Ajay - On the Road called Life!

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1. eduo says:
   April 10th, 2006 at 6:24 am

   Fantastic. I’ll get it and start taking a look at it, as I’ve modified mine a lot. Most should go right in, but I have to get familiarised with the current instance.

   I see there is no mention of the header to accommodate those with random headers. I’ll check how it currently is. In a comment of a previous post I posted the changes I made to make the header a single JPG without a frame and the frame done in CSS (which makes it easy to drop new images for the random header).

   Also, for all those using plug-ins that require special CSS styles. Try the Quick’n dirty CSS plugin, it lets you define a global all.css file in the “themes” directory whose styles are applied to any theme you use. That’s a perfect place to place theme-independent styles you may need:

   http://wp-plugins.net/plugin/fixedstylesheet/

   For the random header I’m using, er, random header:
   http://www.martinet.nl/wp-site/random-header-plugin

   Congratulations again.

   Eduo

2. Ajay says:
   April 10th, 2006 at 6:30 am

   Hi Eduo,

   Thanks.

   Quite a bit has changed.
   I haven’t yet implemented the random header or without the frame. (probably in the next release).

   You don’t really need a plugin for a random header, the way I am thinking of implementing it requires a little CSS editing.

3. eduo says:
   April 10th, 2006 at 1:00 pm

   Ajay:

   I know. I originally had it made in CSS with PHP. I liked the Random Header option because it, again, allows for compatibility with other themes should it ever be needed (I don’t know why I prefer this, as every theme has its own size for the header, but still…)

   I tried loading it up and it looks perfect, I didn’t get any errors or anything and just was missing most of the extras I had (which I had under conditionals all around). I like what you did with the sidebar, which is something I had done already but forgot to comment it here in the past. Unifying it.

   I can’t see the widgets part, though. I’m not sure if I’m not looking in the right places or if it may not appear if the WP installation is in spanish.

4. Ajay says:
   April 10th, 2006 at 3:25 pm

   Great to know everything works fine. I did a thorough testing on all three versions of WP, but sometimes things can slip by.

   Regarding the Widgets, you will need to get hold of the widgets plugin.

   Have a few widgets I plan to release, maybe when I can get some spare time on my hands.

5. ed bacchus says:
   April 10th, 2006 at 11:46 pm

   Love the theme and will upload new version this evening. Can someone help with trying to change the image that is in the header? I am having a new header image and logo desinged and need to know how to put inth the theme.

6. Ajay says:
   April 10th, 2006 at 11:51 pm

   Get the Connections Reloaded Header from above.

7. Thierry says:
   April 11th, 2006 at 4:29 pm

   Ajay, that theme of yours is gorgious.

   In order to translate it in french, I internationalized it this way :
   - change every occurrence of _e() and __() to add a 2nd argument ‘connections-reloaded’
   - modify header.php to add ‘load_theme_textdomain(’connections-reloaded’)’
   - create a fr_FR.po file to include every string passed to _e() and translate these, and placed the fr_FR.mo generated by poEdit in the theme directory
   - add a few _e() and __() here and there where needed.

   This version is available on my site, if you want to merge the modifications so everyone can easily add a language to this beautiful theme of yours.

   Thanks again, Ajay.

   Thierry

8. Ajay says:
   April 11th, 2006 at 11:33 pm

   Thanks Thierry,

   This is something that I have been wanting to do quite a while.

   Will I need an en_EN.mo?

   Very new to internationalization, but am going to get to work on this

9. Thierry says:
   April 12th, 2006 at 3:41 am

   No, you won’t need an en_EN.mo as english is the default language But now, your theme users can make a language file for any language they want

   PS: I forgot one localization in comments.php, if you downloaded the zip file, make sure you get my latest version.

   Thanks again for that beautiful theme you created. It was a pleasure to translate it.

10. Ajay says:
    April 12th, 2006 at 6:37 am

    Got hold of the new file.

    Thanks for doing my work

    Am going to see if I can generate the .mo file and all myself using poEdit.

    Have a few more modifications planned, so hoping those work out. Will try to get the international community to translate the theme into other languages.

11. arifsanchez says:
    April 14th, 2006 at 10:35 pm

    Swexxy Layout. Clean and simple though. Keep update , i’ll revisited.

12. BB says:
    April 17th, 2006 at 11:46 am

    Nice theme! You put a lot of thought into it. Thanks for mentioning my
    Spirit theme. Keep up the great work!

