WordPress Theme: ClockWorkSimple
ClockWorkSimple is a 960px fixed width WordPress theme. Depending on your needs it is prepared to work either as 2 or 3 column layout. The large amount of whitespace allows to focus the reader’s attention on the parts where it belongs and navigation elements are easily noticable. ClockWorkSimple features the following:
- An out-of-the-box Breadcrumb
- 4 widget areas in the sidebar
- Author Comment highlighting
- Built-in subscribe to comments
Screenshot
Download
Download the latest version of ClockWorkSimple here
Translations
- Polski – Polish translation of the ClockWorkSimple Theme by TopBlogger,
- Deutsch – German translation by WordSaftPresse.
Version history
- v1.3.1
- Fixed a possible misuse of the breadcrumb
- v1.3.0
- .po file for translation included
- fixed bug where the comment bubble would not link properly
- fixed pre tags displaying across the page
- moved shown tags below post content
4:02 am
Pascal
Your theme is amazing, but it has a problem, the top menu ( about, subscribe ) is vertical instead of horizontal!
Nice work, tankx !
7:25 am
Łukasz Sobek
Thank you. I fixed the layout bug as soon as the layout was up and rinning on wordpress.com/themes/. Unfortunately v1.0.2 has not been reviewed yet, so v1.0.1 is still haunting the internet. I’ll upload the newest version here today, so you can download the fully functioning one :).
1:41 am
Larry
I also noticed layout inconsistencies in IE6 and Safari, all related to the menu items at the top right. In IE the menu items don’t render on the same line. In Safari they are stacked.
In FF2 the top menu items need “list-style: none” to prevent the bullets from showing on their left side.
This is a great theme- once it’s fully cross-browser compatible, it’s gonna be perfect! Thanks for your hard work :)
2:59 am
Łukasz Sobek
Thank you Larry, the Theme was fixed the same day the 1.0.1 version hit the repository, unfortunately the fixed version (1.0.2) is still pending for review. You can use the link above (in the post body) to download the fixed version.
3:27 pm
Łukasz Sobek
The updated version is up and running at the repository and the download link has been updated. Enjoy :).
12:56 pm
Pat
Love the theme.
A query – can I remove the page titles from the header? How? I think I have too many and it doesn’t look so good. You can see from the question that I am not a master!
Pat
1:29 pm
Łukasz Sobek
Thank you :).
You could combine some of the pages and so lessen their amount. Anyway, to remove the page tabs just delete the line that says: <?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&depth=1′); ?> in header.php. It is line no 27 and the effect will be only the link to the homepage and and orange subscription tab showing.
1:31 pm
Łukasz Sobek
BTW, I see you also deleted the breadcrumb? On purpose or by accident? :D
3:09 pm
Pat
I did that on one purpose. Thanks a lot for your help. Fingers crossed!
3:22 pm
Łukasz Sobek
looks great now :D
8:04 pm
downloadtoad
hi. i downloaded and installed your clockwork theme but cant seem to edit and replace the text:
“This is the place to enter a short introduction and maybe encourage people to read more about the author of the blog”.
How do I do that? Please help.
4:08 pm
Giorgio
Thanks a lot for the PERFECT theme!! It’ exactely what i was searching for my blog.
I remixed it a little and i made a Delicious Style version of the theme, available on my site, reporting your name, your site and all linked here. I hope you will appreciate that… and don’t be angry with me… :-)
4:09 pm
Giorgio
Sorry, the correct url of my blog is http://www.blogobear.com/giorgio
6:18 pm
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12:25 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@downloadtoad – just replace the <a> with <a href=”the_target_address_your_about-page_has” >
@Giorgio – looks nice, although there are not that may changes ;) I’ll add a link to your page.
2:54 pm
downloadtoad
thank you lukasz
11:26 am
yuks
Loves your theme and I am now working on tweaking for my site. Can you tell me how I can change text and hover color for the side bar? I guess it is probably the same thing, but I also want to change color for days that have posts in calender. Thanks a lot!
2:46 pm
Clayton Bell
Great theme, I just switched! However, I’m a little new at the coding stuff. How can I switch the breadcrumb to say “Follow me on Twitter // Connect with me on Facebook //” etc. with the right links?
11:32 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@yuks
for the text color in the sidebar open the style.css file and find line 101. Change the “color: #333″ part to the RGB color number that fits your needs.
for the link hover in the sidebar add a new line below line 106 that says “#sidebar a:hover {color: #333}” again replacing the #333 with the color value you need. This will also take care of the calendar links.
@Clayton Bell
Thank you very much, I see you already found the solution ;)
8:27 pm
Clayton Bell
Yes, a friend helped me figure it out. Lot’s of compliments on the theme, thank you!
One additional question: Does it have any problems integrating with the plugin WordPress Stats? I know my stats are wrong since I’ve installed it, and was just checking about known issues. I’ve deactivated and reactivated the plugin since activating the theme.
10:39 pm
Zak White
Yes, I am also experiencing the problem with WordPress Stats not working. Help? I’m sure its just the coding in the footer.php file, but I can’t seem to make it workie.
