Updated: April 11th, 2008 to v1.2
Our first theme release is for self hosted WordPress blogs, the theme is called “FreshPress“, based on the new admin area style of WordPress 2.5 “Brecker” and of course our own domain name.
The theme features a “Featured” article on the main blog homepage, along with showing more featured articles next to it. You can customize the theme to your delight and use it on as many blogs as you desire.

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Don’t mind me, just testing out the comments.
This is awesome. I remember the first thing i thought when i saw the 2.5 admin theme was “they should make a frontend theme like this” and low and behold - here’s my solution! I think I’m gonna run this on my blog for a while…test it out at least.
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Updated to v1.2 just checking the comments again.
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Cool, I like it…
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Great theme!
I’ve translated to spanish.
Good job!
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Thanks Fernando!
I also appreciate everyone above who has linked to this theme. There’s more coming, in fact I’m working on it right now
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Hi…
Nice theme,since our trackback didn’t come here.
I have posted first the link to the original, and so now translated to Portuguese from Brazil.
Here are the 2 links:
Original
Portuguese version
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Somehow, no “next entries” / “previous entries” links show up on my site. So I cannot navigate on the home page, archive and search pages. Anyone else having this problem?
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Avilon, I’ve updated the index.php file to show the previous and next links. Thanks for pointing it out.
I like it
Which files have changed? Only index.php? I have translated the theme from english, that’s why I’m asking.
Now “Previous Entries” shows up on every post, no just at the bottom as expected.
Avilon, “Previous” and “Next” will show up for pages like http://www.blog.com and http://www.blog.com/page/2 and so on. If you see the bottom of this post you will see that it shows the next article posted, which is what the single.php file does.
It’s working all good
Yeah, but on the front page there are “previous entries” links in every post, next to the comment info. And that’s not how most other themes do it. They only have it at the bottom of the whole index page. If you take this post as an example it would be below “What is FreshPress Themes?
Avilon my apologies, it was just a small error in placement of the navigation links.
It should work as it’s supposed to now.
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It’d better if you use rounded rectangle for the theme, as what http://www.wordpress.org did.
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Does it work with WP 2.5? It looks classic.
@BigBuyMall Yes it does work with 2.5. It’s running on it now.
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Thanks for this theme!
I’ve translated it to german: http://www.kaba-blog.de/2008/04/27/freshpress-deutsch/
Greetings!
FreshPress, tu blog igual al panel de administraci
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Very nice theme! I have one theme in wordpress.org style, see in my site! You theme i will use in other project! Thanks.
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This theme is really good, but the only trouble I have is that it’s too much like the inside of wordpress.
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I love a lot this theme! Really fresh & clean! Thanks for creating and sharing!
thats a pretty cool & simple design man! thanks
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Very nice work guys
Nice and clean, I like the side bar in particular, easy to put ads on, will get it for some of my blogs, thanks for the good work.
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I really like this theme. Thanks for all the work you put into it. However, I am unable to get the “Featured” feature to work. I have followed the steps in the help, but it is just not working. The “Featured” section is just not appearing on the home page. Here is what I did:
I created a category called “Featured.” I added a post to it. Using the wordpress template editor I changed category in the WP Query to “Featured” (I tried upper and lower case).
I noted the category ID, in my case 46 and added that as instructed. Saved the template. Nothing has changed on the home page.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Paul - your category slug is “featuredarticles” simply change that to “featured” and you should be OK.
You can do that under Manage > Categories > … in your WordPress admin area.
Hyder - thank you enormously. That worked!
Paul
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One thing for sure this theme will give a familiar look to the eye of old-time blogger. And reading a blog with this theme will certainly make them cozy. Well, at least I am. Even if the admin panel had changed in WP 2.7.
Anyway, great job!
nice themes! thanks a lot
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