I’m releasing a preliminary version of the Futurosity Aperio Prototype, the theme I orignally previewed under First Look: Futurosity Aperio WordPress Theme.
I’m calling this version a protoype because I consider it experimental; it’s still a little rough around the edges. I painted myself into a little bit of a corner by posting a preview before the theme was ready. I felt pretty confident about my initial ideas, but I encountered problems executing the design and some of the WordPress functionality, and this theme just doesn’t realize what I was after. I’m still mulling it over and I expect to come back to this theme at some point with fresh eyes and stronger skills, but I’m going to let things cool for awhile.
Please Note: If you know what you’re doing, feel free to use this prototype as a starting point, but I expect Aperio to evolve into something very different. Please leave a comment if you’re using this theme; I’d love to see what you do with it. And please, leave your suggestions for improvement.
Futurosity Aperio Prototype requires WordPress 2.3.2. It is built on Sandbox for power and flexibility and has been tested in Safari, Firefox, and IE 7. It should also work in IE6, but some of the formatting and effects are sacrificed.
Special Thanks
I want to give special thanks to Thin & Light, who wrote a custom function for me to display excerpts on the next and previous posts. I also want to thank everyone who commented on the first look with suggestions, especially Eli Foner and Darryl Hutchison.
Demo
Here’s a demo of Futurosity Aperio Prototype.
Download
Before you download Futurosity Aperio Prototype, please note: First, the theme is free, but I would ask you to please keep a link back to Futurosity (see the license below). Second, I do not offer support for WordPress (try the WordPress Documentation or Forums), I won’t help you with general CSS questions (try this CSS Tutorial), and I won’t tell you how to customize my themes. I will help you if you’ve found a bug. (I’m actually a pretty nice guy.) Just post a comment below. Thanks!
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Installation
To install, open the FuturosityAperioPrototype folder and upload the contents of the plugins folder to your wordpress/wp-content/plugins directory. Upload the futurosity_aperio_p folder to your wordpress/wp-content/themes folder. Then open your WP Admin, activate the plugins under the Plugins tab, and select the Futurosity Aperio Prototype theme under the Presentation tab.
Plugins
Futurosity Aperio Prototype uses two plugins, which are included in the download. They are highly recommended, but not required. The plugins are:
- Gravatar (not required if you’re using WordPress 2.5 or above)
- No Excerpt-P
Note that the gravatar plugin uses a generic gravatar if the commenter doesn’t have one. You can change this by editing comments.php. Find this code:
<?php gravatar("R", 60); ?>
and change it to this:
<?php gravatar("R", 60, "[path to your default gravatar]"); ?>
For more information, see WordPress Gravatar Plugin.
I’ve included a generic gravatar in the theme directory, gravatar.jpg (pictured above). To use it, move this image to your images folder and add the path to comments.php.
If you’re using WordPress 2.5, a default avatar is included in WordPress. If you’d like to use the default avatar above, upload it to your images directory and add the path to comments.php. Find this code:
echo get_avatar( get_comment_author_email(), '60' );
and change it to:
echo get_avatar( get_comment_author_email(), '60', '[path to the avatar]' );
Tips
Here are a few tips for customizing the theme.
“About” Text
You can edit the “About” text in sidebar.php.
Excerpts and Categories
Things will look better if you have actual excerpts for your posts, and they’re fairly short. Also, it’s best to assign one category to each post and to use multiple tags.
Sandbox
Futurosity Aperio Prototype is built on Sandbox, but I’ve edited the theme files so you can’t simply use the style.css file in Futurosity Aperio Prototype to style a standard Sandbox installation. Be sure to read the sandbox.html file in the futurosity_aperio_p folder for more information on customizing Sandbox.
Featured Posts
Futurosity Aperio Prototype features your latest posts on the home page. It will display post images if available. The images should be larger than 456 x 300 pixels and the preview will show the top left detail. The latest post will be featured in the top left on the home page. To add an image:
- Go to Custom Fields near the bottom of the Post page in your WP Admin.
- Under Key, type:
post-image. - Under Value, type the url for the image, e.g.,
http://www.futurosity.com/images/post-image.jpg
Here’s an example:
Links Page
If you want to use the links page, you should look at your code and clear every fourth category in the styles.css file. Under /* links */, change li#linkcat-7, etc. to li#linkcat-[number of category].
License
Futurosity Aperio Prototype is Copyright © 2007 by Robert Ellis. It is released under the GNU General Public License, version 3, as published by the Free Software Foundation (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html), meaning you can do pretty much whatever you want with it, but you should kindly keep the link back to Futurosity (http://www.futurosity.com), either in the sidebar or the footer. If you do, you will live a long and happy life. If you don’t, your personal possessions will have a habit of mysteriously disappearing.
History
0.1 Released 07 Feb 08.
0.2 Released 18 Mar 08. Fixed a few typos in style.css and removed extraneous numbers that were appearing in previous and next post excerpts on single posts. (Thanks to Will, netaudio, and Darke!)
0.3 Released 19 Mar 08. Fixed search page to match the rest of the theme (thanks again, Darke!) and added avatar tag for WordPress 2.5.
0.4 Released 19 Mar 08. Fixed the glitch in the avatar tag. Removed the gravatar tag from the comment form (it was displaying the last, not the current, commenter). Back-to-back updates like these are why I ask you to subscribe to Futurosity!
0.5 Released 31 Mar 08. Quick fix to comments.php to display trackbacks.
0.6 Released 02 Apr 08. Added missing wp_footer tag to footer.php.
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260 Comments
Awesome theme Robert!
That’s pretty much the nicest blog home page ever. Beautiful.
Plus, I can click on the excerpts!
Thanks, guys. I like the home page, which was the starting point for the whole thing, but I fell out of love with the rest of it. I think I’ll come back to it eventually and the inside pages will look completely different.
hi – great theme but the Featured Posts part of it does not work. image is not displayed?
1. Go to Custom Fields near the bottom of the Post page in your WP Admin.
2. Under Key, type: featured-image.
3. Under Value, type the url for the image, e.g., http://www.futurosity.com/images/avatar.png
- tried on clean install of WP with plugins supplied.
cj: You’re right. I lifted the directions from my Eos theme, but they’re not the same.
You want to use
post-imageas the key. I’ve corrected the instructions. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.cheers – i was looking for the correct syntax but you beat me too it. awsome theme.. ive been looking for a fresh theme for ages and this is by far the best theme ive found in ages. in fact im going to digg it :)
http://digg.com/design/Fantastic_Fresh_Wordpress_Theme_worth_the_download
Thanks very much, cj! Please post a comment with your URL when you get your site up. I’d love to see how you’re using the theme.
probably the greatest theme I’ve ever seen!
Wow, Kelly! Thanks! BTW, love your artwork, especially altered book.
i wish i was a photographer. this is an awesome blog theme. i can imagine a freelance photographer documenting his latest artwork/captures OR National Geographic special project. Awesome, Robert!
couldnt agree more kelly!
Wow, great! This is one of the best designs I’ve ever seen!
