WicketPixie WordPress Theme Screencast

the back end theme options that posting in the past week. You must all know by now that I have been working off site and that’s adding about 3 hours to my commute everyday. That’s taking time away from my TheSleepyGeek time. So now that I haveWicketPixiesetup and running, I want to know what you think! Drop me an email at marcus@hamaker.net. The orange background won’t be the regular colour but I am supporting the Dutch side in the Euro2008 Football tournament. So for now, it

Chris Pirillo has beenteasingthe Wordpress users out there for the last few days with a new theme he commissioned. Unfortunately, he’s taking his time releasing it, so I decided to play around with a new theme for a while until he does.

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WicketPixie WordPress Theme Screencast

I think it is amazing Chris.

I think the core version would probably be the best one to release to be honest. Or, infact, both.

I think I would probably download the core version :D

Plain version please! :)

Great work, Chris.

However I think you’ve gone over the top on Adsense on your blog pages.

You’re carrying four on this particular page, and the rules say only 3, last I looked.

Hmmmm…

-Alister

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

I really like the template and I would suggest that you release both versions.

I have a project currently running on Joomla, which I will change to WP as soon as this is released.

Keep it up!

I want the one that has it all! ;) I don’t mind tweaking it. No bare bones. I’d rather the template is already there and I can customize it.

I will definitely donate when it is released.

I love what you have done with it. The way you integrate other social networking sites is revolutionary, and I think that WordPress will become a way for you to combine all of your social networking sites into one place where people can contact you.

Again, what you have accomplished is revolutionary. Good job Chris!

I really think this is a great Theme. Cool Features.

;-)

Go with both. I personally would like the plain version, but by releasing both of them, you’ll make everyone happy.

Hey Chris,

Well I Love Your Work your great i like your hints and ideas your a lovley person not much else to say so thanks.

I think both versions would be the best. The “Core” version as the normal download and your “Tweaked” version as an optional download for fellow geeks who want to help push the them to the fullest.

I myself would download both themes.

Hi Chris,

VERY useful theme… I like it!

I would love BOTH themes. The core template unchanged, as well as the one you’ve changed. This way I can decide, after seeing both, which one will work best for me.

And, seriously — it covers both angles for all people.

Those who want the core template, out of the box, can have access to it… while those of us who like to see the changed version and have access — are accommodated as well.

I vote for BOTH versions to be made available to the general public for download.

All good things,
Bonnie Gean

Love it!!

For some reason your theme reminds me of KDE 4.

Satuary May 16th At 911 am

Why not release both? so as to not annoy the half that wants the opposite one that isn’t picked? I’d use the plain one either way but others might care for something that has alreadly been customized for them

I’m likin’ the new theme! Looks gooooood! Very functional from what I’ve seen… and there are very very few flaws. Many lil things that I’ve found are just little pet peeves of mine. I’m going to be looking into this theme more once I get some more things together here at the house. Dang business! It’s booming… almost too much! lol… Thanks Chris for this AWESOME theme!

i say offer both

Chris,
I really like it. Both please. The comparison of code will be very helpful to a newbie like myself.
Thanks,
Rodney
http://www.rodneyholloman.com/wordpress

I think your Wordpress theme rocks. It’s probably the best one I have seen. Well I have seen some pretty awesome themes but the ease with which you can modify makes me want it bad.

Looking forward to giving it a go.

@Alister what ads (AdBlock is a wonderful thing).

Chris I just wanted to say that I recently paid for a WordPress theme (80 bucks) I did all the homework and we thought it was fine. It was a total waste of money and a rip off. But it had nothing like your theme has in the way of ease of use, options for theme design and elements right in WordPress (no hard coding!). Very, very nice job.

Every single premium (paid for) theme should be at least this! People will pay for ease of use and your offering it for free. Impressed. Premium developers, I hope you have taken note.

For my 2 cents worth – if I were to use your theme I would want the bare bones version.

Email me if you want to know what theme not to buy.

