Desk Mess Mirrored
The current version of Desk Mess Mirrored is 1.4.6 (uploaded on Feb 17, 2010)
Version 1.4.6 is available at WordPress.org as of Feb 18, 2010.
Marble desktop covered with a mix of old and new items, such as some vintage papers, a stainless steel pen, and, a hot cup of coffee! Now with threaded comments and sticky posts! Please read the included changelog.txt file for the details of the latest changes and important notices. The child theme Multi, currently included, will not be included in versions after 1.4.5 but will be available for download at http://buynowshop.com/themes/desk-mess-mirrored/
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Recent Changelog:
Changelog as of Feb 17, 2010:
-- Version 1.4.6
- added "GPL2" license statement to style.css
- CSS: added 'p a img' element to remove linked image borders
- WP: added bns_dynamic_copyright() function to footer.php
- WP: Modified navigation links at bottom of pages
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-- Version 1.4.5
- corrected positioning of 'cancel-comment-reply-link'
- corrected positioning of 'logged-in' message for comments
- added query reset to correct for possible is_home() issue?!
- corrected deprecated parameter 'siteurl' to 'url' in header.php
- editted footer.php template file to better handle possible lengthy text fields
- CSS: cleaned out empty elements
- CSS: added #bottom-container within #bottom-extended
- CSS: reviewed IE6 conditional style sheet -> reduced theme elements being displayed; please upgrade!
- CSS: added better styling of page list elements
- moved theme version display to functions.php
- minor updates to Multi child theme included
- Multi version number should reflect Desk Mess Mirrored version
- NB: The image files twitter.png and flickr.png will remain but are not used in the theme.
- NB: Multi will no longer be included with Desk Mess Mirrored to reduce theme size after version 1.4.5
- NB: Multi will be available to download at http://buynowshop.com/themes/desk-mess-mirrored
-- Version 1.4.4.1
- corrected page list style that was affecting sidebar layout
Multi child of Desk Mess Mirrored
Marble desktop covered with a mix of old and new items, such as some vintage papers, a stainless steel pen, and, a hot cup of coffee! This theme has the added RSS image in the cup and some of the basic multi-author functionality enabled.
Download: Multi - version 1.4.5
NB: You must have the parent theme Desk Mess Mirrored installed for the child theme to activate.
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Hi there!
First of all, thank you for this incredible theme (Desk Mess Mirrored)! I love it and would like to use it on my personal blog.
As until now, I did find just one litle flaw, which I would like to correct… For administrative tasks, I made some sites, which I would not like to display in the Headermenu. I did exclude them at the Mainmenu Widget by Page ID but the still show up!
Any idea, where I have to make some changes?!
Thank you in advance for your kind help!
Thank you for the compliments although I do not understanding what “flaw” you are referring to. The menu in the header area is created using the wp_list_pages() function in the header.php file. If you do not want to see specific pages displayed in this menu then you will need to use the ‘exclude’ parameter of the function to remove them.
You can also make use of the techniques I explain in this post Hide a Menu Page, too.
Sorry if I was not clear in my first post! Probably I have to explain, that I am relatively new to Wordpress and with the new possibilities from 2.7 and 2.8 I am looking to change my template, which is rather old.
As I described, I am using some statik pages for administrative tasks, like explenations how to log in and see fotos an so on. I created those pages and would not like to show them at any menu, as they are only accessed by links in some text.
What I did with my actual theme is to exclude the IDs at the mainmenu widget, which works fine with the old theme. Meaning, some IDs like 78,2,407 and so on will not display as a menu, as you may see here: http://www.danivo.net/wp/wp_hide_menu.jpg.
So I changed the theme to “Desk Mess” and verified the excluded IDs. They where in place but nevertheless, at the topmenu those statik pages are showing up… Maybe I just missed something and for sure I will give a good look at your links, which I appreciate very much!
I am appreciating especially, that you answered my post so quickly and with some explenations. Please keep up this excellent work… if you would like to know, i will use the theme for my Swiss / Brazilian / Dutch site as soon as I found the time.
