Vistered Little Theme
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The Vistered Little Theme has a transparent/glass like interface and is heavily customisable, has changeable wallpapers and is skinable. It uses the Skinner Plugin for switching the skins the Presentation Toolkit plugin for customization.
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282 comments.
Hey its seems like your fixes might work for me, I downloaded Vistered Littel 1.6 and made some of those fixes in my blog but I’m still having a problem with comments and I’m wondering if you have fixed it, when you comment in a blog usind Vistered Little 1.6 your user ID isn’t saved and you’ll have to introduce all your information again the next time you want to comment, that can get very annoying. I hope you can help me.
Hey Diego, I’ll chalk that up as a bug; Shouldn’t take too long to fix.
Hey you did a great job, I’m using Vistered Little 1.6 with my fixes and your comment fix and now everythings is just perfect, I have 1.7.1 in my themes though, I’m planning on checking it and do some fixes to match my preferences but that will take time that i don’t have right now. Thanks! Just wanted to congratulate you for the great job, Congratulations Tom!
Wow, Tom! I downloaded 1.7.1 and the 2 plugins and it works!! Excellent work!!!
Glad you like it ProphetJoe, though you don’t need to sound so surprised
Not surprised — just happy. I’d been working with 1.6a and the default-wider style, but it wouldn’t work and ChrisCJD hadn’t seen my comments on the scarylittlemonkey forum, so I was quite pleased to find this worked out of the box. I’ve changed your wallpapers to my own (btw, I like your new wallpapers very much, but they don’t fit my blog’s theme), Now, I’m going to see if I can put some of Nik’s javascript code from his “Scary Little 8″ theme into your 1.7.1 theme to get what I REALLY want it to do! If you look at Nik’s friend Jon’s blog (http://invictus.mirror13.com), you’ll see the theme has a pull down About tab. Essentially, I want to encapsulate the wallpaper changer/search box into that tab. I also want to use the expanding/collapsing menu bar (such as the blogroll) in the Vistered theme. Maybe I have time to do it, maybe I don’t — we’ll see!
Again, GREAT WORK — just like I expected
PJ
ProphetJoe, Sorry I have been very busy at work lately. I will check your post on the forum.
Hey ProphetJoe, don’t worry I wasn’t offended. It was a good opportunity for a little jab from my side; I’m a bit of a smart arse.
I like your idea regarding the javascript, let me know hoe you go.
Hi Tom, Congratulations on 1.7.0 and now 1.7.1 It look great. But once again I need help changing the default font size for the body of the posts. I tried adding .
blog p
{
font-size: 200%;
}
in the style.css but it didn’t change anything, maybe I’m looking in the wrong place. Not sure.
Thanks Kevin.
Hi Kevin,
Can’t test it right now, but try
#contentcontainer .blog p {
font-size: 200%;
}
That worked great. Thanks Tom
Kevin
I also second the Gallery 2 Plugin Support, thatd be great!
Thanks for the update, but what is with the search form???? What are all the hidden inputs for?
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The transparency behind the post doesn’t work for me in IE6, looks good in FF though… but need it to work in IE.
Hi Sajan,
The hidden inputs in the search form are for some work I did integrating with google search. They shouldn’t be there (I’m turning it into a plugin) and I’m marking that as a bug.
Hi Tom,
Great work! One question: Do all the wallpaper images still all load at once when someone navigates to the site? I’d like to eventually have a long list of randomized thumbnails/wallpapers, but it’d be nice to have then load when someone clicks, to keep initial load times/bandwidth down. Thanks.
Brilliant skin Tom! Thanks.
Could you offer a suggestion as to what I should use to include any sort of image gallery or access to Flickr images, while we wait for the Gallery 2 update? Your recommendation is appreciated.
and thanks again for the work. Amazing!
Hi RTX,
On first page load, all the thumbnails are loaded and the current wallpaper is loaded. The only time an unused wallpaper is loaded is if there is no thumbnail for it. When the user clicks on a thumbnail, the class of the ‘body’ element is changed, which triggers the loading of the appropriate wallpaper (if it hasn’t previously been loaded).
Hi Fossil,
I can’t really recommend anything since I don’t use flickr and nor gallery 2. Has anyone else got some recommendations?
I was wondering if you’d consider porting the skin to anything besides WordPress. Yes, Virginia, people do use other solutions. In my case, the only installation of WordPress my hosting company offers is a single user. Since a single user sort of defeats the purpose of a collaborative writing environment, I went with another package. The name of it is Serendipity and I’d love to see this theme for that package.
TIA
Hi SevenofNine,
Sorry, but there are no plans at this stage to port the theme to anything else. Feel free to give it a go yourself though.
Tom,
Thanks for the note about the wallpaper images. I downloaded the theme and have been digging into it - working and looking great, with just one issue. Using the Safari browser v2.0.4 on OS X 10.4.9, the background thumbnails don’t show - a small button labeled “S” shows in the position where each thumb should be. Firefox on mac works fine. Any ideas? Thanks!
Hi RTX,
I’ll have to look into that (not near my mac at the moment). I’ve marked it as a bug.
Hi joTack,
It works for me in IE 6. Can you send me a screen shot of this site as you see it in IE 6? Also, what version of IE 6 are you using?
Love it, getting ready to make my own wallpaper for it… just one thing.
My “Pages” box isn’t showing up right. There’s a little list button next to the H3 header of “Pages”, and then just floating text on the wallpaper. No pretty little CSS box around it. Come take a look and see what I mean. (URL posted in form)
I’m using 2.1 with widgets. The Pages section shows up normally in other templates and being that it’s a widget, I haven’t messed with the code. Any ideas? (I’m familiar with PHP and not afraid to get my hands dirty, just don’t know where to look.)
Hi Carrie,
I’m not sure how, but your ‘pages’ widget is naked. It should be surrounded with a div of class ‘menu’ and it should also have div of class ‘menubefore’ and ‘menuafter’ before and after it respectively. I’ve just checked the code and I can’t see how this would happen just for that widget and only on your site. Can you please re-download vistered little, extract it to a different directory in the themes directory and change the version in the ’style.css’ file. Try then activating the clean version and let me know if the same problem still occurs.
Hey, I was wondering where I could find a skin. I like the white skin you’re using here, and also, the floating header you have on this page would be neat to include in the updated theme. Let me know about the skin, or how I can change it myself
Hi Chris G,
The white skin and the fixed header are both part of vistered little 1.7. You just need to install and active the presentation toolkit plugin and then configure the theme and skin.
Hi Tom,
I’m encountering issues between FF2.0 and IE 7.0 and spacing for text wrapped around images. Things look great in IE and like crap in FF (no spacing).
Also, I’m having a problem inserting images in pages and having them show up correctly (not in the footer line with the “comments” tag buried.
I’m a newbie at this, and not real confident of my CSS skills, but am willing to learn.
The updated vistered-little 1.71 is awesome and I am able to eliminate the wallpaper options, using only the one I want and get the “light skin”… used the Presentation Toolkit and Skinner plugins.
The site link is http://photogallerybybev.com
Thanks,
Shari
Just add: style=”margin: 7pt” at the end of your picture tag, such as
You can put whatever number or absolute value, such as 5px or 20px, if you want…but that’s it.
Hey, Thanks for the upgrade… I’ve got it personalized as best I can, but I finally got stumped. I have the sidebar widget activated, but some of the things I want to add (pages) aren’t showing up, and others aren’t getting the box background. How do I fix it? Thanks!
Hi Shari,
1.7.2 should do the trick for you.
Hi Lara,
Looks like you have the same problem as Carrie. What’s interesting is that my links widget has a ul element with a class of ‘links’, and your links don’t even have that, let alone the stuff needed for the surrounding box. What version of WordPress are you using and have you installed any extra widgets?
Hey Tom,
Ok, I tried to upgrade to WP 2.1.0, but it broke my blog, so I went back to 2.0.3… I’m still having the same problem with pages and with links… (no box). I have a couple of widgets installed - Akismet, Mr. Linky, Yahoo smileys, Sidebar widgets, Previous Posts, Presentation Toolkit, Skinner, and database backup. I just upgraded to Vistered Little 1.7.2 and it’s still happening. I had it happen with VL1.0, but I was able to go into the sidebar.php file and fix it myself. I did the same thing again, but it didn’t work with the upgrade. I’m at a loss, and eveything I try makes it worse…
Hi Lara,
I try to test it against 2.0.4 (2.0.3 isn’t avaialble in the WordPress download archive) and let you know how I go.
I love this theme, but does anyone have a way of making a second sidebar?
Hi Scott,
Sorry, there is no way at the moment.
