Mike Little’s Journalized
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Journalized Theme Version 2
There is a new beta release of my Journalized theme Version 2.0 for WordPress
There a few things different about this new version:
- All previous ’skins’ (Blue, Sand, Winter) combined together
- Three new skins + more to come
- A new administration interface to configure the theme.
- All known browser bugs addressed
- Support for plugins
- Compatible with WordPress versions 1.5.x and 2.0.x
- Lots more to come
Here a couple of screen shots of the new administration interface to configure the theme. 
click for a larger view.
I’ve not finished implementing all the features yet, but thought it was about time I released a beta.
Update: There is more info in the readme file
I want to a add the ability to automatically detect the presence of new skins and add them to the list. This will allow third parties to supply skins and you can just drop then in the skins directory.
I want to support more plugins. Which ones would you like to see supported? Let me know.
You can download the beta from here: journalized-theme-2.0-Beta-1.tar.gz or journalized-theme-2.0-Beta-1.zip . Please give it a try and let me know what you think.
Because there is quite a change from the previous version, I am thinking of offering to convert peoples customized versions to the new one for a small fee. What do you think? Would that be of any use to you?
Update 23/12/2006: There is a minor update to this beta which addresses a couple of urgent issues people are reporting. Download Version 2 Beta 2 from here: journalized-theme-2.0-Beta-2.tar.gz or journalized-theme-2.0-Beta-2.zip .
I’ve put together a readme file listing the changes I made.
The URI to TrackBack this entry is: http://zed1.com/journalized/themes/journalized-theme-version-2/trackback/
January 24th, 2006 at 00:24
Yep. Yep. Yep. Convert for a fee works for me.
And the option to add a photo in the header (with ease) is great. I’ve been wanting to do that for months but just haven’t gotten around to figuring it out.
January 24th, 2006 at 02:12
What about that randomizer script that allows you to have different header images with each page load. Will that work with this? And if not, it would be nice if there were a way to have that available as an option.
January 24th, 2006 at 02:47
I’ve been looking around for a 3 column theme and came across this one. Installed the beta and it looks SLICK. Very excited to see the finished product. It is beta - I’m guessing this is why the skin didn’t really show up properly? Specifically, it seemed the css file wasn’t being linked - no styles were being applied. Everything was readable, as far as I could see. the internal admin was just so dandy! Thanks, and again, can’t wait.
-amy
January 24th, 2006 at 02:58
Yeah that would be me being dumb and not properly checking the properties of the skins dir. LOVE IT!
January 24th, 2006 at 03:12
I’d love to see a flickr plugin supported. Like this one:
http://eightface.com/wordpress/flickrrss/
January 24th, 2006 at 04:20
Wow, I just started using journalized winter on my new blog, but I really like the changes! I will try this over the weekend. Looks great!
January 24th, 2006 at 13:12
Aine, The random header image plugin works fine. Just put the images in an images subdirectory of the journalized theme and specify ‘headerblock’ as the header id.
Amy, I will look at incorporating the flickr plugin.
Alyssa, Let me know what you think, or if you find any problems.
January 24th, 2006 at 13:47
Finally a nice style and layout selection setting. It builds well on the way the same thing was done in the WP-Andreas09 theme, but in that theme the layout was selected using templates on per-page basis. Nice work with this one…
January 25th, 2006 at 00:19
Yeah, That’s the way to go!
Will I be able to keep my modded JB theme ? Thanks…
January 25th, 2006 at 00:30
What I mean is that I made changes like the expanding contents but from what I see there are more files then before, and how will I keep those changes that I made ? Thanks…
January 25th, 2006 at 00:52
Joe,
Any customizations you’ve made will need to be transferred to the new files. That’s why I’m offering to provide a service to do just that for a small fee.
January 25th, 2006 at 21:24
I would pay a small fee to have you do it for me, yes yes yes!
I love journalized. It’s the best theme I’ve found so far.
January 26th, 2006 at 04:20
I’m still using the old version of Journalized Winter, and it’s running just fine under WP2.
I’ll upgrade it eventually, but I’m in no terrible hurry as I’ve found no problems with it as is.
January 26th, 2006 at 15:09
Mike, great new theme. I use the old winter theme because it seemed to be the one with the most depth. I’ll probably make the change later. Do you have any plans to make the theme adsense friendly? Quite a chore to work out colors on 6 skins.
Also, why in IE does right and left sidebar align:center on both old and new themes? (just noticed)
I use your theme on 4 blogs, don’t use IE, but have friends that do.
January 26th, 2006 at 16:56
[...] Very neat, very clean, very good. Check it out at Mike’s site. [link] [...]
January 26th, 2006 at 20:17
Hello Mike!
Great job wow This got to be your best work and yes I agree that you should be paid for the final version.
I think 50.00 US would be a good fee for all the work you put into it. And for those that cant afford that maybe a monthly donation is a way to pay the 50.00 fees?
Please let me know when it ready my new meds is stoping me to play with it but will try on a gosht site.
Pierre
For plugin for me maybe a mp3 player and video as I produce podcast.
January 26th, 2006 at 23:21
Larry,
Thanks for the compliments.
When I look at your blog in IE6 the side bars are both left aligned as normal. Which version are you seeing that problem with?
As to the making the theme adsense friendly, I was thinking of supporting one of the adsense plugins. But I don’t think that will address the colours. Is there some easy trick to make a stylesheet/page more adsense friendly?
January 26th, 2006 at 23:26
Pierre,
Thanks for your praise. I wasn’t thinking of people paying me for the theme; though I’m always open to donations — see left sidebar
I was thinking more that if someone had customized a version of my theme, I could convert it to the new version (there have been a lot of changes) for a small fee or something off my wish list.
January 26th, 2006 at 23:52
I love -love -love this theme!!! I’m still working out the kinks in it, but so far so good. I notice that it doesn’t like apostrophes in the A and B top text. It gets all weird, adds a ton of “/////” to what you put there if any word has an apostrophe in it. I would also like to put images in those boxes, it doesn’t like that much either. I love this theme, can’t wait until its 100%. thanks for the time you put into it!
January 27th, 2006 at 01:51
Yeah, o.k. All I need to know is what file is what so I can add the stuff again. Like what files are the sidebars and what side are they and also what the header, main, and comments files are called… Thanks.
January 27th, 2006 at 03:50
Mike, I’m also using IE 6, and when I just now loaded it again, all was well. I don’t have any idea what happened.
As to the adsense problem, the existing adsense plugin allows you to set up many different configurations of ad size and color, using a manual select by checkbox. However to automatically select would require a complex set of if statements in the css, and probably a major modification of the plugin itself. Thats my thought, but from a personal standpoint, I think I can choose nnd live with one color rendition, and use the other methods you provide for needed variety.
