White as Milk
White as Milk is a clean wordpress theme that puts focus on the content rather than the design. Its easy to use and customize and the design stays out of your way. I started using this theme for a photoblog, but then realized that there wasn't a good clean theme around for others to use, so here it is, download and enjoy!
Version 1.8 is out and takes care of a few bugs and also has a few enhancements:
- Better IE6 support - fixed bug where the sidebar would collapse if a photo/image was too wide.
- Better mobile support - added support for Blackberry phones.
- Easier to customize - most of the popular elements have been moved to the top of the stylesheet making it easier to find and edit.
- Better widgets support.
- Added support for tags.
- Added Gravatar support
- Content and sidebar area now use percentage instead of fixed widths.
FAQ
Q: How do I center the blog title in the header?
A: Open up your styles.css file and look for this piece of code: #headerimg {margin-left:28%;} and replace it with #headerimg {text-align:center}
Q: How do I make the template stretch horizontally all the way?
A: Open up your styles.css file and look for this piece of code: #page {width:700px;} and replace it with #page {width:95%;}
Q: How do I add an image in the header?
A: Open up header.php and look for these lines:
<div id="headerimg">
<h1><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
<div class="description"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></div>
</div>
and replace it with this:
<div id="headerimg">
<p><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><img src="MYIMAGEHERE.JPG" alt="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" />
</a></p>
</div>
Got a Question? Contact me.
Variations
White as Milk is pretty easy to customize. Just open up the styles.css file from the wordpress admin area and the top few lines should tell you how to customize your copy of the template. I've created a few variations for you to try out. Just click on the variation you like, copy the code and replace it with the code on the top of your styles.css file.
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Green (Preview | Download) | Pink (Preview | Download) |
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| Purple (Preview | Download) | Black (Preview | Download) |
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28 October 2007
Hello Azeem,
I am another happy user of your excelent design. I am using it in my personal blog, http://www.jorgetome.info.
I have just made some little modifications in order to enable Widgets.
Thanks for your work!
28 October 2007
I just started using your great white as milk theme and love it.
http://www.richardsnotes.org
Thanks for making it and if you update it in a way that I should know about I’d love to be notified.
Best,
Richard
28 October 2007
Whitemilk in use. ;) translated to norwegian, still with the latest version i have problems with som margins in IE, firefox seems to work fine, the errors occour withing and article (ie. the single.php page) any tips ?
28 October 2007
Just what i need for a default theme – simple and direct with little to distract.
28 October 2007
Yeah interesting theme, I like it I will definatly pick up one.
28 October 2007
White as Milk is my favorite WordPress theme!
Is there an easy way to edit the header.php file to change the header to a clickable image instead of CSS text?
Thanks again…PayPal donation on the way. ;)
28 October 2007
i was also looking for a clean simple theme and found “white as milk”. i think its great. thx
28 October 2007
Mr. Azeez, I love your White as Milk theme. Great job! I think I’ll use it. Two questions:
1) How do you randomly rotate the images in your blog header? That’s waaay too cool! I’d love to be able to do that.
2) I loved the Users Online and Most ever on Line STATS at the bottom of your web site. Can I get a copy of the script?
Thanks much.
28 October 2007
hey azeem, thanks for this great theme. your theme was the best that could happen to my blog. I'm still waiting for the 3 column extension ;) tin
28 October 2007
Definetly, yours is by far the coolest theme: simple, clean and classy. thanx.
I’ve translated it into galician so to use it as a private blog for my group -if anyone interested in the translation, just get thru to me.
just like gary posted on 18.nov I’d also like to put a random image header, i’ve messed around with the code but just couldn’t get it working by now… ;-|
And the users online would also be a nice feat…
By the way, I’ve learnt about whiteasmilk since it was a built-in theme in my server’s wordpress set-up.
28 October 2007
Hey, I love White as Milk. I’ve been looking for a clean, simple theme that had the look of a glossary and I finally found it. Now the hard part is learning how to apply multiple themes to one blog. I want to use White as Milk just for my glossary category. Any ideas?
