WordPress Theme: Corporate Sandbox

Posted on April 9, 2008 in: WordPress

Exactly one month ago (funny coincidence) I said I will release a couple of free WordPress themes. I’ve been tied up with a couple of projects, but I managed to make some time and implement the first theme:

Today I would like to present Corporate Sandbox, a minimalistic WordPress theme based on the Sandbox theme. The theme look and feel relies almost entirely on CSS and uses just a couple of images. I wanted to keep it as simple as possible, so that it would integrate with almost any website.

The theme is widget ready and very easy to customize: you can change title color in CSS in just a couple of seconds.

Corporate Sandbox

Corporate Sandbox is a clean and light theme, ideal for corporate blogs. It’s also a great starting point for developing future WordPress themes. Designers can use this theme as a canvas for their creative ideas.

Preview Theme|Download Corporate Sandbox (9099) - 67.44 KB

Feel free to leave your feedback or questions in the comments. I would love to know what you think about this theme. This is version 1.0, so version 1.1 will incorporate all your feedback.

LATER EDIT: I fixed the IE6 and Safari issues and made some other small tweaks. You can download the valid, cross browser version using the above link.

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87 Comments

Ivo

Posted April 9, 2008 at 3:43 pm

I like this theme, it’s very minimalistic and clean.

I found a problem under IE6(win). Check the bubble with the comments.(span class=”comments-link”)
Marius

Posted April 9, 2008 at 4:03 pm

Nice work, Adrian
Filip

Posted April 9, 2008 at 7:41 pm

The theme is absolutely great!
I love Sandbox and I love this layout — so easy to brand!

Thank you
pixel

Posted April 9, 2008 at 8:09 pm

I like it to, i didn’t found any bugs, sorry
stfalx

Posted April 9, 2008 at 9:31 pm

Cute and simple.
Adrian

Posted April 9, 2008 at 10:48 pm

Thanks, guys!

@Ivo: Yaiks! I’ll check that and come up wih a fix. The post titles have some unwanted spacing also.

@Filip: You said it best! This is exactly what the theme is about: an easy to brand theme. If you’re customizing a blog for a client, you can make some quick money by using this theme as a starting point. I know I have.
Bernat

Posted April 10, 2008 at 2:56 pm

Thanks Adrian for this nice and clean theme. I’ve seen that the comment graphic is cut in IE6.

I’d like to ask you why do you use float left on the sidebar, when you could use float right and a clearfix? Is it a validation issue?

Thanks.
Alex Cristache

Posted April 10, 2008 at 11:45 pm

Hello Adrian,

Nice work on this one. I myself, am a big fan of minimal designs. Please, let me know when you will have a final release for this theme. I want to recommend it on my blog.

For the bug that where mentioned:
1. The comments bubble in IE. I think you need to add some height to you inner link, to force the span and div whow the entire background. Try line-height or height with display block.

2. The large spacing under the post headings in IE is due to the “clear” class. I’m having the same problems sometimes.
I have 2 fixes for this:
a. use a surrounding div to contain both the left & right floats. Give this div a fixed width (according to your theme) and overflow: hidden. Also, set a bottom margin for it equal to the space you need between the title and the post. It’s important to set a fixed width.
b. Alternatively, to your “clear” class add: font-size: 0; height: 0; line-height: 0; That extra space appears because IE inserts a space there, or reserves the space for “future text”.
Adrian

Posted April 11, 2008 at 12:05 am

Thanks a lot Alex. I’ll be sure to have a fix ready this week-end. 2.b. is what I usually use also. Guess I was in a hurry to release this theme.

I’ll keep you posted!

P.S. Wish I could edit that typo in your comment, but I couldn’t find the Edit comment in WP 2.5.
Alex Cristache

Posted April 11, 2008 at 12:45 am

Ha ha … BUG fan. Go to “Comments” in the Admin Panel an when you see my comment, click on my name. It will bring you to the edit form.
Adrian

Posted April 11, 2008 at 2:33 am

Thanks! Not very intuitive, is it? I’ll write some thoughts about WP 2.5 in my next post.
Alex Cristache

Posted April 12, 2008 at 2:44 am

Adrian, you should also update the theme preview. Cheers!
Adrian

Posted April 12, 2008 at 3:34 am

Right!
Rob

Posted April 12, 2008 at 6:34 am

Thanks a lot for sharing! Great theme!
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Fath

Posted April 16, 2008 at 12:03 am

Very decent theme. I like the way it looks. Got some professional look there.
Adrian