Thanks for the comments everyone! I still expect to come back to this one at some point and tweak it. Something about it still doesn’t work for me. Any suggestions for improvement would be greatly appreciated.
Robert, I may play with this one over the next week. I have some ideas that I would like to incorporate into the theme. Maybe I can send a generic version to you to look over…
Great, Will! I’m very interested to see what you come up with. Feel free to email me directly.
Another masterpiece from Mr. Ellis.
Great job. I’m going to install and try this new theme.
Something says to me this will be my preferred.
Bye.
Thanks, Tiziano!
Wow! I saw that you were working on this via twitter and it looks amazing. Love the homepage and the ideas for the inside pages… I would love for the home page image to be displayed across the width of the single post rather than remaining on the left in a small size.
Not sure how that would work behind the scenes…
Sometimes a post could just be lots of images… and sometimes not with text on top of them (just thinking as a photographer)…
Anyhoo — love where you are going with this :-)
Thanks, Deb.
You can use the same image in the single post. Just create an
<img>tag in your post for the same image, or add multiple images. They should resize to the width of the post.Robert,
I’m using this theme for my personal blog. I love it! Thanks for all the great designs. I use futuroisty eos for another blog of mine The Co-LAB One thing I just noticed on my recent post with Aperio, which included two different types of embedded videos, is that something changed the style of all the text below the videos, it affected the “sidebar”, “add comment” and “browse”. Weird?! See this post if you’re interested.
Robert, this is brilliant… sends shivers down my spine when I see such design!
Noticed an anomaly that appears in Safari but not Firefox. It’s in every instance of Aperio I can find in use (including the demo). The jpeg at http://www.tassels.ca/images/AperioAnomaly.jpg shows the issue at the lower right of each box. Any thoughts?
And again… love your design work!
@Justin: I think the problem is because the width of the videos is wider than the post column. You should be able to change the width of the embed code. Also, make sure that you’ve copied and pasted the embed code properly. If you missed a closing tag, for example, the embed will still show up but will throw off the layout.
@josef: This is very odd. When I look at the demo in Safari and Firefox, I don’t see any problem at all. But I see what you mean from your image. Do you have a test blog set up somewhere that I can take a look at? Are you on Windows? (I’m on a Mac, but that shouldn’t make any difference. Odd.)
Thanks Robert.
I’m on Macs and have noticed at home (Powerbook G4) and at work (PowerPC G5). Safari v 3.0.4 in both cases but one’s on Tiger the other on Leopard. My test blog is http://josefstevens.com As noted I checked this against several other Aperio installations I found on a google search and it’s always the same.
Cheers!
josef, your site looks fine in my browser. Anyone else seeing this problem?
Just discovered if I increase font size twice in Safari it’s fine and appears exactly the same as Firefox when side by side.
Guys just one question: where do you get all this nice post-images from?
Checked several royalty free image databases in the web, but I’m not happy with the images I found there…
Claude, my favorite source is Flickr. Go to Advanced Search and look for Creative Commons-licensed photos.
Robert- thanks for the tip, i re=copied the embed code and change the size to fit 370 width. Cheers! JW
Justin, glad it’s fixed.
BTW, I love what you’ve done with Eos on Co-LAB. Amazing how much better it looks with just a few subtle color tweaks. And your wife’s photographs are fantastic, too.
i like you.
Thanks. I like you too.
Robert. Excellent theme. *almost* perfect for what I need.
I was trying to use your older futurositymag theme, which was great in many ways, but got lost in customizing it.
if you want a suggestion, I really like the way futurositymag kept the top posts at the top of the page no matter where you were. it was a great way to keep a site with lots of categories ‘accessible’.
Thanks for the feedback, Alec. What would make it *perfect*?
thanks Robert, i passed on your compliment re: my wife’s pics. btw, we are starting a community for artists and people who support the arts, called society6.com I will be sure to invite you to the beta. we’d love to get your early feedback.
Sounds interesting, Justin. Yes, please send me an invite. I’d love to check it out.
re: Perfect
Very subjective naturally. ‘Perfect for me’ would involve too much of your valuable time.
The thing I loved about this and futurositymag is that they don’t focus on a linear ‘latest post is best’ blog-centric theme. My clients tend to have too much going on to have the latest post be what they want their customers to focus on. A more ‘pick and choose’ works better, like this quite awesome theme.
Like I said, I like the -mag version’s upper block of clickable posts on every page and I’m going to try and modify this one to do something like that. If I get there in some elegant way, I’ll let you know.
Thanks again for the feedback, Alec. I’ll mull it over and maybe something like that will work its way into a future theme.
Hi Robert –
I’ve just discovered your WP theme work over the last few days, (from Skelly’s “best of” list) and all very unique and beautiful designs – but….You absolutely have to “finish” the Aperio design, the front page is such a beautiful and artistic and singularly original touch in the WP themes world that the internal pages beg for something closer in aesthetics and originality. ( I do like them – especially the category block view – but something still seems to not quite “match” the brilliance of the index) Great work though, and look forward to watching your stuff evolve! Best..:-) irh
Thanks, irh. I have every intention of coming back to it at some point, but I’m not feeling very inspired at the moment. But I agree, the inside pages don’t fit the home page as well as they should. They feel a bit too heavy to me.
A very good theme! Compliment!
But i have a little question – How can i change yellow-background-color?
Note: If you open a archiv-page in the IE, the page-logo have an onther height and width as normal.
Thanks, Christoph.
To change the hover color, open style.css and find this code:
.home .post-content:hover{background-color:orange;}Change “orange” to whatever color you want.
I’ll check out the IE bug if I ever come back to this theme, otherwise I’m not planning any updates. But thanks for the heads up.
Thank you!
I think it is one of the best themes ever which be ever made for wordpress. Look – this theme have more than any other wp theme a very big capability. It’s the first which can photos integrate by showing, looks more than good and is very flexible.
I know, you made this theme for free and take your private time therefor, of course. But it’s realy one of the best, perhaps the best. ;-)
You’re welcome, Christoph. Post your URL so we can have a look at your site.
GREAT theme!!!, we are starting to use it and transform it a little bit, but as we are new to wordpress… just very few things, anyway it is already very cool like this. Thanks for this and keep up the good work.
Patrice, Hip Island looks very cool.
Thanks for having a look to our site. by the way i was wondering if it is possible to get more posts on the home page, and if so, what we should play with in order to get that?
And again, a great “prototype”!
It should be easy to add posts to the home page. Just open home.php and find this line:
<?php query_posts('showposts=7'); ?>Change
showposts=7toshowposts=[replace with the number of posts you want to display].Wow! easy can’t wait to check it out.
Thanks again and again!
Robert,
this is the most beautiful theme I’ve ever seen!
I have been looking for exactly this theme for 4 months… I knew what I wanted it to look and feel like and youldn’t start my blog because I couldn’t find a theme like that. Thanks a lot!
I am very new to tweaking themes, so please forgive me my rookie question: how do I change the Aperio-Logo in the header and replace it with my site’s name? I’ve been really scanning the header.php but didn’t get anywhere.