13. Ajay says:
    April 17th, 2006 at 12:32 pm

    Hi BB,

    I was using Spirit at first on the blog before the move to Connections. Took the best of Spirit and put it into Connections for the first version.

    Ofcourse a lot has changed since then…

14. Roger says:
    April 18th, 2006 at 4:11 am

    Just one question: ever ever think in 2006, somewhere on the line, to make a 3 columns version of your template?

    Gee! This Ajax preview thing ..I feel like somebody is watching everything I am writing!

    By the way, a contribution to help you to transform your nice template in a 3 columns is on my mind!

    Thanks

15. Ajay says:
    April 18th, 2006 at 6:19 am

    Yes Roger, sometime soon.

16. Michael says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 10:56 pm

    The Installing instructions say to “Create the following pages: About, Archives, Links, Contact in wp-admin to ensure you don’t get 404 errors. For Archives and Links please choose the Archive and Links template respectively.”

    I created pages for these, but the links still don;t work? For example, I’m supposed to make an “About” Page in the WordPress GUI, right? Or am I supposed to literally “create a fpage” under the “wp-admin” directory via FTP? If so, what’s the fiull name: about.html? I’m not sure how making those pages makes the headewr links work? I’m using the default links, not Permalinks - is that the issue? I think the “Installing” instructions could use some clarification. Thanks!!

17. Ajay says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 11:12 pm

    Thanks for the suggestion Michael.
    Instructions have been updated.

18. Jay says:
    June 9th, 2006 at 6:41 am

    Hi Ajay,

    firstly, love your work! Fantastic job on reloaded!

    One thing I’ve noticed is with your comments, the name and date are to the side of blockquote.gif, with my install the date is partially obscured by blockquote.gif. Any ideas?

    Cheers and keep up the good work!

19. sfong says:
    July 17th, 2006 at 8:05 am

    Dear Ajay,

    Check this out http://blog.fongstanley.com/2006/07/17/latest-from-the-theme-blender/ do a few clicks for me thru your theme and let me know if anything isn’t right.

20. tony says:
    August 15th, 2006 at 7:15 am

    What plugin are you using for the recent post listing to appear on top of the page

21. Ajay says:
    August 15th, 2006 at 10:32 pm

    Hi Tony, I used to try the Recent Posts plugin quite a while back.

    however, disabled it to reduce resources used on the blog.

22. Mikaël says:
    September 11th, 2006 at 11:32 pm

    Just as Michael said, I didn’t find the explanation on creating the About and Archives pages confusing. I did a bit of testing myself and found out that, in order to not have to change the header, permalinks settings are important. They must be NUMERIC.
    Maybe it’s useful to update the installation text ?
    Besides that, I very much like the theme !

23. Ajay says:
    September 12th, 2006 at 8:47 am

    Thanks for the suggestion Mickael, I have updated the installation a bit.

    I think will write more detailed one soon.

24. CJ says:
    September 13th, 2006 at 1:51 am

    I’m a huge fan of this theme, and while I too had some confusion over the archives and such, I eventually figured it out.

    What I can’t figure out is why my sidebar has suddenly gone nuts and moved to the bottom of the page. Can you take a look at the site and tell me if I’m doing something wrong?

25. Ben says:
    September 26th, 2006 at 8:41 am

    I am working on using your theme. However, the instructions concerning the About/Archive/etc links do not seem to be helping me out. I am using the numeric setting for permalinks but i don’t understand what else i need to do. The instructions seem to imply that is all that is required.

26. Ajay says:
    September 26th, 2006 at 9:16 am

    Hi Ben,

    Thanks for pointing this out. I tested it and it looks like the Numeric based structure is clashing with the Archives page that was created.

    You have two options:
    1. Rename the post slug of the archives to archived

    or

    2. Do not use the Numeric Based structure.

    The installation text updated.

27. Thilak says:
    October 8th, 2006 at 8:02 pm

    Nice Theme, I’ve seen it in couple of my friends blogs. Good Job

28. Ajay says:
    October 8th, 2006 at 8:08 pm

    Thanks Thilak

29. Frolic says:
    December 19th, 2006 at 11:57 pm

    Hello Ajay,

    First, congratulations for this great job.
    I am trying to mov the sidebar to the left?
    How can I do this?

