154 Comments

1. 
   1 SG on Jan 19, 2007 at 12:25 am:

   This is a modded kubrick

2. 
   2 Ronald Heft on Jan 19, 2007 at 1:55 am:

   Actually, no it is not. While K2 (the next-gen Kubrick) did have a heavy influence on the method of coding (such as using a loop file), everything from the design right down to the template files was coded myself.

   Sorry if I sound a bit defensive, I just put a lot of time an effort into Clean and Mean and to say it’s just a mod strikes a nerve. Now I’m wondering, why do you say it’s a mod?

3. 
   3 dandyna on Jan 20, 2007 at 12:30 am:

   I just downloaded it and it’s totally NOT a K2 mod. It’s preatty clear it’s not a mod. Nice theme,Ronald, I’m playing with it a little

4. 
   4 Bakkel on Jan 20, 2007 at 5:22 am:

   I’ve downloaded it. Loved the theme when you were using it, so I think it’s gonna work for me. I’m gonna translate it into dutch en ad some other features like asides and maybe some different colours. Let you know when it’s done

5. 
   5 Alper Orus on Jan 30, 2007 at 2:45 am:

   Hi Ronald,

   This is really a clean theme. Clean code and easy to customize. We started to use it on our multi author site Murekkep.Org. %80 of it translated to Turkish.

   Only one thing we couldn’t solve. How can we change the titles in the comments area like “Name/Email/Website URI” ? I found it’s place in comments.php but even i change the text, it still appears in English.

   We put the credits to your site in our about page.

6. 
   6 Ronald Heft on Jan 30, 2007 at 11:19 am:

   The text behind the comment form is actually an image. From the trends directory, open the images folder. In there you’ll find the three images used to create the text.

7. 
   7 Paul on Feb 3, 2007 at 12:45 am:

   Hi, I tried to use your theme on WP 2.1. I activated the theme, and when I went to view the site, I got this error:

   Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘}’ in C:\WWWfac\wp-content\themes\CnM\header.php on line 36

   I am running wordpress in a development environment on my laptop as a localhost. I can use other themes that I normally use with wp without any problem. Thanks!

8. 
   8 Ronald Heft on Feb 3, 2007 at 1:13 am:

   Redownload the archive. It should be corrected now.

9. 
   9 Peach on Feb 8, 2007 at 2:18 pm:

   Dear sir, I would like to use your theme, but it does not seem to support multiple-page posts. Why not? and will you support it in a near future? I want to use it for my master, but it needs support for multiple pages (the tag)

10. 
    10 Ronald Heft on Feb 8, 2007 at 2:39 pm:

    I will look into adding it. I never used multi-paged posts, so I never had that functionality built in.

11. 
    11 Peach on Feb 8, 2007 at 2:50 pm:

    In return, I will leave al links going to your site and you will added to my “thank you’ page of my “project” (it’s something Dutch, but it’s the most important thing you do while studying).

    This may help, but my PHP knowledge is not ‘good’ enough to do it myself.

    http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/angsumans-multi-page-plugin-wordpress-2x-plugin-to-create-multi-paged-articles/

12. 
    12 Peach on Feb 10, 2007 at 4:04 pm:

    This might help: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/angsumans-multi-page-plugin-wordpress-2x-plugin-to-create-multi-paged-articles/

13. 
    13 John Turner on Feb 19, 2007 at 9:56 am:

    Hi, great theme. I’m using it right now. I’m having a minor problem, though…I’d like to put a copyright message in the footer between the RSS link and the link back to your site. I’ve tried just about everything I can think of, but I can’t get it to align without throwing off the other two divs.

    I’m pretty rusty at CSS, any advice is appreciated! Thanks!

14. 
    14 Ronald Heft on Feb 19, 2007 at 6:50 pm:

    John, emailing you the code.

15. 
    15 Bloggero on Mar 16, 2007 at 3:45 am:

    I’ll suggest http://www.lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-pagenavi.html for navigation (I’m using it on wp 2.1.2)

16. 
    16 Tom on May 31, 2007 at 2:04 am:

    Hi, I just downloaded/Uploaded this great looking theme. WP says that it needs a CSS file. It was not in the download. I am attempting to use this theme with WP 2.2. It was on the compatible list, but It won’t show up in my presentation tab.?

17. 
    17 Ronald Heft on May 31, 2007 at 2:28 am:

    The file should be in the ZIP. It would be in the CnM folder under the name style.css. Perhaps the CSS file was not uploaded correctly to your site or the ZIP was damaged on download. If you can’t find the CSS file in the ZIP, try redownloading it. I know it’s in there.

