Comments on: WuCoco 0.10.1

By: Le G

Le G — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:06:01 +0000

Thanks Mike. I’ll have a go with that.

Best,
Le G.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:25:57 +0000

@Le: The sidebar headings are clearly labelled in ‘style-core.css’. They inherit their style based on tag parentage, not based on an id or class. Your problem is that you’re using divs to create your sidebar, whereas I’m using lists, which changes the tag parentage and borks the style inheritence. You can either:

- Adopt the same tag structure I use for your sidebar (it is a very common structure).
- Duplicate the sidebar heading styles and make them available via classes/id’s, or make them available for the tag structure that you use.

By: Le G

Le G — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:16:38 +0000

Okay, I’ve sorted out my sidebar, but I can’t work out how to get the category headings in the left bar to reduce. Here’s an example of the code I’ve got:

weather

Wellington, New Zealand

Thanks again,
Le G.

By: Le G

Le G — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:56:54 +0000

Hi Mike,

I’ve just installed this theme, and it looks great. I’ve been doing some tweaking and have it just about where I want it. However, I’d like to add a flickr badge and a few other sidebar items which are not part of the sidebar widget family. I want to insert them myself. How do I go about putting those into the .css (I have the code ready to input from an older template of my blog, but I just need to know how to adapt them to this one css-wise).

Also, I’ve decided to put borders around my images but if you look closely at the left margin of each image, there seems to be a grey line there. Is there some way to remove that?

Many thanks and great work on this theme.

Le G.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:40:07 +0000

Mike,
You’ve made a knockout theme; thanks for all your hard work.

By: Shalom

Shalom — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:27:49 +0000

Mike – thanks for your offer for help. I think that I figured out my problem with embedding youtube videos. I was operating in visual mode. I went in to WP and unchecked “…visual mode” on both the options and users/admin sections. Now I have been able to put in youtube vids with no problem. Thanks!

By: mike

mike — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:15:54 +0000

@Shalom: There are a few unresolved layout issues when embedding complex content into a post, but it’s hard for me to give specific help without seeing a specific problem. Post screenshots and code snippets that I can use to reproduce your issue and perhaps I can help.

By: Shalom

Shalom — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:52:48 +0000

Mike: I’m using your template in Beta for an upcoming blog. When I make it live, I am having trouble “pulling” images that are not served on my host. For example if I try to embed a youtube video or link (with permission of course) to am image hosted on another site, it doesn’t work. Is this a template issue or a preference with my host sever that I need to check? Thanks – and awesome template!

By: mike

mike — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:25:12 +0000

@Chad: The header elements are clearly labeled both in the php and style files, you’re free to alter them any way you like.

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:55:14 +0000

Hello Mike,
I love your theme and it has worked great for me. I do have a question, any way to alter the code so that the links in the header drop to the bottom of the header rather than the top. And if possible uses images rather than text. Any info would be great.

Thanks,
Chad

By: mike

mike — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:16:00 +0000

@Steve: I see the issue, which element(s) are causing the issue? Is it in a post, or in a sidebar, or something else. Before/after screenshots and code snippets are especially helpful in diagnosing issues like this.

By: steve marchese

steve marchese — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:50:30 +0000

Mike,

Love the theme. Amazing. Works perfectly for me. One question. When I added podpress, it seems to push off the page. Any ideas? Take a look: http://www.scissorkick.com

By: mike

mike — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:28:03 +0000

@David: Thanks for the report, that’s a significant bug and I’m amazed that no one has brought it to my attention sooner. I’m in the process of putting together a bugfix release and will address the issue there.

@Leo: The only changes between 0.10.0 and 0.10.1 were the IE7 fixes. Diff the two releases to see the changes.

By: Leo Maia

Leo Maia — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:30:05 +0000

Dear Mike,

First of all thank you so much for this awesome theme! I really really love it. Like other people, I made some changes on your theme, such as some translation (to portuguese), color changes as well as some advertisement inputs. I use the 0.10.0 three column version and I wish to fix the IE7 incompatibility problem. How can I do it manually.

