Redoable 1.2 has just been released. Head to the Redoable homepage to find out whats new and to make sure you download the latest copy. enjoy.
Drum roll please Mr. Music, Redoable 1.1 is here! Ok, there a few reasons why it was delayed longer than first anticipated. The main reason was that I decided to hold off until Wordpress 2.1 had been released so that I could make sure that it was compatible. In the last week I’ve spent a fair amount of time checking that everything works ok in both 2.0.x and 2.1. If you come across anything that you think isn’t working correclty just let me know.
The other major reasons were the number of bug fixes and new features that have been included in this release. Some of the new features include Livesearch now works, choice of two different single post layouts, and a preview of the dynamic style feature which allows you to change between dark and light colour schemes from the admin area.
On top of the extra features, support has also been added for several new plugins. More details about the features of Redoable 1.1 are included below. Also included is some information about upgrading and/or installing Redoable on your blog. If you’re ready to go you can download Redoable 1.1 now.
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Redoable 1.2 has just been released. Head to the Redoable homepage to find out whats new and to make sure you download the latest copy. enjoy.
For further details about Redoable visit the Redoable homepage
Keep reading for further details of the new features, bug fixes and plugin support that have been included in Redoable 1.1.
New plugin support
Support for these plugins has been added.
- iMP Download Manager - keep track of downloads from your site.
- Quoter - give usrrs the ability to quote text in the comments.
- Subscribe to Comments - allow users to subscribe to comments on posts and pages.
- Spam Karma 2 - defend against the evil spam overlords…
- wp-recent-links - keep a link log of sites that you visit.
Bug fixes
These are just some of the bugs that have been fixed in Redoable 1.1
- LiveSearch now works. It is suggested that if you are using Alex King’s Share This plugin, that you upgrade to the latest version which is 1.4.
- Numerous css fixes and changes to correct some alignment and positioning problems on selected pages. Including styles around the Gregarious plugin and the position of the Share This plugin.
- Due to the changes in the way that Wordpress 2.1 handles categories for both links and posts, the sidebar and all modules using categories have been modified to work with both Wordpress 2.0.x and Wordpress 2.1
- An additional loop (searchloop.php) has been added to help with the handling of the LiveSearch results.
- Float problem with sidebar modules has been rectified.
New features
Features for everyone.
- LiveSearch, and the ability to display search results in either the body of your page or in the sidebar.
- The dynamic style option allowing you to choose between dark (default) and light colour schemes from the admin area.
- Additional support for the previously mentioned plugins.
- The option to choose between two different methods of displaying post meta data on the single post view. You have the option to display it the sam eas on the homepage with the meta data under the post title, or in a seperate column to the right hand side of the post.
- Addition of support for my Ultimate Category Cloud plugin on the Archives page, which will display a Coloured and Weighted cloud of your categories when the plugin is active.
- The search box will be displayed using the special Safari search box when using Safari. When not using Safari the search box will be styled differently, and in the case of Firefox users it will have a similar ‘rounded’ look to the Safari search box.
For full details of all changes in this release please see the included changelog.txt with the Redoable 1.1 download.
Exisiting issues
- Some people are experiencing a problem where the comments and permalinks are all referring to the incorrect posts. As yet I have been unable to replicate this problem, and it doesn’t seem to happen on everyones blog. It could be related to the use of different permalink structures, but as yet I don’t have a solution for it.
- Sidebar overlap issue. This hasn’t been completely fixed but the sidebar will now overlap on top of the footer instead of disappearing behind it when there is only a small amount of page contents.
- LiveSearch doesn’t seem to work with custom permalinks. This has also been reported by other users of K2 (which Redoable is based on), but as yet no-one has had a good answer.
Installation
Download the zip file. Extract, then upload the Reodable 1.1 folder to your wp-content/themes folder on your web server. Goto the presentation section in your admin, and select Redoable 1.1. Set your options in the Redoable options panel. Enjoy.
Upgrade
It should be possible for you to upgrade from Redoable 1.0 to 1.1 by copying the new files over the old ones, however I recommend that you upload the Redoable 1.1 folder and leave your Redoable 1.0 folder intact. Upload the new Redoable 1.1 folder to your wp-content/themes directory on your web server, and then select Redoable 1.1 from the presentation menu in your admin area. Which ever method you choose, you should not lose any of your settings from Redoable 1.0, unless you choose the “uninstall” option. As always if you’re worried, just make a backup beforehand.
