by mdawaffe
New Theme: Garland (and rockin’ color picker!)
We were so impressed with Drupal’s new theme, that we decided to port it to WordPress and let everyone here have at it. So here it is: Garland a.k.a “Themetastic” by Stefan Nagtegaal and Steven Wittens.
Garland is a great, three column, widget friendly theme in soothing blue, but what we think you’ll really go gaga for is the color customizer that comes with it. Not feeling so soothing? With just a few clicks, you can change to sandy earth tones, gothic black or that electric pink look you’ve been wanting for so long. Got school pride? Try out your school colors. Go patriotic. Go ghastly. Whatever, go crazy!
On another note, we’re curious which color picker you like better: the one available in themes like Kubrick that offer a custom header, or the one in in this theme. Feel free to let us know which and why in a comment here.
December 12th, 2006 at 5:41 am
Nice!
December 12th, 2006 at 5:53 am
OMG — I LOVE the new theme Garland!! I just activated it and customized my sidebars, header colors, etc. TOTALLY me!! Thanks so much. I don’t think I’ve ever used the color picker in any theme but this one, but I will say I like this one! I can use the hexidecimal equivalents OR click on the circle and/or box inside and get my color. The fact that it previews is great so i can see what it’s going to look like before I commit to anything is nice also. Thanks for a great theme!!
December 12th, 2006 at 6:02 am
*drools* theme has been changed INSTANTLY…
December 12th, 2006 at 6:30 am
beautiful !!
December 12th, 2006 at 6:32 am
The color picker is great, but if I have to choose between color picker and custom header, it’s the header hands down everytime. Now, if I coul have both in a single theme…
December 12th, 2006 at 6:36 am
Thank you for the new theme. It combines my two favorite characteristics of a theme into one: the freedom to choose colors and three columns. The possibilities are endless. This will be fun to play with in the next few days.
December 12th, 2006 at 6:44 am
Great looking theme, if i ever need a new one, il def look this up
December 12th, 2006 at 6:51 am
Now if this came with the ability to use a custom banner…well, it would be what I have been looking for!
December 12th, 2006 at 6:52 am
aussiesapphire,
Could you give me an example of a post of yours on which this disappearing image bug happened? You can either write back here or send us a feedback.
Thanks!
December 12th, 2006 at 6:53 am
Cooooool!! I take it
December 12th, 2006 at 6:59 am
So isn’t this part of the Drupal core 5 theme? who is borrowing the theme from who? is the theme open source? Seems kind of strange that WordPress would make this available when it was a major feature of the yet unreleased Drupal 5. Maybe I will go over to S. Wittens page and read more about this.
December 12th, 2006 at 7:09 am
Great! it is changed now!
December 12th, 2006 at 7:14 am
This is nice but I haven’t tried yet. The color picker is definitely a good idea. Congrats on the new theme, and I have a feeling you’re all still up to more this December (like, for example and I hope there’ll be, a ‘Christmasy’ one). Wouldn’t that be so nice?
December 12th, 2006 at 7:28 am
Andy,
As the post mentions, this is a Drupal theme that we’ve ported to WordPress. Everything is open source. Such a great theme deserves a lot of exposure!
December 12th, 2006 at 7:37 am
Simply Awesome, the best I should say
December 12th, 2006 at 7:45 am
YAYAYA purples and greens here I come!!
I love this one! I cant wait to go to sleep so I can wake up in the morning and get it all purdied up! Thanks!
December 12th, 2006 at 7:49 am
Nice again! Will try it…
*Scoots off….*
December 12th, 2006 at 8:02 am
mdawaffe - I immediately switched over because I really liked the look of this new theme and noticed that the images on my most recent post (which are uploaded to wordpress) were not showing as described. Images in the previous two posts which are linked to instead of uploaded were ok. So I switched back to my old theme but I really liked the colour thing and the blue and 3 columns layout were very good.
cheers
Leah
December 12th, 2006 at 8:02 am
Nice.. If only it had a custom header….
