What’s it great for?
With its ruled-notepad styling Dear Diary is perfect for a simple online journal or diary. Of course you can still posts images and videos etc, but simple text is what Dear Diary does best. You can check out a full live preview here.
Features
- Default sidebar contains page menu and blog archive (months)
- Support for sidebar widgets (note not all widgets will work nicely with this theme.)
- Custom archives page, just create a page and select the ‘Archives’ template.
- Search box hidden in the page header. Hover over the header to reveal the ‘Search for posts’ link, click it to reveal the search form.
- Support for threaded comments and replies. Including Gravatars.
Where do I get it?
Dear Diary is available from the WordPress.org theme directory which means you can also install it directly from your blog just by visiting the ‘Appearance > Add new themes’ page and searching for Dear Diary. You can also download it using the link at the top right-hand corner of this page.
Very nice theme .
Is this available for wordpress.com blogs?
any chance making this for blogger?
thank you so much for this theme! i’ve been looking for a simple theme everywhere, and i’m so happy to have finally found this! it’s wonderful.
I appreciate your efforts on this “minimalist” theme. It’s a useful and welcome switch from all the graphics intensive themes out there.
style.css
Line 29:
pre,code,kbd,samp,tt{font-family:monospace;*font-size:108%;line-height:100%;}Is that star-sign some super-trick-selector, or a typo?
It isn’t a typo, it is part of the YUI CSS reset that’s included at the top of the stylesheet. I think that the *font-size property is ignored by most good browsers (because its technically invalid) but it is read by browsers like IE6.
Mr, you saved me. This is beyond awesome, it’s the theme I’ve been waiting on someone to make, and never would have thought of myself.
You Sir, have a beer coming in through PayPal.
Dean,
Wonderful job on this theme. I was wondering, is there any way to put a “Leave a Comment” link at the end of each post on the main page? I plan to use mostly shorter posts that won’t have “more” jumps, and so people aren’t likely to go to a post’s individual page unless they get an invitation of some kind. Ideas?
- Matt
Have you managed to figure this out? I’m poking around at the code, trying to get the same thing to happen.
Hi Dean,
Just implemented your fine Dear Diary theme on a poetess friend’s site. for tidyness I remove your credential at the bottom. I hope you don’t mind.
She’s tickle pink with thanks to you the resulting look.
Great works
Thanks a million for the elegance you offer.
Gilbert
Wow, I just found it by chance, tried it and LOVED IT! Congratulations for such a cute, clean, stylish theme!
http://www.jofrebardagi.com/blog
Could you, by any chance, do a little more css work on the implementation of the default WordPress gallery feature? The don’t come out very well yet.
Hi, thanks for making this theme, I love it. Only, I have a small problem, I was trying to made the sidebar (and the layout in general) a little wider, but even with a wrapper that’s 900px wide and the posts left the same as they are in the default, any sidebar width over 150px wide makes the sidebar go to the bottom, is there a way to fix this, please? :) I’m probably just missing something.
Hi there, I’ve just stopped by your site and found that this site is awesome including some projects you created. I wonder how could a WordPress engine theme be like these. I then read your colophon page and found that you list your plugins used in this beautiful site. But hey, it seems that you forgot to insert those list so that what left is only: insert list here.
I would like to beg if it will do to ask you to complete the list of plugins you use (e.g. the review page which I dream of having one ever since I saw the page. lol). I really am amazed with this site and want to learn to make such beautiful site. I adore your skill very much! :)