I might just have to start a second blog just for the glossary using Wordpress MU.
28 October 2007
Nice and clean Theme…
I like it.
Do you work still on it?
I would like to use it as basis for my new Template.
28 October 2007
Hey— Just wanted to say thank you for your “White as Milk” theme. I implemented it on my site (http://alex.polvi.net/) and it looks really slick!
Keep up the good work! :) Thanks again, -Alex
28 October 2007
wonderful theme, really! the ultimate choice if you want your content not a fancy posh design to be the juice of your blog! and it’s great for variations… though there is one thing that i just can’t understand and it kind of spoils the “cleanness” – it’s the divider between posts! mentioned also above by Vincent… would be great if you’d advise as to where to change/disable this! thankyou!
28 October 2007
Hi, I blew my old layout, so I activated yours until I have an idea for the new one… so, thank you – but in IE, within the individual post view the posting body starts below the sidebar.
28 October 2007
Can This use wigets
28 October 2007
Just a quick note to say thanks for the great theme. I’ve set it up on my site and I love it. Keep up the good work.
28 October 2007
Great theme go simple and you can’t go wrong.
I wanted to know how to change the size and color of the divider that goes between posts, can you help?
many thanks
28 October 2007
thanks for creating that theme.
28 October 2007
Thanks for the theme!!
It’s the best!!
28 October 2007
great theme, i’m using it now. so clean.
28 October 2007
Hi! Amazing Theme!
I’ve made some minor modifications to the layout.
www.jebaloo.com/blog
Have a look, it’s still a work in progress and the header is just blocked out so that I know what to design to go there.
I’m a bit of a newbie when it comes to the web, so I have one main problem and I can’t work it out.
See if you click on ay of the Archives, it doesn’t work. I have checked through the code I can’t work it out, any suggestions?
As seperate and less important questions which are also above:
Random image header would be great, how would I do that?
Also, how to I get my header image to link back to the homepage? I tried, but it made every single link on the page link to the homepage too. weird!
Any help appreciated, thanks!
Jemima
28 October 2007
thanks for your theme, i just installed it and i love it. THANKS www.onlymamo.de
28 October 2007
yeah! actually I am using it now :) …but my white as milk skin is too naked :) maybe u can make me at least a nice header :) ( free!!!bleh!!) … i had installed it just now and one has already comment that he preferred your template than the other one :)
28 October 2007
que pasa, azeem?
I am one those who found your WaM theme as a native option for Wp2.0 and I didn’t hesitate for a moment and whiteasmilked my dance and music company’s working web forum! [http://www.nordesia.com/info-2004/040220ngd-01.html](Howcome, I just can’t get the way to tweek the header so it dispalays a random header image… hmmmm (any clue to carry on the tweakin?) -apertas!
28 October 2007
WaM is a great looking clean theme. When I open the styles to make some modifications though, it struck me that the stylesheet is unnecessarily complicated by about 5x. Maybe this is holdover from the original version(?), but it occurs to me that for the css to be as elegant as the resulting theme, this could be pared way down and organized much differently. I’m hacking on it now. Cheers!
28 October 2007
Hello,
I love this template… but I would like to put an avatar on the side bar… on top of this, its possible? A special place…
Sorry, my English is not very good…
Congratulations to your job…
And thanks for your attention…
I’m waiting for your response.
28 October 2007
Azeem, thanks for a very clean and friendly design. One question: We have multiple writers on our blog. The Category name appears at the end of the blog. How to make it appear at the top of the posting, so that readers know who is writing?
28 October 2007
After trying out almost all the templates on Wordpress, I have found that I like WhiteAsMilk the best, excellent work.