Even with the choices available, I think most users will pick a theme that fits a givin topic and tend to stick with it. But again if it was easy to change ….
January 27th, 2006 at 11:21
Hi Mike, I’m just about to switch from Blogger to WP, actually found your theme through CT Biz Blogs. I’m slowly stumbling around learning PHP and CSS. I’ve worked out how to change background and post title colours on the heading and centre column, but I can’t figure out where you change the text style for bloginfo description in the header. I just want it as normal/smaller text, and it seems to stay bold, even when I remove “strong”. Help please?
January 27th, 2006 at 12:24
Joe,
The php changes are not too hard too fathom,
leftcolumn -> column_a
rightcolumn -> column_b
index still contains the main loop (and page and single), comments is still comments.
The tricky one is the css. The css rules have all been split between layout.css (which is not meant to be touched), and xxx-skin.css which contains colours, fonts, and layout overrides.
Hope this helps,
Mike
January 27th, 2006 at 12:30
Larry,
I will look into supporting the Adsense deluxe plug-in as that seems to support having different colour schemes. I don’t expect it will make it for the next beta, which I’m hoping will be this weekend.
Mike
January 27th, 2006 at 12:52
David,
You need to edit the skins/xxx-skin.css file and add a rule like
#headerblock p {
font-size: 50%;
font-weight:normal;
}
I will remove the strong tag in the next release, it should be in the style sheets.
Hope this helps,
Mike
January 27th, 2006 at 21:36
Mike,
Thanks. Spot on, except that 50% was too small and 90% worked better.
Has anyone complaned of backslashes appearing in the columm A and top text? I got a large quantity arriving in the default text in B, and then one some arrived at the start and end of lines in A. It kept happening, so I moved the text direct to column-a.php
BTW - the template works really well for me - thanks!
January 27th, 2006 at 22:08
David,
I knew 50% would be too small! Just a random example.
Someone has already reported the slashes problem. It’ll be fixed in the next version.
I’m glad you like the template!
Mike
January 28th, 2006 at 15:06
[...] All that being said, with the WP 2.0 and Mikes Journalized 2.0 out, I’ve made another update. After doing this so many times, I think this is my best one yet. I’m well pleased. [...]
January 28th, 2006 at 15:29
Mike,
Thanks. Hopefully my last question (for a while!) - I’m getting confused by the sequence/workings of text characteristics in xxxx-skin.css - suppose I want the post title to be red and links in the post a different colour say gray - how do I do that?
January 28th, 2006 at 16:32
Sorry (I was wrong) - 2 issues you could help with please?
1. On my set up, but also this Journalized site, if the window size is under a certain width, when you view individual posts or Pages, the middle column overflows the right hand column. I’m on IE.
2. I have the normal search box configured in column b. It works fine on the home page (or from search results), but searching from an idividual post, any archive or Page returns “The page cannot be found”.
Thanks.
January 28th, 2006 at 17:57
Yeah it does… I just wanted to try to work on it on my own. Oh and can I add my own CSS file if I wanted would the theme read it and be able to select it ? Thanks…
January 29th, 2006 at 01:53
[...] posts on blogging will be collected together in a new resource on Starting a Blog in the internal links section over on the left column. Those internal pages are one of the extra things you can dowith Wordpress compared to Blogger. There will be more extras, as I slowly work out CSS, PHP and the best ways of doing things! Technorati Tags : Blogging, WordPress, Blogger, BusinessTwoZeroPowered By Qumana [link] [...]
January 29th, 2006 at 02:17
David,
The post title is ’selected’ with
.storytitle a. But the colour is over-ridden by the various ‘a’ selectors later in the file:a:link, a:visited, etc.The best thing is to move those anchor rules to above the
.storytitlerule. That way the cascade will work from generic to specific. I should have done this in the first place, I’ll fix it in all the style sheets for the next release.So, for your example you might specify
a {
color: gray;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:link { text-decoration: none; }
a:visited { text-decoration: none; }
a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
a:active { text-decoration: underline; }
.storytitle {
...
}
.storytitle a {
font-size: 110%;
color: red;
}
For your second problem, the centre column overlaying the sidebar is deliberate. The reason being that the content is considered more important and thus does not get obscured by the sidebars.
I’m not sure what is happening with the search. It’s working fine for me from both single posts, and pages, and from either sidebar. On your site. Somehow the /btz part of your url is getting lost from the url the search page goes to. The code uses
echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];for me it evaluates to /journalized/index.php regardless of which page I’m looking at. It seems to be differnet for you. I would ask about this one at the forums, it sounds like a PHP specific thing.Hope this helps,
Mike
January 29th, 2006 at 02:32
Joe,
the next beta version will automatically detect your-skin.css and your-thumb.png/gif/jpg and present them to be selected. I am hoping to release that later today.
Mike
January 29th, 2006 at 02:48
O.K, last question (I hope
) but any way how do I replace the new Blue theme with the older one ? Also what do I do about the text size ? I’d like it the same as before. Last but not least the layout.css how to I make the boxes smaller also same as before ( I think I did it but it does not seem correct) Thanks ! Hope this is not too much.
January 29th, 2006 at 17:48
Mike,
Thanks for all of that. I’ll ask on the forums on the search issue. Yahoo hosting won’t let you set up WP in the root (unless you DIY), which is why the btz extension.
Can you try and explain this please? My new set up at http://biztwozero.com (on Yahoo SB hosting) works fine. I have http://www.businesstwozero.com and .co.uk with 1 and 1. When I do their domain forwarding to biztwozero.com the right hand column appears momentarily in the correct place, then shifts left and underlaps the centre column. The code they generate to for the forwarding is:
Business Two Zero
Business Two Zero
http://businesstwozero.com/
Any ideas?
January 29th, 2006 at 20:31
Joe,
I’m not sure what you mean about replacing the new with the old. You should just be able to go back to the old theme by selecting it in the “Presentation” page. They install in different directories, so your old one will still be there.
Mike
January 29th, 2006 at 20:37
David,
I guess it must be something to do with the fact that the domain forwarding isn’t actually doing a forward at all. Instead it is displaying your real site in a frame set. This must be affecting the display in IE. Note that it looks fine in Firefox and Opera. It seems to be yet another IE bug!
Mike
January 30th, 2006 at 00:49
Mike,
Thanks for checking and oh dear, MSFT strikes again!
January 30th, 2006 at 08:35
hi there,
I just started messing around with your theme and I have some questions: you say it now has plugin support, what do you mean by that? somewhere I also saw you asking about what plugins we would love to see supported so is there a list of plugins already supported?
