Updated H2.0 theme archive

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By popular demand, here it is, complete with IE7 tweaks:
H2.0 as of Dec.3, 2006.

Hemingway itself has not seen an update in a while, so I am thinking about making a new theme. It would be radically different from we have now, and will make heavy use of the Yahoo! UI libraries. On the other hand, I’m lazy, and as soon as I get my hands on a Wii + Zelda I will have even less time for these matters.

If work on H2.0 were to continue, what features would you want? Comment away!

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  2. Updated the archive with the following:

    * highlighting of author’s comments
    * inclusion of modified FlickrRSS plugin
    * a simple readme file

  3. Just want to let you know how impressive H2.0 is. I modded it (heavily) for my blog and love the look and functionality. If you were going to add anything, I’d love to see more innovative blocks.

    Thanks for everything.

  5. BtYung: not sure what you mean… I’ve seen a bug with the footer when the google analytics code is blocked, is that it?
    In any case, you really should be using Firefox ;-)

  8. Hi ad,

    I also use your theme for my blog and I love it. I can’t express how much fun I had modifying it. It’s so versatile, I made it look the way I wanted but kept all the great features you added to it. Can’t wait to see a new version of H2.0 :-)

    What I’d love is for you to include a preview pane for comments. I’m using a preview already but I can’t manage to have it display correctly, it’s conflicting with the toggle comments script. The script loads all the comments fine but doens’t allow for a full preview when people are typing. The only way to get the full preview is to close the comments and reopen them.

    Anyways, this is what I’d like to see on the new theme. And keep away from the wii, please, please, so you’ll save time to be creative and come up with something awesome.

    Thanks for creating H2.0, it’s the best WordPress theme I’ve come across.

    Cheers from Belgium.

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  10. BtYung: edit ie_only.css ; remove #overlay
    blankness is gone but also the darking screen of lighbox view

  12. Kildjean: yeah I’ve seen that happen before. It seems to be the WP theme config that somehow gets confused. I’ve seen it happen with other themes as well, so it’s definitely a WP issue. I have found that uninstalling the theme (switch to other theme, delete h2o folder, again switch to other theme) and then re-installing h2o in a folder WITH A DIFFERENT NAME than originally will usually fix the problem. – but FYI a theme can work fine on the front-end even if the admin is a little confused ;-)

  13. Ad;

    I tried doing what you suggested. I removed it, retried with naming it in different ways and it still doesnt work fine. I am going to keep it because i really liked it, but its curious to me that its the only theme that has ever done that to me.

    I have a couple of other questions I would like to ask since I am a little bit new to wordpress, although I know my way around php quite well.

    1. I have seen sites that use hemingway or your theme [h2.0], and in the about section they have 3 colums (like masey.au). How can i make that work for me?

    2. I would like to remove the square in the about that has your pic… :P I want to put my xbox360 gamertag there instead. how could I do that? I checked the plugin that adds it but i didnt find anything that denoted where to change the image or to remove it.

    3. Why do the normal wordpress widgets dont work with your theme? Is there a way for me to use some of my old widgets in your theme?

    Thanks in advanced for your answers.

    Kil

  14. Love this theme! great job “ad”

    I just ran it to a few kinks, so I’m listing them if anyone else has the same problems.

    1. PRESENTATION THEME IMAGE NOT SHOWING
    In the “Admin” under “Presentation” I was getting:
    /*
    Theme Name: Hemingweb 2.0
    Theme URI: http://gaarf.info/h2o
    Description: A mod of the Hemingway themeThis theme requires WordPress 2.0+.
    Version: r3 (20061203)
    Author: AD
    Author URI: http://gaarf.info
    */

    Instead of the actual theme image.
    1A. I just open up the themes/h2o/style.css and cut out the first 8 lines and then saved, then paste the same line again and saved and it worked. The image shows up in the “Presentation”. Not sure why this happens, maybe blank spaces or something

    2. SAME BLOCK NAME
    under Presentation and then Hemingway Options, there are two “Recent Entries” blocks name the same. Well one is really “Related Post” .
    2a. So open up the themes/h2o/functions.php and on line 143 rename “recent entries” to “related post”

    3. IE BLANK AREA (posted earlier by BtYong)
    In ie there was a big black area at the bottom of the page, so all you did is scroll. Well the problem is the ie_only.css in the “theme/h2o/ie_only.css”
    3a. So open up “theme/h2o/ie_only.css” and go to line 20 and change “6666px” to “100%”

  15. Fermin: thanks for your comments! Regarding the “IE blank area”, I think I had done that 6666px thing because of LightBox’s behaviour with ie7… i prefer useless scroll bars to an uglyfied overlay.

  16. Hi,

    I would like to incorporate the Flickrss addon as you have it. Would it be to much to ask how you make your pictures preview that way?

    Also, I am confused on how to get my pictures to display in line without the link arrow.

  17. Hi, I am a WP newbie and am trying to set up the H2.0 on my webspace, but I see random text instead of the theme image. Its exactly similar to what Kildjean and Fermin mention above but none of their solutions has helped set it right. Also when I try to edit style.css and click on update file, I get a window saying that the theme file does not exist! Is there something that I am doing wrong here.
    Please help! Thanks.

