WordPress Theme: ThemeMeme Eos

I’m releas­ing a slightly sim­pli­fied ver­sion of the cur­rent ThemeMeme design, ThemeMeme Eos. The theme is built on Sandbox for power and flex­i­bil­ity, and is ready to rock out-of-the-box.

ThemeMeme Eos requires WordPress 2.3.2, has been tested in Safari and Firefox, and should work in IE 6 and IE 7. But I’m on a Mac, so if you’ve found a prob­lem in IE please post a com­ment below.

ThemeMeme Eos WordPress Theme

Demo

Here’s a demo of ThemeMeme Eos.

Download

The ThemeMeme Aperio Prototype theme is free, but I’d love for you to fol­low me on Twitter and to post a tweet. To down­load, just click on the tweet2download but­ton and fol­low the direc­tions. If you’re not on Twitter, you can use the other down­load link below.

ThemeMemeEos.zip

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  • Gravatar
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  • Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
  • 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", 40); ?>

    and change it to this:

    <?php gravatar("R", 40, "[path to your default gravatar]"); ?>

    For more information, see WordPress Gravatar Plugin.

    Generic Eos Gravatar

    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.

    Important Note: If you downloaded version 0.2, your comments.php is pulling my default gravatar for ThemeMeme. Please edit your comments.php file to use the one provided, or one of your own design. Thank you.

    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(), '40' );

    and change it to:

    echo get_avatar( get_comment_author_email(), '40', '[path to the avatar]' );

    Tips

    Here are a few tips for customizing the theme.

    "About" Text

    Note: The sidebar in versions prior to 0.4 incorrectly says you can edit the "About" text in home.php. Actually, the text is in sidebar.php.

    Sandbox

    ThemeMeme Eos is built on Sandbox, but I've edited the theme files so you can't simply use the style.css file in ThemeMeme Eos to style a standard Sandbox installation. Be sure to read the sandbox.html file in the themememe_eos folder for more information on customizing Sandbox.

    Excerpts

    ThemeMeme Eos displays excerpts above the post entry on single pages. This isn't a mistake. For best effect you should manually enter an excerpt in the Optional Excerpt field when you write a new post.

    Featured Posts

    ThemeMeme Eos features your latest post at the top of the home page. It will display a background image if available. The image should be 600 pixels wide and 180 pixels tall. To add an image:

    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.themememe.com/images/avatar.png

    Here's an example:

    Adding a Featured Image

    I'm currently using SmoothGallery on ThemeMeme. It's fairly easy to install and configure, but if you want to use it, you'll have to edit your header.php and home.php files:

    1. Download SmoothGallery and upload the /css and /scripts subfolders to your themememe_eos directory.
    2. Add these lines to your header.php file, just before the closing </head> tag:

      <script src="<?php bloginfo('template_url') ?>/scripts/mootools.v1.11.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
      <script src="<?php bloginfo('template_url') ?>/scripts/jd.gallery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url') ?>/css/jd.gallery.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />

      <script type="text/javascript">
      function startGallery() {
      var myGallery = new gallery($('myGallery'), {
      timed: true,
      showArrows: false,
      showInfopane: true,
      showCarousel: false
      });
      }
      window.addEvent('domready', startGallery);
      </script>

    3. Open home.php and replace this...

      <h3>Featured</h3>

      <?php $my_query = new WP_Query('showposts=1');
      while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
      $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>
      <div class="featured-image-wrapper">
      <h2 class="transparent"></h3>
      <img src="<?php $key="featured-image"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>" alt="" />
      </div>
      <?php endwhile; ?>


      ...with this (replacing the content in brackets with your appropriate information):

      <h3>Featured</h3>
      <div id="myGallery">
      <div class="imageElement">
      <h3>[Title]</h3>
      <p>[Excerpt]</p>

      <img src="[path to image]" class="full" />
      </div>
      </div>

    4. Copy the last "Featured" block again, changing the content in brackets, to add more featured posts.

    See Getting Started for more information on using SmoothGallery.

    Recent Comments

    You can edit the formatting for the recent comments plugin under the WP Admin Options tab. This is the code I use:

    <li>%gravatar %comment_author on %post_title:<br/>%comment_excerpt </li>

    Pages

    The theme includes templates for an About page, an Archives page, and a Links page. To use these, go to Write > Pages in your WP Admin. Create a new page and select the appropriate template from the Page Template dropdown menu.

