Cutline Theme for WordPress

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• 1 HART (1-800-HART) // Sep 28, 2006 at 7:19 pm

  Actually .. I was going to ask you about that .. I got fed up trying to display 4 thumbnails side by side and ended up making them all width=400 to look good.

  But - what if I already massively modified my footers, index and comment pages? Would this still work if I just copy the style.css sheet over and leave the rest untouched? Or would that interupt the theme?

• 2 Chris // Sep 28, 2006 at 9:22 pm

  Hart,

  You can get by if you only update style.css. The only things that would really concern me are:

  • If you don’t update index.php, you will not have the “→ Comments” link after each post. A great solution here, though, is to post with the <!--more--> tag so that less text appears on the front page. This way, it won’t matter if that link is at the bottom or not, because most users won’t really have to scroll to hit the link.
  • If you don’t update comments.php, all posts that have no comments will essentially have a link that refers to nothing (because you will not have a “#respond” link in the theme file). Of course, you could find that fix in the latest release and simply add it to your modified comments.php file.

  Cool?

• 3 HART (1-800-HART) // Sep 29, 2006 at 12:00 am

  Sort-of Cool … I had time tonight, so I downloaded and tried just uploading the style.css and nothing changed. I thought my “Evermore” plugin took care of that issue. So I had time, and I modified all the four files to include the changes I did before - but, it’s the same.

  I think I downloaded the wrong file Chris. I downloaded the sidebar version 1.02 http://tubetorial.cachefly.net/downloads/Cutline.zip but it’s not the same link as the blog post version 1.02 http://downloads.tubetorial.com/Cutline.zip and I think I just modified the original version again.

• 4 Chris // Sep 29, 2006 at 12:03 am

  Oh crap. I had totally forgotten about putting the download file on our Cache server.

  *smacks forehead*

  Fixing all that now…Sorry about the confusion!

• 5 HART (1-800-HART) // Sep 29, 2006 at 12:04 am

  I’ve got time now - I will just revamp it on the other download (in the post). No sweat with copy/paste actually - and I’ve got backups anyway.

• 6 Chris // Sep 29, 2006 at 12:08 am

  The files are all updated properly. Egg on the face is only good if it occurs between the hours of 12:00 and 7:00 am EST.

  Just another little trinket of knowledge that I throw out there free of charge on this here Web site…

• 7 HART (1-800-HART) // Sep 29, 2006 at 12:27 am

  I’ve now updated all the files, from the updated download file - but now (this is weird) the style did NOT work .. I’ve just reloaded it - as is from your download extraction and will leave it for a bit for your perusal. I’ve lost all the styling in the sidebar. It does work with the version 1.00 original style.css though. Is it me?

• 8 Chris // Sep 29, 2006 at 12:34 am

  Hart,

  No, the classes in sidebar.php were all changed in version 1.01 in order to accommodate the “standardized” classes that are used in WordPress widgets.

  Of course, I had the option to build backward-compatibility into the theme, but part of the goal with Cutline is to streamline things as much as possible.

• 9 HART (1-800-HART) // Sep 29, 2006 at 12:42 am

  I just find/replaced all .. li class=”sidebar_item” to … li class=”widget” and it’s working fine now. // Thanks Chris. Later.

• 10 Chris // Sep 29, 2006 at 12:48 am

  Rock on! Nice work.

• 11 Geren // Sep 29, 2006 at 5:30 pm

  Very cool, though I like things the way they are — after my full day of customizations. Anyway, the only thing I’m having issues with is in ‘navagation.php’. It seems that, for some reason, I only get a couple of pages of “previous” posts, even though I know there are many more posts that happened in the past. I’ve run into this with other themes as well, and have never figured out how to fix it. Any thoughts?

• 12 Nick Hebb - the Excel Flow Chart Geek // Sep 29, 2006 at 9:54 pm

  The timing on this couldn’t be better. I’ve decided to create a web site solely for transacting affiliate sales, and I wanted a low cost, low overhead solution.

