Regulus 2.0
December 11, 2005 | Regulus
Regulus has been far more popular than I ever imagined it would be. So popular, in fact, that I have already created version 2.0
Changes
Version 2.0 has been created specifically for Wordpress version 2.0 (hence the name change) and features a number of new features. From the outside it looks the same, with the exception of the 4 new header images and the extra colour scheme, but underneath it uses the new theme system built directly into wordpress 2.0
- rebuilt admin panel from scratch for wordpress 2.0
- fixed list item colour in content
- fixed get_sidebar not called twice on page.php any more
- fixed search function
- fixed errors with certain plugins that messed up the about box content
- fixed message label repeating css bug in IE
- added reset button to admin panel (for easy uninstall)
- added screenshot (used in wp2.0 only)
- added some fancy little javascript doobries to let you preview style options in the admin panel itself
- added white colour scheme
- added link listing option and styled listings
- added 404 page
- added 4 new header graphics
- changed line-height in css
- changed password protected posts to hide certain objects in the widgets bar if the password is not entered
- swap categories and archives around
- moved admin bar styles to external style sheet
- only display ‘read more’ link if excerpts are used
- option to display post author on individual posts on homepage
- choose between default blog roll listing and the option to display link categories
- made the html validate
- optimised switch.css (reduce download size)
Oh yeah - I fixed a few things in the original version as well so if you are still using wordpress 1.5 then you can update that as well.
Download
Unless there are any major errors I’m not going to do any more work on the 1.5 version of Regulus. Since version 2 is coming out in the not too distant future, and people aren’t complaining, I don’t think it’s worth continuing. That doesn’t mean it will stop working though - so feel free to keep using it 
Comments
December 11, 2005
Nicest theme for WP so far!
December 11, 2005
THANK You very Much !!!! For this new skin !!!
December 11, 2005
Thanks for this great theme. I saw it over at http://www.la-bella.net and snagged it for myself.
December 12, 2005
I like!… Regulus 2 not work with WordPress 1.5?
December 12, 2005
Oh, already I understood, also you released a version fixed for WordPress 1.5.
It had not read well :). Greetings.
December 12, 2005
Congrats on the popularity!
I have a question for you Ben, how can I change the Regulus “admin” section to call backgrounds in png format? I ask because I noticed when I saved my current header background, and it was saved as jpg format, it lost a lot of quality.
I’d rather save it in png format so the colors can maintain clarity. How hard would that be? Because I know that if I replace my header as png and replace it that way, it won’t call it, am I right?
December 12, 2005
Awesome, I really do like this theme and so do my readers. I hope my testing helped you and the reason I didn’t respond after my last email was I couldn’t find anymore issues.
December 12, 2005
J - thanks
Kristyk - cool. I like what you’ve done with it.
Drask - you got it now
There’s two versions. A wordpress 1.5 one and an updated, slightly more advanced wordpress 2 one.
Bella - If you want to edit all of the images so they’re png you need to open up functions.php and have a look in there for all references to jpg’s, I think they’re only mentioned once/ twice so a quick search should find it. The only problem is if you change to png then all the jpgs will stop working (resave them as pngs and all will be good). Remember though, that you’ll need to edit the css to match.
Carl - your help was appreciated, thanks.
December 12, 2005
Ben, you are the hero once again. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
So again: Where is your PayPal-Donate-Button?
I planned to go to bed early this time, but I think I will stay awake and install you improved regulus theme at http://congressradio.de
And I will try to play with WP 2.0 and your theme for WP 2.0 also this night.
So I will see the moon in the sky and the binary moon on the screen - sounds great to me, how about you Ben?
Have a truly good time and only the best to you, Ben!
December 12, 2005
Sorry, but I didn’t read you last answer to me. The thing with the PayPal-Button was more a joke from me than a serious question
I just wanted to let you know, that other people earn money with such a fantastic work while you are giving it away for free, which makes it even more lavish and noble :)))
I only hope, people are not demandig too much just because it is a free template.
At least it wasn’t free regarding the time you “invested” in building this theme, but that is sometimes forgotten way too fast and easily
So thanks for spending your time with building the regulus theme
December 13, 2005
Thanks, this looks awesome.
December 13, 2005
Hey, Ben!
Thanks dude, it worked!
Actually, I had to change nothing under the functions.php file. Only the css file.
Thanks again!
December 13, 2005
I tried out some of your other header images and the white tagline and site name don’t go good with some of them. Maybe a darker shade of white or a different color?
December 13, 2005
Oliver - thanks :), I like your header graphic as well.
Tom - thank you
La Bella - glad it worked.
Carl - You’ve got a really long tag line, I guess the white text is clashing with some of the lighter parts of the images? I like playing with contrast (and the lack of) and on my local test site everything looked fine. I’m sure you’ll find something suitable though
December 13, 2005
Question: Is it possible to change the header/footer to full screen? That way I could have the background colors go all the way across? I can’t seem to do it without changing the width of the main content area and I don’t want to do that.
December 13, 2005
kristyk - the footer is easy, just take it out of the main wrapper div. To do this move the </div> so it’s above the <ul id=”footer”> in footer.php
The header is a little harder. Open up header.php and move the header stuff (</div id=”header”>) so it’s above the wrapper div. You also need to change the css so the “.hid_1 #wrapper” things are “.hid_1 #header”. You may want to change the margin on the #header as well so that the image sits flush with the top of the page.
December 14, 2005
Excelente Theme. Muchas Gracias !!
www.goofree.com
December 14, 2005
Thanks. It worked, except that everything is now aligned left. I’ll keep working on it.
December 14, 2005
Thank You very Much ! Great theme! I use this theme on my work site - http://syktmoloko.ru.
P.S. Do you like to include AJAX features in to next versions?
December 14, 2005
Oscar - thanks
Kristyk - just had a play with your css. Try using this:
ul#nav {margin:0 auto;
padding:105px 0 0 16px;
list-style-type:none;
width:800px;
}
I haven’t tried it in IE so it might need tweaking but it should do what you want.
Lalex - I’m not interested in Ajax and know nothing about it, but if that’s what you want there is an Ajax version made by another developer.
December 14, 2005
Thanks… worked like a charm. I really appreciate all your help!
December 14, 2005
I just discovered a bug I believe. I’m using WP 2.0 and downloaded the 2.0 Theme. I have it set (like you) where people have to enter a name and email to post a comment. The problem is that with the theme, the (required) text next to name and email doesn’t show. I’m not sure exactly why. My site is www.nohandle.com if you wan’t to check it out personally.
It’s not a major problem, but I just wanted to let you know. Thanks again for such a great theme.
December 14, 2005
Aw, but what about the theme you’re using for this page? Now that, I love!
December 14, 2005
I agree - the theme you are using for this page is just FAB! One of the nicest I’ve seen.
If you released this, I’d send you diamonds!
December 15, 2005
Great work Ben.
I will be using it on a new blog I am planning.
Keep up the good work!
December 15, 2005
Kristyk - excellent
Tom - That’s not a bug since it doesn’t break anything. It’s more of an oversight… It’s not hard to add it yourself though. I’m not sure wether I should add it to the template or not. It looks nicer without but I guess it’s kind of important.
