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Announcing the NightLife Theme For WordPress

Filed as Themes on March 19, 2007

Nightlife Wordpress ThemeAfter a lot of work we are proud to announce the release of our first theme Nightlife For WordPress.

It’s a custom creation by Brian Gardner our in house design guru here at Performancing.

This site is your how-to guide for Performancing themes for WordPress, all rolled into one stylish package! By taking advantage of the information offered here, you’ll be able to maximize the potential of this amazing and unique theme.

We want you to enjoy Nightlife as much as we do, which is why we’ve created this site to support the growth and maturation of the themes. Think of this place as a living, breathing set of instructions for Nightlife and other Performancing Themes. You want an answer? Ask a question. You want to contribute? Share the love in the comments, or head on over to the Performancing Community Forum.

Click here for a live preview of Nightlife.

52 people have expressed their views!

  1. The NightLife theme kicks butt.

    I’d like to see this theme in different colors too.

    By Ahmed Bilal on March 19, 2007 12:00 pm

  2. I’m sure that’s doable at some point. I will have to ask Brian.

    By David Krug on March 19, 2007 12:33 pm

  3. Nice theme. I second the request for more colors.

    By Quick Online Tips on March 19, 2007 12:51 pm

  4. Nice!

    With a little altering, this could be perfect for my wifes new blog! Looking forward to what you all have in store.

    How about creating some big, bold, clean themes like SEO Book and Copy Blogger? I think such themes would go down a treat.

    By Armen on March 19, 2007 2:30 pm

  5. Totally doable Ahmed. Just a matter of spending the time to tweak the CSS on the style sheet. Thanks for the great feedback!

    By Brian Gardner on March 19, 2007 2:54 pm

  6. Great quality, although the colors are a little austere … if he could provide them in different colors. We can change them too of course.

    Anyway, my biggest gripe as a publisher of several blogs it the 2 columns. For any real blogger that is going to stick around for a while and not just put something up for vanity and some friends only to abandon it a few months later, 2 columns are not enough. We need 3 columns to actually make money off the blog or use the many many plugins available for WP that make WP so great.

    Please please consider making 3 column blogs and with the width of common websites of Yahoo, NYTimes, etc. Not these skinny hard to read 2 column blogs that every designer seems to think everybody wants.

    Sorry if that sounds like a little bit of a rant.

    By Mr Brightside on March 20, 2007 12:48 am

  7. [...] Performancing has released a WordPress theme and while it doesn’t knock my socks off, I can see how this theme could be very popular, especially in multiple color sets. It is a two column theme currently set up with dark grays, black and white. It looks like Performancing is going to be continuing to develop this, and most likely other themes. [...]

    By   WordPress Theme: Nightlife by Blogging Pro on March 20, 2007 7:04 pm

  8. Header image looks awfully familiar: http://www.i-marco.nl/weblog/

    Next to that it’s a little plain, extra color could make it alot better.

    By Chris R. on March 21, 2007 7:52 am

  9. Nightlife knocked my socks off. After looking about for a serious-minded Wordpress theme suitable for a business news site, I think Nightlife fills the bill.

    A couple comments: I agree with the previous posters on changes worthy of your attention — possible NightLife 2.0.

    Three-column version. A two-column version is fine for a personal blog, but the majority of serious blogging efforts (for example, Performancing, NYT, WSJ, etc.) offer full-screen multi-column layouts.

    While the two column display may help focus attention on content, it limits SEO and advertising options. Also, as displays get wider (I’m viewing this on a 17-inch, 1200px-wide iMac), anything less than a fluid layout quickly approaches a postage stamp.

    Color, while important, should be a secondary concern when updating NightLife. Congrats on the inaugural theme and I look forward to your future releases.

    Ed

    By Ed Sutherland on March 21, 2007 2:41 pm

  10. [...] Brian Gardner, who was the original author of the theme this site design is based on (Vertigo), has just released a great new WordPress theme called “NightLife“. [...]

    By NightLife WordPress Theme from Performancing » Peter Coughlin on March 21, 2007 4:06 pm

  11. Wow! What a great theme! I love the feel of it.

    If this is what we can expect in the way of themes from Performancing I can’t wait to see more…

    Well done Brian. Great work.

    By Peter Coughlin on March 21, 2007 5:56 pm

  12. Hmm… looks kinda familiar :/

    I’ve been using that image on website for years and it’s on my virb profile as well. It’s kinda ‘known’. I got an email about it from someone after he saw this here.

    It’s a free to use photo though so no real complaint from me other than thinking a more original photo would have been nicer… :P

    By Marco on March 21, 2007 8:07 pm

  13. Looks really good, clean and effective! well-done! :)
    Like Ahmed said, maybe to offer this theme with the options of changing the color scheme would be interesting also! (like a “nightlife option”)

    great job!

    By Jonathan-C. Phillips on March 24, 2007 10:58 pm

  14. i love dark theme. nice! tq

    By Hariadi on March 27, 2007 3:54 am

  15. Looks great,I love black. :)

    By Richie on March 29, 2007 5:10 am

  16. Just a GREAT Theme. The best I’ve ever seen…

    I have one Question: I want to have different header Images for different Sites. Since I am not so good in understanding CSS I friendly ask you how I can do this.

    Have a look at my website and you’ll understand. On the main page there is actually a red image and I have some others (green, blue, yellow) which I want to use on the other sites (i.e. on Gaestebuch an the common Sites).

    Thanks and again: GREAT JOB!

    By Patrick on April 13, 2007 10:20 pm

  17. I love this theme and have used it for a new blog but would like to know if you can make it compatible the widget plugin so I can monetize the site?

