Ground Floor
The current version of Ground Floor submitted to WordPress.org is 1.9.1
The latest working version can be found on GitHub.
*WARNING: The GitHub version may be a “work-in-progress”, please make back-ups of your current theme before using. Please be aware you are using a GitHub version at your own risk!*
Richly toned wood floor background with bare-earth colored widgetized sidebar and footer (six widget areas in total, as shown on the included widget-map.png). A strong theme to begin with; grow into; and, build on.
Big Screenshot of Ground Floor
Changelog: April 19, 2012
= Code =
* Added conditionals to display website (with email) and biography only if information has been entered into the user fields
* Addressed deprecated function call to `add_custom_background`
* Addressed deprecated function calls to `get_theme_data`
* Addressed deprecated function call to `get_userdatabyloogin`
* Changed `bns_modified_post` to `gf_modified_post`
* Changed `bns_theme_version` to `gf_theme_version`
* Changed `bns_dynamic_copyright` to `gf_dynamic_copyright`
= CSS =
* Adjust CSS on sticky posts to provide better contrast
* Added CSS to better display more uniform images in galleries greater than four columns
= Miscellaneous =
* Improved code quality via better and more consistent structure and format
* Dropped direct support for older versions of Internet Explorer
= Internet Browsers Reviewed =
* Chrome v18.0
* Firefox v11.0
* Internet Explorer v9.0
* Opera v11.61
* Safari v5.1.5
/** ————————————————————————- */
* Ground Floor
*
* Theme Description: Richly toned wood floor background with bare-earth colored
* widgetized sidebar and footer. A strong theme to begin with; grow into; and,
* build on.
*
* @package GroundFloor
* @since 1.0
*
* @link http://buynowshop.com/themes/ground-floor/
* @link https://github.com/Cais/fround-floor/
* @link http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ground-floor/
*
* @internal REQUIRES WordPress version 3.0
* @internal Tested up to WordPress version 3.4
*
* @version 1.9.1
* @author Edward Caissie
* @copyright Copyright (c) 2009-2012, Edward Caissie
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
* the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, as published by the
* Free Software Foundation.
*
* You may NOT assume that you can use any other version of the GPL.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
* ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
* FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
* this program; if not, write to:
*
* Free Software Foundation, Inc.
* 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor
* Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*
* The license for this software can also likely be found here:
* http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
*
* Last revised April 16, 2012
* @version 1.9
* Implement the use of `gf_use_posted`
*
* @todo Review addition of standard post formats
*/
Updated April 19, 2012 at version 1.9
=== Contents ===
* Items of Note
* TO-DO
* Review Tickets
=== Items of Note ===
* This Theme does not use Custom Header Images
* Functions prefixed with ‘bns_’ are common to all themes created by myself and are representative of their home pages at http://BuyNowShop.com/themes/
* Posts without titles can be reached by clicking on the linked ‘Comment’ reference
* Posts without titles and password protected will not have a direct link to the single view of the post.
* Author email link will only appear on ‘author.php’ rendered pages if their website URL has been added to their profile.
=== TO-DO ===
[ ] Review internationalization for proper support or possible removal (remove ‘translation-ready’ tag until decided)
[ ] Review stylesheet for editor style (as needed?)
[ ] Review posts without title and password protected … expect as a very rare use-case and not an immediate requirement at this time
=== Review Tickets ===
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/278
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1363
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3374
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4165 – version 1.7.1
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5143 – version 1.8
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7445 – version 1.9
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7446 – version 1.9.1
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18 Comments
I am brand new to all of this word press/blog stuff so please bear with me.
I can’t seem to get the home page to come up with a box ready for someone to start a comment. I would like to have a log-in/register link in the header bar. that once done would open a page for a comment.
Any suggestions?
AL
@Al – Thanks for choosing the Ground Floor theme. As to your ideas of commenting, the general method with WordPress is to associate specific comments with specific posts or pages. If you want to have commenters register before posting a comment, then you will need to turn on the option in the administration panel under Settings | Discussion: “Users must be registered and logged in to comment”
What you appear to be seeking beyond this could be possibly be done by editing the theme’s core files, please review our WordPress Services page and contact us if you wish us to consider the project.
Is it possible for this theme to display timestamps next to the posted date? Even if it were in military time (15:00 as opposed to 3:00pm) that would be great!
Thanks in advance.
@Jason – yes this is possible to do but it will require some minor edits to several(?) theme template files. The theme uses
the_time()function to present the date, you can extend its parameters to show the time.See these pages in the WordPress codex:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_time
http://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time
There are other methods but this will be minimal edits to the theme.
NB: These will be required after every update as well.
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Hello!
There is a typo in the page.php file, at line 21.
Missin > after <p
@charlie – Thank you for the feedback, it will be corrected in the next release … and this has just put it to the top of my priority list.
I made some small modification in the theme for a better localization support, please see this patch (include hungarian translate): http://blogocska.org/files/2010/10/ground-floor.diff_.txt
@charlie – Thank you again for the great feedback but I had submitted the latest version (1.6) of Ground Floor late last night. I will definitely look at this patch and will consider implementing those items that are still valid. In the meantime, please feel free to submit the Hungarian translation files for inclusion in the release following their receipt.
Hello,
I am very new to WP as well. Can you please give me very detailed instructions as to where I can find the “Custom Field” VALUES? For instance, I want to add a thumbnail and would like to know which verbiage should be used for that field.
Thanks!
@Najah – This theme does not use custom fields but does implement the post-thumbnail functionality for Featured Images.
Hi Edward,
A friend asked me to help her ‘tuneup’ her website. She chose your Ground Floor theme. I’m sorta new at using themes without a framework. I’ve worked a lot with Genesis and various StudioPress themes.
Is there a way to place Ground Floor into the Genesis framework? If not, could you give me an idea of how I go about adding widgets to individual pages in this theme.
Thanks!
Gene
@Gene – Thank you and your friend for choosing Ground Floor as your theme. As to it being placed in the Genesis framework I cannot say as I have no experience working with Genesis.
IIRC, the XWidgets plugin may be able to help you with adding specific widgets to specific pages/posts … it’s showing as a little out of date and I have not used it in quite some time. Here is a link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xwidgets/
Nice theme, one question though, is there a way to get rid of the calendar, categories, archives, and meta widgets in the side bar? Thank you
@Scott – The simplest way to change all of the default sidebar content is to drag-and-drop a widget into Sidebar 1 and it will “take control” of that area essentially over-writing what the default sidebar content displays. If you are considering this as removing the sidebar altogether then it would be a much more extensive change and would require new theme code and graphics.
Cool, thank you very much
@Scott – You’re welcome, glad to help … and thank you for choosing Ground Floor as your WordPress theme.