Fauna Beta 4
I had previously warned that I’d make a Beta 3.1 release, but it has become more than just that. Beta 4 is my favourite Fauna release so far. It fixes some nasty bugs, and, if I may say so myself, adds some features that blow away the previous releases.
Note: It might be a good idea to copy your options to notepad, then delete all options and insert them again!
Update: Made a one line CSS change to style.css: .entry-date { overflow: hidden !important }; to fix a bug I had introduced.
Update: It has come to my attention that a bug has been introduced in Beta 4 which, unfortunately, breaks the functionality of “previous entries”. I’ll look at this tonight.
Update: Fixed problem with “previous entries”. Only the index.php file has been updated. More on this.
Among the biggest changes are:
- Ozh has made a workaround to a bug in Wordpress!
When storing options in plugin option pages or theme option pages, Wordpress would sometimes “cache” a previous option making it look as though the change you just did wasn’t stored. No more. Now the response is immediate! - Ozh added “default options” to his themetoolkit
That means Fauna now populates the options page with the default options. This makes it easier for you to see what’ll happen when you change those options. - Option to use your custom stylesheet
This is by default populated withfauna-default.css, which is a stylesheet that contains all the colors, fonts and “style” of Fauna. Want to customize the look but you hate me for updating the code all the time? Well, make a copy offauna-default.css, change it to your taste, and you no longer have to touch any of the core files. - Code cleanups and optimizations
I really believe and hope this’ll be the last time I make large changes to a lot of the core files. - New options
Background color, background image, header height works better, etc. etc.
Be sure to view the full changelog.
Seems to be shaping up very nicely!
I think I’ll use (some) of it for my next iteration. (If you’re wondering the current one is based on Kubrik)
Nice work mate, I’ve got a bit of work ahead of me to update my Fauna installs (especially my customised ones!).
Thanks again!
Looks like I better update when I get home then. ;)
Thank ya for your efforts, it is excellent to see themes with such class around.
Nice work.
best theme so far - great
My only question is when it comes to Final release?
:P
Sorry to ask here, but I’m sure you noticed that the link for the “Previous Entries” at the bottom of the blog page is broken. You get to blog/page/2/ but the same content as before is shown.
Have you any workarounds for that or a fix?
wyh said:
Before my noscope.com redesign.
Simon Z. said:
ARGH
Damn! It’s no doubt a side-effect of me using “query_posts” in the index page to allow both asides and sidenotes! Gah… I’ll have to look into that when I get home. Damn.
Joen said:
Hope you get Simon Z. bug-report fixed, because I just found out myself.
BTW, the quote-feature (which I am using right now) doesn’t work in IE. I have a fix if you want it.
GerardHenninger said:
I would very much like such a fix, yes please thanks.
Then, after you redesigned your site, can you release your flash header app. out? It’s so amazing…
wyh said:
Yep, I will.
The problem with “Previous Entries” not working has been fixed.
In the file
index.phpI changed the line,query_posts('cat=-'. $sidenotes_cat);to
query_posts('cat=-'. $sidenotes_cat.'&paged='.$paged);This fixed the problem.
Feel free to edit this yourself, or download the beta 4 package again.
Joen said:
Joen said:
I opened a discussion on the forum for this : http://www.noscope.com/fauna/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=54&page=1#Item_1
Hope it helps.
great thanks, Joen!
So that i can post my own photo flash show later…
Thanks for the page FIX!
This is more a bugreport than a comment but here it goes:
Above the trackbacks you’ve got …but seeing as how the h2 for the comments has the id ‘comments’ too, you’re pointing to that anyway when you stick #comments behind the url.
Any reason for it to be in?
James AkaXakA said:
Really good point. I’ll look into that.
I love Fauna 4. This is really shaping up to be one of those major Wordpress themes that everyone is going to say, “If you get Wordpress, and you want a cool theme, you need Fauna.”
I’m using it on my portfolio page.
It seems that Fauna breaks somehow Wp-ShortStat logging. Since I installed the theme, I don’t get any new statistics recorded. Any pointers, please?
m!les said:
Glad you like it. Your customization looks great. That options page is really turning out to be a good idea.
Bliss said:
I have no idea why that is. Try deactivating and activating the plugin again maybe? If the problem persists, let me know and I’ll contact the wp shortstats author.
Joen,
Thanks for the reply. Actually deactivating and reactivating the plugin was the first thing I did. :)
Bliss said:
I use ShortStat too and it works fine here.