:)
Zak
12:05 am
Łukasz Sobek
@ Clayton Bell
@ Zak White
add the following line in footer.php just above </body> –
<?php do_action(‘wp_footer’); ?>
It should fix your problems. Thank you for the comments, I’ll upload a fixed version shortly :)
12:30 am
Zak White
Hello! Thanks for the help. I am looking at the footer.php code in Dreamweaver and I don’t see that code ( </body>) . Odd. Other ideas?
12:30 am
Zak White
OOPS! Nevermind. I FOUND IT! THANK YOU!!!!
5:18 pm
Clayton Bell
I added that code, but I don’t think it fixed the issue, unless people have stopped reading my blog in protest of my new theme. I have google analytics on there, but really like the simplicity of the WordPress Stats. Look forward to the updated theme…
9:46 pm
Łukasz Sobek
Yikes, it should be – <?php wp_footer(); ?> . Sorry. And it is the only requirement the statistics have.
10:30 pm
Clayton Bell
Just corrected it and trying it out. I wonder if it should go before or after the google analytics code?
BTW, thanks for working on this issue. love the theme!
11:13 pm
Clayton Bell
Ok, pretty sure that fixed it. Thanks!
4:45 pm
springcleaning
Hey, great theme! How do I remove the “Links” section from the sidebar?
Also, is there a way to edit the text color on the main page title (header)?
Thanks!
5:26 pm
springcleaning
One more thing…
I just noticed that there are no comments boxes on the PAGES. They’re there on the POSTS, but not the PAGES. This was included with other themes I tried. Any way to get it back in YOUR theme?
Thanks!
8:10 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@springcleaning
1.) Main page title color:
look into style.css, around line 26,27 there should be
——————
#header h1,
#header h1 a {color: #327eb0; letter-spacing: -1px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 30px;}
——————
Change the “#327eb0″ to an RGB color value you like more.
2.) Links section:
open sidebar.php, delete lines 64 and 65
3.) Comments on pages:
edit index.php, around line 45 you should find
——————
<?php if(is_single()) { ?>
——————
change the “if ( is_single() )” to “if ( is_single() || is_page() )”
Cheers,
8:13 pm
Łukasz Sobek
Sorry, part of the code got eaten, around line 45 in index.php you should find:
<?php if(is_single()) { ?>
<div class=”comments-template”><?php comments_template(); ?></div>
<?php } ?>
5:11 am
springcleaning
Thanks! It all worked. I’m getting quite a coding education!
Hey, one more thing if you get a minute. How can I remove the following from above my comments boxes?:
—–
XHTML – You can use:
5:13 am
springcleaning
OK, that didn’t work well! I’m referring to the text that appears immediately above this very box that I’m typing in…..the one showing the various coding options for those leaving a comment. How can I delete that from my blog altogether?
6:08 am
springcleaning
Hey, one more thing when you get a minute….
Why do my POSTS show up as “recent comments” from me?
Is there any way to make that stop?
11:39 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@ springcleaning
Info on the XHTML tags: delete line 97 in comments.php
Recent comments: the standard recent comment widget/plugin is configured in such a way that it shows who commented and links back to the commented post – it has nothing to do with the theme – you need to change the behaviour of the widget/plugin that shows the recent comments. A theme cannot not alter the functionality of the plugin (it can style the display though, but that’s about it). Sorry.
6:35 am
springcleaning
Hey, I’ve added a google search box to my blog, but I’m not allowed to have two. I tried to remove your search box in the widgets section, but I see that it’s not installed that way. Where can I find the code to remove it?
Thanks!
9:01 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@springcleaning – just mail me the code for the search box and I’ll change it for you, there is no contact form on this site, so you can use the one here – http://sobek.pl/kontakt/ just paste the code into the message body.
@Hyun-U Sohn – Thank You for the kind words, and I am glad you like it :)
6:32 pm
Sypie
I experienced a strange lay-out issue when adding thumbnails to posts. If i put 3 images to a post the next post is halfway the previous. An example image you can find here: http://mac4dummies.nl/img/gallery/album/4_1223742761.png
8:04 pm
Łukasz Sobek
If you use floats (i.e. “float: left” or “float: right”) you need to add one line
to line 36 and 44 of index.php (with the line numers I’m referring to version 1.1.1 – which is currently the most up to date)
Thank you very much for mentioning this, I’ll include a preventional fix for this in the next update, because although it is not a problem of the theme itself – it may cause headaches nevertheless.
10:57 am
Sypie
@Lukasz, were you talking to me? Because i put the code in that lines, in the latest index.php of the theme, but there is no difference at all. Even when i use the 1.1.1. of this theme.
Could it be an idea to put different language options in this theme? I will make the Dutch one for you, no problem. Because i translated everything manually in the scripts i had to do it again after i updated.
9:21 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@ Sypie – Sorry, yes I was referring to your comment. One other thing, did you change the double quotes from the ones shown in the above comment to the regular ones you get, when you enter them via keyboard?
(they are different: look at this comment. – the quotes on the white background are different from those in the gray box.)
If that doesn’t help you can always post the addres of the page here, for me seeing the code will be much easier than discussing a hypothetical situation.
