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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Thematic] How to utilize the left sidebar areaHi jasperalfa,
I saw you posted the same question in the Thematic forums. I answered your question there. http://thematictheme.com/forums/topic/how-to-utilize-the-left-sidebar-area/
Basically, it’s a widget area and you can add widgets to it from the WordPress backend.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Thematic] When will the stable Thematic 2.0 be released?Yes, it is stable. If anything comes up in the Theme Review that needs to be adressed between now and the release it should be very minor.
Go ahead and use it.Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Thematic] When will the stable Thematic 2.0 be released?So. I will be perfectly honest with you. I do not know when the release will be available here on .org and through the automatic update in your site’s dashboard.
The development of 2.0 was finished and the release was tagged September 9th on github. But I do not have access to the theme repository. The ball now lies with Ian Stewart and after that the Theme Review Team.
I have sent him the zip, but he needs to upload it and it needs to go through the queue and get reviewed before appearing in the dashboard. I don’t know the current waiting time for themes. I know the Theme Review Team are doing the best they can in keeping waiting times as short as possible, but they always need more people to help out. It is entirely volunteer based.
I am sorry I cannot give a more satisfactory answer. I have done all I can at this point, but the rest is outside of my control. If you like, you can download the release from github in the meantime:
https://github.com/ThematicTheme/Thematic/releases/tag/2.0I am currently testing Thematic 2.0 against upcoming WordPress 4.0. Thanks for reminding me of yet another configuration to test.
The HTML5 plugin will no longer be needed with 2.0 since the markup has been incorporated into the theme. The plugin can safely be deactivated and deleted.
Yes some modification will be needed if you want to use the new features.
The child theme needs to tell Thematic that it wants to use html5 markup and to use the new responsive stylesheet. There will be a clear transition guide up at the documentation site. But it is not hard. A couple of lines of code in your functions.php file:
add_theme_support( 'thematic_html5' ); function mychild_add_thematic_styles() { return array('thematic-main'); } add_action( 'thematic_childtheme_style_dependencies', 'mychild_add_thematic_styles' );You might need to adjust some css, specifically regarding the navigation. You might also want to adjust the styling of the mobile navigation since that is a new feature.
Your child theme functions will work as before. You don’t *have* to update them in any way, but it can be good to go through them and check that the markup matches the rest of the theme. The markup structure will also be outlined at the docs site, but you can use any standard tool like firebug to check the output.
Note that you don’t *have* to modify the child theme at all. Child themes will still continue to work as before using xhtml markup. It is only if you want to switch to html5 that you need to modify the child theme. This is for backwards compatibility reasons.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Thematic] responsive theme?We are looking to release 2.0 soon after WordPress 4.0 is out, which means end of August/beginning of September. I’m testing with 4.0 beta right now and things look good so far.
The release will be an update to Thematic and be available through you site’s dashboard and here on wordpress.org. This is why we want to test it properly, so no sites will break in the upgrade.
In the final version there is no checkbox for html5 markup in the theme options. New installations will get the html5 markup with responsive styles automatically.
And yes, you should be able to continue to use your child theme with the stable release. That’s the whole idea. Just upgrade (replace) the parent theme files.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Thematic] Can't Turn Off Title & Tagline TextIt looks like you solved your problem?
Anyway, there is a checkbox in the bottom of the custom header panel Appearance > Header. Uncheck it to hide the text.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Thematic] Linking to LogoHow do you place the logo in the header section?
There are several ways to place a logo in the header, and that determines how to make the logo into a link.
Hi narthex!
I saw you cross-posted this in the Thematic forum. I wrote a reply to you there, let’s continue the discussion there instead.
Thank you
Sorry, i forgot to answer your question about filtering a plugin. Yes it certainly is possible, but depends on how the plugin is written. The plugin needs to provide you with a filter in the first place.
Well you can do almost anything in a theme’s functions.php. Take a look at
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference and then you can see that there are some actions that fire before the theme files are included. Thus, you cannot manipulate those from a theme file.This cannot be done from a theme but is possible from a plugin. This is because the locale is loaded before the theme file is included.
Take a look at http://wordpress-hackers.1065353.n5.nabble.com/Multilanguage-how-to-redefine-locale-on-the-fly-td40876.html
and http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/89972/locale-switching-with-a-language-taxonomyThe original poster decided in the end not to use taxonomies but to add a language indicator to the end of the post slug. Because the loading of the locale happens so early in the process, any conditionals such as
is_term()hasn’t been setup yet so you can’t use them.Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Thematic] Primary Aside not visible on Thematic home pageIf you scroll down the front page, you will see that the sidebar is indeed visible. It has just jumped down beneath the content.
I recognize this situation. Usually it comes down to an extra closing
</div>tag somewhere in a post’s content. This leads to incorrect nesting of the html and the layout gets screwed up.Check your site in a validator and see for yourself. Here is a quick check. There are several errors of incorrect nesting and one error of missing ending quote. This is a good starting point to fix. The error is not in thematic but in your post’s content. The culprit is probably the missing closing quote.