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Posted by Christopher Frazier
May 10, 2007

After going through the old forum database and realizing it was beyond hope (taking into consideration the amount of time I have), I decided to put a brand new punBB installation up with revamped forum categories and topics to help make getting help easier. I’ve also installed Akismet spam filtering so we’ll see how things go with that.

For those who have contributed code via the forums, I want to apologize at the loss of your work. I realize that in addition to lots of spam, there was also a lot of great information about Subtle on the forums, so making the decision to nix them was hard. Hopefully the new forums will be an even better resource for the Subtle community to get in touch, get help and make using Subtle a great experience.

In other news, it turns out that the Sideblog plugin does horrible things to your feed in newer installations of Wordpress, so I’ve removed the plugin and it looks like the feed is working correctly again. I apologize for the multiple posts that showed up in everyone’s feed readers when I upgraded WP. I think I’ve got all of the technical issues with the blog worked out.

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Comment Number:: 1
Written by:: Greg Balzer
Posted on:: May 12, 2007 at 4:42 pm

RE: Sideblog
I use miniposts2 – it functions similarly to sideblog and does not appear to mess up rss feeds.

Comment Number:: 2
Written by:: Christopher Frazier
Posted on:: May 12, 2007 at 5:33 pm

I’ll check that out this weekend. Thanks for the heads-up!

Comment Number:: 3
Written by:: Christopher Frazier
Posted on:: May 13, 2007 at 9:35 am

Installed it and love it. Much easier to work with than Sideblog too. Thanks for the tip, Greg!

Comment Number:: 4
Written by:: Joel
Posted on:: May 29, 2007 at 10:45 pm

Im new to WP and especially CSS I love your template, but i am trying to make the header image bigger. Wondering if you have any advice or if you know of a place to start. Thanks, Joel

Comment Number:: 5
Written by:: cyrus
Posted on:: March 5, 2008 at 7:07 pm

beautiful theme!
where is the support forum located? I can’t seem to find a link to it.

Comment Number:: 6
Written by:: Christopher Frazier
Posted on:: March 7, 2008 at 8:11 am

@cyrus – I pulled the forums when I pulled down the original site. I’m looking into a better solution for handling community support, but for right now the blog is the main resource.

Comment Number:: 7
Written by:: Ken
Posted on:: March 8, 2008 at 4:13 pm

too bad you can put up a copy of the old forum as a static resource for people needing help modifying the theme. it was a really great resource.

Comment Number:: 8
Written by:: Danny
Posted on:: March 12, 2008 at 6:16 am

First of all: great theme. After 2 days of browsing endless theme pages I found this one here the cleanest and most appealing to the eye.

One question though (and please forgive me if I’m not a pro when it comes to CSS & Co.

How can i change the color of the headlines and links (orange by default)? I couldn’t find it in the css file. Help on this would be REALLY appreciated.

Thanks and keep the good work up
danny

Comment Number:: 9
Written by:: Christopher Frazier
Posted on:: March 12, 2008 at 8:45 am

@Danny – Thanks! The CSS is all in /assets/css/ or /styles/your_current_style/default.css

The best way to edit the CSS while keeping yourself safe for upgrades is to copy the theme style folder you’re using, naming it something like “default_modified” or similar and then just edit the default.css file. Have fun!

Comment Number:: 10
Written by:: Danny
Posted on:: March 12, 2008 at 2:27 pm

That was the clue
I just didn’t find the default.css and the layout.css doesn’t have the font-color.

thanks A LOT!
d

Comment Number:: 11
Written by:: Christopher Frazier
Posted on:: March 12, 2008 at 2:29 pm

@Danny – Right – that’s the whole thing about Subtle. The base install is totally plain-XHTML and it’s the theme styles that give it personality.

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