Posted April 16, 2008 at 12:31 am

Thanks Fath. I still have to upload the latest version with minor bug fixes. By the way, Whitpaper looks awesome. Will definitely make it into my next “clean WP themes” showcase.
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Posted April 16, 2008 at 2:25 am

Oh, I greatly appreciate that
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Sarah

Posted April 23, 2008 at 12:26 pm

Very nice theme. Thanks
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Jesse

Posted May 23, 2008 at 8:07 am

Look like a wonderfull theme. However the download link is broken?
Adrian

Posted May 23, 2008 at 8:38 am

Sorry about that! Must have been the new theme update that messed things up. Works fine now.
Jesse

Posted May 23, 2008 at 8:51 am

Thanks Adrian!

Great great work. Look forward to learning more about wordpress and css in general.
Matt

Posted May 23, 2008 at 8:11 pm

Hey, I just wanted to let you know I’ve listed Corporate Sandbox on http://www.bestwpthemes.com, meaning it’s rated as among the best of the best Wordpress themes on the planet. Keep up the great work!
Adrian

Posted May 24, 2008 at 1:38 pm

Matt, thanks a lot for the link love and cool description! It’s great that you are gathering all the top notch themes in one place.

I know you’re running in a pretty difficult niche, so I wish you the best of luck with Best Wordpress Themes.

You probably thought about it already, but I was thinking it would be cool if you could incorporate thumbs into the design.
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Posted June 12, 2008 at 7:26 pm

Adrian, your Corporate Sandbox has been featured on Happyblog Design.

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Posted August 18, 2008 at 10:02 am

Does the download link works?? When I tried to download, the “Nothing found to download 404 page shows up?
Is there any issue??
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Posted August 19, 2008 at 12:20 am

Sorry about that! Fixed now.
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Posted August 24, 2008 at 3:26 pm

Very nice theme! it looks effectively simple.
But, sadly, I’m not using wordpress.
Can I port this theme to other blog software?
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Toni

Posted August 31, 2008 at 10:20 pm

I love this theme Adrian. It will perfectly meet my needs. I love the simple, clean design and wouldn’t change a thing. I do have one question. I want to put my logo where the blog title is… but I don’t speak code. Can you help me with where and how I would code that in?
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Posted September 26, 2008 at 10:08 am

Downloaded it.
Respeckt!
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SST

Posted November 30, 2008 at 9:06 am

Thanks so much for the great theme. It’s really elegant. I have one last issue trying to get full functionality: For some reason blockquote isn’t working. Is this an issue with some of the alterations I’ve made or are others also having this problem?
Adrian

Posted December 1, 2008 at 1:23 am

I might have forgotten to add the styling for blockquote. Try adding “blockquote { font-style: italic; padding-left: 15px; border-left: 1px solid #EFEFEF; }” to style.css
sst

Posted December 5, 2008 at 9:19 am

Thanks for the fix. It works perfectly. Killin’ theme.
Charlie

Posted December 10, 2008 at 10:26 pm

Hi, thanks for this. I just tried to install it (my first blog ever) but got the following error. Any ideas?
Fatal error: Call to undefined function language_attributes() in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/themes/CorporateSandbox/header.php on line 2
Adrian

Posted December 11, 2008 at 12:42 am

Charlie, you are probably using an version of WP that is older than 2.1. Try to upgrade to a more recent version.
Liz

Posted December 11, 2008 at 3:59 pm

Oh no, the download isn’t here!

Is this theme still available? It’s very good. Plain and simple.
Eze

Posted December 11, 2008 at 5:42 pm

Hi Adrian. Does the download link works? I think it is broken again =) best regards from Argentina.
Adrian

Posted December 12, 2008 at 12:03 am

Sorry, guys! I just updated to WP 2.7 and forgot to save Permalinks. Now the link works.
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Adem

Posted January 7, 2009 at 3:11 pm

Please theme update for WP 2.7 (:
Jim

Posted February 17, 2009 at 4:31 pm

Would love to see this updated for 2.7!
Adrian

Posted February 18, 2009 at 1:34 am

Ok, Jim, I’ll keep that in mind. Right now I’m about to finish another theme, but after that I will take a look.
JimNYC62

Posted February 19, 2009 at 6:45 am

Adrian,
Great theme. Exactly the minimalist look I was looking for. However, when I uploaded the theme, all of the subpages for my writing come up as separate entities in the header. I’m sure this is an easy fix on my end, but as I’m a relative newbie to HTP & CSS, it’s taking some trial and error to fix it. If you have any easy suggestions, that would be great. Until then I’ll keep hunting.
Thanks, Jim
Freud

