Cutline Theme for WordPress

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• 1 Rich Harlos // Dec 7, 2006 at 8:31 pm

  Hi, Chris. Am loving the Cutline theme and was excited to see the new Sitemap feature.

  Instead of downloading the plugin I took your advice and downloaded the whole theme again and it worked like a charm.

  I do have a separate issue, however, with my Link Categories display. Wonder if you’ve got a few minutes to have a look?

  I can see what’s wrong, but I don’t want to presume to know the best way to fix it in light of having read of your perfectionism

  Thanks in advance for your help!

  Rich
  RefreshTheTree.com

• 2 Chris // Dec 8, 2006 at 12:51 am

  Rich,

  Your situation is a classic case of one of WordPress 2.0.5’s shortcomings.

  The two link category items that are displaying incorrectly have ID numbers 10 and 11. Unfortunately, the automatic styling can only handle link categories 1–9, so that’s why 10 and 11 don’t play nice.

  I suppose there are two viable ways to fix this problem (aside from waiting for the next release of WordPress):

  1. Apply new definitions for link categories 10 and 11 in style.css. If you poke through the code, you’ll notice that I actually complain about the lack of standardized link category styling, and that’s where you’ll want to add support for higher-order categories. It should be clear which format you need to follow based on what’s already there.
  2. You may be able to fiddle with your link categories and eliminate all those with IDs greater than 9. That way, all of the categories that do get displayed will receive the proper styling treatments.

  This is absolutely my biggest beef against WordPress at the moment. As a developer, there is nothing I can do to combat it until WordPress releases a new version that puts a bandage on this gaping wound.

• 3 Rich Harlos // Dec 8, 2006 at 1:34 am

  Thanks, Chris. Your suggestion re: style.css were just the ticket I needed. While I could fiddle with the link ID’s, I’d rather not limit my choices in this way, just in case I do end up needing 10 or more Categories sometime soon.

  I do understand what you’re saying about it being a WordPress issue; I’m hoping along with you that they do something about this in their next release.

  Meanwhile, at least I know what to do should my Categories grow in number.

  Thanks again for your help!

• 4 Sridhar // Dec 8, 2006 at 10:16 am

  Hi Chris,

  I had a look at your sitemap page and see that the posts’ list doesn’t show the categories to which posts belong. I think that would be a good thing to have.

  To see an example of what am talking about, pls have a look at http://www.sridhareena.com/sitemap/ generated by http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/sitemap-generator-plugin-for-wordpress/

  Thanks.

• 5 Chris // Dec 8, 2006 at 11:17 am

  Sridhar,

  Your situation is merely personal preference.

  Before I created my simple XHTML sitemap for WordPress, I knew about the Dagon Design sitemap generator. Based on its architecture, I decided that it was not the best choice for the masses because it adds fluff on top of function.

  Besides that, what if you don’t want categories to show in that manner? Sure, you want categories, but to me, you are nothing more than a statistic.

  If statistics proved that this was the best architectural choice, then I wouldn’t bother to fight it.

  That said, I also believe that categories are used incorrectly by most folks. In my opinion, categories are for controlling display options, and tags are for organizing and sorting content.

  In fact, the new MovableType (v. 3.3) incorporated this idea, and it’s something that will inevitably move to WordPress as well.

  It was a heck of a lot more work to put my XHTML sitemap together than it would’ve been to simply link to the Dagon Design Sitemap Generator, but I saw the need to devise a solution that was more all-encompassing and ubiquitous.

• 6 Mike // Dec 9, 2006 at 5:56 pm

  Chris,

  I followed your instructions closely for the sitemap update, but I keep getting the Error 404 page. I added the sitemap.php to my Cutline theme directory, created the sitemap page like your instructions indicated ( sitemap template, sitemap slug, and no messing with the page content)…but still no love. Any ideas?

• 7 Mike // Dec 10, 2006 at 12:20 pm

  Chris,

  I could only get the sitemap to work when I chose someting other than “main page (no parent)” in the Page Parent list. And, then it doesn’t have the Cutline theme associated with it. Just a page of link s.

• 8 Chris // Dec 10, 2006 at 12:44 pm

  Mike,

  Did you enter anything into the text field when you created the sitemap page? If so, it won’t work.

