It seems like there’s always something out there to fix, something to improve upon, and as a result, I bring you Cutline version 1.03. While it’s not quite as significant an upgrade as version 1.02, version 1.03 does contain a couple of major additions as well as a few cosmetic and under-the-hood changes.
All in all, this is yet another big step for the theme, and just like last time, I’ve gone ahead and compiled a list of the individual changes and the affected files. Oh, except this time, I was a little less reverent and a little more funny 
Version 1.03 Changelog
Numbers one, two, and three in the list below can all be considered major upgrades. One and two were highly requested by users, and number three makes for a great addition to any blog. So, without further ado, here are the changes in Cutline version 1.03:
- 1. Link categories now supported in the sidebar
- Although I was hesitant to do it because the auto-generated code is so poor (my opinion), I went ahead and included link categories in the
sidebar.phpfile. Now, all of your links will be separated and nicely categorized, just like those you see in the sidebar on this site. - 2. Larger font in the sidebar
- Lots and lots of people had complained, both here and on WordPress.com, about their inability to read some of the sidebar items on certain monitors. The primary gripe was that the text was too small, and that was actually something that I specifically set out to avoid when I created the theme. Apparently I didn’t do a good enough job on the first go-round, so now I’ve made the sidebar fonts a bit larger.
- 3. Support for the Subscribe to Comments plugin
- While this plugin actually works quite well out of the box, a tiny bit of styling is necessary to make it mesh perfectly with Cutline. Two lines of CSS later, you’ve got a perfect implementation of a comment subscription option.
- 4. All (and I do mean all) vertical spacing has been converted into ems instead of pixels
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Paragraphs, margins, padding, text sizes, you name it — they’re all consistently sized in ems now, so that the entire site scales seamlessly whenever text is resized. This should have been done in the first place, but I figure it’s better late than never, eh?
Actually, it scaled nicely before, but whitespace was defined in pixels, not ems, and as a result, the whitespace appeared to shrink whenever text was resized. Since I lose sleep at night over things like this, I bit the bullet and changed all vertical pixel references into ems. Take that, neuroticism!
- 5. Line heights in the posts have been changed from 1.7em to
1.6em1.65em - Maybe it’s because I’ve been looking at the theme for so long, or maybe it’s because I’ve been reading too many books on typography…but the bottom line is that I felt as though the line height in the content area was just a tiny bit too large. So, I dropped the height a twentieth of an em, and the difference, although subtle, pleases me greatly. Y tu?
- 6. Vertical spacing after titles in definition lists
- Many of you may not even be aware of what a definition list is, but either way, I’m sure you’ll be happy to know that I’ve allowed for more vertical spacing after
<dt>items. Now, definition lists are cleaner and more legible than ever before! In fact, this entire changelog is one big definition list. Looks good, no? - 7. Unnecessary XHTML removed from
comments.php - I found some lame code lying around inside the
comments.phpfile, so I got out my nuker and, well, nuked it. - 8. (Some) unnecessary CSS removed from
style.css - Ummm, yeah. Same story as number 7 above. Used the nuker.
Only three core theme files have changed for this release — comments.php, sidebar.php, and style.css.
Upgrade Instructions
If you haven’t made any changes to your theme files, then you have nothing to worry about. Just overwrite them all and have a good day.
If you’ve changed your header images, don’t overwrite the images folder within the Cutline directory! Don’t do it! Stop already!
If you’ve made changes to your style.css file, you’re kind of up a creek here. A lot has changed in various places, so I think it’s probably best if you just try and move your major changes over to this new CSS file.
Very soon, I’ll be releasing a special CSS file that you can use to handle personal changes to the theme. This way, whenever there’s an upgrade, your changes will go unaffected.
If you’ve got the moxie, you can go ahead and do this on your own by creating a new CSS file — say, my_styles.css — and then including a second stylesheet reference in header.php. You’d need to add this reference inside the <head> tags, and it would look something like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo(’template_url’); ?>/my_styles.css” type=”text/css” media=”screen” />
Got it?
Now go forth, and be more functional than you were one version ago.
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169 responses so far ↓
1 David Krug // Oct 26, 2006 at 2:06 am
Dude,
You’re a freaking workaholic. You do it all for free too. Just amazing.
2 Matthew // Oct 26, 2006 at 11:58 am
Thanks for the upgrade. Thanks for Cutline. I had just installed 1.02 on my blog and came to check the stuff about the Archive page when I saw this.
Any more upgrades planned soon or can I make some changes?
3 Chris // Oct 26, 2006 at 12:47 pm
Matthew,
The next upgrade will probably feature a combination of plugin support and editing features for both posts and comments., so that will represent a fairly major release (it will likely be version 1.1).
For now, I would suggest making CSS-only modifications, simply because you can compartmentalize those in a separate stylesheet as I described in the post.
4 Hummerbie // Oct 26, 2006 at 1:37 pm
Chris,
First, Thanks You for the great Tubtorials on WordPress and for the Cutline theme……great job!
Just one question!
When are You going to tell the others about the Integrated support for the Flickr Plugin?
