Mondo Zen WordPress Theme
Mondo Zen is a cross-browser compatible, simple, clean and minimalist two-columns layout to set peace of mind, relax and inspire.
Version 2.0
Mondo Zen is a cross-browser compatible, simple, clean and minimalist two-columns layout to set peace of mind, relax and inspire.
Version 2.0
February 24th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Thanks for the blog theme! I’m loving it!
March 6th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Hi I tried your theme with WP in spanish and when I apply it an error message appears:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function post_class() in /home/periodi/public_html/blogs/leer_las_letras/wp-content/themes/mondo-zen-theme/index.php on line 15
I just supposed it was my doing there but after downloading 3 times from the download location and uploading on my ftp it turned out to behave the same.
I really liked the soft design so any feedback would be appreciated.
March 6th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Just sent you an email Don_Luis :)
March 13th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
I’ve just activated your theme (with some minor adjustments) on my Dutch blog Crusaderworld.com. Thank you for such a beautiful and elegant theme.
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:11 am
Hi,I am also getting the erro on line 15 of the index.php.
I really would love to use your theme if I can get it to work.
April 5th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Hi Deborah, this problem occurs for WP versions before 2.7. Just sent you an email with the fix! Enjoy it!
April 9th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Hi,
I am also getting the < v. 2.7 error. :(
April 11th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Added a download version for WP 2.6! Enjoy :)
April 12th, 2009 at 1:48 am
Hi! I love this theme, I installed it with no problem on my italian WP but I’m trying to localize it. If you can tell me which file I’m supposed to modify, I can send you the translations!
April 29th, 2009 at 9:32 am
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May 1st, 2009 at 6:31 am
Hi could u help me out please. I’d like to know if it’s possible to get my header image clickable (going back to the homepage). Thanks
May 1st, 2009 at 3:40 pm
By default Mondo Zen have a link to home on the blog name. If you changed that code for an image you just have to add an “a” tag over “headerimg” on header.php!
May 15th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
I have a problem, see image:
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/338/sidebari.png
I have just installed your theme for the first time, and this is the first time I have seen this problem. I cannot figure it out. Help?
Thanks
May 15th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
never mind, I manage to get it solved by adding alot of . sorry for the trouble.
May 23rd, 2009 at 8:21 pm
I have just installed your theme (very nice!) but when I go into WIDGETS, the LINKS option is unavailable. I cannot select it to add to the visible active widgets.
What is going wrong? Worked great with my last theme and all links are still there in my dashboard…
May 28th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
I love the template. Anyway to have the comment section to be “shown” at all times on the home page instead of having to click on the “comment” link?
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:36 am
Hello. Love your theme… Rather than trying to install a French version I’ve had some fun translating everything by hand… But I can’t figure out where to translate “search for” and “search” on the search form. Can you give me a hint? Thanks! :-)
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Nice work Vermontoise! You can translate “search for” on the file searchform.php on your mondo zen directory. Good luck!
June 4th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Just wanted to let you know that I ported your WP theme to work with Coppermine Photo Gallery. Not sure if that is ok or if I am allowed to do that but let me know if you want me to share my files back to you. Cheers!
June 4th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Hi! I am thinking about using this theme for my blog, but my blog is in Norwegian, and I would therefore like for all the text connected to the template to be in Norwegian as well. I have translated most of it, but I can’t seem to figure out where to go to translate some words and phrases (I’ve underlined them in the image linked to below) connected to the comments-field.
http://album.gnagergleder.de/#1.0
Thanks!
June 4th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Matt S. thanks for the feedback. There is no problem in adapt Mondo Zen for Coppermine, I’ll keep your comment here so who ever wants to do this integration can contact you – THANKS for sharing!
Heidi, to translate comment text you’ll need to edit comments.php
June 8th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
hi was wondering when i click on my archives or catergories (eg click on a catergorie ‘animation’ or ‘logos’ it just displays the whole posts in these catergories.
at the moment it just displays the titles and not the actual content of the post when i click the catergory or archive. i suspect id have to mess with the archive.php file but im not sure what to change. cheers for any help.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
sorry i meant above id like the whole post to display not just the title. (when clicking catergories/archive)
thanks
June 8th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Hi Michael, you can show the entire post by renaming archive.php file to something else (like archive_old.php) – this should do :)
July 7th, 2009 at 9:30 am
@ A_Flama – I know you said that “There is no problem in adapt Mondo Zen for Coppermine” but I am wondering in addition to using it on a clients website – can I submit the ported Mondo Zen Coppermine theme to the greater Coppermine community like this: http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php/topic,42425.0.html
July 8th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Matt, feel free to share your Coppermine Mondo Zen with the community, as long as the author credit is there (GNU) there is no worries – go for it!
