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Albeo Theme exclusively on Wordpress.com

Posted on: Wednesday, Sep 3, 2008

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I made this theme specifically for Wordpress.com users. You can find more details about this theme on the release post on the Wordpress blog located here.

Please let me know your thoughts about our latest theme in the comments below.  Thanks!

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78 Responses to “Albeo Theme exclusively on Wordpress.com”

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Raul S.

September 3rd, 2008 at 4:56 pm
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Is the best theme of WordPress.com, congratulations! But doesn’t have to WordPress.org? :(

Gis

September 3rd, 2008 at 5:22 pm
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Oooh dear, amazing!! Thanks to you now there’s gonna be way more prettier blogs in wordpress!! hehe :D

nina

September 3rd, 2008 at 9:11 pm
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3

Cool……..

Julia

September 3rd, 2008 at 10:44 pm
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4

I absolutely love it. It has the aesthetic I’ve been looking for!

Rebecca

September 4th, 2008 at 12:53 am
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SWEEEEEET!
colourful, i like it!
using it NOW :D

Suffian

September 4th, 2008 at 2:43 am
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Props. It’s quite fresh and very easy on the eyes. Do you have plans for other color palettes?

Jaroslaw Zielinski

September 4th, 2008 at 6:09 am
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7

Nice theme… can you also make it avaiable in Polish language? I can help with translation…

Francisco

September 5th, 2008 at 1:51 am
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Wow, where you get so much inspiration?! Other beautiful design, congratulations!

Joel

September 5th, 2008 at 9:49 am
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Wow, you have a great blog. The template is so awesome! I’ll be visiting next time…

Blackened Fish Recipe

Karen

September 5th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
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I love the theme, however, the text does not render over well. If you have text in a blockquote, it does not recognize paragraphs or full sentences.

Here is an example.

Please tell me what I should do.

Thanks

that girl again

September 5th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
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But doesn’t have to WordPress.org? :(

The theme is publically available along with all the other wordpress.com themes via svn. So it’s not really exclusive to wordpress.com; it’s also available to geeks who can use svn, not to mention any really dedicated person willing to download each file individually.

@Karen: this is due to the way the CSS is coded, so unless you already have the CSS upgrade the only way to change it is to contact Automattic.

Iphone Focus

September 5th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
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Cool idea. I happen to think it’s one of the best out there, but maybe that’s just me. Thanks for your interesting ideas

JC

September 6th, 2008 at 10:45 am
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Love your theme’s, I came here because of your new Wordpress theme now in use on my daily wordpress blog, love to download another theme here for my other websites.

;-)

Oki Helfiska

September 6th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
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How to me add embed video to post or add widget not function ?

Karen

September 6th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
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Oh dear, I didn’t know you had to have a CSS paid account for this gorgeous layout. Ah, it’s going to be hard to separate from it.

Thanks.

celery

September 6th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
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I love this theme and has used it for my blog. One thing I wish I can change is the font and colour of the title of the blog. The font colour is black..

But.. whatever it is I love all your designs!!! they’re are contagious.. BEAUTIFUL! well done :)

Doraemon

September 7th, 2008 at 2:33 am
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The theme is nice. Especially the colors. But I don’t feel quite comfortable with the font.

Overall it looks fine. Thanks

Sheila

September 7th, 2008 at 9:01 am
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I love this design.Thanks

BTW, I would love to use the dilectio theme for my wordpress theme.How do I go about it?Can teach me? Thanks =)

basel

September 7th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
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it is a very beutifull websit

Dilip

September 9th, 2008 at 2:58 am
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20

Its really a cool one… i used it in my Blog……

Emma

September 9th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
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21

I will remember you when it’s time for me to change the layout for my site http://www.vildawebben.com :O)

reinaq

September 9th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
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22

its cery cute ilike ot

trance

September 10th, 2008 at 6:26 am
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@ that girl again

the theme is made for wordpress.com so if you download it from svn you must modify some code to make it work.

Pin

September 11th, 2008 at 8:47 am
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Not just beautiful design, but the great understanding making the theme work with WordPress structure.

ruth triana

September 11th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
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25

it’s very great..luv your design..so so so beautifull..

Zahra

September 11th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
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26

its available on wordpress theme now?
how we can get it?

hardy

September 12th, 2008 at 5:24 am
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27

when we can download it?

Hisham

September 15th, 2008 at 2:47 am
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28

very good design!