I hope I didn’t spoil your next post about this little secret.
5 brian // Oct 26, 2006 at 2:19 pm
Chris - thanks a million again!! I’m having so much fun.. haha
First.. I’m scared to make any changes to ANYTHING, but I thought WTheck and changed (CSS style sheet):
h1 { font: bold 3.6em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.03em; }
to:
h1 { font: bold 1.6em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.03em; }
Allowing me to shrink the size of the weblog title, so I can add a non-imposing (but lenghty and witty) description, instead of a short title.
Is this a good/bad/indifferent idea? Is everything safe?
Thanks again,
Brian
(ps) Do you accept donations or ? where?
6 Chris // Oct 26, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Hummerbie,
This was actually included as an update in Cutline 1.0, and I first introduced support for the FlickrRSS plugin in a post entitled, New Release — Featuring Widget Support!
Sooo, you didn’t spoil anything
Brian,
If it works for you and everything looks fine, then yeah — it’s a great idea! My only suggestion, though, would be to leave the
<h1>size as it was before (3.6em), but then add a separate<h2>to contain the tagline (add this immediately after the</h1>in the code).Then, you can add a class like this to your stylesheet:
#masthead h2 { font-size: 1.6em; letter-spacing: -0.02em; padding: 0 0 0.8em 0; color: #888; }Hopefully that’ll turn out looking good.
Oh, and although I haven’t set up a formal donation button on this site, I do accept them via PayPal at sales@designerknockoffs.net.
Thanks very much for using the theme!
7 Chuck Cheeze // Oct 27, 2006 at 1:46 am
Using a links list on the right sidebar- and the bullet points are sitting outside the column margin. I tried to have li/li and nothing around the list items, with no change. Help!
8 Daniel // Oct 27, 2006 at 11:18 am
Really very nice
9 Chris // Oct 27, 2006 at 12:15 pm
Chuck,
When I first uploaded version 1.03, there was a mistake in the
style.cssfile.All you need to do to correct this error is download Cutline 1.03 again, and replace only the
style.cssfile.Sorry about that! It just ended up being an issue of bad timing.
10 Kevin // Oct 27, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Chris,
Same problem as Chuck with the link list bullets outside the margin. Replaced with fresh style.css file. Did not fix problem.
11 Chris // Oct 27, 2006 at 2:38 pm
Sorry guys. The version on the server was messed up.
Fortunately, I’ve fixed it, so now everything will work once you’ve downloaded and reinstalled
style.css.Thanks for helping me find the bug!
12 Chuck Cheeze // Oct 27, 2006 at 4:13 pm
That fixed it, thanks!
13 Mario // Oct 28, 2006 at 4:27 pm
Chris;
I am really excited about your wonderful theme. I wonder if it will be possible to localize it so that it can be translated to other languages. I can do the Spanish translation.
14 Nemanja Sreckovic // Oct 28, 2006 at 6:22 pm
I like your theme very much, thanks!
15 archshrk // Oct 28, 2006 at 9:21 pm
Making this work for my wife’s photo site I realized the archive and about header images are missing. Still trying to figure out how to format the sidebar for other items and changing the page structure to better support embeded gallery2 pages like I have at www.archshrk.com
16 Chris // Oct 29, 2006 at 1:05 am
Mario,
If you don’t mind, simply download the theme and perform translations as necessary. With each new release, I always detail exactly which files have changed, so this will allow you to keep the translated version current as well.
I will need to spend some time setting up a special FTP site to handle things like this in the future, but until then, you can do this “the old fashioned way.”
Check your email for some more info.
17 Matt // Oct 29, 2006 at 2:47 am
I love this theme. I have one question though, How do I add additional things to the sidebar? Like underneath the blogroll, i’d like to add a subscribe section, where i’d give technorati info and such. I was also thinking of moving the RSS feed icon from the top to the subscribe section on the sidebar…how would I do that? Thanks much!
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19 Julian // Oct 30, 2006 at 2:21 pm
Great theme. Anyone know how to change the color of the masthead text?
20 GaryV // Oct 30, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Hey Chris
Great theme, I love Cutline (and Pressrow btw) and would like to switch to it. Sadly, unlike most of the commenters here I have no knowledge of html/css/php and have no overwhelming desire to learn them. I just want to blog but also be able to change the header image
With your ability you should be able to do a “one click” header changer utility that non experts like me can use. Don’t want to be a complainer its just a suggestion.
21 Jeff Blaine // Oct 31, 2006 at 4:36 pm
Here’s what I did with it (plus the random image header.php which I tweaked to pick from 10 images instead of 5) today.
http://www.kickflop.net/blog/
Thanks for the cool theme, Chris.
22 Chris // Oct 31, 2006 at 4:46 pm
Looks fantastic! I really like the minor changes that you’ve made in the header. Good stuff.
23 Mark // Oct 31, 2006 at 6:44 pm
I like your theme, but WP reports it as a broken theme and says “The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.” “Stylesheet missing.” Any advice? Just downloaded the theme seconds before uploading it, btw.
