Subtle for WordPress

Great template. Many thanks.

Having problems with the Categories links on front page. Not working with this theme , though is with others, am I missing a page/configuration?. Using WP 2.5/Glued 4.2. Thanks for any help.

Hi,

I’m glad you found my little fix for the child links problem useful and thanks for the providing great themes.

Natural Tys, the site that hosts mine, uses one of your old ones and it always worked great and still does with that little fix.

Are there some changes with the widgets? I have WP2.5 and Gluedsubtle Theme 0.42. and still notice that you have to disable the WP Widgets and activate the Sidebare widget, but then there is a problem with the dashboard, get this error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_register_sidebar_widget() in /web/wptest/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php on line 31

any idea?

Hi Chris,

Just got .42 up and running, looks great!

Quick question if you have time about a plugin — yes I know… bad form, apologies in advance, but I can’t get answers out of the plugin author or out of the forums either and to quote Princess Leia… “Help me Obi Wan Kenobi… you’re my only hope…”

The plugin is an Ajax based contact form called SMCF — Here

After some quick examination of both the plugin and the Subtle theme, it appears as tho one would need to modify header.php to link to a page presumably called ‘Contact’ – but the way Subtle is written, the header seems to call to an undefined list to generate page output? After ul id=”menu” ?

Or am I really missing something here?

There’s also another straight php based option too which calls to add the “smcf()” function to a theme file, but I have no idea where or which file I would modify in to do this and make it work.

Any ideas?

Thanks Obi Wan,

- nina

ps – Still working on that other thing

hi, it’s a nice theme!
Can i change and translate in italian some parts of the theme only for my website?
Can i modify the cc license in “attribution” and “share alike” for the content of my website?
Can i specify in the website “Themes by Christopher Frazier, modified by me”?

Thanks for your work and excuse me for my bad english!

Hi Chris,

Thanks for making a great theme! I just upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 and applied Subtle to my website. I was wondering how you got your sidebar to show two columns of links.
I’m using widgets to add items to the sidebar. I’ve added “Pages”, “Categories”, and “Meta” but they are all in one column aligned to the left of the sidebar. I was wondering if there’s an easy way to have them be a set width and show in two columns.

Thanks!
Austin

@Austin – there are actually (2) sidebars there on the right side… Sidebar_1 and Sidebar_2. They are set to be a defined width and to be side by side (two columns). The Random Image widget you have on your homepage may be causing a problem, not sure since I don’t use that widget.

Can anyone point me in right direction? I can’t get this theme to display search results (sidebar links) from Categories, Tags, Monthly Archives or Authors.

I’ve tried changing permanlinks and every setting I can see? Is it something I need to do with Sidebar as mentioned about? Thanks in Advance.

@Grubber – That’s really weird. Are you getting any PHP errors in your logs?

@Austin – I think Shawn’s right – your random image widget is probably pushing everything around.

@Christopher

Thanks for being so quick. Yes seems to be issues with the search.php include file.

==example error=
[client 81.99.219.142] PHP Warning: main(search.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /var/www/vhosts/thelaundry.net/httpdocs/wp-content/themes/gluedideas_subtle/archive.php on line 11, referer: http://thelaundry.net/
[client 81.99.219.142] PHP Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening ’search.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:.:’) in /var/www/vhosts/thelaundry.net/httpdocs/wp-content/themes/gluedideas_subtle/archive.php on line 11, referer: http://thelaundry.net/
==end==

Not sure if thats a permissions thing, or Mysql thing or the theme (search.php is in directory). Note: lookups work if I use other themes.

@Grubber – There’s nothing special about that code (the page pretty much just includes search.php and is done) so I have the feeling it may in fact be either a permissions problem or a corrupted file.

Seemed to have sorted the issue but not quite sure what did it. I cmod all theme files to 664 then back to 644 + also changed some paths in the code.

