Web2.0* Wordpress Theme Updated

Well, I’ve finally managed to get my Web2.0* Wordpress theme to utilise AJAX commenting. I’ve also cleaned up alot of the code on the comments.php page.

I strongly recommend that you re-download the theme and reply it.

The theme has now had over 2,000 downloads - so a big thank you to everyone. Could I request that if you are using the theme that you rate it? That would be greatly appreciated.

Update 26 January 2007: There was a problem with displaying the links.php page when used with Wordpress 2.1 - this has now been fixed. If you don’t want to replace the whole page then download the updated page.

Update 28 January 2007: Another small update to the theme - more work done to try ensure that the theme is Wordpress 2.1 compliant and I’ve also added more option to the Admin area on the sidebar (see image below).

Update 26 March 2007: One more small update - this time to do with IE7 and the drop down menu. So if you’re experiencing problems do re-download and apply the theme.

Update 28 March 2007: Found that the comments page was a little screwy - this has been fixed in the latest version (1.2.5). Thanks to Hasan for the tip about automatically pulling the post’s author email address so that it isn’t hard-coded any more.

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41 Comments

On January 14, 2007 at 12:17 am au8ust wrote:

Great! I’m going to update it now :)

PS. Sorry I don’t understand about your request :(

On January 14, 2007 at 1:40 pm Neil wrote:

On the theme download page there is 5 stars - this is a rating system for the theme.

Click the stars to rate the theme :)

Let me know how you get on with the new version.

On January 14, 2007 at 5:49 pm au8ust wrote:

I Thanks Neil for the new version :)

Iâ€™ve a question about updating, Since Iâ€™ve changed many things in your theme to fit my usage. So is it possible to update only the file that youâ€™ve changed since the last release? If yes, which file?

P.S. You got five stars! :)

On January 14, 2007 at 11:47 pm Neil wrote:

The biggest changes were obviously in ‘comments.php’ (it was totally re-written), and in header.php (the lines that add the javascript for the AJAX commenting.

In the Readme.txt I do list the files changed and the new ones added.

Thanks for the 5 star rating - much appreciated.

On January 19, 2007 at 5:40 am au8ust wrote:

Hi Neil,

Have you tried this theme on Wordpress 2.1 RC ? It seems widgets are gone, I don’t see it it presentation tab any more :(

On January 19, 2007 at 9:01 am Neil wrote:

I’ve not tried WP2.1 - once it becomes final release then I will ensure that the theme supports 2.1.

On January 21, 2007 at 1:50 pm Neil wrote:

I’ve tested the theme with WP2.1 RC and it works - except for the Widgets.

On January 22, 2007 at 2:14 am au8ust wrote:

I don’t see widgets in WordPress Default Theme either. Maybe it’s just a bug or beta stuff related

On January 22, 2007 at 2:37 am au8ust wrote:

Sorry Neil, it’s my fault. I just forgot to install widgets plugin first LOL

Your theme works perfectly with 2.1RC :)

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On January 22, 2007 at 7:30 am Neil wrote:

No worries :)

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On January 22, 2007 at 7:57 am Web2.0* Wordpress Theme Available | Neil Merton wrote:

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On March 9, 2007 at 3:08 pm Rick Seymour wrote:

Just wanted to say thank you for an excellent theme, really! I’ve decided to move my whole [personal] website from an include fest php site to a blog style. And your theme with WordPress impressed me enough to take the jump! Easy to understand CSS layout for easy editing (only changed the header text colour so far)

Keep it up!
PS Works fine with WP2.1.2

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On March 9, 2007 at 9:47 pm Neil wrote:

Rick, it’s a pleasure and thanks for the kind words.

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On March 15, 2007 at 3:30 pm John P. wrote:

Neil…Thank you so much for the theme. I rated it on the Wordpress theme but I wanted to ask if I could replace your mewebdev tag in footer.php with a trackback to here in case someone else was interested in the theme?

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On March 15, 2007 at 8:00 pm Neil wrote:

Hi John,

You are more than welcome to, and thanks for the rating!

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On March 15, 2007 at 9:35 pm John P. wrote:

Done. I don’t get too much traffic but if the trackbacks get bothersome, please let me know and I’ll restore your code.

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On March 15, 2007 at 11:15 pm Neil wrote:

Will do - thanks again.

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On March 24, 2007 at 9:59 am alakhnor wrote:

Hi guy,
I love your theme!
I’ve just used it with my own plugin and it really is great.
Just a point I cannot fixed: sfhover doesn’t seem to work properly (menu doesn’t disappear correctly with IE7, doesn’t show with IE6). Would you have an idea?

