Posted: Monday, September 10th, 2007 at 12:11 am. Filed in Themes.
Theme Monday: Digg 3 Column
Here’s a shiny new theme to brighten up your Monday: a three-column, Digg-inspired layout by Small Potato.
It features two (count ‘em!) sidebars with widgets, a customizable header image with an overlaid border, and nifty green tabs at the top for your Pages.
You’ll find it listed on the Presentation tab of your dashboard, under D for “Digg”.
P.S. It’s Monday here in sunny Melbourne, for those of you on the slow side of the international date line.
September 10th, 2007 at 12:31 am
Alex,
Thanks for letting me know and for featuring Digg 3, definitely a long time coming
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September 10th, 2007 at 1:03 am
Great theme, Thanks
September 10th, 2007 at 1:26 am
Thanks
September 10th, 2007 at 1:27 am
cool. I might give this one a shot!
September 10th, 2007 at 1:49 am
Hopefully it as better internationalisation than other themes…well, it looks just great!
September 10th, 2007 at 2:13 am
Nice
This is one I’ve seen elsewhere and it is a very nice theme. Colors are not quite to my liking but I may have to give it a shot. Been waiting for a 3-column theme with a customizable header.
A 3-column Regulus would be the best option for me, though.
September 10th, 2007 at 2:21 am
Do ya have it in a size 32, and darker?
The scientifically impossible I do right away
The spiritually miraculous takes a bit longer
September 10th, 2007 at 2:50 am
Looks good, but I’d sure like some more dark themes… something like the Sapphire theme but with black or dark gray instead. Or something like MistyLook or onnections or Tarski that has darker colors.
September 10th, 2007 at 2:55 am
This is brilliant, I switched immediately. Thanks small potato!
September 10th, 2007 at 3:03 am
I somewhat love the theme with 2 sidebars! Go WP!
September 10th, 2007 at 3:19 am
nice one!
September 10th, 2007 at 3:25 am
oooh! Purty….
September 10th, 2007 at 3:35 am
awww, a new theme…
September 10th, 2007 at 3:42 am
cool
September 10th, 2007 at 3:48 am
nice…but it doesn’t seem to aligh properly in IE…
September 10th, 2007 at 3:48 am
I’d like to eat this theme up. Just eat it up.
September 10th, 2007 at 3:52 am
yes, i have tried it
September 10th, 2007 at 4:00 am
Woo.. awesome!! Good Job Small Potato.
September 10th, 2007 at 4:01 am
Interesting, nice one!
September 10th, 2007 at 4:13 am
Very nice!
September 10th, 2007 at 4:38 am
yup … cool theme …. bravo … !
September 10th, 2007 at 4:39 am
Interesting!!! Thank you for this wonderful free service. Very cool. Now all I have to do is learn how to create my own themes! lol
September 10th, 2007 at 4:53 am
This theme is worth trying out! At first glance I like it.
September 10th, 2007 at 5:03 am
I previewed it too, but wondered why the calendar shows up at the bottom of the left hand column and at the top of the right hand column? Why does it show up twice?
Nice theme though. Now if we just had some themes with purple….:)
September 10th, 2007 at 5:48 am
I am back to tell you guys that I tried the theme, liked it and am using it. I prefer it over my old 2-3 sidebar theme Neo-Sapien for the simple reason that it gives me all that I want (more sidebars plus custom header) and more. In fact there were some hitches with Neo, like the theme not showing up properly on the old version of Internet Explorer. Also the html that I used in widgets would not always work. I am not saying this theme is perfect as I don’t like the green, but at least one can change the other colours. Also, the title of my blog is visible, unlike in Neo. Another disadvantage of Neo was that the first sidebar on the left was useless as the minute you put it any of your own widgets, the title of the blog (which used to appear in tiny letters anyway) would disappear altogether!
This theme is clean and easy on the eye and I just love the way the text in the widgets is spaced out. I was waiting for a theme like this. The custom header could be bigger, but well, one can’t get everything unless one is designing the theme oneself and I don’t think I can.
A big thank you.