    Upgrading to 0.5

    If you're upgrading from 0.4 and you've already edited your theme files, the only file that has changed is style.css. And if you've edited style.css, you can just change the font for the <body> tag to Arial and fix the excerpts by adding this:

    .single .excerpt {
    border-bottom:1px solid #eaeaea;
    color:#777;
    font-size:1.5em;
    margin-bottom:28px;
    }

    Known Issues

    On the home page, the lat­est posts should decrease in size from top to bot­tom (most recent posts are in a larger font). This works fine in Safari and Firefox, but not in IE. If any­one can fig­ure out why, I’d appre­ci­ate it.

    If you pre­fer all of the posts to be the same size, just delete these lines from style.css:

    • .home .p1 {
      font-size:1.5em;
      }
    • .home .p2 {
      font-size:1.4em;
      }
    • .home .p3 {
      font-size:1.3em;
      }
    • .home .p4 {
      font-size:1.2em;
      }
    • .home .p5 {
      font-size:1.1em;
      }

    License

    ThemeMeme Eos is Copyright © 2007 by ThemeMeme. 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 ThemeMeme (http://www.themememe.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 21 Jan 08.
    0.2 Released 22 Jan 08. Changes:

    • Fixed for­mat­ting of track­backs to match comments.
    • Fixed img.alignright in style.css.
    • Added sup­port for gra­vatar plu­gin for comments.

    0.3 Released 22 Jan 08. Changes:

    • Fixed over­flow for code and pre in style.css.
    • Fixed com­ments so gra­vatar doesn’t load my ThemeMeme gra­vatar. Now uses default image if com­menter doesn’t have a gravatar.

    0.4 Released 24 Jan 08. Changes:

    • Fixed the width on the meta col­umn in sin­gle posts.
    • Fixed the About text so it cor­rectly instructs you to edit it in sidebar.php.
    • Added sup­port for a related posts plu­gin on sin­gle pages.
    • Removed the bor­der from the top of the bot­tom nav­i­ga­tion on sin­gle pages.
    • Fixed the width for next and pre­vi­ous links.
    • Changed image links so they no long dis­play a border.
    • Adjusted the spac­ing after titles on the home page.

    0.5 Released 16 Feb 08. Changes:

    • Fixed excerpts on indi­vid­ual posts so they are for­mat­ted prop­erly (larger type, etc.).
    • Changed font to Arial from Helvetica (looks bet­ter in Firefox).

    0.6 Released 20 Mar 08. Added the avatar tag for WordPress 2.5.

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    170 Comments on "WordPress Theme: ThemeMeme Eos"

    1. iamww says:

      I have been work­ing on a theme that looks a lot like this. So I like it a lot! I guess great minds think alike…

    2. Robert Ellis says:

      Ha! I’m not sur­prised. We share sim­i­lar tastes, it seems. How is your theme com­ing? I’d like to see it.

    3. iamww says:

      I have since totally changed the design. I will shoot you a like to my dev environment.

    4. Robert Ellis says:

      Cool. I’m inter­ested to see what you’re work­ing on. And feel free to do a mod of Eos, if you feel inspired!

    5. Kakariki says:

      Dude, this is hot! I am in love even more than the other one I just love! I’m chang­ing over, stay tuned.

    6. Robert Ellis says:

      Thanks, Kakariki!

    7. CSamarin says:

      Trying to use this great theme but I’m get­ting the fol­low­ing error:

      Fatal error: Call to unde­fined func­tion is_tag() in /var/www/blog.switchplanet.com/wp-content/themes/ThemeMemeEos/futurosity_eos/functions.php on line 78

      I can’t find where the func­tion is sup­posed to be defined and what it’s sup­posed to do?

      Any ideas?

    8. Robert Ellis says:

      CSamarin, you’re using an old ver­sion of WordPress which doesn’t sup­port tags. Upgrade to WordPress 2.3.2 and let me know if you still run into problems.

    9. Bob van Ooik says:

      Great Work Robert! But some­how I don’t seem to get ver­sion 0.4… I down­loaded from the above link but it says v0.3 in my dash­board. I also noticed that the about text still fea­tures the home.php ref­er­ence. Maybe the link is not updated?

    10. Robert Ellis says:

      Thanks for the heads up, Bob. The link should work now.

    11. Darryl says:

      Hi Robert. I know you said it was a DIY job if we’re inter­ested in work­ing with SmoothGallery but I’ve been fight­ing with it for hours now and was won­der­ing if theres any chance of a teensy-weensy pointer in the right direc­tion to get the beast actu­ally into ‘features’.

      No has­sle get­ting the gallery going per se (espe­cially as Christian Schenk as just cre­ated a plu­gin for it ) but could really use a pointer on where I should be work­ing to get it inte­grated with the posts.

