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@Joe Lafferty: That is included in the next version that I am about to release very soon

@Jessie: The best place for a breadcrumb would probably be the top of the middle column or below the header image.

TOP OF MIDDLE COLUMN:

Always after

<div class="inside">

in single.php, page.php, and perhaps archive.php and search.php if the plugin handles categories, archives and search, too

BEWOW HEADER IMAGE:

Right after

<div id="headerimage-bottom">&nbsp;</div>

in header.php

BELOW POST TITLE AND PAGE TITLE

Right before

<div class="entry">

in single.php and page.php

Re: Donation: I have a donate button at the top right of every page

@Jessie: I have not used that one yet, but this one http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/breadcrumb-navxt/

A breadcrumb is not included in the theme.

To put it into the left sidebar, put it into sidebar.php, right after this (should be in line 7):

<?php if ($ata_leftcolumn_width != 0) { ?>

@Paula: See http://wordpress.bytesforall.com/?p=55#comment-4449

@Chris: I hope to release it this weekend, probably Sunday. I will try to include localization and a German language file.

@Chris & Dmitriy Buldakov:

Sorry I found the issue with 404 pages. Just delete the 404.php page and it should work. WordPress will then use index.php to display 404 pages.

In the next theme version almost everything will be served from index.php and there won’t be a 404.php anymore

@Dmitriy Buldakov: I guess you’re looking at it in IE6? If you increase the width of your right sidebar a bit the sidebar shouldn’t drop anymore.

I will release a totally redesigned version shortly which won’t have the IE6 dropping sidebar issue anymore.

@Jessie: In version 2.21 it should be in line 28, in header.php:

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<div class="remove-for-print">
	<?php if ($ata_show_top_menu_bar == "Yes" ) { ?>
	<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>

But it seems that you’ve disabled the top menu bar anyway. If you don’t show the top menu bar then you don’t need to edit header.php to exclude a single page since the whole menu bar is gone anyway.

@Jessie: To execute PHP code within posts or pages, you would need to install a plugin first: http://priyadi.net/archives/2005/03/02/wordpress-php-exec-plugin/

@Jessie: Are you trying to create a page with PHP code in it? If so, skip to the next comment.

Otherwise: You wouldn’t put that code from comment #60 into a page, but create a whole new page, and then change the code in header.php. You are dealing with 2 different files here. One is the new page that you create, the other one is the existing theme file “header.php” that you modify:

1. Create a new page at Site Admin -> Write -> Page, fill it with your content.
2. Go to Site Admin -> Manage -> Pages, and point at the title of the new page, and note the “…action=edit&post=XX” in the status bar of your browser (should be at the bottom left, below your browser window). XX would be the ID of that new page.
3. Open header.php on your computer, and edit it as described in comment #60, by putting that &exclude=XX into wp_list_pages (instead of XX put the actual ID of that new page)
4. Upload the modified header.php to your web hosting account.

These steps would give you a new page on your site. It would have the theme layout, but would not be included in the top menu bar.

NOTE: I changed my name from admin to Flynn, sorry for the confusion

@Jessie: Regarding the font: There are options for both the blog title and the body font on the options page. You probably changed the wrong one.

@Jessie: Sorry I missed your question. I would simply create a page for that, at Write -> Page, and then change

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

in header.php to

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

with “XX” being the ID of that new page, if you do not want to have it appear in the top menu bar

@Chris: The next version will have a dropdown menu as well, among other improvements.

@Chris: This will be an option in the new version in a few days, to include it in the current version you could add

<?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>

somewhere between

<p class="postmetadata">
... the code from above here ...
</p>

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

@Francoise: Yes, that’s possible, see http://wordpress.bytesforall.com/?p=56#comment-3900 on how to exclude a page from the top menu bar

@John: I will do that right after the new version for Atahualpa, Montezuma will be a fork of it (as it already is) with a few additions, so it will take just a few days after I’ve released the next Atahualpa.

@John A: Tables in posts are not styled at all in the current version, only the calendar table in the sidebar was. I have already included table styling now and will look at the margins too. I’ve also added automatic zebra striping for rows and will probably add sorting and pagination for tables in posts, too. It will be a substantial enhancement for displaying tabular data in posts.

