Beta release of Gespaa v2
Due to popular requests, I've now released a two column version of the Gespaa theme which contains a sidebar. This release should be considered beta as I've haven't had the opportunity to test it thoroughly. If you want to throw caution to the wind, then go ahead and download it from the usual place.
Any feedback, whether positive or negative, on how it looks on various environments would be much appreciated. Leave a comment on this post.
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Thanks !
Your theme is improving everyday :-))
Great looking theme! I’ve recently downloaded the 2 column version, as I’m a noob, who likes his columns. :) Anyways, if you get a second from your nasty, busy schedule, the theme I downloaded from Alexking.org (2 column) isn’t filling in the sides very well, towards the bottom of the page (using Firefox 1.0.1). I just noticed that you have beta v2 out, so I may get it and see if that works.
Thanks for the theme though! Excellent work!
Great work, Phu!
I’m slowly getting the hang of the 2-column Gespaa_v2. Looks great in Firefox and IE. The only thing that would be of GREAT help is if you could list the files that were changed with each change in the Change Log on your site. This way it would make it a lot easier to go and add/change code in just that file(s).
Keep up the great work. Love the gallery, btw. :)
Thanks for the kind words Zee. For future updates, I’ll try and list the updated file. Anyways, glad you enjoy the theme!
I can’t get that two column Gespaa v2 to work. I load it into wordpress and it says that teh style sheet is missing.
what do i do ?
The links in my sidebar don’t wrap. They just extend out into the background. This is probably an easy fix, I just haven’t had the time to tinker with your code. Might be something you want to fix, though.
Hi Heliologue,
You can fix this by adding the highlighted line below to your style.css file
#sidebar ul li {
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
width:200px;
}
This will tell the browser to wrap long sidebar entries.
Working/looking fine, and customized — add this to your list of compatibilities, if you have one: Firefox 1.0 on Linux.
Congratulations for the theme.
BTW, one question: how do you generate that 5-line “Older entries” block on your blog? Plugin?
Thanks João.
The older entries block is generated by a customised version of the recent posts plugin. Once I get a bit of time, I’ll release my modifications to this plugin.
Well, thanks for the link — I’d been fiddling around with a dead link for a supposed “recent ‘n’ posts” plugin.
I was able to customize it myself to resemble yours — the major trick is to catch the time of the last post shown, with get_the_time(”Y-m-d H:i:s”), and assign it to the variable $now that’s in the very beginning of the code.
Phu, Gespaa is a wonderful theme. Works and looks just fine in Firefox 1.0.2 and IE 6 under XP and also Firefox 1.0 under Ubuntu using Gnome. Keep up the great work.
I just downloaded this not aware it was a beta. I like the theme, but jut a few niggles:
1) is there a reason for having inline css as opposed to having everything in the style.css? I spent a while trying to change something only to find the css I needed to change was in the php file, so I copied it over to the CSS.
2) I’ve noticed a couple of css issues - the right hand side seems to display a couple of pixels bigger than the left. When trying to change this it becomes even more apparent. I’ve tried to resolve this, but I’m not having that much luck to be honest. Almost as though the CSS is working well for everything on the left, just playing a bit on the right.
3) there’s a border indentation/borking in some of my posts - not sure why this is, perhaps something to do with number 2) that is causing this?
Other than that, I think it’ll be fun to modify it. It’s clean, and really well designed.
Keep up the good work
Images need to be referenced relative to the theme directory which is why they were placed in the header.php file.
Have you tried this with the latest download?
Hi Phu, I assume the latest release is also on Alex King’s site? Or has it been updated since then?
I also noticed that my pages seem to have disappeared - that is to say, I have posts which are in the region of more than two pages - everything displays the first page of a post, but not the rest. Additionally there is no next previous button.
I’ll grabt the release from your site and see if that resolves anything.
Cheers
Well I tried the download from your site, and still having the same issues, happy to provide screenies to demonstrate the issues. Let me know. The post pages issue ahnd previous/next also still remains
hello me again
http://sekhu.net/wp
I’m modifying the theme at the moment, so it’s still wip, but I’m finding it difficult to move the credits in to the center of the footer, as well as getting rid of the white space in the bottom right hand corner.
Any ideas?
Hi, I just wanna say I love your skin. It looks great, but I just noticed an Issue that I haven’t had before, I don’t usually use IE (i use FireFox) so I wouldn’t notice this, but one of my friends told me that my sidebar was at the bottom of the page. So i checked it out, and sure enough it is being pushed to the bottom, only in IE though. So, i was wondering if you had any idea how to fix it, because i would like it to look good in IE and FF
I love the theme but I’m having trouble adding any of my own meta tags. Everytime I add a meta tag to header.php it throws the whole theme off.
