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CoffeeSpot

CoffeeSpot is a wordpress 2.0 theme, developed by WP ThemePark.

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Its a two-column,Fixed-Width, Widget-Ready wordpress 2.0 theme.

Key Features :

  1. Page Template for Archives Page
  2. Page Template for Contact Page
  3. Page Template for Favorites / Links Page
  4. Support for Tags in WordPress 2.3
  5. Automatic Page Navigation
  6. Author Page
  7. Widgets Plugin Compatible
  8. 404 Not Found Page
  9. There are four different coffee cup images provided within the theme, namely cup1.jpg, cup2.jpg, cup3.jpg, cup4.jpg and it can be changed in style.css .

It has many more features in the theme, that you can explore in the readme.html file included in the zip file.

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Last updated on July 20 2007.
1. Contact Page Template with Spam Protection
2. Custom Header Image option, so you can change the header image as and when you like.
3. Changed the default header image and other minor style improvements.

Last updated on Sep 27 2007.
Theme Updated to include Tag Support in WordPress 2.3

Enjoy

47 Responses to “CoffeeSpot”

  1. Dougon 28 Sep 2006 at 11:40 pm 1

    I really like this theme, but the sidebar doesn’t look quite right on my blog. Below the h2 tags, some of it is the white box that I expect and some isn’t. Is this something I can fix on my own?

  2. Sadishon 02 Oct 2006 at 10:29 am 2

    Doug,

    put the sidebar content below the h2 to be inside <div class=”block”> and </div>

    Then you will have the white background.

    Thanks
    Sadish

  3. The Rockeron 06 Oct 2006 at 1:52 pm 3

    Can you add Gravatar support too? :)

  4. Sadishon 06 Oct 2006 at 8:40 pm 4

    The Rocker,
    Unfortunately thats not currently in my to-do list . lets see in future.

  5. The Rockeron 07 Oct 2006 at 9:50 am 5

    Also, can u add Ultimate Tag Warrior support?

  6. omaneroon 10 Nov 2006 at 5:07 pm 6

    Dear Mr. Sadish Bala:

    Lots of thanks from Spain for this wonderful theme. I’m now adjusting this for my new blog and it works fine. The only question I have to you is that I set the contact page, but I don’t know how to instert the recipient adress, so that I don’t get the mails people sent through this formular. I’m would be very grateful, if you could help me with this issue.

    I thank you very much for this theme. It is just what I were looking for. Here we are enjoying it a lot.

    Omanero.

  7. Sadishon 10 Nov 2006 at 5:13 pm 7

    Thats so easy.

    Emails from the contact form, are sent to the email address you provided at http://www.normalizado.com/wp-admin/options-general.php

    Thanks
    Sadish

  8. omaneroon 10 Nov 2006 at 5:26 pm 8

    Lots of thanks for your answer.

    Omanero

  9. Brianon 17 Nov 2006 at 12:29 pm 9

    Well, I think that this theme is the best I found that best suits my needs. However, there is somewhat something wrong with this in IE6. It seems like when the text size is enlarged by the user, the page gets a little weirded out, especially the sidebar. Like parts of the white boxes get cut off and the text disappears off the the side.

    I understand that most people will not have it set like this but someone who was browsing my site came across this. I was wondering if you know of a fix for this?

  10. Sadishon 17 Nov 2006 at 2:41 pm 10

    Thanks Brian.

    I think the issue you are facing is because the sidebar’s boxes uses an image for their background, so they look “curved” in the bottom.
    This image has a fixed height, which becomes not sufficient for cases like this.

    I do not have a solution for this yet, and if I find something else in the future, I will post it here.
    Thanks
    Sadish

  11. Meenakshion 17 Nov 2006 at 8:16 pm 11

    Just set up my first blog. I downloaded a lot of themes, but settled for this one as it shows the name of the poster along with the time.

    All my early readers love it, especially the coffe mug images.

    Thank you!

  12. Brianon 18 Nov 2006 at 1:02 am 12

    Thanks for your input Sadish. If you like to know, I did fix it. I added the color to the background but I had to edit the images to match the background color to get the rounded corners. So yeah, everytime you have to change the color, you have to change the images. But hey, you can now have insainly sized text and no problems… to a point. :-D

  13. Scott B.on 01 Dec 2006 at 2:20 am 13

    Great theme!!! I’m not one to change my theme often but when I saw CoffeeSpot, I just had to.

    On the sidebar, my links appear in and outside of white boxes.

    Links

    Can you swing over to my site and let me know what I am doing wrong?

