
Inspired by Kineda, Celebrity Gossip features a unique photo gallery layout for the homepage, category/tag/monthly archives and search results etc. This theme also saves you the hassle of generating thumbnails and keying in custom fields. The built-in script will auto-resize the first image it finds in each post and use that for the homepage thumbnail. Still prefer to set your own thumbnail? No problem, simply set the featured thumbnail for flexibility.
While we name it celebrity gossip, you can easily adopt this theme for your product catalog, photo gallery, project portfolio etc. And did we mention it comes in 3 flavors: Light, Warm, Dark.
Key Features of Celebrity Gossip
- 3 color style – Light, Warm, Dark
- Dropdown menu
- Automatic image resizer to dynamically create the thumbnails on homepage
- Automatically use the first image in each post for homepage thumbnail, no need to manually key in custom field. Option to override with your own image.
- Optional 2 column bottombar
- Widgets ready – easily arrange sidebar and bottom bar
- Advertisement ready – 4 125×125 banner slots and 1 top header banner
- Threaded & paged comments ready
- Gravatar ready
- Social bookmark ready
- Print.css – for uncluttered printing
- Theme options admin panel
- PSD files included
- XHTML and CSS validated
- Tested on IE6/7/8, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome
Testimonials
I just wanted to say how pleased I am with this template. It’s so easy to use, and the help I’ve been given on using it has been really quick and helpful. Everyone keeps saying how good it looks. I was on blogger before I moved over to wordpress to use this template, and my SEO has really improved as its much easier to control everything on this!
Karen
License
This theme is released under the Creative Commons GNU GPL. Appreciate if you can keep the credit link.
Preview
Celebrity Gossip Light Demo
Celebrity Gossip Dark Demo
Download
Niche
Tags: Blogging, Celebrity, Clone, Gallery, Photo, Portfolio
Tips & Tricks
The theme is not displaying correctly e.g no styling, blank.
Check that all files have a permission of 644 and folders(both the main celebritygossip folder and subfolders) have a permission of 755 or 777. See how to change directory permissions.
The thumbnails are not automatically generated or showing up.
Ensure that the cache directory (wp-content/themes/celebritygossip/cache) permission is set to 755. See how to change directory permissions.
Also try editing your .htaccess file as shown here.
If the above fail, copy and paste the missing image url into the address bar and see if there’s any error e.g http://ericulous.com/…timthumb.php?src=http:…
Changelog
Version 1.1
- Threaded & paged comments ready for WP 2.7
- Added admin option to select categories to display
- Separate pingbacks/trackbacks removed
Version 1.2
- Added WP2.8 functions: body_class() and automatic_feed_links()
Version 1.3
- Support Custom Menu in WP 3.0
Version 1.4
- Dropdown Menu
- Separate pingbacks/trackbacks
- Requires at least WP3.0
Need Help?
Much as I want to provide free support, there are only 24 hours a day.
So if you need a chunk of my time, I’m available for hire.
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Hi,
I purchased the Celebrity Gossip theme and it’s great!
Excellent work!
For some reason the automatic thumbnail doesn’t appear on my homepage though. Though “Automatically use first image in post as thumbnail” is activated. Do I miss a plugin or something?
Hope to hear from you soon.
Fresh
Seems like your host has disabled URL file-access.
Try adding “php_value allow_url_fopen on” to your .htaccess file as at
http://www.logaholic.com/support-center/index.php?x=&mod_id=2&id=8
Thanks for the suggestion…
I added the line to the .htaccess file and uploaded it but nothing changed. Any other suggestion what might cause this?
Fresh
I’m seeing the thumbnails. Is it ok now? Or you are using the custom field as a workaround?
I’m ready to buy however I have a few questions:
1) Can I add ads (728×90, 300×250 and 160×600) to this theme?
2) If so, where?
Thank you.
There’s a theme option panel where you can add 125×125 and 300×250 to the sidebar.
For the 728×80, 160×600, it dependds on where you want them. Most likely you will need to edit header.php, sidebar.php, single.php or footer.php.
Nice themes. Its helps me to make my wp better. thanks
Hi,
I like your design. Question: is it possible to show more than 6 blogposts on the home, or is this number fixed?
Regards,
Paolo
Yes, you can easily set the no. of posts to display on the homepage in the admin panel.
Hi Genkisan,
I have a few more questions concerning the design of Celebrity Gossip.
- Is it possible to publish postings on the blog which will not automatically be shown at ‘Leatest entries’. Is it possible to make the entry of the posting in the ‘Leatest entries’ optional?