Thanks so much for your support!
Thanks, Rakete!
Changing the header image is easy. Just replace header.jpg in the futurosity_aperio_p folder with your own image named header.jpg.
Thanks for this incredible design. I’ve spent months messing around with magazine themes for my online mag and never felt that they did our contributor’s content the justice it deserved–this is a fantastic design!
Glad you like it, Paul. I love what you’ve done with Aperio on Is Greater Than.
Paul has done a magnificent job on an already beautiful theme! Love it..:-)
Robert, is there a simple way to accomplish the look Paul has gotten on the pages, ie – relative to the sidebar and wider area for content…or is a code idiot going to be in deep trouble?
Beautiful work across the board!
Ian, making the content area wider and changing the sidebar is relatively easy to do, but not simple to explain. Assuming you know a bit about CSS, you’ll want to look at the style.css file and play with the widths under the
/* =single */section. These are the selectors that affect the single post pages. You’d also have to change the selectors under/* =sidebar */so they don’t float next to each other. Experiment until you have the layout you want.Hey Rob, just one question as wordpress 2.5 is upcoming. Will there be a adapted version of aperio for wp 2.5?
I would very much appreciate this ;-)
Claude, I think Aperio will be compatible with 2.5, but I’ll go through my themes after I upgrade and make any necessary changes. It may be a few days, though.
I use this theme on my website…
and it rocks !
thx :)
Hey, yO²! Looks great!
thx :p
astonishing theme!
i use it!
http://www.netlabels.ru/
Looks great, netaudio! And your site is interesting, too. Great music links!
Robert, the more i use it – the more i love this theme!
you know, i found just one strange thing – in previous/next navigations there are strange digits
as example:
http://www.netlabels.ru/?p=8
“54If you would like…”
“47If you like to make…”
i wonder, what do they mean? :)
@netaudio: The numbers must a bug in my hacked function for generating the next and previous posts excerpts. I’ll have a look and try to post an update in the next couple of days. Thanks for giving me the heads up!
@netaudio: I’m stumped. I took a look at the code and I’m using the same code in Vero, without any problems. I’m going to be updating all of the themes for WordPress 2.5 and I’ll take another pass at it.
Robert Ellis: Thanks for a great theme. I’ve been playing around with it the last couple of weeks for a soon-to-be-launched website, and I encountered exactly the same problem as Netaudio did. I found out that what caused it was some of the excerpt code in functions.php (at the far bottom), from which I removed this line:
“echo count($words);”
Thanks, Darke! Outstanding! I appreciate your help. I’ll put together an update for download.
Okay, I’ve posted an update to fix the numbers in the previous and next excerpts, as well as the glitches in the style.css. Thanks, netaudio and Darke!
And thanks to you for putting time and effort into this. Your themes are the best I’ve tried. I’m almost done tweaking Futurosity Apeiro to suit my purposes, and it really looks awesome. I’ll put up a link when my site is ready for take-off. One thing, though: the search results page has got a different layout than the rest of the theme. Lately I’ve been trying to make it look more like the pages you get when you run them through the categories.php template, but when you’re a trial-and-error guy like me you easily get lost among the div tags. Where should I start?
->ROBERT ELLIS:
ok :)
at the moment i’ll use strpos and substr functions, you know what i mean :)
@Darke: Arrgh! How did I miss that? I’ll post a fix for the search page later today. Sorry ’bout that.
@netaudio: Just open functions.php, scroll down to the last function, and delete this line:
echo count($words);Problem solved!
This looks very awesome. thanks!
It’s a beautiful and functional theme. I’m already thinking about creating a new website so I could get an excuse for using it. Form and function over content. =)
Many thanks. I’m happy you seem to have totally misinterpreted the idea of “unsupported”, it’s unusual to get help this quick. I’m glad I chose your theme.
This is a beautiful theme.
Love your work, it’s so much more artistic than other Wordpress themes…
Thank you for creating this beautiful theme. I agree with your point that “the inside pages don’t fit the home page as well as they should. They feel a bit too heavy to me.”
When I saw the front page of the theme I thought it would be perfect for my new photoblog. However, the inside pages are indeed a bit heavy and have very narrow columns. Not suitable for a photoblog but perfect for a magazine layout. I can’t wait to have some time to start tweaking it :)
I hope you will continue working on this theme because I haven’t seen such a great theme in a long time.
This theme is the step forward! Great job!
Interesting theme, especially for photo bloggers. I’ll have to recommend it to a few of my friends that are really into posting their pics. Great job!
@Darke: I don’t like to promise too much because I never know how much time I’ll have. This is just a hobby for me. But it’s a little embarrassing when I forget to theme an entire page.
@Anne: I think you’re right. Aperio doesn’t know what it wants to be on the inside. If I find the inspiration, I may redesign it in two flavors: as a photo blog and as a magazine-style theme. I’ll be interested to see what you come up with. Let us know when you’re done tweaking.
Everyone else: thanks so much for the positive feedback. I’d almost forgotten about Aperio, but perhaps when I catch up on some other work I’ll come back to it feeling more inspired.
Awesome theme, it was just the right inspiration at just the right time!
I love this theme. Can you make a videoblogging-centric theme?
Personal choices for videoblogging theme:
- Three column theme.
- Content column at least 500px wide so it can have one 480px video.
- 1st sidebar that has thumbnails from previous episodes.
- 2nd sidebar that has some news and categories.
- search and other stuff can be in the footer.
- Much like the Aperio theme, it is wide instead of long.
I would love to see you do this.
Interesting idea, Ajit. I’ll think about it.
BTW, cool trailer for Hello. Sorry. Whatever.
Hi this is a really nice theme – and very easily modifiable: I’m using a modified version of this theme for a website I’m putting together for my mums work. You can see it here.
(* that link points to my desktop machine and only works while it’s on… thankfully that’s pretty much 24hrs a day :) )
What problems did you have with development? If it’s coding related I’d be happy to help out (I’m the developer of a few WordPress plugins :) ).
Let me know & all the best.
Thanks, Martin!
Most of the problems I was having were design related. I just didn’t like the way the inside pages were coming together. But I’m going to revisit this design as soon as I can find the time and I have some ideas that might require more coding skills than I possess. Thanks very much for the offer to help. I’ll definitely keep you in mind!
having an issue with unordered lists. I went through the demo and didn’t see any just to make sure it wasn’t me screwin with the code.
Alec, you’re right. Lists aren’t styled. You can add something like this to style.css:
.entry-content ul li {list-style-type: disc;margin-left:32px;}The
list-style-typecan be whatever you want: disc, circle, square, etc. You can also change themargin-leftto whatever you want.When I release a redux version of this theme (this is just a prototype, remember), it will be based on Blueprint CSS, so there will be default styles for everything not explicitly styled in the theme.
I just wanted to say I love this theme and definately will be using it again. It’s the base for my current site and u can tell that I didn’t make many changes to the actual theme, mainly the stylesheet. Very nice work my friend, soon as I get some cash on the card, ur up for donation : )
http://www.artikal.net
Leerie, thanks very much for your comment. TheArtikalBlog looks great!
