Cutline Theme for WordPress

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• 1 the taxidermist // Dec 3, 2007 at 3:08 pm

  Its not a big problem, But the way my site is structured I need my title bar in my catagories to display more than just the catagory name and site name. ie I want a description like you can do with ‘all in one seo’ for a post.

  so right now its
  “catagory name” | “site name”
  and I want it to be
  “keyprase”, “keyprase” ect… | “site name”

  Is there a way to get the title bar to referece the catagory description?

• 2 the taxidermist // Dec 3, 2007 at 3:15 pm

  SEO Title Tag 2.1.1

  I shudda Looked 1st! This should do the trick,,, by edit my misspelling *Category ; )

• 3 Rick McCharles // Dec 3, 2007 at 6:05 pm

  Love the theme.

  YouTube videos will not show in
  http://rickmccharles.com/

  But I have another Cutline site where they do:
  http://besthike.com/blog/

  I am reluctant to update theme versions, or Wordpress versions, because I do not want to spend the time redoing the few hacks I have added.

  e.g. bigger font

• 4 Rick McCharles // Dec 3, 2007 at 6:08 pm

  One slight downside to Cutline is that I get no EDIT link (when I am logged in) to immediately make changes to a published post.

  I must go in to WP admin. That’s slower.

• 5 Rick McCharles // Dec 3, 2007 at 6:12 pm

  A big selling point of Cutline are the special blockquote classes.

  But if you LATER want to change themes, you have the Cutline specific blockquotes on your old posts.

  I’ve been included both. For example:

  align=”right” border=”0″ hspace=”10″ vspace=”5″ blockquote class=”right off”

  No doubt this is bad form.

  I would have been happier with the ability to opt in and out of the Cutline blockquotes. I wish they were a plugin, not built-in.

• 6 Rick McCharles // Dec 3, 2007 at 6:13 pm

  THANKS again, David.

  Not many themes are brave enough to ask, “what your major problems, issues, and shortcomings”.

  You are a stand up guy.

• 7 terry // Dec 4, 2007 at 8:04 pm

  I can’t get the tri-column version to work for seperate pages. I have tried EVERY solution recommended in these pages. I don’t think I am alone. I am not a wordpress techie but I have some technical experience to draw from but I’m a little lost. Isn’t there an easier way?

• 8 Dr bobbi Anne white // Dec 5, 2007 at 11:21 am

  I have two blogs both with cutline 1.1 I tried making the “about” page with the “dog”slug and uploading the new header, but then I got a parsing error.so for both my blogs /blogg and /blog the About page brings up the sitemap

• 9 the taxidermist // Dec 5, 2007 at 12:46 pm

  whats the permalink code for post names, I saw it the other day but I cant find it anymore
  Im using /%postname%/ and thats not working its using post number…

• 10 the taxidermist // Dec 8, 2007 at 2:10 pm

  My search doesn’t work in Fire Fox and hardly works in IE for some reason… Any help?

• 11 Sam // Dec 8, 2007 at 7:00 pm

  It would be great to have an option to display a border around the page, as wide as the content. At the same time, put a background on the outside layer. tks,

• 12 Ben // Dec 9, 2007 at 5:01 pm

  I notice that when I create a new page (not post) all the text is underlined and links to the wp-admin page of my site. This super-long link stops at a real link. The text following the real link is normal. Any tips?

• 13 June Dodge // Dec 10, 2007 at 4:28 pm

  I am using Cutland for several Parent Associations - they would like to have a slightly different look for each of the schools - a different header - different colors, if possible different top navigation bar, and maybe different sidebar - but the header and different colors for links would be a a great start for me. I have to have this done in posts not in pages. With so many people having access I gave them only access to edit posts… Anyway, this is my major need/wish/dream.

• 14 A Person // Dec 14, 2007 at 10:56 pm

  I’ve been trying and trying to get the random headers to work - without any success. I’ve also posted on the forum and the suggestions provided so far also don’t work. I would REALLY like to find out what to do in order to get my header images to change.

