Aeros 1.0.5 goes WordPress 2.7 and offers Background Image Switcher
I’ve spent some time making the popular Aeros Theme ready for WordPress 2.7 while maintaining full backward compatibility, if you use 2.6.5 or older versions. I’ve also cleaned up the whole theme and edited many details like headings, overall font size, table styles and much more. In a word: V 1.0.5 gets Aeros five steps ahead.
Aaron Edwards of MissionsPlace.com (http://missionsplace.com) has added the custom function ‘Change Background Image’ to the theme, which lets you chooce between 12 different images without having to edit any templates. He also added some more great background images and did some tweaks. Nice work, Aaron, thanks a lot! You’ll find a ‘Change Background Image’-Page in the ‘Design’ resp. ‘Appearance’ menu.
As you can see, the image changer already works with the upcoming version of WordPress. Of course it’s also available in 2.6.5 and former ones. To use your own custom background image, simply follow the instructions in the README file.
As I mentioned, Aeros 1.0.5 provides full WordPress 2.7 compatibility, which will especially give you some very nice comment options:
First of all, it enables you to directly reply to a comment, which is called ‘threaded/nested comments’. The ‘@ XY’-Times are over. Once you have sent your statement, it will appear directly under the comment you responded to, as seen on the next image (works in 2.7):
Next, you don’t have to scroll down to the bottom of the page to post a nested comment – you can open a ‘leave a reply’-form directly in the comment by clicking ‘Reply’ at the right bottom. Isn’t that great?
Once you’ve upgraded to the brandnew WordPress edition, don’t forget to select ‘Enable threaded (nested) comments’ and specify how many levels deep you allow guests to reply to comments. Comments can also be paged, automatically closed after xy days or turned around to show the latest comment on top. The backend also changes completely, but once you’re used to it, you’ll love it. You see: there are a lot of reasons for upgrading soon after 2.7 goes live.
Please note that very few themes already provide compatibility. Themes have to be adapted and some functions change in WordPress 2.7. If you want to also serve former WordPress versions (as many users will wait some time before upgrading), it gets quite tricky for Theme Designers. Aeros provides full WordPress 2.7 support while also supporting former versions, which is quite unique. You don’t have to change anything – it’s all done by Aeros 1.0.5.
Hi Joe, thanks for the great theme!
I have a question: how to change the page order in the top navigation bar? I already set the order in the admin page, I even use a plug-in “My Page Order” and somehow it still doesn’t the page in the right order. Is it being fixed somewhere in your theme?
And also it would be nice if you include an archieve.php for the next version.
Thx again!
Hi Jay, that should work, but you could also point the links manually in header.php in the headmenu section: remove the whole part between “headmenu” and “end headmenu” and define your links width an “ul” and “li” list – that makes 100% sure that the pages are displayed in perfect order. I do it this way here and think it’s the best solution.
Thx for a very quick reply Joe! I’ll take a look at the header file for sure.
Ey Joe..
Thanks for your work. I use your theme since the beginning of our blog. I’m really glad to hear Aeros is ready for 2.7.
So the following days I’ll spend in waiting for the german stable release
I just have to repeat that me and friends of mine love your work and hope you’ll go on.
Greets from Germany
Hi Joe. I must say, you’ve made stunning theme, I love it. Yet I miss archieve.php page. For now I dont need it ’cause I’m the only author, but later it would be nice to have archives made in author order.
There is also a bug that i can’t remove (i’m not very familiar with http and phpprograming, mayby you could help me?) – pictures in posts appear to be transparent, I want them solid. I need as good as posible picture quality since my blog is about medicine (most) and all structures in medical images must be clear with no background clouds.
Thanks again for brilliant work. Keep going.
With best wishes from Lithuania napalees
@Napalees: Thanks for your feedback. I’ll set up an archive page for one of the next versions, as well as beautiful child pages – the next milestones.
Transparency can’t be excluded from images in posts as you can only define ‘the whole post container’ for being transparent. To remove it, you need to remove ‘opacity’ from the ‘storywrap’ container in style.css. It’s also explained on the theme page http://thebuckmaker.com/aeros
Thanks for quick reply
I do admire your work
Do you have to turn avatars on to get this to work?
HI,JOE,
Thanks for your work!
I love it.
thanks for the nice theme!
Is there supposed to be a way to edit the background images? Or upload new ones?
@Kevin: “To use your own custom background image, simply follow the instructions in the README file.”
Thanks for the great theme guys, my compliments. I have one question, is it possible to remove the transparancy from the posted pictures? I love the transparancy for the posts but somehow the pictures in the post are also slightly transparant.
Thank you in advance!
@Tom: upcoming 2.0 versions of all themes will have non-transparent post images as all themes are currently being rebuilt
Nice design and using one´s own background image is rather easy. The idea is great many thanks for the good work
Hy joe , thanks for it
very nice ill try it. peace
thanks is very cool
colorful theme, thanks to you work.
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