December 12th, 2006 at 8:06 am
Nice. It’s changed, but with a few problems changing colours. For the rest is great!
December 12th, 2006 at 8:11 am
Hmmm. Excellent text side-bar layout but no custom header. boo hoo.
December 12th, 2006 at 8:19 am
Lovely theme!!
December 12th, 2006 at 8:23 am
It’s awesome! I’m playing with the pink hues…
December 12th, 2006 at 8:29 am
Finally a 3 Columns Theme. But I agree with axewielderx, a customizable header would have been more stunning. Thanks for this new Theme tho’.
December 12th, 2006 at 8:29 am
this is fantastic thanks again, you guys!
December 12th, 2006 at 9:07 am
swell idea the color picker. but useless to me in the end since it doesn’t opt for a custom header.
December 12th, 2006 at 9:08 am
The theme looks lovely but still,a customizable header could make it very good.Everyone wants to have individuality in their blogs and that’s where the headers come in.
December 12th, 2006 at 9:10 am
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December 12th, 2006 at 9:10 am
Yes, I agree, great theme thoughh.
Thankyou
December 12th, 2006 at 9:11 am
I disagree with the need for a custom header! IMHO
December 12th, 2006 at 9:12 am
Oh wow that is a rocking theme, I am impressed once again.
December 12th, 2006 at 9:22 am
That looks like a nice theme. Might try it later.
Glad to see that there are more and more 3 column themes coming. Really appreciate your work.
December 12th, 2006 at 9:26 am
Noob question, so I apologize upfront. But WHERE/HOW is this theme to be downloaded?
Thanks
Chris
December 12th, 2006 at 9:29 am
that’s a great idea! customizing your own colours… gd work.
but not much customisation. i’d use it if i could customize it, like the headings, etc.
December 12th, 2006 at 9:29 am
The color picker doesn’t run fine.
December 12th, 2006 at 9:35 am
customizable header woudl be awwwwsome
December 12th, 2006 at 9:36 am
love it..thanks a lot guys..
December 12th, 2006 at 9:52 am
I love the new theme, and it makes a good theme for christmas colors (green and red). My blog has now the perfect theme for holidays.
December 12th, 2006 at 9:55 am
goood theme
but i think
…
this theme not good for IE
good for firefox
plz check it
and plz optimiz it for IE !!
because a lot of visitors use IE
thanks dear mdawaffe
December 12th, 2006 at 9:56 am
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December 12th, 2006 at 10:03 am
But the Colums are not getting layed out properly..can you do something about it, am getting the sidebars seperately
December 12th, 2006 at 10:35 am
Very nice. However I am having some problems with changing the colours.
December 12th, 2006 at 10:37 am
Nice theme!
December 12th, 2006 at 10:46 am
Hi mdawaffe,
To my taste, this theme is the best so far. I played around with the colors and got a nice, soothing look (which does a good job of softening the sometimes outspoken tone of my articles). So “Garland” Plus the soft ambient sounds of “SongSpot” just made my day!! Everyone is welcome to see what it looks like on my site, along with my new Christmas posting of Renegade Christmas Poetry.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/
Thanks very, very much!
December 12th, 2006 at 11:03 am
Another great theme! Let’s have more coming, please!
December 12th, 2006 at 11:12 am
I love it.
but I can’t use it because there is no style for PRE tag..
pre { width: 500px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; overflow: auto; font-size: 1.3em; float: left; clear: both; }
Some of my long coding are not showing in this theme..
It would be great if someone add a style for PRE tag. Thanks.
December 12th, 2006 at 11:12 am
wow, it looks awasome!
December 12th, 2006 at 11:20 am
one thing about it though… the text spacing (between lines) is too big
December 12th, 2006 at 11:21 am
err, why can’t I change colors? I go to customization options, pick the colors I need, click “save colors” and the page refreshes but the colors are the old one…why?