24 Chris // Oct 31, 2006 at 6:47 pm
Mark,
You have installed one hierarchical folder level too many in your
themesdirectory. Find the lowestCutlinefolder, and just upload that to your server.That’ll fix the problem!
25 archshrk // Oct 31, 2006 at 8:38 pm
I’m using the random header and loving it. One issue is my embedded gallery is not formating correctly. Seems to be an CSS conflict.
What I want to know is how to make my Gallery link show green text when in gallery mode.
26 Mark // Oct 31, 2006 at 9:08 pm
Thanks Chris! My SFTP client was acting odd and only uploaded the folders and wouldn’t let me upload the files. I ended up rebooting, doing a few odd things, clearing the cache in FF and downloading a completely fresh copy. … This one fully uploaded. Thanks!
27 Warthog // Nov 1, 2006 at 2:26 am
Help,
Cutline is awesome.
However, I am using the date and poste permalink structure (i.e. here) — and when I click on post headers from the home page I end up on a 404.
Anybody? Master Chris?
28 Warthog // Nov 1, 2006 at 3:08 pm
Sorry - fixed it by just going with %postname and removing all date info…
29 Per Christian // Nov 1, 2006 at 4:57 pm
I love your theme! Any plans for Asides?
30 Jason Brown // Nov 2, 2006 at 6:10 pm
Wanted to ask Chris, and you can email me the answer.. where do you get your icons?
Got any good resources for icons?
Thanks man!
Go UofL!
31 GaryV // Nov 2, 2006 at 8:07 pm
Sorry, I spoke too soon. You did have an image loading tool! thanks your theme looks great.
32 Dave Butler // Nov 5, 2006 at 11:38 pm
Chris - Cutline is great. One problem is that it’ll become the defacto theme for any dog related blogs!!!
33 Chris // Nov 5, 2006 at 11:55 pm
Well, I love dogs, so I guess it’s not all bad.
34 Chris // Nov 5, 2006 at 11:58 pm
Jason,
I didn’t actually use any icons on Cutline (except for the RSS icon). However, on some other designs that I’ve done, I’ve used icons from a variety of collections.
Perhaps you can pinpoint the site/icons in question, and I’ll hook you up with the answer.
35 AlexK // Nov 6, 2006 at 5:36 am
I’d love to try out this theme, but I made so many little modifications to my current theme that I am hesitant. Is there an easy way to include all my stuff in a theme (mostly integrating plugins) and not having to redo everything with every version upgrade?
36 archshrk // Nov 6, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Finally worked out all the tweaks last week and successfully integrated Gallery2 into the cutline theme.
I can help explain the changes I need to make for this to work, but since I don’t always look here for new comments, leave a comment on my blog post “hello-world”
37 Ravi // Nov 6, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Hi, I am a relative novice at web design/CSS. I installed the Cutline theme and it has worked wonderfully for the past few weeks. However, I noticed this morning that my entire sidebar and any text in posts before a certain point (anything before my post on the Endurance 50 on 11/4/06) are now BOLDED AND ALL CAPS!
I can’t figure out what the issue could be. Any guesses? I tried reviewing all the posts I made yesterday for any open “bold” or “blockquote” commands…but can’t find anything.
Any ideas?
Thanks…this theme rocks!
Ravi
38 Chris // Nov 6, 2006 at 3:06 pm
Ravi,
I’m guessing you fixed the problem, because everything looks A-OK on my end…
39 Ravi // Nov 6, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Hi Chris, are you using firefox?
This is odd, but I just realized that the site looks fine in Firefox, but is funky in IE. Have you heard of other users seeing this issue?
Here is what I see:
Firefox on Mac: looks great
Firefox on PC: looks great
IW on PC: looks funky (i.e. not good).
40 Chris // Nov 6, 2006 at 3:20 pm
Ravi,
You have mistakenly placed the
<!--more-->tag within the<h3>sub-heading, and this is what’s causing your problem.Move the
<!--more-->tag to the end of the preceeding paragraph, and this will solve your problem.The root cause here is the fact that FireFox is “smart” enough to treat the tag as a closed entity, but IE just assumes that it goes on forever.
41 Ravi // Nov 6, 2006 at 3:51 pm
brilliant!
It would have taken me months to find that! Worked like a charm…thanks!
42 L. Cosio // Nov 6, 2006 at 8:34 pm
Hey! Very nice! Thanks for the theme… BTW, you might want to include for the next update to make it even better the title=”" attribute to all links and default meta-keywords and meta-description.
43 Chris // Nov 6, 2006 at 11:55 pm
Alex,
Cutline includes support for quite a few plugins, but if you use a significant number of them to run your site, then odds are good that not all of them will be supported.
Of course, no theme out there can boast support for every plugin, so no matter what, you’re going to face that hurdle when you decide to implement a new design.
I suppose you could look at the flip side of this issue and realize that if you were a designer, then you’d have to address every single little element of your site whenever you wanted to re-design…
44 Glenn Hubbers // Nov 7, 2006 at 2:56 pm
Chris,
Since I have been trying to implement drop down menus within the Cutline Theme, I have been testing various browsers to see the effects.