@John A: Images within posts, that are not aligned in any way, and inserted “as is”, are styled in style.css, should be line 614-624

.entry img {
	margin: 10px 10px 0 0;
	padding: 5px;
	border: solid 1px #ddd;
	background-color: #f3f3f3;
   	/* optional rounded corners for browsers that support it */
   	-moz-border-radius: 3px;
   	-khtml-border-radius: 3px;
   	-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
   	border-radius: 3px;
	}

The line

	margin: 10px 10px 0 0;

contains the (in this order) TOP, RIGHT, BOTTOM, LEFT margins and the bottom margin is indeed set to “0”. This line would make more sense if it looked like

	margin: 10px 0 10px 0;

instead. Thank you for pointing this out, it’s a bug that I will fix in the next version of the theme.

@Randy Rovang: I meant it the other way round: You SHOULD put it into footer.php, and NOWHERE else, if you want it to appear once at the bottom of every type of page. More precisely, you should add this:

<!-- ADDTHIS BUTTON BEGIN -->
<script type="text/javascript">
addthis_pub = 'photobyrandy';
</script><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onMouseOver="return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')" onMouseOut="addthis_close()" onClick="return addthis_sendto()" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="" /></a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/152/addthis_widget.js"></script>
<!-- ADDTHIS BUTTON END -->

right after this:

<div class="inside">

in footer.php

and remove that code from other places where you may have added it.

Does the problem persist after you did that?

@Randy Rovang: Then you would put it into footer.php, right after

<div class="inside">

But it seems you already did that. Or did you put it somewhere else, too? You should not have to put it anywhere else than in footer.php

@Randy Rovang: I added the code to a test blog with Atahualpa 2.21 in archive.php right before

<p class="postmetadata">

and it seemed to work well. I clicked through to one of the bookmarking sites, too.

Have you added it to archive.php as well (not to archiveS.php)?

(I see you’re using version 2.01 but before I test on that too – I haven’t installed 2.01 currently – please look if you put the code into the right place)

@Randy Rovang: Seems you got it working now? I can see the bookmark plugin at the URL you posted. It’s in the footer but it seems that’s what you wanted because it’s in the footer on the other page types as well.

@Jessie: I thought you would pass that on to the hosting guy but he probably knew all that already.

I don’t think the theme is causing this issue. It may be a specific plugin, the total amount of plugins, specific settings or limitations on the hosting account, or something else.

@Jessie: I just did that too now, using /%post_id%/%postname%/, and it kept working (with the permalinks now).

In httpd.conf I added:

<Directory "/path/to/my/wordpress/installation">
AllowOverride All
Options +FollowSymlinks
</Directory>

and I made sure WordPress can write to the .htaccess file in my WordPress directory

/path/to/my/wordpress/installation/.htaccess

owner: apache
group: apache
permissions: rw-r–r–

But that is probably not your problem, WordPress would tell you something like “If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t…” near the bottom of the Options -> Permalinks panel, once you clicked on “Save Changes”

@Jessie: I just packed a WP 2.6 test blog with Atahualpa 2.21 with every single WP widget available, incl. the 3 BFA widgets, and the RSS widget with 20 Google news.

I also set them to “show count” where possible, and set rather high numbers for comments/posts to display.

Additionally I activated “All-in-one-SEO”, “WP-Print”, “WP-Email”, “WP-Pagenavi”, “Subscribe to comments”, “WP-Syntax”, and “Akismet”.

All this on 32MB PHP memory and it worked fast and without problems.

So it is probably something else that is using up more than the remaining 28+ MB of the 60 MB your host gave you.

That shopping/gift plugin or whatever for instance is occasionally causing page rendering times of close to 3 seconds.

You should either deactivate something, install Super Cache or upgrade your hosting plan (or try another theme, maybe that helps, but I think not)

@Jessie: This shouldn’t be related to the sidebars per se but to the contents of the sidebars. Looks like it still cannot swallow all the widgets in the sidebars. Are you using many widgets? Try disabling one or two. Or do you have a real lot of header images, like 1000 or more?

Judging by your earlier questions it seems that this problem didn’t exist from the get go, but started to occur later on (i.e. after you added widgets / plugins ?).

The theme itself surely can and will be optimized by caching a few things but that’s nothing I could do quickly.

I’d suggest that you install Super Cache as mentioned earlier. That would also prepare your blog for any sudden traffic spikes you may get in the future.

@Jessie: That’s not trivial to do in the current version, I will see if I can include it as an option in the next version.

@John A: That is very likely due to

blockquote p {
	margin-top: 0
	}

in style.css, line 388-390.

You could either remove, comment out or edit that (i.e. “margin-top: 15px”)

I had put that there because I think IE6 was adding an extra line break on top of the blockquote, but I’ll find another better fix for that, if the issue persists.

