WordPress Theme deFusion 0.9

17. Dezember 2008 - WordPress, WordPress Themes - 72 Kommentare

I just updated my latest WordPress Theme deFusion. Fixed some minor bugs, added a Superfish dropdown menu and made it compatible to WordPress 2.7 with threaded comments and sticky posts. Get it!

This version of deFusion is no longer supported!
The theme deFusion will be officially updated in the near future.

There were some bugs with the comment bubbles and some css stuff to fix (eg. children in lists of sidebar, headings, basic css elements). I also added a Superfish multi-level dropdown menu and made the whole thing compatible to WordPress 2.7 (see details).

Details

simple, clean easy customizable layout
fixed width, 2 columns, right sidebar, widget ready
multi-level dropdown menu (IE problems?)
threaded comments with avatars
sticky posts

Compatible up to

WordPress 2.7 (backwards compatible to 2.5)
Firefox 2- 3
Internet Explorer 7
Safari
Opera

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This version of deFusion is no longer supported!
The theme deFusion will be officially updated in the near future.

Schlagwörter: deFusion, webdemar theme, WordPress 2.7, WordPress Themes

Autor

Simon

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Kommentare

Tore - am 18. Dezember 2008 -

Hi there!

I’ve been having problems with your otherwise excellent deFusion theme. I don’t know if it’s a bug or intended. The thing is that I can’t have multiple empty rows. When editing a page/post I’m able to have larger spaces between the paragraphs but when saving it dissapears.

I’ll try and make two empty spaces below this row.

That wouldn’t work in deFusion. I’ve tried your latest build also.

I’d love some feeback on this. Is it possible to change it?

Thanks!

(We’re working with a psychological construct called defusion so this is a match in the heavens… )
webdemar - am 18. Dezember 2008 -

@Tore:

Thanks for using deFusion! The ‘problem’ you describe is actually a feature of WordPress. It strips multiple empty line and line breaks to only one.

The content of posts and pages are called by the WordPress funtion the_content(). The theme itself only influences by CSS styles.

My solution inside the post content would be a CSS construct as follows (change to HTML view in the post/page editor):
```
Your stuff here
```
This element would have a margin of 50px to the element above. Hope this helps
Tore - am 18. Dezember 2008 -

Hi again!

Thanks for your swift answer! We’re new to WordPress so we didn’t know that it was considered a feature.

I’ll use your advice if I can’t find some plugin or something that makes this easier to solve. Thank you!
Straderade - am 18. Dezember 2008 -

Thanks for the great update!

I will have to update my pre-existing websites with this update. Any tips on making this process a little ess pain-less? Copying over my changes to css & php pages would mean a complete redesign of the entire site for me
BUT it would be worth it if this update fixed the IE problems!!

Thanks for your support on this GREAT theme! You Rock!!
- webdemar - am 18. Dezember 2008 -
  
  You could work with WordPress child themes in the future. Then you wouldn’t have to touch the theme code itself. Some time ago I wrote a tutorial about child themes but in German. Fortunately Ian Stewart did it in English
Straderade - am 20. Dezember 2008 -

Hello again webdemar – Looking for your expertise to possibly help me with adding multiple sidebars to this theme. Would you have time to explain to me how to do this? I have looked at several blogs and even wordpress help forums but I feel you could really explain this in a way I could understand and put it to action.

Any help is appreciated – Thanks!
webdemar - am 20. Dezember 2008 -

@Straderade:

What exactly do you mean? Do you want to add another dynamic sidebar for widgets in functions.php or add another column and make it a 3-colum theme?

P.S.: Tomorrow I’ll go on vacation. Try to find the time to help you asap.
Straderade - am 22. Dezember 2008 -

@webdemar
I have set a custom theme to my home page removing the sidebar from it so it would be a complete whole page while all the other pages still have the default sidebar and sub pages. You can see here how that is being used.

Now I want to add in different sidebars/widgets to that home page. Two on the top and Three on the bottom. The top would include a nice image on the right faded into some images with links on the left going to internal pages. The bottom would be images also going to some links to internal pages but would be separated somewhat.

