Themes
So here's my little foray into WordPress themes. From here you can download any themes I've produced, or read a guide to creating your own.
Guides to creating your own themes
If you want to try customizing your own theme, then have a look at my WordPress Theme Dissection - a set of guides dissecting a WordPress theme and hopefully demonstrating how to begin customizing your own.
You may also find it useful to read another guide I wrote on installing WordPress on a local computer. It makes the whole theme customization process a lot faster and easier, and protects you from accidentally messing-up your live website.
Themes for download
Currently standing at a grand total of two themes:
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Giraffe2 - WordPress 2.0 only version of the Giraffe theme. Has everything that Giraffe 1.23 contains, with the addition of configurable columns, WordPress Widget support, live preview options, customizable colour schemes, and a logo manager. Latest edition is 2.6.1, last updated August 13, 2007 |
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Giraffe - Fully customizable and localized fluid or fixed width theme. Posts are split into lead, recent, and older posts. Has a working print CSS, along with pre-defined colour schemes, and is configured via an administration interface. Latest version 1.23, last updated November 25, 2005 |
Support & Bugs
Support for themes is provided through the support forums. Registration is required but brings with it several advantages (namely plugin newsletters and personal bug tracking). Questions asked anywhere else on this site may not be answered and may even be deleted.
All bug reports should be submitted into the issue tracker. You do not need to register to submit bug reports but if you do then you'll be able to receive email notifications once they have been fixed.
Comments
Jun 27, 2005 9:21 am
What a magnificent theme - thanks ever so much!
Jun 27, 2005 8:31 pm
I really like this theme. Great color cooridination and design. Good job!
Jun 28, 2005 3:05 am
You have to install the gravatar plugin also. It took me quite some time to figure out why the pages with comments were broken. With the plugin installed everything works fine.
Jun 28, 2005 3:26 am
Thanks Johannes - I thought I'd nailed all the dependancies, but you caught one I missed. I've updated the theme to version 1.1, and it now detects whether the Gravatar plugin is installed. If it is then it displays the image, otherwise it remains silent and you just get the text.
The changes to the theme are only in
comments.php, and in the support plugin.Jun 28, 2005 3:30 am
the coolest theme ever seen for wordpress - thanx for the inspiration and very nice work! greetz
Jul 2, 2005 9:36 am
I just got you theme, and i saw that the text strings are localized through the use of "strange" functions ( _g() _ge() ) why? Second it looks it miss the load_theme_textdomain('theme-name-domain') as stated in the Ryan post at:
http://boren.nu/archives/2004/11/01/localizing-plugins-and-themes/
the same call for plugin is missed too.
This way the them and the plugin will try to use to .mo files of wordpress instead than it's own.
If you need help about internazionalization i'm here
s soon as you will have all set up correctly ill run to make the italian version of theme and plugin as i'm doing for other themes and plugins.
Great works as usual... and nice the idea of custom setup of the theme through a plugin
Jul 2, 2005 11:12 pm
Hi Stefano,
Yes, I made my own localization functions - I was tired of typing
_e('something','giraffe')all the time. The new functions just call the normal WordPress functions, but pass the'giraffe'parameter.Also, the
load_theme_textdomainis in the plugin, not the theme. Again, this is to separate as much PHP from the theme as possible. As the theme doesn't function without the plugin then localisation works across both.Anyway, the latest theme now has the .po file. If you could translate it into Italian that would be wonderful!
Jul 5, 2005 9:18 am
Look like there is a problem with Giraffe's theme page, it show up as a buch of strange chars.
Jul 6, 2005 3:48 pm
Me thinks it's you that has a problem, it displays fine in every browser I use.
Aug 2, 2005 2:51 pm
When I try to administer the theme, I get the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_real_escape_string() in /var/www/html_stabile/blog/wp-content/plugins/giraffe/giraffe.php on line 185
Where should I look for the mysql_real_escape_string() function to make sure things are ok on my site?
I'm beginning to think there is something messed up with my installation of MySQL, but if you've encountered this problem before, perhaps you have a better idea.
I really do like the theme --- it seems very flexible. I just wish I had the time and wherewithal to make it work on my set-up.
