The Charlene Theme v0.2 is now available for download. I tried to focus on two major areas for this release. The first was to begin tidying up the css a bit, consolidating were possible and improving the typographic style. Please see the changelog as well as [master.css - section /*-- Typography --*/].
In regards to typography, what I would consider to be a semi-major change here was the decision to drop text justification on entry-content. It was a battle but in the end I decided that packaging the theme with justified text and no added support for hyphenation just wasn’t going to work for me any more. You will see in master.css that I simply commented it out so that you can easily re-justify the text, however if you do so I would highly recommend that you check out wp-Typography to add support for hyphenation and other goodies.
The second important update to this version is the improvements made to better facilitate the creation of child themes based on Charlene. See Full Foto a WordPress Child Theme build on Charlene for more information. (Full-Foto will be available soon) The major changes include the removal of the custom-functions.php with the recommendation to customize via child themes moving forward and the addition of two new hooks.
Additionally there were some other minor changes to the theme to include improved security. Please see the changelog below for a full list of changes.
Note: if you currently use the Charlene Theme on your site and are considering an upgrade to this version I highly recommend that you read below to see if any of the changes will affect your current installation.
If you have any questions concerning Version 0.2 please do not hesitate to drop me an email at either hello[at]papertreedesign.com or themesupport[at]papertreedesign.com.
A note on upgrading – currently the theme is not available via WordPress theme repository so you will need to download the new theme, delete the old theme and upload the new, backups are recommended.
Changelog
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Version 0.2
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-11-15-09
* Remove Eighttwenty Custom - recommended that all changes and customizations be done through Child Themes moving forward
* Add support for custom post meta title, etmtitle [FILE = dochead-functions.php]
* class four-o-four now error-404 and #four-oh-four now #error-404-title [FILE = 404.php/master.css]
* Search function filterable [FILES = searchform.php/theme-functions.php]
-11-16-09
* added load_theme_sidebars() to widgets.php, sidebars are now called to the theme via eighttwenty_after_primary hook (new hook in hooks.php)
* eighttwenty_after_primary() is available after primary before closing #content div
-11-20-09
* change category meta to noindex/follow to avoid duplicates
* Home page title and descriptive paragraph removed from home.php added to hook eighttwenty_before_content [see build.php]
* Moved all hooks-actions to build.php
* General clean-up of associated stylesheets
-11/27/09
* Added widget area descriptions for 2.9+
-12/22/09
* Add esc_attr to search.php to display search query - added security
-02/16/10
* Add esc_attr to comment form
* Consolidated Reset.css and Basics.css now one file (basics.css)
-02/21/10
* Added a few basic default styles for possible theme repository inclusion
* Minor typographic changes (see master.css)
* class .entry-content no longer justified
sweet template. Thanks!
I love using this theme, but I have a little problem. My posts are not automatically cut off by the ‘continue reading’, my posts do not appear full cut ‘readmore’ was, how do I fix this?
Hello Adnan – If you could please email themesupport@papertreedesign.com I will attempt to troubleshoot the problem for you as soon as possible.
let me say Thank you.
im a student, and i have used your theme in my website.
im very very happy and want to thank you and appreciate you.
also, in this blog “The Charlene Theme v0.2 is no available for download”… ???? it should be NOW instead of NO.
i got pretty confused, and i thought its no longer available to download. please correct it.
@ADNAN :
adnan, go to theme options. there u can see a check box saying “show full post. default to excerpts.” uncheck it.
then u will be ok.
Hi Mister Lee -
First I want to say thanks for pointing out that error. Sorry for the confusion, it has been corrected. I also need to thank you for dropping by to assist Adnan. (@Adnan if you still need assistance don’t hesitate to send me an email.) Finally, I sincerely appreciate your kind words and glad you enjoy using the theme. Please feel free to drop by or shoot me an email to let me know where it can be improved. I don’t add every new feature that comes my way but I am always open to considering them.
Hi Jeremy,
I think your theme is fantastic, and want to say thank-you
Can I put thumbnails or show an image for each post on the home page? Kind of a middle-ground between showing the whole post and just text.
Also, is there any way to leave the ‘intro paragraph’ blank (it fills in default text if i do)?
I apologize for bothering you, but didn’t want to mess with the code until i got in touch. Many thanks again.
Drake
Hi Drake -
I apologize for the delayed response, would you be able to shoot me an email – themesupport@papertreedesign.com. I can get you some answers for the questions you have right away.
Thanks
Jeremy
Hi Jeremy,
perfect theme, thank you very much.
I have one question:
Excerpts of the post are displayed without the gaps between the paragraphs (see: http://pictureup.cz/picture/soukromy/806806pic1.jpg)
Full posts are displayed with gaps (see: http://pictureup.cz/picture/soukromy/564564pic2.jpg)
Is there any way how to get gaps between the paragraphs in the excerpts too? (I have specific text and it’s important part of the formatting). I can use tag but then I get double gaps in the full post. Thank you for you help.
Hi Tomas -
Thanks for using the theme. In regards to your question, the theme as you have it installed is using
the_excerpt()to display post content on the home page. The excerpt function strips images and html tags from your content to display a condensed version, thus it is stripping the paragraphs tags (the gaps). The easiest route for you to have it display with formatting in tact would be to go under the appearances tab to the Charlene Options panel, choose to displaythe_content()rather thanthe_excerpton the home page (found under front page content settings in the Charlene Options) then use the “more tag” to set the break.Check out this page in the codex http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More for a bit more information on this.
Hope that helps you out.
Jeremy, thank you very much for quick a useful help!