I hope this clears up my question, no rush, enjoy your vacation!!

Thanks.
Ryan - am 28. Dezember 2008 -

Hi, this is a great theme and I love it. I found I had to fix up the 404.php page though – the content dev needed to have the clearfix class added or there was no background on the page.

Thanks
Cerium - am 30. Dezember 2008 -

Really nice theme, I modded it a little bit, and now I use it, congrats !
Nesquik69 - am 31. Dezember 2008 -

Hi !

This theme is very good : simple and beautiful !

But, there’s one very bad thing ! You put a “outline:none” on the links. Do you think about people who can’t use a mouse ? With this thing they can’t correctly navigate in a blog using your theme.

So, please, delete this from your CSS, disabled persons will be happy to see this =)

Nes’
- webdemar - am 1. Januar 2009 -
  
  @Nesquik69:
  
  Thanks for this advice. This outline thing is a designer desease to make it look better. I’ll change that anyway because you are right!
Cerium - am 1. Januar 2009 -

@webdemar : you can use the :focus to specify a style when the link get the focus, and it will be perfect with tab navigation (and you can keep the outline: 0;).
- webdemar - am 1. Januar 2009 -
  
  @Cerium:
  
  Thanks!
Ryan Kennedy - am 2. Januar 2009 -

Hi again

I’m trying to add RSS comments to the page as outlined here: http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/11/20/add-rss-feed-link-icons/

Could you please help me with this? I can’t seem to find the right code. I thought it was in sidebar.php but that isn’t working.

Thanks for any help
- webdemar - am 2. Januar 2009 -
  
  @Ryan:
  
  You were right. You’ll have to change the sidebar.php:
```
    < ?php wp_list_categories('title_li=&feed_image=/img/rss-icon.gif'); ?>
```
  For more help also visit the WordPress Codex. Hope this helps
Ryan Kennedy - am 2. Januar 2009 -

Thanks, I inserted the code but nothing happens. It doesn’t seem to matter what I put in the sidebar.php file – nothing changes in the actual page.
- webdemar - am 2. Januar 2009 -
  
  @Ryan:
  
  Then you probably have widgets in use. If you want things to appear on the sidebar when widgets are used, please insert it before the !function_exists stuff in line 3.
```
Categories

    < ?php wp_list_categories('title_li=&feed_image=/img/rss-icon.gif'); ?>
  
```
Ryan Kennedy - am 3. Januar 2009 -

Thanks so much – finally got it going! You rock. I went over to wordpress.org to give you a nice big rating but defusion isn’t listed there any more.

Thanks again.
Alec - am 3. Januar 2009 -

Really like your deFusion theme. I’ve tinkered with it, and thought you might like to have a look, at http://www.valleylost.co.uk.

I hadn’t realised that you’d updated the theme, so I’ll have to install the upgrade and make the amendments again!

Thanks again – hope you keep developing!
Gabe - am 6. Januar 2009 -

Excellent theme, thanks! I’ve just begun playing with it, and have run into one minor challenge…:

I’m using a white background, and am seeing a 2px gray border around all of my images. I’ve dug through the various .css files but can’t seem to find it anywhere to remove it. Can you point me to that style so I can remove?

Thanks!
- webdemar - am 6. Januar 2009 -
  
  @Gabe:
  
  I’m happy you like the theme. Thanks! To get rid of this margin add the following to the style.css:
```
img {
	border:none;
}
```
Gabe - am 7. Januar 2009 -

excellent – thanks! (and so simple – CSS is not my thing)
Martin - am 7. Januar 2009 -

Hi!
Thanks a lot for your theme. I’m using it in combination with Gallery2 and WPG2 as it works nicely together with Gallery2′s Carbon theme. When I tried upgrading your theme from 0.8.6 to 0.9, my gallery had all white frames around all the images and tables (see screenshot).