Wordpress 2.1 Support
As mentioned I have tried my best to ensure that everything works ok with both Wordpress 2.0.x and the new Wordpress 2.1. The only thing that I highly recommend is that you check any of you exisiting plugins and update if there is a newer version available. Many plugin authors are in the process of updating their plugins to be Wordpress 2.1 compatible.
Should you come across any compatibility problems with Wordpress 2.1 (or Wordpress 2.0.x) please leave a message in the Support forums, and I will try and fix it asap. In fact, if you come across any problems what-so-ever, leave me a message in the support forum and I will get back to you asap.
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This is excellent. Thanks for posting this guys!
Nice idea, I would have to look into how this would work with the structure I’m using. Depending on if major changes are need or not, I might look at adding this in the future.
I think your template could be improved in one way. I stead of having the break down the middle where the post info appears could you not float it right inside the main div making the text/images in the post wrap around it?
Other than that this is one sweet template and I may start using it myself soon!
Nice work mate
Thanks for sharing that with everyone.
The same effect should be able to be achieved by changing the margin on the body to:
0px 0px 0px 20px;
This is what I have changed it to for Redoable 1.2, as it keeps the left margin that I wanted, but allows the page to display without scroll bars on 1024x768 resolution monitors.
Maybe somebody want’s to remove this disturbing horizontally scrollbar: I changed margin in the body-tag from “0px 20px 0px 20px” to “0px 20px 0px 10px” and now it is gone.
Couldn’t find any information about it (neighter in the forum nor here in comments)…
Sorry to “Clog up” your post Dean, but I think this is important for people to find. If your users are finding it difficult to post comments to your site, try taking the comment code from another template and using it in Redoable. I haven’t had any problems with it so far. If you need to see how I did this, see this file:
http://www.bracingyourbrand.com/byb/commentcode.txt
Good luck fixing it Dean and thanks for the awesome Theme!
Hi,
The theme looks great, thanks! I have a few questions:
- The dynamic style option allowing you to choose between dark (default) and light colour schemes from the admin area. — This isn’t working for me. I am trying this out on Windows, with Apache. The theme doesn’t change a bit when I choose the different options.
- How do the voting/rating stars show up with the posts? The default installation doesn’t seem to show them?
Thanks.
Very very good theme.
I just loved this menu! Great fx and colors… Congrats for you work.
Thank you!! :)
I do it using the ‘Noteworthy’ plugin, you can then set important or interesting posts to be ‘noteworthy’ and the little heart will be displayed. Do a google search and you should be able to find the plugin. Hope that helps.
Hey Dean,
This might sound a pretty dumb question… but how can I add images (like you added the heart) to the title of my posts?
Thanks a lot! :)
Hi! First off, I want to start by saying what a great theme it is, and thank you for releasing (and supporting) something so wonderful!
I followed Paula’s advice (from the support forum) on how to get an image to cover the red header, but I cant figure out how to change the thin 10px strips on either side of the header image? I imagine these would be in one of the stylesheets, but can’t seem to find it?
Cheers!
P.S. I couldn’t post in the support forum as a guest, do I have to sign up to use it? :-)
Hey me again. It appears disabling the Sidebar Widgets plugin fixes my “comments not matching article” problem. I made a couple test entries to ensure it stayed “fixed” after updates and it does. So right now turning off widgets corrects the problem, at least for me.
Sorry, that is left over from K2, I should have removed that. K2 has its navigation as tabs, Redoable has its on the right hand side above the sidebar (except in IE6…)
Yes you can use Alex King’s Share This plugin.
Making the third column ‘widgetized’ is on my list of things for the future. Probably not the next release, but sometime in the future.
When will a fully widgetized three column version of this theme be released?
I simply wanted to say that I love the theme. I love every single thing about it and have absolutely no complaints, all the errors I have encountered have been plugin compatibility related and after doing a long overdue update on all of them, it has been nothing but bliss.
Really great theme! Thank you for this great job!
I’ve just installed this and 2 little questions:
1. In the admin panel there ist “Blog” and “The text on the first tab in the header navigation.” Is there a header navigation with tabs? I have only the logo and than start at once the first posting.
2. In the single page post the little box right handed has at your blog “share this” - have I to install a plugin for this feature?
Damn, looks like its time to start looking for answers again…
Nevermind, I did nothing but add 2 new entries and suddenly it’s back to pulling in the comment form from other posts. This is frustrating.
Thata great to hear Tom, hopefully it will help a lot of people.
The solution posted here fixes the problem I was having regarding comments and articles not matching up.
Now I can use redoable, horray!
It requires a slight modification to the postratings plugin file.
In postratings.php around line 50 you will find the the_ratings() function.