  Also, did you create your slug in all lowercase letters so that it read “sitemap” (without the quotes)? If not, it won’t work based on the link architecture in the header.

  Finally, yes, you must choose to have it be a main page in the Page Parent list (this is the default setting).

  Again, if you follow the instructions on Pearsonified to a “T,” without adding anything on your own or making any site-specific changes, then everything ought to work out as specified here.

• 9 Mike // Dec 10, 2006 at 1:30 pm

  Chris,

  Thanks for your patience. I think I got it. I had to create two sitemap pages. The first one would not work (error 404,) but the 2nd one was automatically changing the slug from “sitemap” to “sitemap-2.” It works, so I just deleted the first one, and I left the sulg as “sitemap-2″ on the 2nd. Maybe the Sitemap plugin you suggested on Pearsonified has a file named “sitemap” that was causing the error. In any event, it looks great! Thanks for your help.

• 10 Nathaniel // Dec 11, 2006 at 9:07 pm

  Hey Chris,

  I recently setup Cutline, and it’s incredible. Thanks for all of the work you’ve done on this.

  Right now, I only have one blog post on the site I’m using Cutline with, so I there are no navigation links such as view previous entry. Navigation.php, however, was throwing in the three navigation divs above an individual post anyway, which made a large margin above the post’s title. The fix was simple, but I wanted to point it out so you could consider adding it to the default installation:
  && ( previous_post_link() != ” || next_post_link() != ” ) // after “if (is_single()”

  And replace “” with:

  Cheerio!

• 11 Sridhar // Dec 11, 2006 at 11:17 pm

  Nathaniel,

  Some of your code came missing. You might want to paste that at http://pastebin.ca/ and provide the link here.

• 12 Nathaniel // Dec 11, 2006 at 11:24 pm

  Ah, thank you Sridhar. Here is the entire file as I use it: http://pastebin.ca/276252

• 13 Chris // Dec 11, 2006 at 11:40 pm

  Nathaniel,

  That’s an excellent suggestion and an absolute lock for the next release.

  I really need to start tracking all the people who make these killer suggestions.

  Thanks again!

• 14 Sridhar // Dec 11, 2006 at 11:43 pm

  Chris: May be you could research on a wiki that integrates with WordPress and quickly jot down these suggestions to be worked upon for next release.

• 15 Chris // Dec 11, 2006 at 11:47 pm

  Sridhar,

  I probably should, but time is somewhat of an issue at the moment.

  I’ll get it sometime after the holidays.

• 16 Kellie // Dec 12, 2006 at 2:27 pm

  hey chris!

  am trying out your cutline theme. like it’s “clean-ness.”

  i seem to be having an issue with this “sitemap” though. it’s all installed and the page exists BUT i cannot get it to be listed in the top “page” navigation. any clue???

  thanks in advance. take care!

  kellie

• 17 Nathaniel // Dec 12, 2006 at 4:22 pm

  You’re welcome, Chris, I’m glad I was of help.

• 18 Chris // Dec 12, 2006 at 5:07 pm

  Kellie,

  Simply activating the sitemap will not include it in your navigation links. You have to follow these steps in order to make that happen.

• 19 Kellie // Dec 12, 2006 at 8:29 pm

  ah! sheesh. thanks for that ‘how to’ link.

  got it. most excellent! you’re the best.

• 20 wendy // Dec 13, 2006 at 4:07 pm

  I’m using Cutline for my website and have two questions for you.

  1. How do I add meta tags to my blog pages? Do I modify the header.php file? If so, how?

  2. Do you have recommendations on how to create different header images? I tried to put one together but it went all pixelated when I posted it. I’ll understand if you can’t help

  Thanks for making such a great theme!

• 21 Auron // Dec 13, 2006 at 9:24 pm

  Just wanted to let you know i discovered a theme that looks remarkably similar to yours…

  http://www.findcreditcards.org/pressrow/

  I’m not sure if that is a legitimate theme modification or not.

  Your call on that one.

  (Thanks for the cutline theme by the way!)