Try disabling all your other plugins and see if that helps.
ouch. this update was so different from the beta 2 that i was running that i’ve lost pretty much all hope of configuring this to look like my last installation did. huge changes, especially with all of the css being swapped around. my beta 2 custom css settings are null and void now that these global css classes have been moved into the main styles.css file. i guess that’s beta though, i should have expected. luckily i named the installation folders according to their beta version and was able to easily revert back to beta 2. anyway, thanks for the growing attention to the fauna theme, your updates and integrations never cease to amaze.
digitaljhelms,
Sorry about that. The problem is, to fix the bugs present and move the theme closer to final, I had to do those changes. Trust me, they weren’t easy to do, and I knew when doing them that people like you would be annoyed. So sorry about that.
On the opside, Beta 4 should be so close to final that any future changes shouldn’t mess with the layout in the same way that beta 2 - 4 did. Additionally, I’ve made it easier to add your custom stylesheet while keeping “the core clean”. Quite simply, the options page now lists fauna-default.css as the default stylesheet. This is the stylesheet that contains all fonts, colors, images and backgrounds. In other words, you could make a copy of that file, rename it “mystyle.css” and type it in to the options page.
I really believe and hope that from this release and on to the RCs (which I believe will be next), it’ll be smoother sailing.
In need of some help - in machines running IE the sidebar is all the way under the content. With Firefire it’s fine.
any suggestions?
http://www.justinandmattshow.com
Evan said:
I’m thinking it might be the “Live Chat” box that’s wider than what the sidebar allows, hence pushing it below. Could you try commenting it out just temporarily to see if that’s the problem? If it is, you probably need to make the textfield less wide.
Fauna is a great theme. I applying immediately for my blog. But I get some bug of Fauna. When people leave comment by double-byte word, it’s will be displayed as instead character.
What can I do to make double-byte comment display correct?
below is testing word by Chinese, it’s mean “test”
測試
The url of comment bug demo site:
=Note=
After I submit the comment. I found the Chinese word is display correct here, but still replaced like this “測試” when I edit this comment.
GerardHenninger said:
ShortStat is the only plugin apart from the ones packaged with Wordpress. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling/reactivating, nothing works. It stopped ‘recording’ when I moved to Fauna. But I really like this theme. :(
Libraene said:
Very strange.
Does this happen ONLY when you are using the Fauna theme? Or does it also happen with the default theme?
It sounds like it could also be a problem with a plugin.
Bliss said:
Sorry for asking you stupid questions like this, but does the shortstats plugin “start recording” again when you activate the default theme?
I’m starting to think that shortstats attaches itself to it might be some Wordpress header or footer function call that I’ve somehow missed.
Joen said:
Hello, Joen:
It’s really only happened with Fauna. I have using many other themes like Squible, K2 etc. but nothing incorrect with comment by them.
In my previous comment here, the bug of double-byte word display error was proven by shortly test.
And I don’t use any plug-in related with comment function, even GRAVATER.
At right now, I still debuging but don’t get any idea to resolve. Please help me to shoot this little bug.
Libraene,
I do want to fix this bug. Recently a lot of people have mentioned some things working strangely with Fauna, and I have an idea what it might be.
Soon, I will go over the default theme and compare Fauna to it, line by line, to see if there’s some essential function call I’ve missed.
Hopefully that’ll settle things.
Thank you, Joen. You are really a kindly author. Thank you for your attention again.
Bliss,
I’m going over the code today, and I’ve noticed one thing I’d like you to test.
Try moving the line, wp_head(); from line 23 to line 95. Thanks.
Also, try replacing
do_action(’wp_footer’);
with
wp_footer();
in footer.php
hi,Joen
I have a question
when i click ?Quote?, and it does not copy the contents of clicked comment to the commentbox
i don’t know why,or i make the wrong parameter?
thanks very much
sopher,
Are you using Internet Explorer ?
In beta 4 there’s a bug where it won’t copy the contents if you’re using IE. I hope to have this fixed in Beta 5.
@Bliss :
Try this instead of shortstat. Should work and is even better : http://wettone.com/code/slimstat
@sopher :
http://www.noscope.com/fauna/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=54&page=1#Item_1
Joen said:
Yes i’m using IE usually,
and I try FF,it seems better _
Gerard said:
Thanks very much,Gerard
but there is someting wrong when I used IE
hi,Joen
i have another question now.
in .php file of your theme,i find many “function_exists()”,and i know few about function names,such as “function_exists(’show_lpt’)”
would you like list a function list ,or plug-in list, which is used in Fauna.
