Pretty Parchment by Lloyd Armbrust
Pretty Parchment is a WordPress theme designed with an earthy cotton-paper look–I can almost feel the paper cuts!
As usual this WordPress theme is released under the PGL. This includes the CSS, XHTML, and design–and you can do whatever you want with it!
So, feel free to spruce it up and personalize it with your own images, or burn in on a CD and bury it in the snow out of shear spite! I even made it super easy for the average teenage clown to remove my credit link in the footer! Go ahead, annex my glory!
But seriously, if you do something cool with it, let me know and post a link in the comments below.
Download the Pretty Parchment WordPress theme (as soon as WP approves it).
December 15th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Hello!
I really like your theme and would like to use it on my site, but I couldn’t find anywhere information whether it supports widgets or not. Could you please answer me? Thanks
December 15th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Glad you like it. Yes, it does support widgets. Please let me know if you have any problems!
December 18th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Hello!
We “tweeted” on Twitter earlier. :) I wanted to demo this theme, Pretty Parchment, but the link indicates a different theme, similar to this one. But this might not be a problem as it can be previewed on WordPress’ site, here: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/pretty-parchment
I think you should use a different color for H1, as white is not too visibile with the yellow background. I will test your theme soon and give you more feedback about it. :)
All the best!
December 18th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Hey Daniel,
I fixed the H1 css error and pushed it to wordpress.org. Hopefully, they’ll have that up a few days. Also, I fixed the link above.
If you want the updated theme before WP updates it, let me know and I’ll e-mail it to you.
December 26th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
thanks so much for this beautiful theme!
i’m sporting it at: http://singlenotescale.com/
in the past, i would remove who did a theme, but you seriously deserve recognition. so, feel proud i didn’t rip your name off of it and claim i did it or something! :P
thanks again!
January 13th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Hey man, thanks for the theme, it looks great.
January 13th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Thanks guys, I really appreciate it!
@leah, thanks, that’s a huge compliment. I pretty much expect everyone to remove the link, so that’s awesome. You did a nice job customizing it.
May 1st, 2009 at 10:15 am
Thanks for the awesome theme. I love how beautiful and calm it is. I have made some small changes to it, but mostly in functionality, not in appearance.
I have one question though. When I open my blog to my main page, it does not automatically display the link to the previous article directly above my title. If I go to any specific article, I get that link. I want that link to show up all the time. Would you be able to show me the code change necessary for that?
Great work!
May 1st, 2009 at 10:44 am
I keep trying to post to this site and it keeps failing. I suspect you are working on the site at this moment!
Anyway, great theme. Thank you very much. I was looking for something tranquil and beautiful and I found it. I made some functionality changes, but i have pretty much left the appearance as it was.
I do have one question, though. When I visit the front page of my blog, I do not get the link to the previous post at the top of the page like I do when i visit any specific post. How can I get that link to show up all the time?
Thanks again for posting such an awesome theme.
May 7th, 2009 at 4:30 am
I so love your theme- it is perfect for what I want for my new blog.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:23 am
I really like the theme a lot! It is so calming
August 13th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Hi, I just changed my theme to Pretty Parchment. One thing surprised me–in my WP admin panel, I can click on the place under Appearance to customize the header image and font, etc.—but it doesn’t seem that I can put up an image from here. Do I have to go somewhere else to do it? If I do, I think the admin panel’s info is misleading. Thank you.
August 14th, 2009 at 7:53 am
@Elizabeth That’s part of the new WP interface that came out in 2.7–we haven’t upgraded any of our themes to work in the fancy 2.7+ admin interface, so I apologize for that, but technically that’s WP’s fault for making their product so awesome! The short answer to your problem is that their is no easy way to do it. For this theme it would require knowledge of Photoshop, XHTML, CSS, and maybe some PHP.
@Marie Thanks!
September 15th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Hi! I love the theme and am working on making minor customizations. The last thing I’d like to do is delete the flower graphic at the bottom of the page (though it is pretty) because I’m having problems with it crashing into my copy, as on this page: http://amandahelms.com/about/
The graphic doesn’t seem to be part of the footer file, and I’m having problems finding it. If it’s related to the Image Attachment Template, I’m hesitant to change the whole file in case I’d like to include it later. Would you mind directing me to the “get” code or whatever it is so I can leave it out that way? Thanks!
September 15th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Must have been an error on my part.
Simply add “padding-bottom: 120px;” into the body tag in your style.css file.
It should look like this:
body {
font-size: 62.5%; /* What did one em say to another? Who’s your daddy?! */
font-family: ‘Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
color: #333;
text-align: center;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
min-height: 600px;
padding-bottom: 120px;
}
I also added the “min-height” element for good measure.
BTW: You should be able to edit theme file (style.css is what you
want) via the WP admin interface, or via FTP. The body tag is easy to
find at the top of the CSS.