I changed the
This is the code that produces the menu in the header.php file, it should start in or around line 44:
<ul id="menu"> <?php if (is_home() || is_front_page()) { ?> <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&include=2'); ?> <!-- Puts page 2, usually the "About" page, at the beginning of the menu --> <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&exclude=2'); ?> <!-- Only displays "parent" pages; and, excludes page 2 as it is included in the line above --> <?php } else { ?> <li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ? rel="nofollow">" class="active"><?php _e('Home') ?> <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1'); ?> <!-- Only displays "parent" pages --> <?php } ?> </ul>Try replacing it with this code:
<ul id="menu"> <?php if (is_home() || is_front_page()) { ?> <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1'); ?> <!-- custom edits - retain a copy for post upgrade purposes --> <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&exclude=2, 78, 407'); ?> <!-- Only displays "parent" pages; and, excludes page 2 as it is included in the line above --> <?php } else { ?> <li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ? rel="nofollow">" class="active"><?php _e('Home') ?> <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&exclude=2, 78, 407'); ?> <!-- Only displays "parent" pages --> <?php } ?> </ul>I believe that will accomplish what you are trying to do with the "menu widget" you are using.
(NB: The menu widget may be trying to "hook" into the
wp_page_menu()function which is not being used in this theme.)Hi there,
does this theme support “sticky posts”?
The elements to support “sticky posts” will be in a an upcoming release. Currently the code elements are scheduled for the next release (thank you for the reminder); and, the style elements will also be included or follow shortly afterward.
Expect the next release within the next 7-10 days. Download the theme and keep an eye on the automatic update message under Appearance in your Dashboard.
I’m trying to adapt your wonder theme for a boy scout site I’m running. I’ve hit a small snag in using the gallery shortcode feature with the theme. I’m using the default for 3 columns but I’m only getting 2 columns in the theme.
I can’t figure out where to change the css to fix this. Any help is appreciated.
Andy
@Andy Fragen – Thanks Andy. I will have a look into this matter (and your other matter as well), I’m just waiting for your “gallery” to load … that’s a LOT of pictures
I’m not quite sure what’s happening but the css for .post ul, .post p and others doesn’t seem to be transferring down to my posts. By this I mean that my unordered lists have no indenting and if I change .post p to have some spacing between paragraphs it doesn’t filter down. As an example a post div looks like the following
<div class=”post-46 page hentry category-uncategorized” id=”post-46″>
@Andy – The “fixes” you are looking for will also be in version 1.4.2 which I will be packaging and uploading to WordPress.org later this evening. These will be implemented in the Desk Mess Mirrored theme and will affect all of its child themes including Multi. These changes are implemented on this site already. You can see them working on our WordPress Services page.
PS: I did move this comment from under the Five-Minute-FixTM page.
BTW, if I switch to the default theme I do get 3 columns. Sorry about all the images. I’m just switching over the site to WordPress. I’d been using Gallery2 for the pics and using VoodooPad to create the site but WordPress is easier and maybe I can get some others to post.
@Andy – It was an oversight on my part … just paste the following into the end of the style.css file (preferably the one under the Desk Mess Mirrored folder):
dl.gallery-item{margin: 0;}This should allow for a 3-column gallery. This fix will be included in the next update to Desk Mess Mirrored, which is the “parent” theme to Multi.
Thanks Edward. That works. Now if I could only figure out why my lists aren’t indented and how I can put some spacing back into my paragraphs.
@Andy – This should do what you need … again, add this to the end of the style.css file in the Desk Mess Mirrored theme folder:
.page ol {list-style-image:none; list-style-position:inside; padding-left:10px;}.page ul {list-style-image:none; list-style-position:inside; padding-left:10px;}
.page li {padding-left: 10px;}
This is also include in version 1.4.2 (just uploaded to WordPress.org) 10 minutes ago … hopefully it will be only a day or two before it is released there.
Thanks again Edward. I figured out the paragraph spacing thing.
That’s great Andy! BTW, Did you notice I am giving you credit for pointing out the Gallery issue, too
I did. Thanks. Interestingly, the paragraph fix “.post p{padding-bottom:1em;}” doesn’t seem to work for posts of others. You can see it working my posts but not on others. Curious.
