A very classy, lightweight, and content-focused theme with a lot of features to customize everything to your liking. Theme options with 7 different color schemes and the ability to change things like fonts, logo, custom widgets, etc. Dropdown menu for fast and space-saving navigation.
Zethian
/ December 17, 2009Can’t wait to try this one out.. It’s so nice and clean. O.O
Sassy
/ January 23, 2010I love everything about this theme. Thank you for it.
Omar
/ January 27, 2010This is a lovely theme, I’m using it on my website but have one little problem. I use the Tweetmeme and Facebook ShareCount plugins and for some reason this theme won’t allow for these buttons to appear on single posts, but they do appear on the main website. Is there any way to fix this?
Thank you for a great theme!
Omar
Matt
/ January 27, 2010This was a tricky problem, but I finally managed to find out what was wrong. I have uploaded a new version of Comet (1.1.1) to Wordpress that fixes the problem, it just need to get approved.
Myself
/ January 29, 2010What about making the option to exchange the sidebar to the left side and vice-versa? Is that possible?
Cheers for making this nice and simple theme! :)
Matt
/ January 29, 2010It is very possible that I’d make that happen. Keep coming with suggestions, people.
Kirsten
/ January 29, 2010Please can you let me know how to change the font of the Blog title, or install a logo?
The rest of the site is just great, so simple and by far the most functional and well laid out in all the WP themes. Thanks for your great theme.
Matt
/ January 30, 2010You change the font of the blog title in theme.css, under “.header h1″. You can add a logo by uploading it somewhere and then paste the URL to it on the theme options page.
Kirsten
/ January 30, 2010Hi Matt – I have tried both of those but unfortunately neither are working, any ideas?
Melanie | Berlin
/ February 6, 2010… I have the same problem. The background image works wonderfully, but I can’t install a logo (have tried several formats). Instead it says: Warning: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /WWWROOT/164781/htdocs/wp-content/themes/comet/functions.php on line 36 … what can I do? Thank you & dankeschoen!
Matt
/ February 6, 2010Melanie: it seems your server does not allow the getimagesize() function in PHP, so I guess I would have to remove the function.
Kirsten
/ January 30, 2010I am searching for “header h1? in the Header (header.php), is this correct? Sorry, I am new to this and still learning. Really appreciate your guidance.
Matt
/ January 30, 2010No, header h1 is in theme.css, which is in the /css folder.
Oran Jackson
/ January 30, 2010New to blogging just like this theme alot and I want to use it on my first blog.
Sarah
/ January 31, 2010Matt,
Is there anyway to change the tag line’s color? The grey is being washed out on my sky blue clouds background photo.
Thank you for your time.
Matt
/ January 31, 2010Yes, just edit
theme.cssand on the line.header h4change
color:#858585;to whatever color you want.Sarah
/ February 1, 2010Matt,
I apologize for my new blogging ignorance. Where does this editing take place…in settings? in appearances? Is it found in the Dashboard? and Do I need to know the code for the color change? or just type “black”.
Thank you again,
Sarah
Matt
/ February 1, 2010The editing take place in Appearance > Editor, and then selecting a file in the column to the right.
As to colours, you can write “black”, but if you want more accurate colours you need to know the Hex (http://www.boallen.com/hex-color-code-generator.html).
Yann from Paris
/ February 1, 2010Hello Matt,
Firstly, congratulations on the design of this very delicate theme.
A question: I would remove the “recent comments” using widgets in the right column, but I can not. This topic is it available by default? Or am I too neophyte?
thank you very much,
Yann
Yann from Paris
/ February 1, 2010Excuse me Matt,
I discovered how to remove the “recent comments” in the theme options.
Yann
Per
/ February 2, 2010Hi,
Great theme! Just a question – how about excerpts? Do they work with your theme?
Matt
/ February 2, 2010Excerpts are displayed when viewing categories, tags, or archives. Otherwise full posts are displayed.
Martin
/ February 3, 2010Hi Matt!
Thank you for the wonderfull Theme, that was what i’m looking for.
But i have one question: is there any possibility to show pictures, or vids embedded in the posts – if i click on a category? If i click on a catergory the graphic disappears. What can i do?
Regards
Martin
Matt
/ February 3, 2010It’s excerpts and not full posts that are shown on archive pages, which is why it’s only text being displayed, but I plan on adding an option to switch it on/off.
Martin
/ February 4, 2010Thanks Matt,
I would love this feature! Hopefully you can do this soon ;-)
’cause i love this theme.
Regards
Martin
Per
/ February 5, 2010Hi,
I would like to join Martin in that request!?
