Attention! There’s a newer beta version here!
It is about time, isn’t it? Here’s the Notes Blog Core 1.0 public beta for you to play with, all for free and all fine to fiddle with in just about any way you’d like. The beta is beta software so it might misbehave or be just plain weird. OK?
Good, then let’s get on with it.
The Notes Blog Core theme will be released for free, under the GPL license. The exact one isn’t decided yet, and it isn’t included in the beta. Consider it as GPL’d. When the 1.0 release is ready, I’ll submit it to wordpress.org.
This is free software!
There are no hidden links, fees, or anything like that. Notes Blog Core is free to use personally or commercially. Knock yourself out.
About the beta
The beta version is pretty close to 1.0. However, there are some things that just isn’t working in this beta, and those will be ticked off before the 1.0 release, along with anything I deem fitting that’ll come from the beta testers.
Todo
This is on the todo right now (from the readme files in the beta package):
- proper screenshot.png
- single post browsing links
- proper readme.txt
- title/meta check (for SEO etc.)
- license decision (which GPL to use)
- comments: split comments and trackbacks
Right now, there are three readme files in the beta package. In 1.0, only readme.txt will be there of course. The other two, readme-beta1.txt and readme-beta1-changespublic.txt are for beta testers. You need to read the former!
Localization
Core supports localization, so if you want to translate it to your language, just copy the notesblog.po file in the beta package and resave it to your language code (see WordPress Codex, it need to be the same language code), like en_UK for English (completely unnecessary, that theme is in English), or sv_SE for Swedish. In fact, there are Swedish language files in the beta package, so if your WordPress install is in Swedish, you’ll get the theme in Swedish too!
Please contact me with links to your language files so that I can pass it along to the Core users!
Child themes
The whole idea behind Core is to have it as the mother theme of child themes. A child theme is a separate WordPress theme that builds on another theme. This site runs a child theme built on Core, although the changes it does right now are minimal.
To use a child theme, just activate it as you would a normal theme. However, you need both the mother theme (being Core in this case) and the child theme in your themes folder.
A child theme needs a style.css, with a theme header much like any other theme, but with Template: notesblog-core added so that WordPress knows that it should use Core anytime the child theme won’t have the necessary files. So if your child theme only consists of style.css and category.php, it will use the Core files for everything besides those two things.
The child theme stylesheet
This is a sample child theme stylesheet:
/*
Theme Name: Sample child theme
Theme URI: http://notesblog.com/
Description: This sample child theme is built on <a href="http://notesblog.com/core/">Notes Blog Core</a>. Requires WordPress 2.8 or higher.
Version: 1.0
Tags: two columns, fixed width, custom, widgets
Author: Thord Daniel Hedengren
Author URI: http://tdhedengren.com/
Template: notesblog-core
Requires the Notes Blog Core Theme:
http://notesblog.com/core/
*/
@import url('../notesblog-core/style.css');
body { font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; }
Note the Template: notesblog-core part, that’s what’s telling WordPress what theme is the mother template theme. The @import imports the stylesheet from notesblog-core, otherwise we’d have no styling at all (since style.css in the child theme will null out the one in the mother theme). Finally, I changed the font-family for body.
That’s it. Upload (in its own folder, like a regular theme) and activate. Add whatever template files you want to the child theme, and hence you won’t have to touch the Core theme, which makes it easier to update and maintain.
Alright! Give me the beta already!!!
OK. Just remember:
- This is beta software!
- Please report bugs. Contact information can be found in the readmes, or you use the comment section below.
- You need WordPress 2.8 or later. Earlier versions are NOT supported, and will never be.
OK? OK!
Grab the theme from here! There’s a newer version here!
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started testing
where do I report bugs ?
Either here, or to the email address found in the readme files. Thanks!
Det tycks saknas ett blanksteg efter “Taggat med”. Taggen kommer direkt efter, typ: “Taggat medKalle Anka”.
I alla fall i den svenska lokaliseringen.
Replying in English for the rest of the world to see. This appears to be a localization issue. Try this language file instead:
http://notesblog.com/tmp/sv_SE.mo
Drop it in the notesblog-core theme folder, replacing the old one.
Ah, english. Sorry.
Thanks for the file. “Problem” solved.
No worries, and great!
Och om man tittar på “Post a comment”-formuäret här nedan så saknas det en parantes. Antingen borde det stå “Email (Never published), (Required)” eller “Email (Never published, (Required))”.
Eller så är den en parantes för mycket och det ska egentligen stå “(Never published, required)”
Nu är vi verkligen nere på småsaker känner jag …
Men det är detaljerna som gör det!
Again, in English.
Should be fixed now. Will seed it in beta1.3 later today.
All pages are shown with the default category. “Filed under”. Is this a bug or a feature? I wasn’t even aware that you could assign categories to pages.
An example: http://www.piruett.se/sinkadusmandag/
It’s a bit irritating since my default category i “moblog” and I can’t seem to find anywhere to change a page’s cat.
It’s a known bug, will be gone soon.
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is this a bug ?
take a single post, right here on your blog, I see the title of the post, in big and black, and then the title again, as link, same color as other links .. ?
It was a bug (removed now). Accidentally, I sent some files to the public site rather than the testing environment, and then went on vacation. Sorry about that!
If I add a description to an image using the standard insert image-panel, text alignment will for all practical purposes be set to “none” – even though it still says “right” for example. Text will no longer wrap around the image.
Thanks, that was a bug. Found it, squashed it, will release an updated version of the beta tomorrow which takes care of this.
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Are bullet-lists and numbered lists supposed to be in a different font than ordinary text?
Yes, that is intentional, however I might tweak it. If you have suggestions, do post them in the wishlist post.
Comment text sometimes run into the “reply”-link, like so:
Ok, here’s the image I tried to link to:
http://www.piruett.se/blogg/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/com.jpg
It shouldn’t do that of course. Thanks, I’ve added it to my list!
When trying to change the background of #site or #wrap, it doesn’t change and just stay transparent. Bug? Also, the stylesheet doesn’t validate.
How and where are you trying to change the background? Most likely it is due because of they’re not floating. Will look into that, #site could float at least. Otherwise, just use body.
With #page, #site { background: #fff; }
Problem solved with the floating tip you gave me.
Great! I’ll probably incorporate the #site float code into 1.0, FYI.
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I like this theme, very simple, and very fresh.
I like it — Simple but not simple.
I’m glad you like it!
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