I just stopped by your web site. The layout for both authors looks fine … and the same.
Yeah, I think I figured it out. I had to add a setting for ‘#main-blog p{}’ as well. Thanks for all the help. Now I just need to create an image for the header with the appropriate scout logo stuff.
Edward,
For the Scout site header I was looking to change out the header pics completely across the top and create a composite image similar this site. http://etna141.com/
I’m certain there’s a bunch of CSS that I can set to display:none but so that I can have a single composite image as the header, could you point me in the right direction?
Also, using Desk Mess Mirrored I find there’s horizontal scroll to the window even when my browser window is very large, on my laptop.
Thanks for any pointers
Andy
I spoke too soon. I think I figured it out.
Love your theme as previously said, but wondered how I would go about adding my T&C, privacy policy etc to the footer?
Also, I use blog excepts on my home page and wondered how I could show more excepts as there is a lot of blank space after the last one and the end of the page?
Allison
@Allison – Thank you, again!
First off, I would suggest updating to the current version of the theme, I have made several updates and improvements.
For your excerpts, if you go to Settings | Reading in your Dashboard; and, edit the number that appears in the “Blog pages show at most” box from 10 (the WordPress default) to a higher number it will better fill the “blank space”.
Adding your “T&C, privacy policy etc to the footer” (links?) can be done in several ways, such as: either editing the theme directly; or, via a plugin that allows you to add items to the footer. Here is one I have used in the past for testing purposes: Add to Footer. Feel free to email me if a more detailed explanation is needed.
Huge thanks Edward for your fast response and willingness to help. It is very much appreciated. I will try upgrading and using the plugin.
Have brought you a cup of coffee as thanks.
Thank you, too, Allison!
A good cup of coffee is always appreciated
Hi Edward,
We LOVE your theme and have used it exclusively since opening our site. Until recently, we were using 1.3 with much success. We recently upgraded to 1.4.2.
I wanted to report a possible bug. Whenever I apply the 1.0 child theme, it really breaks the nested comments feature. Just thought you might want to check it out.
Thanks for the great theme. Gregg
@Gregg – Thank you very much for the compliment! Although I had not noticed any issues with the child themes I will look at them immediately.
Although it is not a “bug” with the ‘Multi’ theme it is an issue. I will make the necessary theme file changes shortly and submit to WordPress.org by the end of the day.
What you are seeing is the “old” comments template in the child theme, which is my error; it will be replaced with the “new” comments template as the WordPress update process does not allow for the removal of files.
In the meantime, if you are able, change the name of the ‘comments.php’ template file in the child theme folder to something else, such as, ‘~comments.php’ or simply delete it. The parent comments template will then take its place and provide the nested comments functionality.
My apologies for any inconvenience, I hope to see the next version of Desk Mess Mirrored with the fix available in a day or two.
Thanks for the speedy response. Looking forward to future updates and will happily “beta” test and provide any feedback I can.
God Bless,
Gregg
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first of all I want to say thank you for the theme. I’m just getting started and it makes it look like it is what it is. Notes with out the fluff. I have two problems. First TweetMeme Retweet Button works on all the pages but not on the posts.
Second even though the boxes are clicked the comment box doesn’t show up on the posts. It does on the other pages.
I think it is very cool that your site continues beneath mine through this link. It makes me feel like I’m part of something larger.
I’m looking for success stories to tell with a link to affilliate programs. I will be talking about on my “let me introduce:” page and “my tool box” page. Do you have a story I can tell?
@Robert – I’m glad you like the theme, thank you for choosing it.
I visited your blog and see the “TweetMeme” service is in some sort of maintenance mode.
I also noticed there are issues with your “Permalink” structure, once corrected their may be less issues to be resolved.
Please see our WordPress Services page for additional items that we may provide.
Just a thought. A widget that fits the theme to use as a opt in box would be very cool. Like an aweber template but for your theme.
A widget for the promotion of you services would also work for me. Your post it notes with your page links would be cool.
@Robert – Thanks for the ideas, I will keep them in mind for future projects.
