129 Comments

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

   This is a modded kubrick

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

   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 (Quote):

   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 (Quote):

   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 (Quote):

   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 (Quote):

   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 (Quote):

   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 (Quote):

   Redownload the archive. It should be corrected now.

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

   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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    John, emailing you the code.

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

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    Clean and Mean WordPress Theme…

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

    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 (Quote):

    It works now!!
    Just this line:

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

    Glad you figured it out Martin.

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

    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 (Quote):

    Martin, I recommend you look at the query_posts tag.

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

    Thank you

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

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    No problems. I’ll wait for the update

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

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

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

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    Updated my modified theme with the updates. Working fine

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

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    Typically, three column designs are on both sides.

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

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    Thanks Ronald!

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

    &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 (Quote):

    I’ll be waiting for this release more than Xmas

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

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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 (Quote):

    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