I have tried both on FFox and IE
December 12th, 2006 at 11:29 am
I am still unsure if I will switch, the theme is great! However, the color picker does not work for me ATM (changes do not get saved, after clicking the save button I get the original colors again).
December 12th, 2006 at 11:30 am
i agree with the custom header.
the color picker works great, but i would love to also be able to choose a header.
and i love the 3 column layout, one on each side.
December 12th, 2006 at 11:50 am
Maybe it’s strange - I like this theme too. My blog theme has been changing so many times
December 12th, 2006 at 11:55 am
I love it! But I do agree a custom header would make it so much nicer.
December 12th, 2006 at 11:56 am
now we’re cookin’… excellent! it is always easiest not to reinvent the wheel… no doubt someone has tackled the same needs before… like others, would love to be able to change the colour of the header… is the most public statement of a site, that tweak and I would soon be a proud switcher!
December 12th, 2006 at 11:59 am
BTW… Great work!!
December 12th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
This looks like the theme I have been waiting for. Many thanks you clever people.
December 12th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
This is indeed a fantastic theme and I intend to try it!
December 12th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
Cool! Will be trying it out!
December 12th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
absolutely the best i’m sure!
I can’t wait to try now…
December 12th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
When I try to set my own colorset it back to default. Where is the problem?
December 12th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
muito belo!
December 12th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
Would love to see support for the tagline, or a custom header, and also a way to remove the author’s name from every post/page.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
Well. Let’s take a look…
December 12th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
Currently the theme on my blog is black with grey text, which i love. Although I just hate the fact that the links appear in white!
I’d love to be able to have a theme where i could specify the header, as well as the colours (of the background, text & links)
December 12th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
Very nice temlpate. Love, love, love the columns on each side. Now, if it had a customizeable header, it would be the most perfect template ever.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
sigh…time to switch again…u guys are toooooo good…
December 12th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
Thanks for a great theme. Giving the end user more choice and greater range for creativity is always a good thing, IMHO. It would be fabulous to be able to have a custom header as well as the color control; after all, the custom header is the most creative tool we have at our disposal to express our individuality.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
Cool theme, I like the custom colours and the wide layout. Thanks for it
December 12th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
The color picker is great, but if I have to choose between color picker and custom header, it’s the header hands down everytime. Now, if I coul have both in a single theme…
hear hear.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Thanks for great idea of creating for others!
December 12th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
This theme is fantastic! It’s clean, allows for good content, and can still look pretty :).
I along with everyone else would love to see this one with a customer header. As long as it didn’t sacrifice the transparency used by the layout. A customer header that still allows the transparency would be amazing. Even if we had to host the image at our own place (photobucket, exc.)
Appreciate all the work WordPress guys.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
Extra cool! Thanks!
December 12th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Custom header wins for me,
But when we will be getting a theme where we can customize the header and customize the colors?
Love you guys at WordPress!
Michael
December 12th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
The color picker is SO awesome, but I can’t make it work. No matter what button I press, both of them work as “Return as Default Colors”. I would really like a green-based theme with orange links, but can’t chage it. Could you guys lend me a hand?
I’ll head for the Feedback form in the dashboard.
But the theme is awesome and I’ll stick with it even if I can’t change the colors!
December 12th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
Loving the color picker situation! Altho, reading the comments by my wordpress “community” that the header isn’t customizable. I’m just betting the farm that the WordPress Wizards are all ready ALL OVER THAT.
Thanks wizards, you never cease to amaze me. I’m off to water the witch.
Yours truly-
Piglet
December 12th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
Perfect! Except…I’ll echo everyone else…a custom header with this theme would rock. Love the 3 columns and the custom coloring, but I’ll stick with my current theme because of the custom header.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Finally! A three-column theme that is aesthetically pleasing!!
