Journalized Themes Updated.

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I have released new ver­sions of all my Journ­al­ized themes. These releases incor­por­ate fixes and sug­ges­tions made by every­one try­ing out the themes. They each have their own page now! Here’s the list:

29 thoughts on “Journalized Themes Updated.”

  1. Thanks for the update, Mike. Got it applied over at my place, and all is just as well as ever. I can’t help but won­der why you don’t move the head­erB­lock (con­tain­ing the title and “powered by WordPress” bit) along with the BODY tag itself to the header.php file, and move the rel­ev­ant footer inform­a­tion to a footer.php file. I’ve done that with Journ­al­ized Winter, and its just a bit easier to main­tain, I think.

    And why not styl­ize form but­tons and fields? :)

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  2. Rick,
    I know what you mean but open­ing the body tag in one file (header) and clos­ing it in another (footer) doesn’t sit right with me.
    The theme on this site is split in a some­what sim­ilar way to the WP default, but more pieces (it has been since the b2 days). But my index.php looks some­thing like


    <html>
    <head>
    include htmlheader.php
    </head>
    <body>
    include pageheader.php
    include content.php
    include sidebar1.php
    include sidebar2.php
    include pagefooter.php
    </body>
    </html>

    I have other index like pages which replace content.php with other stuff.

    I will prob­ably bring it more in line with WP stand­ard when I do the next release. I want to do some­thing more with ‘pages’ and archives for the next major release..

    As for but­tons and fields, I’ve never really bothered with those. I sup­pose I could change the but­ton col­ours and fonts to match I suppose.

    Mike

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  3. I use wordpress at home on a little Fedora Linux server I put together. I don’t have it on the web just my LAN and type my Day to day things in it. One of the links were to here and I seen the Journ­al­ized Blue. It looked real good so I installed it but I could not get it to work. I found out I had to upgrade. I did and that was a long time for me to do that. But in the end it all works and all my data is still there.

    Thank you for this Journ­al­ized Blue Theme!

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  5. Hi Mike.

    I went to http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/upgrade/upgrade_en.html and thought I fol­lowed all the steeps.

    But I missed the one were it said to “cre­ate a folder called “Car­rots” and put the first 4 files” that I edit in that folder. I did not do that. I was get­ting blank pages. It’s all work­ing real good now. I think I had 1.2. It sounds like with 1.5 that you can just click some­thing now to check and upgrade in one click. But I did not see any thing like that yet. This is in the new 1.5 one. I going to go to the sup­port for­ums and look now. Thank you.

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  6. Mike,
    How do I cus­tom­ize the side bars, is there a place to go to learn some of this? Let me reph­rase, the wordpress default is easy to use and update the cater­gor­ies and blogroll. I’d like to put some pic­tures in the corners and maybe some­thing in the center.

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  8. Hi Dewayne,
    The latest ver­sion of my themes will now auto­mat­ic­ally update if you add new link cat­egor­ies. But if you wish to, for example, add images in the side­bar, you need to edit the appro­pri­ate file. leftcolumn.php, rightcolumn.php or index.php for the centre block.

    Mike

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  10. Hey there!

    First of all — thanks for mak­ing these kick-ass themes! They’re just what I’ve been look­ing for for my fan­fic­tion archive…

    Now, I just have one prob­lem and was hop­ing you could help me with it: When I go to one of my brand­new Pages (for example http://fanfiction.pen-and-paper.net/about/), the Pages list (wp_list_pages), loc­ated under ‘Site stuff’, dis­ap­pears. Any idea what the prob­lem might be and how I can fix it? I’m plan­ning to switch all php pages in the archive to WP Pages, but for this I nat­ur­ally need the nav­ig­a­tion to work… I’d be very grate­ful for your help!

    Thanks again!

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  11. Hey Shir­is­ade,
    Thanks for the compliments.

    I’m not sure why you are see­ing that prob­lem. On my ori­ginal it seems to work ok.
    Are you using the exact same code as my ori­ginal just trans­ferred to the right column?

    <?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>

    Or have you per­haps added some more para­met­ers? I won­der if you have triggered a bug?