Chris:

Please release both. You have a number of readers/watchers from both camps who would each benefit from each release. You’ve got webdev’s who would like to customize for themselves, and you’ve got hobbyists who are not quite there yet and who would probably get a lot out of seeing a fully functional theme with customized code, plugins, and real-world configuration values.

If you have to release one or the other, release the plain version… but keep in mind the positive effects of releasing both.

–
woomis

Great design!

I’d go for the core version. I’d also appreciate some set-up tutorials/help.

Thanks,
Geoff

I think that you do need to have multiple downloads of this wonderful theme. If not for any other reason because the more tech savvy would want to start for the basics and pimp it out in their own way.

i agree with Alister Cameron // Blogologist
Way too much ads hard to navigate to anything

looks good chris keep up the good work i would have your tweaks over the plan version of the theme

I think it would be best to have both versions to download. That way we can either change what you have already done for the “Social Me” aspects or tailor from scratch.

I prefer the plain version. That way, each individual can tweak it the way they want. However, if an individual is new to website devolvement and they don’t know how to make those tweaks they can still have a great theme without having to worry about it looking the same as your site.

Chris:
Great work.

Personally, I would download the core unmodified version, however, both would be a good idea to release.

I would prefer the plain “bare bones” version.

The theme looks really interesting, cant wait to play around with it.

Mark me down for the “bare-bones-core-edition” as well.

Thanks for the in depth look at WicketPixie. I’d like to download the plain version, so I could start from the original. But it wouldn’t be a bad idea to release both versions, that way those who want your tweaks can download them, and those who want the plain version can have it.

With this sort of theme, there is always going to be new ideas and new releases. What would be nice is not just a recent tweet but a choice to have a recent facebook status aswell, maybe on a rotation so it doesnt clutter up the page.

Something i will definately use and most probably donate a little bit of cash to.

Good work Chris and all others involved!

Wow!

You’ve created a powerful and extremely flexible them to accomplish the very thing that each os us should be striving to achieve in this rapidly changing world of social media!

Congrats and I look forward to being able to implement either version. In reality, I have some sites that the bare theme is best for and others that could use the fully tweaked version.

Dr. Ron the NicheProf

This new word press is great. I love how it looks. I don’t know anything about word press or how it works so it was nice to see some of the things that you showed us in the ScreenCast. Can’t wait to see what you will add to it when the funding is available.

Hey Chris, I just wanted to say what a great job you have done here. Once I saw the new look to your stream, and blog I was blown away on this. Great job on this! Keep it up. I can not wait to go ahead and use this for my Wordpress account. I am going to chip in some money of mine for your chip in widget. Thanks!

I would like to see both be released. I don’t have a wordpress account or my own webiste but i would just like to look at the code and see how it all works. It would be nice for me to be able to compare the two and see what modifications have what effects.

Looks cool, id definetly get it if i actually had somewhere to use it, but i dont
I think the Core might be the best to release
cause people can edit stuff if they want right

This might be yet another Rube type question…. but is there any reason you can’t release both? the original core and your own personal tweek? Give your fans the ability to choose?

Hey, Chris

I think it is wonderful what you are doing with the WicketPixie Wordpress theme (let me guess you named the project after you dogs) anyway I like them to but you were asking to either release the theme plain or with you style that you have used on your webpages but I would like to suggest another alternative can you change back the content that you but on it and just have it not as a plain theme but with a few of the features you have done, you know what I’m sayin’ anyway I love the work you do and keep it up.

Thanks,

Cya

wow, this looks great! one problem, loading pages is slower now…

wow, this looks great! one problem, loading pages is slower now…

I love it! The “floating” background is something that I have seen before in other Wordpress themes, but I have never seen them so well utilized in this small package. The page load times are also very good for such a complex theme, and it is quite obvious that you have spent a lot of time on Optimization.

I don’t currently use Wordpress for anything, though I have used Blogger in the past, but in seeing the potential of Wordpress here, I will most likely start working on Wordpress myself!

Kudos!

I would download the one tweaked by you, but I think you should make the two versions available

Wow Chris, this is a great new improvement. I will donate once i can. It’s amazing how much more you have done since you first started in the world of technology

Hi Chris great work on the site looks awesum!!!

