Disconnected

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:PressHarborDreamhost

Supported Plugins:

Brian’s Latest CommentsflickrRSSWP Related EntriesDunstan’s Time SinceRyan Boren's Theme SwitcherWordpress WidgetsChristine'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 layoutVapor Trails an old wallpaper i borrowed the header graphic fromaenonfire's admin theme for their sense of colorAgendia font (used for my title)Fauna Theme Joen has a few UTW 3 fixesK2 for all the features

Awards:

Best 2 Column Design - Wordpress 2.0 Theme Competition

Support:

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cafefrenzy

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

May 9, 2006 10:10am

adam

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.

May 9, 2006 2:03pm

adam

instructions for the falbum plugin have been added to their wiki.

May 9, 2006 3:52pm

Rob

Any idea if the StatCounter plugin will work? For some reason, it won't work on the standarad Connections theme.

Thanks!

June 14, 2006 6:48pm

adam

it should work, as i added do_action(wp_footer);which was missing from connections. can't hurt to try!

June 14, 2006 7:41pm

Rob

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.

June 14, 2006 8:03pm

adam

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.

June 14, 2006 8:23pm

Nick

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

June 17, 2006 12:44am

Danny

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!

June 17, 2006 10:15am

adam

@ 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.

June 17, 2006 3:10pm

Nick

I see. No wonder that's hard to find. It's tricky. I can live with what I have. Thanks for the quick reply.

June 17, 2006 5:59pm

Jay

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?

June 18, 2006 5:33am

adam

@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!

June 18, 2006 2:28pm

manuel

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 ?

July 3, 2006 8:46am

adam

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.

July 3, 2006 2:25pm

adam

version 1.1.1r2 fixes the empty page problem

July 12, 2006 2:58pm

Manuel

OKs. Thanks ADAM for the fix :)

I could not answer by reasons for time, but now I prove the new version

July 19, 2006 8:35pm

Jimyboy

cool theme!
tnx u (:
i m going to try it for my blog

July 22, 2006 1:25pm

alan

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 !

October 28, 2006 12:33pm

adam

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.

October 28, 2006 7:21pm

Latindude

I love this theme!

Any way to change the "Inward" and "Outward" sidebars to display something else?

November 21, 2006 1:58am

adam

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).

November 21, 2006 2:35am

Vibhash

very gud theme...allthough i didn't like the colours much...but overall design is pritty gud :)

December 11, 2006 12:40pm

Pepe

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!

January 13, 2007 7:44pm

adam

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.

January 17, 2007 7:07am

Pepe

Thanks Adam! :) works fine now. Excelent work and thanks for the theme and the help. U rock. :)

January 17, 2007 7:28am

adam

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.

February 7, 2007 11:31pm