Subtle for WordPress

I like this theme wery much, but how do I stop the links from being underlined. I’m tying out some tag clouds and the underlined tags look nasty Thx again for a great theme.

Why the “More Page” module don’t use the permalinks options ?

I’ve change the permalinks to this “/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/” but it always use that “?p=123″

Alienlebarge - I ended up having to move all of the links I generate (as opposed to the ones that WP builds with the permalink string) to ugly URLs until I find a good way to build pretty ones, easily. Does anyone know of a function in WP or a script that will do that?

Milan - if you post a link to your site, I’ll take a look and see if there’s anything we can do about that.

Uhm … am I the only one who had to run “chmod a+r footer.php” to get 0.2 to work completely?

Gerald - must be a problem with the archive. Thanks for the heads-up. I’ll repackage.

I love the way it looks, unfortunately I can’t get the widgets to work in MU (other themes do work with widgets).
I’m not getting any error messages in my logs.
http://x111.com/blog/kiyochan

I want another “Tab” in the Header called Photos which will link to the Photo-Page. But my PHP-knowledge is very little
Where I’ve to put the code?

Thank you very much for this great theme!
The page: http://dominik.awardspace.com/
The Photo-Page: http://dominik.awardspace.com/wp_de_20/wordpress/photos

I have an installation of MU that I’ll try it out on. I can’t think of anything that it does weird, but you never know. Thanks for the bug-submission.

XIII - I just tried Subtle 0.2 on our MU install for Digital Photography Blogs, which is from December 2005, and I had no problem with widgets. What sort of problems are you having with it?

None show up, no matter which widgets I add in whetever order, http://x111.com/blog/kiyochan is with a lot of them added. And I’m running RC4 of MU.

Is there a demo or something? I have no idea what this theme looks like or is this the theme being used here? I’ve looked around, but notfound anything obvious like “demo”…?

Anon - yep, the Dev Blog is using the theme, but there are also a number of other places to look:

http://veen.com/amy/
http://quaker2.org/

I’m also planning on posting a gallery of sites that are using the theme in unique ways on either this Friday or on Monday. There’s some cool work being done on Subtle.

Very nice theme, one of the nicer ones I’ve used. The graphics, layout, features are all pretty damn sweet.

I’m using it as my default theme right now (stock), but plan on changing the header and colors in the near future.

Again great work and I look forward to future releases.

Allyn - thanks for the compliment! I’d love to see what you end up building with it when you’re done. Make sure to let us know.

I certainly will….again, thanks for a very well done theme.

Your theme looks really good. I love it. I have some problems in activating the widget sidebar. I’m using WP 2.0.3 German Edition.

Michael - I wonder if this is related to X111’s problem? This is definitely on the top of my bugfix list, so I’ll let you all know what I find out as I test.

[...] Digital Photography Blogs by Glued Ideas was one of the first Blogalistic inspirational designs, and now they have released another theme, Subtle, which is widgetised and supports styles in a similar way to K2. [...]

Hmm… I love the custom Archives page idea, but I wish it would let me display any posts on that page, rather than those in a certain category.

Also, it doesn’t appear that you can use the default Wordpress means of creating an archives page anymore (creating a page using the Page Template “Archives”)… Looks like you need to create a page-archives.php file for that. I don’t imagine I’m the only one who was disappointed that broke when I switched themes, so it’d be great if we could get the custom archives page (ie: the checkbox option) moved to the default page template location.

To answer your ugly-urls question, you may want to check out the function get_permalink(). I think it’s what you’re looking for (it’s used in the K2 livesearch, if you need an example).

Im hard at work modifying my own! But I want to have an ads column and my ads have to be 160px wide, I also would like to expand my actual content column because its way too small right now.
How would I go about this?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Chris Meller - It’s just not fair, getting me all excited about get_permalink() when all it doesis give you the permalink for whatever is in the loop. Thanks, though. You’ve hit on my two big issues with WordPress - that it takes an ugly “hack” to get WP to support an archive page, AND that they don’t have decent documentation explaining how to form permalinks based on the user’s permalink settings.

I’ve got correctly supporting the archives hack on by bugfix list now. Thanks for passing that on.

Michael - we’ve got plans in place for a much wider theme (we have to be able to fit leaderboards) and will be releasing that sometime in the summer. However, in the mean time, I’d suggest pulling out one of the “widget_set” columns in the home.php page and then editing the layout.css file to allow the main column to be larger.

Hmm… Doesn’t look like get_permalink has to be in the_loop to me. It has an optional parameter that accepts a post / page ID #. Now, you’d still have to do some manual legwork to get the ?category= stuff to permalink-up, but there are a bunch of other get_*_link functions that you could base your code off.

