As promised, here’s the new version. The changelog has all the details. My major aim with this theme was to smooth out the widget implementation slightly, add a couple of options people had requested, and improve the look and feel of the them.
New Features
We’ve expanded your options again with a new header, the imaginatively-titled Spots. If you go to the Tarski Options page and scroll down to the Miscellaneous Options, you’ll see the option to display your site’s tagline or description below the title.
If you don’t have a site description, don’t worry, there won’t be a huge and annoying gap between header and navigation.
Tweaks
This is mostly pretty dull stuff: some minor adjustments, rewriting a bit of CSS for the widgets plugin and whatnot.
The most obvious thing is probably the reworked Asides; I think they’re a lot more elegant like this, and these are fewer lines breaking up the flow of the page, which is how I originally envisioned things.
I’m going to do a more major rewrite of the code for the next major version, including a standardisation of the code for content areas and columns. This means two things in practice: some of your alternate styles will need rewriting, but it should be much easier to write them in future.
Tarski has a fair bit of legacy code and is much like a city that has had new buildings plonked down on old streets—it’s not broken as such, but future town planning will be a lot easier once we rip out some old foundations.
Keep an eye on the roadmap for the lowdown on the changes as I start to work on them.
Tags: 1.1.3, download, features, release, tagline, tweaks, widgets
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Pingback from ionfish · The Nesting Instinct on May 23, 2006 at 9:29 pm
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Pingback from ceejayoz.com · Tarski 1.1.3 on May 23, 2006 at 9:38 pm
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I am already using version 1.1.2. What do I need to do to upgrade from 1.1.2 to 1.1.3?
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Just upload the new files over the old ones and you should be all set (assuming you’ve followed our suggestions and not edited
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Thank you for this theme. Although I’m a new blogger, I have tested several good themes, including K2. Tarski fits the bill for me.
Thanks again.
Grampy
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Our pleasure, glad you like it. :-)
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Thanks – I uploaded the new files over the old ones and it seems to be working fine!
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Pingback from [MazBlog] · Tarski · 1.1.3 Release on May 24, 2006 at 7:59 am
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Pingback from Weblog Tools Collection » WP Theme: Tarski on May 24, 2006 at 12:35 pm
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Great theme! Is it possible to move the sidebar on the right?
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Titanas, yes, it’s right there as an option in the Tarski Options pane in the Presentation tab of your WordPress administration interface.
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Thanks! :-)
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How can I add UTW’s related posts function so that it can show up in single view?
Why single view is not broken down to single.php? I see some themes do that and it ease the work of editing.
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We don’t break it down into
single.phpbecause it winds up being tidier that way – if we used a separate file for the single post template, we’d need to change things in both files instead of just one. Having it all inloop.phpmeans you can edit just the one file and have every post and page reflect that change.Try adding
UTW_ShowRelatedPostsForCurrentPost("posthtmllist")somewhere around line #84 inloop.php. It works on my test site. -
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I have done as u said but still show on homepage only.Plz show me how to do and where is yr test page? I wana have a look.
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Why my code got cut down and left a little bit only?
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WordPress does that to code-containing comments a lot, unfortunately. It probably didn’t like the PHP tags.
Try adding it at line #64, as well.
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I tried again, if I add at line 64, the post content will go blank!
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Works just fine here.
Anyways, I just went ahead and made it into a plugin.
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I gotta tell ya, this is one masterpiece of a theme! I am moving my site off of a CMS to WordPress, and just couldn’t find a theme that worked for our way of doing things… until I stumbled across Tarski. Clean, flexible and user friendly. I was prepared to slug it out customizing some other theme, but with Tarski I can have a good looking, easy to use package while I learn the WordPress code style. Kudos to you guys and your philosophy!!
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I just download yr plugin! It works well! Better than I make my hand dirty!
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It seems like when using the Links widget the title dosen’ match the rest of the side bar titles.
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That would be why we released our own links widget – see our documentation regarding widgets.
The default links widget is piss-poor.
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Thanks, I got it working now.
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What is the header thumb used for?
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The header thumb is used for the Tarski Options page, in the header selection.
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If i wana add Post View Count below the title, after author, how should I edit the constants.php?
I never saw the languange in constants.php before, I used to see php only.