  I was leaning toward an HTML template but then I was inspired by the all WordPress site used by the software deal-a-day resellers Bits du Jour (http://www.bitsdujour.com). Seeing the Cutline template just sealed the deal.

  If I had one complaint it would be the default URL’s. All the navigation leaves off the “www.” portion of the URL. I’d be concerned with negative canonical issues down the road - with half your backlinks as www.sitename.com and half as just sitename.com. Matt cutts has verified that Google does treat these as separate URL’s for ranking.

  Thanks for the great WP template.

  - Nick Hebb

• 13 Russell James // Sep 30, 2006 at 9:20 pm

  Hey Chris! How about telling us how we can add a nice graphic for email and rss sign-ups? Also, what about info on adding some nice graphics to comments?

  Thanks for all your work on this template!

• 14 Mrugesh shah // Oct 1, 2006 at 11:45 am

  Respected sir,

  I am using your theme on wordpress. i have not hosted it on separate server.

  The duplication of PAGES on top makes header too long, espacially in non-english languge. Is there any option, how i can remove PAGES LINE from header area.

  please guide me sir.
  thanks bye

• 15 Chris // Oct 1, 2006 at 11:56 am

  Mrugesh,

  Unfortunately, I don’t know what kind of flexibility you have on the WordPress.com hosted version. I don’t think you actually have the ability to control the pages that appear in the top navigation menu.

  If you want total control over your site, I think you should try purchasing a domain name and also getting a Web hosting package.

  There are virtually no limits to what you can do with WordPress on your own server, and for the kind of control you’re talking about, this is exactly what you need.

  For more information, check out the step-by-step guide to setting up your Web site on Tubetorial.

• 16 Robert // Oct 3, 2006 at 12:19 pm

  Sorry if this isn’t the place for it, but for some strange reason, I can’t get a javascript embed to show up in my sidebar (or anywhere else on the page, for that matter). Specifically, the technorati “claim” script that you need to use to link over.

  Am I missing something really obvious here? I didn’t seem to have any trouble in the past when I used the Kubrick theme.

• 17 Michael // Oct 3, 2006 at 4:10 pm

  Chris, what license is Cutline released under?

• 18 Chris // Oct 3, 2006 at 4:23 pm

  Michael,

  Cutline is released under Creative Commons Attribution — ShareAlike 2.5 License. This means that it’s ok to use as a commercial site and also to make some modifications, but you must retain attribution as it appears in the footer.

  Just about the only thing you can’t do is repackage it, call it your own, and sell it.

• 19 Vee // Oct 3, 2006 at 8:30 pm

  Just want to say, that I love your theme. I use it over at Wordpress.com and although I cannot customise in any way have found your theme to be really clean with splashes of colour, without being to colourful.

  As far as pullquotes go, currently at Wordpress.com I cannot use them as there is no widget for them.

  But I have found a work around that I like, and that is using adobe photoshop writing my text in different fonts and colours, then saving as a gif. to upload as a picture, then I can place this unique pullquote anywhere I want to.

  Again, thanks for your theme. I love it.

  V

• 20 Daniel // Oct 4, 2006 at 2:30 pm

  Chris,

  I am new to Wordpress. I just imported all my blog posts from Typepad and I am using your Theme. I love the look, and I am beginning to customize things as best I can. Being a newbie, there is a bit of a learning curve. One question I had was about adding additional link content to the sidebar. I would like to add a list of my most important posts, and I haven’t figured out how to add new lists, as of yet. Any help is much appreciated, and great work on the theme!

• 21 Neil // Oct 4, 2006 at 5:34 pm

  Chris - great theme! I’m noticing that I am experiencing the same issues as Geren (Sept 29) with navigation.php. Not all my “previous entries” are accessible; it’s almost like I get 2 pages of each. And it doesn’t display at all on the home page. Any idea why this is happening? Again, awesome theme; thanks for creating this for all to use!