I changed the string include(’search.php’) to include(TEMPLATEPATH.’/search.php’) in the archive.php and archives.php file. From info found here http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Referencing_Files_From_a_Template

Now seems to work fine but more from luck that programming skills : )

Great theme, hacking it for my site now Some suggestions for the digg links though:

In single.php change the digg code to:


ID)); ?><a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=" target="_new">Digg


And use the same code for home.php

Great theme again

When I installed it, the picture that comes with the header did not work. When I tried to install/upload my own picture in the Current Themes Options it says that this theme does not support uploadable headers. Whats up with that?

Hello, i’m using your great theme.-

I want to know if is posible that, for write a comment, don’t have to put an email (email no required). How do i change that??

PD: sorry for my bad english
PD2: congratulations from Argentina

@Zachary – The theme-style called Glued doesn’t allow for image uploads. You can switch to the other theme-styles and upload your image.

@Cesar – That’s an option you set in your dashboard under Settings -> Discussion -> “Before a comment appears” -> “Comment author must fill out name and e-mail”

I don’t know if this is related, but the archive function for authors doesn’t work for me, the blog owner. When I click on my own name it brings up an “oops” profile page instead of the archive of my posts.

I’m using Role Manager, so I don’t know if that’s a conflict. I’m the blog owner/Administrator, so is it possible that the theme doesn’t recognize me as an Author?

Thanks!

Hi Chris!

Awesome theme, I love that you can customize the header.
I have on problem though, the theme looks broken when using Internet Explorer 7.

Any ideas why or what’s wrong?

Thanks. Cheers!

@Violet Socks – That’s really weird. I wonder if it is the Role Manager. Does that happen when you turn off RM?

@Cristian – I’ve checked a number of other blogs and they all look fine. Did you add some HTML to your posts that might have broken the formatting? Maybe some elements that break the sizing?

I fixed it. It was because I needed to upgrade to the latest version. I didn’t realize I took the 0.39x version instead. Now it looks great. Great job!

Thanks again and cheers!

Cristian

Hi there,

Great template, thank you very much for that! As you can see I had a play with it myself for my blog.

A quick question (as I am still a bit of a newbie when it comes down to WP editing): how can I change the links under META (such as ‘Entries RSS’) to actually display an RSS icon as it does when looking at a single post? The change would not be within your template but somewhere in the home page files, am I somewhat correct?

Cheers,
Alex

do u found a bug with the comment,when you enter the text in the box,you should try to press the key of “space” do you found the bug?
my english is poor.i dont kown how to describe the bug.
just try,u will found it.

Hello,
I’m trying to get the latest version of Subtle to work on an installation of wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1. Everything works very nicely, except the custom header image. We initially got the GD error, but then enabled this extension in our PHP library–seemed to work OK, but then when someone uploads a custom header image, anyone else using the theme has the same header. Any thoughts? Theme is great, though …

@Alex – This is a CSS thing. I didn’t style the Meta widget because I just don’t use it. It probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to do it, though I’m not sure when I’ll be able to. If you get it working and would like to share what you’ve got, let me know and I’ll get it into the install.

@Metalmickey – Can you describe how you get the bug?

@Lance G – Subtle looks for the version of WordPress when it decides whether or not to use the MU way of creating headers or the standard way. It’s likely that the current version of MU has a different base ID, so Subtle’s not taking that into account. My install is an older one, so I’ll update it and take a look.

Hey,

Is it possible to have some settings like changing from two sidebars setup to only one? This way the sidebar could get wider and better accommodate content.

Cheers!
Cristian

Hi,

had some display problems using the Simple: Press Forum plugin with the Subtle 0.42 theme, but only in IE (IE7, no access to older versions at the moment). Mozilla Firefox and Safari (Windows version) worked fine.

Turned out that IE7 doesn’t like ANYTHING to appear before the tag, otherwise, it ignores it. Unfortunately, the Subtle header.php file output a comment tag BEFORE that.

I removed that line from header.php, and presto, it showed up just fine in IE7 as well!