Thanks 
December 12th, 2006 at 2:43 pm
woohoo! Very cool looking. I vote for adding a custom header option to it. Keep up the good work, wordpress. We luv ya!
December 12th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
if only we could put a custom header at the title bar… but that’s just me being overly nitpicking.
i bloody love it!
December 12th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
The color selector is huge for wordpress.com!!
I’d like to see that on other themes.
December 12th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
It looks great. Is there any chance of adding a page template to change the layout on other secondary pages? I also lost the Home page if I clicked on one of my pages is there a way around that?
December 12th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Really cool theme … using for my personal blog now. Tnx.
December 12th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
This is great!
I have been wanting a good 3 column theme, that is not boring and dark. This theme gives me the option to “Change it Up” while enjoying the flexibility that I need with the three column layout.
I have to agree that it could use a custom header option.
Thanks for all you guys do here at WordPress.
December 12th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
it’s really this great? all righty , i gotta try
December 12th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
This is one of your better ones! I like it a lot, and if you add a custome header, it would be perfect!
Hot pink, here I come!
December 12th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
One more plug for a custom header!
Simply changing the colour scheme doesn’t really say that much about you or your blog.
December 12th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
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December 12th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
WOW.
Very good.
Up at WP Theme if anyone wants to kick the tires.
December 12th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
sorry for being thick: but how does one check it out without activating it?
December 12th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
I love this new Theme. I activated it immediatley after reading this entry. I love how everything looks sooo clean. I haven’t fiddled with the color picker…yet…but I will soon.
The only thin that would make this Theme better, would be an option for a custom Header image. Maybe you will add the color picker feature to more themes…
Thanks to WP for such agreat service and thanks Stefan Nagtegaal and Steven Wittens for such a great theme!
Ty
December 12th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
This one is awesome. I have changed the theme and I’m sticking with it . . . until an even better one comes along.
December 12th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
I like this color-picker better than the other.
Garland is a great theme, but bulletted lists don’t seem to work correctly.
December 12th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Oooohhh…. I like! But yes… a customizable header would be a very nice addition.
December 12th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
Very nice, very nice. Me like. But any chance of a custom header?
December 12th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
You are so crazy! It is awesome!
December 12th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
Love having choices!! Very cool!
December 12th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
Lovely indeed. I would use it for my personal blog @ WP
December 12th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
Awesome! I love it! THANK YOU!
December 12th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
I really, really want to use this theme, but I think there are a couple of bugs in it.
First, most of the pictures in my posts disappeared.
Second, the bullet-points for the lists on the sidebars don’t seem to be working very well.
Can we get this fixed?
December 12th, 2006 at 7:15 pm
Awesome, thank you!!
December 12th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
Thank you!!! Will give it a try
December 12th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
This looks to have great promise. Does it have variable width?
December 12th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
An awesome theme ! I wan’t it, I wan’t it, I wan’t it !!! If only I could save the colors I picked with the color picker… Both with Maxthon at work and Safari at home don’t save the color when I press save…
December 12th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
I like this very much - playing with the colours is fine, but let me join the chorus for a custom image header as well.
I also like the way this theme’s central column expands to take up the size of the window. This offers interesting possibilities to link to larger than usual pictures.
December 12th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
Very nice and flexible too, thank you.
December 12th, 2006 at 8:48 pm
I tried to divide up my widgets but it’s not working. They are all still on the column on the left. I use IE. Help?
December 12th, 2006 at 9:11 pm
The colour picker doesn’t work: I can change the colours, but I can’t save them.
December 12th, 2006 at 10:25 pm
great theme, but i do like the page header/bar things at the top of the page under the header, this one doesnt have that. I wish that all of the the themes had this!!
December 12th, 2006 at 10:26 pm
This is great.
One thing… text in the side-bar text boxes ends up going right to the post area before it wraps, it doesn’t leave any padding.
