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BIG OOOPS. You asked this for version 2? There, this is not possible as described above I’m afraid. The solution below is for version 3, currently at 3.4.2

@ronald, Clayton, The Discriminating Fangirl: 365,366,368
While it is not fully integrated with a tag like %avatar% you can use PHP and HTML inside the text areas at Edit POST / PAGE INFO ITEMS and combine them with existing tags such as %author-id%. The PHP will be parsed at last, first the %something% tags will be replaced:

<?php echo get_avatar( %author-id%, $size = '60', $default = 'http://mysite.com/path/to/default/image.gif' ); ?>

The avatar will get the default style of the (commnent) avatars which is float:left.

You can adjust that with an CSS Insert:

div.post img.avatar {
display: block; /* or let if floated left */
padding: 0 10px 10px 0; /* 0 TOP 10 RIGHT 10 BOTTOM 0 LEFT */
}

etc…

@Tom: 358

Hello, Tom

it would be easier for you to get ahold of me over at http://forum.bytesforall.com. You can see whether I am online ( and I am more there than here ATM) and we can also exchange Private Messages.

@Sean: 356
See Widgets -> Widget Container and add something like

border-bottom: solid 1px #cccccc;
padding: 25px 0; /* = 25 px top and bottom */

and change or remove the line with margin: that is already there

@tlcounts: 354
There’s an option in the theme options to set a sidebar to 0, that will remove it

@Tom 347:
It would be hard without seeing it live. When you’re back make a comment to see if I am around and if I reply soon turn the error on again?

@Tom 345:

Sorry I didn’t think of that: WP added “rel=nofollow” to all 4 links in that file and messed up the php code. I posted the file again here http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=70

@Tom 342

The plugin file paged-comments.php is still required. The comments-paged.php is just a template for the plugin so it won’t use its own template.

So, you would install the plugin, and upload comments-paged.php, too

The plugin will then find comments-paged.php by itself

@Tom 340

Save the following as comments-paged.php and put it into the /wp-content/themes/atahualpa/ directory

<?php // Do not delete these lines
	if (!empty($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) && 'comments-paged.php' == basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']))
		die ('Please do not load this page directly. Thanks!');
 
	if (!empty($post->post_password)) { // if there's a password
		if ($_COOKIE['wp-postpass_' . COOKIEHASH] != $post->post_password) {  // and it doesn't match the cookie
			?>
 
			<p class="nocomments">This post is password protected. Enter the password to view comments.</p>
 
			<?php
			return;
		}
	}
 
	/* This variable is for alternating comment background */
	$oddcomment = 'class="alt clearfix" ';
 
global $options;
foreach ($options as $value) {
if (get_option( $value['id'] ) === FALSE) { $$value['id'] = $value['std']; } else { $$value['id'] = get_option( $value['id'] ); } }
?>
<!-- You can start editing below: -->
 
<?php // If there are any comments
if ($comments) : ?>
 
	<h3 id="comments"><?php // Comment Area Title
	comments_number('No Responses', 'One Response', '% Responses' );?> to <?php the_title(); ?></h3>
 
	<!-- Comment page numbers -->
	<?php if ($paged_comments->pager->num_pages() > 1): ?>
	<p class="comment-page-numbers"><?php _e("Pages:"); ?> <?php paged_comments_print_pages(); ?></p>
	<?php endif; ?>
	<!-- End comment page numbers -->
 
	<!-- Comment List -->
	<ol class="commentlist">
 
 
		<?php
		// Do this for every comment -->
		foreach ($comments as $comment) :
		if ( ($ata_separate_trackbacks == "Yes" AND get_comment_type() == 'comment') OR $ata_separate_trackbacks == "No" ) {
		?>
 
		<li <?php if ( $ata_author_highlight == "Yes" AND $comment->comment_author_email == get_the_author_email() ) { echo 'class="authorcomment clearfix" '; } else { echo $oddcomment; } ?>id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">
 
			<?php // GRAVATAR
			if (get_comment_type() == 'comment') {
			if ($ata_avatar_size != 0 AND $ata_avatar_size != "") {
			if (function_exists('get_avatar')) {
			echo get_avatar($comment -> comment_author_email, $size=$ata_avatar_size);}
			# if this WP version has no gravatars, use the theme's custom gravatar function:
			else { if(!empty($comment -> comment_author_email)) {
				$md5 = md5($comment -> comment_author_email);
				$default = urlencode(get_bloginfo('template_directory') . '/images/no-gravatar.gif');
				echo "<img class=\"avatar\" src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=$md5&size=" . $ata_avatar_size . "&default=$default' alt='Gravatar' />";
				}
			}
			}
			}
			?>
 
			<div class="comment-number"><a href="<?php echo paged_comments_url('comment-'.get_comment_ID()); ? rel="nofollow">" title=""><?php echo $comment_number; $comment_number += $comment_delta; ?></a></div>
 
			<span class="authorname"><?php // Comment Author
			comment_author_link() ?></span>
 
			<?php // Awaiting Moderation Text
			if ($comment->comment_approved == '0') : ?>
			Your comment is awaiting moderation.
			<?php endif; ?>
 
			<br />
 
			<span class="commentdate">
			<?php // Comment Date and Time
			comment_date('F jS, Y') ?> at <?php comment_time() ?>
			</span>
 
			<?php // Comment Text
			comment_text() ?>
 
			<?php // Edit Comment Link
			edit_comment_link('edit','<span class="editcomment">','</span>'); ?>
 
 
		</li>
 
		<?php $oddcomment = ( empty( $oddcomment ) ) ? 'class="alt clearfix" ' : 'class="clearfix" ';
 
		}
		endforeach;
		// END of "Do this for every comment "
		?>
 
 
 
	</ol>
	<!-- / Comment List -->
 
	<!-- Comment page numbers -->
	<?php if ($paged_comments->pager->num_pages() > 1): ?>
	<p class="comment-page-numbers"><?php _e("Pages:"); ?> <?php paged_comments_print_pages(); ?></p>
	<?php endif; ?>
	<!-- End comment page numbers -->
 
<?php
// END of "If there ARE any comments"
else :
// START of "If there are NO comments"
?>
 
	<?php
	// If comments are open, but there are no comments:
	if ('open' == $post->comment_status) :
	?>
		<!-- .... -->
 
	<?php
	// END of "If comments are open, but there are no comments"
	else :
	// If comments are closed:
	?>
		<p>Comments are closed.</p>
	<?php endif; ?>
 
<?php
// END of "If there are NO comments"
endif;
?>
 
<?php // If comments are open
if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?>
 
	<h3>Leave a Reply</h3>
 
	<?php // If Login is required and User is not logged in
	if ( get_option('comment_registration') && !$user_ID ) : ?>
	<p>You must be <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ? rel="nofollow">/wp-login.php?redirect_to=<?php echo urlencode(get_permalink()); ?>">logged in</a> to post a comment.</p>
 
	<?php // If Login is not required, or User is logged in
	else : ?>
 
		<!-- Comment Form -->
		<form action="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">
 
			<?php // If User is logged in
			if ( $user_ID ) : ?>
			<p>
			Logged in as <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ? rel="nofollow">/wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity; ?></a>.
			<a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ? rel="nofollow">/wp-login.php?action=logout" title="Log out of this account">Logout &raquo;</a>
			</p>
 
			<?php // If User is not logged in: Display the form fields "Name", "Email", "URL"
			else : ?>
			<p>
			<input class="text author" type="text" name="author" id="author" value="<?php echo $comment_author; ?>" size="30" tabindex="1" />
			<label for="author">Name <?php if ($req) echo "(required)"; ?></label>
			</p>
			<p>
			<input class="text email" type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>" size="30" tabindex="2" />
			<label for="email">Mail (will not be published) <?php if ($req) echo "(required)"; ?></label>
			</p>
			<p>
			<input class="text url" type="text" name="url" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" size="30" tabindex="3" />
			<label for="url">Website</label>
			</p>
			<?php endif; ?>
 