P.S.:
I am also halfway through with a new theme version with another layout technique which should end the dropping sidebar issues once and for all

@Jessie: That means that your host has set the “PHP memory limit” on the web server to 32 MB and all of it is being used up once you use that Permalink Structure. 32 MB is already a decent setting (8 MB is the default but not many hosts will leave it at that or they’ll get customer complaints every other day) and you can either ask your host to “increase the PHP memory limit” to, say, 48 MB, or disable a plugin. Increasing the memory limit shouldn’t be a big deal for the host but they probably won’t do it if you’re on a mass host for less than $5/month or so.

So, yes, it has to do with the theme, too, insofar as the theme, each plugin, and wordpress itself, they all will consume memory, and due to the included functions of Atahualpa it sure will consume more memory than a plain theme without functions or options, but I am not aware that it’d be a memory hog. I will look into the memory usage of Atahualpa though within the next days.

Are you using many plugins, or, a few big ones?

If you have a LOT posts, that might add to the memory usage too when querying the database.

[Edit: ADDED: ] Or, you can use Super Cache http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/ . It’s a plugin that you would have to install. You’d also have to delete a few files if they exist on your WP install. I have not installed that myself yet. They have a support forum http://wordpress.org/tags/wp-super-cache . That plugin is written by a WordPress developer.

@Jessie: If you have version 2.21 you should have several options, towards the end of the options page, starting with “Sidebars:”

@Jessie: The sidebar link colors can be changed on the options page: Site Admin -> Design -> Atahualpa Theme Options.

To change the indent of subcategories, find in style.css, line 158-161:

#left-column .inside ul li ul li,
#right-column .inside ul li ul li {
	margin: 2px 0 2px 5px;
	}

and increase the “5px” value

I had looked at Jello Piefecta but didn’t like the complexity of the code but will look again now that you said you’ve been using it for years. And CSS for layout is flawed, it shouldn’t be as hard as it is.

The Matthew James Taylor layout is very nice, too, I tested it some more, I’ll be using it for another theme. It just doesn’t allow vertical layout lines so it cannot be used here.

@MrPete: I think the remaining issues with some users are due to the table based google search form on top of the right sidebar. Padding, margin and borders of that table might have to be set to 0. Plus may be a position:relative and additionally a height: 1% fix. The donate form on the top left may cause issues too.

As for Jello Piefecta: His sample is showing only text in the columns though, which is dead easy to deal with. I will wordpress that layout, put long strings, drop down menus and big images into it and see how it deals with that. I should be done later today and will let you know.

I have also wordpressed this http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/holy-grail-no-quirks-mode.htm and it holds up pretty well, it did hide everything I threw at it if it was too big for the middle column, behind the right sidebar, but no vertical layout lines can be used, and the sidebars will still overflow in IE (but not drop) IF the sidebar content such as drop down menus is too wide.

I also made a fluid 3 column theme where a table holds the 3 columns in the middle. It will neither overflow nor drop in any browser I tested (down to IE 5) but will expand the width of any column with too-big-content in IE & Safari. In IE and Safari, max-width of images and force wrap won’t work because they both never consider the end of the (fluid) table column to be reached as they can always just expand that column.

And I am looking into the Jello Piefecta model now.

One more suggestion would be to switch to 2 columns on your site. That would be a rather big change however seeing how big your images are, plus the occasional long string from a user, plus the fact that your middle column always seems to be longer than the sidebars anyway. And the single, wide sidebar would be shorter than sidebar1 + sidebar2 because many 2-4-line links would be 1-2-line links in a wider sidebar.

@Ralph: The best would probably be to completely delete everything wp-pagenavi related and install again. I am not sure how you did end up with wp-pagenai-2.php. Maybe your FTP program automatically renamed that because there already was a wp-pagenavi.php. [Edit:] Sorry, looks like I put the wp-pagenavi-2.php file there after I edited the original file. You can delete that, or delete everything and get a fresh version from the author’s site, that should work as well.

The plugins are not meant to be installed all over again when you upgrade the theme. I won’t include any plugins in the next version anymore, and only prepare the theme to recognize a few selected plugins that require a theme template edit.

Deleting plugins (and themes) and reinstalling them is not critical. It is meant to be done that way by WordPress, in case there are any problems.

Re: editing the lines. That should be possible with a custom-colors css file that I am currently working on. It’s not THAT easy because some line edits will require another edit at another place, that’s why I cannot post a quick fix right now.

@Nur: I am very sorry, Nur, and the 9 others that downloaded the file and who I may have caused headaches. The file had an error. It is fixed now and should work. Please download the updated version 1.1. Sorry for the mess, I guess I will have to slow down a bit.

Please check back 8-27 or 8-28 soon for an updated file