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Bella, free wordpress theme

Bella wordpress theme

- Two column design
- xHtml valid
- Widget ready
- Minimalistic
- Gravatars
- Catchy colors

preview bella wordpress theme
Download Bella wordpress theme Version 1.3

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  1. This is a really nice theme. Tell me about the font trick you used :)

    I just noticed it has a minor alignment issue are the search bar in IE 7.

  2. For the font I used sIFR3.

    Thanks for pointing that glitch out. I will fix that in a new version probably. Its too small to fix now.

  3. There's problem with turkish characters in sIFR . I cant see the characters . How can i solve it ? With the flv file ? Can you pls upload the fagocotf.flv . I didnt see it in theme . Or can you upload the new swf file with utf-8 characters ?

  4. Deniz, the font supports some UTF-8 characters but not all.
    My suggestion is to strip the theme of all the sIFR3 javascript and use the theme without it. All the titles and colors will remain almost the same. It will still look good.

  5. When I apply the theme to my website, the dates don't work properly- all posts made within the same month all show the same date. I'm using the latest version of wordpress, and the version of the site I tested it on only had the very basic widgets (I always test on another site before I apply a theme to my blog).

    Is there a way that I can fix this??

  6. OK, I worked out how to fix it… I changed the 'php the time' tag things in the php templates from 'm' and 'M' to 'j' and 'M'

  7. Mike
    11:33 on September 19th, 2008

    Hi, great theme…I love it!
    I would like to create some images for my site with the font you used for the title. Can you please tell me where I can find that font?

  8. I love this theme very much. I changed the width a little by myself. I think it will be better if someone can provide a header picture. Now the right top conor looks too empty.

  9. Finally, I give up this theme. The speed is too slow. I think maybe sIFR is not a good enough so far.

  10. You can delete the javascript files from the header and it will not use sIFR anymore.

  11. about date on a left side. no matter in witch date a post a message, there are "09 Sept".

  12. I have the same version on the preview page and I don't have a problem with the date.
    See if the date is ok in the article.
    This is a strange problem.

  13. Hi, beat and GlamourGaby.
    About the date, the reason is:
    In file:index.php, find line:

    you should change it to:

    Also repeat what you do in file single.php

  14. ooops…I cannot post the html code here.
    just find the string: the_time('m'), and change it to the_time('d')

  15. Oh, damn, I see the problem now.
    Both php codes are for the same thing. One shows the month in numeric representation and the other shows the name of it.
    I will change it now.

  16. I fixed the theme. Please download it again from the link in the post.

  17. test
    06:23 on September 26th, 2008

    Excellent Theme. Cool trick with the fonts.

  18. I'm moving to Wordpress.org pretty soon and I loooove this theme.

    Have you got any plans to make it work with custom headers, or perhaps a third column? I really want my design to have those two things, so I can put ads off to the side and not have a freakishly long sidebar, and use my little logo at the top. Thoughts?

  19. A third column or custom header are easy modifications.
    I just build them how I think they look good. Its normal that some people have different needs from the theme.

  20. Hi, nice theme, thanks..

    but, i've got little problem..
    when i make a new page, there is no comment box..
    how can i show the comment box in the new page..

  21. i've check the allow comment and ping, but still didn't show..
    how can i fix it?

  22. Delete the file page.php

  23. Elle
    10:42 on September 27th, 2008

    Hey GG! Love this theme.

    Just discovered an IE6 glitch when doing a final test with several browsers. If you view your theme preview page in 6 (I don't have 7 on my machine, so I don't know if it happens there as well) you need to look at the line under the post title. The categories link takes the last two letters of the link and puts them on the next line even if there is more than enough room on the first line.

    Any way of fixing that? 25% of my visitors use IE6, so I like to keep them happy!

  24. Elle, please download the theme again. I have fixed the bug.
    Thanks for telling me.

  25. Elle
    16:34 on September 27th, 2008

    Will do! Thank you.

  26. Hi GlamourGaby,

    I just wanted to say thank you so much for the theme. I found it at WordPress and chose it for my new blog/site. I think it looks awesome! I was worried that there wasn't any accreditation for you on the main page, but then saw it at the bottom, with a link and followed it here. :)

    Thanks again for sharing it with us. I love the colors!

