Latest Version: 3.0
Updated on: 2011/03/31
Here it goes. The Coffee Desk, my newest theme that I am very proud of 
I should have released it last week but I got stuck in making the theme compatible with ALL major browsers. I have tried many ways in HTML and CSS but just couldn’t make it display well in major browsers. Finally, I am glad that I found the solutions using jQuery!
This is the first theme I created 3 months after the “Simple Style” theme. Sorry to let you all wait for so long but I will my best to release at least 2 quality themes per month. Hope you like the Coffee Desk theme and visit this site regularly for more releases in future!
By using this theme for FREE, you agree to accept the external links.
The following is an example of a custom design of the Coffee Desk theme.
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Main Features
- Free forum support. visit Coffee Desk forum
- Nice background. Best viewed with a resolution of 1280px
- Compatible with IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera
- W3C XHTML and CSS compliant
- Gravatar enable
Things to take note
Header Links
1) Limit the number of the header links to 4 only. If you display more than 4 links, the “paper note” will overlap with the “coffee cup”.
2) Control the length of the links to within 2 lines.
Blog Title
Currently, the blog title is using the Arial font. You can change the font style by following this instruction:
- Open “header.php”
- Remove this code
<div id=”blogtitle”><a class=”<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>”><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></a></div>
- Save the file and upload to your server
- Open “images/bg_header.jpg” in image editing software
- Add your desired font and content to the image
- Save the image and upload to your server
Blog Description
If you don’t want to display the blog description, simply remove this line from “header.php”:
<div id=”subtitle”><?php bloginfo(‘description’);?></div>
Post Title
Coffee Desk theme allows up to 2 lines for the post title without distorting the design.
Bottom of the Content Area
The white space size below the content area is not a constant. Sometimes you’ll see a big gap, sometimes the gap is small and fits well. This is a design constraint and is not an error.
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
2009-02-24 v1.00 – Release
2009-03-05 v1.01 – Fixed comment display problem in IE.
2009-04-21 v1.02 – Modified the javascript to fix the height of dynamic content.
2009-05-11 v1.03 – Moved Javascript to a .js file. Fixed Tag Cloud widget display problem.
2009-07-14 – Theme is compatible with WP 2.8
2011-03-31 v3.00 – New – Added drop-down menu, ad-widget, Options page, advanced automatic thumbnails, custom style, custom menu (works on WP 3+ onwards) and enabled localization (translation).
163 Comments
LOVE this theme!!! I’m currently using it.
Carey Sue
I would like to incorporate a few photos on my blog and am wondering if it would be possible to have the option of ‘thumb tacking’ a photo in place of the coffee cup?
I have NO idea what all that entails from your end, but thought I would ask!
I LOVE the pen, with the search function in it… I LOVE the note pad appearance, and much much more. Thanks for the cool theme!!!
@Carey, the Photoshop file of this theme allows you to turn off the coffee cup layer. You can then add your photo in that area.
Great job with all of your templates! I really love Coffee Desk theme and I will use for my WPblog. Could you tell me how I can get it with full CSS files? Is it OK with WP2.9.1.
Thank you!
@Ebtsun, just click on the download link to get the theme. And it works well on WP2.9.1
Isn’t wordpress great! Its great to see you supporting the folks that use you theme. I started a gourmet coffee blog this fall and am making it one of my 2010 projects. I’ve been looking at themes for a few months. This one looks good. Do you do any sponsered themes?
Thanks,
Joe @ the Gourmet Coffee Blog
Whats the encoded string in template.php in this template? It looks like a virus and reports as one to some of my visitors, as I am using this on a site.
@Garth, template.php contains links to the advertisers who sponsor the theme. Since the theme is available for free and to prevent others from removing the links, I have no choice but to encode them. I assure you it is not a virus.
If you want to remove the credit links, you can purchase the ad removal package at $20.
Hope this clears your doubt
You should be proud. This is lovely!
I love the design.. Great job.. Quick question though. Does this design support -subpages?
@Neil, yes. The subpages links will be displayed in the sidebar.
Hi.
Is there any way that this can be changed into a Tumblr theme? I’m really in love with it and would love to use it for my Tumblr.
@Sara, this theme is available in WordPress and Blogspot. As far as I know, this theme has not been converted to Tumblr.
nice theme
i ll use it. it’s pretty good thanks for sharing
Hi Brian,
I wanted to drop by and say I absolutely LOVE the work you do. I’ve been on this site so many times oogling your beautiful work. When I decided to redo the theme for my blog, the Coffee Desk theme was the one I chose (The one with the books was a close second). Anyway, I modified it a little and it not only works perfectly, but my readers are thoroughly enjoying it. They said they feel like they are peeking at my notes.
If you have a chance, come on by and check it out. It can be found at bloggingwithoutablog.com
I hope you like what I did.
Thank you again. Your fabulous work in not going unnoticed.
@Barbara, good to hear that you like my themes. And the slight modification of the theme looks fantastic on your blog
Hi brian..
First I want to say thanks for your great work.. I just modify title and add plugin featured content gallery,
oh y.. I have a question, how to change font in my posting? ex:to Lucida Handwriting, because I want to change font in my blog to handwriting type..
oh.. I almost forgot I had made desktop screenshot from your template, and I will upload to deviantart, I hope you like it, the link I’ll post next…
And the last, sorry for my bad english ^.^
@2nd_frozenheart, glad to see you like this theme.
As for your question, please post it in the theme support forum and I’ll address it there.
Btw, thanks for submitting the screenshot to devianart. Appreciate it.
i suuuppperrrr LOVE ur theme!!! Can u possibly make this into a Tumblr theme? Please?
@Renee, Tumblr is growing in popularity and I’ll do a feasibility study about offering my themes in Tumblr. But it won’t be implemented in the next 6 months at least due to the current tight schedule.