anIMassv7.60 WP Theme Directory Approved

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Richard

anIMassv7.60 WordPress theme was accepted into the WordPress Theme Directory a few days ago!

However anIMassv7.60 had an issue with embed video size being too large and escaping the <article> container and overlapping the sidebar. This was simply because I had the content width in the functions.php set too large. It was very easy to change the value to a size to fit the containing <article> width.

Also I had 2 other issues with the theme, ie permalink and title issues. Both issues arose in association with a post with no title. This needed a permalink which I had added as a text link only (not hyperlinked). I also wanted/needed to add ‘No Title’ to my page title for the no post single page.

So I changed this code to add a ‘Permalink’ hyperlink title in post meta data below the post and also I edited the theme to allow all post titles to be permalinks directly (default behaviour for Twenty Ten theme).

However I have spent ages over the last day editing my title tags but have not fully fixed the title display. Perversely the code I am using at the moment

<?php echo wp_title(‘ | ‘,’true’,'right’); ?><?php echo get_the_title(‘ ‘,’ ‘,’true’); ?>

works fine in my local host server but not online!

If anyone knows how to deal with title tags for posts with no titles I would be pleased to know!

Anyway I have resubmitted a new version of anIMassv7.61 with these edits to the theme directory today which I hope will be approved and update anIMassv7.60 soon.

This theme here is anIMassv7.61. As readers here know it has been quite a process to get anIMass WordPress Theme Directory approved. Maybe now I can spend more time blogging & less time tinkering with themes!

Enjoy anIMassv7.61…..

OOOPS!!

I  just noticed the paper end post seperator graphic was not displaying in anIMassv7.61!

That happens when I get too focussed editing one or two problems, I forget to fully recheck the whole theme before proceeding! Now I have reactivated the paper end seperator graphic I have made this anIMassv7.62 and resubmitted that to the WordPress Theme Directory!

So please enjoy anIMassv7.62 now so I can leave editing themes and start to blog on more issues than WordPress! :-)

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anIMassv7.3

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Richard

This is anIMassv7.3

It features a unique favicon and edited functions template with other small code tweaks.

There are still 2 issues to fix.

1. In IE the header and footer do not display correctly (a gap at the header and an a space below the footer)-no problems in FireFox-what is the reason for this?

2. The nav menu bar does not show subpages-why not?

Anyone help please….

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anIMassv7.1

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Richard

This is the latest anIMass WordPress theme version 7.1.

Version 7.0 was  rejected by the WordPress theme directory/reviewer and I have attempted to fix the issues the review exposed and I have uploaded the new version for re-review.

Here is the Trac ticket content:

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  • owner set to chipbennett
  • status changed from new to assigned

Changed 22 hours ago by chipbennett ¶

  • status changed from assigned to closed
  • resolution set to not-approved

Required

License:

  • included License.txt file does not contain full-text license. Either include full-text license in this file, or else add a License URI header tag, indicating the URL for the full-text license.
  • If you choose to include the full-text license with the Theme, add License URI header tag, with value license.txt

Code Quality

  • PHP Errors
    • Undefined variable: after on line 27 of /wp-content/themes/animass/index.php
    • Undefined variable: before on line 27 of /wp-content/themes/animass/index.php
    • Undefined variable: separator on line 27 of /wp-content/themes/animass/index.php
    • Undefined variable: after on line 25 of /wp-content/themes/animass/page.php
    • Undefined variable: before on line 25 of /wp-content/themes/animass/page.php
    • Undefined variable: separator on line 25 of /wp-content/themes/animass/page.php
    • Undefined variable: after on line 26 of /wp-content/themes/animass/single.php
    • Undefined variable: before on line 26 of /wp-content/themes/animass/single.php
    • Undefined variable: separator on line 26 of /wp-content/themes/animass/single.php
  • Markup Validation
    • HTML: several minor validation errors
    • CSS:
      • This file not linked properly: <link rel=’stylesheet’ href=’wp.css’ type=’text/css’ media=’all’ />
        • Need to include <?php bloginfo( ‘stylesheet_url’ ); ?> in href
      • Several minor parse errors
      • Note: ignore browser-specific prefix errors; these are acceptable

Other Functionality

  • Nav Menus
    • Theme registers three Nav Menus (“primary”, “secondary”, “tertiary”) in functions, but only outputs one (“primary”), in header.php. Either add “secondary” and “tertiary” menus to the Theme, or remove them from register_nav_menus()
  • Internationalization
    • Must use unique textdomain. Replace “TwentyTen?” with unique textdomain (strongly recommended to use Theme slug, i.e. “animass”)
    • Note: related – replace “twentyten” function-name prefixes with unique prefix, i.e. “animass”)
  • Custom Header
    • Theme bundles several header images, but does not register them. These headers should be registered in functions.php so that they are user-selectable

Functions, Tags, Hooks

  • Prev/Next? Posts Nav Links are placed incorrectly. Need to be placed outside of the while loop in order to display correctly.