    Here's my site, in case you wish to see what I've done with it so far:

    http://san-francisco-travel-guide.com/

    Best,
    Jen1

  27. Hi

    i like that theme – i used it on familienvertrag.de, a website dealing with modern family politics.

  28. Well done!! I'm blown away by this theme, there's nothing else even close to it on WP that I have seen. I really, REALLY want to use this because it matches the spirit of my blog so well, but I've noticed that it doesn't look the same in Firefox. What could I do to make it the same across both browsers?

  29. Hi Gabrielle. Actually it should look the same.
    Can you send me two print screens of the two browser you are using?

  30. Hi Gaby, nice to visit your blog again..
    By the way, for this theme, can i have the original one?
    I mean, if you made this theme with Photoshop, can I get the .psd file?
    Coz I want to change a little with the design..
    That's all..
    Thx

  31. Ahmm… I don't think I have the psd anymore :P
    Strange, but I can't find it.
    I must of deleted my "bella" work directory when I finished the coding.

  32. ok – i am trying to use this for my very first website – so anyone can answer this question. please bear with me as i have very little coding experience, and i appreciate any help.

    and thanks so much for theme – its beautiful!

    i wanted to take off the time and date stamp, and i think i did that right.

    however, i can get pages to work just fine. but i have made a post and put it in a category, but when i click on the link to the category from the side panel all i get is a blank page. any advice?

  33. i forgot to add that when i click on view post, the them page comes up but my content comes up as an error

  34. What did you set your permalinks to?

  35. krista
    18:23 on October 3rd, 2008

    did i mention i didnt know what i was going ;)?

    I didnt set them to anything

  36. The link to your catory is like this:
    .comcategory/uncategorized
    You are missing an extra "/" there. Like this:
    .com/category/uncategorized
    So somewhere you added or changed something.

  37. New to WordPress but love this theme. I've installed it on my site, but it doesn't look right in Firefox – I don't seem to get any date or post title on my postings.

    Also my links, eg the Right Hand "a blog is born" seems to be broken too.

    Could all be my fault, being a complete novice at this!

  38. The date looks fine to me :)

  39. Thanks for sharing! I love this theme! :)

  40. I've taken a screenshot to illustrate the lack of date and title. (Note: although it's quite obvious, this is Firefox 3.0 on a Mac. It seems to be OK on Safari on the same Mac and Firefox on my PC)

    Screenshot: http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture1cr0.png

  41. That might be a sIFR3 problem.
    I think the best way is to delete the javascript lines from the header. That way the theme will revert to normal text and should show normal in all browsers.

  42. This theme is perfect for my cartoons, but with Fago font I don't see some characters, as à, è. é, ì, ò, ù, who are most used in italian language.
    How can I resolve?
    Thanks and compliments.
    gianfalco

  43. Yes that is a problem.
    The fastest solution would be to disable sIFR from replacing the text with another font.
    Another solution would be to find another font that support diacritics. If you find such a font I would happy to help you out to switch the fonts.

  44. tania
    20:34 on October 16th, 2008

    Gorgeous theme!

    I'm a newbie and will greatly appreciate any one guiding me to the right instructions on how to add an image for a header.

    THANK YOU!

  45. Open the header.php file and insert your code instead of the h1 and h2 tags.

  46. tania
    22:12 on October 16th, 2008

    Thanks a lot. I'm working on it now.

    I have another ? in regards to posting comments. My settings are unchecked for comment moderation,still, how do I remove the "you must be logged in to comment" so that my blog visitors can comment without an account?