I would like to see an adsense plugin and the jalenacks wordspew shoutbox supported…
January 30th, 2006 at 13:15
Hi ovidiu,
It currently supports Scott Reilly’s Customisable
Comment Listings plugin and works with the random image header plugin. I’m adding in support for the Adsense deluxe plugin and probably a Flickr plugin.
I’ll look into the shoutbox plugin you mention.
Mike
January 30th, 2006 at 21:41
This theme pack is just great!! Exactly what i have been looking for. Othere may have suggested it, but this is easily good enough to sell commercially.
Thankyou so very much.
January 30th, 2006 at 21:49
Hi DrShecky,
I’m glad you like the theme. I’m always open to donations or something from my wish list (see left sidebar)!
Mike
January 31st, 2006 at 18:58
What I mean is the CSS how do I replace the Old CSS on top of the new CSS so it would replace the new CSS file for the New theme. I know there’s a layout.css and most of what is in there but how do I make the new Journalized theme, with the text size and the other things…
Basically what I want is the new theme to look like the old JB theme (one I’m currently using) but the css is set up differently so I was asking how to do the “replacing” Thanks. Hope that makes sense.
January 31st, 2006 at 22:06
Ok Joe, I get what you mean now. Sorry, I was just being a bit dim!
You need to split apart your old css file and put your upgraded changes into the blue-skin.css. You could try replacing the whole of blue-skin.css with the contents of your old css file, but I’m not sure what that would do. There are a couple of class names that have changed for instance.
February 1st, 2006 at 18:21
Yeah, I tried that and the blog looked like a puzzle. The reason I’m asking that is because the CSS tags are different then in the one I’m currently using . Too bad there’s not a converter. Oh and a pluging that would be great to have built in support for is gravatars (http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/03/24/gravatars/)
Thanks…
February 1st, 2006 at 18:55
Hey Mike,
I really love this theme. Just what I was looking for. I have a question. I am a bit of a newbie at this although I do know some basic HTML/CSS. Is there any way to put an image in the quote/quip area at the top of the columns? Thanks so much.
February 1st, 2006 at 23:25
Joe,
Yeah, it’s much better organised now, but there have been a lot of changes
I’ll look into the Gravatars plugin.
Ryan,
I’m glad you like the theme. You can simply add HTML into the quote/quip area. Make sure the src path is an absolute path, or a URL. e.g.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/myimage.jpg" />
February 2nd, 2006 at 00:19
Got the rest except these things :
Font Size (whole page) making it look like the Current JB theme. Side Bar Size also making it look like the current JB theme. If you could tell me where I could change or replace those things I’d have everything complete. Thanks for all you help !
February 3rd, 2006 at 19:46
Mike, looks like IE7 (Beta2) is more evil than IE6. Your side columns get narrower, then text overflows. I will continue to use Firefox.
Larry
February 6th, 2006 at 23:46
Hi Mike - great theme! I am creating a new blog and wanted to know what the width of the header image.
My current blog http://motorcyclebloggers.com and it uses the CleaneBreeze theme. It also blog uses a 470px body width and all of the articles are formatted as such (pic sizes, etc). How hard would it be to convert to Journalized and have the existing articles look right? A big pain?
Heh - I have probably forgotten some of the customization
Thanks again,
Bob #2
February 7th, 2006 at 00:43
The admin panel is a little freaked out in Safari.
But it’s ok in Firefox on the Mac.
http://www.manicnirvana.com/images/safarijournalized.jpg
February 7th, 2006 at 01:06
Hi Bob,
The two example images I provide are 550 pixels and 968 pixels wide. They work ok with a 1024 screen with a normal header between two columns and a full width header respectively.
Journalized is an elastic or flexible theme. In that the centre column expands to fill the space between the two columns which are fixed.
It should be pretty easy to install Journalized and take a look at how it appears on your site. You can always swap back to your old theme while you sort out the tweaks.
February 7th, 2006 at 01:08
Jeanena,
Wow! It does look pretty bad. I don’t have access to Safari, so I can’t test in it.
It looks like it has a problem with the floats.
February 7th, 2006 at 03:16
Mike, love this new version, especially the “previous entries” addition, which I am amazed was not in the previous versions.
A plugin that is not working is “My Link Order”, http://www.geekyweekly.com/mylinkorder. You might want to look into that. Hope you can release the final version soon, I just installed “winter” yesterday, and have customized a few things already. This theme is just perfect for me.
February 7th, 2006 at 13:27
Hi Mike, thanks for the quick response!
I am using WP in this application as a database for information pages. The use is non-conventional, but the format is perfect. That said, is there a way to have the comments and ping turned off as a default? And second, I would like none of the posts displayed on the main page…just an instructional page where they can then navigate by categories or the search feature.
Thanks again,
Bob #2
February 8th, 2006 at 00:14
Hi Bob,
It sounds like you would have to have a custom version of the theme coded for you.
Not impossible, but not straight forward either.
Mike
February 8th, 2006 at 00:15
Hi John,
I will look into that plugin and see what the problem might be.
Mike
February 8th, 2006 at 05:36
Thanks Mike, I found the problem with “My Link Order” and it had nothing to do with your theme. Sorry about that.
There is one other plugin called FAlbum (http://www.randombyte.net/), don’t know if you’ve used it. The formatting is a little bit off, even though I did make all necessary changes. You can see an example here: http://thetais.net/photos/show/recent/
Just to let you know.
John
February 9th, 2006 at 06:25
Hi,
I installed your theme and liked it very much. However theme options menu on the admin did not came out after I activated this theme.
What did I do wrong?
February 9th, 2006 at 21:26
Any Thing ? Thanks…
February 9th, 2006 at 21:43
John,
I’ll look at that formatting.
Alex,
which version of WordPress?
Joe,
Sorry for the delay in replying, I’ve been snowed under. From comparing my site and yours, it looks pretty much the same in terms of column width and font size. Is it a browser specific thing? Which browser are you viewing in?
February 10th, 2006 at 00:17
Hi Mike,
I am using 1.5.1.
February 10th, 2006 at 23:41
Hmm,
Take a look
( http://blog.fileville.net/error/ )
First part is the Info part, next is the current theme part (image), and the last is the beta theme part (image). Thanks…
February 12th, 2006 at 00:47
Hi Alex.
Firstly, you really should upgrade to at least 1.5.2 because of the security fixes. But, anyway to address you questions:
I installed a brand new 1.5.1 and it didn’t show the theme options. I tried it in 1.5.2 and it was the same. I realised that I had messed about with my development 1.5.2 blog to get it installed by hand.
So, I remembered where I’d got the code to install it and it was from the Theme Toolkit by Ohz. I’ve pulled out the relevant code into a file. Download the file and append it to functions.php in the Journalized theme directory. Visit your blog front page with the theme activated and then return to the presentation page. The theme options should now be available.
