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This just off the wire – it’s an all-out, drag-down fight for the best theme for WordPress: K2 vs. Fauna, no holds barred! :)
Seriously, just when I thought I was going to settle with one base theme and modify it, you go and do a wonderful thing like this. :P Now I’ve got to compare things and see which works better. Looks great thus far, however! Thanks a ton!
Nice. I’ve implemented Fauna with some small changes “on my site”:http://www.stephencollins.org/, but want to mess with the header image. Any chance of a .psd or similar?
Thanks!
bq. This just off the wire – it?s an all-out, drag-down fight for the best theme for WordPress: K2 vs. Fauna, no holds barred! :)
Well, I’d prefer it’s not a fight, for the reasons mentioned on my main site:
bq. K2 is a completely different market and is, in my opinion, much more than a theme. In the words of the authors, a mod. So no reason for K2 to watch out. Kubrick on the other hand ;)
Steve,
bq. but want to mess with the header image. Any chance of a .psd or similar?
I knew I had forgotten something. Yes of course. I’ll get on it when I get home from work.
Joen, the .psd would be awesome, thanks!
Any chance of the “Nocturnal” theme being available too?
Steve,
I uploaded the image pack. Look at the homepage on this site.
Excellent theme! I definitely agree it’ll give K2 a little competition :). I love this theme; not only does it look awesome, but it isn’t completely bloated with unnecessary plugins but yet it still has all of the essentials.
I’m going to have to agree with Steve Collins that a release of “Nocturnal” would make this theme even better then it already is.
bq. Excellent theme! I definitely agree it?ll give K2 a little competition :) . I love this theme; not only does it look awesome, but it isn?t completely bloated with unnecessary plugins but yet it still has all of the essentials.
I’ll thank you for your kind comments, but I’ll repeat that I don’t personally see this as a competitor for K2. Technically they fullfill different aspects (and K2 is a much more pro piece of code than Fauna, by the way!). Visually, they also achieve different goals, and I dare say K2 has an elegant simplicity that this theme has not.
In short, I don’t like the comparison of those two themes. They’re for each their audience, and I think, compliment each other.
Feel free to compare it to Kubrick though :) – by itself a great theme and the very reason for the existance of Fauna. Kubrick was the inspiration that made Fauna what it is.
bq. I?m going to have to agree with Steve Collins that a release of ?Nocturnal? would make this theme even better then it already is.
It’ll probably happen. But for a little while longer I’m going to hold on to it…
Bug? The Noteworthy heart icon appears as a narrow red line on Firefox in OSX… Works fine in Safari and on everything in Windows.
And another (possibly dumb) question. How are you filling the sidebar with _HTML_ content? For example, the “About Noscope”stuff on the Noscope home page and the Colophon.
Hi Joen,
The theme is, to me, the best one out there, hands down. Just as an aside, I ran my install through the W3C Validator and it gave a few errors. I haven’t modified anything, but I know you’ve taken some time to make sure the XHTML lines up…
http://blog.pixeldustfilms.com/
Just as an FYI…let me know if I missed something, as I haven’t touched any code…install of Wordpress is a fresh one as well…
G
And, just for the record, I just ran http://www.noscope.com/fauna/ through the same validator and it validated fine…
So perhaps one of my posts is causing the issue?
Thanks, Joen!
g
Ok, I looked at the code, ya’ll.
I’m using the Brian’s Latest Comments plugin, which is causing validation errors. Anybody else seeing that?
Just thought I’d let you know. Joen’s code is pristine and works great…but the plugin apparently wreaks havoc with some of the compliant code…
Steve,
bq. Bug? The Noteworthy heart icon appears as a narrow red line on Firefox in OSX… Works fine in Safari and on everything in Windows.
Probably a bug. I’ll create a temporary bug page here on Wordpress where people can submit a comment. I won’t have time to look into it right now but I’ll write it down.
bq. And another (possibly dumb) question. How are you filling the sidebar with HTML content? For example, the ?About Noscope?stuff on the Noscope home page and the Colophon.
Well, on the home page there aren’t any smart database tricks there. I simply edit the sidebar and add my custom HTML code.
On the colophon, however, I’m using a trick that’s also available in Fauna, although maybe not as documented.
I add a “Custom Field” with a key called “sidebar”, and type in the Textile code right in the field, then click “add”. That’s it!
Gino,
Thanks for the update, and glad you like the theme!
I think the problem with Brian’s Latest Comments is mainly related to special international characters. When these are plainly served as they’re typed, the validator might spew some errors at times. It’s fixable and I’m sure it will be fixed at some point in the future.
hi, GRATE WORK!!
my only concern is this: on next beta will a diff file be available? i mean, i changed a lot all templates, for plugins to work… maybe a zip with only changed files would also be nice…
tnkz, and keep up the good work!
o, another thing….
how do i use the author.php ? and whats for.. maybe I’m not seeing something…
also, a list of already supported plugins would accomplish..
last thing for now…
eny idea why would this… http://wearemad.weblogs.us/archives/
be happening?!
Yeah! Great theme!
Thank you, Joen for sharing that so cute theme! I’m made some additions in commets template and CSS, and I translated Fauna into russian. It wonderfull theme!
Sorry my poor english,
Thanks a lot!
Task,
I will make a changelog of changed files. You can then use a diff software to see differences yourself, it would be quite a lot of work if I should do it. But don’t worry, I don’t expect huge changes.
author.php is mainly used for multi author blogs. If you look in template-postloop.php, you’ll see that by default I’ve commented out the author that wrote the entry. If you uncomment this, that link will link to the author page which shows some stats.
As for the problem with your archive page, I believe you can solve it by writing in below:
<br style=”clear:both ” />
Joen, really a *big*, *big* thank you. Such a wonderful theme, in an afternoon I was able to translate it and ever so lightly adapt it for our amateur theatre site, here in Fribourg (Switzerland). I don’t know yet were it will go from here, but it will definitely stay on Fauna’s base!
You can see it in action here: “www.tcf.ch”:http://www.tcf.ch/
The French translation will be available for everyone interested, but I need some time to clean up the files: I changed some code (well, adapted mainly the “Noteworthy” feature to automate the formatting of our “Show” entries) while translating, and the files as such will not work as fauna intended on another server. I hope that by next week you’ll have the French translation, if not give me a shout! ;o)
Serge,
I’m thrilled you like the theme.
As for translation to French, that’s also fantastic. I would gladly put it up on a langages page here.
However, there should be another way of translating the theme which might be smarter. All text in Fauna are written using a function called @_e()@. This function allows you, as far as I know, to have all language strings in a separate file.
I’ll look more into it.
Yes, I noticed it… Well, I wanted to get out with that site fast, so that translation is hacked into the files themselves. But I will look at translating it via that function: in fact, having a French WordPress (FR_fr.mo in languages folder) will already translate some strings…
Top notch theme! I just moved from K2 to Fauna. I also integrated My Flickr photos with the FAlbum plug-in, and My Diggs (personalized RSS from Digg.com). Took all of an hour for me to do. Thanks for making it so easy!
Many thanks Joen, keep up the work when and where you can.
I got this error when viewing a single post.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: show_manual_subscription_form() in ~/wp-content/themes/fauna/sidebar.php on line 53
Please check
Thanks
Sadish
Sadish,
I have no idea why that happens. The function is wrapped in a check for its existance first:
if (function_exists(’show_manual_subscription_form’)) {
show_manual_subscription_form();
};
so it shouldn’t spew errors. Have you made _no_ modifications whatsoever to the code?
It appears twice in the same sidebar.php.
the second time, it is called without a check for its existence.
Thanks.
Embarrassing, I’ll add that to the buglist. Thanks.
There is no need to be embarrassed. Its still called a ‘beta’ isnt it ?
Also, I want to let u know, I am using your theme as the current theme in my website for now.
Also I have a suggestion. On the sidebar, for ‘calender, links and meta’, you are checking so many pages where you do not want this thing to show up. like not a category page, not a single page, etc.
instead you could just say where you want it to show up. In my version, I only check for is_home().
Also I tried to go to unicef.org and I couldnt find any links to ‘donate’.
If you can find it, let me know.
Good work my friend.
Thanks.
I’ll take note of your suggestion, thanks.
