It's been a while since I updated Regulus but with the recent release of widgets I had to do something.
The success of Regulus has gone beyond my wildest expectations, and I really appreciate all the support and feedback I have been given.
The update
There are a whole slew of new things added to the latest version of Regulus. The biggies are support for the widgets plugin, and the ability to chose your own header image. The full list of changes is below.
- fixed safari footer bug (thanks Rasmus - http://podkammeret.dk/)
- fixed multi word nav tab error in IE
- fixed error with closed comments
- fixed html error with category listing
- fixed wp smileys being out of line on wordpress.com
- added support for wordpress.com sidebar widgets plugin - http://automattic.com/code/widgets/
- added ability to choose your own header graphic
- added ability to use comments on pages if you wish (includes trackbacks)
- added support for styling of extra elements (b, i, table, tr, td, th)
- added ability to control positioning of sidebar (left / right)
- added post categories to every page (including home page)
- added extra 'blend' colour scheme. Fits with the standard ice blue being used throughout the rest of the theme
- added post info bar under post heading (includes post categories and other post related info)
- added trackback link to info bar
- changed columns on sidebar width to improve spacing
- changed colours in css styles to try and make things a bit more uniform in style
- changed feeds so they use the standard feed icon (thanks to Wolfgang Bartlme - http://bartelme.at/journal/274/)
- changed post author so it's always visible
- changed next & previous post navigation to make it more obvious
- changed blockquote style to make it more quotey
- changed padding on menu nav to pixels so it hides less content when scaled
- removed
admin panel display andhomepage excerpts as they caused too much confusion amongst users - removed widgets bar
- removed underlines from sidebar list items (it looks cleaner)
That's a fair old list I'm sure you'll agree.
Download
You can get the file here:
89 Responses to “Regulus – Wordpress Theme version 2.1”
Mushin - glad you like it
Jacob - Regulus wasn't designed for sites with lots of pages. I don't particularly want to make any more big changes like this. Sub pages get put in the sidebar so maybe it would be better for you to seperate things into smaller categories?
Al - The problem is the html in the post where things go wrong. One of the tags you are using hasn't been closed and that messes things up. I believe this is a side effect of the wysiwyg editor.
Andrew - Not so much forgot, as wasn't aware. I've made the change and it will be in the next update. Cheers.
One more thing, Ben.
I KNOW you solved this one for someone in the comments in one of the versions of Regulus. But I've read back through and can't find it.
I am using my own art for the header logo on http://www.mindbodyspiritjournal.com. How do I keep the blog title that is automatically generated in WordPress from showing through on top of my logo art?
On style.css, I set header h1 to (code follows)
`#header h1 {position: absolute;
font-size: 0;
left: -1000px; }`
which I thought would kick the title wording off the screen, but apparently hasn't. (Maybe I didn't code it right? Hope the code came through here. I used "backticks" like in the WordPress forum.)
Thanks,
kwc
P.S. Do you have a recommended comment-spam-blocking plug-in to use with Regulus?
CORRECTION:
The type I have showing up in the logo art in my header is the "blog info" description, not the blog title. How do I keep that from happening? Should I just NOT have any blog info, but instead include it as 'alt text' for the logo?
Best,
kwc
Ken - I have added an option to hide the blog title and description into the next version of Regulus. This is for people like yourself who have a title in their custom header image. The new version should be released later today.
Ok then - I have released Regulus 2.1.2 into the wild. So if you could post feedback over there that would be great.
Thanks Ben (bottom 5 posts and the sidebar were 14.5 font size not 9) I found the post before them did have a small quote copied and pasted from MS Word.
I hadn't reformatted it because it looked fine. Good now and I hope the warning is heeded.
Our school holidays in South Australia are nearly over and I'm starting to get more enquiries about setting up a WordPress blogging network. I'm nearly ready but (sorry) whatever I do I get a disabled message trying to upload a new header image. Is this feature ready to go yet? I've posted on it - anyone with a comment please click my name here. Cheers, Al
Al - I've made some changes to the new version which will make errors like this less common (I hope). Should be added to wordpress.com some time in the next week.
Thanks mate
It looks like you've already made the changes. I now have a new meerkat header (alupton.wordpress.com) although it still said 'disabled' when I tried to upload it. Even if it wasn't you, you're still "flat out like a lizard drinking." and I appreciate it. Cheers, Al
Hey Al - glad you got it sorted. I have made some changes to the theme so that if you use an external image it shows the image in the control panel. Before the disabled message appeared if you were not using one of the standard images but now it only appears if you specify an invalid url.