If you did a Dutch translation, I’d add a “translations” section here :)
6:45 am
john wen
thanks theme ,I very like. this theme very good!
7:18 pm
almodesto
been searching a while for a suitable theme for my blog and i found yours! very nice!
i tried to change the “This is the place to enter a short introduction and maybe encourage people to read more about the author of the blog.” by just replacing the text with “This blog is about sharing a vision of world unity and seeing a common path to its reality.” the word “reality.” taking the place of “read more about the author of the blog.” it didn’t work.
when i preview the site i get this: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/rebotelc/public_html/cybercosmorama.com/wp-content/themes/clockworksimple/header.php on line 60
what did i do wrong? thanks in advance
10:00 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@almodesto –
1.) open header.php (theme version 1.1.1)
2.) delete lines 61 and 62
3.) change line 60 to:
$clockworkbreadcrumb = “This blog is about sharing a vision of world unity and seeing a common path to its reality.”
11:06 pm
Sypie
It worked. Took a while for me to come back and find out. Now the point is that every first post on a page has a whole white space between the header of an article and the body of the article. Anyone to shoot at it?
And for the translation: i will make the dutch one for you if you give me the English word files in PHP format, not using .PO or .MO.
6:33 am
Łukasz Sobek
@Sypie – Definetly got to add a subscribe to comments option ;)
About the layout: sorry, my bad. Just change the “clear:both;” to “clear: left;” and the whitespace will dissapear.
About the translation: I’ll have to think of a way to make it easier as the text is in the template files itself.
5:55 pm
almodesto
thanks for the help and the quick response, it worked perfectly!
3:44 am
Murphy Mac
Lukasz –
After two years with Default I’ve found a theme I’m willing to switch for! It looks great, thanks!
It might be me because I haven’t gotten very far with my test site, but your search box only works for me on the main page, not in a single post or on one of the ‘Pages’ pages, if you know what I mean. Is it me?
I’m afraid I’ll have more questions before I’m done, I’m pretty slow with html and css.
Thanks!
10:46 am
Chasenet
Fantastic theme – I am using it for a local business blog.
I’m no coder and I am stuck on altering the default breadcrumb message – similar to Clayton’s 1st post above – but I can’t figure it out.
How do I get it to display a url in the line? So it would just say for instance.
If you’re planning a new website or are thinking of refreshing an exiting one… my link text
I can see the header code that needs altering but it doesn’t like a regular link in there.
10:47 am
Łukasz Sobek
Just follow these instructions: http://clockworkblogger.com/theme-clockworksimple/#comment-513
Please remember that you need to use single quotes, so it should be <a href=’somelink’> (with single quotes) and NOT <a href=”somelink”> – this is because the double quotes are used to tell PHP which part of the text to display and if you use more than one set (eg. for enclosing the link, for a nofollow tag) the program executing the code won’t know what’s going on.
7:03 pm
Martin
Great theme, thanks!
In IE and Firefox though the RSS button in the applications link to feedburner.com/ZarabianieNaBlogach.
Is there a way to change this to the site’s RSS?
Thanks,
Martin
8:24 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@Martin – Sure, thank you for telling me. Just submitted a new version (v1.2) to the wordpress repository. it features built-in subscribe to comments and fixes the thing you mentioned.
the quick fix is as follows:
1.) Delete lines 10 and 11 from header.php
2.) Insert an empty line where you deleted the lines (just press enter to go to a new line
3.) enter the code in the empty line:
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0″ href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>” />
5:14 pm
Leo
Great theme…new to this. Can’t figure out how to change th text in the gray bar “This is the to enter a short introduction and maybe encourage…” Help?
11:19 pm
Sypie
Lukasz,
It’s up and running here: http://www.rudolfvanderwerf.nl If you check it out there are posts with 0 (zero) comments that have a boxed zero with a line under and there are post without comments that just have a boxed zero…?
Where is the difference?
11:28 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@Sypie – Noticed the strange behaviour not too long ago, another thing is that I don’t see the line in all browsers (opera for instance doesn’t show them). I’ll look into it and post a solution in the comments ;).
11:34 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@Leo – after reading http://clockworkblogger.com/theme-clockworksimple/#comment-513 you should get an idea about what to do. if you need to insert a link there just follow the instructions here http://clockworkblogger.com/theme-clockworksimple/#comment-524.
Hope it helps :)
11:34 pm
Sypie
After some more posts and adding all the comments (because of a database backup things went wrong..) there are no lines visible. Maybe it will come back.
11:35 pm
inesz
hi, I have a problem with my blog. In IE the left side bar is set below the right sidebar and I don’t know how to fix this. I already took the new version you put on wordpress. Can you help me? Is it a bug?
10:27 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@inesz – Sure, I’d have two guesses:
a.)
open style.css,
in line 103 change “width: 150px;” to “width: 160px;”
in line 104 change “width: 150px;” to “width: 140px;”
save, reload
if it doesn’t work try:
b.)
open style.css,
replace line 103 (the whole text) with
#sidebar .leftbar {width: 150px; float: left;}
save, reload
Tell me the results ;)
10:40 pm
inesz
thanks Lukasz, it doesn’t work. I tried both ways. :( I will try to reload whole version again…
8:08 pm
Murphy Mac
Hey – I love your theme, thanks.
