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Redoable 1.2 is now available and is compatible with both Wordpress 2.0.x and Wordpress 2.1
Redoable is built upon the popular K2 code, with some things changed, a couple of things removed and a whole bunch of things added.
The sidebar is module/widget ready, with over 20 different modules available to use. By deafult the sidebar will work without the need to add any modules, and will display the calendar, categories, tags, blogroll and listen and watch modules depending, of course, on whether you have the relevant plugins set up.
Two of the modules, ‘Listen’ and ‘Watch’, make use of categories in Links, you can set which category and how many links to display in the Redoable options panel. The idea of these is to provde links to music, movies etc that you might be enjoying at the time. This was based on a method described by Matt Brett.
Sidenotes will be shown on the homepage. The category and number of sidenotes can be set in the Redoable options panel. They are displayed using Matt’s Asides technique just as they are in K2.
As with K2 the Extended Live Archives can be setup from the Redoable options panel, and you can also enable the Archives page. I also added support for Alex King’s Articles plugin, and once the plugin is activated the Articles page can be turned on or off from within the Redoable options panel.
On top of all this there are countless tweaks here and there to just about everything, too many to list here and many are probably barely noticeable.
Note: Redoable is not a style for K2, it is an independant theme. You can have both K2 and Redoable installed on your blog at the same time as they do not share any config options and can be configured seperately.
Supported plugins
The following plugins are supported by Redoable ‘out-of-the-box’, and all are highly recommended. All you need to do is download them, add them to your plugins floder and activate them. If you know of any great plugins you would like to see in future releases leave a comment or send me an email.
- Alex King’s Articles v1.1
- Brian’s Latest Comments v1.5.10
- Extended Live Archives v0.10beta-r18
- Semiologic’s Google Analytics Plugin v1.9
- Gregarious v1.5.2 and v2 beta
- Noteworthy v1.0
- Random Quotes v1.3
- Rechuked Buttons v1.0 (Based on Sawchuck Buttons plugin) - Not WP2.1 compatible…yet
- Related Posts v2.04
- Share This v1.4
- Ultimate Tag Warrior v3.1415926
- Ultimate Category Cloud v2.0 (Based on Weighted Categories plugin)
- Word Count v0.01
- WP-PostRatings v1.04
- WP-PostViews v1.1
- Wordpress Download Monitor v1.5
- Quoter v1.1
- Subscribe to Comments v2.0.8
- Spam Karma 2
- wp-recent-links v2.0
- Twitt-Twoo v1.1
Installation
- Download the Redoable package.
- Unpack, and upload to the wp-content/themes/ directory on your server.
- Login to your admin area and set Redoable as the current theme.
- Install and activate any of the above listed plugins.
- Enjoy.
Style Examples
Examples of how to use these styles is shown below. You can do this by clicking the ‘html mode’ button on the WYSIWYG toolbar. Alternately you can download the Rechuked Buttons Plugin which will add buttons to this same toolbar to allow you to use these styles.
Download class. <p class=’download’>Text here</p>
Alert class. <p class=’alert’>Text here</p>
Code class. <p class=’code’>Text here</p>
Construction class. <p class=’construction’>Text here</p>
New class. <p class=’new’>Text here</p>
Information class. <p class=’information’>Text here</p>
Note class. <p class=’note’>Text here</p>
Callout class. <p class=’callout’>Text here</p>
Blockquote class. <blockquote>Text here</blockquote>
Thankyou
Michael, Chris, Zeo, Steve, Ben and anyone else who has contributed to K2. Without K2 there would have been no starting point for my theme.
Tyler Longren for his Unwakeable theme which was also based on K2, and served as a good base to build Redoable from.
FamFamFam for the fantastic Silk icon set. There’s an icon for just about everything.
The authors of all the plugins listed above, they help make Redoable what I want to be.
Help make it better
Nothing is ever perfect, so if you have any feature requests, or find any bugs please submit them here:
Support Forum
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Changelog
- 25/04/2007
- Version 1.2 released.
- See changelog.txt for full details.
- Countless bugs fixed, thanks to all users who reported them.
- Further development of the dynamic css feature, there are now 16 colour combinations available.
