This Sandbox based theme is for self-hosted WordPress Users. It requires that you install Sandbox 0.9 or above. If you are using the Custom CSS upgrade on wordpress.com, get just the CSS.
Credits:
Original design by John Oxton
Illustration by Denis Radenkovic
Based on the Textpattern template reworked by Graham Bancroft.
License:
This Sandbox based WordPress theme is under the same license as the original template:
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5.
Preparation:
WordPress 2.0 users, please copy the following text into a text widget:
<p><a href="#header">top</a> | Original design by <a href="http://johnoxton.co.uk" title="visit John’s site">John Oxton</a> | Illustration by <a href="http://www.38one.com/">Denis Radenkovic</a> | This design is released under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/" title="view the licence for this design">Creative Commons licence</a></p>
Note: If you put this text widget in your secondary sidebar, it will display the way it does on this site, as a footer of sorts. All of the widgets in the secondary sidebar will display this way. (Further instructions on widget usage).
WordPress 2.1+ users: the credit is automatically appended to your footer.
Logo Image: This design uses a custom image as the header. The image is 200x60 pixels, twice. the two halves of the 400x60 pixel image create the standard and hover states of the logo. To help you out, here is the *.PSD file I used to make this logo. It includes guides to make it easier to line up the two states of the image: Sandbox Logo
WordPress 2.1+ users can use the custom header page to change the image. 2.0 users will need to add the image to style.css manually.
Features:
the maximum width for images in posts is 390 pixels. anything wider will be squeezed by smackfoo's awesome javascript, to prevent the theme from breaking.
John is an excellent designer. almost anything you put in a post will be styled. you can see some of the formatting here, in the HTML templates.
Download:
Bus full of hippies v 0.6.1
Sandbox 1.2
64 Comments
I’m pleased it was helpful
J’ai fait une traduction en français de ce thème. Cela se trouve ici : http://wordpress-tuto.fr/theme-wordpress-bus-full-hippies-145
very awesome, thanks for translating! (added to the post)
Thanks for this theme – Joshuaink is one of my favourite design.
mine too
if only my themes were as hot as his…
Excessive modesty
– Your themes are hot and unique.
Hey there! I love the idea of this theme, but I can’t get it to work. The only files included in the download are the functions.php, style.css and some images. Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks!
those are the only files that should be included. this theme requires that you install Sandbox as well.
unfortunately, there’s a bug in 2.2.1 that makes this theme not work. [solution below]
Ah, that must be my problem then. I tried overwriting my sandbox files with the “Bus” files but it said I needed a template. Will the old file mess up my wordpress?
Thanks for your help!
UPDATE: I tried uploading the new file, but when I went to the theme selector screen, all I got was a blank screen. Any idea what went wrong?
ok, sorry, referenced the wrong file. the file you need to change is
/wp-includes/theme.php.here’s the file to download, straight out of wordpress’ trac:
theme.php[updated file below].the file is completely safe, it’s just an older version. the only change between this and the current version has to do with how line breaks are handled.
Ah, that worked. Thanks!
One more thing (sorry!). Is it possible to show more than three of my pages?
you could add
#menu ul { overflow: visible; }to the very end of style.css. it’ll show the rest of your pages, but the items may run into each other a bit.
This is just great, but how do you fix the IE6/PNG issue? do you have to write all your css code with jpgs and gif backgrounds? That is not fair! There must be a way to write a style sheet and not to worry about this issue! Damn IE6!
well, john’s solution is in the CSS. personally, i don’t deal with IE6. IE7 is listed as a critical update. i’m calling that close enough to deprecated. I don’t have an install to test on it, and i’m not going to hack my registry or otherwise put my computer at risk, just so that other people can leave themselves vulnerable.
Unfortunately, besides the IE6 problem with pngs, how come you didn’t fix the background image to get rid of the gridlines? It’s easily done.
If anyone wants the fixed image please contact me at sbclark2002 at yahoo dot com and I will email it to you. It makes a world of difference, not seeing that nasty blue line across the top.
