The Digital Business Card WordPress Theme

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I’m proud to present The Digital Business Card WordPress Theme for public release and download!

Want a copy? Read more about the release, look at some nice screen caps, and download after the jump…

Let’s Keep it Simple…

This theme release was originally a design project customized theme project for a client who was actually willing to give it away to the community after we finished! Seriously, what a nice guy.

Obviously inspired by sites like Card.ly and Tim Van Damme, this theme is perfect for those that need a good “Digital Business Card” or “Digital Curriculum Vitae” or “Personal Branding Landing Page” or even if you simply need a simple website with a few bits of information and links to social networks.

As you can see there are 15 social networks built in (and 50+ more included as alternatives that you can add if you’d like):

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With some sleek-sliding jQuery-action, some very sexy social networking icons courtesy of Komodo Media, and an easy to use control panel you’ll be up and running with the quickness!

Check it out:

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Demo and Download

Want to see it in action? Check out this live demo here.

Ready to download this thing? Click here to get your copy.

Updated! Made some small changes, download here!

Version 2 has been released, WordPress 3.0 compatible and fixed a few “bugs” that caused images to not load properly!

Get Version 2.0 here!

This blog is no longer hosting the download link. Please visit TentBlogger WordPress Themes for the download!

You (like many others) will probably want to get a new domain name for your Digital Business Card, so if you’re in the market for a new host, I’ve got a cool promo here for cheap!

Love to hear your thoughts and let me know if you’re using it! And don’t forget that I have another “Personal Branding WordPress Theme” here called Ipseity!

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327 thoughts on “The Digital Business Card WordPress Theme

  1. Stoked about trying this. Now I just need to decide if I want to get a new url or create a sub-domain. What would go well with WayneCordova.com ? Any thoughts?

  2. Hey Guys, the original visiting card theme from PremiumThemes.net looks lot better than this.

    You should have atleast provided credit to them.

  3. Thanks for a great theme John (and your generous client as well). I've stood up a quick version at http://www.marcbentonresume.com . Yes, I did use a unique URL for it.

    You mentioned in the write-up that there were 50+ more alternative sites that could be included. Any way to access them or am I just not seeing it?

  4. Thanks John, I have been wanting to do something different with my design webspace for a little while and this is the tool.
    Thanks man really appreciate it.

  5. This theme is awesome. I won't be using it, but it looks awesome. I wish I could use it on kevs.tel, but .TEL domains can't be hosted outside the given servers where it'll display the same boring page for all .TEL domains.

  6. Very slick!

    For people who are thinking about different domains, you could set this as a subdomain – for example if your blog is running at http://www.yourname.com you could use me.yourname.com to run this as a separate profile space.

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  8. John, I love this, i just need to figure out what to do for a url name…Jim Gray is taken…i own beaconhillnw.com and commentingninja.com…anyone have any good ideas for me?

  9. John, I noticed one thing. Under Theme options/contact info. The blog address bar says to use http:// but when I do this, it doubles the http:// up and makes the page not exist. If I remove the http:// from the blog address line, it works fine. I did notice the verbage underneath that line said "include http://" but it does not need it.

    Also made some background color and icon changes.

    Love the them!

  10. John. Lovein the theme – http://ryanburns.me
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    I was trying to get the title tag to not display "Digital Business Card – Profile." Technically, the title tag does show the title I want, but the javascript seems to overwrite it with the message above. Since I have limited JS skills, I can't find where to modify this. Any pointers?

    Thanks for the theme!

  11. Great stuff John. Trying to decide if I want to buy .me or go the subdomain route that Chris mentioned… decisions, decisions.

  12. Playing with the theme (again, love it!) and wondered how I could make the contact page the landing page. Any tips? Also, I hate asking "support/help" question on free themes, so can I get your paypal email so I can buy you a cup of coffee or something?

  13. I keep trying to install the theme to a sub-domain and I keep getting this error:

    Warning: file(/home/waynecordova/meet.waynecordova.com/wp-content/themes/DigitalBusinessCard/style.css) [function.file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/waynecordova/meet.waynecordova.com/wp-includes/theme.php on line 180

    Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in /home/waynecordova/meet.waynecordova.com/wp-includes/theme.php on line 180

    Not sure what to do, I'm still learning wordpress… Any help?

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  35. Thank you for this idea, but, as pointed also by others before, I would like also to have the contact page as default. I tried to default the theme to a new page with the link to http://www.tertulia.ro/#contact by creating a page with the following as title <a title="Contact" href="http://www.tertulia.ro/#contact">Contact – trick that worked for normal themes in WordPress. Here it doesn't seem to work. Is there any option to default to the Contact page?