Might be an idea to remove that comment tag from distribution in upcoming versions ? Might save someone else some trouble in the future.

Was talking about the <!DOCTYPE html … > and the <!– Header Start –> tags above, but they got eaten

Hi there,
I’ve translated the pot file into the Farsi (Persian) language.
Now I want to make RTL. Would you please tell me which files will need alteration for this purpose?

Thanks

@Herman – Great catch on the comment before the DOCTYPE. It makes sense that a browser would choke on that. I’ve removed it on my end and will update the install files today.

@Mohammad – I’ll e-mail you about getting your translation into the system.

I’ve just updated WP to version 2.5.1 and I can’t use no longer Subtle…

I’m the only one with this problem?

Thank you for this great theme!

OPS!

The problem was not in Subtle but was in the Administrator (me)… in WP 2.5.1 they changed a few things in “config.php” and the DB update procedure was breaking all site’s settings.

I modify “config.php” and I restore a previous DB then I perform the required updates…

Everything is working good!

Thank you again

How do I connect the Home/About/Contacts links at the top of the page to the appropriate pages?

Using the latest version of Subtle, with the green theme template.

2 problems I have encountered:
- The option to list subpages lists all subpages, even those that are private or unpublished. I have a fix for that, just add “AND post_status = ‘publish’ ” to the SQL query on the subpages thing.

- No comment capability on pages, even when turned on. This is a big issue for me because I use the comments in fixed (permanent) photo galleries. Need some resolution or help with this one. Email appreciated.

Thanks

Thank you for your wonderful theme . I like it very much .

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Hello,

first of all, thank you very much for this fantastic theme.

I fitted it to my blog, and it works fine in Firefox. But there are some problems with the footer in Internet Explorer unfortunately. The footer isn’t in the very end for some pages. Unfortunately, I don’t know how to fix it.

Does anyone have a solution for it?
Thank you in advance.

HiHo,

really a nice theme! I am trying to use wordpress as a cms. i would like to add nextgen gallery to the side. i didnt managed to add widgets to the sidebar. howto if possible. I use wp2.5.1 and 0.42 glued and choose at widgets e.g. posts1_/pages1 but nothing is being displayed there. what do i wrong.

thanks for a hint!

all the best
nase

@Andrea – Glad it works!

@Orest – The menu is generated using your top-level pages. They should work correctly out of the box.

@Jason – thanks for the fix. Yes, I didn’t add comment-ability to pages because I didn’t really need or want it. However, you can add it by including the comments.php file on the end of the page.php file.

@Dabyee, Matthias – Thanks!

@Steffen – This is a weird bug that, as you’ve seen, shows up in weird places. I have the feeling it has to do with the comments I added. Try removing them and let me know if it works.

@Nase – Widgets are working correctly in 2.5.1 with Subtle. The number of widget containers is a little overboard on Subtle, so keep trying spots and see if it works.

Hi Christopher,

First of all thanks for a great template, it totally rocks!

I’m using wordpress 2.5.1 and am having a slight problem with the tabs in combination with a Static homepage. I hope you can give me a pointer on how to fix this.

The new wp version alows you to select a static homepage and then assign a page to use as ‘home’, and a page to use as the ‘blog’.

The ‘home’ tab however lights up when the ‘blog’ page is selected (in fact, both tabs are selected at the same time). The home tab is not selected when the page that is set as the homepage in wp.

I’ve been going through the wp_list_pages function, but can’t find anything. I did not have this problem with older wp versions, but then again, that did not contain the built in static homepage feature.

Any ideas ?

Thanks a million!

Michael

I’d like to use the Bad Behavior plugin to control the spamming, but after activating it all my pages display this error. I’m use version 0.42 of Subtle and WP 2.5

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at …/index.php:8) in …/wp-content/plugins/Bad-Behavior/bad-behavior/screener.inc.php on line 8

I love this theme and using it on my blog. I also had the same problem as Grubber and would like to say that the:

include(TEMPLATEPATH.’/search.php’);

Fix – Works a treat, just apply it to archive.php and archives.php

You a legend for updating this theme to wordpress 2.5. It is quite simply one of the best themes I have come across! Many thanks!