When testing the site with IE 6.0 I noticed that the side bar elements under recent posts, categories and archives are all centered, whereas in Firefox and Safari the appear correct as left aligned.
Any advice about why this happens?
45 Chris // Nov 7, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Glenn,
It’s likely that a tag is not being closed somewhere. If everything were closed off like it is on untouched versions of the theme, then your sidebar elements would all display correctly.
46 Ravi // Nov 7, 2006 at 7:44 pm
OK, another basic question. Is there a simple way to change the font used in the cutline theme?
I want all fonts to be Verdana. Times is hard for me to read. …a little to fancy for my tastes!
Thanks.
Ravi
47 laurie // Nov 7, 2006 at 10:55 pm
working on adding this theme to a friend’s site– any ideas about why I’m unable to edit the widgets? I upgraded to the latest version. I try to add a text widget to the sidebar, the editor pops up grayed out, I click on it to edit, and it disappears.
I don’t know if it is the theme, the widgets plugin, or maybe even my firefox2.
Any suggestions?
48 Nathan Yergler // Nov 8, 2006 at 11:30 am
Hey, love the theme. But in footer.php, it’d be useful if you moved the call to wp_footer() inside the closing div tag. That lets plugins that add to the footer place their content in the correct place. Plugins, like, say, wpLicense (for adding a CC license to your blog). Thanks for the great work.
49 Chris // Nov 8, 2006 at 11:35 am
Nathan,
That’s an excellent point. Thanks for helping to improve the theme for the community!
50 Jason Brown // Nov 8, 2006 at 6:11 pm
I dont have any site in specific that I want to know about, but it seems a lot of your designs have great icons and I am just trying to find a good collection of icons myself like the ones you use.
Thanks for any url’s you can throw my way!
51 SFGary // Nov 8, 2006 at 7:18 pm
Hi Chris
The link dialog box while writing a post does not open to full size when I click on it. Its left justified and cuts off half the box. Any ideas?
@Glenn, do you plan to distribute your modded version of Cutline?
52 Chris // Nov 8, 2006 at 11:05 pm
Jason,
My favorite icon sets are both free:
53 SFGary // Nov 9, 2006 at 8:11 pm
Chris
I just noticed that two of my older posts acquired a larger font and the sidebar got pushed to the bottom of the page. Any ideas on how that can be fixed?
54 Chris // Nov 9, 2006 at 8:26 pm
Gary,
There is tons of unnecessary markup in your posts that is causing the problem. I can’t pinpoint the error because there are simply too many pieces of erroneous XHTML present.
I recommend turning off your WYSIWYG post editor and then editing your post called What is Blogging?
55 SFGary // Nov 9, 2006 at 9:17 pm
Chris
Thanks for the quick response, I copied some text from a post I made to the wp forum and didn’t realize the problems it would create…I fixed it. The joy of being a newbie.
In any case the W3c validator still shows this:
“# Error Line 1 column 0: end of document in prolog.”
They don’t have an explanation for it, do you know what that might be?
56 Chris // Nov 10, 2006 at 1:17 am
No clue.
57 Zach // Nov 10, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Chris,
Is there a way to contact you by email, or am I just missing it? I have some questions about Wordpress and Cutline that I hope you can answer. I’ll ask them here in case you don’t accept emails:
1) How do I insert a flash header into Cutline? I placed the code in the header_img div in header.php, but all I have been able to accomplish so far is a blank space. Do I need to do some CSS manipulation to achieve results?
2) Can I put an image into the footer, like in the default Wordpress theme Kubrick? If so, how do I do it?
3) Where is the CSS to alter the link properties in the footer? I’ve looked all over but can’t seem to find it.
Thanks again.
58 Chris // Nov 10, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Dude, you’d have to hire me to answer those! But, I’m not for hire.
I always try to answer questions to the best of my ability, but special cases such as yours are beyond my means (and perhaps beyond the limits of my goodwill).
Oh, but I can give you some direction on the footer. The footer is controlled by
footer.php, and in order to find the controlling CSS, simply search thestyle.css,file for this term:#footer59 Christian // Nov 12, 2006 at 3:57 pm
Hi, love the theme..
I don’t know much about css and stuff though, can anyone help me out? I’d like to put a border around all of my content , i just can’t figure out where to insert the code in the stylesheet
Thanks!
60 Bill Hutchison // Nov 13, 2006 at 1:51 pm
Love the theme, I have already used it on a few different sites.
I changed it to a three column theme on one of them, Renovate Australia.
Let me know what you think?
61 Ravi // Nov 13, 2006 at 5:15 pm
Has anyone figured out how to change the background of the cutline theme? I want the main header/post/sidebar areas to remain white, but the background to be grey.
I change the Body code section to indicate a gray color, and then change the #masthead and #content areas to white, but then there is no whitespace margin between the posts and the grey background.
Any idea how to add a margin around the main content area?
I am in the process of learning CSS, so assuming there is a simple formatting command I have to discover.