18. 
    18 Tom on May 31, 2007 at 2:55 am:

    Hey thanks for the wicked fast - middle of the night - response! :-O I just downloaded from the link above for a 3rd time and I swear there is no CSS file in it.
    There are 13 files plus the Hack folder and the Images folder. (15 total) is that the right amount?
    Tom

19. 
    19 Tom on May 31, 2007 at 3:16 am:

    Ok Strange - sorry for the alarm, but I went to and older version of stuffit and I could see the files in there and was able to extract them. Same for the extras package.

    Thanks for making this available and I guess I’ll have to get my Expander checked!

20. 
    20 wpthemes on Jul 4, 2007 at 5:39 pm:

    Clean and Mean WordPress Theme…

21. 
    21 Martin on Jul 23, 2007 at 1:34 pm:

    Hi, I just love your theme!

    Especially the nice locking menu in the top. This menu shows the WP pages on the blog but would it be possible for the menu to show the categories instead?

    Best regards
    Martin

22. 
    22 Martin on Jul 23, 2007 at 2:35 pm:

    It works now!!
    Just this line:

23. 
    23 Ronald Heft on Jul 23, 2007 at 7:35 pm:

    Glad you figured it out Martin.

24. 
    24 Martin on Aug 5, 2007 at 8:57 am:

    Hi,
    What do I do if I only want three posts on the startpage?
    At the moment i uses all posts…

    Best Regards
    Martin

25. 
    25 Ronald Heft on Aug 6, 2007 at 1:13 pm:

    Martin, I recommend you look at the query_posts tag.

26. 
    26 Martin on Aug 6, 2007 at 4:50 pm:

    Thank you

27. 
    27 Zach on Sep 12, 2007 at 6:23 am:

    In love with this theme… one weird thing though… I’ve never had this happen, see what I mean when you click below? it’s like the CSS is missing?

    http://www.gotogreenla.com/blog/

28. 
    28 Ronald Heft on Sep 14, 2007 at 9:11 pm:

    Zach, did you resolve the issue? I don’t see any problems, but I of course don’t see Clean and Mean installed.

29. 
    29 Zach Behrens on Sep 15, 2007 at 6:36 am:

    No, I still have not resolved it. I put it back up so you can see:

    http://www.gotogreenla.com/blog/

    Thanks much!

30. 
    30 Ronald Heft on Sep 15, 2007 at 1:42 pm:

    You’re right. The CSS simply isn’t there. Well, it’s there, but it’s either a blank file or something else.

    Have you tried reuploading the style.css and ie.css files? If they are there, your host may have incorrectly set the mime type for css files in that directory. Try deleting any .htaccess files in the CnM directory. If that doesn’t work, I’d contact your host and let them know you’re have a mime issue with css files in that directory.

31. 
    31 ZeusII on Sep 25, 2007 at 5:15 pm:

    Any clues on how to add native tag support for WP2.3 instead of UTW?

    The problem I have (adding tagcloud and posts tags is easy to solve) is that when I go to see all posts that have a tag, I can’t get anything to show except the tag name in plain text.

    Thanks in advance.

32. 
    32 Ronald Heft on Sep 25, 2007 at 7:18 pm:

    Zeusli, I plan to make Clean and Mean compatible with WordPress 2.3 (including tag support) this weekend. I hope you don’t mind waiting.

33. 
    33 ZeusII on Sep 26, 2007 at 2:10 am:

    No problems. I’ll wait for the update

34. 
    34 ~Karolis on Sep 27, 2007 at 12:43 pm:

    Any chance you’ll ever make it into double-sidebar theme?

35. 
    35 Ronald Heft on Sep 27, 2007 at 1:34 pm:

    I have no plans at the moment, but if someone would modify it, I would have no problem hosting/linking to the mod.

36. 
    36 ~Karolis on Sep 27, 2007 at 1:40 pm:

    Well, it seems like it should be a fairly simple process. If I will ever have time to do it, I’ll let you know.

37. 
    37 Ronald Heft on Oct 1, 2007 at 2:55 pm:

    Just an update for those of you waiting for a 2.3 compatible version. My weekend turned out to be really busy, but I will be working on the update tomorrow. There isn’t too much needed to make the theme 2.3 compatible, so I should have it out tomorrow. Thank you for being patient.

38. 
    38 Ronald Heft on Oct 2, 2007 at 11:22 pm:

    Clean and Mean 2.0 is now out with support for WordPress 2.3. Enjoy!

39. 
    39 Bulent on Oct 3, 2007 at 10:55 am:

    Very nice theme. Don’t suppose you’re working on a three column version? =)

40. 
    40 Ronald Heft on Oct 4, 2007 at 12:01 am:

    Not at the moment, but if requests keep on coming in for a 3-column version, I’ll consider it.

41. 
    41 ZeusII on Oct 4, 2007 at 3:07 am:

    Updated my modified theme with the updates. Working fine

42. 
    42 ghostfreak on Oct 4, 2007 at 7:19 am:

    When I upload and activate the theme it doesn’t show a ‘meta’ header on the main page with the Admin link on it.