September 10th, 2007 at 6:56 am
yee verry good that cool
but when translat to RTL system language like farsi or arabi ?
September 10th, 2007 at 7:41 am
As long as I can choose an image at the top its all good….I’d love to be able to design my own though.
September 10th, 2007 at 7:51 am
I’m testing it out now. So far, I really like it. We’ll see what my visitors say.
September 10th, 2007 at 8:09 am
I love this theme… thanks a billion!
September 10th, 2007 at 8:37 am
Thanks for the new Theme….I hope there are more to come!
Keep it rockin’!!!
September 10th, 2007 at 9:09 am
gud work small potato .. but does digg really look like this .. i think it has only 1 side bar.. and tabs are below the title bar
Also without so many yellow stickers here n there it looks a little boring
September 10th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Very nice. Two side bars is really great.
Thanks a lot.
September 10th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Excellent – just what I was looking for. Thanks
September 10th, 2007 at 10:52 am
three is a magic number. this may bode well for the magic cauldron !
September 10th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Hooray for Small Potato!
September 10th, 2007 at 11:40 am
This looks like fun. I must give it a go
September 10th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
love it. using it!
September 10th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
The first theme with two sidebars at the opposite side isn’t it ? A friend tolds me about wordpress one or two years ago, I don’t remember ; I didn’t know that you could go so far with the blogs, you’re the best.
September 10th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Very nice theme, thanks for this!
But how can i get rid of the border around images?
I couldn’t find any option for doing this…
September 10th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
sweet! i changed
September 10th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Thanks Alex and Small Potato, I’ve changed my blog to this theme and so far like it very much. I especially like the permanent links to each blog post and the yellow blockquote, as well as the 3 columns. Cheers!
September 10th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Awesome !! Thanks WordPress team.
September 10th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Small Potato, WordPress. I love you.
September 10th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Nice theme. But where is the tag line?
September 10th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Nice, i have been wanting a 3 column lay out. Thank you.
September 10th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
New theme, new theme, new theme! Thank you.
September 10th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
I’m gonna get freaky and fool with this one. Thanks for a new theme!
September 10th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
MY NEW THEME! Thank you, WP! You rock MY world!
September 10th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
very nice. especially the columns and image personalization… one thing, can you change the button or bg color?
September 10th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Thanks! Love it!
September 10th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
I like it, but the right hand sidebar is outta whack. At least in IE. It’s like it isn’t quite wide enough.
September 10th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Nice! I’m using it now.
September 10th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Beutiful in czech: Překrásné! .-)
September 10th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
I like the look of the green tabs for pages
September 10th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
That is sooo awesome!! I’ll be using that one soon.
September 10th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Another blue theme? What else!
September 10th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Someone will post this on digg for sure.
September 10th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
awesome!! jus love it!
September 10th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
I’m loving it, set it up first thing this morning!
September 10th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
At long last, just the 3 column layout I’ve been waiting for–switched right away! Thanks!
September 10th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
A new theme is always a good surprise! Thank you
September 10th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Any chance of a darker version? It might well be the prettiest theme on WP now…
September 10th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
The green page tabs are a definite plus, as well as those spiffy shades of blue. Great job! <3
September 10th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Nice! I like it. Might give it a go sometime.
September 10th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
Does “a customizable header image” refer only to choice of image or can a sub-head be added as in Andreas 04 and 09?
Good to see another 3-column theme – we need more.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:08 am
Thanks for the Theme just what i was looking for, for my new site.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:06 am
more more more … I want more themes. Is there a way we can request to add certain themes into wordpress.com?
September 11th, 2007 at 1:25 am
Ah, it seems the Box.net widget size was too wide. Changing it to 150 makes it work just fine.
September 11th, 2007 at 2:23 am
Functional and attractive. Great colors. Huge thanks to WordPress for supplying it and the designers who made it happen.
September 11th, 2007 at 2:23 am
I swtiched instantly….its great.
However, I’m having slight problems with it as one of the sidebars does not upload fully
September 11th, 2007 at 2:23 am
I have adopted it! Thanks.