      Obviously if you’ve gotta stand firm on your word and brush my wretched short­com­ings to one side I can take it and will con­tinue fight­ing through on my own.

    12. Robert Ellis says:

      I’m send­ing you a copy of my header.php and home.php file. You should be able to fig­ure it out from there, but let me know if you still run into problems.

    13. Kakariki says:

      ooh ooh I did it and it looks H.O.T. still got to do a few things to it, but I just love the new look! 10 times bet­ter than a new hair­cut I reckon.
      xoxoxox

    14. Robert Ellis says:

      Thanks, Kakariki. Looks great! And I love the valentine!

    15. Kakariki says:

      Hi Robert
      Just a small piece of feed­back, it’s kind of a bug but not. The default post setup goes all skewiff if you put a youtube stan­dard size imbed in your post. Do you reckon the best way to fix it is to change the post width or the side­bar width?
      I’ve been get­ting so much pos­i­tive feed­back for the new look, it’s great!
      xox

    16. Robert Ellis says:

      Kakariki, I just tried that and it works fine. The width of the sin­gle post col­umn in Eos is 460px. The videos on YouTube are 480px wide, but the stan­dard embed code that you copy for each video is only 425px wide. If I’m miss­ing some­thing, let me know.

    17. Kakariki says:

      Hmmm won­der what it is then. Check this post http://radicalcrossstitch.com/2008/02/02/mars-attacks/ when I look at it all the side bar stuff drops to the bot­tom. And I’ve checked it out on two sep­a­rate com­put­ers both run­ning fire­fox and camino. I thought it might be my wee screen but that’s not the issue on the other com­puter and there’s the same issue in the other browser.

    18. Robert Ellis says:

      Kakariki, there’s some­thing funny about the way you’ve embed­ded the video. The video and the last para­graph are out­side of the entry div, so they’re tak­ing up the whole width of the browser. Check the code in your post in your WP Admin and see if some­thing looks wonky. I can’t tell you exactly what the prob­lem is with­out look­ing at your admin, but I’m pretty con­fi­dent it isn’t a prob­lem with the theme because it works fine in my test blog. Let me know what you find out. Thanks!

    19. Kakariki says:

      Hmm I realy don’t get it. I look at the page source and it all seems to be inside the div tags to me. This is what the post code looks like (the more tag is in there to keep the front age from being affected by this weird thing. It still does the same thing whether it’s there or not):

      So while you were all hav­ing a good time on New Years Eve the good peo­ple of ALF in Oamaru were defend­ing the earth from a Martian attack. Lucky for you they won.

      Lucky for us, some­one filmed it.

      (Yes folks, this is what my friends did on NYE, jealous?)

    20. Kakariki says:

      oh crap it didn’t show you the code. If you want I can email it to you.

    21. Robert Ellis says:

      Try tak­ing out the tag and see if it works. You can always put an excerpt in the Optional Excerpt field in your WP Admin for the post so it looks fine on your home page.

      Let me know if that fixes it. If not, I’ll be in touch directly.

    22. Kakariki says:

      nah it doesn’t affect it at all. I think I found a glitch in the matrix…

    23. Robert Ellis says:

      Kakariki, I see that you have the lay­out fixed. But why is the video down so low? What was the glitch in the matrix?

    24. Kakariki says:

      Hmm not sure what you’re see­ing, I haven’t got it fixed at all. Still have the side­bar slip­ping down to the bot­tom. I have no idea what the prob­lem is. I’m search­ing the net for tips but any advice much appreciated.

    25. Robert Ellis says:

      Kakariki, I was look­ing at it in Safari again; for­got the prob­lem is in Firefox. There’s def­i­nitely some­thing weird going on with you post because the embed code comes after the clos­ing for the wrap­per. Have you edited the single.php tem­plate at all?

    26. Robert Ellis says:

      Kakariki, the prob­lem was with the embed code. A reminder for every­one: when you copy and past embed codes, be very care­ful. If you miss any of the tags, it can ruin the layout.

    27. Ian says:

      Is there any way you can post a quick tuto­r­ial on how to get smooth­gallery going on futur­osity eos. maybe even just pro­vide the theme with it pre installed. I am fairly good at work­ing with this stuff but i can’t seem to make it work.

    28. Robert Ellis says:

      Ian, I just don’t have time to make a tuto­r­ial on SmoothGallery. Besides, I’m not sure I like it that much. I’m look­ing for some­thing bet­ter. But I’m email­ing you my home.php file, which should help you fig­ure it out.