I’m having a problem. Vistered Little 1.6 and 1.6a seem to work fine for me. I’ve tried to use 1.7.0, 1.7.1., and 1.7.2. but I seem to get the same problem. The boxes don’t show up around my posts or my sidebar. Whatever wall paper I choose also only appears around the header and when I scroll down to the bottom of my page. I haven’t changed anything after downloading it. I’m using Wordpress version 2.1.2. and Firefox 2.0.0.3.
When I view it in IE I still don’t get the boxes around my posts and sidebar or the black background to give the posts some contrast but the wallpaper will show properly. Am I doing something wrong or downloaded a bad copy. I’ve gone back to 1.6a for the time being.
Thanks.
Hi FD,
Can you send my a screen shot?
Lots of problems in 1.7.3, unfortunately.
PNG Transparency fix doesen’t works;
1) there are too much “absolute word”, i.e. words in english that still remain in english also if another language is set. (Other templates don’t have this bug and works good with all languages). These words are, for example, pages, categories…
2)the block “Blogroll” is for ever showed also if blogroll is empty;
3) the particular CSS structure overwrite all the font settings sets when the post is written. (FIX: move the FONT-FAMYLY declaratin from “.” section of CSS to the “body” section.
4) The link to TRACKBACK don’t works in notmal mode (link with ?=”#pid” );
5) BIG PROBLEM: did u try to see 1.7.3 under Explorer?
6) [maybe] the string “…” is substituted by a spechal char showing 3 points, but in explorer in shows bad.
For now is all but if I’ll find something else I’ll write imemdiately.
For now I have to use 1.6..
Hi MTBVulture,
I’m guessing you mean 1.7.2.
1) Fair call.
2) Are you using widgets? Do you mean the “links” section/widget. It’s working fine for me, so more details would be good.
Edit: 2) After re-reading, I understand.
3) I’m not sure exactly how you are setting the fonts when writing the posts (is it some css at the top, or styles of particular elements?). Please send the details so I test against it properly.
4) I’ll investigate that, but I can’t remember fiddling with the track back URL.
5) Yes I did and yes it does. IE 6 & 7 work. There is a bug in 1.7.2 however when the skinner plugin is not enabled.
6) Where are you seeing the ‘…’?
Thanks for the bug reports.
1)the trackback works only if the block (widgets ON) is later the “recent post” block;
2)the blocks works good only in widget mode. with plugin disabled there is a problem in showiing “Categories”(show a 3level UL insteadof 2level).
The names of sections are in eglish and not in native language.
There is an empty box that I think is blogroll showed also if is empty.
Trackback still doesen’t work in no-widgets mode.
3)font style is css style and not respect the font family set upped by writer using TinyMCE (in tinymceis possible to set alignment, font… and using this version of css these setps are overwritten).
FIX:
in STYLE.CSS replace:
* {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
font-family: “verdana”, sans-serif;
}
body {
font-size: 16px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background-position: top center;
background-attachment: fixed;
WITH:
* {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
body {
font-size: 16px;
font-family: “verdana”, sans-serif;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background-position: top center;
background-attachment: fixed;
REPLACE:
#contentcontainer p {
text-align: justify;
padding: 5px;
}
WITH:
#contentcontainer p {
padding: 5px;
font-size: 1.1em;
}
4)The “…” is a “problem” of wordpress and not of skin. I solved deleting the str replace via php.
5)Anchor for comments missed.
FIX: Line 47 of comments.php. Replace:
Leave a comment
with:
Leave a comment
5) to me this skin still doesen’t work in IE (the transparency) and the same is for your website. can u help me?
Unfortunately I can’t do anything else because nyhosting is in manetaince mode and my website is offline… i’ll continue the test tomorrow.
GOODNIGHT!
http://magonicola.stidue.net/blog
PS: Some fix doesen’t appear.
Dwnload the txt file from here:
http:(doubleslash)www(dot)megaupload(dot)com/it/?d=KRAWMVBR
BUG TO BE VERIFIED LATER:
Seems that IE doesen’t “remember” the selecret wallpaper in admin. IE:
1)I show also the thumbnails of wallpapers and I select one from index;
2)I select a wallpaper in the admin menu;
3)in FF and Opera is shown the admin wallpaper, in IE the “index-selected” wallpaper
…but it’s 2.20 AM in italy and I’mnot sure of this
GOODNIGHT!
Oh my god… also this…
try to Click the Header in IE.. where is eritter WINDY ROAD… are u able to??
Found the error with the PNGs. The skinner plugin is sometimes including the style sheets in the wrong order. Doh! As luck would have it, my local installation (which I test IE against) was including them in the correct order.
Graphical adjustment:
To Add in lines 361 & 385 the EM tag for the title of post that “You are reading”…
I really haven’t understood what this is, but with:
Ultimate Tag Warrior 3.14159265
actived, the search box shows forever “no result”. Now I deactivated it…
Hi MTBVulture,
I’ve just uploaded skinner 0.0.2, which will fix the PNG problem in IE.
ok.. now it’s like Heineken.. Sounds Good..
Did u understood the text-format bug? (There are problems specifying the font settings in posts (waiting for more details from MTBVulture).
U can see my blog that has got some text in green with courier new and align to right… without my fix it seems that it’s impossible…
However, now seems that the template is good, I only hope that without widgets the menus will be shown like the other templates (if u want an examlple or u want to check the behaviour on an italian installation of wordpress I can give u an admin account of my WP).
Bye and thanks for your work!
Can u give me a feedback about the header link to home? To me in explorer doesen’t works good, as I invite u to see on my space.
Talkin about “tag warrior”, is a problem of plugin and not of skin, the solution in in a join in the plugin… GIYF…
CIAO!
Hi FD,
Try activating the skinner plugin and let me know if that fixes the problem.
Hi MTBVulture,
I think I’ve caught everything you’ve written, but I’ll make sure later on when I have time. Regarding the header and the logo: Funky hey. I didn’t notice till you mentioned it. The behaviours not what I wanted but pretty cool none the less. Not sure what workarounds there are except for removing the transparency, or you might try using an alpha of 1 instead or 0.
Tom,
Is there a way to put comments into the same container as the post itself? I’m looking at an AJAX plugin which will show the comments dynamically, but I want them in the same “box” as the post, not seperately. Any ideas what I can modify to accomplish this?? I’m afraid VL has grown SO MUCH that I’m having a hard time following the road map anymore!
Thank,
PJ
Hi PJ,
Go and grab either Firebug for Firefox and the Microsoft Web Developer Toolbar fro IE. I find these tools invaluable for debugging theme changes. With that you’ll see that the each window has three divs (class=blogbefore, etc) and one div with the main content (class=blog). What you want to do is remove the extra divs so there is only one set of blogbefores, one blog div which contains the post and the comments and then the ones after with blogafter, etc.
Tom, ProphetJoe…
I posted a stepthrogh for this on the forums.
Tom,
keep up the good work, you’re a better man than I.
Now if only I could spell.
HI Nik, Thanks for the walk through and the compliment.
Thanks to both of you!
and you’re both better men than I
Hi tom…
I was not able to find anything else that doesen’t work (excepted the bug I wrote), so…good work!
I’m searching to have more transparency of boxes to see better the backgnd, how I have to do?
Hi MTBVulture,
To change the level of opacity, you need to edit the png files for the skin you are usings. e.g. skins/default/light_menubackground.png, etc.
awesome
Hi Tom,
Nice job on the Vistered Little 1.7, Skinner, and Presentation Toolkit!
I noticed the trackback link bug is still there.
If you replace line 359 in functions.php with:
elseif(is_single()) {if(have_posts()):while(have_posts()):the_post();endwhile;endif;?>
it should work as expected. Check it out here:
http://www.afinerweb.com/blog/?p=1
Best regards and keep up the good
work!
B.
Hey,
You should make the search on top live!
-Nathan
also you should submit the theme to themes.wordpress.net
Hi Bodhi,
Thanks for the tip. MBTVulture had pointed out the same problem, though I found a slightly different solution (which I hope to release with some other stuff next week).
Hi Nathan,
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to ask for live searched :). I’ll add it to the feature request section.
RE: themes.wordpress.net
I’ve been trying to add it, but the uploader falls over because of the style.css files in the skins directories. I’ve tried contacting them about this, but I’ve had no response. It looks like I’ll just have to rename those files.
Hi tom,
I was having the transparency issues with IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2 that’s IE6 on XP with SP2. Something must have changed, maybe in 1.7.2? Cause now everything looks right.
wow, this theme looks awesome - thanks a lot! cheers, mic
Hi,
I love VL. I’m currently using 1.6, and found this page, and downloaded 1.7.2. When I installed it I got a lot of errors in my WP dashboard about directories not existing and then when I looked at my site with it installed my entries just showed up directly on the wallpaper with no borders or backgrounds on the entry boxes themselves. Am I missing something elementary in the install?