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  44. how do i edit this to display the contact page first. or both pages together? if i disable javascript its *perfect* (the stars indicate a sense of urgency and desire for this other format).
    someone please help. my life depends on this change. nothing in the universe is more important (or ever will be)

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  47. Awesome theme dude! Id like some advice on domains. Michaelmurphy.com .co.uk .me are all taken and i want to start using the digital bus card rather than paper versions. I dont want to use a sub domain, does anyone have any ideas for me?

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  53. Ok John be proud of me, I read every single comment pertinent comment here to make sure that my question wasn't already answered. Would you be terribly offended if I removed your link in the footer? I mean, GPL vs. CC, you won't mind, right?

    I'm running it here.

    P.S. Don't worry about the people who don't seem to understand WP, it's called life, they'll figure it out. Just keep cranking out those themes, the rest of the world will love you for it. :D

  54. Ok John be proud of me, I read every single comment pertinent comment here to make sure that my question wasn't already answered. Would you be terribly offended if I removed your link in the footer? I mean, GPL vs. CC, you won't mind, right?

    I'm running it here.

    P.S. Don't worry about the people who don't seem to understand WP, it's called life, they'll figure it out. Just keep cranking out those themes, the rest of the world will love you for it. :D

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  69. Wish your business card theme was available via WordPress’s Themes directory. I’m not sure how you get one listed, but it would be cool. Nothing came up like it when you search for businesses card, or put the name of your theme in there.

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  73. Dear Theme creator,

    this theme is awesome! I have been looking for something like this for years! Is there any way to add aditional pages, for example, I would like to add a page for my curriculum vitae. thanks!

  74. Thank you very much!

    I’ll make this my main theme for my personal domain name.

    Thanks again!

  75. Can I add another tab like Profiles and Contact.. Juz wanna add an about me paragraph.

  76. John, most excellent theme. I haven’t the time to devote to a personal blog, so this works perfect for me.

    Having a bit of a problem with the sexybookmarks (http://sexybookmarks.net/documentation/usage-installation) plugin though. I’m working with the plugin developer and he hasn’t been able to fix it yet. Wondering if you might know anything about why it wont work with this theme and what I can do to fix it? I’m trying to add the bookmarks just after “The DBC Theme” as you can see on my site. All I get are the links.

    Thanks in advance for any insight. Wish I knew .php.

    • The plugin developer fixed the problem. Apparently the theme didn’t have in the header.php file. Might want to add it for future versions/themes. Thanks again for a great theme John.

  77. I love the idea… however, is it possible for me to easily edit the icons used – and the links where they go, so I can put book covers in place of the icons and url pointing to the sales page for the book?

  78. Awesome Theme! Thank you so much. I put it up for homie’s page at http://maddchadd.com. I’d actually love to take away the navigation as a and place the networks all on one page vertically. I don’t know how but do you mind if I mess with it? Or even better if you have time feel free to toss me some hints.

    Either way I really appreciate you developing this. THANKS!

    ace

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  97. Really fantastic theme mate! Very easy but effective. Just skinned this beauty at: arkarthick.com/about/ -I’ve a Q though (I’m a newbie to WP!) How to add my tumblr link to my profiles page? Thanks in advance.

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  111. Well, I have to say, I’ve been looking at a lot of wordpress themes over the past month and yours has really caught my attention. It’s quick and easy to scan, looks fun, lots of buttons to push. . .give me a little time and I’ll think of other things to say about it. Question though, I clicked on the wordpress button and went to your named page but it didn’t link to your human3rror blog?? Reason?

    Anyway, I’m looking forward to trying it. It has sparked my imagination and ignited possibilities. I’ll let you know how it works out.

    Tom Kaye
    triplexcure.com

  112. This is a wonderful theme. Simple and to the point. Thanks for taking the time to create it and share it!

    I also wanted to quickly point out to any readers who are using some Google Analytics WP Plugin, that this theme is not compatible with them. However, you can easily add your analytics account ID to the footer file using the instructions at the Analytics website.

    John, I don’t know if a lot of your theme users use GA, but any plans to integrate it into your theme?

  113. great theme

    i read all the comments but i continue without understanding how i can change the pages order…

    i mean, i read a lot of times that i only need to change a line of code…but never found what line was that :P

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  117. John:

    I love the digital business card theme and understand that I need a secondary domain name, however, do I need to set up a second hosting account for the business card page separate from my blog hosting?

