It’s definately evolution rather than revolution with this release. After we launched 1.1 I started tweaking, playing around with various niggles that were bothering me about the theme. You can go through all the details in the changelog.
New Features
Martin kindly did another header for this release, Thought Wind.
We’ve added another variant style, skyline.css. It’s very much in the same vein as the other styles, but for the official styles and headers I want to create a sense of variations on a theme, rather than radically different looks (you can always make your own if you want to do something completely different, after all).
There’s now also an option to swap the columns, with the sidebar appearing on the right and the content on the left. All the other columnated sections—navigation, comments, the footer—swap over as well if you choose this option. You can find it under ‘Miscellaneous Options’ at the bottom of the Tarski Options page (Presentation > Tarski Options in the WP admin panel, as always).
Chris has also done some excellent work revising the navigation bar. It now gets its links from the list of top-level pages—and you can choose which ones you want to appear. This option too appears on the Tarski Options page. Another advantage of doing it like this is that the links are no longer hardcoded; if you don’t have URL rewriting enabled, or have a different set of page slugs to ours, the links will still find your pages.
This change to the navigation bar does require you to select your desired pages in the Tarski Options page—don’t panic if there’s suddenly only a “Home” link after updating!
Tweaks
None of the tweaks will change anything major about Tarski—they just add a level of polish which was previously missing. Feed links now find your correct feed addresses, rather than just linking to /feed/; titles that are longer than one line of text will space themselves properly; various bits of “under the hood” code have been cleaned up or streamlined.
Just one note: the page.php file is now redundant, so make sure you delete it when you upgrade Tarski.
If you use the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin, you’ll be glad to hear that Tarski now includes complete support for its features: we’ve added the option to activate the live tag search feature on the tags page. The plugin does a pretty terrible job of separating content and presentation from behaviour, so the way it operates and displays isn’t as elegant as I’d like. C’est la vie.
As always, post any bugs or problems you have in the comments. We really appreciate your response; it makes the job worthwhile.
Tags: 1.1.1, alternate styles, download, features, headers, tags, tweaks
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Trackback from ceejayoz.com on March 26, 2006 at 11:24 pm
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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.
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Yep, we forgot one line. Sorry!
Re-upload
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That did the trick. Thanks!
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Great!
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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?
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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. :-)
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Dale, your problem is that you’re using the 1.0.1 stylesheet, not the 1.1.1 one. You need to delete
style.cssfrom/tarski/and replace it with the version from the latest download. While you’re at it you should make sure that you’ve updated all your Tarski files to the latest version. -
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!!
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I’m going to tweak the image link handling for the next release. To get the effect you’re after, add this code to your stylesheet.
a img {
border: 1px solid #fff;
}
a:hover img {
border: 1px solid #a8001c;
}Replace the second colour code with whatever colour you prefer. If you want to reproduce a colour from the theme or one of the alternate styles, just look through the CSS until you find the right one.
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Thank you very much ionfish!!
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Do try and do it in a custom stylesheet, too, lest you lose your changes when we next upgrade. :-)
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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?
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You’ll have to try to copy the changes over as best you can. The changes to the stylesheet you can copy into a custom stylesheet fairly easily by following the instructions given in this post. The changes to the header file may be more difficult to do, depending on whether we’ve changed anything relating to the changes you’ve made. My suggestion would be to save a copy of your modified
header.phpand compare the code with the 1.1.1 version, then change things as appropriate. If the alterations are just inclusions, you could just use Tarski’s theme hooks to add them in, and they’ll be preserved across upgrades. -
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.
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I see. I suppose the sidebar option could kinda do what I want, not too much lost. Thanks for the reply.
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Are y’all looking into putting WP widgets in the next release?
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Indeed we are, assuming we can make the API do what we want it to do.
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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?
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Ah, I apologize! Problem Fixed!
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Chances are your problems are the same as Dale’s, and the fix will be the same: make sure you’re using the new stylesheet, as I moved the centering into
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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?
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opps, code didn’t show up last time
[?php nr_get_movie(); ?]
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Ray, there’s a link to a tutorial on integrating plugins at the top of the theme hooks page. You’ll be wanting the
$sidebarTopIncludehook.We don’t allow PHP in the Options page as it would be a security risk.
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very cool, working perfectly now, thx for the timely reply
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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.
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Becky, you’re in luck!
Change line #4 in
index.phpfrom:< ?php if(is_single()) { comments_template(); } ?>to:
< ?php if(is_single() || is_page()) { comments_template(); } ?>That should work!
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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
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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!
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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?
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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
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Can somebody help me out? For some reason my sidebar ends up under my post. Is it because of the picture?
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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.
Pages
Not sure why you’ve got
post-contentdivs and that center paragraph in there. If you’re using the -
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.
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Looks good, and I’m glad to see you using the custom theme option. :-p
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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?
:-)
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The feed icons were chosen purely for aesthetic purposes. Mark James has updated the Silk icons to fit the standard; the reason I’ve not changed them is that I prefer these ones. It’s that simple. You can, of course, change the icons yourself; just make sure you don’t overwrite them if you ever upgrade. The reason the site feed and comments feed icons are different is to disambiguate them.
The titles for links in the navigation bar are missing because we don’t know what links people will put there; it would be rather presumptious of us to give titles to possible links, especially since people of such a variety of languages and interests are using the theme.
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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
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We’re putting a links page in the next release. We’ll definately take your request with regards to pages into consideration. :)
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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.
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Lol. The last comment was an answer for ceejayoz. Sorry :)
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Looks like it’s your HTML you need to worry about, not your English. I’ve fixed it for you…
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Loving the new headers guys. Keep up the good work.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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