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BlakMagik, a free wordpress theme!

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10 Nov 2008

Today I am glad to release my first free wordpress theme – BlakMagik. This was designed for SmashingMagazine readers. The theme has 2 columns and is based on grungy wooden textures and has a cool top menu which includes RSS. The psd source file of the logo has also been included with the package. So feel free to change the logo with yours. This design can be used for any projects and will be useful especially for portfolios.

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  1. Corey says:
    March 30, 2010 at 1:00 am
    Thanks for this great theme!
    I did add a javascript preloader for the top nav images due to flicker, but I haven’t really had to do much else theme wise.
    It really has great colors. The name is quite interesting as well.
    Anyways, thanks again : )
    Reply
  2. Lory says:
    March 29, 2010 at 6:05 pm
    I was trying the template but images don´t load anymore, can ou fix it please?? is an amazing theme! ^^ and if you can´t fix it, can you tell us that the theme will not exist anymore? to change it :( anyway… thnx!!!!
    Reply
  3. designi1 says:
    February 17, 2010 at 4:08 am
    demo isnt working… downloaded and ill try it on my acc :D
    Reply
  4. Shiva says:
    December 14, 2009 at 9:37 pm
    Extremely great theme man, Thanks for sharing, You got talent, I want to use it for my portfolio blog, so wanted to ask can I edit the ‘Designed By’ Part. Lol that would really look unprofessional so.
    Reply
  5. liz says:
    November 6, 2009 at 7:08 am
    hi. as I do to make me go in the categories of innings and not the titles to which must be given access to click that entry. that is complete go as shown in the home once it’s published.
    Reply
  6. deni says:
    October 11, 2009 at 8:35 am
    I have a question – where is the PREVIOUS PAGE button? There seems to be none… I love this theme and really want to install it on my blog, but without the previous page button it is impossible :(
    Reply
  7. jesse says:
    September 18, 2009 at 12:24 am
    Switched my whole site to theme, customized graphics, and now any navigation page with sub pages doesn’t show up, and whole nav is messed up, do you have a fix?
    Reply
  8. Zach says:
    September 4, 2009 at 8:33 pm
    There seems to be this odd Google Ads bar that causes a big empty space in my posts that I haven’t been able to remove in the code. I found it in the BlakMagik code and removed it yet it’s still there. Any idea what it is and how I can get rid of it? Awesome theme by the way. I love it. :)
    Reply
    • tim says:
      November 1, 2009 at 12:48 pm
      i am having the same issue – removed the adsense script in the single.php file, but white space still there … what was your fix?
  9. Mia says:
    August 2, 2009 at 11:44 am
    Hello Gopal ,
    What a stunningly beautiful theme . I am @ present on the Blogger Platform , and had downloaded the theme from a blogger gallery . The only modifications I have made so far are the header ( title ) which simply suits the theme soooo perfectly . The social media icons ( again sooo perfectly , as well as the comment box which came as just a boring blogger contact form – I spruced that up by adding a great background ) the entire theme looks even more uber now :) I have visited your site before . You are on my list of ” Top Web Designers ” and will be doing an article on you any minute now :) Keep the flames of the imagination burning . Wishing you much future success within all of your life & career endeavors . ( I had no problems whatsoever w/ this theme – btw. And as far as the 2 white boxes located @ the footer to the left and right : The only way to get rid of those is to simply go into the CSS & set the #footer to : repeat -x; ) Take care , will def drop by again :)
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  10. Misao says:
    May 20, 2009 at 2:57 am
    @Johnny and Sixth: you can find a tutorial in my blog http://misaoblog.com about how to fix some BlackMagik problems.
    Reply
  11. Misao says:
    May 20, 2009 at 2:02 am
    @Johnny: Your solution is good but the problem is: If you change footer color to #0000 then you only see black in footer.
    My solution is:
    In stylesheet.css find #footer and change value “no-repeat” to “repeat-x”. Save and refresh. Now you can see that 2 white boxes have gone and the footer is still there.:D

