Current Version: 1.5.1
Released On 7/29/2008
The Unwakeable WordPress theme and is a combination of K2 and Unsleepable. Basically, I used K2 as a starting point, and replaced the default K2 header with a modified header from Unsleepable. After getting a few requests from people wanting this theme, I’ve decided to release it to the public.
Please note, this is not a “style” for K2. This is a totally independent theme. However, it should still be able to make use of existing K2 styles that are compatible with K2. Unwakeable is widget ready and supports all the plugins already supported by K2, in addition to some others.
If you have any requests, comments, problems, or complaints, please let me know. I’ll be glad to make requested modifications if I find them to be useful. If you’re wondering about the name, I chose it because it can be nearly impossible to make me wake up at times. And it’s the opposite of “Unsleepable”, I guess…
For instructions on creating your own title image, see Ben Gray’s tutorial. Once you’ve created the image, save it as title.gif and upload title.gif to wp-content/themes/unwakeable/images/. A good resource for help with customizing Unwakeable is the K2 wiki, most information there applies to Unwakeable as well.
Supported Plugins:
- Code Markup
- Post Word Count
- LMB^Box Comment Quicktags
- WP-PostRatings
- WP-PostViews
- Brian’s Latest Comments
- Related Posts
- Subscribe To Comments
ChangeLog
2008-07-29: Unwakeable 1.5.1 released. 1.5.1 brings increased compatibility with WordPress 2.6. Version 1.5.1 is up-to-date with K2 revision 708.
2008-05-13: Unwakeable 1.5 released. This makes Unwakeable 100% compatible with WordPress 2.5+. Version 1.5 is built entirely from K2 r687.
2007-09-04: Unwakeable 1.2.1 Released. This version fixes the XSS vulnerability found in the search facility of Unwakeable 1.2. It’s recommended that all users upgrade to 1.2.1 or patch your 1.2 installations.
2007-01-07: Unwakeable 1.2 Released. Fixed header CSS so the black area is flush with the gray area to the right. Added another visual style for these changelogs. Added support for Gregarious and Landing Sites plugins. Gave this theme it’s own options in the wp_options table, this way you can have separate configurations if you have both K2 and Unwakeable installed. Also included is an upgrade script for converting your K2 options right over to the new Unwakeable fields. We’re now showing post ratings, post views, and Digg on pages. Previously these were only shown on actual posts.
2006-11-02: Unwakeable 1.1 released. Included some styles from the Sawchuk scheme for K2. I’ve included the following classes from Sawchuk: code, alert, other, construction, and download.
2006-10-17: Unwakeable 1.091 released. Included fresh CSS from Unsleepable 2.0. Made the new header from Unsleepable 2.0 shorter, like previous versions of Unwakeable.
2006-10-10: Version 0.9.1 released, the initial release. Using K2 0.9.1 and Unsleepable 1.7 code.
This theme’s efficiency makes it incredibly light on all web hosting accounts and don’t even dream of needing dedicated servers. Clean code and display make it seo ready, leaving only domain name registration before launching your new themed Wordpress blog.
Popularity: 10% [?]
Thanks.Nice theme.
neat theme! but you could use a little variation in say like images ? you know people would easily get confused with the other “UN” themes available out there.
and this theme looks nice on 800×600 as well! =) that’s awesome! keep up the good work :)
Thanks for the suggestions Sindhu! I’m gonna try to find another pretty, free icon set to use. Anybody got any suggestions?
Nice theme,thanks!
Theres a whole long list of free icon sets here:
http://www.maxpower.ca/free-icons/2006/03/05/
I haven’t gone through many yet, but there might be something there you could use.
thx for the updates!
How to make localization (to add Russian)?
Egen: good question. I really don’t know a whole lot about how localization is taken care of. I know .po and .mo files, but I’m not really sure on implementing them.
There’s some pretty detailed posts at the K2 localization forum regarding localization support in K2. You may want to look through there. It’s very likely something there will work for you since Unwakeable is based heavily off of K2.
If you are successful at getting localization working, would you be kind enough to let me know?
Hi,
My wpvideo plugin breaks when i enable the theme.
Is there somewhere I can decalre what tags will work? I works without issue on some other themes i’ve used.