    Also, is there any quick way for me to center the entire page? On my laptop, it is appearing on the left of the screen.

    Again, great theme!

  14. Sadishon 01 Dec 2006 at 11:18 am 14

    Scott B or anyone having this issue.

    look for
    background:url(img/sidebox.gif) no-repeat bottom center;

    in the style.css and change to
    background:#fff url(img/sidebox.gif) no-repeat bottom center;

    Thats it.
    Sadish

  15. Scott Bon 01 Dec 2006 at 9:29 pm 15

    Thanks! That worked.

  16. Jasonon 29 Dec 2006 at 4:36 pm 16

    Hi Sadish, I really like the theme. I do have one question though. I can’t seem to find out how to center photos in posts. I’ve looked all over the .css for it but it’s eluding me. Any suggestions.

  17. Ericon 07 Jan 2007 at 3:41 pm 17

    Sadish,

    Thank you for a nice theme. My question is how do I get the trackback URL link to appear in my posts? Is this some line of code I need to insert into one of the php pages? Whenever I do a post, I’d like to display the trackback URL below the post, but can’t figure out how.

    Thanks again for a great theme.

    Eric
    Horse IQ

  18. Sadishon 07 Jan 2007 at 4:03 pm 18

    Try adding this into the index.php.

    Look for
    <p class="post-info">
    <?php comments_popup_link(’No Comments &#187;’, ‘1 Comment &#187;’, ‘% Comments &#187;’); ?>
    </p>

    and change it to
    <p class="post-info">
    <?php comments_popup_link(’No Comments &#187;’, ‘1 Comment &#187;’, ‘% Comments &#187;’); ?> | <a href="<?php trackback_url(display); ?>">Trackback URI</a>
    </p>

    Let me know how it works.
    Sadish

  19. Ericon 07 Jan 2007 at 4:33 pm 19

    Sadish,

    I’m afraid that didn’t work, Sadish. I put that code snippet in, but I don’t see the Trackback URI link on my page. Here’s an example after I inserted your code snippet. http://www.horseiq.com/2007/01/03/horse-buying-tip-how-to-tell-if-its-ok-to-buy-a-horse-that-has-had-a-tendon-injury/

    If I choose View | PageSource, I can see the trackback code, but it appears to be inside an HTML comment tag. Not sure why. What should I try next?

  20. Sadishon 07 Jan 2007 at 4:53 pm 20

    1. if you paste that code in index.php, it should show up in the main page / not on a single post page.

    2. if you want it on a single post page, make sure you paste it in single.php also.

    3. I do not think you pasted the code on the theme’s index.php at all.

    Thanks
    Sadish

  21. Ericon 07 Jan 2007 at 5:26 pm 21

    Sadish,

    I beg your pardon. I most assuredly did post it into index.php. (See below). When I tried pasting it into Single.php, I get an error:
    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/road11/public_html/wp-content/themes/coffeespot-10/single.php on line 10

    Here’s my index.php…

    ” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link: “>

    Posted by on | Tagged as:

    | “>Trackback URI

  22. Ericon 07 Jan 2007 at 5:36 pm 22

    Sadish,

    Nevermind. I got it working on single.php, which is all I really needed.

    Eric

  23. pedroon 11 Jan 2007 at 12:24 pm 23

    Hi, Sadish and a big warm thanks from Norway - I’m known by all my friends as the big cofeee drinker, and once I saw a blow with this theme, I just had to have it!

    I am curious as to how I can just add those nifty counters at the end of each month and keyword, such as “December (2)”, or “software(14)” to illustrate the number of entries under each grouping.

    Would it be something that I can add for myself? I’m a developer, but I know nothing about php, heh.

  24. Jasonon 11 Jan 2007 at 12:49 pm 24

    Pedro, I saw your post and I believe I know the answer. If you go to your “sidebar widgets” and click the widget labeled “archives” a box will appear and there is an option to “show post counts”. If you turn this on, the numbers will appear like you wanted. You can also do this in the “categories” widget.

  25. Sadishon 11 Jan 2007 at 1:36 pm 25

    Jason,
    Thanks for answering, but pedro is not using the widgets for his site.

    pedro,
    in order to show the counts of posts for the category and for monthly archives you need to do the following.
    open up the sidebar.php file

    look for
    wp_list_cats(’sortcolumn=name’)
    and change to
    wp_list_cats(’sortcolumn=name&optioncount=1′)

    and then look for
    wp_get_archives(’type=monthly’)
    and change to
    wp_get_archives(’type=monthly&show_post_count=true’)

    Thats it.
    Thanks
    Sadish

  26. pedroon 11 Jan 2007 at 2:23 pm 26

    Sadish,
    I owe you one! It worked effortlessly, thanks for your quick reply, and to Jason too, even though I’m not using sidebar widgets :)

  27. Jasonon 11 Jan 2007 at 2:50 pm 27

    Ah! I can’t win for loosing :-) Glad you got it working.

