Vistered Little Theme

Hey Diego, I’ll chalk that up as a bug; Shouldn’t take too long to fix.

Wow, Tom! I downloaded 1.7.1 and the 2 plugins and it works!! Excellent work!!!

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

ChrisCJD

Comment on October 6th, 2007. Reply

ProphetJoe, Sorry I have been very busy at work lately. I will check your post on the forum.

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.

That worked great. Thanks Tom
Kevin

Thanks for the update, but what is with the search form???? What are all the hidden inputs for?

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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.

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 Fossil,

I can’t really recommend anything since I don’t use flickr and nor gallery 2. Has anyone else got some recommendations?

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.

Hi RTX,

I’ll have to look into that (not near my mac at the moment). I’ve marked it as a bug.

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.)

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 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

BitBurn

Comment on August 15th, 2007. Reply

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.

Hi Shari,

1.7.2 should do the trick for you.

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…

I love this theme, but does anyone have a way of making a second sidebar?

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.

Lots of problems in 1.7.3, unfortunately.
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? PNG Transparency fix doesen’t works;
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..

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

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!

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.

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…

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 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.

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.

Now if only I could spell.

Thanks to both of you!

and you’re both better men than I

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.

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.

also you should submit the theme to themes.wordpress.net

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.

wow, this theme looks awesome - thanks a lot! cheers, mic

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?

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

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.

Little bug: if a logo contains a space in its filename, it’s not shown in IE6.

Little bug: if a logo contains a space in its filename, it’s not shown in IE6.

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.

My test site doesn’t display in ie6 since I upgraded to 1.7.2. Any ideas?

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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…

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!

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!

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 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).

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…