    I promise I'll leave you alone after this one. :)

  47. You don't remove it. You just uncheck it and save the changes.

  48. Hi there!
    I'm a wp newbie, so forgive me if my problem sounds kinda dumb.
    I just installed your amazing theme, but like Taufan, I can't find the comment box and older comments.
    I read your tip to delete the file page.php, but I can't find it in the theme folder. Where's it?
    Thanks! ;-)

  49. The files of the theme are in wp-content/themes/Bella/

  50. Thanks for your quick answer, but there's no page.php in wp-content/themes/Bella/. What can I do?

  51. What exactly are you trying to do?
    Because I didn't quite understand.

  52. Sorry if it's confusing, english is not my first language. I'll try to explain myself again: I installed your theme yesterday, but when I entered in the comment area, I can't see the box to make a comment or older comments (it just show the newest one). I read here that, to solve this kind of problem with comments, I had to delete the "page.php" file, but there's no "page.php" in the Bella's folder.
    So my question is: How can I fix this?
    Thank you so much for your help!

  53. You entered the comment area where?
    The admin panel? In an article url? In a page url?
    Your blog is not working so I can't check.

  54. You can check now, the blog is working.
    Not the admin panel, I mean the link to make a new comment, but the article url will show you the problem too.
    For example here: http://romantically.net/blog/?p=429
    There's 3 responses but I can only see the newest. And there's no box to make a new comment.
    Thanks!

  55. You must of edited something and you edited it wrong.
    Copy the theme again and replace the file comments.php with the one you have in your theme directory.
    If that doesn't help then I can't help you.
    The problem is from something you edited or installed.

  56. Ok, I'll try that.
    Thanks for your help. ;-)

  57. Excelent theme! Mi wife love it.
    But the trick font (fffago) doesnt work very much with spanish characters: á, é, í, ó, ú and ñ.
    ¿What can i do, how can i change the font, or the sIFR3, or the fla?
    I don't won't simply "delete de java strip", becose is "glamorous"
    Please!
    Aldo, from Lima, Perú

  58. AS I said in a recent comment. If you find a font that you like and that support those characters then I can help you change the .swf file that has the font and we can see if it will work.

  59. Thank you for this theme! I will try it on my blog: I have just started and hope it will suite, especially translation!

  60. Seem to have a Javascript issue with this theme on Firefox 3.0.2 on Linux. It doesn't replace the titles correctly or display the dates. From the Javascript console I get this error (repeated loads):-

    Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Cannot convert WrappedNative to function" nsresult: "0x8057000d (NS_ERROR_XPC_CANT_CONVERT_WN_TO_FUN)" location: "JS frame :: http://www.yarwood.net/wp-content/themes/bella/js/sifr.js :: anonymous :: line 18" data: no]

    If I disable Javascript the initial titles are placed correctly and look ok. That said the themes looks alright on IE and Firefox under Windows.

  61. I guess you will have to remove the javascript lines from the header and footer then. That way the theme won't use sIFR anymore.

  62. El diseño de la plantilla es EXCELENTE. MUY BUEN CRITERIO. Me surgieron dudas por la tipografia utilizada, que realmente también me llamó mucho la atención la misma y el tratamiento para aplicarla en el theme…
    Realmente MUY BUENO. :D
    Saludo!

  63. Hi GG-
    Love the theme but for some reason when I installed it all that shows up on my site is the header, the date, the vertical color bar on the side and one horizontal bar. I am on a Mac and the file I downloaded said "pc zip file". Would this make a difference?

  64. Upgrade your wordpress installation.

  65. thank you! that solved the problem :)

  66. Hi GlamourGaby!
    Subject: opaque+lightview+wmode
    My problem is with the file '.swf'
    I need to make it transparent to work properly with the application 'Lightview'
    I have tried to change the attribute 'z-index' and 'transparent' in the archives '.css' and '.js' but I have not achieved the desired results.
    Thank you in advance for your attention and I congratulate him on his design.

    http://www.aiteok.com.ar/blog

    ************************************

    Hola GlamourGaby!
    Asunto: Mi problema es con el archivo ".swf".
    Necesito hacerlo transparente para que funcione correctamente con la aplicación "Lightview".
    He intentado modificar el atributo "z-index" y "transparent" en los archivos ".css" y ".js" pero no he logrado los resultados deseados.
    Agradezco de antemano su atención y lo felicito por su diseño.

    http://www.aiteok.com.ar/blog

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  68. Hey Gaby. I didn't hear back from you from email so I figured i'd comment here. Again….GREAT theme…simple, effective, colorful. beautiful. But i have two issues. The first and most important of the two is that about 25% of the time the headers don't show up. I'm assuming that's because there's javascript to change the look of the headers? Do you know of this problem? anyone else having it? and the second is that i just activated the Lightbox 2 plugin for Wordpress. Whenever the lightbox pops up, the image goes behind the headers. Also, probably because of the coding somehow. If you know of these issues and/or have a solution, please let me know as i love your theme and would really like to keep it.

