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Notepad Chaos Version 2.0

November4

Version 2.0 is finally here. I went ahead and redesigned into a wider, 3-column layout to allow more room for widgets and such. I had to ditch the old route of using pages, so they’ve been added into a new column to scale easier. Gravatars and widgets have all been enabled, and now you should have plenty of room to build in ad space if you’d like. I considered building that in, but still haven’t figured out how to hook into the Wordpress dashboard for easier manipulation. I guess that will be version 2.5…

Anyhow, enjoy the theme. New files are located below to download:

Please leave the footer links and logos intact if used. Enjoy!

NOTICE: Please only download this theme from here (notepadchaos.com), or through Smashing Magazine. There are a few sites out there redistributing this theme with spyware/malware embeded.

Like this theme? Check out the variant theme “Desktop Chaos”:

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56 Comments to

“Notepad Chaos Version 2.0”

  1. Avatar November 5th, 2009 at 9:19 am Notepad Chaos: A Free Wordpress Theme - Smashing Magazine Says:

    [...] (0.4 Mb)Download the theme (.zip-package, 0.5 Mb)Download PSD-sources (.zip-package, 5 Mb)Notepad Chaos 2.0: Official Release and Download pageThe theme has been updated to version 1.5. It’s now up-to-date with cleaner code and includes [...]


  2. Avatar November 5th, 2009 at 12:15 pm Tom Says:

    Thank’s for such a great theme. Out of interest what font did you use for the “Recent Posts” widget, its really cool

    Tom.


  3. Avatar November 5th, 2009 at 8:15 pm admin Says:

    That happens to be my own handwriting, scanned and used.


  4. Avatar November 9th, 2009 at 4:54 pm Interweb Says:

    Hi, Love the theme it’s pretty darned pimping :D I liked the v1.5 theme better (for my purposes anyway). Could you possibly provide a download link for that as I can’t seem to find one (i would be very grateful).

    Many Thanks


  5. Avatar November 10th, 2009 at 3:54 am telle Says:

    I am somewhat new to the entire blogging world. I love this theme and downloaded it, but how do I use it in wordpress? Can someone give me some help? I’d appreciate it! :-)


  6. Avatar November 10th, 2009 at 4:06 am Interweb Says:

    @ Telle:

    Just log into to your install of wordpress and go to: “appearance > themes > add new theme > upload theme”

    Then browse to the downloaded zip file and install it. Once installed simply activate it.


  7. Avatar November 11th, 2009 at 10:08 am bassdrum Says:

    hey interweb, love ur theme and use it, but my ratings dont work since i installed the new one ?! it´s an ajax plugin, another plugin (ajax shoutbox) works fine. i dont know what i can do.

    ever heard of this problem?

    (hope u can understand this, cause im from germany^^)


  8. Avatar November 11th, 2009 at 11:12 am bassdrum Says:

    no problems anymore, everything rigth!

    thx 4 the theme!


  9. Avatar November 13th, 2009 at 8:17 am Emma Says:

    My! The variant theme was unbeliveble nice! When will it be avalible?


  10. Avatar November 13th, 2009 at 8:18 am Emma Says:

    NM! I din’t realize thete was a downloadlink :)


  11. Avatar November 13th, 2009 at 11:15 am Mustafa Says:

    First I want to say thanks for this innovative looking theme. However, I also want to mention a problem with internet explorer 6 and older versions. The recent posts all seem at the down of the page, and I think maybe you have an idea to fix it.


  12. Avatar November 14th, 2009 at 9:03 am Conny Says:

    Danke für die Themes.Ich werde mein altes Design behalten.
    gruß Conny


  13. Avatar November 18th, 2009 at 5:54 pm Mayank Abhishek Says:

    Is a blogger version available for v2.0? I mean has some one ported it yet?


  14. Avatar November 24th, 2009 at 3:06 am Lixia Says:

    thank for the theme :) very beatifull ^^

    how to fill the “what is this place?”


  15. Avatar November 24th, 2009 at 3:30 am Lixia Says:

    oh it’s ok, I found how to do it.