• 15 V.K. Rajagopalan // Dec 18, 2007 at 1:36 pm

  When I create a wordpress page (not post), on the right side under “Page Template”, there are three options:
  Default template, Sitemap & Archives.

  I want to create a user-defined page template which should also show in this dropdown. How to create and how to make it show in this dropdown?

  I would appreciate any help in this regard.

  thanks
  Raj

• 16 Mike // Dec 19, 2007 at 2:59 pm

  Hi, I have a page at http://ryannewmaninfo.info.

  I have noticed in my footer that I have “Loading….
  $codeStr = ”;

  Althought I never noticed the Loading…… portion it.

  I have noticed in the footer if I take out the part
  …..php wp_footer()…..
  that this “error” goes away.

  Just curious what this is for. Thank you!

• 17 Mike // Dec 19, 2007 at 5:27 pm

  NEVER MIND - My hit tail pluggin is causing it for some reasone!

• 18 brant collins // Dec 20, 2007 at 12:02 pm

  links at top do not link to correct pages? Where and how do I fix. If I go to the “about” page the url link is
  http://www.ivoter08.com/about/ and not the

  http://www.ivoter08.com/?page_id=3

  If I add pages they do not show up in the navigation

• 19 liberalgeek // Dec 21, 2007 at 9:09 pm

  I have found a slight error in rendering in firefox. After posting a comment, the wp-comment-post.php redirects back to the comment that you just posted(e.g. bloagname.net/blogpost/#comment-1234, but with cutline, it doesn’t seem to make it down to the actual last comment on that redirect, usually stopping a few comment north of it.

  Oddly enough, reloading the url will get you to the expected placement. I even tried recoding the wp-comment-post.php to just redirect to the comment box, but I got the same behavior.

  Otherwise, I love the theme and find it to be quite flexible and easy to modify (although I haven’t had to change much).

• 20 MissKnowItAll // Jan 2, 2008 at 1:32 pm

  I don’t know about nitpicking, but I use Xenu to check my links and it comes up saying I have a custom.css missing. I redownloaded your cutline split 11 and there wasn’t one there either (which I didn’t think there would be but was hoping). Why is it asking me for a customized css? I don’t have a clue how to even go about doing that. Where do I look for this?

• 21 William Tell // Jan 3, 2008 at 10:38 am

  I installed Cutline and like it pretty well. However, since the theme is monolingual, I had to hard-code “Kategorie” instead of “Category” and so on. Chasing the three or four varieties of “0 comments” also had me busy for a while. That being said, *fanfare”, what about multi-language support?

• 22 Franco // Jan 8, 2008 at 3:38 pm

  I’m pretty new to all this, so perhaps I’ve just made a big ol’ mess, but I’m having trouble with accessing certain pages. I chose our About page as the static front page. I currently have the permalink structure set to default, and my recent entry links work, but when i try to access the archives or the post page, i get a page not found error. When I change the permalink structure the problem is reversed! Ack!

• 23 Cyndi // Jan 9, 2008 at 4:32 am

  Thanks for a lovely theme and the support. I’m new to WP and have only managed a few code changes. I haven’t figured out CSS yet. There are a few things I’m not crazy about with Cutline, but when I searched the theme dir at WP, nothing else was better. I am using the 3-column split.

  I really want tags (not categories labelled tags) to show up at the bottom of every post (along with the categories), something Cutline doesn’t do. I managed to change this in the code though (in several theme files). It works except I just can’t get the punctuation right, though that’s okay.

  I want the author of the post to be listed.

  I want an edit button.

  I guess this is ordinary CSS but I want my category and post title lists in the sidebar to be more compact (while maintaining your indentations for subcats and a mark at the beginning of each entry, things a lot of themes don’t do).

  Most of all, I want a fluid width. I hate that I have to make my photos small (500 pixels wide) so they don’t overlap the right sidebar. This happens no matter how wide I make the browser window. I’m trying to recode it but haven’t gotten it to work. I realize that fluid vs fixed width is a WP theme option, but it would be nice if you had one of each or a way to switch.