Hi missakins,
1.7.2 has a bug which means it needs the skinner plugin. That should fix your problem with the missing boxes. Regarding the errors on the dashboard, you wouldn’t happen to be using WordPress 2.0 would you?
Hello, I’m using Vistered Little 1.7.2 with a fress Wordpress 2.1.3 install. I have Presentation Toolkit 0.0.3 and Skinner 0.0.2 plugins working. Everything looks as it should with Firefox 1.5, but I have two problems with XP SP2’s base browser, IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2. Thus I’ll refer to style-ie.css.php.
When I choose “flex” width, there are a lot of elements which aren’t shown: the background of the contentcontainer, the rounded edges of blogbefore and blogafter, and the header background. I don’t see any particular problem with that in the IE css (using default skin, of course). I am absolutely clueless about what could be happening, and it’s a shame because I would prefer the “flex” flavor. However, I think that the #header element is wrongly situated, it should be out of the if loop. If I put it outside (just after the thumnails), then the header is loaded with “flex”.
Anyway, I couldn’t make “flex” work, so I changed to “wide” width, but then there’s a problem with the header background. I use one made by me, which is wider, and in fact it’s wider than the window. So “scale” for sizingMethod distorts the header. I have to use “crop”, which is a shame because you can’t align it to the center… However, even when I can live with that, I can’t click anything in the header which is “covered” by the background: site logo/name, search, or wallpaper thumbs. When using the normal header background with “scale”, it shows well, and everything is clickable. When I use the other header background (wider) then nothing is clickable, regardless of the resizing method. Again I’m clueless.
Besides those two problems, the site takes AGES to load in this IE 6 version. I totally love Vistered Little, but if it doesn’t work with XP’s default browser, it’s pretty useless for me. Ideas?
Hi Pi,
In term of the flex mode for default, I’ll double check it and create a bug entry. It is supposed to work with IE 6.
Regarding the header, it hasn’t been designed to work with a non-1px width header. If you provide more details of what you are trying to do (e.g. link to a mock-up image) I can list it as a feature request.
Lastly, regarding the loading times in IE. I have to look into this and find out what’s going wrong.
Thanks for the issue report
Thanks Tom for your attention.
What I’m trying to do is to have a centered logo behind the actual site logo, search box, and wallpaper thumbs. I substitute the header.png for a widened version, still the same semitransparent header frame, but 2000 pixels wide. Over it I place all the pics I want, in a section in the center, about 800 pixels wide. I leave the rest as the semitransparent original header. The effect is that the site logo stays floating at the left, over the logo background. The extra width makes the logo to be always centered, without needing to be repeated. Even if you make a really wide browser window, you always have the image centered, and with the frame. It works GREAT with Firefox, but IE 6.0 refuses to do anything correctly with it.
If you don’t get what I say, take this page as an example. Imagine the site logo (imagotype) as only “Windy Road” (logotype), without the little drawing (isotype). Then you put the little drawing into a wide, non-repeated background. When you change the browser window width, the little drawing stays in the center, while the site logo stays at the left.
Since it seems that it’s a no-no for IE 6.0, I don’t really have a feature request. I’ll do other changes to achieve a similar effect: I’ll merge the site logo with the background images, and then modify the skin so the site logo appears centered. I don’t know if that’s possible, I can PHP quite well, but I’m very clumsy with CSS.
Vistered Little is no less than an awesome piece of design, I just wish IE wouldn’t be so messy ^_^
Hi Pi,
I can confirm the flex is really broken in IE 6. You should find the loading times in IE much better if you don’t use flex (or if you wait till it’s fixed).
Regarding the logo background, what you are trying to do might be possible, but I wouldn’t have time to look at it any time soon. Also in order to center the logo, you should fiddle with the stuff in the ‘h1 a’ section. Instead of ‘float: left’ you probably want ‘text-align: center’, but you may need some other tweeks.
I think the way the logos are shown is a bit cumbersome (for me). The logo can’t be centered, because it’s the background of an element shown as a block. You can center the text inside that block, but how do you center the block?
The curious thing is that I can make the logo to be centered in IE6, but not in FireFox ^_^. Worse is, the logo is centered in the free space left by the floating elements, so the logo is not actually centered. So I’ll forget about my initial idea, maybe I’ll try again on the next VL update. That’s if you haven’t added an option to center the logo! ^_^
The problem I have now is that I don’t want any space between the logo and the border of the page. Moreover, the space is different in IE and in Firefox, so I’ll have to live with it it seems… Either I hate CSS, or CSS hates me… The result is not bad, Vistered Little makes everything look great, but it’s not what I really had in mind.
Thanks for your help anyway.
Little bug: if a logo contains a space in its filename, it’s not shown in IE6.
You center a BLOCK level element by using the following two lines of css. First on the element itself you apply “margin: 0 auto;” (the zero is adjustable, it is the vertical margins, the horizontal margin of auto equals out the margin on both sides, filling all available space, thereby centering it). This doesnt work on ie6(maybe 7) so you set “text-align: center;” on the parent element.
It is (very) bad practice to use a space in any document that is intended for display on the web. I can’t imagine that this is a bug in Vistered so much as a bug in IE6.
Actually it’s a bug. The urls for the AlphaImageLoader filter aren’t quoted, though I agree spaces are bad form
My test site doesn’t display in ie6 since I upgraded to 1.7.2. Any ideas?
Oops, my bad.
I agree that using spaces is not a good habit, although it’s allowed. However I accidentally left one in one of my logos; when VL selected that logo under IE6, it didn’t appear, that’s all. IMHO, VL should have shown it, that’s why I called it a little bug.
I’m working in internationalizing VL (my site is bilingual), never did anything like this for WordPress. Maybe what I learn will be of help for you, if you decide to support internationalization in the next VL versions. It seems to be quite easy, although I’m still getting the hang of it.
Update: I finished localizing VL. Step 1: make VL support localization (easy, easier than you think). Step 2: translating the localization file with poEdit (easy). If you want help regarding this subject, please contact me: pi [at] eligeotravez [dotty] net
Hi Heather,
Unfortunately 1.7.2 has a number of bugs. I’m trying to get 1.7.3 out, but I been busy elsewhere, which is delaying it’s release.
Hi Pi,
I’ve already started on some of the localization stuff, but I would be very interested to see what you’ve got. I’ll send you and email when my schedule clears up a bit.
Hi Tom,
First off, awesome work on the 1.7.2 Vistered Little. Thank you so much for it.
I am running it with the default skin (dark) and would like to change the Blog name’s letter color (I am not using a logo). Where do I change the color of those big letters?
Thanks again.
Hi Armando,
you have to modify the file style.css.php in the line:
h1 a:link, h1 a:active, h1 a:visited, h1 a:hover {
color: #ddd;
}
changing the color attribute.
Bye!
MTBVulture
http://magonicola.stidue.net/blog/
Tom,
I’ve redirected vistered.scarylittlemonkey.com to this page. As early versions of vistered little linked back to vistered.scarylittlemonkey.com, hopefully more people will find your upgrade.
Thanks for that Nik
great theme!! however with the latest version I can’t seem to get it to work right in any browser…I use safari mostly and that will cut off anything from the bottom part of the calendar on down, plus doesnt show the blog middle section at all…firefox does the same thing plus wont show a header and the same thing in IE and netscape…. the only thing I changed was the header to add my own photo for my logo up top as I couldnt get the logo thing to work in the editor….
any help would be greatly appreciated!!
thanks
charlie
Hey Charlie,
Do you get the same errors with my site? I use firefox primarily and don’t see the problem you have mentioned. What problems did you have trying to get the logo to work? Are you sure you specified the path to the logo correctly?
hey tom….it wasnt just the logo that didnt work…even before i tried it with the logo the rest of the site wont work…it only shows like half the site and then stops under the calendar and wont even show the blog….im going to try downloading the files again and not changing anything and see if it works…but originally i only changed the header stuff and nothing else…its weird…none of the browsers showed the header except safari but none would show the whole page…
if you get a chance to look in the next little bit i have it up…as is…no changes on my part yet freshly installed and see if you see what i see…errr..what i mean is that i show no blog entry and nothing from the almost bottom of the calendar down…
i dont know whats wrong
oh and nope i see this site just fine….its weird…but i tried again on all browsers and even using a pc as opposed to my mac and nothing shows anything below the almost bottom of the calendar and the blog post doesnt show up at all…i didnt want to try the logo thing again till you got a chance to take a look…thanks again!
