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56160 joshharbaugh
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The Better Blogger theme sports many convenient features to get you up and running a fully-featured customizable magazine styled blog. You can get down to business posting articles, because all the major work has been done for you.

Features:

- A fully automated homepage using the most recent articles from every category

- A jQuery-powered drop-down menu system (supports second level child pages from WP)

- Robust archive pages (by date, category, and feature)

- A widgetized sidebar for all the advertising spaces as well as an additional widget for anything else (ie. text blocks, blogrolls, meta data and so on) - Manageable RSS and email subscription capabilities

- Dynamically-cropped and captioned Feature images using the TimThumb script from Tim McDaniels and Darren Hoyt

- Tested in all modern browsers (FF 2/3, Safari, IE6 /7)

- A clean, “no fuss” interface

UPDATE : I’ve listed the WordPress version as 2.5 because that’s what I was using during the build of the theme. It would probably work with 2.6 since I’m not using anything proprietary to the 2.5 version.

Posted about 1 month ago
47794 shadow66142000
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Good work!

Posted about 1 month ago
49429 clarklab
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Very nice, glad to finally see it on here. Good luck with the sales.

Posted about 1 month ago
56160 joshharbaugh
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Thanks. Let’s hope so too.

Posted about 1 month ago
Default-profile nzoelzer
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WOW , NICE!

Can one run the theme without any images for the posts, i.e. will the title of the feature post go full left?

Is the feature post always featured, or automatically the most recent post?

Im in to buy this!

Posted about 1 month ago
56160 joshharbaugh
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@nzoelzer: yes everything will just flush left, the homepage featured article is the most recent post categorized with “Feature”. The features on the archive pages are the most recent from that specific category.

Posted about 1 month ago
22536 Serenine
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Very nice and clean—Better Blogger it is :)

Posted about 1 month ago
41011 kailoon
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Finally, congrats :)

Posted about 1 month ago
Default-profile elmerbotha

I assume it’s 2.5+, not just 2.5?

Posted about 1 month ago
56160 joshharbaugh
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@elmerbotha: Yes, it should work for 2.5+. I was using 2.5 when I built the theme, but I do not imagine it’s restricted to just 2.5.

Posted about 1 month ago
46764 jheydasch
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@elmerbotha, @joshharbaugh – Just purchased this theme this evening and I’m just curious to see if either of you have actually experimented with running Better Blogger on 2.6+ or 2.7. I’m running two diff versions of 2.6 and RC1 of 2.7 and the menu seems to be freaking out a bit. Just wanted to see if either of you had encountered any issues. Beautiful, spacious theme!

Posted about 1 month ago
56160 joshharbaugh
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@jheydasch: I’ll put it on a 2.6 build and see what happens. I’ll do the same with 2.7 when it’s officially released and update the theme if necessary.

Posted about 1 month ago
56160 joshharbaugh
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I’ve tested the theme on 2.6.5 and had no issues. Please be aware that if your navigation is wider then 916 pixels it will push additional navigation items to a second line. You can increase the width of the navigation under #navigation ul {} within the style.css file.

Posted about 1 month ago
62558 iKitty
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Hi Josh! Will this theme will work OK on 2.7?

Posted 20 days ago
Default-profile l2ich
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I just purchased this, it’s a great looking theme but it’s not working.

On the front page I”m getting an “Catchable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in /home/strikerh/public_html/ramblingrich/wp-includes/category-template.php on line 32” after it loads the first “Top Story by Topic”.

Any idea how to fix this?

Posted 20 days ago
56160 joshharbaugh
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iKitty: I’ve only tested up to 2.6. l2ich: What version of WordPress are you running? This may be an issue with 2.7.

Posted 20 days ago
56160 joshharbaugh
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@l2ich: It looks like this is an issue with permalinks. Are you currently using the default permalinks on your site, and if so, you might try to change them to create prettier urls and see if that works for you.

Posted 20 days ago
62558 iKitty
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Thanks for your answer. I just need to know that it will run on 2.7 before purchasing. Thanks!

Posted 20 days ago
Default-profile l2ich
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That did the trick, thanks a lot!

Posted 20 days ago
56160 joshharbaugh
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@iKitty: Yes. It can run on WP2 .7. I’ve upgraded the preview installation to WP2 .7 and everything looks good.

Posted 20 days ago
64206 lovermann
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Thanks for nice theme. First I met a problem caused permalinks, but it’s simple to solve it.

Posted 19 days ago
65963 cascadingStyleFish
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Is there a simple way to remove the ad in the slot 1 (primary) sidebar? I could just comment out the ads.php page but that seems a bit heavy-handed. Please help. Thanks.

Posted 17 days ago
56160 joshharbaugh
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@cascadingStyleFish: Commenting out is your best bet. Any other option would leave a gap in that area (where the image would normally show up), because of the empty DIV located there.

I’ll make a note of this and get a revised package out there. Let me know if you’d like the revised ads.php from me or if you’re comfortable doing this yourself.

Posted 16 days ago
65963 cascadingStyleFish
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Hi Josh -

Thanks for the reply. I can give it a shot myself, but I’d like to get a copy of any future release that you issue. One more question – Is there any way to get my child pages to show up in the dropdown nav menu under my parent pages? Example: I have a new parent page called HISTORY with child pages called PAST PRESIDENTS and TIMELINE . I want these two pages to appear in the dropdown under HISTORY . Any advice?

Posted 16 days ago
56160 joshharbaugh
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@cascadingStyleFish: If you follow the example files that come with the package, it should show how I’ve accomplished the drop-down effect with parent pages (in this case categories, but it’s the same idea).

The Wordpress.org site has some further information about the wp_list_pages template tag which you’ll be using to display the drop-downs.

You can verify that the child pages are there when you view the source of the page. Javascript is used to achieve the actual effect, so if it’s not showing up that’s the first place to try when troubleshooting.

Hope that helps.

Posted 16 days ago