Crissy and Piggy - My preciuos, mine all mine. I’m afraid I’m not going to be giving it away any time soon. It’s not designed for general use - most of the design is hard coded with limited dynamic stuff. The offer of Diamonds sounds good though
Jose - thanks.
December 15, 2005
Thanx for making the theme compatible to WP 2.0!
I already loved (and tweaked) it with my old 1.5 blog but the old theme seemed not to work with the new version.
Glad you made it
December 16, 2005
how do you place the right bar to the left? what code would you need to change? thx again for the theme!
December 16, 2005
J4pan - thanks
Peter - All you have to do is change the #content stuff in the style.css file.
#content {width:460px;
float:right;
font-size:1.2em;
overflow:hidden;
border-right:12px solid #fff;
border-bottom:20px solid #fff
}
Easy
December 16, 2005
@Ben: everytime again (if you make another even greater theme ;))
@peter: I don’t really know what “right bar” you mean, but I changed only very little things in the style.css (especially not what Ben mentioned)
December 16, 2005
Ben, I’m trying Regulus 2 on my site (running WP 1.5.2), but I’m getting some errors. For instance, no sidebar in the home page, in the other pages I get no sidebar and the following error msg:
Fatal error: Unknown function: bm_writeabout() in /home2/teseus1/public_html/dev/wp-content/themes/regulus2/sidebar.php on line 10
Moreover, I cannot change header options with the new graphics, because I’m getting the Regulus 1 Theme Toolkit display. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Mario
December 16, 2005
Mario - Have you downloaded the correct version? For wordpress 1.5 you need this version, otherwise it will throw up a load of errors, since the other version uses features exclusive to wordpress 2.
Update - I’ve just checked. The function bm_writeabout is only in the wordpress 2 version of Regulus. Just download the other one (linked above) and everything should work fine.
December 16, 2005
Even worse, you can check the result right now!
December 16, 2005
Update - I’m using, with Xampp in my local host, the 2.0 version for WP RC1, everything works fine, just to let you know…
December 16, 2005
Did you delete all the old files and then re upload the theme?
wp rc1 is wp 2, so the 2 version should work fine. I’ve got both versions running on their respective wordpress installation locally and have never had any problems.
December 16, 2005
It works now. I have deleted the old version. I especially like the new header graphics used in the 2.0 version. Regulus is really a great theme, I’m using it in another site of mine, and my readers like it too. Great work!
December 16, 2005
Excellent - glad you got it working.
December 18, 2005
Hi Ben,
Is that possible to contact you by email ?
Please advice
Best regards
Hubert
December 18, 2005
Oo Bubu - there’s a contact form on my about page. Feel free to use it.
December 20, 2005
Thanks Ben. Modified to the original version.
Oscar
December 24, 2005
WOOHOO!~
Customisable, now that gives plenty of pretty combinations.
Anyway, is it possible to state the post is being filed in which categories? It doesn’t shows that on the Main page, only on the individual post page…
Thanks for your work at delivering such a beautiful theme and have a Merry Christmas!
December 26, 2005
I’m using wordpress.com. I love the template and it’s pretty neat. I wish that I could change the Header Image to one of my own… if that’s possible in your next version.
Thanks mate! And merry christmas!
December 26, 2005
Seems to some issue with Regulus and Safari. I tried to install on my WordPress MU site and the footer is just a tall skinny column on the left of the content area with no text visible. I visited some other sights http://andyc.wordpress.com/ for instance and it had the same behavior. Any ideas?
Also what modifications need to be made to make Regulus 2 compliant with MU? They have it up on WordPress.com so it is possible, but it doesn’t work for MU out of the box.
Thanks for such a lovely theme.
December 27, 2005
hi Ben,
thank you for this nice theme - I use it at WP.com
just one idea: could you insert a free space between the columns in the sidebar (in the blogroll / archive part)? I think two or three pixels would be enough. It looks a little bit pressed now.
perhaps it would be even enough to move the headers some two or three pixels to the right.
December 27, 2005
I am using Reg 2.0 on wordpress.com, wow. I love the customization.
Wishes
1. The ability to select an img for the header by giving an img url, so I could crop my own pic and select it for use on wordpress.com
2. That Catagories / Tags would show at the bottom of my posts. Like on Kubrick
I love the look, very slick
December 27, 2005
Dickinson - the post categories show up on the full posts page, just not pages with multiple posts, I felt it cluttered things up too much. Not sure if I will add it or not but I’ll think about it.
Brennan - I had thought about that. I wouldn’t have a clue about how to go about doing it though. On stand alone blogs (such as this) it wouldn’t be too hard, but I don’t know how wordpress.com works.
Kahless - I’m not a Mac user so can’t test the theme in browsers other than those I have to hand (Firefox, Opera and IE on windows), if anyone knows of a fix I’d be happy to implement it.
Markus - thanks for the comments. I guess a small gap between the columns could be good. In general you don’t get content going all the way up to the edge of the column so I didn’t think it was a big deal.
I’ve just had a look at your blog and see what you mean now. The bit where the headers are in line with the link dividers. I’ll look into it.
Chrsitian - I’ve already answered your wishes above
I didn’t actually make the wordpress.com version. Matt had to download and change my version to make it work with Wordpress.com and I know nothing about how the system works I’m afraid.
December 27, 2005
Thank you.
You and Matt sure do work hard for the money. Matt mentioned the new changes to Regulus in a podcast interview and I had been waiting for the new version to show up on wordpress.com ever since.
It would be great to have a flickr group with header graphics that were sized for Regulus 725×125 ?
Mash it up
December 27, 2005
I would still like to have the option of showing post catagories in the main page
I know, wordpress.com is not yours
December 28, 2005
I don’t get paid - but thank you anyway
A Flickr group could be interesting. I’ve never actually had a use for Flickr before so haven’t bothered looking into it.
I’ll think about the post categories on the homepage.
December 29, 2005
Getting the following error when I try to use the wp2 version with WP 2.
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare regulus_add_theme_page() (previously declared in /home/matt/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/regulus/functions.php:5) in /home/matt/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/regulus/functions.php on line 3
December 29, 2005
Well, I think it was a plugin conflict so my apologies. I got it working when I disabled some plugins.
December 30, 2005
Flickr pools can be great. Look at this one for backgrounds.
You can regulate what the criteria for the pics that would work, remove those that where not the right size. Tag the pics so that you could find those within the pool that are blue toned, or have a fish in them, or whatever. It’s all up to the users. It would allow people to add their creativity to yours. I know that you are not getting paid for your Regulous Theme but you sure are attracting attention for your ability to create.
May some big corporation decide one day that you might be able to design a theme for thier big corporate blog? We can dream right.
December 30, 2005
Thanks for the hard work, Ben! This tool is perfect for a nonprofit I’m working with. I think I found a small formatting bug though. The tabs for my pages show properly in Firefox and Opera, but in IE, they align on the top, instead of at the bottom.
http://grip.wordpress.com/
Through some trial and error I realized this is triggered by page captions of more than one word. Is there a way to fix this so that the tabs always align to the bottom?
Thanks again for your great theme!
December 31, 2005
Hi Ben,
As you know, I am using your theme for my several WP blogs !!!
http://www.leblog2bubu.info/ & http://www.leblog2bubu.com/
I’d like to amend the comment section ! In fact, I’d like, like in this website, to have 2 colors (one for the visitors and another one for the admin) and also have the whole details on the righten side and the comment on the leften one !!!