July 13th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
I updated to WordPress 2.8.1 and the search box changed. I would love help on changing the search in sidebar to something like you have on this page. Search For inside the search text form field box and button to the right all on one line. If you look at the way it displays now on my blog, it is redundant, search for before the text form field and then underneath search button.
Thanks for your help!
July 27th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Hi Teresa, you can do a quick fix for this problem by hiding label “Search for” using css. Just add the code below on your style.css:
#searchform .screen-reader-text{
display: none;}
Now… if you want to add this label on the search box you will have to search on the php files the id searchform, and then update the input text to this:
<input id=”s” type=”text” name=”s” value=”Search for…”/>
I hope this helps :D
July 31st, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Hi!
We really like your Zen theme, it’s a great fit for our blog. I’ve experienced one problem with the sidebar not showing up under certain circumstances. Such as when i view a post. I see the sidebar fine when on the main page, or search, or sort by tagged, just not when I click a post or comment..etc.
It’s just not there.
I looked around the php..but Im not that familiar with it. Thanks for the great theme, i hope you can help.
August 1st, 2009 at 6:45 am
Brian, you can fix this problem downloading the latest version of Mondo Zen. Some of the initial versions of the theme didn’t have the sidebar on single posts that’s why it’s not showing!
August 2nd, 2009 at 1:54 pm
okay, I’ve reinstalled the latest version, and it works great – thanks!
August 20th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Hi Catarina! I just found your Mondo Zen theme and love the elegance of it. I’m trying to widen it a bit to have the entries be 640 wide. I’m a CSS newbie and I got most of it widened, except for one spot I’m having trouble with:
http://s107.photobucket.com/albums/m307/keyka1a/test/?action=view¤t=mondo_zen_screen_shot.jpg
As you can see on the screen shot, I’m having trouble moving the right margin over to the right of the sidebar. It’s not obvious to me, in the CSS file, as to what I should change. If you could point me in the right direction, I’d greatly appreciate it.
Thank you, Karen
August 27th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
I just activated this theme. It looks great! I do have one issue, however. When adjusting the widgets on the sidebar, the width changed. Now the search bar is crunched together and looks strange.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for a great looking theme.
August 27th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Hi Karen, from what I saw on the print-screen your style changes are good. The reason why the white background is not showing is because it’s the background is an image. You’ll have to update the image to fix it! Good luck :)
August 27th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Rob, the search box with the WP 2.8+ shows the “search for” label which pushes everything making it not aligned. There are 2 ways to fix. Add one of the codes to the end of your style.css:
1- to just hide the label:
.screen-reader-text{display:none;}
2- to fix search box height:
.screen-reader-text{display:block;text-align:left;}
search for “#sidebar form” on style.css and remove the line “height: 20px;”
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:35 am
Hi Mondo Zen,
I’ve ended up with an odd problem with sidebar display. It drops to the bottom of the page with archive and homepage displays sometimes. The inconsistency appears to be an extra div tag before the first post in some pages, which doesn’t have a corresponding closing tag. For example just after the post title html (I’ve replaced the angle brackets with round brackets so the comment goes through):
—————–code—————–
(div class=”post hentry category)
(h3 id=”post-number”)link html(/h3)
(div class=”entry”)
(div) << this is the extra div tag
(p)post text here(/p)
(/div)
(small)date(/small)
(p class="postmetadata")posted in category html | (/p)
(/div)
—————–end code—————–
which then repeats for each post but with one less div like this:
—————–code—————–
(div class="post hentry category)
(h3 id="post-number")link html(/h3)
(div class="entry")
<< no div here like in the first post
(p)post text here(/p)
(/div)
(small)date(/small)
(p class="postmetadata")posted in category | (/p)
(/div)
—————–end code—————–
I commented out the tags and comments links in archive.php which seems to have created the problem, however, the inconsistency has left me stumped – some category pages display without the surplus div (and the sidebar is fine), others have the surplus div with the resulting sidebar error. I could add an "echo (/div)" to the php I guess but that will appear in each post snippet, which will no doubt screw up something else.