Mike
February 13th, 2006 at 16:19
If it’s possible add option for quick color edition and saving this as CSS template.
Thanks
February 13th, 2006 at 18:08
Or maybe you can add more “simple” themes in different colors like Blue, Sand, Winter and Gray?
Thanks
February 17th, 2006 at 03:17
Any Thing? On my last comment ?
February 17th, 2006 at 22:46
Joe,
I’m sorry again for the delay. I’ve uploaded a new version of blue-skin.css which I’ve called old-blue-skin.css. You need to copy that over as blue-skin.css (after backing up your old one).
This recreates the narrower, uneven columns and wider gaps from the old Journalized Blue theme. I’ve also modified the line height of the columns, and the h2 font size slightly.
I think that’s got most of the differences.
Mike
February 18th, 2006 at 16:00
Mike -
Journalized is THE BEST template in the known universe! Thanks so much for all you’ve put into it.
Haven’t done the beta version yet, but will when time permits.
Where did you get the “blog statistics” thing in your “other” column? I’ve searched high and low and can’t find it anywhere. Is it a plug-in or part of the beta theme?
Do I get a prize for being the 552,594th visitor?
February 19th, 2006 at 09:45
Jay T,
I’m glad you like the theme. The blog statistics page is some custom code I knocked up a long time ago. It was based on some work by Lester Chan back in the old b2 days. You can find his current WP version on his site
February 20th, 2006 at 23:00
[...] Blogger negatives: No categories No easy trackbacks I never discovered what to do to make the permalinks (the permanent link to a post) expand to an easily presented format Can’t easily handlewith good WYSIWYG editor Posts by category Non-post pages Easy management of different user defined link lists Quick search capability Library of plug-ins, managed through the menu system Plug-ins toroot, it still seems to works fine at http://biztwozero.com, and the only downside is that the permalinks have a slightly longer address.II) Some of the time when you make changes to the template, thesystem allows you to configure things very easily, for example you can choose to have post permalinks as numbers, or configure the system to include the title text instead to make them more searchWhen I looked on the support forums there seemed to be a number of issues related to permalinks not converting properly (connected with a change between 1.5 and 2.0). Nothing matched myissue, but the forum suggested that a bug fix be installed which addressed several related issues. After installing that and reconverting, everything worked perfectly. From my experience the whole process worked like a dream. 100% success and it took less than 45 minutes, even including hitting the problem, finding a solution and reconverting again. Probably the trickiest part of the process was discovering the presentation issue caused by the stray HTML inserted at the end of posts. Occasionally when I was adding or developing things, the outside columns would disappear, or I would get column overlap problems. Once I figured out the technique of viewing the page source to see where the error was caused, and traced the problem, it became easy to fix the occasional time it happened. I managed the installation, template development and conversion over the course of a weekend, and have made a few more tweaks and refinements since then.CONCLUSIONI’m very impressed with WP 2.0. It has the flexibility and extra features I wanted, and conversion was much easier than I expected. I’ve learned a little CSS and PHP in the process, and I know it has the capability to do more when I’m ready to invest some more time. For those of you that are ready to move up from Blogger, or TypePad, it is well worth the effort.Technorati Tags : Blogging, WordPress, Blogger, CMS, OSS, TypePad, Yahoo! Powered By Qumana [link] [...]
February 22nd, 2006 at 00:29
@mike and Jay T,
About his stat’s page I use it and I’ve make 2 custom side bars (leftcolumn and rightcolumn) for it, so I could have more stats and info. Take A look : http://blog.fileville.net/wp-stats.php.
It’s quite easy…
February 22nd, 2006 at 01:25
Oops ! Sorry, never said thank you…
I tried it and it look wonderful thank you ! I’m going to switch some time this week. Thanks again.
March 3rd, 2006 at 16:30
mike: thanks for the best three column theme.
While John above seems to have had success (after trial and error) with the My Link Order plugin, it didn’t work for me, and I was wondering if you had any tips for ordering links - and, more importantly, link categories. The ’spacing trick’ (by adding a space at the start of the category name) doesn’t work here. Any advice?
thanks again!
March 3rd, 2006 at 16:55
actually, nevermind - the spacing does work, I was adding the spacing to the wrong categories.
I have used MyLinkOrder with other Themes and it’s very useful - but no means a priority. Thanks again!
March 3rd, 2006 at 22:24
Hello Mike!
It seem like an eternity for any news or update about your new theme under beta.
Question before your next release any chance to have a black version? and when will next version be out?
Pierre
March 3rd, 2006 at 22:44
Hi Mike, I just wanted to say thank you for a great piece of software. I am using the sand theme with the Journalized beta. it took me quite a while to figure out how to get a block into the right column, but finally got it right. I am a total noob to this blogging thing, as you can probably see. But because of your hard work, I have been able to make a start.
Thanks again,
Richard
March 3rd, 2006 at 23:15
Joe, Great! I’m glad we finally got it sorted.
Michael, Thanks, I’m glad you like it. I’m not sure what trouble you were having with the link order, but Links should be ordered correctly anyway. Link categories are ordered by name, but you can specify by id if you like.
Richard, Cool, I’m glad you got it sorted. Keep it up. It’s very satisfying to solve problwems in this way and have something to show for it.
Mike
March 3rd, 2006 at 23:17
Hi Pierre,
I know it’s been a long time. I did a whole bunch of work on it, drop in skins, bug fixes, etc. and then I don’t seem to have found the time or motivation to do any more.
I always seem to have something else to do! It’s very frustrating.
I am still planning on another release. Be patient, I’ll get there!
Mike
March 3rd, 2006 at 23:33
Hello Mike !
It is verry understanding that real life come first.
All your great work as you can see is NOT under appreciated.
I have all the time in the world even though was suppose to be dead 3 years ago darn frogs never know when there dead
So can wait once it all done will make sure to pay you for it my friend your work should be piad.
Pierre
Hint all
March 5th, 2006 at 01:59
Little Bug :
the right column or what ever it is called when I try to edit it all it shows is the exact (almost) same code as
on the left side one. What’s going on? Thanks…
March 14th, 2006 at 02:00
I just found this the other day. I’ve been look for your updates. I just never thought they be so awesome. I’m having the best time working with this theme. Here’s a few things I add;
Random Quotes: http://www.zombierobot.com/wp-quotes/
Live Shout Box: http://blog.jalenack.com/ajax/
Drop down boxes for the Archives and Categories
Maybe a Weather Plugin: http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/weathericon/
Thanks again for a great theme and a wonderful update. I can’t wait for the next update.
