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1. Almix
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   I have some question and a little advises about this dkret3 theme, and hope they will make this theme better:

   1. When i use my-dkret3 child theme, Why the sidebar layout option disappear in my-dkret3 settings? i want to use the sidebar-small.css in child theme and modify my own style.css.

   2. when the cursor focus in the comment textarea, there is a long grey image pop out between "leave a comment" and "Your email is never published nor shared", do anybody take note of it?

   3. could you theme author move the "edit" link (right align) in to the tags area which is in the end of each post in your next version? i think that will looks better for blog owner, do you?

   4. In the single post page, the "previous post" and "next post" links display is a good function for readers, but as i know, we can display the previous post's TITTLE and the next post's TITTLE in this function. so i change the single.php like blow:
   

   <div id="nav" class="navigation">
                   <span class="nav-previous"><?php previous_post_link('%link'); ?></span>
                   <span class="nav-next"><?php next_post_link('%link'); ?></span>

   5. In the calendar, the DAY's align is center, but the DATE's align is left, so it is looks a little disorderly, and i found setting it all right-align looks better, could you try it and fix it?

   6. I think it's not good experience for blog reader move their mouse on header image but the cursor changed to 'hand', because that means they cannot click the mouse next, otherwise it will take them to the same page most of the time. so i remove the onmouseclick function myself. how do you think it?

2. Almix
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Add one more:
   7. I found that upload a header image will add a new post(id) in SQL at the same time, that's a little intolerable for a cleanliness guy like me. I don't know whether WordPress do it or not, because i never upload image by write posts. I don't want a temporary image (it is always) will occupy the id as a post all the time. so I want to know, that can the dkret3 theme change the work mode if it can possibly implement in WordPress?

3. kretzschmar
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Why don't you use the dkret3 support forum if you want to contact the author of this theme (me)?

   1.
   I added the simple my-dkret3 child theme to dkret3 because so many problems had problems in creating a child theme.

   If you use a child theme you normally just want ONE design. That is the reason why I haven't added them to my-dkret3. You can copy all styles of the neeeded layout file (folder: library/layouts) and paste them to the style.css of my-dkret3.

   You can have all layout stylesheets AND the drop down field in the settings panel of my-dkret3 if you move (or copy) the library/layouts folder of dkret3 to the my-dkret3 child theme.

   2.
   The grey pop out is actually the comment PREVIEW. You can deactivate the preview in the settings panel of dkret3.

   3.
   The edit link is outside the entry-meta devision because if an child theme author wants to hide this devision with css (display: none) he will loose hide the edit link too.

   4.
   Don't edit any template files. You will loose your modifications after updating. I may add a filter to the navigation links in the next release. So you can make your changes inside the functions.php of your child theme (I will add a commented function to the my-dkret3 child theme - just uncomment it).

   5.
   I will change that.

   6.
   This is a feature of dkret3. Maybe you are right - Will think about it.

   7. Uploading header images is a function of WordPress. I prefer uploading them to the headers folder with ftp.

4. drustand
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   I am new to Wordpress and to dkret. I cannot get the new theme to show up on my account. Can you tell me how to do that?

   drustand

5. kretzschmar
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   @drustand: The dKret theme is for the wordpress version you can download on this page. You can find the dkret theme under the Extend link

   @Almix: I already filtered the navigation and added an example to the functions file of the my-dkret3 child theme. Stay tuned for the 3.3 update - soon to be released.

6. kretzschmar
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   @Almix: added new option to link header image (or not)

7. kretzschmar
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   New version with the changes is out. You can download it from my homepage or wait a few days before it is live here at WordPRess.org.

8. Almix
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   @kretzschmar: Thank you for all your answers!!

   You told me how to use child theme effectively. now i can use the small-sidebar by child theme myself. and i know what the grey pop work. i confused it before you told me that, but now i think it is really a good feature in this theme!

   i don't know how to use functions.php yet ( for example i want to hide the email box which is in the comments.php by myself ). may be i need learn more about it later. so i accept your advise and will recover the default comments.php file next.

   for the question about header image, i think that's not very important because i modify it by #header {cursor: auto;} in style.css in child theme, though the header image still link to the homepage. so you can determine whether you should add the new option, because this theme is design for all users.

   and now, i tell you why i didn't use the dkret3 support forum: because of the great fire wall (may be you know it), it is very hardly (or very slowly by proxy) to visit your website or forum in our country. so i hope you can understand it.

9. kretzschmar
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   By the way, as long as you are learning how to filter properly you should be aware that you can COPY template files that you want to change from dkret3 to your child theme. If you change them there, they won't be overwritten if I update dkret3.

   (But best practise is to make most changes with CSS OR by filtering because if I make changes inside the template file you altered, you won't see any changes at all because you altered template file is used.)

10. kretzschmar
    Member
    Posted 1 month ago #

    It is not possible to hide an input field in the recent dkret3 version but I added some more classes in dkret 3.4 so you can hide the email field with css:

    .email-label, .email-input {
    display: none;
    }

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