Using the old version, everything looked OK (screenshot).
- webdemar - am 7. Januar 2009 -
  
  @Martin:
  
  Thanks for using the theme. To get rid of the border open up style.css and delete the following:
```
table {
	width: 100%;
	margin: 0 0 20px 0;
	border: 1px solid #dadada;
	border-bottom: none;
	border-right: none;
}

th, td {
	padding: 2px 5px;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #dadada;
	border-right: 1px solid #dadada;
}

th {
	background: #6e7073;
	color: #fff;
	border: none;
}
```
  After that it should look like before
Martin - am 8. Januar 2009 -

Thanks a lot! That did the trick. Any reason you included these elements in the first place?
Chad - am 8. Januar 2009 -

Hey, I love your theme. I am using an older version (pre-internet explorer superfish fix) and was wondering if you could tell me what could needs to be added/changed to make the menus work in IE. I have add some custom fields and what not, so updating the theme will put me back to square one in regards to the adjustments i have made over the past little while.

Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

Chad.
- webdemar - am 9. Januar 2009 -
  
  @Chad:
  
  Thanks for using the theme, Chad! I’m not exactly sure which version you’re using. Anyway you could try to just upload the latest nav.css before I changed it to the superfish menu. Let me know if that fixed your problem.
Raphael - am 10. Januar 2009 -

Veery nice, thanks a lot!
Stephen Martin - am 16. Januar 2009 -

It is possible to enable comments in “pages”, not just “posts”?.. the individual pages have the “enable comments” box ticked but it doesn’t appear to work.

With thanks,

Stephen.
- webdemar - am 19. Januar 2009 -
  
  @Stephen:
  
  Yes, it is possible! Just include the call of comments template in the page.php right before the endwhile as follows:
```
    < ?php comments_template(); ?>
< ?php endwhile; ?>
```
Tab Numlock - am 21. Januar 2009 -

I get an “error on page” with IE 7-8 and deFusion 0.9. It happens on both my sites and goes away when I switch to another theme or use an older version of deFusion. I don’t get this with Firfox or Chrome.

Webpage Script Errors

Message: Expected ‘}’
Line: 30
Char: 1
Code: 0
Tab Numlock - am 21. Januar 2009 -

PS. I am using WordPress 2.7. I’m not sure if this was happeneing before I upgraded.

webdemar - am 21. Januar 2009 -

@Tab Numlock:

Thank for pointing out this bug!

The last }); was missing after the superfish function call. Hope this fixes your problem.

Tab Numlock - am 22. Januar 2009 -

Great! Now where might I find this? I searched all the files in Theme Editor for “superfish” and didn’t find anything.
- webdemar - am 22. Januar 2009 -
  
  Sorry. You’ll find it in the header.php.
Tab Numlock - am 22. Januar 2009 -

Thanks, it worked. I used Firefox to search for it but forgot to keep hitting the arrow.

The only other bug I see is that the WP Search button goes off the edge of the screen but the DeFusion one doesn’t, so I use that.

I see that the comments bubble has be simplied so no more problems with that in IE.

Anyway, this is a really handsome theme. Thanks for designing it.
Tab Numlock - am 22. Januar 2009 -

Actually, there is still an IE bug that deFusion has always had. When you zoom out, the foreground goes partially transparent. Most people zoom in rather than out though. But with the advent of wide screen monitors, more people are running two browsers side by side and may use zoom out more. Windows 7 makes this especially easy.
Tab Numlock - am 23. Januar 2009 -

Correction. It’s only IE8 beta that has the zoom-out problem. Compatibility View fixes it, temporarily. Maybe the final version of IE8 will not do this.

Also, there actually was a problem with the positioning the deFusion Search button on one of my sites. I found an errant “0″ (I think) and deleted it. That fixed the problem.

searchform .button {
width: 70px;
height: 30px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0 10px;
background: #4a4f54;
border: none;
color: #fff;
Tab Numlock - am 23. Januar 2009 -

Also, you should change the copyright to 2009. So now my sites are pretty much perfect. Yeah! Tausend Dank!
Stephen Martin - am 23. Januar 2009 -

I would like to be able to accept comments in “pages”, not just “posts”. Is that possible with this theme?

I use WP 2.7 and have enabled this in the dashboard but the pages do not show comments when served.