I’ll I do is enter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyB4gbsSdYQ
and it automatically outputs the correct you-tub video.
any help would be appreciated! Great work btw!
didn’t render the tag properly…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyB4gbsSdYQ
yikes…the link to the plugin is here:
http://www.skarcha.com/wp-plugins/wpvideo/
great theme..i am using it for my website at http://www.syokkahwin.com/blog - Asia Weddings - Defining Wedding As It Should Be
Thanks for the report effour. I will work on building support for the wpvideo plugin with the next release, which should be out before February.
hey.. i tried to install your theme but i need to change the widths to fit my photos (i’m a photographer). what’s the simplest way to do this? all my images are set to no more than 600px in width. the CSS is over my head.. i’m not that advanced!
Hi D,
Open up the “style.css” file in a text editor. You’ll be looking for line 48 and line 56. First, line 48 defines the width for the page class. As you can see, it should be currently set to 780px. You can change that to a larger value to make the page wider. If you wanted it to be 1000 pixels, you’d replace 780px with 1000px.
Next, on line 56, we see the width of the primary display area (where your posts show). The width on line 56 should have a value of 500px currently. You can change that to make the primary display area wider.
If I were you, I’d increment the values equally. So, if you increase the width on line 48 by 25%, you should also increase the width on line 56 by 25%.
Let me know if this doesn’t help.
What I like about this style is the visual simplicity and the menu.
What I don’t understand is to how to add more entries to the menu :)
A new installation has two - ‘about’ and ‘archives’. How do I get more? Do they have to be WP-generated, or can they point to static pages?
It’d be nice to have various things spelt out, like what’s the size of the header graphic?
One other thought: it’d also be good to have section widths as %ages rather than pixels.
I can’t get the title graphic to change. I’ve 777 on the /images/headers directory. I use the “Unwakeable Custom Header” tab, Upload the file with “Active on upload” chacked. The file seems to be uploaded, but it’s not being displayed.
Any suggestions?
Rian: The menu entries are pages within WordPress. So, to get a menu entry called “Pictures”, you’d go to your WordPress dashboard, click on “Write” and then click the “Write Page” link. You’d set the “Page Title” to “Pictures”. Then enter content as you normally would for a post in the “Page Content” area.
The header graphic size is 225×42. You can see what my header image looks like here. Ben Gray has a great tutorial on how to create a custom header image. Once you’ve got the image you want, you’ll want to place it in wp-content/themes/unwakeable-1.2/images/title.gif.
DaveG: Now that you mention that, I’m not sure Unwakeable even supports the custom header image that’s supported in K2. To be honest with you, I haven’t even touched that code from K2. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t work as Unwakeable header images are 225 pixels wide by 42 pixels high. K2 header images are supposed to be 780×200, considerably larger than the Unwakeable header/title image.
I will work on a method to possibly generate custom header images to give that options page some real working functionality. If you still want to toy around with it in Unwakeable, you might want to look at the K2 Wiki page on adding a custom header.
Let me know if either of you have any other questions or issues you’d like me to address.
hey,
i have activated ur theme,
but u have sent files in modules folder..
shall i move them to plugins folder or what…
i mean how to get all those plugins to work
srinivaas: Try going to the Unwakeable Options admin page (www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=functions.php) and uninstalling Unwakeable.
Doing an uninstall will delete all the options that are stored in the database. It won’t touch any of your files in wp-content/themes/unwakeable-1.2/.
After you’ve uninstalled Unwakeable, go to the Presentation admin page and select Unwakeable as your theme again. This will install the default options for Unwakeable, which should make the “Unwakeable Sidebar Modules” menu appear under Presentation.
You shouldn’t need to copy anything to the wp-content/plugins/ folder, Unwakeable has Sidebar Modules built-in thanks to K2.
Let me know if uninstalling Unwakeable once fixes the sidebar modules for you. If it doesn’t I’ll work something else out.
hi,
when u try to uninstall…
i got this error
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/phpmod/public_html/wp-admin/admin-header.php:16) in /home/phpmod/public_html/wp-content/themes/unwakeable-1.2/options/app/tools.php on line 31
thanks.
srinivaas: That error is OK, it’s relatively harmless, everything actually gets uninstalled on the lines before 31.
So, now that you’ve got Unwakeable uninstalled, did you go back and set it as your current theme? After you activate it, you’ll want to click the “Presentation” link again and you should see the Unwakeable Sidebar Modules link available. Click that link and you should be able to configure your sidebar modules.
If that doesn’t work I may require access to your server to do much more troubleshooting. Or at least an administrators account in your WordPress install so I can edit files through there.
