The Facebook Wordpress theme is finally out and it’s free. Not only that, you can change colors! As simple as the Facebook design itself, this theme brings it all together. It looks good and works great. Incorporating all of the best design elements on the Facebook layout. Sreenshots and Demo Previews available. Please continue reading to find out more.
Update
People have requested for the classic widget control over their post page (single.php). I have uploaded the alternative theme for that, v1.1. Alternatively you can just download the single.php here and replace the single.php, same thing. The facebook theme on the demos.foxinni.com will stay on the default style.
Information
Name: Facebook Layouts
Version: 1.0 & 1.1
Compatibility: WP 2.2+ (possibly work with lesser versions, untested)
Download
Facebook Theme V1.1 (All Widgets Sidebar) (70.3 KiB, 7,762 hits)
Screenshot
Demo
Installation
Download theme, unzip and upload to wp-content/themes/. Activate and enjoy!
Readme PDF coming soon!
Features
- Color Scheme changing (Blue, Green, Red, Black, Grey, Brown, Pink, Yellow, Light Blue and Purple)
- Toggle Wordpress Logo on or off
- Header text alignment
More Info
Tested and working in FF, IE6 and IE7. If there are bugs please report them and I’ll try get to them, if not… get a better browser.
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52 Comments
Cool idea Foxinni! Let’s Muti and Digg it!
excellent theme.. love the changing theme colours widget
Well done Fox!
I like it a lot! Keep ‘em coming…
Well done Foxinni, and what a great idea to have the different colours.
At least FB fans can have SOME sort of difference to the original…
@Charl, @Dave, @Adii: Thanks guys. Yeah, I tell you there are things about the Facebook layout I never thought I’d know… but now I do all too well. Thanks.
ns template, thx for sharing
Beautiful theme! Very nice color variations.
I like the theme. Great work!
@mihai, @Brain, @Kate: Thanks for the compliments. The color changing does make this them stand out. And the structure is perfect (dare i say). Some people said it’s just “ok”. Not that that is bad, but compared to what is out there. It’s a pretty well put together theme. I even got into a bit of a rumble with Garret over at Adii’s post about copying some one else’s design. He felt strong about it. So did I.
This simply ROCKS!!! I think Groogle.co.za might just launch with this theme
watch the next couple days…
This theme is awesome, thanks for sharing!
Superb! Simply superb!
I’m really very very impressed.
Only thing I noticed is that on the posts page, you remove display of sidebar widgets.
I would like my sidebar widgets to display throughout the site.
How do I fix that?
@justin, @misser: Thanks guys.
@Richard: I’ve taken it into consideration and the fix is easy. The theme has been updated and is now like that in v.1.1. Alternatively you can just download this file and replace the single.php in your exciting theme.
Let’s Muti and Digg it!
Muti is kaput and Digg is down.
Stumbled it instead.
Thanks very much for the personal email replies to my above comment. I opted to keep your original single.php and just hard-coded in the sidebar stuff I wanted.
So now I’ll see what my visitors think of my reinvented FaceBook look-a-like blog.
Are you accepting donations for your free themes?
nice theme..i like it..
I have been using a kind of facebook wordpress theme by myself for a long time. You may take a look at my personal blog here:www.gexiaofei.com/blog/
BTW, the blog is in Chinese.
Thanks for sharing!
I dont know how I missed this blog in my google alerts but im glad adii pointed you out.
your FB theme is the closest I’ve seen yet. great work!
Love the design for your blog too! subscribed
I have already been using a Facebook theme for some time now. [:)] You can check it out from here
http://www.techbanyan.com
i like it !!!
Very cool theme!!! I was serching for a “How to skin WP themes” and randomly found this. As a User of both facebook and WP I really like this theme. Best of all it’s free.
the theme is good but the problem is that witht eh sidebards so narrow, one cannot add a good adsense ad (atleast 200×200) without the the sidebars acting wierd.
i hope the author atleast mentions how to increase the width of the 2 sidebars. Pls ..that would be very helpful.
Thank U
Excellent theme.
