Watercolor Theme
Presenting to you the Watercolor theme, this time, I created a theme with different design style.
Colorful as it is, this theme uses a lot of free style and smudging techniques, thus giving you the watercolor painting look that is so different from other themes you have seen.
Hope you’ll like my latest creation 
Latest Version: 1.03
Updated on: 2009/05/19
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Watercolor PSD File
Gain access to the fully layered Photoshop file for quick and easy tweakage. Great for designers who want greater customization. |
 
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Ad-Free Package
Removing the credit links will make the theme to not function properly. Theme files without the credit links can be purchased at $20. |
 
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Theme Customization
Do you want to customize this theme to include images that suit your blog’s topic? I can help you with the graphical customization. For more details, please go to the theme customization service.
Main Features
- Free forum support. visit Watercolor forum
- Compatible with IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera
- Flickr Gallery enable
- Nice background. Best viewed with a resolution of 1280px
- W3C XHTML and CSS compliant
- Gravatar enable
Plugin
Watercolor theme uses one plugin, FlickrRSS. You can display up to 5 photos in the footer. For instruction on how to install the plugin, please refer to FlickrRSS.
If you don’t install this plugin, it will not cause error to the theme. Instead, you will only see blank photo frame.
Blog Title and Description
By default, the blog title and description are using the Arial font. You can change the font style by following this instruction:
- Open “header.php”
- Remove this code
<div id=”blogtitle”><a href=”<?php echo get_option(’home’); ?>”><?php bloginfo(’name’); ?></a></div>
<div id=”subtitle”><?php bloginfo(’description’);?></div>
- Save the file and upload to your server
- Download this PSD zip file
- Extract and open the PSD file in the Photoshop program
- Add the title and description using your desired font
- Save the image using this name: bg_header.jpg
- upload the image to your server in the /images folder to replace the old one
User Showcase
The followings are a few examples of nice modification of this theme from other users. You can view all the nice design in the forum theme showcase.
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Change log
2009-03-04 v1.00 – Release
2009-05-11 v1.01 – Modify the javascript to fix the height of dynamic content, move javascript to seperate .js file
2009-05-11 v1.02 – Fix IE problem (only change style.css)
2009-07-14 – Theme is compatible with WP 2.8
2009-08-21 v1.03 – Fix: Show pagination on single.php
just awsome!! if somebody could turn this to blogspot…:(
My official converter, Falconhive.com has just converted this theme to blogspot. Check it out!
LOVE it! I’ve been waiting for something different to use on my blog. This theme is perfect. Thanks for designing it!
thaaaanks!:x:x
It took me just one evening to implement your template, create my site pages, and paste in my content.
You are a very talented designer.
Thanks so much. My site looks wonderful.
Thanks for this really beautiful theme, I love it!
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Bummer, I have to keep listing your theme on CMSTheme.NET
Another great theme!
http://www.cmstheme.net/theme/wordpress/watercolor.html
Which font are you using for the header on the demo?
The font is Anke Calligraphic FG, which you can download free from http://www.dafont.com/anke-calligraphic-f.font
Wonderful template! If only you could turn it to Opera
Anyway, you’re a very good designer. 
Tried to use but got an error message for line 26 of index.php. Any suggestions as to how to fix or what the problem is?
Thanks.
Wakar
thanks for the amazing theme
I wish I could create a good one someday 
What happened to the tag cloud?
The tag cloud is working fine in the demo. Could you be more specified about your issue?
Hi, I love this template…..very beautiful! On mine, I can’t get rid of two remarks that are to the left of the purple date tags …it just says “Undefined” instead of the month and date for the purple tabs. How do I fix this? Thank you!
Cher
Hi, as specified on http://www.templatelite.com/for-blogger-blogspot-template-users/, I don’t provide support for the Blogger template. Bloggerstyles.com will.
Hey Cher, if you go to “http://www.bloggerstyles.com/watercolor-blogger-template/” it will show you how to set up the date.
I think it is a nice theme. I am in the process of setting up a site with this theme but have a small problem. I can not see google ads in the sidebar when viewing live with IE. It is fine in Firefox. I have tried adding the code in a text widget and directly in sidebar.php and both ways I can not see the ads when viewing in IE.
Please send me your blog’s URL so I’ll go take a look.
I’m having some trouble with the theme in IE6. The posts layout doesn’t seem to display correctly .. the posts go outside the post layout. Looks fabulous in FF and I haven’t modified any codes or styles. Any clues on how correct this? In case it’s user error, I’m inserting a screen capture link to display what I’m seeing..