Karin

September 15th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
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Love this design so much… I already use Illacrimo for another personal project - self-hosted and not at WordPress - and I would love to use Albeo too!

I have downloaded the Albeo files from the SVN link.

You write “you must modify some code to make it work.” Which code and how? I would love to know, but I am not a programmer!

Haibra

September 17th, 2008 at 1:11 am
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Cool , but i want to download it, i found it here > http://svn.automattic.com/wpcom-themes/albeo/ .. but how i can download it !!

Jose Thomas

September 18th, 2008 at 6:01 am
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31

Wow.. Beautiful… I likes this design

Freak

September 18th, 2008 at 11:00 am
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32

from where we can download this theme????????

Jay

September 18th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
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This theme is very customizable via CSS; thank you for all the semantic ids and classes.

One request: could you add a body class for the types of content, i.e., posts, pages, categories, archives, etc.?

That would allow us to style the category lists differently, since the text is truncated …

Jamie Le Souef

September 18th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
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34

Great theme! It’s really great to see pro themes being released!

zihuahua

September 18th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
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35

Thank you for your design (it’s the best one by far) - I am using it for my wordpress blog! :-)

Jez

September 23rd, 2008 at 1:05 pm
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Hi,

Your insense download link is broken… just thought Id let you know.

Nice designs :-)

DD fan

September 25th, 2008 at 9:30 am
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I’ve seen your themes before and they totally rock. I was so happy to see Albeo! But please, pretty please… It’d be so much nicer is the archive view could show the whole posts and not just snippets with [...] in the end. I mean, readers just won’t click on every single day if they want to read all the posts they missed, you know? It’s so much easier to be able to view everything at once. If anyone wants to read the archives for a whole month, no one is going to go through 30 clicks for each day. :( And the fact that the pictures are not viewable in the snipped archive pages isn’t so nice either. :( Those are the reasons why I went back to my old theme… :( So sad, though, because Albeo sure wins for beauty.

Ralph

September 30th, 2008 at 11:33 am
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As a newbie I explored all 60 Wordpress themes and Albeo is by far the best one for color and layout and cheerfulnes. Red is my favorite so the titles stand out

Ralph

September 30th, 2008 at 11:43 am
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what is are trackbacks/pings?

chaiguy1337

October 1st, 2008 at 11:16 am
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40

Hi there. I think your Albeo theme is beautiful and am using it for my computer science blog, piHole.

My one complaint/request is that the “Top/Latest/Tags” widget be customizable so that we can pick the initially-selected pane. I love the Recent Comments look as it gives the blog a more chatty/interactive feel and want that to always show up first instead of Top Posts!

Seajay

October 1st, 2008 at 11:31 am
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Is there any way to style types of pages? For example, I’d like to style the main content on the category and tag pages in a way that is different from the home or permalink pages, but I see no body classes to allow me to do so.

Hari Nair

October 4th, 2008 at 5:55 am
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Well, it kind of jumped up and caught me from the Themes selection page. And that does not happen often. Very nice.

One comment - about Comments, actually. Would be nice if there is some way of getting a Comments link at the bottom of the post. Seems to give a more natural flow to it that way. minor quibble though.

YNa

October 5th, 2008 at 7:39 am
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43

the colour is so soft, so beautiful :)

ehtsham

October 9th, 2008 at 1:28 am
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very nice theme, its just perfect for me, but i want to use it for wordpress.org blog, i downloaded the files from the svn to my local machine and run it through localhost but it gives following error, i am not php guy so please help how i can fix this

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in C:\xampp\htdocs\albeo\index.php on line 1

ehtsham

October 9th, 2008 at 2:07 am
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ohh sorry i just fixed that issue i was putting it on root need to put it in theme folder, but now another issue comes in, here is the error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function post_class() in /–t/—/—-/—-/—-/—–/wp-content/themes/albeo/index.php on line 6

dont know what to do pleaseeee help

Matheus Santos

October 9th, 2008 at 7:20 am
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The WP.org theme is here: http://vixpta.deviantart.com/ in Portuguese…

Parantar

October 13th, 2008 at 12:10 am
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ohh wow!!! this is so beautiful theme!!! i wanna download it

Vram

October 19th, 2008 at 8:51 am
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すごいなあ!本当に美しいね。。。
(Amazing! Its really beautiful…)

i really loved this design… wow… keep it up, you are really an artist!
haha..i’m just new at blogging… uguu~~ T_T i guess i can never ever catch up to you guys… sadly, my blog sucks..
but yeah..thanks to you..i think i’ve become inspired just by looking at your masterpieces.. thanks really! ^_^
-vram-

dev

October 20th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
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49

wordpress.org or self host can use this theme?
and where can i download it?

