Pure-Essence.Net

Ouu, I like it! Very clean and pretty!

Jim on 10/6/2008 at 12:40 pm said:

You probably are already aware of this, but what the heck:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/09/28/jquery-and-microsoft.aspx

Hey that’s cool. Thanks for sharing

Hi Dodo!

Beautiful theme! You do gorgeous work. I downloaded the 1.1.0 version but my amazon box was still wigging out and overflowing the left sidebar.

I’m using this layout which i love! But I would like to use the Author feature and in the sidebar file it say’s:

<!– Author information is disabled per default. Uncomment and fill in your details if you want to use it.

could you tell me what this means? Uncomment where?

Hmm not sure. Try download winrar to unzip. I haven’t heard of any other issues like this.

Did you make the brushes used in this wp layout? The cherry blossoms in the background… I’ve been looking for nice ones like that. If you downloaded them from somewhere, I’d love the URL.
BTW, killer layout. ^_^

I really, really want to keep your oriental theme on my blog, but the pages just don’t work. Someone already posted about this above, but I couldn’t find a reply from you anywhere. When you click on the page, it displays an, apparently random, post and not the page you want.

Nur on 11/17/2008 at 11:08 pm said:

Love the oriental theme. Nice design work. I seem to have same problem as Melanie whereby the my pages (about or other pages which I create ) don’t show. Instead my posts show up. It seems to work for other themes, but only brks with this theme. I have been searching for this kinda theme for so long….I would luv to use it, but it brks my heart that it doesn’t work on the site. Please assist. BTW, I am using wordpress 2.6.3, not sure if this helps…

regards,

Nur

I just don’t know why. I cannot reproduce it on my test blog. I will contact you this weekend to see if we can get to the bottom of this.

Your changes worked, thank you for taking time and resolving the issue, luv yr theme, I’m gonna recommend yr theme to my friends…Nur

I like this comment box. lol, I think the theme is structured well for designers to work off in developing new themes.

Hello, I’ve been using this theme for quite some time now and I noticed the problem in IE6. But you have it fixed already so I’ll update my 1.1.0 version then. I like this theme.

Hello there
There seems to be a little bug in the latest version of the theme and WordPress 2.7
If i use a static page as frontpage and a newspage, home shows up but redirects to the news page.

Urgh. Should read:

Please change “<? } ?>” to “<?php } ?>” in line 13.

I very much love your oriental wp theme design — it’s gorgeous! But why don’t your comments thread? this ability is present in wp 2.7, and I’d really love for it to work in your theme. Perhaps an update soon?

I figured out how to add templates to this theme, I can’t believe how easy it was.. And in my opinion a few lines of extra code make this already great theme a fair bit better!

All you gotta do to edit the theme sufficiently is copy the page.php to a new file, perhaps call it FullPage.php or something. Then just edit the page accordingly, here’s my copy of that file:

&#65279;< ?php
/*
Template Name: Full Page + SubPgs
*/
?>

< ?php get_header(); ?>
	
	< ?php //get_sidebar(); ?>

<!--
	<div id="content">
-->

	<h2 class="pagetitle">&nbsp;</h2>

        <div id="body" style="bgcolor:white;background:white;margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;padding: 10px">

<!--
	<div id="contentinner">
-->

	< ?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

		< ?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

			<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
				<h2 class="posttitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to < ?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">< ?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

				<small class="postmetadata">
					< ?php
					if($post->post_parent) {
						echo '&laquo; ';
						echo '<a href="'.get_permalink($post->post_parent).'" class="parentpage" title="Parent page: '.get_the_title($post->post_parent).'">'.get_the_title($post->post_parent).'</a>';
						echo ' | ';
					}
					?>
					Posted on < ?php the_time('m/d/Y h:i a') ?> by < ?php the_author() ?> 
					< ?php edit_post_link('Edit', ' | ', ''); ?>  
				</small>

				<div class="entry">
					< ?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
				</div>

				< ?php
                                  /* Sub-pages */
				  $children = wp_list_pages('title_li=&child_of='.$post->ID.'&echo=0&depth=1');
				  if ($children) { ?>
		                      <!-- COMMENT to disaable subpage support -->
                                      <h3 class="subpages">Subpages</h3>                                      
                                      <font size=-1>
				      <ul class="subpages">
				      < ?php echo $children; ?>
				      </ul>
                                      </font>
				      
				< ?php } ?>
			</div>

			


