WP-Andreas01 theme is out!
Here we go! My first own public theme for WordPress has been released!
I have just uploaded WP-Andreas01 v1.2 (the first official public release) to the WordPress Theme Viewer. I will probably have my themes hosted there since it allows people to test the themes before download. I am sure that there are many bugs, errors, quirks and forgotten details that is waiting to be found, so if you find anything that looks strange I ask you to please let me know about it so I can fix it.
WP-Andreas01 is based on the new version of my andreas01 template (see previous post), although it is not a 100% perfect match. For example, the main menu of the theme has only one level, while sub-pages are displayed in a second menu which appear inside the pages using styles that are not included in the original template. Once again, thanks to Rob Miller for his list subpages plugin which I have included in the theme. There are also other less visible changes, but the theme is still very faithful to the look and feel of the original template. For example, the new 2-column layout is used in the theme since the third column is not used on content pages…
However, during the development of the WP-Andreas01 theme, I came up with a number of ideas and changes that were not in the original template. Those of you who tested the beta versions of the theme noticed that the header looked differently and that the main menu had several levels. In the end, I had changed so many things that I decided to split the theme into two different versions, where one version (which kept the name "WP-Andreas01") was faithful to the original template - and the other version had all the experimental changes added.
WP-Andreas01 is now out, and the second theme (which I need name suggestions for!) will be released very soon - along with a matching XHTML/CSS template for those of you who want to port it to other content management systems. I will probably launch that theme through the website of the company that I work for (which is launching this weekend). But for now I'm hoping for a positive response for WP-Andreas01. Please let me know what you think about it!
Comments
Comment from Andreas
Time: July 9, 2006, 6:07 am
Thanks! Did you see my small greeting to you in the stylesheet? =)
Comment from GUAGUAU
Time: July 9, 2006, 12:43 pm
HERMANO NO SOY EXPERTO EN ESTO TAN INESPERTO SOY QUE EL CONTENIDO DE MI BLOG SE BORRO ESPEREMOS A VER COMO ME VA CON LA PLANTILLA ESTOY MUY AGRADECIDO ….
ABRAZO VIRTUAL
Comment from Peter Mucha
Time: July 9, 2006, 4:10 pm
Finally, a look I like that's designed to work with widgets and has a piece of art I hope I can easily replace with something of my own.. Unfortunately, I'm not getting the widgets to work. Problem 1: When I dragged the widgets I had from left column to right column, the floating yellow box about dragging appeared under the widget list. I got around that by dragging all the widgets to the bottom, then dragging them back to the right column. But problem 2: I'm not seeing any change in my original widgets. Is there some step I'm missing?
Comment from Aaron
Time: July 9, 2006, 5:35 pm
Nice work :)
Comment from Anon
Time: July 9, 2006, 10:55 pm
Call it, Andreas3000. :D
Comment from Andreas
Time: July 9, 2006, 11:12 pm
Peter Mucha: Yes, the latest version of the widget plugin breaks the widget feature of the theme. The widgets work perfectly with previous versions of the plugin, but they won't work with the latest release. I'm trying to find information on what changes have been made, and as soon as I know what is wrong I'll update the theme.
Comment from Ainslie
Time: July 9, 2006, 11:56 pm
As a temporary measure I can email the earlier version of the Widgets plugin (that does work) to whoever wants it.
You can contact me from the contact page on my site.
Comment from Ainslie
Time: July 10, 2006, 8:16 pm
I have tested your theme and it works perfectly on the old widgets code but will not work on the new code.
I have had a response from the widgets developers and they are trying to find as solution. Hopefully it will not be long as every widgetized theme I have tested has problems in some way.
Comment from Jeremy
Time: July 12, 2006, 7:23 am
I'm having problems with width in my contact page and photos, especially in IE.
http://www.spanish.com.au
I'm trying to learn some html and css but I would like to get the site working asap.
Thanks,
Jeremy
BTW. I'm not sure what the widget talk is all about as I have been using widgets on windows with now problems. J.
Comment from Ainslie
Time: July 12, 2006, 9:06 pm
Update: The Widgets plugin has now been fixed!
Comment from GUAGUAU
Time: July 13, 2006, 5:30 am
BROTHER When WATCHING The COMMENTARIES LEAVE IN EXCESS The LINES And THEY DO NOT LET READ A little.
VIRTUAL HUG
Comment from ajm
Time: July 13, 2006, 5:05 pm
I have a problem with the comment/trackbacks: in IE, they slide a few millimeters to the left after each item, like that: http://ajm.ch/wordpress/?p=110
I tweaked the header for placing an image (with an extensive map – and that worked quite well!), but I haven’t touched the style.css. It looks OK in Firefox. Haven’t tried on the Mac.
Comment from ajm
Time: July 13, 2006, 6:08 pm
Comment from ajm
Time: July 15, 2006, 9:15 am
Well, the problem is serious, isn’t it? Any idea how I could fix it?
Something else: in Firefox, on the main listing (/index.html), only the titles of the first 7 items are displayed correctly. From the 8th on, they are as small as plain text, just bold.
Update: I fixed that – there were some code in the seventh item I forgot to take out.
I'd be glad to get some help on this, because I love that theme and I really invested some effort adapting my stuff to it. I'm not a programmer; I already had to dive into much more code than I actually could healthily bear in order to port my sites on Wordpress. You guys sure could give me some hints. Come on. Thanks in advance!
Comment from ajm
Time: July 15, 2006, 2:48 pm
Tried it with an untouched copy of the theme: the problem persists.
Comment from ajm
Time: July 15, 2006, 3:05 pm
The problem appears also within the comment form, that is, as soon as there is at least one comment or pingback after a post, the item "E-mail" of the form is a few px more to the left than the item "Name".
Comment from Steven Poole
Time: July 15, 2006, 6:07 pm
Thank you very much for the great theme, which I've used on my site.
However, I can't get Ajax Comments 2.0 to work with it. The plugin does the lodaing thing, but the new comment doesn't appear. However, if you manually refresh the page, it does appear.
Not being a coder, I can't see whether there is some code stripped from andreas01 that is necessary to make this work. Any ideas?
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Comment from ajm
Time: July 17, 2006, 7:52 am
Thanks. Downloaded version 1.3, installed it as is - but no change.
Comment from Mike
Time: July 20, 2006, 5:43 pm
I've noticed the IE problem that AJM is having as well. Any idea how to tweak so that multiple comments align in IE?
Comment from ajm
Time: July 22, 2006, 7:41 am
Tried it on a Mac with IE 5 (both OS 9 and X): it is a c.a.ta.s.t.r.o.p.h - only the titles of the posts are visible, no images, no text. Pages are okay, though (but I don't have images on them). I'll have to make it from scratch with another theme. Man, that's bad news.
Comment from LobsterMan
Time: July 9, 2006, 5:01 am
Congrats! I keep on getting email asking where they can get the theme I use…