Thanks very much
Just a suggestion _
Sopher,
There’s only one plugin that’s INCLUDED in Fauna, and that’s “Get Custom Fields” by coffee2code.com.
However, quite a few plugins are supported, and that’s why you see those “function_exists” calls.
There is a list of supported plugins in the Fauna features page.
great thanks, Joen!
Thanks a lot for the suggestion Gerard, it works like a charm. Kudos!
Hi, Joen
thank you for your great theme, im my opinion the best one for WP.
I just want to ask you something about “http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/”.
I’d like to use it, but it doesn’t work with Fauna Beta 4.
Could you help me?
Thanks a lot Joen.
Thanks Giorgio,
As for the audio player, in order to help you, I need to know “how” it’s not working… you install the plugin, write the syntax and what then happens?
Joen,
you can see the result on http://www.alicefranco.com.
It works fine with IE but doesn’t work with Firefox.
Hmmmmm! That’s strange indeed. It actually does work, but only if you use TAB to tab on to the flash play button. For some reason Firefox moves the actual button hit area to the top left corner (try right clicking).
This COULD mean bigger problems down the road, so could you do me a favor and find this:
.box::after, .box-blank::after { /* Auto clearing float for Moz */ content: "."; display: block; height: 0; clear: both; visibility: hidden; }in your beta 4 stylesheet (style.css) and removing it? Please let me know if it solves the problem.
Joen said:
I did what you told me, but it doesn’t work …
Sorry, but now I have to work, I will come back this evening, after 9 PM.
Have a nice day, Joen.
Can you make the AJAX-comments ? i think we are all like it .
HidE said:
Well, no, in their current form they will not become part of the “core” of Fauna. The issue at hand is speed and stability. In the various test environments I have tried AJAX comments, comments were slow to post and sometimes didn’t appear at all. I’m suspecting this is related to a) the way Wordpress handles comments, b) anti spam plugins which are necessary, c) the fact that the Wordpress core is not built to handle AJAX comments.
I have no problem with AJAX commenting systems per se… for instance, the digg.com commenting system which uses AJAX is very cool, and works very well.
I see two solutions to this:
Giorgio said:
I have fixed this problem.
Simply remove
pre, code, blockquote, #commentlist p, .post p {
overflow: auto;
}
from style.css
Joen said:
Thanks Joen, all my gratitude for your attention.
Question: How do you make the banner (masthead_frost image) size the same size as the one shown on this site? Any steps on how I can do this? Thanks.
San said:
Just go to your Options page (Presentation > Current Theme Options), and set the header height to 100.
Joen,
Looking forward to get your FLASH APP…
;-)
Libraene said:
May be that’s your question. Chinese character works fine in my site:P
You can check it out at this URL:www itsmylife.cn
Just letting you know I am happily back in business with Fauna. Thanks for your interest in my problem via the forum. I’m pretty sure it developed from playing with toys I don’t understand.
I’m currently using this theme for my store blog and love it! Thanks for making this available.
I was wondering though, how can I get rid of the top part where it says the name? (like on this site it says fauna) It links to the same place as the blog link does. I can only get to go away if I remove the blog name, but then that messes with the tagline and feed. Any suggestions?
yahaira said:
Hi Yahaira,
Try editing the file called
fauna-default.cssand add this code:h1 { display: none; }Good luck, and let me know if it works.
Dear Joen,
Today I released a port of your wonderfull fauna-theme for Pivot. It’s based upon the Beta4 release.
I hope I gave you enough credits for the amazing work you people have done on this theme!
The Pivot-port can be found here: http://niwla.nl/entry/2/Fauna_V10_;_my_first_ported_te
Niwla said:
It looks very nice! As for the credit, it’s more then enough. However I would appreciate you writing “Based on Fauna” rather than “Design by NoScope” if that’s not a problem… :)
No problem. That will be taken care off!!
It worked! thanks!
and I love fauna 5 btw
Joen said:
Hey Joen, just quickly popping in to show you what I’ve .. well, done with most of the code of this build of Fauna, scrapping the CSS and starting from scratch. Does that still count as customising a template? I dunno. Either way, this is what has become of your beautiful code. Oh gosh, my poor eyes! Ooooh.. and neglect the poorly-nested stuff in the sourcecode, I’ve a lot of work to do on it yet.
Hopefully it’s not too sacreligious or whatever. =P Thanks for building such an easily adaptable interface. =]
Hey Ben,
Looks great! And no, it’s not sacrilegious, quite the opposite, I’m glad to see my base code taken to extremes :)