Notes Blog Core is available from wordpress.org.
You can also download and install the theme from within your WordPress install. Just go to Themes and then Add New. Search for “Notes Blog Core” or the author “tdh” and you’ll find it!
Core is licensed under GPL version 3.
Requirements
The Core needs WordPress 2.8 or newer to work, so if you’re running that, you can use the Notes Blog Core theme.
It will probably not run on versions of WordPress prior to 2.8, and there are no plans to support these at this time.
Language Files
The Core theme is localization ready, and in the theme package you’ll find a language file called notesblog.po. Use translation software such as poEdit to translate this to your language, unless there already is one available below, and save the translation in accordance with your language code (see here, sv_SE for Sweden for example). Put the translation in the Core theme folder and the theme will use it, assuming that you’ve got WordPress setup to use the particular language in the first place.
Available Translations
The following translations are available within the theme package. More will be added as they get released and approved for addition.
- Swedish (sv_SE) courtesy of TDH
- French (fr_FR) courtesy of Tams Design
- German (de_DE) courtesy of Martin Anton Müller
- Polish (pl_PL) courtesy of M@kowiec
- Turkish (tr_TR) courtesy of Ersan Özdil
Translations temporarily hosted on notesblog.com (to be added in next release):
- None at the moment.
Translations located elsewhere:
- Danish (da_DK) download
Have you done your own translation? Be sure to let me know so that I can include it here!
Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog is now available in its second edition. The book is revised and updated, sporting even more Notes Blog galore, all in full color.
My latest book is called Smashing WordPress Themes: Making WordPress Beautiful and is all about theming. The book is available now from your favorite online retailer (or physical bookstore).
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Great theme, about to use it for a development project I’m working on, thanks for making it available.
Any probs with sidebar dropping when looking at single.php while NOT LOGGED IN? Built my blog on Core and LOVE IT! Beautiful work on this theme. It has been a joy to work with! Cannot locate this one glitch. Anybody else met with this challenge?
Are you experiencing the same thing here, on this site?
P.S. once logged in… sidebar moves back to its correct location.
Hi TDH,
Reading your first edition of Smashing WordPress: Beyond the blog currently. I have found a bug on line 52 of the comments.php file. The ‘e’ for “You must be logged in to post a comment.”, “notesblog” is the wrong way round with the underscore.
Just thought I’d let you know.
P.s. The book is great. Can’t wait to read the second edition
Thanks, I hope we fixed that in the second edition.
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Hi. I’m using your notes-blog theme. I found that if I try to use functions.php in my child theme, I get this error:
“Fatal error: Cannot redeclare site_header_style() (previously declared in /home/p52347r2/public_html/site/wp-content/themes/doww-console/functions.php:59) in /home/p52347r2/public_html/site/wp-content/themes/notes-blog/functions.php on line 73
”
From what I understand, it’s possible to use a functions.php in the child theme. Could you please point me to a solution?
You can but you need to unregister the site header in your child theme from the template theme if you want to change it. Looks like that’s what you’re doing.
Thanks for the quick reply, Martin. I’m new to WP. When you say “unregister the site header,” how would I do that?
Not sure exactly what you should do, but I think the problem is that there is a site header in the theme, and you’re trying to add another one. Maybe this can help?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_custom_image_header
I’ll look into that. I remember that I was suppose to add the header tag as part of the “Smashing WordPress” lesson. (The theme’s author has a book out.) Lot’s of holes in his book, which has been frustrating. Anyway, I’ll poke around some more.
I haven’t had that issue, what page are you on where this doesn’t work? Are you sure you should be doing this in a child theme?
Hi Community,
I just got the smashing wordpress book, im just wondering that if the theme showing in the book is slightly different. there was a part at page 75 where they used get_template_part to retrieve the loop, but the most current theme file I got actually has the entire loop in index.php
Can anyone explain why is this so ? Thanks, All help is appreciated !!
You’re using the wrong theme. The Core theme was used in the first edition of the book, but the second edition uses the Notes Blog theme. Follow the links in the book, or just download the beta version from here: http://notesblog.com/2011/notes-blog-public-beta/
TDH Thanks a million !!! I think i got mixed up, i did follow the links form the book which was http://notesblog.com, page 69. And I was trying to look for the public beta ! Thanks to you, I found it. Btw, great job on the book, looking forward to complete it.
Thanks!
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I’ve been using Notes Blog 0.2.9.1. However, I need to create the sub site in Spanish. I’ve copied over the two language files (es_ES.mo and es_ES.po) from the WP in Spanish, but they don’t seem to work. How can I get Spanish to work?
Thanks!
You need to create Spanish language files for the theme. The ones from WordPress are just for WordPress core I’m afraid.
I’m new to all this, so please bear with me a bit longer.
When I tested the Spanish language version on Thematic theme, items such as Comments translated over pretty well. So, I’m wondering what Thematic has that Notes Blog doesn’t. (I built my site using your book and theme. So, I’d like to stay with it if possible.) What can I do to make Notes Blog work like Thematic — in regards to the Spanish files?
That’s because Thematic uses a lot of WordPress default strings. What you need to do is use Poedit to translate the .po file that comes with Notes Blog to Spanish. Which book are you using? I believe there’s a section about internationalization in both the Smashing WordPress and Smashing WordPress Themes with instructions on how to translate a theme that is prepared for it, as Notes Blog is.
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