Update: 10.06.07 - I will no longer be supporing IAMWW w2. If you like w2, check out IAMWW w2 DnD. It is pretty much the same theme without the required plugins and support for widgets.
IAMWW w2 was my first attempt at releasing a WordPress theme. w2 was built on a grid layout, with a white, gray and blue color scheme.
Version History:
- v0.86 - First release. 04.12.07
- v0.90 - Update release includes support for widgets native in WordPress 2.2+. 06.23.07
- v0.91 - Removed duplicate
sidebar copy.phpfrom zip file. 06.27.07 - v0.92 - Updated the
functions.phpfile to remove line breaks and spaces that were causing issues with WordPress. If you are currently using versions 0.90 or 0.91 on your blog, please download and over write the oldfunctions.phpfile with the new one in the downloaded package. Thanks Eric! - 10.06.2007 - This theme is no longer supported. However, if you have already downloaded and are using the theme, please contact me with any issues or questions. An updated comments.php file is available for download below to fix broken layouts on sites that require registration for commenting.
Bug Fix Comments.php Download:
IAMWW w2 DnD comments.php (385) - 1.91 KB
48 Comments
hey,very nice!
keep it on…guy
Very nice! Thank you very much!
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Hi there!
It’s a great template you got here. I’m a big fans of UpstartBlogger Minim myself, but I think yours is a bit better. I too like the sidebar to be at the right, it keeps the focus more on the content.
Just some questions. How did you change the color from the original one? And do you know the way to change the bodycopy into a serif font? What’s the proper way to do both tweaks. Thanx beforehand.
Cheers!
Hello bonz. Thanks for your compliments.
I am not sure which color you are referring to. All of the colors and styling are controlled by the CSS file included in the template -
w2.css.You would need to edit the file where it includes the property
font:.88em Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,sans-serif;to be something likefont:.88em Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;if you would like to change the text to a serif font.Let me know if you have any other questions.
Hi Will,
Thanx for such a swift reply.
The direction you provide is very clear. However, when I uploaded the theme (I put every files/folder just as per your instruction), it showed in the theme panel, but when I activated it and refreshed my blog, it showed nothing but a blank screen.
What went wrong?
The same anomaly occured when I uploaded and tested Robert’s UB Minim theme. But when I switched back to the default/pre-installed themes, everything was back to normal.
I’m using Powerbook 12″ 1.33 and iMac G4 1Ghz, running Mac OS X 1.4.8, my browsers are Safari 2.o and the latest Firefox. Oh, and I’m using Yahoo hosting service.
I’m looking forward for your advices on how to troubleshoot this.
Thanx beforehand, Will.
Cheers!
@bonz: My first guess on the issue with the blank page would be that you do not have the needed plugins installed and activated. Make sure you have installed and activated Popularity Contest and the_except Reloaded. I am pretty sure that not having one of those activated and configured would cause the issue.
Second, did you edit the files as needed to exclude your side blog from the loop? And then again to enter the asides or shorts category in the sidebar?
I believe those are the only issues that would be causing the blank page.
If that doesn’t work, let me know.
Hi,Will.
Nice to get your e-mail .
The theme very good,and I introduced to my friend.
Great mod, Will!
I just added a link to you on the WordPress Theme: Upstart Blogger Minim page. Sorry I didn’t do this before. I actually like your mod better than the original Minim, but don’t tell anybody
Thanks Robert for your kind words! That means a great deal coming from you. However, I’m not sure how I can compete with your themes.
Hey, it’s not a competition!
I’m just a hacker. You have a real attention to details. Feel free to mod any of my themes!
Very simple and nice!
Quick question - After choosing this theme (it’s great bTW..thanks) my WYSIWYG editor is no longer working.
Anyone else observed this problem?
@ J: Thanks. I like the design of your site as well.
@ Eric: Thanks for your comment. I have tested the theme in three different environments and did not have the issue you described.
I would possibly need access to your WordPress installation to troubleshoot what is going on with your site. I will shoot you an email.
Very nice theme. Downloaded it and will try it out on my site soon. Thank you.
Thanks Liza Marie! Let me know if you have any issues or questions.
Help please!
I modified the two sidebars to suit my preferred content, I de-widgetized the sidebar.php, it works just fine but I get errors whenever I modify a page or a theme file from the WP Admin. In addition I’m confused because there are two sidebar files.
I don’t use widgets so can I just ditch the widgetized sidebar (sidebar.php) and use the sidebar copy.php file instead?
I tried that but every time I modify one of the theme files, pages or even publish a post I always get an error message that’s related to functions.php file.
Please help me.
@ jhay: The additional
sidebar copy.phpshould have been removed from the zip file. That was a back up of the non-widget ready sidebar. I too do not like to use widgets. If you do not want to use the widgetized sidebar, delete thesidebar.phpfile and rename thesidebar copy.phpfile tosidebar.php.On the
functions.phperror, I experienced the same issue on a Linux test server I was using. However, I believe it was due to permissions on that server. Once, I moved the theme to my demo installation of WordPress it dissolved. If you are still experincing this you may need to delete the w2 theme via ftp until I can resolve the issue on the release.Is anyone else experiencing the issue the jhay pointed out?
@ jhay: I forgot to mention… If you are going to use the non-wigetized sidebar file. You can delete the
functions.php. Since it is only there for the widget support. That may resolve the error you are receiving.@ Will: That was the first remedy I tried; deleting the
sidebar.phpand renaming thesidebar copy.phpbut thefunctions.phperror started to appear.What permissions in particular do you mean?
