Comments on: Five-Minute-Fix™

By: Edward Caissie

Edward Caissie — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:32:33 +0000

@TE5LA – If you are interested in having all of these modifications done (for a fee) please fee free to contact us regarding our WordPress Services.

By: Edward Caissie

Edward Caissie — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:30:53 +0000

@TE5LA – My last comment was not necessarily a solution so much as a suggestion. What you are looking for does not fall under my “Five-Minute-Fix” idea. Although this appears fairly straight-forward it will still require more than a simply line or two of code to do.

By: TE5LA

TE5LA — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:42:40 +0000

I also noticed that when condensed, the line breaks are ignored and the text all runs together. Since this is a poetry site, this looks bad. I would prefer it just keep the format as is and remove some lines.

By: TE5LA

TE5LA — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:40:01 +0000

I did the replacement code as you suggested and it did leave the sticky full and condensed the other posts, however, the condensed post were not able to be viewed completely. There is no link to expand them and they don’t expand even when you click the link and open it in another page.

As far as limiting the length of the page, I found you can specify how many posts will appear on the front page in the options.

By: Edward Caissie

Edward Caissie — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:42:33 +0000

@TE5LA – First, thank you for the compliment! There are several aspects of the theme and how WordPress works you are addressing here …
- To show excerpts only on the homepage but have sticky posts show in full should be more or less straight-forward: change the conditional in the main loop (desk-mess-mirrored.php) from:

if ( is_home() || is_front_page() || is_single() || is_page() || ( is_author() && ( $count == 1 ) ) ) {

to:

if ( is_sticky() ) {

- To have a similar effect on the post-format loops you will have to add some conditional code to the effect: if `is_sticky` show `the_content` else show `the_excerpt`.
- Adding a page navigation bar at the bottom would require a bit more code than this comment would be able to convey properly, but you might look at copying the menu code in the header into the bottom of the loops as a starting point.
- Limiting the output on the main page would likely be best managed by adding a `home.php` template using the default loop code as its base.

NOTE: All of this should be done in a Child-Theme, too … and remember to back-up all of your files before making any edits.

By: TE5LA

TE5LA — Sun, 13 May 2012 22:52:57 +0000

I read another post of a user who wanted not to show the entire posts on the homepage, but and excerpt only. I looked at all the files for “the_content”, but it appears only in the files:

desk-mess-mirrored.php
desk-mess-mirrored-aside.php
desk-mess-mirrored-quote.php
desk-mess-mirrored-status.php

Changing “the_content” to “the_excerpt” in the first one did indeed produce excerpts on the main page, however, it broke the formatting on other pages, made entire areas disappear, and there was no “read more” link, so it was impossible to view the entire post, even if you clicked the post to view on a single page.

The other thing is, I want the first “Sticky” post on the main page to display fully, but the remaining posts below it to be excerpts.

Also, how can I limit the length of the main page’s posts and perhaps have a page navigation bar at the bottom?

Perhaps I am asking a lot here, but I like this theme a lot.

By: Edward Caissie

Edward Caissie — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:45:19 +0000

@Krysania – Thank you. I will definitely add the idea to the project’s todo list.

By: Krysania

Krysania — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:31:50 +0000

Thank you for answering Let me know if you include it in a future release. I’ll sent back to you the completed translation file when you do. Or maybe I’ll look at how to do it, but I don’t really know the structure of your theme.
Have a nice day

By: Edward Caissie

Edward Caissie — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:22:36 +0000

@Krysania – Although there is no actual French translation currently available I do greatly appreciate you offering one; and, even as WordPress offers core functionality to use translation “files” they are required to be properly prepared in a specific format.

Although the theme is written with the intent for translations to be made and I am more than happy to include a proper translation file with future releases I do not currently provide the “pot” file that is required to create these translation files at this time.

By: Krysania

Krysania — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:22:12 +0000

Hi,

Ok this is not really a five minute fix but I wanted to ask anyway. Is there a simple way to translate the theme “Desk Mess Mirrored” that I missed ? I’d rather not mess with all the code and not being able to get the next update of your theme (which btw I really like ^^). But still, I’m french, all of my friend/visitors are french, the blog is french, so ‘Posted by’ is not pratical nor consistent.

If there is none but you wish to internationalize your theme, I may provide the french translation for you. Otherwise, well I’ll manage ^^

Krysania