    Any ideas?

43. 
    43 ~Karolis on Oct 4, 2007 at 10:37 am:

    Ronald, could you share the code that is specifically responsible for remembering the person who has already commented? My PHP knowledge is rather limited and all of the attempts to extract that particular piece of code have failed so far

44. 
    44 Ronald Heft on Oct 4, 2007 at 4:10 pm:

    ghostfreak: When I upload and activate the theme it doesn’t show a ‘meta’ header on the main page with the Admin link on it.

    Any ideas?

    I’m sure what exactly you’re referring to. Are you talking about the admin bar that appears on WordPress.com websites? Self-hosted WordPress sites don’t have that bar, or if they do, the bar is built into the theme.

    ~Karolis: Ronald, could you share the code that is specifically responsible for remembering the person who has already commented? My PHP knowledge is rather limited and all of the attempts to extract that particular piece of code have failed so far

    Sure. The code can be found in comments.php lines 109 - 131. The important parts are the first PHP line, the Javascript function, this link:

    <a href="javascript:show_hide('comment-author-details'); javascript:show_hide('commentinfo');">Change &raquo;</a>

    the PHP closing tag on line 121, the PHP on line 122, and the div ids. Hope this helps.

45. 
    45 ~Karolis on Oct 4, 2007 at 4:32 pm:

    It sure does. Thank you very much.

    By the way, I am working on 3 columns version. It’s not that much work, but I want to make sure I get everything right.

    In your opinion should columns be on each side or next to each other?

46. 
    46 Ronald Heft on Oct 4, 2007 at 4:51 pm:

    Typically, three column designs are on both sides.

47. 
    47 Jack Perry on Oct 6, 2007 at 6:39 pm:

    Just came across CM50 and I must say CNM is a Wordpress theme I have never seen before, but utterly respect! It’s very clean-cut and stylish, yet perfect for supplying some monster content. If you don’t mind, could I base a CakePHP layout off of CNM? I’ll keep a credit to you on a page when I’m done, but I just won’t be using Wordpress. Let me know on AIM (sameoldspud) or Twitter (cellrdoor).

    Thanks in advance Ron!

48. 
    48 ZeusII on Oct 7, 2007 at 8:21 am:

    Hi!, just a little tweak to add “previous/next posts” links to archives and search pages

    just add:

    || is_category() || is_day() || is_month() || is_year() || is_search()

    after <?php if(is_home() statement on theloop.php.

    this is essential to be able to read entire categories like trip logs I have

49. 
    49 ~Karolis on Oct 7, 2007 at 10:48 am:

    Thanks ZeusII that is useful. I think Ronald should consider fixing that, ot at least including it into some documentation.

50. 
    50 ghostfreak on Oct 7, 2007 at 10:58 am:

    No, I mean the meta box with the ‘register/login’ links on it.

    I’m using Wordpress 2.3

51. 
    51 ZeusII on Oct 7, 2007 at 5:01 pm:

    I loved how category list in archive page looked with the old funcion wp_list_cats, three columns

    Now, with the non deprecated wp_list_categories function just shows as a list.

    I’m trying to tweak it to show like before but I can’t. Meanwhile, I replaced the new with the deprecated function.

    Could you see if there’s any way to recover the old look? ;D

52. 
    52 Ronald Heft on Oct 7, 2007 at 6:16 pm:

    First, to everyone, I’m going to try my best to add all the features requested. I have a really busy schedule this upcoming week and will most likely have to pull an all-nighter somewhere. I will eventually get to these requests, but it probably won’t be until next weekend or later.

    In addition, I plan to have a three-column option for the next release thanks to Karolis.

    Jack Perry: If you don’t mind, could I base a CakePHP layout off of CNM? I’ll keep a credit to you on a page when I’m done, but I just won’t be using Wordpress.

    I don’t mind. Feel free to adapt the theme for CakePHP.

    ZeusII: Hi!, just a little tweak to add “previous/next posts” links to archives and search pages

    Thank you for making me aware of that. The missing previous/next links is a bug from me stripping the Ultimate Tag Warrior code from this past release. I’ll fix that bug in the next release.

    ghostfreak: No, I mean the meta box with the ‘register/login’ links on it.

    Ok, I’ll add the links for the next release. For now, you can drag the Meta widget to the sidebar and you’ll have those options when logged in.

    ZeusII: I loved how category list in archive page looked with the old funcion wp_list_cats, three columns

    Now, with the non deprecated wp_list_categories function just shows as a list.

    I’m trying to tweak it to show like before but I can’t. Meanwhile, I replaced the new with the deprecated function.