March 14th, 2006 at 22:49
Cherrie,
I’m glad you like the new theme, I’ll have a look at those plugins you suggest.
March 24th, 2006 at 19:01
Any word ? Thanks…
March 26th, 2006 at 10:16
I recently found this theme, and i’m very happy with it.! You did a great job.! Thanks very much, my site looks much better now!!
March 26th, 2006 at 16:09
Mike, thanks agains for the great theme. I just upgraded to WP 2.0.2 and added in the new journalized theme. After a fair amount of hacking it and some plugins I’ve finally achieve the look and feel I wanted. Thanks for doing all the heavy lifting.
Mike B (http://www.somnius.com/amn/)
PS: if anyone wants to see the mods I made to Journalized, just let me know.
April 5th, 2006 at 14:27
Mike,
Hi. I’ve been looking at your excellent Journalized 2.o theme. I’ve made some minor changes, but wondered how I could show the catagories entries to look like the entries on the index page , and not the short archived items.
I love your theme. Your doing a great job!
Thanks,
Sean
April 5th, 2006 at 17:41
Hi,
I’ve been experimenting with your journalized theme and wordpress to see if I can be comfortable enough with them to use on my blog. I think journalized is fantastic! One question though: Can you provide guidelines on the best picture size to use (pixel dimensions) if I want to put images on the header? I can’t seem to figure it out. Thanks!
April 5th, 2006 at 22:21
Hi Sean,
I should make that a configurable option, but for now, you need to modify archive.php. Round about line 41. Change
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
to read
<?php the_content(); ?>
That will get you the full content but not everything will be the same as the index page.
April 5th, 2006 at 22:34
Hi fried-neurons,
I used 550×150 for the eggs example. which works at 1024×768 if you have both columns on either side of the centre header.
I used 968×200 (which is too big!) for the full width flowers example.
The thing with these is that they are in the background of the header. so that if they are too big they will appear cropped, and if too small, they will repeat.
Does that help?
Mike
April 8th, 2006 at 17:31
Hey Mike,
Any plans to support the new Wordpress Widgets? I think your theme would be ideal!!
John
April 8th, 2006 at 23:20
Hi John,
Yes, I will definitely be looking in to adding widgets into the theme.
Mike
April 9th, 2006 at 17:21
Hi Mike ive been trying out your theme and think its absolutely fantastic …. but … lol im having a problem with putting html in the top side bars …
specifically its putting a \ in there which is messing up the html any ideas?
Thanks for a fantastic theme
April 9th, 2006 at 22:28
Hi Richard,
I have had this problem reported before but have not been able to reproduce it.
Could you tell me what version of Apache and PHP you are using?
Also it would be interesting to know whether your version of PHP has magic_quotes_gpc set to on or off? You can usually find the setting in php.ini
Mike
April 10th, 2006 at 02:07
I installed your new templates changed a few things and well I love it.
Thanks!
April 10th, 2006 at 23:11
Hi again,
Anything on my comment from March 5th, 2006 at 01:59:56, thanks… Oh and one other thing, Widgets… Thanks again.
April 10th, 2006 at 23:30
Hi Joe,
Sorry, I must have missed that comment. But that is correct. Now that each of the features can appear on either side, the code for each side is almost identical.
I’m looking into Widgets now. They look great and easy to implement, unfortunately, they have a single fundamental difference in they way each widget is treated from my theme. I’ll have to work on that!
Mike
April 11th, 2006 at 14:21
Yeah, so if you do add widgets. That would fix all the problems… Oh can I just change the other sidebar for now. For example just delete all the if else stuff. Thanks…
April 21st, 2006 at 18:01
An excellent theme! I’m just getting started on experimenting with blogs and after trying out about a dozen themes I’m sticking with yours. Great work!
I do have one question, and I’m not sure if it’s more of a general WordPress question or a theme question.
When setting up Pages and SubPages, is there a way to only have the subpages appear in the side column if you are on the parent page for the subpage? So if I’m on the Main Index page, none of the subpages will be listed?
April 21st, 2006 at 18:11
[...] You can read more about the theme I’m using at: http://zed1.com/journalized/themes/journalized-theme-version-2/ [link] [...]
April 21st, 2006 at 23:13
Hi Brent,
Glad you like the theme. I’m going to look at your pages question now. I’m sure that what you want can be done.
Mike
April 22nd, 2006 at 03:49
Thanks! I’m learning lots about Php just from looking through your files and trying out a few basic modifications. I look forward to seeing what you find out.
April 22nd, 2006 at 20:20
Hi Mike sorry have been ill for a while but just wanted you to know that i found the cause of the problem with the / being added in the top Quotes areas it was the ” in the html as soon as i removed them everything worked fine in firefox and ie so im a happy user now
Thanks for a great theme
April 22nd, 2006 at 23:08
Richard,
I’m glad you are better, and glad you sorted out your problem.
Mike
April 30th, 2006 at 01:29
Like everyone else’s response on your site, your theme is my pick - out of literally hundreds I’ve looked at. I wanted a basic theme that would not detract from my content, but was flexible enough to include variations in color, pictures, and structure. (I’m one of those people who changes the location of furniture in my home for a fresh, new look - and I can do the same with your theme, as well.) Yours has it all.
Personally, I use the “sand theme” for everything; it seems the most stable - winter goes a little quirky on me, so I use “sand” and change the name and put it in the winter, eggs, and grey areas (I’m having a lot of fun playing with colors).
That you have a comment-form at the bottom of the pages is a powerful plus!
Questions:
1. Is there a way (I’m a novice at all this) for users to switch between the various css styles? Right now I’m using 5 wordpress programs to give users a choice of colors schemes - but since I am just setting up my site, once people start coming to it, that may not be a practical consideration.
2. The fluidity of the center column works great on the home page - but over-rides the right column on the comments and other pages. Will this be one of the fixes when you update? That’s just a minor point and I can live with it if I must. You can view my website(s) to see what I mean @ http://the-ultimate-journey.com/.
Thanks ever so much. I’ll be a regular contributor to your “journalized fund”, you can count on that.
May 4th, 2006 at 00:39
Hi Ginger,
Sorry for the delay in replying.
1. There isn’t away to switch the Journalized skin at the moment, but that is a good idea. I’ll have to think how that can be done.
2. The centre column is supposed to overlay the right column if the browser window is too narrow. This is based on the principal that the content is more important than the stuff in the side bars. If it is doing it only on the single and page views it could be that some page content or a comment is forcing the centre to be extra wide.
Mike
May 4th, 2006 at 09:37
Mike,
For some reason, the right column of my blog (www.freedomblog.us) doesn’t look right in Internet Explorer, although it looks perfect in Firefox. Some of the header boxes and line separations are lost so that it doesn’t look clean. Is there a way to fix that? Thank you for your time and attention.