Regarding the excerpts earlier – can this be changed so as to allow excerpts on your main posts?! Can it be done with a plugin for example?
Thanks again for a great theme!
Heather
/ February 6, 2010Love this theme! We’re using it for our wedding website. I found a small bug. When you password protect a page, the right-hand sidebar jumps under the post. I figured out that there was a missing in comments.php, in the part that displays the bit about having to log in to see the comments. Here’s what it looks like now:
if ( post_password_required() ) { ?>
This post is password protected. Enter the password to view comments.
<?php
return;
}
And here’s how it should look:
if ( post_password_required() ) { ?>
This post is password protected. Enter the password to view comments.
<?php
return;
}
Thanks!
Heather
/ February 6, 2010Oops, that code got messed up.
How it looks now:
if ( post_password_required() ) { ?>
<p class="nocomments">This post is password protected. Enter the password to view comments.</p>
<?php
return;
}
How it should look:
if ( post_password_required() ) { ?>
<p class="nocomments">This post is password protected. Enter the password to view comments.</p>
</div>
<?php
return;
}
Matt
/ February 6, 2010Thanks for the notice and solution, Heather. I will include it in my next update.
drmk
/ February 7, 2010On individual post pages, there isn’t a “previous post”/”next post” link. Can that be added? If so, where/how?
drmk
/ February 8, 2010Huh. I seem to also have lost the names of commenters in their comment box — I’m just getting the meta data and not the commenter name. There’s a line for it in the CSS, but it’s not showing up.
drmk
/ February 8, 2010Think I’ve got this one solved. The section for comment authors seems to have had a typo:
.comment-author { }
.comment-author .avatar { float:left; margin:0px 10px 0px 0px; }
.comment-author cite { font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; font-style:normal; }
.comment-author span { display:none; }
The close parentheses on the top line shouldn’t be there, I think — right?
Matt
/ February 8, 2010Actually that’s not a typo. The commenter’s name is always displayed, so I guess you have some kind of bug there.
drmk
/ February 8, 2010Weird — the commenter names weren’t showing up for me, but when I deleted the second } on the top line and added in a closing one after the rest of the comment-author lines, they showed up just fine.
Matt
/ February 8, 2010I find that very disturbing, and a little amusing. CSS is not like PHP, and wrapping brackets around more than one selector should… well, not work ;)
That line is actually just a placeholder.
drmk
/ February 8, 2010Sorry for the multiple posts, but I love the theme and want to adopt it and am working with it in testing. Another thought: could there be a link to the comment box towards the top of the comment area? My posts regularly gets over 100 comments and folks may not want to scroll all the way down to the bottom to get to the comment box.
Matt
/ February 8, 2010I have taken a note of link to comment form and next/previous posts link suggestions, might put them in.
Per
/ February 8, 2010Regarding the excerpts earlier – can this be changed so as to allow excerpts on your main posts?! Can it be done with a plugin for example?
Per
/ February 8, 2010Oh, sorry for the last post, I did not see that the theme was updated! Thanks a lot for including a possibility to change between full/excerpts!
Per
/ February 8, 2010But then again – is something not working?! I enabled “excerpts” in your theme with the default way wordpress handles excerpts – I see the “[...]” on my webpage and if I click the post to view the rest of the post, the rest doesn’t show!!
I would assume that I should be able to see the rest of the post….
Matt
/ February 8, 2010Yes I only just noticed that if you set front page to “excerpt” it doesn’t show the full posts when viewing single. An update has been uploaded and awaiting approval.
Per
/ February 9, 2010Great work. Works!! Thank you.
Is there any way to support characters that do not exist in english? I live in Denmark and we have three characters Æ, Ø, and Å and if I translate several of the .php files into danish, these three characters don’t work…
Matt
/ February 9, 2010You need to replace those letters with an HTML character. See http://www.kadifeli.com/fedon/char.htm for a list.
drmk
/ February 9, 2010FYI: In several places in the basic.css the term “border-radius” is misspelled as “border-raidus”.
Matt
/ February 9, 2010Thanks for the notice. It’s pure CSS3 and probably won’t be supported for another fifty years, but it’s nice to be prepared ;)
Per
/ February 10, 2010Thanks a lot for your support Matt, greatly appreciated!
tim
/ February 11, 2010Hi, i tried changing the background color from theme.css but its still gray… how can i change this? beautiful template by the way!