    29. Mike says:

      Robert,

      Great theme, but I seem to have a prob­lem.
      I just installed it and, to the best of my knowl­edge, fol­lowed every step (acti­vated all four plu­g­ins and such). When I cre­ate a post, how­ever, this is the for­mat that it is pub­lished in:

      Title Of Post

      Content of post blah blah blah.”

      Content of post blah blah blah.” (repeated from above)

      Basically, the con­tent of the post is repeated, or dupli­cated, and is essen­tially amended to the end of the post. Can you point me in the right direc­tion? Where did I go wrong? Feel free to email me.

      Thanks a bunch,
      Mike

    30. Robert Ellis says:

      Mike, I would need to see your site. Post your URL and I’ll have a look.

    31. Mike says:

      I’m test­ing it on:

      If you go to the post “Test post” you will see how the con­tent is duplicated.

    32. Robert Ellis says:

      Mike, I can’t see any obvi­ous rea­son why this should be hap­pen­ing. Have you edited or changed any­thing? Do you have any other plu­g­ins installed? Try dis­abling the plu­g­ins and acti­vat­ing them one at a time and see if that makes a difference.

    33. Mike says:

      I tried deac­ti­vat­ing each plu­gin one at a time, which didn’t seem to do any­thing. I also checked to see if I had the newest ver­sion of each plu­gin (which I do — I actu­ally ended up upgrad­ing YARPP to 1.5.1).

      I really don’t recall edit­ing any­thing that would cause what’s hap­pen­ing, but I clearly broke some­thing some­where along the line. Any advice?

    34. Robert Ellis says:

      Mike, the most likely prob­lem is that you’ve acci­dently mucked up single.php. If you’ve edited that, try down­load­ing the theme again and replac­ing it with a clean version.

    35. Mike says:

      Robert,

      I re-downloaded the theme and replaced the single.php file with the new one. No luck with that.
      Then, I com­pletely unin­stalled futurosity_eos and the four plu­g­ins (deac­ti­vated and deleted). I went back and rein­stalled the four plu­g­ins, acti­vated them, rein­stalled the theme, and acti­vated it, but I’m still get­ting the same exact prob­lem. It’s very strange.

      I see you men­tion­ing your theme work­ing for WP 2.3.2, but I’m run­ning 2.3.3. Could that be the prob­lem? In any event, I’m think­ing of com­pletely unin­stalling WP, delet­ing it’s data­bases, and start­ing again from scratch.

    36. Robert Ellis says:

      Mike, as long as you’re using 2.3.2 or higher, that shouldn’t be the problem.

      Do you have the prob­lem when all plu­g­ins are dis­abled? If not, the prob­lem is with a plu­gin. Activate them one by one.

      Do you have the prob­lem if you use the default theme? If so, there’s a prob­lem with your WordPress instal­la­tion. If you can’t get the default theme to work, try the WordPress Forums. I don’t think the issue is with Eos.

      Good luck!

    37. Mike says:

      This is dri­ving me crazy!
      I unin­stalled WP and deleted the data­base for it. I then rein­stalled it and uploaded the four plu­g­ins and Eos. Before acti­vat­ing the plu­g­ins and the new theme, I made a test post with the default theme, and every­thing was nor­mal. When I acti­vated the plu­g­ins and the Eos theme, how­ever, the text dupli­ca­tion hap­pened again.

      I tried deac­ti­vat­ing each plu­gin one at a time, while refresh­ing the test post page, but no dice. And when I switch back to the default WP theme (even with all four plu­g­ins acti­vated), the text dupli­ca­tion is not evident.

      Also, I am pos­i­tive I did not edit any of the Eos files this time. In fact, I re-downloaded it from your site and used that just to be sure.

    38. Robert Ellis says:

      I’ll need access to your WP Admin to try to trou­bleshoot this. I’ve sent you an email.

    39. Robert Ellis says:

      Mike, you’re right!

      Eos dis­plays the excerpt at the top of each post, fol­lowed by the actual post. Because your test post con­sisted of only one line, the excerpt and the post were the same. The prob­lem is that the excerpt is sup­posed to be styled dif­fer­ently, as it is on my site. But that wasn’t hap­pen­ing in the theme for some strange reason.

      I’ve fixed the style.css file and it should work prop­erly now. Thanks very much for bring­ing this to my attention!

    40. A very amaz­ing design you have here. I love the grid lay­out, black and white spaces and all around look. I would love to use this, just have to find a place to use it! :) haha

    41. Sam says:

      Hey, as every­one says great theme. But what con­fuses me is on this site, the fea­tured page is a sta­tic page, how do you set that? as it “fea­tures” the newest post. On that note, who would I put the most recent post in the fresh col­umn like here aswell?