Superb mate!!!! I was looking for something like this. Can we freely play around and edit the design?
@david: Please do. Let us know what you come up with. http://www.groogle.co.za has done a nice nav. That will be included in V2 of the Facebook Layouts theme.
This is so ironic. I’ve been building web sites with Joomla for just about a year, and this week a recent college graduate and young author asked for a “Facebook” style web site. After searching in Joomla and other Template Clubs to no avail, I remember hearing how Hot! WordPress is and thought it might be ideal for the new site. Much to my delight, not only is WP 2.5 a joy to design with, your “Facebook Theme” is a God Send! Thanks for the awesome work and sharing Foxinni. You mentioned a V2, when might that be? “…www.groogle.co.za has done a nice nav. That will be included in V2 of the Facebook Layouts theme.” I checked out the groogle site and it’s also awesome.
i love this theme but i am uanble to even add 200×200 adsense ad .. the the sidebars just come out of its location and move towards left breaking the whole theme layout
Pls tell us how to fix this ..Thank U
One of the Best Theme!!
Very simple, but there are color choices. Great! !
Wow, what a great job making it look so alike!
Again, the theme is awesome. I would like a single sidebar (primary sidebar on the left). I would like to completely remove the “sidebar 2″ and the container (from the right side of the theme); and have the main content section wide enough to reach the right border. It would be fine if all the widgets in the left sidebar were available in the remaining “single-primary sidebar” on the left. Where can I find help information to do this?
omg, this is so cool.
you’re a genious!!
Suggestion: The search widget: can you make it exactly like the facebook one ? On a single line without a ‘Find’ button ? Thx !
To all of the commentors: I see that many of you have come up with valid ideas of how to improve this theme. So i think it is time to start on V2. So some of the key aspects to take into consideration for the next version:
- Space for Ads… wider sidebars
- A facebook like Navigation
- Just a two column layout
- More facebook Cloning..
Do any of you have anything you would like to add?
-Add the option to add our own logo with or without the ‘home rollover’ that would redirect to home page. (Top left)
-Add the possibility to put icons before page titles in sidebar (just like facebook)
-Even if it’s not facebook liked, add an “on page” state (like bold text) to make it more user friendly and remember him he’s on the right page.
-All those previous width and column suggestion… make it all customizable, not forced.
-Customize post footers ( Written on + date by + name with X comments…) Let us choose what element to put or not.
-Reverse colors ! I would find it awesome to have a black background and white text + white bars.
-Put a title for the home page like “News Feed”, just like facebook ;).
-That’s beyond the theme maybe but I’d love a gallery just like facebook ones with the possibilty to comment the pictures…
-Use the whole facebook CSS. I’ve personnaly added the class for submit buttons that was missing in the theme.
-Maybe a bit of Ajax features like in the search widget just like when you type a friend’s name in facebook searcher.
defenitely need an ajax navigation… right now i have a music player that is being refreshed when changing pages…
The facebook theme certainly looks cool and bravo to your work. Just would not want to see too many people using it though.
i like it too
very nice, good job !
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I was trying to find where to make the sidebars wider because most of my widgets don’t fit. I noticed that you were thinking of doing that in your next version. Any idea how long until you put that out, or can you tell me where I can make my sidebars wider?
I like theme great work and i also tell you your color choices excellent.
So great , thank you very much !
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Cool theme ! good idea ! and thank
Thanks for ending my search for theme of my WordPress
a very clean design. will use on my blog. recommended!
Hi i was wondering how i can add a custom header to my blog.. I want to add a bigger logo and pic. thanks.
@all: Thanks for all the great comments.
@jeweler: This theme does not support custom header images in the backend. But feel free to play around with it. I do warn that this theme is hard to modify. Version 2 will be much much better.
WoW! Theme looks great. But, is it meant for 800×600 only? Running on 1024×768px make it look small? Is it somehow possible to tweak it?
As for the V2, I don’t see any point in making it 2 column. I, for one, like the current layout of having 2 sidebars.
Again, great theme. I look forward to the V2…..when is it coming
hey, nice works. keep em comin! love ur works
thank you!