Page details

Author

SeSam

Date

December 13th, 2008

Comments

25 Comments so far.
Add yours.

Template

Sesam.hu uses the Make It Worn template originally designed by Bart-Jan Verhoef as part of a three-piece tutorial on how to create a worn look to websites. I decided that it was the perfect look for SeSam.hu and a lot better than anything I could ever create myself. Therefore I set out to convert the one page example Bart-Jan shared to a full-fledged WordPress template.

The template is licensed under a Creative Commons license, that allows you to share, edit and publish the work, as long as it is non-commercial and you make the license terms clear to others. You are free to use it with any non-commercial WordPress blog.

The template has been tested with Internet Explorer 7, Safari and Firefox. There are no plans to support IE 6 ever. I’m sorry, it’s just not worth the effort.

The template looks exactly like the one used here with two exceptions: the header logo is reverted back to the original “BW” letters instead of my “S” and the footer copyright notice is tailored to a more generic use.

Please feel free to contact me or leave a comment should you have any questions or remarks about the template.

Installation Instructions

  • You can download the Make It Worn template here (RAR). 
  • Uncompress the downloaded archive to a convenient location.
  • Upload the theme files to the wp-content/themes/ folder of your WordPress installation. 
  • Choose the Make It Worn theme at the Design or Appearance page (depends on WP version) on your administration interface.
  • In order to use the same Archives page as you can see on SeSam.hu create an empty page titled “Archives” using the Archives page template.

Version History

  • 1.1 - 19 December 2008 (download)
    All pages now validate.
    404 page added with search.
    Logged in users now find a link to the administration page in the header.
    The footer shows the version of WP used.
    The theme now has a screenshot for the administration pages.
      
  • 1.0 - 12 December 2008 (download)
    Initial release.
    The code is checked and validated as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
    Turns out some pages still pop errors in the validator.

Known Issues

  • There is no 404 page sporting the same design.
  • I couldn’t find a way to implement search to the index page yet.
  • The categories and tags are not shown.
  • There are no pingback or trackback links.
  • Archives browsing lacks appropriate location indicators.
  • Too many pages can break the header.
  • Language packs are not supported.
  • WP Sidebars are not supported.

Comments to this entry

Make It Word WordPress Theme | Themelicious
December 14, 2008
7:17 am
[...] theme designed by SeSam.hu, using the “worn” look.  While the theme is only one column, it can still be used as a [...]
WordPress Theme: Make it Worn - 漫步
December 14, 2008
7:38 am
[...] Make it Worn，一款复古磨损风格的 WordPress 主题，由 Bart-Jan Verhoef 设计，很不错，推荐。 [...]
WordPress Theme Releases for 12/13 | BlogBroker24-7
December 14, 2008
9:24 am
[...] Make it Worn [...]
ZHAN.US » WordPress Theme - Make it worn
December 14, 2008
5:12 pm
[...] 一款配色很舒服的“Worn Style”主题，由Bart-Jan Verhoef设计，原作者的主页设计得更加精致，可惜是自用的。很多人找他想要WordPress的主题，但是因为设计者不用WordPress，所以提供下载的只是针对TxtPattern的XHTML, CSS和图片，但是有WordPress高手也看上了这款主题，并且将其移植到了WordPress上，所以让其他WordPress发烧友们有了使用它的机会，谢谢SeSam了！ [...]
Sebastian Herold
December 14, 2008
8:53 pm
Great work! Thanks for sharing.
Any chance you make the logo .psd public?
Garritt
December 15, 2008
7:00 am
Great theme. I love the stains. I used to own a stationery store. This would have been great for the website for the strore. Very creative. Keep up the good work.

By the way, the "submit" button is great. Nice design.
ZoomLab Eine Netzspielwiese » Make It Worn • Wordpress Template
December 16, 2008
7:49 pm
[...] von Bart-Jan Verhoef erstelltes Template wurde von SeSam.hu für Wordpress vorbereitet. Wer also auf einspaltige Themes steht, ist bei diesem Template genau [...]
SeSam
December 17, 2008
8:10 am
Sebastian: Bart-Jan is to be credited for all the design work, I merely applied his design to WP. He made available all the resources detailing the creation of the design in his blog. I suggest you look at the third part of his series for the logo.
Paul
December 17, 2008
1:42 pm
Nice job, although kinda limited without sidebars.
Stas
December 19, 2008
4:57 am
Thanks for the template, although a lot of available features were ignored.

