Giraffe 1.20
It's been such a long time since I've posted anything here, and this is just going to be a technical post. Based upon feedback from different users, and the general direction of questions, I've released quite a major update of the Giraffe theme and plugin. The changes are:
- Major overhaul of the admin interface - redundant options have been removed, and the interface has been simplified. Where possible I have used diagrams to show what the configuration options will change
- Easy logos - a 'logo' directory now exists within the giraffe theme, and any image placed within here can be selected as the logo by using the admin interface. Additionally, two extra options exist to allow the logo to be randomly selected, and a custom function can be created to select a logo using whatever method you wish
- Auto-news - the admin interface will now periodically check this website for changes to the theme, and will display this from inside the admin interface. This should make it easier for people to know when the theme has been updated
- Curved corners and the left bar can be switched off
- Comments order - comments can be displayed oldest first, or newest first
- Gravatars - can be disabled
- Calendar - can be disabled
- Localization menu - now built into the theme
- Most W3C validation errors fixed
A side effect of these changes will be that a lot of the administration interface is no longer localized properly. Hopefully it shouldn't be too long before the new words can be translated.
More posts soon.
Comments (page 2 of 3)
Feb 14, 2006 6:34 pm
Categories can be displayed by adding the following function into sidebar.php:
get_the_category_list ();
You can find more information about this from the WordPress Codex
Feb 9, 2006 4:02 pm
I really love your theme. I have been tweaking it but don't understand how to add categories in the sidebar. I noted someone had one for Photos and wondered how that was done. Any help would be appreciated.
Beth Ellen
Jan 31, 2006 8:39 am
Thank you.
Jan 31, 2006 1:59 am
You can edit the file 'giraffe_functions.php' inside the theme directory. In this file is a section like:
/*
function giraffe_top_menu ()
{ ?>
<li><a href="something.com">First choice</a></li>
<li><a href="anotherthing.com">Second choice</a></li>
<?php
}
*/
If you remove the /* and */ then you can add your links inside the function and they will appear in the top menu bar
Jan 29, 2006 3:26 pm
One more question.
How can I change the path to the links in the header bar from pages to links on my website?
I.E. Where the theme has "About" in the header it links to a blog page called "About". If I want it to link to a page on my site (http://www.mysite.com/aboutus.html), how do I do that?
Jan 28, 2006 7:14 am
Yep, that did it. I had thought that making the directory 777 would changes all the files inside. But I had to change them all by hand. Thanks.
At the risk of overstaying my welcome, may I ask how I can make the links in the header bar link to pages on my site instead of blog pages?
Thanks.
Jan 28, 2006 12:36 am
You also need to make sure the files inside the giraffe directory have write permissions (i.e. give 777 permissions to style.css, index.php etc)
Jan 27, 2006 10:33 am
Oops sorry, the error message I get is
Problem updating files - is the theme directory write-enabled?
Just to be clear, I tried chaning the permissions, via cpanel, for the entire theme folder (directory) and just the giraffe folder inside the theme folder. Then I went into my blog dashboard, clicked "options", clicked "giraffe theme" and tried to change colors on that screen. It wouldn't work.
Jan 27, 2006 10:23 am
Which directory? I did this for the giraffe theme directory. It still would not let me change colors. I got this error message:
You don’t need to create a .htaccess file. It should be possible to do this from cpanel. You need to change the permissions for the directory, and all its content, to 777 (a check in all boxes for read/write/execute on user/group/world)
Appreciate the help on this.
Kathy
Jan 27, 2006 1:17 am
You don't need to create a .htaccess file. It should be possible to do this from cpanel. You need to change the permissions for the directory, and all its content, to 777 (a check in all boxes for read/write/execute on user/group/world)
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