Firefox Theme for your blogs

Oct 9th, 2005 by Neo

I was checking some of the Wordpress themes I downloaded and wondered I might make a theme of my own based on my favorite browser - Firefox. Wow, before long I find it actually required a lot of work and CSS knowledge…

Anyway, after a couple of days tweaking and hacking, the very first theme (based on Connections) from the Hot-screensaver is now freely available for Wordpress 1.5.

See screenshots below. Like it? Download it here.

Firefox theme

Note that this is my first attempt at hacking a Wordpress theme. Any comment or feedback are much appreciated.

Update 19 Oct 2005
I received requests to remove the Firefox logo in the theme. To download it, please go to this page.

Update 14 Jul 2006
For a WordPress 2.0 compatible version of the Firefox Theme, please visit Martin Baranski’s blog at TroubleZone.net.

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61 Responses to “Firefox Theme for your blogs”

on 09 Oct 2005 at 1:30 amjazzle

Looks like I get to the be the first to congratulate you - the theme looks great!
Could I use it as a base for my own theme?
on 09 Oct 2005 at 2:04 amJacky

Hi Jazzle, glad you like it.

Yes, you can use it as the base for your own theme. But please credit me and link back to this page. Let me know when it is released.

Thanks.
on 09 Oct 2005 at 2:14 amwongpk

Whoa! Nice Very hi-tech!
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on 11 Oct 2005 at 12:09 amNiresh

Nice
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on 11 Oct 2005 at 3:54 pmRyan Lanctot

Wow, this is one hot theme! My compliments to you on a job well done.
on 13 Oct 2005 at 5:54 pmSunny Breaks » the thin man

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on 17 Oct 2005 at 3:50 amijob

do you have the psd file avaiable for the top image?
on 17 Oct 2005 at 4:50 amwww.chengfu.net

Another note about the new layout

The new chengfu.net layout is a slightly modified version of the great Firefox-Theme by Jacky from hot-screensaver.com, thanks!

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on 17 Oct 2005 at 7:15 amNaro

Hi, i saw your theme some days ago and decided to put it on my site, obviously with some changes on it, not too much.

I’m just searching and trying to play around with it to check what else i can do for it and made it more user friendly than it is ^^

Oh by the way, xD it’s in spanish my site, but you are welcome to see what i’ve done on the theme.
on 17 Oct 2005 at 10:52 amJacky

Everyone, thanks for using my Firefox theme; and thanks for customizing it It surely feels great to see my theme being used on some of the blog sites.

ijob, yes, of course I have the PSD file for the top image. You would like to get rid of the Firefox logo? I think I can provide you with a plain top image in jpeg (without the Firefox logo and words) if you came back here again.
on 18 Oct 2005 at 12:47 amijob

Jacky, that would be great, I love the theme but for the site I am going to use it for, i would like the image without the firefox if possible.

Many thanks

ijob
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on 19 Oct 2005 at 4:52 pmindy

love this theme! thank you!
on 23 Oct 2005 at 4:20 pmjayvee f.

this will make a great base theme for my personal site. all i gotta do is customize the banner and credit you right?

the font and colors are perfect.
on 24 Oct 2005 at 2:40 amseattle

Good work!
on 29 Oct 2005 at 3:32 pmNaeem

Cheers for the awesome theme!
on 08 Nov 2005 at 8:34 pmAUF

Nice - reminds me of school
on 14 Nov 2005 at 3:11 amCollection Attorneys

Thanks for the theme - awesome!
on 18 Nov 2005 at 7:05 amCellphoneSavant

What an awesome theme! Great work!!
on 19 Nov 2005 at 3:55 amCollection Agency Quotes

Great looking theme. I think we will test it out. Thank you!
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on 09 Dec 2005 at 9:06 amJosh Bancroft

I’m considering using this theme as part of a redesign of my site. You mentioned making a version of the header/footer graphics available without the Firefox logo/wording. Can you please post them or email them to me? I’d love to use this theme, but the Firefox stuff is kind of out of place.

Thanks!
on 27 Dec 2005 at 2:46 amSrinath

seems like a great theme
on 03 Jan 2006 at 4:59 amJon

Awesome I love it. I don’t think it really works with where I want to go with my site but you do good work.
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on 14 Feb 2006 at 2:52 pmTorsten

Hi,

a very good theme.