Matt
/ February 11, 2010The color themes override theme.css, so you need to pick a color theme (like grey) and then edit _grey.css.
omponk
/ February 15, 2010My BLOG use it.. :) Thanks
l3v3e
/ February 16, 2010I love this theme! But, I want to change the font size, and I’ve changed everything in style/basic.css, but everything’s the same. What do I have to do? Please, help me! :-)
Matt
/ February 16, 2010You can change the font size in functions.php, and inside the fp_options() function.
Vanessa
/ February 16, 2010Hi, Love the theme! I’ve uploaded a background image to override the text but now there is still the grey padding on each side of the banner. How can I remove that? Thanks!
Matt
/ February 17, 2010I’m not sure I understand exactly what you mean. Can you provide a link to your blog?
Hazar
/ February 21, 2010Great theme, but please do not use the “short style” PHP tags, because it cause the following error on “short_open_tag” disabled servers.
Parse error: parse error in \blog\wp-content\themes\comet\index.php on line 42
If you experiencing above error, please change to line 35 (which is: ) to .
There are some hosting providers leave their “short_open_tag” option to Off, which is default for PHP installation.
Regards, Hazar.
Matt
/ February 25, 2010Thanks for the notice, it must have slipped me by. As far as I know there are no short php tags in the latest version now.
Per
/ February 26, 2010Hmm, this might be basic Wordpress (WP) knowledge, but I have to ask anyway as I’m still quite new to WP.
I am using the ShadowboxJS plugin to open flash content in my posts. I want to add a WP Page to open this flash content instead. I can use a plugin called ‘Page links to’ and then link to a .html file to open this flash content, but is it possible in your theme (and where do I have to edit?) to add html code directly in some .php file to accomodate this??
Thanks!
Matt
/ February 26, 2010To add a custom link to the menu, open up header.php and right below the line
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=');?>add a line
and replace URL and TITLE with your own text.
Per
/ February 26, 2010Great!! That works flawlessly!! Thank you very much!
Russ
/ February 26, 2010When I installed the theme on my bolg and changed the side bar layout to the left the side bar appeared below all the content! How do I fix this?
Matt
/ February 26, 2010Thanks for the notice. Turns out it was just a bug, and I have uploaded a new version of the theme to fix it.
Andini Rizky
/ February 27, 2010Beatiful theme. Thank you for providing it for free. But my blog’s favicon is not showing up anymore, can you tell me how to fix it?
Andini Rizky
/ February 27, 2010Never mind. I solved my problem. I deleted two lines with “favicon.ico” in header.php and add this: . I just hope I didn’t break anything. Thanks for the theme again. It’s perfect.
Hugo
/ February 27, 2010Thanks for this theme, really thanks.
From Brazil. :-)
Jody
/ March 1, 2010Thank you for this gorgeous theme! I think you’ll have a lot of new users in the next few weeks as blogger kicks those of us who used FTP publishing to the curb, forcing us to take our existing content elsewhere. It took me the weekend to figure out how to get everything working the way I’d like, at least for now. I’m already thinking of ways to make changes.
I am thinking of creating a category template so that I can have a different sidebar on one of my category pages (photos) but I suspect WP limitations might not let me do two different widget layouts? Anyway, I love your designs and wanted to thank you for making them available.
Anders Norén
/ March 1, 2010Hi,
How do I change the text color for the “Read more”-button?
Matt
/ March 1, 2010Open the stylesheet for what color scheme you are using. _red.css if you are using the red. Then you got
at the bottom of the file. Change the background-color to what you want.
Anders Norén
/ March 1, 2010I was wondering how to edit the text color. Changing the .more-link in the “color.css” doesn’t seem to do it.
Matt
/ March 1, 2010Ah, in that case look for “.more-link” in basic.css.
Anders
/ March 2, 2010Thanks, that did it!
Lindsay
/ March 3, 2010Hi, please excuse the ignorance of my question, I’m a beginner. I would like to have an image at the top of my sidebar. How can I do that?
Matt
/ March 3, 2010Easiest way is to create a normal text widget and having this in the text:
Where URL is the URL to the image.
ads
/ March 4, 2010hi,
nice theam.
i have 1 problem.if i want to add some page links in footer. i had add it in footer by options but it also displays in top manu. how can i remove it from top menu?
Thanks.
Matt
/ March 4, 2010Pages will always display in the menu. If you really want to you can remove/add pages to the menu manually.
Sarah
/ March 4, 2010Hi Matt,
I loove this theme. Beautiful design. I am very new to the blog/web world, please forgive me. I am trying to change the background image and am stuck. I’ve uploaded a jpg into the images folder on my hosting site for “comet”. Then, I entered
body { background-color:#E5E5E5 url(images/Ampersand_Right_1680×1050.jpg);
into the style.css page. And I also added
body { background-color:#E5E5E5; url(images/Ampersand_Right_1680×1050.jpg) }
into the _grey.css page.