The donation link is hard to find, so I have updated the link on the frontpage.
You can also visit directly, here:
http://www.supportunicef.org/
Hi everyone. I just installed Fauna, and what can I say… it rocks! Excellent job! There is one hiccup, though: When I click on a category link, it just gives me a page template with no posts in it. I’m kind of stumped as to why this is happening. Any suggestions would be most appreciated! (www.seancull.com/blog/)
Very nicely done. I’m looking forward to seeing more of your work :-)
Wonderful theme, thank you so much. I am having a little problem with the Archives page. I used the template when writing the page. In the side bar area I am getting this error message
/home/xxxx/public_html/test/wp-includes/template-functions-post.php on line 378
Some error on my part most likely. Any help would be very much appreciated
URL is
http://cloudsinmycoffee.com/test/?page_id=5
Thanks again
I figured it out. It was my error. I had failed to fill out the page slug.
Hello Joen
I have been an admirer of Noscope for sometime and once i found i could use fauna on my site i never hesitated a moment.
Thanks for providing this it is simply beautiful.
Is there a list of supported plugins for this theme?
Thank you, Joen, for sharing your talents and hard work!
here is a list of features including plugins
http://www.noscope.com/fauna/features/
Thank you, Makki!
Just a quick question regarding links in the sidebar. I have a fairly lengthy list of links, but only some of them are showing up. Is this because Fauna is set to display only a specific category of links? I am guessing that I should peek at the sidebar.php file and look for get_links and see what the settings are there, correct?
I looked on the WP Codex today for documentation on get_links, but was unable to find anything.
Thanks in advance for help that anyone can provide. I’m really liking this theme, BTW, and I have already successfully installed most of the plugins. I am using WP 2.0, FYI, and other than the fact that a “thumbnail” of Fauna doesn’t show up properly in the PRESENTATION panel, Fauna and all the required plugins seem to be behaving as expected.
Craig,
I had a bit of fun with Fauna and WP 2.0.
Can you confirm if the handling of asides and noteworthy works? I suspect my last attempt failed due to a managled db — would be keen to hear if everything works ok.
Check that, just had a look. Yep – it’s my db. Bugger. :)
Hellooo, Joen :)
first of all,
Thanks for the wonderful ‘Fauna’ theme..
I found it on the last day of 2005..
and I really like it !
Ok, there is a well-meaning suggest to you :
Could you reduce the size of the green image which is on top of this theme,pls?
great job! but the link does not work. please renew it so that i can grab.
thank you very much and happy new year:)
Here is a mirror until link is fixed…
Fauna Image Pack
Thank you for your response, Makki.
In short, this is the best theme I’ve ever seen.
*Jack*,
bq. Could you reduce the size of the green image which is on top of this theme,pls?
Filesize? Maybe. Width / height? No, you do that with your customization.
*Craig*,
I’ll double-check the link code for the sidebar.
As for Wordpress 2.0 compatability issues, I’ll get to work on that asap.
Joen,
thanks for reply : )
yes, you are right..
I would do resize the green image by myself if I can do it..
I have to say that I use the blog(***.wordpress.com) which Wordpress.com offered so I can’t do that with my customization :(
for this reason, I can do nothing on it :(
could you please give me any suggests about it?
Jack, you should probably contact directly the WordPress.com maintainers (there should be a feedback link on the upper right hand of your dashboard for this purpose). I doubt Joen can do much about that himself.
bq. could you please give me any suggests about it?
bq. Jack, you should probably contact directly the WordPress.com maintainers (there should be a feedback link on the upper right hand of your dashboard for this purpose). I doubt Joen can do much about that himself
Actually I do have an idea.
With Wordpress 2.0 (based off the fantastic work of Michael Heilemann), it’s now possible to include a customization page / options page for themes. See http://wordpress.org/development/2005/12/wp2/
On this page I suppose I could add fields for image URL, width and height. How about that?
Probably not until Beta 3 though.
en..
thanks for the quick reply again :D
I will wait for that moment :)
I’m slowly catching up with all the comments here sorry.
I’m hard at work on Beta 2, and things are going well.
*Craig*,
Thanks for the get links bug report. I was getting all the links from category 1. The get links function should simply grab links from “-1″ instead of “1″ to get all the links. Fixed in b2.
*Brendan*,
Sorry to hear about your mangled db. I hope Fauna didn’t give you any trouble.
I have upgraded my dev site to wp 2, and Fauna works fine including the noteworthy/aside aspect… are you still having problems?
That said, it seems that the migration to simpler rewrite rules for wp2 is really buggy. I’m getting 404s for some posts and some categories. I’m pretty sure this isn’t a fauna thing though.
Joen
It might be Wordpress bug 2162, having to do with the word Wordpress in your post title/slug (oh, irony). It’s got a fix in there that you can manually apply to Wordpress yourself if you think that this might be your problem.
Mike,
That does seem to be the problem on the Fauna site, though my main Noscope site also seems to be suffering from more problems, some having to do with a few hacks of mine.
Mike,
It seems another problem with my main Noscope wp 2 installation is that various conditional statements like is_home aren’t working. Damn.
Oh yeah, I don’t doubt it. That’s why I’m staying away from WP2. For now at least. It’d be great if Fauna Beta 2 worked in 1.5, but I understand if you don’t want to test it out in two environments. I’ll stay on Beta 1 until WP2 matures enough… and they get some QA going on.
bq. For now at least. It?d be great if Fauna Beta 2 worked in 1.5,
Actually, it seems that on a crips and clean non-garbled fresh installation of wordpress 2.0, there were no problems with Fauna at all, meaning I didn’t have to make any WP 2 ONLY changes for Fauna. Only a few – like adding a screenshot, and a little surprise gift I have – but WP 1.5 simply ignores them.
All in all, it seems like Fauna Beta 2 WILL be fully 1.5 and 2.0 compatible (unless something scarey pops up). Now if only the WP team could fix their bugs! Stable release huh?
Welcome to my own personal hell. That’s due in part to pretty bad issues WP2 has with some is_ statements (there’s a couple of show stoppers when used in the loop) — the other half of the equation is the db.
You can’t upgrade the whole kit and caboodle, basically. The only way I could get the upgrade to happen was to backup the ‘default’ wp table set only and upgrade that. Forget any table that isn’t part of the core db and things become more predictable.
In my case I exported the core tables, ran a “search and replace” to change the wp_ prefix and then imported them back in.
This is just imho, obviously, but 2.0 isn’t quite ready for release. A brand new install, sure, great — upgrade..? my advice is to ‘tread real careful like’. :)
My site upgraded just fine! :) I’ve been upgrading the same database since version 0.70 and while I can’t claim to have never had any problems, for the most part, WordPress has worked just fine.
Maybe I’m just not pushing the software to the edge of its capabilities like some people do!
Glad to hear it Craig.
I think (hope) my db upgraded fine… but I’m still having major problems on my main Noscope site: basiclally /journal is a 404 page. Probably a virtual / real folder conflict… it works when I reset the permalinks to non-htaccess ones.
Argh.
I love it thank you so much this is by far my most favorite theme. I have using some headers i made myself. :)
so soon…I can not believe that.
Thank you so much!
thanks very much.
this is my favorite wordpress theme..
Very very nice theme.
I just wish theme authors would tell me “hey I’m using your theme toolkit”. That would be much more making my day than relying on chance when having a look at my referrers to find out that someone uses a theme that uses my kit.
(of course adding a credit link in footer like on theme Tiga would *really* make my day, but well, you can’t have everything :)
Again, very nice theme. I’m curious to see if / how the admin part will be integrated into wp.com.
Hey Ozh,
Sorry for not notifying you right away, and thank you for supplying such a wonderful toolkit.
To be quite honest, I thought it was enough to leave the credit on the actual Options page in.
Where else would you like a credit? I have to admit it seems to be a bit confusing to add it to a global theme footer, when nobody but the actual administrator can see the options page. Please let me know how I can compensate you on this, and again, sorry for not notifying you right away. Until the very last minute, I wasn’t sure I was going to include an options page at all.
Hey, that’s ok :) I’m more than happy anyway that people actually use my kit, and I’m starting to see really neat theme such as yours.