  69. Is Bella incompatible with Dum-Dum? I'm using WP 2.6.1, and while I can use Dum-Dum without any problems, I've attempted to load Bella twice but it doesn't show up in my theme control panel…

  70. You can't ask if Bella is compatible or not with Dum-Dum, it has no sense. They are two different themes.
    Bella should show up in your themes directory. See if you have uploaded all the files and the directory structure is like this:
    /wp-content/themes/bella

  71. Hi, great work with the theme.

    How do I make the backgrounds to the text transparent?

    I'm using a background image and I don't want the white boxes.

    Thanks!

  72. chris
    22:03 on December 1st, 2008

    hi glamourgaby, fantastic work! how do i change the background to the same white colour as seen in your preview though? after installing i see the white boxes surrounding all the titles but the background is transparent, need to change that as white background makes my blog more readable. appreciate it!

  73. hey there! really nice theme u got here ;) I would just like to ask if how many widgets can be placed in the sidebar? i tried putting 8 text widgets but only 4 remained after saving it.

  74. @Chris
    Please give me a URL so I can see how the theme look in your site and what the problem is.

    @Maye
    The theme doesn't restrict the number of widgets you can put in the sidebar.
    Maybe its a problem from your wp installation.

  75. I'm using WP version 2.6.2. Do I need to upgrade to 2.6.5?

  76. You don't NEED to but its always good to upgrade to the latest version, because old versions have security flaws.

  77. Hello!
    Great Work!!

    I have a problem with the Titles in Bella, when I write a title with accents (á) it disappear…

    Thanks for read!.

  78. Hi,

    Love the theme. I think I messes it up though, I tweaked the coding so it doesn't show the category of an entry and removed the "pages" from the sidebar. Now, when I try to access the page on different computers the titles for the entries and sidebar don't appear sometimes. But this other blog, swipesomegloss.com that uses the same theme,there's no problem with regards to titles appearing for her page. Help!

  79. The best idea is to download the theme again and try to do the changes again.
    The other guy just knows html better than you :p

  80. Ankebut
    10:24 on December 13th, 2008

    plz edit all download links….All of them broken!

  81. Fixed. Thanks.

  82. Help please.. The categories menu on the side bar, it shows how many articles are posted under a certain category. How can I get it to not show the number of articles posted?

  83. Open the file sidebar.php and search for:
    show_count=1
    Then change it to
    show_count=0

  84. I really like your wp theme, but as a french, I need the accents to made my text readable for the other french people :)
    I've notice I need the flass software to change the font… Can you explain me how to do?
    Thx a lot :)

  85. Larcenette, you can just remove the js files from the header and the theme will use the default font which should support french accents.

  86. Hello GlamourGaby! I've installed your theme, it's fantastic.

    Just one question, I've added some widgets on my WP dashboard but they haven't appeared. (Recent posts and tag cloud)

    Any idea why?

    Thanks

  87. Strange, the widget sidebar is installed so it should work.
    I have no idea why it doesn't work.

  88. Oops, I was just being impatient it seems. Everything working fine now, just took an hour to update through my host.

    Thanks anyway.

  89. Nice nice theme. Thanks!!!

  90. Any possibility you would consider porting this theme to be also a Drupal theme? I would be willing to pitch in $100 towards the effort if you were interested, and I do not need the javascript parts…

    -David Parizek

  91. Kevin
    12:10 on February 20th, 2009

    How do I add a logo image next to the blog title on the header? Please help….

  92. Actually cancel my request on a Drupal port. I like wordpress better anyway. But thanks for a incredibly nice theme! You can see it at my site without the javascript parts if you want.

