WicketPixie: a Social Media Theme for WordPress

What licence will it be released under?

I hope a Creative Commons one.

Great man! Can’t wait!

Great Theme, Love everything about it! I sent you a tweet on one thing that still needs a little tweaking. I’m sure you’ve noticed it and will get to it with in the next week.

Anyways many props - if matt reads this comment - dude you hit one out of the park with this one.

Very Nice theme. But for some reason, i have a feeling you didnt make it chris. lol

interesting enough for me to have a try when it finally launches. congratulations chris!

I don’t see a download link. I have been looking for a theme like this for quite some time.

It’s one-stop shopping for all things Chris Pirillo! This is a swank theme and one I’d seriously consider using. I’m going to play around with the links you have set up for awhile.

(I know you said some tweaking needs to be done. I’m in IE and the pages link are off to the right somewhere. It’s fine in Firefox. No surprise there….)

Looks great. Excellent job! This is one of the things that many wordpress themes haven’t always implimented in the best manner (your online existence elsewhere).

I’ve been working on my own theme on and off for about a month with a similar goal in mind but at the moment it’s nowhere near finished.

Haha “wicket” “pixie” lol.
The design config. tool sounds like a real winner. I like the idea of having the list of profiles on the sidebar. I think that isimportant incase some fakes as you in a social site. Now they can find your real account.

The theme is perfect, for the type of stuff I use my website for!

Love the theme Chris, I’m quite used to WordPress and to be honest, there are many really bad ones. This is something amazing and above the standards for free templates. This is perfect for my next site and will be using it when its released. Thanks for all your work.

Regards,
Lewis

Sounds really good. I am thinking of moving my own blog (www.chipnit.com) off of wordpress servers and onto a new server where I can have more flexibility. This would be a great theme for what I try to accomplish. Great work.

This is great Chris! I love it… the color scheme is nice, and clean and the high contrast makes it easy for me to read even with my bad eyes… Thank you for that, as well as for not using so many frames that they made it impossible to use with my text reader…

Hey chris, the theme looks great, but there are a few issues. The top of the main content area, the top left is a squared corner and the top right is rounded, this looks very weird, and I would recomend changing it to make the theme look a little more unified. In addition, the top part of the main content area shifts over from the main content area on smaller resolutions and window sizes. I think that this would be a very simple fix with css, but I’m at school and haven’t had a chance to look at the css for the theme yet. Despite these small issues, I am planning on using it on my blog in the near future. Great work chris!!

Not bad. Pretty nice theme.

Wow, looks very nice. Once you release this theme it will be going right onto my personal blog as well. This theme beats out all other free themes (and probably paid ones as well!).

Hey Chris

Very nice. I will be looking forward to checking it out, once you make it available for public download.

I completly agree with you, that your blog/homepage/social me is or should be or should become, your own social nexus, allowing you to aggregate and control all your personal activities on the web in one central place - your place.

Will be interesting to see, how this all develops.

Best regards from Zurich, Switzerland.
Patrick

Much smoother and nicer look than before. Easier on the eyes and to use. Definitely a step towards a better direction than the old setup.

The theme is too simple! I didnt like it. I prefer others, more stylist!

wow…I hate wordpress but I would consider using it to use this theme…very nice indeed.

I love the theme Chris, It looks like a lot of work went into making it. Matt Brent and Chris did a really nice job. I can’t wait until the download is released.

Nice, i like how you named it after your dogs.

great thme chris! It looks a lot better than before. The widgets look really good, a little cluttered but good. The only downside is a slightlynlonger load time. However, the good offsets the bad. Keep up the good work!

Hey Chris could you elaborate a little more on what is wordpress. It all sounds pretty cool to me but I have never heard of wordpress.

Oh, much better than the old design for the site. this one really highlights the center sections, and is definitely more orgranized and easier to follow than the old one. Definitely a theme for personal blogs all over to look into to.

Love it, just love it.

However:
1. Should the top bar be spaced from the top like that or attached fully to the top?
2. The UStream video runs over the top bar.

Overall, nice site. :)

Great work! The ‘Social Me’ page is excellent!

By the way, I loved the debate last night that lead to that ‘Social Me’ name. Ponzi didn’t look that much convinced after she found it, that was funny!

I think this is a nice new look to keep things fresh and updated. I especially like how know at live.pirillo.com I can now fit both the stream and the chat in one window.