December 12th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
Well, thats a very good idea, letting the bloggers edit more of their blog appearance, making blogs more personal. Until now, we could only change header color and text, and header image. I think this is a very big step, and I think following themes should have options like those, letting us more freedom.
And of course, again, thank you very much!!!!!
December 12th, 2006 at 11:44 pm
Oh boy — I had to change back to my old theme because I was having trouble with old pictures disappearing in Garland. Also, the comments boxes were out of whack. Let us know when these issues have been fixed. It should be a pretty awesome theme option once the kinks are out. Thanks again!
December 12th, 2006 at 11:48 pm
The main thing that’s stopping me from switching from Quentin to Garland is that the latter doesn’t display the tagline. Fix that, and I’ll give it another go.
I like themes in which my writing is framed by a dark, wide border. With Garland, I could make that border as dark as I wish. It’s a good idea.
December 13th, 2006 at 12:48 am
it’s really a great one. thanks!
December 13th, 2006 at 12:57 am
Great addition not least because we use a modified version of garland on our own site so the blog no longer looks out of place, is there anyway to set it to just a 2 column version though?
December 13th, 2006 at 1:04 am
[...] ok we host our blog here we are biased but the guys at wordpress.com really do rock if you haven’t noticed we have a new theme, which looks just like our Drupal main site. The reason well simple its the same theme or at least the same basic theme Garland read about the WordPress version here [...]
December 13th, 2006 at 1:21 am
Well this is almost a usable theme.
Just ALLOW THE USER TO CHOSE THE BACK GROUND COLOR AND IT WOULD ACTUALLY BE A GOOD THEME.
Why did the designer of this theme NOT ALLOWthe user to pick the background color????
It is not true that this theme is user-controllable, as the most important predominate color CANNOT BE CHANGED!
December 13th, 2006 at 1:27 am
I LIKE IT, except for the way its puts my blog name all the way to the left like that, I went to use it , and that just irked me too much, so I changed back.
December 13th, 2006 at 1:36 am
I feel the same as earthenvessel. If I could have both the custom header and the color selection on one theme I would probably pick tha theme, but currently the custom header is more important to me.
December 13th, 2006 at 1:40 am
I love it ….
I am still playing around with color schemes but overall I think it is a very clean polished look.
I especially like how we can change the colors of the site regularly without having to change anything else about the set up.
Add to that the fact that the color choices are endless … well I am simply overwrought .
LOL
Blessings
Mama Kelly
December 13th, 2006 at 2:36 am
http://acko.net/blog/wordpress-com-copies-drupal-theme
December 13th, 2006 at 3:04 am
The color picker is certainly tempting, but the customizable header absolutely wins out for me. I like to change my header regularly for variety’s sake, as well as to suit my topics. (Actually, I’d love to see a theme that would rotate through a number of custom header images. Is there such an animal?)
Thanks for continuing your quest to provide nifty theme options.
December 13th, 2006 at 4:35 am
I just wanted to say again how much I love the theme. It’s one of the best in a long time. I consider myself a pretty heavy customer header guy because of some background in PhotoShop but I can’t pass this one up. It looks too good.
I do wish I could throw a logo (.gif) up there in the header instead of just the text of my blog. Nevertheless I’m loving it. Thanks again guys.
December 13th, 2006 at 5:00 am
hey, so much for wordpress’ semantic validity. your left sidebar occurs first (before the content) in the structural markup. do i need to reiterate how many ways this will break in IE? or how completely inaccessible this is to screen readers, text browsers, and mobile users?
December 13th, 2006 at 5:50 am
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December 13th, 2006 at 7:10 am
This theme is working great for me on my Drupal site, http://www.iliberation.com. I’ve set it up in understated, gray colors. Now I’m waiting for it to be made available for my independently-hosted WordPress blog. Keep the great open-source work coming!
December 13th, 2006 at 11:02 am
Hey guys the thing with images disappearing should be fixed now, and the styling has been tightened up a bit. However it looks like we’re going to be disabling this theme to new users in a few days, so if you were avoiding it because of the bugs try it again before it’s closed to new users.