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  120. Could you post on your blog or somewhere how to add additional social networks to the “Profiles” page/tab? I can’t figure it out and I don’t want to trash any of the code in the theme! Thanks!

  121. Looking forward to trying this! Thanks for the awesome info…keep up the good work!

  122. I think i am going to use this Theme :) Nice guy
    Great stuff , Keep the good work

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  125. Looking forward to trying this theme out..I have a few sites which could do with a makeover and a more professional appearance..

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  127. Nice, this is going to prove to be very useful. I’ve seen some people already using digital business cards that are designed really nicely.

  128. Greetings Mike!
    Just wanted to take this moment and say THANK YOU for this lovely theme!
    I’m using it for two different personal profile sites…
    One for myself (which i’m still working on launching)
    and the other my partner’s, which i managed to tweak a little :)
    Thought i’d share with you and all whom are using your fabulousness!
    Check it out http://radiatinglove.me

    I’m happy to help anyone needing assistance with tweaking or customizing :)

    My appreciation again!!!
    Blessed Light & L❤ve
    Aline [ArtWave]

  129. ooops…i called you Mike eek…so sorry i meant “John” :)
    My apologies.

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  132. Hi there,

    I’m currently putting a dedicated WordPress Hosting service together. I’d like to include DBC as a pre-installed theme, is that OK?

    Thanks ;-)

  133. Having just ordered physical cards for my business showing people how to earn money online by giving away a free software, I can now use this for all my online work.

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  135. Very interesting! I’m not fan of version 2 but it doesn’t really mater.
    On my new site for example (http://www.net-voyance.fr/) the title you can see in the DOM is “Net voyance” but I don’t know why in the browser it says : Digital business card – Profiles ?

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  139. There is a bug with this whereby if you go to the #contact panel and refresh, or even hit that panel first, then the height of the frame boarding the content is calculated prior to the photograph loading and therefore displays incorrectly. Tested in IE8, Chrome and Safari 5.

    Secondly I would question why this needs to be a wordpress theme? Surely it would be as effective, load far faster and put less load on the webserver if it was a bare html page?

    Other than that it looks visually very pleasing.

      • I could replicate it with the new version whereby hitting a # page uncached would result in the height being incorrect. Anyway, after much playing I managed to get it to do what I wanted and would like to thank you for the inspiration (and a few blocks of code). I now have a love-hate relationship with jQuery.

        • Hey, im also getting the issue with the border cutting off my picture when I change the order of the pages. Ive checked a bunch of other sites using the theme and they all do the same (Sept 2011) so I assume they are all on the newest version.

          Has anyone got a tip for this? Ive checked the JQuery and all the php pages but cant seem to find a direct ref to it (although im not brilliant with code…). Any help or just a shove in the right direction or file would be a mega help.

          Amazing site, thank you so much for your generosity.

          Paul

  140. would you mind to give me a hand on mine please? i posted my DigitalBusinessCard in the “public_html” on my server and i tried to access the index.php before i make my own card but all i got is a blank page (??). what’s wrong?

    this is my folder tree:
    /home/ha991381/public_html/DigitalBusinessCard
    images/
    js/
    profiles/

    look at this please: http://www.labunix.uqam.ca/~ha991381/DigitalBusinessCard/

    thanks a lot for your help ;)
    cheers,
    christine

  141. Wow, I landed the perfect solution for myself and a couple of my clients! Thanks so much this will come in handy , gonna put up my page today! Simple and wonderful looking!

    Jemma

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  143. Listen. I don’t believe this. My site visitors skyrocketed to 5381 hits a day organic traffic since I began implementing this. To anyone interested go to http:// bit.ly/cu8nsu. Have fun.

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  147. so what’s the deal with the install? do i need to set up a whole new instance of WP and use this a the theme? i was hoping this was a plugin i could use on my existing site

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  149. Hey John,

    You said “As you can see there are 15 social networks built in (and 50+ more included as alternatives that you can add if you’d like):”

    I can’t find any options for additional social networks – there are icons in the /images folder, but no options in theme. Do I have to add manually in functions.php?

    Thanks,

  150. I just had a quick question. Would I be able to add my companies logo pic with a link to my site?

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  159. Very cool, I am just starting to learn about blogging and wordpress, so I am reading every article I can find. I will definitely use this template on my WordPress website that I am building, thank you very much for sharing this template.

    Stacy Renee
    http://www.spikel.com

  160. This business card is elegant, but yet so simple, and the guys are going to just give it away. very cool. Thank you all for posting this for everyone.

    Stacy Renee
    My Facebook

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