Example can be seen at Blogger
stop and think for a second about the effort it took to put the grid lines in. they’re not a glitch. they’re a wink and a nod.
/wp-includes/theme.phphas been patched by dougal. please download the updated file: theme.phpVery fresh and clean.
great template. It needed the following code in the stylesheet to show the menu correctly:
.xoxo {margin-left: 15px;}
dennis-
i’ve been thinking about that for a while, since the way i did it requires people to use widgets. i will update the theme as soon as i have a few minutes.
Alight, grab the updated version.
dennis’ code only works for people who don’t use widgets. the updated version fixes both layout and styling for non-widget users, and works as always for widget users.
Hey man! It’s me again, sorry. I just installed this theme, but I got the error: “Fatal error: Call to undefined function: sandbox_blog_lang() in /home/toddpbc/public_html/wp-content/themes/sandbox/header.php on line 2″
Do you know why?
Thanks dude!
have you hacked your sandbox installation at all?
make sure all the files for both wordpress 2.2.2 and sandbox 0.9.5 are intact. if you’re still getting the error, then please report it in the sandbox bugtracker.
I’m an idiot. Sorry. I wasn’t installing the theme properly.
Thanks for all your help!
hey adam i have the exact same problem as Todd above.. but i dont know where i went wrong.. i downloaded the hippies theme and sandbox 0.9.7. Both untouched. What do i do then?
thanks
This theme installs just like any other theme. install both sandbox and BFoH into
/wp-content/themes/. then select the theme from the presentation menu.Beautiful theme,thanks for great job~
Excellent theme, but I have one question: how should I go about removing the default icon (not replacing it, completely removing it?
the logo (sandbox icon)? you could upload a blank *.gif on the Custom Header page, or you could add
#header h1#blog-title a { display: none; }to the end of your CSS. If you’d rather have text than an image, you could use something like this:
#header h1#blog-title a {text-indent: 0; height: auto; background: transparent;
}
… and then style it as you please.
After installation I have a bug with header.
screenshot
Could you help me?
the screenshot is refusing to load for me. can you email it to me? wp-admin@archgfx.net
Forgive my naivete, but I’m confused about the wordpress program I downloaded vs. the wordpress.com hosting site. Can this theme be uploaded for use on wordpress.com, and if not – what programs do you recommend for a ‘self-hosted’ site? I think what I’m really asking for is the CSS code – the link to which is not working. I tried copying the code from the style.css page provided in the joshuaink folder, but that only resulted in a ‘bus full of hippies’ logo over the blank page. Thanks for your patience
if you’re interested in “self-hosting”, i’d heartily recommend bluehost, that’s where I host my blog, and the officially recommended host of my employer.
Most webhosts have fantastico, or some other means of installing wordpress in a few easy steps, without messing with any code.
there is a version of this theme for wordpress.com, but I will probably remove it shortly, as I cannot recommend wordpress.com at all:
http://archgfx.net/blog/2008/geek/blogging/desaparecidos-wordpresscom-sucks
the link to the CSS has been fixed now.
Thank you so much for the advice Adam. I will definitely be going with bluehost as the home for my site. Keep up the good work!
Hello there, I use wordpress Version 2.3.2. After I uploaded your zip file to wp-content/themes/joshuaink .. I notice in my presentation tab. At the bottom, it says Template is missing. Can you tell me how to fix it, I can’t load your template
thanks
Tiff – sounds like you’re missing the sandbox theme (this theme depends on that theme being installed). I’ll add a download link to that theme, since it seems a lot of people miss it.
where can i go to download that missing theme?
oh i see wt u meant .. thanks Adam
http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/
it’s also added to the post ^^
I just want to say that I love this theme, and untill I can master customizing wordpress for myself I will be using this.
Actually I think all your wordpress themes and styles are pretty amazing.
Hai just installed this theme and it is giving this error Fatal error: Call to undefined function sandbox_body_class() in /home/earnbux/public_html/roshan/wp-content/themes/sandbox/header.php on line 16
sounds like you replaced the sandbox’ functions.php with the bus full of hippies theme. see above. you should install the two themes in seperate folders.
