Aeros 2.0 ‘Astro’ has landed!
You wanted it, and here it is: The first ‘Generation 2′ Buckmaker Theme Aeros 2.0 ‘Astro’. Here is a list of the major changes:
Cross-browser rounded corners and transparency: From now on, also users of Internet Explorer, Opera and other browsers can fully enjoy these features. The non-CSS code ‘opacity’ and ‘border-radius’ has been replaced by transparent background images and rounded image corners. Not as easy to change as the non-valid code, but … valid and also working in IE, Opera & Co.
Non-transparent post images: One thing that has often been asked for, especially by photographers
100% Valid CSS: The whole theme is now 100% valid CSS and XHTML which is a quality factor for search engines
New author page (Thanks to Jan Hassel Lien): Click on the name of the post author and a new page will open with the authors gravatar, nickname, description and last posts.
Single page style without date or comment count: In most cases, pages are used for general information about the blog, author or privacy. As it makes no sence to display the date in the same central position as in posts, archives or the main index, it has been moved to the bottom of the page and the whole post container has been extended.
Nicer and left positioned headmenu
Brilliant text to background contrast: As the former code ‘opacity’ added transparency to everything in a container, also the text itself got some sort of ‘washed-out’. These times are over.
a nice new year gift. thanks.
In playing around with the author page, I can’t figure out how to change the gravatar image on the page. I love the changes you’ve made and I can’t wait to see what Aeros 3.0 looks like!
Hello!
Avatars in comments are not correctly fetched.
I use gravatars on my blog, and the avatar fetched has the dimentions 32×32 and upscaled to 50×50.. looks awful!
You should change:
To:
It looks great after this!
Oh.. sorry.
Change:
wp_list_comments();
To:
wp_list_comments(‘avatar_size=50′);
Thank you for this great WordPress theme. I started to use it with my doodle site (www.doodlestyle.net) today and I’m super happy! Thank you very much!
It`s even better now!
Great job, can`t wait for the other templates to arrive also!
@Richie: thanks, I’ll do that.
Joe, is it possible to remove the date label from the author page? My attempts have done nothing but screw up the theme. Also, any way to add the author page as separate page in the menu? For example, instead of the lame contact page I have, I’d like to substitute the author page with email information and a description.
@Tim: yes, I’ll fix the author page, thanks. For the seperate page: You could do that by adding a link manually, but you’d have to edit the author page itself to get something displayed there.
This probably won’t be a popular request, with you having worked so hard to make Aeros CSS valid, but would there be an easy way to restore transparency to posted images? Aside from keeping the old style.css file, presumably. Otherwise, loving the update!
@Fips: Not in valid CSS, but you could declare all images as transparent by using the ‘opacity:…’ line there (.img, …)
First of all, thanks for your gorgeous and groovy theme.
And sorry for being obsolete but I’m using WordPress 2.3.3 and it show on the page that
‘Fatal error: Call to undefined function post_comments_feed_link() in /home/…/wp-content/themes/aeros/legacy.comments.php on line 43′
And
‘Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_avatar() in /home/everyeve/public_html/gastrobury/wp-content/themes/aeros/legacy.comments.php on line 24′
on About page.
I tried to find the solution in your FAQ but have no luck.
Please help me.
i have found that even though the background properties are specified in the style.css, the functions.php includes some style properties that overrides this, you may want to fix this or maybe it was intended? im loving the theme and currently trying to remove the transparency
just wanted to report that lil “bug”.
Cheers Joe, that’s the one I was after. Looks great, thanks for these fantastic themes!
Hi Joe!
First off, thank you for your hard work. These themes are by far the best I’ve seen (and I’ve been searching for a while!). Your attention to detail is much appreciated.
Quick question: are links supposed to be treated differently in body text and in lists? It seems to me that normal body links are both bold and underlined while links in lists and tables (etc.) are only bold. Was this your intention? Just looking for a little consistency.