    Could you see if there’s any way to recover the old look? ;D

    Again, this is another bug. I didn’t intend for the the list to become hierarchical. To solve this add &hierarchical=0 to the wp_list_categories query string so the whole function looks like this:

    <?php wp_list_categories('show_count=1&hide_empty=1&children=0&title_li=&hierarchical=0'); ?>

    I’ll have this fixed in the next release.

53. 
    53 ghostfreak on Oct 7, 2007 at 6:25 pm:

    Thanks Ronald!

54. 
    54 ZeusII on Oct 7, 2007 at 6:50 pm:

    &hierarchical=1 did the trick for me.

    actually I want the list hierarchical but in three columns (without adding this par. showed as a list).

    thanks, that’s the only thing I didn’t try >_<

55. 
    55 ~Karolis on Oct 8, 2007 at 4:48 pm:

    I’ll be waiting for this release more than Xmas

56. 
    56 ZeusII on Oct 14, 2007 at 6:48 am:

    ZeusII: Hi!, just a little tweak to add “previous/next posts” links to archives and search pages

    just add:

    || is_category() || is_day() || is_month() || is_year() || is_search()

    after <?php if(is_home() statement on theloop.php.

    this is essential to be able to read entire categories like trip logs I have

    also, add “is_tag()” to allow browsing trough tagged posts

57. 
    57 ~Karolis on Oct 15, 2007 at 3:36 pm:

    Some of my blog readers who use [poorly calibrated] LCD monitors started complaining that they can’t see which comment field means what.

    I suggest replacing background images with JS code like the one on the search field.

58. 
    58 Ronald Heft on Oct 15, 2007 at 10:47 pm:

    Karolis, I tried JS code in the past and it doesn’t work. If the user fails to fill in fields like the Website URI, the text Website URI is submitted to WordPress as the user’s URI. Thus, every user has a URI regardless.

    A better solution would be to use my Safari fall back hack (Safari doesn’t display input images). Just remove this CSS in style.css:

    #comment-labels {
    	display: none;
    	}
    
    /* The Following Hack is Used Since Safari Doesn't Support Textbox Images */
    /* It Doesn't Validate  */
    
    /*\*/
    html*#comment-labels {
    	[display: none;
    	display: block;
    	]display: none;
    	}/**/

59. 
    59 ~Karolis on Oct 16, 2007 at 2:48 am:

    I didn’t think of that :-/

    OK, I’ll have tro try your sollution.

60. 
    60 ZeusII on Oct 24, 2007 at 2:17 pm:

    Another thing I just found missing is the following code in header.php for the ping system:

    <link rel=”pingback” href=”" />

61. 
    61 Ronald Heft on Oct 24, 2007 at 7:37 pm:

    Thank you for pointing that out Zeusll. Yet another feature to add to this update.

    Now regarding that update, I’m crossing my fingers for this weekend. If I can manage to avoid a major assignment in my remaining classes for the week, I should have some time to get it done. Thanks to everyone for being so patient.

62. 
    62 B2BW on Oct 28, 2007 at 4:59 am:

    Hi and congratulations on making a wonderful theme.
    I had no problems with CnM 1.1 but when I installed CnM2.0 and activated it, I got this error when I try to open my blog.

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_tag() in /www/110mb.com/b/2/b/w/i/l/d/_/b2bwild/htdocs/blog/wp-content/themes/CnM/header.php on line 6

    I have a very limited knowledge of PHP. Any idea what I’m missing?
    I’m using Wordpress 2.2.
    Many thanks in advance…

63. 
    63 muradu on Oct 30, 2007 at 9:54 pm:

    this theme is very clean, very beatiful.
    I apply to my blog.

    thanks a lot…

64. 
    64 Ronald Heft on Nov 4, 2007 at 10:55 pm:

    Thanks everyone for being so patient. I just released Clean and Mean 3.0. Hopefully I managed to include everything you guys requested. If I happened to miss something or you found another brain fart of mine, feel free to let me know. Enjoy!

65. 
    65 ~Karolis on Nov 5, 2007 at 4:46 pm:

    Still didn’t have a chance to lay my hands on it, but I’ve just had an idea: why not making a “showcase” – some dedicated place where everyone could post the address to their blog that is using CnM.

    Now I know you might say that all I want is to abuse your reputation, but I didn’t say this “showcase” has to be on your website, right? We just need to collectively decide where we can put those links.

66. 
    66 Ronald Heft on Nov 6, 2007 at 7:42 pm:

    B2BW: I have a very limited knowledge of PHP. Any idea what I’m missing?
    I’m using Wordpress 2.2.
    Many thanks in advance…

    First off, sorry for not seeing your comment sooner. Akismet managed to eat it.

    Anyway, the problem is you’re using WordPress 2.2. I had to modify CnM to work with WordPress 2.3, and the new template tags effectively break CnM under 2.2. I recommend you either upgrade to WordPress 2.3 or stick with CnM 1.1.