    Guru

  19. Guru: Yeah that bug again… not really sure what causes it, I thought renaming the folder fixed it but obviously not in all cases… Keep us posted if you find a solution!

  20. ad

    Display problems when you have “Users must be registered and logged in to comment check in ” checked in the admin. The gray area where the blocks are shrinks in from both sides. Found the problem with a closing div tag in the comments area.

    Fix: open wp-content/themes/h2o/comments.php and on line 92 move it after closing “” so its between the two closing “endif” around line 95

  21. Hey Gaarf,

    great work! Been starting my site from H2o (although there isn’t too much left of it anymore).

    Fermin,
    thanks for pointing out the comments fix – i was just about to go nuts on that issue… spent all night for trying to fix it (without luck of course).

  22. I can’t find the ie_only.css page mentioned above, possibly because I haven’t upgraded h2o. But I am having a big problem with IE7. My fixed footer disappears as soon as someone scrolls down.

    Now ad, I agree with you about Firefox, but it appears that the majority of my readers are still using IE. I notice that your footer remains in place. Do you have any suggestions as to how to fix this problem?

    Thanks!

  24. I would like to enable the two following features on This theme:

    (1) a tag Cloud (using UTW for instance);

    (2) a search box.

    Any ideas anyone ?

  25. Astorg: I don’t know much about UTW, but for the search box it is easy – just remove #search {display:none;} from user_styles_gaarf.css ;-)

  26. Regarding the issues with the theme display in the theme selection page – the text file saved on the Mac needs to be saved in Unix format. On a *nix host it appears littered with ^Ms and thus WordPress does not parse the file correctly. Just load into a text editor and be sure to save in Unix format. You can use dos2unix or vi to verify/correct this on a *nix host. HTH. Nice job :)

  27. in reply to the weird text showing up under Presentation, go into your theme editor and copy all the text within style.css. the code here is neatly displayed while the file itself isn’t.

    now open up the file itself and you may see that all the code is has no breaks anywhere (its all like one continuous line). paste the code, save and re-upload. problem fixed.

  28. Managed to get the searchbox working…

    The tag cloud thing defeats me. I spent an entire day and night trying to get UTW to work… The links just won’t work…

  29. Hi, ad
    Thanks for provide this awesome H2O theme for WP and I love it a lot. I have downloaded it and made changes (heavily), both codes & images as you can see at: http://www.vikiworks.com

    If any update is coming in future, I suggest:
    -Tagcloud intergrated
    -Improve lightbox experience (better if customizable in admin)
    -Customizable footer to “float” and “traditional”(fixed)
    -Replace header title (blog title) to image (logo)

    Hope those will add to coming updates, thanks, man!

  30. After I update wordpress to 2.1 ella, blogroll doesn’t work, says:
    WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'cat_1' in 'order clause']
    SELECT * FROM wp_categories WHERE cat_ID > 0 AND link_count > 0 ORDER BY cat_1 ASC

    I have to roll back to 2.06, anyone know this issue?

  31. I’m running an original Hemingway theme on my site; now I’ve realized the IE7 problems with the ancillary items (the third block switches under the first one)!

    Could you possible explain the steps needed to fix this issue? I can’t really figure it out from your theme’s CSS…

    Thanks!

  32. Juergen: I honestly cannot remember the specifics – but it is probably this code block:
    .inside{ width:781px;}
    /* IE can't count! */
    #primary .secondary{ margin-right:39px !important; }
    #ancillary .block{ margin-left:39px !important; }
    #ancillary .first{ margin:0 !important; }

  33. hey ad – i LOVE this theme and wanted to update my website soon but i am very tech challenge and i can only do a few css editing so i really like working on widget ready themes. any chance this theme will be widgetized soon? please please, if not ad can any of you wordpress tweaking geniuses out there HELP? many many THANKS!

  34. Hi Melanie, glad you like h2o. Unfortunately I doubt I will have time to make any major update soon… How complicated is it to enamble widgets? I could not easily find a howto or faq about “widgetizing” an existing theme. Got one? I’d be happy to check it out.

  35. Just wanted to officially say “great job”. Been using H2O for a few months now and really have no inclination to move away from it. If I can, I hope to get working CSS in place to provide:
    1. Working Image replacement using the Phark Method. This should allow both the h2 and p mark-up within #header to be replaced with separate images.

    2. White version. Really like the look of Japanese Cherry Blossom so am looking to use a similar theme on my white version. If I get anything decent, I’ll share on here so you can include in your next release if you like.

    Many thanks

    John (Gingerninja)

  37. Few questions:
    1. Widget don’t work with this theme, do they? If not, will that be something you’ll consider for future implementation?
    2. As I’ve only used widget-based themes before, I have no idea if certain plugins work ie Fuzzy Recent Comments and Fuzzy Recent Posts. I would like these to take the place of “Recently”. If these plugins can work with this, how do I modify?
    3. Has anybody else used another image gallery besides Flickr? If so, what? I’d be interested in seeing what works best with this theme.