Is that possible to you to help ?
Please advice
Best regards
Hubert aka Oo Bubu
December 31, 2005
Hubert - the admin hilighting is already possible. You need to fill in your email address and the name you use to comment under in the Regulus admin panel. Then any comments by you will be hilighted.
The comment layout is quite a bit harder. Especially if you want the people names in the sidebar column. That would basically mean redoing the template which isn’t something I fancy.
December 31, 2005
Zach - thanks for pointing that out. Very strange. The best thing to do would be for the text to not wrap and then there wouldn’t be a problem. I’ll look into it.
Matt - Glad you got it sorted out
December 31, 2005
@ Ben - Thanks very much !!!
December 31, 2005
Bonjour,
Wordpress 2.0 m’a décidé à revenir à l’utilisation de ce système de blog.
Et votre thème y est pour beaucoup. Vraiment magnifique.
Bonne année 2006. Happy new year
December 31, 2005
Ben, great theme, keep up the good work.
I have one problem though, my categories are not showing up in alphabetical order, is there a way to change that?
January 1, 2006
I am trying to use a custom image for the header, but am not sure how to go about this-is it possible to upload images to have them show up in the “admin” section??
January 1, 2006
lyonel - I’m afraid my French is limited so I’ll stick to - Merci
Snowcrash - Your blog is on wordpress.com in which case there is nothing that can be done. I think the categories show up in the order they were created. I’m not even sure they can be sorted but i’ll see if it’s possible. Maybe there will be an update.
Katy - To get the images to show up in the admin panel you should simply create a new image that is the correct size and then save it with the name of one of the current images and replace it in the images folder. It will remove the default picures but you don’t want those so it doesn’t matter
January 1, 2006
Great theme!
I have installed it and uses it on two of my blogs. But after a few days, I realized that there are some problems related to Internet Explorer. It shows especially the tabs (main menu at the top) in a weird way.
I never use IE myself, so I didn´t realize this at first. Is this something you are going to fix?
January 1, 2006
Hi Ben!
I’ve uploaded the 2.0 version from 1.5.3, and when i tried to upgrade, wordpress gave me an error. I read this page, and i’ve just uploaded the 2.0 version for regulus, but wordpress gives me another error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare regulus_add_theme_page() (previously declared in /home/www/eldesviado.tollfreepage.com/wp-content/themes/regulus/functions.php:5) in /home/www/eldesviado.tollfreepage.com/wp-content/themes/regulus/functions.php on line 3
Before the uploading i’ve got disabled all the plugins. I don’t know what to do. Can you help me please?
Regards!
January 1, 2006
Jens - I don’t use IE either, and the problem only happens when there are buttons with two words in them. I am going to be sorting it out and uploading a new version soon.
El Desviado - I had this problem as well. I haven’t got a clue why it happened. If you change to a different theme and then turn it on again it seems to work fine. You may need to rename functions.php in the regulus folder in order to change to another theme (rename it back once you’re working again).
January 1, 2006
Hi Ben!
What exactly should i rename?
If you could tell me the steps please…
Sorry, i am not very good with php
Thank you very much!
January 1, 2006
El Desviado - Just log into your ftp program and change the filename there. Somehting like functions_old.php
Then wordpress won’t be able to find the file that is causing the problems and it will change to the default theme (kubrick). Then rename the file so that it is functions.php again and try selecting the theme.
Like I said I don’t know why this is happening. I think I’ll send an email to Matt and see if he has any idea.
January 1, 2006
Oops - just reread your problem. You don’t actually need to edit any code. I assume you uploaded the files yourself? In which case go to wp-content/themes/regulus/ and in there change the name of the file functions.php - you don’t need to do any programming to sort this out.
January 1, 2006
Thank You!!!
January 1, 2006
I have renamed funcions.php to functions-old.php
It worked but…
In the main page it have appeared this line:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: bm_getproperty() in /home/www/eldesviado.tollfreepage.com/wp-content/themes/regulus/index.php on line 3
And in the sidebar this line:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: bm_writeabout() in /home/www/eldesviado.tollfreepage.com/wp-content/themes/regulus/sidebar.php on line 10
I renamed again the file functions-old.php to the original functions.php, as you said, but the lines still remains…
Sorry
Thank you again!
January 2, 2006
The command bm_getproperty is in functions.php - so that can’t be working. Try deleting functions.php and reuploading it. Maybe that will sort it out.
If that doesn’t work it might be worth deleting the entire Regulus folder and reuploading it all fresh.
January 2, 2006
It Works!!!
Thank You so much Ben!!
Your theme is the best ever for Wordpress
January 2, 2006
Hi Ben, I’ve been trying to correct some XHTML errors to get my site compliant and have gotten stumped on one error. For some reason every post is adding to the beginning.
I’ve scoured the page.php and index.php but come up empty handed. Any ideas where these two tags are coming from?
January 2, 2006
Ben…sorry wordpress stripped my tag away. What I was referring to is my posts are being created with two “p” tags at the begining.
Looks something like…
“p”"p”I have often thought that I have…
January 2, 2006
I figured it out…the Markdown plugin was adding the extra ‘p’ tags.
Dave
January 2, 2006
Fabulous. Thanks so much! It would be cool, in the future, to be able to simply add photos in that directory and have them show up in the list, in addition to the default photos.
January 2, 2006
El Desviado - excellent
Dave - That was the easiest piece of support I’ve ever done
Katy - That could be interesting. I’ve been thinking about ways of letting people use any header image they like. I have a couple of ideas and will probably try them sometime in the not too distant future.
January 2, 2006
I just downloaded the release version of WordPress 2.0 and then came here to get the Regulus Theme for WP 2.0 but encountered some errors.
To make it work, I had to change the file wp-settings.php. There are two instances where the file “functions.php” is included. Instead of “require” or “include” simply put “require_once”. It happens once in the middle of the file, and again next to the end of the file. Once you fix this, it “just works ™”.
If you want my wp-settings.php file just get it from here: http://www.skaag.net/wp-settin... (don’t forget to rename from .phps to .php).
January 2, 2006
Skaag - Thanks for that. As I’m sure you realise wp-settings.php is nothing to do with me, but I will let Matt know so that he can make the neccessary changes to the wordpress core. Hopefully then we will see less of the problems that are occuring.
January 3, 2006
I can see that the request has been put up and you have decided to “think” over it. But just in case the demand for a feature affects your final decision I would like to request the ability to display the categories on the main page and not just the post pages. If cluttering is a problem for some users, let it be optional like the display of author’s name.
January 3, 2006
Jaya - I’ve had enough requests for this feature that I will add it. It’s now a case of when rather than if.
January 3, 2006
Thank you Ben for your great theme! But a question… Why do symbols like ê or é not working in the sidebar? They do work in the header. Thanks for your reply an a Happy Newyear to you!
January 4, 2006
Hi Ben,
Great theme!
I just had to fix the search target, because my blog is in a subdir. I changed if from target=”/” to target=”./” (added the dot).
I was wondering, how can I add “Recent Comments” to the sidebar?