I’m trying to change the title bar to show the post name followed by the blog name when showing a single post. I switched the two php pieces around, and made this change to the title one:
But instead of putting the | between the title and name it’s putting it before the title. I looked all over the theme and couldn’t figure it out. Any help?
Thanks….
1:15 am
Łukasz Sobek
@Murphy Mac – went to your site, but can’t see it :( Sorry to ask you for this, but could you rephrase what you want to do. When saying “title bar”, do you mean the browser title bar, the title bar of the blog “Murphy Mac
Over 100 Screencasts”, the breadcrumb or the post title with the dot?
or better, just tell me the line number of the piece of code you switched around :).
3:04 am
Murphy Mac
Sorry – I forgot to paste in my change to the page…
Browser title bar on a single post. I believe it’s line 5 of header.php. Inside the tags. I reversed the two items inside there, putting the title before the name:
I added the ‘ | ‘ inside the parens after wp_title
Thanks for your help.
3:11 am
Murphy Mac
Sorry again Lukasz – I just realized my html is being pulled from comments and I don’t know enough xhtml to make them stay! Anyway, I meant line 5 inside the title tags. And changed the post title and the blog name around, and tried to add a vertical pipe with quotes in between, by placing it in the parens after the post name.
When I did that I got vertical pipe character, post name, blog name in the title bar.
It’s not like that on my site now, I switched it back.
I know I’m not explaining this well!
9:54 am
ninaiz
Hi!
I have this problem:
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/www/anpulubila/public_html/wp-content/themes/clockworksimple/functions.php:36) in /home/www/anpulubila/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 770 when i change the theme.
And i can’t swhitch visual/html editor.
What can i do?
12:53 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@ninaiz – the newest version at the repository should have the problem fixed – http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/clockworksimple
3:58 pm
Murphy Mac
Still stuck on my browser title bar. Somehow wp_title in line 5 of header.php places the raquo double arrows in front of the post title, but I don’t see where they come from or how I can change the double arrows to something else.
Also, I can’t see how the title in line 5 of header php knows if it’s for a single post or not.
Thanks for any help.
5:34 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@Murphy Mac – Sorry for the delay. I think editing the header.php would be the more complicated way. I suggest you give – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/ a try first. It allows to edit this kind of things from the wp admin panel.
6:30 pm
JMK
Hi,
Great theme. Couple questions from a newbie.
1) where do I edit the “This is the place to enter a short introduction and maybe encourage people …” just under the header? I can’t find that to edit the wording.
2) on the right sidebar the About section, again, where do I edit that content? I’ve edited the default About page but that is different content.
Thanks, love the simplicity of the theme!!!
10:22 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@JMK
1 – lines 59 to 61 in header.php
2 – lines 12 and 13 in sidebar.php
if you stumble upon problems while editing the header.php please read through the comments – there has been info on this ;)
4:32 pm
Clayton Bell
@lukasz- Let me say again how much I love the theme! I just have two questions, and neither of them is about the breadcrumb!
Is there a new version of the theme available with any updates?
I have problems with anything that has to pull the text from the site, say like Wordle.net or CommentLuv plugin, because it doesn’t pull anything in English. Is there a fix I can do for this, or is it a theme issue?
Thanks again for the great theme!
6:49 pm
almodesto
hello Lukasz!
just two questions:
i have enabled comments on my “about” page but i don’t see the blue box showing number of comments or the ability to do such.
and i would like to have a stationary background image for each page (i plan on adding two more pages) where do i place the code?
if i overlooked previous explanations of my request i apologize, i did look! thanks
2:48 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@Clayton Bell
yes, there is :) The newest one currently is v1.2.2 with several bugfixes and features. Download link: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/clockworksimple.1.2.2.zip
CommentLuv seems to work ok, I only saw links to english posts in your comments.
@almodesto – I suggest you update to v1.2.2, and after that:
1.)open index.php
2.)go to line 45
3.) change change the “if ( is_single() )” to “if ( is_single() || is_page() )” – it will make comments appear on the pages
Could you go into more detail about what you mean with “stationary background image”?
3:36 pm
Clayton Bell
CommentLuv works fine for people posting to my blog, it’s when I post to other blogs and the plugin has to pull text from me blog. Same thing if I enter my blog in Wordle.net
6:52 pm
almodesto
yes Lukasz, thanks again for your assistance! the upgrade and change to line 45 worked without a hitch. i can now accept comments on my “about” page but there is no “blue comment count box”, how do i include that? is it just a matter of categorizing the “about” page and if so how is it done?
oh, i’ve changed my mind on background. many thanks!
8:10 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@Clayton Bell – Please do update, there was a bug in the RSS section in the theme version you are using.