December 13th, 2006 at 11:03 am
I’ve been using it for a while and I have to say I’m impressed. Though I have to agree to some who say that not the entire design can be changed in color, it leaves out the post’s background. And if perhaps there would be another similar color picking theme that supports 3 columns but also incorporates a customizable header image, then that’s the only time I’ll settle down on one. For now, I’m fairly comfortable and contented with this one. Good job! Cheers!
December 13th, 2006 at 11:14 am
I like the look of the theme, and love the color picker, but don’t want to switch because there is:
1. No subtitle in the header
2. No trackback address for posts
3. No customizable headers
I would consider switching themes only if these issues were fixed.
December 13th, 2006 at 11:19 am
Thought I’d give it a go… way cool… though I do miss not having an editable banner/header/image… however, the colour scheming is nifty, and “pleasant to the eye”… and like the default fonts and 3 column layout… well done… to all involved with the design… inc. those at acko.net/blog …
December 13th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
I tried it. My problem was:
1) No Tag line
2) The name too far to the left
3) Nothing which says ‘Home’. It’s surprising, but I know people who do not know how to navigate to the front page and they need the ‘Home’ label.
4) The spaces between the lines are so wide that my categories went on and on and on.
So back to dear old Andreas although I am tired of of the same colours. Sigh.
December 13th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
Hi To All of You Again,
Thanks so much to the WP people for this early Xmas giftee!!! I spent time last night trying out various color shades and combinations, and really liked many that I was able to come up with. For now, have found (for me) a winning combination—subtle, soothing, attractive (I think) to the eye, especially when compared to the more richly colored images that usually accompany my posts. Plus, found even more calming “meditative” ambient background music for the neat SoundSpot player(which I have set to a relatively quiet sound level, and placed the player near the top of the sidebar so that those who don’t care for music on the blog can easily mute it—but I do like it a lot).
I hope that readers will take a look at what I’ve done with the Garland theme—as you can tell, I REALLY like it a lot!!
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/
And to the WP people, thanks very, very much. Great job!!!
December 13th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
I like it, have changed from my long time favorite to Garland. Nothing more can be said really…..
December 13th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
Nice theme - I love it. I seem to be having problems with the “comment” boxes; they appear to extend into the sidebar and the last couple words do not even appear on the screen until I click “Submit Comment”. I’m not sure if it’ a problem with the theme or my computer.
December 13th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
like it a lot! would love it if there was a second line [smaller text] for a tag line [just below the name of the blog]!
December 13th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
fabulous!!
December 13th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
I activated the theme as well! I LURVE IT!
December 13th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
Why on earth would you close it to new users? I thought we all had the same options for themes, no matter when we joined. Right? Wrong?
December 13th, 2006 at 5:57 pm
ahem. It’s a great theme, and I’m using it myself, but it seems that the porting of it has caused some ruffled feathers, as the theme was planned for the release of Drupal 5.
I’d suggest, to at least be nice, changing the default colors to something other than the Drupal colors - it’s a step in the right direction.
Steven’s side of the story is that he didn’t give permission, but expressed concern when asked. If that’s the case, why didn’t you address those concerns first, then make the port available?
December 13th, 2006 at 6:25 pm
Matt, why is it being closed to new users?
December 13th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
That goes for me too Polaris!
December 13th, 2006 at 8:32 pm
The theme just been out on the 12th December, 2006 and you are closing it in few days to new users, just don’t get it, why???
December 13th, 2006 at 8:36 pm
The theme is being removed because core members of the Drupal community feel its availability is going to hurt their 5.0 release. They’ve asked me to hold it back until after they release, which is in a month or so, there is no current plans to change the colors.