As for credit, nothing is required of course, and you can do whatever you’re pleased with. A theme author recently made one with a credit link in the footer, that’s almost turning me too much on :)
Hey Ozh,
It’s the least I can do to say “Thank You” for all your hard work. Give credit where credit is due ;).
Just wanna drive you up in the Digirati ranking ;).
Thank you again for the theme toolkit, keep up with the great plugins.
What does everybody think about some glorious rounded corners?
I say add them as a configurable option!
bq. What does everybody think about some glorious rounded corners?
Currently only a handful of (generally gecko powered) browsers handle rounded corners. It’s easy enough to add the required code to the CSS.
Ozh, as for your theme toolkit, while it’s great to see and I’m sure a lot of people have benefited from it, suggesting that it’s a shame credit wasn’t given (for what is essentially a back end tool) in the blog template (that the causal reader is none the wiser for) is a bit rich.
Granted, perhaps a quick ‘thanks to x for their great x plugin’ might have been “nice” as part of the theme announcement post, however to expect people to announce every little bit of code they use and where it came from you’re going to be a bit disappointed. :)
Brendan : I’m not asking for anything, really. There are a few themes around using my kit and one mentionned me in its footer, I thought that it was uber nice, but I’m not asking for it.
Really, the only thing I’d want would be that whenever someone releases a theme using my kit, I would be told about it (just a trackback or anything) so I can just be aware of the theme. That’s all that is keeping me motivated to publish things myself.
Regarding the theme toolkit, it is a goddamn fantastic piece of work. Make no mistake here. I hope to actually quell the discussion a bit, because it’s not fair to the software. So here’s what I’m going to do:
* I’ve updated this post to include proper credit
* I’ll link from Fauna features, permanently, to the toolkit
* I’ll add credit to the readme file
* I’ll leave in the options page credit
* But I’m not going to add permanent footer credit to the toolkit (although it’s a breeze for end users of fauna, to add this themselves!
Heck, if you look at the footer code of Fauna, you’ll notice I’m writing “I won’t kill you for removing the credits below, but if anyone asks about it, please tell them where you got this theme” next to the Fauna link. The difference being, the fauna link serves a purpose: to inform people of what they’re looking at, and that it’s based on free code.
Now if anyone can come up with any more places it would be prudent to link to this toolkit (it deserves applause for crying out loud, it really IS that good), then please type it in right here. I’m hoping this will not become a problem.
*Dan*,
bq. What does everybody think about some glorious rounded corners?
I say add them as a configurable option
Well, as Brendan says, you can currently add this easily by writing the following in your stylesheet:
.box { -moz-border-radius: 8px; }I _could_ add this as a configurable option, but I prefer not to, for the simple reason it will confuse new users since it only works in Mozilla.
The other option would be to use “Nifty Corners”:http://pro.html.it/esempio/nifty/ which during early development, I considered quite a few times. The reason I ultimately chose not to do this, was to cut through the clutter and simplify the code. I want to keep things simple here, so as to encourage hacking (though this might cause extra work if you don’t wait til the final version). Finally, it adds an extra layer of complexity seeing as Nifty Corners uses @body onload@ events.
If, however, there’s overwhelming support, I might add Nifty Corners support as an option.
Thanks for the mention in your announcement Joen, that’s really the most and only important thing to me.
I should have mentioned you in that post from the start. It was a blunder on my part, sorry about that. Let me know if there’s anything else I can do. I seriously do think it’s wonderful work you’ve made.
hi joen,
I’ve downloaded and installed correctly your fauna theme, but now I have a little problem:
at the top of the page of my blog appears this incorrect line of code:
Warning: preg_grep(): Second argument to preg_grep() should be an array in D:\Inetpub\webs\matesejazzit\public\blog\wp-content\themes\fauna\themetoolkit.php on line 39
what I have to do to fix it?
thanks too much for your interest, Seneka
I vote for nifty corners.
Seneka,
I’ll look into the problem, and post here when I find the cause and/or a solution.
When you hover over the “Ongoing discussions” on the front page, it says “posted 36 years ago”? =)
Hey Joen.
I really like your work on the Fauna theme. I’ve used it and i think it looks great! I have one thing though there i bothering me. I can’t make new categories in the sidebar. ‘Links’ and ‘Meta’ are the only thing shown, despite my attempt to make serveral categories ind the editor. (eg. blogroles).
Isn’t possiple to make categories for different kinds of links on the main blog page?
I hope you can help me.
Jonas
Jonas,
Right now, adding the code to show categories on the homepage (currently it’s only shown in the archives, which have to be manually created too — thats easy though), has to be done manually.
Open sidebar.php in a template, and go to line 141 (it says “/* Category List */”).
Now change it from
/* Category List */ if (is_category() || is_page("archives")) {to
/* Category List */ if (is_category() || is_page("archives") || is_home()) {That should do it.
Hey again.
Thanks for the quick response.
But what i ment was not the post categories. I was interested in having different link categories.
Is that possiple?
Just a quickie to thank you for sharing. I am having a blast scanning through the miles of code; Fauna is definitely not a typical theme.
This a dream come true! Noscope’s theme for my own site! I’ve yet to try this since i’m at work now…..but one thing comes to mind —- any gallery support for ZENphoto? or some other gallery plugins?
Thanks joen, bless ya!
Hi,
I like your theme but it displays only the links in my blogroll categorie. I would like to see it if it displays my other categories too.
Oyvind, the “36 years ago” problem should be fixed in a newer version of Time Since. If not, its a problem with my server, not fauna.
JC, it would be possible to release a Fauna theme for ZenPhoto, and then integrate with a Wordpress website. However, I want Fauna for Wordpress out first, and ZenPhoto 1.0 out too before I do such a thing.
Matthias,
I think Wordpress.com is using Beta 1 of Fauna… that problem is fixed in Beta 2.
How about make the masthead-fauna.jpg *changeable* just like http://www.noscope.com?
wyh,
The masthead is only changable in the options page. I might release the flash app I’m using for my Noscope header at some point, but I won’t build it into Fauna.
I see.
Thank you for your reply and looking forward to get your grogeous flash app release some time:P
Excellent theme and it works perfectly in mu-wordpress too :)
Many thanks for sharing.
Feeds for the forum are not working. Any chance of fixing it?
I admit that I’m a newb, lease excuse that fact.
I have successfully installed the theme, but I get the error: “The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template. fauna_beta2 Stylesheet is missing.”
Is there something I can do to get things working? Thank you!
-C.
Clever,
Sorry the documentation is incomplete…
You uploaded the fauna_beta2 folder, containing the readme.txt and a fauna folder.
You should only upload the fauna folder IN the fauna_beta2 folder, to your themes directory.
Thank you! Most appreciated. I got it to work.
-C.
I don’t know if this is a bug or just an issue that I’m having, but I’ll try and explain.
My site currently has two authors … Heidi and Doug. When you click a post authored by Doug … it says “Blah Blah” was written January 23rd, 2006 by Doug, and filed under Uncategorized.” You can then click Doug’s name and be taken to his author page. However, the link to Heidi’s author’s page goes to a 404 Error: Not Found.
I’ve tried deleting and readding the user Heidi with no luck. I’ve also tried acting as Doug and authoring the post as Heidi, but that creates a new problem. In that case, Heidi’s author page is then linked to that of another (third) user.
I’m sorry if that’s not the clearest. Please let me know if you have any tips or hints. Thank you!
-C.
Hey Clever,
It doesn’t SOUND like a problem with Fauna, but I can’t verify that unless you provide me a link to look at…
this release works only in WORDPRESS 2.0 ?
G.Meroni,
No, it should work just fine in 1.5.
Thk……i upgrade my blog…..vscolour.tk thk
Shall I test it? Hmm.. it looks fantastic :)
I’m not sure whether it would be better to ask here or at Ozh’s blog but I’ve just moved my site over to TextDrive and when I try to access fauna’s theme option menu from the Presentation tab I get a 412 Precondition Fail error. The URL is:
http://mapofthedead.co.uk/weblog/wp-admin/themes.php?page=../themes/fauna/functions.php
I asked over on the TxD forums and it was confirmed that the ‘../’ in the URL was triggering the mod_security system and causing the 412 error. Is there anyway the theme options can be accessed differently or am I going to need to disable mod_security?
Thanks in advance for any answers.