Thank you for this wonderful theme. I have found it to suit perfectly for my WP MU installation, http://www.aciliu.ro/ which is designed for a small community from the countryside.

The theme is clean and proves good and easy to follow. Also, the famfamfam icons are great, I have used them before and proved great success. Congrats!

Hi Chris:

I’m using your theme at my blog and it’s great. The only problem that I have now are related to comments. When you add a comments to some post, the comment goes to another.

At Wordpress forums some people said to me maybe it could be a theme bug. I dont’ have idea but if you can suggest me some ideas I’ll be grateful.

I do really LOVE your theme, and would like to ask how can gravatars be enabled in comments when Subtle is used with WP 2.5.1.

Another question: is there a way to upgrade to the latest release of Subtle without loosing all the customization I made in the theme files?

Thank you!!!

Hey all – sorry about not getting back to people here, but I’ve been off having a baby. I’m sure I’ll be posting something here in a bit, but for now, here are a few replies…

@Michael – I haven’t played with the static front-page option at all, so I couldn’t comment on it intelligently. I’m not a place where I’m making updates right now, but I’d be more than happy to take any code updates you might want to pass on.

@Johan – It sounds like you’re getting an error from Bad Behavior, not Subtle. I’m not certain, though.

@Nick – Thanks for the info! I’ll take a look into an edit sometime soonish.

@Andreas, Geo – THANKS!!

@Seba – this is a known issue. You need to pull out any widgets that use “The Loop” from your sidebars on your “Single” pages. Does that make sense? It’s not so much a bug in Subtle as much a problem with the way the widgets are using global data structures.

@DeepVoid – Subtle has Gravatar support built-in (old-school) but it’s not set up to work with the new way WP does them. I’m not sure I’ll be updating it to do that. Also, regarding your customizations – it’s very simple IF you just made changes using the Theme Style system, but if you edited any PHP you might be out of luck.

Thanks Chris! Very fast and useful anwser. By the way… congrats for the baby!

I’ve reinstalled this several times, made sure all the plug-ins are off, to no avail, I continually get this warning message:

Warning: include_once(/misc/16/221/850/129/4/user/web/************/wp-content/themes/gluedideas_subtle/styles/) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: Success in /misc/16/221/850/129/4/user/web/************/wp-content/themes/gluedideas_subtle/header.php on line 28

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/misc/16/221/850/129/4/user/web/************/wp-content/themes/gluedideas_subtle/styles/’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/share/pear’) in /misc/16/221/850/129/4/user/web/************/wp-content/themes/gluedideas_subtle/header.php on line 28

Fatal error: Call to undefined function getHeaderCSS() in /misc/16/221/850/129/4/user/web/************/wp-content/themes/gluedideas_subtle/header.php on line 29

@Frederick – It looks like the webserver isn’t able to find some of the support files. Did you remove any files from the installation?

I changed the permalink selecting month / name.
After changing the link to pages daughters does not work.
How can I fix?

Great theme, thank you for your work! was just the setup I was after!

perfect!

Hi Chris,

really cool theme! Thank you!
But I have a problem with the comment function. Whatever I do, comments won’t show with your theme.

Do you have any Ideas why comments won’t show?

Thanks!
Kai

Has anyone else had problems with this theme in firefox 3? The content div is out by 1px from the header and footer. It works fine in firefox 2 and IE thought. If I knew CSS I could probably fix it

Any ideas?

@Adam: same problem here. I’m trying to fix it.

FYI: I just did an update to WP 2.6 and had no issues with Subtle. If I find any, I’ll post.

~ nina

How do you change the link color? I’ve changed it in all of the stylesheets I can find but the only color links that have changed are the post titles. I want to change the color for the sidebar and in text links as well. However it isn’t showing up.