    ~Karolis: Still didn’t have a chance to lay my hands on it, but I’ve just had an idea: why not making a “showcase” – some dedicated place where everyone could post the address to their blog that is using CnM.

    Now I know you might say that all I want is to abuse your reputation, but I didn’t say this “showcase” has to be on your website, right? We just need to collectively decide where we can put those links.

    Would a Flickr group work? I initially tried maintaining a list of CnM users, but that became less useful as people switch to other themes. I think a Flickr group would allow self promotion and make sure people can actually see CnM working on websites.

67. 
    67 ~Karolis on Nov 7, 2007 at 1:55 am:

    Ronald, flickr will work if people use it. I don’t

    On the other hand, if you’re saying it didn’t work before, maybe there’s no need for it. I just thought it would be interested to see how other people modify CnM.

68. 
    68 Q on Nov 7, 2007 at 4:49 pm:

    If you want to see CnM in action, visit http://www.awooga.nl

    Thanks for making such a nice theme! Am currently using 2.0, but will be upgrading to 3.0 soon. Have done a bit of customisation on it, but nothing major. An attribute of a great theme

69. 
    69 Ronald Heft on Nov 7, 2007 at 8:34 pm:

    Thanks Q!

    For anyone interested the Flickr group is now live. Feel free to post your Clean and Mean modifications.

70. 
    70 Bill K on Nov 9, 2007 at 11:43 am:

    Ronald,

    Thanks for making this great Theme… I’ve modded it a bit for ScalpEm.com and my users are overwhelmingly please.

    I tried to send you an email the other day… do you take donations for your work?

71. 
    71 Ronald Heft on Nov 9, 2007 at 4:30 pm:

    Hello Bill, glad you enjoy Clean and Mean! I do take donations via PayPal at ron at cavemonkey50 dot com.

    Regarding sending an email, did the email bounce? The reason I ask is you’re not the first person who mentioned having issues sending me an email this week.

72. 
    72 Bill K on Nov 10, 2007 at 12:46 pm:

    Hey Ronald, it didn’t bounce. Dunno what to tell you on that. I just never got a reply so I thought I’d try a comment! Check your Paypal… many thanks!

73. 
    73 Ronald Heft on Nov 10, 2007 at 6:10 pm:

    Bill, thank you very much for the donation. Your donation is greatly appreciated and will be put to good use.

    If you have any suggestions for Clean and Mean, feel free to let me know. Thanks again and enjoy!

74. 
    74 Bernd on Nov 15, 2007 at 4:03 am:

    First of all thank you for this great theme!

    I only would have one suggestion, what should be changed: Could you make it liquid, so that it can use the whole width of the browser and only have left and right borders with 1 or 2 em? Fixed layout is not very usefull in my eyes.

75. 
    75 Ronald Heft on Nov 15, 2007 at 9:24 pm:

    Bernd: I only would have one suggestion, what should be changed: Could you make it liquid, so that it can use the whole width of the browser and only have left and right borders with 1 or 2 em? Fixed layout is not very usefull in my eyes.

    I understand your personal preference with fluid layouts, but unfortunately Clean and Mean is not a fluid theme and never will be. Fluid themes make predicting content display difficult, expectably when dealing with larger resolutions. In addition, making Clean and Mean fluid would require some substantial rewriting of the theme code, and I’m just not willing to do that.

    If you’re looking for a fluid layout, there are a number of other free WordPress themes that I’m sure would fit your needs. I’m sorry, but Clean and Mean just isn’t a fluid theme.

76. 
    76 Bernd on Nov 16, 2007 at 8:37 am:

    In addition, making Clean and Mean fluid would require some substantial rewriting of the theme code, and I’m just not willing to do that.

    I know I have already tried to modfiy the css, but didn’t work how i would like it.

    If you’re looking for a fluid layout, there are a number of other free WordPress themes that I’m sure would fit your needs.

    No thanks. Clean and Mean is really cool, so i will still use it in future

77. 
    77 muradu on Nov 20, 2007 at 12:45 am:

    why the adsense advertisements can not display in this theme, for ie. In firefox, adsense ad. is displaying, but in ie7, adsense can’t display…

    You can give an eye to my site, in firefox and ie. You will see the different.

    sorry about my english, i don’t know english very well.

78. 
    78 Ronald Heft on Nov 22, 2007 at 2:15 am:

    muradu: why the adsense advertisements can not display in this theme, for ie. In firefox, adsense ad. is displaying, but in ie7, adsense can’t display…

    I’m not sure what you’re exactly talking about. There should be no Adsense ads in Clean and Mean unless you added them yourself.

    I don’t normally support user mods, but I did do a quick look of your code. Nothing really stands out as being a problem. I would try validating your code and seeing what errors come up. IE can be really picky about coding.

