http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:26:07 +0000 http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/child-theme-and-commercial-usage#post-25195 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:51:23 +0000 Jagst3r15 25195@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Well that is true, but 50 dollars for one theme is a lot in my opinion. Regardless, this project will be an epic struggle for me since I am not completely literate in php yet! :P I will probably just let people use it for free since my theme will not be the greatest... </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/child-theme-and-commercial-usage#post-25194 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:00:59 +0000 helgatheviking 25194@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>it isn't really ridiculous when you start to think about all the time and effort that goes into a making and supporting a theme.... as you will soon see. we've just been really spoiled w/ all the great stuff that is available for free. what other industry gives so much away? </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/child-theme-and-commercial-usage#post-25191 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:45:59 +0000 Jagst3r15 25191@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I am going to build a thematic child theme based on the wordpress.org/com layout. I'm going to charge like 15 dollars for it, but it will be a great theme! It is ridiculous that like the Shade Pro Theme is like 50 bux.</p> <p>Visit Jagst3r15.com for a working example. I of course am going to credit Thematic for being a great open source framework! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/child-theme-and-commercial-usage#post-25163 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:55:58 +0000 bigdanprice 25163@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I use my child themes commercially but I always include a tip of the hat to thematic, and try to give back to the community where I can! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/child-theme-and-commercial-usage#post-25146 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:55:20 +0000 helgatheviking 25146@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>thematic is totally GPL, so you can do w/ it what you will. so while i am not a lawyer, i think it is completely fine. Autofocus is a good example of a premium child theme. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/child-theme-and-commercial-usage#post-25144 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:22:35 +0000 Jagst3r15 25144@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi there, so I am a web developer who knows quite a bit, but am just getting into WordPress development. With that being said, I have no idea about the legality of selling themes and whatnot. If I create a child theme with Thematic, am I aloud to sell the Child Theme via a place like ThemeForest or something?</p> <p>Thanks in advance! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/child-custom-template-not-in-template-list#post-25108 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:56:50 +0000 helgatheviking 25108@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>is your child theme the active theme? </p> <p>no reason the template won't show up in your available list unless it is 1. not in your child theme folder or 2 does not have the following at the top</p> <pre><code>/** * Template Name: Your custom template name */</code></pre> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/child-custom-template-not-in-template-list#post-25104 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:44:52 +0000 Itchybrain 25104@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Gday Themeshaper forum</p> <p>I have created a site using Thematic with a child theme. </p> <p>I made a custom template but it does not show in the available templates list. </p> <p>It is available in the list when put in the thematic parent directory, but is not available when moved into the child directory. </p> <p>Does anyone have any solutions for this?</p> <p>Thanks for any help you can provide. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/no-comments-input-in-child-theme#post-24990 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:26:44 +0000 helgatheviking 24990@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>facepalm!! don't worry, it happens to us all. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/no-comments-input-in-child-theme#post-24987 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:43:48 +0000 jack032 24987@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi Gene,</p> <p>Thank you so very much. I have Firebug but i neglected to find the issue. I feel a bit of a dufus.</p> <p>Again, thank you x10!</p> <p>- Jack </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/no-comments-input-in-child-theme#post-24976 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:00:06 +0000 em hr 24976@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi Jack,</p> <p>Look at line 578 in your child theme's style.css</p> <p>#comments { display:none }</p> <p>Try firefox with firebug. It helps with css debugging.</p> <p>-Gene </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/no-comments-input-in-child-theme#post-24974 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:26:42 +0000 jack032 24974@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi all,</p> <p>I have a child theme I've developed but I can't get the comment form to show up on a blog post. It works fine when I switch the theme to Thematic 0.9.7 which the child theme is based on.</p> <p>I'm using Wordpress 3.3.1</p> <p>The post comments, trackbacks and pingbacks are enable.</p> <p>Here's the link to the child themed site:<br /> <a href="http://www.mauisbestmassage.