Great work man! Its brilliant. One question!? Something do not work with the tag-links from article view. If I click on a tag, then I got no results…
have a look here:
http://grupetto.info/?tag=columbia-university
jens, did you change anything in the tag.php file? Everything works in the demo so the problem isn’t in the theme. You might try installing it again.
Hi There,
First of all – THANKS for the great beautiful Theme…
I tried to translate it to Hebrew (Israel) – and It’s really working good, but just in FF. When IE scan it to all goes to the right – can you help me with this one please?
thanks!
eVi, I’m seeing the same problem in Safari. It looks like you’ve made a lot of changes to the code and I can’t really tell you what the problem is. Look at your CSS for the container or content selectors. You may have changed something in the alignment there.
I installed it again, but no progress. Used the original tag.php file from your zip.file.
any ideas?
Hi again, I installed everything from the begeining, but it’s still looks the same problem (I ckeared the cache)…..
@jens: I’m stumped. Are you using 2.5? I can’t think of any reason why your tags shouldn’t be working if they’re working here on my demo site.
@eVi: Again, I’m stumped. I have no idea what would be different using Hebrew. It should work since the layout is supposed to be centered even if you expand the width of the window. I’m really sorry I can’t be more helpful.
Great template and easy to work with. Still messing with galleries and how to make them fit the tight columns on the post pages, but overall super pleased with design and function of the theme. Thanks for the theme!
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, this is a fantastic theme…
But there are some trouble with the theme on tag and category pages:
In IE7 the logo gets resized so it doesn’t look good :-)
In FF the preview images don’t resize on the tag and category pages, which also make them look kind of wierd.
Maybe this open source to do the trick towards the problems I stated above: http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/04/02/timthumb-php-script-released/
Thomas, I’m not sure what you’re talking about. When I look at the demo in Firefox everything looks fine. And there’s no reason for IE 7 to resize the image.
It was just that the images act differently in the two browsers on the tag and category overview page.
And that the header.jpg got squeezed in IE on the tag and category overview page.
Robert, for this (Aperio) theme, could you tell me which classes to edit to make the main content area slightly wider?
My goal is to put two medium-sized images side by side, allowing users to view the full image in a lightbox window.
Also, is the font used in the image (logo) at the very top Helvetica?
I’m loving this theme, a million thanks for creating it and all of your others :)
Nick, to make the content wider, open style.php and look for this:
body{background-color:#fff;color:#444;margin:0 auto;width:928px;}Change the width to whatever you want.
The font in the logo is either Helvetica or Helvetica Neu, but any bold sans-serif font should look fine.
Thank you Robert :)
You’re welcome! BTW, love your photos.
Thanks :) The site will soon be updated with Aperio… not a big fan of Flash.
Aperio is great work, thank yopu very much.
I’m facing same problems withe the automated gallery tags in wp 2.5, doesn’t seem to work for me. Any ideas how to fix that?
Thx in advance
Christian
Christian, I’m not sure what you’re talking about. What exactly is the problem? Where can I see your site?
Hi Robert,
thanks for your answer. I’m trying to use the built-in gallery feature o wordpress 2.5 by clicking the “use gallery in article” feature in admin section. in the backend a post there’s just a [gallery] showing up at the point where i want the gallery to be shown. in frontend with your template it doesn’t show up. if ic change the tempate to wordpress default in 2.5 it does show up. So i was wondering if there’s maybe something missing in your template that makes the gallery show up?
Would really appreciate your help. Here’s my site: http://www.schnitzelban.de/
Thx
Christian, I haven’t played with the gallery feature. It may be a while, but I’ll try to find out what’s going on. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
Christian, I’ve looked into the gallery issue and I can’t see any reason why it shouldn’t work. I’ve tested it on my localhost and it works fine with Aperio.
Check that you’re using the [gallery] tag properly. Read Using the gallery shortcode on the WP Codex. There’s no tag that needs to go in the theme for this to work.
Good luck!
OK Robert, thank you very much for your help. I’ll give it another try and will let you know
Hi. Great theme. Just what I’ve been looking for. I’m going to have a go at using it and maybe playing with it a bit.
Typographically it reminds me of the modicus theme from upstart blogger, but better use of images. This seems to have nicely structured HTML and pretty easy to understand templates. Thanks.
Dan
Thanks, Dan.
There’s a reason theme reminds you of Modicus. You do know that I designed the Modicus theme, right?
I’ve gotten a little better since then, so the code in all of the Futurosity themes is cleaner than the themes I released under Upstart Blogger, with the exception of Futurosity Magazine, which is a real mess.
Hi Robert.
Ah ha… that would be why. Makes all the more sense. Nice work all around.
I’m still confused as to who you are with all your fancy blog footwork. You seem to move around very fast :)
Dan
Dan, I used to have several blogs going, but I sold two of them last year (including Upstart Blogger) and consolidated, so Futurosity is currently my only blog.
Not really a comment – although this is an amazing theme. The most elegant I have seen.
Grieg Arkitekter’s wordpress site is sort of half public just now. Perhaps next week I will have time to finish up the wordpress.
In conjunction with dev of this site we had some scripts for drop down menus written. If you would find these useful I would be happy to forward a zip to you.
Thanks for the great theme, and take care.
Best,
Omar Ely
oe@griegarkitekter.no
Thanks, Omar!
The Grieg Arkitekter site looks interesting; impressive architecture. Post the URL for the blog when it’s ready so I can see the drop down menus. Thanks!
I absolutely love the home page of this theme! The best Ive ever seen. Ultimately, I think combining the Vero theme with Aperio’s home page would be an amazing combination. I was thinking of trying to combine them myself.
Isaac, it shouldn’t be too hard to do that. Post a link when you’re finished; I’d like to see it.
Hi! I really appreciate and love this theme. I’m currently using it for my blog right now. I changed the background color today and now all of sudden I’m getting 404 not found errors when I try to click on one of my posts from the home page. I’m new to html code. Would you mind taking a look?
Nevamind… I guess when i changed one of my permalinks to a different format, it started acting funny. I wanted the blog title to be at the end of the url and not the page number… anyway i guess it was a wordpress problem and not dealing with the theme
thanx for the theme again!
Teneille, I was just writing a response to tell you to check your permalinks! Glad you got it worked out.
Hi Robert,
Im somewhat complete with my modification of the Aperio theme. Ive cleaned up the post pages but I kept much of the structure as you designed it. Included a big plug for you on my credits page.
http://kre8.tv
btw, This site is awaiting first stage copywriting but the design is I believe fully functional now.
also, I noticed a bit of unnecessary code in the template pages with many elements hidden with display:none in the css like the prev/next navigation for category and archive pages. Is there a reason that’s there that I dont understand? Maybe its to do with sandbox, of which Im not familiar? Many thanks for layout, it was a great starting point for the kre8tv.
Looks great, Isaac! Very clean.
Yes, there is some extra code in the templates. Aperio is based on Sandbox, so I leave the code in there so people can use it if they choose to. If you want to use it, just unhide it in style.css. If you don’t want to use it, you can probably safely delete any extraneous code.