For instance, when I do not want to push postings from one category on the home, I want to have the option to publish or not publish this posting in ‘Leatest entries’.
- Is this blog optimized for Google (seo)?
- In the postings we want to refer/link to to affiliate pages. This means we have to push a affiliate trackingcode in the link which refers to the affilate page. Is this easy to do, or is feature not included.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Paolo
1) I believe it’s possible with the Advanced Category Excluder
2) As far as possible, yes. But I still recommend the All In One Seo pack Plugin
3) That’s not a functionality of the theme. But it should be an easy task if you are familiar with WordPress.
Hello.
I use this theme with the WP2.7 RC1 and I don’t have a comment reply option.
Where is this function?
Thanks, Yannick
Tick the checkbox in the Admin > Settings > Discussion > Enable threaded (nested) comments.
Wow! Thanks
Hi Genkisan,
Thanks for your quick help. I have to say, the design of Celebrity Gossip looks really cool. I am happy with that.
I have activiated the pluggin the ‘All in one SEO pack’. I also switched my permalink settings to ‘Custom structure’ with “%postname%”. Unfortenately I still get a 404 error message loading the pages with this new permalink setting. At the bottom of the page where you can modify the permalink settings, it says:
“If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.”
How can I do this? And, is this the problem solver?
Besides that one, I get a error message when I try to upload photo’s in all the posts. I have also tried the browser upload, but this also did not work out.
Thanks again for your help and patience.
Regards,
Paolo
I think both issues are related to incorrect file permission. Check that all your wordpress files have permission of 644 and all folders have permission of 755.
An article on how to change file permission or check with your host.
it works great!
it kind of slow loading but it might be a WP2.7 issue…WP-supercache seem to be helping a bit
by the way, any plans of adding a way to have the author’s comments highlighted?
oh and new flavors would be great too…
thanks.
This theme uses graphics in the comments so might be abit complicated. The easier way would be to
change the text color for author’s comment, by adding the following to style.css
.bypostauthor {
color: #c00;
}
change the gravatar border for author’s comment, by adding the following to style.css
.bypostauthor img.avatar {
background-color:#999;
}
oh thanks so much!!
I’ll try that..this way I can get rid of another plugin… woot!
I bought celebrity gossip theme and it is not working. I see the files/folders uploaded but the theme isn’t in WP.
WP says theme is broken. Now what?
You can try to reupload the files, in wp-content/themes/celebgossip/style.css.
Make sure that all theme files have permission of 644 and folders (both main celebgossip folder and subfolders) have permission of 755.
Any live url to check on?
Hi Eric.
Bought the theme.. looks nice.. a few issues..
Thumbnails aren’t automatically generating.. added that line to .htaccess…
Some help would be great..
//feel free to delete from here down//
Also contact me, I could trade you some impressions on my network for some help hacking the theme together for me.
Cheers.
Andy Fox
Copy and paste the missing image url into the address bar and see if there’s any error e.g http://ericulous.com/…timthumb.php?src=http:…
Send me your offer/hack list and I’ll see if I prefer barter trade or cash
Hi Eric
I also had a problem when thumbnails not automatically showing up on the homepage.
I went through all the instructions above and found out that changing the permissions on the “cache” directory to “777″ not “755″ did the trick.
Hope that helps someone.
Cheers
Nick
Thanks for the heads up!
Hi, i like the theme, i’m interested in getting to know if buyers are allowed to customize the theme to fit their needs?
Sure. You can customise the theme to your liking.
Just bought this theme this afternoon, and I’m having a great time banging around with the styles and shapes. So happy I found you.
One minor problem: My thumbnails aren’t showing on the main page, either, and I’m sure it’s because url fileaccess is disable and timthumb.php can’t do what it’s supposed to do. Your link above on how to reconfigure .htaccess leads to a blank page, however.
Could you please summarize those steps? Thank you!
Using FTP/CPanel, open .htaccess file, which should be in your domain directory. If it doesn’t exist, create a new file.
Insert “php_value allow_url_fopen on” into the first line.
That should fix it.
Definitly gonna try this for my celebrity blog and at $35 price I am thinking about doing it…
Great theme! Is there a way to choose which 6 posts show up on the big box on the main page INSTEAD OF the default latest 6 posts? For example, can I specify the exact categories that I want the big box to pull from, maybe the latest post from 6 different categories?
IF NOT, can I hire you to for customization and create that code (to be suitable for IE6)? Approximately how much of your time will that take, so I can budget?
Congratulations on such great work!!
I forgot to ask:
Is it easy to replace the Search bar at the top with more category buttons (like “Make Money”, “WordPress Theme” etc)? And by easy, I mean is it a matter of basically copying and pasting the code for the first buttons with slight modifications?
