PassionDuo WordPress Theme Released

It is time to update our WordPress themes collection, and with not one but three new themes. The PassionDuo theme has a clean style, rounded corners, space for advertising and a lot of room for your content. It comes in three color versions: red, blue and green.

The theme was created by DesignSaurus. If you are planning to get a custom design, make sure to check out their competitive prices.

Here are the features of the theme:

Advertising ready: The theme comes with a 468×60 banner spot on the header, and 6 125×125 spots on top of the sidebar. It should also be easy to integrate ad units of other sizes throughout the theme.
Feedburner Integration: The theme has an options page where you can simply paste your Feedburner feed URL. It also comes with a styled email subscription form, where you just need to put your Feedburner email id.
Comments Styling: The author comments already come with a different style so that readers can easily identify them.
Search Engine Optimization: As usual the title and meta tags have already been optimized. The categories and archive pages are also structured to display only post excerpts.

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76 Responses to “PassionDuo WordPress Theme Released”

Steven Finch on April 15th, 2008 10:26 am

What can I say Daniel, the themes actually keep getting better. Im going to have to use one of these themes for my site, http://crenk.com
Daniel Scocco on April 15th, 2008 10:43 am

Thanks Steven. If you have any suggestion for changes let us know.
Paula Hawk on April 15th, 2008 10:55 am

I like these - clean and simple. Since I just don’t have the time to figure out how to do my own (nor the finances to hire some help!), I think I will snag one of these!

Thanx for continuing to provide awesome themes, it was a previous theme of yours that got me to trying to hack my own theme!
SATISH ACHARYA on April 15th, 2008 11:14 am

You are just outstanding!
Siddharth on April 15th, 2008 11:26 am

I am currently using your deepblue theme Daniel, but really I was looking for something like that. The blue version of this theme really fulfils my demand of a clean and neat professional theme. The integrated 468×60 ad banner makes it more better.
AlexG on April 15th, 2008 11:40 am

WoW. The bar keeps getting set higher in terms of WP themes. So many good themes are coming out, its tough sticking with just one theme nowadays but gots to be consistant
Tara Kachaturoff on April 15th, 2008 12:16 pm

The PassionDuo theme is awesome. Thanks DesignSaurus for the great work. I was looking for something just like this. Thanks Daniel for hosting monthly themes. We appreciate you and all of the talented designers who make this possible.

Kind Regards,
Tara
Madhur Kapoor on April 15th, 2008 12:40 pm

The guys at DesignSaurus have done a wonderful job once again. The themes are great.
Sean P. Aune on April 15th, 2008 3:31 pm

Great theme, but is anyone else noticing it seems to “hang” for a moment in Firefox? When I first load it, it takes it a moment to seem to “catch” and let me scroll down.
Daniel Scocco on April 15th, 2008 3:33 pm

I don’t see it Sean.
Bloguitar on April 15th, 2008 5:43 pm

¡Really nice theme!
Bloguitar on April 15th, 2008 5:43 pm

Sorry, ignore the “¡”
team ray on April 15th, 2008 6:40 pm

i always look forward to these releases . nice work as always
SEO web hosting on April 15th, 2008 11:14 pm

Wow, perfect new theme. I was looking for something simple BUT that had the 6 - 125 X 125 buttons. Great theme.
Chris Jacobson on April 16th, 2008 12:45 am

Very nice theme!
Siddharth on April 16th, 2008 8:18 am

I think Daniel that there is a problem with error 404 page. If we type a not available post or page name like http://www.example.com/blogday/ in which blogday is not present. When the error 404 page opens its look mashed up where above top ad crash with navigation and page look disturbed. May be you should check it out and solve if it its look like problem with others too.

I am using your this theme blue version and found this problem.
Not John Chow on April 16th, 2008 3:35 pm

This is a great looking theme! It reminds me of some of the premium themes I wish I could afford! Now I can! I am going to test this one out and if all goes well convert to it ASAP. Thanks for your generosity!
Glen Allsopp on April 17th, 2008 11:30 am

Very nice designs, thanks for releasing them out there free to the community
MoneyDummy on April 17th, 2008 3:18 pm

These are beautiful! I’m wondering two things:

1. When I put Adsense code for a 468X60 banner in the “top ad php” file, which is where I thought the banner code would be located, the banner that had previously been in the header vanished, and the google banner appeared at the top of my sidebar, instead of in the header. I’m wondering what caused this, and how I can fix it.
2. I noticed that when I replaced the 125*125 “Your Ad Here” boxes with google code, it added a large block of white space at the top of the ad block. Again, I’m wondering what caused this and how I can fix it.
MoneyDummy on April 17th, 2008 3:24 pm

Okay, I fixed the problem with the top banner, but it still ads blank space when I put a 125*125 ad in the ads file.
Daniel Scocco on April 17th, 2008 4:05 pm

MoneyDummy, you are trying to insert 125×125 Adsense units?
MoneyDummy on April 17th, 2008 4:11 pm

Yes. Right now I’ve got the problem fixed by just having a 250X250 ad unit in there, but I sure do love the look of those pretty little buttons, and I’d love to figure out how to put them in there.
Daniel Scocco on April 17th, 2008 8:36 pm

MoneyDummy, I think they CTR on 125×125 Adsense units would not be high, and 6 of them would look ugly.

