Regulus 2.3 theme update
November 22, 2007 | Regulus
Finally - an update to Regulus. The updates are coming further and further apart, and this is simply because the theme does everything I set out to do… and quite a bit more. This version is mostly bug fixes but there are a couple of nice new features.
Additions
- The banner image is now a link, meaning you can click it to go to your homepage. You can also change this link to point anywhere you like, which is good for those of you who use Wordpress as a blog and something else for the rest of your website.
- You can also now change the text for the home link in the tabbed navigation. The main reason for this is for people who use the static homepage feature of wordpress, but it’s also nice to be able to customise things that little bit more.
- Finally there are a few new colour schemes - nothing earth shattering but I think they look good and are a nice way to liven up your website.
- Support for tags (available in wordpress 2.3). It’s not particularly advanced but it does add them in case you want to make use of them.
Waiting
I actually finished this a couple of weeks ago, and have been trying to get the folks over at wordpress.com to update it there so that both versions were in sync. Unfortunately they’ve been a little slow so it’s not updated there, so I decided to release it anyway. Hopefully it’s not too much longer before it’s all working.
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November 23, 2007
Good job. can’t wait for the new one.
November 23, 2007
Forgot you’d made a theme, nice work matey
I’m might release one at some point, not trying to be a copycat or anything :P, seeing as I have to code so many at work.
November 24, 2007
I always like your work. I like the smaller details, i always don’t put much effort into things like the comment styling. But, it’s obvious that lot of thought and effort has gone into yours.
It looks great.
November 25, 2007
Ben,
Are you sure the zip-file has been renewed? It appears remarkably similar to version 2.2.1, and all the file dates are still from 2006 as well.
November 25, 2007
Guido - I don’t know how nobody noticed that before - You’re right - I uploaded it to the wrong folder. Thanks for the catch! It should be right now.
Josh - thanks
Luke - I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
Nbeyond - thanks
November 26, 2007
I don’t know if this has to do with the theme, but I can’t get any of my category pages to show up - ever have a problem like that?
November 26, 2007
Hey Ben, I figured it out - there was a plugin I was using related to tags, and it was over-writing my category stuffs… in some strange way. Before I sent this, I should have tried switching to a default theme. (good advice to anyone who just installed a new plugin and is getting unexpected behaviours.
Watch out for Jerome’s Keywords - it works, but it can be tricky if you don’t stick with the defaults.
November 26, 2007
Ryan - glad you got it sorted out. I had a quick look but couldn’t see what you meant - although I did notice you were showing tags instead of categories
November 27, 2007
Nice theme Ben, looks good. I just has a great (well maybe lol) idea when i was testing it out.
Having 2 themes in the one, a daytime theme and a night time theme and have it run off the server time or +/- setting in admin in case your server is out of sync with your timezone.
Then the site displays night theme during your night and day theme during your day.
Good, bad or just plain stupid?
Feel free to use the idea if it doesn’t fall in to the stupid category.
Also your homepage is showing a 404 and telling me to visit the homepage. :-/
Carly,
December 17, 2007
I’ve been using this theme for a while with little customized tweaks. Adding a signature image has been fun little project for today.
Glad to see the theme hasn’t totally left the development table. It really is very cool. I added “the excerpt reloaded” plugin and have just the most current post in full form, the rest are abbreviated (I’m wordy, can’t you tell?).
With the template changes I’ve made, upgrading should be fun
December 20, 2007
The fonts should be little bigger.. Also the sidebar looks small.
December 20, 2007
Meet - thanks for the comments. Unfortunately since the theme is already on a couple million sites I don’t think I will change it. My next theme will have slightly larger fonts though
December 25, 2007
Great theme. I’ve been using it and appreciate the attention to detail. FWIW, I’ve added the following lines to the CSS to control the look/feel of widgets in the sidebar:
#sidebar h2, h3 {
clear:both;
padding:16px 0 4px 0;
font-size:1.4em;
border-bottom:1px solid #99c;
}
#sidebar h4 {
font-size:1.2em;
December 26, 2007
Hi!
