Regulus - WordPress Theme version 2.1.2
April 23, 2006 | Regulus
A small update with a few new features. The reason for this post, rather than updating the last post, is that I now consider Regulus complete. Barring any show stopping bugs there will be no new updates to Regulus, it’s time to more on.
The change log since the last release is (this includes the changes for version 2.1.1 which went out silently) …
- fixed widgets unregister bug
- fixed search box for sites in sub folders (could have sworn I had done this already)
- added the ability to hide the blog title and description. Useful for people who use custom header images
- added type attribute to style tag (for validation)
- added edit post link underneath the title for logged in users (as with version 2.0)
- changed code and pre tags to use monospaced fonts and add a couple of extra styled doohickies
- fixed minor validation error(s)
- fixed sidebar css issue
- added back admin panel for all sidebars (including widgeted bars)
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Grab Regulus 2.1.2 for WordPress 2.0!
Thanks for all the feedback I’ve had. It’s great to know people like and use the theme.
Update
Oh well - so much for 2.1.2 being the last version. I’ve just uploaded version 2.1.3 that has a small change to the admin panel. You can now preview custom header images in the control panel. If the image does not load then you will get an error image. This isn’t essential stuff but it’s a nice usability extra I think, and will hopefully remove the amount of support for custom header images that is bound to occur.
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April 23, 2006
Thanks, Ben, for the quick, quick response.
Looks like my first post, with about four questions, may have gotten lost.
Will be playing with all this later today.
Best,
kwc
April 23, 2006
Not sure what happened to your other post. This is a new post and there is still the other one from yesterday which can be seen here - not sure if that’s what you were thinking?
Just noticed you asked for a recommended anti spam plugin for Regulus. I think the anti spam stuff is theme independant and really there is only one - it’s Akismet all the way.
April 24, 2006
Hm. Diferences in page listings. I enjoyed your theme because it gave a wider range of flexibility and had a very nice clean unintrusive way of displaying and listing pages. With the update pages are now displayed above by the header, and when you have a good deal of pages [like myself], it obscures the header. Is there any way one could revert to the former version’s page display?
April 25, 2006
hey i had a basic questions, to update do i just dump all the new files in the same theme dir. and replace the old rugulus files in the dir?
April 25, 2006
CS L - That was an issue with wp.com, nothing to do with the theme. It is fixed now.
Johnny - yep. Just upload the entire contents of the zip into the current regulus folder and everything will update fine.
April 26, 2006
the ‘Top’ link from the bottom of the page only goes up to the top of the navigation bar as opposed to going to the Top of the whole page. it’s functionally fine but aesthetically, you dont see the header image when you should. it’s a simple html fix we can do, but i just thought i would point it out.
thanks for the great work.
April 26, 2006
Please help. I use Regulus Theme 2.0 and i wish to make a random header image. An example: on any page loaded, show random header from bg_01, b1_02 …. bg_06.
Sorry, my english very very bad =)
April 26, 2006
Ben, I would like to make an italian translation of Regulus, but you haven’t used the _e( ‘text here’ ) function throughout. In a new release of the theme, do you think that you’ll make that?
Thanks.
April 26, 2006
Johnny - that was intentional. I was linking to the top of the content rather than the top of the page, headers are lovely but they get in the way of what people visit sites for. At least that was the idea
So - there is currently no built in way to do this, however if you know php this should be fairly simple to add in.
lucacicca - I have used the _e() and _() commands extensively throughout the theme, if you find any places that it hasn’t been used then please say where. I would be more than happy to fix any errors like this.
April 26, 2006
Sorry, Ben. You have made all.
There are other words to translate, but they are in html tag and not in the php.
April 26, 2006
ah ok - my mistake. When I get a chance I will run through it all and and add them in. May not be for a week or so though as I’m very busy at the moment.
April 26, 2006
Hello
I did the update 2.1.3, by simply replacing everything in the regulus folder on my wp-contents/theme area. I then switched to another theme and back to the Regulus theme in my admin panel. However, in the Theme tab, it shows as Regulus 2.1.3, in the Current Theme Options tab it still shows as Regulus 2.1 and no additional/new options are appearing. Did I fail to do something correctly?
April 26, 2006
Ben, thanks to you answer. But i’am so sad((( All day i try to solve a problem. PHP i know bad.
I try to change in header.php
if ( $headerImage == “” ) {
$headerImage = “1″;
}
>>to>>
if ( $headerImage == “” ) {
$headerImage = rand(1,8);
}
But still does’t work. Maybe you can help me?