Also, speaking of tables, is there a way to display tables without borders? The normal border=”0″ attribute doesn’t seem to have an effect.
Thanks again!
Hello,
I use Areos 2.0 for my wordpress blog (V2.7) but I encountered some issues.
In my blog, you must be loggin to post a comment. When unregistered user go on one page, the sidebar goes under the main content box like on this page : http://benjamin.genere.free.fr/wordpress/?p=117#comments
I try some changes but nothing fix it.
thanks
(i’m French, so sorry for my poor English).
@all: WOW, what a great response & help – thanks!
@Yota: You’ll need to upgrade your WordPress installation – also for security reasons – as the themes are younger than WP2.3 where avatars didn’t exist in WP. Don’t forget to backup your data + database first!
@John: Removing transparency in 2.0 themes won’t be easy anyway as you’d have to erase the background images – but then the rounded corners get lost. You could however use your own custom background images (look up the images/corners folder for this) without transparency, but you’d have to be good at editing + cropping images. Using the old non-CSS code ‘opacity’ or ‘border-radius’ will make the theme non-CSS valid again and may be an issue with search engines.
@Josh: I have styled the links this way to make content-links appear in a style that users are used to (+ google suggests to point out links clearly and display them in an other way than bold text patterns) and the sidebar links slightly different for optical reasons – underlined links won’t be good looking in the sidebar. For the tables: The style can be edited in style.css somewhere close to the end – there should be a table section
@Ben: Thanks- there has been a bug in comments.php that has been fixed. It just happens when your users must be logged in to post comments. You just need to download the theme again & replace the comments.php file.
A happy landing in 2009 to everybody!
Fixing the transparency issue was pretty easy actually, though a little time consuming. I just opened up the images in the ‘corner’ folder in Photoshop and paint bucket’d the parts with color and left the transparent areas transparent for corners, etc. As for the background css properties, was that intentional that they are built in statically from the functions.php?
Thanks for the pointer about the tables, Joe. If, by a table section, you meant the MISC > fieldset section, then yes, I found it and have made the updates and my tables look fine now. Thanks! May I ask why you styled all table cells to default to 1px border and vertical-align:top? Have I messed with your style by modifying this section of the stylesheet?
Also, I think I may not have explained myself about the links styles in my last comment. You say that “google suggests to point out links clearly and display them in an other way than bold text patterns”, but all links in both lists and tables appear as simply bold text! Exactly what Google warns against. Am I missing something?
Thanks again for all your work and have a happy and healthy new year!!! I’m looking forward to playing with your themes a lot in the coming year
happy new year!
Thanks for response Joe but I’d rather sticked with the old one. It’s pretty complicated for me to do back up and those stuffs.
Anyway I finally found the solution for it. Just delete ‘legacy.comments.php’ from the Aeros folder and everything will work like a charm!
An amazing theme!!! Perfect for my group. I really do not have an issue other than on my computer (Vista) I do not get the black border across the top or on the sidebar. It is clear. Looks nice but wondering why I do not get it and others do on there computer. I use IE nad is same with Firefox.
great theme! Is there a way to replace the whole header with a custom header image?
I love your theme!
Happy New Year!
This may be a stupid question, but just throwing it out there for someone to answer. Is there a way to remove the comments section from pages? I definitely want the comments for my posts, but I’d prefer to have the pages display without a comments section at the bottom.
Hi Tim, remove the whole line containing
php comments_template()
out of page.php
Awesome Joe! Thank you!
Well, Joe, I must say, you’ve made graet theme. I am using Aeros since I started blogging and I want to thank you for ypur help when I needed it. Generaly I like improvements you’ve made on latest version, but once again I need your help here to customise it a little…
maybe…) and I want to have posts container non-transparent, not only photos…
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not criticising your work, v.v. I admire it…
But… I like page tabs (Home, About, etc) the way they look in previous version (I like them dark when mouseover, well mayby they get a little too dark, but generaly I like the shape and color and !non-underlining. I was used to have them on right, but i think I can get used to the left
I hope you could help me with this…
The rest is only better when ever, thank you
@napalees: thanks a lot for your support. Unfortunately, the edits you mention are a bit hard to do as I’d have to make some major changes and image edits which means 2-3 hours of work. If you want the “old” tabs back (non-css-valid), I could send you the old aeros version as a sample for doing that. Hope that helps.