Personally I disagree that the theme matters that much, but they seem pretty emotionally attached to the whole thing, which I suppose is understandable given this is the first piece of decent design they’ve had. I hope their behavior is not a trend though, because it would be bad for Open Source and especially Open Source design, which is scarce enough.
Regardless, the adoption numbers for the theme haven’t been as high as I expected. People who like it like it but I think it’s missing some key elements to make it a popular theme.
December 13th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Thank you , thank you thank you - I feel a change coming on ……..
December 13th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
The only thing it is missing is a custom header option.
December 13th, 2006 at 9:42 pm
Thanks matt for the explanation. I really like the theme a lot, and i”m using it now
December 13th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Please, add bullets for bulleted lists in this theme! (Firefox 2.0)
December 13th, 2006 at 9:57 pm
It looks aewsome!
December 13th, 2006 at 10:26 pm
Hi Matt
Drupal community advocates GPL, Open Source, porting. Garland is no exception.
As you say, it’s a great visual design for a CMS that is more known for it’s architecture than it’s marketing (putting it politely).
Drupal is highly featured, and therefore not easy to theme well (for all scenarios). Garland throws in a bunch of code as well. So 100’s of hours (months) of checking and bug-fixing have gone into this.
OK, call it an emotional attachment!
Clearly, it’s not in your interest to delay this theme, you’re not legally obliged to, you didn’t have to. So, in case no-one else has done this:
Thanks!
December 13th, 2006 at 11:44 pm
This is goood but does not display well on a PDA. We still await the killer theme that has it all.
December 14th, 2006 at 12:54 am
I’m in love. You guys are the best.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:10 am
wow, very nice theme…thanks for sharing!
December 14th, 2006 at 1:28 am
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December 14th, 2006 at 1:43 am
I second the need for bullet points.
December 14th, 2006 at 5:57 am
Change with this themes, great CH
December 14th, 2006 at 7:44 am
a nice template!!
December 14th, 2006 at 8:13 am
perhaps we can have a image header, and perhaps resizable sidebars and main body text space
December 14th, 2006 at 8:19 am
a color picker is a nice option but it would be a zilion times better if it allowed for a custon header as well… I would opt for one which allows me to change my header anyday over one allowing me to set the color…
December 14th, 2006 at 9:35 am
The new theme is neat and the color picker is a big help. Didn’t know picking a color could be so easy.
The one thing missing is an option to change the Header text. It’s white all the time. White does look good on most colors, but I want the freedom to choose a text color which goes with my header.
December 14th, 2006 at 10:54 am
Estupendo en teoría, porque no me permite cambiar los colores, sólo probarlos. Vuelve a los azules que tiene por defecto.
Por otro lado, echo en falta una cabecera intercambiable, para poder colocarle una imagen a mi gusto. Con esta última característica, sería perfecto.
Cambiar el color del texto de la cabecera podría ser una opción interesante.
December 14th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
Mr HAT,
Good Job !
December 14th, 2006 at 2:08 pm
colour picker? how about this… separate the header (if any) and the rest of the body’s colour. by default the new colour picker colours the whole theme; the user may opt to colour the header separately (like in Kubrick).
December 14th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
Tuning in here again with a huge thanks. The new theme just keeps looking better and better on my site. I’m so happy with what you’ve done. I hope that you’ll check out my new Christmas posting, a slideshow of stunning holiday images, including some by Annie Liebovitz, Pablo Picasso, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol and Keith Haring. And the whole things looks great with your Garland theme. Plus, how can I forget, soothing and subtle ambient sounds courtesy of our new Sonific SongSpot!
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2006/12/14/christmas-memories-show-us-the-way-to-come-home/
Again, I so very much appreciate these two newest gifts!!!
December 14th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Great Theme….Just applied. Now setting colors. Cools
December 14th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
I agree with wendy. There is two point. One is customize header and other is i could not change the colors of my TAB links means my pages. But anyway, will use this for some days …
December 14th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
nice theme,
but there are some problems with saving picked colors color on colors customizer page
December 14th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
Colour picker along with custom header is a better option anytime.