Any suggestions? Thanks :).
September 3rd, 2009 at 6:45 am
Update: ignore what I said about modifying archive.php, I uncommented the tags and comments links, and it made no difference, still getting the extra div tag error.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Humm Melissa… it seems like something on the sidebar. We need to investigate the code :P
September 14th, 2009 at 9:25 am
hello,
our website http://www.klorofil.be is using your lovely mondo zen theme.
unfortunately we’re having an annoying problem: when adding a post to a page, the font size of the older posts decreases, the same being the case for the font size of the navigation menu.
we’ve been going through the script in detail, but can’t find the cause.
could you eventually help us out?
thanks a lot in advance,
hans
September 24th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Hi Hans, this might be happening because Mondo Zen styles uses “em” (units of length) for font size… it’s like percentages.
September 28th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
I’ve just downloaded your theme and really like the easy and simple layout. But I have one problem. I have 4 pages and when someone clicks on say “Services” and if they want to get back to the “Home” page…they can’t? There is no link to return to “Home”. On my other blog there is a link to a home, but not on this theme unless I’m missing it somehow. How do I insert a “Home” link? Thanks for your help!
September 29th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Hi Melissa! To go back to the home the user just need to click on the title. Another way is to add a “home link” to your sidebar (on sidebar.php).
November 7th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Love your Blog theme. What colors did you use? Is there a specific color? ie hex number? Trying to make it mesh into overall site as much as posssible. Also, did you create the other images for the blog. Is there a way to purchase them for use in our site?
November 7th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Hi Erik, glad you liked the theme. The colors used on this theme can be find on style.css file :)
November 8th, 2009 at 1:16 am
Sun 8 Nov 09, 1:12 pm
Hello,
Thanks you for such a beautiful, clean theme. It’s lovely and just what wanted.
I am not technical, but I am housebroken and capable of following simple instructions! I would like to put simple links to my (blog) pages under the Heading. Which file do I edit? What code do I use and where do I put it?
Thanks very much for your help!
Aloha,
Rex
November 8th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Hi Rex, to add links bellow the title you should use “html a tag” (you can search that for instructions how to use) on the file header.php. Good Luck!
November 20th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Hi,
we use your wonderful Theme! Thank you for this nice Theme!
I try to attach in Facebook a link from a post and get as text only the “last” or “next” hint (it is over the post) instead of the post. How can I bring the both under the post? Hope you have an idea.
Salam from Bali
Thomas
November 24th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Hi Thomas, to add a link under your status on facebook you have to “attach” a link! Good luck :)
January 9th, 2010 at 11:48 am
Hello Catarina,
Thank you for such a great theme. I’d like to be able to change the font of my title “H E L O” and also the font of the page titles “About Us” etc. when the page is open, displayed at the top.
I’m very new at all of this and would really appreciate your help to point me towards the right code!
Have a great day,
Rachel
January 10th, 2010 at 11:24 pm
Hi Rachel, you can change your font styles on the styles.css file. Look for the h2 tag that says “font-family”!
January 11th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
Thanks for the swift reply!
January 14th, 2010 at 10:17 pm
Hi, I love the template and am new to wordpress. I made a mess of my side bar when i tried to paste a facebook fan box into the code. I was trying different sizes to see what worked best but i must have cut part of the code for the leaves? now i have default bullets and the side bar has moved up and is wider overlaping my welcome text. I’m not sure what is missing. How can i fix it or how do I look at the code to see what i did?
January 19th, 2010 at 12:28 am
Hi Monica, I saw on your site that the sidebar is back to normal. As for the facebook box, because you have a tall image it’s shrinking a little bit – try a square size :)
January 27th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Hello! And thanks for a wonderfully balanced theme!
I’d like to make the writing area wider. When I modify the width fields, the writing area on Firefox gets shifted all in the left corner. Can you please tell me which fields in the CSS to modify to make the text are wider?
January 31st, 2010 at 4:23 pm
hi
I love your template and am quite clueless. I have lost the comment box on my posts and don’t know what I have done wrong. can you help me? thank you.
February 16th, 2010 at 12:25 am
Hello,
Thank you for your great template – we’re using it for our wedding site.
Are some widgets incompatible with the template? It seems like when I fill my sidebar with
Pages
Search
Calendar
Meta
Links
Tag Cloud
Only the first four items in the list appear in the side bar — any hints?