Bill
May 5th, 2006 at 05:27
Is there an easy way to change the main index page so it will only display either just the most recent 10 or whatever number of posts? Or alternately posts within the last 30 days?
Also, any luck figuring out my paging question from a little while ago?
So far things are working out really well with the theme and I’m hoping to get it implemented on my main site instead of just the test site soon. Thanks again!
May 5th, 2006 at 21:48
Ahh, found the answer in the Admin functions under Options->Reading. There is a spot there to set the max number of posts to show
May 7th, 2006 at 16:17
Brent,
Glad you found the answer. Sorry about the delay answering your pages question. But I do have an answer.
In column-a.php find the line which says:
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>
and replace it with
<?php
if (is_page()) {
global $id;
$extra = '&child_of='. $id;
}
wp_list_pages('title_li='.$extra);
?>
Repeat for column-b.php
That should work. Let me know how you get on.
Mike
May 8th, 2006 at 22:33
Hmm, doesn’t seem to be doing quite what I want (but probably is doing what I asked for). The index page still seems to be showing everything, which sort of makes sense and when I go to another page it shows just the subpages for that page and not any of the other main pages. I’ll work with it a little more and if I can’t figure it out, I’ll post a more detailed example.
May 10th, 2006 at 22:32
Another question for you (am I getting annoying yet?)
I have an existing .php page and I want to get the sidebars and the top header from the theme to show up, so I’ve added the following code to the top of the .php file:
The “get_sidebar” works okay (except some of the words are slightly bigger than before) but the get_header isn’t working.
I’ve configured the theme to just show an image at the top of the page. Is there a different command I should be using to fetch it?
I sort of got it working when I did the following:
The problem is if I’m set to only have a left hand column, then the header still stops where the right hand column would be.
Any suggestions? Thanks again!
May 10th, 2006 at 22:35
Hmm, looks like it stripped the example code out of the posting. Is there a way to mark it so it won’t get stripped out?
May 11th, 2006 at 01:02
Hi Brent,
To stop code being stripped you need to replace the ‘<’ symbol with <
I’m not 100% sure what you are trying to do, but I think I do. I suspect it may be easier if you add your other page’s content to a WordPress page. But because you cannot (normally) execute PHP in a post or ‘page’ you have to implement it as a template.
Copy index.php and then where the loop stuff is, add in the main contents of your other file.
Make that a page template and then create an empty WordPress page and assign that template.
There is some info on this page on the Codex, but I’m not sure it explains it well.
Mike
May 11th, 2006 at 06:27
The problem is that I actually have over 500 pages that I want to add the menu and header to. They do have a .php extension now, and they all have an include to another file to grab my current menu and header. I just want to replace that menu and header with the one from the theme. From looking at the link you gave, it seems similiar to what I was trying, but the get_header portion doesn’t seem to grab the header. get_sidebar works okay. I’d probably have better luck figuring these things out if I could get more that 30 minutes at a time to work on it
If I get a better chunk of time, I’ll post a better description of what it is I’m trying to do, and what I’ve tryed already. I’m close to getting it working, just missing a little bit somewhere.
May 11th, 2006 at 07:08
Okay, I’ve put up a test page that shows the code I’m using:
http://www.brentsbasement.com/test.php
If I take out the line with div id=”headerblock” then I don’t get the graphic at the top at all. i.e. the “get_header” right after the “require” line isn’t working
I have manually edited the grey-skin.css file so that the #headerblock background-color in matches (more or less) the color in my logo.
I suspect I need to include another file to pick up the variable that tells it to extend the header background all the way across to where the right hand column would be. Or, I should be calling something other than get_header()?
Where the div id=”headerblock” line is, I originally had cut and pasted the whole set of code from header-block.php, but even that gives the same results.
I’m thinking I probably need to include functions.php and/or header.php somehow.
May 11th, 2006 at 23:44
Mike,
You’ve done an awesome job with this. Seriously. I found & installed Journalized Sand right when I first started blogging. While I’ve been looking at themes forever, I’ve never found one that I like better. I even tried to have someone design one for me, and she screwed up so now i’m going to stick to Journalized.
I am not that good at coding, but have dreams of one day having a custom header, syndication and Blogrolling functionality added to the party too. I’ve added AdSense to my blog, but of course the colors look horrid.
Can you tell me if my code needs to be modified to go into the new version? or can i just upload this new version and choose it as my theme?
I would like to do much more (e.g. syndication, tagging), but just don’t know enough php to really make it happen. I have no problem paying you a fee for moving any modifications over, but I really can’t tell you if any are necessary.
Does this new them allow for these additions? (image, blogrolling, syndication, tagging)??
If you would be willing to help a guy out, I would be happy to cover your time & make a donation if you would help me set this thing up! Thanks again. You’re doing great work.
May 12th, 2006 at 22:26
Ok, I’ve managed to kludge together something that works reasonably well. Instead of trying to get the actual Theme header to show up on the page, I just created another style in my global.css file that made it appear the same. The sidebar looks almost the same, there seems to be a bit of a variation in the width of the column and the spacing of the lines that is a little odd, but close enough for my purposes. The idea is to eventually turn all the static pages into Wordpress pages anyway so I’m happy enough with what I’ve got.
May 16th, 2006 at 03:11
Finnaly went to download this, works nice, but if I use this then I will never learn on my own haha, but after todays issues that I talked to ya about, this is tons easiest, esp. for new peoples. Keep it looking good.
Cheers
May 18th, 2006 at 00:32
Mike,
At this point I’m fairly certain that my version of your theme is somewhat customized. I honestly have no idea if the new theme will work and integrate all of the work that i’ve done over the past couple of months (which for me has been prodigious).
I’m definitely ready to pay this small fee for your help, and if at all possible I’d love your help to integrate a social bookmarking plugin that incorporates a bunch of very slick little buttons for the various social bookmarking cliques.
Can you please let me know how to work with you to get this done? I know you must be mad busy, but any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks man.
May 18th, 2006 at 12:48
Hi abhilash,
I will contact you directly about this. It doesn’t look like you have done anything too radical. I don’t anticipate any problems integrating your changes into the new version.
Mike
May 21st, 2006 at 12:37
Thanks for your hard work here. Your winterized version is really nice. I hope to get back in touch with you when the rest of my site settles down. I just upgraded from your earlier version and they are both neat.
May 22nd, 2006 at 18:18
Mike,
Curious is you are doing updates to J-Blue for a fee? if so I am very interested.
Hope to hear from you soon.
May 22nd, 2006 at 23:58
Hi Darla,
Yes I am. I’ll contact you directly.
