Updates to WP-Andreas09 and Chameleon
I have made a minor update to WP-Andreas09 to fix a “text wrapping round images” bug in Internet Explorer. This was only a minor problem and I really should have done it sooner but I kept forgetting.
I have also uploaded the localised version of the Chameleon theme. So far there are no translation files available but watch this space - as soon as there are I will let you know.
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July 29th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
Speaking of Andreas 09, I am trying to find the code in the CSS sheet that puts a border around images. Could you point me in the right direction? I believe it’s under /* Image Display */ in style.css but not sure which one to mess with.
July 30th, 2006 at 1:42 am
Ok, I just answered my own question. It appears that the border of any inserted images falls in the .entry img, .entrytext img category.
August 1st, 2006 at 8:32 pm
Your update post is dated July 28th, but the download file is dated April 23rd. Have you put the updated files up yet?
August 4th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Hey, WordPress.com has pushed WP-Andreas09 into v2.0!
August 5th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
Hi,
I am using your theme for a site i am developing and would like to know how to have some space between each of the post titles which are listed in the recent posts on the right sidebar.
The recent posts are too close together, maybe i could bullet point them but im no sure how to do this.
Keep up the great work.
Alan
August 7th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
RC, glad to see you have found it.
Kevin, the file was definitely updated but I didn’t update the date as it was only a very minor tweak.
Andreas, good news indeed! Thanks for the tip off.
Alan, I’ll send you an email and try to explain what you need to do.
August 7th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
I am wondering what may have been changed to the blockquote paragraph spacing. In my blockquotes, the do not separate the paragraphs with an empty space but rather seem to use
August 7th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
oops, noobie alert.
“In my blockquotes, the paragraph tags do not separate the paragraphs with an empty space but rather seem to use the linebreak tag”
August 7th, 2006 at 10:27 pm
I can’t remember changing this but it seems that the paragraphs aren’t separating and it may be a css problem. I will put this onto my todo list and try and fix it as soon as I have time.
August 8th, 2006 at 7:37 am
I am a huge chameleon fan, but this is a wp-andreas09 question.
On version 1.9, you can use the ul class=”box” to create a box around normal href links, ie they look the same as categories. In version 2.0, how can I make the change? I have tried just about everything. I just want a normal href link show up with box formatting. Thanks in advance!
August 8th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
When the theme was widget enabled I changed to code so that archives and categories had the box whether they were on the left or right and the other links didn’t as many people didn’t want them.
If you put this code (based on the original)into your style.css file you should be able to use the class=”box” on the ul as you used to do:
ul.box li a {
background:#e8e9ea;
border:1px solid #b0b0b0;
color:#606060;
display:block;
margin-top:8px;
padding:5px 4px 4px 10px;
position:relative;
text-transform: capitalize;
width:140px;
}
ul.box li a:hover {
background:#f8f9fa;
border:1px solid #909090;
color:#303030;
text-decoration:none;
}
I haven’t tested this but I think it will work. Any problems let me know.
August 9th, 2006 at 3:01 am
thanks a million, it works like a charm.
August 9th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
No problem, glad to help.
August 19th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
Hello all, especially Ainslie,
has anyone else had a problem with “text wrapping round images” with Chameleon in IE? (Better yet, I hope that this was the right problem.) In IE, using Chameleon, I seem to have a problem with images, especially thumbnails. And the text wrapping seems to have a problem too. But only in IE. Works like a charm in Firefox. (Incidently, this may also be due to the fact that I widended Chameleon to fit almost the entire page.)
Thanks a bunch
August 19th, 2006 at 4:42 pm
Ok…this was really a case of speaking before experimenting. I put the width of Chameleon to what it was supposed to be and now there is no more a picture/wrap problem.
I have two sites, one runnig Andreas09 and one running Chameleon. Is there anyway to have Chameleon take up the whole page, like Andreas09 or is that a complicated issue?
(Ainslie, I promise to send you soon the website with your theme — which is in Persian — but I fear that I have done such an injustice to your theme in trying to localize it that I am a little ashamed of showing it.)
August 19th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
It should be possible to alter the width but there is a section in the css that is specific to IE as it does not understand min and max width.
You would need to delete the min-width and max-width from #wrap and add width: 90%; (or whatever value you want).
Then you would need to delete the whole of * html div#wrap. (IE Specific)
I think that should do it but have not tested it!
August 19th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
BTW Have you used PoEdit to localise it? that is by far the easiest option.
September 9th, 2006 at 9:35 am
1) is possible to introduce in the header a logo (logo.jpg) and if is possible, seen my incompetence, introducing what code and where?
2) the translation, where and how goes been depicted?
September 9th, 2006 at 9:58 am
1) Check out this post: http://webgazette.co.uk/2006/07/10/adding-a-custom-header-to-wp-andrea s09-with-css/
2) Drop the .mo and .po files into the theme folder and make sure that you edit your wp-config.php file. Where it says “WP-LANG” edit the language/country code to be the same as the translation files and all should work.