		<!-- Display Quicktags or allowed XHTML Tags -->
		<?php if (function_exists('lmbbox_comment_quicktags_display')) { lmbbox_comment_quicktags_display(); }
		else { ?>
		<p><strong>XHTML:</strong> You can use these tags:</p>
		<p><code><?php echo allowed_tags(); ?></code></p>
		<?php } ?>
 
		<!-- Comment Textarea -->
		<p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" rows="10" cols="20" tabindex="4"></textarea></p>
 
		<!-- Submit -->
		<p>
		<input name="submit" type="submit" class="button" id="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit Comment" />
		<input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" />
		</p>
 
		<?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>
		</form>
		<!-- / Comment Form -->
 
	<?php endif; ?>
	<!-- / If Login is not required, or User is logged in -->
 
<?php endif; ?>
<!-- If comments are open -->

I am integrating that plugin into v. 3.0 btw, in case you cannot get it working

@Tom #332

WordPress 2.7 will have paged and threaded comments in the core. There must be plugins for paged comments too, but WP 2.7 is already Beta 3 and should be coming soon. I am preparing the theme version 3 for those new features

@julian #309

The dropping sidebar issue is a known bug that occurs in IE6 if content in a sidebar (or the center) is too wide to fit in. This will be fixed in Version 3, in version 2.21 it can be avoided by increasing the sidebar widths

@Carol #307

I think Firefox caches more rigidly than IE, reloading the page should bring up a new header image even in Firefox? (I see no rotation issue in both FF 2 and 3)

@Dimitris #306

3. To get the custom Meta widget back, in sidebar2.php, CUT

<?php endif; ?>

and paste it above

<h3 class="widgettitle">Meta</h3>

2. To change the “Home” link, edit this line in header.php

<li class="page_item"><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ? rel="nofollow">/" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>">Home</a></li>

Note: The rel=”nofollow” part was put in by WordPress, remove that / don’t use that

1. I don’t know why that plugin doesn’t display the images, I cannot think of any theme related reason for this right now

@Alan Kellogg #305

I was able to install Feedburner & Feedsmith on 2.21. I will see if I can integrate Feedburner into version 3 without the need for plugins.

@LarryH #304

Use

<pre lang="php">
</pre>

to post code.

I will open a vbulletin forum with the release of version 3, in a few days.

@Wystery #295

That’ll be an option in version 3

@Tom: In comments.php CUT everything starting at, and including:

<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?>
....

up to the end of the file, including

<?php endif; // If registration required and not logged in ?>
<?php endif; // if you delete this the sky will fall on your head ?>

and paste it into the same file again, right after

<!-- You can start editing here. -->

@Neil Grayson #310:

That looks like you’ll need to install flash on your desktop computer.

Once you’ve installed that the extra text “Flash…. needed..” should go away.

@Tom: In comments.php, find

<?php $comment_number = 1; foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>

and replace with

<?php $post_data = get_post($post->ID, ARRAY_A); $comment_number = $post_data['comment_count']; foreach (array_reverse($comments) as $comment) : ?>

and, still in comments.php, find

<?php $comment_number ++; endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?>

(your file may not have that “end for each comment”, doesn’t matter)

and replace with:

<?php $comment_number = $comment_number - 1; endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?>

@Wystery: I understand what you mean and will see if I can include it

@Ju: That’s right, I will remove that in the next version.

Note: Not everyone is affected by this. Only those who have warnings turned on in their PHP settings (php.ini)

@Prairie Progressive: That’s right, you could add that rule

blockquote p {
margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}

The other example you posted would be for all paragraphs within posts, not just paragraphs within blockquotes.

@Julian: The theme is already prepared for WP-Pagenavi which does quite the same thing. You’d just need to install WP-Pagenavi and wouldn’t need to do any theme edits. If you still want to use the WP Page Numbers plugin,

Replace this

	<?php if(function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) { ?>
		<div class="wp-pagenavi-navigation">
			<?php wp_pagenavi(); ?>
		</div>
	<?php } else { ?>
		<div class="navigation">
			<div class="older"><?php next_posts_link(__('&laquo; Older Entries', 'atahualpa')); ?></div>
			<div class="newer"><?php previous_posts_link(__('Newer Entries &raquo;', 'atahualpa')); ?></div>
			<div style="clear:both"></div>
		</div>
	<?php } ?>

with

	<?php if(function_exists('wp_page_numbers')) { ?>
			<?php wp_page_numbers(); ?>
	<?php } else { ?>
		<div class="navigation">
			<div class="older"><?php next_posts_link(__('&laquo; Older Entries', 'atahualpa')); ?></div>
			<div class="newer"><?php previous_posts_link(__('Newer Entries &raquo;', 'atahualpa')); ?></div>
			<div style="clear:both"></div>
		</div>
	<?php } ?>

in index.php, search.php and archive.php

@Arie: In the current version that would require changes in about 2 dozen places. In the next version it will be much easier, I plan to release it within a few days

@glitch @ Mobile eBooks Etc:

In index.php, replace

the_content(__('More »', 'atahualpa')); } else {

with

the_content(get_the_title('', '', false)); } else {

or, to include text such as

Continue reading “post title here”

the_content('Continue reading "' . get_the_title('', '', false) . '"'); } else {

You would also have to set “Show full posts on home page”, on the theme’s option page, but you probably already did that

@Prairie Progressive: Please see http://wordpress.bytesforall.com/?p=56#comment-4059

@kim: You can upload your own images and remove the images that were included with the theme

@WPMU_guy: I will look into it for the next version but if those plugins don’t work in WPMU then I won’t be able to make them work for WPMU

@Diane: For site wide text wrap around images try to add

.entry img {
float: left;
margin: 10px 10px 5px 0; /* TOP RIGHT BOTTOM LEFT margins */
}

to the bottom of style.css

To change the color of the tabs, add this to the bottom of style.css

#modernbricksmenu {
	border-bottom: dashed 1px #ccc;
	border-left: dashed 1px #ccc;
}
 
#modernbricksmenu a {
	color: #666;
	background-color: #fff;
	border: dashed 1px #ccc;
	}
 
#modernbricksmenu a:hover {
	color: #000;
	background-color: #eee;
	}
 
#modernbricksmenu li.current_page_item a {
	color: #000;
	background-color: #eee;
	}

with “color” being the text color (for default, hover and current state) and “background-color” the background color. Change all “#ccc” values to change the border color. Available border types are “dashed”, “dotted” and “solid”.

@R “Ray” Wang: Some of the titles in your category select box in the right sidebar are very long, that causes issues in several browsers, not just IE6. I’d suggest that you display the categories in a traditional way, without a drop down select box. Also, the left sidebar would need 1-2 em more width for IE6 due to a few long titles/names in the comments section.

@Neil: Clicking on a search result takes you to the corresponding single post page, which all have the next / prev navigation. To remove that from all single post pages, remove this

<div class="navigation">
	<div class="older"><?php previous_post_link('&laquo; %link') ?></div>
	<div class="newer"><?php next_post_link('%link &raquo;') ?></div>
</div><div style="clear: both"></div><div class="line1pix"></div>

from single.php, should be around line 13-16

@Karen: Add this to the bottom of style.css

.entry img, .wp-caption {
padding: 0 !important;
border: 0 !important;
}

If you see red borders in the sidebars, to remove them, add this, too, at the bottom of style.css:

#left-column .img, #right-column .img {
padding: 0 !important;
border: 0 !important;
}

I have not tested this but it should work, let me know if it doesn’t

@Linda Richard: Install another browser and try with that, such as
Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
Google Chrome: http://www.google.com/chrome or
Safari: http://www.apple.com/safari/download/

See if you have Javascript disabled on your browser, activate it. I.e., in Firefox: Tools -> Options -> Content -> “Enable Javascript”.

Disable the firewall on your computer if you have any.

Deactivate one plugin after another starting with the most recently installed ones.