• 22 Fine tuning | BrT // Dec 14, 2006 at 12:22 am

  […] I’ve been making some more small changes to the look of my site. I really like the Cutline theme, and there is a lot of useful information at its web site. The latest two changes I have made are the Google ads in the header image and the site map, both of which you can see at the top. I still have to replace the header pictures with some of my own, maybe with some randomization thrown in. […]

• 23 Chris // Dec 14, 2006 at 4:35 pm

  Auron,

  Ironically, I am the author of the PressRow Theme for WordPress. I developed it back in May, and it was both the precursor to and inspiration for Cutline.

• 24 Chris // Dec 14, 2006 at 5:17 pm

  Nathaniel,

  I spoke too soon with regard to your solution. There are myriad styling issues that arise as a result of its use, and it’s not fit for public consumption at this point.

  The primary reason for this is because the previous_post_link, next_post_link, etc. functions cannot be stored in variables. Whenever they are called, they produce output, thus rendering the true navigation code useless.

• 25 Markus // Dec 16, 2006 at 9:08 pm

  Easy to use and good working. I’m new to cutline and missed a feature in the theme: the edit link!

  I did following:
  
<h2><?php the_title(); ?><?php edit_post_link('^'); ?></h2>


  works fine and is not too big.

• 26 Rob // Dec 16, 2006 at 9:28 pm

  Hi Chris,

  The Sitemap works great. I was just wondering if you could tell me how to get the number of posts in each archive and category to show up in brackets after each one in the sidebar?

  Thanks!

• 27 V // Dec 17, 2006 at 5:09 am

  this is great, but could you have a built in asides thing? i’m totally lost when it comes to PHP and even with the tutorial over at openswitch.org, it doesn’t work. if the next version of cutline has inline asides all coded, it’d be awesome.

• 28 Kris Karkoski // Dec 26, 2006 at 10:34 pm

  I have tried to install widgets with cutline but they will not show up in the plugins or presentation section. Could someone provide some insight into how to correct this and what directory each file should be installed into.

  Kris

• 29 Drake // Dec 30, 2006 at 2:34 pm

  Scratch that..just upload your header image as header_1.jpg and change all the other Header_#.jpg files in your header.php file to header_1.jpg. That should do the trick.

• 30 Jordan // Dec 31, 2006 at 9:28 pm

  Chris, I’m wanting to make my posts have a different background color dependent on which category they’re in. Is this the best place to leave the question? I’ve tried a few different things, like creating “#content-cat1″ tags in my stylesheet, and then doing an if, elseif on my index page. But the problem is that instead of just wrapping around the particular post, it wraps the entire line of posts on the main page in one color.

  Any ideas?

• 31 Nathaniel // Jan 1, 2007 at 12:13 pm

  Hehe Chris, I finally wrote a second blog post and discovered that. Oh well.

• 32 Chris // Jan 1, 2007 at 3:06 pm

  Jordan,

  By default, the posts are constructed using block-level XHTML tags, and because of that, there is no element that “wraps” all the items of a particular post.

  If you want to modify the background of a particular post, then you’ll need to create a wrapper div to encompass the post. Once you’ve done that, you can apply special class names to control the background colors.

• 33 Jordan // Jan 1, 2007 at 7:16 pm

  Thanks Chris. Sounds pretty complicated — guess I’ll just have to use a category icon or something

• 34 Timen // Jan 4, 2007 at 6:17 pm

  Hey Chris,

  I’m using Cutline as a base for my forthcoming awesome amazing super project. That said, I need to figure a few things out.

  I’m working through your CSS and there is about a page of lines you describe as necessary to “make widget link categories work.” Can you elaborate on that? I just don’t get it.

  Towards the beginning of the CSS file, you having something called “pre”. I can’t figure out what this is for.

  Next, do you know how to get the “keep reading” link on the right side? I’ve tried the natural solution, divs, but alas WP doesn’t seem to like it and throws in some extra stuff here and there.

  Great work on an amazing product. Thank you.

  Take care,
  Timen

• 35 Timen // Jan 5, 2007 at 12:02 am

  Sorry for leaving you another question, but I was wondering: why do you do so many “overboard” things in your CSS? e.g. stating the body background as white. Is it considered good form? If there is a reason for this, I’d really like to know so I can adapt my style to be a little more like yours.

  Thanks,
  Timen

• 36 Chris // Jan 5, 2007 at 12:08 am

  Timen,

  Some older versions of Opera have a gray background by default, so if you don’t declare the body background as white, you may not see consistent results across all browsers.

