Aeros 1.0.2 - 1.0.4 - Fixes, 6 Backgrounds, better, bigger!
Exclusive premium download only here:The Buckmaker Bonus Version 1.0.3: Get 6 free high quality Backgrounds!As the Aeros Theme becomes more and more popular, it’s time for the first upgrade. It contains many of your wishes and suggestions you left in the comment section. Let me tell you what has changed.
- The top navigation bar (for the pages) now shows subpages left of the menu when you select a parent page
- If comments and Pings are closed, you now see a nice “–” instead of the big Co..mments closed in the comment count field left of the post
- The rounded corners now work in many different browsers - thanks Dirk!
- Transparency of the content container has slightly been decreased
- the comment list has been beautified - the names of the comment authors are now displayed under the avatar image
- 6 big-sized background images suitable for all screen resolutions
- Theme tested on 50+ different browsers
Below you can see the 6 different (5 new) background images. They are included in the /images folder and can easily be changed in the css-file, simply follow the instructions there and in the readme-file of the theme. All background images are big-sized so the images work fine even on large screens. The default background now fades out to white, the new default background color is white.
Default Background
Autumn Background
Sunflowers Background
Winter Background
Golf Background
Desert Background
Update: Version 1.0.3 includes some fixes:
- better handling of image floating and image sizes
- removed the mysterious line in the first post
- nicer magnifying glass with anti-aliasing - thanks Matt!
- included wp_footer() hook to solve issues with some plugins and videos
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I really love this theme, but now I’m having problems with formatting in posts with images. Would someone be willing to help? On my blog, http://loquaciousmadman.com/blog, any posts with images are left justified and the text wraps around the image. I have tried formatting, but the end result seems to ignore any formatting that I have saved. This might be a limitation of Wordpress, but pointers would be appreciated.
Hi Tim, this was because my standard image setting is “align:left” so that text floats around the image if no other classes are defined. I changed it in V 1.0.2 and there should not be any more problems with images. Please download it again.
Thank you so much for providing my new theme!
Hi
Thanks for a really nice theme!
After applying your theme all my images look stretched vertically?
Take a look: http://www.martinblom.dk/
Any ideas?
When I edit the post, they look fine in the preview.
/Martin
The magnifying glass icon for the search button needs some anti-aliasing. I applied a 1 pixel radius Gaussian blur, which seemed to do a good enough job simulating AA.
Here’s the image with blur applied:
http://www.micronetsoftware.com/blog/wp-content/themes/aeros/images/lens.png
Thanks Matt, looks much better now!
@Martin: look for “img.size-medium” in style.css and remove width:50% and height:50% as wordpress sizes images automatically and the “50%” may cause problems. Thanks for your feedback. I changed it also in the download so image sizes should be OK now.
Now that image formatting has been explained, and tweaked maybe I will have a little better luck with it. I was hoping it would be fixed.
I have a question. Is the background image customizable with our own images? Although the images you have by default are beautiful, I would like to use your theme with a picture more related to the theme of our website. Is there anything special I need to do with my own picture to make it work as a default image, or can I just change the image name in the css to point to my image?
Thanks!
Chuck
Hi Chuck, that’s no problem at all and fully described in the readme file:
To change the BACKGROUND IMAGE:
Make your custom Background Image or select one out of the /images folder. Size it to 1024px height to make it fit also for larger screens.
JPG-Files with lower quality ensure fast loading times - quality doesn’t need to be too high in browsers.
File size should be under 100 KB in the end. Copy your image into the /images folder of the theme.
Then look for
body {
background: url(images/default.jpg) no-repeat 0 0 #fff;
background-attachment:fixed;
color: #000;
font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
in the style.css file and replace
background: url(images/default.jpg) no-repeat 0 0 #fff;
with your own image file. This may look like
background: url(images/myimage.jpg) no-repeat 0 0 #fff;
and safe the style.css file.
I’m sure I’m asking a dumb question but I’m new to wordpress. I love your theme but how do i get the avatars to show up next to people’s comments?
Thank you.
Charles
Hi Joe - this is an excellent theme! The only problem appears to be a sort of conflict with the comments. I am getting an error when switching to this theme with all of my previous comments. Have you ever seen this before?
@Charles: It’s magic resp. http://en.gravatar.com/
@Ryan: Never heard of that and not sure how this can happen. Do you use a former version of WordPress?
Joe, I love your theme, but I did spot one little issue. The search lens.png won’t show up on other pages when you have permalinks enabled or in installed in a subfolder (not sure which broke it) but if you change the link from
src=”wp-content/themes/aeros/images/lens.png”
to
src=”/wp-content/themes/aeros/images/lens.png”
You will be all set
heh, sorry it stripped out my php code (hope this works this time), the second line should be
src=”lesserthan+questionmark bloginfo(’url’); questionmark+greatherthan/wp-content/themes/aeros/images/lens.png”
If this rips my code out again, its the wordpress url tag followed by a forward slash then the rest of the original url
Thanks Kevin
Hi, Joe! I’ve just upgraded this lastest version but I’ve got a conflict with the sidebar. It looks like it doesn’t show its dark-transparent background. And when I add some standard widget (categories, links, etc.), it gets “glued” to the posts collumn with the bullet points behind.