Remember what you may have changed on your computer or your blog in the recent past and try to roll that back.

It seems you have some issue with Javascript and TinyMCE, the visual editor. It is known to be rather fragile. It also acts differently on different browsers.

@Linda Richard: Please try another theme to see if the issues you’re seeing are theme related.

@Tom Guilmette: Re: right sidebar: This should work: I tested this in all browsers:

Step 1: In style.php find this (should be around line 86-89):

#right-column {
	margin-right: -<?php echo $ata_rightcolumn_width; ?>em;
	width: <?php echo $ata_rightcolumn_width; ?>em;
	}

and add this right after it:

<?php if ( $wp_query->get_queried_object_id() == 42 ) {  ?>
#outer-column-container {
	border-right: none;
	}
#right-column {
	margin-right: 0;
	width: 0;
	}
#inner-column-container {
	border-width: 0 0 0 1px;
	}
<?php } ?>

The third rule in that code above removes the right border of the middle column, too. If you want to keep that right border, remove the

#inner-column-container {
	border-width: 0 0 0 1px;
	}

part in the code above.

Step 2: In page.php find this (should be line 40):

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

and replace with

<?php if ( $wp_query->get_queried_object_id() != 42 ) {  ?>
<?php include ('sidebar2.php'); ?>
<?php } ?>

That should do it.
====================

To remove the right sidebar for more than 1 page:

Add, at the same place, this code in style.php:

<?php $ids_of_pages_without_right_sidebar = array(42, 13, 101, 211, 4);
if ( in_array($wp_query->get_queried_object_id(), $ids_of_pages_without_right_sidebar )) {  ?>
#outer-column-container {
	border-right: none;
	}
#right-column {
	margin-right: 0;
	width: 0;
	}
#inner-column-container {
	border-width: 0 0 0 1px;
	}
<?php } ?>

(remove the #inner-column-container rule if you want to keep the middle column’s right border)

and, replace, in page.php, this:

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

with this:

<?php $ids_of_pages_without_right_sidebar = array(42, 13, 101, 211, 4);
if ( !in_array($wp_query->get_queried_object_id(), $ids_of_pages_without_right_sidebar )) {  ?>
<?php include ('sidebar2.php'); ?>
<?php } ?>

==================

To do the same for the left sidebar, replace in the instructions above:

“#right-column” with “#left-column”
“margin-right” with “margin-left”
“border-right” with “border-left”
“border-width: 0 0 0 1px;” with “border-width: 0 1px 0 0;” (if the middle column’s left border should disappear, too)

and

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

with

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

(meaning: replace the “get_sidebar” line in page.php, and put the “get_sidebar” code into the replacement code, too, instead of the “sidebar2.php” code)

@Tom Guilmette: I was just going to say that the image was centered in all browsers. Let us look at the right sidebar issue tomorrow then, or post whenever you have time.

@Tom Guilmette:

Can you replace all 5 styles in the “COMMENTS” section in style.css, should start at around line 430, with this, and see if the cascading goes away:

ol.commentlist {
	margin: 15px 0 25px 0;
	list-style-type: none;
	padding: 0;
	border-top: dotted 1px #ccc;
	display:block;
	}
 
ol.commentlist li {
	border-bottom: dotted 1px #ccc;
	padding: 15px 10px;
	height: 1%; /* for IE6 */
	display: block;
	clear: both;
	}
 
ol.commentlist li.alt {
	background-color: #f6f6f6;
	border-bottom: dotted 1px #ccc;
	height: 1%; /* for IE6 */
	display: block;
	clear: both;
	}
 
ol.commentlist li.authorcomment {
	background-color: #ffecec;
	display: block;
	clear: both;
	height: 1%;
	}
 
ol.commentlist li p {
	margin: 2px 0 5px 0;
	}

@Tom Guilmette: You shouldn’t have to change the browser, your visitors won’t either. It may be a MAC thing (you have a MAC?). Anyway, I will provide a fix, without seeing the issue on my XP computer, that should fix it. A sec…

@Tom Guilmette; The fixed width now works in all browsers, I just checked. Discard my last comment, it seems you did it right already.

Let me check the right sidebar on downloads issue… a sec

It’s a “Page” page right? And you inserted the page ID for the XX in the code I posted above…

@Tom Guilmette: So you want the layout to be totally fixed, not fluid at all? The code I posted above would have done this:

Don’t shrink narrower than 1080 pixels
Don’t expand wider than 1280 pixels
Be fluid within those min/max boundaries if the visitor’s browser viewport allows that

To make the layout seem fixed, make the min and max width almost the same

In the code above, in comment 237,

Replace 1281 with 971
Replace 1280 with 970
Set the “Layout min width” at the theme options page to 968

The reason for these 3 different numbers (4 actually, but the 4th will be generated by the theme) is to avoid IE6 going into an infinite loop and freezing, and that the current version doesn’t have a “real” fixed width option, with a single pixel number. The next release will have a real fixed width option though and I will gladly help you update to that in case the current version proves to be too fragile for you.

And I still cannot see the “cascading” of the comments. Do you mean the actual comments in the middle column, or the “Recent Comments” widget in the right sidebar? And on which page? On your homepage everything seems perfectly fine, on Firefox 2 and other browsers.

@Tom Guilmette: I checked your site in IE6, IE7, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Opera 9 and Safari 3 and didn’t notice any issue with the comments in any of these. In which browser were you looking, or on what page?

I know that issue in theory though, and it will be easy to fix. I just cannot see it on your site and Atahualpa 2.21 shouldn’t have the problem.

Thank you for the donations

@TomG:

My understanding is you want a min and a max width, and be fluid in between.

I checked and the current solution doesn’t seem to work well. I have tested the following in IE6, IE7, FF2, FF3, Opera 9 and Safari 3 and it works in all of them, I wil include this in the next release, with a new theme option for max width (currently only min-width:

With 1080px being your min and 1280px being your max width:

In style.php find

#page-container {
	font-family: <?php echo $ata_body_font; ?>, <?php echo $ata_body_backup_font; ?>;
	min-width: <?php echo $ata_min_width; ?>px;
	font-size: <?php echo $ata_body_font_size; ?>%;
	margin: 0 <?php echo $ata_body_left_right_margin; ?>px;
	}

and replace with:

#page-container {
	font-family: <?php echo $ata_body_font; ?>, <?php echo $ata_body_backup_font; ?>;
	min-width: <?php echo $ata_min_width; ?>px;
	font-size: <?php echo $ata_body_font_size; ?>%;
	margin: 0 <?php echo $ata_body_left_right_margin; ?>px;
	max-width: 1280px;
	}

(or just add that last line “max-width: 1280px;”),

and, still in style.php, find, at the very bottom:

</style>
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
    div#page-container {
        	width:expression(((document.compatMode && document.compatMode=='CSS1Compat') ? document.documentElement.clientWidth : document.body.clientWidth) < <?php echo $ata_min_width + 1; ?> ? "<?php echo $ata_min_width; ?>px" : "auto");
        }
    .searchbox { margin-right: -6px; }
    em { font-style:normal;}
</style>
<![endif]-->

and replace with:

* html div#page-container {
width:expression(((document.compatMode &&
document.compatMode=='CSS1Compat') ?
document.documentElement.clientWidth :
document.body.clientWidth)
> 1281 ? "1280px" : (((document.compatMode &&
document.compatMode=='CSS1Compat') ?
document.documentElement.clientWidth :
document.body.clientWidth) < <?php echo $ata_min_width +1; ?> ? "<?php echo $ata_min_width; ?>px" : "auto"));
}
</style>
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<style type="text/css">
    .searchbox { margin-right: -6px; }
    em { font-style:normal;}
</style>
<![endif]-->

The min-width would be inserted automatically as per your min-width setting at the theme options page (your setting is currently 1080px so nothing to change there).

The max width has to be inserted manually into the code above, I will make it an option in the next release.

