Hi, my name is Fredrik Sørlie, and I’m a freelance designer located in Strømmen, just outside Oslo, Norway. This website is my window to the world. Whether you’re a friend, a client or family, you’re welcome to have a look at my work or check out my blog.

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03
09
04:32

UltraLight theme for WordPress

Posted by Fredrik in Blog, Design

Ever since I began using WordPress to power my projects, I’ve been thinking about making a simple template theme with clean markup and css. Creating websites with wordpress is after all about making custom themes, and it would save me a lot of time to start with a super clean base.

UltraLight is just that. A super clean, ultra lightweight theme, with valid xhtml markup and css. It’s stripped of all unessecery code and apart from a background image it’s got no graphics whatsoever. Allthough I made it for my own personal use, I’ve decided to share it as it would be a good platform for most theme designers and deverlopers. And as it’s a fully working theme with widget support, it’s also a sweet theme for any blogger who wants a clean, lightweight design on their blog.

See the theme in action and download for free over at ultralight.fredriksoerlie.com.

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18 Comments

18 comments

18
03
09
17:45
lauren says:

this is a great theme! thanks! is there a way to add a dropdown menu to reveal subpages? thanks.

19
03
09
07:39
Fredrik says:

Thanks :)

There’s probably a way, but for me, adding extra candy like that would be against the whole idea of the theme. It’s supposed to be as stripped down as possible. Adding a drop down menu would mean adding markup, css and javascript. So not going to happen…

However, there are drop down menu plugins available that might work well with the theme.

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01:51
lauren says:

thanks. i found a plugin that works. i’m having an issue getting the posts, archives and categories links to work. i keep getting the error page. how can i fix this?

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03
09
22:26
Håkon Sparre says:

Very nice and clean theme. But after installing the logo.png do not show up.
I even tried to substitute it with a logo.jpg and chenge the extension in the header settings. But I am searching in vain to understand whats wrong. Probably very easy, but I am not familiar to css and WP. Any Idea?

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03
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22:40
Fredrik says:

Yeah, it’s simple, and a stupid mistake that I shouldn’t have made :P

What I did was to use a static path for the logo in the header.php, so unless your WP install is in the root folder, the logo will not show. What you need to do is to replace the path for the logo.

Replace: /wp-content/themes/UltraLight/images/logo.png

With:< ?php bloginfo(’template_directory’); ?>/images/logo.png

Of course your could also upload your own logo in any format as long as you change the path to match :)

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04
09
21:40
Jared says:

I love the theme. Only problem I find is that when I upload the theme i get these error messages in wordpress. Any ideas?

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/houstons/public_html/wp-content/themes/UltraLight/functions.php:11) in /home/houstons/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 698

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/houstons/public_html/wp-content/themes/UltraLight/functions.php:11) in /home/houstons/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 699

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04
09
23:05
Fredrik says:

Fixed errors and uploaded v1.2…

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04
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20:12
kristin says:

I really like it! Thanks…

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07
09
16:58
Michael says:

Can you tell me which font you used for the logo? I would like to reproduce it with my own blog name.
Many thanks.

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08
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09:41
Maksim says:

Hello. nice theme! Some bug detected: teg “more” are not display. Pls help.

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08
09
13:46
Fredrik says:

Michael: I don’t remember, but probably some light/thin version of Helvetica.

Maksim: It’s not a bug, but you can easily put it back by replacing line 17 in index.php with this:

< ?php the_content('more'); ?>

If it doesn’t work, you may try to replace line 13 with this:

< ?php query_posts("showposts=10&paged=$paged"); while (have_posts()) : the_post(); global $more; $more = 0; ?>

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09:26
Maksim says:

Thx, it’s work. ()

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10
09
00:45
Sabri says:

Thanks for sharing your work!

I see your comment above, but can you please clarify if this theme allows pages of post with “previous” and “next” functionality. I can’t tell if I broke something or not.

Thanks for your time!

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17:00
warm says:

i will use this theme for my blog
thx a lot :)

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02
10
00:25
**Juanito** says:

Hi Fredrik, I use your theme right now and I try to add some functionalities.
I need to create custom fields for “minipost” in determined category (eg: cat nº 12) but the theme don’t have the function “get_post_meta”.
How can I add custom fields?
How can I highlight the minipost?
Thanks a lot for your time and sorry for my english.

06
02
10
10:55
Ross says:

Thank-you, Fredrik. My girlfriend and I chose your ultralight theme because it is very clean without looking ugly and boxy.

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02
10
05:10
Fredrik says:

Juanito: I’m sorry, I can’t provide support on customizing the theme unless you hire me to change it for you. It’s a free theme, but you will have to do the work yourself if you want to customize it. I hope you understand.

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02
10
23:32
**Juanito** says:

It’s ok Fredrik. Thanks for your time.
Your theme is awesome.

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