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Pingback from aNieto2K » Article » Tarski theme on May 26, 2006 at 5:50 pm
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constants.phpdoesn’t have a theme hook for every spot in the theme, just the most common ones. After the author is not one of them, you’ll need to edit the theme files for that, unfortunately. -
Very nice Theme. Thanks for that…
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Hi. Great theme. I really love using and seeing the new improvements you guys are making.
I have one question. I’m trying to implement Asides in the sidebar and take them out of the main loop. I can’t figure out how to do this in the existing loop.php code.
There are instructions up at WordPress, but they only apply if you aren’t using the integrated Asides coding. I can get the Asides working in the sidebar, but they still remain in the main loop.
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I’d like to know the answer to Cat’s question myself.
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Hi, I love the theme.
I’m new to WordPress and quite a noob. I was wondering how I can get rid of the Register navigation link at the top. Thanks!
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Ed: the ‘Register’ link should only turn up when you have registration enabled. To disable registration, go into the WP admin panel and click on the ‘Options’ tab. Scroll down to ‘Membership’ (under the ‘General’ tab) and untick the “Anyone can register” option.
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Nice theme, when will it be compatiable with Canvas?
When I try to admin Canvas it says the current theme (version 1.1.3) is incompatible with Canvas.
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One question: Today when i wana trackback one of my post I didn’t see the trackback URL shown, where is it?
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Cat, Allyn – I’ll experiment and see what the exact lines are. Basically, you’ll want to make Tarski skip over all the
the_postcode inloop.phpif the post is in the asides category.jimmyb – I haven’t had a chance to look into the Canvas integration required. It’s on our to-do list.
紫雨~网上创业教战手册, the trackback URL is the URL of the post with
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How can i make it shown? Bcoz those who r not familiar with wp might have a problem when trackback.
Anyway, what’s the difference between trackback and pingback?
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According to this, “Pingbacks are considered more secure than trackbacks as they automatically verify the existance of the pinging site.”
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This is great! I stumbled upon this theme today and love it. It’s by far the best in my opinion. Clean and customizable.
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Thanks for the previous comment. Now I have one more problem I’m hoping I could get some help with.
I’m having some problems with the commenting and I’m not sure if it’s because of the theme or something else. Certainly it’s developed since installing the theme.
The problem is that the comments aren’t matching up with the correct post. Instead it’s being associated with an earlier post.
I’ve done some searching on WordPress Support and I’ve installed Spam Karma but that hasn’t helped. Anything suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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Thank you for being available to answer questions about Tarski.
I have two questions (actually the first has two parts, so maybe I have three ;)):
1)Is there a reason you didn’t include the option: “Show Categories” in your sidebar options menu?
Would it be hard to add Categories to my sidebar? (I don’t have the widgets plug-in – I didn’t upload it because the WordPress instructions about where the files need to go were too confusing)
2) Why doesn’t my archives page look like yours on this site? Mine doesn’t list every post, whereas yours does.
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Ed, my guess is that you’ve got a plugin that is interfering. Can you list off the plugins you’re using?
Helen, uploading the Widgets plugin is quite simple. Just create a folder called
widgetsin your WordPress plugins directory (wp-content/plugins) and upload everything into it except the “classic” and “default” folders (they’re modified files for the two default WordPress themes, which you won’t be needing).Our archives page uses the Clean Archives plugin on our Recommended Plugins list.
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I really like the concept of widgets … but I have a problem with the del.icio.us widget. So maybe this is the wrong place to ask. But in case it is a theme issue: I can’t get any links to show up in the sidebar – only the headline with a link to my del.icio.us page. I have set up the widget to show 10 links. If it’s not your business, sorry for asking …
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I really like this theme – 2 questions:
1. How do I change the default feed chicklet code to Feedburner code?
2. Is there a way of getting a background to the site outside the boundaries of the blog. At the moment, the site looks as though it ‘hangs on the air?’Thanks
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Thanks ceejayoz. I didn’t realize that you were using a plug-in for your archives layout! I uploaded Clean Archives and activated it and it’s working fine.
I also uploaded the widgets plug-in, but haven’t played with it yet.
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Another thing – how did you get the Tag page looking the way it does?
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I’m using the following plugins:
Admin Menu
Akismet
Drop Down Archive
Fresh Comments
Get Weather
Linkblock
Spam Karma 2
WPG2
Sidebar WidgetWhen I deactivate the Sidebar Widget, the comments work fine again. Of course, that’s not exactly the solution I’m looking for.
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Also, the comments work again when I change the theme…but again, that’s not the solution I’m looking for ;)
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