Thanks in advance.

Leo Maia

By: David

David — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:56:38 +0000

Hi there, I was wondering if you can help. I have been looking at wucoco as a theme for a social website. And it looks great. I did a trial install and then checked out the graphic sources etc.. That all went well…..ok in firefox. Anyhow, when I get on to looking at it in IE6 the ‘comments’ section seems to be unresolved at the bottom left of each comment. I looked at it on other forums in IE and it seems to be a fairly consistent issue. Has anyone come across this and identified a ‘fix’ for it?

David.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:19:34 +0000

@misfit: I see what you’re getting at and will resolve the issue in the next version. If you want to fix it yourself before then, please report back on your results. The file that needs to be modified is comments.php, and the comment heading (“Something to say?” or “xxx responses to blah”) needs an appropriate id or other linkable anchor.

Thanks for your report.

By: the misfit

the misfit — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:29:00 +0000

it actually only happens when there are no comments. there seems to be no #respond anchor in the template. is there a way that I can add one so that when there are no comments and you go to comment it will take you right to the form?

By: the misfit

the misfit — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:11:42 +0000

mike,
that is my problem. If there are no comments on a link and you click comment, it takes you to the right page, but not to the comment form at the bottom of the page. I know there is a way to set an anchor, but I am not sure how to do that. I might need to reload the template, now that I have messed with it a bit.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:45:16 +0000

@misfit: I’m not entirely sure what you’re getting at. When you click the comments link from the main page, you should already skip straight comments associated with that post. Individual comments don’t yet have permalinks, but that’s on the list for next version.

By: the misfit

the misfit — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:35:36 +0000

I was wondering if there is a way to make it so when you click the link for comments it takes you right to the comment for of the page in question? I am new to PHP so I am not sure how ot make this work.

Thanks

By: Mark La Roi

Mark La Roi — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:35:43 +0000

Mike,

it worked and all is well now, thanks so much!

By: mike

mike — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:14:23 +0000

@Mark La Roi: Simply follow the install instructions in the WuCoco readme file. Different versions have different folder names and can be installed in parallel. Delete when older version once everything is working to your satisfaction.

By: Mark La Roi

Mark La Roi — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:52:22 +0000

Mike,

I was about to do the upgrade to 10.1 but then thought I should ask, (please forgive the newbie question) how should I perform the upgrade? Should I just upload all the new files to the current folder, Or should I follow the Word Press upgrade instructions?

By: Keechang Kim

Keechang Kim — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:07:56 +0000

Absolutely wonderful theme! I like this theme very much. But could you tell me how to make the comments (comments_popup_link) appear in Pages. They appear in Posts, Search Results, but not in Pages.

Meanwhile, I just incerted towards the end of the “page.php”…

But I would rather have comments_popup_link

Thanks, in advance.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:24:44 +0000

Help me to show a sumary…

Hello, I’m usign you theme a little hacked, I’m trying to use the_excerpt_reloaded, but that broke the code when i allow html, put everything like a box inside another box and so on.

Note: The problem start when you allow or use the tag

Can you help me with that, should be great if you post be excerpt compatible.

the url is http://www.rafaelcedano.com ; i’ve waiting.

By: Scott Olson

Scott Olson — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:21:09 +0000

Thanks Mike – I’ll check it out – if I discover how to mod it to a left column, I’ll post it here. Appreciate all your work.

Scott

By: mike

mike — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:46:32 +0000

@Scott Olson: I’m honestly not sure off the top of my head exactly how to do the mod your interested in. The div containing the sidebar is clearly labelled, and you’ll want to float it left or position it in some other sensible way. At that point you may or may not need to adjust the positioning of #postcol as well, which is the main post column.

Report back if you find something worth sharing.

By: Scott Olson

Scott Olson — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:06:25 +0000

I’ll keep trying by messing with the code and backing up… It sounds simple, but hasn’t worked yet. I really just want it to be a left sidebar instead of a right sidebar. I tried going into sidebar-core.php and changing the references to right and r to left and l – that didn’t work. I’m going to try to comb through the code and figure it out; however, if you have any pointers and just where to mod the code, I could probably figure it out faster. thanks!