28 October 2007
That is definitely way cool :) * thumbs up*
28 October 2007
WhiteAsMilk rocks
28 October 2007
hi azeem, great work!
but i am stuck getting an image in the header. can u gimme a hint, how to do this? actually its 2 pix – one above sidecolum aligned right, one in the other aligned left … has it do do with “#headerimg” in the CSS??
yo help is apreciated :-)
28 October 2007
Great theme, Azeem! I’ve been using it on my blog for over a year.
WordPress 2.1 came out and I upgraded but I’ve been wanting to upgrade White as Milk to handle 2.1’s new features and deprecated tags. I dropped by your site a few days ago and nothing showed up so I figured you’d quit the blogosphere… so I began making changes myself. I was planning on releasing a 1.1 version once I add support for 2.1 plus widget and lightbox support. You wouldn’t happen to have already done these things, would you? I’m not really a PHP developer, so I’m learning as I go.
28 October 2007
I just installed WhiteAsMilk and it looks great. Thanks so much for creating it. :)
28 October 2007
Just switched to white As Milk on Wordpress.com and am really liking how clean it is. Great job and thank you for the excellent theme.
28 October 2007
This is a great theme. In Internet Explorer 7, however, the bullet points (ul/li) don’t render correctly. Could this be fixed?
28 October 2007
Hi, I’m just starting blogging and have created a recoding and variant of White as Milk that I’m calling Skimmed Milk (giving all due respect to you, Azeem Azeez, of course). If it’s of use to anyone you can see it, read about it, and pick up a copy <a href=“http://thortz.com/skimmed-milk/”>here</a>.
28 October 2007
On IE next to Archives and other things there isn’t >>(Something) but in Firefox there is how to i remove >> next to links on the sidebar
Peace – loving the theme dude
1 November 2007
really nice one theme…
thank you very much
3 November 2007
Love it! Exactly what I wanted in a blog with no changes needed. Everything in the right place. Regards, Sam, Australia.
http://weddingstills.net/weddingsblog/
11 November 2007
In IE, if the sidebar shifts down, its probably because one of the images on your posts is wider than 500px as I’ve mentioned above.
1 December 2007
Thanks Mr. Azeem, nice and charming theme. And I just using it.
Thank you so much :)
11 December 2007
ur theme supporting for WP-grins?
3 January 2008
Great theme…. Continue the good work
14 January 2008
It’s look nice, great theme, keep up the good work
25 January 2008
This is a beautiful theme
tanks!!
26 January 2008
interesting theme
27 January 2008
Nice white theme!
4 February 2008
Good theme
8 February 2008
Hey – I really like the theme! I did a few tweaks on my Wordpress.com blog – hope you like it.
14 February 2008
great work! I love this theme! thanks for sharing…
17 February 2008
nice theme, very clean
25 February 2008
Nice theme
6 March 2008
Hello Azeem,
Thank’s for this really nice and simple theme, just what I was looking for!
I have done the localization in french if it could be usefull for someone.
Thank’s again!
13 March 2008
yes soo cool theme!
1 April 2008
Good theme
8 April 2008
Perfect theme. Been waiting for such a simple but functional theme for years. Thanks!
17 April 2008
Very nice theme but youtube videos are cropped in the layout.
Can you just add some px to width?
Bye!
17 April 2008
LOVE your theme! I feel like I literally looked through hundreds to find the perfect one. Did some custom CSS to it and added some side bar contents to it. LOVE IT. THANK YOU!
20 April 2008
Excelente theme, le hice algunas modificaciones como agregarle soporte para widgets y ademas una barra para navegar por las paginas del blog.
Visiten mi pagina para que vean los cambios..
22 April 2008
I really like this theme, TY. It’s a perfect photoblog theme, IMHO. I do have one question though, do you offer this theme in template format? You see, I’m new to WP and would love to code the theme myself as a learning experience.
30 April 2008
LOVE this theme!
1 May 2008
good theme, thnx man
4 May 2008
hye..can i use this theme?
17 May 2008
congratulations on the theme!
17 May 2008
Nice theme and am using it on my blog
1 June 2008
nice theme, very clean…
4 June 2008
Yeah interesting theme, I like it I will definatly pick up one.