April 26, 2006
So - that will only work if you haven’t chosen a header image before. All you need to do is delete this
if ( $headerImage == "" ) {$headerImage = "1";
}
and replace this
$headerImage = get_settings( 'regulus_headerImage' );with
$headerImage = rand(1,8);April 26, 2006
Ben, GREAT HUMAN THANKS to you!!! Iam happy=)
April 26, 2006
So - no problem. Glad you got it working
John - that should have worked ok. It may be worth deleting regulus entirely and then reinstalling it. Just delete the regulus folder then create a new one and reupload. Alternatively you could create a new folder and upload it again. This is a very strange problem though :S
April 26, 2006
Ben, great to see this awesome theme getting even better! I made it a little wider for my own site, because I think that in this day and age a 1024×768 resolution is the minimum you should have. But in that case I run into the problem that your header image is too small. I made a bigger of the stars and moon by just copy-pasting. However, I wonder if by any chance you have a large original that you could e-mail to use for my site.
Now I only have to figure out how to set the font larger and have it working nicely in Firefox too, not just IE (I optimise for the masses…).
Keep up the good work.
April 26, 2006
Hello again,
I performed two (actualy 3) procedures. I simply replaced the contents of my currently regular regulus with the contents of the new 2.1.3. I then tried to simply create a second regulus folder in the themes area. I then tried deleting all regulus folders and started with a fresh upload of 2.1.3 (even checked change.txt to make sure i had the right version). None of these produced the new 2.1.3 under current theme options. It still stated 2.1 at the top with the old familiar look.
April 27, 2006
Ben, I recommend you to change regulus’s document type to transitional instead of strict. Got plenty of validation errors in comments.php when using strict DTD.
April 27, 2006
Guido - unfortunately I created the images at the size they are displayed. There are no hi res versions.
John - Looks like it’s working to me.
Andrew - Or I could fix the errors. I have a habit of not actually checking the validation so seeing as there are only a handful of errors I think I did pretty well.
April 27, 2006
Where do I change the border color? Right now it’s lavender. I would like to change it to match the color scheme setting.
April 29, 2006
Hello Ben - I’m posting this here as well as on the wordpress feedback and forum site in the hopes that there’s an easy answer … (easy = incredibly idiot proof for people like me who can blog , but not code, unless their hand is held every step of the way!)
One of the (many) reasons I used Regulus as a theme was because no matter what I cut and pasted (The Monthlies Blog is a site for posting poetry and short stories written by many contributors) the default font in Regulus gave the site a wonderfully clean look - no mishmash of fonts. Now, however, something seems to have changed, and so, as well as a variety of wonderful poems and stories, I have a variety of fonts! Can you tell me what to do? The thought of having to change each post makes me feel ill …
Maire
April 29, 2006
i really really like regulus:)
the little header preview is kinda cool, haven;t seen anyone else do anything like it. i also like the defaults
thanks ben!
April 30, 2006
Hello again Ben
It seems that what I have to do is go through all the font mixed posts and get rid of any reference to either font face or font size and then they revert back to the ‘look’ of the theme. Is there any way I can do this with new posts? In other words - what should I save them as before posting?
I know I must sound really stupid, but I am learning - slowly!
April 30, 2006
Hi Ben,
First of all, thanks for the great theme. I’m a “newbie” and want to blog my summer travels. I have a couple of questions that I hope you can answer that have to do with FAlbum.
1. I’m getting the link to Flickr, but when you click on the picture for the picture set, the pictures all line up in a single vertical line. Is there something I can do to make them line up in a horizontal “grid?”
2. When you click on the box, at the top for the links (photos) it doesn’t change color. Is that because the first picture set is too close to the top of the page?
I’m sorry to ask “idiot” questions, but I’ve asked on other forums with no help. If there is a better picture gallery that will work with your theme, please let me know. Thank you so much in advance for any help you can offer!
Cheers!
Cheryl
May 1, 2006
Hey Ben. Awesome theme. I use it at my site. But there is one thing that I want in it.
You see when you’re logged in and you want to comment to a post, you still have to fill in all the useless details although in the end the reply comes up with the name of the user already logged in. So why not make it in a way like when someone is logged in, a little line above the comments box shows the name of the user logged in and a logout link. Something like - “You are logged in as XXXXXX. Logout >>”.
Also, could you make the replies by the post author a little more highlighted, something like this dude has done http://www.whoisdeep.com/2006/...