Scott

By: mike

mike — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:57:52 +0000

@Scott Olson: As I’ve said previously, there’s a limited amount of time I can spend supporting personal customizations. It’s especially difficult for me to be helpful without knowing what you’ve tried so far and what specific problems you’re having.

By: Scott Olson

Scott Olson — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:09:28 +0000

Hello! Great work – thanks for the 10.1 update. One question – I’m using the 2 column layout and would like the column to be on the left instead of the right… could you help me do this? thanks!

Scott

By: mike

mike — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:29:12 +0000

@David Day: That’s fantastic. If you’d be willing to distribute your changes, I’d love to host them here or link to your site. It would be wonderful to keep the mediawiki port in sync with future development.

Unfortunately, my aging home computer finally kicked the bucket with a power supply failure a few weeks ago and my new system isn’t scheduled to arrive for another week or more. I’m writing from my n770 and can’t test IE issues right now. I’ll get in touch offline, though. We’ll try to sort out your issues.

By: David Day

David Day — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 04:32:11 +0000

Hi Mike,

Just wanted to say great theme. Also thought you might like to see, I’ve adapted your theme (2 column version) for use with MediaWiki. I wanted to incorporate both WordPress and MediaWiki on my site, but wanted a uniform theme (WuCoco, of course).

I’m still tweaking at it a bit. I’m having problems with it on IE, but as I’m on linux I have trouble testing it. Anyhow, I’ll be releasing it for MediaWiki as soon as I can hammer out the IE problems.

Thanks for all the work you’ve put into producing such a pleasing theme!

By: mike

mike — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:27:09 +0000

@Brian: Thanks for reporting back on your fix. I’ll incorporate your changes into the next release.

@ahhyeah: Because I get a lot of questions it’s hard for me to get too sucked into customizations, you might want to start asking questions in a general web design forum at this point. A couple final hints, though: You’re missing #postcol, which is at least part of why your background is messed up. You’re not applying inline styles correctly, either. Use the dom inspector in firefox and the w3c validator to rework your changes until they’re “correct”. Start over if you have to, checking each change as you make it to ensure that it does what you think it does and that it validates.

By: ahhyeah

ahhyeah — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:31:45 +0000

Ok, I think I’m getting somewhere, I just need a little more help and I think I got it. I’ve figured out (mike told me) how to make some of my Page and pages single colums but now I’m getting color changes at the top and bottom of the colums. I only changed the #postcol and #page_container. Any ideas? Here’s an example: http://saylorville.org/?page_id=12

By: Ahhyeah

Ahhyeah — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:39:09 +0000

Mike, thanks again and again. I understand what you’re saying so when I get home I’ll try it out. I have gotten some of my pages to remove the sidebars already… I was just wondering how to stretch them. I let you know if I get stuck. This will be great when it’s done!

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:08:00 +0000

Mike -

Thanks for picking up on that – I didn’t notice. Apparently the CDATA tags need to be commented out with ‘//’ to keep the browser from tyring to interpret them as Javascript (and breaking).

Looks like my site is now validating and functional.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:53:48 +0000

@Brian: Actually, both the searchbox-clearing javascript and the column-height script are now broken on your site (in Firefox 1.0.6). I haven’t tested the CDATA trick and I don’t have prior experience with the tag to know what browser compatability is like. Report back if you play some more, or wait for a new version in a month or two.

It’s also worth noting that the validator is being quite silly by trying to parse well-tagged and well-formed javascript as xml. No browser does this and unless your a total nut about validation it’s not something you need to worry about.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:34:04 +0000

Thanks, Mike! The CDATA tag did the trick – I’m all validated!