You will need to change each div to span in this function, so that it will display the post ratings inline.
Hope that helps.
So how can I get each header above each post 2 lines instead of 3 (vote, share it, category, tags, etc.)
Yes, unfortunately this has been reported by a number of users, but the exact reason as to why it is happening is yet to be found. The code that handles comments has not been modified, as far as I can remember, from the original K2. I’m stumped, I cannot reproduce this on any of the three installations I’ve got, so if anyone has any ideas please post them in the support forum.
In theory it can be done fairly easily, except the way that I have positioned the sidebar makes it hard than first thought. I will try to rectify this for a future release.
How simple would it be to have the entire theme centered instead of hugging the left margin?
I’m having the problem of comments being applied to a different post than the one being commented on, has this been resolved?
The ‘third column’ is only used for the sidenotes at the present time. I has not been ‘enabled’ to be used with modules yet. This will possibly be introduced in a future release.
You can manually add content to the “third column” by editing the sidebar2.php file.
How do you enable the third column? I only see options for one sidebar.
If you haven’t already, try these steps:
1. Activate the plugin on the plugins page
2. Setup ELA by clicking the button on the Redoable options page.
3. Make sure you have the “Enable Redoable Archives page” checkbox ticked.
4. Make sure you hit “Update options”
5. Hopefully it works.
If you have any other trouble have a look at comment 42 above, or post it in the Support Forum.
Hi again!
I’m just having some problems now trying to have the Extended Live Archives (ELA) working.
I just installed the ELA plugin, activated it in the Redoable options, and clicked that button to set up ELA for Redoable… but nothing happens… Shouldn’t the Archives page link have to appear on top right?
Luis
Redoable adds some additional options to the wp-options table in your database, this is something that was carried over from K2. The uninstall feature just clears those values. You do not need to use the uninstall if you don’t want, you can just change themes as you always have.
It should work? I demonstrated it to a friend on this site yesterday, and I know of at least one other site that is using this option on a live blog (http://www.japtard.com/beta/). You have to select “enable dynamic css” and select white from the drop down. Leave a question in the support forum if you have any further problems.
Question. I see that Redoable has an ‘uninstall’ feature. This is the first time I have seen a theme with one. In the past I was simply able to select another theme and remove it from ”/wp-content/themes”.
Does Redoable make any major changes to an existing blog (database or otherwise) that requires the uninstall? Or can it be removed in the above mentioned manner as well? Thanks.
I notice also that under “Dynamic CSS - Beta feature” when selecting “white” nothing changes. I realize this is beta but I thought I’d just pass on the word. Thanks and keep up the great work dean!
Yeah, sorry, it is a bug. Its one of the thing that I still haven’t been able to solve. The menu displays fine in just about every browser, except IE.
Can you provide more details about the javascript error and place them in the Support forums, and I will have a look at it.
http://www.deanjrobinson.com/support
I don’t know why it would have died, sorry. If you can wait a couple of days I will be releasing my modified version of the plugin, which should work perfectly.
My suggestion for the archives page (if you haven’t already tried this), is to delete the page that has been automatically created, and then create a page normally, making sure that you set the page template to page-archives. This worked for me on one of my test installs, and with someone else who had a similar problem previously.
All the colors are set in the style.css file, the colours are little spread out, but it can be done, as you can see on these two sites:
http://www.karlbitz.com/ http://www.agamum.net/blog/
it should be K2 0.9plus
Dean, Thanks again for being so understanding. I felt bad when I posted and decided I should try to help myself more than I had, as I am sure your busy yourself.
In the interest of anyone else having this problem here is what I found. Ben Sherratt who made the Side bar Module says that it’s a known bug and told me to ask you if Redoable is built upon K2 0.9 . If so… he says that anyone with this issue can replace the /app/classes/sbm.php with one from their trunk located here:
http://kaytwo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/app/classes/sbm.php
This should fix this issue if it is built upon K2 0.9
Sorry, first commit was truncated.
So once again:
first of all I’d like to say this is a very beautiful and nice theme. But some of my users/visitors are using Internet Explorer and do not see the rightcolumnheader div in the upper right corner. They also get an Javascript error. IE Version less than 7 are affected. IE 7 is ok.
Is this a bug or a feature? Maybe to get rid of the IE Users…
Hi,
first of all I’d like to say this is a very beautiful and nice theme. But some of my users/visitors are using Internet Explorer
Hi,
I think i got the ratings function. Let me know if it is right. I still have a feeling that it does not present itself as good as it is on your site. Also let me know if you can let me know how to get the Post Info and Related Posts on Individual pages
Thanks
Sucharith
Hi Dean,
I have at last started working on your lovely theme and i too have the same problem as of Rich. I am a newbie. Can you please explain how it is done?