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.mauisbestmassage.com</a></p> <p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p> <p>- Jack </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/how-to-move-page-menu-from-access-to-new-div-above-header#post-24669 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:12:21 +0000 TyeNewton 24669@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Ahah! So the bluemandala diagram perhaps just missed some hooks? (Or maybe it was created for a previous version of Thematic; I'm still brand new to the scene.)</p> <p>In any case, thanks so much, Helga; you are wildly helpful all over this forum, and to me specifically.</p> <p>I just found your link to WPCandy's introduction to hooks, so hopefully I'll figure the rest out without asking any more questions. Wish me luck! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/how-to-move-page-menu-from-access-to-new-div-above-header#post-24664 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:02:55 +0000 helgatheviking 24664@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>@tye - check out <a href="http://visualizing.thematic4you.com/" rel="nofollow">http://visualizing.thematic4you.com/</a> thematic_abovecontainer() and thematic_abovecontent() are both inside of #main </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/how-to-move-page-menu-from-access-to-new-div-above-header#post-24653 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:06:58 +0000 TyeNewton 24653@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Oh my gosh... is there any way to move #access into #main (above the content and asides) so it can appear on top of the background image of #main? I've been examining the bluemandala diagram, and there don't appear to be any action hooks within #main except for those just in the asides column.(?)</p> <p>By the way, this will be my first attempt at utilizing an action hook, so if I end up saying something silly, that'll be why. ; ) </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/question-about-removing-code-from-header#post-24580 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:18:36 +0000 elizabethr4 24580@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Follow up questions (and I will mark this resolved):<br /> What is the advantage of doing those sorts of changes (different html for a second header file) through the functions.php file over just writing the html in the header file?</p> <p>And second, where does the html mark up go? In the code in the functions.php file? I know of many changes that can be made through CSS, but if there's a paragraph of live text, with a link, into which file does that code go?</p> <p>Thanks, just trying to understand more about Thematic overall! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/question-about-removing-code-from-header#post-24579 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:13:44 +0000 elizabethr4 24579@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for taking a look! </p> <p>That was my dilema - should it be done through functions.php - but I was unsure of how to specify/differentiate the two page templates with the two headers (page.php with header.php and page-template-home.php with header-home.php) in the code in the functions file. Seemed a little over my head, so I took the "easy" way out. Just wanted to make sure that cutting a little PHP:<br /> <pre><code>thematic_header();</code></pre> <p>wouldn't cause an issue later. </p> <p>Next time, I'll try to learn more about using functions.php! Thanks! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/question-about-removing-code-from-header#post-24567 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:48:45 +0000 ScottNix 24567@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Nice job on getting the sites to match up.</p> <p>It looks like you moved the #access menu outside the header which is smart. That would of been the one thing I would have suggested, but you already took care of that.</p> <p>Really there are no issues you have to worry about. There are other ways to do it where you could do it all through your functions.php file, but in this case I can't think of a reason to do that if you already have it working correctly. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/question-about-removing-code-from-header#post-24565 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:06:00 +0000 elizabethr4 24565@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Sorry, I don't have backticks on my keyboard - the code is supposed to be highlighted. Thanks! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/question-about-removing-code-from-header#post-24564 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:05:18 +0000 elizabethr4 24564@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi all,<br /> I'm new to Thematic, but so far doing okay at making a static site (http://www.buunnicoffee.com/) into a Wordpress site: <a href="http://buunnicoffee.com/testing2/" rel="nofollow">http://buunnicoffee.com/testing2/</a></p> <p>I have two different headers, one for the home page (header-home.php) and one for the subpages (header.php). I successfully implemented this, and it's actually working as I want it to (yay!) but I took out a bit of code from the header file and I don't know if it will mess me up later.</p> <p>Basically, I couldn't understand how/where to add my desired html (not just images, but live text too) into my new header-home.php file in my child theme. I didn't know how to differentiate the two headers in the functions file, if necessary. Anyway, so I just thought, let me just add my html and see what happens - and it worked!</p> <p>BUT - I took out the following from my new header file:</p> <p>&lt;div id="header"&gt;</p> <p> &lt;?php </p> <p> // action hook creating the theme header<br /> thematic_header();</p> <p> ?&gt;</p> <p> &lt;/div&gt;</p> <p>And put in:</p> <p>&lt;div id="header2"&gt;<br /> all my html code<br /> &lt;/div&gt;</p> <p>As I said, it's working fine - but is taking out that bit of php going to cause me a problem later? </p> <p>I didn't want it to get the other header, but maybe there's something that should go in the functions.php file for this template page where the second header is called?