Mike
May 29th, 2006 at 07:07
Hey Mike,
Awesome to see the updated version… I have loved the Winter version on my blog for awhile and was itching to use some of the new features of 2.0, but didn’t want to lose your awesome theme. thanks for the updates.
I’m having a problem though. In the blocks at the top of the columns, I’m not getting the content I want to show up correctly. At the top of Column A (on the left) I have a picture of myself and then a definition of me… But the image won’t show up (yes, I checked the path and the html code I put in and they are right). On the top of Column B, I have a quote and that is showing, but everytime I save the changes, a “/” (slash) is added to the text where ever there is a quote or an apostrophe. I think this is why the image isn’t showing up either as slashes are added at all those quote marks too.
Is there a fix available or am I doing something wrong? Any help is much appreciated as I am sure you are a busy busy person.
Thanks!
Charlie
May 29th, 2006 at 16:03
Hi Charlie,
I’m glad you like the theme.
I have finally been able to reproduce this problem which was reported a while ago. I am working on the next version of the them now. I’m hoping to have solved this problem along with adding support for WP Widgets quite soon.
Mike
May 29th, 2006 at 18:08
Looking forward to Journalized Theme Version 2 being out of beta. I’m using my own 3 column theme right now, but will probably switch once the new Journalized is finished. Just sent you a donation btw.
May 29th, 2006 at 22:08
Mike,
Awesome, glad to know you’re on the case. Do you have a notification/update email list i could subscribe to so that when you announce the next version, I can come and get it and not have to remember to check on my own? I’m kinda forgetful…
Thanks!
Charlie
May 29th, 2006 at 23:57
Hi there,
Love the theme, thanks for all the work! I installed it on my blog (though I made some significant changes so that it looks more like my old theme, to keep my readers from experiencing whiplash — but your theme is definitely the backbone of my site now) … BUT, twice since I activated the theme, my blog has mysteriously de-activated your theme and activated the WordPress Default theme! So you have any idea what might cause that?
May 29th, 2006 at 23:57
P.S. I’m using WordPress 1.5.2.
May 30th, 2006 at 01:43
P.P.S. Update:
So weird! Any ideas?
June 5th, 2006 at 05:42
I am so happy to see the above. I’m having the SAME issue, except that I don’t have either of the default themes in my folder and do have another one in my themes folder… And every day or so, my bog goes totally blank and I have to go into the presentation tab to re-choose your theme… what gives? is this a bug or is there a new setting i have to choose to make this the default theme?
Thanks!
Charlie
June 10th, 2006 at 02:27
hello, I installed your theme, it makes my site looks very pro, however, tonight i didn’t some changes to this theme, now even I delete the column-a.php, it is still working fine. I don’t know why, now any changes to column-a.php doesn’t make any difference to the site. mike, can you tell me why? thank you very much!
June 11th, 2006 at 01:26
Charlie, Brendan,
It is impossible for the journalized theme to switch itself off in any way. There is no code in there to do this. BUT, if WordPress thinks that it cannot load either of the index.php or the style.css files, then WordPress will switch back to the default theme.
I had another user see this happening a few months ago, it turned out his server was getting hacked by some script which was modifying every index.php file it could. It would corrupt my themes index.php and WordPress would turn it off.
I’m not saying that is happening to you guys, but it is worth checking the files are not corrupted or unreadable if it occurs again.
Mike
June 11th, 2006 at 01:29
谷歌非官方博客,
I’ve looked at your site and you are still using column-a.php. Check that you are changing the correct copy of theme. Could you be modifying a copy of the theme, or even your local copy?
Mike
June 14th, 2006 at 02:32
Mike,
can you tell me how I would know if the index.php file is corrupt please?
Thanks for all your help,
c
June 14th, 2006 at 07:15
Mike, I just wanted to say thank you for giving us such a great theme. We love it!
June 20th, 2006 at 08:40
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June 21st, 2006 at 10:55
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June 23rd, 2006 at 05:34
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June 23rd, 2006 at 06:07
[...] With the Journalized theme, the file I ended up editing was column-a.php rather than sidebar.php, seems to be working well, need to add a few more sub-menu items just to be sure. [link] [...]
July 17th, 2006 at 02:20
Hi Mike
I’m in the process of doing a few minor cosmetic hacks to the egg template. I noticed that it is only drawing the main image I created some of the time. Usually more often or not it wont display the image. I put the header image path into the box as sugegsted in the control panel. It then worked fine, the only problem then was it would not display the title or strap. I ahev now taken out image path fromthe box and i’m back to square.1. Is there a solution for this?
Thanks
Vince
July 18th, 2006 at 00:17
Hi again,
I have been working on the theme to get it the way I want it but there are still several layout problems I’m having. I have created a couple of screenshots. They can be found at http://blog.fileville.net/error/
I think they can be fixed easily but I’m not good a CSS.
I hope you don’t mind. Thanks again…
July 19th, 2006 at 22:03
Hi Mike
We have the image working now and it calls fine, still overwrites the text using the conventional method, so we have just called it directly from the CSS.
We have now taken a ‘hammer and chisel’ and done some hacking to it today and managed to install (integrate would be a betetr word) the sidebar widgets into the template which we finally now have working.
Vince
July 29th, 2006 at 05:22
I’m working on changing my site to your theme. I downloaded the 2.0 version but when I uploaded it to my servier I don’t see the new adminstration interface anywhere in wp-admin page. I do see the theme and can activate it and it shows up but I just don’t see the admin interface.
Also I would love to know how to add a picture to the header.
Thanks a ton for your creativity.
August 5th, 2006 at 23:26
I’ve been using a modified version of this layout for at least a year now. journalized sand that is. In two places, my family page and my blog. If I can I’d really like my customized versions converted, if the fee isn’t too high. Just a few questions first.
1. will this be widget compatible?
2. I’ve had problems using certain plugins that require pages such as falbum, Now Reading, and MyTube. The layout totally breaks.
3. Will I still be able to add my own boxes to the sidebars?
August 7th, 2006 at 06:38
[...] I’ve created a new theme for the site, which I admit looks an awful lot like the old Journalized theme, but I’ve simplified some sections to make it easier to work with, especially when I am integrating the big list of pages that exist outside the WordPress structure. It also allows me to more easily adjust the color and font settings to be more like they used to be. I’m sure I’ve missed a few things along the way and there will be some odd looking pages, if you spot any, please post a comment letting me know. Thanks! [...]
September 19th, 2006 at 11:52
hmm does it work with the actuall wp version? - i’ve uploaded the theme and get no new in the themes menue…
or is there a other way to install this theme? i put the dir just in the themes directory…
September 20th, 2006 at 09:08
Hi Mike, I have a website for writer ( http://www.penulislepas.com ), in Indonesian language, and I use journalized winter’s theme for the design. But I change it a litte in design. I change the color into green, too.