- Several new options in the admin panel, including disabling the ‘Get Firefox’ banner, and options for configuring the badge farm.
- Added support for my Twitt-Twoo plugin.
- And heaps more, check out the changelog.txt included in the download.
- 29/01/2007
- Version 1.1 released.
- Numerous bug fixes from Redoable 1.0
- Support for several new plugins
- Several new features, including the dynamic style sheet.
- For complete changelog please refer to changelog.txt included with the Redoable download
- 01/01/2007
- Added code to page.php and page-comments.php to stop error when Gregarious plugin is not active.
- Fixed pingback style.
Known Issues
There were a couple of things that I have been unable to completely fix so far, these are listed below. If you have any suggestions your help is always welcome. If you find any bugs please leave details of them in the support forum.
Some people are experiencing a problem where the comments and permalinks are all referring to the incorrect posts. As yet I have been unable to replicate this problem, and it doesn’t seem to happen on everyones blog. It could be related to the use of different permalink structures, but as yet I don’t have a solution for it.- Fixed in v1.2- Sidebar overlap issue. This hasn’t been completely fixed but the sidebar will now overlap on top of the footer instead of disappearing behind it when there is only a small amount of page contents.
- LiveSearch doesn’t seem to work with custom permalinks. This has also been reported by other users of K2 (which Redoable is based on), but as yet no-one has had a good answer.
Wow, great theme Dean. Well done!! Maybe you could make a white version of redoable :)
Regards,
Azmi Hayaze’ http://www.tuxindo.com/azmi
Azmi: I am looking at including an inverse style in the next release, and potentially the ability to change colours from within the admin area.
Great theme Dean :).
I’m a bit noob in WP things so I have a little question about this theme, ¿how do you display the style examples (download, warning…) with this skin? I would like to know how can I display them in my blog using your theme.
Thanks a lot.
Oh, and happy new year by the way ^^.
zensure: I have just added a bit of info above about how you can apply those styles. All you need to do is add a class to the ‘p’ tag. Hope that helps.
Thanks a lot mister Dean ;).
Greetings.
Thanks for a great theme Dean and I’ve already installed it on my blog!
One question though! I don’t seem to be getting any results with the LiveSearch. Any ideas why?
Graeme
Graeme: Yes, LiveSearch wasn’t working on Redoable at the time of release. I have been working on it, and should have an updated version available in the next week or so.
Thanks a lot Dean. I’ll remove the module for the time being then!
hi!
at first, respect for that theme, looking brilliant!
but im having a problem with the sidebar..
when i use the custom settings everythings alright.
but when i use the sidebar modules thingy, it keeps on getting messed up.
the calendar/months list module is causing problems. the next module below it starts right under th last month.
have a look on my website to see what i mean..
i dont know whats happening there… maybe u have a slight idea?
smo from germany.
smo: Thanks for the feedback, I am working on fixing that problem, its caused by the way that the month list is floated in that first module, it should definitely be fixed in the updated version which should be available in the next week or so.
First of all, congrats for the good work. I have a problem with the archives, I installed the latest ELA, but I cannot see anything on my archives page (http://totaltactics.org/archives/). On the Redoable options I chose to have Redoable set up ELA for me.
On another note, in the pages with short content, such as the archives, the sidebar background shortens too and the text on the sidebar doesn’t show properly anymore. Any way to fix this?
gillo: For the archives page, my suggestion would be to go to ‘manage pages’ and delete the archives page, then re-create the page manually and make sure to set the page template to ‘page-archives’, and don’t enter any conetent in the main text area.
I am still working on a fix for the sidebar display problem.
Dean: you said Livesearch doesn’t work. However it does on your site??? Furthermore, if I disable the widget, hwo can I have a normal search form??
gillo: Yes, the problem with the livesearch seems to be with my proxy and not my site. It seems to have cached all my files and won’t load new ones if they are available.
For example I changed the css to fix a problem and numerous ‘hard’ refreshs were needed before it realised it need to load a new file. It really annoying from a developement point of view.
Can you confirm that when using the livesearch on my site, you get the results in the sidebar underneath the search box.
I will have to get back to you after I check about the search form.