1.)Open header.php
2.)Find these two lines:
<link rel=”alternate” type=”text/html” media=”handheld” href=”http://www.feedm8.com/zarabianienablogach1″ />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0″ href=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/ZarabianieNaBlogach” />
3.)delete them, and place this line instead:
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> RSS Feed” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>” />
8:17 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@almodesto
1.)Open index.php
2.)Delete line 26
3.)Delete line 39
After that please tell me if the result is what you were looking for ;)
3:52 am
almodesto
i’m sorry Lukasz, i don’t know how to determine a line, do you count a space as a line? it would be easier for me if you gave me a sample text of the lines i should delete. again, i wish to have a blue box such as seen on the home page (which currently shows “0″ for every post so far!) that carries the comment count. i hope you understand. thanks
8:54 am
Sypie
If you use a Mac you can use Smultron, a PHP/HTML editor with line numbers. For Windows you can use Crimson Editor, also a PHP/HTML editor with line numbers.
11:38 am
Łukasz Sobek
@almodesto – I suggest downloading a text editor that displays line numbers (apart from the fact, that the original notepad is a very basic tool) – I am using Notepad++, it’s free and pretty powerful. http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/download.php
I hope to have guessed correctly that you are using a PC, if you’re a MAC user – there should be a tool available as well. (The text editor for linux comes with line numbering built-in I think, but has to be enabled in the options panel).
1:07 pm
Kurtlar Vadisi
Nice :) very thanks.
6:34 pm
Sypie
Hey i put a comment in here with some links to websites with free editors, where did it go?
8:59 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@Sypie – Got eaten by the spameater ;)
4:28 pm
almodesto
thanks Lukasz and Sypie!
8:31 pm
almodesto
hey Lukasz!
i’m getting closer to what i want! i’m still missing the “blue box” which i assume carries comment count. it appears before every post on the main page. i wish to have the same blue box on my about page post. by the way the editor makes it very easy, thanks for the suggestion and thanks for your patience.
8:34 pm
Sypie
Find the code #327EB0 That is the blue for that box…
1:49 am
almodesto
thanks Sypie, i found the code but how do i get the comment box to show up on my about page?
7:48 am
Sypie
Do you have a very new WordPress? Well then give a comment to the already installed first article. The article that should be there is called “Hello world” and has 1 comment add a second one and the box is showing up. (just tested for you).
9:29 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@Sypie – almodesto means the pages ;)
@almodesto – it’s a wordpress thing, comments_popup_link (line 30) does not display on pages or posts. It’s a bit weird, but the solution is as follows:
1.)keep the changes you did so far to index.php
2.) replace line 30 with the following:
<div class=”metacomments”><a href=”<?php comments_link(); ?>”><?php comments_number(’0′, ’1′, ‘%’ ); ?></div>
11:19 pm
Josh Friedlander
I really want to thank you for such a clean and simple theme. I have a problem to point out and a question:
Prob: huge graphics seem to automatically take over the page and have to be given specific widths. Obviously, I’m lazy if I don’t, but I’m wondering if I can keep this from happening when some of my posters forget to indicate “width=100%”.
Question: I want to have a bare-bones archive page. More headlines, less text, like what I’ve done here: http://seasonedfork.com/?author=1
Given the simplicity of your file structure (which is awesome, btw), there’s no archive.php for me to hack. How can I limit archive, category and author post viewing to headlines (or whatever) without hurting the front page?
Thanks again for your awesome contributions to themes.
10:34 am
Łukasz Sobek
@Josh -
Posters: you can define a css style for the posters e.g. add to style.css:
#content .posters {width: 500px;}
now every time you add an image with “class=posters” it would make the image 500px wide. The easier solution obviously would be to use a plugin like YAPB (Yet another Photoblog) which takes care of automatically adjusting the width)
Bare-bones archive: just add the archive.php yourself and put in whatever you like to be there (that is one of the reasons there is only an index.php in the theme – whatever you add will simply override the default template)
12:00 pm
Sypie
@Łukasz Sobek : You still have the idea to make a translatable theme? I now have the second weblog with this theme and i need to translate everything again :P
6:19 pm
Łukasz Sobek
Nice to hear – Yes, the localization of the themes is still planned :)
6:48 pm
ssnowden
Love the theme. Great job.
A couple of issues I’m working if you can assist.
1. The footer is cut off the front page on IE, so you don’t see the gray bar and older posts link. It looks fine in Chrome and Firefox.
2. The Subscribe tab at the top, where do I put the feedburner URL?
I’m not a coder, so these are probably basic questions.
Thanks.
8:00 pm
Sypie
@Łukasz Sobek : Can it be an idea that you also make the color of the main text/titles not the same as the navigation in the breadcrumb? Now i can’t see the breadcrumb on wich page/post i am. Check it out @ http://www.worldservantsleeuwarden.nl
8:23 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@Sypie – uhmm..the link doesn’t work for me :(
Edit: Ok, got through – but I see you already managed to adopt it?
8:30 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@ssnowden –
ad.1 – thank you for telling me :). I’ll include that in the next fix.
ad.2 – there are at least 4 different links to your feed throughout the theme. The easiest way would be to install the feedburner plugin here
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/products/feedburner_feedsmith_plugin_2.3.zip
and just point it to your feedburner address
9:26 pm
Sypie
@Łukasz Sobek: No i didn’t solve it yet. In the index there is a yellow/red breadcrumb. On a page/article the breadcrumbcolor is the same as the main text. Example: http://www.worldservantsleeuwarden.nl/11/een-nieuw-begin/ When you select all the text in the breadcrumb bar you can see that the article-title is in the same color as the main text.