Oh well. Thanks for creating this theme, and thanks in advance for your guidance.
- Rick S.
Aug 3, 2005 6:14 am
I figured it out. It turns out that mysql_real_escape_string() was introduced to PHP with version 4.3. I have version 4.2.2 running on my server.
Oy. Now I have to upgrade, and who knows when I'll get around to that . . .
Again, I really like the flexibility of the Giraffe theme, so I am planning on the painful PHP upgrade process.
Thanks again.
- Rick S.
Aug 3, 2005 10:56 am
Thanks Rick. I've updated the theme to use mysql_real_escape_string in newer versions of PHP, and the old mysql_escape_string in older versions. Hopefully this should do the trick for you without requiring a PHP upgrade (although that might still be worthwhile!)
Aug 3, 2005 10:15 pm
John, you got me on the right track. I downloaded the updated version of Giraffe (you really didn't have to do that . . .) and tried it, but still had problems because of my PHP version.
I figured, what the heck, editing the code might just be easier than upgrading to PHP 5. Here is the edit I did at around line 230 of the giraffe.php plugin because file_get_contents() was also introduced in version 4.3:
// Refresh the theme
if (($style_array = file (dirname (__FILE__).'/style.css')) !== false)
{
$style="";
foreach ($style_array as $style_array_num => $style_array_element) {
$style.=$style_array_element;
}
. . .
This is probably not the best way to do this (I'm not checking for the PHP version, for example), but it's working for me so far.
I should really do the PHP upgrade . . .
Thanks again for the theme and the help.
Aug 10, 2005 11:52 am
I'm sure that other people have an older version of PHP, so I should try and make it backwards compatible. I've updated the theme again to add an alternative for file_get_contents, so it should work on old or new PHPs.
Thanks for the tip!
Aug 11, 2005 8:47 pm
Hmmm. I love the Girafe theme, and made a few slight modifications to fit my needs, but I've discovered that this AND my modified theme does not render well in Safari. (or at least the OS X machine I happened to be on today) Has anyone else noticed this?
Aug 13, 2005 6:59 am
Do you know which part doesnt work very well? I made some changes that make it render better on Microsoft systems, but I cannot check how it looks on a Mac at all (here's hoping for a quick swap to Intel for OS X!)
Aug 14, 2005 6:43 am
John
Why the page is not in the center and how can I center it?
Aug 14, 2005 9:01 am
Which page isn't centred? I checked your website in both Firefox and IE and it seems to be centred nicely!
Aug 16, 2005 2:27 pm
John
It appears that the sidebar in the comments drops all the way down to the bottom of the page in Safari (MAC), although I am noticing that it doesn't do it on this site. Maybe I tweaked something that wasn't supposed to be tweaked?
Aug 16, 2005 2:28 pm
Doh! Maybe i should upgrade the theme, huh?
I will do that when i get home and check it then...
Aug 19, 2005 2:39 am
how do i remove the top menu links that appear at the top of the page from the sidebar while keeping the blogroll?
Aug 19, 2005 5:51 pm
actually nevermind my last post i just thought of a simple work around. This is a great theme by the way. but i found that i dont have a left margin in explorer, but its fine in firefox.
Sep 2, 2005 11:23 am
Hi, John.
Thank you for your awesome wp-theme 'Giraffe'.
'Giraffe' is just fit in with Korean character "Hangeul".
Thank you again.
- Jeon from South Korea.
Sep 6, 2005 9:08 am
Hi, John
I think Giraffe theme is a very original theme for Wordpress. I like it very much.
I have downloaded the Giraffe theme and plugin. Then, I've tried to personalize the front end of your theme, making changes to the style and translating it into Baskish. Everything seems to be OK.
But there're problems using the plugin. If a make a change through the plugin (insert the logo, change the fonts, change the layout...) all changes made in style.css, single.php and index.php disappear and everything returns to the standard configuration. Am I doing something wrong?. Can I use the Giraffe plugin avoiding those annoying changes?
Thank you
Sep 6, 2005 12:30 pm
That's just how the plugin works - the changes need to update the files you mentioned. If you want to make additional changes then perform all configurations from the plugin first, and then make your changes at the end (maybe even disabling the plugin to prevent you accidently overwriting your changes).