• 22 Russell James // Oct 5, 2006 at 12:15 am

  Hi Chris, Is it just me or is the RSS sign-up not working with this theme?

  Also, how about a ‘notify me of new comments’ checkbox under these comments?

  Thanks!
  Russell.

• 23 Chris // Oct 5, 2006 at 12:22 am

  Neil,

  I think that’s how the WordPress code is actually written — deeper internal navigation is meant to be done via archives.

  If you want to delve into this issue further, check out the WordPress Codex, and search for “previous posts link” or “next posts link.”

• 24 Chris // Oct 5, 2006 at 12:28 am

  Russell,

  I’m not sure what you mean by RSS sign-up. If you’re thinking that all RSS links should point to a Feedburner address, that’s actually something that you have to add manually once you’ve signed up with Feedburner.

  The built-in RSS link points to your RSS 2.0 feed, which is the most modern feed that you can publish.

  Syndication sites like Feedburner use this RSS 2.0 feed to work their magic.

  Also, regarding the “notify me of new comments” checkbox — that’s actually a plugin called Subscribe to Comments which you can download from here.

• 25 Angela // Oct 5, 2006 at 12:32 am

  Chris - I really like this theme and I am using it in Wordpress.com so I don’t have access to all the code nor do I desire it. I am having trouble there getting the styling for my images. I am not sure if I am having a theme issue or a Wordpress.com issue, but I just really want the frames back. It has been suggested to me that I do this from the code of the post but do you know if or how I can do this from the text editor of Wordpress.com. If you don’t, that’s fine.

  BTW I loved the automatic styling and when it disappeared from my blog this is what started my questions. I guess I just share your tastes in how things should look as the only themes I have used in Wordpress.com are yours. Thanks for your designs.

• 26 Chris // Oct 5, 2006 at 12:37 am

  Angela,

  All you need to do is switch to the text or HTML editor instead of using the WYSIWYG editor.

  You can compose your post in the WYSIWYG editor, but when you want to add classes to your images, switch to the HTML editor and add the classes to your images.

  You needn’t be afraid of the code, because your image references should all closely match those described in my post, Image Handling with Cutline.

• 27 Angela // Oct 5, 2006 at 7:10 pm

  Okay, thanks for your help. What a great idea to use the site to show people what the theme can do. Thanks again.

• 28 Michael Clark // Oct 6, 2006 at 3:03 pm

  Did you mean to include the __MACOSX folder inside the Cutline.zip file? I unzipped the zip on my linux server, and was surprised to see the OS X stuff.

• 29 Chris // Oct 6, 2006 at 3:24 pm

  Michael,

  That’s a product of using the Archive utility on a Mac (which is what I used to produce the theme).

  So, although it wasn’t necessarily intentional, I was aware of the fact that the Mac OS X folder came with the download.

• 30 AY // Oct 7, 2006 at 5:55 pm

  Hey Chris, superb theme!
  I have only one problem - I can’t figure how to put background color
  I mean - BODY is #000000 (black) and CONTAINER #FFFFFF (white, as is by default).

  Everything works ok in IE, but in FireFox (latest version) - no - just black everywhere

  Did not modified anything else, just “background-color:#000;” to “BODY”

• 31 Chris // Oct 7, 2006 at 6:39 pm

  AY,

  Because the #container div is not floated, it does not actually “wrap” the interior content. Therefore, changing the background color of that element alone will not make the page white.

  Instead, change the background color to white on the following elements:

  • #masthead
  • #nav
  • #content_box

  That ought to do it!

• 32 AY // Oct 7, 2006 at 7:20 pm

  Thanks friend!

  Here are directions anyone shoud do in order to get this normal way

  1. add background to the footer
  2. add padding to #content - > width:480 instead of 500 and padding-left/right:10px;

  Thanks for the point friend!

  Superb theme, just what I was looking for

• 33 Chris // Oct 7, 2006 at 7:28 pm

  Although he didn’t mention it above, what AY means is that when he applied background colors to the elements specified in my last comment, there was no padding (no whitespace, if you will), between his black background and the text of his posts.

