WP-Andreas09 - Now With Added Colour
I have been slowly but steadily working on version 2 of WP-Andreas09 over the last week.
The sub-page navigation is working fine but it will only display 1 level of sub-pages. Any more and it breaks so this theme may not be suitable if you want to use more.
I have found another dynamic sub-page plugin that looks like it may be much better. My initial impression is that it will display as many levels as needed, but I still need to have a good play with it to see what is possible. To use this plug-in for the navigation will also mean that the horizontal menu will need recoding and styling from scratch.
The theme now has a total of 14 colour variations. This includes the 6 originals, 6 striped ones, a nice blue colour that was kindly donated by Isecore and a pretty pink. The links are also colour matched to the image colours. I don’t know whether to add more colours. It would be quite easy to keep going adding variations but you have to stop somewhere.
I’ve also managed to tidy the code up, so some of the page display problems will now be fixed. These only seemed to show up on older version of IE so probably weren’t visible to most.
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March 25th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
Great Work!
Thank you!
Karl
March 25th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
Another sub-page plugin? Where can I find it?
WP-Andreas01 supports a whole lot of sub-page levels, although not in the way I would want to as all levels are shown at once instead of having one level appear at the time. A plugin that could handle several levels would be very welcome.
March 25th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
Awesome! I’m using the original WP-Andreas09 on my blog right now, but a different color might fit better, and subpage display would be great. (I’ve added in a bit of that support on the current version. . .but I’m not too well-versed in WP theme design)
March 25th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
Andreas, a zip is on its way to you via email. It will handle the whole menu or can be configured, I think, to just do the lower levels.
March 27th, 2006 at 9:43 am
I am using your theme to set up a platform to increase interaction in our network (vision: to enhance the wellbeing and prosperity of humankind, by promoting values-based leadership in business) so in a sense your work is helping the prosperity of humankind as well - nice feeling eh?
Right now there is a blog facility only in the main EBBF BLOG HOME (which works fine).
I would also like to be able for readers to post comments also in the EBBF LIVE PROJECTS and the INSPIRE … BACK subpages.
The only solution I found so far is that when you click in a subpage you are sent to another blog (see the INSPIRE … BACK example). It does not look right.
Could you suggest a solution?
In the meantime MANY thanks for your creation!
All the best
Daniel
March 27th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
Hi Ainslie
good news. In the color menu, does it have a pure black variation? Seems you gave up the idea of allowing a custom image for the header (maybe not possible cause of wordpress policy?). hope you haven’t forgotten about allowing comments on pages.
Thanks for the heads up and your efforts.
March 27th, 2006 at 8:06 pm
I haven’t mentioned it but I am planning to enable comments on pages. Daniel - This would allow your readers to post there feedback on any page, just like the regular blog entries. This may be a suitable method for you.
A pure black can be added very easily. As far as the customisable header is concerned I have not really thought about it yet.
Wrnc - Even though I am making version 2, the WordPress.com team may not update it when it is released. They have already modified their version to include features that were not included in my version. If you want the updated version it you may have to request it.
March 27th, 2006 at 9:49 pm
Hi,
one question : does the Theme support the Sidbar Editor Panel?
i do not see an entry on the presentation tab.
Greetings
Karl
March 27th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
That is a WordPress.com addition so I am afraid it does not.
March 28th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
The “Subscribe” links on the site are broken. They use “feed:http://realtyobjectives.com/blog/?feed=rss2″ which does not resolve in IE. If I take out the first word “feed”, it works. How can I do that?
Thank you!
Russ
March 28th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Russ,
If you open the right-sidebar.php file and scroll down about half way you will see the two links for the feeds.
Once you have found the lines just remove the “feed:” from each one.
March 28th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
I did. The code now reads:
Subscribe
“Entries (RSS)
Still did not fix the problem.
???
Thx!
March 28th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
oops, put in the html. maybe this will work….
a href=”">Entries (RSS)
March 28th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
Ainslie,
It did work after all. My changes needed to resolve with my host. I think all is well for now.
Thank you!!
Russ
March 28th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
OK, another issue. When I scroll up and down on my site (www.realtyobjectives.com), the text gets all screwed up. Is this a problem with the .css file? Thoughts?
Thx!
Russ
March 29th, 2006 at 12:01 am
I can see a lot of errors in your code.
I would try and clean these up if you can as I have not had many reports of that problem and I think they may have something to do with it.
March 29th, 2006 at 1:07 am
I don’t know why there would be errors because I downloaded the zipfile off of Andreas’ site and loaded onto the server as is. Any suggestions on where to start. Should I reload the css file?
Thx!
Russ
March 29th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
Ainslie,
Need your help. When I make a post, the presentation indicates “no comments”. I would like to change “no comments” to read “add a comment”
How might I do this?
Russ
March 29th, 2006 at 8:34 pm
Ok one at a time, first I was referring to errors in the “post” html. There are a lot of font tags. I saw about 5 font size=”3″ in one line. If you look at the source for you page you should be able to see them. Are you posting with the WP editor or are you using another posting tool?
To change the “no comments” you need to edit a few files to be consistent across different views of your site. Look at: line 16 - 17 of Index.php, line 23 - 24 of comments.php and line 40 - 41 of archive.php. You will see the “no comments” there in the text - all you have to do is change the text to “add a comment”. Be sure to only change the text between the single quotes.
March 29th, 2006 at 11:52 pm
Ainslie
you have been SO helpful. I (think) I made the changes you suggested. However, the “no comment” link still shows up on the front page but when you drill down into a category and pull up a post in that category, it has now changed to “Add a Comment”
The revisions to the code in the Index and Archive files was straightforward. However, the Comments file did not have “no comments” in single quotes. There was a couple of references to no comment but they were in double quotes. Does this make a difference.
you can take a peak at http://www.realtyobjectives.com
Thx!!!
March 30th, 2006 at 2:30 am
Ainslie,
I got it fixed. THANK YOU!
March 30th, 2006 at 11:57 am
Great Stuff,
didn’t quite get the comments.php right as they are different but you got there in the end.
Good luck.