New Theme – Regulus – re-release

  • Howdy

    I’ve released my first theme into the big wide world. I’m convinced that I’ve forgotten something but think it’s quite nice so figure i’ll update and edit as I go along.

    You can see the theme in action here : https://beta.binarymoon.co.uk/

    You can read about the theme and get the download from my blog here : https://www.binarymoon.co.uk/2005/11/regulus-new-wordpress-theme-released/

    I actually released this yesterday – and it’s already been downloaded and used on a number of sites around the web. Unfortunately something went wrong and my post got trashed

    There weren’t a huge amount of comments but someone suggested I look at supporting translations which is a cool idea but I don’t know how best to go about doing it. I have used the _e( ‘text here’ ) function throughout, but don’t know how it’s used.

    I’m thinking about changing it so that the theme uses a language php include which has a multi dimensional array containing all the text. This would let people add translations in a straightforward way and would also mean I can add language selection to the admin panel easily.

    I don’t know much about how wordpress handles languages so if anyone could fill me in that would be appreciated.

    Otherwise, download, use and abuse as you see fit – I welcome constructive critisism so go for it.

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  • Well… I seem to have a lot of fun talking to myself in here… I managed to fix the problem…

    <form method="get" id="search" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
    <input name="s" id="s" type="text" value="" />
    <input name="submit" value="Find it!" type="submit" class="button" id="searchbutton" />
    </form>

    Should be:
    <form method="get" id="search" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
    <div><input name="s" id="s" type="text" value="" />
    <input name="submit" value="Find it!" type="submit" class="button" id="searchbutton" />    </div>
    </form>

    Thread Starter binarymoon

    (@binarymoon)

    Sorry – went abroad over the weekend and haven’t a chance to check here for the last few days.

    I must admit I had considered adding version numbers to the theme, a changelog could be interesting as well. I’ll think about that when I do the next update.

    Not sure what the problem is with the cols. No-one else has had any problems and on my pc they are positioned fine, unless my tweaking has broken things of course … Hang on – you mean they aren’t pressed flush to the right. This seems a fairly minor thing, I’ll add it to my todo list.

    Regarding validating… I haven’t bothered – which is probably a bit silly since I used the strict doctype (I normally go for transitional) – I’ll look into fixing that as well.

    Thanks for the pointers

    About the columns… it wasnt that they werent spaced properly… it was that they werent even side by side… they were positioned vertically instead of horizontally. Of course by that I mean the categories & archives were positioned on the page and then below that there was the links… whereas in FF they were positioned side by side… I will change my alterations back and take a screenshot if you wish… I will post back with a link to the pics later (when I am not at University).

    About the validation… I seem to have everything working properly now… It appears the only thing that failed was the search form… (discussed above).

    Hope you had a good trip abroad! (wherever it was)

    Thread Starter binarymoon

    (@binarymoon)

    I went to Estonia (check my blog) – it was fun ??

    I’ll look into the columns thing. I haven’t seen it happen but know what you mean now.

    I’ll sort the validation out also.

    https://matt.wordpress.com/

    Congrats on getting your theme featured at wordpress.com !

    Thread Starter binarymoon

    (@binarymoon)

    Thanks

    Matt left a message on my blog letting me know. It made me smile ??

    Now I need to get him to send me the changes he made so I can improve the version on my site.

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