Finally, what shuold I do if I want the homepage excerpts back??
May 1, 2006
Wow ! You have a superb theme here Ben. Very tasteful ! Have you got any plans to do a widget-compatible 3-column version ?
I note, someone has already tried to do a 3-column one, but it isn’t widget compatible.
Many Thanks !
dp
May 2, 2006
I’m having some trouble using the translate widget with Regulus. It puts the flags icons vertical instead of in a single line. Works fine in other themes.
May 2, 2006
one of the best wordpress 2.0 theme i have see , awesome . thanks
May 3, 2006
Hi Ben, great theme. When I upgraded to 2.1.3, I noticed my posts were shortened to around 250 characters when viewed on the front page. It doesn’t do this for other themes, and I can’t seem to find an option to change it to show the full posts. Please help when you have a chance,
THanks.
May 3, 2006
Can some of you look at my site (mtzionyouthgroup.org) and help me out in the sidebar area? I use a Mac with a high resolution and 1024×768 with firefox. However, today i viewed the site on a windows machine with IE and 800×600 and i suddenly saw list bullets under the links and rss feeds at the bottom as well as extra spacing between the lines.
Have I inadvertantly changed the code or is something out of place? Along those lines, whenever I create a new post and use the center tag, it centers the sidebar content as well - shouldn’t their position be independent of each other?
May 4, 2006
Julie - you’re going to have to be clearer than that. There are many borders in the theme and I’m pretty confident none of them are lavender.
Maire - To stop the fonts from messing up simply don’t change the fonts in the editor and then they will use the default style.
Arinda, almostinfamous - cheers
Cheryl - I’ve never used FAlbum so am afraid I can’t really help. I would suggest asking on the FAlbum site.
Uthfull - The feature to highlight posters comments is built in. You need to specify your name and email address in the admin panel and it will automatically sort highlight for you.
David - no plans for a three column version I am afraid. That’s too much like hard work :S
Mike - afraid this is another thing I know nothing about. Please ask on the translate widget support site (wherever that might be).
Andrew - That’s strange. It should do this, although it may if you have used the older version of the theme. Try resetting the values (button at the bottom of the admin panel) and then starting fresh. Hopefully that will sort things out.
John - it all looks ok here (Firefox on a PC) not sure what the problem could be.
May 4, 2006
Thanks Ben, worked perfectly!
May 6, 2006
I think Julie is talking about the default color theme…it’s a shade of lavender…
Great theme!
May 6, 2006
Ben,
I’m confused about something. I’m using 2.1.3 and every category widget I tried displays incorrectly:
King Categories
Category Cloud
and the generic Category Widget
Most of the functions within King Categories fail to work and the Fold Categories plugin that it calls fails to work, too, even though activated. Category Cloud will not display as a justified cloud, no matter what setting is used. It just puts one category per double line onscreen. And all of the category widgets double-space the layout and align it left (though the hierarchy does work in the generic widget, but not with King Categories.)
I can’t see to fix this no matter what I do. Any ideas?
May 6, 2006
Thank you!
May 6, 2006
Ben, when I put a link in a post it shows up as plain text on the main page. But it’s fine on the archived pages.
See http://www.anthonyenglish.com/...
and
http://www.anthonyenglish.com/...
as an example. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks.
May 7, 2006
Ben I see that the feature you specified and have provided in your theme simply highlghts just one particular author. I have a blog with multiple authors. I was wondering if there was a way to highlight the author of the post in the replies to that same post
May 8, 2006
Noticed a (potential) issue when creating a site with 2.1.3. Whenever a nested page exists, i.e.
Page1
Page2
Page3
- subpage1
- subpage2
- subpage3
- subpage4
Clicking on page3 brings up a “Sub Pages” box, listing the subpages. Then the errors start
1) Unfortunately, the second “Category” link has been mysteriously changed to the Page3 URL. The desciption and title of the link , however, still stays the same (in my case, general).
2) If you click any link in the “Sub Pages” box (say subpage2), the “Sub Pages” box disappears, and the second “Category” link changes to the subpage URL that was selected.
The URL is http://565.incuspace.com - any suggestions on how to fix?
Thanks for a great template!
May 9, 2006
Andrew - no problem
Damon and Julie - there is no lavender in the theme. It’s all blue.
Dan - I am afraid I dond’t support any widgets since I didn’t create them. The theme does nothing special or complicated so any errors with widgets are generally their fault.