79. 
    79 Q on Nov 22, 2007 at 6:36 am:

    I finally upgraded to 3.0 on http://www.awooga.nl and it was pretty much painless. Well done, and thanks again for such a nice theme!

80. 
    80 Karolis [Pocius.lt] on Jan 14, 2008 at 5:28 am:

    Well, after working on so many blogs of other people, I finally found some time to upgrade mine (not done yet). The questions that I have are:
    1. wpPaginate says it is for WP 1.5 – does it really work with 2.3?
    2. author of the Quote Comment suggests using Quoter – should I stick with Quote Comment or go with Quoter?

    Thanks again for this incredible theme.

    P.S. I am still planning on adding translation support

81. 
    81 Ronald Heft on Jan 14, 2008 at 4:22 pm:

    Karolis, I haven’t tried wpPaginate since WordPress 2.1, but it’s a simple plugin, so it should still be working fine on 2.3.

    Regarding Quoter, I have a person preference of using the original quote comment since it actually adds the quote code to your comment (I’m using it on this site). That way if you ever disable your Quote Comment (or it doesn’t get updated for a new WordPress version), all your existing quoted comments still work.

    However, if there is demand for Quoter support, I can easily add that in addition to Quote Comment.

82. 
    82 D9r on Feb 17, 2008 at 6:04 pm:

    Hi,

    Thanks for this clean content-focused theme. I’m new to wordpress development and am choosing CnM for my first project.

    The CSS seems to have a problem. I’m using Wordpress 2.3.3, Windows XP, and Mozilla 1.7.13. When a page loads, the top navbar displays with the background image about 5 pixels too low while the background color shows through at the top. But when one of the navbar links is rolled over, the background image bounces up to where it belongs (staying there) and the navbar displays correctly.

    Is this a problem with the original download, or did I mess something up?

    Thanks,
    Dean

83. 
    83 Ronald Heft on Feb 17, 2008 at 6:17 pm:

    Hello D9r, the menu bar should be fine in the original download. I have not tested in that version of Mozilla, but I have in Firefox and they are based off the same engine.

    I know from styling the menu bar, the CSS is very complex and the slightest error in a value throws the whole thing off. Were you trying to modify the menu bar at all, or did this just occur from editing something else?

84. 
    84 D9r on Feb 18, 2008 at 3:01 pm:

    (A post I made several hours ago was moderated — I hope you received it. It was a followup to the previous question.)
    Here’s a 2nd question:

    I made a static homepage as described here:
    http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/i-have-2-home-page-links/
    http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/having-a-static-page-at-the-front-of-the-blog/

    The sidebar shows ‘Home’ as a subpage of ‘Home’. What would be the easiest way to get rid of that?

    Subpages

    * Home

85. 
    85 D9r on Feb 18, 2008 at 6:40 pm:

    D9r: The sidebar shows ‘Home’ as a subpage of ‘Home’. What would be the easiest way to get rid of that?

    Subpages

    * Home

    I’m assuming the easiest solution would be to undo making Home a child of Posts as described in the instructions, and to instead remove the first of the two ‘Home’s from the top navbar by editing the template. It’s just that I was trying to minimize editing the template so that there’s less to keep track of when the template is upgraded.

86. 
    86 D9r on Feb 19, 2008 at 7:52 pm:

    Here are some screenshots.

    When page is freshly loaded:
    http://tuckercivic.bellasites.ws/testarea/NavbarBGImageBuginMozilla-refreshed.jpg

    After a navbar link is rolled over:
    http://tuckercivic.bellasites.ws/testarea/NavbarBGImageBuginMozilla-rolledover.jpg

87. 
    87 Ronald Heft on Feb 20, 2008 at 12:11 am:

    Hello D9r, I did receive your past two moderated comments, but I’m not approving them simply so this page doesn’t get cluttered up with code. I’m unsure of the code you posted. Are you just showing me your unchanged menu bar code?

    Regarding oddities with the menu bar, I am seeing some extra spacing in Firefox 3, but I’m not seeing the huge amount of space you see in Mozilla. As long as you didn’t modify the CSS, I 100% believe you the problem is there. Mozilla’s text rendering engine has recently changed and that’s probably the cause of this problem. It’s looking like I may have to redesign the CSS menu to be more compliant.

    Unfortunately, I have a busy week, so it probably won’t be for a bit. I hope you don’t mind waiting a little. I promise to investigate this issue further and hopefully have it solved before WordPress 2.5 is released (early March). Does that work?

    Regarding your double home page issue, you can make the home page a child of another child and that will not be displayed anywhere. So, place the home page 2 levels deep on an existing child.

88. 
    88 D9r on Feb 20, 2008 at 5:42 pm:

    Whenever you get to it is fine. I’ll manage.