Hi, nice theme.
There is just a problem when you are going in a category page with IE7 :
http://www.futurosity.com/wpthemes/?cat=4
With IE7 all your design is contracted to the left!
Do you know the reason and could it be fixed ?
Best regards.
For exemple of the problem on IE7, look at this page i’ve created quickly :
http://www.totti.fr/category/2/
Great theme, Robert. My designer partner loves it so much we’re trying to use it for a wedding pic blogs – idea is a page of pics that the couple can share with friends who can add comments. I’ve managed to find some bits to edit but now fear I’m out of my depth and still have bits to tweak. Could we commision you to get it how we want it?
The problem is in the ie.css
When i erase it all works!
A+
@arthurgogol: Glad you got it working.
@Toby: I sent you an email.
Hi Robert
my greatest compliment for your lovely job
it’s really nice and widely customizable.
I’m working on it with grat pleasure even if I’m a jeek :)
here
Even if I’ve “touched” almost every aspect of the site my main concern is about the comment fields (textarea), any chanche to get it higher?
thank again for this work and time
gimb, I’m not sure what you’re asking. If you want to move the whole comment form higher, just cut and paste the code in comments.php.
Hello,
thanks for quick reply
just a couple of thinks
Previously I did miss out the NOT ( so I’m NOT a jeek-defenitevely)
I’m looking for to increase the dimension on the comment area in the height, as per in Opera it does contain onli a couple of text strings.
Thanks again!
Sorry, gimb. I misunderstood.
To make the height of the comment text box bigger, open style.css and find this:
#commentform {background:#eaeaea; display:inline; float:left; margin:4px 0 0 4px; padding:10px; width:340px;}Add something like
height:300px;, or whatever you want the height to be. That should do it!Thanks Robert!
your support is [much] greater than my englis :p
I’ll retry as you suggest or evetually
I’ll tweak it with some plugins
Thanks again Apeiro’s rocks!
hello, i use your aperio theme on my site, (love it)
i have been removing the footer (only because of graphic reasons), and have something there in the side bar but i would be very very happy if you would take a look and tell me if it is good or not?
please!
i have been downloaded your small size of aperio picture from your site, and i think the best way would be a bit transparent icon kind of thing in the sidebar with the wordpress and creative commons icons in a harmonius way with the design, but any way i’m open to find some happy solution.
wangjel
THANK YOU FOR THE ‘INCOMING’
wangel, I looked at your site. It looks like you’re using a mod of my Futurosity Magazine theme, not Aperio. As look as you keep a link in there to Futurosity, it’s fine if you want to move it out of the footer or change the appearance.
BTW, I can’t get anything to work on your site. Can’t go anywhere from the home page.
yes,
i was giving the wrong address
on the main site i use futurosity, but it is still under construction”"”
but here is the good address:
http://shayowo.org/articles
wangjel
sorry :d
by the way i would be haapier to link to your site, not to upsartblogger with the main site, because actually you are the designer of that them also, do you think it is possible?
No problem, wangel. Your site looks fine. Thanks for keeping the link!
You should technically keep the link, but you can abbreviate it to UB or something like that.
yes i understand, then lets do it like that :d
of course i keep the link, i guess it is important, to work together, and keep the sources open.
thanks for aperio
wangjel
Hi,
Beautiful and unique theme! Just letting you know I’ve added Futurosity Aperio to our list of the best Wordpress themes on the planet: http://www.bestwpthemes.com
Thanks very much, Matt!
Hi Robert,
Absolutely love this theme! I’m starting a new niche tech blog, and have been searching for months for just the right theme for it. Feels like you were in my head when you created Aperio. I’ve been looking for something ‘anti-blog’, something original and creative. I think you’ve accomplished that with Aperio. I’d be interested in commissioning you for some customizations of this theme …
BTW, I grew up about 20 miles north of you. I’ve since moved to the east coast, but miss that area desperately.
Thanks, Jase! I’m sending you an email.
What a beautiful theme, very creative. I’ve been scratching my head for a way to display art in a better way in a new version of my blog, and this – or a derivation – may be the answer. Great work!
I finally got around to implementing this fantastic theme to my little freelance project, where I help people analyze data…
Thomas Clausen
http://www.trendminers.dk
I can’t understand a word of it, Thomas, but it looks great! Love the images.
It’s in the fantastic language of Danish, and the images are bought from the always time consuming iStockPhoto ;-)
Hy Robert,
this post to thank you fot support and to show up what I’ve made out with your -great-work .
regards indeed
http://www.mirorenzaglia.org/
Grazie, loll!
i downloaded the theme, but i only have one plugin in the file, is this right?
also i keep getting errors on the homepage:
having alot of problems with th ethemes, not showing images on homepage, only one plug in in the zipfile.. any suggestions?
Salim, there are two plugins in the zip file, but if you’re using WP 2.5, you only need the No-Excerpt P plugin. Please post your URL so I can see the errors you’re talking about.
I’ve manage to try this themes on my department site; still very new with one entry.
I manage to tweak couple of thing like color and the width since I didn’t need two side bar; and occupied the empty left side under the side bar with new div.listing (with absolute style) so it always stand underneath the preview. Haven’t fully tested with other browser accept Safari.
- Good job man; Will update if i’m encounter more error; Next is to tweak the main page (making features box with different color) and others in different color.
the site is property malaysia .my
hello
someone asked me for a tweaked theme of aperio,
i would be happy to give it as free download and i would be happy to do it in harmony with you.
ple
(new keyboard:d)
…ase tell me how i can do it.
greatings
wangjel
wangjel, you are free to make a mod of any of my themes and release them, provided you keep the link to Futurosity.
Thanks for asking! And let us know when we can see it.
thanks :d
of course i let you know….you will be the first to know :d
if everything works well will be ready tomorrow
thanks a lot
Wangjel
Well, you’re a genius, or at least pushing what is possible to its boundaries, and making Internet what it should be, a place to share and improve.
I’ve been using your theme for a couple of days, and even if I am really bad at Wordpress, still thinks CSS is a heavy metal band and plugin a ear disposal, I managed more or less to make it work.
I noticed this guy http://www.thomasherve.com/ makes great use of your theme, do you know how he manages to have beautiful posts pages ? I am a photographer and would like to use this kind of pages to integrate pictures.
Well done Robert, France loves you.
Thanks for your comment, Eroll. Looks like Thomas edited the single.php file to change the layout. I couldn’t tell you exactly what he did, but you’re free to mod the theme however you like.
so almost ready the download,
i have some screenshots and few hours work more……..
greatings
wangjel
happy news
ready
on wangjel.com
happy bug hunt :d
Hi,
First of all great theme. Second: It has some problems with the ShareThis plugin in IE7. It seems like a lightbox pops up on the pages. Strange. I disabled it.
I’m also translating the theme into a Dutch version.
Good work! Keep it up!
Martijn, I don’t know anything about the ShareThis bug in IE, but it sounds like a ShareThis problem. If it works with Aperio in other browsers, it should work in IE.