James,
That would be a question for Ozh. I’m sorry I can’t help you further.
Awesome work, It may take me a while to upgrade my site though as I’ve slowly been customising more and more of my theme. Much of it isn’t visible but I’ve still got more modifications planned.
Keep up the fantastic work Joen, I can’t wait for more stuff from you!
Great! Maybe I’ll skip this update as I have, as Levi, tweaked a lot. Which is a credit for the theme – it’s easy to change.
Thanks for making a great theme!!
The theme is _intended_ to be highly hackable, so don’t feel bad for skipping this.
Usually, in my experience, comments templates are left fairly unhacked, so you could consider updating just those. The Quote Comments feature is really worth it if I may say so myself :)
If you do, remember to also update meta/scripts.js, it contains the JS for the quoting.
I’m updating my modified theme now as I’m typing… but I just found that the
page.phptemplate hasn’t been updated yet. It’s still got theentryclass.Just so you know Joen, so you can update it before beta 3.1 comes out. I’ll be sure to post anything else I happen to find. :)
page-archives.phpalso needs updating.And if you want to get picky;
search.phpneeds the end html quote for the closing ‘body’ div.Beta 3 has many significant improvements, thanks Joen. An issue: I can’t edit the sidebar.php. gives this message:
“Not Acceptable. An appropriate representation of the requested resource /wp-admin/theme-editor.php could not be found on this server.”
Let’s hope that this will be solved in beta 3.1….
Great, Joen. I’ll have a look at that!
Levi said:
Keep the bug reports coming! I appreciate it.
The beta 3.1 is delayed for a day or two, though.. I’m waiting for an update to the themetoolkit which’ll really kick ass.
Gio said:
Ouch. Well, it kinda sounds like a Wordpress problem… Try searching the wordpress.org forums for that text string… Let me know if (or if not) you manage to solve it.
Hi Joen,
So far, when using Wordpress’s Dashboard theme editor, only “sidebar.php” could not be edited. I suspect it has got something to do with the themetoolkit. Short term wise, this is no biggie, as i can still edit the theme via FTP, but long-term wise, hmm, could be a potential dread…
I shall start posting in the forum, and not here. Hope you’ll find time to do your rounds in the forum. Cheers.
Gio said:
It’s not that I don’t want to fix it, trust me I do, the problem is I have no idea where to start because I can edit my own sidebar.php just fine in the three installations I have.
Hi Joen, nice update;) Have you considered integrating Brian’s threaded comments?
erk said:
Yep. In fact, I made some heavy work with just that, a long while ago. Unfortunately, I pretty much abandoned the project, since the code was so overly complex that it did not fit with the Fauna philosophy.
However, I think an update may be on the way, and I would have no problem doing an “addon” to Fauna (i.e. a BTC ready comments.php file).
They’re all the bugs I’ve found for the moment.
Oh and just wanted to say I’ve added the rounded-corners setting to my
functions.phpalong with an option to change what link category is shown on the main side-bar, because I have other link categories in my blog that I don’t want shown there — maybe a useful addition.Oh and finally, I think I’ll be working on a re-coloured (and darker) version of the theme for my other site; levibuzolic.com, so if that goes well I’ll be sure to send it over your way.
Love your work, Joen!
Oh, and which live-preview plugin does Fauna make use of?
Levi said:
Fantastic work, Levi! Glad to have your support.
The link category is a good idea, probably. I’d appreciate it if you sent me the code you’ve done, and I’ll see how it works, and whether or not I want to include it.
As for the re-coloured version, even better. Tip though: if you can manage to keep ALL your CSS in a separate file, like fauna-default.css, then in Beta 3.1 which is delayed more than I want to, I’ll be making a text-field in the options page where you can type in your own stylesheet URL, and it’ll override the default. That might be a good idea in order to make it an “addon” of sorts.
I’ll send you the slightly re-worked fauna-default.css from the current beta 3.1.
As for the live preview plugin, I’m using this one:
http://www.noscope.com/fauna/2006/01/live-preview-w-textile-plugin
Upload and activate. Voila.
I really appreciate the ability to switch the sidebar to the right! It sounds great and I’m going to test it right now. =)
Found the following 2 things.
1. on the template-postloop.php
look at the line where you see the_author_posts_link().
if you un-comment it, it is not going to work.
2. template-sidenote.php
if there is only one comment, it should display ‘1 comment’ and not ‘1 comments’
Will let you know as I find anything new.
Thanks
thanks for this beatiful theme
at this moment i am up to localize it to german, youwill be able to download it from my website at feb., 20th 2006.
I am still working on customizing fauna… and i am absolutly happy about fauna.
please tell me, if there is anny oportunity to add sidebar-content also to blogcontents (like on pages).
this funktion will do very well for the related links-funktion.
Joen said:
No worries Joen, it has all got to do with my host’s implementation of mod_security, as i recently found out.
did you get a chance to look at the issues i mentioned in my previous comment ?
Sadish said:
Yes, thank you. I have fixed those in beta 3.1 (or 4, which it’ll probably be)
Great theme-I had been looking for a simple, easy to hack theme for quite some time. The only issues I have found are these-if using a plugin, for instance, the ‘more-smilies’ plugin, only a logged in user can see the smilies in the comments section. Once I log in-I can see the images. I also noticed this with the gravatar plugin-if I wasn’t logged in, I couldn’t see the commenter’s gravatar. Any ideas?
Beth said:
I’m not quite sure how that works … perhaps it’s some side-effect of your blog requiring login to comment?
First of all, thank you for sharing your talent. I am enjoying setting up the Fauna theme. I’m looking forward to a more neutral looking header when you do get around to making a few more. I love the background but would love to see a alternative to the bright colors in the image pack. Thank you again creating a great theme!
Julia said:
While I do consider the neon aspect of the header a central part of the design, it’s also a clear part of my philosophy with this theme that it’s highly hackable and customizable.
So… what’s your favourite colour?
Based on what I know about colour psychology, I’m thinking that some dark or desaturated shade of green would be the most calming.
Great theme and another great release…
Thanks for the reply. Desaturated green sounds good. I was thinking something along the lines of the lovely background, but don’t know if that would have enough contrast for some. Actually, as of yesterday I’ve gone country. Hope you don’t mind. The bones are and will be pure Fauna. Thanks again.
Julia said:
I’ll see if I can make some nice desaturated greens then.
Of course I don’t mind… one of the purposes of this theme is to encourage people to make it their own.
good!!
Hey Joen, just noticed another bug while working on my ‘darkfrost’ theme.
style.csson line 404.That belongs in the
fauna-default.css, not in thestyle.css.Levi said:
Thanks Levi, beautiful work. I’ll fix it of course.
That was also found in
style.css— not where it should live!I love this theme and I really want to use it, but I’m getting a weird error message:
I’m a beginner at this with my PHP manual in one hond and out of date text editor experience with HTML and CSS in the other.
I’ve had a terrible time finding the right files to edit. What I really need is a kind of split screen tool that will show me exactly where to edit when I press on the browser display. Someone suggested that I use Dreamweaver, but I can’t see how this would work with so many contributing files.
Should I try this or have you a better method?
Best wishes
Simon
Joen,
Email me (loadedreality at gmail.com) your email address, I think I’ve pretty much got ‘FrostDark’ finished for you now. It looks pretty good, Fauna was beautifully simple to edit upon. :)
I saw in the forums about the ‘One Author’ bug.
In-case you haven’t done it yet here’s the fix.
In
sidebar.phpon line137there is a line which reads:This should simply be changed to:
As you’re not fetching an array but instead directly querying the number of author rows.
Sorry for posting all these code fixes here, once I get your email I’ll be able to stop spamming your fauna blog! :P
Shane said:
It sounds like a problem either with your webserver or your wordpress installation. Fauna is not using any PHP headers that could cause a precondition failed message.
Simon said:
The problem with Dreamweaver is that it would require you to have a personal webserver setup. This is possible, i use it, but it’s not really easy to do.
The thing is, when we’re talking PHP, you need a server application to “render” the code, as opposed to HTML which can be read by the browser itself. Since Dreamweaver cannot render the PHP code you can’t split screen there.
I use “Xampp”:http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html for my personal web server, but it might be a bit hard core for what you’re looking at. I think maybe just editing online, live, is your best bet, unfortunately.