Beth - that’s ok
Tony - This is because excerpts remove html. This is the reason images do not show either. Try resetting the admin settings and hopefully you will see the entire post (which will include html things).
Uthfull - Currently only a single author is supported. I don’t know how to do anymore than one author, but agree it would be a nice feature to have. If anyone wants to help then I would be interested in hearing about a solution.
Jim - I can’t seem to reproduce this problem. Could you point me to a page that shows the error?
May 9, 2006
Ben,
Go to: http://565.incuspace.com/about...
hover over the “general” category - see that the link destination changes to the current page whenever you change pages.
Go to: http://565.incuspace.com/about...
notice how the “sub pages” nav element does not appear like in http://565.incuspace.com/about...
Also - review http://565.incuspace.com/wp-im... - note the nav bars as displayed on a mac. I don’t quit know why some of my widgets are not appearing on the mac (category,php code1,links,php code2) .. only links appear. should I each php block?
May 10, 2006
I’d like to be able to go back to just showing the excerpt on the main page and archives, how can I do this? It seems that option has gone the way of the dodo in the theme options panel.
May 11, 2006
Ben,
Update on http://565.incuspace.com - general category problem has been isolated to an problem with V 2.4 of Semiologic’s opt-in front page plugin (http://www.semiologic.com/software/opt-in-front/). Changed to Front Page Filter (http://smallestbusiness.com/category/wordpress) - works w/o problem.
“Sub pages” nav bar still has a problem - one down, one to go!
May 11, 2006
I just updated and everything’s running smoothly. Thanks for such an awesome theme!
May 11, 2006
Jim - I’m not suprised that the category bug was nothing to do with me since I just use the standard wordpress commands there
The sub pages not showing on sub sub pages is down to the fact that they only show on top level pages. I will add this to my to do list.
The IE 5 Mac problem is a problem with using old browsers. I’m afraid I stopped supporting IE 5 Mac when Microsoft did, but if you can work out a fix that doesn’t break any of the modern browsers I would be happy to implement it.
The other problem with IE5 Mac is that I don’t have a Mac to test things on.
Eric - The excerpt stuff was removed in Regulus 2.1. Sorry.
Terrence - thanks
May 13, 2006
Ben
I am a layman in computer but a lawman by profession, see what i have done with your theme at http://www.santosgere.wordpres...
Any suggestions and directions o make this page more useful, convinient, user friendly will be highly appreciated.
Thanks for the wonderful easy-to-use theme among all available (which i have changed nearly everyday before and now i am sticking with regulus for sure)
May 13, 2006
Ben,
Can you tell me if there’s a way to turn off comments on created pages? As opposed to posts…
Thanks…this is an outstanding theme.
May 13, 2006
Santosh - Glad you have found a theme you like :)Because you use wordpress.com you can’t edit the page design so the theme is as useable as it can be. The only thing I can suggest is write content people want to read, but you have quite a bit on there already so I guess you don’t need to be told that
Damon - that’s really easy. Just edit the page, and untick the box in the discussion panel that says “allow comments”
May 13, 2006
Where’s the red-faced embarrassed smiley?
May 14, 2006
Hey
Can you allow us to change the colors too? Please…
May 14, 2006
Damon -
Phoenix - you have already changed the colours. I’m not sure what else you want to alter. I’m sorry to say that I think Regulus is basically finished. My next theme is going to be a lot more customisable when it comes to colours and layout so hopefully you will be happier with that. Unfortunately it will be a very long time before it’s released (I haven’t started yet… beyond thinking)
May 15, 2006
Hi Ben
Just wanted to let you know that I’ve done my next batch of posting and it all looks beautiful! So many people have complimented me on how lovely the site looks - upon which I hang my head modestly, shuffle my feet and say ‘Awww shucks, all I did was choose the right theme…’
Maire
May 16, 2006
Ben, et al.,
1. What reference in style.css actually controls borders and spacing around images? I’ve tried to put some distance between images and my post text, but everything abuts no matter what CSS controls I add to the “a img” parameters.
2. The Lucida Grande/Sans family is the default font. I’d like to keep it, but can’t find a way for it to display real em dashes in Regulus–they display as regular dashes. As a professional writer, that’s a sore point. Any insertion of double dashes (”–”) comes out a single dash. Anyone have a clue how to fix this or some alternative to get real em dashes?
Thanks in advance.
May 16, 2006
Ben,
I love the theme and I think it is very kind of you to take the time here answering questions, so I’ll try not to sound too dense.