Hi Charlie,
I’m guessing there is a php error when trying to display the categories section in the sidebar. See if you have an error_log or similar in that directory on the server. Otherwise try enabling sidebar widgets and just put one widget (not categories) in there and see what happens.
hey tom!! Thanks for all your help so far!! Sadly I couldnt get the sidebar widget thing to work, it goes to a blank page and wont load when i try it…so i looked at the error log and it said this…
PHP Warning: Zend Optimizer does not support this version of PHP - please upgrade to the latest version of Zend Optimizer in Unknown on line 0
so im trying to look into upgrading whatever that is but i dont even know what it is!! ahhhh lol its never easy is it? lol
thanks again!
Hey Charlie, what version of PHP are you using?
ok i finally got the widget sidebar working I had the wrong version..im such a n00b….ive got problems with getting more then one widget to work though. Of course thats another problem for another website to ask at…but thank you for all your help. Im gonna try the logo thing to see if that works for the header now!!
thanks again and sorry for all the bother!
charlie
Hi Tom,
Thanks so much for all your work regarding this theme. It’s great!
A couple of questions:
How do I edit the footer to remove your text and replace it with mine? Obviously, I’m new at this.
I want to remove the side navigation panel in a Page I created (a real page) that uses the Slickr Gallery. I just want the Page to have the gallery and no navigation bar.
OK a third question: When I change anything within the sidebar widget (using Automattic plugin), I lose the cool category/sub-category offsetting that is there with the default widget. Maybe this isn’t a vistered thing, just wondered if you knew how to fix it.
Thanks Again!
Craig
Hi Craig, You can edit the footer at the bottom of index.php. Not sure how to remove the sidebar, but I think you should be able to do it by creating a template file (you can google for the details) and don’t have it call get_sidebar(). Re the category, that and option in the category widget. Just check the “Show Hierarchy” option (in the “Sidebar Widgets” page you’ll notice a box with a blue line at the top and three black line at the end of the categories widget. Click that box to bring up the options).
Thanks Tom for the great support on your excellent theme!
I’ve already got the index.php fixed. Eze breazy.
I’ll give the template file a try. I did find that on another site, actually here.
Man, I don’t know how I missed those configuration links in the widget…I’m not that dense, or am I? Hmmmm….
Thanks for helping a newbie wander through the labyrinthine world of hack coding!
Craig
Hi again Tom
After many changes to my site, I decided to check for XHTML 1.0 Strict validity. It failed, but there are just three or four very minor errors, easily fixable. You might add “still not XHTML Strict valid” in your bug list. Beep me if you need help, actually one got me banging my head, although it was dead easy. I have a dense day…
Hey Pi,
yeah it is a bug, but the next version (due out very shortly) should do the trick.
hi,
i hav never seen such a beautifull theme..!!…relaly great work..
but how about a three columned edition…. is tht hard?…. it will be pretty nice to have a three columned version of this thmese
Hey,
I’m using that theme in my site http://www.ilogak.com but it seems that its not working for me like the images or you can say the blocks around everything like categories section, blog roll links and others. Can you please tell me what to do with it. Thanks in advance
Hey, I love this theme, and love widgets as well. My sidebar is so full with widgets that it is almost as long as the content-I was wondering if it would be hard to add a third sidebar? I know very little about php, just enough to do basic modifications, but I would really like a sidebar on each side. Thanks anyways!
Request: could the comments box look at least a little different from the posts box? like a little smaller or has a darker opacity or something.
Hi Ilyas,
I just had a look at you site, and I’m not sure what you think is wrong. Could you explain the problem in more details please?
Hi NGeN & Colin,
I’ll add you request for a second sidebar to the feature request section.
Hi Tom. I made a liquid frame in the same way as flex works, however I don’t think it will work with png’s with transparency under IE6. Still, you might want to read my last post in my blog about it, maybe it will give you ideas to fix flex.
Hey tom. Yeah everything is alright now. Thanks alot. There was someone else who was also using this theme so I contacted him and he fixed it. I really like the theme. Thanks alot mate
Ilogak.com
How can i get the thumbnails of the wallpapers to display in a spesific order
Hi alex,
There is no configuration option for specifying the order of the thumbnails, however their order is determined by the file system, usually via the date/time the file was modified. Try touching the wallpapers in various orders and see how you go.
thanks for the reply tom, but i still can’t get the order i want even after modyfing the thumbnails/wallpapers so they would follow a pattern but it seems even though i modifyed them they still went into the same wrong order as before for some reason, can someone try to see if they have the same problem. This is important as i have letters on the thumbnails which reads out a word, so must be in order
thanks again
Hi alex,
You can manually sort the thumbnails in the buildThumbnailArray() function within wallpaper_functions.php, just before the return statement. I know this isn’t ideal, but I can’t see any other option at this stage.
why can’t I unzip the downloaded folder of Vistered V. 1.7.3? It says, file skipped unknown compression method. What’s that?
Any other way of extracting it?
okay, i’m going to upgrade to 1.7.3, have you got another download link because everytime i extract the zip, it is unable to extract all the php and css files
Hi utakGAGO and alex,
I’ve just put a new copy of 1.7.3 up. Let me know if you still can’t extract it.
thanks for that tom, it works, sorry if i’m missing something obvious here but how do i get a logo for the header like the one on here but with the wallpaper selector to be under the search bar. thanks
Hi Tom, Just a word of thanks for 1.7.3 I got it running with no problems. I also found something that might be useful, when in the write post section if you press “shift-Alt V” it opens another toolbar and you can change the font color and size of your posts. Works in IE 7 and Firefox 2
Hi Kevin, well spotted. I love the code clean-up button.
any luck with my above question
Excellent, splendid - great contribution! Heil! Windy Road…
Sorry alex, I missed your question before. To be able to configure the logo and the thumbnail locations, you need to install the presentation toolkit plugin. Then set the logo path to a directory containing your logos and set the thumbnail location to right.
Hi there,
I have loved this theme for a while. Thanks for all the hard work.
I’ve got a problem where I can’t get either the widgets or skinner plugins to activate through the dashboard.
This is a brand new ‘clean’ install of WP2.1.3. The only other plugin (which did install correctly) is the presentation toolkit. have you encountered this issue before? Is it a Vistered Little or a WP issue that I should take to the forums?
Hi nix, Other people have reported similar issues with the presentation toolkit plugin. I’m trying to find out what it’s doing wrong.
ok i have another problem, sorry for the hassle but on my blog, with the search function in the top right corner, once clicked the “Search…” doesn’t dissapear therefore the user has to manually delete it to type in their search which can be confusing for them and it’s an annoyance, maybe there is a piece of code to change to enable the dissapearing of the “Search…” once clicked.
thanks
Hi alex, do you have javascript enabled?
i do, it dissapears when i do it on the windy road blog but not my own
alex, can you send me the URL for you blog and I’ll try to debug it directly.
Hey alex, when you translated the theme, you forgot to change “Search…” to “Chwiliwch…” in “scripts/behaviour.js”.
ok thanks, I will try and change it now
I love this theme, well done Tom
no luck, sorry, still doesn’t work
Hi alex, in that same file you’ve just created an error.
document.getElementById('label').innerHTML = "Ysgrifennwch ac bwrw 'enter'".";should be
document.getElementById('label').innerHTML = "Ysgrifennwch ac bwrw 'enter'.";=D , it now works, great stuff, brilliant support as always, thank you very much
sorry for even more hassle but i’ve been having trouble with my logo/banner, this is what i get when i activate the logo…
Warning: opendir(/home/comgwgli/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/vistered-little-1.7.3/comgwglif.png) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: Not a directory in /home/comgwgli/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/vistered-little-1.7.3/functions.php on line 264
Warning: readdir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /home/comgwgli/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/vistered-little-1.7.3/functions.php on line 265
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /home/comgwgli/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/vistered-little-1.7.3/functions.php:264) in /home/comgwgli/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/vistered-little-1.7.3/header.php on line 2
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/comgwgli/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/vistered-little-1.7.3/functions.php:264) in /home/comgwgli/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/vistered-little-1.7.3/header.php on line
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Urgent help needed, tom, i will leave the site as it is if you want to have a look and diagnose the problem.
thanks
Hi alex, you need to put the logo in a directory all by itself and specify the “logo path” as the path to that directory. The reason for this is VL will randomly pick one of the images in that directory and use it for the logo. This allows you to have multiple logos, with different tag lines like at Scott-O-Rama. If you only want a single logo, then you just need to put one logo in your logo directory.