    Check my blog: http://misaoblog.com for demo.
    Reply
  12. Sixth T Nonsense says:
    May 18, 2009 at 7:58 pm
    This theme is great! Is there a way to turn pagination on? I tried downloading a couple navigation plugins but none of them seem to work with black magik.
    Reply
  13. Doug says:
    May 13, 2009 at 5:36 pm
    Great theme Gopal!! It’s on the blogger template theme site http://www.btemplates.com However, it doesn’t seem to work. The date shows as “undefined” (three times) and the background image does not show up on Internet Explorer – but it’s fine on Firefox. Any ideas on how to fix it? Here’s my blog with your theme: http://ghbamem.blogspot.com/
    Reply
  14. wellso says:
    May 8, 2009 at 12:18 am
    I love this very much..!
    but sth wrong with my blog..
    anyway,thx for your working! =)
    Reply
  15. Li says:
    May 2, 2009 at 3:50 pm
    Thanks Johnny. I was about to find the part of that with the whites. Instead of digging through it for possibly half an hour, you gave a quick solution. ^_^

    As for the theme itself, it’s gorgeous. I voted PD.

    Aside from that, I noticed that IE displays certain things differently than in SeaMonkey/Mozilla/FireFox. /sigh Lots of things to do to find these differences in CSS.
    Reply
  16. Johnny Confidence says:
    April 14, 2009 at 10:03 am
    Just in case anyone else wants to fix theirs I figured out the issue with my white boxes. In the css file #footer change the “background #eee” to background #0000 that will set it to black and then no more white boxes when you maximize on a high res monitor.
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  17. Johnny Confidence says:
    April 7, 2009 at 9:11 pm
    I’m wondering has anyone else run into the issue with high resolution screens and this theme? I’m running 1900×1200 and when maximized there are little white squares in the lower left and right. not sure where they are coming from.
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  18. Zaheer says:
    March 7, 2009 at 8:27 am
    Hello,

    Thank you so much for such a graet theme. I really love it but I am running into a problem. The Site looks great in Firefox but when I saw my website http://www.bollywoodzoom.com in IE, its a little messed up.

    Check the left image which is not matching the theme and also the comment graphics is over the text.

    Please help me out. Thanks again for great theme.
    Reply
  19. Matthew Bibby says:
    March 6, 2009 at 8:14 am
    . . . gotta love the partial comment!

    I was wondering if there is any chance of getting the .psd files for the images on the left & right of main content?

    Thanks,

    Matt.
    Reply
  20. Matthew Bibby says:
    March 3, 2009 at 9:20 am
    Still loving this theme!!!

    Thanks to you Gopal I have got it up and running very well :)

    Is there any chance of getting the .psd files for
    Reply
  21. Edib says:
    February 25, 2009 at 12:37 pm
    wow this is a awsome theme the best so far.
    But there s a little problem with the archives page template. It is some error on it the background is to black and the sidebar is not shown.
    Can you make a fix on this
    Thanks in advance.
    Great work
    Reply
  22. Matthew says:
    February 24, 2009 at 4:24 am
    Another question . . . are the google ads configurable?
    Reply
    • Gopal says:
      February 24, 2009 at 11:10 am
      Open index.php and search for class=”entry” below which you can find the adsense code (which is enclosed within the script tag). Just replace the code with yours.
  23. Matthew says:
    February 23, 2009 at 7:53 pm
    Thank you very much Gopal!

    You are a legend :)
    Reply
  24. Matthew says:
    February 23, 2009 at 4:17 pm
    Thanks for the quick response Gopal. I just had a look in the index.php file however because I do not understand php it made little sense.

    Can someone please point me in the right direction? I am just looking at removing the ‘Designed by’ part from the header and pointing the RSS button to my feed?

    Thank you in advance.

    Matthew.
    Reply
    • Gopal says:
      February 23, 2009 at 7:32 pm
      I am sorry for the confusion in this regard. The file you need to edit is header.php and not index.php. You may search for the terms “designed by” and “RSS” in the php file and remove/replace them.