With thanks.
Wendy - am 2. Februar 2009 -

Hello!
I’m using the last version, have changed things quite a bit, and noticed that the search no longer works from the sidebar, but if you re-enter the search terms, it works in the main window. I’m pretty sure this changed after 2.7, because it was tested before. Any ideas on how to fix?
Gabe - am 5. Februar 2009 -

hello again! Quick question: is there a good way/place to drop in a tracking code for Google Analytics? Something that will track views on individual posts?

Thanks in advance –

Gabe
Wendy - am 10. Februar 2009 -

Just letting you know that my issue is fixed, it wasn’t the theme at all, it was a path issue. The upgrade to 2.7 went pretty well for me!
- Simon [webdemar] - am 10. Februar 2009 -
  
  @Wendy:
  Hey Wendy, thanks for your feedback
Ryan Kennedy - am 26. Februar 2009 -

Hi, I’m having a problem with polls and buttons. The radio buttons and any other buttons take up the whole width of the widget space. It looks really weird! Is there something I can do to fix it?
Thanks
- Simon [webdemar] - am 26. Februar 2009 -
  
  @Ryan:
  Hello Ryan. That is my fault. I just put a width:90% on the input tag. Fix it in the style.css:
```
input.text, textarea { /** just added .text to the input tag */
	width: 90%;
	height: 22px;
	margin: 0 0 20px 0;
	padding: 6px 6px 0 6px;
	background: #fff url(img/bg-form-text.gif) repeat-x left top;
	border: 1px solid #dadada;
	color: #5e5e5e;
	font-size: 11px;
}
```
  This should help
Ihab - am 18. März 2009 -

How can you make the CSS Code this way WebMaster?.

Geat work. Thank you.
lothar - am 13. April 2009 -

Hallo Simon.
wie kann ich den blog title im defusion an eine andere Stelle verrücken. die schrift überdeckt meine bg graphik…
also am besten einfach nach ganz rechts und kleiner…
ist weiss auf weiss (also egal)
Danke für den Tipp….
Ciao und Grüße

Lothar (im Prüfungsstress)
lothar - am 15. April 2009 -

Hallo.
das mit dem blog title hab ich hinbekommen.
mein problem ist grad mit defusion, dass es den
header verschiebt, wenn ich das browserfenster verkleinere.
liegt es daran, dass ich das header.gif größer gemacht habe. oder ist es einfach eine tatsache?
gruss

lothar
- Simon [webdemar] - am 20. April 2009 -
  
  @lothar:
  Das mit dem Header müsste ich live sehen. Dein Blog ist allerdings offline. Hat sich das Problem damit erledigt? Viele Grüße.
tester - am 15. April 2009 -

Hi, i would like to point out a few things about this theme.
In the comments the quote image is not displayed, but in the demo it is: http://wp.000hosted.com/?p=1#comments vs http://webdemar.com/demo/category1/subcategory1/an-image-in-a-post/#comments
The demo says version 1.0 but the latest to download is 0.9

Also i prefer the menu from the deCoder theme, what parts of the code do i need to replace in the deFusion theme?

Thnx!
- Simon [webdemar] - am 20. April 2009 -
  
  @tester:
  The quote image is not used any more in the newer version. Due to lack of time just did not update the demo… my fault.
  
  To replace the menu with the deCoder navi replace the following in deFusion:
```
">Home

        < ?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>
    
```
  with the follwing in deCoder:
```
">Home

    < ?php wp_list_categories('title_li=&sort_column=menu_order'); ?>
```
lothar - am 15. April 2009 -

Hallo hab es mit dem body-gif nun so gelöst:

#page {
background: #070836 url(img/bg-body.gif) no-repeat scroll right top;
margin:0 auto;
width:940px;
}

im body hab ich die url entfernt, so dass der hintergrund noch die eingestellte farbe hat.

Liebe Grüsse

lothar
- Simon [webdemar] - am 20. April 2009 -
  
  @lothar:
  Oh selbst gelöst. Super!
saundra - am 6. Mai 2009 -

Simon:

I LOVE your theme. But I want to tweak a few things. Rotating header, one column and add a footer that has info such as: about, recent comments, and ability to add small banner graphics.