Nice, I’ll have to keep my eye on this one. I really like what you’ve done with the site here, nice colors and style.

A) I really really like the new layout… looks good!
B) I’m not a huge fan of WordPress. I like Drupal… but I guess I will have to get over it. -)

Hey Chris. The new Blog and Live page look great. I really like how the pages look. On the Blog it’s nice how you put the little twitter thing on the top right. Now when were on your blog we can also see your latest Twitter. Also I noticed that on the live page you moved where the topic and status is. I think they look better that way than the Old way. Also I saw when you were showing Ponzi how fast the topic changes and i must say it is really fast. It showed up much quicker compared to before when it took a bit more. Overall its a great new wordpress.

Stunning. Absolutely stunning. I like what you did with your media stream. Having recently built my own version popurls, the way in which you integrated it is very nicely done. I would love to find out which wordpress tags have been embedded, ex. related posts, as I see you already have gravatars up and running. I am also impressed by the way the H1 changes depending on the page you are on. Very clever. That said, I’m looking forward to giving it a try soon, and see what the possibilities are towards customisation.

With regards.

yes…amazing theme, in my opinion…i was working on my own theme recently, but it didn’t work out as well as yours…
agian, excellent job and i just can believe the user-friendliness of the theme….wordpress usually was barely able to get away with that and the implementation, but they didn’t do such a great job. the smoother look is just simple but artistic….excellent job….license it under creative commons…PLZ….

An interesting looking Theme there Chris, will be watching with interest.

I was watching your live stream as you were battling to create this. The results are really very good. The only thing I would say is:

1. I use IE7 and perhaps it is just because of this, but there is a lot of ‘open space’ to the left of the page as you scroll horizontally.

2. The RSS Subscribe bar at the top, stays static as you scroll down, gets lost partly behind the live stream and to my eye should stay stuck to the top, not follow the page down (or do I mean should disappear as you scroll down staying at the top of the page)

Other than that, I love it, cleaner, simpler to navigate around and has a far more polished look about it. Finally, I am curious about what other features you may wish, given funding, to include into it - I’d be willing to donante towards such, but will e-mail you personally about this at a later date.

Rob

My goodness Chris. Love the new theme. Like it’s so much easier on the eyes and even for my computer to load. Just very nice. That’s all I really have to say.

hey man , great work! this theme looks awesome!

like myself im on the internet quite a bit and i look around for certain types of themes , i have even bought a few!

but if i’ve known about you more then 2 days ago , i would of went with your themes !

they would deffanitly beat the other themes that u have to pay for or even the free ones really suck…..

But your chris rocks…

keep up the great work! =)

i can’t wait to see more of these form you man , i can’t imagine how hard you work to do all of this for us and i couldn’t thank you enough! =P

Good Luck On Your Future Themes.

Cody M

Corunna , Ontario ( Canada )

I like it a lot! I think I’ll use it, though I’ll likely tweak the graphics. The column layout is perfect, and there are a lot of nice little touches. You rock!

Chris,

This theme is just phenomenal! Wow! I love it. No offense or anything, but your old theme was well….just…. “dated”. WicketPixie makes chris.pirillo.com look very warm, inviting, and friendly. The old theme had so much “clutter” just too much stimulation

Since you ran out of money/time for this project I think that you should make it open-source so anyone can edit/improve on it. I think that you improvements to the generic WordPress theme(s) are brilliant! I always complained that I could never find a contact button on your site…. :)

Good job Chris! Keep up the good work, also let me know what I can do to help.

Chris,

I do have one complaint though, and I hope that it will get fixed by you or the community.

My complaint is that before the new theme, I could easily look at your previous posts. Now it is much harder. I can’t just scroll down and find the post before this one.

Is it just because you haven’t posted anything else but this post on the new template? That might be it. If it isn’t, please fix it. Thanks!

You (and your new theme) ROCKS!

I think that this is all a good idea and will probably give it a try in a couple of months after I’m out of school and have time to create a blog. maybe with that new laptop! =)

I love the new theme, it is so much better than your old one. I think it is great that you are going to give this away for free. I might have to download WordPress just to mess with the new theme. 1 thing I didn’t see though was a Search feature, it might be right in front of me and I am just not seeing it.

