ghola

Sweet!

Works great, thank You rboren.

Hi mrbrut,
first of all it’s a 1.3 theme, just to make it clear.
It works fine for me in a WordPress 1.3-alpha-5. And basically all I had to do is download, unzip and select.
Did you install (copy) the theme in the wp-content/themes folder?
You should have a new folder there named “bionicjive” (so that’s wp-content/themes/bionicjive), containing the files :

• comments.php
• footer.php
• header.php
• index.php
• search.php
• style.css

and a folder named “images” (containing 2 images).
If you have that, then all you should have to do is select the theme from the Presentation interface.
If it doesn’t work then it is my opinion that either you don’t have 1.3-alpha-5 (more likely an earlier release) or there is some serious voodoo at work and then I’m helpless.

Theron,
I knew I should have gone to bed earlier yesterday. I’m sorry you felt offended by what I said.
I do like your template a lot!
I can’t use your template because I am experimenting with standards compiance, XHTML 1.1 to boot, and I must pay attention to everything in this regard.
As to what others may think about become “invalid” because of a template : not only may some be shocked to find that their WP site is no longer compatible with XHTML, but others less technically aware may not understand at all what is happening.
I think standards compliance is an important part of WP. One of the things that caught my attention (One not The) is XHTML 1.1 compliance “out of the box”. That’s certainly something that took the authors extra time and debugging.
So even if validation is not the most important thing in Web Standards, it may matter for some.
Again, I like your design, and I only WISH I could use it (but that’s just me).

2:48 am here in Paris, switched from single malt to jasmin tea…
And I finally made it!
I have a seprarate WP 1.3 theme which allows me to serve apllication/xhtml+xml to the able browsers and text/html to grampa IE and others.
It’s so great to be able to switch between themes and to have everything concerning a single theme containd in its own folder!
I’m not comfortable enough yet with WP to go online and I still have a lot of work on the CSS, but if anyone cares about the content negociation bit, I’ll be happy to share.

Theron,
I think you should quote your attributes, because WP is often used by people who care about stanbards, semantics etc… and this will be invalid.
I don’t know if there are any other compatibility issues with your theme.
Other than that I like the template very much. It’s pretty cool.
The only reason I’m not sticking with is is I want to make XHTML 1.1 valid pages.
Thank you for taking the time to make it. I’m not there yet!

Trying to make WordPress my own really is a humbling experience ??
I’ve tried several themes so far and I’ll keep looking.
The thing is, I had managed to do what I want with 1.3 alpha 5 by just modifying the default template (or theme).
Then I wanted to do it proper and tried to replicate it as a separate theme “?? la 1.3”. That’s where I got lost.
What’s probably not common about what I want to do is basic content negociation (hey WP is XHTML 1.1 compliant “out of the box”: how cool is that!):
I’ll switch between application/xhtml+xml and text/html and accordingly send stylesheets with XML PI or link rel.
So that works with the default template (by including a ‘mime.inc’ of my own at the very top of index.php and some editing of now irrelevent content) but when I switch to the files in the ‘wp-content/themes/mytheme’ folder, I get nothing (and I mean nothing, as in the homepage is blank)
When I remove the mime.inc include, the page magically reappears.
Ok, that’s probably to much information for right now…
One last question though. Do you know of any rock-solid and basic theme to begin with?

Thanks (again) podz
I still find it insufficiently explicit, but I am starting to admit I’m a bit dense.
WordPress is great but I guess it takes more than the usual amount of time to master. Still it’s the only CMS I really want to use.
I’ll definitely post whatever I understood about themes and 1.3 on my site (that is, when I get it to work).
It will be in French though…

I am not sure I understand everything…
Does this theme rely on tables for presentation?
Is it really totally non-standard (unquoted attributes with a XHTML 1 tansitional doctype) ?
I am quite new to WordPress and I find especially hard to craete a 1.3 template, so I may have done something wrong, but that’s the result I get with this theme.
I am looking for an official resource for building themes with 1.3 but I can’t seem to find a reliable source.

Thank you, I found the runPHP plugin.
I actually searched for “adding PHP in post”. Not very helpful.
I am not a native english speaker, that’s sometimes tricky to find the prefect search phrase.
So sorry, I’ll try and be a good little searcher from now on!

upt1me,
I only checked the #menu section in your stylesheet so I don’t know if some other markup might interfere, but I think you could have it “float: right”
If the menu is outside the main content this would make it always remain on the right.

macmanx,
I don’t have an online site yet, I could set up a temp page but it seems like a lot of trouble for just this issue.
Anyway the source code wouldn’t show anything special afaik.
I checked the original file (fresh unzip) and this is what I have in my index.php in the div with ID=menu

<?php get_links_list(); ?>
<li id=”categories”><?php _e(‘Categories:’); ?>

<?php wp_list_cats(); ?>

…
After changing get_links_list to dtw_get_links_list and activating the plugin, the link formatting features work.

macmanx,
The thing is by default (in 1.2.1 Mingus) you only have get_links_list(), no params.
Unfortunately, using “get_links_list” as you suggested (with all the params) didn’t add the
, even after deactivating the plugin.
I don’t know if I’m still doing something wrong.
Thanks for your help.