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As you have noticed, I changed the layout. Again. It’s a revision of the old one with a lot of the quirks cleaned out. I tried to get the theme looking the same in both IE and Firefox and there are some things that only Firefox detects so either a) change to that browser b) you won’t be able to see some of the things. Now, for the release. If you download and use it and note any bugs, please reply below or something so I can fix it in the next release.
Demo: Placid theme live
Version: 1.01 (released 3-2-05)
Download: here (need winzip to open)
Installation: Install it like any other theme, drop the folder into the wp-content/theme folder (requires 1.5 to be installed).
Note: This is just a basic release, no plugins attached or any of that. It goes along with the stock installation of wordpress. Please open sidebar.php with a text editor such as notepad and edit the author info. Also, this release requires the Time Since plugin and the Time of Day plugin to be installed.
Sites using Placid Use Placid? Comment or email me so I can put your link here!
curtis.landrum.cx
afrogtokiss.net
goss.quip.com.au
frankydoody.com
slapjack
eggfantasyland
glitteringstewmuse
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Looks good but I liked the divisions on your sidebar before.
*clicks wide* *clicks narrow* Wow, that’s so awesome!
It looks so clean and fresh
Loving the wide and narrow thing!! 
!! ~x
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Thanks, yo. I moved from Textpattern to Wordpress today, and this lovely theme will keep me company until I have time to do my own. Peace.
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It’s great, except that I liked the pictures next to the title before. Now the top of the page is bland.
Nice design – however, it doesn’t validate using the w3c validator – I got it to validate on my site by removing the Registration link from sidebar.php.
Not sure if this is because WordPress 1.5 is still in Beta or if there is a problem with the theme.
Either way, I thought you might want to know.
Thanks,
Tom
Kat: i’ll be adding that soon. I just leave it bland for universal use.
Tom: Really? Can I see the code since I’m using the stock copy and it doesn’t show any errors.
looks great. i like the background use and colors/borders. makes it stand out more
You can see the errors by passing this site through the validator (go to http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//a.trendyname.org/).
I think it has to do with how WP 1.5 is outputting some lists – some come out with li tags, and need a ul tag, others seem to come out with the ul tag – from my limited research.
HTH,
Tom
Thanks, found the mistakes, I opened LI tags and instead of closing them, I opened new ones. Good thing this is on my copy and not the one for download, I just double checked to make sure.
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Hi,
I’m kind of a noob concerning wordpress themes.
Could anyone tell me how I can add a custom image to the title (at the position where the child is in this blog)
TIA
I really like the design, especially with the cute banner at the top. I was trying to work out how to do the same on my downloaded version and noted that you have a wordpress error in the comments of this page.
basti – you need to edit the css and change the #header information so you have something like the following:-
#header { margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) url(http://fullpathnametothepicofchild.jpg) no-repeat scroll left top; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; height: 166px; }
Hi Chris,
Thanks for a great theme. After playing around with a few I decided this was the best for me. I’ve still got to get an image for the header, but it looks awesome.
Joe
Ya, The image header.jpg needs to be edited to your convenience. Currently, it’s a tiny image but if u stretch it you can throw an image on it.
Andy: what’s the comments error you get?
I’m a german user of ur Template and think its great (sounds funny).
Please could u tell me where i can edit these type (E) for Edit comments.
Thx for ur great work.
So you want to be able to edit comments by pressing an (e) link? I am confused as to what you are looking for.
Hi Chris! Love the design, so I’m using it.Still deciding how much I want to change it.
As I’m still learning, do you have any ideas how I can create a page for my blogroll to take it off the sidebar menu, and appear as a link up in the top nav bar? (As you have done with your Colophon page).
Thanks in advance
DaFFy
Very nice theme!
Very nice. I’m using it but I may alter it for different colors in the future.
very nice…. thx…
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Hey, I love this theme, colors and all. I changed the header. However, how do make the header image work with both narrow and wide…can it automatically resize itself? Any help would be appreciated.
Kennedy
Hi Chris!