Another thing that has nothing to do with code: the images you added in the theme, are they with transparant bakgrounds? If you change the color of the background of your page, like i did, you keep the white backgrounds of the images.
10:36 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@Sypie – for the breadcrumb:
around line 39 in style.css add another line saying:
#teaser strong {color: #FFD600;}
this should fix it, but somewhere in the css file, there must be an indication to make bolded text the blue color you use for the background.
about the images:
as long as you keep the background white you don’t need to change the images. They are transparent e.g. with the commentbox.gif the inside of the speechbubble is transparent, and not the outside. The same is true for the other images except the bullets.
11:20 pm
Sypie
The trick with the code #teaser strong did the trick. Thanks.
For the images, i have to find another way to make ‘em the way i can have them in my lay-out.
2:08 am
Josh Friedlander
“Bare-bones archive: just add the archive.php yourself and put in whatever you like to be there (that is one of the reasons there is only an index.php in the theme – whatever you add will simply override the default template)”
I’m not sure how that would work unless I only wanted to have one archive page. My author pages will still load in the standard fashion. There’s got to be some code that specifies: if author post, if archive post, display a different way than front page posts. Anyone on board know?
3:00 am
Clayton Bell
@lukasz- The new version fixed the mistranslation issue with items like CommentLuv. However, when attempting to re-activate “Subscribe to Comments” plugin I received this message:
“Fatal error: Cannot redeclare show_subscription_checkbox() (previously declared in /home/content/c/l/a/claytonbell/html/wp-content/themes/clockworksimple123/functions.php:45) in /home/content/c/l/a/claytonbell/html/wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/subscribe-to-comments.php on line 58″
Any thoughts?
10:20 am
Łukasz Sobek
@Sypie – as far as the corner image is concerned an image sprite is the only thing that comes to my mind, apart from disabling the gradient background of the page that is. For the comment image, you would only need to make two versions of it – regular & hover, and just make the white background on them transparent.
@Josh Friedlander – look at header.php lines 47-55, you have nearly all codes for listing the various conditions listed there – it’s the if(is_something()) {} part. Copy the code where you need something to be displayed into index.php and fill in what should happen if the condition is met.
@Clayton Bell – the theme already comes with subscribe to comments built-in. It would be difficult too switch the same bulb on twice ;). You can disable the plugin – the theme will use all settings you previously had (and keep the list of people too).
1:17 am
Rosetta
I have fallen in love with this theme! I have figured out everything I want to do with it except one thing: how do you change the name of the “home” tab to NOT be the name of your blog? I want to change my home tab to say “blog” – any ideas?
http://www.rosettathurman.com
10:30 am
Łukasz Sobek
@Rosetta – open header.php and edit the line (should be line number 25) that says:
<li><a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>”><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></a></li>
to
<li><a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>”>the_name_you_choose</a></li>
11:18 pm
Rosetta
Thanks so much! Worked like a charm. This is the perfect theme.
5:10 am
Sam
Love this theme!
There seems to be a problem with the comment bubble link – it returns error because of bad URL. How can this be fixed?
For example on http://claytonbellonline.com/ the comment bubble links to http://claytonbellonline.com/%EF%BF%BDhttp://claytonbellonline.com/?p=1217#comments%EF%BF%BD
8:15 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@Rosetta – np :)
@Sam – Thank you for pointing this out. If you look at line 28 in index.php you’ll notice the quotes around <?php comments_link(); ?gt; being different from all the others. Just change these and everything should go back to normal – I’ll post a fixed version tomorrow.
@Sypie – Finally understood how the translation process works, so expect to find a .po and .mo file in the next release of the theme ;) The .po is plain text, so if you don’t want to use poedit or any other you can do it in a text editor.
9:51 pm
Sam
Thank you so much for the help! fixed it.
10:52 pm
Sypie
@Łukasz: The point actually is that i don’t know how to work with Poedit, but plain text is no problem. I also translated another plugin, the Viper’s Quicktag Plugin: @ http://www.viper007bond.com/ also in plain text. So let me know when you have a complete list of strings.
5:43 pm
Rosetta
Hi Lukasz – I’m back with another question too soon! For some reason, today my “blog” tab isn’t working and I just launched my new blog today :( It seems like that header tab is pointing to the wrong url for some reason…any ideas? http://www.rosettathurman.com
Thank you so much!
Rosetta
6:27 pm
Sypie
Rosetta, the link that the Blog button refers to is http://rosettathurman.com/blog/“Rosetta Probably you made a setting with “Rosetta. If you delte that it wil refer to your blog page, that is actually the same as your front page. I think it is in the admin settings -> General settings -> Blog address (URL)
8:13 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@Rosetta – Take a look at this line in header.php:
<li><a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>”>Blog</a></li>
One thing may be what Sypie pointed out in the comment above. The other thing is the double quotes – please note that they are not like they should be (if you look at the other double quotes you’ll see the difference.