PS: I moved your comments to the theme page from your original postings under the Five-Minute-Fix page.
Is there a german translation for this template?
@HN02 – No, I have received no translations for this theme into any language, yet.
I’ve done one for German: They are .mo and .po files.
They are available on http://hno2.bplaced.net/Data/
@HNo2 – Thank You!
That’s fantastic. I will add them into the next update. I will also give you credit for the translation. Did you want your name added to the credit?
yes why not
Great theme, like it a lot – I used to use the one you mirrored (I think) but yours is a bit cleaner – I like it!
http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/about/projects/desk-mess-wordpress-theme
@Mathieu – Thank you; and, yes that was the basis for the 1.0 version. I believe my theme has made several (no disrespect to the original author) improvements; and, I still continue to review and look for additional adjustments to make.
Hi,
Thank you very much for this theme, realy nice
I am using it but having a problem in author.php file :
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in themes/desk-mess-mirrored/author.php on line 17
You can look at google and see how many people are having the same bug
How can I fix it?
I have not received this error myself but I will look at it very soon.
PS: This is a PHP4 issue and not immediately resolvable within the theme. WordPress is going to a minimum requirement of PHP 5, I would recommend you ask your web hosting service provider upgrade your account to PHP 5 as soon as possible.
In the meantime, you can edit the author.php template from:
… to simply this:
thanks
Hello there!
First: Damn great Theme! I’m using it on http://www.derfriedri.ch and it looks great! I only changed the images a liitle bit and the visitors are facinated. but i have one question:
In the original Files is one .png with the twitter-bird. I would like to use it for my tweets (you can see them in the sidebar). Right now it is used the same image like the other topics/widget-apps.
I’m using “Twitter for Wordpress 1.9.7″. Maybe you can help me.
Thanks a lot and keep on doing tihis great stuff!
SIncerely
Friedrich Jeschke // Aachen // Germany
@Friedrich -Thank you for the compliment, I do appreciate reading feedback like this.
The “twitter-bird” image is a long ago remnant I have simply not removed as it is not directly supported, but it was designed to match the theme exactly.
I will have to look further into how it may be implemented.
@Freidrich, I had some extra time this morning, insert into your sidebar.php (around line 60):
<?php /* ---- twitter.png hack ---- */ ?> <?php if ( function_exists( 'twitter_messages' ) ) { ?> <div class="widget twitter-widget"> <h2 class="hl"><?php _e('Tweets'); // Change Tweets to a title you would prefer ?></h2> <div class="tweets"> <?php twitter_messages('twitter'); // set twitter to your username ?> </div> </div> <?php } ?> <?php /* ---- twitter.png hack ---- */ ?>Then add this to your style.css:
/* ---- twitter.png hack ---- */ .twitter-widget {background: none;} .twitter-widget h2 {height:215px;background:url(images/twitter.png) no-repeat;padding-top: 50px;} .tweets {padding: 0 15px;position: relative;top: -180px;}Hi –
I love the theme!
I would really like to be using it for my new blog: The Life & Times of a CleanTech Groupie.
But, I can’t seem to get the Calendar from “The Events Calendar” plugin to display properly.
Here is the direct link:
http://cleantechgroupie.com/category/events/month/
It displays properly using other themes. So, any thoughts on the issue here?
I will keep this themed installed long enough for you to see the formatting challenges that I am bumping up against.
Thanks!
Chad
@Chad – Thank you for the compliments on the theme, I am glad you are enjoying it. As to the plugin “The Events Calendar” I am not familiar with it and although I see there is an issue with its layout I do not see an immediate solution. It appears to be breaking the theme’s main content area. The plugin appears to be breaking the theme in the main content area in both the calendar and events list modes. Have you contacted the plugin author for assistance on this issue as well?
@Chad – After another look at the page on your site I noticed the last three days of each week are being written “backwards” on every month I checked. This leads me to believe the issue has a significant component in the plugin itself.
Hello again,
One more issue that I’ve found. The “gigya Socialize login” widget doesn’t seem to want to play along. It doesn’t show up in it’s own widget square, but rather just sits on top of the widget below it.