  28. katychanon 12 Jan 2007 at 9:07 pm 28

    I started using wordpress ufficially today, installed it two days ago and thaks to this theme I could have a very stylish blog (well, this is what I think). If you’re interest in how I used your work come and see. Thanks a lot for your work! :)
    Katy

    Ps. There is a way to see smiley one can use while is commenting?

  29. katychanon 13 Jan 2007 at 2:50 pm 29

    Another thing please, what can i do to show the hour of my posts?
    Thanks
    Katy

  30. Scott Bon 16 Jan 2007 at 3:16 pm 30

    Any thought of making Coffeespot into a 3 column theme? That would be nice.

  31. NetBlokeon 19 Jan 2007 at 4:27 pm 31

    Hello Sadish!

    I am trying to create a page template that does not include the sidebar in this theme. I think I just remove the sidebar include from the page.php file and then rename it. however that didnt come up as a selected page theme.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks!

  32. Jasonon 23 Jan 2007 at 12:06 pm 32

    Sadish, just wondering if you (or anyone) has tried the theme with the newest version of Wordpress 2.1 “Ella”? And if you had, have you encountered any problems? Thanks.

    Jason

  33. Scott Bon 23 Jan 2007 at 12:13 pm 33

    Jason, I’m using CoffeeSpot with WP2.1. I have no trouble at all. I did experience problems with some plug-ins which are plug-in related. No problem at all with CoffeeSpot though. Scott B.

  34. Scott Bon 23 Jan 2007 at 12:15 pm 34

    I take that back. I’ve lost my page links. I’ll check that when I get home. Perhaps I messed up something.

  35. Jasonon 23 Jan 2007 at 12:27 pm 35

    Thanks for the fast response Scott. I usually wait a few days after new releases of ANYTHING to see if they’re “buggy”. I think I’ll wait in this case too!

  36. Scott Bon 24 Jan 2007 at 10:03 pm 36

    After further review, I see no problem with CoffeeSpot after upgrading to WP2.1. The problem I had with the pages are a result of the WP2.1 changes and not CoffeeSpot.

  37. Louon 06 Feb 2007 at 4:47 pm 37

    Pages (not posts) are all listed as “Tagged as: Uncategorized”. As per http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages

    “….nor can they be associated with Categories.”

  38. Godzilla Blitzon 06 Feb 2007 at 10:18 pm 38

    Sadish,

    Thanks for such an elegant theme!

    I too was having difficulties getting text to position inside of the white boxes in the sidebar. I got around it by setting each item in a list, and that worked well with everything except Google ads.

    I just tried your suggested solution:

    “look for
    background:url(img/sidebox.gif) no-repeat bottom center;

    in the style.css and change to
    background:#fff url(img/sidebox.gif) no-repeat bottom center;”

    This works well to get the text in the white boxes, but now the white boxes have lost all their rounded edges on the bottom (you can see the issue on my site). Any way to get the rounded bottom corners back?

    Thanks!
    GB

  39. Louon 09 Feb 2007 at 12:22 am 39

    forgot to properly escape that. It should have read
    Just remove:

    | Tagged as: <em><?php the_category(’, ‘) ?>

  40. Jasonon 07 May 2007 at 5:29 pm 40

    Hello Sadish. I am using coffeespot as my theme and am also using a plug-in called “photopress”. All is well, except if I use the “photo album” page. It totally destroys the layout. I went to the plug-in page and it said to change of couple of the files to “match the themes index.php page”. Which really isn’t that helpful to me. Do you think you’d be able to help me if I give you some more info or is this strictly a question I need to ask the photopress guys? Thanks

    Jason

  41. Bobon 18 Jul 2007 at 10:37 am 41

    Just upgraded to 2.2.1 and the coffespot theme will not work. has anyone found a fix for this?

    Really like the theme hate to change existing site now.

    any help would be appreciated.

    thanks

  42. Bobon 18 Jul 2007 at 10:47 am 42

    Success! de-activated a few plugins and the theme works now, think it was phpexec.

  43. Sadishon 18 Jul 2007 at 11:26 am 43

    Please post any customization requests at http://forums.wpthemes.info

    Thanks
    Sadish

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