I have some issues:-
1. When i tried to install “wp-recent-links” then the site did die. Please let me know how this is done?
2. I am unable to configure the Articles page as well. Please do suggest me how it is done?
3. If i want to change the colors used in the site, where does this have to be done? Please do let me know if you can help me with the same.
Thanks
Sucharith
Perfect that did it. Thanks a lot :)
In postratings.php around line 50 you will find the the_ratings() function.
You will need to change each div to span in this function, so that it will display the post ratings inline.
Hope that helps.
“contact & wishlists” I assume? Yeah the problem there is caused by a know K2 bug, which causes problems when you place an ampersand in the title of a module. As far as I know there are two ways to recover from this. You either need to dig into the database using something like phpMyAdmin, which your host may provide….or you have to use the uninstall option, which should clear the module settings. You might also want to have a quick look at the K2 support forum http://getk2.com/forum/ to see if there are any other fixes for this.
I’ve just had a look, and after quick look at the code, my suggestion would be to check the post titled “getting it out”, which is the post before everything goes wierd. In Wordpress go to the code view and make sure there isn’t an unnecessary code in there. From my quick inspection it appears there are a few div tags that haven’t been closed, which is possibly what is throwing things out of alignment.
I seem to have the worst luck!
I added a module with an ampersand, and html module, and all the module tabs disappeared from the admin area, and they still display, but they are un changeable now. Any ideas, lol so sorry!!!
Ian
Oh, sorry for the double post. I just remembered that down the first page on my site the last 3 or so posts the dat box seems to be edging over to the right and the text is there with the date but is larger and apparently the same color as that boxes background. just another fyi
thanks for the speedy reply!!
The regular calendar works but the Calendar/Months does not.
I am using Gregarious and shall seek that option. I will also look into the header bit. I just want to do an image edit or something a bit more me than the standard title, plus I’d like my tagline to appear. it’s not a huge issue. Considering the scope of Redoable 1.1 I am more than impressed so…
again the quick response is appreciated, thank you ian
I see that the poster fixed this? Can you tell me where in the plugin I need to change it from div to span?
Thanks!
Asta: I have moved discussion about this over to the support forum. Lets see if we can get this working for you.
http://www.deanjrobinson.com/support/comments.php?DiscussionID=6&page=1#Item_1
I’ve tried downloading it several times from different computers with no luck. My PHP had been giving me some problems so I reinstalled it, but that didn’t make any difference.
This is line nr. 113 in /theme.php:
while ( ($theme_file = $stylish_dir->read()) !== false ) {
In the whole it looks like this:
while ( ($theme_dir = $themes_dir->read()) !== false ) {
if ( is_dir($theme_root . ‘/’ . $theme_dir) && is_readable($theme_root . ‘/’ . $theme_dir) ) {
if ( $theme_dir{0} == ‘.’ || $theme_dir == ‘..’ || $theme_dir == ‘CVS’ )
continue;
$stylish_dir = @ dir($theme_root . ‘/’ . $theme_dir);
$found_stylesheet = false;
while ( ($theme_file = $stylish_dir->read()) !== false ) {
if ( $theme_file == ‘style.css’ ) {
$theme_files[] = $theme_dir . ‘/’ . $theme_file;
$found_stylesheet = true;
break; }
If I take out the folder with your theme, from the themes folder, everything works fine, but goes wrong again once I place it there again. I upgraded to WP 2.1 yesterday with no severe problems.
Thanx, Ãsta
Damn, I thought I had found a solution to that, I will have to go back and check that again.
There isn’t an option for that at the moment. If you want to remove the header logo/text having a look in the header.php file is the place to start. I’ve had a few requests for this already, so I might look at putting a brief tutorial together, and I will add this option to the next release.
They should appear inline by default. If you don’t want them at the end of each post, you will have to check your options for Gregarious (assuming thats what you’re using) and disable the post badge, and auto append options.
Menon & T: There is now an alternative link available. Enjoy.
Maybe your download was corrupted, have you tried downloading it again? Either that or there is come sort of compatibility problem. This is the first time an error like this has been reported.
The downloadable link is in comment nr. 2
Anyway.. I love the theme to pieces, but I have a terrible error; after downloading and c/p it to my themes, all I get in my themes site is:
“Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in c:\wordpress\wp-includes\theme.php on line 113”
Any suggestions ?
Ãsta