My suggestion is to use 6 banners, or a 250×250 image as you are doing.
Rose on April 20th, 2008 4:29 am

Very nice theme!

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Jerry Ong on April 20th, 2008 10:05 am

Nice and clean layout love it so much ! too bad i’m using Movable Type
Om on April 27th, 2008 3:35 am

I have lots of pages in my blog (50+) - so that doesn’t display properly because the theme puts them all in the top menu bar (not enough space for that).
Is there a way how I can fix this? I just LOVE the theme and want to use it, but my whole sitestructure is based on pages.
Daniel Scocco on April 27th, 2008 9:50 am

@OM, you will need to open the header.php file, delete the string that automatically loads all your pages as menu links, and insert only the links you want there manually with HTML code.

i.e.

Hussein on April 27th, 2008 11:01 am

Great theme I love it. I’ll give it 10/10.
chris on April 28th, 2008 5:16 am

Nice theme, thanks.
Eric on April 28th, 2008 7:08 pm

Great collection, i’m shure that i’m going to check some out!
Catherine on April 29th, 2008 2:43 am

Wonderful theme. Thanks. I’m going to use it.

Keep up the great work.

Cheers
MoneyDummy on April 30th, 2008 6:11 pm

I’ve realized that I need to learn more about Wordpress templates, since I assumed that making html changes to the sidebar php file was how I could change the sidebars. The changes haven’t worked at all (for instance, adding the twitter HTML code to the sidebar hasn’t made Twitter show up), so obviously I need to learn more about how to “work” these themes. Is there a very basic beginners’ guide to tweaking Wordpress themese?
Paul on May 2nd, 2008 4:45 am

I’m having trouble with the green theme when inserting images in posts. They don’t align where I tell them to align, and other page elements such as text and the comments form get all mashed up into the post. Anyone else? I’m using Wordpress 2.5 and using Firefox to write the posts.
Daniel Scocco on May 2nd, 2008 10:21 am

@Money dummy, I would get started on the Wordpress site wordpress.org, they have many help files there, as well as an active forum with many experienced people ready to help.

@Paul, check out the CSS file (style.css) for any .img entries. You should remove those and add some of your all with your styling.
Blog Oh Joe on May 2nd, 2008 2:15 pm

I love this theme not only because it is adsense ready.
Hammad on May 3rd, 2008 1:50 pm

nice theme m8
parisb on May 4th, 2008 2:29 am

Hi I love this theme and I’m trying to have track backs but its not showing up on the posts. (its all enabled in my wordpress dashboard and post) Is there a way to keep trackbacks and the comments separate just as you are doing here? Thanks in advance.
parisb on May 4th, 2008 2:36 am

Oh oops! I got it to work. Thanks for a great theme!
xtreme on May 5th, 2008 6:24 am

wow! the green colour is awesome,i have to use it for my Blog but my blog not in wordpress but blogspot.
T.H on May 5th, 2008 10:02 am

I like this, but I don’t know how to put in my site. Can anyone guide me? I started this domain site but no idea how to do the theme.
78HG on May 5th, 2008 1:33 pm

Thank you, i have share it to my blog visitors.
Daniel Scocco on May 5th, 2008 1:34 pm

@T.H., first you will need to download the zip file. Then extract it, and upload it to your domain using a FTP software.

You need to upload it inside “wp content,” then “themes.”

After that just log into your WordPress control panel, go into “Design,” and select the theme there.
Eric on May 6th, 2008 9:43 pm

When I select this theme in my wordpress dashboard, my whole site goes blank, including the dashboard. I have to delete the this theme to get my site back. What am I doing wrong?
Michael Clark on May 8th, 2008 1:16 pm

I found a bug in the theme I think. Under Safari 3.1.1, OS X 10.4.11, the green hashes at the bottom of the area do not line up with other green hashes. Not earth shattering, since sometimes it does line up ok. It’s probably dependent on how much content is on the rendered page.

And what is the file at /wp-content/themes/PassionDuo_Green/images/i_com.gif ? It’s called from line 13 of archive.php I don’t see that image in any of the themes’ .zip download.
Mario Nunes on May 12th, 2008 3:46 pm

The themes are to static.. not really professional..
Dylan on May 30th, 2008 8:02 pm

Hey,
When I install theme the appears following mistake:

ject-Id-Version: WordPress 2.5-beta2 Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: wp-polyglots@lists.automattic.com POT-Creation-Date: 2008-03-12 18:00 0000 PO-Revision-Date: 2008-03-29 18:22-0000 Last-Translator: Vanilla Lounge Language-Team: WordPress PT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1; X-Poedit-Language: Portuguese X-Poedit-Country: PORTUGAL X-Poedit-SourceCharset: utf-8
Pras on June 5th, 2008 4:18 am

Hi Daniel, I am not getting small bullets in the ‘recent comments’ & ‘recent posts’ widgets in the sidebar. Can you help me to solve this problem ?