I’ll also add specifying a single logo in the feature request list.
arghhh it wont load up the word press admon panel anymore
changed the directory but still no luck
sorry for the hassle, now fixed it, but how do i create custom side bar widgets, so that i can have google ads,..
thanks
Hi alex, there are existing widgets that provide google ads and the like. You first need to install the Sidebar widgets plugin, and then find and install any other widgets you are after.
We use this theme for our website and are very happy with it.
Is it possible to add a collumn to the page in order to include community information such as trian times, tide times, cinemas, etc.
Also of the many skins avaliable could you suggess a skin that would make our site even more interesting.
I need to say that I am a total novice at websites so any help would be appreciated.
Thank you for your theme and your help.
Pastor Ray Richards
Anyone know how I can fix this error. I see it on my server error log:
PHP Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /var/www/mysite.com/httpdocs/wordpress/wp-content/themes/vistered-little-1/wallpaper_functions.php on line 47, referer: http://www.mysite.com/wordpress/
Oh yeah! how cool to see there’s someone carrying on the development!
I have a much-edited VL 1.6 on my site. the main changes are the translation to Hebrew and support for widgets (feel free to visit, even if you can’t read the actual posts). I’ll definitely try to find time to switch over to this version with all the features I need. others on my wish list:
1. incorporate threaded comments somehow without breaking the design.
2. width of posts and comments controllable from the control-panel (yes, I know it’s not simple at all and limits the style of the text bubbles to either plain ones or resamples the top and bottom)
3. wish there was a way to support right-to-left scribes built in, to be switched from the control panel.
btw, what happened to the changing backgrounds and all? I love being able to display my own pictures there and let the readers choose…
First, I absolutely love the template, kudos on your creativity. I am having issues though. It won’t pull up my posts, links, or pages. Am I missing something?
I haven’t edited anything beyond the graphicsm and yes, I have activate both the kinner and the presentation tools.
I’d appreciate any help.
And anything you can do for my typing while you’re at it. *eyeroll*
OK, I played with it a bit, I see there is already a nice width feature built in, and I’m using the skins plugin to add a Hebrew skin. I’m sure it will be a bit trickier than just that, because I need to translate strings inside the php rather than an external file.
would you consider moving the strings out of the PHP code? if you intend to do this, It will save the re-editing with each new version, and the skin can support more western languages and possibly Hebrew and Arabic in the same source tree.
Thanks in advance,
Ira.
OK, I should really have read through… I see some people have already ported VL to use PO files, but I don’t see it in the 1.7.3 zip… where is that patch available?
Hi Ray, you can add custom widgets using the sidebar widgets plugin, though I don’t know where you’ll find widgets for local community information. Maybe you could try checking out the WordPress Forums.
Regarding the skins, there are only three available for Vistered Little. Pick the one you like the best.
Hi Rolando, not sure what’s causing that problem. I’ll look into it. In the meantime, if you don’t have the Presentation Toolkit plugin installed, give it a try and see if that fixes the problem.
Hi Ira, I haven’t received any patches for VL(though they are welcome). I know Pi did some work and languages, but I haven’t had a chance to chase him up about it.
it’s OK, I did
I’m working a bit on customizations and i18n, and I’ll upload you a patch when I like what I have…
Thanks Tom, I already have the Presentation Toolkit installed and I still see that issue. It’s note breaking the blog site, just like to get it fixed eventually.
Hi again Tom.
Do you have any idea why the theme isn’t working for me? the thumbs and wallpapers function works like it’s supposed to, and I was able to apply a skin, but it’s still not pulling up my posts or links.
I’ve haad to switch back to a simpler theme for now but I really wanted to use this.
Thanks in advance.
HI Taylor, I have no idea why VL isn’t working for you. No one else has reported your problem. What version of WordPress are you using and did you install it yourself?
Hi Tom. I’m using version 2.0.2 and I installed it through my yahoo hosting site.
Taylor, I sugget you take a look at WP’s homepage once in a while… there were a dozen updates since then, many of them security updates. I suggest you update to 2.1.3 ASAP, and surprisingly enough, I think the theme will start working…
Great theme! But I have the same problem like alex: I can’t set the path to the logo.
error: /var/www/blog.mucao.de/wp-content/themes/vistered-little-1.7.3/http://blog.mucao.de/wp-content/themes/vistered-little-1.7.3/images/logos is not a directory
Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/blog.mucao.de/wp-content/themes/vistered-little-1.7.3/functions.php:273) in /var/www/blog.mucao.de/wp-content/themes/vistered-little-1.7.3/header.php on line 2
Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /var/www/blog.mucao.de/wp-content/themes/vistered-little-1.7.3/functions.php:273) in /var/www/blog.mucao.de/wp-content/themes/vistered-little-1.7.3/header.php on line 2
alex, how did you solve it. thanks in advance
I would like to make a recommendation.
My recommendation is to make the backgrounds beable to resize.
I would like to be able to put 320 x 200 or what ever resolution, and have it resize the the size of the background of the page
WP 2.2 was just released. Anyone try VL with the new version of WP?
If you guys have problems finding the page to configure this theme, install the presentation toolkit and then viola! the link to configure the theme appears on the presentation tab.
Thanks for the giving us this wonderful theme. =)
Just upgraded to WP 2.2 and VL worked just fine.
Hi Taylor, I suspect they might be using MU. I’m going to try that and let you know how I go.
Hi alex,
change your logo path from
to
Hi Rolando, thanks for the test report. I’m about to install 2.2 myself.
Hi Tom,
I am still seeing this in my log even after installing the Presenter plugin:
PHP Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /var/www/mysite.com/httpdocs/wordpress/wp-content/themes/vistered-little-1/wallpaper_functions.php on line 47, referer: http://www.mysite.com/wordpress/
Is it possible to have small PICs and not have them tile but stretch or shrink to the size of the page
Hi Alex, do you mean you want the background to stretch to fit the browser window? If so, I’ve already created an entry for this in the feature request poll above. Feel free to vote for it. Otherwise, could you please elaborate?
Using Vistered Little Theme at hikingfun.org. And just the way we like it;-) Thx.
I’m loving your WordPress theme! I’m currently using it at http://www.mesmerlab.com. I’m wondering how to get the AdSense box across the top like you have.
Thanks again!
Looks like you’ve really got your hands full Tom, thanks for keeping vistered alive.
I cannot manage to use the Gravatar2 Plugin, where am I supposed to put the code inside the comments.php file?
I would appreciate some help!
Hi Jason, to get the banner, you need to enable it via the theme admin page that is provided by the presentation toolkit plugin. You will then be able to configure it from the widgets admin page.
Hi kojikaH, I haven’t looked into adding support for the gravatar2 plugin. You can add it as a feature request via the poll above.
Ok, posted!
I’m looking forward for the Gravatar’s support!
You’re doing a really great job btw! Keep going!
I have been playing around with the Vistered Little theme for my website so I can use it. I first installed 1.6 and it worked fine. Then I tried 1.7.2 and 1.7.3 and it doesn’t look right on IE 6.0. Firefox works fine.
In IE 6.0 there is no background to the banner or any of the post or anything. The only thing showing are imates and text on the background. I have played around with all the options to see if anything different happend and it didn’t. I tryed different skins and nothing. From what it shows above, there were fixes to bugs for banners in IE so I am not sure why it is happening.
I then upgraded to Wordpress 2.2 and that did not help. I could keep using 1.6 and play around with that, but prefer to go with 1.7.3. Any thoughts?
Hi kojikaH, I’ll look into it when I have some time, which there isn’t much of at the moment. And having said that, it looks like WPG2 support is a higher priority.
Hi oZriic, I’ll have to have a look at your site when you have VL enabled. My site appears fine in IE 6 for me. You can tee up a time with me to test it by using the meeboMo section of the Contact page.
hello,
is this forward compatible with wp 2.2? esp widgets - ive added loads of text widgets and dont want them to dissapear…
Hi Tom,
This is an amazing bit of work that you’ve done, and your blog itself is chock full of wonderful goodies to drool over. I’m rather new to webdesign, but this theme captured one of the things that I was hoping to achieve, albeit outside of WordPress. If I may ask, how did you get the transparency to work? I love it, and with your permission and maybe a point in the right direction, would like to duplicate it. Thanks!
Hi arv, I haven’t tested it with 2.2 yet, but the initial reports are that it does work with 2.2.
Hi Dave, I’ll try to write an article about it. The short answer is use pngs as background images and for IE, use
The only problem is that relative path’s don’t work for the IE filters.
Dave, there is a combination of all sorts of CSS and JS cool stuff going on, but the transparent PNG is nothing to do with that, you just make transparent PNGs in Gimp (or Photoshop and others) and throw it in. the real trick is to get IE6 to display it right
Oh, Tom was faster (and more informative). I didn’t know this required absolute path, that explains why 1.7.3 won’t look right with the “theme switcher” widget….