Thanks,
EJ
January 4, 2006
Piter - I’m afraid I haven’t got a clue. Those symbols ’should’ work fine. I would guess this is a wordpress issue, but then you’ll tell me it works with other themes
Evert - There is support for Recent comments built in. All you have to do is upload and activate the recent comments plugin. It has it’s own control panel for setting up how things work. I don’t kow if it works with wordpress 2.0 though.
January 5, 2006
Ben, just got a blog at http://ismangil.wordpress.com, and I immediately got hooked on Regulus theme. A few questions though. Where is the trackback link? And my categories seem not to be updated. It just showing one category from my first play around.
January 5, 2006
Perry - There is no trackback link. Wordpress is incredibly cool in that it takes care of all those sorts of things for you. I’ve never posted trackback links but as you can see I still get them appearing - which reminds me, I should seperate them out and style them differently.
As for the categories, that’s weird. They should definately be showing. I’d send some feedback to the wordpress crew via the feedback form in the control panel. I would guess this is something to do with wordpress rather than the theme as no-one else has complained of this.
January 6, 2006
Thanks for the quick reply Ben. I must admit I’m a newbie in blogging and even newer on commenting and trackbacks etc… I have read the MovableType explanation etc but still a bit hazy… I’ll take your word for it!
Again, thanks for such a cool theme… really love the customization options!
January 6, 2006
I love Regulus and use it at wordpress.com … but there’s one thing I find awkward: the way Subpages are displayed.
Is there any way that the subpages could be aligned the way they are in, for example, the Squible theme?
http://www.squible.com/
IOW, similar to the way the WP admin panel displays top-level items and sub-level ones shown below.
January 8, 2006
Perry - no problem. To tell the truth I don’t really undertsand how trackbacks work either, but since they appear on my blog with no effort on my part I assume they’re ok
Britta - Thanks. The sub pages were kind of an afterthought, I didn’t add them originally because I don’t use them. I’m not going to be changing the way they work now as the theme has become too well established however I will put some more thought into them in future themes.
January 10, 2006
Hi Ben, I hope you’re doing fine?
Today I showed my weblog with your template to some friends and one said more incidentally than intentionally, that every Blogger who is using your theme is thinking at you unconsciously perhaps once a day - I really like that idea
I was also asked something and I have to ask you taht question: How many Bloggers are using your Template by now, do you know it?
January 11, 2006
i am curios how can i change the fonts… i want to use Georgia… the colours.. i will modify them, it is not that hard… but i can’t change fonts.. can’t find the place to do it :p
January 12, 2006
Ben, solved the categories problem. Apparently it has something to do with hierarchical categories. If a post only consists of level 2 or more categories, then it is not listed. I haven’t experimented fully, but I think a post needs at least one top level category to make it appear. Thanks for all your help!
January 13, 2006
Oliver - I’m good thank you
I’m afraid there is really no way for me to check exactly how many blogs use the theme, but currently technoratti is showing 2000(ish) incoming links so I would guess it’s at least that.
Subiectiv - To change the fonts for the main text you need to - ok I’ve just checked your site and it looks like it you’ve worked it out
Perry - Ah ha. That’s a bug within Wordpress, something that I’ve had to contend with here. Rather frustrating if you ask me. Glad you got it working.
January 13, 2006
I am loving this theme … I’m currently setting up a new blog specifically for my podcasts, and your theme was perfect for what I wanted.
I only wish, I knew how to fix the footer, so that it works in Safari (Mac). Being a Mac-user myself, I am willing to help with any testing required, in order to get this to work. Just drop me a line!
January 14, 2006
Ben, I was searching for just the perfect theme and found your thread on your 1.5 version and then found Ana’s blog (La-Bella) in that thread and then came here to see your 2.0 version for .org, this is the best theme I have ever seen. Absolutely incredible, you have done a wonderful job, and so many people have taken your work and used it in such nice ways. Blogs can be so personal, people place so much feeling in them, and you have helped so many express those feelings, what an incredible impact you have made to so many.
I am glad to have found you and your work and the good people who follow your work.
January 14, 2006
OK, I went to install, and I am really embarrassed because NO ONE has asked this question here that I have seen, but, I could not tell for sure how to install this theme, and there was not a “readme.txt” file or anything in the zip download file.
So, can you tell me please where to upload what? I have wordpress.org 2.0 successfully installed on my server, and just need to know where to put the images folder, and do the .php .js and .css files all go to different places? I see on my wordpress installation that these kinds of files are in different places on my server.
Thanks for allowing my question.
January 14, 2006
Rasmus - thanks for the offer. As I have said though, I’m a windows user so fixing it on a Mac isn’t easy. Really I need access to a Mac so that I can sort it out myself, it will probably only take a few seconds once I can test it.
Jeff - I didn’t give any instructions for uploading the theme as I assumed it would be obvious.
What you have to do is extract the zip file with all the folders intact, and then upload the whole lot to the folder wp-content/themes/ - if it’s not already put it in a subfolder called regulus.
Then you just have to activate the theme from within wordpress itself. With any luck it will all work.
January 14, 2006
Thanks Ben, I appreciate the tip. This is the first blog I have ever installed, so I had no idea what to do. I appreciate your understanding.
I placed the contents of the zip file (minus screenshot.jpg and changes.txt) into a separate folder and it worked great!
The best theme out there!
January 15, 2006
Jeff - that’s no problem, I’m glad you got it working. Thanks for the kind words.
January 15, 2006
Thanks again for the brilliant Theme. I’ve been test driving it on Wordpress.com for a bit now and I’ve found it to be solid and really a joy to work with.
I thought I’d give you a heads up, though, that I will be using this Theme as an example of what not to do, as well as what to do, in a WordPress Theme on my blog, Lorelle on WordPress. In it, I specifically site the lack of common HTML tags used in the post content area. They are not styled.
Specifically, they are: CODE, HR, I and B. This is not about cutting edge CSS or HTML, it is about backwards compatibility, too.
The same applies to tables. In other Themes on Wordpress.com I can add cellpadding and borders to tables for data, but with your Theme, all I can do is color the background, so my lovely tables are squished and horrid looking.
These are not bugs or major problems, but I’m certainly not going to (or able) go through hundreds of posts to change <b> and <i> to <strong> and <em> just because the B and I was left out of the style sheet or styled not to show up. And in Wordpress.com, I can’t fix it.
I really recommend to all WordPress Theme designers and tweakers to use a good Sandbox/Test Layout Post to really see what users will most commonly use in a post and to style EVERYTHING.
I’d also really like to recommend to every Wordpress.com Theme designer (and full versions) to create a search.php that lists only excerpts, not full posts. Search results can generate tons of web pages to scroll through, which makes searching a blog really tedious.
Thanks again for the tremendous work you’ve done on this Theme. It is really impressive and I’m thrilled that it is an amazing step forward to the future of Theme development. Wordpress.com users, once restrained to only blogging, now have the ability to have a little more control over their Themes. You are parting the Red Sea for WordPress users. Thank you so much!
January 15, 2006
Lorelle - thanks, and thanks (I guess
)
Part of the problem with developing the theme is that, I had never made a theme for public use before. The theme on the blog here is one I made for myself and, as such, I only have to add new features when I feel like it/ thnk of it. It doesn’t matter if something is missing because it’s mine - I can fix it as I go.