Can we talk?
- Simon [webdemar] - am 8. Mai 2009 -
  
  @saundra:
  I’m happy you like the theme, saundra I’m not quite sure what you mean with ‘Can we walk?’. But keep in mind that these are a lot of theme customizations. At the moment I’m not able to provide this support since I am working on other projects and just don’t have the time
banisha - am 13. Mai 2009 -

Hallo!

erstmal kompliment zu dem genialen Theme und gleich eine Frage dazu!

Ich möchte den Navigationsbereich genauso haben wie hier auf dieser Seite.
Also der Rote balken soll über die ganze Seite gehen und in der Mitte das Dropdown.

Wo finde ich die Einstellung damit ich den Navibalken verändern kann?

Danke schon mal im Voraus!!
- Simon [webdemar] - am 13. Mai 2009 -
  
  @banisha:
  Moin! Dein Vorhaben erfordert allerdings einiges an Anpassung. Die Veränderungen müsstest Du in der header.php der Template-Dateien vornehmen.
  
  Um ein druchgehenden Balken zu haben, musst Du einem div, der über die ganze Breite der Seite geht oder dem body ein sich horizontal wiederholendes Hintergrundbild zuweisen und das Menü dann darüber platzieren.
  
  Wenn Du Dich noch etwa einen Monat gedulden kannst… das Theme von webdemar ist bald zum Download erhältlich
Dee - am 17. Mai 2009 -

Hi Simon,

Firstly, thank you for the excellent theme. I’m in the process of converting and modding it to suit my needs. A question though regarding superfish menu. I’ve fixed the javascript with the missing brackets, however, am getting a null error now:

Message: ‘null’ is null or not an object
Line: 23
Char: 9
Code: 0

The code it relates to is:
$(document).ready(function(){
$(“ul.sf-menu”).supersubs({
minWidth: 12, // minimum width of sub-menus in em units
maxWidth: 27, // maximum width of sub-menus in em units
extraWidth: 1 // extra width can ensure lines don’t sometimes turn over
// due to slight rounding differences and font-family
}).superfish();
});

Is there anything you can suggest that may help?

Thanks!
Dee
- Simon [webdemar] - am 19. Mai 2009 -
  
  @Dee:
  Thanks Dee! I’m not sure where the problem is in your code. You might want to have a look at a Superfish tutorial I wrote. The text is in German, but still you can see the code snippets. If you don’t find an answer there, post it to the jQuery mailing list, where you get an answer for sure.
XYON - am 7. Juni 2009 -

i like simple
Wendy - am 9. Juli 2009 -

Hello Simon,
I used defusion 2.8 for my last blog, where I customized the header.php, sidebar.php and footer.php files quite a bit, as well as the css files. Now I want to start a new one where I left off. I initially thought that I would take advantage of the child themes that have been introduced since then, but I gather that they inherit mostly css, not so much the other files I changed. I need to create this new blog quickly, and it doesn’t have any dropdown menus. I’m wondering if I can just replace those files in the new version of defusion, or if it would be better to stick with the old version, which seems to be working fine. Thanks!
Wendy - am 9. Juli 2009 -

One last thing, I’m using disqus for commenting, so the threaded comments wouldn’t make a difference. I’m inclined to go with the old version because I don’t have much time, but I’m curious to know about if I’m missing anything. Thanks again for a great theme, seems to be holding up well in 2.8!
nomad - am 6. September 2009 -

Good theme
Ben - am 11. September 2009 -

I am not getting any drop downs showing in IE 6 any ideas?

I did put a z-index on the header for another bug, not sure if that has affected it or not.

Cheers
e-sushi - am 20. September 2009 -

erm, missing “sidebar.ads.php” in zip package!!!

Mit anderen Worten: 125×125 ads implementation ist da, aber die datei zum anzeigen fehlt!!!!!!
Dave - am 23. September 2009 -

Where would I go to change the size of the menu text?
Thanks to anyone
Kourtney - am 24. September 2009 -

Hi there.

I am using deFusion 0.9 and love it Was wondering if another sidebar could be added?

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