Mike Little’s Journalized

Wordpress Winter Theme 

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48 Responses to “Wordpress Winter Theme”

1. Patrick Says:
   March 24th, 2005 at 15:19

   Your theme in
   http://blog.argentine-news.com/
   I like it
   I changed somethings, like french language
   still working
   Anyway I don t find how to put the trackback link on each post
   Can you help please
   Thanks a lot

2. mike Says:
   March 24th, 2005 at 16:58

   Hi Patrick

   I’m glad you like the theme.

   You need to use the <?php trackback_url(display); ?> template tag. The link will take you to the codex with some more information.

   Hope this helps,
   Mike

3. Alex Says:
   March 24th, 2005 at 17:19

   Send it on over Mike, people love your themes!

4. Patrick Says:
   March 24th, 2005 at 19:32

   It works fine, thanks a lot
   Now, the last question
   need to put
   previous and next entries at the end of the page
   but each time I use the template tag of other theme I got an error
   Thanks again
   Patrick

5. Patrick Says:
   March 24th, 2005 at 20:15

   Sorry
   I found a solution for that so it s ok
   just put
   ‘); ?>

6. How To Blog Says:
   March 24th, 2005 at 23:23

   Comprehensive list of 170 WordPress 1.5 Themes / Templates available for download

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7. mike Says:
   March 24th, 2005 at 23:51

   Update: A minor update to the zip and tarball files. (I added a link in the copyright notice).

8. S.W. Anderson Says:
   March 25th, 2005 at 08:44

   Hi. I tried Journalized Sand on a fresh install of WP 1.5 this evening.
   It’s a terrific theme, but on my blog the sidebars were dropped to the
   bottom post, which they overlapped — except in the comments view,
   which looked terrific.

   Since the theme has its own index and style files, I don’t understand
   why that would happen.

   Any ideaas or suggestions?

9. mike Says:
   March 25th, 2005 at 19:47

   Hi S.W.
   I noticed that you have the same problem on http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/ with the standard Kubrick theme.
   I don’t know whether you have edited the core loop code in index.php or have installed a plug-in of some kind, but there is a closing div tag </div> missing from just before the opening div for the sidebar div.
   Hope this helps,
   Mike

10. S.W. Anderson Says:
    March 26th, 2005 at 19:19

    Thank you, thank you, thank you!

    That fixed it! Looks great.

    I have no idea why the div would’ve been missing. I made no alterations to that index file. I did add plug-ins and a script to another theme, however.

    Again, thanks for pointing me to the problem.

11. Sheweevil Says:
    March 27th, 2005 at 17:19

    Can you tell me Mike, do your themes only work with wordpress? Visting from Blogshares by the way

12. mike Says:
    March 27th, 2005 at 18:42

    Hi, these are only for WordPress. But as they are quite basic, it shouldn’t be too hard to port to some other system. What did you have in mind?

13. Life » Blog Archive » Theme Says:
    March 28th, 2005 at 05:47

    […] I finally picked the theme that should stick around for a long time. It’s called Journalized Winter. I changed it up a bit but nothing major. The larges […]

14. julie Says:
    March 28th, 2005 at 20:57

    HELLO MY NAME IS JULIE- I LOVE YOU MIKE- UR SO HOT- PLEASE IM ME- MYCHMICLROMANCE9 THANX- I JUST NEED SOMEONE TO TALK TO!

15. bursty pants of joy Says:
    March 29th, 2005 at 21:38

    BAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAA. mike the geek god has got GROUPIES!!!!!!!

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    April 28th, 2005 at 07:36

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17. janp Says:
    May 3rd, 2005 at 21:52

    Sort of a newbie on HTML/CSS, but i activated your theme on my blog but the sidebars wont show. I get this message; arning: main(leftcolumn.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/janpett/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/journalized-winter/index.php on line 53

    Warning: main(): Failed opening ‘leftcolumn.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/janpett/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/journalized-winter/index.php on line 53

    Whats the problem? Any ideas?

18. mike Says:
    May 3rd, 2005 at 23:00

    Hi Jan,
    There is a permissions problem with those two files. You need to check the permissions of leftcolumn.php and rightcolumn.php. They should be at least readable by your webserver.

    It is probably easiest to set the permissions to be the same as those for index.php in the same folder.

    I hope this helps,
    Mike

19. janp Says:
    May 5th, 2005 at 12:17

    yep. solved it. Will try out your layout in my blog. Like it alot. Thanks!

20. Mike Says:
    May 11th, 2005 at 03:15

    Mike,

    Cool theme, I’m using it on my site - quick question: how do you get the “one year ago” posts?