    I only ask because the theme does look amazing and I’d like it to work for me! I don’t want to give up on it without trying.

    Thanks! I’m just starting my site so haven’t done anything as of yet but feel free to check it out.

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  40. Hi Gaarf,

    Excellent work on the theme. I have modified your theme slightly. I was receiving some JS warnings when opening the post for read in IE6. I have narrowed the problem down to the comments section.

    I’ve noticed that if you disable comments for a post, IE6 presents some warnings. Does this happen with you?

    Lastly, do you use ImageManager plugin? If so, do you receive any further JS warnings when editing a post in Admin mode? I use ImageManager version 2.4.1.

    Cheers

  41. Thank you all for your comments!

    Bernard and John: I will definitely look into Phark, widgets and a white version upon updating the theme. At this point however I cannot promise when that will happen :(

    Iyyaz: yes, if you disable comments, you are likely to get JS errors. Another thing on the todo list, damn!
    As for ImageManager, I don’t use it so cannot help you, sorry!

  42. Hi AD,

    Thanks for the reply. I don’t mind having a look at it. Unfortunately, I think the all.components.js file isnt formatted correctly for viewing on Windows. You work on MacOSX I think, but there are no \r characters

    As for ImageManager, I think I resolved the problem by not having any additional lightbox plugins installed. Your theme has this included so I’ve disabled all others.

    I’ve just noticed the new WP upgrade. It seems I spend more time on logistics than on blogging itself. :)

  44. Really stupid question, but I used to be able to upload images from within the admin screen whilst composing a post and they used to get added and I could play with the code to enter them onto my site.

    I wonder if this is less to do with H2O and more to do with 2.1 Ella? I too have seen the problem mentioned by Yichi above which means that the blogroll block no longer works in H20:

    After I update wordpress to 2.1 ella, blogroll doesn’t work, says:
    WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘cat_1? in ‘order clause’]
    SELECT * FROM wp_categories WHERE cat_ID > 0 AND link_count > 0 ORDER BY cat_1 ASC

    I have to roll back to 2.06, anyone know this issue?

  46. I have lots of texts coming out on the ‘presentation>theme’ page within the admin section of WP. Instead of just a png image, I get tons of texts !! I had texts in the theme editor page too but did like ‘ Ken’ had advised and it worked. But I still have tons of texts on the Theme preview page.
    The texts start like:
    h2o r3 (20061203)Author: ADAuthor URI: http://gaarf.info*/@import url(hemingway019.css);html { overflow: -moz-scrollbars-vertical !important; }#header { background-image:url(images/gradient_top_gray.gif); background-repeat:repeat-x;} /* FANCY STUFF */body {height:100%;}#h2o-viewport {position:absolute; height:100%; width:100%;}#primary { min-height:30%; /* no workie on IE :( */ }/* links within posts */.primary a, .h2o-excerpt a, .h2o-page a{color:#BFBFBF;}.primary a:hover, .h2o-excerpt a:hover, .h2o-page a:hover{color:white;}/* images */#primary img {border:1px solid #333333;margin:2px;}#primary img.wp-smiley, #primary img.noborder {border:0px none;margin:0;}/* COMMENTS = #SECONDARY */div.comment-head{ padding:.8em 0 1em 0; border:0px none;}a#h2o-commentoggle { display:block; height:2em; border:1px solid #000; font-size:1.15em; text-align:left; padding: .6em 0 0 2em; background-image: url(images/comment.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: .4em .8em;}a#h2o-commentoggle:hover {background-color:#171717;color:#FFF;}#h2o-comments div.details….

  47. I had exactly the same blogroll error message as Yichi & GingerNinja. This seems to fix it although I’m not sure if it’s the best way:
    In the theme, edit blocks/blogroll.php. This fix is from http://wordpress.org/support/topic/101753 (3rd entry down by “Trent”).
    b.t.w. I’m using WordPress 2.1.2 and h2o-20061203.zip

    p.s. I also had the gobbledygook in WordPress Presentation for h2o. I opened style.css in vi on unix and did :%s/^M/^M/g and that seemed to fix it. (^M is a typed ctrl-M, not just caret M); similar to what Ken suggested above.

  48. Prashant: as stated by pietnemo above, you need to follow the fix that ken posted:

    in reply to the weird text showing up under Presentation, go into your theme editor and copy all the text within style.css. the code here is neatly displayed while the file itself isn’t.

    now open up the file itself and you may see that all the code is has no breaks anywhere (its all like one continuous line). paste the code, save and re-upload. problem fixed.

  49. Hi!

    I cant make your theme to work. Can you please make bether explanation how to install it on read me file? Or maybe write it in this blog? (sorry for bad english).

    Thanks :)

  50. boris: uhhh… officially this theme is unsupported. you can however call our hotline by whistling the theme music from Indiana Jones from any hilltop and then jumping around three times. One of our friendly customer-service pigeons will gladly fly by and attempt to resolve your concerns.

    Serioulsy, H2.0 installs like any other WP theme. If you’re really having trouble, please explain what the trouble is.

    Happy April’s fool day, everybody!

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