Well, I have the old version, I’m still using it
And what about the post container’s transperency? How do I make it solid? That would be enough for me to move on with new theme…
Hi!
First of all, great theme!
I wonder if it´s possible to edit the top menu so that only top-pages are shown? I have aboout 6 top-pages with a total of 33 subpages and the topmenu looks a bit “strange” right now.
Also, is there some way to change the number och chars in the top-menu tabs?
Thankx!
André in Sweden
@napalees: To remove transparency from the post container and keep rounded corners, all white images in /images/corners/ have to be edited to be non-transparent.
@André: Only parent pages show up in the topmenu, child pages are only displayed when a parent page is active
Wow, fast answer…
True, but is there some way to NOT show the subpages when a top page is clicked? I have a top page with 3 subpages, theses subpages has 4 subpages each…and so on…it really mess up the menu.
@André: Yes, just remove the whole “headsubmenu” section out of header.php – starting in line 53 and ending in line 57
Ok, thanks, Joe
I have little two problems or bug in my header and I relly dont know where they coming. Please look this picture and tell me how I can fix this bug? http://img89.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bugjl9.jpg
Thank you
@napoleon:pls look at the faq section – the corner problem is due to zoom in ff – normally it is displayed correct
i didnt found help my problem with faq :/ How I can return normal zoom my ff.? :S
nathing…:D I notice where i can do that. Thanks for you and your nice aeros theme!
Excellent work Joe… Still loving your themes
Just got some problems with the “auto update theme” function of WP 2.7. I had to set the chmod of the template directory back to 755.
Knowing your not responsible for that
Just a little info if somebody gets the same error…
Thankx alot Joe, I got the menu working.
I have another question and that´s about the background images. Some of them, like “planet”, show up nice in fullscreen but some others, like “Winter”, are not shown in fullscreen. Why? Is this a bug or is it supposed to be this way?
A
@André: that depends on the size of the background image itself
Hi Joe,
Great theme, I really do like it. Can the main menu be changed to show drop down items?
I’m currently experimenting with Revolution Code Blue and that works great for what I need but I’m not keen on the 3-column display.
Cheers
Brian.
Hi again,
Is there a way to get rid of the “Written by…, No Comments, Comments are Closed, RSS feed…” block at the bottom of Static pages?
Cheers
Brian.
You have beautiful wordpress themes!
Please ignore my last comment, I just noticed the fix you posted on the 04th of January.
Cheers
Brian.
Hi,
I’ve managed to insert an image to replace the RSS image in the header – how do I turn it into a link so that people can download a PDF document?
Cheers
Brian.
Maybe it sounds funny but version 1.0.8 werkt perfectly to me, now I have overwritten in with 2.0… and didn’t make a backup first, assuming that the layout would not change a lot. It turns out I have to make a lot of changes to make it looking good again, is version 1.0.8 still available for download? Many TIA!
Forgot to mention that my main problem is that the tabs on the top of the page don’t fit anymore and I like the old style (1.0.8) better.
Already found it! http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/aeros.1.0.8.zip
*phew*
Everyting is back to how it used to be
one stupid thing, and 2 semi-non-stupid things.
1. I screwed something up so the sidebar never starts until the end of the posts. that’s the stupid thing.
2. I like the bottom menu link tabs from aerodrome but not the 3 columns. Would it be easier to use aerodrome and remove a column, or since I’m already using aeros, would it be easier to add bottom-menu-link-tabs, that’s a mouthful.
3. The header menu fixed width. I’m with you on people needing to have concise page names, but I’ve often run into being ‘off’ on a page name that won’t fit in the fixed width by 3-5 characters. I would suggest 2 fixed width tabs, one that is used if the character total is > than the smaller width, but is still fixed and not, well, sentence sized, so visually it would still be reined in.