I took your work and improved it in some ways, added additional style rules in css, gravatar. Now I'm thinking to add widgets to it.
If you're open for collaboration, you could publish your template to a public repository and from that point we could extend "make it worn" to what it should be.

Cheers, and thank you once more! :)
SeSam
December 19, 2008
9:25 am
@Stas

I checked out your site. In your case the gravatars look fine with the grey background. However, in the case of Bart-Jan's worn look gravatars would unnecessarily stand out by being modern and sharply contoured. Maybe with a hand-drawn border and a uniform sepia filter applied... nevertheless the whole idea behind this template is the worn look which would be compromised by the modern gravatars. I think placing them would be an issue as well since the template was designed without the intention of including such pictures.

I'm really curious how you'd implement widgets. Although in your case you can push things around more easily with no background to align to. In my original template I couldn't find suitable space for widgets. I toyed with the idea of having just two columns on the main page without the post details and put widgets there but since I wasn't missing them much I decided against it.

I'm sure it's just unintentional absentmindedness on your part but there seems to be no crediting of the original creators on your version of the template.
Stas
December 20, 2008
7:07 am
The credits are there were they should be, in the CSS (cause that is what was left from the template you and Bart created). Imho, the theme I'm using on my blog is far different from the theme you've created and the template Bart provided.

So far, I'm looking to release it in the public somehow, but once again, the license Bart put on it's original work, is CC, I would like it to be GPL, cause of it, I'm not sure how much of the original theme I'm allowed (and would like) to use.

What about widgets, I'll keep you updated as I'll get those done.
Cheers.
SeSam
December 20, 2008
11:24 am
Imho, it's exactly the same, without the background. :)

I recently read something about GPL-CC compliance and/or interchangeability, but not sure where.
Ashley
December 22, 2008
7:32 pm
Thanks for putting the effort into making this theme available in Wordpress. When you say "not for commercial use" are you including Adsense in this?

One slight problem I have with image alignment, not sure if it's your theme or version 2.7 Wordpress: I can't get smaller images to left or right align so text flows around them. Looks okay in the editor but not in the post. I have worked around it by pasting in basic two column tables, but we all know how much Wordpress hates tables.

Cheers
SeSam
December 24, 2008
11:11 am
@ Ashley I'm going to check the alignment. The classes that enable alignment probably need to be defined in the theme CSS. As for AdSense, I'm afraid that as long as you receive money from it, it's kind of commercial...
parisfal
January 4, 2009
2:49 am
ummm... is it possible to limit shown posts. it looks like all my posts are on index page. theme desperately seeks pagination.
SeSam
January 4, 2009
3:00 am
Oh in my case the posts appearing on the main page is limited by WP settings. You can set it at Settings/Reading on your admin panel. According to my line of thinking the reader who wants to read older posts should check the archives which do have pagination.
WordPress Theme: Make it Worn | 上善若水 Feed博客聚合
February 8, 2009
1:39 am
[...] Make it Worn，一款复古磨损风格的 WordPress 主题，由 Bart-Jan Verhoef 设计，很不错，推荐。 [...]
Make It Worn best wordpress template | WordpressGala
April 14, 2009
11:36 pm
[...] 0 Free Make It Worn Preview | Details  Loading [...]
Paolo
April 14, 2009
11:38 pm
Very nice theme. I've inserted it in WordpressGala.
Download 1 column wordpress themes | Make It Worn ? Beautiful Wordpress Theme
August 4, 2009
3:25 pm
[...] Demo | Download Make It Worn (12) [...]
Free WordPress Themes | Make It Worn ? Beautiful Wordpress Theme
August 5, 2009
3:56 pm
[...] Demo | Download Make It Worn (13) [...]
Make It Worn – Beautiful Wordpress Theme : Theme Splice
August 5, 2009
7:10 pm
[...] Demo | Download Make It Worn (8) [...]

Your thoughts