Let me know srinivaas!
hi man…
thanks for ur support,
after activating again..i got only these
* Themes
* Theme Editor
* Unwakeable Options
* Unwakeable Custom Header
* Sidebar Widgets
so..i need ur help,
can u catch me on yahoo : india4indians_help
or msn/gtalk: successlieswithme[nospamat]gmail.com
i want to use ur theme for atleast 2 sites…i really liked ur theme a lot,
i hope u will help me out.
thanks.
srinivaas: Try disabling Sidebar Widgets, you may have to uninstall Unwakeable and reactivate it again. I don’t think the Sidebar Modules work when the Sidebar Widgets plugin from Automattic is active.
very nice theme! using it now :)
Hey. Great theme I love it.
I just want to write a little “about” blurb in the
sidebar. How would I go about doing that?
Kyle: Go into your “Presentation” area in the wordpress Dashboard. Then click “Unwakeable Options”. On the Unwakeable Options page you should see a section called “About Text”. Just enter your about text there and it’ll appear on your sidebar.
Let me know if you have any more questions.
Thank you. It works when I have no modules selected, but when I do it doesn’t show. I make sure that the “about module” is active but it’s still missing.
Thanks for the info Kyle. I’ll work on getting that fixed up for the next version.
brilliant theme! i’m using 1.1 on my gaming blog.
i’ve done some mods to the styles and a few of the sidebar modules to fit my liking and i have a question - what would be the easiest way to upgrade to UW1.2 without losing my changes?
Can: I’ll build support for that plugin in for version 1.3, which should be out next week at some point.
Thank you so much! Oh, I’ll be counting the days…
Thank God we have people like you who make amazing themes like Unwakeable.
Can: In the meantime, open up theloop.php and see if the code you need is in there. I’ll go through adapting templates section to make sure I get everything in there. Would you be willing to do some testing for me? Perhaps even setting up a copy of your current blog on another domain if possible. I have no experience at all with photoblogging, and wouldn’t really know what to look for as an end result.
Let me know if you’d be willing to let me test on a copy of your blog and I’ll get in touch with you personally (off this site). Thanks Can!!
Tyler, I’m so glad you’re willing to do this! Unfortunately, I don’t have a working photoblog yet. Mainly because I don’t know where to start and how to do it right. That’s what mainly attracted me to your theme: you’ve got so many out-of-the-box plugins that I just couldn’t help but wonder if I could actually do this: put up a functioning photoblog using the Unwakeable theme.
Maybe this site will better help you visualize what the YAPB plugin can do to your theme, as an option for photoblogging: Daily Snap.
Take a look at his RECENT POST section near the bottom of his homepage. What I’d like to do with mine is to add this somewhere at the bottom or top of the single page OR get the PHP code, so that I can just add this to the sidebar widget of your theme.
Now, look at his ARCHIVE PAGE. You will see photos here instead of titles.
So, if a blogger chose to activate the YAPB plugin, he’d have something like Daily Snap. And if he chose to take a break from YAPB, then he could have the traditional RECENT POST back, with titles for links instead of photos.
This site might also interest you: Photoblogging with WP. The author wrote a four-part tutorial on how to have a photoblog powered by Wordpress. She even has a downloadable K2-based theme where you may do your testings.
BTW, I did look at the loop.php file and found the two sets of codes in between which you may insert the YAPB code. Still wouldn’t work. But when I tested the Post Information plugin and put its code in the loop.php, it worked! Well, almost. That plugin requires one to add an option page first. And I have no clue how to do that. But that’s another story or plugin, in this case. Hehe.
jadedjay: Unfortunately, the easiest would be to upgrade to a clean Unwakeable 1.2 and then make all the changes you made in 1.1 to 1.2. Not very easy I realize but it’s the best way to make sure everything is working properly in Unwakeable 1.2.
looking forward to a version that works with 2.1!!
trench: What isn’t working in WordPress 2.1? Only thing I know of is livesearch in IE. If you’ve got something else I’d appreciate knowing what the issue is.
hello Tyler.I have installed this theme and the Gregarious .but when it was activated,the k2’s live search will not work very well.And when I put some text into the unwakeable about text area with some HTML code just like “” “”,and in the index page it will appear nothing about it.in other words int can’t appear the smb of about module.do you have Gmail?can i talk with you on the Gtalk?
shadow: There’s some issues with Sidebar Modules and Unwakeable currently. I should have everything all fixed up and working 100% for Unwakeable 2.0. I’ve got Google Talk, I will add you later tonight so we can talk a bit.
Tyler, do you know of a right-to-left version of your template? This template is on of the hardest templates to fit to Hebrew. I’m not a CSS genius but I’m usually doing OK and in this one it’s really hard.