Hi Joe
Thanks for a great theme, so many just fall apart when you try to do anything a bit more adventurous such as build large parent –child sections of pages. I’m building a new site with it and am really pleased so far.
I’ve hit two issues that I hope you can help with.
I want a static home page. I thought I simply created a “Home” page in Pages, and then set Settings/Reading to a static home page with my “Home” page as the home. Then make the parent of the “Home” page any of the pages, and in the Pages widget, exclude the “Home page. All fine except I then get an extra “Home page button in the top left hand part of the page. How do I remove this, without having two Home pages left? It makes no difference whether I do the parent and widget bits.
I would also like to remove all trace of the comments sections from the Pages and can’t find a way of doing this.
Hello.
Your theme is stunning of course.
Do you think about adapt a version of it to WordPress µ ?
( http://mu.wordpress.org/ ) Which is more for professionals of course, but i’d like to see something like this. Because the ordiniary MultiUser interface looks quiet borring.
But they are about to release 2.7 soon aswell.
-Willi
Hi,
Great theme.
Is it possible to use an animated background image. If so i am thinking of using something like this one provided by iStockphoto
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/nature/nature-backgrounds/7064773-background-with-tree-growing-at-sunrise-object-in-the-middle.php?id=7064773
Also, is it possible to embed sound files in to the theme?
Thanks
James
First of all, thanks for a superb theme. It really stands out and I particulary like the clean, simple yet professional feel it provides.
I had no problem adapting the theme to my needs (no comments etc) but the transparacy is broken in IE6. Looks fine in IE7 and Firefox. I guess this has to do with how IE6 handles things, but I would love to be able to fix it.
My question is, is this a known issue or have I missed something (or broke something when editin the theme)
Again, thanks for an extraordinary theme!
cheers!
¿Es posible reescalar el fondo segun la resolución del explore?
Aeros v2.0 ported to s9y…
I noticed that Joe Fischler @ thebuckmaker.com has released Aeros v2.0 which now supports true cross-browser rounded corners and transparency. The non-CSS code ‘opacity’ and ‘border-radius’ has been replaced by transparent bac…
Background auto scale if possible?
Great theme, thanks for all the work. I am having issues with the background image. I have changed to custom image, and it does hsow properly, but it appears to load a default image first, then the custom, making the page flicker a bit. Is there somewhere I can keep the first background from loading so only my custom one shows.
Thanks
brian
Hay Joe
Trying to change a link in one of my tabs. Could you direct me to where you put the code for the tabs? I thought it would be in the header.
I would like to link it straight to my phpbb that comes with my site
really enjoy working with this theme. hope you can help me with this question because i can’t figure it out. this website using this aeros 2 theme is having an issue in both safari and opera, but works fine in firefox. on the home page, the right sidebar is next to posts – like normal, but if you go to any of the category links or the page links at the top, the right sidebar moves to the bottom of the posts – almost like if it wraps to the very bottom. suggestions? thanks so much for your time…
Concerning all the theme customization questions (adding links, removing links, moving background image, bigger bg img …) I’d like to say once more that I’m sorry that I can’t customize themes in my sparetime as I have loads to do…
however if you’d like to have your Buckmaker Custom Theme I offer that on a paid basis – send me an Email.
If you know about CSS and HTML feel free to help other users out.
To Johnny: I just tried the Preview Aeros Theme in Opera and it seems to work fine there. Sidebar ist where it’s supposed to be also in the cats.
Hi Joe,
Brilliant work!
I am having the same issue as Sophie Garrett. I would like to have a home page that doesn’t appear as a new tab at the top of my site. How is this done?
I would REALLY appreciate the help.
Thanks.
@ Mitch and Sophie: To remove the default “home” tab, you need to remove the following line out of header.php:
< li>< a href="< ?php echo get_settings('home'); ? rel="nofollow">/” title=”Home”>Home< /a>< /li>
Please note that it is in header.php two times!