Any thoughts on what I’m doing wrong? I also tried adding the jpg file name into background url in the options sections.
Thank you so much.
Matt
/ March 4, 2010Well, the line in _grey.css (will overwrite anything in style.css) has an invalid “;” inside it, might be what’s causing it.
Sarah
/ March 4, 2010Hey matt, I got rid of the invalid ; and still no background image. :( I am using godaddy as my host and uploaded a photo into the images folder within comet… is this right atleast? can you give me an example of what the code should look like when i’m putting it into the _grey.css page?
I really love your theme and want to make it work w/ a background image. Thanks again.
Matt
/ March 4, 2010Sorry I didn’t spot it before. You are using background-color when you should be using background. So it’s supposed to be
body { background: #E5E5E5 url('images/Ampersand_Right_1680×1050.jpg'); }James
/ March 5, 2010Hey Matt,
Great design, my question is how big is the image in the first post as I would like to add a image of my own but I cant see to get that size right.
Thanks
James
Matt
/ March 5, 2010The width is 600 pixels.
Kari
/ March 5, 2010I LOVE this theme! I am wondering, however, if there is any way to make the sidebar smaller and the blog post area wider? I am a photographer and I would like my photos to be larger on the page (ie: 900 pixels wide). Thanks for creating such a beautiful theme!
Matt
/ March 5, 2010If you want the main column to view pictures in 900 pixels there won’t be much of a sidebar left (the total width of the page is 960px). If you want you can use a permanent “wide” design in which the sidebar will be hidden and extend the main column all the way, by pasting this into the “Custom CSS” box on the theme options page:
.content .c1 { width: 900px; margin: 0px; } .content .c2 { display: none; }ads
/ March 5, 2010hi Matt,
can u tell me how can i remove/add pages to the menu manually ?
Thanks.
ads
Matt
/ March 5, 2010In Wordpress 3.0 it will be easy; now it’s a bit harder.
In the header.php you have the menu:
<ul> <?php fp_options('subscribe'); ?> <li class="home-link< ?php if ( is_home() ) { ?> current_page_item< ?php } ?>"><a href="< ?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>">Home</a></li> <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=');?> </ul>Simply remove the line
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=');?>and replace it with links to the pages you want included
ads
/ March 5, 2010hey thanks.
but my wordpress Version is 2.9.2 .
so is this possible with this?
Matt
/ March 5, 2010Yes the solution I posted is for your version; WordPress 3.0 isn’t out yet.
ads
/ March 5, 2010hey thank u so much.
its working….
Kari
/ March 5, 2010Thanks, Matt! That did the trick — but now is there a way to add the archives/search, etc. to the main menu?
Kari
/ March 5, 2010Actually — I think I figured it out. I ended up putting the sidebar in the footer somehow…which works. Thanks for your help!
ads
/ March 6, 2010hi Matt,
as i told u i made changes in menu as per ur suggession but i lost all its effect such as curren page, hover….
any class i have to add in ?
Thanks
ads
Matt
/ March 6, 2010You won’t get current page to work if you are adding pages manually, but hover should still work without adding any classes.
Gil
/ March 8, 2010Hi,
Love your theme. Beautiful. But how do you use timthumb to get some thumbnails ?
Thanks in advance !
Gil
Matt
/ March 8, 2010I disabled timthumb a while ago since some had problem with permissions.
Henry
/ March 8, 2010Hi Matt,
Thanks for your work on this theme, I am using it for my personal website.
I find it very elegant and I like the emphasis on written content.
Since I guess I will use it for a long time, I would like to translate some words in the front-end like “Read the full article”.
How can I do this without loosing the translation when you update the theme ? (I’m not familiar with theme translation)
Matt
/ March 8, 2010Until I get the time to create translation files for the theme the only way is to manually change everything. But yes, sadly that gets overwritten when you update the theme.
Best thing is probably to keep backups of the files you change and replace them again after update.
ads
/ March 8, 2010hi,
i had inserted pages in menu manually so that i lost that effect
now i want to give the effect of current page as u gave for home (background color of menu).
what can i do? please help me.
thanks
Matt
/ March 8, 2010You can’t. Unless you are really good with PHP.
Lindsay
/ March 8, 2010Thanks! That worked. Had to figure out how to make a thumbnail first, but that wasn’t too hard.