21. mike Says:
    May 11th, 2005 at 08:29

    Mike
    Mine is an old b2 hack I have maintained. There is a up-to-date WordPress plugin OnThisDay which may work for you.

    Mike

22. Mike Says:
    May 11th, 2005 at 15:24

    Thanks Mike, I managed to hack the hack and make it do what I want. Didn’t quite work out of the box, but what does? The only other thing I’m currently wrestling with is why my logos don’t show up on the archive pages. Must be some setting I’ve missed til now.

23. mike Says:
    May 11th, 2005 at 17:02

    Hi Mike,
    Your logo is broken because you are using a relative path. Because your archives appear to be in a different directory (e.g. /amn/2004/06/) the browser will request the image relative to that (virtual) path.
    You need to use src=”/amn/amnbanner.jpg”

    Hope this helps,
    Mike

24. Mike Says:
    May 11th, 2005 at 17:44

    Thanks, that did the trick.

25. billie Says:
    May 20th, 2005 at 20:27

    Forgive a CSS newbie but I’m trying to put an image in the header block.
    and not doing a very good job of it.

    First I put an images dir into the theme dir,
    then changed the headerblock stylesheet to background: images/banner.gif;
    then I actually tried writing an old-fashioned html link to the image
    and placing that on index.php which does put the image there but it is still
    covered by something either on header.php or index.php or stylesheet which I am too ignorant to find.
    Any help will be greatly appreciated. I love this theme, it’s the best 3 column I’ve seen.
    Thanks!

26. mike Says:
    May 20th, 2005 at 21:42

    Hi Billie,
    I’ve replied to you via email.

    Mike

27. felix Says:
    May 31st, 2005 at 08:35

    hello,sorry I don’t speak english. I’m using your theme, but i have a problem. If I can`t put wp_get_links() in the right column. any idea?
    I want put last messages too.

    Thank you very much and sorry.

28. James Says:
    July 3rd, 2005 at 11:26

    Hi, exactly how do I put links etc. onto a sidebar? I’m a complete wordpress and css n00b, so any help would be appreciated.

29. mike Says:
    July 3rd, 2005 at 13:13

    Hi James,
    Firstly, make sure you have the latest version of the theme. Then add links in the links manager on the admin pages. They will appear in the side bar. You can split them into categories and it will all happen automatically.

    Mike

30. Bank locater Says:
    July 5th, 2005 at 04:30

    I would strongly recommend Liewfc theme. It is Awesome. I used it on my website. Check it out at http://www.banklocater.com

31. James Says:
    July 26th, 2005 at 14:26

    For some reason when I click on my category links they don’t work. Any ideas, mike?

32. mike Says:
    July 26th, 2005 at 15:17

    Hi James,
    I’m not sure quite why your categories aren’t working. Is your .htaccess set up correctly. Though I can’t imagine anything else working if it wasn’t.
    In particular, if I change the url to one which shouldn’t exist I do correctly get an Apache error (you might want to set up a 403 page handler)

    I notice that even adding ?cat=1 results in the same empty html page. I suspect an error occurring somewhere in the code long before the theme templates are involved.

    Are you using a plugin related to categories? The tags plugin? You could try disabling your plugins one by one until the problem goes away.

    Mike

33. Jason Says:
    August 2nd, 2005 at 08:39

    Hi

    Thank you for the Winter Theme, it is fantastic.

    Like a few of the other posters here, I’m very new to blogging and modifying these templates.

    A quick question I have. The title of your blog on this page is Mike Little’s Journalized.

    The font is kind of plain. Is there a way I can change it?

    Also, instead of using text for my title, can I use a graphical image?

    Thanks again for this great template, I really appreciate it.

    Jason

34. mike Says:
    August 2nd, 2005 at 14:42

    Hi Jason,
    If you want to include an image in the header, you need to edit the file index.php in the themes/journalized-winter/ folder. Round about line 8 that file has an h1 tag

    <h1 id=”header”><a href=”<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>”><?php bloginfo(’name’); ?></a></h1>

    change this to be

    <h1 id=”header”><a href=”<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>”><img src=”/url/to/image.jpg” alt=”<?php bloginfo(’name’); ?>” /></a></h1>

    modifying the url/to/image.jpg as appropriate.

    If you want to keep the image in the theme folder you can use

    <h1 id=”header”><a href=”<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>”><img src=”<?php echo get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/image.jpg’; ?>” alt=”<?php bloginfo(’name’); ?>” /></a></h1>

    modifying the image name as required.

    Each of the above lines of code should be on single line.

