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So great to see development back in action, I was beginning to worry.....
For those having problems, I'd suggest testing these updates offline. You should never roll out an RC to a live server. And always do a full back up before an update.
I can tell you though the last version of the theme works fine with WP 3.3. As far as alignment stuff goes and the sidebar, make sure you have content, I know when I tested it once with no content the sidebars would slide left. Also some times wrapping a DIV around the sidebar code might help.
Also don't forget to reset the theme when you upgrade, this way your DB gets cleaned up for the updated version.
Oh and did I mention make sure you backup and never put an RC version of anything on a live server? 
I'll second this, if anyone has tested 3.3 with the latest Arras release please let us know if there are any problems. I usually like to do the WP upgrade a week or two after it releases, and might do a quick offline test, but before I do all that I'm wondering what others are experiencing.
hanasazi wrote:Hello, I'm having a problem with the context menus on the main nav bar hiding behind the content below in IE. Everything looks great in Firefox and Safari, but my client is using windows and so do most of his clients do I really have to address this issue. Thanks for any help you might have. I'll start checking for plugin conflicts...but I'm not sure this will help. Maybe you can though...
I had this issue with some add code, using a
fixed this issue, for me I used
<div align="center">AD CODE HERE</div>
I was actually having the issue a lot in safari.
zy wrote:Magaman wrote:Any update on when the next version is due out? Zy I know your were away, you make it back?? It's been very quite around here. I only ask cause the widgets are a big part of my site and with the issue I'm waiting to upgrade.
Are there any issues with your widgets? Sorry if I couldn't remember 
You are alive! 
Yeah the issue is with the Featured Storied widget. They don't seem to display posts when set on Parent categories, or even ALL CATEGORIES. For instances, I have a parent cat "Featured", which then has 2 sub cats for each section of the featured content on the homepage. If I set the featured story widget to the cat "Featured" it shows nothing, but if I use one of the sub cats then it will show those posts. In 1.4 versions I was able to use the top category and then it would display the various sub cat posts.
And there are no plugins active so no sort of conflicts possible
Any update on when the next version is due out? Zy I know your were away, you make it back?? It's been very quite around here. I only ask cause the widgets are a big part of my site and with the issue I'm waiting to upgrade.
extatix wrote:There are plugins for that, why should it be in the theme itself?
Because plugins slow sites down. Plus they would require theme users to either allow the plugin to place the buttons, or need to dig into the code. Since the buttons are open code through facebook/twitter they would be faster being already coded into the site.
On that note, after playing around with the facebook like button on my site, one thing that issue that is popping up is how it pulls an image for a thumbnail when someone shares a story. The fix would be to code a meta tag
<meta property="og:image" content="arras thumbnail url here"/>
The thing is I don't have a clue what the call would be for arras thumbnail, any help/just an additional suggestion if this is added to the site.
hedge wrote:Me too - also likes for comments would be good too 
and maybe dislike as well.
For comments you can use GD Star plugin, I don't really see a point in facebook liking a comment.
And here is a great example of my request, the nice bar at the top with Facebook like and Share, Tweet, Digg, and Stumbleupon.
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/immi … -illegals/
I've come across both Facebook and Twitter now offering some decent first party tools(more so Facebook with a nice free Java SDK) It would be nice to see a themed version of both the Like Button and tweet buttons added to Single Posts. http://developers.facebook.com/docs/ref … ugins/like
http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton
And yes I know I can add them, but it would be nice to see them themed and built right into the theme.
A little more on the Featured Story Widget front. It seem the widget works fine if you DON'T select a parent category, it seems to only work with the child categories. This wasn't the case in older releases.
THe best fix is find bigger images. I'm always photoshopping images to the 640 x 250 size I have set. If I'm in a rush then I'm using bigger images
Also on the whole Featured Widgets thing. I'm testing on a clean install of WP 3.0.1, no plugins running. The widget was fine with earlier beta builds
Is anyone having issues with the Featured Stories Widgets?? They won't show any of the stories, the widgets will show correctly in the sidebar or bottom, and also work properly not showing on Homepage when selected, but the widgets have no content, even when selecting all Cats. I'm currently testing the theme offline while I re-work it before going live.
**edit* The tabbed widget seems to be working fine though.
Possible but it's more likely your on shared hosting, and your hosting company has a malicious site on the same server as yours, or your serving other ads other then googles that are malicious.
Well I went through intergi and they can't figure it out either. I've tried their code in other themes that don't have any type of custom background stuff. So I got a feeling the coding needed for the background is causing my issues, I've tried to look around to figure out what I would need to alter int he code but can't seem to figure it out, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Anyone have any ideas??? I think I might need to dig into some of the deeper php code to prevent the theme from applying the background from the WP admin. I've tried some other javascript code in the head that deals with site backgrounds but again I think it's being over-rided by the theme. I have the java code for the ad I just don't know where to add it.
Does anyone know how I could add my intergi siteskin java code to the theme for use as the background??? I don't even know where I would begin to tinker with this.
Is there a reason for removing Secondary Sidebar #2??? Personally I use it this way I can hardcode my ad code right into the sidebar between each of them, is there an easy way for me to add that code back in?
It definitely is the best, kicks Super Cache ass. I to ran into some issues trying to minimize some of the CSS, but compared to what I had beforehand a few not in the list is fine. While I would love shaving off another second or two, I'd have to drop out an ad space. Remember not to touch any ad javascript, most places will cut off your account if you tinker with their code.
extatix wrote:Magaman wrote:Any idea if this is being fixed in 1.4.2 or does someone have a fix for it, I've tried to figure it out but can't locate the code that needs editing.
Template.php
case 'featured-slideshow-thumb':
$w = 640;
$h = 250;
break;
actually found it after I posted, instead of editing the featured slideshow size I changed the size for the thumbnail for the post in the css
change .single .post .entry-photo to the below
.single .post .entry-photo, .single-post .entry-photo { width: 640px; margin: 10px -13px 0; overflow: hidden; border: 2px solid #CCC; }
Anbar wrote:the default size for the slideshow and the thumbnail single post size remains different (one if 650, the other 630) - this means that the image will always be cut-off in single posts. really needs fixing as its ugly and probably the cause of about 30% of complaints/issues
Any idea if this is being fixed in 1.4.2 or does someone have a fix for it, I've tried to figure it out but can't locate the code that needs editing.
Liking the updates, very glad you brought back the legacy look!
Using the multiple sidebar layouts messes up the featured slideshow arrows, the right one doesn't render and the left one is set low, also when you hover over the slideshow the preview text shifts past the right margin
I'm seeing the issue in Safari
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