		< ?php endwhile; ?>

	< ?php else : ?>

		<h2 class="pagetitle">Not Found</h2>
		<div id="contentinner">
		<div class="post"><div class="entry"><p>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p></div></div>
		</div>

	< ?php endif; ?>

</div><!-- /content -->

<!-- /body-->

<!-- /contentinner -->


< ?php get_footer(); ?>

Then I added another page template that doesn’t use the subpages feature:

&#65279;< ?php
/*
Template Name: Full Page No SubPgs
*/
?>

< ?php get_header(); ?>
	
	< ?php //get_sidebar(); ?>

	<h2 class="pagetitle">&nbsp;</h2>

        <div id="body" style="bgcolor:white;background:white;margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;padding: 10px">

	< ?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

		< ?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

			<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
				<h2 class="posttitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to < ?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">< ?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

				<small class="postmetadata">
					< ?php
					if($post->post_parent) {
						echo '&laquo; ';
						echo '<a href="'.get_permalink($post->post_parent).'" class="parentpage" title="Parent page: '.get_the_title($post->post_parent).'">'.get_the_title($post->post_parent).'</a>';
						echo ' | ';
					}
					?>
					Posted on < ?php the_time('m/d/Y h:i a') ?> by < ?php the_author() ?> 
					< ?php edit_post_link('Edit', ' | ', ''); ?>  
				</small>

				<div class="entry">
					< ?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
				</div>

			</div>

		< ?php endwhile; ?>

	< ?php else : ?>

		<h2 class="pagetitle">Not Found</h2>
		<div id="contentinner">
		<div class="post"><div class="entry"><p>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p></div></div>
		</div>

	< ?php endif; ?>

</div><!-- /body-->


< ?php get_footer(); ?>

If you’re not sufficiently motived, I’d be happy to post an altered version of this theme in the wordpress theme directory including my changes – but since it’s origionally your work and my changes aren’t massive in terms of quantity of code – I figured you’d like a chance to post it yourself. Please let me know if you’d rather I just repost it for ya.

IE tab on FF3? Why are you doing that? Stick with FF3 and your life will be fine!

The php open short tag is known to cause problems on XML declarations. I disabled it.

Nice theme. Thank you for sharing.

I don’t know if this is an issue on just my system and IE7. WRT the “Recent Posts” panel … text alignment is bit awkward when it spans more than one line. The bullet overlaps the text on line two when the post title spans three lines. For two lines the bullet is wedged between the lines and almost overlaps the first character of the second line.

FireFox 3.0.5 handles the style much better although the text is not left aligned for each entry. Is the mis-alignment of the text on purpose? It could be my thinking is too rigid and I should just appreciate how it was done.

/R

One of the cool themes i’ve seen after quite some time. Thanks for this one.

Hi! I love this theme. The only thing is that I want the post title on the left instead of the right. Can you tell me how to make this change?

Hi

How can i add a hader logo?

hi,
i have install oriental theme in my blog,but my post titles always stay right side. i want to make the titles from right side.

please help me

thank you.

Hi there!

I really think this is a great theme, especially the color combination.

I would like to add a picture in the header. I haven’t figured out where and what code I have to add for this.

Please help!

Thank you!

Hi,

thanks for the theme. I just have one question – is there a way to change the order of the pages listed in the Subpages box? By default, they are sorted alphabetically. It would help me a lot if there was a way to make it respect the order of the pages defined in the pages editor.

I guess this is hidden somewhere in the cuc_menu functions. Unfortunatelly, I’m not good enough in PHP to figure out where exactly.

Thanks for any help.

Hi,

I wanted first to say thanks for your theme cause I love it.

I’ve found a small bug which may stop the theme to display any content due to the fact that one php tag uses the php short open form instead of the strict one (i.e. versus ). The short open tag is restricted in my local php configuration and I had to dig out into the code of your theme to found out the issue.

The tag to correct is located in sidebar.php on line 13.

I have another issue locally that I need still to investigate. The size of the pictures isn’t rightfully handled (floated pictures) and so they float on to the next post. As a result the layout is quite messy. Again this is something that only happens in my backup local server so nothing to worry too much about, this is certainly due to my own configuration.

Kind regards from France.

Hi,
I downloaded Oriental 1.2.1. I like the theme. But there is a problem. After I set one of the static page as home page, the title tab of the static page did not disappear. As a result, there are two tabs: one is for Home page and the other is the title of the static page. How can I get rid of the title tab of the static page? Thanks for your help in advance.

John