MiniCard Theme for WordPress – a cool free business card/social network theme
Want more MiniCard goodness? Purchase the premium pack to gain access to the in-built AJAX RSS feed module, several new sub-themes, priority support, and the warm fuzzy feeling you get by supporting the author! Premium is £25 GBP.
I am releasing my MiniCard theme for wordpress which supports hCard/vCard microformats, tonnes of social networks, showing some portfolio items (optional), and more – all controllable from its own Theme Config page. This theme is free and licensed under GPL – there is also a premium pack available with many theme variations, and the footer feed functionality.
Read more for more information and the download links. I hope you find this theme useful and spread the word 
About the Theme
MiniCard is a social network/business card WordPress theme inspired by Tim Van Damme’s excellent website. The theme lets you add links to all the social networking sites you may be a member of, and post useful information such as bio’s and contact details. It also has built in hCard support and (optionally) lets you offer a vCard for visitors to download your contact information.
Another useful feature, for those with portfolios, is the ability to set up a portfolio category in which you can set up items to feature below your card. These items are shown as thumbnails/galleries and pop up in a lightbox when clicked.
To control all of the features of MiniCard the theme comes with a useful admin panel for setting up your networks, theme options, and contact details for your hCard.
Since this is only a lightweight mini theme, widgets are not supported. You can however run a mini blog and make posts – these are all styled and fully supported.
To summarise:
- MiniCard is free to download and licensed under GPL
- Loads of social networks supported
- (Optional) Ajax Loading of main navigation links
- Portfolio functionality with lightboxes
- Theme Config section and instructions in WordPress admin
- Built in hCard/vCard support
- Comes with the default theme
- Each theme contains several variations – burst, diagonal stripe, horizontal stripe, vertical stripe, tartan.
Setting up the social page
If on the Settings > Reading page you have ‘posts’ shown on the front page, the social networking page will show by default. Otherwise if you are setting the front page make sure you give it the ‘home’ template.
About the Premium Pack
The MiniCard theme itself is free, however I have created a premium pack which simply ‘slots in’ to the free theme. This pack contains:
- Feed functionality – pull in RSS feeds or your choice, for example your own blog and your twitter posts. Loaded in using AJAX so the page loads faster.
- Several sub-themes -
- Blue Anvil Blue
- Black
- Grey
- Pink
- Helveticard (minimalist theme based on Jon Hicks’ design for Helvetireader)
You also get a warm fuzzy feeling inside knowing that you have helped support the author (me).
Screenshots
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- Theme Config
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- Helveticard Theme
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- Pink Tartan theme
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- Grey Tartan theme
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- Black burst theme
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- Default burst theme
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- Blue Anvil blue burst theme
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- Portfolio Section
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- Main footer feed output
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- More theme options
Demo
I personally set up my MiniCard Theme to demonstrate the theme in use. You will notice the feed below my card – this is part of the premium pack.
Download MiniCard (free)
Download MiniCard from the WordPress Themes Directory →
Purchase the Premium Pack (£25)
Support
Questions? Bug Reports? Feedback? Contact me – priority will be given to premium pack purchasers.
Licence & Donate
The MiniCard theme is licensed under GPL (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html). You may remove the link back in the footer, but I would appreciate if your attributed my work. Remember, the more popular the theme becomes, the more likely it is maintained and updated in the future.
If you wish to make a donation because you like this theme, you can use the ‘Buy me a coffee’ link below, buy the premium pack, or both
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George says:
Thanks. Do I need to unzip the file prior to uploading it?
Comment made on May 18, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Mike Jolley says:
@George: Yes.
Comment made on May 18, 2011 at 5:08 pm
George says:
Ok. And upload each of the files and their sub contents individually (Themes folder and 4 other files).
Thanks
Comment made on May 18, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Mike Jolley says:
@George: If you have premium then you should just get a folder called “premium” which goes straight inside the ‘minicard’ folder. View the readme file if you need more info.
Comment made on May 18, 2011 at 5:17 pm
George says:
Does the folder name “Premium” and the contents need to be pulled over too. When I just pulled the sub folder (Themes) and the other 4 files, I still did not get the option in the Mini Card Admin for Premium.
Comment made on May 18, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Mike Jolley says:
@George: you should have wp-content/themes/minicard/premium/ Send me an email if you need more help…
Comment made on May 18, 2011 at 5:27 pm
George says:
Perfect. Thanks. Last questions. To create a menu on the business card (ie Bio, Mini Blog etc.), where would you create these menus? Lastly, is there a blog add-on you need to create the mini blog option on the menu? Thanks
Comment made on May 18, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Mike Jolley says:
@George: Blog is built in, just set up pages in reading options. Menus are set up in Appearance > Menus
Comment made on May 18, 2011 at 5:37 pm