BytesForAll WordPress Themes

@Tim: It will probably take 2 weeks I’m afraid even though I do nothing but working on these themes. I plan to release a new version of “Atahualpa” this week, then update “Montezuma” (which is quite similar and shouldn’t take long), then Cats Drop Down would be the next to update. Is there anything special you would like to be added to that theme other than fixing errors? I was planning to add some Adsense functionality.

@Tim: Your actual tag was not posted due to a WP filter but it probably was

</body>

You can find that in footer.php. Paste the Google code right before that tag.

P.S.: To post code here in these comments, use:


<pre lang="html">
... code here ...
</pre>


I will update my site the next days and post that tip in a visible place above the comments.

@rdw: It seems the “Popular in Category” feature will indeed not work in WP 2.2 since there’s been a change in WordPress 2.3

You should remove this part from sidebar2.php, should be line 39-51

	<?php if (function_exists('mdv_most_commented_per_cat')) { ?>
	<?php $current_cat_id = get_query_var('cat');
	# The first number (10) is max # of posts displayed,
	# the last number (365) is how old (days) posts can be to be included here.
	# Don't change the other parts. Salt to taste:
	$popular_in_this_cat = mdv_most_commented_per_cat(10, '<li>', '</li>', false, 365, $current_cat_id);
	if ($popular_in_this_cat != "None found") { ?>
	<h3 class="widgettitle">Popular in <?php single_cat_title(); ?></h3>
	<ul>
	<?php echo $popular_in_this_cat; ?>
	</ul>
	<?php } ?>
	<?php } ?>

Thank you for pointing this out, the hardcoded area in sidebar2.php is gone in 2.21 anyway, and in the next theme version I will hide the “Popular in Cat” widget from WP 2.2 users.

@rdw: I meant to remove the “Popular in Cat” widget from the sidebar, not the “Categories” widget. What is your WordPress version and do you know your MySQL version (i.e. mysql 3, 4 or 5)? Looks like the “Popular in Cat” widget doesn’t work on older MysQL versions.

@rdw: That looks like the “Popular in Cat” widgets isn’t working. If you remove it, do the errors go away, does everything else work?

That message you posted is just the mysql query of that widget. There should be an actual error message before or after it?

@Tim: You would have to look in index.php, single.php, archive.php and search.php for

<p class="postmetadata">

and add

<?php the_author(); ?>

after it.

If you wanted to add it below the post tiles, you would have to look in the same files, and add the same tag right before

<div class="entry">

This theme will get a major update, please check back in 1-2 weeks. An option to add the author will be included among many other things.

@Matteo:

1) It has a whole range of SEO features on the options page where you can add nofollow to certain links and noarchive to certain pages to prevent duplicate content, the theme can also generate meta keywords and descriptions, etc.

2) Looks like all my themes are working in 2.5 and 2.6 beta1 as far as I can see since my themes are rather fresh and thus I was happy enough to not use deprecated WordPress code like you can find in themes that are 2-3 years old. I am almost done with a new test drive site where you’ll be able to test my themes on WP 2.2, 2.3, 2.5 and 2.6 and on a lot of sample content.

3) You can look through this blog, I am trying my best to provide support and will do in the future. I am building my business more and more around WP so I will be around

@Ruth: Installing a Captcha can be cumbersome, maybe another Captcha plugin or widget will work for you.

@Ruth: I would need to know what captcha and which theme you’re using at the very least. If it is a plugin or widget I’d be willing to install it on the affected theme and see if I can spot the problem.

@scarface: I have not even tried in 2.5 yet, it should work. I’ll test this and my other themes these days in 2.5 and update them accordingly if required

@John: That would require rewrite parts of the theme I am afraid. It’d probably be better to use a wider theme if the main columns theme width is too narrow for your application.

@Ruth: I am not sure if this is related to the theme at all. Does the captcha work with other themes?

@ Bill Triplett:

While the category menu (located between header and main content section) does drop down, the menu for pages (above the header, with rounded tabs) does not drop down, it shows only the first level pages, but no sub or sub-sub pages.

You could however display links to 2nd, 3rd and further level pages in the sidebar, by dropping either the “Pages” or the “Subpages” widget into the sidebar, at
“Site Admin” -> “Presentation” -> “Widgets”

The “Pages” widget is a default WP widget and will display links to ALL pages, including the 1st level pages (which are already listed in the top navigation menu with the rounded tabs).

The “Subpages” widget is custom and will only display the sub pages of a given page. The “Subpages” widget needs to be dropped into the first position in the sidebar (on top of other widgets) or it won’t display. It also won’t display if there are no sub pages for the current page, or if the current page is not a “Page” page.

My next theme will have drop down menus for both categories and pages, I plan to release it within 2 days.

@ Bill Triplett:

You would just create categories, sub-categories and sub-sub-categories under

“Site Admin” -> “Manage” -> “Categories” -> “Add New”

Fill in the Category name under “Category name:” and choose a parent category (if any) under “Category parent:”.

You can leave “Category slug:” and “Description” blank.

Then, whenever you write a new post, you’ll see the option to add the post to any (or several) of the existing categories (or sub or sub-sub categories) on the right hand side of the “Site Admin” -> “Write” -> “Write Post” window.

You can also add existing posts to (old or newly created) categories at “Site Admin” -> “Manage” -> “Posts” -> “Edit”

Once a category has at least one post, it will appear in the appropriate place of the drop down menu.

In other words, you wouldn’t create the drop down menu itself, instead, you’d create the categories and assign posts to them, and the drop down menu gets created automatically and will be based on your existing category / sub-category / sub-sub-category structure.

@ Henrik Buchwald:

If you mean the theme “Bytes For All”, that would be the line

< ?php include ('sidebar2.php'); ?> in page.php ?

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@ Leslie:

Yes, you can add a logo. I’ve included instructions for that in

/catsdropdown/header.php

line 246-250