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At first it seems a likely candidate – a navbar of Pages, a main blog column – but I’m unsure what to do with the Subpages. That is, once you click on Release Dates, PlayStation 2, or Other Articles in the navbar, you encounter a dozen other links. Where would these fit into a WP theme?

Coulnd’t be easier. Think of categories in WP (PS2 and so on) as your pages and then post entries to that category. This are the links.

So in short:

Category = your pages
Postings (in a particular category) = the links

Is that totally custom …?

Yes. It’s written from scratch.

I will release it in the near future. There are some things to change like the del.icio.us part and the photo-section and so on. That must be more general for a theme. I’m working on that.

Not bad.

There are some inconsistencies, like the missing shadows at the buttons “Journal”, “Portfolio”, “About”. When you hover the big button (RenegadeLatino), the shadow is different to the default one. That may be intended so, but it looks “false” and “anxious”.

And as mentioned before: the hover-effect does not work smoothly cause the images are loaded slowly and to late (Firefox in my case).

As ALA wrote years ago: “For optimum usability, a rollover must be instantaneous – BAM! – or the effect is diminished.” Thats the point. So have a look at this one:

https://wellstyled.com/css-nopreload-rollovers.html

Cheers,
John

Hi Hans,

I want to release it since long time ago. I’ve hacked my theme, which isn’t a big problem, except for the thumbnail-generation. For that I’ve modified some wordpress core files for that, but that means all the changes must be redone after an upgrade.

I’m still looking for a simple, a really simple plugin that gives the possibility to set up cropped square thumbnails. But all I found where numerous plugins for galleries, image browsers and so on.

I think a change in the upload-features of wordpress is planed for the release of wordpress 2.2, but who knows when this will arrive? ??

So, the release of my template isn’t a big deal. With some instructions it is quite usable, but it wouldn’t produce these square thumbnails, only the standard ones that wordpress generates.

I’ll keep you informed on that one.

Cheers,
John

Ah… thanks for the link. ??

Maerk, where is the Strayhorn-Release in this directory?

Txema, you may find it here: https://jowra.com/downloads/wordpress-1.5.2.zip

Cheers.

The comments aren’t gone, they just collapsed. You can “open” it with a click of the “comments” link right under the image.

The collapsing should take place immediately, so if you are seeing it some seconds or so… you have an older computer or not so fast Browser?

Edit: I’ve set the initial height of the comment area to 1px now, that should eliminate the effect.

Thanks.

I’m just fiddling around with some things and added support for tags:
https://jowra.com/photos/tag/spain
https://jowra.com/photos/tag/green

here is a tag overview
https://jowra.com/photos/tagcloud/

Works fine so far. I’m trying to release this as a theme in the near future, but since first of all it was design for my personal photoblog, it will take some time to put it in a more general layout for using it as a wordpress theme.

For instance: I’ve modified some WP core files (thumbnailing and such…) and that isn’t practicable for users that just want to copy the theme in theme folder and start blogging. ??

mindfeck, getting the exif data is coded by hand, simply via the exif-read-data() function. it may help to have a look at the exif code of folderblog. but since I’ve put the code into an include file, I could email it to you if you like.

dgold, categories are no problem, just like in “normal” wp-themes. you may add a list_categories() or something similar. But I think using Tags is smarter, cause it may be bothering to add new categories for new keywords all the time. ??

Thank you. ??

There are still some issues to work on, before it is “solid” enough to be released. The AJAX-comments are working, but if new comments are added, the enclosing DIVs did not update its height automatically.

romamor, not using any plugins so far, I will add Tag support via Jeromes Keywords, since the Ultimate Tag Warrior is an overblown code monster, imho. ??

Problem is: the 3 column-theme wasn’t written by me.

You may get in contact with Clemens at:

https://clemens.orth.me.uk/2005/05/15/wordpress-theme-3-column-relaxation/

Cheero, I never heard of problems with the categories so far. I’ve really tested the new theme a lot but I didn’t have noticed any problems with that. I’ll have a look at it.

The second one: Did you’ve changed the wp-config.php ? Look for the line:

define ('WPLANG', '');

and change it to:

define ('WPLANG', 'en_US');

this should eliminate the warnings. As explained earlier, multilanguage-themes need this clear declaration of the language. For all english-speaking people, this is one more thing to set, but all others have the possibility to easy setup an translated version of this theme. I think thats worth the effort. ??

Personally I keep using the excerpt function, no question. But for all others: I’ve changed the archive.php.

So Simon, you could download the package again. ??

But I hope that the next posting won’t be: “Hey Jowra, the postings in the archive are shown up with links and images. Thats not the way the archive should look like!” ??

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Oh btw. Magma has written a language file for the netherlands. The dutch nl_NL.mo is now included in the theme. Thank you Magma! =)

https://www.venezolanda.nl/2006/01/12/relaxation-20/

*g*

You’re right moshu, I think most of the people would like to see the whole posting with all links and images. That’s what they expect… ??

I will change the theme that way…

>>The default theme leaves them in? Maybe relaxation is
>>behaving correctly and the default theme is wrong?

No, I think they changed it in v2.0. In v1.5 the archive-pages used the_excerpt(). Now they use the_content().

So if you like to see the archive-pages with links and images, just change the line:

<?php the_excerpt() ?>

to

<?php the_content() ?>

in the file: archiv.php.

Shure I can change that in the theme, but I’m not shure what people like more. I think the archive-pages should give a quick overview over the postings of a category or a given time. And if you want to read of a specific post, then you “open” it via a click of the header and view it at the single-page. Should I change the_excerpt() function to the_content() ? Hm… thinking about it.