WordPress default theme 1024 wide

I love the WordPress default theme based on the famous Kubrick theme but it has two problems in my eyes:

There are no sidebars on posts or pages making navigation kind of tricky.
It is designed for 800 pixel wide screens. This was fine 3 years ago but now 95% of people use at least 1024 so its a waste of screen real-estate having all that grey at the sides.

I am lazy so looked around for a version that fixed these issues but couldn’t find one. So, I took a few minutes to make some adjustments and solve these two problems. The result, that you’re looking at now, is an exact replica of the default WordPress theme but enlarged for viewing at 1024 pixels and with sidebars on pages and posts. Other than that it is identical – and even the dynamic colour changing header image still works.

I submitted the theme to WordPress for publication but meanwhile you can download it here (if you like!).

Update: 1 March 2013 – This post is now totally ancient but still gets a lot of traffic. You really shouldn’t be using the Kubrick theme in any modern wordpress installation as although it will mostly work, it does not implement any of the new features of WordPress 3.x. Use it at your own risk.

Update: 2 December 2008 – WordPress.org rejected my theme for publication – no reason given it just disappeared. I think that’s pretty lame. The least they could do is provide a reason. I won’t bother ever submitting anything else to them.

44 thoughts on “WordPress default theme 1024 wide”

shashi August 13, 2009 at 11:42

thanks a lot for this. it is a really nice fix.

Pupu August 22, 2009 at 17:43

Thank you so much for this theme because i tried to find wordpress theme size 1024 pixel like this. : ) : )

Daniel September 14, 2009 at 17:03

Great stuff.

Thank you for your work.

Cheers,
Daniel

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Stacey January 19, 2010 at 02:37

Thank you for the theme!! It is just what I was looking for! :)

Peter January 28, 2010 at 06:03

You are the man! It has always bothered me–just installed a newer version and it still irked me. BUT, just as on your page, it seems to be missing shading to differentiate the right column. Tomorrow I’ll try and fix it.

Thanks for sharing!

Adrian February 6, 2010 at 13:44

This really cool

but i have a little problem

How can i change this theme wide from 1024 to 1040 ?

i’ve tried to edit the css but nothing

Please help me

zz9pza February 14, 2010 at 12:36

Now that WordPress supports enhanced comment options (threaded comments etc) do you have any plans to update this theme to support them? I would love to use this theme but I really don’t want to lose my threaded comments!

Cheers,
Tom

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wato April 2, 2010 at 15:44

thank you very much！ i’ am looking for this theme for a long time!

Chris Post authorApril 19, 2010 at 00:24

Hey zz9pza, when I get chance I do intend to update this theme for the latest wordpress. I’ll make a new post when I do.

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Steve Navman August 8, 2010 at 10:42

I have been looking for days for this fix. I can only use KUBRICK as my code and widgets are set for this default template, but the 800×600 was looking awful on the big screens. Your a life saver. WordPress default Themes are incomplete without this masterpiece.