Posted February 19, 2009 at 8:01 pm

Hi Adrian, Thanks for allowing me to use your template, it`s very clean and so white, great job!
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Blake

Posted February 28, 2009 at 11:18 am

Great theme. i’ve got it installed on my blog:

http://blakemarvin.com/blog/

I’ve got a question though, on my sidebar widgets i dont have enabled the recent post widget and for some reason my recent post get listed below my rss subscribe button. I really new to this but was wondering how to disable this. i’d like to have the recent post be above the rss widget which i can do when i enable the widget but when i do i also get it showing up below my rss widget. any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. Amazing theme by the way.

Blake
Adrian

Posted February 28, 2009 at 11:38 am

Blake, thanks for the nice words! I checked your website and I love your work as well. Looks like my theme works great with your website’s nice and clean look.

Regarding your question, I think the RSS widget is configured to show the latest posts as well. So that’s actually the RSS widget, not a recent posts widget. See if there are any settings for it in WP admin. Otherwise, you might consider manually adding the RSS link or use the RSS Links widget.

Hope this helps!
Jamie Edwards

Posted March 3, 2009 at 10:54 am

It would be fantastic if this theme made use of all the new comment styling features in 2.7

Great job!
Nicki

Posted March 12, 2009 at 1:28 pm

Just a suggestion, if you have released this theme under GPL, you may want to state that somewhere. Anyone wanting to use this theme and distribute it with a credit link to here may run into road blocks trying to get their work listed elsewhere.

I am a web designer who used this theme as the basis for one of my newest designs, and WordPress’ theme directory reviewer denied my submission because I had a credit link in the footer to here. They told me that I was denied because I linked to a site that “support non-GPL themes”.
Syuxx

Posted March 17, 2009 at 3:02 am

I have used this theme on my blog.
added extra things such as 468 banner to make the top header doesnt look like too empty and some gravatar icon in the comment.

nice theme dude!
Luglio7

Posted March 18, 2009 at 2:52 am

wonderful !
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Posted March 26, 2009 at 9:21 am

This theme is really good for a simple blog. As for me I do not like any “frills”.
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Linda

Posted April 23, 2009 at 10:09 am

Love the minimalism!! You can’t have too much whitespace. Does anyone know if there’s a way to insert a corporate logo (or any graphic) in the heading area?

Nice job.
Beer

Posted May 15, 2009 at 8:08 am

Is cool theme Thanks a lot for sharing! Great theme!
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Posted June 16, 2009 at 2:20 am

Great creation Adrian. Simplicity at its best! Thanks for sharing pal
Adam

Posted July 8, 2009 at 9:38 am

JimNYC,

I had the same problem with hiding sub-pages in the header. I solved it using the advice from this link:

http://bloggerholic.com/wordpress/hide-subpages-66.htm

You need to tweak the code on the function.php theme page.

Hope it’s helpful!
- Adam
Liz

Posted August 9, 2009 at 3:20 pm

Great theme! Thanks for sharing this. But I am having a minor problem that I also notice on your theme’s preview and the sites of others using the same theme. The grey bar at the bottom…is there any way to center it and not have it go all the way to the edge of the body on the right side? I want the margin to be the same as the left. I’ve searched through the comments and don’t think its been addressed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Liz
Sachin

Posted August 10, 2009 at 12:09 am

Hi Adrian,
I modded this theme and tried to rewrite it in HTML 5 (it might not be perfect) here: http://www.webdesign-bureau-of-mauritius.com/ .
I’m however having trouble displaying only 3 posts on the blog homepage. Do you have a solution to this please? Thanks a lot.
Sachin
Adrian

Posted August 17, 2009 at 9:45 pm

@Liz: Edit style.css and change the width for #footer (try 740px) and maybe add “margin: 9 auto;” as well. Hope this makes sense.

@Sachin: I see you figured this out, right?
ben

Posted September 7, 2009 at 5:07 am

hey, just wanted to thank you for the great theme, I used it for my girls blog and just recently made small changes to it again.
you can take a look at it here. http://definitelygolden.com/

cheers from berlin, ben
Sergey Shkoda

Posted September 21, 2009 at 11:42 pm

Simply great theme!
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Imran

Posted November 29, 2009 at 7:57 am

Thanks a mill, using this theme right now on my blog. I placed credit back to you in my About page – thanks again

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