GreenTech WordPress Theme Released

This is the second official Daily Blog Tips free WordPress theme. GreenTech is a 2-column, highly customizable theme. It comes with a cream colored background, and details in brown and green.

The theme was created by Mayank Gupta from Review Saurus. Mayank is launching a blog design company soon, so he wanted to showcase his excellent work.

The theme is very functional, and it comes with the following features:

Advertising Ready: The theme comes with six 125×125 banner spots on the sidebar. You will just need to upload the banners to the theme “Images” folder and update the ads.php file.
Easy Feedburner Integration: The “Theme Options” section inside the WordPress control panel enables the blogger to insert his Feedburner URL, which will be used all over the theme.
Widgets Ready: The theme supports widgets, so just drop the ones you use.
About the Author Section: The theme comes with a sidebar section dedicated to the author. You can upload your picture and a small description using the author.php page.
Comments Styling: Author comments have a different style.
Read More Tag Styling: The “Read More” tag is already styled and integrated into the design. Useful for bloggers that use post excerpts.
Search Engine Optimization: The meta and title tags are already optimized for search engines.

If you need any help customizing the theme or using it on your blog just post a comment below and we’ll try to help.

Update: Due to popular demand we have also created a second version of the theme with 2 sidebars below the sponsor spots. It is already available for download.

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Daniel Scocco on January 16, 2008 | Filed Under WordPress

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111 Responses to “GreenTech WordPress Theme Released”

Napster on January 16th, 2008 7:49 am

Looks good!
Justin Dupre on January 16th, 2008 8:00 am

Looks like a lovely design. It may meet the needs of those needing a theme for a Nature Blog.

Justin Dupre
http://www.blogosis.com
Jaypee on January 16th, 2008 8:22 am

Cool theme! I’ll try to feature it in my blog soon. Great job Mayank!
Daniel on January 16th, 2008 8:24 am

Thanks guys. Yeah I think this theme can be used for wide range of blogs.
Ganha on January 16th, 2008 8:28 am

Uwuau another great theme, i still prefer the deepblue but great theme do, Daniel can the next theme be a magazine theme?
take care
Matej on January 16th, 2008 9:40 am

Great theme, to bad we can’t use every theme we like because we don’t have that many blog hehe
Keith Dsouza on January 16th, 2008 2:07 pm

Looks good. The features are quite enticing too. I specially like the feedburner integration and comment styling for authors
thewild1 on January 16th, 2008 2:34 pm

I like it. The only problem I have with it is the font, but that can easily be changed.
Daniel on January 16th, 2008 3:12 pm

I really like the typography on the theme. But yeah it should be really easy to change that.
Grace on January 16th, 2008 6:33 pm

Excellent theme! I like how the ad spots are already in there so you don’t have to create your own and do more customizing.
zparacha on January 16th, 2008 6:57 pm

Great theme. I like it better than DeepBlue theme.
costa on January 16th, 2008 7:00 pm

Nice! I’m going to use it for Blog Gigs!
nunho on January 16th, 2008 7:42 pm

yeii… horei another very good theme. I think i will try use this for my blog. thanx
Gregory Pittman on January 16th, 2008 8:16 pm

Not having had time to look at the code, I have a question. Can there be two columns below the ad buttons? In the demo there’s just the one, but it would be great if two were possible.

Also, I wonder if that’s supposed to be an exclamation point on the RSS button. I can’t tell. Whatever it is, the button looks a little unclean.

Still it’s a great theme and I may very well switch over to using it.
ReviewSaurus on January 16th, 2008 10:18 pm

@ Gregory : That exclamation point on RSS button was deliberate.

Thanks to all for providing the feedback. I’ll keep these points in mind while going for the next theme. Do come up with more suggestions
Wayne Liew on January 17th, 2008 12:35 am

Another release of a great theme. Great job! The best part of it is that it is totally free of charge.

I am still expecting some great things like a theme with a three column sub-header and a three column footer (just like what John Chow is using) which is free of charge.