Dean: earlier on today I’ve seen exactly that, theresults underneath the search form. Now I don’t see them anymore and I get results only after I press return (and they appear in a very small font). However, on my site, they don’t appear at all, even after I press return.
On another note, I checked the size of the homepage and I found out that among the most “heavy” files, there are these two:
22kb http://totaltactics.org/wp-content/themes/redoable/js/slider.js.php
22kb http://totaltactics.org/wp-includes/js/prototype.js
Can you tell mw what they do and if I can slim something down? The page is more than 200kb!!!
gillo: slider.js.php was left over from the k2 theme on which Redoable was based. The file itself wasn’t actually included with Redoable, but if it does exist you can safely delete it, you can also remove the reference to it in the header.
prototype.js is required, it handles all the effects and ajax stuff, like LiveSearch, Live Comments etc. If more than one copy of prototype is loaded it seems to cause problems with LiveSearch. My recommendation would be to check if more than one copy of it being loaded.
You are using ShareThis and I have previously identified a bug/compatibility issue between it and Redoable. You will most likely need to modify the share-this code to remove the line where it includes prototype.js. ShareThis will still work, because prototype is already loaded.
The second inclusion of prototype seems to kill LiveSearch.
In my plug-in folder, I have two folders: ‘share-this’ and ‘share-this 1.3.1’. The first contains the icons and the file share-this.php. The second contains only the file prototype.js, maybe this can be a problem?
I removed the reference to ‘/wp-includes/js/prototype.js’ on the share-this.php file, and the reference to slider.js on the header.
Unfortunately, the search is still not working. When I search for something, not only it gives me no results, but when using livesearch, it also attaches a 404 page at the bottom of the page itself??
Thanks for the help.
http://www.deanjrobinson.com/wordpress/redoable#comment-21
gillo: As I had mentioned above, LiveSearch (and Search to a certain degree) is broken in Redoable 1.0, I am running 1.1 on this site which is why LiveSearch (should) be working work. 1.1 is still in development and LiveSearch will be fully functional when it released.
The 404 page is because the livesearch script is looking for a page that doesn’t exist. I apologise for any confusion, I think I might has misread your first comment.
Ok, gotcha. Looking forward for the next release then. I might comment the search box then :)
First off Dean thanks for a great K2 mod. Best one I’ve seen so far.
That being said, there’s a minor problem in my installation…not entirely sure if it’s on my end or if it’s found in the theme’s CSS anywhere. What’s happening on my end is when a single post is displayed (this happened with every post I clicked on), the comments section ends up referring to a different topic entirely. No matter what post I clicked on and visited the comments section, the comments seemed to be stuck on that certain topic.
Boggles my mind because I couldn’t find anything anywhere in the CSS, nothing in the single_post.php file that would allude to there being a problem.
Another quick note is that the Redoable logo in the footer overlaps my sidebar on single posts as well. Don’t know if that’s related or not, and that could be a simple CSS fix.
I had to go to another K2 style while I am troubleshooting the problem on my end, but already I miss Redoable. :-(
Once again great work Dean and thanks in advance for the follow up!!!
Clarification to my comment previously — the comments section for each post all ended up referring an entirely different post than the one being shown. i.e. the comment section for post #5 actually posts comments for post #1. Same with posts #1, 2, 3 and 4…each of their comment sections thinks it’s post #1 as well. Kinda weird but it’s tough to explain.
Apologies for my lack of clarity above. God bless!
Chris: Thanks for the feedback. I am aware of the comment problem, it has been mentioned by some other users as well. That said it works fine here on my blog, and on my test installs, so I’m having a little trouble replicating the problem to try and find a fix for it.
It also appears this isn’t a problem for everyone, I know of a couple of other blogs using Redoable, and their comments and trackbacks work ok.
I am also working on fixing the overlap problem with the Redoable logo and the sidebar, both will hopefully be fixed in Redoable 1.1.
You rock Dean. Once again thanks for the time and attention to the problem. Great theme and I hope all the bugs get ironed out.
The download link doesn’t seem to be working.
Elessar: I have just installed a new plugin, which was working fine before, but doesn’t seem to be anymore. I’m looking into it.