  With that said, declaring backgrounds as white on all box elements would certainly be overkill.

• 37 Shane // Jan 5, 2007 at 9:01 am

  Here is a wierd problem that seems no one else has had. If you go to my sitemaps page http://www.cellounge.com/sitemap/ the only internal blog post listed is the sitemap page itself. Now I am not crazy there are over 600 posts. I looked at the code it should list the last 1000 posts right? Do you have any ideas on this one?

• 38 NickZee // Jan 7, 2007 at 8:25 am

  Hey Chris,
  How can I integrate WP-Forum into Cutline without the content of blog posts disappearing

• 39 Chris // Jan 7, 2007 at 7:58 pm

  Nick,

  I don’t have any experience with the WP-Forum plugin, so I’m afraid I can’t really be of much help there.

  If WP-Forum requires a separate database, though, then you’d need to have a WordPress installation specifically dedicated to that. I don’t know if that’s the case here; I’m only surmising as to what your problem might be.

• 40 Timen // Jan 8, 2007 at 11:11 am

  Hey Chris,

  Sorry, I think you missed my previous questions. Meanwhile, I’m loving Cutline.

• 41 Chris // Jan 8, 2007 at 12:08 pm

  Timen,

  I saw your comment, but it requires a more extensive explanation, and I haven’t had time to address it.

  Regarding link categories and all that CSS:

  That code is necessary because WordPress does not “widgetize” the display of link categories. Instead, each link category receives a unique ID (instead of a common class name), and as a result, designers are forced to provide code for each individual ID.

  The workaround here is to provide an additional div wrap, but that’s something I wanted to avoid because it shouldn’t be necessary.

  A fix for this problem is planned in a future WordPress release (it’s on the Trac now).

  Regarding the pre element:

  This element is most commonly used in conjunction with <code> tags. Essentially, use of the <pre> tag ensures that each and every space, tab, and line break will be represented exactly as-is, without the need for additional XHTML.

  I provide support for the tag in this theme, but it is not something that most users will ever need. Basically, it’s only there for the sake of completeness.

  Regarding the “keep reading” link:

  If you like, you can wrap the “keep reading” text inside the index.php file with tags, like so:

  <p class="more_link">keep reading →<p>

  Then, you can style the new more_link class to be aligned to the right.

• 42 Kevin // Jan 8, 2007 at 10:15 pm

  Chris,

  Thanks for the sitemap for Cutline. Keep the good stuff coming. I like the uberreview design! How’s work on the 3 column Cutline coming? I’ve learned so much with Cutline, WordPress, and Tubetorial in the last few months. Can’t thank you enough. Please check out my podcast if you get a chance.

• 43 Sucharith // Jan 9, 2007 at 1:09 pm

  I updated the Wordpress to the 2.06 version after which my contact page is not working… Can you let me know if you know of a fix?

• 44 Sucharith // Jan 9, 2007 at 1:11 pm

  Chris,

  Please ignore my previous comment. I meant the Site map ain’t working… Please suggest!!

• 45 Sucharith // Jan 9, 2007 at 1:58 pm

  Hi Chris,

  Solved……. Sorry to flood mate!

• 46 Kris Karkoski // Jan 10, 2007 at 4:21 pm

  I would love to see a three column or a design similar to that of b5 media’s blogs. Once I get some more experience I hope to make a cutline variant like this.

• 47 Hannes Johnson // Jan 10, 2007 at 7:30 pm

  Is there a good place to submit suggestions for Cutline?

  Well, I just set up my new blog with the Cutline theme - it looks great by the way - and I think it would be cool if Cutline would support the code tag (you know, the thing where you can press a <code> button to mark a part of your text as code). So you could for example put HTML code examples into your blog post and they would have a special CSS class.

• 48 Hannes Johnson // Jan 11, 2007 at 9:17 pm

  OK, it looks like Cutline supports the code tag to some degree… But you can’t put < directly into the editor - you have to use “& l t ;” instead.

  Isn’t the code tag supposed to handle this? …not converting HTML tags and just display them as normal text?

• 49 Chris // Jan 12, 2007 at 3:25 pm

  Hannes,

  As far as I know, you have to encode the characters using the method you specified in your second comment.