5 June 2008
This theme is superb!
9 June 2008
nice and clean theme. It’s the best!!
11 June 2008
Hi there, we’re currently putting together a blog so that a bunch of my classmates can share inspiring sites they find online. White as Milk is almost perfect for us but we can’t work out how to display the author of each post. Any help is much appreciated!
12 June 2008
Got a ‘messed up’ version up on my site. Sweet theme man, love it! muah
13 June 2008
Thank you very much for saving me from my perpetual procrastination in switching away form the default (Kubrick) WordPress theme. This theme is exactly what I needed!
15 June 2008
Hello Azeem
Thanks for this theme, it is simple and so clean, minimalist, I think. I’m using it in my personal blog too. Congratulations for your work.
http://JonatanGamboa.wordpress.com/
19 June 2008
I’m using this theme,this theme is too cool!
我正在试用这个模板,这个模板太酷了!
21 June 2008
Deciding on which theme to select for your blog is like deciding on a tat. Both, once established and settled, tell volumes about you. Azeem, I choose your theme for my blog; and if it were a tattoo, it’d be tat’d somewhere on my person. (OK, that was a little weird but I think I made my point.)
So far, so good…so to speak. If I have any specific comments/feedback I’ll let you know. THANKS!
Nicely done!!!
1 July 2008
In IE, if the sidebar shifts down, its probably because one of the images on your posts is wider than 500px as I’ve mentioned above.
Hmm thanks.
9 July 2008
I really love clean and smooth themes like this. Really enjoy your name for it as well, “as white as milk.” Although, truth be told, REAL milk isn’t as white when it comes out the cow until it’s sent through the whole pasteurizing process or whatever. It’s usually a bit of a yellowy color – not too appetizing at first look. However, tastes great (so, I hear.) It would be interesting if you could get a clean wordpress style like this using black – that might be quite clever.
11 July 2008
thanks for creating that theme.
11 July 2008
Wow, just found this theme and it’s exactly what I was looking for for my new blog. Simple, elegant and uncluttered.
Thanks
11 July 2008
I’m a big fan of White as Milk. I use it on several sites, including my personal blog. Overall, I think the design is near perfect — clean, simple, white. The two main things I’d love to see in the next version are a header nav bar menu and some nifty AJAX stuff.
15 July 2008
A great theme, my congratulations on the job
15 July 2008
thanks Azeem. I use your theme – White as Milk is the best.
22 July 2008
I use your theme – White as Milk is the best.
25 July 2008
thanks Azeem. I use your theme
3 August 2008
Hi! I really like the white-as-milk theme, but I would love to move the sidbar to the right side. I was now searching and analyzing the css-file for a while but could not find the atributes to change. Can someone give me a hint?
3 August 2008
Hi!, I’m using your theme, is the best. The only thing, I customized it to have a black background and white body text, and now the comments are nos visible because of the white box. How can I have my boxes just outlined?
Thnx
3 August 2008
@Tobias: Thanks for the comment. White as Milk was not designed to have the sidebar on the right side. But if you really need to have the sidebar on the right, you need to look in your styles.css file and make these changes:
#content {
float: left;
padding: 0 10px 20px 0px;
margin: 0px 0 0;
overflow:hidden;
}
#sidebar {
padding: 1px 10px 10px 0;
margin-top:30px;
margin-left:500px;
text-align:left;
}
3 August 2008
@Fernando: If you open your styles.css file, you should see something like this:
.alt {
background-color: #f8f8f8;
border-top: 1px solid #ddd;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
}
Get rid of this line and you should be good to go.
background-color: #f8f8f8;
10 August 2008
This theme is amazing. I love the simplicity. I may do some color enhancements like you showed and add a header image, but the layout is just great. Thanks.
Is there a mailing list to get on for updates when they occur?
12 August 2008
This theme is amazing. I love the simplicity.
ı am using this theme my other blog..
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