6:39 pm
carl
Love this theme and I’m considering using it. One question. My blog cosists of multiple authors, is there anyway to add their avatar to the title next to their name?
THANKS!!!
8:48 pm
Steve
How do I add the breadcrumb navigation into the template please…
7:43 am
Jarred
Hi Lukasz,
Very excited to be implementing this theme.
One question: how do get rid of all the title/author/data information for pages (as opposed to posts). For pages, I just want the page content to appear without any other information above it.
Example: On http://tropophilia.com/meet/jarred, I don’t want anything between the breadcrumbs bar and my photo. But for my regular posts, I do want all of that.
Thanks so much!
Jarred
8:06 pm
Sypie
Can you give any clue how to put some images in the left, unused, sidebar? I just need to have some images in there, nothing more.
11:26 pm
Sypie
@Carl: Avatars can be added with this plugin: http://garinungkadol.com/downloads/post-avatar/
@Steve: The breadcrumb is a standard in this theme.
12:11 am
carl
Thanks Sypie!!
Another question. I am using an image for my blog title so I’m keeping the WordPress title box blank. However, when I do this my “home” tab comes up empty.
How can I hard code that home tab to stay put? OR make it go away and have my logo image link back to home?
Thanks again!!!
Carl
PS – I’m really loving this template and the code behind it!
1:01 am
Łukasz Sobek
@Jarred – based on v1.3.0
1.) open index.php
2.) in line 25 enter <?php if(!is_page()) { ?>
3.) in line 37 enter <?php } ?>
this will disable the info for all pages. If you only need to disable it for this specific page just change the !is_page() to !is_page(‘Jarred’)
now if ‘Jarred’ is not a page, but a post just use !is_single() or !is_single(‘Jarred’) accordingly.
@Sypie – Thank you for your help :). About the sidebar, which part do you have in mind? There is a general sidebar container (#sidebar) and inside it there are two sub-sidebars (.rightbar and .leftbar), all of which can be used for images.
@carl – Thank you :)
11:27 pm
Will
Hi. thank you so much for this wonderful theme. I love it!
I’d love to know how and where to add a header image below the gray line graphic. I searched the comments, but no one seemed to touch on that.
I couldn’t find anything in the CSS or the header php. that looked obvious.
Sorry for the basic question and thanks in advance for any time you may have to provide guidance.
Will
3:26 pm
carl
Hi,
Odd thing ~ I first set up your template on my staging server to work on it ~ and it works great! But last night I moved everything over to the main host and now the categories drop down isn’t working. It’s just a list now.
Any thoughts?
Thanks again,
Carl
9:55 am
Łukasz Sobek
@Will – This is because the theme does not include a header graphic, anyway:
1.) at the very bottom of header.php add a div tag saying e.g.:
<div id=”topimage”>
</div>
2.) in you style.css add the following tags
#topimage {
height: 145px;
background: #fff url(‘images/nameofimage.gif’) top left no-repeat;
}
3.) replace “nameofimage.gif” with the name of your image
4.)replace the number in “height” with the amount of the image you want to be shown (in pixels)
@carl – do you have js enabled? Besides, there is no category dropdown in this theme, the only one currently is in http://clockworkblogger.com/theme-black-belt/ ;)
3:47 pm
carl
That’s odd – I have the same template running on two servers. They are exact copies of one another. (I use one version to test my work) There IS a drop down in the test version. Same code in each.
Where do I enable JS? I’m using the same browser to view both sites so I doubt it’s there
Thanks Carl.
12:25 am
Marley
First let me say I’m an HTML hacker not a serious PHP programmer. Been working with programming since grad school in 1963 though.
I found the counter icon shows the right number of posts but will not link to the correct page if you click it. Gives an error code, which might be disturbing to people clicking around on one’s blog.
1
Doesn’t seem to work right unless you replace the � with “. But as I said I don’t have a clue what � is, I only know it worked better when I made the change.
7:46 pm
Will
Thanks very much for your help. Where exactly would I place the the #topimage tag in the CSS? I tried it in the header section and it broke the site styles.
8:09 pm
Will
Hello, again. I also notice that when I try to insert a gallery to the first post through the add media option in WP, it creates a massive gap between the images and the content. the only way to keep the two together is to add only one image. The galleries work fine in the remainder of the posts, just not the first one.
12:02 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@carl – another thing may be the encoding of the files, which I had a slight problem with. I’ll look into it. If you can use the dropdown categories and page items in the top bar of this page it means your javascript is enabled.
@Marley – thank you very much. The thing you mention is a problem the theme suffered when I changed the encoding of the files. Should have it fixed in the next release.
@Will – it doesn’t really matter where you put the tag in the css as long as it’s there. plese check the single quotes as they thend to get mixed up while quoting – what you have now are the ones you get when you press the key below ESC on your keyboard, what you should have there is the single quote you get when you press the key right next to the colon and semicolon. ;)
Give me a few days to sort out the thing with the gallery.
5:05 pm
Will
Thanks so much for taking the time to answer, Lukasz. I think I have it figured out on the back end.
Cheers!
2:08 am
Craciun
Excuse me, is there anything wrong with the link?
I can’t seem to be able to get more info on this theme anywhere!