  However, I’d like to buffer my response by saying that I never use the rich visual text editor, so I can’t say for sure whether or not it handles automatic encoding for you.

  Based on your comment, though, it would appear that this is not the case. Either way, Cutline does include support for the <code> tag, and the fact that WordPress is not converting characters is a product of WordPress, not of the theme.

• 50 Hannes Johnson // Jan 12, 2007 at 4:42 pm

  OK, thanks Chris. I’m actually not using the rich visual text editor…

  Another thought - I think it would be cool if Cutline would have a special CSS style for when the author is commenting - different background on the comment, an extra image/icon or something…

  Often when I’m reading other blogs I have much more interest in reading the author’s comments rather than the dozens of ramblings from other readers.

• 51 Alex G // Jan 15, 2007 at 10:18 pm

  hey chris,
  maybe you might be able to help me out. When looking at my site (www.wslounge.com) through firefox all font seems the same. But, once I look at it through internet explorer, the font sizes seem to change. Anyway to fix this.
  thanks in advance,

  Alex

  p.s. im total nooB when it comes to coding

• 52 jared // Jan 16, 2007 at 12:34 am

  Just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of “Thanks, Chris.” By far the most painless theme change I’ve done. Your attention to detail is astonishing. Thanks.

• 53 Dennis // Jan 16, 2007 at 6:35 pm

  Chris, quick question I am taking the Cutline theme and adjusting it to my liking. One thing I cant figure out for the life of me is where the CSS is to change the left and right sides to be a color other than white or use a pattern file.

• 54 Shane // Jan 22, 2007 at 3:54 pm

  Hey Chris I left a comment a while back, here it is:

  “Here is a wierd problem that seems no one else has had. If you go to my sitemaps page http://www.cellounge.com/sitemap/ the only internal blog post listed is the sitemap page itself. Now I am not crazy there are over 600 posts. I looked at the code it should list the last 1000 posts right? Do you have any ideas on this one? ”

  No more worries for me mate! I deactivated all the non essential plugins and it started to work. Still don’t know which plugin it was that was killing the sitemap, but really who cares right? As long as it works!

• 55 Mark // Jan 23, 2007 at 4:29 am

  Hi Chris,

  Another ‘thank-you-very-much-for-creating-such-a-brilliant-theme’ post.

  Will it be 100% compatible with the just released version 2.1 of WP?

  Keep up the good work!

• 56 Diwaker // Jan 23, 2007 at 9:13 pm

  Chris,

  Cutline looks great! I’m contemplating using Cutline on my blog and wanted to ask a few questions:

  - why do only some particular pages show up on the top bar? How can I make all my top level pages show up there?

  - could you put up a list of plugins supported out of the box by Cutline?

  There were some that I can’t think of now. Expect to hear from me again pretty soon

• 57 Alistair // Jan 24, 2007 at 8:26 am

  Hiya,
  Love the theme and thanks for providing such good support.
  I was wondering if you could provide a breif run down on how to change the background colors- is it simply a case of changing the colors in the style sheet ? I have done this before on other themes but I noticed someone else saying that this would not work with yours ?

• 58 jared // Jan 25, 2007 at 10:45 pm

  After upgrading to WP 2.1, I’ve run intro a side bar issue. The blogroll is pushed off to the right. Doesn’t matter if I use widgets or use the default sidebar. I reloaded a fresh default cutline theme, and got the same result. The error does not carry through to other themes. I removed all plugins, widgets, etc., but it doesn’t make any difference. Any idea? Screenshot of the error here:
  http://www.alaskacooks.com/wp-content/Site_pics/screenshot.JG

• 59 Alex G // Jan 25, 2007 at 11:10 pm

  I’ve got the same as Jared

• 60 Todd // Jan 25, 2007 at 11:43 pm

  just wanted to say thanks (again) for the theme!

• 61 Matt O. // Jan 26, 2007 at 3:16 am

  Hi Chris,

  I’m playing with Cutline for a site that will be up soon. I tried the Sitemap with the link at the top like you’ve done, but then wondered why I needed both Archives and Sitemap pages. Why not just have a Sitemap, with the Categories or Pages at the top to make them easier to find, and get rid of the Archives page?