    Regards,

    Frolic

30. Nicholas Shanks says:
    January 20th, 2007 at 5:27 am

    The header.php ought to use:

    <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
    <head profile=”http://gmpg.org/xfn/11″>

    adding lang attributes and updating XFN to 1.1 (which adds rel=me)

31. Ajay says:
    January 20th, 2007 at 11:00 am

    @Nicholas, this language_attributes is only applicable for 2.1 onwards.

    Thanks for the update on the XFN standard.

32. Jure Repinc says:
    January 27th, 2007 at 6:30 pm

    Thanks for the excellent theme. I have used the French translation and translated the theme into Slovenian language.

    [SLO] Sedaj je na voljo tudi Slovenski prevod Connections Reloaded 1.5.

33. Ajay says:
    January 27th, 2007 at 7:37 pm

    @Jure, Thanks for releasing the translated version of the same

34. Peggy says:
    March 16th, 2007 at 6:15 pm

    Is there any chance at all that you’ll be designing a 3 column template for Connections Reloaded (side column on left and right side of content)??

    I simply LOVE this theme, but need 3 columns for my blogs.

    Peggy

35. Ajay says:
    March 16th, 2007 at 6:19 pm

    Unfortunately, I won’t be releasing any derivatives of CR in the future Peggy, because of a change in license in the original Connections.

    Implementing a three column shouldn’t bee too difficult. I believe there was a three column of the original Connections, but you’ll have to hunt around.

36. Monika says:
    May 3rd, 2007 at 7:38 pm

    Hi Ajax

    Love your template, however I’m confused about making the links work in the top right e.g.”archives”"links”and “contact”. I searched high and low for info but nothing I try seems to work for me. Could you pls have a look at my site?
    Also I understand that the only way to change the header image at this stage is to install the “header image rotator”plugin. But this plugin doesn’t allow me to set a particular image. It rotates and I don’t want that. I’d like the pic to stay as I choose it.
    Are there any updates on other ways please?
    Thanks heaps
    Monika

37. db carson says:
    June 19th, 2007 at 5:18 pm

    “Create the following pages in wp-admin: About, Archives, Links, Contact. For Archives and Links please choose the Archive and Links template respectively. Ensure that you have permalinks turned on (Select Date and name based or your custom structure), or modify the links in header.php to reflect the modified pages. Note that selecting Numeric based structure as your permalinks causes a clash when your Archives page post-slug is archives. If you would like to use this structure, change your post-slug to something else, e.g. archived (note ‘d’ instead of ’s’). ”

    this is a like a foreign language to me.

    I’m trying with no luck to use connections and was hoping that the reloaded would work with out having to make changes to the code.
    Do I have to do this change ?

38. Vince says:
    June 27th, 2007 at 4:15 am

    Nice theme, I have been a fan of the connection code for a while. All I have changed it the colors and banner.

    My question is how do I hide/remove the blog title and desc. from my header and keep it in the browser for SEO (Dashboard>General Options>Weblog title? Since I use my own header image I do not want it to show. The research I have read says I can “turn it off in the stylesheet but I can not find the area to change to “show none”.

    I just noticed that the submit says “No support questions” Where can I seek help? I tried the wordpress support forum with no replies.

    Thank you,

39. Oyun says:
    July 14th, 2007 at 1:42 am

    very good themes.nice a job thanks ajay

40. Jennifer says:
    August 1st, 2007 at 10:49 am

    Ajay,
    Thanks so much for updating this theme. I’m so glad to have the widgets functionality!

41. Artem says:
    August 3rd, 2007 at 8:40 pm

    I saw this theme on many hosted wordpress blogs. I am impressed how changing colors and borders could make theme popular.

    Now I thinking about installing this theme on one of my blogs because of it’s popularity.

42. Yuriy says:
    September 7th, 2007 at 4:05 am

    Ajay,
    It’s working with your help. Good job. Thanks a lot!

43. Mike says:
    September 22nd, 2007 at 8:38 am

    Ajay ;
    keep up the your great work.
    thank you.

44. William says:
    September 22nd, 2007 at 8:42 am

    Nice theme, I have been a fan of the connection code for a while. All I have changed it the colors and banner…

45. NBA says:
    December 11th, 2007 at 3:48 pm

    First, congratulations for this great job.the name and date are to the side of blockquote.gif, with my install the date is partially obscured by blockquote.gif.

46. Enya says:
    December 27th, 2007 at 7:13 pm

    Nice theme, I have been a fan of the connection code for a while. All I have changed it the colors and banner.

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