    “Were you trying to modify the menu bar at all, or did this just occur from editing something else?”
    => I did not modify anything: I haven’t modified the template, and I haven’t modified wordpress. The code is exactly the same as it was after being downloaded and unzipped.

    “I’m unsure of the code you posted. Are you just showing me your unchanged menu bar code?”
    => I have not changed any code; the entire template is unchanged (as of this post). The code I posted is only the code for the menubar, and all the rest was pruned out (I don’t like excessive code posting either). I posted the code to save the trouble of going to the demo and viewing source. If seeing the code helps any with troubleshooting, the code I’m having problems with is at the root subdomain of the screenshots.

    Thank you for your help. And thanks again for providing a good template for me to start out with. Take care.

89. 
    89 Ronald Heft on Feb 23, 2008 at 11:02 pm:

    I’m experimenting with some fixes. If you add height: 19px; to ul#menu in style.css does that fix it or show any improvement?

90. 
    90 Karolis [Pocius.lt] on Mar 30, 2008 at 12:59 pm:

    I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.5 using fresh version of CnM 3.0 - works just fine.

91. 
    91 Ronald Heft on Mar 30, 2008 at 2:09 pm:

    Thanks for the feedback. I’m aware it works under 2.5, but I’m looking to add some of 2.5’s features; like search options and Gravatars.

92. 
    92 ZeusII on Mar 30, 2008 at 4:24 pm:

    Also using it whit WP2.5 without problems.

    Adding 2.5 gravatars is easy as putting this line: echo get_avatar( get_comment_author_email(), ‘64′ )

    Found a little bug on the comments. The one that has a white background has more espace at the top (from the line to the start of gravatar)

93. 
    93 Ronald Heft on Mar 30, 2008 at 5:09 pm:

    Alright, the new version is out.

    Zuesll, I’m aware of that. However, that’s not really a bug. There is a just a slight visual difference between the alternating comments. The top and bottom lines of an alternating comment is actually closer to that comment and not perfectly centered. I have tried different sizes in the past, and increasing the size starts to look weird.

94. 
    94 ZeusII on Mar 30, 2008 at 6:01 pm:

    Just updated using WinMerge to find the differences (easyer than reaplying all the mods on a clean template).

    The fix you introduced “height: 19px; /* Potential fix for new text rendering */” on the CSS breaks the display on Opera 9.26 making the menubar look taller and the text is aligned on the top, not in the middle like in firefox. (I didn’t put that fix on my css for now)

95. 
    95 Ronald Heft on Mar 30, 2008 at 7:21 pm:

    ZeusII: The fix you introduced “height: 19px; /* Potential fix for new text rendering */” on the CSS breaks the display on Opera 9.26 making the menubar look taller and the text is aligned on the top, not in the middle like in firefox. (I didn’t put that fix on my css for now)

    Thanks for letting me know. I will do some more testing and hacking away to try and get that right in all browsers.

96. 
    96 ZeusII on Mar 31, 2008 at 12:57 pm:

    Is it possible to skin the new gallery feature so the page that displays an image with it’s comments is different from the original post? Adding a “back to post” link for example.

97. 
    97 Ronald Heft on Mar 31, 2008 at 11:18 pm:

    I will most definitely skin the gallery in the next version. Unfortunately, documentation for the gallery feature is a little on the weak side at the moment, so it may take a bit until all the template tags come to light.

98. 
    98 zombie on Apr 1, 2008 at 1:31 am:

    I really like this theme, but for me to use it, I’d need a couple of (hopefully) simple customizations. How can I easily make these changes:

    - Make the main column wider; not making it “fluid,” but rather making it permanently about 130% wider than its current width. (And I wouldn’t mind making the sidebar narrower, if that’s required.)

    - Remove the “category tags” entry at the top of every post; I don’t want to have tags, and it would be repetitive to see the “Posted in…” sitting there blank on each and every post.

    I’ll try to figure these out myself, but any help you can provide for easy fixing would be appreciated!

99. 
    99 zombie on Apr 1, 2008 at 2:49 am:

    Re: My comment #98:]

    I seem to have already solved those problems on my own (fixed the width by fiddling with the “px” width settings in the “single.php” and “style,css” files, and fixed the “Posted by…” by removing the lines specifying it in the “theloop.php” and “style.css” files). So, forget about those questions already! Now I have a new question, that will hopefully be even simpler:

    I have made a new customized “header.jpg” file that says the name of my blog in a special stylized way that I want (and I also made it wider to match the new width of the column). However, the underlying name of the blog still overlays my custom jpg so the name is now visible twice, on top of each other. So, my question now is:

    Is there some simple way to make the underlying blog name under the header jpeg not be visible/disappear/be suppressed/not exist etc.?

