It started with this link (thread): <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14440507" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14440507</a><p>When I visited the link posted (<a href="http://danwang.co/" rel="nofollow">http://danwang.co/</a>), I found the site/theme to be quite elegant. In the footer, I found:<p>Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Manifest by Jim Barraud.<p>So I checked out Jim's site: <a href="http://jimbarraud.com/" rel="nofollow">http://jimbarraud.com/</a>
and from there, went on to the WordPress theme repo to find that the theme has been retired and no longer available for download: <a href="https://wordpress.com/theme/manifest" rel="nofollow">https://wordpress.com/theme/manifest</a><p>Luckily, Jim has the theme up on github:
<a href="https://github.com/jbarraud/Manifest" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jbarraud/Manifest</a>
so I downloaded it from there and tried to install it (via WP dashboard) but WordPress threw an error and aborted the installation. Manual (upload, extraction and) installation didn't work either.<p>Then I found Jim's post
<a href="http://jimbarraud.com/2016/01/21/an-update-on-manifest/" rel="nofollow">http://jimbarraud.com/2016/01/21/an-update-on-manifest/</a>
followed by several comments requesting an updated/working version of the theme but apparently Jim is not able to work on this presently.<p>Looking at the huge popularity (200k+ downloads, 20th most popular theme on WordPress repo according to Jim) and continuing demand for the theme, I thought of fixing it.<p>Turns out, there is just one line of (commented) code that needs to be added to the style.css file of the theme, and its good to go:<p>/*
Theme Name: Manifest
*/<p>I have now made a working version of the theme available for download:<p><a href="http://webpub.online/download-manifest-theme/" rel="nofollow">http://webpub.online/download-manifest-theme/</a><p>I think the WordPress community should thank HN for causing this revival. :-)