Comments on: Wordpress 2.1 & a new theme http://rewindblog.com/2007/01/wordpress-21-a-new-theme/ all the tech news unfit to print elsewhere Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:56:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Small Potato http://rewindblog.com/2007/01/wordpress-21-a-new-theme/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Small Potato Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:15:27 +0000 http://www.dodd.org/blog/2007/01/wordpress-21-a-new-theme/#comment-9 Weldon, I started messing around with widgetizing sidebars just recently and wasn't aware of multiple widget-ready sidebars instruction on the automattic website (where the widget plugin originated...i think). Anyway, just wanted to let you know that this theme has been updated with two widget-ready sidebars and a smaller textarea box with only 60cols. 70-75 would do, but I wanted to make sure. Weldon,

I started messing around with widgetizing sidebars just recently and wasn’t aware of multiple widget-ready sidebars instruction on the automattic website (where the widget plugin originated…i think).

Anyway, just wanted to let you know that this theme has been updated with two widget-ready sidebars and a smaller textarea box with only 60cols. 70-75 would do, but I wanted to make sure.

]]> By: weldon http://rewindblog.com/2007/01/wordpress-21-a-new-theme/comment-page-1/#comment-10 weldon Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:31:38 +0000 http://www.dodd.org/blog/2007/01/wordpress-21-a-new-theme/#comment-10 For what it's worth, I widgetized both the right and left sidebars. I think it took two new lines of code (adding the if loop to the left sidebar) and two edits to existing lines (adding arguments to the sidebar registration and dynamic sidebar functions to specify two sidebars). For what it’s worth, I widgetized both the right and left sidebars. I think it took two new lines of code (adding the if loop to the left sidebar) and two edits to existing lines (adding arguments to the sidebar registration and dynamic sidebar functions to specify two sidebars).

]]> By: Small Potato http://rewindblog.com/2007/01/wordpress-21-a-new-theme/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Small Potato Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:59:43 +0000 http://www.dodd.org/blog/2007/01/wordpress-21-a-new-theme/#comment-8 Sorry about that, I didn't know exactly what to do with the sidebars so I widgetized only one. As for the textarea, I've been told about that before. So for future themes, I'll limit the textarea to 60cols. If I have time, I will go back to this theme and the original two column version to edit the textarea. I'd also have to edit other language versions of this and the two column, so there's a bit of keeping track to do. Sorry about that, I didn’t know exactly what to do with the sidebars so I widgetized only one.

As for the textarea, I’ve been told about that before. So for future themes, I’ll limit the textarea to 60cols.

If I have time, I will go back to this theme and the original two column version to edit the textarea. I’d also have to edit other language versions of this and the two column, so there’s a bit of keeping track to do.

]]> By: weldon http://rewindblog.com/2007/01/wordpress-21-a-new-theme/comment-page-1/#comment-7 weldon Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:57:41 +0000 http://www.dodd.org/blog/2007/01/wordpress-21-a-new-theme/#comment-7 Thanks again for the awesome theme. I'm really liking it, but I need to put my picture of Santa Barbara back at the top of the page. I had two problems that I could trace to the theme itself. One, it didn't seem to work well with sidebar widgets. Everything is hardcoded into the sidebars. While the widgets interface recognized the right sidebar, my widgets were duplicating some stuff that was already hardcoded in there. It also didn't recognize the left sidebar. I'd like to recode the theme to use widgets in both sidebars. Also, the textarea box for comments was too wide on Firefox 1.5 on a Mac. It bled over into the right sidebar, so I just set the textarea properties to 73 columns or something. That seemed to work, but it's a little narrower on Firefox 2 now. The other issues were just the standard stuff like putting Google Analytics script back into the footer, adding Adsense ads in the right place, some custom CSS etc. I haven't figured out a better workflow to automate more of those changes when I change themes, so I have to edit the new files to show the same changes. Thanks again for the awesome theme. I’m really liking it, but I need to put my picture of Santa Barbara back at the top of the page.

I had two problems that I could trace to the theme itself. One, it didn’t seem to work well with sidebar widgets. Everything is hardcoded into the sidebars. While the widgets interface recognized the right sidebar, my widgets were duplicating some stuff that was already hardcoded in there. It also didn’t recognize the left sidebar. I’d like to recode the theme to use widgets in both sidebars.

Also, the textarea box for comments was too wide on Firefox 1.5 on a Mac. It bled over into the right sidebar, so I just set the textarea properties to 73 columns or something. That seemed to work, but it’s a little narrower on Firefox 2 now.

The other issues were just the standard stuff like putting Google Analytics script back into the footer, adding Adsense ads in the right place, some custom CSS etc. I haven’t figured out a better workflow to automate more of those changes when I change themes, so I have to edit the new files to show the same changes.

]]> By: Small Potato http://rewindblog.com/2007/01/wordpress-21-a-new-theme/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Small Potato Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:39:19 +0000 http://www.dodd.org/blog/2007/01/wordpress-21-a-new-theme/#comment-6 Weldon, Thanks for choosing my Digg theme for your blog. Since the release of WordPress 2.1, some tags in wordpress templates have been depracated. I think that's why you experienced some problems while setting it up. Weldon,

Thanks for choosing my Digg theme for your blog. Since the release of WordPress 2.1, some tags in wordpress templates have been depracated. I think that’s why you experienced some problems while setting it up.

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