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.

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Sebastian Herold
December 14, 2008
8:53 pm
Any chance you make the logo .psd public?
Garritt
December 15, 2008
7:00 am
By the way, the "submit" button is great. Nice design.
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SeSam
December 17, 2008
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Paul
December 17, 2008
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Stas
December 19, 2008
4:57 am
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
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
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
I recently read something about GPL-CC compliance and/or interchangeability, but not sure where.
Ashley
December 22, 2008
7:32 pm
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
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