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

November 10, 2009 | Published in: Web design & development | Tags: , , , , , , 165
Updated: September 5, 2010

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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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

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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  1. john says:

    Hi,

    How does it work with updates if I buy the paid-version – does it comes updates anytime or had you drop this project totally off? Could you not add Gowalla (http://www.gowalla.com), as a Social-icon?

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    Comment made on January 21, 2010 at 12:23 am

  2. john again says:

    And how has you doing that your username at the Twitter is not showing at the theme when you do a Tweet? When I do that it shows my username before the tweet?

    Thanks.

    ReplyReply

    Comment made on January 21, 2010 at 12:29 am

  3. Hara Kim says:

    How do I add more/different social icons?

    ReplyReply

    Comment made on January 21, 2010 at 4:42 am

  4. Mike Jolley says:

    @joakim: Header and footer.php, or create a language file.

    @Paul Hassels Mönning: Theres a big section in the post on what you get; feed functionality and some extra themes. And that does not equal Tim’s look and feel because using his exact design would be wrong.

    @john: Premium gets updated (I notify on twitter and via posts) – the download link will always remain the same.

    @john again: There is an option in Admin > Theme Options for removing that part of the string.

    @Hara Kim: At the moment, by editing the theme files. In the future Im adding something for custom links.

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    Comment made on January 21, 2010 at 2:23 pm

  5. Hara Kim says:

    If I set a page as the homepage how do I create a page for the social icons? I don’t see a social icon template in the page templates.

    Also for the page titles how can I make so it is in this format.

    Homepage is “Tagline | Blog Title”
    All other Content “Title | Blog Title”

    ReplyReply

    Comment made on January 25, 2010 at 6:37 am

  6. Mike Jolley says:

    @Hara Kim: The template is called ‘Home’ and should appear in the list on the edit page screen.

    For the titles try headspace or all in one seo pack.

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    Comment made on January 27, 2010 at 11:52 am

  7. Mike says:

    I can’t seem to get the ‘what I’m saying’ feed to work. I enable it in the options and add he urls for twitter.

    On the front page it creates the space but doesn’t add any tweets

    An ideas?

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    Comment made on February 3, 2010 at 2:13 pm

  8. Mike Jolley says:

    @Mike: Looks like there was an error – possibly related to no cache directory. Turn on debug mode and see if anything crops up relating to the feeds page.

    define('WP_DEBUG', true);

    ^ In wp-config.php

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    Comment made on February 3, 2010 at 2:44 pm

  9. Mike says:

    OK I have added that in to WP-Config and it returns nothing for your theme :( Some errors for the contact plugin which I have disabled now.

    Just to check I have added :

    Twitter|http://twitter.com|http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/21036658.rss

    in to the feed urls

    ReplyReply

    Comment made on February 3, 2010 at 3:02 pm

  10. Mike Jolley says:

    @Mike: First thing I see is you have the theme in themes/minicard/ rather than just themes/.

    Next, check file permissions of the feed.php file in minicard/premium/ – it should be readable (so should the premium folder).

    The feed you have added is fine (but you may want to add your username to the twitter url).

    ReplyReply

    Comment made on February 3, 2010 at 3:48 pm

  11. Mike Jolley says:

    @Mike: See how my feed.php is readable and outputs my feed – http://mikejolley.com/wp-content/themes/minicard/premium/feed.php

    ReplyReply

    Comment made on February 3, 2010 at 3:49 pm

  12. Mike says:

    First thing I see is you have the theme in themes/minicard/ rather than just themes/.

    Hmmm ok don’t know why that happened but sorted that now..

    And it works.

    Cheers :)

    ReplyReply

    Comment made on February 3, 2010 at 4:37 pm

  13. Niels says:

    Hello Mike,

    thank you for the great theme!

    Is there any possibility to add http://www.xing.com as a comparable networking site like Linked In?

    Regards,

    Niels

    ReplyReply

    Comment made on February 4, 2010 at 2:08 am

  14. Jason says:

    @Mike Jolley:

    Hello Mike,

    Great theme, really love it!!

    Are you further in the progress of adding links, simply by adding a icon/shortcut to the image folder?

    Thanks

    ReplyReply

    Comment made on February 15, 2010 at 1:57 am

  15. Kecap says:

    Hi i am wondering can i edit this theme,or its protected by copyright because i wanna make my own theme??

    ReplyReply

    Comment made on February 15, 2010 at 12:05 pm

  16. Mike Jolley says:

    @Niels: @Jason: Feature is coming – just working around my client work.

    @Kecap: Its GPL licensed.

    ReplyReply

    Comment made on February 20, 2010 at 3:26 pm

  17. taylorishere says:

    I posted in the forums, but how do I change the background? I want to put it in. I did a little hack by replacing the “burst” image with my own, but now I want to move it (by adding no-repeat, push it to the left side, etc)

    What is the CSS selector I should be changing?

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    Comment made on February 21, 2010 at 10:33 pm

  18. hinfra says:

    Hi,

    If I change the permanent links, the theme only shows the main section all the time.

    Like: http://localhost/wp/2010/02/sample-post/

    Is there a way to fix it?

    Thanks.

    ReplyReply

    Comment made on February 22, 2010 at 2:17 am

  19. Tanguy says:

    Hello Mike,

    Thanks, love your theme but got a strange problem : on the feed part if I put a blog RSS it works great.
    But if I try to put Twitter’s rss it’s not working got the “No Item found” message…

    Here the synthax :
    Twitter|http://twitter.com|http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/3939601.rss

    I have read there could be a problem with the permissions files (could you tell me the numerical valor I should use under Filezilla ?)

    My URL : http://www.tanguy.me

    Thanks !

    ReplyReply

    Comment made on February 26, 2010 at 10:55 pm

  20. Mike Jolley says:

    @Tanguy: In the premium pack give feed.php 755 permissions. Navigate to it in your browser to check you can access it fine.

    ReplyReply

    Comment made on February 27, 2010 at 11:18 am

  21. Tanguy says:

    Hello Mike

    Thanks for your answer, could you add me on Twitter so we can discuss because I have 755 permissions but still got the message “no items found” on Twitter feeds, really don’t know why :(

    Thanks,

    ReplyReply

    Comment made on February 28, 2010 at 7:57 am

  22. Mike Jolley says:

    @Tanguy: Go to the feeds page directly and see what happens. If you can see the page and still ‘no items found’ edit feed.php and try increasing the ‘define(‘MAGPIE_FETCH_TIME_OUT’, 10);’ to 30.

    ReplyReply

    Comment made on February 28, 2010 at 3:00 pm

  23. Abi says:

    Hi, I am trying to set up my site so my blog posts show up under the “notebook” tab. i looked through the earlier posts and found your instructions to “Create a page called blog, then set up the options in Admin > Options > Reading to set it as the blog page.” I’m a bit confused about these instructions, and I wonder if you could explain them in a bit more detail? Thank you!

    ReplyReply

    Comment made on March 1, 2010 at 11:59 pm

  24. Mike Jolley says:

    @Abi: Read here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

    ReplyReply

    Comment made on March 2, 2010 at 5:40 pm

  25. keven says:

    as

    ReplyReply

    Comment made on March 3, 2010 at 4:07 am

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