Sep 10, 2005 3:00 pm
Hello, I am getting an error when try to load the plugin:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: load_theme_textdomain() in /home/admin/public_html/wp-content/plugins/giraffe/giraffe.php on line 11
What do I need to do to correct this?
Sep 10, 2005 3:11 pm
Bump last comment. I feel like a moron. Operator error.
Sep 27, 2005 6:24 pm
2 REALLY dumb ?s
the "fluid" width is lost when viewing posts and
how do I change the color of the theme...I changed it in giraffe.php, but stayed blue
Oct 3, 2005 10:57 am
Hi Danu, I'm not sure what you mean about the loss of fluid width - it works fine here! The colour of the theme can be changed by installing the Giraffe plugin and using the administration page. You shouldn't need to change anything in giraffe.php at all
Oct 15, 2005 10:30 am
i just like to say thank you for this really great piece of work! taking a look into the code makes it easier to understand how the localize-function ought to be used. (tho it needs a bit more staring on my side till i understand it completely... ; ) really great to have this as a reference. with just the article from boren.nu (linked above) i'd be lost... again: great work, keep it up!
ok, now here's a german translation to give something back to you: de_DE.mo German / Deutsch
the Plugin-page is untouched
(Wer die Formulierungen für zu formell hält muss nur die ebenfalls im zip enthaltene po-Datei anpassen und neu speichern)
Oct 16, 2005 5:47 am
Thanks Erik, that's great. I've added the locale to the theme page so other's can download it
Oct 26, 2005 2:52 pm
Question relating to pages. I have created a sub page (from health). How do I get to see the link within the health page. I had the impression that Wordpress automatically added sub page links to the navigation bar of the parent page.
Oct 27, 2005 12:07 am
No, only the top level pages are displayed. This is actually determined by the theme, but all themes I've tried display a static list of pages.
The easiest option is to include the links on the page itself. For example, the Themes page on this website has several sub-pages, which I've included in the page itself.
Oct 27, 2005 4:11 pm
The README of the debian-distribution says, "If there is demand for a certain theme it may be included in this package." May I demand to the debian maintainer to include giraffe?
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PS: A little typo in sidebar.php: Infomation ---> Information
Oct 28, 2005 1:26 pm
That's fine with me - let me know how it goes. I've an update coming out soon, hopefully without stupid spelling mistakes, so that will be the best one to include!
Oct 29, 2005 4:21 pm
Ahhhhhhh... Loving the theme!
Crisp...flows well. Easy to read. No clutter. Nice muted colors!
Many Thanks!
kbb
Nov 10, 2005 5:27 pm
I downloaded the theme and plugin today and am using them exclusively on my site. I have to say nice job, it's nice to look at and easy to use.
I was looking at the error log on my website, though, and I saw hundredss of repetitions of
[Thu Nov 10 19:02:36 2005] [error] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in .../wp-content/themes/giraffe/giraffe.php on line 87
Ihow it is affecting it really, but I figured I'd point it out to you.
Nov 12, 2005 5:08 am
Thanks Eric, well spotted. I've fixed this, and a few other small problems, in version 1.22
Nov 12, 2005 7:47 am
Clean, nice design and very functional! I love it, thanks for the work and keep it up.
Nov 13, 2005 10:41 pm
This is the most well presented theme that I have seen to this date. I hope that you win an award for it somehow.
I don't mean to sound "thick" but can someone tell me how to add/change the links on the top navigation bar? I've been looking through the .php files but can't seem to find the lines for where I can edit the navigation bar links.
Thanks in advance...
Nov 14, 2005 1:02 am
Thanks Andrea! It's a popular question, and I recently added a section on the Giraffe theme page describing how to change the navigation bar links.
Nov 22, 2005 8:28 pm
I love this theme! I was wondering if it is offered in a three column form!!
Nov 23, 2005 3:13 pm
At the moment, no. I've played around with a configuration option to enable a third column, but just haven't had time to finish it. One day soon, maybe!