62 Liza // Nov 14, 2006 at 12:24 pm
Chris
You are a hard working maniac. However I understand. I suck at doing computer code, yet here I am banging my head hour after hour. These computers are a seductive puzzle. I only wish I knew what I were doing. You are a true whiz. And the dog pics are great. But can you play the guitar?
ok. I switched to Cutline from Pressroom. Both lovely. I was swayed by your post about accessibility. Yes I bought it without needing to totally understand it.
1. where are the files that I made in pressroom stored? I wrote a page called “schedule” and “review”, but I don’t know where they are so I can’t transfer them to the cutline theme.
2. Perhaps I don’t know how to properly make a page? I made them in the write/pages page. They were recognized and displayed with a little code work for header links. But I never ever saw them in the presentations/edit themes page.
3. Have I missed something crucial somewhere?
Thanks for any help you can toss my way…
63 archshrk // Nov 14, 2006 at 1:02 pm
Liza,
http://www.lizaconstable.com/weblogobe/schedule/
http://www.lizaconstable.com/weblogobe/reviews/
to find/edit pages go to your WP dashboard and under Manage, go to Pages.
64 Liza // Nov 14, 2006 at 1:38 pm
Ok, I’ve been told that I need to process things externally, and it’s true. I had been holding off asking for help until I just couldn’t stand it anymore.
So then of course I found the pages I had made in pressroom right where they’re suppose to be, and just needed to place the page name in the header so you can get theah from heah. (I live in NH)
AND I found that in cutline you can modify pages in html… how’d you get so smart?
looking forward to making my site better by watching all of youse…
65 Chris // Nov 14, 2006 at 1:42 pm
Nice work theah, Mizz Liza!
66 Liza // Nov 14, 2006 at 1:54 pm
allright, now that I’m here… sorry to bother you. But
is there really an advantage to having ads on your website? I find it so annoying, distracting, not to forget that it ruins the design. Shameless commerce that usually has nothing to do with the website. When I’m looking to buy something I check it out on Froogle first. Not someones’ website.
Chris Pearson, king of what can increase traffic to your website, has no ads that I can see. Can we have a little less of this and still do well?
67 Chris // Nov 14, 2006 at 2:04 pm
Liza,
I actually added ads to my site at the end of last week, but I chose to do so in a tastefully unobtrusive way (for the most part).
Unless you are blogging in a niche area, then there’s no reason to place ads on your site.
My site has been online for a year (as of today!), and only recently has it become reasonable for me to place ads on it. In fact, I only expect to make about $100-$200 per month, so it’s not a huge deal by any means.
The only reason why I would even consider placing ads is because I draw a lot of traffic in to older posts through search engines. I’d like to monetize those older pages, so I chose to place ads on them.
But as far as fledgling sites go — leave the ads at home, and keep that design looking nice!
68 Ravi // Nov 14, 2006 at 2:53 pm
Personally, I think it is perfectly fine for anyone to use ads on their site. The way I see it, if someone is spending many many hours of their free time to provide me a FREE SERVICE, why shouldn’t they be allowed to monetize their site?
I think it is only fair.
In fact, for a niche blog, I find that ads (if done properly) will enhance the value of the content!
Chris, as for your site…have you considered adding a link for donations to your site? You may find it even more effective and less obtrusive than ads…(not that I find the ads on personified that obtrusive anyway).
Many folks, like me, who are happily enjoying cutline would be glad to pass a tip along.
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70 Chris // Nov 14, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Ravi,
I’ve received a couple of tips from people thus far, and you’re right — I really do need to put one of those PayPal tip deals over in the sidebar.
71 Tim // Nov 15, 2006 at 7:56 am
Hi.
I’m new to blogging and have just installed the Cutline theme which is great.
However, I put in two or three test posts and on the front page it’s displaying all the text in the posts, not just a snippit with the ‘Keep reading..’ link (which is what I want).
How do I change it to just display a snippit with the Keep reading link for each post on the front page?
Thanks.
Tim
72 archshrk // Nov 15, 2006 at 1:18 pm
insert where you want the post to snippit. There is a tab on the write post screen for inserting this code, too.
73 archshrk // Nov 15, 2006 at 1:19 pm
sorry, insert “more” with around it
74 Chris // Nov 15, 2006 at 3:47 pm
Tim,
I just published a post on this topic, and hopefully, this will get you headed in the right direction.
75 Tim // Nov 15, 2006 at 7:00 pm
Hey, thanks guys for the tips.
Got it working now.
Tim
76 Krzysztof // Nov 16, 2006 at 9:49 am
Hello,
I’m loving your theme and have applied it to my site with a few minor changes.
I’m embedding Gallery2, however, and encountering one interesting little problem - when a gallery image is clicked, the “current” header selected is not the “Photos” page, where I would like the gallery to sit and where the link originates, but rather the “Archives” page. In other words, clicking on a photo or a gallery in the “Photos” page somehow redirects us to “Archives”.
Any ideas why this is?
Regards, and keep up the fine work!