  If you really want to add a background that’s a dark color, I recommend simply adding a second wrapper div, just inside the #container div. I’ll go into this in-depth in a coming post, because I’m seeing a need for more support and direction within the “modder” community.

• 34 Chris // Oct 9, 2006 at 6:07 pm

  hey man, I love the theme, but I run into a weird error when I try to load it.

  My screen fills up with error messages that all begin with:

  “WordPress database error: [Data truncated for column ‘autoload’ at row 1]”

  I can switch back to one of the two default themes, and it’s aok, but try to switch to cutline and the funky errors happen. Can’t find much using that error message to search for. Any ideas?

  Thanks!

• 35 Chris // Oct 9, 2006 at 6:19 pm

  Chris,

  I have never encountered an error like that which you’ve described here, so without your login details and/or server access, the best I can do is suggest possible remedies…

  With that in mind, I’d suggest you first check on your WordPress installation and ensure that you’re running version 2.0.4.

  Once you’ve done that, you might also consider dumping the Cutline folder and then reinstalling it as well.

  Finally, if you’ve installed plugins, you may want to deactivate those to test for a potential conflict.

  Other than that, you’re kind of on your own here unless you want to direct that question to one of the many WordPress support forums or wikis out there.

  Good luck!

• 36 Chris // Oct 11, 2006 at 7:21 pm

  OK, figured out the issue with the funky database error…There was a bug in the K2 theme, that has since been corrected, that can sometimes cause an issue when installing the theme.

  The fix is in the functions.php file…change the 12 instances of $autoload to ‘yes’ (with the ticks) and that does the trick.

• 37 Chris // Oct 11, 2006 at 7:29 pm

  Very strange, but excellent job on the fix!

• 38 Yuri // Oct 12, 2006 at 9:38 pm

  Hello there, Chris

  As you used a Mac to archieve the theme, it can’ t be unzipped under Windows completely. I had to run WinRar to unzip all the files from the .zip file.

  Care to run standard Zip archiever next time?

  Thanks.

  Thanks for the theme, too

• 39 John // Oct 14, 2006 at 5:10 am

  I’ve recently decided to move from blogger to WP! I’ve installed WP and the Cutline theme on my site and have been trying to set up the Adsense Deluxe plugin per instructions at tubetorial.

  When I click on “add adsense block” I get the following error message: “Cannot load adsense-deluxe.php.”

  Any ideas? Have I installed WP, the theme, and the plugin correctly?

  Thanks for a great theme and any help you can muster!

• 40 John // Oct 14, 2006 at 9:04 am

  I solved my own problem, I think. I adjusted where I put the adsense deluxe plugin files and it seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks.

• 41 John // Oct 15, 2006 at 2:40 pm

  Is there a way to align adsense ads ot the left? The “ad” class seems to only postion the ad on the right side. Thanks!

• 42 Kevin // Oct 15, 2006 at 11:58 pm

  This is quite possibly the best WP theme I have used to date. Any chance of releasing a 3 column version of Cutline?

• 43 Chris // Oct 16, 2006 at 7:00 am

  John, to align an AdSense ad to the left, use the class ad_left.

  Now, within the context of your WordPress administration panel’s posting page, your AdSense declaration would now look like this:

  <div class=”ad_left”><!–adsense–></div>

• 44 Chris // Oct 16, 2006 at 7:06 am

  Kevin, that’s in the works. I’m torn between trying to accommodate the 770px width that you see here on the two column version, or simply expanding everything to 900px wide for the 3 column version…

  Maybe I’ll set up a little AJAX poll or something.

• 45 Spence // Oct 18, 2006 at 4:11 pm

  Chris,

  Fantastic theme, I completely adore it. Anything I’ve ever done for web publishing has been done in Dreamweaver and I’m trying to get my head around the coding to modify the theme as I need it…trying is the key word.