@Nina – got your e-mail! Thanks for the heads-up. I’ll be upgrading Glued Ideas sometime this weekend and I’ll write-up anything I find.

@Jen – The link color is set in the CSS in your selected theme style’s folder, so if you’re using the default theme it’s in /gluedideas_subtle/styles/default/. Different theme styles set colors differently, but you should be able to find it. Let me know if you still have trouble.

Using Wordpress 2.6.
I have a customised template that uses the javascript onload() function in and it does not seem to trigger when I add
comments_template();
into the template.
The only javascript error i get is about the use of getboxobjectfor in dom.js but I’ve tried deleting that without extra success.

Hi, been using an older version of this great theme in WPMU, but it seemed to lack the print-function (altough a seperate stylesheet is provided). Also with the new version, activation the print-option in the admin does not result in a print-link to appear with the posts. In short I canoot find any coding or icons in this theme? Nor for a mail-a-friend function. Am i overlooking something of should I extend teh theme for this?

@HB – I haven’t looked at the JS in DOM for a while but I have the feeling it might be capturing onload for events (not smart). I’d have to look at the code to see what’s going on, but I don’t think that’s going to happen… soon.

@Strengo – Subtle doesn’t have those features built-in. The print CSS is meant to help restyle the page when you send it to a printer. It’s seamless and doesn’t require a separate “printable” version of the post. Feel free to pass on any patches you happen to work up if you want to add special icons, etc.

Hello, what about to solve the issue with get_page_children using this:

ID.'&depth=1'); ?>

I’m looking for a way to show the latest post in full, and have the other posts show as just the titles below. You do that with this theme, but I don’t necessarily want to use this theme (as cool as it looks). Is there a plugin that will achieve a similar function as what you do with your home page? Is that custom code something one can copy to another theme, or is it hard-wired throughout? Thanks.

@Tom Johnson – Post display is controlled by the theme. You can ask the theme designer to help you out with something like this, though.

Hello again. I’m wondering if anyone else having an issue with the way the “Page, no Sidebar” template is displayed in IE. It’s one of the settings when you write a page, and it allows you your page to take up the whole width of the content area, wihtout leaving any space for a sidebar. When viewed in Firefox or Safari that’s exactly what happens, but when you you view it in IE it leaves even more spaces on the right side, at least in my case.

Thanks,
Alex

What do I need to do to get rid of the shadow overlay that covers my uploaded header? I don’t mind it in the navigation, but would like my header image above the navigation to appear as I have designed it. Thanks Christopher!

@Chris – The best way to do this is use the included PNG overlay image, edit it to your liking (removing any gradients that don’t work for you) upload it to your site and then rebuild your header.

Hi,

first, wonderful theme! Great work!

Referring to post #53, the Firefox 3 & Opera 9.5 issue is still there. Is there a fix for it? It works in IE7 and Safari 3.1 fine.

Cheers,
Benny

@Benny – Not yet. I’m not sure when I’ll have a chance to take a look at it, but I’d be more than willing roll in any changes people send over.

Hi Christopher,

that’s ok, I will take a closer look to the stylesheet and try to find something

wonderful theme!! thanks a lot!!

am using it since WP 2.5 without problems.

just upgraded to WP 2.6 and am having the following problem: when writing a blog entry, inside the MCE, the new feature that images can have subtitles looks fine.
but in preview and when published, the subtitle of an image doesn’t look good at all.
is there any simple & quick way I can fix this? I guess there are some CSS classes to be added, right? (like dl.wp-cation, dl.wp-caption-dl etc.)

thanks for your effort!!
Stefan.

@Stefan – I wasn’t aware of the new subtitle feature until a few days ago! I haven’t had a chance to work on adding anything to Subtle for a while, so there’s no support yet for it. If you end up adding support, can you pass me your CSS file so that we can get it in the main distribution?