In the mean time you can get Redoable here: http://www.deanjrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/Redoable1.0.zip
Any timeframe for 1.1?
I see you are using it right now 
Anyway, thanks for the link, great theme.
Dean, just fyi, I also have the “Comments problem”. And in my case all the entries show the same comments too.
gillo: thanks for the info, I still haven’t been able to work why this is only happening on some blogs, but I am working on it.
Hiya - just wanted to say I love your theme. Thanks.
Why can’t I download? Goes to page with car pictures instead of download.
Ian Harris: Thanks, I glad you like Redoable.
Chuck: The download manager plugin I am using seems to be very temperamental, its works most of the time, but I can’t explain why it doesn’t always work. Anyway you can download Redoable 1.0 here:
http://www.deanjrobinson.com/wp-content/uploads/Redoable1.0.zip
Hi Dean,
very nice theme. I like it a lot. :)
But there’s a problem with your syntax. You’re using both Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /export/home/chris/www/blog.calganx.net/htdocs/wp-content/themes/redoable 1.1/sidebar.php on line 170
I’d recommend to use only
Ah, damn…
I used > and < in my last comment. Sorry for that. :?
Chris
CalganX: Thanks for the feedback, yes it seems your message hasn’t come through, could you please leave your comment again, or better yet, post it in the Support forum, and I’ll get to fixing it.
http://www.deanjrobinson.com/support
Love your theme - I’m having an issue though.
When I enable the wp-recent-comments plugin, my home and archive pages will only display 8 items, not including the sidebar posts. I haven’t touched the loop file, and I was thinking maybe there’s something not processing the plugin correctly?
I don’t know about wp-recent-comments, is it enabled at the moment on your site?
Unless you are referring to wp-recent-links? Because the problem you describe sound very much like what happens when this plugin is activated. The thing is that it counts each link you add as a normal post. So, for example, if you set your blog to display 10 posts per page, and then you add 8 links, you will only get two ‘real’ posts, plus your 8 links.
Its all down to how the plugin works, and I didn’t really like that so I have re-written the plugin so that links are included in the count allowing you to have as many links as you want in addition to your regular posts.
I will try and release this plugin soon, as a few people have come across this same problem.
Hope that helps, sorry, if I’ve gone off track.
I did mean the links, sorry, however I have Wordpress set to show 30 days, and it still only shows 8 posts and 3 sidebar posts, even in the archives when recent-links is enabled. I disabled it before but I’ll re-enable it if you want to take a look.
Ok, my guess is that its the 30 days thing thats causing the trouble. In Wordpress 2.1 you can nno longer choose X days, you only get the option of X posts, because I have coded it to work with WP2.1, and therefore X days only, that would most likely explain the problem.
I tried setting it to X days and that didn’t work. I probably screwed something up somewhere. I’ll upgrade Wordpress and see if that fixes it.
Meatn to say X posts… also, thanks for your help.
The upgrade didn’t solve it. I’ve been looking through the loop code and then the plugin code for the function rp_recentlinks_inline_merge and can’t find anything wrong. I can’t figure out how it could be a code problem anyway since it displays some posts, just not all. I’ll probably just go back to using a del.icio.us feed on the side.
Karl: Sorry that the upgrade didn’t help, yeah go back to using the del.icio.us feed if thats what your happy with. Maybe give it another go once I release my modified version of the recent links plugin.
Hello,
how can i put an image in the header? (center)
Look at the header file and change where it says something like and put the code for the image there. Then go into the CSS file and down to the header grouping, and there’s a header tag, I think its header title, where you have to change the padding-top from 123 to 0. Make sure the image you’re putting into the header is 180px by 730px.
Love the theme Dean, but I can seem to download it. When I click the download link it just refreshes the page. :(
The place to start looking is in header.php, and the css as suggested by Karl B. I will also post details in the support forums sometime in the next day
I have now provided an alternate link above.
I love the theme, but I’m starting to have problems with it.
I installed it just fine but after editing the side bar specifics I now get 2 undefined Class errors. One form the dragDrop.js file: var Draggable = Class.create(); and one from the sbm.js file: var sbmDnDBox = Class.create();
Both of them are “Class is not defined” errors. Unfortunately because of this nothing shows up in the Sidebar 1 column to edit or change.