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l300/befuzled/RS%20ALbum/IE6watercolors.jpg
Please clear the cache and try.
Are you using the Blogger template? I think that the Blogger version of this template doesn’t work on IE6. You have to check with Bloggerstyles to find out more.
Nopes.. Its wordpress. Here’s my site: http://www.rambivilous.com/ (I shoulda posted that for you in the first place) The only thing I’ve done is put in widgets to the side bar… Grr IE drives me batty
Hi Patti, your feedback has helped me find out the bug of my theme. Thanks!
I have changed the style.css (just one file) to fix the IE6 problem and revise to 1.02.
Hi, I love the watercolor theme but cannot get it to work. I get a fatal error that says Fatal error: Call to undefined function post_class()” in “/watercolor/index.php on line 26″.
I’ve tried removing all the widgets before installing but that has not made any difference. I checked the code on the W3C site and it said it looked like something wasn’t closed. I couldn’t find what that was (only having very little knowledge of this). Do you think you could help? I tried downloading the one here on your site in case it would work but still no luck. I put in the URL above if you want to see for yourself.
Again, I’d love to use this theme if you can let me know how to get it working. Thank you.
Wakar
I see that your blog runs on WordPress 2.5.1 but my themes work on ver 2.7+
Please upgrade your Wordpress and install the theme. If you have problem installing, please let me know again.
Thanks, I love your creation. I’m currently using this on Blogspot. Falconhive.com converted it perfectly.
Could you share installation manuals for this theme for livejournal?
Thank you in advance!!
Are you saying to convert this theme to Livejournal? If so, I am sorry that I have no plan for that. For the installation guide, you can find it at http://www.templatelite.com/installation-guide/
Gorgeous! As soon as I get my hosting I’ll come back and get it!
Thank you so much for your themes! I’m thrilled with Watercolor, but I’m having one small issue. The date tabs on the left are not appearing. I haven’t changed anything on the template except to remove the category listing at the end of each post. The dates have been missing since I installed it.
Any ideas on where to look?
I have WP 2.7.1
Thank you!
hi there…
Thanks so much for sharing this layout.. i totally love it.. However, i’m facing a problem with the menu bar.. may i know if it’s possible for me to add more than 4 icons at the menu bar.. Hope to hear from you soon.. Thanks again
Due to the design limitation, the number of header menu is limited to 4. I am sorry that there is nothing much I can do.
oh i see… Actually im using this template in blogspot but i have this problem where the words always go out of margin… Could you please help me with it ?? My website is
http://soldout-shopaholicepitomist.blogspot.com/
Thanks a lot
I am sorry that I don’t provide Blogspot related issues as specified on http://www.templatelite.com/for-blogger-blogspot-template-users/
Thank you so much for this template! I love it!
Great work! Keep it up!
Thank you for this theme Brian. I love it! Keep up the great work! I hope to someday be able to make something as nice as this for Wordpress. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Fantastic theme liked it so much now using it for my website/blog and it works a dream. Hoping to be able to convert it for sohoadmin and b2evolution … if that is ok with you of course … will be sure to credit you for the initial design on each of these. Lovely job, well done.
All the best
Midge
Sure Midge, you can convert to sohoadmin and b2evolution if you like. Thanks!
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I like it so much.. I will post it as a good blog template
Hi Brian!
First av all, I looove this theme! All of your themes, actually. No more looking the web around for themes, you only need this site.
But I have two questions:
I use to have the Meta-widget with links to admin-login, support, rss etc. But it seems to disapeard. Is it a problem solved in the theme or do I have to look somwhere else?
There is no archive.php-file in the theme? Do I solve it by writing my own or by a plugin? Or do I’ve missed something?
Maybe this is not something you support? In that case, could you give me a hint where I should seek the answer?
Keep up your good work, I could only dream of being that talent.
Thanks for all the lovely themes!
// Linda
@Lorei, the Meta widget should work, please check “Available widget” in the widget page.
As for the archive code, I merge it into index.php. You can edit the code in index.php or take the code and save it as archive.php.
Hope this helps
I love this theme! Thank you so much for sharing your talent! I love all the themes .. and am trying to figure out how to use them all in different blogs. HAHA otherwise I am going to keep changing my theme monthly. LOL
I have gotten 2 fatal errors so far.
First is when I use the search box. I get the following:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function semantic_entries() in /home/grtweb9/public_html/grtblog/wp-content/themes/watercolor/search.php on line 22
Second is when I click on one of the tag cloud links. I get the following:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function semantic_entries() in /home/grtweb9/public_html/grtblog/wp-content/themes/watercolor/tag.php on line 19
also what are the increment font sized for the Tags in the tag cloud? I would like to shring the large font down a little so it isn’t quite so big and that is only at 2 tags.
thanks for all your help! And I cannot wait to see the new themes you share!