Hi Christopher,

these are the lines in the 2.6 default theme css file concerning caption:

/* Captions */
.aligncenter,
div.aligncenter {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

.wp-caption {
border: 1px solid #ddd;
text-align: center;
background-color: #f3f3f3;
padding-top: 4px;
margin: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-khtml-border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
}

.wp-caption img {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0 none;
}

.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 17px;
padding: 0 4px 5px;
margin: 0;
}
/* End captions */

I added them to assets/css/layout.css and that helped. Although (as you can see at http://meta.wops.de/2008/08/os-x-ubuntu-windows-auf-dem-medion-akoya-netbook-e1210/ ) it doesn’t look *perfect* right now.
Maybe you can finetune it furthermore?

Thanks a lot!
Stefan.

Hi Chris,

First of all, many thanks for this wonderful theme. One of my favorites now.

I use it on my site and while in theme editor, I wonder what does this file do?

advert.dist.php

Can you explain a little?

Thank you.

Hi, I’ve been having problems with GI-Subtle vs Anarchy Media Player. Seems there is a JS-conflict with the comments-form? In de single-post-page AMP no longer replaces MP3- en FLV-URLs. Is that a known issue? Anyone found a fix? Searched but could not find the issue here…

Hi,

I’ve been using the theme for over one and a half years now. Unfortunately, the most recent version of WP (2.6.1) and Subtle lead to comments of pages not being shown. This only applies to pages and not(!) posts.

I checked with the WP classic theme and with this one, comments are shown (so are they in the admin panel).

I compared the code and have no idea what’s different. It seems $comments inside comments.php is empty. Anybody got an idea why?

Cheers,
Torben

Big thanks for this thème. I’m using it and you deserve we support to make this theme the most famous of the wordpress themes.
I just have one question : How may I modifiy de blockquote on the sidebar ? I’m talking about the blockquote called “information and links” on this page. I tried to modifiy it in the file “function.php” but it was not the good solution. (I’m using wordpress 2.5.1)

I’m sure what I ask is really easy to do , but I didn’t succes yet.

Thanks for helping me

Same problem that torben in post Nº 75, need help, comments show in diferent post.-
The theme is awesome!!!
Thanks

Hi
is anyone of you using Subtle Theme with Wordpress 2.6.2? is it working or are there some problems?

I have major problems with WP 2.6.2 and can’t rollback the installation. I’ve tried to reinstall both the old database and the old WP version, but it seems to do any changes at all. Any tips?

@David – what problems are you having?

Christopher: Thank you for asking and sorry for my late response. I have made quite a few changes to the theme (an old version of Subtle) and have had minor problems that I’ve fixes myself during the “major” WP upgrades. Now when I was upgrading from 2.6.1 to 2.6.2 I get the following error:
====================================
Warning: main(/hsphere/local/home/####/####/wp-content/themes/gluedideas_subtle/styles/): failed to open stream: Success in /hsphere/local/home/####/####/wp-content/themes/gluedideas_subtle/header.php on line 28 Warning: main(): Failed opening ‘/hsphere/local/home/####/####/wp-content/themes/gluedideas_subtle/styles/’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/hsphere/shared/apache/libexec/php4ext/php/’) in /hsphere/local/home/####/####/wp-content/themes/gluedideas_subtle/header.php on line 28 Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getheadercss() in /hsphere/local/home/####/####/wp-content/themes/gluedideas_subtle/header.php on line 29
====================================
I have tried to rollback the database and reinstall WP, “unplug” the plugins and use a clean version of Subtle (0.42), but nothing works, just the message above. The strange thing is, I think, that I can’t use an old DB backup version together with an old WWW backup of all the content at the server. Well, I’m not an MySQL expert (at all!), nor a PHP or CSS/HTML geek. So I am a bit confused now! Thank you for any kind of advices!

Hiya,

I have a similar question to Cristian (#25) with regards to the sidebars. Is it possible to change the theme to have a 1-column sidebar or preferably 2-columns as it is now, followed by a 3rd column spanning the full width?

Cheers, keep up the great work, Christopher!