I think this theme has the best integration for the Adsense Video Units that I have seen. I am trying to find something I don’t like about the theme, and there really isn’t much. Besides the Auto-Playing Live Stream of Death returns. Definitely a large step above your previous theme.

One thing I have always been confused about is the amount of Adsense Ads Units displayed on a single page. Because there are 3 text ads and an image ad. Which would make 4 ads. However, the Adsense policy states:
“Up to three ad units may be displayed on each page.”

However, it defines an Ad Unit as:
“A set of ads displayed as a result of one piece of the AdSense ad code.”

An image however is not a set, or is it?

I tried to post this in the Chat but I dont have voice. I discovered why I couldn’t find the search feature in the new theme.

http://flickr.com/photos/homecomputerlab/2497640353/

The top bar or whatever you called is out of place in IE as you can see from the screenshot. I am sure it is due to the crappy implementation of CSS in IE. I would call the developer and have them fix it.

Sorry about all of the comments but I just found another issue with IE.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/homecomputerlab/2497659287/

Notice the menu bar is missing.

Looks really nice. It is nice to see a new theme every so often. I hadn’t seen a new theme in a while. I think it would be cool to have like a new theme every month. I found the page to run kind of slow. I don’t know if that is the computer or my web browser though. really looks nice. Who designed it for you. Whoever it is I need them to write the HTML for my page.

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This is really sweet and quite unique…!! Only thing I hope for is that it would include language files for easier localization…!? But I’d love to try it out anyway…so I’m looking forward to the initial release…

I was here when you named it “Social Me”. It was running really slow then so it sometimes wouldn’t come on. Ponzi actually coined that…might want to give her some credit for that.

Cool a WordPress theme from Chris Pirillo!!! Oh wait, I don’t have WordPress darn. But the whole thing sounded good and if I did have WordPress I would defiantly be intrigued by it.

Keep up the good work Chris…

Hey, chris!
I have no clue what so ever what wordpress is but if it has to do with the new looks of your website, its AWESOME!!! I like the live page alot better and the main page to. I kinda liked your old live page better because i got so used to it being wide but now that i’ve been on the new live page its starting to grow on me, well i’m bout to go find out what wordpress is and once again… AWESOME new designs. Bye :-)

Hey Chris,
I have no clue what so ever what word press is, but if it has to do with the new looks of the website, it has to be good. You did an awesome job with the new designs. How did you make them? But I do have to say that I did kinda like the other live page better, but I guess thats just because its what I’ve been used to for the past 6 months, lol. But anyways i think the new designs are awesome, well i’m off to find out what Word press is, love the stream, Bye.

Very nice to see many tools built into a theme and wrapped around a solid framework.
Having more WP developers come out and offer themes and tools that make WP look less like WP is a good thing!
Keep coding. and thanks!

WicketPixie: a Social Media Theme for WordPress

I like this theme a lot. Would it be possible to put in Seesmic or Viddler’s wordpress video comment plug-ins? I am thinking about getting hosting over at Godaddy. Right now my blog is on wordpress.com and they are terrible about letting us customize or adding anything useful to it. Chris, would we be able to also include our ustream video feed?

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I personally don’t use WordPress, but I think if I ever do I will use this WicketPixie Theme! Its pretty cool, and it has a twitter gadget (cool!) I wonder if it would work on Lockergnome.com… If it is, then I will be using it! (
-Ruben

(well depending on if a: I still have a computer, b: I have a place to stay) I would like to give it a try as well.

This is an absolutly amazing theme, Chris.

I can’t wait for you to actually release this theme, I will most definitly be using it on my wordpress blog, although I will probably change a few things about it - in some of the way that it is layed out (possibly move the comments info around a little bit). But other than that, its perfect in my eyes.

Although, I doubt that I will be using the default background, can you use customised backgrounds? I suppose even if you can’t, you can always just replace one of the default ones, with a custom file anyway :D

Awesome Theme!

E-ya later!

You’ve done great, Chris.

Really well done ;)

A great contribution to the Wordpress community!

-Alister

Alister Cameron // Blogologist
http://www.alistercameron.com

I hope this is coming to us Lockergnome bloggers :)

I like the WordPress theme. When I start my own blog on a site other than at Lockergnome, I will definitly use this theme. Very well done. Yes I do want it.

The day this is released, I’ll be switching to it. Simply awesome.

You are really offering something great here. It looks clean and professional. I have a blog at blogger.com but if I ever want to get another one I will look at WordPress.