Nov 25, 2005 10:04 pm
Okay, I will look forward to it! Have a great day!
Nov 26, 2005 7:08 am
You know, this is one of those "yes, I am a wizard" questions... But, and at any rate.... I am running a older version of this most wonderful theme.
Of course, I want to update, to take advantage of the newest fixes.
But, I am scared.
I really do not know enough about WordPress / changing themes to know if when I update to a newer version of UrbanGiraffe... if I lose my customizations?
What are some caveats? Little bits of advice... My "customizations" are very shallow... extrinisic in nature.
*walks away dejected*
Nov 27, 2005 4:25 pm
It depends where the customizations have been made. I've tried to seperate the core theme so that customizations can be made without future changes affecting them, but most of the time it's not possible.
If you want to experiment you can download a backup copy of your existing theme. You'll then be fairly safe trying the new one as you can always re-install your older version should it go wrong.
If you wanted to take it a step further you could create a local copy of your website on your own computer, and then you can play around to your hearts content without worrying about destroying your live site. It's a lot more work in the short term, but might be worth it.
If you think other people could be interested in the same changes then suggest them here and I'll probably include them as a configuration option in a future release!
Dec 1, 2005 2:49 am
What a great theme! I love it and thanks author sharing it.
Dec 9, 2005 10:02 am
Is there anyway I can extend the older posts list that appears on the bootom of my blog using this theme to include more than what it currently shows? Although I just started posting to this blog this morning, it doesn't show the first several while looking at the site although they are in the WP history.
OT: How can I change the Giraffe color that I am currently using to one of the others that comes with the download? TIA.
Dec 10, 2005 1:36 am
The number of posts displayed at the bottom is determined by the WordPress configuration setting in 'Options/Read' - Number of posts to display. The number you specify here will determine how many posts are displayed on the whole page, so the number of older posts will be total - lead - recent.
The colour scheme can be set using the Giraffe theme plugin and selecting your scheme from the drop-down box.
Dec 15, 2005 12:29 am
Hey..John. Thnaks for the theme.
But I still confuse, how I can change:
".....© Your name here" with my name..?
Dec 15, 2005 12:44 am
After i upload gerafe plugin into plugin folder.
I recive error message like this:
Warning: main(/home/ridhaz01/public_html//wp-content/themes/giraffe/giraffe_functions.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/ridhaz01/public_html/wp-content/plugins/giraffe.php on line 13
Warning: main(/home/ridhaz01/public_html//wp-content/themes/giraffe/giraffe_functions.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/ridhaz01/public_html/wp-content/plugins/giraffe.php on line 13
Warning: main(): Failed opening '/home/ridhaz01/public_html//wp-content/themes/giraffe/giraffe_functions.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/ridhaz01/public_html/wp-content/plugins/giraffe.php on line 13
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: giraffe_initialize() in /home/ridhaz01/public_html/wp-content/plugins/giraffe.php on line 19
I confuse about it, pls help.
thanks
Dec 15, 2005 9:53 pm
Cool theme! Keep up the good work!
Dec 16, 2005 1:57 am
Ridhaz: You can change 'Your name here' by installing the Giraffe theme plugin, and then going to the Giraffe administration screen from the WordPress administration panel. There is an option there to modify the copyright notice.
As to the other problem, does the file 'giraffe_functions.php' exist in your wp-content/themes/giraffe directory?
Dec 16, 2005 9:03 pm
Hi John..
‘giraffe_functions.php’ is exist in my wp-content/themes/giraffe directory. What should I do with it?
After I upload giraffe plugin into my plugin directory, there is an error. like what i said before. So i cant find Giraffe administration screen from the WordPress administration panel.
thanks for the reply John.
Dec 17, 2005 8:51 pm
Did you keep the plugin inside the giraffe directory? It's important that you retain the directory structure so that you have a directory wp-content/plugins/giraffe/, and inside that are all the plugin files.
Dec 21, 2005 3:15 pm
Since I added the last two posts my site layout has changed. Why is the sidebar removed now? I have not changed anything in settings recently.
Dec 23, 2005 5:41 am
Solved by changing margins and widths back to default.