Assuming I ever make a second theme I’ll be sure to use what I’ve learnt from Regulus and apply accordingly.
Things like <b> and <i> are depracated (as I’m sure you know) and I’ve never considered backwards compatability.
Tables are something I definately hadn’t considered. Regulus was designed for “noobs” and tables written in a post is not something they would be expected to do.
The problem is that I use a * class at the start of my html to remove all padding and margins from everything. This way I specify padding and margins and everything behaves accordingly rather than having settings that differ between browsers. Sooo much to think of, it’s a little overwhelming.
Regarding a sandbox - have you seen my test blog
January 16, 2006
Alright … I’ve come up with a workaround for the problem with the disappearing footer in Safari/Mac. It was very simple:
Comment out (or delete) the following line from #footer in the stylesheet:
overflow: hidden;
Apparently, Safari has problems with that hidden overflow, unless you specify a width on the div (or whatever you’re using it on). However, in the case of the #footer, it makes no difference whether it’s there or not: There is so little info there, that the div is not overflowing anyway.
January 16, 2006
Rasmus - thanks for that. I think I’ll probably add a width attribute rather than remove the overflow, as that fixes things on windows.
I have some other things I want to do to the theme and once I’ve done them, assuming you don’t mind, I will email you a test version so that I can make sure it’s all ok.
January 17, 2006
Feel free.
January 17, 2006
BTW - I’ve checked my site on Windows using both Firefox and IE, and the removal of the overflow (in the footer) has not broken the design.
January 17, 2006
Ben– Regulus is gorgeous, which makes this all the more frustrating…
I installed your fine theme by copying the Regulus folder alsongside my other themes, as usual. But as soon as I make Regulus my theme, WordPress 2.0 instantly breaks. More specifically, nothing shows up. All pages are blank, both on the blog as well as the admin pages.
The only way to get WordPress back is to delete Regulus from the themes folder, then reassign the theme. Then all is well again.
But alas, it’s not well because I want Regulus as my theme!
Any ideas?
January 17, 2006
OK, so how do we go about making the changes suggested by Lorell? I tried removing
margin:0; padding: 0; border: 0;
from the style.css file, and while it did allow borders around tables (something I would like to have), it also messed up other formating, so I put it back in.
The overwhelming quality of this theme far outweighs anything Lorell mentioned, but I would not mind having a perfect theme, and if these changes is all that would bring this to perfect, I’d say ‘ole Ben has got a winner here! (of course I thought that anyway)
January 17, 2006
I spent a little time trying to figure out how I would add additional header graphic options and color schemes. Looks like functions.php, and style.css, and switch.css are all involved in one way or the other, and unless I am just too tired and confused, in some cases, all 3 files are involved.
I am sure I can nail it down after a while, but if the steps are already outlined, would sure save some time if they were available. Just thought I would ask.
January 17, 2006
Rasmus - sounds good. I’ll get back to you on this in a few days
Melissa - This appears to be a common problem. I’ve tried to tell Matt about it to see if he has any idea but am having problems getting in touch. I Will try again. For now you should read through the comments above (starting with this) and hopefully you will be able to get everything working.
Jeff - Tables will be the biggest problem. Some of the things Lorelle suggested re very simple, and others will take a lot of time. I’m considering adding some of the features she suggested but others will either have to wait or just not happen. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life on this one project
January 18, 2006
Ben,
Thanks for your reply. I think you are doing a great job. Yes, every project will need adjustments, but face it, you have got the best wordpress theme available for my needs, and many others. I sure would not want you to devote the rest of your life on this project, just enough to make it perfect.
Any thought to adding additional header graphics and color schemes? Can you point me to the right files and where to edit for each?
Thanks so much for the talents you have shared!
January 19, 2006
I just fell in love with the calender feature in the regulus and I switched my blog from blogspot to wordpress just to avail this feature. Thank you for this wonderful and free theme for wordpress users. Keep on the good work!
January 19, 2006
Thanks so much for writing this theme it ROCKS
January 20, 2006
Hi Ben!
I’d guess a comments per post count would get you rather high in world ranking. At least for WP themes.
And you deserve it. It’s clean and beautiful and it’s versatile. I think the configuration panel for easy tuning is ingenious.
Thanks a bunch for this demonstration of what admin features could be built.
January 20, 2006
beautifully theme,
but why in my article the picture not appear on Welcome Page.
i’m already add at it article, but in page details that picture is appear.
how to appear my picture in my article on Welcome Page ??
thanks verymuch
January 20, 2006
Hey Ben, I’m using Regulus at www.chickensangwich.com and just wanted to say great work!
January 21, 2006
Ben, thank you very much for this charming wp theme. I have two questions about modifying it;
1. Images in posts are sticking together with written text, is it possible to change this via editing css?
2. IE is displaying top navigation menu wrong with long page titles. How can I correct this?
And here is a screenshot about my problems;
January 24, 2006
I’ve just realised I haven’t checked this in a while.
Jeff - extra header graphics would be cool, colours schemes is possible but coming up with colours that work is difficult. Maybe I’ll add a black one to the next release.
Adding new headers is easy, just create your image and replace the ones in the images folder on the theme
Colours is a case of editing switch.css to fit your choice. Doping it through the admin panel is more effort than it’s worth I’m afraid.
Roman, dp, Petit, Brett - thanks
whyou - Images don’t appear on the homepage unless you post the homepage as a full article rather than an excerpt (change the setting sthrough the admin panel) - I’m going to make some changes to this in the next release.
Sam - In answer to question 1, erm… I don’t understand what you mean - and you’re screenshot didn’t work
If you can point me to your site I will take a look.
And question 2 - that will be fixed in the next update.
January 24, 2006
Sam - I just checked your comment code, you got the link wrong but I’ve sorted it. Try adding class=”i_left” to the img element and it will add a border and spacing as required. Should be what you want I hope
January 24, 2006
Ben,
Sorry for the screenshot code, that is another proof that I am not good at html (: And thank you for correcting it.
For my question 1; That is just what I want, thank you very much.
For my question 1; I have fixed the issue using the tip told here, which you’ve seen already (assuming that the the Binary Moon guy there was you).
January 24, 2006
Yep - the Binary Moon guy there was me
Glad you got it all working
January 25, 2006
First, this is a very beautiful theme. Good job! =)
Now to my little problem. Is it not intended to show images on the first page? As I can only make the image shown after you click on the post title and go to its own page.
Thanks.
January 25, 2006
I answered that problem two posts up.
January 26, 2006
Ben, I see that you have latest comments built in but I cant get them to show on the side bar. In the them options I was able to turn on recent posts.
Another question is that I was wondering if anyone has had problems with the author comments plugin. i downloaded it and put it in the plugins folder but it does not show to activate it.
January 26, 2006
This is the best wordpress theme there is. It stabs me in the heart everytime I see other people with it b/c I wish it was solely mine! Ah, open source you are a cruel mistress.
I wanted to ask: will you be adding some function that allows people to see “new comments” on the sidebar? My friends are complaining that they would like to be able to see whether there are new comments and which post they correlate to. Basically anything that doesn’t require people to have to scroll down to see if there are new comments on older posts. Can someone please email me b/c I have no idea how to find my way back to this page. I’m a newbie. Also, how can I repay you financially? Do you have paypal?
