The ‘Kubrick’ template is an easy to install, highly customizable open source template for WordPress. As Kubrick has been adopted by the WordPress crew, all support for Kubrick is handled by WordPress. I do not answer Kubrick support mails.
Please Note: Kubrick is no longer developed by me, but is instead shipped by default with WordPRess. I suggest you instead take a look at the in-development and considerably more advanced (and well-coded) K2 for WordPress.
Open Source
The Kubrick template is free and as open source, allowing you to make whatever changes you see fit, and even release the results, as long as you release it under the same terms as you received it.
WordPress Bundling
As per version 1.5, a ported version of Kubrick v1.2.6 has been bundled with WordPress as the default style. The FAQ covers version 1.2.6 only, all other support should go to the WordPress Forums
WordPress 1.5 can be downloaded from the WordPress site. Please be aware that the bundled version differs in various ways from the one you find here. If you are using WordPress 1.5, don’t bother downloading Kubrick v1.2.6.
Kubrickr
Owen Winkler has made a utility which can be used to easily replace the default blue Kubrick header with an image of your choosing. It works with flickr, and is thusly named Kubrickr.
Frequently Asked Questions
This is a selection of questions that have popped up more than once. I no longer support Kubrick, as the work load is simply too much. Sorry.
Q: How do I get the same menu that you have on your site?
A: By ripping out the source code from my site.
Q: How do I get those nice titles that you have on your site?
A: Here
Q: I’m having problems with the trackback and/or the RSS for comments on an entry not working…
A: I don’t know what’s causing this. The code is kosher, a copy of the same code that is used in the default template that comes with WordPress 1.2. If you figure out what is causing this, by all means, let me know.
Q: I’ve tried adding the code that enables popup comments, but the window that pops up is all jumbled!?
A: I purposefully disabled the popup comments. Kubrick 1.2.5 doesn’t as such support the use of them, though I certainly won’t rule out that I might create a patch at some point to fix this. Until then, the file you want to have a look at, is called wp-comments-popup.php…
Q: How do I make the column of text on permalinks wider? And why are they so small?!
A: They’re so small because it makes for easier reading, and I like whitespace. But you can change it by opening wp-layout.css, go to line 235, which should be .widecolumn {. In that class, you can change the width. It’s 450px per default. The margins should adjust automatically.
Q: I want to use only CSS, how do I remove the use of images?
A: Open index.php and remove everything between and including line 16 (/* BEGIN IMAGE CSS /) and line 33 (/ END IMAGE CSS */. This will remove all the code that loads images bundled with the template, the color information is stored in wp-layout.css.
Q: Where is the author name?!
A: I removed it, with the thought, that since most blogs are one-person operations, it isn’t used too often. The code is however still in the template. Go to line 81 in index.php and uncomment the piece of PHP code there. Then, go to line 137 (the line before it should say “This entry was posted”). Now either create a new line, or insert the following code right after ‘This entry was posted’ by <?php the_author() ?>.
Q: How do I make the entire header clickable? Currently, only the header text functions as a link…
A: Open index.php. Change line 59, from <div id=“header”> to <div id=“header” onclick=“location.href=‘http://siteaddress/’;” style=“cursor: pointer;”></div>. This will make the entire header a link.
Q: How do I remove the blog name and description in the header? My header image already has all that…
A: The best way of doing this, is to open wp-layout.css. Find the first entries you can find for ‘H1’ and ‘.description’. Now add ‘display: none;’ to the values in there. The reason for doing it this way, and not by simply deleting the code in index.php, is that this way around, it will degrade gracefully if an old browser happens to drop by.
Q: How do I enable the Calendar?
A: I don’t think the calendar serves much of a purpose, thus I disabled it by default. But the code is still in the template. Go to line 304 in index.php and delete this: <— Calendar is disabled per default. Uncomment if you want to use it. as well as line 308: —>.
Q: There is no longer a Register link on the sidebar, where did it go?
A: Most blogs do not make use of register, thus I removed it from the template. The code is still in there though. Go to line 332 in index.php and delete the <!— and line 334 and delete —>.
Q: On the archive pages, all HTML seems to have been stripped out of my entries! Also, only part of the entry is shown!
A: That’s because the archives uses a function called the_excerpt. If you want to change it, so that it behaves like the frontpage, go to line 229 in index.php and change from <?php the_excerpt() ?> to <?php the_content(‘Read the rest of this entry »’); ?>.