Gene Robinson
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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How do I reinstall a later version of Thematic?Looking at your site, it looks like you have modified Thematic directly. That is most likely why when you upgraded Thematic you lost the styling and possibly the functionality of your site as you knew it.
You should really be customizing a child theme and not the parent. By customizing the parent theme you are boxing either yourself in or your client into a corner. Upgrading Thematic and WordPress is central to maintaining a secure and functional website as WordPress and Thematic evolve.
If you need more help getting on a proper track come here for advice: Thematictheme.com
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Jetpack Subscription] removing padding and wasted spaceLearning by doing is a repetitive theme in my life. Most all of what I know of web development has been learned from working as a freelance developer. A slight obsession with WordPress and Thematic landed me in the position of being a lead developer for the Thematic theme.
Thematic is a good theme to learn with and ThematicTheme.com is great place to learn more about the theme. Come on by when you have the chance.
Note that Thematic’s doctype is xhtml not html5 although there is a great html5 plugin that will mod Thematic to output as html 5.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Jetpack Subscription] removing padding and wasted spaceThe good news there’s not much you cant do with Thematic. The bad news is that it would be a lot easier if you were more proficient with CSS and PHP.
Hopefully this will give you a head start.
If you’re not using a child theme copy or move the bundled sample child theme in Thematic to the themes directory and activate it.
Then download this revised functions.php : https://gist.github.com/4489457
and replace the sample child theme’s functions.php with this one. That’ll give you three new widgetized areas to plop the subscribe widget into. You’ll still need to style it but this gives you the opportunity to try the ideal placement that I think you were requesting.For future reference there are fourms specific to Thematic here: http://thematictheme.com/forums
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Thematic] overriding thematic_validate_opt needlessly hardThanks!
For future reference the best place to submit bugs is here:
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Thematic] Exclude project post from blog postsImo, Keep it simple… you’re adding unnecessary complexity. Having two instances of WordPress is one two many for what you are describing.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: how do I make my absolutely positioned divs stay in place?Hi dinavep,
If you’re having trouble with Thematic or Thematic child themes you can always find Thematic specific support here: http://thematictheme.com/forums
After briefly looking at your site with firebug I can see that your issues are specifically related to your child theme’s CSS. It’s styles not plying nice with Thematic’s stylesheets that you have @imported.
Aside from pointing you to the Thematic community forums, I can only offer the same advice as esmi, use Firefox w/firebug or the web inspector of your browser of choice to debug your CSS.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Thematic] Exclude project post from blog postsBy default Thematic sets the meta robots tag to noindex on it’s category archives.
Look at the function thematic_create_robots() It’s found here:
thematic/library/extension/header-extensions.phpI thiik that you’d want to have your 1st page of the Portfolio archive indexed since you’re excluding it from the blog.
You can use the filter
thematic_create_robotsto conditionally change the output of the meta robots tag for your portfolio category archive.If you feel the original question has been answered please set this topic as “Resolved” If you need more help hold off until you get it sorted.
The code goes in the functions.php file in your child theme. If that file does not exist in the child theme directory, create it and add that code after a
<?phpopening tag.As far as the post loop styling for events goes, you’re missing the .hentry class on the .postloop > #post-[ post-ID ].clearfix
1.0.3.1 & 1.0.3.2 default to using the WordPress core body and post classes. To use the Thematic’s original post and/or body classes moving forward use this code in your child theme’s functions.php
add_theme_support('thematic_legacy_body_class');add_theme_support('thematic_legacy_post_class');Look here for more info: http://thematictheme.com/blog/ Also the forums on that site are a good place to ask questions and find answers specific to Thematic.
I hope this helps you fix your problem. If And when you find a resolution please mark this topic as “Resolved”
I looking at the two links above and I cannot discern the difference between the event two site’s styling. Did you fix it? If not what exactly is the visual side effect.
Between 0.9.7.7 and 1.0.3.2 we made some changes to Thematic’s default & @imported stylesheets. I’m thinking that its a style issue and less likely related to the markup. It sounds like you’re missing a border to some element marking up the event content.
You can find all of the past Thematic Versions here: http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/thematic/
To recreate the styling without downgrading Thematic. You could test moving the older stylesheets from the 0.9.7.7 and @import them from the child theme directory.
That would be how I’d start to tackle it; but without a link to the site or a link to the stylesheets your using, it’s hard to see exactly whats going on between your content and your styles.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Thematic] Exclude project post from blog postsTake a took at first the sample function on this Codex Page:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/pre_get_posts#Example:_Exclude_categories_on_your_main_pageYou could adjust the logic for the query to suit your needs look here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_QueryForum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Which .css file to use?Just to be clear you should not ever edit the parent’s files, in this case Thematic.
You should only make edits to your child theme’s files.
By editing the parent theme’s files, you’d risk losing your customizations upon upgrading Thematic in the future. Upgrades to Thematic are inevitable and will be made to provide it’s compatibility with WordPress and WordPress theme standards as they evolve. So you should always keep your parent theme up to date.
If you feel the need to drastically change the @imported styles *but* you still want to experiment with using them…
Then you’ll want to remove the @imports from the child theme’s stylesheet and copy the content of those parent stylesheets into your child theme’s style.css *or* copy the files into your child theme directory and @import them from within the child theme.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Which .css file to use?With child themes, you never want to directly edit or remove any of the parent theme’s files (in your case Thematic). What you do in you child theme is perfectly acceptable.
There are several @imports in the style.css of it’s bundled sample child theme. Those imported styles will give you a head start on your child theme’s styling and that’s a good thing.
IMO, the “outrageous” mention suggests that if your child theme deviates drastically from the @imported Thematic stylesheets then you might want to remove the @import statements and cherry pick the styles you desire from the framework or start fresh on your own in your child theme. I tend to do this when I find that the overriding of Thematic’s @imported styles using CSS inheritance and specificity becomes overcomplicated.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Serious issue regarding admin panelRight on. I’m glad that helped. Mark the topic resolved if you feel it is.
I see other issues like your logo div is called from within the <head> tag. That’s not good.
It’s probably because your child theme is hooking in to wp_head when it should be hooking into Thematic action hook like: thematic_before .
Also I notice that you’re using an older version of Thematic than the current release. It’d probably be best to upgrade Thematic. If you run into child theme compatibility problems on the upgrade loo here: ThematicTheme.com/ for more info on the changes and possible upgrade issues