Dec 23, 2005 10:57 pm
John,
First - I love the theme. Second, I have a question about gravatars. How do I use them? I have all the necessary plugins installed and activated and am able to see the default gravatar (?). But how do I add my own? I cannot find this in the options...
Thanks.
Dec 24, 2005 12:19 am
You'll need to create an account at http://www.gravatar.com. Once you've done that, the image you select will be available on any gravatar-enabled website, including this one and your own.
Dec 26, 2005 12:18 pm
Nice design will try on my testing site
Dec 29, 2005 9:19 pm
Thank you for your tutorials on wordpress and CSS, it was a special effort you made that has proven exquisitely useful and relevant.
Dec 30, 2005 8:30 am
Is it just me or does Giraffe not work with WP 2.0? I was fine before the update but the last 2 times I activated Giraffe, the Presentation screen went white, after unloading it, I was fine again; did I skip a step while installing it this time or am I not the only one. TIA. P.S. I see now why I loved my Giraffe so much.
Jan 4, 2006 2:43 am
I've got the Giraffe theme working under 2.0 with no problems, although I'm sure they may be some 'quirks' with some environments. A fully 2.0 compatible version will be arriving some day soon.
Jan 4, 2006 12:50 pm
Thank you for the great theme!
Jan 5, 2006 6:42 am
I downloaded the theme and loved it.I am using the Brown color scheme.However, I cannot seem to change the red text color for the outbound links to save my life.Can anyone point me in the right direction please?
Thank you
Jan 5, 2006 2:22 pm
standard XP Home sp2 (up to date), just like 90+% of the people out there, can't wait bud! I can't take all the k2 updates lol.
sorry Dana, I don't have it loaded right now...
Jan 5, 2006 3:00 pm
Also, has anyone noticed that the external link png image doesn't show up on Internet Explorer?
Jan 9, 2006 12:28 pm
I use FF, sorry again Dana. What image are you talking about though? Gotta link to it?
Jan 11, 2006 9:59 am
external.png does not show up on IE browsers.... not even ig you change it to a gif file.
Jan 11, 2006 10:01 am
and here is a link to the image: http://cocoalounge.org/blog/wp-content/themes/giraffe/brown/external.png
Jan 11, 2006 1:00 pm
It worked for me in IE but it tried to kickoff the QuickTime viewer. It asked if I wanted to accept the mime types it wanted to change, I said no, and it opened the little icon you posted in the middle of the IE window (FF shows it in the upper-left). Check your file associations. G/L.
Jan 12, 2006 2:53 am
Ok, thank Billy
Jan 13, 2006 7:36 am
I have not noticed this before as I have not had enough posts on it until now. If I select a month to look at or a topic area the new window opens but only a certain amount of posts are shown. There are no navigation buttons to go to the next page. For instance in October I should have posts back to the 6th yet the page for october only goes back to 20th. There is no next page button.
Jan 14, 2006 3:10 am
There should be page numbers at the top and bottom of the page, instead of next and previous.
Jan 14, 2006 3:12 am
Dana - The image shows up in IE for me. What version are you using?
Jan 16, 2006 1:44 pm
No page numbers that I can see.
see http://ccgi.andre02.plus.com/wordpress/?m=200510 for example.
Jan 18, 2006 2:46 am
My Giraffe look at your theme
Jan 27, 2006 1:35 am
Andre: You're right, there does seem a problem there. I'll have to tackle it in the next version of Giraffe
Jan 28, 2006 11:53 am
John:
I have just started to tinker with your theme and have discovered that I am, apparently, a complete moron. I've tried to change the header color within the stylesheet but when I hit "update file" in theme editor, nothing happens. I've even deleted the color code entirey and again, nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
Jan 28, 2006 8:21 pm
The header color is actually a small gradient image called 'titlegradient.png'. If you change the colour of that then you should see a change in your header. If you've already found that one, then changing the header colour is in the CSS style:
#header
{
background: white url(blue/titlegradient.png) repeat-x top left;
}
You can change 'white' to any colour, or even remove the gradient entirely.