Thanks Tom, I look forward to the full article. I have been searching for an example of what I wanted, then I found this this morning. Been excited ever since.
In the meantime, do you know of a (perhaps…beginners..) tutorial about working with png’s? Not the actual creation, but the placement? I looked in the .zip, and saw that you used just one small image. How did you get it to extend down per the length of each post? And then the curved ones? Sorry, I could prattle on with my questions all day.
Ira, thank ya sir.
I was reading the poll above and saw that changing the font size might be a future request. But has anyone got it working? I’d like to change the font size in the posts and widget boxes at least two sizes bigger.
I’m looking at the style.css, but don’t know where to begin. This post from Tom was not in my style.css file for version 1.7.3
Hey Rolando, add
to you style.css
Change the font-size to whatever you want.
Very cool Tom! I thought I was going to replace something somewhere instead of ‘add’ the code. That worked.
Now I do I change the font size within the sidebar blocks and footer block. Please.
Hey Rolando, try adding
to you style.css to change the font size in the sidebar.
Try
or
to change the font size in the footer.
Very cool Tom! It works on the footer, but the sidebar is unchanged.
Try
“IE 6 uses “expressions” in the css (have a look for headerfixed in style-ie.css.php) and these can put a bit of a load on the CPU. The strange thing I’ve found is that sometimes it’s really slow and chews up a lot of CPU and other times, there’s no noticeable slowness at all.”
Hey Tom - I figured I’d post this in the correct comment section. I tried the site w/FireFox today and noticed the slowdown no longer exists. It seems you’re correct in that IE6 has some strange interaction.
I do have a few different issues that I see you don’t suffer from, though. First, the first thumbnail choice I have defaults to a blank background. I cheated and made a white thumbnail and ensured that shows up first. It works — but it’s not the way it’s meant to work
Second, now that I’m using the site in FireFox 2.0.0.3, my backgrounds don’t show up at all. The background shows up fine on your site here. Any thoughts from anyone? Thanks in advance for the answers and for the great theme!
Awesome Tom! Here my settings that worked for me. 200% was a little too big. I put everything in the section below:
/* Begin Blog and comment styles. */
#contentcontainer .blog p {
font-size: 120%;
}
#footer li {
font-size: 120%;
}
#menucontainer li, #menucontainer p {
font-size: 120%;
}
Hi -drew-, I’m investigating the problem.
Hi everyone, please make sure you read the security alert for vistered little 1.6a to 1.7.2
Great theme but I need a second sidebar, is it possible to have one implemented in
Maybe in version 1.8.0 or something.
Awesome theme, really enjoyed using it, thanks for your great work!
You’re welcome
I love your theme! And when I heard that 1.7.4 was out i updater my 1.6 version immediately.
However… the background seems to be missing in some parts when i load it on firefox but looks fine on IE. This problem didn’t occur with the old version. Would be really glad if you could help me with it. Take a look at the site.
What version of WordPress are you using?
Use akismet and everything works fine! Thanks again!
Yay! I see comments are now threaded! what joy! I started working on this but never finished…
is that the only news in 1.7.4 or is there more? I did a lot of i18n work on 1.7.3 and haven’t finished, so I’ll port them to 1.7.4 and try to rush it to you, they are all integrateable into the main tree.
There is more in 1.7.4 but I haven’t put the release notes online yet. Please see the NEWS file in the distribution. RE: i18n. I’m working with Pi to have full localisaton support in 1.7.5.
The thing is I’ve done full i18n on my 1.7.3 copy and added a RTL skin (for Hebrew/Arabic/Farsi). the only thing not working for me there are the little stars for bullets which don’t render well on RTL and also the management screen’s language stays English for no apparent reason.
should I send it to you now as a patch or should I keep porting for now?
The sooner you send it, the sooner I can start integrating it with the current version. I’m also very interested to see what is required for a RTL skin.
well, I can send you a patch to 1.7.3 if you want, but I’ve already started redoing it for 1.7.5… I’m not sure if I’m not doing my job harder in a way.
If you are happy to patch 1.7.5, then that’s great.
Thanks
I got it mostly working, but too many of my readers complained both 1.7.5 and 1.7.3 are two heavy for some browsers to the point of getting them stuck. I have never seen it myself but I guess I can’t argue with my audience :-/
so while I’m not going to keep working on it, I can still send you the (gnu) DIFF to 1.7.5 and you can merge whatever you can use. Will that do?
I agree VL isn’t a light theme. Also (though it doesn’t appear to be the problem in your case) VL is very vulnerable to slow loading widgets. IMO VL’s biggest defect at the moment is that the sidebar is rendered before the main content.
A diff would be great. Thanks for the work you have done.
Hello there,
can you help on how to get the aero style(transparent border) similar to the ones on your blog. please let me know..is there a sample code that i can try.
Thanks in advance
You can download the Visterd Little theme and inspect it’s code to find out how the effect is achieved. Have a look at the style.css.php and style-ie.css.php files in the the various skins directory. The basic idea is to use semi-transparent pngs as backgrounds and then use some trickery to get IE 6 to display them properly.
When posting images, I have issues using the center tag, the border attribute to the IMG tag, and using links.
Are there particular CSS tags I should use instead to make the formatting within posts appear correctly?
Can you give me some code (XHTML/CSS) examples of what you are attempting?
It’s very simple stuff.
If you use
The border will not show up.
Sorry.
If you put a link around and image with a border, the border will not appear. Remove the link and it will show up.
Also, the border doesn’t seem to appear in IE regardless
Try adding the following css
.post a img { border: solid red 5px; }to a custom css file (you would then place this in a customizations directory and tell the theme about you customizations directory via it’s options page) or add it to the end of Vistered Little’s style.css file
Hey there,
Great theme! loving the style and customization. But Im not great on the custom side and theres a lot more files in this to the last one I changed!
I see a 2nd sidebar is already added to the request list.
Mainly Im not really sure where to edit the sidebar contents. For example remove the ‘page information’ bit, and change the order so t he first box has the PAGES, 2nd has Calender, Archive and then Tags or something
Ok scratch that one,
I see the Widgets plugin works with the look so that should be ok!
NOW really the only thing left is to change the very background colour from white to black, and the Titles colour from blue to something else.
I cant find the codes relating to these anywhere, maybe I have to add them?
Have a look at the ‘Customising The CSS’ section in the VL Documentation Page. You can then add your own CSS to modify the
background-color, the fontcolorand anything else you want to change.Literally as you posted this I found that colour hidden in the css.php of the default folder
Yeh I have been playing a bit with the CSS but will definately try to then make it a seperate skin folder to keep the original in tact.
Did you just add that documentation page? I swear I tried it the other day and it had nothing in it.
So if you add just partial script to the css in the skin, it keeps everything else as is? So i dont need to re-write the whole thing? Amazing.
Commend you on your fast responses to people here too.
I updated the page this morning
Just to make sure the terminology is correct so others don’t misunderstand. You create a customisations folder (outside of the vistered little theme), in which you put your CSS changes. This gets applied to VL regardless of which skin you are using, works in addition to the CSS specified by the skin and will not be overwritten when you update VL. Cool eh?
Hello Tom;
I’ve installed 1.7.4 on my site bestofwhisky.com and am having a few problems with the alignment of my posts.
I typically create them in a work document, and then paste them into the posting page.
1. I have to change the color from black to a very light grey for the text to show properly.
2. The alignment is not consistent will start new lines or create spaces where none existed. (I’ve left a few unaltered for you to take a look
thanks
I had a look and one of the problem posts (black text on black background) and I’m sure this is a TinyMCE issue. When you are pasting into TinyMCE it pastes the style information along with it. I can only assume that it’s getting a little confused.
You could be correct about the TineMCE, but I only made 2 posts since installing it. I was hoping that it would remedy the situation. Have you ever heard of this before, b/c it has been happening for quite some time. I can get around the color text issue, but not being able to align properly is bothering me.
Here is an
example of what type of issue I encounter.
Sometimes in mid
sentence I get a carrage return when there is none.
Have you tested the same in with other themes? Can you give me a link to an article showing the new line problem?
Forgive me for being a dolt re the footer but what exactly in the index.php do you have to edit.. currently my footer is empty
http://hijak.org and I’d like it not to be
The footer has been “widgetized”, so you don’t need to edit any code. You just need to go to your widgets admin page and configure the footer from there.
There is no footer editing widget that I can see in my widgets
do I need to grab it somewhere?
You will need to scroll right to be able to see it, though there is no way to do this in IE 6 (I have no idea why it doesn’t present a scroll bar in this situation).