Great theme! I love it and I’m using it on my website.
Kennedy: It’s not possible to have an image resize so what you have to stretch the image to 1600+ pixels wide.
TY for replying. I have the wide image (that looks fine), it is the narrow one that is messing up…if you check my site you will understand.
Oh, in that case, you can’t. You just need to resize it to narrow and when it goes to wide put some filler into the right part. Sorry.
ok, is there anyway to get rid of the narrow view all together?
Oh ya. Just go in your style.css file. Look for:
body #border1 {
width:75%;
}
body.wide #border1 {
width:95%;
}
and delete the body.wide and take the 95% and replace it with 75%. Then, since you don’t need the wide/narrow thing, go to your header.php and delete lines 42-52 (javascript code) and delete lines 54-55 (links to change from wide to narrow and vice versa).
All Set! Thank you so much for your help! Your template rocks!!!!
OK Chris…advice time ;P I have created 2 pages, one named blogroll.php, and one named snippets.php. How do I hide the extension (the .php part) to these file names so it doesn’t show in the URLs, or the headers of the pages? Same as your Colophon and Contact pages…
TIA
DaFFy
DaFFy: well, what I do is use the “page” feature in wordpress. All my coding does is grab the first tier foldername and outputs it to the area you are talking about. So in your case, you either have to use a page feature which you can check in the codex.wordpress.org or you have to create a folder named blogroll and throw the blogroll.php into there. I’ll think of another way to do it in the future.
Hi,
when I click an entry to get to say: http://sally.m2k1.net/?p=6 the title of the posting also says “? p = &”
Why’s that? ?-/
Here’s the fix for it:
In the header.php function near the end (line 80-89~) there would be one function wrapped around in tags. Delete that and replace with:
< ?php
if (is_single()) {
echo "archives";
}
else if (is_page()) {
echo the_title();
}
else if (is_category()) {
echo "category";
}
else {
echo "weblog";
}
?>
It’ll display it appropriated now.
simple but very nice theme. love narrow and wide thing as well
btw, i’m using placid on my weblog, can you put my link here? thanks.
i think ima use it. but im gonna edit it a little to fit my taste. and it wont be used in WP. so… hehehe…
Go ahead. Just make sure you leave my credit
Hi chris – greate theme. especially the earthy colors. Quick question – i added Pages to the side bar (from the default WP1.5 theme), but now the titles are not picking up – Instead of ‘Events’ page, it shows ‘?page_id=11′ page. How can I fix?;Also, how do I display the site’s Tagline (Admin>>Options>>General>>Tagline) in the header?
Many thanks; a noob.
Download new version, it has that bug fixed and it in header.php under line 77, you can take out the
code to display the tagline.Hope it helps!
thanks chris,
i just downloaded v1.01
i must still be doing something wrong – removing the comments on line 77 (bloginfo
‘name’) simply repeats the site name (’sitename’) twice instead of inserting the tagline.
also, many thanks for fixing the page problem – but now, the page title does
not show at all. (http://sitename.net/?page_id=13)
is there something else I must do?
Marc
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hey chris, i really like this template but ive been trying to find out how to insert the picture of the girl on the banner like your own page. how do i do this? thanks.
and also i realized that a lot of the wordpress functions dont correlate with this theme…for example if i write into the tagline/about me page on wordpress editor, it doesn’t appear on my page. how do i make it correspond?
very very nice! i realy like it!
I downloaded your theme last night. I love the way you have it layed out. I like the color scheme to. But i decided to change the colors around a bit. I changed my site to pink
Ive been messing with it and ive got just about everything except some pages. I need a askme page and a author page. Is there a easy way to make extra pages besides using the “page” feature??
Ok i messed with it till i was able to make a page using that theme.
But i noticed whenever i click on narrow that some of my sidebars dont show. It shows up dark pink, light pink then grey on the right hand side on the left hand it just shows light pink then the grey 
Where did i mess it up at? Also the header picture shortens on one side. 
I’m using this theme. It’s beautiful
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