Please forgive my ignorance, I am trying to figure out just how I should get the header on my wordpress blog I just installed it as your site indicates (or so I thought..i’m new to wordpress) but i don’t understand what to do with the header, or where I can upload a custom one.. i also dont have pshop on my laptop..
any help is appreciated, I really think I love this theme..
thank you for your help
@michelle – it appears that you’ve installed the theme incorrectly. please install both sandbox and bus full of hippies in
/wp-content/themes/(each in their own folder). right now you’ve got the bus full of hippies’style.cssinside your sandbox_1.3 folder.oops thank you for your kind help and time adam! i will try that
adam..
I installed it as you said, both folders in the theme folder this is what I got” I zipped the files first.. that’s right right?
Name Description
Stylesheet is missing.
The bus full of hippies Template is missing.
Hey, I just wanted to share with you all aWordPress ‘props’ logo I created esp. for the Bus full of hippies theme to add to your widget sidebar (txt>add img src html tag). Enjoy!
Yes, its tru.
best regards
svetainiu kurimas
The funy things is, this problem (side bar go to bottom of page, only at index page) arise only when I using wysiwyg editor rather that default from WP
Best Regards
Svetainių kūrimas
Dear Adam,
after installing this great theme, the search box isn’t positioned like it is here but at the bottom of the page. Also most of the links are shown there. How can I fix this? Thanks in advance!
Kind regards
Nick
Nick – You’ll need to rearrange the widgets in the sidebar to suit the layout. By default, the search box shows up in the secondary sidebar, which displays as the footer.
Dear Adam,
thank you very much! I’m a newbie in WordPress as you may have recognized.
Well, I added the “Search” and “Links” widgets to the sidebar 1, so they are displayed there (on the right) now. But they are also shown at the footer even though no widget in the sidebar 2 is used.
Kind regards
Nick
Nick – if you don’t want anything to show in the footer, you’ll need to add an empty text widget to sidebar 2 (if there are no widgets, then the default arrangement is shown)
Dear Adam,
great, that works!
Thank you so much for your kind help.
Kind regards
Nick
Great theme…!!
I think this is the best theme I ever found.
Already install it in my blog.
It’s match perfectly with the contents.
Thanks for your kindness guys.
You’re the best..!!
Best regards,
Adi
I’m such a novice to the self-hosted WordPress. I’m just learning cpanel let alone WordPress. I want to change my theme to this one. My cpanel is with GoDaddy. Can you walk me through how I need to setup this theme! Thank you so much. I’m very grateful.
Hi Adam,
I love this theme. It’s just so pretty. Thank you. I installed it with no problems.
Is there a way to take off the time but still leave the date?
Cheers!
Kris
The date/time stamps are controlled by the settings in the wordpress dashboard – to hide the time, just empty that field in your dashboard.
It says it’s a template for those who host their own site. Sorry for having to ask, but does that mean i can’t use it if I have JustHost as my provider?
…oh, and I ask because I have uploaded it and I’m getting the following error in my WordPress admin:
- Broken Themes
- The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.
- Name: The bus full of hippies
Description: Template is missing.
…or does this just mean I need to load Sandbox?
Yes, you’ll need to install sandbox as well. Self-hosting just means that you’re not on wordpress.com
Hello,
I installed this template and it’s wonderful but my blog requires some changes.
I have ben BEGGING for help by e-mail on the “customize” aspect for three days without no results.
If someone knows how to customize this sandbox thing please reply me with your e-mail or AIM/Yahoo/MSN name so I can contact you.
I need is ASAP please.
I can’t always access forums due to my “real life” issues, so if you answer here I can’t promise to see your reply right away. But today I’m at a good place so I can come back a couple of times if you’ll help me.
Thanks,
Angel.
(Ps: I dont mean to be rude, but I have a very chaotic life medic-wise, so please only reply f you REALLY can help me out. Thank you.)
Nevermind, I figured it out. I needed to click the download link instead of the copy and paste links. Thank you for such a beautiful theme!
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