Is there anything I can do to create a static home page? I’ve been using WordPress as a CMS (too old and lazy to upgrade my 90s era web abilities) and with other themes I’ve used a plugin that creates a static front page. With the built-in home post thing-y in Regulus I can’t figure out a way to do it without the date of the post (which I’d rather not have on the static front page). Using a separate page called “home” gives me two “home” tags.
Any advice on an easy fix?
May 16, 2006
Love the theme! Is there a way to take the pages tags off the header and just use a page widget in the sidebar? I don’t want all my pages listed on the header. I was able to remove them from the header in css, but the page widget is not available with your theme.
May 17, 2006
Ben, nevermind. I figured out what I did wrong.
May 17, 2006
Marie - excellent. I’m glad you’re happy with it
Dan - i chose not to do any styles to images letting people sort that out themselves. There are i_left and i_right classes that apply borders, padding, margins, and floating in case that helps?
I’m afraid I haven’t got a clue about real em dashes. That’s way out of my league, I can only assume that the font doesn’t have the characters you want to use, so switching to a different font may help.
Greg - I know what you want to do but wouldn’t know where to start so I’m glad you worked it out yourself
Just looked at your site. You really are using it as a cms aren’t you? I think that’s a great idea
Scott - I don’t include any pages widgets but I am sure there are some around somewhere. However I notice you’re not using my theme anymore anyway so I’ll stop typing now.
May 18, 2006
Ben
Thanks for the Suggestions. :o)
One more question.
Can I post several topics in different pages? I know i can do it with the first or home page but the other pages i have created do not have that option, right? Or am i missing something?
I also tried to use flicker, but was unsuccessful, how do i use it?
Some question about, these:
Meta, RSS, Delicious
What exactly are these? and How do i use it? Tne boxes for these ask for url and other stuff….that confused me totally. Please help.
May 18, 2006
Santosh - You can only have multiple posts on the homepage and the archive pages, however you can post about whatever you like on the custom pages so there is no reason for you not to write whatever you like.
I would suggest asking on the wordpress.com forum about the theme widgets since I don’t use them myself so don’t have much knowledge in that area.
May 25, 2006
Ben, you would be awesome if you can make this theme work with canvas
http://support.freshpursuits.c...
Thanks dawg! This theme is great
May 26, 2006
I know this was alluded to in one of the comments that Matt left in an earlier post ( http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/20... ) about comments not recognizing logged in users.
I would like to know what to edit, or change to change that so it does recognize users that are logged in. In my site, only registered users will be able to comment. So I think having fields to enter user information should not be needed.
I have tried to alter comments.php, but my PHP knowledge is very limited. So any bit of help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Shoshanna
May 27, 2006
hey wonderful theme buddy..
but you know there is a problem..
i installed ur theme.. on my site http://www.santoshp.com
the side bar looks differnt on firefox as it gets complealy yellow..
where as in IE its perfect where only search box is yellow..
i tried installing the theme again but the same cmpain..
suggest me if you can spare sometime
May 31, 2006
Ben,
I noticed earlier that a few commenters mentioned that many plugins and widgets that display things horizontally have those displays switched to vertical in Regulus.
I found this to be the case with all cloud plugins (for displaying category and tag clouds), the plugins mentioned above by other commenters, and the recent Accessibility Widget that allows you to change the size of the page font (extremely useful!) by clicking on progressively larger letter A’s—the A’s stack vertically instead of horizontally, a waste of screen space.
This seems to be an issue with Regulus since it happens with any plugin or widget that normally displays items horizontally. Try the Accessibility Widget, for instance, and see what I mean.
If there’s something in the CSS I knew to fix, I’d fix it.
By the way, on my previous question on em dashes, if you insert three normal dashes instead of the usual two for the em dash, it will work.
Thanks!
May 31, 2006
Ben, I’m not quite the most computer-techy person possible, but I just wanted to give you kudos for your excellent design of Regulus, which I use for my MindPress journal. I’ve recommended your template to buddies! http://www.surromomsonline.com...
Thanks for all your hard work!
Kym
June 6, 2006
I’m fairly new to computers and to blogging. I know absolutely zero code. I like the regulus theme but have tried many times over the last 2 months to change the header to images i have on my own computer which are 730 pixels by 140 pixels without success. Can you please help me accomplish this?
