Subtle for WordPress

Thank you Chris, I’ve missed Subtle very much.

“Subtle has some cool features like Theme Styles and author pages”

What do those two things mean?

I’m looking to develop a new blog and I need a solid starting point and I like the overall feel of your theme. Nice work.

@BeemerMonkey: Subtle is built to be more of a theme framework rather than something set in stone. Theme Styles are a way to use the base code (Subtle Core) to build a full theme without having to monkey around with a lot of PHP. I wrote about it here.

Author pages are what you get when you click on the post author’s name. The idea is to allow people to get to know the writers on your blog if you’ve got a few of them. The author page pulls information from the user profile, so an author doesn’t need to have full admin privileges to edit the information on their page.

Hope that helps!

I really liked your Wordpress theme when I first came across it. Only recently I noticed the updated version. Good work! Right now, though, I’m playing around with it for my blog, and I’ve noticed that the second Widget-column on the right only works in Firefox. In IE 7 it’s displayed as one single long column, with an empty space beside it. Any idea what’s causing this?

Thanks for making Subtle. I thinks it is one of the best themes out there. I am very glad Subtle is being actively developed again.

One tiny request from my part: is it possible to include tag information in the ‘Information and Links’ in the single post template in future subtle versions? Thanx!

@Onno: I’d need to look at your site, but I think it’s actually a case of where what you’re sticking into the column is too big. If you drop an image or similar object in the column and it’s too large, the column expands in IE, meaning it doesn’t fit in the right-hand sidebar anymore and shoves down to fit. See if you can get it working by tweaking the size of your content.

For 0.41 I may add some CSS that will clip oversized content. It’s more a hack than a fix, though. The fix is making sure your content works with the theme.

@John: I wouldn’t say it’s being actively developed… just not ignored. And yes, tags will be coming in 0.41.

Chris, thanks for updating this impressive theme! I’m using it for our studio’s website – there seems to be a problem with using Slimbox and viewing with IE6… Subtle makes the Slimbox go to the top of the page and does not dim out the background. I’ve switched to Lightbox but Lightbox does not handle long titles very vell. We really like Slimbox better – any chance there can be a fix with Subtle to work better with Slimbox??? Thank you so much! Subtle/Subvet kicks butt!
~Mahalo!

Great to see you back!

Hi Chris,

I had just sent you an email about some display issues with the default setting of subtle. For some reason I’m finding that the graphics & headers don’t display in Firefox, but are fine in IE. Any ideas?

My email also had another request that I’d love to get your answer on.

Thanks much,

nina

@Shawn – I’ve never used Slimbox, so I’ll grab a copy and see how it works. I wonder if I’m using the same DIV ids as Slimbox.

@Nina – Check your inbox.

I love your theme. I’m trying to help a group put a site together, and I have a quick question: I want to put a list of all pages (not posts) in a section in the sidebar of each appropriate page.

Basically, I have static pages, and I have posts. Two sections of static pages have multiple children. I found the code to do this, but I’m having trouble figuring out where to put it.

Sorry for the stupidity, I’m a total Wordpress noob. Here’s the site in question:

http://www.communitycarefund.org/blog/

Hey Chris… lovin’ Glued! Any chance of getting a .psd like the deault theme style?
Mahalo nui loa,
~shawn

Hi,

Thanks for updating this awsome theme.

I noticed I”m still getting that odd intermitent issue with the big white space appearing beneath the footer and I wondered if there was a fix for it. I tried to find the forums but Im not sure theyre still here?..

Many Thanks

Martin

I can’t get the widgets to work, amazed theres no anwser here already, I can’t be the only one with this prob? WP2.5.1 – subtle 0.4.2

I’ve been using this wonderful theme for some time now, and I would like to apply the image rotator tweak. I found a plugin that used to work with other themes but seems to have some problem here…. I guess the clue is in this phrase ” This setting should be the CSS ID you wish to use to display the images. Examples would be ‘header’ (without the quote marks). This will be different depending on which theme you are using. Look through your theme’s CSS file to find the correct CSS ID. ”

so, what is the CSS ID??

@Gianfranco Chicco – I hate to tell you this, but what you’re looking to do won’t really work with Subtle. Subtle generates a number of background images that all work together. Unless you can rotate a number of images at once, you’ll have a hard time getting things to work.