Will it work on 2.7 ?
11:31 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@Will – good to hear :)
@Craciun – Yes it will.
3:30 pm
Craciun
Great, thanks!
9:15 am
mumswant
Hi, Thanks for the great theme. I have been playing around with it all day chaning colours, font, removing comment boxess etc. I hope that is allowed. I am new to blogs and only know enough about coding to be dangerous. Hence created a few problems that I just can’t work out the code to fix. I have somehow got the title page tab that now says “return to home page” linking to an incorrect url. It needs to link to the blog url. I edited line 25 as per from previous comments to change the name.
I also would like the dot points that appear under a post heading to return back to their normal size. Can’t work out where I supersized them.
Your help would be appreciated. Thanks again for the great theme!!
7:50 am
mumswant
Sorted out part two of the question above regarding the dot points. Still can’t get the “home” page link to be correct.
5:45 pm
rlpartida
Hello Lucasz, thanks for this wonderful theme :)
I have one question, where do I need to add the html code in order to have a banner after the first post?
Thanks!
11:41 pm
Pat
Hi,
Am trying to upgrade to latest version of your theme. Have uploaded it to file manager, but it doesn’t come up as an option in the themes page on wordpress. Is there something else I have to do?
Thanks!
Pat
12:38 am
Pat
Will I lose all the changes that i have made to the style sheets – how would I keep them when I cannot emember what I have done to them?
Yikes!
12:42 am
Łukasz Sobek
@Pat – did you upload the folder with the theme or the folder created by extracting the archive which contains the folder with the theme? Only the first option will make the theme show up on the themes page. That would be my first guess :)
Yes, when you upgrade you loose all changes, so better do a backup copy of the old thing and see how it differs from the new. If you use widgets you won’t be loosing anything :)
2:14 pm
Pat
Yes, worked it out. I just deleted the old version then it picked up the new one. I hadn’t made many changes anyway so it’s up and running and working with IE 6.0! Hooray. Thanks a lot!
6:31 pm
Sypie
Łukasz, How will it work to translate the language? Made a .mo file with all the translation but can’t find out where i can change this settings in the admin panel. I didn’t use a Po-edit program.
11:04 pm
Pat
Will the theme work in bbpress too? Have just added a bbpress forum to my site.
4:57 pm
SummerMeet.se flyttad till Binero | Björn Sennbrink
[...] nytt tema blev det också. ClockWorkSimple som jag hade innan saknar single.php och archive.php vilket gör att t.ex. sidor tilldelas [...]
1:43 am
mumswant
Love the Theme and sorted out all queries. Thanks heaps – love what I can do with it!!
2:53 pm
Eric
Hi and thanks for a great theme!
What’s the easiest way to change font for the “headlines”/post header?
#content h1 {font-family: Georgia;} doesn’t work, guess it’s overridden by:
* {margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: arial,sans; font-size: 13px;}
I’ve edited your design pretty roughly, to make almost autisticly clean.
7:54 pm
carl
Hi,
Back again, you mentioned that you have a categories drop down on another theme, is there a way it can be used on this theme? My category section is way too long…
Thanks so much.
Carl
11:42 am
Legs, Feeling No Pressure » Half Acre Cycling
[...] reminder was my discovery last night of Joe’s Échapée site, which obviously uses the same Clockwork Simple theme as this blog. It is on my list, but I want to give it some proper time. [...]
11:34 pm
Łukasz Sobek
@Pat – Good going! I’m not much into bbPress but it has a different syntax as far as grabbing information from the engine is concerned, so the answer would have to be “no”.
@Sypie – you either need to use POedit or a plugin called … let me find it … http://www.code-styling.de/english/development/wordpress-plugin-codestyling-localization-en
@Eric – it will work as long as the declaration of h1 is after the reset.
@carl – this will embed a normal (without any Javascript) dropdown with all the categories – http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_dropdown_categories
11:21 am
Pat
Hi there,
Had you theme for a while. Still like it. Two things I’d like to change:
1. Is it possible to make the whole comment come up, not just the first few words of it – tried changing this but didn’t really work.
2. I’d like my comments to come up in a grid – like yours above. Is this possible?
Cheers
Pat
2:08 pm
Pat
i have tried Sexycomment plug in but it doesn’t do anything. Does it work wih your theme?
12:48 pm
Wordpress tutorial
good theme, i like use clear theme like this, but is it theme seo friendly or adsense theme ready?
2:18 pm
Arfandia
its really a great post giving a lot of information. Its really a great theme.
11:58 am
vincent
Hi,
I love that theme! However, I have not managed to get rid of the widget areas that I don’t need. I tried to disable them with some code snippets in the function.php , but it didn’t work. How can I pick and choose how many widget areas I want to use?
Thanks
Vincent
7:39 am
Adreaman
Hi,
I have use this theme for more than one years on my blog, and it’s a very good and beautifule theme.
But I have met a problem that how to optionally hide some widgets area in diffirent pages. Such as, we have four widget areas now, I need one of them(“bottom widget area” for example) is visible only for main homepage, so when viewer visist the artical page, he will not find the content of bottom widget area.
Could you help me? Thanks!