I personally, would like to download the tweaked version, because I like what you have done. I would obviously change it around quite a bit, but I do like what has been done so far.

This is great work.

Personally, I don’t use wordpress becouse I am trying to learn PHP and MySQL myself, but I would be happy if there was a way I can have this template only for my non-wordpress site (and yes I would put a link to your site). I am not good in this template stuff, I try but fail :(

I say give us both, as well. I love the one that’s currently being used, but I change my mind far too often for my own good.

i would like both themes for download but if it had to be one theme, i would pick the one that you tweaked for your site

this is a very informative video man thanks allot

This theme you made Chris is awsome! Only problem is that in Mozilla Firefox you can’t scroll smoothly, its jagged and hard to manuever.

Great theme reallt amazing, and really cool features. I can’t wait till it comes out . Also could you tell me who else designed this or was it all just you?

Keep up the good work Chris.

Chris please place both i literally just installed wordpress and love it but woulg like to see how much u edited it
pls

Hrmmm….. watched the vid. The K2 guys have a lot of catching up to do.

nice chris the new theme is very informative, but having your live stream on ever page lags my computer…

I really like the progress you have made on the page . It looks very nice but I still don’t know what word press is. I haven’t had any problems on your page with firefox like the previous comments.Every thing looks very smooth and is is a vast visual improvement from the style of you last page set up.

My vote is on the Plain theme please. but I think it depends each person has a different view on what they specifically want to try to download and figure out. so probably both is your best bet for the downloads in all. ^_^

I think this is a wonderfull theme. I wish it was alittle more light. It seems to be very slow, but I LOVE IT!

FireFox does have a few rendering issues and is skippy, but I think it has more to do with the embedded Flash video.

I think it would be nice to have a choice. You know what they say, sometimes you feel like a nut sometimes you don’t.

Cool, I assume its avl for download to anyone? I HAVE a Word press blog on my web page, But i dont like the host it yourself ones… Id rather just use Word press. lol

I really like the one for your site… looks nice. If you want to please everyone though, you might release them both. That’s what I do when I create new icons… I release .ico and .png files because variety is indeed the spice of life.

Oh my god! I love this theme. I can not wait to be able to try this on my own site. The functions that is provided with it makes it look really nice. But is there a possibility to make it save all the social feeds? So that if twitter lost all my twitt’s that it still will be available in WP.

Yeah it think that i would prefer to have the plain version of this template. I think its a great design.

I like it alot, but I have one major problem I cant scroll your blog posts on the main page.

I love this new theme. I will download it when it is available. I like the design of it — it lets have all of your social places and links all in one place. It also has a more cleaner look to it. I love it Chris!!

I like the theme, especially the background. I wish I could switch from MT to WordPress.

I found some more glitches Chris. These are in both IE and FF.

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The WordPress looks very good, I like it that you put your 2 dogs as the avatars :) The only thing is that it looks much better in Safari than in FireFox (just a bit buggy). Other than that, nice design + money well spent!

Forian

Awesome themes Chris. Both themes have their own little features. You should release both of them!

the theme is much more complicated to navigate.. honestly, the background and the color is great, but layout needs more tweaking… and the live streams aside from the stream page shouldn’t automatically play.. :)

I love the look of the new the but in my opinion its really bloaTed. There is just too much stuff on it to run smoothly. Whenever I try to access it I can’t because it fails to load because it takes too long. After an initial surprise I like the old one better.

wow. i’ve never used wordpress, or done that much blogging, but this looks sooooo cool, i just have to try wordpress out! Btw, cool name!(wicketpixie)

I would say both because I think most would prefer to have to do the least about of changing to use it but for people like me who like to code the edited version would interest us much more. In fact I would like to see the edited version to possibly tweak it myself even more.