      Cheers

    42. Robert Ellis says:

      Sam, I’m not sure what you’re ask­ing. The “fea­tured” page in the theme is the home page, home.php. It will auto­mat­i­cally dis­play the most recent post as the fea­tured post. On my site, I’m using SmoothGallery and the “fea­tured” sec­tion is hand coded into home.php. If you don’t want the fea­tured post to change, just hand code it.

    43. Sam says:

      Ah I see, how stu­pid of me. Seems im also too stu­pid to fig­ure out how to code smooth­gallery in too.

    44. Rob Drysdale says:

      Like a few other peo­ple I can’t quite fig­ure out the SmoothGallery fea­ture. I never was a JavaScript vir­tu­oso. Any chance I can sneak a peek at your home.php? Once I fig­ure out how to setup SmoothGallery I can write up a quick tuto­r­ial for every­one else.

      By the way all of your themes are top notch. Keep up the great work.

    45. Robert Ellis says:

      Okay, I’ve added instruc­tions for using SmoothGallery to this post (see above). Let me know if you run into any problems.

    46. Sam says:

      ahh! thanks rob, I wasn’t too far off, but I don’t think id of been able to fig­ure it. Great sup­port, makes a nice change

    47. Robert Ellis says:

      Sam, you’re welcome!

    48. Rob Drysdale says:

      The SmoothGallery was far sim­pler than I thought. I was try­ing to make it way more com­plex than it needed to be. I actu­ally feel guilty ask­ing for the help. Where’s the link to your Amazon wish list? I think I owe you at least a CD.

    49. Robert Ellis says:

      Rob, no need to feel guilty. And no need to get me any­thing from Amazon, unless you’re just feel­ing par­tic­u­larly gen­er­ous. :)

    50. Rob Drysdale says:

      Hard work should always be rec­og­nized and rewarded. Enjoy the book, it was the last copy Amazon had (so they claim).

    51. Robert Ellis says:

      Thanks very much, Rob! You made my day!

    52. Avi says:

      Very nice theme. Good job!

    53. m says:

      very nice. I like the futur­osity series. mag­a­zine was a great start. keep it up, the web gets pret­tier if you do.

    54. glassbox says:

      Hi Robert,

      We love your work. Everything has been work­ing great, but we’ve heard back from some read­ers that in IE6 the header link is way down at the bot­tom, instead of up top like in IE7 / Firefox / Safari. Is there a fix for this, or any insight you can provide?

      BTW, we liked your Vero theme so much, we through together a new site just to use it.

      Cheers,

      e&f

    55. Robert Ellis says:

      Thanks, glass­box. Your site looks great!

      I think the prob­lem on your site is because the pic­tures in your post are too wide, which is break­ing the lay­out. In IE7, the style sheet pre­vents them from dis­play­ing at full size, but that CSS doesn’t work in IE6. Try resiz­ing your images, or hope that your users will upgrade. Not many peo­ple are using IE6 anymore.

    56. glassbox says:

      Such a sim­ple answer ;o) Thanks, we really like all your themes.

      If you’d like to check it out, guywords.com is the other site we threw together to use your Vero theme. Still under con­struc­tion, but we love the feature/fresh ability.

    57. Robert Ellis says:

      Hey, glass­box, guywords.com looks interesting.

    58. pylorns says:

      I was hav­ing some seri­ous prob­lems with K2 after updat­ing to the lat­est ver­sion of word­press 2.5 and RC5 of K2 theme so I found your theme and like the style, but I’m hav­ing prob­lems get­ting the archive wid­get to show –in that its not show­ing at all.

    59. Robert Ellis says:

      @pylorns: The archives are hid­den in styles.css. Open styles.css and find this line:

      .home #nav-above,.home #nav-below,.home .tag-links,#archives {
      display:none;
      }

      Delete ,#archives so the line looks like this:

      .home #nav-above,.home #nav-below,.home .tag-links {
      display:none;
      }

    60. pylorns says:

      Awesome! Thanks, keep up the good work!

    61. Tom says:

      Hi Rob

      Its a great tem­plate and i have been edit­ing it, but i do have the same prob­lem as mike had and it posts it twice. Im try­ing to solve the prob­lem but i thought it might be eas­ier to ask you as you have dealt with it before.

      Thanks

      Tom

    62. Tom says:

      ah sorry rob it was me being stu­pid, ignore that last com­ment, its a great theme any­way! thanks!