I’m interested in maximizing that navbar space all the way to the right, that’s why.
I really would like to buy this theme but I recently learned my lesson to ask questions first before buying. THANKS for your patience!
According to my friend she buy a celebrity gossip them and it is very cool..She was so happy when she have it..
Still can’t get my thumbnails to appear on the blog. Any other suggestions.
http://celebdish.simplyeryca.com
Thanks
Try setting the file permission for timthumb.php to 755 or 777.
It was at 755, I changed to 777 with no success.
If you don’t mind, can you grant me temp. access to your ftp and wp-admin.
You can send the login details here.
I’ve loaded the template and can’t get it to work. I changed permissions, looked for my .htaccess file and can’t find it. I’m at a loss…please please help asap
If the .htaccess file is not there, you can create one and edit it. What’s your blog url?
my blog url is curiocitykilledthecat.com I’ve loaded it into my theme folder and it’s loaded however no pics, etc.
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Hey, could anyone tell me who designed this one, and if there is an ease way to ad some adsense to it? I would be very interested, feel free to mail or reply!
Should be pretty easy if you are comfortable with editing wp themes. Or you can use the many adsense plugins out there.
Yes it is very easy to use it with adsense
Very lovely indeed. Hope to see it in blogger soon.
Hello. I was wondering if it’s possible to edit the size of the thumbnails made on the main page. I would like to have less items on the front page and bigger thumbs. If this is possible, can you please tell me how?
To edit the size of the thumnails, open timthumb.php and edit line 28 and 29.
To change from 3 to 2 columns, open index.php, find two instances of
and replace with
Then in style.css, change the width of .gallerypost from 260px to 400px.
Thanks for the theme, it’s great!
I’m interest in removing the blogroll from my sidebar… I’m not so savvy at the world of wordpress yet.
Thanks!
You can use widgets to overwrite the sidebar menu or you can remove the following from sidebar.php
<?php
if (function_exists('wp_list_bookmarks')) {
wp_list_bookmarks(array('title_before' => '<h3>', 'title_after' => '</h3>', 'category_before' => '<div class="sidebarbox">', 'category_after' => '</div>'));
}
?>
“Optional 2 column bottombar”
is it widgetized?
Yes, both sidebar and bottombar are widgetized.
great Theme!
hey i just purchase this theme on your description it says that its avaible in 3 colors “did we mention it comes in 3 flavors: Light, Warm, Dark.” i wanted the dark one and well i thought it would have the 3 of em like other sites that sell themes got 2 if there 2 colorways well wanted to know were can i get the black one of will i have to edit the colors etc?
nvm i see the style can anyone please tell me how to change the style to the dark one im a noob to this
Login in to WordPress Admin > Appearance > Celebrity Gossip and choose your color scheme (screenshot)
hey thanks i got it to work but having one more problem sum white dots show on the dark_bg.gif
http://i39.tinypic.com/felwef.jpg main blog screenshot
http://i41.tinypic.com/b6q8w4.jpg single page screenshot
is that how it suppose to look?
thnks
Yes. Just like the grey dots in the light scheme. If you prefer not to have them, delete dark_bg.gif from images folder.
The dark variant design looks impressive, than the white.
Hey
I wonder if I could this theme on a new non-WP site about celebrity gossip called Radio-People.
Is there a way to just get the pics ?
Thanks
I afraid not.
I just noticed there’s no h1 on the homepage when image logo is the option. Can you help me fix this?
In header.php, replace
<?php if ($celebgossip->option['logo'] =='image') { ?>
<a class="logo" href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>" title="Home"><img class="png" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url') ?>/images/logo.png" alt="Logo" /></a>
<?php } else { ?>
<div class="blogtitle">
<p><?php bloginfo('description') ?></p>
<h3><a href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>" title="Home"><?php bloginfo('title') ?></a></h3>
</div>
<?php } ?>
with
<a class="logo" href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>" title="Home"><img class="png" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url') ?>/images/logo.png" alt="Logo" /></a>
<div class="blogtitle">
<p><?php bloginfo('description') ?></p>
<h3><a href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>" title="Home"><?php bloginfo('title') ?></a></h3>
</div>
This doesn’t seem to work. Blog Title still appears as H3 allthough H1 as the blog title is recommended for SEO reasons. Any chance that you could look into this? Is there a way to use an image logo and still have the h1 blog title underneath?
simply change the h3 to h1 in the new code snippet. Also change all instances of “.blogtitle h3″ to “.blogtitle h1″ in style.css.