You can see it showing up on the home page of the website.
http://cleantechgroupie.com/
Thanks, again. Great theme!
@ Chad – I noticed the issue with a plugin in the sidebar when reviewing your previous concern. Again, another plugin I am not familiar with, but the issue is similar to others I have seen with different plugins. In these other instances I found the addition of a “clearing div” would fix the issue. Again, are you contacting the plugin author with this issue?
I am more than happy to review another author’s plugin and I would recommend reading my page for WordPress Services for more details.
Hi,
I haven’t contacted the authors for those two plugins, yet. Though, I will. I’d really like to stick with this theme. Those plugins displayed correctly in some of the other themes that I tried, but not all.
I am not entirely sure what you mean by adding a “clearing ” – but, I will research it and try to figure it out.
Thanks,
Chad
@Chad – Thank you for replying again. Hopefully the plugin authors will be able to make some suggestions or if necessary corrections. My schedule simply does not allow for free reviews of other author’s plugins at this time … if I find a lull in my workload I will try to look at these plugins. If I do find time I will work from the repository versions of the plugins.
As to the “clearing div” I was referring to a bit of code like this:
@Chad – Although it only took a moment to throw in a “hack” to add the ‘clearing div’ where I suspected it would sort out the issue. It brings to light the plugin’s flash component(s) may be the cause it does not display well in some themes. IMHO, it does not appear to be contained in its own block which makes it subsequently difficult to use CSS to position and display more correctly.
@Chad – Just an FYI … Although I made a couple of comments above I only spent “Five Minutes” looking at the issues you presented for these plugins. I do hope you are able to gain some assistance from their respective authors.
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Has anyone successfully added numbers on the comments for Desk Mess Mirrored? I tried with the Greg’s Threaded Comment Numbering wordpress plugin, but it just does not show up… if anyone was successfully let me know thanks!
@NewYorkDad – Although I have not really looked into the plugin you mentioned, I did find by changing the style of the comments “list” you can display numbers (or other characters, depending on your preference). I admit it really does not fit the theme’s current aesthetics, but I may add this to my reviews as an item of interest. Thanks for the comment.
I completely understand about the aesthetics and my need to how what number comment in a thread each comment is was a for a very practical reason. I need to use randomizer from time to time and the easiest way (and most transparent) to show readers that the number chosen at random is actually related to a comment that was posted for a particular post. Even if it’s small and unobtrusive. I will try your suggestion and will let you know if it works.
Thanks!
@NewYorkDad – Yes, please keep me up to date on this. Your application of numbered comments sound interesting.
Hey there again! One of my visitors reported a bug/error. He is using IE 8. When he enters the URL the site is loaded but during the loading apears an error message. There is no text or mention – only an “ok” button. This problem only occurs when IE is used.
Do you (or anybody else) have an idea what the reason could be?
THX
Friedrich
@Freidrich – Welcome back! I am using IE8 to reply to this comment
I do test with most common browsers but admit there may be the odd issue that escapes my attention. In this case, the current version of Desk Mess Mirrored appears fine after another review.
Your site does appear to be using the current version (although modified); and, I did notice an error that may be related to your modifications. Without seeing the underlying code I would look into what you have changed in the header.php file to start.
Hey Edward! Thank you for the fast reply!
I did not changed anything in the header.php neither in any other file. I modiefied the language files – the where only some transalion bugs – and the images. Maybee the error depends on the browser and the included addons and updates. I tried it on IE and it works. Also one of the widgets and/or plugins makes the trouble.
The biggest problem is, that i don’t have any bugs/erros in IE, so I can’t locate the error….
@Friedrich – These are the error details I am seeing:
Message: HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed (KB927917)Line: 0 - Char: 0 - Code: 0
I would agree it is likely a plugin that is conflicting with something …
PS: Try searching on the KB927917 for possible solutions; it appears to be commonly related to JavaScript or jQuery issues. EAC
I’d like to erase “Meta” from sidebar.
In Appearance > Widgets I could erase Calendar, Archives, Categories and etc. but did nothing with Meta.
please help!
@gsula – By placing a widget in the second widget area you will “erase Meta” from the sidebar.