• 62 Eddie // Jan 26, 2007 at 9:30 am

  I encountered an interesting error with cutline:

  has anybody tried to implement the “related entries”-plugin, and to put the “?php related_posts(); ?” under the (p class=”tagged”) ?

  No matter what I try, the result always stays very small. I seems to be impossible to control the appearence with css. I tried to wrap a div around in, but it seems to have no effect.

  Screenshot

  Somebody an idea?

  Eddie

• 63 Eddie // Jan 26, 2007 at 5:40 pm

  Figured it out myself: just wrap the “related entries” in a (div class=”entry”) and it’ll work!

  It works paradoxically only with this class.

• 64 Jared // Jan 26, 2007 at 8:20 pm

  The sidebar issue I wrote about above is caused by category limitations, either in Cutline or due to the widget sidebar requirements. My “friends & links” category, the default for links added to the blogroll, is category 61. Using any category past 9 results in the funky blogroll formatting. Renaming another category (lower than 9) and using that as my category for Friends & links seems to offer a workaround, although anyone affected will have to remember to edit their default categories every time a new link is added to the blogroll. Anyone found a better solution?

• 65 Sridhar Katakam // Jan 27, 2007 at 4:49 pm

  Hi Chris,

  I think the guys at http://www.kineda.com/akon/ ripped of your Cutline theme w/o giving you any credits.

• 66 Alistair // Jan 30, 2007 at 3:46 am

  Hiya,

  Thanks for a lovely theme

  Is there a way of keeping the title of the blog but not displaying it ? I have put the title of my blog in the header image but still need a title for when it shows up in search engines or in bloglines , does that make sense ?

  Also (and if my last question did not make me look daft this one will) - Why does the feed address simply end in /feeed and not RSS2 like a lot of other feeds ?

• 67 Chris // Jan 30, 2007 at 8:48 am

  Alex G. — The font sizes were off because a tag was not closed properly within one of your posts.

  Diwaker — You have manual control over the pages that display in the top navigation. The reason why I felt it was necessary to do this instead of automate it was because some folks have tons of pages, and it would essentially ruin the header structure if I included every page.

  Also, off the top of my head, I know that Cutline seamlessly supports FlickrRSS, Subscribe to Comments, WordPress Widgets, and AdSense Deluxe. Plenty of others work as well, but those are probably the most notable.

  Matt O. — You can control which pages display in the navigation bar. Frankly, it really doesn’t make a lot of sense to include archives and sitemap links in the same spot. To combat this, a lot of folks like to place the sitemap link in the footer.

  Jared, Alex G., and others — I will release an upgrade this week that will fix the blogroll issue with WordPress 2.1. Cutline 1.03 came with legacy support, and because I didn’t know what class name the WP team was going to use for the blogrolls, I couldn’t make the code forward-compatible.

  Sridhar — Yeah, that stinks. I can’t tell you how many times people blow the attribution link without giving two shakes about it. Of course, you’d like to see the entire community respect the work that you’ve done and provide proper credit, but the realist in me says that this isn’t always going to be the case.

  Either way, I don’t get as bent out of shape as I used to about it.

  To all who said thanks — Thank you!

• 68 Chris // Jan 30, 2007 at 8:53 am

  Alistair — You need to check out CSS image replacement techniques. Basically, all you have to do is specify a width, height, and background image on something like an <h1> element, and then also be sure to add this property: text-indent: -9999px. This will keep the actual text within the XHTML, but it will not display that text to users.

  Also, regarding the feed, that URI address is just fine because the default WordPress feed is, in fact, the RSS 2.0 feed.

• 69 Alistair // Jan 31, 2007 at 2:59 am

  Eak - that sounds complicated, will this sort of info be in the codex ?

  Alistair

• 70 Chris // Jan 31, 2007 at 8:11 am

  You might find it on a forum thread, but I think it’s far more likely that you’d find it through a simple Google search. Try “CSS Image Replacement Techniques,” and look for articles published in 2006.

• 71 travelblogger // Jan 31, 2007 at 9:41 am

  Chris, a thought and a question…

  Thought: You need a forum of some sort for Cutline. Asking off topic questions on a post is a poor way to organise one’s community of resources.

