Web2.0* Wordpress Theme Available

Well, as promised, I’ve released the Web2.0* Wordpress theme to the general public.

I would love to hear from you if you are using it.

Update 23 October 2006:
I found a few issues with the theme when viewing in Internet Explorer 7. These have now been rectified.

Update 11 November 2006:
Wow, the theme has had over a 1,000 downloads since releasing it. My thanks goes out to all.

Update 12 November 2006:
I’ve amended the ‘footer.php’ to be more dynamic - if you don’t feel like re-downloading simply update line 3 to:

<p>Copyright &copy; <?php echo date("Y"); ?> <?php bloginfo('name') ?>

Update 26 November 2006:
Fixed the page link display and did alot of cleaning-up.

Update 04 December 2006:
The theme now supports ‘Widgets‘. If you need to utilise these then I highly recommend that you redownload and apply the theme. If not then you can safely ignore this update.

All further updates are now viewable at this post.

24 Comments
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I’ve been using your theme and I think it’s great. I’ve run into a problem though. In IE there’s some extra space at the bottom of my homepage that isn’t there when I view it in Firefox. Any ideas on why it could be doing that?

You can view the page here.

Thanks,
Jeffrey

I’m using IE 6 and there’s no gap - could you please let me know what version of Internet Explorer you’re using?

I’m using IE6. Yet, I just updated to IE7 and the space is not there. Why would it do that?

I think I actually see what you’re on about now. I’ve given the content area (#wp-content) height and min-height values (both found in style_ie.css). Lower the min-height value to 4em and that should remove the additional spacing.

Hello Neil,

First, thanks for your great work. I plan to use a customized version of your theme for one of my website.
But, I encounter a problem: when one post contains a picture with a left align, there is a bug. I uploaded a screenshot for you: http://www.tristanleboss.net/web2-bug.png This bug occurs with both Firefox and IE 6.
Tristan

Hi Tristan,

I see what you mean, and thanks for letting me know. The only way to sort of get around this is to add clear: both; to the .post class in the style.css file (line 199).
It does, unfortunately, still leave the divider line underneath the image, but atleast the following content is move out the way.

To get the bottom border to shift I think it would mean addding an additional div tag around the post content. That could be getting into the realms of div-titas.
I’ll keep looking into this.

Hi Neil,
I would like to thank you for this great piece of work. I love this theme and thought you would like to know I’m using it (translated) in my new weblog.
Jake

Hi Jake,

Thanks for the kind comments - it’s always good to hear when others are using the theme.

Glad you like it.

trying to sort the menu under where to go so the days are in order not alphabetically… how do i do this? i’m new to webpages.

Hi Allan,

I’m not quite sure I know what you mean. Do you have an example to look at? I could then advise further.

yeah http://www.4happyhour.com. under where to go, the days are in alphabetical order. i need them to be manually sorted.

Right, open up ‘header.php’ and locate the following on line 52:

wp_list_pages(’title_li=’);

change it to:

wp_list_pages(’sort_column=menu_order&title_li=’);

What this does is it sorts the page order by the values you can input in for each page.

If you need more details please see the following link:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages

Let me know how you get on.

Can’t pass strict validation in comments.php (any page with post form):
“Error Line 90 column 50: document type does not allow element “label” here;”
:(

Hi Phil,

Thanks for the info - this will be fixed in the next release.

Hi, first grats ! This is a great theme. I’m gonna use it for one of the blog I author but for now I’m testing it and here’s a little ask if I may.

Please take a look here first. As you can see the children pages are displayed side by side. Is there a way to have them displayed like this way ?

Hi,

In the ’style.css’ file locate the following line:

#wp-menu-main ol li ul {

(it should be just after ‘/* =2nd level*/’)

and give this ul a width (something like 100px). that will force the list to display the items underneath each other.

I hope this helps.

Hi,
First of all, I want to say thank you for the great theme!

I have a question, how do I use my logo on the top instead of the text link ? I have tried to replace <a>/" title="Return to the home page."&gt;</a> with <a title="Return to the home page" href="http://www.au8ust.org/" rel="nofollow"></a> in the header.php but the result seems not to be what I want to see :(

Something wrong with my post, it should be replace

<a>/" title="Return to the home page."&gt;</a>
with
<a title="Return to the home page" href="http://www.au8ust.org/" rel="nofollow"></a>

Won’t work again? Hm…


  <a>/" title="Return to the home page." &gt;  </a>
with
<a title="Return to the home page" href="http://www.au8ust.org/" rel="nofollow">  </a>

Hi Au8ust.

Apologies for the issues with adding code to comments - I really should see if there’s a plugin available to render comments code correctly…

I take it all you want to do is replace the text of the blog name (au8ust’s tech channel) with a graphical image?

I’ve tested it out and adding an image in the place of the text in header.php seems to work fine (the code I changed was on line 51). There is a border around the image, this can easily be solved by adding a border attribute to the image.

If you’re still having diffeculties email the image and header.php file to neilmerton[at]gmail[dot]com and I’ll see if I can get them to work as desired.

Great design, Thanks, I am using your theme on several sites, and plan on skining with the css soon.

I am having trouble with one http://www.websailingdesigns.com/updates/ in a resolution of 800×600 the css falls abort. It does not happen in the others so I believe it is correctable.

I would like to add a calendar, any suggestions?

Is there going to be an upgrade with WordPress 3.0??

Thanks again
j

Hope Ajax comment will come soon :)

Hi Jack,

Could you please let me know what browser you’re experiencing the problems with at 800×600?

With regards to a calendar the theme does already incorporate styling for the Wordpress Calendar. To include it the sidebar simply add: <?php get_calendar(); ?> and the calendar will be displayed. You will need to adjust the CSS to suit your requirements.

An upgrade for WP3?? I wasn’t even aware version 3 was in development! If the WP guys do their job properly the next version should still support v2 themes. If 3 doesn’t I’ll do all I can to fix the Web2.0* theme. Promise.

what the *** is 2.0 about his theme ?

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