Thx for this theme!
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on 11 Mar 2006 at 9:44 ampicture of zoroastrianism

Thank you!
on 14 Mar 2006 at 8:41 amroman-abramovich.com

Cool theme! Thank u! I am going to try it for my blog (:
on 18 Mar 2006 at 6:25 pmPaul OFlaherty

Hi, I love your theme and I’m using it as the base for a site I’m doing for a friend. (credit and link backs will be given when complete!).

I’m having a problem with the CSS rendering in IE6, as the main content area appears bigger than the header..

I’ve been headbutting the qwall for what seams like weeks now trying to figure this one out… any ideas?
on 21 Mar 2006 at 10:10 amGrace

Oooo! This is soooo cute! I’m so using it for my blog/tutorial site! Great job!
on 01 Apr 2006 at 2:02 amGrant

Hi !

I’m trying to use the theme for my new blog and was wondering how to change the sidebar box titles (’Section’, ‘Categories’, ‘Search’ etc). I can’t seem to find the code in the files to change them - can you point me in the right direction ?

Kind regards

Grant
on 01 Apr 2006 at 12:43 pmJacky

Grant,
Thank you for liking the theme. Yes, the sidebar sections are in the file sidebar.php

Hope that helps. You can post your blog URL here after you have customized it, we all would like to see it.
on 04 Apr 2006 at 9:09 amTasneem

Hi
Have installed the theme on my blog at http://blog.des-us.com, used the no firefox logo header. If the theme does not come up (I am still configuring my blog), you can just change it via theme-changer.
Thanks
on 04 Apr 2006 at 10:13 pmrustee

Hey Jacky,

Loved what you did with the template… I tweaked it abit for my site - absolutecents.os3.sg (left a link for you in the “Credits” section) but I can’t seem to get the posts to shorten ie. “Read the rest of this entry>>”.

I only changed this part of the code to

but the full posts still show.

Was wondering if I did anything wrongly. Hope you could help me out on this!!
on 04 Apr 2006 at 10:15 pmrustee

my code got left out:
on 04 Apr 2006 at 10:17 pmrustee

ok sorry for spamming i’ll try without the

?php the_content(’Read more »’); ?

hopefully it’ll show this time
on 06 Apr 2006 at 12:41 amJacky

rustee,
Are you still having the problem? Changing the wording there should be fine. I assume you did put in the <!– more –> tag to shorten what is being displayed on the homepage?
on 06 Apr 2006 at 5:01 amjooliaan

Jacky, are you planning to release an update for your Firefox theme in order to get it fully compatible with WP 2.x?

Thanks in advance
on 06 Apr 2006 at 8:56 amrustee

yeah it still doesn’t cut off even with the arrows

not sure why this happens.. =\

must you specify a certain no. of characters for it before it gets cut off?
on 06 Apr 2006 at 9:14 amrustee

are there any other codes in any other files which make references to this command?

coz i checked the one in post.php and it seems alright
on 06 Apr 2006 at 9:26 amrustee

hey jacky ok i found that it’s a wp-admin prob and not a php prob… so sorry for spamming… i feel so dumb now DUH

could you delete all my comments as i don wanna clog up your space… thanks for the terrific job on the theme once again!
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on 14 Jul 2006 at 5:08 pmGrnsmilie

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful… the themes I code never work properly in Internet Explorer, especially since I like transparent pngs, so I have my blog set up to automatically shunt IE users to your theme.

Wonderful! Wonderful!
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on 20 Aug 2006 at 2:35 pmNeo

Olivier,
On this page, there are 3 ad units and 1 link unit. This is allowed.

Please advise.

Many thanks.
on 18 Nov 2006 at 3:30 amJaxson

Please add firefox cookies/bad web sites immunization in next version!
Firefox 2 cannot reject third party cookies!!!!!!!!
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on 02 Sep 2007 at 6:53 amseo

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on 10 Dec 2007 at 12:36 amFlibber

Extreme Beauty this Theme! I will use it for 2 of my projects… Thanks man!