MiniCard Theme for Wordpress – a cool free business card/social network theme

November 10, 2009 | Published in: Web design & development | Tags: , , , , , , 81
Updated: December 31, 2009

Updated to 1.1.6 with minor improvements to the free theme, and a new feed system in the premium pack to make Twitter feeds more reliable.

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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

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)

The link to the download is below, enjoy! You can also get MiniCard from the Wordpress Themes Directory.

MiniCard Wordpress Theme (2300)

Purchase the Premium Pack (£25)


Support

Questions? Bug Reports? Feedback? Post a thread on the forums.

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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  1. Mike Jolley says:

    @Albert: Ive added the ‘viewport’ meta tag in the new version (releasing tonight) which makes it zoom in – looks better.

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    Comment made on December 12, 2009 at 3:38 pm

  2. Sousa says:

    How I use the fancybox plugin that is integrated in the theme?

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    Comment made on December 12, 2009 at 8:02 pm

  3. Mike Jolley says:

    @Sousa: Yes, add the class ‘lightbox’ to a link linking to an image.

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    Comment made on December 13, 2009 at 11:03 am

  4. Roberto says:

    how do i edit the content font size? it looks like font-size: 100%; for html works but it resized everything is there a content area i should use for page body?

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    Comment made on December 18, 2009 at 5:47 am

  5. Shelly says:

    I’ve filled in all the v/hcard options but the link is to feeds.technorati & brings nothing but an error page…not familiar with v/hcards so could you tell me what I’m doing wrong? I hope I’m making sense lol

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    Comment made on December 18, 2009 at 9:51 am

  6. Mike Jolley says:

    @Roberto: There are tonnes of classes/ids you could use e.g. .post p etc etc. I suggest you view source/inspect with firebug to get what you want.

    @Shelly: Link? Maybe they modified their service.

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    Comment made on December 18, 2009 at 3:52 pm

  7. Alice says:

    Hi I know this is a premium feature to display feeds on the front page but was wondering is there a way to display just regular feeds from the blog itself there? Ex. I write a post and there is no where it shows unless I put a link to it….

    thanks!!!!

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    Comment made on December 20, 2009 at 6:59 am

  8. Mike Jolley says:

    @Alice: Create a page called blog, then set up the options in Admin > Options > Reading to set it as the blog page.

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    Comment made on December 21, 2009 at 3:32 pm

  9. Oliver says:

    Hello, there.
    Thanks for the great template!

    Anyways, I’d like to change the name of first page which is ‘HOME’.
    and is it possible to change its order as well?
    I’ve looked at css but couldn’t find it.
    Please let me know.

    Best
    Oliver

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    Comment made on December 29, 2009 at 5:23 am

  10. Mike Jolley says:

    @Oliver: You can change the page links by using the ‘front page’ option in the reading options of wordpress. Once you use this setting, the ‘Home’ will disappear.

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    Comment made on December 29, 2009 at 3:01 pm

  11. Jeff Ivany says:

    I’m seeing a weird behaviour when I embed a Google Map on one of my pages. If I navigate directly to the page URL it shows fine but if I load the page with the AJAX loader, it doesn’t display (I just get the blank area where it should be). Any ideas?

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    Comment made on January 2, 2010 at 3:53 pm

  12. Mike Jolley says:

    @Jeff Ivany: Hmm it may not execute the javascript after loading in the content. Its probably best if you switch off ajax loading for now via the options page.

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    Comment made on January 2, 2010 at 4:08 pm

  13. GPSchnyder says:

    I love that Theme. You should think about adding a Tab that carries a Sidebar. Widgetized. That would round it up, as you could use what you want for that.

    Thinking about buying premium. What does it give me besides the Feed and Themes (that I’l redo anyways)? Not telling it is to much, but the Informations about what the Premium brings you are very rare seeded…

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    Comment made on January 6, 2010 at 4:13 pm

  14. Mike Jolley says:

    @GPSchnyder: Feed and themes and a warm feeling inside that you’ve helped the author.

    It is possible to add widgets beneath the card, but not in the card.

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    Comment made on January 6, 2010 at 4:16 pm

  15. rav says:

    Hiya – liking this so far but how can I rename Home to to something else like Social. I have figured out how to remove it as your comment above but want to keep it just as a different page.

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    Comment made on January 10, 2010 at 2:30 pm

  16. Mike Jolley says:

    @rav: Add a page called social and give it the social template – the template selector is on the edit page screen.

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    Comment made on January 10, 2010 at 3:28 pm

  17. Brian Smith says:

    Is it possible to offer two cards? We have a combined website (kathiandbrian.com). I would love to have a card page for my wife and a card page for me. I assume I could do this we two separate installations of Wordpress and have a homepage that links between them. However, I was wondering if it would be done under one site?

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    Comment made on January 13, 2010 at 3:35 am

  18. Mike Jolley says:

    @Brian Smith: It won’t support that – two installs would be one way. The other way would be to use wordpress MU. Then you could have brian.site.com and kathi.site.com with a minicard on each.

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    Comment made on January 13, 2010 at 1:28 pm

  19. Brian Smith says:

    Wow, I think you need to reply a bit faster in the future! :-) Quick question – how are you supposed to add IMs, such as Skype and AIM? I assume it is supposed to be in link format? Adding the IM profile didn’t seem to work. Oh, and I suggest that you add Windows Messenger as well. I know, I know…AIM and Messenger are very “late 1990s”, but people still know me by them. BTW, I love the theme.

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    Comment made on January 13, 2010 at 2:40 pm

  20. Mike Jolley says:

    @Brian Smith: Link format yes, for example, AIM can use:

    aim:goim?screename=username&message=hello

    That works right?

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    Comment made on January 15, 2010 at 5:25 pm

  21. Ansel Taft says:

    Hi Mike,

    I like your business card template. I’m working with it to help a friend of mine. May I ask how you set up the mini-blog as seen in the screenshots? I would like to show him how to blog, to add content, and it would be most helpful if it dropped right into its own section (such as your mini-blog link). But I’m at a loss how best to go about it based on the template’s admin section.

    If there’s a native way (to the template), fantastic. If not, I understand if you say I would need to work it out myself. Or would we need to buy the premium pack version (which we’re totally cool with).

    Thanks!

    Ansel

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    Comment made on January 18, 2010 at 7:11 pm

  22. Ansel Taft says:

    O.o…

    I figured it out after I went back and through all of the earlier comments (especially on page 2).

    Thank you for your efforts. We may just end up buying the premium back, just to support your work.

    Your premium pack wouldn’t happen to come with raw image files (such as the ‘burst’ image) in an Illustrator file, so I could PNG it on a tan background? I think that would look handsome against the blue content.

    Thanks again,

    Ansel

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    Comment made on January 18, 2010 at 7:55 pm

  23. Mike Jolley says:

    @Ansel Taft: No it doesn’t, but you can use http://www.stripegenerator.com/ and http://www.tartanmaker.com/ for the other styles if you wanted.

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    Comment made on January 19, 2010 at 2:16 pm

  24. joakim says:

    Mike: where do I change the name “Home” in the menu, the “back to top” etc to my own language? Which files?

    Thanks for great theme.

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    Comment made on January 19, 2010 at 11:27 pm

  25. Paul Hassels Mönning says:

    What does the premium pack consist of in terms of extra specs, UI and functionality? Does it equal the timvandamme.com look & feel or is it different? Thank you. @phasselsmonning

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    Comment made on January 20, 2010 at 12:31 pm

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