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By Vitaly Friedman December 9th, 2010 Freebies 63 Comments Publishing Policy
Free WordPress 3.0+ Theme for Portfolios and
Magazines: JournalCrunch
In this post we release a yet another freebie: JournalCrunch WordPress 3.0+ theme, a theme
for magazines or portfolios with an integrated journal. The theme was designed by Site5 and
released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is absolutely free to
use in private and commerical projects.
Download the theme for free!
The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any
restrictions. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word. You may modify the theme as
you wish.
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live demo
large preview (.jpg, 0.7 Mb)
full installation guide and documentation
download the .zip-package (zip, 0.3 Mb)
download the .zip-package from a mirror site (zip, 0.3 Mb)
release on the developer’s site
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Features
Widget ready (footer and sidebar)
Easy to setup, Theme Options Page
Custom Homepage with 2 different views (featured posts or slider)
WordPress Post Thumbnail Enabled
WordPress 3.0+ Menu Management Support
Latest Tweets Built-in Widget
Built-in Pagination
9 shortcodes
Grid and standard posts listing
Ninvo Slider, easy to setup from Admin panel
JQuery Drop-down menu
JQuery PrettyPhoto Lightbox
JQuery Forms
Ajax based contact form
Live form email validation
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Comments (large preview)
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Grid listing (large preview)
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‘Featured posts’ view (large preview)
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‘Slider view’ (large preview)
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‘Latest tweets’ widget (large preview)
Live form validation (large preview)
‘Normal’ listing (large preview)
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‘Options’ page (large preview)
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Shortcodes (large preview)
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Sidebar (large preview)
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Single page with comments (large preview)
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Homepage Twitter Page
Best Comments
Slider items with custom post types (large preview)
Thank you, guys. We appreciate your work and your good intentions.
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Vitaly Friedman
Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine, an online magazine
dedicated to designers and developers.
LukasDecember 9th, 2010 1:51 am
Thank you guys! Nice addition to your free WP theme collection – thanks to site5!
Imran KhanDecember 9th, 2010 1:56 am
oh its a great theme!!! its gonna help a lot of us.. and even we can customize it a
bit! Thank you Site5 and SM =)
andrewDecember 9th, 2010 1:58 am
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63 Comments
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Thank you :)
Adrian DemianDecember 9th, 2010 1:59 am
Always appreciate the free & quality stuff. Keep up the good work.. I have my eyes
on you Smashing Magazine :)
ZuchriDecember 9th, 2010 1:59 am
looks premium indeed :)
Rukomojnikov MaximDecember 9th, 2010 2:05 am
Nice and functional template. Thanks Vitaly.
360SignalsDecember 9th, 2010 2:09 am
Wow that’s amazing thank you so much!
Matt BerridgeDecember 9th, 2010 2:10 am
As if someone would just give this away! Amazing
RyanDecember 9th, 2010 2:14 am
Hello, It’s a nice theme. I like the overall design. Anyway, how to get the .psd? are
you guys willing to share this?
Thanks
10UrgeDecember 9th, 2010 2:16 am
Clean, crisp, cool!. love it!
11Lizard WijanarkoDecember 9th, 2010 2:17 am
live demo error “Service Temporarily Unavailable” , or just me! get troubeled with
the country restrict?
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I can see it now. Thanks, for quick resolve.
12kysfmhdDecember 9th, 2010 2:18 am
cool :D
13mihaiteoDecember 9th, 2010 2:20 am
Great theme, thanks guys.
14ChrisDecember 9th, 2010 2:36 am
Bonza!
15MikaelDecember 9th, 2010 2:39 am
It’s this a link-bait! and a very good one :)
16PrabaharanDecember 9th, 2010 2:40 am
looks clean and elegant!. nice work! & thanks for the free release.. because it
looks like premium templates! thanks again
17ahmed alttaiDecember 9th, 2010 2:41 am
thanx,
very nice theme!
18AneesDecember 9th, 2010 3:03 am
This is cool! Thanks!
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19SpencerDecember 9th, 2010 3:10 am
Absolutely stunning, great job guys! Could’ve done with this last year :)
20zulsdesignDecember 9th, 2010 3:23 am
Yeah! i love this theme :) simple
21greg urbanoDecember 9th, 2010 3:30 am
wowo i have been looking for just this type of template, thanks!
22AnggaDecember 9th, 2010 5:09 am
Absolutely loved the theme. thanks to SM and Site5 for this wonderful theme !
23AMYunusDecember 9th, 2010 5:56 am
at a glance, this theme is so awesome. Thanks for share. I hope I will do the same.
*switch blog theme immediately
24MichaelDecember 9th, 2010 6:02 am
Nice looking theme, but is it really GPL? There are usage restrictions in the
license.txt which seem to indicate otherwise.
25Capi EtherielDecember 10th, 2010 5:18 pm
Smashing Magazine publishes Site5 WordPress Themes all the time, telling
people they are GPL’d whne they are not. I have commented a couple times
about it, but the editors at Smashing Magazine won’t answer!
26Capi EtherielDecember 10th, 2010 6:23 pm
brief update: the files have been updated and cintain a copy of the gpl
license: https://twitter.com/twsepper/status/13414035231866880
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27AlexDecember 9th, 2010 6:07 am
I have made a Twitter Feed Plugin for WordPress, just in case anyone wants to
use something similar to the “Latest Tweets” widget this theme offers:
http://pleer.co.uk/wordpress/plugins/wp-twitter-feed
28codee47December 9th, 2010 7:44 am
Nice theme, thanks for sharing.
29Gunjan JaswalDecember 9th, 2010 7:53 am
Thanks for the share!! :)
30Tony LeaDecember 9th, 2010 9:03 am
Cool looking theme! Thanks for the post ;)
31JacquesDecember 9th, 2010 9:15 am
nice & simple, Thanks!
