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  • Writing by Rajveer
  • On September 10th, 2008 at 11:57 am

WordPress theme - dodo
There are so many WordPress themes available to download for everyone, but I believe that most of them are not very useful. Especially for people who tend to drive a blog which should look professional. Sometimes I see plenty of blogs running on very common themes (because they look good), may be just because the choice costs.

I thought I would make a simple, clean and easily accessible WordPress theme which should be available to everyone. I thought it should make some sense in terms of design, usability and accessibility. And finally it is ready, so feel free to download and check that yourself. You can preview the theme here, an you might also be interested to read some of its related points below:

  1. Easily readable dark on light and light on dark colorsContrast layout
  2. Fixed width, two columns layout
  3. Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict coding and styled with valid CSS
  4. Customizable header image, just replace the ‘header-bg.jpg’ image to have your own. Logo and top navigation area will still remain same.Customizable Header
  5. Special visual appearance for tags like blockquote, abbr and code etc.
    Blockquote and abbr tags
    Code tag

You are free to use this theme for any personal or business purpose, in return I would request you to post a link back to www.inspiredbuddy.com, or just drop an e-mail to me at – rajveer [at] inspiredbuddy [dot] com just to let me know.

24 Responses

  1. Sandeep Singh September 11th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    Love the clean and simple layout …… hmmmm I am thinking over to switch my existing theme with this one …. :)

    One suggestion: why don’t you give it a name like. The Buddy Theme … ;-)

  2. Rajveer September 11th, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    Thanks Sandy!

    Yeh, I guess it should look better than your current theme and moreover this should look unique until next couple of months or so, to become stale like rest of common WordPress themes ;-)

    “The Buddy Theme”, that’s a nice suggestion but actually I have already named it “Dodo”, I know you would do some Googling to know what that means. I shall consider your advice for future work.

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  4. Mandip Singh September 30th, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    I think this is a superb theme for WP and I will start using this.

    A small suggestion if you are able to make the header image changable or uploadable, and give an option to make the yellow background to the blog title either clear or opaque as it is now.

    This would make this theme very customisable, and make each blog look different.

  5. Rajveer October 1st, 2008 at 8:40 am

    Thanks for the kind words Mandip :-)

    That is a good suggestion, I might update this article soon.

  6. snignesexhada October 7th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    Great blog. I like layout!!!!

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  8. steven November 6th, 2008 at 8:01 pm

    great layout. thanks a lot.!!!

  9. Lüks Araç Kiralama December 6th, 2008 at 8:19 pm

    thank you

  10. Mandip Singh December 9th, 2008 at 12:33 am

    I have managed to create my affiliate site using this theme and my own header – see http://www.automobile-depot-online.com – I think it works well, and it was easy enough to use and customise the theme – any comments appreciated. I will add a linkback to your site.

  11. antiquarian books December 11th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    Thank you for this information. :)

  12. Aimee December 24th, 2008 at 4:13 am

    Hello,
    I am wondering how I might insert all content (header, content, sidebar, footer) into one big white box. I’ve changed the bg color, but all the content isn’t contained together when you scroll down. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

    http://www.soflopunch.com

  13. Rajveer December 24th, 2008 at 8:38 am

    Aimee – Looking at the provided link it seems you already have done a lot of change to achieve that. Excepting for that patch on the top, and just above the footer, which you might also want let it merge with the white background. Please change the classes in your style.css, if that is the case.

    #skip {
    background:#FFF;
    border-bottom:0 solid #000000;
    list-style-image:none;
    list-style-position:outside;
    list-style-type:none;
    margin:0;
    padding:0 0.5em;
    }

    #container {
    margin-bottom:none;
    width:100%;
    background:#FFF;
    }

    I hope this helps you. Please communicate via e-mails for further queries.

    Happy Holidays :-)

  14. steve faulkner March 10th, 2009 at 9:02 pm

    Hi rajveer, am using a modified version of your them for our blog.

    regards
    steve

  15. Prem Sagar March 22nd, 2009 at 1:45 am

    hello Rajeev,
    I too am using your theme for 2 of my own blogs. I liked it a lot. Thank you very much.

    I have linked to your site.

    I wanted to customize my blog a bit.. minimal infact.
    1. Change the header.. but the images I put there dont seem to match with the entire theme of the blog. Could you pls give me a good reference to how anyone has changes the header of your theme to good effect?
    2. Include a banner as you find in the gear theme (http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/gear)

    Thank you,
    Prem

  16. Prem Sagar March 23rd, 2009 at 9:55 am

    Hello Rajeev,
    I have been testing your theme. (I compared it with several other themes). I think I love the white spaces in your theme. I would like a simple personal blog and this theme is just right.

    However, I have an issue. In IE 6, the posts do not appear right. The first few words (left portion) seems to be chopped off for a few posts. I didnt notice such behaviour in my home PC (Firefox 3)

    Would you have any suggestions?

    Also, is there any way to increase the no of recent posts in the footer? Or can I change it to something else like Most popular posts?

    Sorry if I am bothering you too much.

    Just another thing: Do you help create professional websites? My cousin wanted to create a professional site. I am thinking of referring you to him.. we can discuss on email.

    Regards,
    Prem

  17. adam kirby May 5th, 2009 at 9:20 pm

    Hi Rajveer, loving the Dodo style. It’s exactly what I had in mind when I was looking for a theme. My only small problem is the yellow box carrying the blog title and description. I was wondering which bit of code I can delete in order for that to disapear. I’ve been trying my best to look through the style sheet but to no avail.

    Your response would be gratefully recieved,

    Adam

  18. sears parts May 17th, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    Hello, good luck for me I was looking for this information for several months ago. Finally I got it all here. Thanks a lot!
    regards
    grill parts

  19. Grant June 16th, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    Hi Rajveer

    Love the theme, just wanted to know how I change the background color.

    I want the content area to stay white but I want the outside area to be a different color.

    Thanks
    Grant

  20. SEO Consultant September 2nd, 2009 at 11:24 pm

    Thanks for sharing this wonderful wordpress theme, i will use this is on my next website design.

  21. Stéphanie November 3rd, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    Hi,

    I’ve chosen this theme for my blog and i find it very clean and nice. Thank you very much.
    However, i’ve met a problem with this theme.
    When i write an article, instead of my name, it’s written : %A%e%B%Y

    I’ve asked some help from the french support of Wordpress and they’ve told me that it might be linked to the theme which would not have evolved with wordpress.
    Do you have any clue?

    Tkank you very much and best regards,

    Stéphanie

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  23. Rehan December 19th, 2009 at 4:32 pm

    I’ve been searching for theme like this, a nice fast loading theme. I want to erase the sidebar and make it a one column theme, could you help me with that?

    Thanks for the great theme.

  24. think outside your box January 14th, 2010 at 3:18 pm

    I’ve chosen this great, clean and simple theme for my website as well. Customization wasn’t that difficult.

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