35. mike Says:
    August 2nd, 2005 at 14:46

    Jason,
    I forgot to mention that to change the font for the heading you need to change style.css and change the css for #header a:link, #header a:visited (line 136)

    Mike

36. James Says:
    August 28th, 2005 at 11:51

    Hey mike, is there any way that I can make a footer (footer.php) appear at the very bottom of a page, and not just under the index.php section?

    You can see the problem here.

    Also wondering how I get rid of any bullet points in the left/right columns. I assume it’s a CSS thing, but I’m not sure exactly what part.

    Thanks

37. mike Says:
    August 29th, 2005 at 08:21

    James,
    With the way the columns are constructed, it isn’t possible to have a footer which always appears below the lowest column, sorry.

    The bullets are appearing around ‘register/login’ and presumably ‘manage site/logout’ because you don’t have any <ul></ul> tags around the call the php calls.

    Mike

38. Rain, Rubber, and faded grey Asphalt » Blog Archive » Apologia Says:
    September 4th, 2005 at 03:57

    […] Sorry for the interruptions folks, I’ve been trying to find some plugins to get sticky posts, comment markup, previews, and email updates on posts working, and to get them all working together and with my preferred Journalized Winter theme.   [link] […]

39. Derrick Says:
    September 5th, 2005 at 20:09

    Hey Mike..

    How did you add the google adlinks and adsense?

40. mike Says:
    September 5th, 2005 at 21:45

    Hi Derrick,
    I’m assuming you have a google adsense account. After you have chosen your ad format and colours, paste the code from the google adsense site into the template files. I have one set of code in rightcolumn.php, and one, for the adlinks, in the main index.php file under the header.

    You can either edit the files in admin->presentation->>theme editor or edit them on your desktop and ftp them into the theme folder. Always make a backup of your files first.

    Hope that helps.
    Mike

41. Seron Chousa Says:
    November 14th, 2005 at 14:29

    Just a quick note to say thanks for the theme, Mike! It wasn’t too painful to get it up and running to my satisfaction, but I still need to find something to go in the top-left corner. I wanted to add a simple visitor count, but none of the stuff I downloaded worked accurately, so I just removed the box.

42. Hrosc Says:
    March 3rd, 2006 at 18:31

    Hello mike!

    First of all I must congratulate you for great theme.
    Second - you now i have a question! I am a nub, so I am trying to learn some code. Can you please tell me where to insert code so that I have in the main page, in the last window links like you. I am referencing to the links « 100,000 and UPA North 2 »

    Thank you in front!
    Hrosc

43. mike Says:
    March 3rd, 2006 at 23:07

    Hi Hrosc,
    Thanks, I’m glad you like the theme.

    You need to upgrade to the latest version of the theme which incoprorates that feature. You can find the latest version above.

    Mike

44. The Ethicurean: Chew the right thing. » Blog Archive » Putting lipstick on our pig Says:
    August 17th, 2006 at 15:51

    […] Q: Did he design the site too? A: No. The banner and overall site look-and-feel were the product of Deborah Stalford, a Friend O’Ethicurean and reluctant, though tenacious, graphic designer able to deal with feedback from six far-flung people. Dairy Queen implemented the design in CSS and HTML, and mucked around in the PHP, so if things look funny blame me. This site is running on Wordpress, the open-source blogging platform, which is pretty user-friendly — if you’re a programmer. Which I am not. For you Wordpress geeks out there, our site is built on the Journalized-Winter templates by Mike Winter, customized beyond recognition. […]

45. Jerry Says:
    August 25th, 2006 at 02:21

    Hi. This theme comes close to what I am looking for in a WordPress theme. However, no indentation of sub-categories. It seems most who create themes seem to leave out this feature. It makes it easier to zero in on categories when the sub-categories are indented rather then all the categories and sub-categories laid out flat.

    TokyoJerry

46. mike Says:
    August 29th, 2006 at 23:37

    Hi Jerry,
    You need to change the leftcolumn.php file to change the way the categories are listed.
    Change the
    
list_cats(blah, blah)

    call to be
    
wp_list_categories('hierarchical=1');


    You will see that there is then some indentation for the sub-categories. If you need to increase it (it is only 3px) add a new rule to style.css like
    
li.categories ul li ul li {
margin-left: 5px;
}


    Hope this helps,
    Mike

47. Robert Says:
    November 17th, 2006 at 13:35

    I like this theme. Currently use this for my entry to Ituloy Angsulong keyword ranking competition in the Philippines.

48. Louis Neill Says:
    December 6th, 2006 at 01:33

    Thanks for the heads up mike, you just solved a problem i was having, and without me asking lol. (post above) I like this theme, are you templates only for wordpress mike?

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