I haven’t been on my wordpress blog in several months and just noticed a link to upgrade. I’m glad the link brought me here so I can thank you for a very cool design! (I’m not sure if you changed the banner because I’m refamiliarizing myself with the workings of wordpress; I’m currently using a banner you developed that has a deep blue background with a free flying white butterfly in the upper right-hand side.)
I usually design and upload my own banner images since I’m an artist, but I like this one so much since I’ve always had a penchant for the moon and butterflies.
I’ll look into the update after some sleep. For now, thanks again for your hard work!
December 30, 2007
Would be great to have the css layout modified to support the WPG2 plugin for Gallery2.
January 1, 2008
agrrrh
there’s no russian language
again
January 1, 2008
and when I activate it, it says
Warning: fread() [function.fread]: Length parameter must be greater than 0 in /home/ibmsru/public_html/gamerka/wp-includes/streams.php on line 155
Warning: unpack() [function.unpack]: Type V: not enough input, need 4, have 0 in /home/ibmsru/public_html/gamerka/wp-includes/gettext.php on line 67
Warning: array_shift() [function.array-shift]: The argument should be an array in /home/ibmsru/public_html/gamerka/wp-includes/gettext.php on line 68
January 4, 2008
I am a beginner and I have spent an entire day trying to set up a blog for my school site using one of your themed templates. I am having a difficult time with it and wonder if you could help me? I have pages set up, but cannot get categories to show (even though I have typed them). Please let me know how we can communicate, I’m sure its just something very little.
January 4, 2008
Donna,
Be sure you have “Categories 1″ on the Sidebar area under Presentation/Widgets.
January 8, 2008
Hi Ben!
I love the regulus layout, it fits my content so beautifully. comments coming back are how clean my site is. I wish I understood the world you live in, I haven’t a clue. Go see what I did with your regulus! I’m so proud of myself thanks to your creativity. http://themuseproject.wordpres...
I clicked into your site to see if you had other templates or did web design, but I saw your comment that you aren’t doing this any longer.
Sincerely, Akria Melchizedek
January 9, 2008
first of all - thank’s Ben for the great theme! i’m using version 2.0 on my site but it have some problems. after installing 2.3 i’ve got all my posts “cuts” automatically. so how i can show full posts on my page and use manually “more” tag ?
January 18, 2008
Ben, I love the theme, but need a second sidebar for commercials (someone has to pay the electric bill). I’ve followed the basic steps for adding a second sidebar by modifying the functions and index file, but so far nothing will cause the second sidebar to register or show.
I know this theme isn’t top on your priorities, but could you possibly point me in the direction (through all the groovy customized stuff you did), to where I should look/modify for a 2nd sidebar?
January 18, 2008
Ben, never mind. I ended up stealing a “sidebar.php” from another them, monkeying with the original functions file, and messing with some floats in the css pool.
Less work then I thought (once I figured out the huh? factor). All I have left is to make up a larger custom header image.
Now I just wish my little laptop screen was wider.
January 22, 2008
Hi
Danish translation is available here :
http://henrik.schack.dk/2008/0...
January 22, 2008
Hi Henrik - thanks for that. I shall include it in the download when I get a chance (am on holiday at the moment).
January 23, 2008
Thank’s for this theme from a frenchy beginner.
February 11, 2008
Hi and thanks for the wonderful theme!
Only one question: how can I change more link text? I try to change the text in functions.php ($more_link_text=”(…)”), but doesn’t work
Thanks for any help
February 14, 2008
Hey Ben, great job with the theme. I moved all of my blogs and my web site over to it and it’s working well.
But I’m total crap when it comes to the technicalities of customizing this kind of stuff. Would you or another contributor to this list be interested in helping me make a series of “tweaks” to my site?
If so, please let me know at mbawden@brandcentralstation.com.
Thanks.
February 14, 2008
Hi Mike - I don’t do freelance work but if you post what you want here then maybe I can help out? Since you’re on wordpress.com only visual changes will be possible, and even then it’s only if you have the css upgrade.