thank

Mocha Fudge

October 23rd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
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50

Yeah.. I saw and tried this theme on Wordpress but I still do hope to have it on Self Wordpress Hosted sites

hackworm

October 27th, 2008 at 9:59 am
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51

good theme thanks :)

butter

October 28th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
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the theme is rocking, one of the most popular out there, congratulations

shirish

November 1st, 2008 at 2:21 am
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came here as just like others my blog also uses your theme. Would love to try some other teams for another blog I hope to set up soon as well.

Bunbun

November 3rd, 2008 at 2:49 am
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54

Came here to use your theme, it is rocking and most popular within.

Regards
Bunbun

Xiao Xiong

November 3rd, 2008 at 2:50 am
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55

Thanks for this cool theme.

HRHR

November 3rd, 2008 at 2:51 am
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56

I loving this theme !!

Lilz020

November 3rd, 2008 at 8:15 am
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That’s my Wordpress theme!!!!=) It’s a wonderful theme.Nice work!

chaotic queen.

November 6th, 2008 at 8:36 am
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i’ve got crazy about this theme, its SO beautiful, so clean, nice and lovely. but then i’m really sad. theres NO way i can see my links set anymore.
i wont be able to keep using it if i cant have my links on it. Am I doing anything wrong? Thats completey frustating, ’cause i was never so happy like i’m with this theme. :( if you could help me, i would thank you till death.

chaotic queen.

November 6th, 2008 at 8:43 am
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‘im so sorry, now i’ve got it! i just add some widgets and its all working just fine! great work congrats

Nelson

November 7th, 2008 at 12:47 am
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I stumbled into a WordPress.com-based blog via a visitor in one of my sites and when I realized how nicely it was made, I couldn’t help but rush to the footer. I was really surprised to find out that it was from Design Disease. Truly, you’re one of those out there whom I highly look up into when it comes to designing WordPress themes!

AndiQ CJDW

November 8th, 2008 at 7:08 am
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It’s very amazing themes. greats job.

amrizal

November 17th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
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slam knl to smua,,oa,,to wordpress da nga teme yang lebih indah ge……………

异人

November 19th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
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63

来自中国的朋友,支持你!

ridhoyp

November 20th, 2008 at 1:32 am
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This very cool website i ever seen.. so cool.. love it so much…!!!!!!!!!

sayan mukherjee

November 22nd, 2008 at 1:21 am
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graet work, beautiful theme.

WebGirlie

November 23rd, 2008 at 7:29 pm
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Oh wow, I love it. I needed a new theme for my blog and this is just lovely. I truly adore the widget - would love to be able to customize it and use it more than once because it’s the exact sort of organization that I’ve been begging to see.

Thank you!!

在法国

November 24th, 2008 at 4:59 am
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67

Nice theme, you are so cool ^^

Umut Kurtalanlı [ From Turkey age : 16 ]

November 29th, 2008 at 10:20 am
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I’m gonna use this for my Math Site. :)
Thank’s For Creation.

/°^°\

November 30th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
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Hey I really like your Albeo theme, was dissapointed though that it was only for premium use. But nice style also on this site! Sad that the bg in this textfield isn’t fix, is this possible at all? Guess not as you would have probably done that. Anyway I saw one similar free theme here on this site!

/°^°\

November 30th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
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Wow, must be my day, I just went back to my wp blog into the themes and see that all over sudden albeo is in there. Great I’ll be using it there!
thx a lot.

中国人Chinese

November 30th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
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支持你下~~~不错的皮肤~

Dukessa

December 1st, 2008 at 5:14 pm
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I downloaded the latest svn (1425) and uploaded to my blog via http://ftp…and I get that same error of etsham:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function post_class() in /mnt/local/home/****/wp-content/themes/albeo/index.php on line 6

Both with IE7 and FF2 :(

I didn’t make any change cos I dont want to make mistakes, so maybe this is a problem of the latest svn?
How can we solve it?

ben

December 3rd, 2008 at 10:04 am
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73

i love this theme so much. been trying to add my Flickr page. Can i do that?

Aaron Irizarry

December 4th, 2008 at 6:37 am
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74

beautiful theme! very nice work.

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