    63. ian says:

      i switched to smooth gallery fol­low­ing youe instruc­tion then decided to switch back to just plain fea­tured. Now, when i add a post i am get­ting an error say­ing it cant mod­ify header, and the fea­tured area is just using the newest post!!!!!!!!! dri­ving me nuts i even did a straigt copy and paste from the old header.php and home.php no change. i know how annoy­ing this but if you could help that would be rad.

    64. Robert Ellis says:

      ian, I couldn’t even begin to help you with­out see­ing your site and I don’t really have time to trou­bleshoot things that aren’t a prob­lem with the theme itself. Best sug­ges­tion: If you haven’t made too many other changes, start over with a fresh install of the theme and start over.

    65. Mark Thomas says:

      Hi, I’m using this theme on my test site to see if it works for my needs. I noticed there is no page nav­i­ga­tion to view pre­vi­ous entries from the main home page. However, there is page nav­i­ga­tion in the archives.

      Is there a way to use nav­i­ga­tion from the main page? I tried the stan­dard word­press code and it just shows the main page posts for each page. Any ideas?

    66. Robert Ellis says:

      Mark, if you want to have page nav­i­ga­tion on the home page, open home.php and find this

      Add this code just before the above:

    67. Mark Thomas says:

      Hi Robert,
      I tried what you sug­gested and the nav­i­ga­tion sim­ply does not show up at all. Is there a bit of code that could be caus­ing it to hide?

    68. Robert Ellis says:

      Mark, you’re right. Open style.css and find this:

      .home #nav-above,.home #nav-below,.home .tag-links,#archives {
      display:none;
      }

      Remove .home #nav-below and things should work.

    69. Mark Thomas says:

      Wow, I hate to keep both­er­ing you. I apol­o­gize for that. Your advice did work: the nav­i­ga­tion now shows up but when clicked it sim­ply shows the lat­ests posts again. Any suggestions?

    70. Mark Thomas says:

      Update!
      I solved my prob­lem with this bit of code in my query_posts function:

    71. Mark Thomas says:

      Oops:

      < ?php
      if (is_home()) {
      $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
      query_posts("cat=-3&paged=$paged");
      }
      ?>

    72. Robert Ellis says:

      Glad you worked it out, Mark!

    73. Alasdair says:

      Congratulations on a great theme. Keep up the good work!

    74. Bob Walker says:

      Hi Robert,

      I’ve been try­ing to get the bot­tom nav­i­ga­tion work­ing on the main page and have fol­lowed the posts between you and Mark Thomas. I have the nav­i­ga­tion work­ing but have a prob­lem sim­i­lar to mike where click­ing the older posts but­ton brings up a 404 error. To hope­fully solve the prob­lem i was going to use his “if (is_home())” code but as I’m not very up on php, i don’t know where to put it. I’m guess­ing its on the index.php page some­where, can you help?

      Many thanks

    75. Robert Ellis says:

      Bob, post a URL so I can see what’s hap­pen­ing on your site.

    76. Bob Walker says:

      Hi Robert,

      It’s ok i man­aged to fix it. I did not need to use mark thomas’s “if (is_home())” script.

      The prob­lem was caused by the string ” ” which sits just below the “Fresh” tag in home.php. With this string even when i changed page to show older posts, it would only ever show the same 7 posts.

      I just deleted it and every­thing is work­ing fine now.

      Thanks

      Bob

    77. Bob Walker says:

      Sorry:

    78. Bob Walker says:

      Sorry cant get the string to dis­play prop­erly in your com­ments field. Its the php query_posts(showposts=7) string.

      Thanks

      Bob

    79. Nicole says:

      Hi Robert! Like every­one here, I’m in love with your themes. I’m just test­ing eos now, but when I post two images of the exact same size in the same post, the first is wider than the other once it’s pub­lished (as you can see here). What should i do about this? Thanks in advance for your help.

    80. Robert Ellis says:

      Nicole, you have some extra code in your post that’s resiz­ing the pic­tures. If you didn’t put it there, it’s being put there by a plu­gin, prob­a­bly Lightbox.

    81. ARS says:

      Thanks for shar­ing this theme! ;)

    82. Ross McCulloch says:

      Excellent theme! Is the side­bar widgetized?

    83. Robert Ellis says:

      Yes, the side­bar is widgetized.

    84. David says:

      Hi Robert,
      Just have a quick ques­tion:
      I’m not hav­ing any trou­ble cus­tomiz­ing your theme CSS wise how­ever, I just wanted to know whether it was pos­si­ble to add a thumb­nail image onto the posts under the Fresh col­umn. It would be even bet­ter if the thumb­nail image was the image con­tained in the post! The rea­son I ask is because I run a design blog and if I am to upgrade to your theme, I think it would be bet­ter to make it a bit more visual see­ing as my read­ers are designers!