Carlos - it’s in the actual theme files. I don’t set the text anywhere (as far as I can remember)
Lipstic - no problem
February 14, 2008
Thanks Ben,
I think most of the mods I’m looking for are fairly cosmetic and I have the css upgrade but I don’t want to mess with something I don’t pretend to understand. I hate it when my clients do that to me.
Here’s an example of the kinds of things I’d like to modify (if possible):
1. I’d like to move the tags to the bottom of the post rather than right underneath the headline.
2. I’d like the date of the post to appear on a single line underneath the headline of the post.
3. I’d like to add a “contact us” link in the left hand column.
Stuff like that. I can provide a complete list but don’t want to clog up your comment area or come off as askikng for it all to be done for free. I have a great deal of respect for what you do and what you’ve done here and don’t want to come off as ungrateful.
Regards,
Mike Bawden
Brand Central Station
February 15, 2008
Mike - unfortunately looking at those changes it seems that most of the things you want to achieve are not possible with the hosted version of Wordpress. If you were to buy your own hosting package it would be relatively trivial to make the changes but unfortunately they all require modifying the html, something you can’t do on wp.com - sorry
February 15, 2008
Ben,
Thanks for the info. I’ve got server space, I suppose I could always move the site over to that. Can you point me in a direction where I can get the information I need to give to my ISP so they can move the site?
Thanks,
Mike Bawden
Brand Central Station
February 23, 2008
Just wanted to drop a note to say I like the theme. A friend needed a quick blog and I found your template and although it might be old (it uses a moon image), it looks like it’ll work.
I just decided to start another blog as well (not my personal blog shown here) and went looking for regulus again and saw that you updated it, so am going to start off with it.
February 26, 2008
Hi Ben, thanks for the updade. Any chance the global nav-menu could include a ‘archives’ link where all archives up to-date could be displayed either in reverse chronology or by category or both? This would be a darn good addition to an already excellent theme in my opinion.
February 27, 2008
Hi Ben, had a crack at it and got the Archives page working. Thx.
If you are using Ben’s lovely Regulus and need to do a Archives page here is a quick and easy tutorial on mine.
March 3, 2008
W00t splendid theme Ben, many thanks
it looks really nice!
I have one comment, not to disturb you but make the theme even better;
If a page has subpages, the calendar at the sidebar doesn’t fit anymore in the box:
see for example: http://beta.binarymoon.co.uk/a...
I don’t know why this occurs, but I guess it could be adjusted quite easily?
March 3, 2008
Amit - glad you got it working
Floris - I don’t see that problem. Care to elaborate? Maybe you’re using a browser & OS combo I haven’t tried?
Whall - glad you like it. Thanks a lot
March 3, 2008
I dont see it neither here, at my own PC (Vista with IE7 or Firefox 2). I saw the problem this morning at a workstation at the University running on Win XP and IE 6. It’s a minor disturbence but I’ll post proof when I am able to log on to that computer again….
March 4, 2008
Floris - sounds like it’s an IE6 issue then. Let me know if you can find out what’s going on (even better if you can work out a fix
)
March 18, 2008
That about theme update for WP 2.5?
March 19, 2008
Regulus shouldn’t need to be updated for Wordpress 2.5, it should all work fine.
April 11, 2008
It’s one of the best themes out there
April 27, 2008
Hi Ben, thanks for the update to your great theme. However, I’m getting a strange error and have to keep on using the old version till I fix it… Any ideas?
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare regulus_add_theme_page() (previously declared in /blog/wp-content/themes/regulus/functions.php:18) in /blog/wp-content/themes/regulus/functions.php on line 16
May 9, 2008
I’ve recently downloaded Regulus and can only agree that it is an excellent theme. Great stuff! I do, however, have a question: how do I change the language settings? My blog runs in Swedish, and I’ve gotten WP2.5.1 to recognize that and give me Swedish menus, but Regulus stubbornly gives me English, despite having the appropriate language file in the theme folder. I’ve been looking in the Current Theme Options, but can find no language setting - where am I supposed to enable it?
TIA/GA
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