Hi again,
Managed to fix it via trial-and-error, you can see the 3rd column on my blog (see “My recent tweets”). If anyone needs advice just pop by

Hi Chris.

Along with a lot of others I really love your theme but I would love to have it as floating width instead of fixed.

I rummaged through the CSS but couldn’t really get it to work.

Can you tell me if I’m on an impossible mission or if it’s actually possible to convert it? And if the latter, any pointers to where to look and for what?

Thanks again!

We are hoping the new version to fit the new version of Wordpress 2.7 with the new features of the comments.

Please update your theme Subtle to the new version of Wordpress 2.7

Anyone tried Subtle with wordpress 2.7?

beautiful theme,love it very much.

I have updated to the latest version fo Subtle when I upgraded Wordpress to 2.5 and I am having an issue with post comments. very often, comments are getting attached to the wrong posts. When I try other themes, this issues doe snot happen… Any ideas I could try?

@César Palma & Thorleif Wiik – I’ve not had a much time these days to update to 2.7, though I’ve installed and used it to see if I’m interested in upgrading. I can’t promise anything since real-life is a bit hectic, but if I do end up working in 2.7 I’ll make an update to Subtle.

@laoliu – Thanks!

@RJ Ponzio – I realize this seems like a bug in Subtle, but it’s a bug in one of the WP widgets you’re using in the righthand column. Remove widgets from the righthand side of your “single” page and everything will work.

All seems well in my 2.7 installation except I just noticed the 1px content offset in Firefox mentioned by Adam and Luci.

In response to Thorleif Wiik, I’m running WordPress 2.7 and using the latest version of Subtle, works great!

I believe you created the theme for this site. I’m working on this site for someone else and the custom form overlays on the content in Internet Explorer 7 but it doesn’t happen in Firefox.

Can you offer any help – I’m at my wit’s end.

Thank you very much.

Hi Christopher,
i do love your theme! thank you for that great work.

I run it with WP 2.7 and everything works great, but one thing:
The comment function goes totally crazy.
If i’ve written a comment to an article, the comment is shown below another article and the reader comments of the active article stays blank. any ideas?

@Tob – The problem is with your plugins / widgets. You have a widget that is rewriting the “current post” value making the comments code think that it’s posting to the last post in the widget. For example, previous posts widgets will do this if you stick them on a page. Remove the widget and you’ll be fine.

Thanks a Lot.
It was the “latest articles” widget of Wordpress.

This is speedy answering

I got just one question:
Why there’s no “previous articles” link or a simple pageroll on the home page?

It would be awesome, if you could scroll only the article previews below the leads. do you know what i mean?

@Tob – Subtle really wasn’t designed to work like you’re suggesting, though people have attempted to force it to with varying levels of success.

Is there an easy way to use catagories to auto generate the header menu links, instead of pages?

i tried using

instead of

but then the little indicator arrow doesn’t work properly on the links… any ideas?

@brian – it looks like the code you placed in the comment was stripped. I’ve not done what you’re looking to do, but I know the WP template tags are there and should be fairly easy to implement. I’d love to see how it all comes together when you get it working.

shoot, here’s the code from the header without the brackets (hopefully it won’t get stripped out)

OLD
?php wp_list_pages(‘depth=1&title_li=0&sort_column=menu_order’); ?
NEW
?php wp_list_cats(‘depth=1&title_li=0&sort_column=menu_order’); ?

When I do this, the menu pulls the categories and that’s awesome, but the indicator arrow doesn’t display and leaves a few pixels of dead space under the links…

any ideas?

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the wonderful theme. I just put together my homepage that uses the subtle theme, converted to plain html (I couldn’t use wp in my homepage).

I had noticed a 1 pixel misalignment in Firefox between the header and the content background, due to the inconsistent way firefox centers background images and auto margin divs.

I think I found a way to fix it, by making the content background also be a centered element with auto margin within a wrapper container.

You can check it out at http://www.cs.brown.edu/~rfonseca

Thanks again, I hope it helps!
Rodrigo