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On March 26, 2007 at 8:00 am Neil wrote:

Hi there,

You are correct - the reason being is IE7 doesn’t actually need the sfhover in place for the menus to work (it supports the :hover selector better than IE6)

Once it I’ve tested I’ll update the theme on it’s page.

Thanks for pointing it out.

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On March 26, 2007 at 6:58 pm Neil wrote:

Hi all,

The theme has been updated with better support for IE7 (dorp-down menu).

Please re-download from Wordpress Themes page if you are experiencing problems.

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On March 28, 2007 at 12:15 am alakhnor wrote:

Good!
Thanks a lot :)

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On March 28, 2007 at 12:16 am alakhnor wrote:

By the way, I’ve tweak your theme with my plugin just a little bit, you don’t mind? ^^

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On March 28, 2007 at 8:03 pm alakhnor wrote:

Soory but it still doesn’t work properly in IE7 :/

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On March 28, 2007 at 8:18 pm alakhnor wrote:

Ok, I’ve found the fix. You need to add:
#wp-menu-main ol li:hover, #wp-menu-main ol li.hover {
position: static;
}

to style_ie.css.

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On March 29, 2007 at 8:05 am Neil wrote:

After some research I found another fix:

#wp-menu-main ol li:hover ul,
#wp-menu-main ol li.sfhover ul {
  background-position: 0 0;
  left: auto;
  }

I’ll be including this in the next release.

Thanks for the heads-up though.

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On April 6, 2007 at 11:28 am au8ust wrote:

Help needed! After updated and edited to match my need, I found that Ajax comment is no longer work :(

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On April 6, 2007 at 6:10 pm Neil wrote:

What version have you updated to?

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On April 6, 2007 at 7:07 pm au8ust wrote:

Your lastest one, 1.2.5

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On April 7, 2007 at 8:20 am Neil wrote:

I have no idea why it might be broken - it works fine on a default installation of WP.

Are you sure one of the many additional plugins you’ve installed isn’t maybe interfering?

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On April 7, 2007 at 11:33 am au8ust wrote:

The Ajax comment used to work before with the current plugins I’m using. It just happened after I updated the theme to the latest one. Anyway, I’ll try to disable my plugins one by one and see if it will work or not ;)

Thanks for your help :)

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On April 7, 2007 at 11:55 am au8ust wrote:

I just found the problem, it caused by an option in one of my plugin named Inline Ajax Page. So I just turned of that option and everything is working again!

Thanks for great theme and great support!

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On April 7, 2007 at 11:56 pm Neil wrote:

Glad to hear it’s working again!

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On April 11, 2007 at 3:36 am John P. wrote:

Hi Neil,
Would you please take a look at my footer in IE6 if you have a spare minute? I’m trying to modify the style_ie.css to extend the black background over the two additional blocks I added in the footer. I put them in separate divs to help style them but the hover and the background doesn’t render correctly in IE6. Looks fine on all my Mac browsers. Thanks!

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On April 11, 2007 at 7:32 am Neil wrote:

John, I’ll do some investigation later tonight once I get home from work.

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On April 11, 2007 at 2:13 pm John P. wrote:

Neil…thanks. Renders fine in IE7 but I still have the majority of my traffic using IE6.

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On April 18, 2007 at 1:19 am John P. wrote:

aargh…I give up. I’ve tried the height 1% trick and assigning a line height. You can make a career out of developing CSS workarounds for IE 6.

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On April 18, 2007 at 6:27 am Neil wrote:

John, have you tried specifing a height value in the style.css for #wp-footer?

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On April 18, 2007 at 3:27 pm John P. wrote:

Neil…I assigned the height 1% on the style.css and it seems to have cleared that up. I really didn’t want to let all browsers see that but they seem to blow through it and show the footer ‘overflow’ properly. Thanks!!!!

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On April 21, 2007 at 9:43 am Jayvee wrote:

Why is the Web 2.0 Theme non-CSS compliant? It’s XHTML 1.0 strict but its CSS is invalid.

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On April 21, 2007 at 9:51 am Neil wrote:

The reason for the failure is due to the Lightbox CSS I decided to include - apart from that the CSS is valid.

What is peoples’ consensus - would you like me to leave the Lightbox support in the theme, or remove it to ensure that the CSS validates?

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On April 23, 2007 at 1:43 pm John P. wrote:

I’ll pull an “essential” plugin if it doesn’t validate but for some reason, the CSS problem with Lightbox doesn’t bother me at all. I don’t use Lightbox that much but I do like the functionality it provides when I do use it.

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