June 10, 2006
Hi i love your theme, but i have a question how can i change the border of the entire blog, right now it is like white/grey. I’v looked in the style.css but can’t find anything. If you possible tell me where i could find it i would really appreciate it!
Once again your theme rocks!
June 10, 2006
Gabbly - sorry. Not interested in canvas at the moment. I won’t rule it out entirely but s it stands I think it’s good as it is.
Shoshanna - I must admit I thought I hadf added that feature in. I guess it isn’t there though so I will add it to my todo list. For now you can use something like (and this is the code Matt gave me…)
<?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>// you are logged in
<p>Logged in as <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity; ?></a>. <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?action=logout" title="Log out of this account">Logout »</a></p>
<?php else : ?>
// you must enter your details
<label for="author">name</label><input name="author" id="author" value="<?php echo $comment_author; ?>" tabindex="2" />
<label for="email">email</label><input name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>" tabindex="3" />
<label for="url">url</label><input name="url" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" tabindex="4" />
<?php endif; ?>
santosh - the problem was an unclosed tag that confused the sidebar.
dan - I haven’t been made aware of the problems with widgets before. The problem is making things generic enough that they work with every plugin. I hadn’t considered things like tag clouds.
Kymberli - thanks a lot
Valerie - you need to upload the image somewhere and then specify the url in the admin panel. You should be able to get more specific help on the wordpress.com forums. Someone wrote a tutorial but I don’t remember where it is.
Alex - thanks for the kind words. To change the border you need to edit the border color on the #wrapper id in styles.css
June 11, 2006
blogging, on wordpress, for just 7 weeks. just changed to regulus theme. I still don’t know enough to properly take advantage, but it seems to give me more control than the other themes wordpress makes available, and seems to organize pages more cleanly. Thanks.
June 13, 2006
Can you add an option to move the date to a less conspicuous spot, like right after posted by?
Or have an option to hide date posted?
On my blog it confuses people as to when the next meeting is if I word the title incorrectly…
http://bostonmediamakers.wordp...
June 17, 2006
Diggin the theme… one of the few where rookies can add their own image!
Wanted to say thanks, let you know I threw together a blog button and linked it to your site.
Check it out.
June 20, 2006
Very nice - I love this theme!
June 22, 2006
Widget clouds .. Very odd that they malfunction in the widgets admin page when using the regulus theme…
But then again, such are the pains of a template author! You’ve been rather brave to integrate widget functionality into Regulus (in the way of getting it to ‘meld’ with regulus’ sidebar).
I’m using Regulus for a website for my dad (see link) and it works beautifully - as a well-planned out theme does (or should).
I’ll take a look into the code and see if I can figure out why the widget ‘Clouds’ (settings for each widget) won’t show up for folk using the regulus theme (The notable exceptions are the RSS, Text, and Recent Comments widgets). And of course I’ll definately let you know about any results of my peeking into the code.
Thanks so much for a genius theme and keep up the good work! (Well, I know you consider it finished…)
June 30, 2006
Hey Ben thanks for the great theme, out of all the Wordpress.com themes it’s the best. I have only two or three problems that hopefully you could help me out with.
First of all, i’m completely new to blogging and have no idea about css (read a comment above that could’ve helped), anyway here are my problems.
I am using wordpress.com not .org, and don’t have any software or plugins installed, just my site off their server
1. I can’t get my recently/or any posted blogs to appear on the home page, i just have a blank space where writing should go and have no option on the page to add anything.
2. The “home” tag on the header remains navy blue on the home page no matter what colour change i make in the presentation section. It changes to the selected colour, only once i go through posts/catagories, but still remains blue when on the home page.
How can i make it the selected colour?
Or is there a way to remove the “home” tag?
3. i can’t post a blog on a new page only comments, i know how to shut off comments but cannot post a blog.
I don’t want any pages, just catagories and blogs.
I found another blog using Regulus with a white home tag, no pages and blogs on the home page. That’s what i want.
Any advice you got would help loads, i’m racking my brains trying figure out everything.
cheers
July 1, 2006
Nevermind ben i figured it out, in the homer simpson way, i got lucky!!
July 5, 2006
In my head? I don’t know. Some kind of brain-thingy.
The theme is awesome though.
July 11, 2006
I use your template and I noticed some strange rendering in Opera and MSIE. Everything looks okay in FireFox.
I explained how to workaround the problems in my blog here
http://www.alwisaja.cjb.net/20...