Check wp-includes/template-functions-links.php (line 29 and up in my 2.0.3 version).

Hi Chris, Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve already modified the sites core graphical basis, but all I really need now is to tweak CSS styles and positions of items - notably the columns.

This is what the site looks like at present.
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/2402/lookslikethisul8.jpg

And (http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/160/aimingforthisaa2.jpg)This is what Im aiming for ultimately. You can see that there are a few tweaks here including a main content CSS edit to make the text tighter and the content wider. The second column is tight to the right and the third column is actually outside of the main box with only ads whilst the headers search box has nudged and the text link is gone.

Now all I need to do is actually DO all of those edits. Which is very difficult for someone as poorly at general web design as myself. Any tips or any suggestions as to who I could contact to do this for me?

Any help/directions would be much appeciated.
Take care, Mikey.

Great themme. I installed it on my test site and I had no problem modifying the theme and sidebars. Them I started to move it all to install it in another directory and the widgets option page became totally unusable. I disabled all the other plugins, reinstalled WP, reinstalled Subtle, reinstalled BOTH of them. I have played with every variable possible. It still runs just fine in my test directory, but nothing I do gets the widget option page to work in the directory I wanted it in. has anyone else had a similar problem?

Chris Meller - I sometimes wish I wasn’t as compulsive as I am. I should have just left it alone. But you goaded me, and I jumped back in. Sheesh.

Version 0.21 is now available with the following fixes:

• Currect support for WordPress archives templates
• Correct permalink handling throughout the theme
• Added support for our soon-to-be-release Text-Link-Ads widget
• Little CSS fixes

I think that’s it. Chris - Thanks for the push to “get it right.”

Where can I download version 0.21 as I can only find the download link for 0.2?

This is a great theme!

Sorry, I realise now it was an updated archive.

I was still getting include errors regarding search.php from the archives.php file. I altered the path to the full server path and it is working now.

Thanks again for a great theme!

Really great theme. The best I’ve seen, and I’ve seen and test a lot. But not perfect. The Download page for this theme is not render nice in Internet Explorer (maybe because I use 7.0 beta 3?), but works in Firefox. I try to use on one website and in IE the footer is not centered… Can be those fixed? Is working fine with IE 6?

Sorry to come back. On Opera the footer is not visible at all. I am not a guru of CSS to solve those problems, but if you guys can solve all this, you will have a no 1 position in my heart. Please help…

Radu - I’ve got both bugs in my fix list and they’ll make it into 0.22 - sometimes in the next day or two. Thanks a ton for the report!

Hi! I found a solution for the problem with the widget plugin:
I replaced in home.php “!dynamic_sidebar(’widgets_home_a’)” with “!dynamic_sidebar(1)”, “!dynamic_sidebar(’widgets_home_b’)” with “!dynamic_sidebar(2)” and in page.php “!dynamic_sidebar(’widgets_page’)” with “!dynamic_sidebar(3)”
I’ve tried it with the last version of the widget plugin and WP 2.0.3

So does ANYONE know of anyone who could work on those css edits for me? I am getting a little desperate. The sites been in redevelopment all summer and people are getting impatient waiting for the new form. I don’t want to dissapoint.

Hi, good job with the theme. However:
- How can I make “continue reading” to appear only when I put the tag ?

- How do I remove the underlines for every links?

Very minor issues, but hope you can help as I really like this theme.

Sorry, I was meant to say tag.

Arggh! Sorry for the multiple post. I mean the “more” tag which you insert while writing the post.

Also, it’ll be good if you can add the following:
- an edit post/comment link or button on the actual page for easier editing

Thanks Michael, the fix in comment 33 got it working for me in Wordpress MU as well.

X111 and Michael - since the named method is supposedly supported in the Widgets plugin (and works both in MU and normal WP for me) - it makes me wonder if there’s a character-set bug in the Widgets plugin. What character set are you guys using?

Oh dear, you just HAD to make me feel dumb… eh, in other words I have no idea, no setting I’ve changed.

Hi Chris!
First, let me thank an congratulate you on a truly great theme! I only had a few minor problems using it and the features are just awesome! I would like to ask for the same thing as Michael though… I need more width space!!! I know that you have it on your pipeline, but if you have a few beta files I could use to upgrade, well, it would be an unbelievable gift! Thanks in advance! Please come take a look at http://www.secretia.com

First of all, I have to say I love the way this site looks…. absolutely amazing.. I have only one question. Has anyone else noticed that the content does not align right with the header in Safari? It looks as if someone took the content and pushed it two pixels to the left on the page (the entire white styling box…) Sorry to seem new at this, I am somewhat experienced in CSS, but I don’t want to ruin the rest of the styling by playing with it.