Thanks for doing a Dutch version!
hey im testing ur theme and seems very clean and interesting, i was wondering how to change the bigdate on the cover, i want to display the category not the date,
hope u can help me tks!!
sorry misspelled url i ts 2 am here jejeej
http://www.guatemedia.com/index.php
tks!
searching a way to display my site iam gonne set up, but am photogenetic :-) to display things. your template seems to do that. but i saw the other one too with full photo in it.
wpwwwww keep it up, i will after seeing your templates :-)
thanks.
Ivan
now i afraid to say this but i have another one,
a dark one, i promise this is the last. :d actually i feel it useless to write themes when there are themes like Aperio and i love to spend my time with graphics
greatings
Wangjel
Very creative, wangjel!
I’m similar to IGNACIO but want bigdate to display the performance date instead of the_time. performance date meaning something that is not meta. thinking a custom field could do the trick?
I know you “won’t tell how to mod” but will tell me hot or cold?
also two other squeaks:
1. pages are listed alphabetically even though I numbered them for order in Advanced Options. I know I want to sort_column=[order number] but don’t know actual syntax for [order number] or where to see.
2. child pages are not showing up on sidebar menu. or anywhere i can find.
this is an inspiring theme. makes me want to blog all night. blog all night.
first off…thank you for aperio. as a designer, i couldn’t as for anything more beautiful. one quick question as i continue to tweak my blog. on the homepage i would like all the text fields to be the same size. is there a way to change the number of lines of text that is displayed?
I have entered the page break for now on my current posts, but it doesn’t use the [...] icon i’d like.
thanks.
@kaffern: If I understand correctly what you’re trying to do, then yes, a custom field might work to replace the post date with a performance date.
The pages and child pages are controlled by the tags in the theme files. Check the WordPress Codex for instructions for changing the tags.
@Jason: You don’t need to use page breaks. Just use the Excerpt field under Advanced Options on the Write Post page in your WP Admin.
Hope that helps!
Hi,First many congrats for that amazing theme!awesome job specially the front page.I wanna optimize some of the stuff so…i hope you dont mind bother you with ”only” two questions. :-)
1.how can i change the size of the header?
2.and if there is a way to put more articles on the front page(now there is 7)
thanks for all the effort.
To change the size of the header, edit
#header h1 ain style.css.To change the number of posts on the front page, open home.php and find this line:
<?php query_posts('showposts=7'); ?>Change
showposts=7to the number of posts you want to display.That’s it!
I am wondering how I might go about changing the images on the front page when the mouse is over them. I thought that I might be able to do it the same way that you did it with ” .home .post-content:hover{background-color:orange;} “, but that has proven unfruitful. Any tips?
Nils, I’m sorry, but I really can’t take the time to figure out how to do this. And I don’t think it would be easy to do.
I finally launched my tea blog project, and I wanted to thank you for Aperio. I’ve been incredibly happy with it so far, and, in fact, I’m not even sure my site would have been feasible without your theme.
http://multipleinfusions.com
Allright! Finished the dutch version. Where can I send it to? The Dutch theme is running on my site http://www.ikbenmartijn.be . I also made some small changes like adding an RSS icon to the main page…
I’m currently trying to add related posts in the ‘browse’ and ‘comments’ style boxes. Having some style issues but they’ll be fixed soon I guess :)
@Nils:
Maybe adding a second custom field like ‘post-image-hover’ could do the trick? After adding some code to the theme offcourse. Try in post-image.php adding:
onmouseover=”document.imgname.src = post-image-hover value” in the image tag. imgname is the name of the image you might have to add. You’ll have to call post-image-hover the same way as post-image is called.
Give it a try, it’s a guess.
Hi sorry again i hope you didnt have enough of all these questions.i just have 2.
is there a way to add an image on the backround?
and how can i increase the width of the post?
by the way everyone that i sent them hint about aperio they switch to it.congrats again;-)
@Martijn: Looks great! If you want to make your version available for download, create a post on your site and post the URL in a comment here. I’ll also add the link further up in my post.
@Noah: You can add a background image to the
bodyselector in style.css.To change the width of the post, you’ll also need to edit
.single .postand.single .entry-contentin style.css.Hey Robert,
First of all: Great theme. Loved it from the start. I’ve started modifying it and it’s all very user-friendly! Cool.
Now my issue ;): If you’d like to take a look at my site in IE6 or IE7, you’ll see that the images on the category, tag, author and search pages all look strange. Not on the single/page pages. They’re all cropped and out of shape! Even the headerpic!
You know what could be the problem?
Thanks mate!
I may have just messed things up, seeing as I’m not a coder, but my Aperio mod loads funny in Firefox (3, and apparently also v2)…
It’s only the front page (index). Any ideas what’s going on?
I have no idea why your site isn’t working in Firefox. The demo works fine and I don’t see any obvious errors when I go to your page. But you seem to have added quite a few things. You might try disabling your plugins and see if that fixes the problem.
Interesting looking site, BTW!
Robert, I love your WP themes! I have been using them on my site, and one I set up for a friend. One problem I have is, since I updated WP, the images I upload into a post get resized wrong. I can’t tell what is causing it. Here’s an example:
http://ableparris.com/2008/05/20/digital-bug-box/
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers!
The images are not being resized wrong. You’ve got some Vimeo videos in there which can’t be resized. The dimensions are in the embed code. You’ll have to edit them manually.
Hi, I’m trying to add a sideblog (worked actually) but now I have the following thing going on: the posts in this sideblog doesn’t show up on the main page (that’s good) but they do appear in the ‘Browse’ thing under the single posts. I’ve searched in functions and added the category to ‘excluded_categories’ but the only thing hidden is the text. The div’s with the title in and even a grey area (where the post should be) keep appearing. Any idea how to fix that? Thanks
Martijn, you’d have to write some kind of conditional tag, but I couldn’t tell you how to do it.
hey! look! http://www.hejty.sk
great great theme – using it with my daily art blog over at THE AESTHETIST
ciao
I really, really love this theme. I’ve been looking around for years and the front page is the most unique and functional I’ve come across. It’s a little tricky to customize, but it’s going to be well worth it.
I know you say you can’t offer advice for customization, Robert, so no worries if you don’t have the time to answer:
1. Is there some way to adjust how the post-image is aligned (ie. from left to middle)?
2. Is there a simple way to show at least one of the sidebars on the front page?
Oops.. I realize number 1 isn’t clear.
What I meant to ask: how can I make it a top middle detail of the post-image instead of a top left detail?
we have something new to help people to test and work on themes,
if you are not so busy please come and look
greatings
Wangjel
A friend pointed out an odd bug at my site (uses Aperio) that occurs in IE. I recall testing the site pretty thoroughly with a few browsers, and I never noticed this before. At first I thought it was due to a change I made to the theme, but it happens in the Aperio demo as well.
When you click on a category, tag, or archive period, the header img is squished, and the preview images are no longer composed of the top left detail, but rather are made up of the entirety of the previewed image. This doesn’t occur with a search.