Please note that the two numbers 1281 and 1280 for max width are different. The first number should be +1 bigger than the second.

@TomG:

Find in style.php

#right-column {
	margin-right: -<?php echo $ata_rightcolumn_width; ?>em;
	width: <?php echo $ata_rightcolumn_width; ?>em;
	}

and add this after it:

<?php if ($wp_query->get('page_id') == XX) { ?>
#outer-column-container {
	border-right: none;
	}
#right-column {
	margin-right: 0;
	width: 0;
	}
<?php } ?>

With XX being the ID of the page in question. To figure out the page ID, go to Site Admin -> Manage -> Pages -> Hover over page title -> See “…action=edit&post=XX” in browser status bar (XX = page ID).

The above would be just layout related. The sidebar contents would still be written into the source code, they just won’t be visible.
To avoid that, change, in page.php

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

to

<?php if ($wp_query->get('page_id') != XX) { ?>
<?php include ('sidebar2.php'); ?>
<?php } ?>

I am not sure if all this works. Let me know if it doesn’t

@Alan Kellogg: I will probably do that for the next, final version. Most current fixes and customizations described in these comments will either be integrated into the theme or not apply anymore in the new version. I will perhaps install a forum or at least threaded comments because right now it’s kind of messy.

@Sharee: Thanks for letting me know, I had no idea. Should be English now, please let me know if it still isn’t.

@Sudeep:

You would have to change,

in functions/bfa_rotating_header_images.php

if(eregi('.jpg', $filename) || eregi('.gif', $filename) || eregi('.png', $filename)) {

to

if(eregi('.jpg', $filename) || eregi('.gif', $filename) || eregi('.png', $filename) || eregi('.swf', $filename)) {

then it should work as far as finding the swf files, but embedding .swf might require additional measures, I have not dealt much with swf

@TomG: Adding FTP uploaded files should be possible with Download Monitor, see Manage -> Downloads -> Add existing download.

That’s how I am adding my downloads here.

@TomG: Your left sidebar is dropping down in IE6 because it is a bit too tight for the Google ads, by IE6′ calculation. It should stop doing that if you increase the left sidebar’s width from currently 10 to 11, at “Site Admin” -> “Design” -> “Atahualpa Theme Options” -> Left sidebar width:”.

Also, the output of the “Recent Comments” widget should look a bit better (with some space between the boxes and the text) if you add this in header.php

<style type="text/css">.recentcomments a{padding: 0 0 0 5px !important}</style>

right before

</head>

@TomG: To increase the space between paragraphs, switch to code/thml mode in the WP editor and change the respective

<p>

tag to i.e.

<p style="margin-bottom: 50px">

or add to the section “POST BODY” in style.css, after “.entry” a new style:

.entry p {
margin-bottom: 50px
}

I am not sure how that would look like, you would have to try and see

@TomG: You should probably create a second top menu for that, should work:

Change this in header.php:

	<div class="clearfix" id="modernbricksmenu">
		<ul>
		<li class="page_item"><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ? rel="nofollow">/" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>">Home</a></li>
		<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1' ); ?>
		</ul>
	</div>

to:

	<div class="clearfix modernbricksmenu">
		<ul>
		<li class="page_item"><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ? rel="nofollow">/" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>">Home</a></li>
		<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&include=XX,XY,XZ,YX,YY,YZ,ZX,ZY,ZZ' ); ?>
		</ul>
	</div>
	<div class="clearfix modernbricksmenu">
		<ul>
		<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&exclude=XX,XY,XZ,YX,YY,YZ,ZX,ZY,ZZ' ); ?>
		</ul>
	</div>

with XX,XY,XZ,YX,YY,YZ,ZX,ZY,ZZ being the ID’s of the pages that should go into the first menu (and be left out from the 2nd menu)

WordPress added that nofollow-part: Change

? rel="nofollow">

to

?>

in that code snippets above.

Additonally, change, in style.css, all (should be 7) occurrences of

#modernbricksmenu

to:

.modernbricksmenu

To look up a page’s ID go to Site Admin -> Manage -> Pages and hover over the title of the page to see “….&post=XX” in the status bar with XX being the page ID.

@Tom: The donate button is at the top right, and you’re right about the “admin”, I changed it to Flynn.

@johnyg: Not in the current version but will be possible in the next version of the theme.

@Yono: Not sure what you mean with category background color (background of parts of a category page, the title etc…?) but background colors are hard to change in the current version, and will be much easier in the next version.

@demetris: Looks good to me, thanks

@MVE: Thanks for letting me know, those two are easily fixed and will be fixed in the next version.

@DeAnne: You’re right, there’s indeed no next/prev link on category pages in version 2.01, bummer. You could either update to the newest version 2.21, or, in 2.01, find in archive.php (and in search.php because that has the same issue):

<?php if (function_exists('show_posts_nav') && show_posts_nav()) : ?>
		<div class="navigation">
				<span class='older'><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries'); ?></span>
				<span class='newer'><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;'); ?></span>
		</div>
<?php endif; ?>

and replace it with:

	<?php if(function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) { ?>
	<div class="wp-pagenavi-navigation">
	<?php wp_pagenavi(); ?>
	</div>
	<?php } else { ?>
	<div class="navigation">
	<div class="older"><?php next_posts_link(__('&laquo; Older Entries', 'atahualpa')); ?></div>
	<div class="newer"><?php previous_posts_link(__('Newer Entries &raquo;', 'atahualpa')); ?></div>
	<div style="clear:both"></div>
	</div>
	<?php } ?>

I am sorry for the trouble you had, and thanks for bringing it to my attention. This is fixed in v. 2.21. But instead of updating to 2.21 you might want to apply the patch from above and wait a few days for version 2.3 or a few weeks for 2.31 which should be the final version for many months at least.

@DeAnne: You could try another theme to see if it is theme related. I think it’s not, because the theme doesn’t deal with the amount of posts per category page in any way that I know of. I just saw you already tried another theme. I still don’t know where it’s coming from. You could update to the newest version of Atahualpa and see if the problem goes away. I will see if I can replicate the issue you’re seeing.

@Keri: It would probably be best to wait for the next version in a few days, which will have the option for a fixed width layout. Right now it would be a bit hard to do, and the instructions would not apply to the next version.

@Neil: With “activated it” do you mean you activated the plugin? Did you check the checkbox “Search every attachment” at “Settings” -> “Search Everything” ( http://neilgrayson.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=manage_search ) and have you clicked “Update Options” on the same page?

@Neil: I think the WordPress default search doesn’t search attachments, just like it doesn’t search comments. It’s very basic.

Here’s a plugin that seems to search in attachments, comments, everywhere. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-everything/

As for comments, unchecking “Allow people to post comments on the article” at

“Settings” -> “Discussion” ( http://neilgrayson.com/wp-admin/options-discussion.php ) should remove the “0 comments” and “Leave a comment” links as well.

You can additionally remove

<?php comments_template(); ?>

from single.php, but looks like deleting comments.php worked too

@wembley: Surf to a few category pages, check out the source code to see all the various classes you get and see also http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories to fine tune the wp_list_categories output.

@DeAnne: What is your setting at Settings > Reading > “Blog pages show at most”? Should be 10 by default and maybe you’ve changed that?

@Neil: I couldn’t find a post with content on your site, only alt tags such as “1”, “2”… WordPress may not search single digit numbers, I don’t know that. Have you tried with a few words in a post?

As for minor changes, I can do them here in these blog posts as time permits. Feel free to make a donation later on as you see fit.

To remove the info area, look for

<p class="postmetadata">
....
</p>

in single.php, index.php, archive.php, search.php, 404.php

and remove that whole part from these files, including the opening and closing tags I posted above.

@wembley: Seems to work for me. Looks like you made the default and hover background colors the same, so it looks like it’s not working. Check comment #180 again, I added a second color option to the script.