32PrabuDecember 9th, 2010 9:36 am
Very neat and professional theme. Good job site5.
33GiorgiDecember 9th, 2010 12:59 pm
Anybody have bulleted list demo? Thanks
34nottDecember 9th, 2010 4:59 pm
awesome! thanks for the generosity :)
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35Cool Theme..!!:)
Thanks Guys!
36Angus FretwellDecember 10th, 2010 2:50 am
Beautiful theme, but I’d love to see the post content in a larger font size, even in a
serif perhaps. Content is supposed to be king, and I feel the posts are drowned out
by the sidebars, etc.
37John BraineDecember 10th, 2010 2:54 am
I switched to this theme on a total whim. Looks good but having lot of trouble with
homepage config, thumbs & sliders and what not. And yes I checked with host
about GD support. Might just switch back for now.
comment edit – scratch that, the alternative permissions on cache folder worked,
as suggested by the guide.
38ChrisDecember 10th, 2010 4:01 am
Looks awesome. However, I got a whole bunch’o'errors after installing. Any ideas?
Warning: fopen(!wp-content/themes/journalcrunch/style.css) [function.fopen]:
failed to open stream: No such file or directory in !wp-includes/functions.php on
line 4165
Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in !wp-
includes/functions.php on line 4168
Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in !wp-
includes/functions.php on line 4171
39Paweł KataDecember 10th, 2010 4:28 am
Thanks! I’ve just switched to the theme and it’s AWESOME!
40WesleyDecember 10th, 2010 5:55 am
Amazing, one of the best free themees I’ve seen here.
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41NikkiDecember 10th, 2010 7:55 am
Awesome! I love the theme!! Thanks for sharing :)
42ChrisDecember 10th, 2010 11:40 am
Solved my own problem above, which turns out not to be specific to this theme.
Upload the theme by FTP folks, don’t use the “install themes” function on the
WordPress control panel. Simples.
43herupermanaDecember 11th, 2010 5:24 am
Izin Download Om Smash
44Siddharth AshokDecember 11th, 2010 11:40 am
Best free theme ever seen. Site5 guys are great- Thanks.
45SolanaDecember 11th, 2010 12:45 pm
Interesting that I have only been able to get the download link on the Site5 page to
work but cannot access the Live Preview or the Documentation links nor have I
been able to for several hours now.
What’s going on with that?
46Luis LopezDecember 11th, 2010 4:11 pm
Excellent theme, I thinks the guys of 5sotes make some great free themes with a
premium style.
47Sharon MilneDecember 12th, 2010 7:24 am
Downloaded – been looking for a good portfolio type theme for a while :D
Let’s see if I can work this one out :D
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48JorgeDecember 13th, 2010 5:52 am
the font in (cufon) dont support spanish chars like: á,é,í,ó,ú!. badly :(
Also the installation of theme give me this error:
Warning: fopen(!wp-content/themes/journalcrunch/style.css) [function.fopen]:
failed to open stream: No such file or directory in !wp-includes/functions.php on
line 4165
Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in !wp-
includes/functions.php on line 4168
Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in !wp-
includes/functions.php on line 4171
but is a good theme, i mean is working, and im making more changes inside it 8i
mean replacement for fonts and colors!
If the theme creators, can fix these errors, will be great for everyone =)
49Nirav DaveDecember 13th, 2010 8:05 am
Wow! Thats one of the best I have seen in ages! Good one guys!
50JenniferDecember 13th, 2010 10:46 am
This is amazing. I just wish there was also a way to integrate a blog as well!
51Chris RaymondDecember 13th, 2010 10:51 am
Quite a nice theme that balances portfolio and blog (even allowing you to not have
blog posts on home page if you don’t want them). Needs a bit of refinement in the
typography settings, but overall, nice work!
52flashpixelDecember 14th, 2010 12:13 am
Thanks, it helped a lot on a small project of us :) u guys rock!
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53the best theme which made me to comment for the first time.
54javirikoDecember 14th, 2010 11:37 pm
Jorge, instalalo via FTP que anda bien.
Thanks for the Theme, is fantastic!
55ConnieDecember 15th, 2010 8:23 am
does this theme support language files?
I hope so, but I do not see this on the feature-list
come on schmaschers, accept that the world is not onelingual, there are some
allophones around ;=(
56GabiDecember 16th, 2010 5:45 am
Very nice theme, but the link to the documentation does not work and it seems that
thumbnails never show, or there is something I didn’t get?
Any help please?
57Chrs GoslingDecember 17th, 2010 12:11 am
A nice-looking new template, but commercially unuseable due to no ad
placements. Needs to have at leaset a header banner and a widgetised sidebar
each side to make it useful.
58Chrs GoslingDecember 17th, 2010 12:13 am
Apologies – found the sidebar . . but still need something in the header . . .
59Wahyudi PratamaDecember 17th, 2010 5:40 am
nice theme!thanks :)
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60aritoniDecember 19th, 2010 3:39 am
Wow! Better than paid premiums
61JuliusDecember 23rd, 2010 2:23 am
Hello,
i really enjoyed the theme preview. The preview and design itselfs are awesome!
But once installed i got the “Call to undefined function: add_theme_support()” error
– I didnt find anything in the documentation.. anybody out there who has fixed this
error?
Regards Julius
62MarcoDecember 28th, 2010 12:39 am
@GABI:
You need to check on the right side of the post, when you are writing, there is a
block there called “Featured Image”, you can set one there.
Then it will show up.
63DrebDecember 28th, 2010 10:48 am
Wow. Really cool. Agree that it is better than paid themes. Simple but can rock
your blog. Got to grab this one. Much appreciated the share and thanks guys!
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