Levi said:
I emailed you, and thanks for all your fixes. I really have to get a credit page going.
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! I didn’t notice that! 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.php@ I 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!
Fantastic stuff, though what I’d really love to see is a image header with next/prev buttons that fades through images like the old version of Fauna on Noscope.
I’ll release that once I get Fauna (and possibly also my noscope redesign) out of the door. That is, in a Flash version without the fade effect (unless I decide to code that as well).
Ideally, though, someone would re-code in AJAX.
Levi said:
yes! that’s the very thing i want:P
BTW,faunalive’s URL has been banned in China, so maybe chinese can not download it. Would you please make a mirror?
great thanks.
wyh said:
Banned in China !? What the hell?
But yes, I will make a mirror.
wow, cool.. Thanks Joen!
people I made a new one that works better,
I’m gonna put it up on my website very soon like now ;)
“faunalive new page”:http://360.pictor.us/?page_id=4
@ *wyh*:
BTW, this is gonna be the @permalink for faunalive updates@ from now on, since the downtime on the other web sites was such a drag ;)
Thanks again to Joen for his koolness..
Looks great Mo,
I updated the link in the article.
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.
Thanks Joen!
It has been now updated for fauna theme beta 4 :D
I have added a Techno color option
which gives the user power to change the background color
Control has been fixed and now it glides faster and smoother.
File size has reduced 5 KBs
It now makes use of custom
Header WidthandHeader Heightvalues.Please read Readme.txt after download.
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”:/fauna/features/ page.
great thanks, Joen!
Wouldn’t it be possible to grab an external stylesheet inline anyway?
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:
# Build AJAX commenting right into Wordpress, and optimize so it’s as good and fast as Digg.com
# If this can’t be done, wrap AJAX commenting into a plugin, so when enabled, the default commenting system is replaced by AJAX commenting.
Not on Wordpress.com…
But I suppose i’m merely asking about the security features in the options page, i.e. could someone else access a WP options page without login — which now that I think about it should probably be Wordpress’ responsibility.
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.
This is an aside post?
The feeds are working for me, gio.
Juan, yes, this is an aside post.
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.css@ and add this code:
h1 { display: none; }Good luck, and let me know if it works.
Joen, thank you for the nice words! It is a pleasure working with you and i’ll stay ’till the end ;-)
Congrats Joen + Gabriela + Ralph,
Gotta update faunalive now ;)
The better fauna gets the better our websites look!
Thanks!
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!!
Joen,
Can i make a chinese localization edition when i get the final release?
:P
You’re very welcome, but I would prefer it if you read this article:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress#Localization_Technology
and used the bundled PO and POT files for your translation. If you do that, it’ll be MUCH easier for you to translate, and it’ll also be easier for others to use your translation file.
WOW!
Big changes Joen,
now custom post headers, just what I needed!
;) luckily it looks like it takes custom width and height values also.
Great Job !
Awesome. I love this theme. Can anyone give me instructions to how I can upgrade from beta 4 to this latest beta 5?
San said:
Download B5 and just upload/overwrite your old fauna files and your done!
Joen,
So far I’ve found one little bug, the Noteworthy icon doesn’t seem to default to the heart instead it defaults to nothingness.
It’s looking great and I’ll have a compatible
darkfrost.cssheading your way soon.The ‘this entry’ sidebar element should be above the other elements like ‘categories’ and ‘ongoing discussions’ or atleast i think so.
Oh and the ‘formatting your comment’ link… do you think that should be right aligned now because of the liquid widths?
- The ‘edit this’ link for trackbacks and ping backs I think should be in the main box to the right of the title and date/time.
- Maybe make the RSS Icon a customized on/off/user image in the fauna options.
- Possibly add the ‘Powered by Wordpress & Fauna’ text into a textbox int he options page so users can easily add their own copyright notice.
- If the calandar is turned on, it should show up on year, month & day archive pages.
- The WP Calandar CSS should set the days of the week letters to be centered in their cell. Currently they’re defaulting to the left and it’s very noticeable in a wide liquid layout.
I think the sidebar needs some reordering done, the most relevant and most important sidebar elements don’t seem to be at the top in some cases.
An issue with the time/date’s has been created with the beta 5.
If you have a look at the post-meta on an install without Time Since installed it reads “
Filed in Category 8:23pm by Author” which clearly reads incorrectly and isn’t very useful as the time of day on the journals index page isn’t going to tell us much.So you could always change the wordpress time field to be something like “
\o\n F jS, Y \a\t g:ia” which makes the post-meta and sidebar post-meta read much better, but then comes the issue of the Pingbacks and Trackbacks reading something like “pingbacked Posted April 27th, 2006, on April 27th, 2006 at 11:46 am”Oh there’s another little bug, the word “Posted” needs to be removed from the trackback/pingback so it doesn’t read “…trackbacked Posted…”
So then you could always hard code the full date/time into the postloop file, but that means everything in the theme is perfectly automated or optionable other than this!
So I propose that you maybe add yet another option to the options page to set in a custom date/time string for the post-meta that defaults to something like “
\o\n F jS, Y \a\t g:ia“.Maybe an even better idea is adding an extra little funtion to the custom-functions file that adds a new date/time function, like;
fauna_date();or something.Anyway, sorry for the massive buglist to keep you busy!
Levi,
I just want to point out that I really appreciate your feedback like this. As you hopefully know, I’ll go through all of those comments and fix them once I get to it.
Two things:
1. I’m sorry I haven’t put up darkfrost into a theme directory yet, trust me I want to, I’ve just got my hands full.
2.
bq. So far I?ve found one little bug, the Noteworthy icon doesn?t seem to default to the heart instead it defaults to nothingness.
Well, I’ll “fix this” in the way that I’ll make sure upgrading is easier. However, it is “kinda” expected behavior since those are new options that were added, and those options default values won’t be filled in unless you delete all options, deactivate the theme, and activate it again. This is also the reason most of the Beta 5 upgrades I’ve seen don’t have rounded corners on the header… they should be enabled by default, but “defaults” are only defined on activation.
Ah, I see. Maybe I’ll have a look at the theme options setup and see if there is a better way to define defaults so they actually default on first run.
Don’t be too worried about darkfrost and the daunting bug-list, I can understand how busy you must be so take your time and if you want any help with anything what-so-ever, just say so.
Hell, I’d be happy to try and fix some of these bugs/issues I’ve found, you just tell me which onces you want changed and I’ll get stuck into it. I just figured there is no point trying to fix some of these bugs without your knowledge on how you want it to be when it’s working properly. :)
Thanks again for an awesome theme.
Levi said:
Actually they DO default on first run, but an upgrade is not considered “a new” run…
As for the bugfixes, I really appreciate you wanting to help out, which I’m open to. I’ll think about it the next few days and see how it could work out. Basically, since B5 is feature complete, the remaining issues will just be to make sure everything works like it’s supposed to, and that it’s as clean as elegant as possible.
On the author page the “There is one author attached to this weblog.” bug still exists, it only ever counts that there is one author.
This is trivial, but I just installed the “Linkblock” widget, and it somehow resolved the little problem with the links heading not matching the others in sidebar. Thanks again; I am enjoying your theme so much.
For those who are interested; Fauna: Darkfrost Beta 5 is available for download.
Beautiful beautiful stuff Levi, thanks so much for your hard work. I really appreciate it.
Thanks for the link-love Joen, I’ll probably start work on another custom stylesheet when I get the chance.
ooo lala,
went to see the screen shot, and wow :)
fauna has entered the dark side!!! GREAT WORK Levi
I guess after Beta 5, fauna will have liftoff ;)
I’ve been examining the code for the past days and I must say Beta 5 has progressed in code much more aggressively than the previous updates which even a copy & paste coder like me can easily see..
Cheers,
Oh, how about an option for chaning the sidenotes count limit?
Levi said:
Already thought of that :) Just needed one vote!
Levi said:
That would be great.
Gorgeous, the contrasts are wonderful in the screenshot of Darkfrost. Excellent work, Levi.
This is a fantastic theme. High quality, lots of features and it’s still open for creativity. I didn’t have to modify it much to get it as I wanted. Great work!
updated for “Beta 5″:http://360.pictor.us/?page_id=4
more fierce than ever !
faunalive Beta 5 ready for service ..