K I am using FF and there is no scroll bar of any description and no footer widget. Sorry to be a pest
Ok durrrrrrrr I got it thanks for your help
i made something go very wrong so started fresh and changed it much easier this time around.
As TOM said its easy to just create a custom folder and add the code you like etc - great option. But If you cant code from scratch like me, I simply copied and edited the default skin - not the cleanest hack but it works
Pretty happy with it now, just get some backgrounds happening!
Feel free to check my site and feedback from anyone too
http://www.barnz2k.com/blog
Cheers.
There’s a typo within style.css of version 1.7.5 at .credits (that shouldn’t cause any ill effects): padding-bottm
Tom:
Destroy my previous post. I figured it all out. Now it’s exactly the way I want it.
Thanks for the best wordpress theme ever.
Hi,
One more question! I replaced the header fine, but the default ones are 300px high, and I want it around 100px. But If I just change the image it repeats it. i Can’t workout how you got the smaller ones like on this site to work.
What code do I need to add to my custom CSS that I can change the header image height without screwing up the transparency and fixed position?
Cheers.
PS: FYI my current header PNG goes to 0% at the bottom, and shows fine in IE, but in Firefox it holds at around 50%.
It would be killer if you can get Vistered Little Theme to be compatible with the All in One SEO Plugin!!!
Nope I was wrong, All in One SEO Plugin works, I just had a bug in my sidebar widgets, with a reload everything worked fine, and resolved a couple of annoying W3C errors.
Afternoon Tom.
Many thanks for the great skin. Using it with nextgen gallery for a photoblog type thing at the moment and it rocks.
Only found your skin by accident through a friends pc - had links to several blogs and was reading some of them and found this skin - cpied the link down and downloaded it. Been using it ever since.
Thanks again.
~Simon
Hey Windy! I have the vistered little version 1.6 (in a Wordpress 2.1.2), and Gallery 2.2 and I don’t have any problem with wpg2 plugin, but with the same versions of Wordpress & Gallery but with Vistered Little 1.7, I can’t add photos from “write post”. Do you know why??
Grrr. I can’t find where in the css you change the bg to white.
Also, you should consider releasing the theme with white already chosen. I love the flow, and it’s why I chose it.
Thanks
The option pages are driven by the Presentation Toolkit plugin. Install it, activate it and you should see a “Default Skin” page in the “Presentation” admin section.
I updated to WordPress 2.3 and switched the theme from default to citrus, when I tried to switch back I keep getting the following message: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare visteredlittle_setup() (previously declared in /home/iyf500/public_html/wp-content/themes/vistered-little/functions.php:12) in /home/iyf500/public_html/wp-content/themes/vistered-little/functions.php on line 10
I’ll be upgrading to 2.3 over the next week or so and I’ll be able to test it then.
Hi Tom,
I was using 1.7.2 successfully and when I switched to 1.7.6 I get the following message without fail:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: functions_exists() in /home/myusername/public_html/wp-content/themes/vistered-little-1.7.6/widgets.php on line 450
Can you please help? Great theme, BTW. The only one I’ve ever used!
Thanks, Craig
…and I had upgraded Skinner to 0.1.3 and Presentation to 0.0.9 before trying Vistered 1.7.6. I had upgraded those plugins by simply copying in the new files over the old ones.
I am using WP 2.1.1 as provided by BlueHost.’
Thanks!
OK, so I upgraded to WP 2.2.2 through BlueHost and reloaded the new Skinner and Presentation plugins and everything works great now!
Please keep these posts in case anyone else has the same problem as I didn’t see the problem anywhere else on the net. Feel free to edit them how you like!
Thanks again Tom for a great theme and excellent plugins!
Craig
I’m guessing you’re working on the ‘Header not displayed correctly in Opera or Safari - Open - 1.7.6′ bug, because your WIndy Road blog now shows just fine with Safari on my mac. I would guess 1.7.7 may be out shortly!? Thanks for fixing this issue!
Looking good - quick fix - and I still love this theme!
well spotted. Vistered Little 1.7.7 is in the final throws of being prepared for release.
Hi tom.
great theme!
i just updated my blog from version 1.6 to the current one and have one problem now:
the tags aren’t working anymore. when i try to click on a tag i always get:
“Fatal error: Call to undefined function: utw_showcurrenttagset() in /mnt/web4/51/69/51628669/htdocs/wp-content/themes/vistered-little/header.php on line 6″
can you help me out?
hi again
i’m not into that coding stuff, but i just deleted the “( function_exists( ‘is_tag’ ) && is_tag() ) {
UTW_ShowCurrentTagSet(’tagsettextonly’);
echo ‘ ‘ . __(’@', VL_DOMAIN) . ‘ ‘;
bloginfo(’name’);
}
else if”
from the header.php, i couldn’t find any of the tag stuff in the header from the old vista little and not it works again
did i destroy anything with deleting that, or is it ok?
thank you!
I have the same exact problem, and I noticed so did a lot of other theme users when I entered the error into google search. Since you removed that code has it been working without problems?
mahvin
I found a solution to this particular problem, currently facing the 2.3 version, I went to
and downloaded the plugin and installed it. The only difference was it moved the tags from the footer to its own sidebar box.
I found a solution to this particular problem, currently facing the 2.3 version, I went to http://www.neato.co.nz/wordpress-things/utw-theme-compatibility-thing/
and downloaded the plugin and installed it. The only difference was it moved the tags from the footer to its own sidebar box.
This is a really great theme! Thanks for making it available to all.
I am upgrading from 1.6 to 1.7 now. I wonder if the center column is going to be bigger in 1.7? Mine is very small, I hope to make it bigger as my visitors are complaining on the small center column and photos (after auto resized).
I just notice that the header is not static and not scrolling as I scroll to the bottom page. I prefer the 1.6 version of header, so that visitors do not have to see the header all the time when scroll to the bottom. Can this be done in v1.7?
Hi Tom et al,
Again, great work and I love the integration with yatcp!
I’m attempting to create a page that lists all pages dynamically in a hierarchical fashion using php code. I found the code to do it and it works, amazingly enough!
I’m using a hacked version of page.php that I got from the WP install. However, the template I’m using doesn’t show the silver background (I’m using the shiny skin). Is there one of your pages in the theme (I didn’t see a page.php or anything like it) that I can use as a template to pull this off? I’m not even sure where the call to the theme is. Can you help?
Thanks, Craig
There’s a problem with backgrounds managment. If I empty all folders (bckgnd, thumbs, botomleft) and put my own inmages in the dirs that I want to use, but without thumbs, dowsen’t work.
Take a look at this code to fix. BYE!
function buildWallpaperArray() { $wallpapers=array(); $wallpapers[ 'tiled' ] = array(); $d=dirname(__FILE__).'/'.VL_WALLPAPER_DIR; $dir = opendir($d); while ($f = readdir($dir)) { $matches = null; if (eregi("(.*)\.jpg",$f,$matches)) { $wallpapers[ 'tiled' ][$matches[1]]->wallpaper = VL_WALLPAPER_DIR . $f; if( file_exists( dirname(__FILE__).'/'.VL_THUMBNAIL_DIR . $f ) ) { $wallpapers[ 'tiled' ][$matches[1]]->thumbnail = VL_THUMBNAIL_DIR . $f; } else { $wallpapers[ 'tiled' ][$matches[1]]->thumbnail = VL_WALLPAPER_DIR . $f; } } } closedir($dir); $wallpapers[ 'bottom-left' ] = array(); $d=dirname(__FILE__).'/'.VL_WALLPAPER_DIR.'bottom-left/'; $dir = opendir($d); while ($f = readdir($dir)) { $matches = null; if (eregi("(.*)\.jpg",$f,$matches)) { $wallpapers[ 'bottom-left' ][$matches[1]]->wallpaper = VL_WALLPAPER_DIR . 'bottom-left/'. $f; if( file_exists( dirname(__FILE__).'/'.VL_THUMBNAIL_DIR . $f ) ) { $wallpapers[ 'bottom-left' ][$matches[1]]->thumbnail = VL_THUMBNAIL_DIR . $f; } else { $wallpapers[ 'bottom-left' ][$matches[1]]->thumbnail = VL_WALLPAPER_DIR . 'bottom-left/'. $f; } } } return $wallpapers; }It’s no supposed to work without thumbnails. Think about how much bandwidth you would use otherwise. Consider this a service to your readers.
