Serendipity Themes

We've produced quite a few Serendipity templates (also known as themes) for Serendipity. The themes seen below are the latest versions publicly available and may be different from the version available from the Spartacus repository. Not all of our templates are listed, they are still being updated.

Templates updated since November 2006 include the new navbar configurator allowing blog owners to specifiy the number of navbar links, special thanks to Matthias and Garvin. Check out the Serendipity lenspage for other serendipity template designers.

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Hawaii Template

A port of ceejay's popular pixabella05 template for Serendipity. This is a content first three column design that will surely become popular in the s9y world. Read the original post, or download the zipfile. New, January 2008

Affiliate Template

A template designed for affiliates who want a simple easy way of including banner ads in their pages. This template requires Serendipity v1.1 or higher. Read the original post, or download affiliate-template.zip. New, October 2007

Internet Market

Designed by Luka Cvrk, the Serendipity version of Internet Market is ported directly from the HTML version. The original HTML template was a standard three column design, but the Serendipity version has been modified to work in two column mode as well. Also, the theme configuration screen allows users to add a banner advertisement under the header, and a second within the blog entries. Download New, October 2007

Hemingway

The Hemingway template was originally designed by Warpspire and the Serendipity port was created from a request in the Serendipity forums. Hemingway is a v1.1 only template, don't try it in previous versions of Serendipity. Download Updated, January 2007

Carl01

This was my very first template for Serendipity and the new version merges the blue and green colorsets into a single template. It is still tables based but future updates might get converted to css only. Download New, January 2007

Christmas 2006

Merry Christmas everyone! This new template features a switchable sidebar, so it can be either on the left or right of the content. It also features several header images with the text written in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, or Maltese. Users of v1.1 of Serendipity can change these from within the 'manage styles' section of the s9y admin screen. Download New, December 2006

carl02

This template is a proof of concept that shows how to make colorsets apply to only parts of the template. It also demonstrates a changeable background image based on the combinations sidebar colors chosen. It will work in older versions of Serendipity but the new features which this template is designed around won't work without manually modifying some of the files. Download New, December 2006

Andreas09

One of Andreas Viklund's most popular designs the serendipity port is built on base code provided by Bex, and includes all six of Andreas' colorsets, and true three column mode. A version of this template has been produced that places the entries into their own box. Download November 2006 update

Andreas08

The original layout for this template comes from Andreas Viklund, but the Serendipity template has been heavily modified since it was first released. This version includes colorsets (blue, pink, maroon, green, and nuclear), and the sidebar can be positioned to the left or right of the content. Download November 2006 update

Ceejay01

Ceejay is particularly proud of this template, it being her first for Serendipity. It features an about box, several navigation links, and a search box in the header. The agapanthus was photographed by ceejay in our own front yard. Download November 2006 update

Chocolate Fudge

Designed by ceejay, Chocolate Fudge features an about box, and navigation links in the footer. Further updates to the template are planned. Download August 2006 update

Artistic

We loved Ricky Wilson's design from the first moment we saw it, and it was always a design that had to be converted to Serendipity. There are a couple of very innovative elements in this template, the navbar separated from the mainpage, the entry date and time, and the about box at the top of the right sidebar. Download November 2006 update

Smallbiz01

Our first template specifically designed to be used for a small business website, and with the static pages plugin added allows any business owner to easily create a stylish 4-5 page website with blog/news articles. Download

1024px

1024px was originally designed by Andreas Viklund. The serendipity version ships with two colorsets, blue and red, and also allows toggling of the sidebar position, left or right of the content. Download November 2006 update

Andreas00

Andreas00 takes all the best elements of Andreas Viklund's previous 0x series and puts them into a single gorgeous theme. Download

Be Nice

Originally created by Gigadesign. Be Nice ships with the layered photoshop files so colors can be changed. Serendipity version 1.1 allows toggling of the header image, with actress or without, and also allows editing of the navbar links. Download November 2006 update

Andreas06

Originally designed by Andreas Viklund. This template features a breadcrumb trail, and other extensive changes to the way a Serendipity template normally works. Download November 2006 update

Soccer 2006

FIFA 2006 World Cup inspired us to create this theme, and is suitable for any football fan or soccer club. The header title and navbar feature a transparent background, allowing the photo to show through. Download November 2006 update

Dusk

Dusk, designed by Rebecca Wei, came about from a request in the Serendipity forums, and turned into a series of posts about porting Wordpress themes to Serendipity. Read the dusk articles, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, and part 6. Download

Pink Lilies

Originally produced by Naoko M, Pink Lilies was a theme we did because we fell in love with the design work and realised from some of the emails we'd received that there is a demand for themes that appeal to our softer more femine side. Download

Bubblegum

Bubblegum came about from a special request by another user to heavily modify the Carl Blue theme so that it was a combination of Carl Blue and the Blue theme that ships with Serendipity. Download

Reflection

We loved working with Pat Heard's Softened Cells template so much we decided to port Reflection as well. The serendipity template includes the yellow and aqua colorsets. Download August 2006 update

Softened Cells and Sunset

The Softened Cells and Sunset templates were created by Pat Heard. The serendipity template includes Softened Cells, and Sunset, and are configured as colorsets. Download November 2006 update