first of all, get rid of the following two things in the header.php:
window.onload = function() {
new SmoothScroll({duration:2000});
}
because if you use lightbox (with prototype it does not play along that well.)
if you want to use lightbox with moo,
you should use slimbox
the file (feather.zip) comes with different headers:
one for slimbox and moo.tools (smallest) default install
one for lightbox (no moo.tools) bigger
also, see the manual.
Read MoreNew version of Rainbow Feather WordPress theme released – click above to read full story
Demo?
Resources?
Download!
UPDATED: feather_English.zip
feather_French.zip
feather_German.zip
feather_Portuguese.zip
feather_Turkish.zip
In the pipe: Japanese, Serbian (Croatian), Spanish, Romanian
Read MoreAs mentioned earlier, I worked (and still work) hard on Rainbow Feather; I had many people help me out with the work for Rainbow Feather, especially the translations for the localized version of Rainbow Feather, are beautiful. However embedding all those changes takes quite a while; also creating photoshop files for every language and every item (every button, every heading) is a time-intense process. I have finished the English Version to 100% and am now working my way through the German, Turkish, Portuguese, French and Romanian version. Here is a quick teaser video (Windows Media File) that shows how beautifully the widget-support is built-in, as well as the native Lightbox/Slimbox support, but also the cross-browser compatibility. Rainbow Feather is now looking all the same in every modern browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 6, Safari). Also, I added more php-fanciness to auto-cut long titles, a (currently) four pages manual and even more… please stay tuned and don’t hesitate to bug me/leave a comment.
Overall Preview (21MB WMV) | Show video online (new window)
Cross-browser compatibility (16MB Flash) (new window)
UPDATE: been working all evening and morning, English, German, French versions are done 100%, now working on pt_BR, tr_TR and ro_RO
UPDATE: You can check-out the accompanying manual for Rainbow Feather here
I realised the reason why I keep receiving so many e-mails where people ask if they can modify or use my themes or other material is because of the Creative Commons License I selected. Some months after I first released multiple themes to the public I realise that my choice of the Creative Commons License was wrong. I went with the CC BY-NC-ND, which basically means you could distribute my files, but were not allowed to change them (remix), not allowed to use them commercially and had to credit me.
Many people have come up with great modifications of my themes and I really appreciate that.
Now only hours away (I post the first media here today and go public Monday) of a major new release of Rainbow Feather with widget support and several languages I decided to change the license accommodating my work to the Creative Commons License BY-NC-SA, which means you are of course allowed to remix, modify, exchange, distribute, host my themes and material. However two parts of the license remain intact: you need to attribute my work, which I believe is fair since I spent numerous (literally) of hours working on my themes. It is good karma and a nice thing to not remove my attribution; then also, except with written permission, you are not allowed to use my work commercially, which means resell my themes, add your link to add ‘because you are some theme hosting site’ or similar. Again, for specifics, please drop me a line. And now get active, get busy, get remixing!
Read MoreUploading and Installing Coppermine is really is a time-consuming task – not if you can use subversion from the box and simply type:
svn co https://coppermine.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/coppermine copperminebut just to be better safe than sorry I’d go for
svn co https://coppermine.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/coppermine/trunk/cpg1.4.x/ copperminebecause this is the version that is currently being worked and developed on.
As by the day of writing this, the most recent security release (patch) is only 3 days old- so there is work in progress.
I was not able (yet) to find out the real difference between coppermine 1.4 and 1.5 (or coppermine 1.4.x and 1.5.x) – usually higher numbers are better- right?
somehow though, it seems like the coppermine 1.4.x version is the only actively maintained and supported one (generally speaking in terms of themes and plugins and other fancy gadgets such as bridges to WordPress etc).
If you know anything new, please leave a comment!
Today WordPress 2.3.3. was released as an urgent security update to the last version.
I wanted to update my install by making use of my subversion install:
so as usually I’d go on with opening PuTTy and logging into my server.
From sh I’d enter
svn upThis for some reason did not fetch all files and no real update was carried out. Any idea why? I have no guess.
So what I did was:
svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.3/More to type, but luckily this does update everything. Still an annoyance that svn up did not work.
Read MoreTake my Bonsai WordPress Theme (mentioned in Smashing Magazine’s Top 100 Themes for Ultra Big Font Type)
or the red version
Apply UPSTARTBLOGGER’s colours on the idea of Bonsai
and voilá you get STRIPPED (stripped, big letters, good copy)
Far fetched or simply stripped bonsai style and applied upstartblogger styling? – I must say I admire Upstarblogger’s themes, so in case this was co-incidental (which I believe), this is still funny!
Read MoreOn December 11th, 2007 Matt (or whoever he employs to run the WordPress Themeviewer) announced that updates are in progress. The short news post goes on by stating that “they were sorry for the lack of updates and that a subversion system would be installed and tested at the moment”.
Questions over questions… I find it really sad that the Themeviewer has been closed to Updates for such a long time.
I have fixed my Rainbow Feather Theme in August 2007 already and still people get the old version from the Themeviewer. I manually contact every single Rainbow Feather user and tell them to get the fixed version which takes care of the Internet Explorer 6 png-transparency issue. Also it is now valid xhtml and css, a good feature that many themes lack!
If the people at the official Themeviewer need help, why not address to the always helping community?
There are so many bright heads out there that fix WordPress bugs everyday without any pay – people developing plugins, people posting news and so on. Still, the Themeviewer is closed down. If you were to ask for help, I would volunteer and I am sure some 100 other people would, too! You can discuss this matter in the official WordPress Support forums
Obviously, some changes are being made: for instance was the theme download counter reset – but not for all I believe. This is weird and I hope Matt can shed some light onto this change. Personally, I have had some 50,000+ downloads in the past 6 months for my WordPress Themes (that look different) – these 50,000 downloads is in so far realistic, when looking at my Technorati Authority and Rank (26,000+ reactions, 390th ranked website) – so this leaves me stumbling, why are some counts reset and others not.
Or were all themes reset and my themes are simply not that well demanded nowadays? Another possibility of course… I must admit!
I always laugh at sites that have “old” copyright information on them and I almost forgot to update mine.
No-longer shall I be doing that with thanks to PHP´s little helper in form of the following one-line (I call it) “New Year Update Copyright script” in PHP:
What it does is quite obvious: it outputs the current year, so for instance you could have it say:
(c) 2006 – (php block here)
this would render (c) 2006 – 2008
- hope this helps anyone.
Now as I look at this issue, I wonder if I was smart enough to build that into all my themes. If not, I got some revising to do after I have finished my next exam in January (11th).
Update: bleh I put
in pretty much all my themes, which is stupid I fear – but for now it is noted on my to-do list and will be sorted out with the next wave of updates!
Update: Lorelle put the_time(); too, so I guess I might as well leave it like that.
Read MoreHappy New Year everyone, I have some interesting news for you guys -
I just received an email from a Dane asking for permission to translate my Rainbow Feather WordPress Theme to Danish -
Funny he mentions the localization issue right now, as I am also working on Brazilian translations for all my WordPress themes. I have been getting plenty of kudos and acknowledgements in regard to the feather theme every week – thank you for that!
Due to an exam that is coming up at 11th January I have to pause my work at the moment – I have finished translating 8 themes so far (it is really a lot of work)
Regarding his question, I hope it is not too bold of me to ask everyone to hang on until the 14th of January for me to send/upload the files.
When I do stuff, I do it right – I want to offer the PSD files (that I was hogging till now) to everyone who wants to translate my work.
I really appreciate every effort and thank you a lot. Happy new year!
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