Krzys
77 archshrk // Nov 16, 2006 at 12:38 pm
I could probably help you with that. First, don’t make your gallery password protected. I can’t see what works and what doesn’t when you do that. Second, are you using a custom wpg2header.php? If so, change the navigation so that the “if current” statements are removed and set the navigation link for “photos” to class=”current”.
Check your email for more info.
78 archshrk // Nov 16, 2006 at 12:46 pm
I’ve added some feedflare to my posts and want to make the links look like the “tags”. According to feedburner, I just need to define “feedburnerFlareBlock” otherwise it adopts the style of the parent paragraph. Also, I define a style called “first” for the links themselves. I tried this using the tagged styles but I don’t think I used it correctly.
Any ideas?
79 Henry // Nov 16, 2006 at 8:53 pm
Hi Chris,
I started using Cutline for my blog a few days ago. I noticed that my posts don’t display a Trackback URI. I spoke to the WordPress folks and they said the feature is up to the theme. What can I do to display the Trackback URI automatically? You can see an example on my blog: http://81electric.wordpress.com. Thanks.
80 Chris // Nov 16, 2006 at 11:46 pm
Henry,
You can look up how to generate trackback URIs in the WordPress Codex, but basically, it’s just the regular URI with
/trackback/appended to the end of it.I chose not to include that because WordPress will actually pick up trackbacks even if people don’t use the trackback address.
As an example, I’ll point you to my site, where I have literally hundreds of trackbacks despite the fact that I don’t display a trackback address.
So I guess my point here is that it’s a nonessential element, and I chose to leave it out for that very reason.
81 gio // Nov 17, 2006 at 12:53 am
Hi Cris,
I installed your cutline theme a few days ago and customized it a bit. This must be the most beautiful wordpress theme i have ever used and I want thank you for making such a wonderful piece of work. I noticed my blog loads a little bit faster now.
82 Chris // Nov 17, 2006 at 5:18 pm
Gio,
Thanks a lot! Your site looks fantastic — I like the mods you’ve instituted along with the SEObook-esque color scheme.
83 Dave F // Nov 17, 2006 at 6:21 pm
Hi Chris- (I looked for an email addy on your site to ask you this question directly, but I couldn’t find one so I’ll post it here.)
I was wondering if you want to keep Cutline exclusive to Wordpress, or if you would give me permission to port it to ExpressionEngine. This would just be for my own use, I don’t have any desire to distribute it.
Please send me an email at the address I put in your comment form.
Thanks,
Dave
84 Irene // Nov 19, 2006 at 3:06 am
Sigh… I’m sorry that I might sound stupid but how come my images can’t display on the sidebar. I’m using the previous version. I’ve checked the directory of the images, they are correct, the images files are uploaded too but… they just don’t want to appear
WHY??
If you don’t mind, here’s the test page I did.
http://www.99.com.my/irenelaw/wordpress/
I really don’t know what’s wrong with it. Or I guess I’ll try to download the this version and compare the code in sidebar.
85 Vladimir // Nov 19, 2006 at 8:01 am
Hi, Chris. I’m from Russia. I love your designs (especially Copyblogger) and I will use Cutline
But can you help me? Is there any way to replace the sidebar? I prefer sidebar that’s located left.
86 Dr Bob // Nov 19, 2006 at 3:01 pm
Hi Chris,
I’ve just discovered Cutline and am beginning to test it out–I’m impressed by its clean look and extensive page layout tools.
I’ve been testing it out at http://http://tacuroctr.com/blog/ and have found a few problems:
I use a lot of sidebar categories. When I get to a certain point, the formatting is lost. Firefox 2 wraps it right; IE7 keeps it in column but loses list formating.
The comment quicktags plugin, which inserts a quicktag toolbar on the blog comment form, does not work (I realize this may be a problem with that plugin)
87 Hummerbie // Nov 19, 2006 at 3:19 pm
Hello Irene,
You have put the images for you blog into the template Cutline/images folder.
If you put them into the wordpress/images folder, they should work.
This is where the page source looks for them.
88 Chris // Nov 19, 2006 at 3:52 pm
Irene,
Your
imgURLs are not sufficient in this case.Currently, you are using the following image declarations:
<img src="images/mail.gif" /><img src="images/arrow1.gif" />
These are inadequate because the entire URL is not specified. As a result, the server attempts to call images from the following location:
In reality, your images are located in the
imagesfolder that lies within the Cutline theme folder.There are two possible solutions to this problem:
imagesfolder within your root WordPress folder, and that way, you wouldn’t have to modify theimgdeclarations in your sidebar.imgdeclarations to use the absolute file path, which currently looks like this:Cool?
89 Chris // Nov 19, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Vladimir,
Changing the location of the sidebar is easy. All you have to do is modify the CSS that controls the location of the
#contentelement.Right now, the
#contentdiv is floated to the left. To make it appear on the right, you need to have it floated to the right.To do this, use a Find function on your
style.cssfile to find#content. Once you’ve located the appropriate definition, change the float property fromfloat: left;tofloat: right;.That ought to fix you up!