@wembley: You hover example should work. If not try adding !important:

<?php if (is_category() OR is_single()) {
if (is_category()) {$id = get_query_var('cat');}
if (is_single()) { $category = get_the_category();
$id = $category[0]->cat_ID;}
switch ($id) {
case 12: $color = "cc0000"; $hover_color = "cc0000"; break;
case 27: $color = "cc0000"; $hover_color = "cc0000"; break;
case 31: $color = "cc0000"; $hover_color = "cc0000"; break;
case 33: $color = "cc0000"; $hover_color = "cc0000"; break;
case 45: $color = "cc0000"; $hover_color = "cc0000"; break;
case 51: $color = "cc0000"; $hover_color = "cc0000"; break;
}
?>
<style type="text/css">
#modernbricksmenu li.cat-item-<?php echo $id; ?> a {
background-color: #<?php echo $color; ?> !important;
}
#modernbricksmenu li.cat-item-<?php echo $id; ?> a:hover {
background-color: #<?php echo $hover_color; ?> !important;
}
</style>
<?php } ?>

As for donations, thank you for asking, and I will set up a Paypal link these days and publish it here.

@wembley: Right, the brackets were lost, I lost the whole comment the first time and somehow deleted them the 2nd time. Sorry for that. Added them now. I will look into the hover issue later today

@wembley: It seems you have hardcoded the links into the header. [Edit: you already said this]

Replace, in header.php

<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1' ); ?>

with

<?php wp_list_categories('title_li=&depth=1' ); ?>

instead of the hardcoded links you use now.

Since you want DIFFERENT colors you would probably have to put conditional css rules into header.php, before the closing head tag:

<?php if (is_category() OR is_single()) {
if (is_category()) {$id = get_query_var('cat');}
if (is_single()) { $category = get_the_category();
$id = $category[0]->cat_ID;}
switch ($id) {
case 12: $color = "cc0000"; break;
case 27: $color = "cc0000"; break;
case 31: $color = "cc0000"; break;
case 33: $color = "cc0000"; break;
case 45: $color = "cc0000"; break;
case 51: $color = "cc0000"; break;
}
?>
<style type="text/css">
#modernbricksmenu li.cat-item-<?php echo $id; ?> a {
background-color: #<?php echo $color; ?>;
}
</style>
<?php } ?>

Change the lines with “case 12” etc. to whatever the ID’s of your categories are, and “cc0000” etc. to the background color code for the respective category. To find out the ID for each category, go to “Manage” -> “Categories”, hover of the category name, and check the browser status bar for cat_ID=XX

[Edit:] Modified it to cover “Post in category” too

@Sarah Townsend: This doesn’t seem to be a theme related issue.
What are your settings at http://mayaromanoff.com/mayablog/wp-admin/options-permalink.php and what is the content of your http://mayaromanoff.com/mayablog/.htaccess file?

@Kay: Seems to work in all browsers for me. Maybe you had a space in the image name earlier?

@Josh Fialkoff: Thanks, I already integrated it (I already wrote the required functions for this site here in the past), working on a few remaining styles and should be done in 2 days hopefully.

@Cat: Click on the widget’s “Edit” link, then “Remove”, then “Save Changes”

@erik: The whole middle part of the layout is missing in the source code. The plugin is basically taking the theme’s header and footer and leaving the rest alone. On the WPG2 site they mention something about editing sidebar related code if the sidebars do NOT dissappear. It seems that the sidebar dissappearing is the default behavior and a wanted default feature, not a bug. What did you edit on the theme files to get the plugin working. Maybe you edited wrong and that’s why it seems to work on the default theme but not on Atahualpa.

@erik: You probably experienced that in IE6? The sidebar drops down below the main content in IE6 because your left sidebar is too small (for the content that you put into it). If you increase its width by 2 (em) or so the problem should go away. Site Admin -> Design -> Atahualpa Theme Options -> Left Sidebar Width

Also, in the upcoming new version this will be no issue anymore.

@Tanaka: Not so easily with the current version but will be an option in the new version which will hopefully be released within this week.

@stellia: You could either remove the

.entry

part in the section mentioned in comment #148, then it would apply to all images, or, to specifically address the images in sidebars, i.e. to give them another margin, you could add this (the first line only if you want to have i.e. 5 pixels space around each image):

#left-column .inside img,
#right-column .inside img {
	margin: 5px;
	border: none;
	}

@Sharee: In v. 2.01, find in style.css, should be line 587-594:

#left-column .inside ul li a, #right-column .inside ul li a {
	text-decoration: none;
	font-weight: normal;
	color: #666;
	padding: 0 0 0 5px;
	border-left: solid 7px #dddddd;
	display: block
	}

and change the line

	border-left: solid 7px #dddddd;

To change the space between the link and its left border (the “bullets”) edit the “5px” value in the line

	padding: 0 0 0 5px;

The default color of the link is

        color: #666;

The hover color for the links should be three styles further down, in line 606:

	color: #000;

@Sharee: You can change the color and the size (width) of those on the theme options page:

Site Admin -> Design -> Atahualpa Theme Options ->

“Sidebars: Link Decoration Color:”, “Sidebars: Link Hover Decoration Color:” and “Sidebars: Link Decoration Size:”

@stellia: Look in style.css around line 609 for the style starting with

.entry img {
	margin: 10px 10px 0 0;
	padding: 5px;
	border: solid 1px #ddd;

and change the “border” line to:

	border: none;

@Paul: The easiest way should be to put an empty “Text” widget into that sidebar. I have not tried this, but it should work

@Paul: In version 2.21 there should be no built in items anymore in any sidebar.

As for removing a sidebar, you should set its width to “0” on the theme options page: “Site Admin” -> “Design” -> “Atahualpa Theme Options” -> “Left sidebar width:” or “Right sidebar width:”

These are the 3rd and 4th option from the bottom

@Carol:

Find, in header.php, should be line 28:

<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1' ); ?>

and add

<li class="page_item"><a href="http://www.myserve.biz/" rel="nofollow">Back to Myserve</a></li>

right after that line so that you end up with:

<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1' ); ?>
<li class="page_item"><a href="http://www.myserve.biz/" rel="nofollow">Back to Myserve</a></li>

The

rel="nofollow"

part in the example above is being inserted by WordPress here in this comment. Leave that part out when you make the changes on your site.

@Paul: It should work, see comment #99 http://wordpress.bytesforall.com/?p=56#comment-3948

@Gymbrooke: Thanks for asking, I will have some commercial ads, affiliate links or even a paypal link here in the forseeable future, if you check back in a few weeks. Also, you can always vote for the theme if you haven’t yet http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/atahualpa

@Peter: That’s because you chose to overlay the blog title over the header image. In that case the theme will remove the opacity. Doing both at the same time would require a too big rewrite of header.php I’m afraid.

@Gymbrooke: I had actually looked at your site and seen it. The last post not being centered is due to, see comment #130.

But there should be no way that a CSS rule would limit the amount of posts per page.

Please check if you’ve changed the “Blog pages show at most” setting as described in #130

@Gymbrooke: Did that happen after you added that style from comment #128? If yes, could you remove it and see if it goes away? It is seems to be the reason, I will have to look more closely tomorrow.

Have you changed “Site Admin” -> “Settings” -> “Reading” -> “Blog pages show at most” (should be “10”)

[Edit: ADDED:] I tried on a test blog and it worked without causing issues.

Also, to apply it to all posts on a page, you would have to replace the above with

.post h2, .post-last h2 {
	text-align: center;
}

I forgot that the last post on a page has a different class.

Finally, to make “Page” titles centered, too, you would have to add this instead:

.post h2, .post-last h2, .post-page h2 {
	text-align: center;
}

@Gymbrooke: Add

.post h2 {
    text-align: center;
}

somewhere to the “POST TITLE” section in style.css, between line 191 and 211. Let me know if it doesn’t work, I have not tested it.

@Lydia – comment#47
Sorry, I missed your comment. Please see comment #84 for how to remove the “Home” link.

@Mark: The search.gif should appear once you put the “Search” widget into a sidebar.