January 26, 2006
Ben thanks for this great theme. I am using it here http://www.flyweb.nl/wordpress. I noticed an error when using WP in a subdir from the root. When on the mainpage and # posts > then defined in the admin-panel you must navigate with ‘next page’ etc. Sofar so good. But when you navigate back (previous) suddenly I am at the root and NOT at the first page @ http://www.flyweb.nl/wordpress. How come? Can you help me with this? Thanks in advance.
January 27, 2006
Ben,
I love your Regulus theme! I was wondering–is there a way to make a particular page NOT show up in the tabs at the top?
Thanks! Keep up the great work.
January 27, 2006
Regulus 2.0 is a very nice theme – the best I have seen. I am using it at http://circuitcalculator.com/w... . I too was wondering about getting the table borders to show up. Can you tell me more about the * class and where it is so I can hack into it a little? Thanks!
January 28, 2006
This is as good as k2
January 28, 2006
Dennis - you need to get the required plugin to get the latest comments to work.
Eteraz - the feature is alrewady there but doesn’t work on wordpress.com as they don’t allow plugins. Sorry.
Martin - that’s very strang.e I would guess it’s a wordpress error as I use default wordpress commands as much as possible. I don’t actually control how those buttons work.
Linda - I have thought about adding this but can’t think of a simple way to make it work. I agree it would be nice to have though
Brad - I’m thinking about how that would work at the moment.
the creator - wow, thanks
January 29, 2006
I was able to get tables to work by adding the following to the style.css file:
/* BJS 1/28/06 - allow tables */
#content td
{
border: inset 1px;
}
January 29, 2006
Brad - I’m gonna break that with the next version
You can see tables in action on my test blog here - http://beta.binarymoon.co.uk/2... (about half way down - you can see the other changes I have made on there as well, although they’re not all obvious at first glance)
Thanks anyway
January 29, 2006
Ben,
Thanks for the amazingly fast response! The new beta looks great! The table formatting looks nice and they now look like an integral part of the theme. You may know this, but those beta tables do not seem to work in FireFox. Cheers,
Brad
January 30, 2006
Are you sure they don’t work in Firefox? I developed the theme in Firefox on Windows so it should be fine (I can see it)
January 30, 2006
Me, again. On this post you can see how the paragraph layout is pushed around by the use of smilies. On any line with smilies, they are way above the baseline and push the line down. Might be another one to add to the tiny details to fix list.
I’m seeing your brilliant theme all over the place. I love how popular it has become. Thanks again for breaking the mold in WordPress Themes!
January 30, 2006
That’s very strange. I’ll have a look.
I take it you’ve seen the changes I have made on my test blog (mentioned above)? You will notice that, whilst I didn’t like the way you said it, I did take notice of the suggestions you made and have adjusted things accordingly.
January 30, 2006
I checked on my work computer, and the beta tables look fine in IE and FireFox. I am not sure why, but they did not have borders on my home computer with FireFox. They are both XP machines with FF 1.5, so it may have been a temporary issue with my computer. I will have to check again when I get home. Brad
January 30, 2006
Search Problems? It seems that if you install wordpress in a subdirectory like I did, you have to modify the sidebar.php file from action=”/” to action=”/” to get the search box to work. A previous post suggested action=”./” (dot slash), but that only works from home.
January 30, 2006
Darn, the php stuff did not show up in my post above. Look at the default theme’s searchform.php file to see what the action should be.
January 31, 2006
Ben, wow - this theme really raises the bar for WP 2.0. It is going to be so popular that I’ll have to change the header image and some of the colors - but the useabilty and aesthetics are great.
Could you list the required plugins somewhere?
Also - when I look at style.css it looks like the height parameter under#footer has a syntax error.
Thanks again…
January 31, 2006
Oops - found the plugin info - no plugins required, right.
Also - is it a bug, or a feature, that ordered lists do not show up in the “abbreviated” blog entries?
January 31, 2006
Brad - I’ve never installed wordpress in a subfolder which might explain why I hadn’t noticed the problem. I’ll look into it.
Greg - Plugins are contained in the theme code so you don’t need any to run things. You can optionally install a recent comments plugin but it’s not rquired. I’ll add that to the theme page so that people know it can be used.
The lists not showing could be considered a bug. I’m actually dropping the excerpt homepage feature as it’s causing more problems than it’s worth (it’s already been removed from wordpress.com).
February 1, 2006
Ben, I uploaded the theme into the themes folder (WP 1.5 version), but I can’t find a way to get into the admin panel. Can you tell me how to do this? I don’t see any new menu options to lead me there. I tried uploading themetoolkit.php into the plugins folder too. That didn’t work either.
February 1, 2006
Ben,
I just want to inform that your theme works fine with new WP release, v2.0.1. This means that none of the plugins used in the Regulus theme causes any problems while upgrading. Fallowing these steps is enough for a smooth upgrade process, if you are using Regulus.
February 2, 2006
MadMan - you should upload everything into a single folder in the themes directory (including the themetoolkit.php file)
Once the theme is activated the new menu option will appear on the presentation sub menu.
Sam - thanks for letting me know.
February 2, 2006
Ben solved my paging navigation @ the bottom. Simply redirected my WP (which is still in a subfolder) to the root. Voila, neat navigation presto. Curious about that ‘regulus-beta’ though. Keep hacking is my advice.
February 6, 2006
Ben- I fixed the issue that was brought up in Safari with Regulus.
“Seems to some issue with Regulus and Safari. I tried to install on my WordPress MU site and the footer is just a tall skinny column on the left of the content area with no text visible. I visited some other sights http://andyc.wordpress.com/ for instance and it had the same behavior.”
In ‘#footer’ comment out the “overflow:hidden;” and comment out the same line in the “ul#feeds” style.
That makes the footer and sidebar appear as it does in FireFox.
February 6, 2006
Hi Justin - thanks for that. If you look through the comments you’ll see that it’s already been mentioned - and if you check out my test blog you’ll see it’s already been fixed. I’m currently adding the finishing touches to the next version and it should be ready for release shortly.
That said I haven’t changed the overflow on the feeds, but I’m going to be changing the styles there so that will be edited anyway.
February 6, 2006
Hi Ben,
Your theme is awesome. I have a quick question - how can I change the colour schemes easily so I can change them in the admin panel? Thanks in anticipation of your help, Kevin
February 6, 2006
Ben-
Crap, I didn’t see that someone else posted the solution for Safari! Oh well, at least it seems we all came to the same solution.
Cheers! Good theme.
-J
February 7, 2006
Beautiful theme! Thanks so much for sharing with us.
February 7, 2006
Fantastic theme
Just 3 minor niggles.
If I check the “Show Full Posts on the homepage?” option the sidebar moves to the bottom of the page - seems to randomly happen on the full page screen as well.
Images posted in a blog do not show on the homepage
The full page view seems to lose formatting - cr etc
you can see examples here http://www.instagib.co.uk (have the same problems with/without the modified style)
February 7, 2006
Kevin - there isn’t an “easy” way to do this at the moment. You will need to edit the switch.css file to modify colour schemes.