90 Dr Bob // Nov 19, 2006 at 4:02 pm
Just figured out the sidebar formatting problem:
In the style sheet, ul.sidebar_list handles up to 9 list categories. Adding additional categories solves the problem (my sidebar categories were breaking at ID=10).
91 Chris // Nov 19, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Dr. Bob,
The way WordPress handles link categories is woefully inadequate. With the advent of widgets, WordPress also introduced a “standardized” version of markup for the sidebar.
Unfortunately, this standard was not applied to link categories, and as a result, each new list of links generates with unique IDs (and no consistent class names for easy styling).
Because of this, I realized that it was necessary to hand-code values to handle link category styles. The resulting 2 kB file bloat is both inefficient and stupid, so I capped it at 9 in an attempt to accommodate the majority of users.
Unfortunately, your site fell outside the boundaries here, and I’m sorry that you had to deal with that annoyance.
Trust me, though — it’s not as annoying as “unstandardized” markup. A fix for this is contained in the WordPress Trac, and I believe that one of these days, this tomfoolery will be righted.
Anyway, I’m glad you were savvy enough to solve the problem!
92 Vladimir // Nov 19, 2006 at 6:46 pm
Chris, thank you very much for Cutline and your help.
93 Adam // Nov 19, 2006 at 6:58 pm
Hey Chris, Thanks for all of your hard work. Total rookie question here… When trying to edit the header.php file, all I get is this when I open it with textedit on my mac:
• href=”">front page
• href=”/archives/”>archives
• href=”/about/”>about
• RSS
What am I missing here? I am trying to use my logo as the masthead, keep the nav bar underneath it, and then delete the header images… Am I on the right track here? Thanks again for all of your help. -Adam
94 Irene // Nov 20, 2006 at 12:59 am
OH WOW! Geee… Didn’t thought of that. Thank you very much! Feel really stupid now
Hahaha… By the way, keep up the great work!
95 Chris // Nov 20, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Adam,
It looks like TextEdit is omitting the actual PHP from the header file.
I don’t think TextEdit is equipped to handle dynamic file types like this. I recommend getting BBEdit, Dreamweaver, or TextMate to handle the production or tweaking of Web-based files.
96 Kevin // Nov 20, 2006 at 11:28 pm
You are right Chris. TextEdit doesn’t handle files like this very well. I recommend TextWrangler for the Mac. The best part is that it’s free. I use it as my default editor with Cyberduck for FTP.
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99 dan // Nov 22, 2006 at 5:19 am
Hello Chris,
I’ve been reading your blog for awhile and decided to start my own. I installed cutline and I am getting a 404 error when I click the archive link and also with the about link. I have installed the theme a couple of times and I have not a clue why it will not work. If you could give me any suggestions it would be much appreciated.
Dan
100 Chris // Nov 23, 2006 at 12:21 am
Daniel-san,
All the answers to your questions are here in the blog, grasshoppa.
101 Dave Forde // Nov 26, 2006 at 11:00 pm
Chris - any thoughts on a building 3 column version?
102 Adam // Nov 27, 2006 at 8:14 pm
Thanks for the help guys. Both Text Wrangler and CyberDuck are working out great.
One more question for you if you have a second… Do you like any particular plugins for “print this post” and “email this post” functionality? Or might this be a feature that you are thinking about for future versions? I would like to have this on my site but not sure the easiest place to start. Thanks again.
103 David Krug // Nov 27, 2006 at 10:43 pm
Adam,
For the Print and Email options, check out the plugins here.
104 Badr // Nov 30, 2006 at 8:10 pm
Chris;
I have a question for you. Since I use your theme Cutline, my wordpress is behaving odly. Every week, for some reason my wordpress blog changes from your theme, to the default theme in wordpress (I think its kubrik).
Why is this happening? Any ideas?
Thanks
105 Glenn Hubbers // Dec 6, 2006 at 2:56 pm
Chris, any thoughts in a future update of having a three column layout for Cutline?
106 Chris // Dec 6, 2006 at 3:50 pm
Glenn,
I’ll release one potentially as soon as January, but for now, I’m focused on ventures that actually keep a roof over my head.
107 Corey // Dec 6, 2006 at 6:33 pm
I have been using reskinned version of the Cutline theme for a little while now. I love it. So easy to use and modify. I have a little problem and I’m if you, Chris, or anyone else can help me out. I didn’t have much luck at the Wordpress forums.
I am having a display problem with my Wordpress site. I want to direct users to a particular category of posts instead of all posts. So, I am using a static page linked to the page listing all entries with that tag.
To clarify, the page in question says “Entries Tagged as” and the url looks something like http:///category/. You can get to it be clicking the tag link at the bottom of a post.
The problem is that the post summaries listed on this page don’t display links properly. The links are just displayed as text. Whereas on the front page, the links are displayed properly as links.
I am running Wordpress 2.0.5 using the Cutline 1.03 theme.
Is there a way to fix this? Is there a different way to direct users to only posts tagged as a particular category? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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109 Sridhar // Dec 7, 2006 at 9:19 am
Hi Chris,
Want to say thank you for the theme.