By: ray

ray — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:49:35 +0000

Hi, The theme is the best one I have found up to now! Thanks. I have one question if it’s ok. Can I change the width of the post section in the middle? If so how would I do it?
Sorry to ask awkward questions but I am new to this lark.
Thanks

By: mike

mike — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:28:07 +0000

@Brian: Look for Kelley's comment and my response in the 0.10.0 comments for a workaround to the validator's grumping. This will get fixed in the next major release. @ahhyeah: Off the top of my head I'm not sure how difficult what you're trying to do is. It might be easy or it might be slightly tricky. I'll give you some hints, though. A template is a good way to make one or two pages look different than the rest of the site, but if you're touching categories and search you'll need to tweak the theme directly. Look at files like page.php, archive.php (which does more than you might think), and possibly single.php. Pull out the references to the sidebars and add inline styles to control the width of #postcol and #page_container.

By: ahhyeah

ahhyeah — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:31:09 +0000

That looks great, but how would I change the width to 100% on single colums. Basically I want the main page to have the 3 colums but the search, categories, Pages or whatever to have 1 at 100%. Any Idea how to do this? Thanks for the support!

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:28:45 +0000

Mike -

While it appears that the 1-column theme (as used on your site) validates vine, the two-column version does not. Seems the w3 validator doesn’t like something in the fixHeight function.

ahhyeah -

I made a 1-column page template for the forum on my site by editing the standard template and commenting out the sidebar call and setting postcol to 100% width, like this:

Maybe this will work for you, too.

By: ahhyeah

ahhyeah — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:23:51 +0000

It looks like the error (html not working) is also happening with the search. Just thought you’d like to know.

By: ahhyeah

ahhyeah — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:11:45 +0000

btw, that worked of course (changed ‘the_excerpt’ to ‘the_content’)

By: ahhyeah

ahhyeah — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:09:12 +0000

Mike, you rock. I really appreciate it! I have another question. I’ve figured out how to use different templates for different Pages. But what I’m wanting is to have the Page Template to be one colum full width, like your 1 colum template. (I’m using the 3) What am I doing wrong? Again, thanks for your help and quick response!

By: mike

mike — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:01:04 +0000

@ahhyeah and Larry Cotton: I understand the issue that you’re having with excerpts now. Excerpted posts do appear in the category archives but are being stripped of link tags and other html to show up as plain text (or garbled text if your html is too complicated). I’ll correct it in the next version of WuCoco by using the full post content.

If you want to fix the problem yourself before then you need to edit archive.php (not archives.php), find ‘the_excerpt’ and replace it with ‘the_content’. There’s only one occurrence in the file.

By: ahhyeah

ahhyeah — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 05:10:59 +0000

I double checked and it works in the default themes… I love this template btw!

By: ahhyeah

ahhyeah — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 05:08:26 +0000

on this page http://saylorville.org/?cat=3 My podpress info donesn’t work, but it does on the main page. It shoulds like a problem Larry Cotton was having maybe. Let me know what you think. Maybe it’s podpress.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:15:39 +0000

@Brian: I don’t see any missing files in the 0.10.1 2-column archive, you probably got a randomly corrupted download. If other folks report similar issues I’ll investigate further and possibly post md5′s or sign the packages.

@Larry Cotton: Thanks for the report about missing excerpts, but I’m having trouble reproducing your issue. I don’t use the “more” tag or do anything special to create post excerpts and my category archives are working fine. If you have some more details I’m happy to look them over.

@Birger Nordoelum: I’m hoping to add an options page within the next release or two. It will be at least another month before I cycle my focus to WuCoco again, but sometime this fall.

@RichC: In 0.10.x or later it should be relatively easy to adjust the column widths. Start in style.css and adjust the hardcoded width of #page_container (the invisible div that holds both the content column and the sidebar) and #postcol (the post column). You may or may not also need to dig around in style-core.css to fix the positioning of the content column or the sidebar but I think the two-column version doesn’t require a lot of tweaking.

By: Larry Cotton

Larry Cotton — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:21:37 +0000

Looking further myself I see the tag “the_excerpt” does not display HTML if an excerpt is not defined in the post.

Short fix, changed it to “the_content” it I got what I needed.

Happy trails!