  16. Avatar November 24th, 2009 at 4:07 am Tayler Says:

    Hi, I’m having trouble as an error occurs when I try to install the 1.5 version??

    Thanks, It looks like a FANTASTIC theme!


  17. Avatar November 24th, 2009 at 4:10 am Tayler Says:

    This is the error:

    Unpacking the package.

    Incompatible archive PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature


  18. Avatar November 25th, 2009 at 8:56 pm katie d Says:

    Hi. I love the new version. One problem I have with it is that you can’t remove Categories, Pages & Recent Posts etc. I would like to replace a couple of them with different widgets. Is there any chance this might be possbile somehow?

    Thanks :)


  19. Avatar November 26th, 2009 at 12:33 am mike e Says:

    Beautiful theme. I don’t know if I’ve seen one better. I am having a small issue though with the About page tying into the “What Is This Place?” section. No matter what I type there, it only shows the first character.


  20. Avatar November 26th, 2009 at 7:15 pm Jim Says:

    Can you post both the two-column (1.5) and the three-column (2.0) themes?

    I’d rather use the two-column but all the links (on the older blog pages) still download 2.0.

    Very cool theme.


  21. Avatar November 27th, 2009 at 2:45 am ruben Says:

    LOVE the theme but would be great to change the background color maybe in the next update?


  22. Avatar November 30th, 2009 at 8:57 pm katie d Says:

    Does anybody know the best way to either change the widgets in the middle column, or completely remove the middle column ( the one containing ‘pages’ & ‘categories’). Because I prefer v2.0, but I would live to either have different widgets there or have the first column wider.

    Thanks.


  23. Avatar December 4th, 2009 at 9:30 pm andreapelingo Says:

    hi, can you please make the oldest version of this theme, the one with only two columns, but with the date background?


  24. Avatar December 8th, 2009 at 7:59 am Tib Says:

    Hello,

    Is it possible to change the background image for another one ? I’d like to change it, what do I have to do ?

    Thank you


  25. Avatar December 17th, 2009 at 2:06 am Ruben Says:

    Please do an update to notepad chaos 2.5 and please give us the option to change the background color to any color we want PLEASE


  26. Avatar December 17th, 2009 at 9:44 am Evan Says:

    It would be extremely difficult to be able to change the background color on the fly. A lot of the images and styles are dependent on the blue background. I’d suggest reading up on CSS and playing with the theme.


  27. Avatar December 23rd, 2009 at 12:40 am ruben Says:

    I change the color in wordpress from

    body {
    background:url(images/page-back.gif) repeat-x #3f808a;

    to

    body {
    background:url(images/page-back.gif) repeat-x #ff55ca;

    But nothing happens


  28. Avatar December 23rd, 2009 at 2:34 pm Mark Fogarty Says:

    Ruben… I changed the color in style.css and it changed for me. When I first looked at it there was no change, even after refreshing once… but when I refreshed a second time the background color changed.

    I found the same thing happened often when I was tweaking the colors and graphics of this most excellent theme… I just refreshed a couple times and would see the changes.


  29. Avatar December 23rd, 2009 at 4:03 pm ruben Says:

    Wow thanks Mark who knew the refresh button would do the trick feel dumb now lol. Ok stupid question but very knew to this now that I have changed background color how do I change the footer and header background color?:s


  30. Avatar December 24th, 2009 at 5:45 am Mark Fogarty Says:

    Ruben, the header and footer are actually jpg images, footer.jpg and outer-back.jpg. You would need to download the Photoshop file Evan provides above and do some work changing colors and exporting/replacing those files. It was great of Evan to include that file as well.

    It will take a bit of work but it’s totally doable. I am currently working on a site using this theme, but with a totally changed set of background images and colors.


