Wanted: Hybrid theme testers

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   Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
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   davek (Member)
   Posted 1 year ago | Permalink

   Hi Justin,
   I'd be happy to try/test it on a few blogs I have in development but not yet open.
   Dave.

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   Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
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   Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
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   davek (Member)
   Posted 1 year ago | Permalink

   Hi Justin, nice and simple so far and seems to run without any major faults.

   As for the widgets, I would miss the tabbed widget from Options but I don't know if you Include this in your other themes anyway?
   I'm not sure what the Secondary widgets are for? But when enabled, clicking on the edit link for the widgets causes a page reload rather than the usual ajax slide up/down.
   Also, when I added some widgets to Home Secondary, then unchecked the Select this to use the secondary widget inserts in Hybrid settings, therfor disabling the secondary widgets, the widgets are no longer available to be used.

   The default Calendar widget overlaps slightly outside of the sidebar.

   When viewing a category page, the category title seems to have the top few pixels of the text cut off.

   If no Category description is added, the posts are pushed down with an empty
   <div class="entry">
   
   </div> - Should this div only be shown if the category has a description?

   Hope this helps, I'll play a bit more & let you know if I spot anything else,
   Dave

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   davek (Member)
   Posted 1 year ago | Permalink

   Sorry, should have said, I'm using Firefox 3.0.1 on XP

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   davek (Member)
   Posted 1 year ago | Permalink

   OK, figured out the Secondary Widgets, we can place them where we want through CSS, pretty cool...

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   Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
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   Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
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    davek (Member)
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    Hi Justin,
    Personally that option 'Select this to use the secondary widget inserts...' just confused me and I wouldn't think it's needed. After switching back to the Wordpress default template, If I had any secondary widgets enabled, these widgets were no longer available to me unless I went back to Hybrid, deactivated & then went back to the theme I wanted. I'd think this could just turn out to be a support headache.

    As for the amount of widget sections, I think these are great but maybe a little confusing the way they are worded at the moment. Maybe something like Home Section One & Home Section Two with css of #home .SectionOne & #home .SectionTwo would be better? this way widget sections could also be layed out differently on different pages by us adding #category .SectionOne, #category .SectionTwo and so on if required.

    Also the before & after content widgets sounds great for adding adsense or other bits but I can see your list of widget sections getting pretty long although no real harm in that if it's obvious as to what each one is.
    Still playing with Hybrid & no issues other than those above so far, however I'd still miss the Excerpts and so on from Options but I know this is a different beast..

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    Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
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    marti garaughty (Member)
    Posted 1 year ago | Permalink

    hi Justin, you're doing an awesome job here and bringing WP design to a whole new level. Right now I'm testing out Ian's Thematic, using Tarski on some recent projects ( http://ladamedragon.com/blog/ ) and just downloaded Hybrid late last night.

    I was getting the reload problem as well when adding widgets but waited for your answer to davek. Re "The secondary widgets can be moved down with CSS to create footer widgets. They can also make for a double sidebar. Or..."...

    I guess it depends on who you ask, from a graphic designer's point of view, I prefer a clean, solid foundation with easy to manipulate options. So far Tarski & Thematic looked like my best choices for future designs(child themes) but I really like what I see in Hybrid as well. I understand some bugs have to be ironed out so I'm looking at it more from an ease of use/design point of view.

    Re "Ian Stewart has a movable widget section on the home page. A user can decide if it goes on top, after a specific post, or at the bottom"... So far I found this widget layout option to be my favorite just because it's quick & easy to set up but I also like the flexibility of being able to move your secondary widgets around with CSS.

    Re "Making a very basic theme is a lot harder than making a complicated theme"... I can imagine and as I said, you're doing an awesome thing here and a lot of people will benefit from these rock solid designs. I'm seeing projects like Hybrid & Thematic sort of like the next generation of Sandbox. Since I just installed Hybrid to take a look at it live, I haven't had time to play much with it but I'll post more feedback later. Thx Justin!

