

    Good looking design! I have emailed you about sending it to me in a zip rather than a rar.
    Thanks in advance!

  5. Alexander says:

    Hey, I have a problem with the footer. It displays this error message:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function lifestream() in /home2/centroh1/public_html/patrimoniomultimedia/website/wp-content/themes/proudblack/footer.php on line 25

    What could it be?

    Thank you.

  6. Iacob Ionut says:

    Did you activate the lifestream plugin ?

  7. Joakim says:

    Hi!
    Nice theme. I have a problem with the menu. It doesn’t work with sublevels, it show the sublevels on the side. You can check out my site if you don’t understand what I’m meaning.
    Thanks!

  8. Iacob Ionut says:

    The theme doesn’t support submenus yet . I will include this feature in the next version of the theme .

  9. Joakim says:

    Is it not a dropdown menu?

  10. Iacob Ionut says:

    Dropdown menus ( jQuery enchanted ) will be supported in the next version . This will be available sometime next week .

  11. Joakim says:

    Ah great, looking forward to that :)

  12. Didyma says:

    Very good and cant wait to try, thanks good work

  13. squareart says:

    Cool theme, thanks for sharing. Love your work!

  14. [...] updated the Proudblack Wordpress Theme . I did some minor CSS and design changes and added dropdown menus to the main navigation [...]

  15. Jocke says:

    Great! Will download that immediately=)

  16. T-Law says:

    I can say that this theme is one of the best free wordpress themes, very big thanks.

  17. Fernando says:

    how can i insert a custom logo in the header? and i got one problem… the search image (applesearch) isnt show in the header. Thakns! Wonderfull theme!

  18. David says:

    Love the theme. Thank you for spending the time and for your hard-work in making this available for the public. Very much appreciated. I will download this for sure.

  19. Iacob Ionut says:

    Thank you David.

  20. Iacob Ionut says:

    Fernando

    Edit header.php and replace everything from the logo div with your image .
    I have no idea why the applesearch images are not showing. Try to see if the image paths in applesearch.js are right.

  21. Joakim says:

    Great theme. Possible to add a postcount after each row in the Archivespage?

  22. Iacob Ionut says:

    Joakim

    Edit archives.php , search for wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly’) and replace it with wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly&show_post_count=1′)

    That should do the trick.

  23. Joakim says:

    Ah ok, thanks a lot=)

  24. Parsifal says:

    Iacob, is it possible to remove border just around smileys somehow? I’d like my pictures to have border,
    but I don’t want it to be around smileys.

  25. Iacob Ionut says:

    Hey Parsifal,

    Edit style.css and add this :
    img.wp-smiley {border:0}

  26. parsifal says:

    Thanks Iacob.

  27. mutedblues says:

    Beautiful design Iacob – thanks so much! I’m also having problems with the applesearch display in the header – it appears as a plain box instead of pulling the applesearch images. Was it ever resolved for Fernando?

  28. Iacob Ionut says:

    Check applesearch.js and applesearch.css and see if the paths to the images are correct . It might be a good idea to use absolute paths for those files.

  29. [...] plugin for Google Analytics,  Share-This for the cool share button at the bottom of each post, ProudBlack is what I started this theme off [...]

  30. great theme……

  31. yokser says:

    I have problem when use your themes.

    your search form style is doesn’t work.

    how to fix it?

    thanks for your attention ^_^

    • Iacob Ionut says:

      I need more info or a link to the website using the theme.I didn’t have any problems with the search bar until now.

  32. Thalskarth says:

    Wow!, it’s a wonderful theme. I like it a lot. But, under wich license is your theme?

    It is free for use on any site? Can i edit some colors?

    (I mean free as in freedom ;) )

    • Iacob Ionut says:

      You can do whatever you want with it (take it apart , modify it etc). If you know some basic CSS then you can change the theme’s colors .

  33. jon says:

    Hi, thanks for this beautiful theme. Is it possible to adsense above the first post? If so, how do i do it? Thanks!

    • Iacob Ionut says:

      It’s possible to include Adsense code above the loop(you’ll need a bit of PHP knowledge) . I’m working on a new version of this theme and it will probably incude the Adsense option in the theme’s options panel.

  34. Fernando says:

    New version!! Yeah!! :D

  35. Thalskarth says:

    Thank you Iacob. At last, i’ve edited many things. You can see it in mi website.
    Thanks

  36. Mashe says:

    Hi, i have a website and y use this template, this is the first template who i download in your site, but, how can i change the title of the blog to an image? can you make a new version and include options to change the logo? Please response , i speak spanish and i cant speak english very well, sory.

    • Iacob Ionut says:

      Hey Mashe . I’m working on the new version and yes, it will have the option to use an image or just plain text. Unfortunately , I’m really busy with client work right now and I can’t say when it will be ready.

      If you know some CSS you can add an image inside the “logo” div in header.php.

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