Jake Spurlock

A Daring Inspiration

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I am excited today, to FINALLY release a WordPress theme that I have been working on. In all of it’s glory, A Daring Inspiration.

Daring Inspiration

Daring Inspiration is a theme that I have had kicking around in my head for a long time. For those unfamiliar, there is a great site on the internet run by mac pundit, John Gruber called Daring Fireball. John write simple text posts, and shares them in a link style that lends itself to being more of a link style blog then a traditional one.

With that being said, this theme is GPL licensed, XHTML valid, and rocking in its simplicity.

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43 responses to “A Daring Inspiration”

  1. Heather Spurlock Avatar
    Heather Spurlock

    Neat and inspiring. You never cease to amaze me.

    Reply
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  9. Mike Avatar
    Mike

    Really like this theme! Good design.

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  12. Gazzer Avatar
    Gazzer

    Let me guess how long it takes for this one to disappear. My advice would be to take it down now. John’s website is one of the very best around and the design is his website’s identity. He doesn’t take kindly to copies of it being made whether or not they acknowledge or are ‘inspired’ by it. Especially, a wordpress theme that is going to end up on lots of other people’s websites.

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    1. Jake Spurlock Avatar
      Jake Spurlock

      Gazzer,
      I didn’t copy his website, I was inspired by it. If you put the two side by side, there are numerous differences. Notably the way that permalinks for his link account are handled, and dates based loops. Colors are similar, layout is similar, but so is every minimalistic type based, two column website on the internet. Gruber is a great guy, and I would never dare steal content from him (what people are really coming to his website for…). But, would I takes inspiration from his simple two-column text based theme?

      Absolutely.

      Because it is gorgeous.

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  18. Dilip Avatar
    Dilip

    Jake, thanks for this awesome theme! 🙂 My blog should be up and running in a few days’ time and am going with this theme!

    Just wanted to know if there is any fix for the sidebar to show properly in IE6? It gets pushed down to the bottom. I know IE6 is not a fav browser among web designers. Still thought I will ask you if you know of any fix. 🙂 If there is no easy solution, don’t bother! I am anyways installing a plugin that tells users to upgrade to a better browser.

    Thanks again for this theme!

    Reply
    1. Cami Avatar
      Cami

      Hi Jake,

      I liked your theme, but don’t have a clue how to use it.. I’ve downloaded it off of WordPress themes and not sure where to start. Please contact me by email, I may just have you design my site for my business.

      Thanks Cami

      Reply
      1. Jake Spurlock Avatar
        Jake Spurlock

        Would love to get in touch about building a site for you!

        Reply
        1. Cami Avatar
          Cami

          Jake,

          Please send me your email or a number where I can reach you to discuss our options for a website.

          Thanks
          Cami

          Reply
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  20. sklender Avatar
    sklender

    Great theme, Jake. I’ve slightly modified it and am using this on a personal site: http://photoappreviews.com/

    However, there’s a thing I can’t track down: How do you replace the stars in ULs and from showing up next to posts that have been read?

    Thanks again for the great work.

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  21. Nancy Hendrickson Avatar
    Nancy Hendrickson

    Jake -how do I remove the word “by” that appears next to a post (for author’s name)? I removed it from index.php – but it’s still showing up on the site. Is there another place I can find it and remove it – I don’t want anything about the author displayed?

    Thanks so much,

    Nancy

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    1. Jake Spurlock Avatar
      Jake Spurlock

      Nancy, you just need to remove it from the single.php file… Should work like a charm then.

      Reply
  22. Christopher Rowe Avatar
    Christopher Rowe

    Is it possible to have the post title’s link to external sites?
    How would we change the code to do so?

    Reply
    1. Jake Spurlock Avatar
      Jake Spurlock

      Not that hard at all with a plugin that I have available. Check this post out:

      How to post your permalink to an external site

      Reply
  23. Michael Avatar
    Michael

    Hi Jake,

    Awesome theme! I’m currently using it for my new blog. I have a question. How do you make the little star icon into a permalink for the individual posts?

    Thanks

    Reply
    1. Jake Spurlock Avatar
      Jake Spurlock

      Not that difficult. On line ten of index.php change the to be after all of the spaces and the star.

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    2. Jake Spurlock Avatar
      Jake Spurlock

      You would want it to look like this.

      Reply
  24. Hermesire Avatar
    Hermesire

    Hi,

    Congrats for the theme; I love it. Is it possible to put a banner ad below the header? I was able to put a Google Adsense ad on the homepage but “above” the header…

    Many thanks

    Reply
    1. Jake Spurlock Avatar
      Jake Spurlock

      You could put the adsense code after line 25 in the header.php file. Untested, but that is where I could start.

      You could also put after line 3 of index.php.

      Reply
      1. Hermesire Avatar
        Hermesire

        Thanks, as you can see it works ! Do you know how to put white space below the ad? Sorry, I’m quite a novice in HTML…

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      2. Hermesire Avatar
        Hermesire

        I’ve put that but it does not work…

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        1. Hermesire Avatar
          Hermesire
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          1. Hermesire Avatar
            Hermesire

            Ah unable to paste my HTML in the comment

      3. Hermesire Avatar
        Hermesire

        OK don’t bother, I’ve succeeded. I had to add

        Many thanks for your help

        Reply
  25. Hermesire Avatar
    Hermesire

    Thanks, as you can see it works ! Do you know how to put white space below the ad? Sorry, I’m quite a novice in HTML…

    Reply
  26. Dawn Avatar
    Dawn

    I am using your theme and love it. It works very well with my current website. There are just a couple of things I’d like to change and am not sure how. When someone leaves a comment, the author’s name is not shown unless they leave a URL. How can I make their name visible regardless? I also want to insert a custom header image to correspond with my website. How do I go about doing this? Please be kind, I am an extreme novice to coding. Thanks in advance.

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    1. Jake Spurlock Avatar
      Jake Spurlock

      Why give credit to Daring Fireball, and not to the actual theme author? It was inspired by, not a copy.

      Reply
  28. Bridget Avatar
    Bridget

    How would I be able to show or put a comment button on the home page for each individual post?

    Thanks!

    Reply

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