    Mike

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  12. Thanks for the quick answer! I tried using the code in all sorts of ways: leav­ing it as it is (then it didn’t work at all, until I added space after title_li=), modi­fy­ing it, mov­ing it… To no avail.

    Since it’s work­ing for you, I’m begin­ning to think whether this might have some­thing to do with my web­host (Dream­Host) run­ning php as cgi for secur­ity reas­ons. I don’t know any­thing about how this works, but it also seems to break some WP plu­gins. Any idea whether this might be the source of the problem?

    Thanks again!

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  13. Hi Shir­asade
    I’m doubt­ful that Dream­Host, even run­ning PHP as CGI would have this affect. I notice you are run­ning a slightly older than cur­rent ver­sion of WP, it may be worth updat­ing to the latest (there has been at least one secur­ity fix!) to see whether that fixes it.

    Sim­il­arly you are not run­ning the latest ver­sion of my theme. I know you’ve made cus­tom­isa­tions so it’s not a straight for­ward upgrade, con­tact me sep­ar­ately if you want help updating.

    Mike

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  14. Hi Mike,

    I love the theme! One ques­tion though. When I switched to this theme, the track­back links dis­s­apeared from posts. How can I bring the track­back links back?

    –oheresy

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  16. Hi. Love the WordPress themes. Prob­lem: I am new entirely to WordPress, your theme is the first I am using for a WP blog, and I added a bunch of blog links via Blogroll to my “links” sec­tion of the admin area but NONE of them are show­ing up under any links cat­egory on the right side. How exactly do I get them to actu­ally show up?

    I am very grate­ful for any and all help you might be able to give me.

    Gina

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  17. Alright… The boy­friend helped me fig­ure out the links thing. I am pretty dumb with code, I admit it. He doesn’t know PHP though and thought that maybe you, the ori­ginal theme coder, might know why my blogroll links are not show­ing in the order they show in my links list (in the admin sec­tion) and any PHP code to make them alpha­bet­ical as they are in my links list (of the admin sec­tion). Feel free to e-mail me or I will check back to see if you or any­one made a com­ment reply.

    Thanks.

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  18. Hi Gina,
    I’m glad you like the theme.
    I’m glad you got your links show­ing.
    To change the sort order you need to change the order in the link cat­egor­ies page.

    Mike

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  19. Love the theme– one small thing– in IE, the com­ments box (the one I’m typ­ing in right now) doesn’t seem to behave prop­erly. When I start typ­ing the box sud­denly extends past the right edge of the browser, the words don’t wrap until they’re well off the screen, but they do even­tu­ally… just a weird little thing that I haven’t been able to fig­ure out.

    Any­body else see­ing this?

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  20. Hi Goat,
    Wow! I’ve never seen that before. IE has some really weird bugs.

    I’ve tracked it down to hav­ing a width for the tex­tarea box spe­cified with both style and the cols attribute.

    If you edit comments.php and change the HTML for the tex­tarea (around line 91) and change the style=“width:98%” to be style=“width:35em” that seems to fix it.

    Thanks,
    Mike

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  21. Awe­some– thanks!

    I didn’t notice it for the longest time– a com­mentor even­tu­ally poin­ted it out to me. Hope­fully this is a sign that more and more people are using Firefox.

    Again, geor­geous design, thanks for put­ting it together!

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  22. I really like the Journ­al­ized design. I’m toy­ing with the idea of con­vert­ing it into a girly Journ­al­ized Pink theme for my blog. Would that just be a case of alter­ing the stylesheet, or is there any­thing else I would need to bear in mind? I’m ok with HTML and know enough about CSS to tweak a stylesheet, but am totally clue­less with PHP.

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  23. Hello Mike. Wanted to let you know I’m using Sand over at my place. Put it up today.

    Thanks for a great theme. I don’t know which ver­sion I have, got it through Alex’s theme vei­wer .. do I need to get the updated one?

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  28. Hi Haysog,
    See this response for instruc­tions for how to add an image as the header.

    The gray col­our for the blocks is the value #eee and is used in the .centreb­lock, .nav­ig­a­tion, .story­Con­tent, .left­side­Sec­tion, .right­side­Sec­tion, and div#rightside > ul li rules in the CSS file.

    Hope this helps,
    Mike

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