  Question: What do you think of this new 3-Column Cutline?
  http://www.gpsgazette.com/wp-themes
  Do you give it the thumbs up? Or is a cheap imitation?

  Thanks for a great theme I will be debuting my own site which will be using Cutline soon.

• 72 Alistair // Feb 12, 2007 at 12:14 pm

  Hey, here is a funny thing - when I submit the sitemap to google using the webmaster tools it says it has errors.
  I submitted
  http://urbanflyfisher.com/sitemap/

  Any ideas ?

• 73 raf // Feb 20, 2007 at 4:16 pm

  it’s normal that in the front page i don’t see the link to Sitemap?

  Should i create it?

  however sitemap page works well…

  thanks for all!

• 74 Daniel // Mar 12, 2007 at 2:40 pm

  Just wanted to leave a note, after discovering something through experience — that, if you have pages you wish to NOT be displayed within the Sitemap page, then replace the following line in your Sitemap.php file from:

  to:

  (The numbers being the Page ID’s for the pages you wish to exclude — which you can locate via your Manage > Pages panel.)

  This is useful if you have a shopping cart or other plugin that requires additional pages for the application - but you don’t wish to be displayed unless they’re used.

• 75 Daniel // Mar 17, 2007 at 3:33 am

  Chris,

  I’m noticing suddenly that the W3C validator will not recognize the alt attribute for XHTML 1-transitional on the Sitemap page. Was there a specific reason that you chose to use the alt tag instead of title in these instances?

  The attribute was used in the Home link, as well the RSS feed links.

  Thank you for your time.

• 76 Daniel // Mar 17, 2007 at 3:45 am

  I was able to validate the Sitemap page by switching the fatalalt tags to title. Everything appears to be smooth once again.

  And apologies for the noticable lack of my closing a code tag up above. You may delete these comments if you wish.

• 77 Linda // Apr 4, 2007 at 12:15 am

  I got the sitemap to work fine (but have disabled it.) I’m wondering if there is a way to keep password protected pages from showing up on the sitemap?
  I love the cutline theme!

• 78 Marcelo Waldo // Apr 22, 2007 at 10:41 am

  Hello Chris,

  When I decided to launch my Blog, I spent hours and hours looking for the right theme. And when I found CutLine, I discovered a clean and balanced design, but it was just the top of the iceberg, because I see that you are a total professional providing tech support for all the users of your theme, and that’s really awesome! Your tips and answers help dramatically to everybody. And Just seeing your Blog with so many posts and commentaries is more than enough to see that you have an authority site.

  I am running cutline theme really smooth, I had some minor problems, but just reading your blog I fixed all of them.

  My final words in this commentary are like most people say: Thanks Chris ! you are a good friend to all of Us.

• 79 Presenting The Tao of You // May 14, 2007 at 3:40 pm

  […] Who wrote a very sweet Site Map template and offered it to everyone as a download. […]

• 80 DD // Jun 13, 2007 at 11:50 pm

  I got the sitemap to work fine thanks

• 81 mbjorn // Aug 1, 2007 at 1:29 pm

  I want to add a poll to my site. I’ve downloaded wp-poll. Where do I put the file? Please be as detailed as possible.

  Thank you.

• 82 Michael // Aug 7, 2007 at 12:16 am

  Just added the sitemap, works great, although on the sitemap and archives pages no categories show up.

• 83 links for 2007-08-20  |  Mark Riffey's Small Business Marketing Blog  |  Rescue Marketing // Aug 20, 2007 at 12:26 am

  […] Use this Simple Plug and Play Sitemap for Cutline! | Cutline Theme for WordPress (tags: wordpress sitemap) […]

• 84 Ben // Aug 24, 2007 at 4:11 pm

  Could someone help? I have the xhtml site map working but do not know how to set the xml page up in WP. Any assistance is appreciated in advance.

  BB

• 85 Patricia // Feb 19, 2008 at 4:42 pm

  Weird little problem

  The whole right sidebar is shrunken and only seems to have partially applied the css…any thoughts? I think I followed all the directions pretty carefully, but obviously I goofed somewhere…

  BTW…Cutline is truly one of the most elegant and clean themes I’ve ever found. Thanks for taking the time to not only create this great theme but for supporting it! You’re the best.

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