  93. C
    05:42 on March 2nd, 2009

    Hi! Any update/modification for accepting spanish accents at blog title-subtitle and posts titles?

  94. Hi GG, I really like your theme Bella, but it seems to have some problems with images overlay (like lightbox, ecc) the post title, and other txt still remain over the images.
    What do you think about it?
    thx for your work!
    m

  95. Marco, I don't know how that can be fixed. The only idea I have at the moment would be to disable the sIFR from the theme.

  96. Yes, is what I've done, and now it works fine…thankyou!

  97. Hello Gaby and thank you for this very simple but beautiful theme! I would like to know how I can unable the sIFR as I am using Lightbox for images on my site and the post title are always over the big images!
    Thanks!

  98. Hi Cristi,
    If you want to disable the sIFR then open header.php and delete anything that mentions sifr. You will have 2 css files, some css directly under that, then 2 js files and then some more javascript code under that.

  99. Will do! Thank you!

  100. jane
    23:02 on March 8th, 2009

    i like this theme, but i wanted a 3-column. and dont know how to do it myself. hope to see a 3-column soon

  101. jane
    00:52 on March 9th, 2009

    nevermind, I just studied how the sidebar() works and I managed to create a 3 column bella that works perfectly fine in IE or firefox browser. But of course the credits is still yours, I did not remove it.. I will let you show our site when its finished coz right there's no content and not ready to public.

  102. ed
    22:39 on March 9th, 2009

    Hi, great theme, really an original design. I loaded it up for my blog, but all the color bars are missing. Any idea where I went wrong? I'm a total amateur, so it could be something very, very basic. Thanks.

  103. Maybe you did not upload all the images. Try uploading the theme again.

  104. ed
    22:18 on March 12th, 2009

    uploaded the zip file again, but it didn't help. Any other suggestions?

  105. ed
    00:14 on March 15th, 2009

    GG,

    Uploaded the files again, this time one at a time and it now works.Thanks for the tip.

    New question: How can I add a box that would allow readers to submit suggestions?

  106. Hi GlamourGaby.

    Thank you very much for this theme I am using for a few months now.
    I am just wondering if it is possible to remove the "points" before a link in the sidebar ?

    Thank you again, cheers !

  107. Hi Laura. To remove the images from the links in the sidebar just open style.css and look for:
    .sidebar li a {
    Then delete this:
    padding-left: 12px;
    background: url(img/bullet.jpg) left center no-repeat;

  108. Hi GlamourGaby

    Thank you very much for your help.

    Thank you for your theme too, I really like it.

    Cheers !

  109. a small update:

    it seems to be fine in IE7.0.6

    The issue is in Firefox (3.0.8)

    thanks

  110. Hi Gaby,
    it seems my initial comment was not submitted:

    I have an issue displaying Search boxes and submit buttons for widgets in the Sidebar (not the WP original search form).

    the search boxes are all white, on a white background, hence do not show.

    the submit buttons are very very small

    This is in FireFox 3.08 only, in IE7 it works alright.

    Please let me know how to fix this.

    thanks

  111. Hi,

    ANy idea how can I edit the following text and the date. If I cant change it at least how can I make sense of the category displayed
    ============================================================
    author: admin category: Plugins, Quotes, Themes
    ==========================================================
    Thank you

    Where do I go and edit the category: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    Where is it coming from

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  113. Great Theme. The idea that using swf file for the text is amzing. How can I change the text size for headings.

  114. great theme! i have 2 questions:
    1. how do i move the body (blog entries) more to the left? i can't seem to find the padding/margin code in the css style sheet
    2. how do i replace the header with an image?

  115. Great Theme – but is there a way to make it able to use ä ö ü in the titles?

    Greetings from Germany!

  116. ATW
    12:27 on June 17th, 2009

    I would love to know how to change the theme to a three column… Is this too dificult?

  117. Hi, I love your theme and recently started using it on my site, but I've noticed that old comments with individual pages aren't showing up. The bubble says how many comments there are, but they don't show up. Comment for individual blog entries work just fine. Any ideas of how I can fix this? (I've already checked that the setting allow for comments and pingbacks.)