It looks really pretty, and I quite like how you’ve added a twitter stream in the top as well…(didn’t notice that at first.) Not too familiar with wordpress myself, but, whatever, the site looks fab :D

i love the theme its well made and i think u really took time to make it

nice blog as usual

a really nice well presented theme it looks like u really took time to make this

nice blog as usual

i want!

a very god template and it now also looks great on IE7.
and it has a realy nice Vista look like the first tries from Windobinds to imitate the aero surface. I can’t wait the release of them .
but I think that the start page of pirillo.com is not so genius

a very god template and it now also looks great on IE7.
and it has a realy nice Vista look like the first tries from Windobinds to imitate the aero surface. I can’t wait the release of them .
But I think that the start page of pirillo.com is not so genius

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cool i like the new site it looks good

Yea Chris, great theme pick out, I would for my own go for the plain theme, but this is really nice. Like I guess it’s because I have a pretty plain personality

i personaly would go for the one you tweaked at the site.

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I am loving the changes that you are making to the site, Chris! This is seriously one of the best Wordpress themes I have seen in a long time. I especially enjoy the avatar at the top of the page. Something like that on the top of my blog would definitely be useful.

I would personally go with the generic version of this theme, mostly because I do not want my blog looking exactly like someone else’s. I will probably stick with my “iTheme” theme that I am currently using, however.

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My God, this is wonderful. Does premium Word Press Theme mean we have to pay for it? I thought you said it was free? Anyways great theme and the loading time is great. I am hoping you will just release both versions the plain theme and the one for your site.

Nice work Chris!

I love it, but when will you release it?

I don’t know how to change my Avatar, it won’t let me at ALL. please take a look into it.

I love it, and would like to see you release both versions — one to build on — and one as an example of what can be done with it.

When WILL this be released?

It’s a really great theme Chris! Good job with it. I look forward to the release of it.

I would rather install the core version as on my site, i’ve just this minute installed wordpress and i can’t wait for you to release WicketPixie as i think it’s one of the coolest themes out there for wordpress!

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I think that you should release both versions. Granted, there will be some people who don’t want to do so many changes to the core, but there will be other who’ll like the challenge. If I knew anything about WordPress, I’d download your tweaked version just so that I could learn even more about how WordPress works and the coding it uses.

WicketPixie is one of the most useful Wordpress Themes that I have seen on any website. It actually connects all of your other profiles and accounts on other sites and displays most of them on a single page for you to view. I think it will help a lot of people to find out more about who the real Chris Pirillo is.

That’s pretty nice indeed. I my self am not into web page and blog stuff because it’s all too confusing and i just leave that stuff to people who know how to do it, but now that you are offering us this smart little thing, i might even consider making one if there is a need for that. Ty

I totally wait for it! I just closed my website just ’till this theme will be released.

Excited no doubt.

I love everything about this theme except for the name… perhaps I just don’t get it. I know it is a combination of your dogs’ names, but it seems it deserves a more relevant title. Anyways, great work!

I absolutely love this new theme. I found it on my Lockergnome blog about a week ago, and have it fully customized. I haven’t watched the full screencast yet, but I will sometime in the near future. One question, however.

Does anyone know how to change the links on the black bar on the top? The one where Chris has put “About, Network”, etc? I’ve tried the “Widgets” option, but can’t seem to figure it out. If you can, please let me know at mattstech@gmail.com.

“Not bad for free, eh?” Not bad at all.Wicket and Pixie are the V.I.P,the main actors and characters.I think it is a funny but a good choice of a name.

Chris, I think you should release both of them and see how people like it. They could make their own little tweaks to it. But hopefully this works out well for you. I will get it when i can.

I really like this theme! The heads surrounding the top ad are a nice touch.

Great work Chris. A nice, simple, elegant design that is easy to navigate and brimming with functional features. Lots of really nice innovation without become confusing or overwhelming. Make it a real ease for new community members to get involved quickly and effectively.

I like the theme, but it seems to lag a little on load

this is really cool it is probably the one of the best i have seen, i will have to check it out.

i like the new theme from wicket and pixie theme and i think it is much more convenient

nice design chris i would use is
but its seems a little laggy

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I love it Chris! It is so cool! Keep up the great work with all of your WordPress stuff and the blog itself!

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