October 28th, 2006 at 1:10 pm
Evening, apologies for a CSS newbie question, but I’m trying to find the section that controls the colour hyperlinks are displayed as, could you help?
Unless I’ve done something to the code myself, and forgotten, links in posts are appearing as a dark (grey/black?) colour, and a couple of visitors have commented it is sometimes difficult to pick out links from normal text.
Other than that, the theme suits my site perfectly, so thank you very much…
http://www.ChrisMerriman.com
October 29th, 2006 at 11:24 am
Hi Chris,
If you look in the theme folder you will see a folder called options.
If you open this up the link colours are styled in the individual colour style sheets.
Hope that helps.
November 26th, 2006 at 10:45 pm
Perfect, sorry for the delay in getting back to you, I forgot to check for a reply until today.
I’ll go and have a quick look now.
Once again, thanks for taking the time to post…
OK, had a look, and not certain which value to alter -
/* Anchor Colour */
a {
color: #666666;
}
a:hover {
color: #999999;
}
/* Header Image */
#header {
background: #000000 url(images/black-header.jpg) repeat-x top left;
}
/* Header Title and Description */
#header h1 a {
color: #fff;
}
#header h1 a:hover {
color: #ffff00;
}
#header h2 {
color: #ffff00;
}
/* Horizontal Navigation */
#navigation {
background: #000000;
}
#navigation li a {
color: #fff;
}
#navigation li a:hover {
color: #ffff00;
}
#navigation li.current_page_item a {
color: #ffff00;
}
/* Sub-page Menu */
#subpage ul {
background: #808080;
}
#subpage ul li {
color: #000;
}
#subpage ul li a {
color: #fff;
}
#subpage ul li a:hover {
color: #ffff00;
}
/* Postmetadata */
.postmetadata {
background: #ffff99;
}
/* Alternating Comment Colour */
.alt {
background: #ffff99;
}
/* Footer */
#footer {
background: #000000 url(images/black-footer.jpg) repeat-x top left;
}
#footer p {
color: #fff;
}
#footer a {
color: #ffff00;
}
blockquote {
border-left: 5px solid #000000;
}
sorry for making this page so long….
November 26th, 2006 at 11:24 pm
Hi Chris
The first two are what you need to edit:
/* Anchor Colour */
a {
color: #666666;
}
a:hover {
color: #999999;
}
The “a” is the normal link colour and the “a:hover” is when you hover over the link.
You need to change the hex colour code to whatever you want that looks like #666666 above.
Hope that helps.
November 27th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
[...] Finally, my HHUUGGEE thanks to the creator of the theme I use for this site; for a while I’d wanted to alter the colours used for hyperlinks - whilst the previous grey was definitely in keeping with the black version of Chameleon I’d chosen, a couple of visitors had mentioned that when I post links, it wasn’t very obvious sometimes. I found this to be true when I’d been up all night, and ended up randomly pushing the cursor around until I found what I needed. Anyway, I digress, Ainslie spotted my request 1/2 day after I added it on one of his posts. I then neglected to check back for an answer for a while, and when I discovered his speedy response, I followed up with another query (still a newbie with CSS - I can bodge/cut’n’paste/guess some things, but I wasn’t sure which value to alter for link colours…). Lo and behold, some 39 minutes later, he had the answer. [...]
November 27th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
wow, came over here to post another quick thanks, and saw the message above.
Is that system of automatically posting excerpts of posts that mention this page something related to trackbacks?
If anyone has a moment, could they point me to a dummies guide to it, and whether it would be a PITA to install/activate on my site, I know my posts have a trackback link, but do I need a special plugin/widget to have comments posted automatically when someone uses the permanent link (assuming that is basically what a trackback is?) to a post?
November 27th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
As long as you have these two enabled in the discussion options they should work without anything else:
# Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)
# Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)
November 27th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Thanks once more for the speedy response.
Yep, those options are enabled already. I know some of my posts have been referred to by other people, but thinking about it, I’m not at all certain if they used the TrackBack URL. I noticed yours is just the plain normal address, whereas mine apparently needs /trackback/ tacked on the end.
Is there anything you can recommend to try? Happy to go delving into any normal text based config files, not at all sure what I’m doing with SQL, in case that limits any solutions. (Can’t imagine it involves playing with things at that level, but just in case…)
I’ve mirrored this comment on your site, in case the answer helps other people in the future. (I imagine your site might just get a little more traffic than mine ;>)(comment originally posted on my site, in case the preceeding sentences make even less sense than normal…)
November 28th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
Hi Chris,
Mine has the /trackback/ on the end too! (check it out in the metadata above).
If you post a link to a post in your post it does the same thing as manually entering the trackback address in the trackbacks box.
Since you are using the Chameleon theme it should be the same as I have here unless you have made changes. So don’t worry I am sure it is working.
December 8th, 2006 at 10:57 am
Thanks, not sure why I’ve not seen any pop up then, but I’ll leave for another day. More likely next year ;>
Thanks again…
December 8th, 2006 at 10:59 am
[...] Oh and the theme currently used on this blog is Ainslie Johnson’s Chameleon 1.1. You can discuss it here. [...]