I know this can be a hard work for designers but I think the response will be magnificent.
Daniel on January 17th, 2008 1:08 am

@Gregory, right now the theme comes with a single sidebar. I will talk with Mayank to see if you can provide a version with 2 sidebars splitting below the ad buttons.

Thanks.
Daniel on January 17th, 2008 1:09 am

@Wayne, thanks for the input, we’ll have something like that coming soon :).
Niklas Saers on January 17th, 2008 11:09 am

The navigation bar and search doesn’t work well with Safari 3.
Daniel on January 17th, 2008 11:19 am

Yeah there is an issue on the nav bar with Opera and Safari 3, we are fixing it. The new version should be uploaded today or tomorrow.
el-f on January 17th, 2008 9:29 pm

I tried to install this lovely theme but it doesn’t work

” Project-Id-Version: WordPress 2.3.1 Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME POT-Creation-Date: 2004-12-21 02:45:29.728614 PO-Revision-Date: 2007-12-30 02:26 0100 Last-Translator: Amaury Balmer Language-Team: French (France) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rosetta-Version: 0.1 X-Poedit-Country: FRANCE X-Poedit-SourceCharset: utf-8 X-Poedit-KeywordsList: _e;_c;__ X-Poedit-Basepath: . Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n>1 X-Poedit-Language: French”

Can you help me ?
Daniel on January 18th, 2008 2:05 am

el-f, looks like the problem is coming from somewhere else and not the theme itself.

Visiting your site I can the theme without problems.
el-f on January 18th, 2008 8:12 am

I removed the french files in wordpress and it works great, thanks
redwall_hp on January 18th, 2008 9:56 am

@Daniel. I’m using this theme for the personal blog I’m setting up (I’m not in the mood to make my own design yet, and I like this theme). I like the idea of the split sidebar, and I’ve actually been working on implementing it myself.
redwall_hp on January 18th, 2008 12:14 pm

Okay… I’d like to report an IE bug, and offer a solution. Take a look at this screenshot: http://i28.tinypic.com/nv8xhv.jpg That’s the comment and read more links in IE7. To fix them so they’re on top of each other, like in Firefox, place this code below the style declaration in your header:

<!--[if IE]> <style type=”text/css” media=”screen”> #postinfo { margin-top:20px; } </style> <![endif]–>
Daniel on January 18th, 2008 3:14 pm

redwall, yeah I have an new version coming out soon with this bug fixed also.

Thanks for the code.
Bong (JB) on January 18th, 2008 10:26 pm

Hmmnn, I was just looking for a nature blog theme. This looks elegant…
Daniel on January 19th, 2008 9:54 am

OK we just uploaded a new version that should fix the small bug on Opera and IE 5.
Eric on January 19th, 2008 7:20 pm

The timing of this theme could not have been better!!! Using it and loving it.

BUT, I can’t for the life of me fins a “single post” file or a place to edit the content area of the posts template. Am I just completely missing something here?
redwall_hp on January 20th, 2008 11:50 am

Eric, just copy the index.php file and name it single.php. You can then apply any needed edits to the template.
Eric on January 20th, 2008 12:04 pm

Worked like a charm… thanks!
Daniel on January 20th, 2008 12:48 pm

Hmm somehow that file went missing, uploading a new version now.

Thanks for spotting it.
skarld on January 21st, 2008 6:33 am

Thanks for another great free theme. I have added it to my site, and readers can vote for it as their favorite on wpthemez.
Daniel on January 21st, 2008 9:33 am

Thanks Skarld!
Prashanth on January 21st, 2008 10:25 am

is it possible to make this theme 3 - column?
that would be helpful for me
zParacha on January 21st, 2008 8:35 pm

Daniel, the ‘Email Update’ icon does not do anything? Is any other file missing?
Thanks
Eric on January 22nd, 2008 1:20 am

z,

You have to change the url from “#” to your feedburner subscription URL.

This can be done in the header file.