    Thanks!
    Stephanie

  118. @Laura
    I'm glad you like the theme. I see you still use it. If you need any help just comment here.

    @Flori
    The input and buttons problem is because I use a css reset at the beginning of the css file. If you apply a bit of css to the inputs and the buttons in the sidebar then it will look great. Add some borders and some padding to them and they will look the same as normal.

    @Irma
    Those are in index.php and also single.php and page.php(if you have that file)

    @John(guitar avatar)
    The font size for the titles can be changed from header.php

    @Manda
    1. I see you already did some modifications to the theme. May I recommend that you change the tags class, from the css file, to 400pixels? I think it will look better.
    2. Open header.php, delete the h1 and h2 tags and put the code of an image there. The code looks like this:
    <a href="URL OF YOUR BLOG"><img src="IMAGE URL HERE" alt="" /></a>

    @Driver
    There are 2 ways, you either disable the sIFR from the theme by deleting the JavaScript lines for sIFR or you create your own swf file of the font and include those characters in the swf file. You can do this by downloading the sIFR package and editing the raw .fla file with Macromedia Flash.

    @ATW
    If you need another column then you edit the css file a bit and you make the .all class lets say 970pixels.
    Then you edit sidebar.php copy everything in there and duplicate it at the end of the file and then edit the content as you like. I hope that works. Hopefully :P

    @Stephanie
    See if you have a page.php file and delete it or rename it to _page.php or something. Maybe that help. Let me know.

  119. hello wpglamour. i thought that bella theme was very nice. but, one problem is, the theme using many flash like in title and date widget. did you know when we scroll the mouse over the flash content, the mouse will stop…

    i thought only that the fatal problem. do you want to repair that..???

  120. Hi GlamorGaby,
    Thanks for your great theme. I'm having the same problem as Stephanie: comments don't work on pages. When I downloaded the Bella theme it didn't come with a pages.php file. In fact, I uploaded a pages.php file from another theme, and the comments worked (but of course the formatting was messed up). Thoughts?
    Thanks!
    Sarah

  121. @Robert Hitler
    I don't have that problem in firefox. Can anyone else confirm this?

    @Sarah
    I think I know what the problem is. Just duplicate the file single.php and rename it to page.php. That should do the trick.

  122. I duplicated single.php, named it page.php, and when I clicked on a page link nothing would load (it would go to a blank screen). Ideas?

  123. Thank You for the Bella theme.

  124. litokoolgrl
    12:21 on July 19th, 2009

    How do I put a banner up? I searched online and says to switch with either banner or header but I can't find either one of them in images with the ftp client… what do I do…?

  125. @litokoolgrl
    You're not making much sense. I don't know what you are trying to do.

  126. RD
    13:15 on August 11th, 2009

    Can ads be used with this theme?

  127. GlamourGaby can you tell us how to make swf file with custopm font. I've tried to do this but only what i can se is "Bold Italic Normal" text generated in all sIFR swf files :/

  128. Hi GlamourGaby!

    Great theme, exactly what I was looking for! I just wanted to add something to the sIFR/lightbox issue. I was experiencing the same problem in that the sIFR objects stay on top of lightbox images. There's a simpler fix to it then disabling sIFR completely. All you need to do is add the following line in header.php:

    ,wmode: 'transparent' });

    So it'll look like this:

    sIFR.replace(fagocotf, {
    selector: '.logo h2'
    ,css: [ '.sIFR-root { text-align: left; font-weight: bold; color: #c3c5c5; }' ] ,wmode: 'transparent' });

    I hope this helps. Keep up the great work!

    Andy

  129. Hey GlamourGaby,
    I've used your web theme on one of my websites. It has more than 90,000 posts and I had to adapt it in order to overcome Wordpress performance issues.

    The main reason to use your theme was:
    1. Simplicity.
    2. Nice and clean.

    If you take a look to the site you'll see I had to take out the flash fonts, disable comments all over the site and made some adjustments. I'm not a graphic designer, so some of the things I've done might not be good for the site's aesthetics, but they got the job done.

    Thanks for the great theme!
    And keep adding value to the Wordpress community!

    –Ken

 

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