September 29th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Hello,
While attempting to add an image to my sidebar, I think I deleted some of the code as the nice background for my sidebar categories disappeared (I thought I had properly saved the original code, but turns out I’d only saved the altered code). Would it be possible to get just the original code for the sidebar without having to reinstall the whole template?
Thanks,
Amanda Helms
January 11th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Love the theme! Perfect for what I’m doing.
I only have a couple of questions –
1. Did you know, if you create a page with the “links” template, the pretty picture at the bottom overlaps the last couple of links? I fixed this by throwing in some breaks in the link.php template before the footer, but wasn’t sure how to adapt the css to do it the “right” way.
2. Also, was curious about the choice to do no excerpts and only full text on Archive pages. not a big deal – I can work with it, and if I wanted could probably make a child theme and change it – but wondered at the reason for the choice. Is it a common preference in the more “personal” themes?
Thanks again for a beautiful design.
January 11th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
ah – just noticed I had overlooked a response you had given another commenter regarding the image overlap. You can ignore that part. :)
January 14th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Amanda Helms,
just download the theme again and only copy over the .php file you need or even just the bit of code you need.
January 25th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
I love your pretty parchment theme, and I’m fairly new to WordPress. Can you tell me how to put a company logo up in the header in place of the text header? The site in question is martonijames.com.
February 5th, 2010 at 10:23 am
you will need to go into the header.php file and reference the logo where you want it to go. you most likely will need to style it so that it appears where and how you would like.
March 19th, 2010 at 9:14 am
I was having the same problem with the padding at the bottom, and now I’ve done the suggested edit and fixed it – but that seems to have made the WordPress logo hover mysteriously high on the page, up on the parchment part.
http://www.styletherapy.net – see what I mean? Any way to fix this easily?
May 20th, 2010 at 11:28 am
Hello,
I’m using your template but for some reason every time I load an image it gets overridden by a grey box with diagonal scrolls. Please help…..
May 20th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Hi Michelle,
Try putting the edit for bottom padding in #content rather than #body.. i think we want the padding at the bottom of the content area rather than below..
#content {
font-size: 1.2em;
min-height: 600px;
padding-bottom: 120px;
}
seems to have worked for me.
Blessings,
Scot
July 29th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Love the theme… I’d really like the post text to be in navy, I think it would look scrumptious with the background.
I’d also really like to get rid of the ‘just another wordpress site’ but my brain is tired.
Love reading the code, man, pretty funny. Pretty Please…
August 19th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
Great design on the theme. Any plans to update the theme for the latest version of WP? It doesn’t seem to currently work with Widgets. If I drag any widget into the sidebar, it makes the formatting and link section completely disappear.
August 20th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Great template — one question: how can we use the new WP 3.0 menus in place of the nav functionality?
Thanks
November 5th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Hi Lloyd,
Great looking theme! One question though. My sidebar is not cooperating. Some of it will have the peachish/tan background and some of it is formatted differently with a different background color. You can see it here: http://www.theprosperousmind.com
Any ideas? Sometimes I can reorganize them to get more of the widgets/plugins on the sidebar correctly, but never all of them.
Thanks for your help!
January 4th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
I love this theme but am having trouble with the homepage — Although I only have 1 “Home” page listed in my WordPress dashboard (the page I created), there are 2 “Home” pages displayed on the actual site: http://www.cowichanseeds.ca/ip/. Strangely, everything displays properly from the “In the Seed Garden” page (with only my 1 “Home” page displaying).
If I delete the “Home” page listed in the WordPress dashboard (the one I created), there is still this mysterious 2nd “Home” page on my site in the top and bottom nav menu, although it does disappear from the “Explore Our Site” widget.
Weird! I have basic web/Wordpress skillz, so please forgive my newbie-ness if this is a simple fix. Thanks.
April 28th, 2011 at 2:29 am
Nice website design. Is this a template?
June 20th, 2011 at 10:09 pm
Hi Lloyd,
Just writing to say thank you. I’m technical but a web designer and this makes my technical blog look very attractive.
Regards,
Mark
August 15th, 2011 at 4:19 am
Your theme is great but unfortunately it doesn’t support the “threded comment” feature (which is there since WP 2.7, I guess). Is it possible to add this feature?
August 15th, 2011 at 4:39 am
There is also a bug:
All over your theme you are always using “the_time”, even if it should be a date. This leads to problems and wrong dates when one is using the qTranslate plugin.
E.g. in your single.php there is a line
This entry was posted on at
which is substituted by qTranslate to “This entry was posted on 21:27 at 21:27…”. The author of qTranslate advices you to use the_date instead the_time, when a date is concerned, see here: http://www.qianqin.de/qtranslate/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3&p=1407#p1407
Would be nice, if you could fix this, so that your theme will be mulit-language ready.
December 6th, 2011 at 4:29 am
Hi & thanks for the “pretty parchment” theme. Hope my question is not too “stooopid”: in the sidebar there a META Section. – Is there a way to hide/delete it?
Thanks and keep up the great work1