  I like the header randomizer btw, though I had to fix a typo. It had 770 width instead of 970 (970 is from the cutline version I’m using).

  Thanks again!

• 24 George // Jan 9, 2008 at 11:36 am

  This is a great theme. My only challenge is when I update a post which include You Tube video embedded, the code becomes corrupted and the page is out of alignment and the sidebars become a mess. Is there a hack to preserve the you tube code so I don’t lose the integrity of the site ?

• 25 Jane Day // Jan 9, 2008 at 3:09 pm

  Please clue in the poor f*#ks on the forum that you’re shutting it down — or at least link to the blog post where you mention that it’s no longer supported.

  Too bad — I always get more help from a forum community than from an individual developer’s blog.

  Sorry for the attitude, but it’s from dissapointment at ending the forum. Its existence was a deciding factor on going with a modified Cutline as basis for a new client’s site.

• 26 Sherri // Jan 10, 2008 at 8:21 am

  I love the 3-column cutline layout, but like another poster above I, too, have tried everything to get my pages to display all to no avail. The only tab that displays in the top navbar is HOME. What’s the trick?

• 27 Emily Smith // Jan 10, 2008 at 11:17 am

  I am so new, I’m squeaky. Having major problems right off the bat. For instance, I Can’t For The Life of Me figure out how to get simple TEXT into a post…Can get the title, description, etc. and so on…but can’t get text into the post. Big problem.

  Second, when I go to make a comment on the page as a regular user, I get 405 message that the website cannot display the page.

  Also, I have enabled the Archives, but there is no Archive page that will display. Get the 404 message.

  Also, can’t get text into the About page.

  Enough problems for one post. IS THERE Anyone who can help with this?

• 28 V.K. Rajagopalan // Jan 10, 2008 at 11:56 am

  I have been using Cutline v1.1 with this site of mine.

  Now, I am setting up a new blog using WP2.3. The blog is http://www.affiliatesblogging.com/

  So, I am customizing Cutline 2.0 for WP2.3.

  I do not find the custom.css in this new version. It was there in cutline v1.1. Has it been done away with?

  If I have to make changes to CSS, do I now have to do it in style.css only?

  Raj

• 29 Michael Crook // Jan 11, 2008 at 8:12 pm

  I tried to install a couple different versions of cutline on my blog and ran into some serious DB error feedback and don’t know enough to figure out what the problem is. I’d appreciate if you could take the time to look at what might be going on? Feel free to send me an e-mail if you need information.

  A text file with the errors is available here.

  This is what the page looks like when I try to load it.

  I appreciate the support if you’ve got the time.

• 30 Vimm // Jan 14, 2008 at 12:03 pm

  Here’s an option I could really use… variable width! The days of the 800×600 desktop are over, and when I’m looking at my 22″ widescreen monitor I want to use the whole screen!

• 31 Mario // Jan 14, 2008 at 2:15 pm

  The hspace and vspace attributes in uploaded images don’t work.

• 32 jayanthi // Jan 16, 2008 at 6:21 am

  Clicking on “1 Comment” doesn’t link to the comment. It leads to a page with the original article where you can scroll to the bottom to see the comment.
  Real net-savvy bloggers won’t have the patience for this. Is there anything you can do to make posting a comment a bit smoother?

• 33 Jerry Leventer // Jan 18, 2008 at 4:54 pm

  I’d like to enter my vote that you keep developing Cutline version 1.1. In particular I prefer the 3-column Right version. I tried version 2.0 and I do not like it as much compared to v1.1.

  The navigation bar is especially less than desirable in v2.0.

  Also, my floating sidebars do not display at all in v2.0, whereas v1.1 displays them properly.

  If you wanted to bring the look-and-feel of v1.1 to v2.0, I would support that.

• 34 Binary Blonde // Jan 19, 2008 at 12:23 am

  I gotta say that I am in love with Cutline. I am so happy that it is not going to be left to rot. Seems like a waste if that were to happen.

  As for issues with it, I second the suggestion Rick (#4) mentioned. I would love an “edit” link on the posts. Also, it would be nice if the search widget was styled. As of now, I am using a hack that I found in the forums for the search and it is hard-coded in above all my sidebar widgets.