100. 
     100 ZeusII on Apr 1, 2008 at 9:00 am:

     zombie, open header.php and remove this line:

101. 
     101 ZeusII on Apr 1, 2008 at 9:01 am:

     > remove line 32

102. 
     102 Pascal on Apr 1, 2008 at 4:11 pm:

     Hmmm, probably my fault but the widgets don’t seem to work with me.

     I’ve added the categories and tag cloud with widgets but nothing shows up …

     What am i doing wrong?
     (WP 2.5)

103. 
     103 E.J. on Apr 1, 2008 at 10:12 pm:

     Hi Ronald! I just switched to your theme & I’ve tried to make some mild changes (though some worked and some didn’t). I’m afraid I over-hacked and I’m having some issues –

     1) In Firefox, the page loads but the background color does not.
     2) In IE, the page loads with the background, but the right column loads all the way at the bottom of the last entry.

     Any ideas on what to do in order to fix these problems? Thanks for the awesome template!

104. 
     104 E.J. on Apr 1, 2008 at 10:25 pm:

     Oh — I’m running Wordpress 2.5 btw. Thanks again!

105. 
     105 Ronald Heft on Apr 1, 2008 at 11:28 pm:

     zombie: Is there some simple way to make the underlying blog name under the header jpeg not be visible/disappear/be suppressed/not exist etc.?

     Sure, just add the following CSS class to the end of your style.css:

     div#header div.header-text {
     	display: none;
     }

     Pascal: Hmmm, probably my fault but the widgets don’t seem to work with me.

     Two things I can think of. I know the interface for adding widgets has changed in 2.5, and you may not be saving the addition of the widgets. If you navigate back to the widget page after adding them, are they there?

     Second thought, could it be a faulty widget/plugins? Have you tried displaying any plugins to see if that solves your issue?

     E.J.: Any ideas on what to do in order to fix these problems? Thanks for the awesome template!

     If you’ve drastically modified the theme, I can’t offer direct support, but I’d be glad to point you in the right direction.

     For problem #1, it sounds like you have either a div that has been closed early, or a div not closed at all. Try validating the page in an HTML validator to check for problems.

     For problem #2, this is a common problem with IE. Most likely the content div is set too wide for IE. I have an ie.css which you can adjust the width of the content div in. Play with values until you get a value small enough that the sidebar pops back into position.

     Hope this helps!

106. 
     106 E.J. on Apr 2, 2008 at 12:39 am:

     Hi and thanks for the quick replies!

     I ran a couple of different markup validators, and nothing showed up that would be causing the background to disappear came up. I made some nesting adjustments that were suggested, but everything else seemed to be in line — so, I’m stuck there.

     Next, I started playing with the ie.css, but nothing appeared to change — even when I tried doing shift-refresh to get a clean copy of the page. It almost seemed like IE was ignoring the ie.css stylesheet entirely.

     So, if you (or anyone else) have any further suggestions as to what I might do, I’m open to suggestion.

     The idea here is to make the background show up (which it does in IE but not in Firefox) and make all three columns load at the top (which it does in Firefox but not in IE). Thanks again!

107. 
     107 Ronald Heft on Apr 2, 2008 at 1:07 am:

     Hmm, well, you’re definitely right about ie.css being ignored. The secondary sidebar CSS overrides it. To correct that problem, move the following line in header.php above the <!–[if IE]> line:

     <?php if ( 1 == get_option('cnm_three_column') ) { ?><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-content/themes/CnM/style_sidebar2.css" /><?php } ?>

     I’ll try and have a patch out for everyone shortly.

     As far as the background issue, if I have some time tomorrow, I’ll try and take a look at it. I’m now thinking one of your floats might be clearing prematurely.

108. 
     108 ZeusII on Apr 2, 2008 at 1:33 am:

     About the background, when I was tweaking mine, got that problem when enabling/disabling some plugins (having added it’s code to the sidebar).

     I’d recommend that you start from scratch, one change at a time so you can find what “modified line” is causing yout problem.

     Use something like Winmerge to compare old and new files to find all the changes you made.

109. 
     109 Pascal on Apr 2, 2008 at 6:57 am:

     Yes i save them and the related posts plugin worked and showed up on article pages.

     But the widgets i add don’t show up (yes, every time being saved and message that they are being saved)

110. 
     110 Anirban on Apr 2, 2008 at 11:26 am:

     I think you need to activate the plugins to get the widget working. I was also having same problems.

111. 
     111 E.J. on Apr 2, 2008 at 7:06 pm:

     OKAY!

     I have fixed it and here’s what I did:

     [Code Moved to Followup Comment]

112. 
     112 Ronald Heft on Apr 2, 2008 at 11:20 pm:

     Pascal: Yes i save them and the related posts plugin worked and showed up on article pages.

     But the widgets i add don’t show up (yes, every time being saved and message t