I love your themes. The problem I’m having is that the EasyAdsenser plugin that uses the widget side bar is not display a centered ad (regardless of the type of ad and what you say alignment should be). I will pay if necessary.
If you need any more information, please send me an e-mail
Greetings
I have been using the aeros theme for quite a while and have been happy with it i now upgrade to your new version and now find myself i some trouble , i want to use a page navigation plugin so i do not get the “older post” “newer post” but get a list og pagenumbers instead i used WP-Pagenavi before with the old version of your theme it worked , now no matter what plugin i use i can get a function saying ex. “page 1 of 89″ so my readers can browse pages i have now tryed all the plugins i could find the only one who just show a list of pages are black and not visible with the background , what can i do to get WP-navi to work and how do i remove the newer and older post buttons ???? can you help with this !?
Kind Regards
Kim
Hi Joe,
Regarding the Pages and nesting…
I mentioned in an earlier email that nested page links appear at the very top of the page, above the tabs. I don’t think they should go there as they look detached. The problem is exacerbated when there are multiple levels of nesting.
When the level 1 page is shown, there are links for the nested pages and all other pages nested below that. This causes deeply nested pages to flow down the page behind the tabs and banner.
When the level 2+ pages are shown, there are links to that page and lower. There should only be links to lower pages, not itself. I think there should only be one lower level shown, not all lower levels.
So where to put the links? In another theme they put the child links right below the title of the parent page. That looked pretty good as it was set off in its own box.
Another problem I noted is that the level 1 page tabs don’t mirror the ordering of the sidebar. The sidebar respects numeric ordering and then alphabetically within the same order. The tabs though seem to be in creation order at the same level.
I can work around this by using a numeric order for each and every page, but that’s a PITA. Can you ensure that the tabs and sidebar are always in agreement?
I’m still exploring this theme, but so far it looks like it will be very close to what I’m looking for. Good work!
…Tom
Hi Tom, thanks for your suggestions. To be honest, I’ve played around with the subpages for many hours, but somehow its not easy to display them beautifully in the variety of browsers from IE6 to Chrome. I can tell you that’s big headache. However I will take a look at the page order – I’m currently working on the upgrade for Aeros. Thanks for your contribution!
Just noticed that the Aeros 2.0 link at the very bottom beside “Powered by WordPress” is invalid.
It is: http://thebuckmaker.com/aerostwo
but should be: http://thebuckmaker.com/aeros-astro/
It’s always good practice to have a trailing ‘/’ to avoid a redirect. You’ll notice when you enter a path without a trailing slash that the web browser always displays the URL with a trailing slash. It does that because the server caused a 301 redirect. Just a little performance tip.
any update on when you’ll be releasing aerodrome 2.0? it looks like you’re using a version of it for the site already, so I assume it’s nearly complete?
Yes, aerodrome 2.0 will be released in the next days/weeks when times are a bit less stressy. It won’t be much like this site, although it shares some elements with it. For TheBuckmaker.com I added some extra functions regarding the authors that are coming up.
Hi Joe!
Thanks for Eros is great!
I you do a query!
What I always see an excerpt on my posts (like what you have in your posts).
I installed the plugin “Content and Excerpt Word Limit” but do not understand how that works.
Please be detailed.
Thank you very much for your help and your work.
Greetings,
Eduardo
sorry, don’t know about that plugin – anybody tried that? how about the_excerpt or the_rss instead? additional info: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt
Joe ok, forget the plugin!
Please tell me how you made the sentence to put “.
In which file and line will be placed?
Thank you, thank you, thank youuuuu!!!
Eduardo
Hello Joe!
Thanks for your time and your advice!
Is already solved!
Greetings,
Eduardo.
I having a problems trying to use a larger heading. tags dont seem to be working on your theme.
Sorry, I say AEROS not EROS!
Rgds,
Eduardo
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