Also, I’m also confused because the w2 is CSS file and by the looks of it, it seems to be main body of the
style.cssbecause all I see in the style sheet that came with my download was the header or meta data about the theme file namedstyle.cssSo which is which?
I’ll try your tips though and see what happens.
Thanks!
I may have said the permissions thing in haste. I only said that because on the test server I was using at the time I had issues with other code. So scratch that and try deleting the
functions.phpfile first.On the 2 different CSS files: The
style.cssfile is required by WordPress to show the meta data of the theme in the WP admin. Thew2.cssfile is the only file that loads with the website. The whitespace and line-breaks in the file has been removed to reduce the file size and speed the loading of the site. It may only be a minimal improvement but at times it can help.Just as I thought, so deleting the
functions.phpfile and renaming thesidebar copy.phpas sidebar.php would fix the problems I encounter?I anticipate that it will. Let me know if I am wrong.
Good news deleting the
functions.phpfile worked on jhay’s issue. You can check out the theme on his site here.Thanks for all the help. One last thing, how do I modify the header so that I could place a header image that links to my site’s url.
Which CSS file do I modify?
jhay: You can replace the template tag in the header.php file that inserts the name of your blog with the code to insert the image you want. Then you can edit the w2.css file to adjust the location of the image as needed.
I think I already included some basic properties in the w2.css file for a header image. Let me know if you have any other questions on it.
Thanks for the header tip.
I have one last question, how do I change the number of posts displayed in the index page? I’ve been looking at the code and I can’t seem to find where to do that. The current one is displaying 4 posts as a default but inside the Dashboard, it’s set to display 6 posts.
How do I fix this?
@jhay: This is because of the way the WordPress loop is used in the index.php file. The loop looks at the number of posts you have available for a page (in your case you have set this to 6 in your admin). It then removes the posts that are in your asides or shorts (in your case TID BITS) category. The loop then displays the remaining articles from the 6 available. Therefore, of your last 6 posts, I bet 2 of them were in your shorts category.
To compensate for this, I have my admin set to display 9 posts. This usually equals 6-8 main content posts displaying on my home page. The other side to this is, your category pages will also show 9 posts per page. In my opinion this looks better because it fills the page up more and my sidebar doesn’t end up much longer than my main content.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Will, the website for the Related Posts plugin you suggest is down. I there somewhere else we can get that plugin? If not I might use Similar Posts in its place.
Hello Wild Bill. I have updated the link to point to the plugins new home. I do not see any issue with you using the Similar Post plugin you suggested except for changing the code in the single.php file to use the new plugins call for related posts. It should only be one line of code to edit.
Hello
Looks good! Very useful, good stuff. Good resources here. Thanks much!
Bye
Great template. I’ll use it on my site in few days.
Thanks a lot.
Hello Marginal. You are welcome for the theme. I am glad that you like it enough to use it.
Let me know if you have any questions on it.
This is a great theme and I’m using it on my site to help keep in touch with family. WP and themes is a whole lot easier than Notepad.
I do have a question though. When I write an aside/short post all my text formating vanishes. I had a short unordered list, but the aside shows unformatted text. Any suggestions? I could use carriage returns instead of a list. I just thought this was odd.
Hello Rob and thanks for your comment.
The text formating is only removed on your home page. This is because the post is showing as an excerpt. On your post’s page the formating will show as it is supposed to.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
First off, Very nice theme!!
Second, I would really like to show images in the front page posts, how would I do that?
Thanks!
Thanks iunex.
You can you can display images on the home page posts by editing one line of code in the
index.phpfile. You will need to change the code in line 8.From:
To:
This will display the full post. This will also make the post display Continue Reading… at the point where any
tags have been used in your posts.Let me know if you have any other questions.
It work! Thanks so much.
No problem iunex. Glad it worked out for you!
Just wanted to say thanks for the awesome theme. I redid my whole blog with it, but modified the structure and design. Check it out if you want. It’s basically a way to give my video posts SEO structure and searchability. It’s all videos of local bands shows.
http://www.ifyoumakeit.com
You’re welcome David. I really like your modifications of the theme. Definitely one of the best modifications of the theme (in my opinion) that I have seen. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks a lot. I had some trouble with the sidebar, but i pushed through, mostly widgets aligning weird. Something with the list structure.
Keep up the great work, these themes were the first that presented wordpress in a logical way, without muddying it up.
There was one issue I found, and it was that the index file had a style=”color:#444444;” on the entry h1…
it should be taken out
Nolawi you are correct the inline styles should be taken out of the theme. That is a bit of the code still left over from Minim. I will possibly remove these at a future date. Thanks.
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I have decided to no longer support the IAMWW w2 WordPress theme. However, I have made a comments.php bug fix download available and anyone that has already downloaded and installed w2, please feel free to contact me with any issues.
Happily using this on http://www.carphotos.org/blog
I’ll be moving it to the default homepage http://www.carphotos.org soon after I get done tweaking it
Thanks for sharing Car Pictures. Glad you like the theme!
Thanks for the template…love it.
One bug, when I look at individual posts, I get my keywords showing at the top of the page. This I worked out is due to a clash with the ‘All in One SEO Pack’ plugin.
Any ideas how to get around this?
@Paul - You need to look over any edits you have made to the header.php or index.php files. The theme is working fine with the plugin on my demo site.
Click on the first post heading and view the source of the post’s page.
One thing I noticed in your site’s source:
Notice how the keywords above your posts are not enclosed in any kind of tags? I can’t think of anything of the top of my head to correct it aside from looking over the template files to make sure everything is correct.
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