Go there and check it out yourself… explaining that way it’ll be a little hard to understand.
Hi,
Thanks for an amazing theme, best one I’ve come across.
You could however add also the timestamp information to the posts and comments, like just a note in the post footer. It’s nice to know at what time the entries have been made.
Thanks.
@ Zee: sorry - it seems your server is not responding. Did you download it here or at the WP Directory? Which browser? I just downloaded + tested the V 1.0.3 at another WP installation and everything was OK in FF + IE. There should be no problem. Did you change anything in the code? Maybe try downloading it again.
@ DreaMr: Thanks
@Joe: yeah, I don’t know either why the server is down. Well, I’ve only changed the fonts and some texts (i.g. Edit this) from the PHP, the rest of the code is the same. I’ve downloaded right from here (I don’t trust Wordpress sometimes ahahah). I’ll try to reinstall the theme again. Thanx a lot!
Aeros popular WordPress Theme…
* The top navigation bar (for the pages) shows subpages left of the menu when you select a parent page
* If comments and Pings are closed, you now see a nice “–” instead of the big Co..mments closed in the comment count field left of the post…
Have you considered adding a “random background image” option? Would it be interesting with a blog where the background was different every time you came to visit or just too confusing?
Hi Audun, not up to yet, but I think most users want their own background image. I think random images could make sence on some blogs, but only with specific images suitable for these blogs.
Hi Joe,
First off let me say thank you for designing such a wonderful theme. I’m a bit new to wordpress and I have 2 questions regarding your theme.
1. I’ve added 2 pages to my site, “links” and “about.” The problem I’m having is that the page buttons seem to double themselves when I’m on my home screen. Any other page they’re fine. It’s just when I navigate back to the home page is when they double.
2. I would like to embed a google map onto my site. I’ve tried placing the html code at the bottom of the “header.php” file but when I do so the google map is linked on every single page. Is there a specific spot where I can place the code so that the map only shows up on my home screen? Hope that’s not too much to ask!
Thank you.
Hi Johnny,
1) This problem is solved as soon as you’ve written your first post. I further improved the handling of the Head Menu in V 1.0.4
2) You can define it to only display on your home screen by using conditional tags: http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags
Hi Joe,
Thanks for the great theme and for responding to my question up above. I hope my pic shows up with this comment.
Question: How can I edit the theme so that the subpages don’t show up in the horizontal nav bar at the top? Once I add a few subpages, there gets to be too many buttons at the top.
Thanks again.
Charles
Hi Charles,
Subpages only show up when you are on a parent page. You can customize the Menu in the Header by erasing all in the container “headmenu” and linking to your pages manually - by making a list using “ul” and “li”. Or you use the template tag “list_pages” and exclude pages that should not show up: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages
Thank you so much.
Hi Joe, beautiful theme. Thanks!
I’m having an issue with embedded flash in posts like video and nex gallery. It all aligns left and won’t center correctly in the posts.
Also if we can get that worked out I’d like to use a modified version of this on my tech site AllShadow.com if that’s alright with you.
Last question, the rounded corners aren’t showing up in my IE 7. Any thoughts on that?
hi, this is the most cool skin ever designed (at least the coolest free skin), look how i’am using it
http://svasconcelos.dontexist.com
@Mike: Flash/Gallery: we’ll work that out - see your other comment - please tell me more about that
of course you can use it on your tech site - pls leave the credits
IE7 and IE6 are not showing rounded corners because they don’t feature this function, most other browsers do
Would it be ok if I was to use the Aeros theme on my site for a while with some slight modifiactions as im unsure as to your copyrighting ect
@Andrew: no prob - pls just leave the links in the footer as they are
hey, i noticed you chose not to show the sidebar on different pages, can you please tell me how to have the bar show? Thanks alot for sharing this awesome theme with us.
Hey Joe,
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we haven’t shut down our http://www.sleepcompass.com site at godaddy, because we are having one problem with our aerodome theme
when you click on dreamy gifts, the top menu shows all the listings and it looks messy! How did you do your menu the way you did?
It is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cool that you are from Austria! I have the best web designer, Pete Cotutsca, who has his site
http://www.eternianow.com and also did Kip Winger’s website!
I am also friends with James Beckett of
Beckett Mediendesign GmbH - [ Translate this page ]
Beckett Mediendesign Interactive Web and CD Design.
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He is in Austria too!
Sweet Dreams- Jane