December 14th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
Very Nice, i liked so much, i *appreciate(i dont remember how write this) WordPress put it avaible for us.
Caraaalho amei, com certeza vou usar no meu, e pelo visto, nao precisa editar o CSS…
PERFEITo
tomara q nao tenha nenhum bug maldito
December 15th, 2006 at 12:29 am
it’s decent.
December 15th, 2006 at 3:42 am
wow !
nice one…
December 15th, 2006 at 10:19 am
UUUU yeah, thanks - i will try using it - will see if my pictures fitt in
sea ya!
December 15th, 2006 at 10:21 am
I like the look of it. But I’d love to keep my image header and still be able to switch colours.
T’would be the collest of the cool I tells ya.
December 15th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Great theme
December 15th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
What I ment to say was: This theme would be *perfect* if “Older posts” / “Newer post” links didn’t glitch in Opera 9…
Seems that wordpress doesnt transform less / greater signs into & lt; / & gt;
December 15th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
cool
December 15th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
Nice Theme, Some good things - some strange things. I wrote a small review:
Critique of the new WordPress Theme: Garland.
Overall - Like it.
December 16th, 2006 at 3:55 am
The color picker is awesome. I like the general layout of the site as well as the blending of the colors. A slightly larger font would make me like this theme better. Thanks for all the options!!!
December 16th, 2006 at 6:43 am
I like the color customization better than custom headers just because I don’t have the time to make the pictures that I want. =)
December 16th, 2006 at 7:43 am
Hey guys if you haven’t already tried out the Garland theme you won’t be able to for a few months, until the Drupal project releases their version 5.0 project.
December 17th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
[...] Once again I have changed the Blog’s theme and layout. This new theme is called Garland and also a three column design, but the content in is the center. Since this theme allows me to choose my own colors I had a chance to try out a cool color scheme finder. Ryan at CyberNet used this site, HTML Colour Code Combination Chooser, when he redid the CyberNet Blog around Thanksgiving One other minor change, the About The Guru and Disclaimer links are now in the header. Posted in Links of Interest, Something Different, CyberNet. [...]
December 18th, 2006 at 6:21 pm
What’s the prob wi Drupal guys.Do they own the theme or ‘custom color’ concept?
December 19th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
The prob is that this theme was to be the default theme on the new release of Drupal, and would have been a major contribution to the buzz around the new release. WordPress grabbed it before the release was out of beta… Nothing technically wrong with that (since it was GPL’d), but not especially neighborly either. Read about it from one of the major developers - http://www.acko.net/blog/wordpress-com-copies-drupal-theme
December 21st, 2006 at 9:50 pm
How come I don;t see it in my list? What am I missing here?
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:22 am
Sean, as per the comment above, Garland has been deactivated for new blogs.
December 23rd, 2006 at 10:30 am
extremely cool, it would be a great present to increase what i want to, good theme. nggih mugi-mugi mawon sedoyo saget ngraosaken saking bagusing theme
December 30th, 2006 at 3:43 pm
I love this theme and want to use it, but I’m also getting the same problem mentioned by a few people above - the side bars aren’t working properly. The widgets that should be on the right are instead found at the bottom left. This problem occurs in IE but not in Firefox.
I’ve also noticed that borders cannot be added to pics that are aligned left in posts. The text wraps around the images too tightly. I’m waiting for these bugs to get squashed so I can use the theme!
January 15th, 2007 at 1:30 am
Hi,
On Firefox and IE7, the sidebars are visible. But most people are still on lower versions of IE.
I really really love this theme, so it’d be great to know when’s the bugs going to be solved. Even an estimated date would be great to know.
Thanks!
January 16th, 2007 at 8:12 am
I just read that Drupal 5 is out
Does this mean, that I can slap Garland on my second blog soon? 
February 7th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
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