Any help or suggestions?
Thanks,
Patrick
It would be nice to have link’s available depending on who’s logged in. Like, when admin is logged in an “Edit” appears beneath each post, and a link to the Site Admin on the sidebar. Both would make using the theme MUCH easier.
Also (since im quite a n00b as css/php) where do I modify what links appear at the top of the main window? (The one that says “home” and “rss feed” by default?)
Thanks,
Simon Mansfield
I’ve got up there now your two-column version and it looks terrific!
I’m on a MacOS X v.10.3.9 (Panther) and I’ve tested it in Safari 1.3 (v312), Firefox 1.0.6, Camino 0.8.4, IE for Mac 5.2.3 and AOL’s Mac browser version 10.3.6, and all of them your two-column theme looks terrific!!
If I stay with WordPress I will link back to you. I’m however inclined to go with something from pmachine.com such as ExpressionEngine.
Great theme Phu - all your themes look really cool.
I’m also having some small problems with borders when viewed in Safari and Firefox on Mac OS 10.4.2. I just downloaded v2 of the theme yesterday. Here are some jpegs:
http://www.binotto.dk/gespaa/gespaa1.jpg
http://www.binotto.dk/gespaa/gespaa2.jpg
Thanks,
Brett
I’m going to ask what I’m sure is a dumb question to all of you fluent in html, php and WordPress! I’m not fluent in any of those, but I am nonetheless trying to convert all the language in Gespaa to Danish. I can’t find 5 headings in the theme code:
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Where are these words being generated from? (Or is there another way to make Gespaa speak Danish?) I have the Danish localisation of WordPress 1.5.2 installed on the server, and the included classic and default themes turn all text into Danish. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Brett
Where is the html content for the head section generated? (Stuff like stylesheet links, blog description etc.) It’s not in header.php, where I would expect it (and where it is in gespaa v1). Thank you - I’d love to know the answer, it’s driving me crazy! Thanks a lot for a killer theme!
my biscuit… my header.php file was encoded in a weird way (?), and my editor (dreamweaver on windows) did not view the full header file, only the top 3 lines (but the apache server read the file fine, so the content was getting correctly generated…) Weird, I’ve never had that happen before. Anyway, if you can’t view the whole file, open it in notepad and save it first before using dreamweaver.
One happy beginner…. I found all the headings I was looking for in comments.php and sidebar.php
Thanks,
Brett
Absolutely gorgeous theme, but the CSS validator trips over this:
.entrybody{
–snip–
font-size: 11px/18px;
And I’m worried about changing it, in case I break something. When would the second font-size (18px) be used, and is that forward slash really legal?
Ahh, you’re right. Not sure how that one slipped through. Just remove the whole line.
font: 11px/18px arial;would set a font size of 11px with a line-height of 18px. However,font-size: 11px/18px;is just garbage. My apologies.I was worried about removing it in case it was a hack fixing a problem in a specific browser. Thanks for clearing that up. :-)
I have had the sidebar at the bottom of the page problem (along with commenter #17) when I do a few things:
add a p align=”right” to the code in a post
use a table in a post
Not sure how to fix it now, but will post if I figure it out.
Hey there!
I really like your theme, great design and simple. It works fine in IE, but in Firefox, the more posts I have, they don’t seem to display properly lower down :(
Any ideas? I’m not very good at php, html, css etc… but I know a bit.
Here:
www.tolmay.com
Thanks,
Bartek
Bartek, this should be fixed in the latest download. More specifically (since you’ve modified the theme), if you add the following, the issue should be resolved.
#wrap:after{content: ".";
display: block;
height: 0;
clear: both;
visibility:hidden;
}
Thanks dude, I just added it. But I can’t check it until I get home since I don’t have firefox at work. If you have a sec, could you see if it worked? :)
Looks fine to me. Remember though to force refresh (CTRL + F5) so that the old cached CSS file isn’t used.
Hi, How do I edit the URL’s at the top, I want to add additional links next to RSS on this theme.
Just a quick note to point out there’s no license in the downloadable zip file (at least for the one-column). It’s clearly marked on the website, but I always appreciate a note in the download as well, as I came on the theme via alexking and it took several more steps before I found my way here.
Nice theme, especially slick searchbox. I’ve lifted parts of it for a wuhan-derived theme for my site and have packaged the results up for distribution under the GPL.
hi.
i tried to use gespaa theme (two column).
but when i tried to split a post menubar is go to the bottom of the post at homepage.
Love your theme. Very clean, easy to read. Works great in Firefox, IE6. However in IE7 BETA2, the sidebar does not display properly. I understand that IE7 is still beta, but with Microsoft’s track record for fixing CSS issues, there’s a poor probability that it will be resolved in the final release of IE7. Any suggestions?