Flexibility Theme Issues (prior to v2 – post closed)
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 at
9:18 pm
Please note: With the release of version 2 of the theme, I am closing the issues and suggestions posts as they are only relevant to prior versions of the theme.
Going forward, issues and suggestions can simply be emailed to me via the contact form and if it is a relevant problem or improvement request, I will write a new post in the proper category addressing your question.
Hey Ryan
Awesome! I absolutely love this, I’ve made a donation (t’aint much, but I’m broke at the moment!!)
I have a problem where, if I go into settings/reading and select ’static page’ for my first page, the feature box vanishes. Am I doing something wrong?
Andy
Toonarme
Thanks for the donation. It’s generosity from people like your that make all the time put in worthwhile.
As far as the feature box goes, it won’t be visible on a static page, as it’s coded into the home.php file. That is your default blog home page if you DON’T use a static page.
Hi Ryan,
I’m still working with Flexibility and I really like it.
I have a question: When adding an image to a post, the option to wrap the text around the image doesn’t work. I did a little research in the forum and I think this may be a CSS issue.
When you have a chance, perhaps you can take a look at it. If you can offer a snippet or change to the style sheet that users can plug in, that would be great.
Thanks,
Robert
@frobe99 – I added the code to the CSS that should properly wrap the text around images that are positioned left, right or centered when placed in a post. The new version is 1.01 and can be downloaded now.
Alternatively, for users who are familiar with editing the CSS, you can go into the theme editor and edit the style.php file (not the style.css file). Find the img.alignleft and img.alignright and replace with this code:
img.alignleft { margin-right:10px; margin-bottom:5px; float: left; }
img.alignright { margin-bottom:5px; margin-left:10px; float: right; }
img.aligncenter { display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; }
That should correct any issues with the text not wrapping around the images. You can also adjust the margin around the images to your liking.
Ryan,
The fix works perfectly! Thanks for your prompt attention!
Robert
Ryan,
Not an issue as such, but I’d like to replace the standard header with a non-transparent header of my own.
The image is 960×135. Do I just upload it to the images folder?
Thanks,
Robert
Yes, save it as header-bg.png and upload to the images directory and it will overwrite the default header image.
First off, AWESOME theme!
Call me crazy but I can’t find a way to edit the Home Feature Box other than editing the home.php file. Can you edit the text without editing home.php?
Thanks!
@phanes – All you need to do is activate a text or other widget in the top_feature widget location. That will replace the default text in the box.
hey there, this theme is fan-bleeding-tastic man!! nice job, but i’m havin a serious issue, my widgets (wich are supposed to be in right side bar) are placing themselves right in feature box and i only can move them left and right! how can i solve this??
plus, is it possible to put a featured content post into feature box??
thanx in advance for reply
If you activated the theme after having another theme with sidebar widgets installed, they will end up in the top feature area because that is the first widget-ready location in the widget panel. You just need to move your widgets into the top sidebar, left sidebar or right sidebar locations.
The top feature is widget-ready, so you can put almost anything in there including a featured post if you have a widget that allows you to select just one post to display.
I do think this was really great themes and I’m looking forward to try and using it.
A small donation from me
mabdma@cexxxxxx.com
thks
yes i noticed that ! thanx anyway,
one more qustion : is it possible to use my own BG in footer, if yes , how?
@armi – sure you can use your own footer but it would require a little code. First, turn off any footer image in the options page. Next, create your footer graphic and upload it to the images directory. Last, you’ll need to add some code to the #footer ID in the style.php file.
It will look something like this:
background: url(images/footer-bg.png) no-repeat left top;
Obviously if you don’t name your file footer-bg.png that would have to be changed. You can align the background left center or right just by changing the “left” above.
hi,
thanks for your excellent theme. but somehow I am facing problem with the top horizontal navigation menu. For long words or multipe words, the menu background is giving different colors. how to correct this problem? please help me.
@Panaikulam – This is caused by the background image for the button being too short for your long word(s). You can fix this by either using the square solid button style or by making the background button image wider in a graphics editor.