Thanks,
Sarit: WordPress 2.1 has pretty good support for languages written right to left. Take a look at Ryan Boren’s post about RTL language support in WordPress 2.1.
I don’t know of anyone who’s modified Unwakeable for RTL, but it may not be too hard to do with WordPress 2.1. I’ll read up some more about this topic, I really can’t offer much advice right now.
By trench
lol
Hi Tyler
Love the theme! Desperate to use it but i want to have the page title formatted to the left rather than the centre - how does a php/css newbie like me do this?
Many thanks
Scott
Hi there,
I really think your theme is almost perfect for my needs. I like the ratingstars most of all. But I would like to have categories in a specific class up in the menu. Do you know how to easy implement that.
Daniel
Daniel: Make sure you download and activate the WP-PostRatings plugin to get the rating stars.
Adding a new class for your categories should be very simple. All you’ll need to do is add the class to style.css and then make sure that class is called with the class= attribute in sidebar.php. So, if you named your class in style.css “mycatclass”, you would call it in sidebar.php within a div tag like class=”mycatclass”.
Let me know if you’ve got any other questions.
Thanks alot for the tips! I will try it at once.
Love this theme! I have a question. On the header I made my image larger then the default image and now I can not find where to move the header menu over. I want to move the about over more towards the right. Can someone please point me in the right direction?
Also when I am in the sidebar module and I try to add a module to the sidebar the whole sidebar disappears.
Amanda: Open style.css and find the following code, should start at line 1067:
Try replacing the width of 250px with the width of your new title image. That may fix it, not sure.
Let me know if that helps. If not, we’ll need to change a width somewhere else also. Thanks Amanda!
Tyler,
That worked perfectly! Thank you so much!!!
Glad that worked for you Amanda. Let me know if you have any other questions or problems with Unwakeable.
Thanks so much. I am having another problem. When I am in the sidebar module and I try to add a module to the sidebar the whole sidebar disappears.
Hi Tyler, I love the theme, I installed it last weekend and I can’t believe how easy it is to use.
Excellent work! Great Theme! (absolutely love it.)
I need help with the scroll bar on the Main page- the > does’nt seem to work.The Loading thingy keeps going round and round, I can’t navigate to page 2,3,either.
The WP Post views does not work at all.
With UTW the Tags show up twice when I read the post.
When I load the page on IE it shows a Javascript error.
Please help!
Thanks!
Sanjay: The scroll bar that comes with rolling archives doesn’t work most of the time in Unwakeable 1.2. This will be fixed in Unwakeable 2.0. For now, try disabling rolling archives, that should make the javascript error in IE disappear.
Also, the WP-PostViews plugin only works when sidebar modules aren’t being used. I hope to have a method for displaying post views with sidebar modules enabled in Unwakeable 2.0, not really sure yet though.
Looks like you got the tag problem fixed, I’m only seeing the tags once when I look at one of your posts.
Let me know if there’s anything else I can assist you with.
Ben Gray’s header image tutorial at openswitch.org is no longer there.
Like your theme
I used it for about half a year now
I really like this theme!
Im having a problem though, I cant work out how to change the “unwakeable” header on the page. I want it to say something else!
How do I do that, I’m sure Im missing something very obvious here :(
Its ok I worked it out!
Looks like you got it worked out Samantha. Let me know if you need any help getting text or images in that image.
What is that font you used on your site? Where can I get it from? (:
Hadret: The font I used in my header image is called 60 Sekuntia.
Just one quick question! I am currently using the flickr gallery plug in and it makes a page called photography automatically, but it’s not in my pages sectioon. How do I make it a part of my nav? Will I have to go through the header code and put it in? or is there an easier way?
Cassie: As long as that plugin adds the page as a real WordPress page, it should show up automatically on the menu. Does the page have a parent page by chance?
hey,
how could i change the position of the sidebar from right to left?
thx, daniel
Daniel: Good question. Not sure how easy it’d be to do in Unwakeable 1.2. Unwakeable 2.0 has an option for a single sidebar or dual sidebars. I will look into the possibility of adding an option to set the sidebar to the left or to the right. Obviously, this would only apply when you’re not using dual sidebars.
Unwakeable 2.0 is nearly finished up, so I’m not really adding any new features at this point. Although, if the addition of this option isn’t too difficult, I’ll add it for Unwakeable 2.0.