My blog is also displaying an odd smiley face at the bottom left of the category/tag/archive pages. It looked like some kind of hack at first, but it’s odd that it’s only showing up on the same pages that seem to be displaying incorrectly in Aperio default itself.
Any ideas?
hello,
i want to use black and white pictures on the home page and by mousover they should turn to colored pics… can anybody help me?
i try with css, but with two layers, one for the grey pic and one for the normal and the atributes hidden and visible it doesn’t work…
thanks a lot.
Just a good word for u. Aperio is “Magnifique”! http://www.Majorblog.net use your theme for a french canadian financial blog and the result is very attractive and unique!
i found some problems when read it on internet explorer.
http://www.futurosity.com/wpthemes/?cat=8
hi robert, definitly cool theme you built. i try to change it for my needs but as i’m not really a coder i have some trouble you can perhaps help me with. i try to bring the tagcloud (i try tagAlly) into the header. can you point me to the files/sections i have to edit? thanks a lot
kons
Rob, great theme. First round with it I got frustrated and quit. Decided that I needed to make another go at it, and modified it to what I needed. Let me know what you think. Also working on my header/menu a bit more but can’t come up with anything creative at this point. Too busy I suppose.
@TL – You need to remove the last two lines in the ie.css file within the /css folder. That allowed my header to display properly. Not sure how important those two lines are in particular however, this resolved the header issue for me.
@Steve: Hey, thanks, that’s it!
Well, almost. Now the images are in their original size. Take a look at my this page in Internet Explorer: http://www.eeuwigweekend.nl/category/cartoons/
@Menno – I see what you are saying. I think personally I would prefer to see an image at full size (partial of the image that is) versus a cropped image that looks pretty bad on the category/archive, etc. page. For me, I may leave the image to be displayed there, but remove the white date and place the date information on those pages, in the meta section (middle).
But yes, those two lines are affecting the header on those specific pages. I haven’t looked into this further, but perhaps the naming conventions could be modified to accomidate the header on those pages within the ie.css and the actualy php page from the theme.
First of all, thanks for the great theme.
I’d like to display pagination links (next/previous posts) on my homepage. But links like domain.com/page/2/ always diplay the recent 7 news. Is there a way to modify this and make “previous posts” link work?
Will this theme support Wordpress 2.5 or higher?
One more problem that I recently discovered: Images look crispy on IE7, although they look OK in Firefox. I think they are somehow being resized and Firefox renders resized images smoother.
Thanks so much for such great themes. I did have a quick question as I am using the Aperio theme… which css style sheet manages the calendar on the sidebar? Thanks in advance for your help.
I’m getting this error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: is_tag() in /home/content/s/o/u/souloperator/html/sflblog/wp-content/themes/futurosity_aperio_p/functions.php on line 77
hello,
i want to use black and white pictures on the home page and by mousover they should turn to colored pics… can anybody help me?
i try with css, but with two layers, one for the grey pic and one for the normal and the atributes hidden and visible it doesn’t work…
thanks a lot.
i am a huge fan of all of your themes! i am really enjoying aperio for my disco buddha site. i have come across one glitch so far. for the past couple of weeks the images on my homepage have stayed consistent in shape-changing when a new post is added. i am not sure what happened today, but 2 of the older images are screwed up. i have not done any crazy css editing nor did i change any of the previous posts. um… any suggestions?
alligazm, your site looks fine to me. How are the images screwed up?
Thank you Robert for this theme. My site is not complete yet but I did have one question. How do I lessen the space between the header image and body content whether on the home page or any other post, archive etc. Is that aspect of the design locked in? I just want to squeeze them closer to gether by like 20 pixels or so.
thank you.
Hi!
First and foremost, THANK YOU for a brilliant theme. I am redoing my blog at the moment and am working on the new one on the side (www.brainspiration.se/blog. That’s where I have your theme but as you can see, I am having problems with the pictures not wanting to appear as they should! I have followed you instructions regarding “custom fields” and also activated all of the plug ins.
I know that you don’t provide support for wordpress but could you just give me a clue as to what I am doing wrong??
Thank you so much in advance!!
Therese
Sorry, Therese, I really don’t have time to help you figure this out. But I did take a quick look at your site and your images in your posts are missing, so obviously there is a problem with the paths you are using. Good luck!
i appreciate you taking a quick look. i realized what I DID NOT do to get the images to display partially: add the read more code, whoops =) thanks for such an awesome theme, i am highly anticipating your new release. cheers!
Hiyo! I’ve found a conflict with the popular Event Calendar plugin… When this plugin is installed, the marker seems to be ignored. Anyone have any idea what might be happening?
(By ‘marker’, I mean the excerpt marker.)
Hey Rob!
At first, OF COURSE, I have to say: Congratulation. You did it, you created one of the most desirable layouts I’ve ever seen. I got over UpstartBlogger to Futurosity, and after being quite impressed with Modicus, I finally found Aperio – well, this was it for me.
For a while now I thought about reopening my homepage again, so I looked for layout ideas. I discovered Aperio and immediately knew: I don’t want an own layout, I want this one. So this is actually the only reason I chose Wordpress.
To cut a long story short, tough I’m quite well versed with CSS and HTML, I don’t know anything about PHP at all and that’s the reason I couldn’t change a lot (I wanted to have the blogroll in the sidebar and to turn the orange hover effect on the start page into another color). I’m not asking you for help (tough maybe other readers could give me some tips), I just want you to explain my poor knowledge of WP. But I got to install and use everything perfectly, no problems anywhere.
This layout is simply beautiful. Thank you a lot!
Hi!
What a wonderful theme. Thank you!
I’ve been trying to determine how to make the post-images center, middle for the category page.
The top left is often just too blank with the 450 x 350 images.
I found the post-image.php, the function, and the sanbox as well as the “preview” css but just don’t see where to add the “center middle” or otherwise appropriate code to ask the theme to please center the images, and use the middle of the image.
Can you please help?
Fantastic theme. I have kept the link back in my footer for ultimate respect!
Would love for you to check out my website and see the theme in action on a DARK background – http://diesellaws.com
Thank you once again!
Diesel Laws
This is the theme I was looking for so long! I changed parts of it (not completely ready yet), because I need to use it more as portfolio, but still love the layout! Here is my website: http://www.schlaffke.com
Nice theme!
I’ve found something odd… in Safari, all the post-images get “scaled” weird and look squished or simply disproportionately scaled.
Anyone else experience that or a simple fix?
Like the hundreds of comments before me, this theme is really just beautiful. I’m a commercial and wedding photographer and absolutely love the main page, but is there any way to expand the the actual posts to make room for a 700-800px wide image without distorting the columns too much? Keep up the great work my friend.
Hi Robert, your theme is beautiful. I like it very much.
I have a question for you.
How can I add a navigation menu in the homepage top-right corner?
Thanks
here is what i’ve done with futuriosity: http://uberelastic.net/
Thanks its a really cool theme.
Hi Robert, slowly digging deeper into your really cool theme, I wonder if its possible to add a functionality to post-image to have the choice to link into a the post or directly link to a site when it’s just a bookmark and i don’t want to write anything to it? Would be cool if you can help me out or give me a hint where to start. thanks. kns
Thank you Robert, your work is so inspiring!