-Eric
Daniel on January 22nd, 2008 1:54 am

zParach, Eric is correct, you need to create a link around it on the header.php file.

First you will need to activate email subscriptions with your feedburner account, and then use that link around the email icon.
Daphne on January 22nd, 2008 2:59 am

wow! very clean and simple… you did a great job on this… I’ll try this out on my blog… The color looks very great! thanks!
ilango on January 22nd, 2008 1:47 pm

Greentech2 is just fantastic and I would like to use it for my blog. But how do I remove or hide the ads tiles as I don’t think I’ll be looking for ads anytime soon.
Daniel on January 22nd, 2008 3:26 pm

ilango, go on the Sidebar and delete this piece of code:

<? include(TEMPLATEPATH.”/ads.php”); ?>
Sim Kamsan on January 22nd, 2008 11:37 pm

Oh great design release.. thank you.
yayan ahdiat on January 23rd, 2008 12:03 am

I realy…realy like it. Could I using the theme
social on January 23rd, 2008 1:47 am

Looks great! Is it free? I’d like to use it too. Thanks for your job!
WTJ on January 23rd, 2008 8:02 pm

just wanna ask how to edit the single post page?
Showbiz Intriga? Get It From Boy! on January 24th, 2008 12:30 am

I plan on using this because this is kinda similar to my old blogger blog. I am moving to WP and this is just very similar.

I will just post here if you’ll indulge me the problems i’ll encounter in the future. thank you
social on January 24th, 2008 9:44 am

2WTJ It’s very easy! You should log in to your wp admin panel –> choose Presentation –> Theme Editor –> in the bottom of the right column click Single Post –> here it is, you can edit php code there
Missy on January 24th, 2008 5:52 pm

Quick question:

How do i change the TITLE and SUBHEADING TEXT COLOR to a different color, say yellow?
Showbiz Intriga? Get It From Boy! on January 25th, 2008 12:03 am

how do i put a single ad (probably from widgetbucks) that will fit the “ads.php” instead of those 6 125×125?

also, can i put a random rotating banner ad in the header as well probably from adsense?how?

thanks
Daniel on January 25th, 2008 6:21 am

@WTJ, the first version had no single.php file. If yours is that, just make a copy of index.php page and rename it single.php. Then you will be able to edit it.

@Missy, all the colors, fonts and design details are included on the style.css file, which you can access on the Wordpress control panel under “Presentation”, then “Theme Editor.”

@Showbiz, just ad lines on the ads.php file and drop your Widget bucks code there.

To put an Adsense on the header you would need to format it with some CSS. You could try removing the “Subscribe via RSS” and “Email updates icon and putting the ad there.
ilango on January 27th, 2008 12:21 pm

Dear Sir
I would like to know how to add social bookmark button to my blog such as de.li.cio.us , technorati etc
Ilango
David Swain on January 31st, 2008 11:23 am

Great theme. I write a clean tech blog hosed on wordpress.com and am trying to figure out how to shift to this theme. Do I need to use wordpress.org to be able to use a theme that’s not in their pre-selected list? I’m a total rookie at customization - any ideas on how I can shift to this theme easily would be much appreciated.
MoneyDummy on February 1st, 2008 2:59 pm

I LOVE this template, and it got great feedback from my readers.

The one thing I’ve noticed, however, is that since installng it, my adsense revenue has literally dropped in half. Is there a way to ad a single horizontal adsense block right below the page navigation bar and an adsense square in the upper right corner of individual posts?
Zaheer Paracha on February 1st, 2008 5:23 pm

MoneyDummy, I am also using this theme for my blog http://www.zparacha.com. To include an ad on the right side of your post you can use following CSS style

Your AdSense code goes here.

You can see this in action on my website.
Good luck.
MoneyDummy on February 2nd, 2008 7:30 am

Zaheer:

I can see from your blog that you figured out how to put an add in your post. Maybe I’m missing something, but when you said “the following code,” I didn’t see any code and when you said “goes here,” I couldn’t tell what you were referring to.