“Get it while it’s Hot!”:http://360.pictor.us/?page_id=4″, lol ;)
It worked! thanks!
and I love fauna 5 btw
Joen said:
Hello,
I have a question considering subcategories: are they supported by version 5.
I have a blog at edublogs where fauna beta 3 is running. My problem is that on the sidebar it doesn’t show subcategories. I hope I didn’t overlook the information on this site.
Cheers, Christian
hermeschris said:
Ok, I saw that subcategories are only considered if there is a blog entry for the corresponding meta-category. Is this intended? I guess there are often cases where the meta-category will not have entries. But maybe just in my case. Cheers, Christian
hermeschris said:
hai chris,
try this one http://www.webspaceworks.com/resources/cat/wp-plugins/31/
see it in action in my testblog:
http://www.sternengarten.info/fauna/
look at the “wordpress” category
(i really should try to improve my english *grrrr*)
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. =]
thx for your great theme. i am very satisfied and like the design so i use it.
Hey Ben,
Looks great! And no, it’s not sacrilegious, quite the opposite, I’m glad to see my base code taken to extremes :)
Great THEME!
“*faunalive version beta 5.1*”:http://360.pictor.us/?page_id=4
is out, please update your version to this one, it looks much better when the page starts loading,
;)
Hi, I downloaded your theme, uploaded the files and applied the theme…but i had a problem, my site “disappeared”, even the wp-admin, i wasnt able to login, until i deleted the fauna folder and everything went back to normal. Tried again and the same thing happened, i noticed when applying the theme, a new “fauna” button that had this link:
http://www.eberthmq.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=../themes/faunas/functions.php
oh, btw I have wordpress 2.0.3 installed, could that be the problem?
tnx in advance
Eberth said:
oh and the “s” at the end of faunas it’s because on the second time instead of deleting the folder i just renamed it.
Hi, Joen, thanks for this little gem. I am starting to love this theme by days. However, could you point me where I can find information about supported plug-ins, and also what are default.pot and defailt.po files for?
Eberth,
I don’t quite know what happened to your site, but if I find a solution, I’ll post it here.
AsceticMonk,
The list of supported plugins is available on the features page: http://www.noscope.com/fauna/features/
The default.po, and default.pot are for localizing the theme. This is only if English is not your native language, or English is not the language you want to use on your blog. In those cases, you can either use the PO and POT files for quick translation of the theme (these files contain ALL text strings in the entire theme), or you can be lucky and download an already translated “MO” file and you’re all set. I think, for now, Fauna is only available in English and German, but I think Persian is on the way.
Thanks for the quick response! Couple more questions:
The scripts.js file inside meta folder, what is that for? And is the folder .svn inside meta folder used for CVS? Is it safe to delete that?
AsceticMonk said:
The scripts.js file contains a few javascript functions used various places in the theme. One such place is when you click “Formatting your comment”, that’s actually a Javascript function that opens that section. Another thing it is used for, is the “quote comment” functionality.
The .svn folder is a mistake. It shouldn’t be there, and you can safely delete it. We’ll make sure it’s not in the final release.
Hi Joen, I found a bug while modifying the theme last night. When a custom background image is provided, the generated CSS definition omitted the no-repeat property. I think it needs to be exposed in the theme option panel, where user can choose whether to repeat or no repeat. For example, on my site, I only changed the color of the background image, and I had to dig in function.php to manually add no-repeat property in it.
AsceticMonk said:
That’s something I included in “faunalive”:http://www.noscope.com/fauna/2006/03/please-enjoy-faunalive . I also needed it for my website, so I just thought I’d throw it in ;) Kinda adds extra functionality, not a hard bug ..I do easy ones :))))
I just tried this out and the sidebar is positioned under the main post area?
I have minimal knowledge about modifying css’s etc, but if you think there is something I can do to fix this, please help. Thanks for the great work.
Here’s a look at the above problem
http://china.freepgs.com/journal/
Don Nyt said:
Regulus is a theme by binarymoon, I don’t know what your problem is but I see it. Maybe you can be better helped “here”:http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/2006/04/regulus-wordpress-theme-version-212/
Ya, I was trying some different themes, and left that one up instead of Fauna. Anyways, it’s happening on other themes as well, so it’s not just a Fauna problem.
Thanks for the link, Joen! I have received an overwhelming amount of positive feedback regarding my current implementation of Frost, so I plan to package up the style and release it as soon as I can find time to clean up the mess that I’ve made out of the CSS.
I would have responded you sooner, but once again I think it looks great. Once you have a version you feel is done, email me and I’ll give you a link up here, at least until I can establish some theme directory.
Thanks for the announcement, and the wonderful compliment, Joen! Honestly, I couldn’t have accomplished this without the clean layout of Fauna’s code.
Hello, I have a easy question. If I wanna resize the post and comment’s text, which part of CSS that I should and how to modify?
Will you enable the text resize option in “theme option”?
Nice work James!
Thanks, Levi!
Nice addition to Fauna, thanks!
You’re welcome!
Libraene said:
If you want to edit the font size, edit @fauna-default.css@ and change these lines:
body { font: 70%/190% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; }Thank you very much. I will trying.
All sounds fantastic Joen!
I’m still very much a Fauna fan and can’t wait to see what you do with it next, keep up the great work! :)
Nobody had this error when you load the theme? I couldn’t use the latest beta(5).
*Fatal error: Cannot redeclare fauna_options_css() (previously declared in /var/www/wp-content/themes/fauna/functions.php:113) in /var/www/wp-content/themes/fauna/functions.php on line 112*
Any ideas? It’s a -great- theme, congratz.
Well if you can WIDGETize your FAUNE it would be very cool !!
WIDGET are definitly the best way to customize themes!
However i experiment problem with sidebar that dont show (even right or left selected)
cordialy
love to see it on wordpress.com :)
WAzz, according to the features list, Fauna has supported “WordPress Widgets” since the release of Beta 5.
AsceticMonk said:
This is fixed in RC.
Is there a way to add dates to posts and permalinks? As of now when I use the Fauna dark Frost theme it only shows the time the post was written on the main page and neither on a permalink. Am I perhaps just missing something?
Thanks.
Ed said:
This is a bug which will be fixed in Fauna RC, the next release.
just look around..
Thank you so much for the use of your theme, “Fauna.” I’m not a programer and I found that I was really struggling with trying to get my blog started. I found that your theme just really helped me and was easy to use.
Keep up the great work!
Thank you , again.
A beautiful theme, thanks to all of you involved, like alyssa as a novice its great to be able to start out with something so good not just in looks but the way t works.
Very good looking ! thakns a lot ,, seems very nice when i upload it to mine.
wow~
Hi:
I?m a brazilian girl who loves these theme. I would like to kow that is possible to put a 3 colunm on it? Or you make fauna with 3 colunms?
Congratulations for your design.
Thanks a lot.
Claudia Renata said:
Thank you. Glad you like the theme.
Yes, it is possible to add 3 columns, but it’s not something I see coming to Fauna in the near future. A 3 column layout would have to be an addon to Fauna 1.0 final, which is months away.
So to put things plainly, you could write your own Fauna style that had a 3 column layout, but I don’t see one coming in the near future. Unfortunately.
how about validate the final fauna?
nimue said:
Fauna is supposed to validate. I have encountered one or two pages when building the RC version (particularly category and archive pages) that didn’t validate, but that’s all fixed. What have you encountered, that did not validate?
Levi:
Awesome design. I love Fauna!!!! And with your css was love at first sight. Do you know how I might put a third column in the theme? It will be possible to you to share this information. One more time: thanks a lot for your css!
Thanks, glad you like Fauna. And I agree, DarkFrost looks great.
Adding a third column to the theme is rather tricky, but the next version of Fauna supports a custom style system. I’m pretty sure adding a third column would be possible. I’ll look into it.
Great news! Thanks for all your hard work Joen and the team, I’ll be sure to upgrade my blog to RC sometime this week. :)
hawesome! i’ll check it out when i get home.
Great theme! I just wanted to note that it seems with the new version my footers for Spam Karma and Bad Behavior aren’t centered at the bottom anymore. I’m not savvy enough to figure out what code to tweak to fix it. Can anyone help?