For the life of me, I can’t get an image in the post page to align left and have text wrap around it. This is the only theme I have these problems with. Can you help me with this problem too?
Here’s the new way of aligning images in WP 2.6 and above: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Images#Styling_Images_in_WordPress
If you prefer the old way, in style.css delete
/* Begin Images */
…all the css stles within…
/* End Images */
/* Captions */
…all the css stles within…
/* End captions */
How can I make the text in the post page larger. I want to increase the size of the text that makes the content for a post page. I’ve been looking in the css but can’t find the right one to change. seems i’ve found everything but.
Thanks
In index.php, single.php, page.php, replace
<?php the_content(); ?>
with
<div class="postcontent">
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
In style.css, add
.postcontent { font-size: 1.3em; }
i’m using the light version, how do i get rid of the multi dot border and the off white background inside the border, thanx
Open style.css and remove
1. background: url(images/bg.gif) repeat-y center top;
2. background-color: #fffff5;
Thanks for the replies. I have 2 more questions.
1. How do i upgrade? Mine says I have 1.1
2 – What other themes have this timthumb with the automatic generating of first pic as a thumbnail of my desired size on the homepage? I’ve wasted money on themes that you have to type in or paste image locations in the “custom fields” area of a post and I hate that. I love celeb gossip theme but want the same functions with a different look.
This theme works with my feedwordpress plugin which is freaking amazing!
Please link me to more like this.
1. I would advise not to upgrade since you’ve modified the theme and iit only contains minor changes. Contact me if you wish to get a copy.
2. Check out Zenko
can i make the front page thumnails larger? thanx for your time
To edit the size of the thumnails, open timthumb.php and edit line 28 and 29.
Hi
I have uploaded this theme which I love, however canot get images on the homepage. I have added php_value allow_url_fopen on to the .htaccess file, however this makes my website come up with a 500 Internal Error message, do you know what I’m doing wrong?
Thanks
Karen
Hi. I see that you are using bmp files. Only files ending with jpg/gif/png are supported.
Fantastic, thanks so much for the quick reply
Hi,
I was just wondering if there was a problem with putting comments on Firefox with this theme. I have tried to leave a comment on Firefox but I couldn’t write in the boxes, however it works fine on IE.
Thanks
Karen
Just posted a test comment. Seems ok?
Hi, I just wanted to say how pleased I am with this template. It’s so easy to use, and the help I’ve been given on using it has been really quick and helpful. Everyone keeps saying how good it looks. I was on blogger before I moved over to wordpress to use this template, and my SEO has really improved as its much easier to control everything on this!
Thanks!
I adore such design
It is a very beautiful themes. I would like to show a thumbnails on post of archive. is it support this feature?
Not quite sure but if you meant this archive, then yes, thumbnails are displayed.
This is the best theme that we can use. “Celebrity Gossip” great idea.
Thanks
Is it hard to change the link colors on this theme? I love the functionality, but those colors won’t fly for my site.
I am guessing it is easy, but aside from a few WP installs and theme changes, I am not that advanced.
Should be easy if you know a bit of css. Simply look for all the a{} or a:hover{} and change the color (in style.css)
Very nice..i especially like the black one, price isn’t bad either will save.
I like the design of this theme. Very subtle, stylish use of pink and light blue. Nice!
girls usually love to hear celebrity gossips, they are always into it *-:
I love this theme, trying it out tonight!
Did something change recently because all of a sudden thumbnails aren’t working on new posts: http://laurenbernat.com/
Appreciate the help!
Your host probably change their server config e.g disable URL file-access. Ask them to re-enable it.
OMG! I love this theme! Is this wordpress 3++ compatible and SEO optimized? This is great. I’ll try it with my other blogs when I have time after searching for graphic design courses. Thanks for this!
I really like the look of this wordpress theme, I will try it out in the morning.
I’m soon gonna migrate from blogger to wordpress. I’ll try to use this one as my theme. Because it is a news type theme, I will use this for my favorite celebrity posts.
Yeah i own CG WP theme what i can say one of the great stuff for me till today.
i want to but this theme but i have alittle doubt that is it is profitable for adsense purpose or not?please tell me
nice theme but not easy to change the design
Nice theme, i used the dark style for Amazon display product .. check it out my site creeplyrics.com. At localhost, there is not any problems, while uploaded on my hosting .. thumbnail not working. Tired to try some tips n tricks .. cache, http, etc … but nothing. So, I add another plugin to get thumbnail. URL SEO, adsense, rss, etc .. are working very well. My website going to live now.
Thanks for sharing your theme. Regard