I've never heard the phrase 'flat out like a drinking lizard' but I can imagine what it means
BTW You posted this at midnight in my part of the world (england).
Hi Ben - just went to show off the 'sqished meerkat' header and ALL the pages are splatted across it. Same problem as before. I'll check out WordPress forums to see if I can glean more from there.
Now I'm posting at midnight my part of the world. Al
That ones not my fault. That's a wp.com error. Just send a feedback and they will sort it out pretty quick. At least the header showed up
Ben,
Love the template. Using a modified form of 2.1.3 for my blog. As a new Wordpress user, I appreciate the work you put into this. I certainly could not put together a theme this nice.
However, I am curious about something. I've tried almost every WSIWYG or Quicktags-based comment plugin, but none of them work with Regulus. Is there something missing from the comment.php file that is preventing these plug-ins from working?
Thanks in advance for the help!
Dan - not sure why that doesn't work or what I would need to do to make it work. I will look into it.
I like your theme, but, I have this error when I use it.
The error appear in the Links widgets.
Can you help me ?
Thanks
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Alessandro - I don't know what that error is. I would suggest asking the widgret developer as I've never used it myself.
Ben, i now this is a lame question.. but i cant find the way to edit the "(more..)" that appears in the main index when i use the more button :s
Well.. someone has to be the newbie here
ben, i haven't installed 2.1 yet but i will soon, and i'm sure it's a great update, the list of changes look excellent. thanks for your invaluable contribution to the WP community!
I know everyone else has said it, but awesome theme, Ben. I've played with it a little and personalized it, but, in the end, it's your design and it makes me look good. Thanks.
If you get a chance among the four million other questions your answering for a free theme, I'd like to know if there's a better way to get the comment links to be bolded besides the method I came up with:
`comments_popup_link( "add a comment", "1 comment so far", "% comments", "comments" );`
I tried backticking on that post to get the code to show up as such, but, apparently, it didn't work. It stripped out the opening and closing STRONG tags I had wrapped around each of the four comment messages.
Hi Ben,
First, thank you for such an amazing theme! I JUST got introduced to Wordpress, and after looking through dozens of themes, and trying several, I came across yours. Two words. YOU RULE!
Thanks for putting in so much time for such a great product, what's more impressive is your modesty.
I do have just ONE question for you though. Believe me, I have searched through Google, Wordpress.org, and read through the comments here (hopefully I didn't overlook it) and can't find what I'm looking for. How do I change the options under the Meta section? I have grepped every file in your theme in an effort to find keywords to help me (wordpress, RSS) to no avail. I want to keep the Site Admin, Login, Logout options, but want to remove the RSS links and Wordpress link (not that I don't like Wordpress, but it'll confuse my users).
Please let me know your thoughts, and keep up the good work!!
Hi. I know that this is a bit of a weird question... but back on number 46 you mentioned that the widget configuration bug was known and that you had fixed it. Well, I've got the same problem with a highly customized Kubrick theme and no one seems to know what causes it.
I wonder if you could share how you fixed it in your case in the hopes that it might help me sort mine out? If you remember how you did it that is...
Ben -
Thank you for the fabulous theme. One question: I see that you have been considering offering the ability for people to randomize the header image. I am trying to accomplish just this, and I cannot seem to get it to work via any plugin, or by uncommenting your randomize line in the functions file. Any hints?
Hey Ben, I looked at over 30 themes before picking Regulus. I particularly like the way it handles Pages making it easy to use as a CMS. I was wondering about some new features that I've seen on other websites:
1. Breadcrumb trails.
2. "E-mail this post to a friend" and "Print this post" icon links at the top of an entry.
3. A box in the theme admin panel for footer editing - not to remove the Regulus / Wordpress blurbs but to enter any extra information (easier than editing the theme).
Keep up the good work it is a fantastic theme.
Wow - I didn't realise so many people were posting on this old topic. Sorry about the delay in replies
Mariano - that has to be changed by editing the theme page directly I'm afraid.
Nick - thanks
ptvGuy - you can remove the strong tags and set the style on the comments class so that font-weight is bold
HRamirez - AFAIK you can't change the options in the meta list. It's built into wordpress. I'd be interested to know if you can find a solution though.
John - I was removing the search from the widget listing since there wasa search box in the theme and the problem was that I was unregistering the widgets but not the controls so things were going a bit funky.
Kristin - you can see the solution to this here. I don't intend to add it as part of the theme.
Paul - those features are beyond the scope of the theme. Apart from bugs I don't intend to add any new stuff. I'm sure at least the email, and print this post options are available as widgets.
I'm gonna close this and send you all over to the newer post. I can keep track of things easier then.