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    Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
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    Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
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    davek (Member)
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    Hi Justin, that makes sense re: Primary and Secondary & the more I see it, the more I am getting used to it. As for which to use, your second option above - Primary Home
    Secondary Home
    seems to make better sense.
    Forgive my ignorance on the widget classes, still getting used to Wordpress, have designed & coded on ZenCart for years where you can simply add a class of the sidebox name to style it, can't this be done with Wordpress widgets?

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    marti garaughty (Member)
    Posted 1 year ago | Permalink

    @Justin... re "you have the idea of Hybrid down. I want designers to be able take it and run with it"...

    Absolutely. I just want to get to know 3 or 4 WP theme frameworks intimately and design around them. Since parent themes like Hybrid & Thematic have so much flexibility built in, all I'll have to do it "dress it up" for whatever a project calls for.

    Re "Would it be better to name the widget areas like this? Home Primary/Home Secondary Or, like this? Primary Home/Secondary Home"...

    Definitely option # 2, Primary Home & Secondary Home, it just seems more standard & therefore less confusing (to me anyways).

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    Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
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    Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
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    Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
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    davek (Member)
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    Hi Justin, I'd like to see breadcrumbs added to all posts & pages by default, but then again as you say, this can be done with the child theme.

    I just had a look at the breadcrumbs using Hybrid on a site that I have added extra pages on, the new page goes after the post id & displays extra data from that posts metadata, something like http://domain/postid/newpage, however when I view these pages, the post title is the last item in the breadcrumb & isn't a link (I mentioned this in another post a few weeks back) - will it be possible for us to add these type of pages & extend the breadcrumbs?

    As for plugins, I'm still playing with a few, but I do like http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-print
    & http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-relativedate

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    Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
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    davek (Member)
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    I haven't had any problems with the breadcrumbs either, but I'd love to be able to add post extensions, so any new post pages would have a breadcrumb like:
    Home » Category » Post » Additional Page
    When creating the additional page, if there was a way to add to the breadcrumb & make the Post bit a link back to the orignal post with the new Additional Page title added to the end of the breadcrumb, it would be super...

    As for the WP Print Plugin, it doesn't currently get added to the post content by default, you need to add
    <?php if(function_exists('wp_print')) { print_link(); } ?> where you want it to display.

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    davek (Member)
    Posted 1 year ago | Permalink

    also, is there a way to remove Browse: from the breadcrumb? I just don't see the need for it...

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    Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
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    davek (Member)
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    Cool, thanks Justin, looking forward to the next theme updates...
    If you have a look at Lester Chans WP-Email plugin (if you have time)
    http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-email
    It's probably the easiest way to explain what I love to see added...
    When on the email page, it would be great if the breadcrumb went something like:
    Browse: Home / Category / Post Title / Email - with the Post Title now a link back to the post.
    Will this be possible by making the breadcrumb function filterable?
    dave.

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    Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
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    davek (Member)
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    Thanks for looking at it Justin.
    Do you know of a proper way to add a page as a post child? I have been using some of that plugins code to add extra pages to a post but I'm obviously not doing this correctly...
    Another thing I don't like about that plugin is that it adds header code to every page when it should only be added to posts/pages where it's required.
    Going off topic, but do you know of any tutorials on how to add post children? I want to add postmeta fields to each post that I can display on a post child page, something like a link on the post page to view a google map of where that post relates to?
    dave.

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    Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
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    davek (Member)
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    OK, learning loads from your posts Justin, thanks a million...
    So, if I want to add a map page, should I just Include the map in the post but add <!--nextpage--> above it?
    Is there a way to add do_shortcode('[nextpage]') ? just tried but doesn't seem to work.

    If I want to add links in posts to something like view map, contact author, email post to a buddy and so on, is it currently possible to add these extra post pages as <!--nextpage--> type values & will these post pages display in the breadcrumbs?
    dave.

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    Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
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