That graphic is not meant to be used on the header search form, which is a separate form that can be turned on/off.

Adding the magnifying glass to the header search form would be too troublesome I am afraid as it would require several changes at various places to make it adjust nicely with the layout.

If all you want is to make it clearer that that box in the header is a search form, I’d suggest to use that “text in search box” Javascript method described in comment #21 above.

I have removed the line numbers from the instructions in comment #21, because you just would have to look for the exact text. You can use the search function of Notepad or whatever text editor you use. And the files are not very big, you could probably even find the right places without using the text editor’s search.

Simply copy the affected files as filename-old.php first, then edit and upload the filename.php and if something goes wrong you can copy back filename-old.php to filename.php to get the original files again.

@Byron: 1) I guess you’re using the default “Recent Comments” widget of WordPress. You would have to add:

<style type="text/css">.recentcomments a{padding: 0 0 0 5px !important; display: inline-block !important;}</style>

or

<style type="text/css">.recentcomments a{padding: 0 0 0 5px !important;</style>

right before

</head>

but after

<?php wp_head(); ?>

in header.php

Try both versions if you want to see the difference between inline and inline-block.

Alternatively you could use the “BFA Recent Comments” widget instead of the “Recent Comments” widgets.

2) That should be possible under Site Admin -> Settings -> Discussion -> Scroll down to “Avatars”

[Edit: ADDED:] I missed that you wanted to add a custom default Gravatar. To do that, you would have to FIND in comments.php (should be line 22-32):

<?php // Gravatar support
if (function_exists('get_avatar')) {
      echo get_avatar($comment -> comment_author_email, $size='55');
   } else {
if(!empty($comment -> comment_author_email)) {
$md5 = md5($comment -> comment_author_email);
$default = urlencode(get_bloginfo('template_directory') . '/images/no-gravatar2.gif');
echo "<img class=\"avatar\" src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=$md5&size=55&default=$default' alt='Gravatar' />";
}
}
?>

and REPLACE with:

<?php // Gravatar support
# if (function_exists('get_avatar')) {
#      echo get_avatar($comment -> comment_author_email, $size='55');
#   } else {
if(!empty($comment -> comment_author_email)) {
$md5 = md5($comment -> comment_author_email);
$default = urlencode(get_bloginfo('template_directory') . '/images/no-gravatar2.gif');
echo "<img class=\"avatar\" src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=$md5&size=55&default=$default' alt='Gravatar' />";
}
#}
?>

and upload your own /wp-content/themes/atahualpa2/images/no-gravatar2.gif with the size of 55×55 pixels, or, for another Gravatar size (max 80×80), upload it in another size, and additionally edit the two occurrences of 55 in the code above.

After you made the code changes of 2) the Avatar settings of WordPress will become obsolete as the theme will use a custom Gravatar function then.

@Mark: That magnifying glass is located at /wp-content/themes/atahualpa2/images/search.gif

I didn’t understand what you mean with “implementing it”.

@Maria: Overwriting should work but you could also rename the existing /wp-content/themes/atahualpa2/ directory to, say, “atahualpa2old”, and then upload the new atahualpa2 directory. You would then have both version available (distinguishable by the “v 2.21” in the description of the newer theme version) and could delete the atahualpa2old folder sometime later after everything works alright. Your existing header images should not be lost but that would depend on the FTP program that you’re using and it’s settings, too, I guess.

@jhave: See comment #109 again regarding min-width in FF and Safari

@Tony: The test site validates though http://www.bytesforall.com/wordpress-test/9/ – I let my themes validate before I release them. However I have not checked whether it validates after any theme option change, but it should.

[removed babble about W3C]

@Tony: Sorry, I didn’t mean to skip your comment. To remove the blog title and blog tagline, if that’s what you meant, remove this from header.php

<div class="blogtitle-box">
<h1><a class="header" href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ? rel="nofollow">/"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
<div style="clear: both"></div>
<p class="header"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></p>
</div>

I will have to install a plugin for better code posting you can use


<pre lang="php">
....
</pre>


to post html or php code

@jhave: I have not tested that particular feature in all browsers as it was meant to be a feature for IE6 mainly but I will do for the next version. I do test in Firefox 3 and Safari 3/3.1 though.

[Edit – ADDED: Should work if you add “min-width: 800px;” to the “body” style in style.css around line 57]

@Victor: In version 2.21 everything should disappear once your drop a widget into the sidebar. You’re probably using v. 2.0 or 2.01 where the top of the right sidebar was hardcoded into the theme.

@paul compton: The best would probably be to turn off the header search box on the options page, and then add a widget/plugin to one of the sidebars. There should be a google search box plugin, i.e. this one http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-ajax-search/

If you get a plugin that wants you to place some string or tag into the theme at the place where the search form is supposed to appear, you could remove the code below from header.php and put whatever the plugin wants in its place:

<div class="searchbox-form">
<form method="get" class="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/">
<input type="text" name="s" style="width: 99%; color:#999" value="Search something" onfocus="clearText(this);" />
</form>
</div>

@stellia: There’s no option for that, you would have to edit style.css and change, at around line 240 (may be different)


.entry {
margin: 0px;
/*overflow-x: hidden; */
}


to


.entry {
margin: 0px;
text-align: justify;
/*overflow-x: hidden; */
}


@Utrecht: That should work, you can just upload a bigger image. You might have to edit the first 3 numbers in the “margin:” line of


.logo-icon {
margin: 10px 5px 10px 0; /* might be overwritten in style.php */
padding: 0;
border: 0;
float: left;
}


in style.css afterwards to adjust the position of the image.

The values in margin mean: TOP RIGHT BOTTOM LEFT. The last value “0” is for the left margin and should be left alone as it will adjust itself depending on other settings you do on the options page.

@mk1623: You would have to change the values of padding, border and background-color for “img.avatar”, “.entry img” and “wp-caption” and “.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text” in style.css between around line 600-700. The padding is the thick border (the shadow as you say) between the image and the outer, thinner border. To get blank images the new styles should look like this:


img.avatar {
float: left;
margin: 0 8px 3px 0;
}



.entry img {
margin: 10px 10px 0 0;
}



.wp-caption {
text-align: center;
margin: 10px 0 0 0;
}



.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
font-size: 0.8em;
line-height: 13px;
padding: 4px 2px; /*4px top/bottom, 2px left/right */
margin: 0;
color: #666;
}


@Gymbrooke: That is “Subscribe to comments” http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/ and Atahualpa is prepared for it, and the actual plugin is included in the theme file.

@janetruth: Unfortunately it’s not included in the current version but will be in the next. For now you could add it manually, see http://wordpress.bytesforall.com/?p=50 comment #18

@mk1623:

1. You can look for occurrences of

<?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?>

in index.php, single.php, page.php, search.php and archive.php and replace them accordingly, i.e. with:

<?php the_time('jS M Y'); ?>

2. You could, but the background image wouldn’t “shine through” because all layout areas are defined as #fff (white), not transparent. But if you only want to have the background image be visible on the left and right hand side of the layout, you could add your rules to the body { } section in the “BASE LAYOUT” area in style.css. If you wanted to have the image shine through, you would have to change all (around 26 or so) color occurrences like “background” and “background-color” in style.css from #fff or #ffffff to transparent or just remove the color. For the sidebars you would have to change the border-left and border-right colors of #outer-column-container in style.css, too.

3. You can add links to the top menu in this format:

<li class="page_item"><a href="the-link-here">The Link Title</a></li>

before or after

<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1' ); ?>

@TomG: To exclude pages from the top menu, see comment #73. To exclude them from the sidebar: Put the “Pages” widget into a sidebar, click on the “Edit” link on the widget, and there’s a line “Exclude” where you can list the IDs of the pages that should be excluded. To figure out the ID of a page, see also comment #73

@TomG: Re: Password protection. Are certain users supposed to be able to read the post, or only you? I have not dealt with password protecting posts yet but maybe I can point you into the right direction.