Hope it helps
July 12, 2006
Jonathon, KSH, Pete, Illys - thankws
Steve - I can understand why you want this but I’m not sure it’s something that the majority of pople will want so probably won’t do it since it’ll be a lot of work for nothing. Sorry.
MArk - glad you worked it all out
Kristian - erm… not sure what you mean… but thanks
Alwi - Thanks for pointing them out. I haven’t tested in opera 7 (although should work fine in 9), and I don’t use ie 7 yet either. I shall fix these problems in the next update.
July 15, 2006
Hey Ben,
great theme.. am totally loving it I do naturally have an issue but it’s not a panic just wondering if you’ve come across this and if so what the fix is.
I will go back and start reading the ton of posts here and perhaps someone else has come across and maybe I’ll find the answer before you see this
Ok I have a custom header in place no problem.. but when I want to change the color from the admin panel it only changes the color in a couple of places not the whole theme.. perhaps I am misunderstanding how it works.. but it’s like half way around the header and the calendar header that’s about it, everything else stays that default bluish color..
any ideas?
You can see what I mean here, http://www.daytradingking.com
Also once I know how to make all the color portions change I assume the shade of green or whatever can be altered in the CSS page?
July 17, 2006
Hi Jody, I looked at your site and I want to comment before official answer from Ben.
If you change the color from the admin panel, YES it only changes the color in a couple of places. For more color changes you’ll have to edit the CSS [styles.css].
July 17, 2006
Hello,
I love binary moon and the most recent version fixes the blank page issue.
My problem is that I use feedburner for my feeds and already have it setup in my sidebar but there is the default feeds/comments rss that the theme uses at the bottom.
How do I remove this?
July 19, 2006
Alwi, thanks for the heads up.. my question I guess then becomes not being very aware of how to work with CSS any idea what I need to change there to get the background colour changed and the rest of the borders etc??
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
July 20, 2006
I’m completely new to blogging, but I’ve really enjoyed working with Wordpress…and your theme is by far my favorite of all the ones I’ve explored. But am I missing something? When I try to set up an RSS full or comments feed, it goes to a page that says “This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.” What am I supposed to do?
July 21, 2006
Hello Ben,
I love this theme, but..
I am using the HOME PAGE CONTROL plugin to use a specific post as the homepage for my site. This means that the “HOME” link in the tabbed navigation of your theme is pointing to the wrong place. I need to create a specific ‘page’ called home and set the plugin to display that page to everyone who visits the root domain of the site.
So…I would like to remove the ‘home’ link in the tabbed navigation without breaking the way the tabs work. Can you tell me how to alter the code so that this will work? please
July 23, 2006
Hi, thanks a lot for your nice theme.
I’m using it in 2 pages:
http://www.amplitud.net
http://www.juancarlosbatista.c...
The only thing, I would like to be abble to move
blog_info (name) and blog_description on the right side of the header, without having to write text to my background image?
Any easy way to do it?
In advance, thanks. Take care.
July 29, 2006
I like this theme very much, it is neat and simple. I have downloaded and will be using this for my blog.
Thanks.
August 4, 2006
Hi
Yours is the only decently customizable theme for underdog wordpressers like myself. I saw a cool feature in the Andreas theme which is not there in yours. The Page Template option is unavailable. Andreas allows us to post Archives and Links in separate pages. That option is not there in Regulus. Can you make it available in your next version? Thanks in advance
August 5, 2006
Hello Ben, bless you =)
Ben, i’m sorry, that’s me again whith my stupid questions =) I want to change more link text. But wherever i find this word in scripts and change them, i can’t take the necessary word (in russian - “Далее”) to be displayed in blog.
Huuh… I hope you understand what i write.
Sorry for my bad english and offtopic =)
August 10, 2006
I have started my blog `Raju’s world’, on WordPress on August 3, 2006.
I was very impressed by the choice of themes offered by WordPress. I had chosen theme Regulus. I really liked this theme. Thanks Ben Gillbanks for the wonderful theme. I have only two little suggestions: a choice to select the default text colour; and also the choice to put add a comment section at the end of post.
August 15, 2006
Hi
just to let you know I love this theme and have used it at http://www.stevenaitchison.co.....
Only thing is when I turn on ’show number of posts’ in categories the number goes to the next line. Is there any way I can keep it on the same line.
Regards
August 16, 2006
I really liked Regulus. Installed it recently, but I missed my 3 columns from my previous theme, RinTinTin.
After very few changes came Regulus3C. Check it out at http://www.dflutter.com.