Feb 11, 2006 12:10 pm
I am about to start using Shiny Stat (Free version) unless someone wants to recommend something else. If someone does recommend something else could you also tell me where to put it? Usually I have been putting the rpovided code somewhere at the bottom of the main index.php but this theme's code looks a little different than others I've used (keep in mind I know nothing of anything to do with any sort of coding beyond my first and second year courses in Java I barely passed).
Feb 26, 2006 12:01 pm
Hello,
I love your theme John but I have a little problem when I try to use the pluggins. In wordpress the next message appear:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: giraffe_options() in /var/www/free.fr/4/0/caroline.chopinaud/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/giraffe/giraffe.php on line 22
Can you help me ?
Thanks for the theme and thanks for your help in advance!
Caroline. French user!
Feb 28, 2006 7:06 am
It's me again.
It is ok, it was my fault. The theme is beautiful!!
Thanks
Caroline
Feb 28, 2006 7:49 am
Hey John, I absolutely love your theme and am looking to modify it slighty and use it on my site. I've got a couple of quick questions you may be able to help with... Is there any way of making the blue line that runs on the left beside all the content end where it changes color at "home" - so it doesn't look like it falling off the page? I'm also interested in any info you may have on using a custom logo, I've looked around a bit and haven't found anything... I see heres a function for it in "giraffe_functions.php" but I don't know what I can do there to make a custom logo appear?
Thanks!
Mar 1, 2006 2:53 am
To remove the left blue bar in the footer you can edit the style.css file as follows. First located the #footer section, and then delete the 'background' line. Your style will look something like this:
#footer
{
width: 85%;
margin: 0 auto;
clear: both;
text-align: left;
line-height: 1.5em;
padding: 20px 0;
}
A custom logo is achieved very simply by just replacing the logo.gif/logo.png files with your own!
Mar 7, 2006 4:24 pm
I am confused! What is this all about? Ahh! : 0
Mar 16, 2006 5:10 am
Thanx for the great template!
Tami
Mar 21, 2006 12:39 pm
i love the theme, especially how clean and uncluttered it looks. i wanted to put another vote in for a three column version. i miss having the space. but thanks so much for a beautiful theme.
Mar 21, 2006 10:13 pm
I have a major problem. If possible, I would really appreciate your help. I love the theme but have several related problems. I cannot get more than one post to show on the main page. Also, both recent posts and older posts just one the most recent post, and only that one, nothing else. I have my wp options (options / reading) set to 10 and 10, and have giraffe leads set to 10. Any ideas?
Mar 29, 2006 12:30 am
Do other themes display the correct number of posts?
Apr 1, 2006 9:53 pm
Nice theme.
I ran into one problem on a wide screen laptop, with firefox. The content is not centered. See the scrshot here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lshah/121658569/
A nice feature would be the ability to reorder the contents of the sidebar.
Apr 4, 2006 12:32 pm
Can anyone explain why this post looks wrong. It must be something do do with the flash file adjusting the text below it.
http://ccgi.andre02.plus.com/wordpress/?p=109
Apr 7, 2006 6:28 am
If I insert if (is_home()) { query_posts("cat=-20"); } before the function next_posts_link() don't work.
Apr 8, 2006 5:31 am
hi john,
first: great theme! thanks for that. this is exactly what i was looking for.
second: i really want to include the author's name in the line: "Posted on (date) in (category)"
so that it looks like
"Posted on (date) in (category) by (author)",
because it is a family blog and we're four different authors.
how do i do this, and how do i have to change the .mo-file afterwards to get it properly in my language as well.
thanks in advance, i apprechiate your help.
-i
Apr 12, 2006 1:37 am
Topino: What are you trying to do?
Apr 20, 2006 7:54 pm
I have the same problem Dana has... links in my posts are always red. I can't seem to change it.
Apr 21, 2006 3:59 pm
I want to thank you for developing such an easy to use theme! I've been able to figure out how to modify almost everything except for one item.
I'd like the page template to appear as my main page does (no lead story, with the left-hand bar to appear right next to the text on the page). Can you tell me what I need to change to get this to happen?
Thanks!
Lisa Hartjes
May 2, 2006 11:57 am
Excellent theme.