September 11th, 2007 at 2:58 am
great theme – there are too few 3 column themes! thanks. hopefully we’ll see more new themes more frequently.
September 11th, 2007 at 3:07 am
We made a minor change to the theme that should help with IE when the sidebar content is too wide.
Folks, if you’ve found a problem with a theme, please contact support, don’t ask here. Including a screenshot or a clear description in your report will save us having to ask.
September 11th, 2007 at 3:16 am
There is no tag line, nor an option to change colours. That’s just how the theme was made.
The best place to request new themes is on the forum.
September 11th, 2007 at 3:46 am
ozzie ozzie ozzie, i.t. i.t. i.t. . . . . ?
September 11th, 2007 at 7:54 am
As to the width in sidebars for images what with all the margins, padding and doodads I reckon the max is going to about 150px on each side. HTH. Fine tuning and cross platform testing will be necessary. On a technical note like many Kubrick deriviatives all the font sizes are declared in px which is one of my pet hates because it seriously impacts both useability and accessibility
. But a nice looking 3 col. And A BBH. What more could we want. 
September 11th, 2007 at 7:55 am
i wrote earlier how i loved this theme. i’ve added my own little tweaks and it couldn’t be more perfect. thanks guys.
September 11th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
cool!!
hoping to see more themes!!
September 11th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Nice! I like 3 column themes. I just wish we had more of a variaty to choose from.
Keep up the good work!
September 11th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Very nice. Two side bars is really great.
Thanks a lot…
September 11th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
That so ugly buttons put in the top. They bungle the subject that until is funny. Thanks.
September 11th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Very nice theme. Not quite going t use it just yet, as I just got used to my latest theme, but nice to know there’s something I can move to when I tire of my current one. Keep it up.
jorge
September 11th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Looks nice.
Hope there will be more 3 column themes in the future.
September 11th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Cool theme, but I don’t think the sidebars are wide enough and I want my tagline to show.
But all in all nice work.
September 12th, 2007 at 1:48 am
I changed it yesterday and its working very well, the number of my visitors growed inmediattely! Very good work, thanks for this layout small potato.
Only one thing: sometimes part of the posts (photos, etc.) lapped over the righthand slide bar and I had a problem with putting the categories on the slide bar (for this I dont show them).
September 12th, 2007 at 2:08 am
was changing themes everyday – was never satisfied til now. awesome. thanks! looks clean and professional… would be great if we could change colours and have tag line show but still, awesome job.
September 12th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
i love the theme and have switched to it.
But the only disadvantage i could see with this theme is that it doesn’t show the tag line of ur blog in the header. Well, i could change the header which compensates partly for the problem, but then i would love it to show up under the title even when im using the default header
September 12th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Its fresh, its clean and its now mine… don’t think I will be changing this one for quite a while..
grantman
September 12th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Wow…lovely theme
September 13th, 2007 at 1:28 am
I was changing themes often, too. I wasn’t satisfied with the one I was using. I want a custom header but the themes are either too generic or not generic enough. This one, I really like! I love three columns. Thumbs up!
September 13th, 2007 at 1:52 am
I love it! This is exactly what I was waiting for!
And thanks so much for making that fix to the column width in MSIE. You guys rock!
September 13th, 2007 at 6:48 am
Yes, I now have it fully installed and I enjoy the freedom to change the header. I also like the fact that it has an inbuilt smile! How many others have found it?
September 13th, 2007 at 10:24 am
the meebo box does not fit within the widget, and the tag cloud seems not nice.
September 13th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Nice theme, guys! I do think the buttons at the top are too big and that every single theme should at least have the option for displaying the tag line. This one would be fun to alter with the CSS upgrade and I’ll keep it in mind for the future.
September 13th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
G’day!
Looks like it could be the one! I think it’s going to be a lot of fun.
September 13th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
wish it be available for wp free users
September 13th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
plasticwool: The digg3 theme is available to everyone.
September 14th, 2007 at 6:09 am
Its organized and simple, which I love…but I’m not too crazy about the design.