Congratulations to all, this is inspired design with lots of hard work to back it up! I will be updating soon.
Hi Joen! The new version looks great, and I have already updated my site to use it. I can tell all the hard work that went into updating this new theme. I can tell that you put a lot of time into not just creating the theme, but Doing It Right. I can immediately tell the benefits of hosting the code at Google and getting help from others.
As usual, I’ve got some nit-picky things that I think could be corrected before you release version 1.0. Here’s my site for reference: http://www.mikegoodspeed.com/
1.
If you look at the sidenote on the sidebar, the feed link goes here:
http://www.mikegoodspeed.com/blog/categories/feed/
but I think it should go here:
http://www.mikegoodspeed.com/blog/categories/sidenotes/feed/
2.
If you look at the Current Theme Options -> Custom stylesheet URL, you say
The default is
styles/default/default.css.I just wanted to let you know that it’s very easy to select the period at the end of that line when trying to go back to the default. Maybe reword it so that the code isn’t at the end of the sentence (”%s is the default.”) or something. In the next line when you say that the stylesheet must be in a certain location, you don’t include the period and make it easy to copy.
3.
IMHO, the ASCII art isn’t very professional, but if you’re going to have it, you can’t use tab indentation because tabs are different sizes in different editors. Line 3 of style-ieonly.css includes a tab or two that pushes that line to the right in the Wordpress editor.
4.
By putting the default fauna style style spreadsheet in
styles/default/default.cssyou make it impossible to edit that file from in Wordpress’ theme editor. Now if I want to make changes through Wordpress’ theme editor (every version I go in and set-moz-border-radius:10pxon theboxclass) I have to make them instyle.csswhich gets applied to all fauna styles, even if I only want that change in the default style. I understand why you are putting it in the directory structure (to show other developers by example where it goes) but I just wanted to put this out there and see if you think the pros of being a good example style outweigh being editable in Wordpress’ theme editor.–
And here’s a question for you:
If I go into the theme options and select a background to play around with for my blog, selecting things like background repeat, and horizontal and vertical align, and then go back to the default wallpaper, will my choices on those 3 radioboxes effect the default wallpaper? There is no “no-choice” option, and when you use radioboxes, once you select something, one item always has to be selected. I haven’t used this feature ’cause I’m scared!
And an unrelated question:
I’d like the ability to, when people comment on a post, the comment appears on the current page without a page reload, all AJAX-y style. That’s a plug-in, right? Do you know of one that works with your theme? I’ve seen it done with other themes, but I can’t find any. This is a lazyweb question so feel free to ignore.
bq. Hi Joen! The new version looks great, and I have already updated my site to use it. I can tell all the hard work that went into updating this new theme. I can tell that you put a lot of time into not just creating the theme, but Doing It Right. I can immediately tell the benefits of hosting the code at Google and getting help from others.
Thank you! I appreciate it.
Now to your feedback, (which is also great).
1. Will examine and try to fix for 1.0.
2. Will examine and try to fix for 1.0.
3. Personally, I think it looks fun. If more people dislike it, of course I’ll remove it. For now, I’ll write down that we should change the tabs to spaces.
4. Personally I have always liked the _ability_ to edit the CSS in Wordpress, but disliked the _way_ the editor works. In my opinion, Wordpress should allow people to either browse the style directory in some way, or at least type in the filenames themselves.
This was not the reason I changed the way custom styles worked, though. I did that, to simplify downloading and installing them, and to keep things uncluttered, especially when a lot of images were used. I believe that upgrading either a custom style, OR Fauna versions, will be easier with this structure.
bq. If I go into the theme options and select a background to play around with for my blog, selecting things like background repeat, and horizontal and vertical align, and then go back to the default wallpaper, will my choices on those 3 radioboxes effect the default wallpaper? There is no ?no-choice? option, and when you use radioboxes, once you select something, one item always has to be selected. I haven?t used this feature ?cause I?m scared!
This is a “known issue” to me, and unfortunately I have very few ideas how to fix it. Usability wise, you’re completely right of course. It could be much better. The reason it is like it is now, is for technical limitations. In other words, I’m _very_ open to ideas.
bq. I?d like the ability to, when people comment on a post, the comment appears on the current page without a page reload, all AJAX-y style. That?s a plug-in, right? Do you know of one that works with your theme? I?ve seen it done with other themes, but I can?t find any. This is a lazyweb question so feel free to ignore.
There are a few “addons” planned for Fauna, and I’d welcome an AJAX commenting addon. The reason it’s not part of Fauna, however, is that I have not yet seen a single Wordpress blog use AJAX comments with success. It’s either slow, unstable, or a combination of the two.
Congratulations Joen!
and I really mean that, haha :) _right in time for Wordpress 2.0.5!_
I also greatly appreciate some of the instantly obvious fixes and all those little ones which take so long to read yet alone accomplish!
@*thanks for the styles page*@
I hope I get around to making some cool styles before you go final 1.0
I’ve said this before but I should say it again, fauna is truly the only completely working theme out there, it never leaves you hanging – and it’s so customizable it’s fun! //
cheers!!!
yay!
I love the options page, and the template changes.. icons, tags, search results ..
they are rockin!
big smile :D
Thank you mo, I’m so glad you like it, and it’s great that you notice all the small changes!
By the way, one in the forums had trouble using faunalive with RC — I know how much people love faunalive, if you need anything from me to get it work, just let me know. Did I ever send you a vector version of that illustration, btw?
*Thank You!*
haha, yeah I guess there are some fauna users who like the fauna + “faunalive”:http://360.pictor.us/?page_id=4 combination, personally I liked the background options which have been already addressed in RC, and the corner colors which helped montage transparency upon using custom backgrounds – all of which ALL have been addressed in RC. I haven’t looked at the new code yet, but I’m pretty sure that makes my ‘RC’ add-on a less pervasive one! :)
I’ve learned some php last summer, so I will try to clean up the code.. make it xhtml compliant.. make it look more streamline to your fauna style.. YET there is still one bug, which has kinda stumped me.. I have already mentioned it in the last paragraph of “this”:http://360.pictor.us/?page_id=4#comment-278 comment.
> help? really?! haha, YES!
I have seen your awesome flash work, and I know you’re pretty much what they call the expert in flash if flash ever had one – so I wonder if you will be kind enough to look at the problem description, and see why this happens.. maybe its something obvious that I’m just not aware of. (?) If so I will email you a more detailed explanation of the problem with the @.fla@ source attached for further investigation. Of course I will try my best to find a solution in parallel to your help.
> But about the vector version. Yes! I think I downloaded a photoshop file from your website some time ago. Thanks for the offer!
Joen, I always have appreciated your work and support all the way!
:D
Thanks again for the compliment and the announcement! I have to say that Fauna RC is far easier to work with than Beta 5. I wish the other themes that I use where as organized as Fauna.
James, you’re most welcome. I’m glad you like RC.
bq. I have seen your awesome flash work, and I know you?re pretty much what they call the expert in flash if flash ever had one – so I wonder if you will be kind enough to look at the problem description, and see why this happens.. maybe its something obvious that I?m just not aware of. (?) If so I will email you a more detailed explanation of the problem with the .fla source attached for further investigation. Of course I will try my best to find a solution in parallel to your help.
Hi mo,
Sorry for the late reply, and thanks for your kind comments. Of course I’ll help you, just email me and we’ll figure something out.
love the new changes, I’m especially enamored with the new options page.
one question though, for some reason no matter if the left or right sidebar option is clicked, the sidebar is on the left.
Hi yahaira,
I love your fauna customization, but it is also the cause for the sidebar location not working! In RC, the default style has changed, so that the right side location is default. In the previous style, which I see you still use (http://pureknits.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/fauna/fauna-default.css) the default location was to the left. And so, you have to copy the new code from the new default style (styles/default/default.css) to your customized fauna-default.css in order to get the sidebar to work.
Read more here:
http://www.noscope.com/fauna/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=165
Thanks Joen,
I am currently working on making it compatible with RC, also XHTML compliant..
I know how busy you are and so I will try my best to fix things myself, but I will keep contact with you for your generous help offer. Thanks!
bq. I know how busy you are and so I will try my best to fix things myself, but I will keep contact with you for your generous help offer. Thanks!