</p> <p>Any insight would be greatly appreciated! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/child-theme-mysteriously-disappeared-from-available-themes#post-24333 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:32:59 +0000 TyeNewton 24333@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Nice, thanks Scott. It makes a lot of sense for this to exist, but I hadn't actually explored it yet! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/child-theme-mysteriously-disappeared-from-available-themes#post-24332 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:18:11 +0000 ScottNix 24332@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>You mentioned you just lost some test content. You may already know, but WordPress has test content you can load that produces a ton of different scenarios. </p> <p><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test</a></p> <p>Helps a ton when making themes, I just mention it because it took me a while to realize how helpful it is when making a theme. ;) </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/child-theme-mysteriously-disappeared-from-available-themes#post-24331 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:07:31 +0000 TyeNewton 24331@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I remembered just as I went to sleep last night, and put it on my agenda; thanks again Helga. : ) </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/child-theme-mysteriously-disappeared-from-available-themes#post-24330 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:41:32 +0000 helgatheviking 24330@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>palm, meet face. don't forget to mark as resolved. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/child-theme-mysteriously-disappeared-from-available-themes#post-24329 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:07:43 +0000 TyeNewton 24329@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>KILLS ME! Thanks Scott... I just have absolutely no idea when I would have accidentally removed that (because it must have been there originally for it to have ever worked...right??) I do not remember ever touching that comment section.</p> <p>Thanks again for chiming in, as well, Helga.</p> <p>I'll keep trying these backup plugins, too. I've never had any intention of proceeding without regular backups; I just hadn't found success with one yet. (Please let me know if there's any reason to believe that working locally should break the backup process; this would be important news.)</p> <p>Back in business; thanks again! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/child-theme-mysteriously-disappeared-from-available-themes#post-24327 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:11:53 +0000 ScottNix 24327@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>In your CSS file, you are just missing "Template: thematic".</p> <p>For reference, <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes#The_required_style.css_file" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes#The_required_style.css_file</a> </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/child-theme-mysteriously-disappeared-from-available-themes#post-24326 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:37:40 +0000 helgatheviking 24326@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>i'm a fan of WP-db manager myself. but whatever you use, backing up is super important.</p> <p>can you install other themes? </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/child-theme-mysteriously-disappeared-from-available-themes#post-24325 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:17:10 +0000 TyeNewton 24325@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hey Scott! Alright, I'll send you what I've got... I must admit though, as a designer, it's a little embarrassing to expose this work-in-progress to someone, especially because I'm just tinkering around, and following tutorials and guides, in order to teach myself WP development. You'll probably find my CSS to be very messy (and I wouldn't mind you letting me know, if so.) The layout is so incredibly unfinished; it's just a giant experiment. (Then again, I don't even know if you'll be looking at that.)</p> <p>Anyway, I appreciate you taking a look Scott, thanks!</p> <p>Backing up: You know, I had previously tried a couple different WP backup plugins (trying to solve a previous issue), and I think that might have been one of them... Perhaps not though; I'll look into it. I'm beginning to wonder if there is a compatibility issue with the backup processes these plugins use and the way I have WP setup locally (using MAMP I mean). Does that seem at all plausible? Unfortunately, I know so very little about databases. I suppose I may just be making some silly mistake.</p> <p>I didn't actually lose a heck of a lot, because I had only done some test posting so far... but I did intend to keep the posts, so it's a little unfortunate. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/child-theme-mysteriously-disappeared-from-available-themes#post-24317 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:52:01 +0000 ScottNix 24317@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>That is also a bummer you lost your database content, get "WordPress Database Backup" and set it up to email yourself a copy of the database every week. I know, a little late but for anyone reading this, it is a must. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/child-theme-mysteriously-disappeared-from-available-themes#post-24316 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:48:16 +0000 ScottNix 24316@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Send me your child theme scott[at]scottnix.com, I am curious and want to test it. ;) </p>