P.S.: Thank you for asking about Paypal. I have no Paypal donate button but I will have to commercialize this site a bit sometime in the near future, perhaps a few ads and affiliate links, and hosting offers.

@TomG: You can remove the “Home” button by removing the following line from header.php:

<li class="page_item"><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>">Home</a></li>

@Gymbrooke: I may have that in the future but not currently. If you check back in a month I should have a new version of Atahualpa which then will last half a year at least I hope.

@Gymbrooke: It is probably due to the left sidebar being 1-2 em too narrow for the “2010 Youth Olympics” video, and you should probably increase the min-width setting on the options page, too, from currently 800 to 990 or so, because you have rather huge images in the middle column too.

@stellia: I looked at your site and also added a text widget on a WP 2.6.1 test blog with Atahualpa 2.21 and it worked. I couldn’t spot anything wrong on your site. You could try to disable a few plugins and see if that helps. I cannot think of any reason for your issue atm I’m afraid.

@jimmy: You can create a page within WordPress (Site Admin -> Write -> Page) titled “Contact” or whatever. If you want the page to be added to the top menu bar, then you’re done.

If not, view that page in your browser and copy/paste the URL somewhere as you’ll need it later. Then change, in header.php,

<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1' ); ?>

to

<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&exclude=13' ); ?>

with “13” being an example for the ID of the page that you want to exclude from the top menu bar.

You would have to put the actual ID of your new “Contact” page here. To get that ID, go to Site Admin -> Manage -> Pages and hover over the title of the “Contact” page. That should display an URL ending on “post=XX” in your browser’s title bar status bar, with XX being the ID.

Finally, edit, footer.php and add the URL of the “Contact” page that you pasted somewhere earlier, i.e. change

- All Rights Reserved<br />

to

- All Rights Reserved - <a href="URL-to-your-contact-page">Contact</a><br />

@Tom G: There should be an option on the options page

Site Admin -> Design (“Presentation” in WordPress 2.3 and older) -> Atahualpa Theme Options

“Allow comments on “Page” pages, too?:” (The second option from the bottom)

@mk1623: You could always try another theme, with the same plugins or additions you may have made, and see if that fixes the archive count. The Atahualpa theme isn’t doing anything with the archives as far as I can see. Since version 2.6, WordPress saves post revisions and keeps them in the database. It seems that every post revision is being counted as a post on your blog. As for dropping columns, that may happen in IE6 if the content doesn’t fit into the column and/or the min-width setting is too low.

@mk1623: I tried and the archive numbers were right on the sample blog. The issue on your blog may be caused by some plugin or custom function using “the loop” a second time, it may also be related to “wp_query”. Maybe the “Recently updated” widget or function you’re using? It could be counting each update of a post as a new post. It it deals with “the loop” or wp_query in some way it could very well affect the archive count.

@Julian: I can see the next/previous links on your category pages, have you changed something meanwhile? As for 50 posts, have you set “Site Admin” -> “Settings” -> “Reading” -> “Blog pages show at most” to 50? I tried 18 posts in a category and all 18 showed. Also, it seems you have a plugin installed that does something with the display of categories in the sidebar. If you did change the “Blog pages show at most” setting, you could try disabling that plugin and see if that was the reason

@mk1623: That’s probably due to something in a sidebar or the middle column being too big to fit in. Try increasing the width of the affected sidebar, or increase the min-width setting, both on the options page. I

The about link is generated dynamically by WordPress. I cannot think of a halfway easy solution to do that. There is a probably a plugin that can do that. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
Maybe All-in-one-SEO or Headspace2

@Simon: Dynamic Drive has various CSS menus http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/indexc.html .

The one I am using here is very rough to implement as it works without Javascript. To implement a drop down menu you’d have to put the css into style.css (header.php would work too), the javascript part (if any) of the code into header.php above </head> and the html part into header.php below <body>, whereever you want the code to appear. The CSS/Javascript you’d usually just copy/paste, the HTML part would look similar to this

<ul>
<?php wp_list_pages(options...); ?>
</ul>

or

<ul>
<?php wp_list_categories(options...); ?>
</ul>

maybe surrounded by a

<div id="something">
..
</div>

whatever the instructions are at dynamicdive.

You should look for something that doesn’t require something like

<li><span><a href="...">Link</a></span></li>

and rather look for

<li><a href="...">Link</a></li>  (without <span>)

because that’s what WordPress spits out.

Also, here’s info on how to customize the output of page and category lists:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories

@Linda Richard: The blogroll in the right sidebar should dissapear once you drop a (any) widget into it. Also, you should increase the width of the left sidebar quite a bit, to 20 (em) or even more. Several contents don’t fit into it, and the left sidebar drops down below the main column due to this, in IE6 on a 1024 pixel screen. Its best to make sure that third party contents like images, ads etc. fit very well (not just barely) into the sidebars, or it may cause issues in older IE browsers. Other than that it looks good.

@tulgaa: I meant to replace the two occurrences of get_option(’upload_path’) right in bfa_rotating_header_images.php and upload that file again. Your bfa_rotating_header_images.php should look like this after the change (and the test code I gave you earlier should be removed from header.php again):

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<?php
global $options;
foreach ($options as $value) {
if (get_settings( $value['id'] ) === FALSE) { $$value['id'] = $value['std']; } else { $$value['id'] = get_settings( $value['id'] ); } }
?>
<?php
if (file_exists(ABSPATH."/wpmu-settings.php")) {
	################### images in WP upload folder (on WPMU)
	$header_images_in_wp_upload_folder = m_find_in_dir(str_replace('themes/atahualpa2/functions', '', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . '/wp-content/blogs.dir/' . $wpdb->blogid . '/files',
		'atahualpa_header_[0-9]+\.(jpe?g|png|gif|bmp)$');
	if ($header_images_in_wp_upload_folder) {
		shuffle($header_images_in_wp_upload_folder);
		$selected_header_image = array_shift($header_images_in_wp_upload_folder);
		$selected_header_image = str_replace(str_replace('themes/atahualpa2/functions', '', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . '/wp-content/blogs.dir/' . $wpdb->blogid . '/files',
		get_option('fileupload_url'), $selected_header_image);
		}
} else {
	################### images in /images/header/
	$files = "";
	$imgpath = TEMPLATEPATH . '/images/header/';
	$imgdir = get_bloginfo('template_directory') . '/images/header/';
	$dh  = opendir($imgpath);
	while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) {
		if(eregi('.jpg', $filename) || eregi('.gif', $filename) || eregi('.png', $filename)) {
	   $files[] = $filename;
	   }
	}
	closedir($dh);
	/* Generate a random number */
	$amount_images = count($files);
	$number_images = ($amount_images-1);
	$randnum = rand(0,$number_images);
	/* print the result */
	$selected_header_image = $imgdir . $files[$randnum];
}
?>

@Linda Richard: There should be a README.txt in the theme’s directory, right where all the other files such as index.php, style.css etc are.

Also, to get to the theme’s options page, you would have to:

1) Activate the theme: Site Admin -> Design -> Click on the name or the screenshot of the Atahualpa theme
2) Now you should see the menu link “Atahualpa Theme Options” at the top of the page (while still in the admin area). Alternatively click this link, (after you activated the Atahualpa theme, and while being logged in on your site): http://freedetainees.org/wp-admin/themes.php?page=functions.php
3) You should see all the theme options in front of you now

You mention “Popular Posts”. There should be no “Popular Posts” by default from version 2.2 on. You are probably using 2.0 or an even older version. You would have to upgrade to 2.21. Older versions don’t have the option to remove the top menu bar. To upgrade, delete or rename the existing /wp-content/themes/atahualpa/ or /wp-content/themes/atahualpa2/ directory on your web hosting account, and upload the new /atahualpa2/ directory after you downloaded version 2.21 and unzipped it on your local computer.