If you’re using the default rounded corner style, the image you want is navrdright.png and is found in the theme’s images directory. If you make this image wider (but don’t stretch the corner) and save it out as a 24 bit PNG with alpha transparency, it should work.
I really having problem installing the themes. When I edit the color/setting etc thru the Wp admin panel, the updated setting is not showing properly.
Anyone can help me out?
pls..
http://www.bloggermalaya.com
thks
hey wssup,
sorry but i’m having a strange problem with the template,
it only shows full post in homepage, not the excerpt, and in none of index or template files there is no php the-content thing to be replaced with excerpt line,
any suggstions for this??
Fantastic theme the flexibility is pretty awesome! I’m having trouble with the RSS logo though – I downloaded a new one and I can’t work out which image I need to replace to get the new one to appear. I’ve oversaved both of the RSS images in the images file but I still have the greyed out RSS button. Any ideas?
The RSS icons are all named the same as the original – rssicon.png. All you need to do is upload the new icon into the theme’s images directory and it will overwrite the default icon. Just make sure you’re putting it into the images directory and not the uploads directory!
Hi,
thanks for your suggestion. I have made the menu background images wider and now the menu is appearing without any break in between. Really your job is an excellent example for the use of sliding door technique in the menu navigation by using CSS (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors/). Keep up the good work.
Since I am using unicode Tamil font in my blog and bilingual typing, the English font appears very small compared to unicode Tamil font. Any idea which font would be more suitable to achieve equal size of bilingual fonts? Also, your theme changing options page is giving only 4 fonts as options. How to include more font options in that? Actually I tried inserting more fonts as array options in the theme options page(functions.php). But when I saved the file, the whole thing vanished.
Please help me. Thanks.
Thanks for the swift response – turns out I was doing it right but had a caching issue.
Hi
I have one more query also. In the top horizontal menu navigation for list of pages, I want to remove the home tab. Because, I have made one of my pages as the static front page. That page’s link is also appearing with its own URL. So there is no point in keeping a separate home tab. How to remove the home tab? I looked at the code in header.php. But the code looks complicated. please help me.
Hi,
I waited for your reply. Meanwhile I tried doing something to remove the home tab from the top horizontal navigation menu. I just commented out the line which calls the home function like below.
// echo “Home“;
Thats all. The home tab vanished. Thanks for your excellent theme.
@Panaikulam – thanks so much for posting your solution – I was happy with the home tab but tried in vain to remove the other page tabs. I simply added // in front of the echo for all pages and poof they disappeared! Thanks.
@armi – I use the homepage excerpts plugin which allows me to simply post an excerpt on the homepage.
I’ve been slacking a little bit on allowing comments through. Many of the issues that get posted are unique to plugins or individual issues that aren’t Flexibility-related. So I tend to restrict the comments on here to issues that may affect a lot of people rather than isolated cases. I tend to reply to those personally via email rather than here, so feel free to comment. I’ll get back to you one way or another.
I’ve also been slacking on getting new graphics added for the theme. I have something big in the works (not Flexibility-related) that has been taking most of my time, but I hope to get some new graphics up in the near future. In the meantime, if you have a specific header theme that you’d like to see, drop me a note through my contact form and let me know. It helps to actually have something in mind when creating new ones.
hey there, I just came across a serious issue, wonder if it’s flix theme or WP itself, I’ve created a contact page and ofcourse put a contact form in it, but when I load the page it only shows text, I mean instead of actual form it shows like:
name
email
..
just plain text, Any idea about this??
Wordpress 2.7, the top sidebar box does not go away when turned off in the Flexibility Theme Options. I also double-checked, when I modify the title & text of the top sidebar box, the new title & text are saved to the database, but the theme is still pulling the text that is hard-coded in home.php.
Fortunately I want the top sidebar box there
but if I didn’t, I’d be pulling my hair out. And in the meantime I am going to hard-code my title/text into home.php. However this is a bug that does need to be fixed.
Thanks for your great work!! This really is a terrific theme.
Karin,
I didn’t extensively test the theme in 2.7, I just verified that the theme would work after the upgrade or in a new install. There are some little tweaks I’ll be making on the next version, also hopefully adding in support for threaded comments, so I’ll check out the top sidebar issue then.