      Kind Regards

      David

    85. Robert Ellis says:

      David, it’s pos­si­ble, but it wouldn’t be easy and I can’t tell you exactly how to do it.

      You could try pulling some of the code I use in home.phpin ThemeMeme Vero:

      < ?php if (function_exists('c2c_get_custom')) : ?>

      < ?php echo c2c_get_custom('post-image','<?php the_title(); ?>',''); ?>

      < ?php endif; ?>

      You’ll need the Get Custom Field Values plu­gin and to add a post-image to each post. Read the direc­tions for ThemeMeme Vero.

      Something like this should work, but you’ll just have to exper­i­ment. Unfortunately, I don’t have the time to do this for you.

    86. David says:

      Robert,

      Thankyou for the response.
      I shall exper­i­ment and I’ll let you know how
      it went if it goes to plan!

      Thanks for the tips

      Best,

      David

    87. David says:

      Robert,

      I for­get to men­tion ear­lier that I encoun­tered a slight Problem with the theme. As you can see, if I insert an emo­tion icon into a post it causes a huge gap in between the text.

      Any way to resolve this?

      Regards

      David

    88. Robert Ellis says:

      David, I have no idea.

    89. arcd says:

      Is there an easy way to pag­i­nate the posts on the homepage??

    90. Nicole says:

      how can I get there to be more com­ments shown than the default? I’d love to add like 4 or 5 more onto the home page…

    91. Robert Ellis says:

      Nicole, the num­ber of com­ments shown is deter­mined by your set­tings for the Get Recent Comments plu­gin in your WP Admin.

    92. Nicole says:

      Thanks for the com­ment tip Robert. I have just one more q. How can I change the dimen­sions of “The Latest” Photo and borders/bars above and below it? I would like to be able to upload images that are not as wide as 640–I find that it’s hard to find appro­pri­ate ones to post, and so I don’t post as often as I’d like. That said, I’d like the width of space for “the lat­est” photo and borders/bars above + below it to equal the width of the “Still Fresh” border/bar, and then move the com­ments up, so that they are flush with the lat­est bar/border. Does that make sense?

    93. I LOVE this theme! It’s exactly what I needed for my site, so thank you for mak­ing it. However, I’m hav­ing heaps of trou­ble get­ting an image to show up. I fol­lowed your instruc­tions with a cus­tom filed to the let­ter, and I link to the right image, but get a black box. Also Ideally, I would like a sta­tic front page (basi­cally my about page) also with a pic­ture, but when I turn this option on in the WP admin sec­tion, even the black box disappears.

      I only dis­cov­ered WordPress a few days ago, and have never writ­ten a line of code, so I am a com­plete beginner.

    94. Kit M says:

      Nicolaj–

      The pic­ture is keyed to the most recent post. What we do on our site is make sure that the last post we make is the pic­ture post. That can require some fid­dling with the dates, but if you go to WP and down­load a plu­gin titled The Future Is Now, you can update that post to be the “lat­est” no mat­ter when you post it. If you want more info, come visit our site at http://www.mountainprideconnections.com and we’ll show you what to do.

      Kit

    95. Buduar says:

      ThemeMeme EOS — Great Theme!
      Buduar mod uses “JQuery Dropdown Menu” plu­gin to play more as the CMS and gallery than ordi­nary blog.
      Thank You!
      The css is not work­ing 100% cor­rect around the header in blog menu. Any ideas?

    96. M Slaughter says:

      hi robert,

      first of all, thanks for pro­duc­ing such an excel­lent resource.
      i have been spend­ing hours look­ing for a nice, basic theme for my new page, and your themes here and at upstart have just what i’m after.

      i read your pol­icy on pro­vid­ing help for cus­tomiz­ing your themes, but as i am a code lud­dite and have been unable to find the tip i’m after else­where, i’m hop­ing your pol­icy may prove flex­i­ble on this one occasion.…

      i would be very grate­ful if you can tell me how to make the side­bar (and header, if it can be done) sta­tic? ie kinda like this: http://www.lokeshdhakar.com/ i think it is very cool that the header stays there when you scroll through posts.

      if you are able to help, i’d be most appre­cia­tive, but i under­stand if you’re unable to.

      thanks again.

      slaugh­ter

      cheers

    97. M Slaughter says:

      thanks for a nice theme -
      how­ever it seems to weird out in mozilla.
      any tips… (anyone) ?

