1.1.1 Release

Last night I uploaded and tweaked Tarski 1.1 on my blog. Just five minutes ago I upgraded and am now having a problem with comments.

Personalize, personalize, personalize

The posts without comments are fine, but the posts that have been commented all have the same issue as the one referenced above.

Yep, we forgot one line. Sorry!

Re-upload comments.php from a fresh download of the 1.1.1 zip file and you should be good to go. Sorry again!

That did the trick. Thanks!

Great!
Checking it out now :D

really like this clean style and have been playnig about with it for a while. However I have clicked the “centred” option under Tarski options in the dash board but it still left aligns -

do i need to reload a particular PHP file to reset some hook?

Dale, if you could provide us a URL to a site where we can take a look that’d help us diagnose your problem. It might be as simple as a cached CSS in your browser - no way to know until we see it. :-)

Hi again!!

Thank you for this update.

I have a doubt with the style.css. Which parameter may i change to delete the frames of an image when is a link? I want the frame when the mouse cross over, but i dont want the frame if the mouse dont cross.

Sorry for my ignorance.

Thank you again for all the well done work!!

Thank you very much ionfish!!

Do try and do it in a custom stylesheet, too, lest you lose your changes when we next upgrade. :-)

how do I upgrade to the version 1.1.1 without losing the changes I have made including my own header and some stylesheet changes?

Hello!
I love this theme, very well made, simple yet nice. With that said a suggestion for a new feature. I’d like it possible to place the comment area right under the post, so if the side bar is long it won’t push the comment area down. I know there’s the disable side bar on other pages, except main page option. But I don’t think that’s what I really want to do. That’s just suggestion though, the theme seems fine the way it is.

Douten, for the time being we’ve decided the HTML gymnastics we’d need to do that aren’t worth the trouble. We put in the disable sidebar option as a stopgap measure.

Tarski really does work best with long posts - after all, it was originally designed for ionfish’s website - so we’ve shoehorned in support for small posts as best we can, for now.

I see. I suppose the sidebar option could kinda do what I want, not too much lost. Thanks for the reply.

Are y’all looking into putting WP widgets in the next release?

Indeed we are, assuming we can make the API do what we want it to do.

I had a successful time uploading the new version, only one aspect does not work, and that is the centered version of the theme. It is selected yet it is left aligned…any suggestions?

Ah, I apologize! Problem Fixed!

Hi Author, great theme! Everything’s fine except that I cannot figure out how to add plug-ins in the sidebar. I’ll go into the options page and put codes in such as , and only text shows up. I tried with several plugins and none are working. Any pointers please?

opps, code didn’t show up last time

[?php nr_get_movie(); ?]

Ray, there’s a link to a tutorial on integrating plugins at the top of the theme hooks page. You’ll be wanting the $sidebarTopInclude hook.

We don’t allow PHP in the Options page as it would be a security risk.

very cool, working perfectly now, thx for the timely reply

Is there an easy way to make comments show up on “pages” like they do in regular entries? I’ve done this to other templates but your template is a bit more involved and I’m a bit afraid to mess with the internal workings of it. Any hints would be greatly appreciated.

Becky, you’re in luck!

Change line #4 in index.php from:

< ?php if(is_single()) { comments_template(); } ?>

to:

< ?php if(is_single() || is_page()) { comments_template(); } ?>

That should work!

Hi everybody, how can I include the tags into the sidebar. I appreciate the plugin you use, but would like to have a more traditional listing of the tags in the sidebar. Best wishes, Susanne

Hi again!!

I have an idea lookin’ to a new update. May be good that the theme would include a “permanent link” for each post to let the people do trackbacks without problems with the permalinks.

It’s just an idea.

Great theme!

Thank you!

Susanne, you’ll need to use this technique to do that. The tutorial shows how to do it for flickrRSS, and should be easily be adapted to your tagging plugin.

Tarski does make a standalone tags page for you, of course. If you have a lot of tags, that’ll probably be a less cluttered way of displaying them.

El Desviado, are you talking about some sort of “the trackback URL for this post is …” display?

this has to be one of the best looking WordPress themes I’ve seen so far. I’ll definitely be using it in the future. some stylesheet modifications and I can see this in use everywhere in no time at all

Can somebody help me out? For some reason my sidebar ends up under my post. Is it because of the picture?

http://www.the-frox.com/blog

Frox, you’ve got some funky code going on there. Please make sure your site validates on the W3C validator. Looks like you’ve got a

tag that doesn’t close, among other things.

Not sure why you’ve got post-content divs and that center paragraph in there. If you’re using the

to center your sidebar, that’s not the best way to do it.