I am using it in my blog, but in version 1,23 because the Giraffe2 does not work when I want to put the color brown and continues being blue.
May 4, 2006 7:43 pm
Like Lisa, I'd also like to create a new page and have it appear just like my main page... ie: with no 'lead story' and all text alignded alongside my right side column.
At the moment, the new page treats added text like it is a 'lead story' that spreads across the page.
Is there a way to modify this?
I'd appreciate any advice... thanks.
Wayne
May 7, 2006 2:18 pm
I too love this theme and want to thank you for sharing it.
I've not had any problems customizing it for my use but I do have a weird problem.
The site is not up yet but I will be running it with the Podpress and WPG2 plugins.
with the giraffe2 theme installed, if you go to Podpress or WPG2 within the the Administration the Themes submenu appears and not the submenu for either the Podpress or WPG2 plugins.
Set it back to the regular Worpress theme and then the options menu for Podpress and WPG2 appear as they should.
Thought I would just advise you of this behaviour in the current version of your theme.
May 10, 2006 6:08 am
Wayne & Lisa: I'll include this as an option in the next release.
Nicholas: Thanks, I'll have a look see what's causing the weird behaviour!
May 18, 2006 5:44 am
When your browser does not send REFERERs and you click to submit changes anywhere in the WordPress administration screen, you get the error:
Fatal error: Undefined class name 'g2' in /public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/giraffe2/header.php on line 214
May 21, 2006 9:38 am
Like Lisa, I’d also like to create a new page and have it appear just like my main page… ie: with no ‘lead story’ and all text alignded alongside my right side column.
At the moment, the new page treats added text like it is a ‘lead story’ that spreads across the page.
Is there a way to modify this?
May 22, 2006 4:20 am
Hi,
Great theme.
I need your help, please. Can you modify for me the file single.php from Giraffe2 for a single page layout with sidebars at the top, justified text (not wide) the same as in the index.php? My PHP are like my english, you know.
Thank you so much.
May 23, 2006 11:37 pm
Simos, Alexa, & Guillermo: All fixed in 'wonky 2' edition!
May 24, 2006 7:46 am
Excelent ... works great!
I did notice one thing, however, and I don't know if it's the theme or core wordpress.
If the permissions on the theme directory were not correct (not writeable), the URL I go to after clicking the Update Options button is http://blog.example.comwp-admin/themes.php?page=admin.php&error
Notice the missing slash between '.com' and 'wp-admin'?
May 24, 2006 8:21 am
Hey, see an adorable impala on my blog (replaces the giraffe)
http://simos.info/blog/
May 28, 2006 3:56 pm
Took a long time to find you but exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!!
I am having one problem... I want my archives to show my post with all links and images. I read that this was the fix?
"The category and archive views (both controlled by "archive.php" template of your theme) use the_excerpt that strips off all tags (images, links....). If you want to show text formatting and images on archives/category pages you have to replace the_excerpt with the_content. Look in Archive template"
But I can't find the_excerpt anywhere??
May 29, 2006 1:00 am
David: Thanks. Fixed that one in wonky 3
OneShot: You can the_excerpt in archive.php
May 30, 2006 1:10 pm
I just installed giraffe2 and am trying to enable 3 columns by changing the presentation/layout. When I try to update options it says "can't find the server at itsthesystem.comwp-admin." (the path should be itsthesystem.com/wordpress/wp-admin) Wordpress itself has the right path - the update options works for options/general). What do I need to change to correct the path?
May 31, 2006 8:10 am
Thank you Sir, it works great
Excelent theme!
Have a nice day,
gidibao
Jun 25, 2006 12:11 am
Great theme! Thanks for the wonderful design. Would love to try it out soon. And yes, the plugin for Google ad target section is brilliant!
Jun 25, 2006 12:13 am
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Jul 4, 2006 1:14 pm
When I choose Page Width 100% the output is:
http://www.teorema.mat.br/temp/janela.png
Jul 10, 2006 2:40 pm
Hi I am using this great theme giraffe and modified it a bit but I can't understand why it seems to be ok in IE (except the footer area) while in Firefox the 3 sections are seperated from eachother (header page & footer). What am I missing?