I spent a couple of hours trying to hack this out, to use the same code that was in my previous template that had the ads, but there’s obviously something I’m not getting. I put coding in the header, and in the individual posts, but it just didn’t show up. I don’t know much about Wordpress, but it seems like all I need to know is where to paste what code. I just can’t QUITE figure it out. LOL.
Niklas Saers on February 2nd, 2008 9:14 am

Still no luck with Safari 3? The navbar bug is there still for the demo site
Daniel on February 3rd, 2008 1:46 am

@MoneyDummy, you can place a unit below the navigation menu, but since there is a gradient color effect there I am not sure how the look would be.

An easier and equally good option would be to add a 300x unit on top of the sidebar, like Zaheer did. You would just need to put the ad where you have the banner codes previously, on the ads.php file.

@Niklas, I have another version coming up soon, which will make the theme completely xHTML valid, and hopefully will also fix that minor bug in Safari 3. All other browsers should be working fine though.
MoneyDummy on February 3rd, 2008 12:27 pm

Thanks, Daniel! I finally figured out how to put Google ads below the navigation bar, but I couldn’t get it to center below the navigation bar (it was off to the one side) even though I messed around with centering and valigning HTML (can you tell I’m a total dilettante? LOL.) Anyway, I removed it. I’ve had Google ads in the sidebar since the day I put it in, so I’ll just stick with that for now. Thanks for the great design!
Kunle on February 9th, 2008 9:25 pm

Daniel - great theme! However I’m having a bit of a problem trying to get images within posts to align properly, for example i wanted an image to align to the right but it keeps going to the left. I looked at the code and saw that it does say align=right. Also align=middle doesn’t work either, no matter what I do they always go to the left. (were you listening to Beyonce’s song when you were coding this theme :-))
Abi Carmen on February 15th, 2008 10:19 am

Daniel,

Nicest theme I’ve seen to date. The only problem I’m having as I progress is when I add a 4th or 5th adblock it skewers them downwords like the 5th ad is centered on top of the 6th block. What am I doing wrong?

Regards,
Abi
Dave on February 22nd, 2008 6:27 pm

Think about installing it. Would it be easy to make the main posting area slightly more narrow?? Where would a change the code??
Abi Carmen on February 23rd, 2008 9:34 am

Daniel,

I apologize for sending this a second time but I wasn’t sure if the first just got lost in the shuffle.

Sent 02/15/08-Nicest theme I’ve seen to date. The only problem I’m having as I progress is when I add a 4th or 5th ad block it skewers them downwards like the 5th ad is centered on top of the 6th block. What am I doing wrong?

Regards,
Abi
Daniel Scocco on March 12th, 2008 2:38 pm

Abi, can you send me a screenshot?
Daniel Scocco on March 27th, 2008 1:48 am

@Kunle, one option is to remove all the image classes on the CSS file and create your own.

@Dave, you can do that on the style.css file.

@Abi, I still need a screenshot to send to the designer.
Abi Carmen on March 27th, 2008 3:35 am

Daniel,

Sorry I haven’t sent the screen shot but unfortunately I changed the theme. The only problem I had was very simple and I’m sure correctable. The #1, #2, #3 and #4 ads were perfect but #5 was centered on the next line and #6 was centered right below it. Just looked kinda weird.

Let me know if you can duplicate. Still love the design, best I’ve seen.

Best Regards,
Abi
Content Writer on April 18th, 2008 1:02 am

Very Nice theme indeed. will be using it in my blog network soon.
Nik on April 25th, 2008 4:42 pm

Still no luck with Safari
KM on May 8th, 2008 9:30 am

Daniel, thanks for this beautiful theme. You are a champ!

@kunle

To align images to the left or right you need to add #content before your classes, like here:

#content img.alignright, img.right {
float:right;
margin-left:5px;
margin-bottom:5px;
}

WP uses .alignright and .alignleft as default classes when you insert photo. I added img.right just in case I want to hand code my img tag.