  I used the 3-column split version, by the way.

• 35 Andrea // Jan 22, 2008 at 9:02 am

  I like the overall look and feel of Cutline. The only real problem I would like to see fixed is the widget implementation in the 3 column, 2 right sidebars version. For some reason the far right sidebar doesn’t work in Widgets Admin and has to be hard coded. Fixing this would be great!

  Thanks!

• 36 Retire Blogger // Jan 27, 2008 at 6:01 pm

  Hi:
  I’m using cutline 1.1 for my site. And for the life of me, I can’ figure out how to get the title for the home page to show in the title bar? It only shows the URL.

  All the post pages show the titles correctly. Only the main page has this problem. Where do I go to fix it. Point me in the right direction and I’ll find my way.

  Thanks,

• 37 Webmaster Bellas Venezolanas // Jan 29, 2008 at 9:33 pm

  Hi. I have Cutline 3 columns on my blog, and I have 3 questions:
  1. How can I activate the Sitemap?
  2. How can I change the Header menu (Front, About, Archives)?
  3. How can I activate the About and Archives Pages?

  Thanks…

• 38 Webmaster Bellas Venezolanas // Jan 29, 2008 at 9:41 pm

  Sorry. Cutline 1.1 and WP 2.3.2.

  And I vote for the “Edit” label in each post and search custom…

• 39 Emily Smith // Jan 30, 2008 at 2:11 pm

  I really like Cutline…But, why do the widgets start looking differently if you move away from the default arrangement? I’d like to rearrange the widgets in the sidebars, but don’t want them to look or act differently just because I moved them around….?

• 40 jane day // Jan 30, 2008 at 2:23 pm

  Would really think about an overhaul of the stylesheet, even if it meant those using the custom stylesheet had to re-do their work.

  Have some across themes with much more elegant (minimal) CSS.

• 41 Mark O'Toole // Feb 1, 2008 at 4:44 am

  Hi I am trying to setup cutline 1.1 but cannot get the archives page working. I keep getting a 404 error. I cannot see any solution to this on the web. I have checked the ‘archive’ box in the template options to no avail?

  any help would be greatly appreciated..

  thanks,

  Mark

• 42 Sunny // Feb 4, 2008 at 2:10 am

  I also can’t open the About Page….and the page I created does not show up. Moreover, once I go into the Categories or Archives section, the links to the posts all become dead.

  I also have trouble displaying search results.

  Would appreciate if you could give me some guidance on how to fix those problems.

• 43 Tony // Feb 12, 2008 at 12:50 pm

  I have tried for hours, but I can’t add a new category to my blog, I am running wordpress 2.3.3.
  Have searched numerous forums, tried disabling javascript in Firefox, what next? This is my first experience with Wordpress and I am tempted to go over to Blogger as I do not want to waste any more precious time.

• 44 Travis // Feb 21, 2008 at 11:44 am

  I’m trying to create a new page template in addition to Default, Archives, and Sitemap. I can get it to show up in the list, but no content shows up in my template body. All I want to do is a have a few more template choices that include or do not include the left and right sidebars. How do to this?

  Thanks.

• 45 Karen Weir // Feb 25, 2008 at 5:40 pm

  This may seem silly, but… my blog has 3 links on top… Front Page, Archives and About… by default (it would appear). The Archives and About go to error pages, and I don’t know how to fix it. I’d love to add other “pages” there as well as get these ones working…

  H.E.L.P?

• 46 Emily Smith // Feb 28, 2008 at 12:26 pm

  Karen, those links appear their by default in your Header.php file, which you can change by going to your admin page, clicking on Dashboard, theme appearance (i think), and choosing Header.php from the left menu of files. You will need to locate the code for those links and copy, paste, and modify it to have a new link show for a new page in your header file, when and if you want to add new pages.

  To get your Archives to work, you need to go to Write, click on Page. Type Archives as your page header, select the ARCHIVES page template on the left hand (click the plus sign to open the template section on the left), and save it. Then you will need to click Activate Archives under the Cutline Options (I believe that’s where it is.)