  31. Avatar December 25th, 2009 at 2:36 am ruben Says:

    Great Thanks ALL for your help and Happy Holidays


  32. Avatar December 25th, 2009 at 9:15 am Honey Khadem Says:

    I’m using your beloved theme but there are 2 things I want you to add.
    first in new version of wordpress you can break comments into pages but it doesn’t work with your theme. I don’t know anything about php. I picked up the php code from wordpress default theme but don’t know where to put in comment.php
    also there is another feature so you can reply to a comment. again I have the php code from wordpress default theme but as I put it in comments.php the sky falls on my head :D
    I spent a whole week solving this problem but I couldn’t. pleaaaaaase help and add the codes in comments.php


  33. Avatar December 31st, 2009 at 11:04 pm kuma Says:

    what font do you use for such as “friend & links” or “what is this place”? is that the same font for adobe photoshop?


  34. Avatar January 2nd, 2010 at 11:59 am Nikoline Says:

    Hi there – great theme!
    It just a shame that I can find out how to use it in my own blog.
    Can you help me?


  35. Avatar January 4th, 2010 at 9:25 pm Wendy Beresford Says:

    Great theme. only problem is when viewing with Internet Explorer 6. The yellow post-it for Recent Posts is broken. The top part of the Post-it displays correctly (with Recent Posts text), then there is a large gap, the length of Pages and Categories in column 2, before the bottom part of Recent Posts displays (containing links to posts) this looks bad.
    See it here: http://www.wendyberesford.co.uk
    Can anyone help please?


  36. Avatar January 5th, 2010 at 7:10 pm Natalie Giddings Says:

    Hi – I would really like to know how to change the “what is this place” & “more debris” stuff.cheers
    natt


  37. Avatar January 7th, 2010 at 9:09 am tyler Says:

    hi evan

    first off, awesome layout, thanks for allowing us to download it!

    i was wondering if you could tell me how to edit the background and implement it into wordpress

    i tried to match and crop the pieces from photoshop into the wordpress theme images but it just doesnt turn it properly

    thanks in advance


  38. Avatar January 8th, 2010 at 10:00 pm sweska Says:

    The Desktop theme is simply amazing as well! :)


  39. Avatar January 9th, 2010 at 3:10 am Melvin Says:

    this is just soooooo awesome man.. really awesome..


  40. Avatar January 11th, 2010 at 10:59 am Jennifer Locke Says:

    I like Tellie above am somewhat new to the entire blogging world. I love this theme and downloaded it, but how do I use it in wordpress? Can someone give me some help? I went to Appearance>Themes>, however I don’t see the add new theme > upload theme feature you mentioned above. Again I’m very new to all of this so there’s a great possibility I’m just doing something totally wrong.
    Thanks :)


  41. Avatar January 18th, 2010 at 4:03 am Venki Says:

    One of the most beautiful and awesomely artistic theme, very ingenious.

    Thank you very very much for this amazing theme


  42. Avatar January 23rd, 2010 at 1:27 am Josh Says:

    Thanks for the great theme. Here are some suggestions for 2.5, if you’re taking requests … I’d like to see the background for the custom widgets go away and just use the notepad background that is already there. As well as be able to put the custom widgets on either sidebar rather than spanning across both. Thanks!


  43. Avatar January 24th, 2010 at 9:02 am tony Says:

    Excellent theme! One question for anyone. Upon install the “What is This Place?” only contains the Letter C. Where is that particular content editable? I can;t figure out why it is only showing a letter C and my prior theme had no similar area… Thanks again!


  44. Avatar January 24th, 2010 at 3:51 pm Notepad Chaos — a free professional Wordpress-theme | Free Blogger Templates & Premium WordPress Themes | Blog Theme Says:

    [...] Demo | Download + PSD file ( Version 2.0 ) [...]


  45. Avatar January 24th, 2010 at 6:16 pm Allison Says:

    Great theme! Can you tell me how to edit the “misc. debris” section? Also can’t figure out how to place banners exactly where I want them. Suggestions anyone?


  46. Avatar January 24th, 2010 at 8:11 pm tony Says:

    Ok…so I answered part of my own question above…the “What is This Place?” I now know is taken from the about page…but why only the first letter? I’m using WP 2.9.1


  47. Avatar January 26th, 2010 at 2:12 am Venki Says:

    I am trying to install the theme but looks like its broken.

    Unpacking the package.

    Installing the theme.

    Theme Installed successfully.

