I’ve been lax on my political blogging, though much of what I’m reading makes you wonder if the human race has jumped the shark.
What I have been doing is building WordPress themes Serenity was my first one. I had thought about calling it “it’s my first day”(Simpsons fans will get that)
The second and third are a wide and narrow version of the same theme. It’s called Dark Room (920px version here)
I’ve also built a theme for a contest so can’t show it here. Probably shouldn’t even have mentioned it.
I’ve also been doing a lot of living in the land of plugins both WordPress and Firefox. Plugin developers are truly unsung heroes of the web.
I think I’m going to work on a theme for Canadian political blogging next. Anyone have any ideas they would like to see incorporated into something like that?
I like my theme’s look and setup, but I’ve noticed that several of my plugins won’t work with it. I’m not sure if it’s due to the theme not being compatible with WP 2.5, or if the theme’s CSS and such is just written in a way that these plugins dont like it.
Unfortunately, the person who designed the theme seems to have disappeared… so he won’t be doing any upgrades to it. So, perhaps I’m going to have to get a new theme again, unfortunately.
Two things. You need to update your footer theme credit to http://wpthemesplugins.com/ he has moved and the current link goes to an ad. You don’t want to give that kind of traffic.
Second, while you are in the footer look for ?php 1ft2b_footer(); ? or
?php do_action(‘1ft2b_footer’); ?
surrounded by angle brackets of course. If you don’t see that add it because that is the hook for many plugins. Others use 1ft2b_header so check your header section as well before the /head code.
Thanks for the website update – I thought he’d gone down completely.
As for the 2nd part, it does have the ?php 1ft2b_footer(); ? in there — it’s the first command line in there actually – which makes sense because a majority of the plugins still do work at the site – just not certain ones like Subscribe to comments – but the 2nd lline you mention isnt in there.
Do you think I need to add the 2nd line in there to see if that helps?
PS – I see ?php 1ft2b_head(); ? in the header section, but not 1ft2b_header — not sure if that makes a difference or not.
that was just a typo on my part.
also look in your comment file for this hook
?php do_action(‘comment_form’, $post->ID); ?
it would be used like this
p input name=”submit” type=”submit” id=”submit” tabindex=”5″ value=”Submit Comment”
input type=”hidden” name=”comment_post_ID” value=”?php echo $id; ?”
/p
?php do_action(‘comment_form’, $post->ID); ?
/form
Hmm.. well that block of text definitely isn’t in my comments.php section – not even the basic do_action one..
Can you email me a copy of your comments.php?
Sure – I can send it along.
I was slightly incorrect – the block of text you mentioned was there — I did manage to find it – but it didn’t have the do_action line following it.
I’ve added that.. but that didnt enable any of the plugins.. what it did do however was the time that my commenters left their comments ito my posts are showing up, rather then just the date… which is nice.
what pluin/s are you trying to get to work?
The main one I’d like to get back to working is “Subscribe to Comments”
It’s activated right now, but the checkbox asking people if they wish to subcribe to comments has stopped showing up since I went to this theme.
There is an RSS feed for comments for specific blogposts there at the site which is active in the comments.php file, but I feel it is a poor substitute for the Subscribe to Comments plugin.
(I also wouldn’t mind my TinyMCEComments plugin that enables WYSIWYG editor TinyMCE on the comments field to work as well.)
Your themes are lovely, I really like what you’ve done with Bread and Roses. Superb!
@Hazel –
Thanks!