  To recap for the Archives, the link is already there in the header, so no need to change that. You will need to WRITE the Page (being careful to use the Archives Template), and then ACTIVATE the Archives option in the Cutline theme.

  TO activate your About Page, you will need to WRITE a page, name it About, select the basic template, and then put whatever you want into the body of the page, and you’re done.

  To add NEW pages to the header, cut and paste the appropriate code (find the code that controls the Archives page and the About page in your header.php doc). Then, you will need to Write the page, select your template, etc., just like you did for the About page.

  Ask me how long it took me to figure that out… Hahahaha.

  –Emily

• 47 Emily Smith // Feb 28, 2008 at 12:55 pm

  Anybody know how to get two lines into the Widget Headers? Can’t seem to get code to stick in the text there, and can’t figure out how to change the style sheet to allow a second line…??

• 48 Webmaster Bellas Venezolanas // Feb 28, 2008 at 9:01 pm

  I got tired waiting for an answer and changed my theme…

• 49 Annie // Mar 1, 2008 at 6:01 pm

  I must have a unique problem? My blog roll doesn’t show right. I can’t figure out what my problem is. I’m just adding links through WP like normal I think?

• 50 Emily Smith // Mar 3, 2008 at 5:28 pm

  annie… can you send me a printscreen of both your website front page (that shows your blog roll links) and your widget admin page (that shows the order and selection of widgets)?
  You can send those to eesmith at uiuc.edu and I will take a look for you. –E.

• 51 kw // Mar 5, 2008 at 11:58 am

  Hello,
  forst of all thanks a lot for the lovely theme!!!

  For some reason the ’submit a comment’ button does not show in the IE even though it works just fine in Firefox. Any ideas?

• 52 FCGrabo // Mar 10, 2008 at 1:05 am

  I’m using Cutline 3-column split for the new website I’m building. It’s taken awhile but things are nearing completion.

  I’ve added a tab to the Nav bar that says “Favorites”. I’ve created a Favorites Page and I want to put a dozen articles I’ve written on the page using each one’s title to link to the full article. I’ve created Child Pages for each of the articles and it works ok. BUT, the graphic displayed at the top of the page for each article is the graphic for the 404 page.

  I’m wondering how I can have each article display on the Favorites page with the Favorites graphic pic I’ve made.

  Any help is appreciated.

  -FCG

• 53 Mark // Mar 14, 2008 at 3:05 pm

  I have used Cutline 3 split for ever. i just got the new version for a new site. For some reason I do not get a place for people to comment om the posts. Any ideas. I have the setting rights ???

• 54 Amir Kashif // Mar 20, 2008 at 7:52 pm

  Hi
  I’m just starting out and would like to know how to change the subtitle from grey to green.

  I was able to change the main title to red which i do like… can you assist.

  I don’t know where to look and don’t exactly know what I’m looking for…

  AK

• 55 xo // Mar 23, 2008 at 4:17 pm

  hi all, thanks so much for the theme.

  been working on my cutline blog for a few days now - custom css only - and it just about looks right. in browsing for support on the last few things though, i keep running into solutions involving additional html and php modifications. would it be an idea to have a seperate section on modifying the theme with the custom css upgrade only? due to the overlap it’s virtually impossible to find out what both the limits and the possibilities are.

  thanks!

• 56 mark // Apr 1, 2008 at 8:33 pm

  Also trouble to get authors to display…

• 57 emily // Apr 12, 2008 at 3:04 pm

  i want to change to cutline but there is zero margin on the left side! besides that it looks good, but that one problem is really aesthetically stupid. everything is smooshed up against the left side of the screen. :/

• 58 Rusty // Apr 17, 2008 at 8:48 pm

  I have been playing around with Cutline three column version and notice in IE 7.0 that the third column drops below the bottom of the center content. I know….IE browser, but I had to check it worked across the board. It doesn’t happen in earlier versions of IE and of course my favorite, Firefox. Any script recommendations?

  Thanks!!

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