Upstart Blogger Minim Updated to 0.5

Another update to my WordPress theme, Upstart Blogger Minim.

After several users reported problems with IE, I went through the files and found a number of missing and misplaced tags. Safari, it seems, is much more forgiving about this than IE, so I didn’t notice. (I’m not as rigorous in my testing of IE because I’m on a Mac and run Windows in VirtualPC, which as anyone familiar with it knows, is painfully slow to use). I also did a little miscellaneous cleaning (e.g., removing some extra lines at the bottom of files, which may cause some feed problems).

If you have an earlier version installed and you’ve thoroughly tested all of your pages after making any modifications you’ve made, you’re probably all right. If you’re having problems but don’t want to overwrite your existing changes, just check the opening tags and the bottom of each *.php file and see if there are changes (e.g., such as moving or adding a closing div tag).

My apologies for these niggling problems. I’ll try to test more in IE in the future. Thanks!

Categories : Themes, WordPress, Wordpress Theme

9 Comments For This Post

  1. Ralph May 2nd, 2007 at 1:54 pm

    i went through the code of 0.4 and completely prepped the theme for easy localization in different languages. If you’re interested in merging my code feel free to drop me a line…

  2. Robert Ellis May 2nd, 2007 at 1:56 pm

    Thanks very much, Ralph. I’m interested, though it probably won’t happen soon. I’ll email you directly. Thanks again for your help.

  3. Malte May 7th, 2007 at 1:52 pm

    Hi,
    i´ve got a problem with this template: The entries get cut off when they become too long. Perhaps you can tell me, where to change this?
    Thank you very much, I fell in love this template!

  4. Robert Ellis May 7th, 2007 at 1:55 pm

    Malte, the template displays excerpts on the main page. You can change this by opening index.php and changing this line:

    < ?php the_excerpt(); ?>

    to this:

    < ?php the_content(); ?>

    Let me know if that isn’t what you wanted.

  5. Manu May 9th, 2007 at 11:06 am

    Best theme I have come across in a long long time.

    Can I shift the sidebar to the right? How? Sorry, I am not too much of coder so dunno how to.

  6. Robert Ellis May 9th, 2007 at 12:19 pm

    Manu, you can easily swap the sidebar from one side to another. Just open the style.css file and change the floats on #sidebar and #entries, so they look like this:

    #sidebar {
    width: 336px;
    float: right;
    font-size: .8em;
    line-height: 1.4em;
    padding: 0 10px 25px 0;
    }

    and…

    #entries {
    width: 468px;
    float: left;
    }

  7. Manu May 9th, 2007 at 9:21 pm

    Thanks Robert.

  8. Malte May 10th, 2007 at 5:13 am

    That was exactly what i wanted! Thanks again.

  9. Robert Ellis May 10th, 2007 at 5:14 am

    You’re welcome!

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