@tulgaa: Please try the same once more (replacing get_option(‘upload_path’) two times in /wp-content/themes/atahualpa2/functions/bfa_rotating_header_images.php), but with this instead:

str_replace('themes/atahualpa2/functions', '', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . '/wp-content/blogs.dir/' . $wpdb->blogid . '/files'

@tulgaa: It’s not finding the right upload path. In /wp-content/themes/atahualpa2/functions/bfa_rotating_header_images.php find the two occurrences (should be line 12 and 18) of

get_option('upload_path')

and replace them with

ABSPATH . get_option('upload_path')

and let me know if it works, it should.

I will have to change that in the next release. It works for me either way but obviously not everywhere. For my own findings, could you please tell me, is your main WPMU site on “domain.com” or a subdomain? Is it a dedicated server or a shared hosting account, Linux or Windows? Because it works with or without ABSPATH for me and I will try to find out why.

@tulgaa: Looks like it cannot find any images. Could you paste the following code into /wp-content/themes/atahualpa2/header.php

<?php $header_images_in_wp_upload_folder = m_find_in_dir(get_option('upload_path'),
'atahualpa_header_[0-9]+\.(jpe?g|png|gif|bmp)$');
$atahualpa_images_in_wp_upload_folder = m_find_in_dir(get_option('upload_path'),
'atahualpa(.*)?\.(jpe?g|png|gif|bmp)$');
echo "Upload Path: " . get_option('upload_path');
echo "Fileupload URL: ". get_option('fileupload_url');
echo "Valid found: "; print_r ($atahualpa_images_in_wp_upload_folder);
echo "Atahualpa images found: "; print_r ($header_images_in_wp_upload_folder); ?>

below this line (should be at line 100):

<div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; height: <?php echo $ata_headerimage_height; ?>px; background: url(<?php echo $selected_header_image; ?>) <?php echo $ata_headerimage_alignment; ?> no-repeat;">

and see what the output is (should appear where the header image should be. It should display the upload path, the upload url and the images it found.

Also, when you go to Site Admin -> Manage -> Post -> [Title of any post] -> Add Media -> Gallery

…can you see the header images listed there?

Finally, are you using WPMU 2.6 or another version? And are you using subdomains for users? It seems you are, just asking to be sure.

@Linda Richard: You can remove the top menu bar on the options page (see comment #33) “Show Top Menu Bar?”

@Nerdspawn: If you’re using version 2.21 (or 2.2) you can find the option to change the font size on the theme options pags: “Site Admin” -> “Design” (“Presentation” in WordPress 2.3 and older) -> “Atahualpa Theme Options”. The 13th option from the top. “Body Font Size”. Increase that value to i.e. 90, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the “Save changes” button.

@Cora: Can you give me a link? The one in your name is not working for me.

@tulgaa: I had it running without problems on WPMU 2.6 but will check again.

@Dan:

1) If you made any manual edits to the template files (like chaning the layout, text sizes, colors of the theme), those would be lost. But your blog content (your posts), installed plugins, settings you made in WordPress, and settings you made on the theme’s options page would not be lost. I may have changed 1-2 option names on the theme options page but I think not. In worst case you would have to set 1-2 options again.

2) You can bring the hardcoded Meta section back to life, and have it stay even after widgets are added, by changing its location in sidebar2.php from inside the widgetized area to outside the widgetized area, like so:

In /wp-content/themes/atahualpa2/sidebar2.php, FIND:

<h3 class="widgettitle">Meta</h3>
<ul>
<?php wp_register(); ?>
<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
<?php wp_meta(); ?>
</ul>

CUT that code, and paste it right BELOW this line:

<?php endif; ?>

to put the Meta section BELOW all widgets, or,
paste it right ABOVE this line:

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar(2) ) : ?>

to place the Meta section ABOVE all widgets.

To put the Meta section into the left sidebar, you would also cut that code from sidebar2.php but paste it into sidebar.php (not sidebar2.php) instead, in the same way.

3.) Find, in style.css, (should be) line 302

margin: 10px 20px 0 0;

and change to, i.e.

margin: 10px 20px 10px 0;

That would add 10px margin to the bottom of the title. The numbers mean, in this order: TOP, RIGHT, BOTTOM, LEFT. 0 can be 0 or 0px, doesn’t matter.

Additonally you may have to change the line right above the one mentioned before, which says

line-height: 1.0em;

if g, j, y, q, p seem to be cut off a little at the bottom. Increase that value to i.e. 1.2em if need be. 3 digits work, too, i.e. 1.25em

Basically, play with the “h1” section (line 302-308) which is the blog title, or with the “p.header” section (line 315-321) which is the tagline.

@tulgaa: I should have made it so that if a WPMU user doesn’t upload any image the default images are shown. I will include that in the next update. I guess you have not uploaded any images so far? If yes, did you upload an image through the WordPress editor, and did you name it as “atahualpa_header_XX.jpg” (or .gif or .png), with XX being a number like 1, 5, 19282 (but without leading zeros, i.e. NOT 01 or 009828)? See the options page for instructions.

@Chris Carter: In header.php, FIND this:

<input type="text" style="width: 99%" value="<?php the_search_query(); ?>" name="s" />

and REPLACE with this:

<input type="text" name="s" style="width: 99%; color:#999" value="Click to search" onfocus="clearText(this);" />

and, still in header.php, right before

</head>

ADD this:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function clearText(searchfield){
if (searchfield.defaultValue==searchfield.value)
searchfield.value = "";
searchfield.style.color = "black";
}
//-->
</script>

“Click to search” = text you want to show in the input field
“black” the text color when something is being typed in
“#999” the color of the “Click to search” text (a light gray in this case, salt to taste)

To do the same thing for the Search widget (that you can put into a sidebar), you would have to additionally edit searchform.php, FIND:

<input type="text" class="searchfield" value="<?php the_search_query(); ?>>" name="s" />

and replace with this (this one is a bit different than the one above):

<input type="text" name="s" class="searchfield" style="color:#999" value="Click to search" onfocus="clearText(this);" />

The procedure of adding the JavaScript before </head> would be the same for both search fields (header and sidebar), but you should probably not use both (modified) search fields at the same time (one in the header, one in a sidebar) as this might cause Javascript conflicts, I have not tested this though.

@paul compton: I will include an option in the next release to configure the link and the link text for the “Home” button, or to remove it alltogether.

@Dave: Could you try 2.21?

It’s working fine for me with ot without spaces, but the spaces in the last line of functions.php might have been the issue. They’re gone in 2.21

@Alistair: I am sorry, but I have not seen that comment. I would not surpress a comment because it was long (or for any other reason). Maybe you were commenting while I wildly changed things around on this blog here, and it got lost in the process.

Even though I could not replicate the problem, the spaces in the last line of functions.php are gone in v 2.21. It would be great if you could try again and tell me if the issues are gone.

@Alistair: Phoenix didn’t mention whether he had modified functions.php or not, but I could not replicate the problem and as you can see, Phoenix posted that’s its working now for him.

Have you experienced any problems with v. 2.21?

If the blog in question is http://paganway.co.za/blog you’re running WP 2.6.1 but an older Atahualpa version. You probably switched back?

Anyway, could you try to delete the 50 or so spaces in functions.php in line 572 right after <?php } ?> and see if the error persists? (Also, don’t produce a blank line after line 572)

[EDIT: added] I tried everything you mentioned (widgets, options, comments) on a 2.6.1 install and it all worked fine. This issue is very likely related to blank lines in /wp-content/themes/atahualpa2/functions.php. See if you have a blank line at the end of that file, or anywhere in between (in an area that is not enclosed within php opening / closing tags. Have you edited the functions.php file by any chance?

@phoenix: That’s weird…

1) Were you using an older Atahualpa version, and there were no issues?

2) What WP version do you have?

3) Are you using a cache plugin or something like that? Sounds like a cache issue

I just tested an admin comment and a user comment, with and without “notify by email” and all three worked

@Bean: Sorry, it’s fixed now