Thanks!
I left a post last night to which I have since found a solution. I am posting it here to help others and to recommend that it be incorporated in future Flexibility Theme releases.
In IE 6, png transparency is not supported. That means that the header is framed in a white square and, frankly, looks horrid. While “this site is best viewed in” is one way of getting around it, I feared that IE6 users (whom I expected to be a larger percentage of my userbase) would immediately leave the site for another resource. That’s bad for sales.
Web developer Drew McLellan wrote SuperSleight (http://24ways.org/2007/supersleight-transparent-png-in-ie6) to deal with this very issue. Extrapolating from his web page instructions, I placed an “if” line in the header.php file (just above ), copied his scripts into the Flexibility Theme folder, and then saved/relaunched all.
The theme now looks wonderful in both Firefox 3 and MS 6.
Note, IE 7 has completely resolved its png conflicts, so the file renders well in up-to-date browsers.
Thanks, Flexibility, for your work. (I do plan to donate.)
I am working hard on v2.0 of the theme today (and the last 3 days) and your comment is good timing. I’ve read Drew’s post as well as several others, so it’s apparent that I need to address this in v2.0.
My current solution for IE6 is to keep the header and navigation transparency using the TwinHelix fix, but then strip out the background images from other places in the theme since many are repeating images, which can cause issues. Especially for blog background images, which can hang IE6 for awhile.
I’ll check into SuperSleight as a better solution. Look for the new version hopefully early next week. It supports 2.7 threaded comments, uses jQuery colorpickers in the control panel, custom header height, easily use a custom header image, choose from many included header backgrounds, easily change colors theme-wide with one selection and much more. The theme is more stylish than v1 as well.
This is a follow up to my previous post. I’ve figured out my problem has to do with captions. If I have no captions, the text wraps around the image just fine. If I include captions, the text does not wrap.
Perhaps captions are not supported in Flexibility, but if you have any ideas for a quick fix, I would appreciate it. I do like having captions now and then.
Thank you for a great theme.
Liz
Liz, I’ll check up on the caption issue in the next version.
Hey Ryan,
I too love your theme! Life is ALWAYS best with options – and Flexibility offers a lot of options, so thanks for creating it. You’re clearly someone who likes to use his noggin – and who takes a logical approach to simplify complex things. The web needs more like you!
Anyway, groupie adoration aside, I DO have an issue. (<;
It’s about having a static front page. I believe I have that set-up correctly, as my desired page loads as the home page. The problem is, that I also included a link to the blog part of my site at the bottom of the front page. And when I click on that link (mydomain/blog), all that happens is the front page reloads in a new window. I also have Terms, Contact and Privacy page links there that DO work (opening to individual pages, not the posts, of course). I swear, I’ve probably spent 10 hours reading and viewing tutorials on this stuff, but none seem to cover my issue. Also, most are from much earlier versions of WP. There are also several differing opinions as to how to do it effectively.
Rather than tell you what I did to get it this far, maybe you could provide a simple (but thorough) breakdown on how to do the entire process with Flexibility from scratch? Or maybe just how to get the link mentioned above to open up the posts portion of the blog?
I’d really appreciate it and will gladly slide some cash your way to comp you for your time and effort.
Thanks,
Russ
Russ, this is something I need to address in the next version. I don’t know how exactly, other than maybe a good video tutorial would help. It may have something to do with my use of home.php vs index.php in the theme, but that will be different in v2.0. I’ll do some homework on it because it’s a common recurring issue for theme users. I want to make v2.0 much easier to use with static home pages, navigation included.
Hello,
i just purchased “wpmanagerdx” which is a very cool WP management program for installing and maintaining WP across domains.
Flexibility is the only theme which doesn’t work with it, there must be some odd incompatibility, maybe having to do with CSS and 100% WP2.7 compatibility?
I have many other standard themes and they all work, but my FAVORITE (flexibility) just wont display right when i isntall a blog with wpmanagerdx.
Also, if i install a blog with wpmanagerdx and i try to install the theme manually afterwards, it still doesnt display right.
i would VERY much appreciate if we can fix this, i will gladly help in finding the issue and why it wont display right.
G.