  Right now, though, I don’t need much modification…I’d just like to have categories listed in the sidebar. I think it was mentioned elsewhere in comments, and I did a Google search in hopes that someone else had posted modified code somewhere…but no luck.

  Can you help me out?

  Thanks,

  Spence

• 46 Chris // Oct 18, 2006 at 4:18 pm

  Spence,

  In order to add categories to the sidebar, simply add this “block:”

  <li class="widget">
     <h2>Categories</h2>
     <ul>
        <?php list_cats(); ?>
     </ul>
  </li>

• 47 Spence // Oct 18, 2006 at 5:17 pm

  You totally rock. Thanks for the prompt reply!! over the course of the next month or two, I’m planning to open a few more blogs all with this theme. I’ve run through quite a few of the “top” themes and, honestly, don’t think there is ANYTHING that tops Cutline, especially in terms of formattting content in a professional, aesthetically pleasing and intellectually effective manner.

• 48 Chris // Oct 18, 2006 at 5:24 pm

  Thank you very much!

  Of course, I believe that, but let’s try and keep that on the DL, k?

• 49 Josh // Oct 19, 2006 at 10:27 pm

  Is it possible to edit the CSS or one of the files to change the color along the edges, ie the white space.

  I am still in the learning stages of css, and wasn’t sure if this was already in there and coded for white or if it is something I can add.

  Thanks, hope my description is clear.

• 50 Mike // Oct 20, 2006 at 11:19 pm

  I vote 900px.

  Go big or don’t go is my motto … for burritos anyway !

  Might as well be for themes too.

• 51 Sean // Oct 23, 2006 at 2:56 am

  Hey Chris,

  This is a great theme; I love it! Thanks for making it so available.

  I was wondering if you know of an easy way to highlight author comments with spcecial formatting to differentiate them from other comments. I’ve tried a few php tricks that I found online, but all of them seem to break the comment loop and cause my comments to dissapear entirely.

  Do you have a solution for this?

  Thanks again!

• 52 Chris // Oct 23, 2006 at 6:52 am

  Josh: It can be done, but it requires the implementation of an extra wrapper div around the content. I’ve seen enough instances of people wishing to make this modification that I’m actually planning on releasing a “ready-to-mod” version of the theme that will make this process much simpler.

  Mike: I’m leaning that direction…Anyone else care to chime in, or are we gonna let Simplenomics be the sole dictator of the future?

  Sean: Although implementing author comments is not a horribly difficult task, it is too involved to elaborate on here. I suggest looking at the code behind the comments on the K2 theme or even my own PressRow theme, both of which involve the use of author comments.

  There are a ton of different ways to implement them, the easiest of which is probably just to color the background a light yellow or something. The code needed to do this is essentially just a PHP-conditional that checks to see if the comment was left by the author. If the condition is met, then the comment itself is appended with a CSS class — something like “author.”

  Then, of course, your stylesheet would have to contain the necessary code to accommodate these “author” comments.

• 53 Kevin // Oct 23, 2006 at 8:45 pm

  I vote for 900px and for a ready-to-mod version for the browser background color! Hey Chris, how about releasing your “pearsonified.com” theme? That is simply amazing.

• 54 Brian // Oct 24, 2006 at 2:46 pm

  Complete newbie here, but I was able to download CUTLINE onto my PC, upload it into my webserver directory (wp02), and the CUTLINE theme is showing up as available. I’m able to implement the theme, and it looks great. HOWEVER, the ABOUT and ARCHIVE links are pointing to “ABOUT” and “ARCHIVE” in the CUTLINE theme, and I get a 404 ERROR when I click the links. In the WP default theme, those same links point to “page_id=2″ and “page_id=3″..

  Am I OFF the map, or is there something I can do, i.e. change the links in CUTLINE to reflect the same links as the default theme points to?

  (ps) Please pardon the non-webmaster lingo, I’m just starting to learn a little bit about this stuff, and thanks in advance for your help.

  THE CUTLINE THEME LOOKS FANTASTIC!