One question though, concerning the images posted through the custom field, how do i give the image alt tag a description?
I understand if you are busy, but maybe someone else here could help me out?
Thank you in advance!!
Hi,
THANK YOU SO MUCH for this great theme; that I have choosen as the new design for my website.
Now, I am trying to shorten the space between the header and the firt row of pictures.
In the out-of-the-pack version, this distance is quite long, and I don’t seem to be able to change. I have looked for trails in header.php, page.php and so on, but couldnt find a single clue.
Please help :(
Thanks again to Robert Ellis.
Best,
you have to look the style.css>>>>find ……..#header……..hegiht:some number;…..
change the number as you wish and that will change the size of the header
hope to help
wangjel
Thanks Wangjel, I’ll post a link to my site when it’ll be online so you can check it out if you like.
Merci encore
you welcome :d
i love happy communities
9 months since this theme was released and I’m still astonished at it. Great job, mr. Ellis. In my opinion, the inside pages are not as bad, maybe they nedd some images, or at least more colors…
My suggestions:
-Add a menu on the homepage for pages, right of the header.jpg.
-Find some place to insert adds.
Thanks again for sharing your job. Regards from Barcelona!
Robert,
Thanks a lot for this great theme !
For me it works fine. I am extremely happy of it !!!!!! I use the plugin Header Image Rotator
(http://www.mhough.com/)
but it doesnt work with your theme ?
an idea ?
Best regards
Hi Robert !
I’m a french woman ans I use your theme for my website http://www.mediacult.fr
I’m very satisfied by this theme, he is really extraordinary ! You are talented !
On the homepage, it would be well to have an horizontal sidebar above the articles with categories, like a menu.
Sorry for my english !
Best regards
This is a gorgeous theme. Would it be easy to make the background of posts different colours for different categories? I realize that for this to work I would have to file each post under one single category.
I really love this theme. I’ve added 4 posts to the homepage and it still looks great! Thanks Robert!
Hello
Congrat’s for your fantastic Theme and the layout of your home page .
In the single.php I want to display the post image of each of the previous and next entry in the navigation container. I try to add
style=”background: #999 url(’ID, $key, true); ?>’) no-repeat;”
echo ”;<—-Here
previous_post_link(’Précédent: %link’) ;
echo ”;
previous_post_excerpt();
echo ”;
} ?>
but i cannot find the solution .
Any clue ?
Thanks in advance
Hi Roberts! I’m fascinated by your theme and I’m trying to create one myself. I would ask you where to modify the home.php code to extract the category name without link to the page-class?
In this moment i’m only able to enter the link category but I can not set the text color and size.
Could you help me?
Thank a lot and very congratulations!!
Fabrizio
Great job, Robert. Love it! Check out my humble site, I’m using it now :-)
Dear Robert, first of all, congratulations for your fantastic theme.
I’m working with your theme for an upcoming project, an online fashion magazine called thehipster. I’m not able to discover how to change the size of the homepage images and ad more than two sizes in the homepage…I would like 6 different sizes, one for each post…Is it something really difficult to achieve…?
Thanks for your time!
Hey:)
I’m not sure if you still reply your comments, but I wanted to know how to move up the homepage so that it is below the header, looks a bit bare with the empty space in between, i think…
Thanks for your reply
Thanks for the kind words Robert!
I have a new Mod of Aperio set for a Jan ’09 release. I think you’re gonna love it! ;-)
Is it possible to edit the date of the post? So instead of the actual date of the post, I would like to change it to 2 months ago. Is this possible?
Hello. I just finished a blog release using aperio as the base. Thanks for the great theme!!! I’m still working out some bugs adapting it to my site, but overall i’m very happy with it.
Best,
David
Hey robert,
What a great theme, it was just what I was looking for. I am just starting up a blog with a friend and this theme gives it a much more legitimate feel to it. Thanks!
thanks for sharing this wonderful theme! it is exactly what i was looking for and could not find in the other ‘premium’ themes out there…
Great theme! Love the look
I was wondering if/how you can control the way the thumbnails appear on the front page as well as the individual posts.
What is the width of the posts?
Thanks! Keep up the good work.
Hi, Robert. I’m using your theme on my site. I’m learning piece by piece what stuff each CSS value changes and added a few custom classes for use in Q&As and photo captions. But that’s beside the point.
I’m not sure if this approaches the kind of customization you don’t want to be bothered with, but is there a way to make the two sidebars stack vertically? And is there any way to add them to the front page?
Anyway, I’m really enjoying this, and for all its flashiness, it still loads up much faster than the site under my old theme. Kudos.
I’d love to see this as a photoblog theme. I’ll probably end up “evolving” it into just that sometime.
Hi, i’ve just started using this cracking template for my site. I have one question that’s baffling me: how do you control how much of the text is shown on the front page? I notice that sometimes there’s too much text and pushes into the date heading?
//n
@self: the answer, of course, is ‘excerpts’.
Ok, another question. Is there a way to put links to your pages somewhere on the front page? I’ve tried putting it in header.php but it looks awfully clunky. Ideally I’d like to add two (or more) jpg’s next to the main banner for each page. Is that possible to do?
//n.
Very cool theme. I am gonna try it right away. thnx for sharing.
Thought I’d already posted here, but wanted to say thanks for the excellent theme, I’m using it on my site (customised a little) and it has had a very good response.
Hi, Robert. I’m using your theme at my site, and things were working great for a long time but eventually it just stopped working in MSIE. Text displays tiny, everything is in one long vertical line.
The error message that comes up says J.parentNode is null or not an object. Any idea what’s going on? I can’t imagine what would have happened to cause it, but it persists even after re-uploading the theme.
tnx for great theme, i’m using it on my design blog/mag/something ;)
Great theme, I’ve modified it quite a bit but love the image and excerpt display on the front page. Thanks for sharing!
Someone might’ve touched on this before (didn’t have time to read all million comments!! ) – the only problem I had with IE was the last two lines in the ie.css file (which smash the images on the archive pages), I just added a div (#archive_image) around the content area and added that in front of the code so that it only applied to the content area and not the whole page:
#archive_image .archive img {
And the other issue is that IE6 doesn’t read max-height or max-width… on the line
.archive .preview, .search .preview {} it has the archive images set as a max height and width which doesn’t really seem necessary. I added a width:”" and height:”" on the end and it was fixed!
Hope that makes sense! Thanks again, can’t wait to see where you take all of these themes- they’re very cool!
Hi Robert,
Just wanted to let you know I’m using your theme for my first open publishing project. Here’s a description of the project: http://www.artefati.ca/2009/01/project-one-the-maguire-meadow/ (Update to come soon!)
Aperio will be used to do the e-version of the book. It’s still under development (nevermind the lorem ipsum) but you can get an idea here: http://roerichproject.artefati.ca/
Thanks for sharing — everybody loves your work!
C.
great theme thanx bro ım now use
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Great to see this theme feature at SmashingMagazine
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