Justin - no problem
Jen - thanks
Jonathon - The problems on the homepage are because you’re using the excerpt option. This strips out some of the elements (images being a quite important one). I’ve removed this function from the next version of Regulus as it had created many queries such as yours.
The sidebar being pushed to the bottom of the page is very strange, and I haven’t seen it happen before, so i don’t know what to suggest. If you could set it so that it happens (tell me what browser and OS) I’ll have a look and see if I can fix it but unless I can reproduce the error it’s very hard to fix this sort of thing.
February 7, 2006
Wow, thanks for the quick response.
If you take a look know you will see the sidebar issue, looks like the css isn’t being applied to the sidebar as the font sizes have changed (footer font has also changed)
You can also see that the spaces have been removed from the end of the post.
Jonathan
February 7, 2006
ps same problem in IE 6, Opera and Firefox. Also the about loads correctly
February 7, 2006
Excellent theme, Ben! Just started blogging (http://blog.peershopper.com/) and couldn’t ask for a better template.
Quick question for a newbie: I’ve managed to change the background image (/image/bg_body.gif) but this changes only the top half of the site. The bottom half still appears in the original color (#EEE, I believe). How do I change that color as well?
Thanks.
February 7, 2006
Looks like its not a theme issue, K2 exhibits the same problems, i’ll try reinsrtalling and see what happens
February 7, 2006
Ben, is it possible that those (like me) who are seeing blank pages after install are experiencing some sort of path problem? I have Regulus working beautifully on my main domain, deliriouscool.org, and I’m getting blank pages when I use it on an add-on domain (knitonepurltoo.com/wp/) - other 1.5 and 2.0 themes seem to work pretty well. I experimented with different paths in themetoolkit.php, to try and point to the files “manually” and was unsuccessful.
I hope this is helpful - I love your work!
February 7, 2006
Johnathon - it’s a problem with your html. There is a div in one of your posts (probably the last one) that isn’t closed, and this means everything else get’s put in that div messing up the layout.
John - You need to edit the styles.css file. Look at the options for the body tag. The colour is listed there so you can edit as you wish.
Donna - I’ve asked MAtt from Wordpress about the error and he can’t reproduce it. I got the error on my test blog and that’s not in a subdirectory. It’s all very strange and I haven’t got a clue why it’s happening.
February 8, 2006
Ben, thanks for the theme and your help.
FYI I installed the Post Teaser” plugin to handle excerpts (shame I cant work how to get the “Read More” bit into your nice bar area) and I had to turn the rich text editor off to solve the spacing and sidebar issue - probably an IIS6 issue.
February 8, 2006
I think the problem is the dodgy html the wysiwyg area generates rather that is causing the issues. I like to control the html myself so always turn it off.
February 8, 2006
Hello Ben,
Thank you so much for such a great theme.
One question though — is there any way to change the “About…” title for the little box in the sidebar that shows information about the author? I’m not that code-savvy so I apologize if this is an incredibly stupid question … but I did try to look for it.
Thank you.
February 8, 2006
Never mind, Ben, I found it — in the functions.php file. Thanks
February 9, 2006
Hi Ben … another question. This time, I’m really and truly stumped.
I wanted to change the font size of the template, since the default size was a tad too small for me. I had to comb the CSS file a bit and fiddle around with various values to change the sidebar’s sizes, and all went well until I found out that the font size of the Blogroll (and blogroll links) was different. No matter what I did, I can’t seem to hit the right variable to change it so that it would be like the rest of the sidebar. I would be able to change the font size of the links, but the “Blogroll” title would still be too large.
Could you help, please? I would be ever so grateful. Thank you! (And thank you again for such a great theme.)
February 9, 2006
Hi again Ben …
Now I feel rather idiotic and hasty to have messaged you my previous question. After fiddling with css variables, putting in new formatting functions within existing css variables, creating new css variables — I finally found the solution. (I had to edit an existing css variable and put in a new formatting function, AND I also had to create a new css variable.)
In any case, it taught me some more about css (as well as how to do certain formatting things in a way that validates).
Thank you
February 9, 2006
Would you be available for hire to create a custom WP theme? If so let me know.
February 10, 2006
Alayna - That can join my ‘easiest support ever’ list. I’ve had a few people work out solutions before I have a chance to respond
Rafael - I’m afraid I don’t do freelance work anymore. I just don’t have the time. Sorry.
February 10, 2006
Hi Ben, I use WP2 and your theme Regulus2 on a site hosted on wordpress.com and it works fine. Your Theme is perfect for my needs and well designed. So i decided to to use at work. I alreday hosted other blog on a Wamp server and all was fine. But … cause there is a but, when i install Regulus 2 the administrative side works well, but the public side in not more rendered, i always get the message ”
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in E:\wamp\www\hbs\wp-content\themes\regulus\index.php on line 122″
I supppose i’m doing something wrong, but i don’t see what (others themes work well). I have tried with diffrent distributions of WP2, an original one, a translated one, Same Thing.
I am using the wamp distro “Wamp5″, including php5.1.2, Apache 2.0.55 and Mysql 5.0.18
Is there a trick to know to get it work ?
I really want to reuse your theme, i hope you will find the trick …
Thank you
February 10, 2006
Jerome - There has actually been someone else report this error and it’s fixed in the next version of the theme, but for now you can fix it by doing the following
Change linke 115 in index.php to this <code>’<?php }
?>’</code> from this <code>’<? } ?>’</code>
Thanks to Kathy for helping mefix this
February 10, 2006
Oh, thanks a lot, that was it !
Now i’m able to complete my project.
During my searches, i found AjaxRegulus and of course i’ve tried to use it. And guess what ? Quite the same case (therefore the message is different : Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’ in E:\wamp\www\hbs\wp-content\themes\ajaxRegulus\themetoolkit.php on line 500
Do you also know the trick for this one ?
Thanks again
February 10, 2006
AjaxRegulus is nothing to do with me - I wouldn’t know where to begin with Ajax type stuff. You’ll want to report that on the AjaxRegulus website
February 12, 2006
Hi Ben!
As I’ve already stated in an earlier post, your theme is great. Not only in the looks of it, but in the structure.
This is especially true for the CSS positioning and
typography. It is fairly simple to make changes to the layout, moving objects around - not to mention the built in admin options.
I want to have some more widgets, bells & whistles, so I decided to add an extra column to the theme. And I did without knowing anything about PHP ( programming logic need though. Apart from copying sidebar.php to sidebar2.php and including it in the correct order of flow, it was a matter of CSS tuning.
It is still a little rough in the edges, and I’ll keep working on it.
It’s still your theme, so I thought you might be interested to take a look and maybe comment.
It’s up and running and changes a bit every day now.
February 13, 2006
shame there is no trackback link. if it had one it would be the most perfect theme.
February 13, 2006
Petit - Thanks for the comments. I like to see people making use of the theme - especially if they add their own spin/ features to the design.
i dream - funny you should mention that. It’s on the todo list.