Hmm I see now,….all those errors are coming from my -weird- usage of Lightbox……
Can’t figure out out how to use it properly,….but thanks! I’m one step closer.

This is, quite simply, a kick ass theme. It seems to be getting very popular, too. Congrats on the success.

Check out my Tarski-Powered blog at stevenrasnick.com.

Looks good, and I’m glad to see you using the custom theme option. :-p

I’ve been here before, but at last I’m live with my own blog - thanks a lot for this great theme and for your help.

I especially like Tarski’s possibilities to customize (a little …) without editing theme files and thereby keeping customization after an upgrade.

A few small things (that you might already be aware of):

- The title of links in the navigation bar is missing (apart from that of Home)

- I wonder why you use different icons for the site feed and the comments feed - and may I suggest using this standard feed icon in stead of the Silk feed-icon?

:-)

A small request, if possible, it would be great if there was an option to omitt the links you pick to show up in the horizontal menu (that are also ‘pages’) from the listing of the pages on the sidebar.

Also, for anyone wishing to put their link collections on a seperate Page go to http://redalt.com/ and look for the LINKSPAGE plugin. This works really nicely with this wonderful Tarski template.

B

El Desviado, are you talking about some sort of “the trackback URL for this post is …” display?”

Yes. Next to “comments feed for this article”, for example. Sorry for my english.

Lol. The last comment was an answer for ceejayoz. Sorry :)

Loving the new headers guys. Keep up the good work.

Thanks again for the theme, and your continued timely support. I know it’s been mentioned before, but Widgets please! And more standard out-of-the-box features. More tweaking options in dashboard would be nice too. Looking forward to the next update.

Widgets are coming in the next release.

We can’t add out-of-the-box features and tweaking options without knowing which ones people want, plus the theme hooks bit is intended for adding extra plugin support.

just a few i thought of, enable/disable/move “Subscribe to Feed”, option to add specific time info for posts, enable/disable feedbacks on pages, build in avatar for comments, enable/disable “Recent Posts” on bottom of page, ability to move search field, sizing options for width of blog/sidebar (i happen to use a 1080P monitor at 1920*1080 resolution), ability to change font/bold text, etc., you know, the kind of options that differentiate this theme from others. I think you are already at a great start. how many other themes give you options at all?

Ray, much of what you’re talking about - moving the feed link around, changing widths, fonts, etc. - is best handled via a custom stylesheet.

Avatars are best left to a plugin, particularly the Gravatars one you see here.

Page comments are getting added in for 1.2.

I’m running Tarski 1.1.1 and UTW 3.1 but i can’t get me a working tags page, i’m just receiving a nice 404… Any suggestions?

@ionfish: yes i did.

Woordenaar, if you haven’t already, try rebuilding your permalink rules at /wp-admin/options-permalink.php.

ALso, what is the page ID for the tags page listed at /wp-admin/edit-pages.php?

I tried rebuilding permalink rules, no succes. The page ID is 122. Pointing to http://boek.woordenaar.nl/?page_id=122 gives the right result, so it seems to be a permalink problem, not a Tarski problem. I can changed the postslug to ?page_id=122 and that works, but WP changes that to page_id=122 which is just a “normal” postslug. So I tried tag as postslug instead of tags and that works, but tagcloud or tag_cloud are creating 404 codes. Strange, but I can live with tag as postslug. Thank you guys for helping me so far.

Woordenaar, the different tag slugs working is intriguing. I’m wondering if a plugin you’ve installed has its own uses for those pages and thus has .htaccess rules that are interfering. Very strange…

@Ceejayoz: I only have UTW up and running, but looking at the .htaccess rules was not a bad idea. When upgrading to WP 2.0 I encountered some problems with UTW 2.8.9, the forum pointed to a solution by manually adding rewrite rules. That worked and these rules were still active, removing this rules is finaly giving the right result. Thanks again.

Just wanted to drop in to thank you for such a beautiful and functional theme! Most of the minimalistic themes I’ve seen are so bland, but now my search is over!

something really cool, maybe you guys could incorporate it into the next release, say for recent articles on the bottom of the page

http://asymptomatic.net/2006/04/13/2311/building-a-shelf-in-wordpress/

Well, a shelf is most useful for content that appears above the main page contents. The ‘Recent Articles’ section doesn’t appear above the main content, so it’s not particularly obtrusive.

The Foliage Mod theme has an example of a very nice shelf, and makes for a good comparison vs. Tarski for deciding when and when not to use the technique.

Thanks for this theme, I love it!

I’m using a slightly modified (as in graphically modified) version of it for my blog.