Thanks a bunch. You’re the best.
Finally I’ve finished faunalive RC!
Some mentionable improvements include..
php code optimization.
Flash actionscript optimization.
Flash publishing optimization.
Removed duplicate code, or void code.. and such. The code looks very clean now.
Made the flash Valid XHTML 1.0
Included IE Active-X activation workaround.
Improved faunalive home page look; added a sample Techno color chart.
Added three new languages. (Danish, Farsi and Polish)
Turned off ’scroll’ with a switch variable to avoid the ‘firefox tab stall’ [you can hack it on again]
Thus, faunalive is now completely glitch free.
Evening Joen, just thought I’d drop by and show off the latest incarnation/bastardisation of Fauna I’ve made. A lot of the codebase has changed (div stacking order, for instance), but the framework is pretty-much all Fauna.
http://newklear.org/blog/ is the main one I’ve been working on, it’s about 85% complete so far. http://cogito.underthetable.be/ is the other mod of it, but that’s slightly less advanced in terms of code progress.
Wanted to thank you and your team for making such a sexy layout, it’s one of the most versatile customisation bases around for Wordpress :)
bq. Finally I?ve finished faunalive RC!
Wow, beautiful work! Very nice!
bq. Evening Joen, just thought I?d drop by and show off the latest incarnation/bastardisation of Fauna I?ve made. A lot of the codebase has changed (div stacking order, for instance), but the framework is pretty-much all Fauna.
Very impressive! If you didn’t tell me, I wouldn’t have recognized the Fauna beneath it!
@Ben: indeed very impressive!
very nice ‘fauna-like’ themes,
I really enjoy their design ;)
After 3 or 4 days of pondering to make things actually work.. I think I finally got it, haha.. I wonder though is it working only on my computer screen,, phew that was not easy!
faunalive now “degrades gracefully” to the default or chosen jpg header, when flash doesn’t load, or if version is not available. (Also, jpg header is not downloaded when flash successfully loads.)
Thanks for the mention Joen!
good luck with your work
:)
Latest Version – OceanGray 1.5
First of all, this is the best Wordpress theme currently existing! Great work!
Secondly, I took the liberty of quickly creating a little integrated Zen photo theme. I didn’t put a lot of effort in it, but I could surely clean it up some and release it to my fellow fauna supporters, if there’s any interest in it. Check it out “here”:http://kim.syndromedia.se/gallery/.
Joen,
I love “fauna!” I think it is one of the best Wordpress themes out there. I’m not a programer, so I always had a hard time picking out a theme that was easy for me to use. I almost gave up and then I found “fauna” and I was able to get my blog up and running. Thank you so much for all your hard work! I just updated my blog with the “RC fauna” and it was such a smooth transition.
Thanks again.
Take care,
Alyssa
temporary link:
http://www.pictor.us/360/faunalive/
Blog of directtv
love to see it on wordpress.com :)
Awesome work Joen, this came completely out of nowhere! I’ll be upgrading my sites right away, hopefully I wont have to come trudging back here with a bag full of squashed bugs. :P
Oops, accidentally deleted some comments.
Well, sorry.
haha.. congratulations guys..
I just updated today and guess what
nothing bad happened xD
everything was happy and dandy – the new functions page couldn’t look better – pull down menus sure do save space :)
wonderful work.
Thanks for all your work on this great theme.
I’ve just installed Fauna RC2 (June 14th, 2007) on a blog.
I discovered a bug: there are three lines (52, 54, 72) in comments-popup.php that refer to (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘template-something.php’). These should be (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘templates/template-something.php’).
Thanks! I’ve updated the bugtracker with this issue.
http://code.google.com/p/fauna/issues/detail?id=93
I have published mine too.
it’s Fresh Fauna Style. hope you guys like it.
thanks :)
I like the logo and really look forward to the next Fauna release. Keep up the amazing work Joen!
It’s adorable! I love the weird little gait it has. I suppose it helps that the circles all over the right half of the image appear to look like snow flakes. Nice work :D
Thank you very much for the wonderful theme. We’re using it for endless.hu, a non-profit, non-commercial website that reviews various works of the sci-fi, fantasy and slipstream genres in Hungarian. You can check out the site itself, but there’s also a screenshot available of our modified Fauna at deviantart.com (with credits given, of course.)
Thanks again and all the best,
Feature list! Feature list! Feature list! Feature list! Feature list!
And congrats :D
Thanks.
An extended feature list featuring screenshots and stuff is forthcoming. Just so busy these days! It’ll be for a separate post! For now it feels great kicking this screaming baby out the door.
Michael, you can now “gorge in features”:http://www.noscope.com/fauna/2007/12/fauna-in-a-nutshell .
Thanks for the link to Frost, and congratulations on wrapping up Fauna 1.0!
Fauna is really a great theme. It’s fully-feature, but very lean and easy to customize. I’d recommend it to anyone looking to get away from WP’s default theme.
Love it. It’s been a long road, but this is how to release a theme. Easily one of the best things in the Wordpress theme community. Congratulations Joen and everyone else involved.
Hmmmm…. Using WP2.3.1 – Fauna doesn’t show up in my presentation page… moved the ‘fauna’ directory to the themes folder and no love… can’t wait to try it out, it’s beautiful. And the image pack just makes me smile!
Edit – tried RC 1.12 & 1.14 still nada
Update: Just downloaded the trunk from SVN and all seems happy w/ 2.3.1. Thanks!
This is a great theme, simple yet good looking.. Good work!
YES!!!
congratulations Joen, this is a HUGE achievement !
Go Moose GO!!!
Thank you so much for your theme !!!!!
So customisable, so fresh (with the headers’ colours ), I love it ^^
But…where did u get this plugin which gives an icon per category ????
(sorry if my english is bad ^^ )
Hello friends,
I love Fauna… I just installed it tonight and I’m loving the design, the ability to customize this theme beyond belief and the simplicity of the entire package. It’s just great. Thanks for releasing something so brilliant!
I’m not sure if it’s an error on my end or if I’m just looking for something that’s not there but my sidebar is invisible, even when I change its position.
Any help with this would be splendid, and thanks again for this great download.
I just noticed the support forum, woops.
Sorry!
hi,Joen.
first thank u for ur so great style.My gf like it very much. and now Ｉ have a problem with the font size. The font size is too small
Counld u tell me how to change the font size to large?
Yes.
Open the file called “style.css”, and add the following:
body { font-size: 150%; }If that’s too large, write 120% or something.
@joen, Thank u for ur help. I have changed the font size.
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Nice theme, I really like the custom style option. You
Hey,
That’s the nice themes. I want to translate this themes to Turkish and wanna share. Is it possible?
I’m using wp 2.3.1 and is it compable with this version?
bq. I want to translate this themes to Turkish and wanna share. Is it possible?
Yes, that’s possible, and very welcome, as long as you keep the open source license intact.
You might want to look at this article:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress
which explains how you can translate all the text in the Fauna theme without editing any of the PHP files.
hi , first of all tnx for a very beautiful theme..
there is a default.pot and default.po files. I changed some of english words to turkish but how can I entegrate it to my theme files.. after I change it to turkish my theme dont get turkish.. pls help me..
bq. there is a default.pot and default.po files. I changed some of english words to turkish but how can I entegrate it to my theme files.. after I change it to turkish my theme dont get turkish.. pls help me..
You need to edit your wp-config to tell it where to find the new language:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Language_and_Language_Directory
Thank you for creating this theme! We are now using it on our website and think it looks fantastic! :)
Thank you for amazing theme! Keep working on it!
First of all thank you very much for making this theme open source. I am using it on my blog right now, and I
Good stuff, using it on my blog right now. If you get the chance let me know what you think of the changes.
Hi! Just thought I’d thank for a wonderful theme :)
It’s nice and clean and easily customized, something I’ve been looking for for a while.
I’m using a customized version of it at my blog right now, I’d love it if you’d come have a look.
cheers!
Damm, i still don’t know how to change my header, i used to have a picture so nice!! i wish i could have it back! does anybody know where is this specific tool??!
thanks! =)
hi,
i want to use fauna theme on my site. is this compatible with wordpress 2.8.x?
thanks!