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This is going to be a great theme. I am amazed that we are going to be able to tie in all of our social content into our site. There are so many social networking sites out there that sometimes it is overwhelming to keep up with all of them but this will give a way to bring all of those elements together. I cannot wait until it is released; I will definitely be installing it on my site.

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I cannot wait for this theme to be released. I think this a new step in the Web 2.0 direction that hasn’t been really seen and that this will improve to help people be found in one place.

This is awesome, i can’t wait for this to be available. I’m going to download it and put it in my blog as soon as its available. I like the social profile pages. but on your live page I think that the chat is too small. O well can’t have everything, still can’t wait.

Chris, nice job. Well styled comments - and the comment tracker number at the top of the page is nice touch. The “no icon” image is cute, too. :)

The “social-me” page is amazing and can also be used to easily aggregate all student posts from one class onto one page! Will definitely do a download!

FYI: ISU is now integrated with Skype and is accessed via Skype (a windows version?) . [www.vapisoft.com/ISU.htm]

Thanks so much for showing me worpdress, never knew about it until now! Theme looks great! Can’t wait for release!

Hmmm… the blog post has been edited and implies that the theme is already available. If so, where can I get it? I want it!

If there were an application available to download web directories, including the php source, I’d have this theme up on my site in the blink of an eye. Sadly, no such software exists and I’ll have to wait for Chris to release it. ;)

I love the new theme. Everything is much cleaner and organized. I especially like how the search bar is pinned to the top of the frame. The only thing I do not like about it is that the stream automatically plays when the page loads.

i do not mean to attract attention away from Chris’ new theme, but I currently use the “iTheme” theme on my Wordpress blog:

http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/wp-themes/itheme/

I recommend it to anyone who enjoys the Mac OS X GUI.

Looks like a mac :)

I want it

The new theme is really great Chris! I’m looking forward to the launch date for this. The colors are nice and pleasing to the eye. The layout is very organized, and I like how you integrated the live stream and the top navigation bar. It looks like a very unique design and professional. Thanks a lot for this!

WicketPixie is a dog of a theme.
Just Kidding, It looks really great, I’m impressed.
Nice layout and great design.
You should get into computers.LOL

Nice job! It’s great to see the first quasi-finished product of GnomePal. It must really be a confidence booster to know that you can complete a product like that and that many people will be able to use.

I’ve tried it out it’s really cool but I don’t like the too much adds on the site, it surely have the best design that I know now but really 4 adds on the page? Does it have to be?
And is it possible to set up a social me site like Chris that one from chris?

Thanks Chris. I think its great when people open up there themes for the general public to use and enjoy. It’s a very kind gesture as I’m sure many will agree, and I look forward to seeing it pop up around the web! And I love this Social Me bit, a great, time saving, customization that I’m sure many will enjoy.

That is pretty neat and also nice of you to offer this. I’m not that much into making my own web page or blog because it’s been quite a puzzle for me but as this simple program can make it a lot easier i might even take a try. Very good stuff there Chris, thx

I really think this theme is a lot better than the old theme you had on here. WicketPixie makes it much easier to keep track of what you are doing. It still has a few bugs to work out, but I would use it on my site (if my site was any good…).

Nice theme. Very clean and a perfect match for your site. There is one issue I seem to be having… the theme and background layout images tend to load slowly and do not cache properly… causing them to have to load everything.

Sounds good. I miss out on too much. Meaning, I don’t have a wordpress account. So it’s open source right?

New piece of art!I like it!I would like to try it.Great work!“Wicket” “Pixie” personalized on the web

Wordpress is fantastic and I have been looking for a theme that looks nice, and is efficient at the same time. I will have to look into this and try to use this. I am not really good with coding, so I cant help you with improving it, but I can always make suggestions.

I like the theme but it feels a little cludgy, slow to load if you prefer.

Love the theme! I talk more about it in my Lockergnome blog post at http://www.lockergnome.com/mattstech/2008/05/23/wicketpixie-wordpress-theme/. Keep up the good work!

This is a definite step forward…I’d appreciate suggestion for a web host that can support WicketPixie, and a little handholding for migrating an old-school Blogger blog to WordPress and WicketPixie

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I’m successfully migrated to WP 2.5.1, and I’ve just downloaded WicketPixie…starting to upgrade now…

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