Widgets are coming in the next release.

That is absolutely awesome to hear. Being able to edit the contents of the sidebar in the content section as well as the bottom bar with the search function would be great. I currently have to resort to editing the source files (which I really don’t want to do), but knowing I can easily change back to my custom setup with the widget plugin would be great.

About the shelf idea: If you decide to include this, please make it as an option. I had a shelf myself, and I actually didn’t like it. I guess I am trying to aim for simpler things these days. I am trying to exclude as much javascript as possible on my website, and I consider the shelf a kinda frivolous thing thats only meant to be for looks and not for practical purposes. Tarski looks wonderful without a shelf, and in my humble opinion it would ruin the aurora around the Tarski theme: beautiful simplicity.

Please keep up the great work! This is one of the best themes I have enjoyed so far and I am currently tweaking it on my local server setup before putting it up live. Wonderful simplicity that works right out of the box. Thank you!

Still making minor adjustments to this great theme. There’s a couple of things I’d like to ask your advice on.

1) How could I go about adding a kind of tagline that would sit next to my main title: e.g. “DESPERATE CURIOSITY a blog about blah blah”

2) Right at the bottom in the ‘recent articles’ section I see some people of inserted other things in paralled that sit under the search bar. How is that done? Or is that really tricky?

Thanks so much for your time and effort guys.

AndrewE

I second the idea for adding the Tagline I have added it on my site but had to hard code it into the Header file because it was the only way to get it to display that I found. Having an option to add a Tagline would be incredible.

Love the theme keep up the excellent work.

Thanks

Righto, we’ll add in the tagline option.

AndrewE, adding things below the search bar and/or the recent articles bit is done via the various theme hooks.

Thanks ceejayoz, is there any quick fix for the tagline that I can use in the interim?

Could you guys add ThickBox in your next release….

http://codylindley.com/Javascript/257/thickbox-one-box-to-rule-them-all

It would be super cool….

aquazero, we won’t be adding that in to the next release, but it’d be easy for you to install the plugin linked in the comments…

Tarski is a great theme. Thanks.

I have a little problem here. If I enabled wp-cache, the reader’s comments can not show up immediately. I do not have this problem with the wp default theme. Is there a solution for this? I am a DH user, therefore, wp-cache is quite important for me.

zeal, you’ll need to contact the WP-Cache plugin author on that one. To my knowledge, it is a completely theme-independent plugin requiring no integration on our end.

I’d check, but his website seems to be down right now.

Thank you for Tarski! It’s clean and elegant, always the best kind of theme, IMHO.

I have a suggestion/request for a tweakable option - at the moment you have an option for only showing the sidebar on the front page. I am tempted by this because I do have a long-ish sidebar and so there is a lot of whitespace between the post and the comments, if the post is short. But it looks bare without a sidebar at all, and also reduces navigability. Would it be possible to take how you have the option of which sections to add to the sidebar, and do the same for the non-home page sidebar? Even if I could remove just the blogroll from my non-home page sidebar, it would reduce the whitespace considerably.

Thanks again.

Hello there!

I’m having a problem with the theme. Between the image and the title there’s a little space. I want to get rid of it, and have tried many ways but still no success.

Also for my site I wanted to do the header continuing into the body, you can see here http://douten.frozendelusion.net/ So what I did was did part of the picture as a bg for #navigation and the other part for #content but for some reason the bg on #content got cut short.

Thanks!

Hi, I’m using the tag cloud on my Tarski-powered blog and the ’search tags’ section works fine, but the ‘tag cloud’ part doesn’t work. When I click on a word in the tag cloud I get a 404 error saying ‘Not Found’. Does anyone know what the problem might be?

Thanks alot.

Thanks for the quick response ionfish, my .htaccess file is writable and I updated the permalink structure but the same thing is happening. I’m wondering if it isn’t something to do with the configuration of the ultimate tag plugin?

Thanks again. I tried changing the permalink structure but now it seems to have created an internal database error and I can’t switch back to the state before or access the admin interface…mmm this is rather worrying, I hope this doesn’t mean I’ll loose all my content. Any idea how to remedy this?

ionfish, apologies for that rather confused string of comments. After some tweaking and help from my host I got the tags working again. Thanks for your help and patience. And if I haven’t already said it, thanks for offering such an awesome WP theme to the community.

Just out of curiousity, why is there no previous page / next page links?

Thanks for the response. The reason I asked is because I started to notice a problem as I add more and more entries to my blog, I realized there was no easy way to page through it all.

I hope you have a chance to add it soon…lol.

I add this feature (previous/next page) myself to the template. Though it does not look good, it works.