August 19, 2006
Ben,
just want to add my name to the list of fans.
I am sorry if this is a total newb question…but I am new to WP, just converted over from blogger…yay!
anyway, how can I change the name of the ‘home’ tab. I want it to simply say ‘news’
thanks a huge bunch
August 20, 2006
Tony P: open header.php, go to line 88
starts with
at the end of the line there you’ll see ‘Home’, just replace that
August 20, 2006
sorry ben
I fixed that…it was so easy I am not embarrassed I asked
now I have run into the problem of categories in the Sidebar displaying on two lines. I figured out to change block to ‘fixed’ but now all the lines are bunched up together (mostly a problem for the recent posts section) I know I can increase the line spacing, but I cant figure out how to increase the distance between lines…without increasing the distance between ‘wrapped lines’…thanks again for a great template
September 10, 2006
You say that Regulus is complete. I’ve noticed that is doesn’t support localization fully. Will you be spending some time on this? Or will this be done by the WordPress.com team?
September 14, 2006
Robert - I intend to add internationalization to Regulus. In fact I already have it done. It will be in the next update.
Tony - well done
Everyone else - thanks for using Regulus. I like it when people say thank you and apologise for my shoddy response rate here.
September 17, 2006
Since you are updating the theme, what would be the best way to send you some bugs/missing stuff/feature requests? Just post them over here or mail them to you?
Pls. let me know (by email) what you prefer.
September 22, 2006
Hello I am trying to add a “Read more..” to the end of my excerpts.
How can I do this using your theme?
October 17, 2006
Is it just me, or does any text immediately following a blockquote section get made all bold? What would be causing this?
October 22, 2006
Ahhh, I think I’ve found something else. I saw in the earlier comments where people wanted it to automatically recognized logged in users for comments, so they wouldn’t have to fill out name, email, etc. to post a comment. I think this is causing me some problems.
I have the exact opposite issue. I don’t have registered users; anyone can post a comment, as long as they provide a name and an email. What’s happening is that it says people are “logged in”, but then when they post a comment it says they need to fill in the required fields (name, email). Is there a way to make it either or? It shouldn’t say the user is logged in if I don’t require a “logged in ” account for comments, right?
November 13, 2006
Hi Ben
Just dropped by to say thank you. I’ve been using your theme for a couple of months and really like it. I’m enjoying playing with css for the first time and slowly putting my own stamp on it. Got to create my own header image now
January 13, 2007
Thanks for the great template. Stupid question probably, but I can’t figure out how to change the “about” page from:
“About
This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.”
to info about myself. How do I do it? Thanks
February 7, 2007
Hi
I wonder if someone can tell me where I can change the link URL for “Home”. I don’t want it to be the wp/ folder, but a different page. Where is that set, please?
Thanks so much
Ellie
March 1, 2007
Very nice theme, I added it to my Best WordPress Theme Collection
March 7, 2007
I use Regulus on my hosted blog at wordpress.com. It definitely seems to be the best of the themes they offer, as far as feature-full, and reasonably attractive and customizable without even needing to edit CSS (which costs extra).
But there’s one oddity I’m not sure you’re aware of. The wordpress.com admin panel allows you to turn on showing number of links included in each Category or each month of the Archive. But when you do this with regulus, the number shows up on the next line, instead of on the same line as intended. This is because of the:
#sidebar a {
display:block;
}
I’m not sure why a tags in sidebar are set to block in the first place? Over-riding this to display:inline seems to solve the problem and doesn’t seem to solve any others. But it requires knowing enough CSS to figure this out, and it requires paying wordpress.com for the right to edit CSS (a reasonable amount, but should it be neccesary?).
Is this considered a bug, or is there a good reason for the display:block?
Thanks for the theme.
May 4, 2007
Hello, first of all, thanks for the wonderful theme!
Though, i’m facing a bit of problems to introduce “asides” into it.
On the Wordpress codex there is a step-by-step tutorial for adding asides into a theme (http://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Asides), but i can’t complete it because Regulus’ index.php doesn’t seem to have the same chunk of text that is mentioned on the tutorial (otherwise i’m blind).
“Step 6: The next line should be your date call (). Under that, paste this:
[CODE...]”
I tried inserting the code into several places of the code, but all resulted in errors. Unfortunately i don’t know php
I’d be very grateful if you could solve that one for me.
-Paulo
August 27, 2007
Hi Ben,
Love the theme, but I’m outgrowing it. Thought any more about a 3 column version?
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