    98. M Slaughter says:

      ak.… it seems to weird­ing out for me in –fire­fox– too!

      http://www.thedelorean.net/1980/

      i am pathetic at all of this code stuff.… but i haven’t changed any­thing yet!

      any help would be much appreciated.…

    99. Gui says:

      Hey Robert. Thanks for the theme, but I can’t get to show the fea­ture image on the page. The clos­est thing I got to was the browser not rec­og­niz­ing the pic­ture and putting a ques­tion mark on the cen­ter of where the pic­ture was sup­posed to be. Can you help me please?

      Thanks

    100. anlamı says:

      Woww great design. Thanks for free share ı want use my anlamı nedir pages.

    101. patrolarg says:

      Hi Ive got a prob­lem after i write news on in. Cause when im in the single.php Ive got on the Related Posts titel the fol­low­ing error

      Warning: debug_backtrace() has been dis­abled for secu­rity rea­sons in /usr/export/www/vhosts/funnetwork/hosting/archi222/fi/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 960

      Warning: array_reverse() [function.array-reverse]: The argu­ment should be an array in /usr/export/www/vhosts/funnetwork/hosting/archi222/fi/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 963

      If u could help me with it i would really appre­ci­ate it :)

    102. 24Seven says:

      Great theme — look for­ward to more!

    103. Lily Carver says:

      Dear Mr. Ellis–I know this is old, out-of-date stuff, but I’ve fallen in love with your old Altera and Fut.Mag. themes, and I cann’t for the life of me fig­ure out how to get the front page look­ing like those of the six or seven sites I’ve found that use it. I just want to post a header image under the Blot title and descrip­tion and get the grid thing going on the home page. I’ve been search­ing this issue for three weeks and am about to give up. I know you don’t sup­port cus­tomiza­tion, but is there any change you could point me in the direc­tor of some forum or some­thing where peo­ple were deal­ing with this? I’d be so, so grateful!

    104. Robert Ellis says:

      Lily, I’m sorry, but the Altera/ThemeMeme Magazine theme is not mine any­more. You should con­tact Upstart Blogger or post a com­ment on his site and some­one may help you. Good luck!

    105. Lily Carver says:

      You know, I really can­not imag­ine what that means–in any real sense, and I find it cyn­i­cal and disin­gen­u­ous. What dif­fer­ence does it make who owns the site where the theme was first offered? I’m sure that you could help if you had the incli­na­tion. Why you don’t is beyond me.

    106. Hi Robert. I love your theme, think­ing about switch­ing my site over. One ques­tion: For indi­vid­ual pages set to “default tem­plate,” the sub­head says “This is a page. Woah.”

      Can I set a cus­tom field for each page to replace that subhead?

      Thanks!

    107. Rahayuni W says:

      When I installed wordpress-theme-futurosity-eos and wanted to edit fea­tured post, I didn’t find Custom Fields. Well, I’m using word­press 2.8. Would you tell me what should I do? thank you.

    108. Matt says:

      I love the theme, very min­i­mal, has a lot of poten­tial. I’ve been mod­ding it slightly (using my very lim­ited css/html expe­ri­ence), for a blog yet to go live.

      Is their a way to get a header image under the blog name at the top? I just need some­thing sta­tic.
      any advice?

      thanks
      matt
      Motionboutique.com

    109. Jarhood says:

      Hi Robert Great theme.

      I would love some help with cus­tomiz­ing it. I would like to take out and get rid of the Meta Column alto­gether and have only the 2 other columns left. Also I would like to get rid of the Fresh sec­tion also.

      Would be great if I could get some advice please. Thanks

    110. Nak says:

      Love your theme ThemeMeme Eos, but hav­ing some issues with Opere, Chrome and Safari — Pooh !

      http://sagebrookpartners.com/

      Trying out the most recent incar­na­tion — but I do love your work ! Edgy and Fabodelux !

      Hopefully there is a fix,

      Best

      Kit

    111. matt hanna says:

      Can some­one please help me??? I love this theme and it looks great as my site check it out http://www.diptnyc.com/ BUT the lat­est issue is as you can see by scrolling down to the bot­tom of the page it doesnt have the “older posts” or “pre­vi­ous posts” option to click is not even there so in sum it is only show­ing the amount of posts that fit on my front page. please help please [email protected]

      I am pretty sure I didnt delete it any­where? Is there a stan­dard code for that I can enter some­where? If so please pro­vide and let me know exactly which tem­plate I need to put it in and where in that tem­plate. Thanks.

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