Kimberly
@Kimberly, my themes don’t have that function semantic_entries(). Maybe this is some plugins problem. You can try to switch the theme to the default one and try to search and click on the tag again. That functions seem to be created by wpframework..
If you are facing the same problem on the default theme, then you should check which plugin is causing the problem.
To change the tag font size for the tag widget is quite troublesome and I still don’t have a good solution yet.
thanks for the info. however, the search.php is part of your files to upload, regardless. checking with wpframework fixed the problem … you need to change the semantic_entries() to post_class() — easy fix. however, I get a new error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function framework_get_terms() in /home/XXXXXX/public_html/XXXXXX/wp-content/themes/watercolor/search.php on line 46
and there is nothing I can find on framework_get_terms() at wpframework site. considering that you validate everything and it’s up to date, adding outdated files to upload with your package defeats the purpose.
when I switch back to the default and add the search widget, it works perfect. As much as I love and adore this template, I cannot afford to have fatal errors come up on my blog as I am using it try to boost sales at my website.
I like the tag cloud feature as well, so I am looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
You really do awesome work. Thanks for working so hard and sharing with all of us.
by the way, are the files all the same in every template you offer? I don’t have time to check other templates right now to see if the search box or tag cloud work without errors. but if they all have the same search.php, it might be something you may want to check.
thanks again.
Kimberly
@Kimberly, I am quite curious. Until now, none my themes have search.php. I also don’t use wpframework to build my themes.
Did you download the theme from my site?
I did upload the template files directly from your site. I am in the process of uploading several other templates to check. I have a friend that also uploaded the watercolor template to her blog and also has the exact same errors I did with both the search box and tag cloud. I have not had time to fix her blog yet, as she is in the decision process of what templates to change to, if at all.
Neither one of us wants to switch, as we both love your templates. So I am taking some time today to do some research on some of your other templates. I can let you know which ones I upload and if they work or not.
thanks
Kimberly
Hey Brian,
I got rid of all the templates in my WP other than the default. Then I uploaded a fresh copy from here then FTP’d to my blog. The search button works perfect and the file that caused issues is gone! Woot! Off to do that same for the other blog!
thanks for having such amazing templates! I may even use the Grunge style! Love it!!!
Kimberly
I’m using this beautiful theme for my first blog, and I thank you for making it available.
I do have some questions about modification:
1. Can I adjust number of links that can be posted? More than four will not appear.
2. Can the FlickrRSS be modified for, perhaps, a privacy policy statement or AdSense? Any other use of the space would be appreciated.
3. Can you modify the layout to include a translation widget? Google’s simply does not work with this theme. In fact, no other widgets ‘work’ with this theme. I would really like to keep the sleek and stylish appearance of Watercolor.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks again for making this lovely theme available free of charge.
@Bobby Jean,
1. Due to the design, the number of links to be displayed in the top menu is limited to 4.
2. A lot of time is needed to modify the Flickr section. I am sorry that I don’t have the time to do it currently.
3. The translation widget works for Wordpress. Seems like you are using the blogspot version of this theme. Please go to http://www.bloggerstyles.com to get help.
Lovely theme! I just paid $20 to remove the credit link
Wondering how long before I get instructions
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Could you please send me a decrypted template.php in text file to my email?
I would like to edit way showing your credits and website information in Latvian, not in English. I’ll translate it.
Waiting for your email – Kaste
btw – Very nice theme
@Kaste, please send me the translated text and I’ll add it for you.
Still waiting for translated template.php !
Thanks for the great help today! Love the theme, but there’s one last thing that doesn’t seem to work – the flickr pics.
I’ve had flickrRss for a long time so it should work perfectly, but there’s no way that is displays more than one picture. I’ve tried changing the settings in flickrRss from user to sets – chaning number of pictures and to take different size pictures – but still – not more than one. I have not changed the number of pictures it should display – using the default 5.
Any hints?
– Anett -
@Anett, please post your issues in the Watercolor forum. I no longer provide support in the comment section.
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Thank, nice theme.
Just a superb theme.. i love this theme.
thank you
Watercolor Theme Wordpress Templatelite…
Colorful as it is, this theme uses a lot of free style and smudging techniques, thus giving you the watercolor painting look that is so different from other themes you have seen….
@Kimberly, glad to see you have solved the problem
The coding of my themes are clean so under normal circumstances, they should work well on any blogs.