Thanks for your nice work!
February 21st, 2010 at 5:59 am
thank you. I am using this zen theme on my blog and I like the elegant style.
I promise I won’t change my WP theme again for a very long time — I will just focus on writing.
March 1st, 2010 at 10:34 am
How can I make the main column wider? Congratulations for a wonderful template.
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:29 pm
Hey everybody, sorry for the delay, here some help:
Marcus: to make the content area wider:
1 – make the image “zen_content_bg.png” and “zen_title_bg.png” (let’s say 100px) wider.
2 – Change on style.css these items:
#page = current width + 100 / #header = current width + 100 / .narrowcolumn = current width + 100 / #sidebar = current margin-left + 100
Jo: seems like you “found” the comments :)
Jeff: before the theme is published we do tests with the widgets so the WP widgets should be all good. Sometimes custom widgets can cause some issues because its styles overwrite the theme styles – so you can either edit the widget styles or find something else similar.
wt: thanks!!! I’m glad you liked :)
Debra: have a look on the beginning of this comment :)
April 29th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Hi, I been using your theme on my blog and loving it…I noticed you have a newer version (2.2). I’ve downloaded it, but am worried about using the new version because I had someone make a couple of tweaks to the php of the 1.8 version of the theme. Are there any directions for upgrading the theme? Will it mess up the changes my friend made? It was so long ago, I can’t remember all of the changes he made. I think one of the changes had to do with how comments and tags showed up. What should I do?
Thanks,
Vickie
Obsession With Butterflies
May 30th, 2010 at 9:53 am
Hi. I really like the minimalism and simplicity but am wondering if there is a little box where someone can stick in either adsense or a banner that goes in the single.php file. Thanks and I like your work.
June 11th, 2010 at 10:47 am
Hi,
I am using your theme “Mondo Zen” for an acupuncture trade. The URL will be http://www.whiteluck.com. Since there will be no blog, only static pages – is there a way to take the sidebar out and move the pages/navigation along the top?
Thanks in advance!
June 17th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
A_Flama – Any idea if this theme will work with WordPress 3.0?
August 22nd, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Hi Thank you for the great theme!
I have a problem with the widgets after updating wordpress to 3.0.1 the widgets don’t move anymore and I can’t access or change them.
Thank you in advance for any help you might be able to give.
Julien
October 11th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
This theme works great with WP 3+
Thank you
February 10th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Hi! I’m using your theme for my blog love it. I would like to move the tags and categories to the bottom of each post rather than the top. Could you please tell me how I do that?
Thank you!
March 2nd, 2011 at 4:45 pm
what a beautiful, simple theme! i’m wondering if i’m allowed to modify the colors, with you still linked/credited at the bottom of the wordpress site.
March 4th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
Hi! I’m using your lovely Zen theme for my new site. Would it be possible to use the green lotus as my favicon?
Thank you!!
March 15th, 2011 at 11:52 pm
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June 2nd, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Hello!
I’m using your theme and I like it. I’d just like to tweak it to display not the whole posts on the home page but instead to display just excerpts. Waiting for advice.
Thanks
July 11th, 2011 at 5:00 am
Hi, what happened to Mondo? the whole editing option is just gone, no background, no nothing to fix, the main page picture has no hight parameters, and all looks … weird? Please, advice, ’cause I reaaly would like to keep the theme. Is it the Mondo script or just me?
Thank you
Olga
July 11th, 2011 at 5:07 am
Sorry Catarina, it was ME.
All fixed now.
Olga
October 2nd, 2011 at 4:32 am
Hello, i want to make the colums wider. I did everuthing said to Marcus : to make the content area wider:
1 – make the image “zen_content_bg.png” and “zen_title_bg.png” (let’s say 100px) wider.
2 – Change on style.css these items:
#page = current width + 100 / #header = current width + 100 / .narrowcolumn = current width + 100 / #sidebar = current margin-left + 100
But nothing changes. I really don’t get it, but now one widgets looks stupid…
http://www.hippedreumes.nl/wordpress/
November 18th, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Hi,
Iam using your theme and its just great. I need to do some changes, I need to remove the leaves by the menu.
I need you to tell in general lines how to do it, where I should go to change the code.
I will look for it on the WP forum, I just want you guide me what to look for.
Thanks