Any advice? I would sure love to get this working.
Hi Dean,
Any chance you could share the stars you use for the rating plugin? The ones that come with the plugin pale by comparison. :)
Nice theme.
Unfortunately it breaks if you dont have short tag support (ie disabled in your php.ini).
Luckily its easily fixed (only a couple of offending files in the overall theme that I’ve found).
Again tho - very nice theme.
I suspect it’ll turn up in a bundle one day (see site) ;)
Yeah, thats not a problem , I’ll stick them in a zip file and upload it soon.
Thanks John, another user has also pointed this out to me, its something I wasn’t aware of before then. It will definitely be fixed for the next release.
The Theme is really good.But its not upgraded to 2.1 WP.The modules doesnt work as in other k2 themes
Hi Dean! First, great work on this theme. I saw it and liked it immediately.
Everything seems to be working as it should. I do have a question:
I’m working with a plugin for videos via ViperBond007 (the 4.0 version) housed here: http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/
It doesn’t seem to work with this theme. Could you check it out when you have some time and maybe see what’s up? OR, could you recommend an alternative easy video plugin that works with your theme? I need YouTube functionality, and Myspace if possible.
Thanks again, and great work!
Can you be more specific? Looking at your blog it would appear that the modules are working?
I also had a similar request from another user. I have found that Viper’s video plugin, along with Flash Cortex and Videos with WP all work ok, except when viewed in Firefox on a Mac. The video is there, and will play most of the time, but disappears when you scroll, change windows etc. It really got me puzzled and I’m still trying to work it out.
What broswer/OS combination are you using? If you could post it in the Support forum, I will try and work through it and find a fix for it.
Great work Dean! This definitely is an awesome theme and thanks very much for releasing it. Not everyone releases the Theme they are using :-). Well done! This definitely is going to be my theme in near future.
I always seem to bump up on a good theme as soon as I decide to have my own. I am going to change text sizes and settings for titles though.
Hi! I’ve been using your excellent theme for a few days, now. I’ve encountered a problem of sorts. When I post a comment (as admin, logged in) I encounter a ‘warning: function in array’ in wp-comments.php. When i reload the page i posted the comment in, the comment is posted as per normal. It’s a bit confusing, but I could email you a screenshot of the error message when I get it again?
xpyre: I actually encountered a similar problem a couple of times yesterday, but it doesn’t seem to be doing it today, and before yesterday I hadn’t had any problems with comments.
Its not modules, I am using sidebar widgets.Which works with any k2 version it seems.Even the previous theme i was using (triple k2 theme by Johntp) doesn’t support modules.Its a K2 issue I Am sure of.
I like your theme a lot,Specially the magically appearance of the second sidebar.
I would like to suggest one thing.
1.If you can implement a better header.Where Images can be changed
2.Support of Images on top like seee on problogger.net, you can use the ad rotator plugin for that.All you have to do is ti give some place for putting logo on left and images beside that.
3.The search when made on a particular post, is messing with perm link, if made on home page its perfect.
4.Some people would like to use google search box instead.It will easy if I can see where it is.RIght now i think i might have to go into the code files, but if you can leave it on users to add this search box or not…will be a good option.
For now, Thats all i have found.Rest I will update u as soon as I feel something to.I hope It can help you in next version of This theme.
Cheers Ashish
Yes, there are some know problems with the K2 sidebar modules, but to be honest I haven’t tested Redoable with sidebar widgets. I will have to do some investigation.
This will be added in a future release. There a couple of discussions in the support forums that have some suggestion as to how to modify the header to use your own images.
I think I understand what you mean, I’ll look into it.
Yep, it looks like it is. Thanks for pointing this out, I will definitely try to get that fixed.
You can change the search box by editing searchform.php. I will have a look at adding the google search box in a future release, it sounds like a good suggestion.
Great theme! I love it. However I have one question, on the post meta (ratings, viewcount) ect on my main page, the data is not laid out neatly like your, (www.cyfr.co.uk for an example) How can I change that so its all horizontal?