    By Jerry on April 16, 2007 11:22 am

  18. WOW .. excellent changes to Nightlife … this Modernpaper 3C wide theme looks great!! Where is the download??!!!

    By Mr. Brightside on April 16, 2007 3:15 pm

  19. Patrick, you need to change the header.jpg in the theme folder that you add to your other site.

    Jerry, the theme should be widget ready, so you should be good to go.

    Brightside, the link is now live in the theme post!

    By admin on April 16, 2007 4:25 pm

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  23. Hi, I love the theme you designed and have download it. Thank You!

    By lugordon on June 6, 2007 8:34 pm

  24. Why is it that with Firefox and Flock I can write a comment with a width wider than the comment box (here surprisingly I cant…)? Try it on my site. Or can I change some settings to avoid it?

    By stefan on June 9, 2007 4:24 pm

  25. Sorry, I just tried it again, now it works fine.

    ??

    Stefan

    By stefan on June 9, 2007 4:28 pm

  26. thank you,
    already downloaded it,
    it is the one of the greatest theme.

    By Wallace on June 13, 2007 7:25 am

  27. Love your theme. I’m using a (slightly) modified version of it for my weblog. It’s served my purpose well!

    By Mitch on June 19, 2007 3:33 pm

  28. The design of this theme is perfect. Thank you for creating it! I notice that certain functions don’t work quite right. For example, when clicking on the “print this article” button beneath the post, it actually prints whatever is in the present browser (i.e. whatever’s on the homepage, rather than the article). Any fix for this? (I checked several sites and they all had the same issue. You can see it on Mitch’s site, above, for instance.) Thanks!

    By Michael Walker on June 29, 2007 9:13 pm

  29. THANK YOU SO MUCH! At last i found a template that suits everything we have been looking for!

    Watch this space for changes
    http://www.thebelinwall.com

    Nick

    By Nick on July 12, 2007 8:31 am

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    By SEO on July 23, 2007 2:32 pm

  31. I am using the nightlife theme on my website. I do have a problem with some posts putting the first word of the paragraph up on very far right side of the same line as the Filed in category line. I do not know where it is getting that at. You van visit my site and look through a couple of posts on the main page. Where in the CSS file would this be instructing it to do that? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

    John
    http://pilotjohn.com

    By Pilotjohn on July 28, 2007 3:00 pm

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  33. i like this theme.

    By lelemao on August 19, 2007 3:39 pm

  34. I do have the same problem as John. In some post, the first word is put on the top right side of the post. Any ideas about the origin of the problem?

    http://www.simongarnier.com for some example of the problem.

    Best,
    morpionZ.

    By morpionZ on August 21, 2007 8:21 pm

  35. Hello
    I love your layout and i’ve installed it on my site but i have a problem with the text widgets every time i’m I put a html or any kind of text in it it appears with theses » » down the side i was wondering if anyone can tell me how i can get rid of them? my site address is below for example on what i mean. regards hayley

    http://skinsonline.byethost13.com/blog/

    By Hayley on August 29, 2007 4:29 pm

  36. thank you … great work… very nice theme

    By enrique on September 29, 2007 4:52 am

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  38. Excellent theme - love the colours :)

    I do have the same the same problems as Hayley has. When I use html in any text widget in the sidebar, I do get the annoying » charakters in every line, also tags like “justify” are ignored, you don’t get justified text in the sidebar, just “» texttext text”…

    Anyway thanks for this theme and any help offered to solve the “»”-problem.

    By Sendesaal Bremen on October 9, 2007 7:48 am

  39. If the first word of the post has two characters or less, that word is placed in the top right corner of the display box. A quick hack is to place two nbsp in the code view.

    This will work until there is a fix.

    By Mark Miller on October 11, 2007 5:07 am

  40. If you look in the style.css file, the width for the contenttitle is set to 500px. When I changed this to 520px, it did away with the problem stated above.

    By Mark Miller on October 11, 2007 5:26 am

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  42. Hello there, great theme, we love it! I actually replaced the header with a flash movie, but I’m noticing that there’s a big white rectangle underneath it. This only appears in IE both 6 and 7. I’ve tested in Firefox, and Opera for PC and Safari and Firefox for Mac and it looks great. Suggestions? Thanks in advance, and thanks again for a great theme!

    By Netta on October 26, 2007 8:55 pm

  43. Can anyone help with this one please? Thanks so much!

    By Netta on November 4, 2007 2:22 am

  44. I’d like to see the collumn on the RIGHT side of the page. I’m sure I can hire someone to change the colors.

    VERY nice job, guys!

    cj

    By cheryl on November 18, 2007 5:16 pm

  45. Hi there,

    In regards to the problem with the contenttitle messing with the first two characters, isn’t it easier just to take the float off the title? Not too sure why it’s on there anyway.

    By Christine on December 15, 2007 8:53 pm

  46. Hi

    Great them, but I can’t see a link to download it. Can you help?!

    By Tim Baxter on February 4, 2008 12:23 pm

  47. Tim, it’s in the first sentence :)

    Here you go: http://themes.performancing.com/files/nightlife1.zip

    By Karolis [Pocius.lt] on February 14, 2008 1:05 pm

  48. can you tell me how to get rid of the ‘>>’ arrow business that is messing up my sidebar text? I would appreciate that! I have a little knowledge, probably enough to fix it threw theme editor or something!

    thanks!

    By tyronebcookin on March 9, 2008 4:34 pm

  49. sorry mark, above fix did not work for my nightlife blog theme, other suggestions?

    The only thing Ihave done so far is change the header pic and tried the changes you posted above, to no luck. I cleared the cache/data out to and still no refresh with problems gone.

    tyronebcookin

    By tyronebcookin on March 10, 2008 12:23 pm

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