ok ok.. you’re right.. so I propose this to you:
in the same file, after the defines, paste and replace with this:
function thumbnail($image_path,$thumb_path,$image_name,$thumb_width)
{
$src_img = imagecreatefromjpeg("$image_path/$image_name");
$origw=imagesx($src_img);
$origh=imagesy($src_img);
$new_w = $thumb_width;
$diff=$origw/$new_w;
$new_h=$new_w;
$dst_img = imagecreate($new_w,$new_h);
$filename="./wp-content/themes/vistered-little/wallpapers/thumbs/$image_name";
imagecopyresized($dst_img,$src_img,0,0,0,0,$new_w,$new_h,imagesx($src_img),imagesy($src_img));
imagejpeg($dst_img, $filename);
return TRUE;
}
function buildWallpaperArray() {
$wallpapers=array();
$wallpapers[ 'tiled' ] = array();
$d=dirname(__FILE__).’/’.VL_WALLPAPER_DIR;
$dir = opendir($d);
while ($f = readdir($dir)) {
$matches = null;
if (eregi(”(.*)\.jpg”,$f,$matches)) {
$wallpapers[ 'tiled' ][$matches[1]]->wallpaper = VL_WALLPAPER_DIR . $f;
if( file_exists( dirname(__FILE__).’/’.VL_THUMBNAIL_DIR . $f ) == false) {
thumbnail($d, VL_WALLPAPER_DIR, $f, 20);
}
$wallpapers[ 'tiled' ][$matches[1]]->thumbnail = VL_THUMBNAIL_DIR . $f;
}
}
closedir($dir);
$wallpapers[ 'bottom-left' ] = array();
$d=dirname(__FILE__).’/’.VL_WALLPAPER_DIR.’bottom-left/’;
$dir = opendir($d);
while ($f = readdir($dir)) {
$matches = null;
if (eregi(”(.*)\.jpg”,$f,$matches)) {
$wallpapers[ 'bottom-left' ][$matches[1]]->wallpaper = VL_WALLPAPER_DIR . ‘bottom-left/’. $f;
if( file_exists( dirname(__FILE__).’/’.VL_THUMBNAIL_DIR . $f ) == false) {
thumbnail($d, VL_WALLPAPER_DIR.’bottom-left’, $f, 20);
}
$wallpapers[ 'bottom-left' ][$matches[1]]->thumbnail = VL_THUMBNAIL_DIR . $f;
}
}
return $wallpapers;
}
function thumbnail($image_path,$thumb_path,$image_name,$thumb_width)
{
$src_img = imagecreatefromjpeg(”$image_path/$image_name”);
$origw=imagesx($src_img);
$origh=imagesy($src_img);
$new_w = $thumb_width;
$diff=$origw/$new_w;
$new_h=$new_w;
$dst_img = imagecreate($new_w,$new_h);
$filename=”./wp-content/themes/vistered-little/wallpapers/thumbs/$image_name”;
imagecopyresized($dst_img,$src_img,0,0,0,0,$new_w,$new_h,imagesx($src_img),imagesy($src_img));
imagejpeg($dst_img, $filename);
return TRUE;
}
function buildWallpaperArray() {
$wallpapers=array();
$wallpapers[ 'tiled' ] = array();
$d=dirname(__FILE__).’/’.VL_WALLPAPER_DIR;
$dir = opendir($d);
while ($f = readdir($dir)) {
$matches = null;
if (eregi(”(.*)\.jpg”,$f,$matches)) {
$wallpapers[ 'tiled' ][$matches[1]]->wallpaper = VL_WALLPAPER_DIR . $f;
if( file_exists( dirname(__FILE__).’/’.VL_THUMBNAIL_DIR . $f ) == false) {
thumbnail($d, VL_WALLPAPER_DIR, $f, 20);
}
$wallpapers[ 'tiled' ][$matches[1]]->thumbnail = VL_THUMBNAIL_DIR . $f;
}
}
closedir($dir);
$wallpapers[ 'bottom-left' ] = array();
$d=dirname(__FILE__).’/’.VL_WALLPAPER_DIR.’bottom-left/’;
$dir = opendir($d);
while ($f = readdir($dir)) {
$matches = null;
if (eregi(”(.*)\.jpg”,$f,$matches)) {
$wallpapers[ 'bottom-left' ][$matches[1]]->wallpaper = VL_WALLPAPER_DIR . ‘bottom-left/’. $f;
if( file_exists( dirname(__FILE__).’/’.VL_THUMBNAIL_DIR . $f ) == false) {
thumbnail($d, VL_WALLPAPER_DIR.’bottom-left’, $f, 20);
}
$wallpapers[ 'bottom-left' ][$matches[1]]->thumbnail = VL_THUMBNAIL_DIR . $f;
}
}
return $wallpapers;
}
Thanks for the patch. I’ll try to incorporate it into the next release.
hi, i’ve got a problem.
if i set the random wallpaper and then i clear cache and temp files, when I load the blog i recive the error:
—-
random is not defined
var vl_wallpaper_current = random;
—-
on the script:
—
var vl_wallpaper_count = 8;
var vl_wallpaper_current = random;
var search_phrase = “Search…”;
var search_label = “Type and press enter.”;
—
can u help me?
Later if i select a bkgnd or i click on the random thumb, all works fine.
but if i don’t do this, i’ve got no wallpaper and a bad “undefined” clicking on search field.
DEMO: http://unut.stidue.net/blog
temporary solution:
in functions.php, function wallpaper_selection(), replace:
—-
return $idx;
—-
with:
—-
if (intval($idx)==0){
$idx = “-1″;}
return $idx;
—-
i’ve got a problem. If i select the first wallpaper, this choice works like random one.
How to fix?
PS: I’ve got the solutione to the random problem described above, but i was not able to post it.
Has any thought been given to getting a real forum instead of the ever expanding comments to blog post?
Yeah, I’ve been thinking of using bbPress. In the meantime, the forum is being hosted by Scary Little Monkey.
Hey, why this blog seems to be dead?
Are there some news about bugs that I have?
Please answer me or suggest me where to write questions/suggests.
BYE!
Sorry dude. Life has been really busy lately
Your bugs are on my ToDo list.
However I try to re-post the solution to bug at post “Random is not defined”..
Substitute line 28 of functions.php with:
$vl_wallpaper_options = ‘Wallpaper {radio|-1|’ . __(’Random’, VL_DOMAIN). ‘ (’ . __(’default’, VL_DOMAIN) . ‘)’;
Hi Creator(s),
I am new at wordpress, but try to maintain my own one. I looked for different themes in order to find something to suit my preferences best - and stumbled across this theme (from a german link - I use the german version of wordpress).
This theme is GREAT and GREAT and GREAT. It looks great and leaves in itself so many options for settings (I thought till now that changing themes would be my “only” option *gg*).
Thank you very much for the work you have done here and for giving this to all of us wordpress-users.
hi! so i was hoping you could help me out. i have this theme on blogsavy.com and i love it, only thing is, there’s an archives widget at the top of the sidebar that doesn’t show archives and cannot be removed. is there any way to fix this? thanks!
The best ever theme of wordpress i’ve ever used. Thanks alot mate
I have 3 questions:
^How would I set a permanant background expand the length of the page and remove the wallpapers?
^I would also like to set a header background as well
^Change the title to two seperate words with diffrent fonts and colors? Instead of pulling the title from the db..
Thanks in advance
Hi! This theme is very great job!
I`m realy love it! And try to use from all my blogs!
Is there any way to let people navigate to “older” and “previous” posts on the main page?
Hi Tom - I posted a comment on the page for your plugins to let you know that the links to them don’t work - I would like to try the tiny table plugin, but all links to it return this error:
“Too many redirects occurred trying to open “http://windyroad.org/software/wordpress/tiny-table-plugin/”. This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open another page which then is redirected to open the original page.”
Is there any way to download this plugin?
Sorry for sounding so ignorant but….is this software for building a site or customizing a blog?
Don’t know the basics but I am intrigued…
Has development of Vistered Little stopped? Will there be a new version for WordPress 2.5?
Is this theme still being developed? Will there be an update for the next version of WordPress?
I’m pretty sure this has been abandoned.
Whenever I get to a webpage that uses this wp theme, I have to stop reading, or disable stylesheets entirely. The frames-style title bar at the top, which doesn’t scroll along with the page contents, is aggravating on my eyes when I try to read; because I tend to read text near the top of the page, but the title bar distracts my focus.
It also takes away a good chunk of real-estate from the actual page contents.
I just thought I’d comment that; since many others might experience this frustration. I’d say it’s a usability flaw with this theme :/ I don’t mean to be a jerk, I just thought I’d raise this issue.
You’re not being a jerk and it’s a fair enough call. There is an option for administrators to have the header positioned normally, but I guess it makes sense to have an end user option as well (no sure on the best way to display it though). If I ever get around to updating the theme, I’ll keep this in mind.
hi nicky can you customize this theme for blogger?..