Connections [The Past is Dead Remix]
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Description
Based on the original layout by Patricia Müller, this theme is what i used for the first few months on my own blog. since then, i've been using squible and K2, and been surprised by the steady stream of traffic from Vanilla Mist. So i've taken a few days to add back some of the plugin support and extras that i've enjoyed with those themes to my original modification of Connections.
Hosted:
This theme is pre-installed at the following hosts:
PressHarbor
Dreamhost
Supported Plugins:
Brian’s Latest Comments
flickrRSS
WP Related Entries
Dunstan’s Time Since
Ryan Boren's Theme Switcher
WordPress Widgets
Christine's Ultimate Tag Warrior 3.1
Templates:
Extended Live Archives Template
Standard (Kubrick-style) Archives Template
Pages with or without comments
Tag Search Page
Widgets:
This theme has two sidebars, Inward and Outward. for version wordpress 2.0.x, i’ve had to disable the standard blogroll widget. I've created a 'Links List' widget as a replacement, that is included with this theme.
Validation:
This theme, including the Links List widget, is valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, and CSS. However, there are a great many plugins and widgets that are not, and additionally, any invalid posts will cause pages to have validation errors.
License:
all code GPL, all images licensed under Creative Commons Attibution Share-Alike License
Inspiration:
Connections for the page structure and layout
Vapor Trails an old wallpaper i borrowed the header graphic from
aenonfire's admin theme for their sense of color
Agendia font (used for my title)
Fauna Theme Joen has a few UTW 3 fixes
K2 for all the features
Awards:
Best 2 Column Design - WordPress 2.0 Theme Competition
Support:
Visit the Support forums
27 Comments
Amazing job with the Disconnected WordPress theme. Thanks for updating it with widgets support. I’m having some problems displaying the popular falbum plugin for flickr. My photo page is all screwed up in firefox and sometimes won’t even pull up at all in IE. Is this a CSS issue? Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks.
http://www.cafefrenzy.com
ok, i get what you mean. i didn’t realize that they were trying to set up a themed page for you. basically, the CSS names in falbum are all wrong (why the sidebar looks unstyled). let me see how k2 was able to integrate this (i think i have an idea), and get back to you.
instructions for the falbum plugin have been added to their wiki.
Any idea if the StatCounter plugin will work? For some reason, it won’t work on the standarad Connections theme.
Thanks!
it should work, as i added
do_action(wp_footer);which was missing from connections. can’t hurt to try!
Adam, where did you add that function? It might be more work to switch over to your theme than to merely add that chunk to the old Connections.
that’s up to you, disconnected adds a lot of functionality to the original connections. in my not-at-all-humble opinion.
in the file footer.php, add the line:
<? php do_action(wp_footer0; ?>at the end, after the closing paragraph tag.
Is there any way to extend the sidebar to the bottom always? So it sticks to the bottom.
I don’t like how it changes size all the time.
Other than that, I really like this theme :T
Hey,
Got a question. I wanna alter comments.php and created two identicals.
But when I include comments.php directly it only shows the input boxes and not the already made comments.
It only shows up with comments_template(); but really want to include comments.php directly.
Im doing a if else function and stripped some from the comments. (but when included as a test I havent changed anything).
Very nice them by the way!
@ Nick -
unfortunately, it’s pretty complicated. a list apart recommends doing it in the background container (modifying rap2.png), but you won’t be able to get the same sidebar that way.
@ Danny -
unfortunately the comments template is my weak spot. you should probably ask in the wordpress forums. you’ll probably have to post the code you’ve got thus far.
I see. No wonder that’s hard to find. It’s tricky. I can live with what I have. Thanks for the quick reply.
I love this theme you made…but I have one problem. I cant get the categories to show, is there something I am mising out on?
something I need to do?
@jay -
that’s just not something that’s built in. you can install widgets, which will allow you to drag and drop anything you want into the sidebar.
I see you’ve already added categories by hand, though, so let me know if there’s anything more you need help with. Keep up the good work, i like the customization!
I created a new page: http://www.red.openfrogs.com/el-autor/, but its in blank, although it has the content does not appear nothing. The same with the “About Page”, but dessapeared. :S ?
manuel,
i can’t say for sure, but i would guess that page.php was corrupted during the upload. a quick way to test would be to change the page template (in the manage > pages panel) to “Page w/ Comments”, and see if that fixes the problem.temporarily, you can use the above hack, and just disable comments. or you can edit page.php and past in the contents of this file:
page.phps
apparently the file broke when i zipped up the theme. i’ll have an updated zip shortly.
version 1.1.1r2 fixes the empty page problem
OKs. Thanks ADAM for the fix
I could not answer by reasons for time, but now I prove the new version
cool theme!
tnx u (:
i m going to try it for my blog
Hi I love your plug….
just one thing the plug in captcha ( image anti spam ) doesn’t work with your theme.
If you look at my current theme,
i have some page also where i wish that dj’s can be contacted by one online email form…
could you help me please ???
any suggestion ?
because I wish to use your nice theme !
Alan-
if you’d like a contact form, i’ve used ryan duff’s plugin previously, although it does tend to pick up spam.
i haven’t tried using CAPTCHA, so i’m afraid i don’t know what’s missing. if you tell me what plugin you’re using for captcha, i can try to fix it up.
I love this theme!
Any way to change the “Inward” and “Outward” sidebars to display something else?
latindude-
thanks!
to change ‘inward’ and ‘outward’, you’ll have to go to Presentation > Theme Editor, and edit sidebar.php (inward), index.php (outward), and if you want to, functions.php (inward and outward in the widgets panel).
very gud theme…allthough i didn’t like the colours much…but overall design is pritty gud
Hi Adam.
I wanted to ask you for some help with the tags… I don´t know why, but clicking on the tags on the post produces the following error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/.namesake/pppriver/nopalfrente.com/wp-content/themes/disconnected/tag.php on line 19
However, there are no other problems anywhere when playing with the tags, like on the tag search, for example.
Is it a theme problem? or a plugin prob?
Thanks!
sorry, that’s a bug in the theme. download the corrected file here. i’ll have a new version after the 22nd, when wp 2.1 is released.
Thanks Adam!
works fine now. Excelent work and thanks for the theme and the help. U rock. 
I’ve moved the theme to sourceforge, so i’m closing the comments on this page. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to Ask in the forums. you can also put in feature requests, and check out the newest version.