    Warning: fopen(/home/debuglab/public_html/wp-content/themes/wp-theme-notepad-chaos/style.css) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/debuglab/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3598

    Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/debuglab/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3601

    Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/debuglab/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3604

    Actions: Preview | Activate | Return to Themes page

    Selecting Preview doesnt give me anything (Blank Page) and i had to restore it back three times…

    Broken Themes

    The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.
    Name Description
    ArtSeeTheme Stylesheet is missing.

    wp-theme-notepad-chaos 2.0 Stylesheet is missing.


  48. Avatar January 26th, 2010 at 9:41 pm petiksmode Says:

    Very nice theme!


  49. Avatar January 27th, 2010 at 11:27 am Dianne Says:

    I would also love to use the theme but I am getting the EXACT SAME I message as Venki above:

    “I am trying to install the theme but looks like its broken.

    Unpacking the package.

    Installing the theme.

    Theme Installed successfully.

    Warning: fopen(/home/debuglab/public_html/wp-content/themes/wp-theme-notepad-chaos/style.css) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/debuglab/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3598

    Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/debuglab/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3601

    Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/debuglab/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3604

    Actions: Preview | Activate | Return to Themes page

    Selecting Preview doesnt give me anything (Blank Page) and i had to restore it back three times…

    Broken Themes

    The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.
    Name Description
    ArtSeeTheme Stylesheet is missing.

    wp-theme-notepad-chaos 2.0 Stylesheet is missing.”

    Would love to use the beautiful theme but cannot load properly because the Stylesheet is missing. Help please!

    Thanks!


  50. Avatar January 27th, 2010 at 12:04 pm evan Says:

    There’s no error in the theme, that’s due to the folders being uploaded to your server. Make sure only the theme folder gets uploaded and all files are one level deep.


  51. Avatar January 28th, 2010 at 4:10 pm Smash Design Says:

    Great theme

    Thanks alot


  52. Avatar January 29th, 2010 at 6:52 am Vikky Says:

    Hi Evan,

    Thank you for the Notebook Chaos theme. Loved it immediately when I saw it on Smashing Magazine. Suits my personality and my journal blog perfectly. Am so glad you have newer versions of it.

    I was wondering why WP widgets have to occupy the two side columns.

    After a few hours of studying your site and comparing it with mine, I was able to tweak the sidebar from columns.php. Am patting my back, hahaha, considering I don’t know much about coding. But I was able to:
    * delete the section on “What is this place?”. Anyway, it refers to my “About” page, and the content is too long.
    * also added the ad boxes on the two sidebar columns.

    I was just wondering though how I can add a CALENDAR to the sidebar to show the days I’ve written an article. This feature seems to be the only one missing in my blog. Really need help in this aspect.

    I really love your beautiful theme. Thank you so much for it.

    Vikky


  53. Avatar January 30th, 2010 at 2:59 pm FredInChina Says:

    Hi Evan, I very much like the Chaos theme and wanted to use it for my travel blog; actually, the decision was made when I discovered that it now has three columns… (I don’t like it as much in 3 columns, too much stuff and distraction from focus)
    - Can I still use version 1.5 with 2 columns?
    - Can V1.5 have a “What is this place” box?
    - Is it possible to add a RSS button close to the search at the top?
    Thank you for creating such a beautiful design and thank you for the responses to my questions ;-)
    Have a great day,
    Fred


  54. Avatar January 31st, 2010 at 7:14 am Radek Says:

    Great theme indeed!

    Do you have maybe a saved psd version with the slices defined? Or what method have you used to slice the psd project into jpegs?
    Thanks!


  55. Avatar February 1st, 2010 at 7:33 am vicky Says:

    I love your theme and I am using it! Everyone loves the design of my site!
    But look at this link that I came across for blogger! http://spiral-pad-deluxe.blogspot.com/
    Is this something you designed or they have copy your design without giving credits to you?!
    Check it out.


  56. Avatar February 5th, 2010 at 12:43 pm Tami Says:

    Does the new Notepad Chaos 2.0 have threaded comments? It was mentioned in the previous post, but this particular implementation doesn’t seem to use it.


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