Ground Floor
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The current version of Ground Floor is 1.7 uploaded on March 27, 2011.
Version 1.7 is available at WordPress.org as of March 27, 2011.
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 as of Oct 2, 2010
= Version 1.6 =
– published: October 5, 2010
– released: October 2, 2010
– updated deprecated function calls
– correct typo in page.php tempalte file – thanks to ‘charlie’ (http://buynowshop.com/themes/ground-floor/comment-page-1/#comment-1461)
– use `get_search_form()` in place of `include( TEMPLATEPATH . “/searchform.php” )`
– added unique namespace for theme functions ‘gf_’
– added full `wp_nav_menu` support
– added multipage navigation to all template files using `the_content()`
– added post_thumbnail support to index.php, single,php, and page.php
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= Version 1.5.1 =
– published: July 26, 2010
– released: July 5, 2010
– style updates for the `comment_form()` function
= Version 1.5 =
– released: July 5, 2010
– cleaned up code to meet WP Standards
– adjusted content_width value
– fixed page with comments closed message
– removed feed links from header; using `add_theme_support( ‘automatic-feed-links’ );`
– removed `legacy.comments.php` file as it is no longer referenced.
– add the use of `comment_form()`
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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
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@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
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@Scott – You’re welcome, glad to help … and thank you for choosing Ground Floor as your WordPress theme.