Tyler: Thank you, very, very much! (:
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Tyler: Thank you, very, very much! (:
Dear Tyler, just a short question from someone who is very curious person ;-). Can you say anything about when you’re planning to launch Unwakeable 2.0? I don’t want to rush you, but I just want to know how often or how frequent I have to visit this page ;-)
thanks in advance for your information and off course the hard work!
Ybman: I hope to have it out by the end of this month (June). I may release a beta this weekend though.
where are these so called plugins “out of the box” I’d love to use them but they arent showing up in my plugins list…or did this just mean it is built for these to work easily if you choose?
sidebar complete disappears in IE? I really like this theme but i am having the hardest time finding andy reliable support of the issues i keep encountering with it.
Evan: I apologize for the lack of attention I’ve paid to the comments here lately. First off, the supported plugins aren’t packaged with Unwakeable. You must download and activate the plugins like you do every other WordPress plugin. There’s no theme editing required however as I’ve built support for the plugins directly into Unwakeable.
Now, is your sidebar completely gone or just pushed down to the bottom of the page? Also, do you know if this happens in IE6, IE7, or both?
Let me know, I’ll get ya all fixed up.
Thanks Tyler!
It seems to be happening in both 6 and 7 and ive heard some people say it drops and others, say nothing is there.
thanks so much, it’s a great theme! let me know whatcha find!
while i have your attention, i’d also love to have images come up along with the posts in the search results and haven’t found a solution to that either.
thanks again and keep up great work!
Ok…I found the culprit of the “drop effect” It was an image i was using in the sidebar that was too large causing it to sink.
I would still like to know how to make images come up along with post preview when you click on a certain category. That would be great!
thanks for the help!
Love this theme. I’ma try it out.
Hi,
Simple, nice looking theme.
but i do have some problems :-
1) How can i change the background colour?
2) The header bar where the ‘unwakeable’ graphic is overlap onto the right side bar, how can i change it so that it highlight correctly?
3)There’s an error message when i install wp-postratings plugin.
yes silk icons! they are the best :D uhmmm how about this page to help you?
it’s july!?
Don’t remind me Peter. :( I’ve had some setbacks due to work and personal life. I have vacation for the last week and a half of July, so I’ll be working hard at getting Unwakeable 2.0 finished up for release then.
Hi -
I love this design - it’s really great. I’ve been trying to change some elements in the style sheet and am having a weird problem when I load the page - the font changes I make show up, but the colors don’t. I made sure the code wasn’t wonky and tried clearing the cache and cookies - any ideas?
Thanks!
erin
how can i display sub-sites of a static site in sidebar? Sites Widget show all sides. I want em to show just the sub sites under this one
Hi there.. I’ve been trying and failing to remove the border around images, I’ve been through every css file and somehow still failed.. any advice?
After I activated Unwakeable, I got an error when I try to comment the post: The post you are trying to comment on does not curently exist in the database.
environment: WordPress 2.0.11 and Unwakeable 1.2
Could you please give me some hints?
Hi, first to say how much i love your theme.
Now to the serious part
i’ve checked my blog for vunerabilities with this plugin (http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/tools/wp-scanner/) and it found the php search vunerability.
i’ve changed it to the proposed code (in searchform.php) (from: to
i hope that’s it, i couldn’t find the php_self string anywhere else
night :)
Rocko, I’ve managed to fix the problem and will be releasing Unwakeable 1.2.1 (a fixed version) very soon. I’ll also be making a post shortly on steps 1.2 users can take to fix their installations.
Thanks for pointing this out Rocko!
Please see this post regarding the XSS vulnerability.
Hi Tyler!
Nice to see that you fixed it already + a nice post on the matter.
Btw, thanks again for this phenomenal theme, i really, really like it.
Keep up the good work!
Rocko
still waiting to see if anyone knows how to get pictures to show up with the posts (not just the text) when you click on a category.
any help would be much appreciated!
thanks again!
is there anyway i can have this in blogger instead of wordpress? i love this theme u have here
hi,
I’m still having trouble changing the header. I want to remove the word unwakable and put something of my own…
very very confused now =(
and i read tat most of you guys mentioned tat widget isnt much useful issit?
jonut: Try one of these tutorials for making a custom header graphic:
Custom Header Graphic in Photoshop
Custom Header Graphic in The Gimp
actually havin problems as i dont know where to change on the template.
Hi,
Thanks for this theme. I really love it but I’ve got a prob with the slide bar (older/newer posts). It has never worked. It’s always loading. So I can’t go to the other pages of my blog.
Do you have any solution?
good work!
I got the theme and will be in use soon,
thanks