      I hope this helps :)
  25. Matthew says:
    February 22, 2009 at 11:27 pm
    Silly question time . . . how can I change the RSS feed to my own and is there anyway to remove the byline from the header?
    Reply
  26. Tim says:
    January 31, 2009 at 7:02 pm
    Any thoughts on the above issue?
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  27. jono says:
    January 30, 2009 at 12:36 pm
    i love the theme… im running into a small problem… when ever we try to ad a sub page… it kills the navigation… is there s fix for this… were runnin wp 2.7…
    Reply
  28. Tim says:
    January 25, 2009 at 12:06 pm
    I love this theme and use it on my blog. I just looked at it on internet explorer 7and just noticed a small problem. The image that loads under the “date image” color doesn’t match the rest of the posts color.
    Reply
  29. adnan says:
    December 16, 2008 at 5:18 pm
    Very nice theme
    Thanks
    Reply
  30. Kim Woods says:
    December 12, 2008 at 10:18 pm
    Hi! Loved Blak Magik but I couldn’t get it to work. What version of WP is this supposed to work on? I have 2.6.4 thanks so much, kim
    Reply
  31. Vivekanand says:
    December 5, 2008 at 9:36 pm
    This is awesome theme which I have ever seen before….
    Reply
  32. Maxousoft says:
    December 1, 2008 at 9:28 am
    Hello,

    Very nice theme ! You can now reach french version here :
    http://maxousoft.free.fr

    Thanks
    Maxousoft
    Reply
  33. MankInwandoto says:
    November 27, 2008 at 3:35 pm
    Hi!
    I made with photoshop anime myspace pics.
    have a look at them:
    http://tinyurl.com/65lf75
    Thank you for your site :-) xoxoxo
    Reply
  34. Barbara says:
    November 19, 2008 at 8:53 pm
    I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.


    Barbara

    http://www.ipodepot.info
    Reply
  35. Jon Williams says:
    November 18, 2008 at 8:55 pm
    Very nice theme. Good work.
    Reply
  36. vabslapinia says:
    November 17, 2008 at 8:23 pm
    i want to share my free wordpress theme here.

    Preview:
    http://www.elegantthemes.com/preview/eVid/

    Download:
    http://www.sendspace.com/file/6uv0n2
    Reply
  37. Boriana says:
    November 17, 2008 at 10:55 am
    great design, thanks for sharing :-) You’ve got so beautiful logos in your portfolio, good luck :-)
    Reply
  38. dev says:
    November 12, 2008 at 10:36 am
    can u make ajax with contain recent post,rencent comment,recent article at right site bar?
    Reply
  39. Jose D says:
    November 12, 2008 at 9:28 am
    This theme is pretty, good design!
    Reply
  40. rss_ems says:
    November 12, 2008 at 7:02 am
    Black Magic beda wordpress temasının İsterseniz Türkçe versiyonunu buradan edinebilirsiniz : http://www.rss-ems.com/blog/550-black-magic-turkce-wordpress-temasi-10-11-2008/
    Reply
  41. 1920 says:
    November 11, 2008 at 10:24 pm
    great design. will keep checking back in future.
    Reply
  42. alectro says:
    November 11, 2008 at 1:35 am
    Hi Gropal, excellent theme, thanks for sharing it.
    Reply
  43. Heather says:
    November 10, 2008 at 11:34 am
    Quite lovely, how kind of you for releasing this!
    Reply
  44. admin says:
    November 10, 2008 at 10:50 am
    Hi Everyone,

    Thanks for your comments :-) I’ve included a link to the Live Demo of the theme http://blakmagik.productivedreams.com/

    Feel free to explore!
    Reply
  45. Navdeep says:
    November 10, 2008 at 9:39 am
    Amazing theme… Great work put together… [floated]
    Reply
  46. Arulprakash ravindran says:
    November 10, 2008 at 9:39 am
    Nice theme gopal!! Great work I will review it for sure!!
    Reply
  47. Jani says:
    November 10, 2008 at 5:49 am
    This theme is wonderful! I love it.

    Could you tell me where did you learn the skills to make such a great work? I’m curious.
    Reply
  48. Simon says:
    November 10, 2008 at 4:14 am
    I came here from SmashingMagazine, and I love this theme – it’s one of the most detailed themes I have seen in a long time
    Reply
    • Rimgaudas says:
      March 6, 2010 at 6:57 am
      Hello,
      how to do navigation ???
      Because there is no navigation in all site pages, no in the index, no in archives and so on.
    • Rimgaudas says:
      March 6, 2010 at 7:24 am
      YEEEE I created it, just copied all page-navigation codes add thats all :)
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