I am using it at http://www.sridhareena.com/
Those who are into Google AdSense, check my site out and let me/us know if anything can be improved. I’ve tried to make use of the maximum allowable by Google in all parts of the blog. i.e., 3 ads units, 1 link unit, 4 referrals.
110 Chris Starjive // Dec 7, 2006 at 12:05 pm
Here is a fix man!! code lines is only here to make widget link categories work in all cats. Get the ugly code out from your css :E and replace with this one.
.linkcat { width: 230px; margin: 0 0 2.5em 0; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.4em; float: left; }
.linkcat h2 { font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0 0 0.8em 0; padding: 0.4em 2px; border-top: 3px solid #000; background: url(’images/hr_dot_black.gif’) 0 100% repeat-x; }
.linkcat ul { list-style: square; margin: 0 0 0.5em 20px; }
.linkcat li { margin: 0 0 0.7em 0; }
.linkcat li a { text-decoration: none; }
.linkcat li a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
111 Chris // Dec 7, 2006 at 12:15 pm
Chris,
That code does not work because WordPress does not assign a class to link categories when they are auto-generated.
Instead, each category receives a unique ID of the form
linkcat-ID, whereIDis the unique number that identifies the link category.If the solution were that simple, I would’ve easily nailed it.
112 Chris Starjive // Dec 7, 2006 at 2:02 pm
I use this and it works flowless in WP SVN anyway, gonna check it for 2.0.5
113 Chris // Dec 7, 2006 at 2:06 pm
Chris,
I talked with Matt Mullenweg personally about making that change in future releases of WordPress, so that’s why you’re seeing it on the SVN.
An overwhelming majority of users are not currently running the SVN version of WordPress, so I don’t address those issues here.
The entire reason that aspect of WordPress will be changed is because there’s no way to handle it dynamically under the current code structure.
So yeah, I’m all over that like white on rice.
114 David // Dec 9, 2006 at 8:50 pm
Chris,
Thanks so much for the great template! I heard about it from Tinu with http://freetraffictips.com
I am having trouble getting the font on the right hand side of the page to look normal - the recent entries and search section are really large font.
Do you know how I might correct this?
Thanks,
David
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116 Chris // Dec 10, 2006 at 12:51 pm
David,
Your fonts are looking strange because you have XHTML tags that are not being closed properly.
Essentially, you have used
<strong>tags within your posts, but the way the markup is constructed is “messy.” According to XHTML specifications from the W3C, your<strong>tags should be completely contained within your<p>tags. In your case, these tags are being closed off out of order, and that’s why you’re seeing inconsistent rendering.If you’re using an external publishing system (and not crafting your entries within WordPress), you may want to begin checking the resulting post within WordPress to ensure that your markup code is formatted properly.
The bottom line is simply that your resulting post code is not semantically sound, and this will always generate inconsistent results at best.
117 Diarmaid // Dec 11, 2006 at 7:41 am
Hiya,
Your theme is my favourite wordpress theme at the moment and I’ve just build University College Cork, Ireland Kitesurfing Club website using it. So thanks very much for your hard work.
You might be able to point me in the right direction with one other thing though - if I want to add a contact us page to the site, is there a template for that?
Míle buíochas! (Irish for thanks a million!)
118 Chris // Dec 11, 2006 at 9:22 am
Diarmaid,
Excellent, thanks!
You can find everything you need to know about a contact page in my Tubetorial video series, 7 Essential WordPress Hacks. Specifically, check out this video:
How to Install the WordPress Contact Form
119 Diarmaid // Dec 11, 2006 at 9:44 am
Wow, that was almost too easy, just added it to the site. Thanks again
(Can you recommend a decent and simple wordpress photogallery plugin? sorry to be bugging you…)
Míle buíochas arís
Diarmaid
120 Oyvind // Dec 12, 2006 at 6:12 am
Sorry for being a noob on CSS, but I don’t understand how to make the site’s name disappear from the header? You have made it very easy, by stating “uncomment the height and background declarations here if you intend to use a graphic in the header instead of the h1 “.
But I still don’t get it.
Whatever I do, there’s still the site name above the graphics. I want to have graphics only, and no sitename (which I will include in the graphics itself).
121 Mike // Dec 12, 2006 at 1:22 pm
Chris,
Thanks for putting together such an awesome theme. I’ve tinkered with it a bit and changed the footer to “Based on the Cutline theme by Chris Pearson”. Is that OK?
Cheers,
Mike
Oyvind - If you go to header.php you’ll see the following line of code:
“>
Change this to
122 Chris // Dec 12, 2006 at 1:25 pm
Mike, that’s fine by me!
123 Mike // Dec 12, 2006 at 1:26 pm
D’oh! Forgot you can’t paste code directly into the comments.
Go to the header.php file, look for the line which begins and remove everything that sits in between the closing comment so your code looks a bit like this:
124 Sridhar // Dec 12, 2006 at 1:50 pm
Mike: Use http://pastebin.ca.
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