• 55 Chris // Oct 24, 2006 at 2:53 pm

  Brian,

  The sole purpose of this site is to answer questions like the one you just posed. You’ll find a wealth of information in the archives here, and in fact, there is an entire post that is dedicated to your specific problem.

  Check out Why Don’t My Archives and About Links Work?

• 56 Brian // Oct 24, 2006 at 3:03 pm

  Chris,

  You just made my day.. I’ve been sitting here all morning FORCING myself to get the CUTLINE theme up and running.. With little technical know-how.. And this was my first REAL stumbling block..

  Thanks a million for your prompt reply, you’ve earned yet another loyal fan/customer, and I WILL be back with more questions.

  It worked - voila!

• 57 Chris // Oct 24, 2006 at 3:08 pm

  Yay?

• 58 Dave G // Oct 25, 2006 at 12:12 pm

  Chris,

  How vital is the .DS_Store file? I host on Yahoo and they do not permit file names begining with a period. Might be a show stopper for this theme which I like very much.

  Thanks,

  Dave

• 59 Chris // Oct 25, 2006 at 12:15 pm

  You don’t need (and shouldn’t transfer) the .ds_store file.

• 60 Rick McCharles // Nov 8, 2006 at 2:30 am

  Just testing Cutline and I LOVE it.

  But one small, very important problem.

  My individual post links do not work. For example when I click:

  http://gymnasticscoaching.com/blog_test/archives/32

  … it shows the ARCHIVE page:

  http://gymnasticscoaching.com/blog_test/archives/

  Cannot imagine what I am doing wrong or how to fix it.

  Other than that, I am ready to take the site live.

  Help. Please.

• 61 Rick McCharles // Nov 8, 2006 at 2:45 am

  UPDATE

  I went to OPTIONS “Customize Permalink Structure” and selected “Date and name based”.

  When I clicked UPDATE, problem solved.

• 62 Larry // Nov 15, 2006 at 6:30 pm

  Chris,

  I am totally new this web thing and am trying to get up and going. I’ve loaded the templetes with no problem, but I would like to have the side bar show the something like Recent Comments. Showing the last 10 comments to the blog site. Is this possible, remember I know nothing and am on a Mac so be kind and slow. Would you recommned any books? Thank you in advance to your assistance.

• 63 Chris // Nov 20, 2006 at 3:46 pm

  Larry,

  You’ll need to install the Recent Comments plugin. If you scroll down through the post, you’ll also notice that some champ out there has widgetized the plugin as well.

  Hopefully you’ll find it easy to implement, and because it’s widgetized, it should integrate seamlessly into the sidebar.

• 64 Michelle // Dec 26, 2006 at 11:23 am

  hi,

  I just wanted to say thanks for creating such a dynamic and creative theme for a blog. I just love it.
  It allows me to express my creativity which often change from day to day and now I am no longer stuck with one static picture on my blog.
  I now have a random ring of 25 personalized images and I just love it.
  You did a fantastic job.

• 65 Charlie Tan // Jan 23, 2007 at 1:19 am

  Hello Chris

  I am using the free wp site.

  How could I switch to use your theme.

  Also, can I install flickr badge script on this theme??

  Header section how could I insert my own image??

  Can I change the blackground to black as. I blog most of it are photos.

  Let me know.

  Thanks. I appreciate your help.

  I appreciate your advise

• 66 Rod // Feb 26, 2007 at 5:51 pm

  Hi. I updated the header using the random header image optimizer and now the tagline is missing. Is there a way of getting this back. Thanks Rod

• 67 Misty // Apr 3, 2007 at 10:36 am

  No sidebar with Javascript seems to work in Cutline. Someone mentioned this above but never got an answer. I can’t figure out what’s going on, but it appears that something doesn’t get included, because there are always errors about unitialized variables in the Javascript error logs. I can’t spot the difference between Cutline and other themes in regard to the header.php etc. Any ideas?

• 68 Strafverteidiger München // Apr 18, 2007 at 7:38 pm

  Thnaks for the Update. I will update it now.

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