February 14, 2006
greetings.
i’m curious if there is a way to embed a href link tags inside the ‘About…’ window. so far as i can tell, it’s not possible. any tag code i throw inside the About box from within the Current Theme Options manager just shows up as is, not marked up. i guess i would consider this a ‘bug’. or maybe there’s a way, and if so, please educate me, i’m pretty versed with most code but can’t sort this one out.
cheers
February 15, 2006
To solve the search problem, go to the Theme Editor panel, then edit the file “sidebar.php”. Change
<form action=”/” method=”get” id=”search”>
to
<form action=”<?php bloginfo(’home’); ?>/” method=”get” id=”search”>
Cheers
February 16, 2006
nick - I hadn’t tried any html in the about box. I’ll look into it.
Khaled - cheers, I’ll add that into the next version.
February 16, 2006
Hi Ben, I use your theme Regulus2 on wordpress.com and it works fine. Your Theme is perfect for any needs we find and very well designed. Bravo!
Sorry, but I have one more question:
1) Can I Justify text on post? I look only left, right and centrate… why?
2) I need insert HTML for cut&paste link, script and other whit my friends on Italosphera blog, but this simple operation appear to me that’s impossible on wordpress, any idea?
Thx a lot again
Ciao
February 16, 2006
Saltino - What you are asking currently isn’t possible on wordpress.com.
The ability to change the justification of text in the editor has nothing to do with the theme, and everything to do with how wordpress has been set up.
The use of cut and paste also has nothing to do with me. I designed a single theme, I’m not a wordpress.com developer.
I would recommend using the feedback form on your wp.com dashboard, or leaving a message on the wp.com forum.
February 17, 2006
Ben, i just wanted to thank you on all the amazing work you have done. its a great theme, and the next version will be even closer to complete perfection.
February 22, 2006
Just wanted to let you know that I use your theme on my film blog and I’m lovin’ it!
Tx!
February 23, 2006
Uploaded ver 2 to my themes dir and upon trying to use got this:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare regulus_add_theme_page() (previously declared in /home/search/public_html/wp-content/themes/regulus/functions.php:5) in /home/search/public_html/wp-content/themes/regulus/functions.php on line 3
Removed it for now.
What is the problem? I thought this was fixed?
February 23, 2006
I dream in red & terrence - thanks
Marty - You have upgraded to wordpress 2 haven’t you? If so make sure you delete the entire theme folder and reupload everything. It is working on many blogs so should be fine.
February 25, 2006
Hi! I have some problems with this theme… when I’m trying to comment any post there are some problems with charset (default charset of my page is utf-8, database collation - utf8_general_ci) first post correctly show: “ą”, “ó”, “ę” but last one…
Look: http://pawel.be/media/kodowani...
What’s wrong? Is that mysql fault?
February 27, 2006
Your hacking skills are tremendous! Best theme ever! I can’t wait to play more with it. Thank you thank you thank you!
February 28, 2006
Hi,
First I want to say that I love your theme, but it seems like everyone else has already said that so I will refrain from comment.
Secondly, I am having a slight problem. I tried to add a link to my homepage on the sidebar, and then when it didn’t work, I deleted what I added. But now the search is weird. The “go!” button is appearing on the next line of the screen. I don’t know what I did to push it down there, since I only added one line, and I added it below the search box, but I would really like to have it back to normal!
The form part of my sidebar code currently looks like this:
search
Can anyone see the problem?
Thanks!!
February 28, 2006
Update: Nevermind! I don’t know what happened; maybe it just took a while to go back to normal but now it is looking fine again.
February 28, 2006
Hi i must join the rest in saying its a wonderful theme. and like everyone else i have one simple problem. in my comment section it says Message and under that is says ssage like the same word is being printed again with the front cut off, doesnt seem to affect anything but is annoying. have any tips?
March 2, 2006
Hi there,
Me again, sorry! I am having a slight problem with my blog, in which the Search box doesn’t work properly at all. My blog is located at http://www.suhaila.ca/blog and when I do any search (regardless of whether or not there are any hits), I get sent back to http://www.suhaila.ca. Does anyone know why this is happening, and how I can fix it?
Thanks!
Suhaila
March 2, 2006
Piet - this is most likely a problem with Wordpress. Regulus is purely the visual side of your site and has nothing to do with data storage. Sorry.
Jamie - thanks
Stilgar - This has been mentioned before and if you get the latest version of Regulus should be fixed fine.
Suhaila - This too has been mentioned before. I know the comments are rather long but next time check through them quickly, it may well save time
March 3, 2006
Hi Ben! Your theme is beautiful - just fantastic - my favorite! I was wondering - and I so hope this has not been addressed I searched through all the old posts and could find nothing. I am wanting to remove the support for the recent comments plug in. I prefer the plug in “customizable comment listings” as I can exempt myself from being listed in the recent comments. But it is picking up the support for the other plug in and listing me in the recent comments. When I switch to a different theme it works great - I am exempt.
I looked through each section but I can not figure out where it is picking up that function and what I have to delete. Thank you so much - no biggie or anything just wondered.
March 5, 2006
Tiffany - All you have to do is remove the following code from sidebar.php
// ---------------
// recent comments
// ---------------
if (function_exists('get_recent_comments')) { ?>
<h2>< ?php _e('Recent Comments:'); ?>
<ul>
<?php get_recent_comments(); ?>
</ul>
<?php } ?>
March 6, 2006
I’m completely new to Wordpress, but have found your theme much more attractive than the others I’ve seen. I’ll add my own voice to the chorus of approval. I’ve started to use it for a site I’m upgrading. Big brain ache at the moment since CSS/XHTML is all new to me.
I’d really like to incorporate the headlines list, which regulus has as a standard in the sidebar, and put it on my homepage as a ‘teaser’ to get visitors to look at the news/blog. Can you give me a pointer how to do this? For my sinse, I’m currently using tables. I recognise I should be using DIV’s and classes, but I’m still feeling my way. Does using a table structure restrict the possibility of doing this?
Any help gratefully received.
Regards
March 6, 2006
Hi,
I want the “older posts” link at the bottom of the page to be much larger, because I fear some visitors who aren’t familiar with blog formats may think the stuff on the first page is the extent of what I have to offer.
Could you tell me how I can make that link larger?
tx!
March 7, 2006
Hi Ben - Thank you so much for getting back to me. I actually had already tried that. But since this other plug in uses a similar code to call the recent comments. Recent Comments
It still does not exempt me but like I said if I switch to another theme it does. Could there be any other place besides the sidebar where you have code for recent comments. Because I still want to use recent comments just not the same one you have built in. Thank you so much. [ =
March 7, 2006
By the way it certainly does not matter - I will just keep messing with it. I am sure you are busy - I just wondered if you could point me in the right direction. [ =
March 7, 2006
Has anyone been able to integrate Gravatar into their comments? I was able to insert the php code in to the comments.php page. The gravatar shows up by when you post another comment the gravatar disappears. I think it has to do something with the CSS. If anyone has any idea as how to get this done please share it or swing by my site and leave a message. Thanks!
BTW, this themes is very well designed!
March 7, 2006
Another question:
Has anyone successfully implemented Brian’s Latest Comments plugin? It shows up on my front page but the formatting in the sidebar for the comments is all messsed up.
If anyone has a solution I’d be more than happy to hear from you.
Also, I was able to install FAlbum and the Extended Live Archives (ELA).
March 12, 2006
any chance of you working with the wordpress technical teams to update Regulus to work with the new widgets that they’ve developed?
I’m a big fan of the regulus template for it’s p