Sorry for that, but I still put your name and website as the credit title.
thanks a lot for the great theme
Jonru
September 20th, 2006 at 11:49
Hi Jonru,
I’m glad you like the theme. You changes look really good.
September 20th, 2006 at 11:53
Hi Max,
The theme works fine with WordPress 2.0.x. Did you upload all the files in their directory structure?
The Codex has some tips on installing themes
Mike
September 22nd, 2006 at 18:07
Hi Mike! Love the theme and am using a slightly modified version that looks great in Firefox.
Is there any way to fix the overlap problem in IE6? I see the same problem here. The center column overlaps the left column by about a quarter of an inch, even at a high screen resolution and full-screen view. I’ve tried playing with widths in the css file, but haven’t been able to find a solution. Would you post or email?
September 24th, 2006 at 14:15
Heidi,
I’m glad you like the theme, thanks.
It looks like the FeedBlitz “Subscribe Me” form could be causing the trouble, it has fixed size of 22 (characters) in the tag.
<input name="EMAIL" maxlength="200" type="text" size="22" value="">
Try reducing that to see if it helps.
Mike
By the way, you have lots of invalid HTML on your page, both in the posts and the sidebars. It generates more than 100 warnings
October 16th, 2006 at 14:15
Thanks Mike. That worked like a charm.
Thanks also for the link to the validator. I’m dealing with the issues now. I had been using http://feedvalidator.org/, which said it was valid. I had not been aware of a couple of the code issues - much appreciated.
October 22nd, 2006 at 20:15
Mike,
I’ve searched through what feels like a gazillion themes before I found yours…
LOVE it!…if there’s any complaint, it’s that I’ve tried countless times to modify it into a Sage Green…I can’t find the same “sude” colours you used that make Journalized look so pretty…My colours always seem “off”…
Any chance you might include a Sage green skin in an update?…
Thanx for such a pretty theme…
Lisa;)
October 29th, 2006 at 07:03
Hi Mike,
I was hoping a while back that you’d help me migrate my current blog into the new v2 that I’ve wanted to start using for so long. I paid your fee too. Is there any chance you’d still be willing to do this?
I took a look at a few of the others that managed to incorporate expandable categories and a recent comments widget. Please advise when you can.
Thanks!
October 29th, 2006 at 21:19
Abhilash,
I refunded your fee in full because I couldn’t get the time to help you. Unfortunately things have not improved much. (You may be able to tell by how infrequently I update here.)
At the moment I cannot hope to take on any more work. Sorry.
November 6th, 2006 at 15:36
Not sure if you handle support, but thought I would ask anyway…I’m having trouble with the theme on my class site. The columns read in webdings (or something) when viewed in IE. Everything looks fine in Firefox. I love this theme and use it for my personal site as well as my school site. It is only my school site that looks odd. Any suggestions for a fix would be appreciated.
November 6th, 2006 at 23:40
I have two sites that I am having trouble with. Neither are displaying correctly in IE. Kontansplace.com has an overlap of sidebars and thsmsstudies.info looks like I typed in webdings in the sidebar. Any idea why this is happening? Everything looks fine in firefox.
November 7th, 2006 at 00:20
ok. fixed the overlap in personal site but haven’t figured out the strange font in thsmsstudies.info
any suggestions appreciated…
November 7th, 2006 at 22:24
Using the journalized2 theme options feature, I can’t seem to get it to save any changes I make.
For instance, if I picked ’sand’ and saved it, nothing happens. When I came back, the blue was picked again.
Finally, I delete all the other skins, and renamed the ’sand’ one ‘blue,’ and that at least got me what i wanted.
I set the folders and files to 777.
But none of the other options here work either
What I’m trying to to is put my PayPal donate button in the upper left corner. And a few similar things.
November 12th, 2006 at 01:18
Is there any way to set the center column to a max of 555 pixels? Otherwise my center image tiles for resolutions larger than 1024×768. Alternatively, is there any way to make the center image expand or shrink to fit the cneter / header space?
November 12th, 2006 at 20:05
[...] Yeah, this looks like the theme I used on my last blog. That’s because it is. It’s called Journalized and is the most recent version - while it looks a lot like the version I was using before, it’s much more complex underneath. I like it, mostly. [...]
December 1st, 2006 at 17:27
I am using 2.0. The options page does not work. It will not change the skin or any other option I choose. It used to work and now it doesn’t. It stays on the default. Any ideas?
December 18th, 2006 at 12:18
I’m having the same problem as Carl Davidson (#162). I have installed Journalized Beta but when I try to make any changes, I simply get a “changes saved” message but all of the defaults remain. I changed all folders and files that I could to 777, but that just resulted in a total failure. Uninstalled.
Any advice on how to get the changes to work? AR+
December 22nd, 2006 at 02:43
I am having the same problem that several others have mentioned. I try and save some changes to the options in the admin page, I get the message “options saved” but nothing changes. Do you have any suggestions?
December 23rd, 2006 at 00:17
I have been using Journalized for years, Now using the 2.0 beta and it works great!
I would like to make one change if possible…
Instead of having the TITLE TEXT of my Blog, I want to replace it with a .gif or .jpg.
If you go to my site, “www.wagnertech.net” you can see I enjoy modifying your theme to death, but this little mod has me stumped.
Any ideas on how to pull this one off?
Thanks
December 23rd, 2006 at 18:27
I get the same error as Andrew, and I’m using Firefox 2.0…is that why I get the error?
December 23rd, 2006 at 20:54
Hi Andrew, Heidi,
I’m not sure what could be causing the problem you are seeing. I will try to have a look at it over the holiday period.
December 23rd, 2006 at 21:23
High Octane,
If you are running version 2 of the theme, you should be able to turn off the title text by selecting an image in the them options page for the background image and not checking the background option.
However, there has been a problem with the theme and people have had trouble saving settings. I am about to upload a newer version of the theme which fixes that problem. Look out for the posting in the next hour or so.
Mike
December 24th, 2006 at 02:31
Thanks Mike,
I have seen the problem of the page saving, it seems to take forever to load, but it could be my computer in this case.
O.K. I’m attempting to save the settings using my header image as instructed, it may take a bit to do it, I’ll let you know how it goes.
I hope it doesn’t repeat.
December 24th, 2006 at 15:42
Thanks Mike, That worked when I tested it, but when I went to change the jpg to a more fitting one, it won’t save it as you stated it might do.
I’ll keep an eye out for the update, Will it be here or on another page?
Have a Merry Christmas.