Theme Unit Tests

  • Post With No Title
    • No permalink is exposed when Post Title is omitted
  • Comments Test

Required, But Can Be Resolved in Next Revision

  • Remove HTML commented credit text in Theme template files
  • Footer copyright notice: Replace static starting year (2006) with dynamic code, or remove

Strongly Recommended, not Required

  • Include the_post_thumbnail() in search.php and archive.php.
  • Display Large or Original image size in attachment.php/image.php
  • Separate track/pingbacks from comments in comment list
  • Do not display “comments off” message on Pages
  • Provide navigational hints for current location on Child Pages

Review Summary

Theme cannot be accepted until items listed under Required are addressed. Once these issues have been resolved, please re-submit your Theme using the uploader tool on wordpress.org/extend/themes, and a new Trac ticket will be generated.

Note:

Responding To This Review

Theme developer questions, comments, and feedback are welcome and encouraged. Please use one of the following methods:

1) Leave a comment on this ticket

2) Email the theme-reviewers email list

3) Use the #wp-themes channel on irc.freenode.net

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Now I hope anIMassv7.1 will be approved/accepted into the WordPress theme directory soon!

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anIMassv7.0

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Richard

LATEST UPDATE:

The theme layout seems fine now only after the last edit shown below. I need to monitor this! I will try testing anIMass7.0 more fully…….

STOP PRESS:

>>Unfortunately this theme has more layout problems with sidebar and footer moving out of position in FireFox after this new post!

I now need to do more code editing and resubmit to WordPress!

:-(

ONWARDS………..

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This is anIMass7.0 WordPress theme. Last Sunday afternoon I had an email from the WordPress theme directory from a reviewer saying this theme (version6.1) was accepted! I was very pleased but this only lasted a few hours for in the evening I had another email from another WP reviewer saying the theme was NOT accepted! Here is the list of issues that needed to be fixed: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> status changed from assigned to closed â– resolution set to not-accepted Theme Review: => Themes should be reviewed using “define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);” in wp-config.php => Themes should be reviewed using the test data from the Theme Checklists (TC) — WP_DEBUG et al.: – no additional issues found — TC: => http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test#Images_Test – large images are bleeding into the sidebar, consider ‘max-width’ and/or ‘overflow:hidden’ in your CSS for example => http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test#Clearing_Floats – consider either a clearing

or adding ‘clear:both’ to the appropriate element after the_content() in your loop => http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test#Page_With_Comments – no comments appear on the page … -> add_theme_support(‘editor_style’); should be add_editor_style(); -> add_theme_support( ‘menus’ ); is call by register_nav_menu() and is not needed, it should removed. -> add_theme_support(‘nav-menus’); was replaced by add_theme_support( ‘menus’ ); (see above) -> should be written as -> should be written as ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_
Development#Single_Post_.28single.php.29) — General Observations: – wp.css would be better called before the theme’s main style.css — Overall: not-accepted * Items marked => must be addressed, as they are singificant and will most likely casue the theme to be not accepted. * Items marked with -> are suggestions, but recommended to be addressed. * Items marked with – are notes and observations. * Other items noted should be addressed and corrected as needed. * Additional review may be required once the above issues are resolved. Again, this is not a complete review. The Theme may have other issues that do not meet the Theme Review Guidelines. * Theme Review – http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review * Theme Unit Checklist – http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test * Theme Development – http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, please use one of the following resources: * Leave a comment on this ticket * Send an email to the Theme Review email list * Use the #wp-themes IRC channel on Freenode <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< So I fixed all the issues mentioned (& ran into an issue with some loop code interfering with the page layout-but I finally fixed that!). I submitted this new version anIMassv7.0 this morning and now wait for it to be reviewed and accepted into the WordPress Themes directory!…..

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anIMassv6

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Richard

This is my free WordPress theme anIMass (v6) which is awaiting approval to the WordPress theme directory.

From the original anIMass theme I have had to make several changes to conform to the WordPress directory standards as outlined by the WordPress theme reviewer. This process is turning into a rather long and drawn out waiting period before anIMass theme gets accepted.

I have not saved a log file of all the changes I have had to do but here is the last set from the reviewer in respect to anIMass v5:
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anIMass5

http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/…..

Changed 2 days ago by ….. ¶
¦owner set to …..
¦status changed from new to assigned
Changed 2 days ago by ….. ¶
¦status changed from assigned to closed
¦resolution set to not-accepted
=> In searchform.php are some non-standard quotation marks and this produces errors.

/ Also there, the author should replace bloginfo(‘home’) with echo home_url()

/ add_theme_support(‘automatic-feed-links’) from header.php should be moved to functions.php

/ Also in header.php, the call echo get_option(‘home’) should be replaced with more newer method echo home_url ( ‘/’ )

—
This is a tertiary review. Next reviewer might find more so please do everything you can to adhere to the documentation on what is accepted in the theme review.

- Developer needs to thoroughly read the http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review and find all the must-haves and update their theme(s) accordingly, this theme will continue to not pass until all requirements are met.
- It’s useful if the authors check their themes with set WP_DEBUG to ‘true’ in wp-config.php

Items marked with => are reasons for not being approved
Items marked with / are just suggestions
Items marked with – are notes
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Some issues are simple formatting ones such as adding acceptable ansi quotation marks in the searchform.php and others WordPress code functions such as adding automatic feed-links in the functions.php (which I had already done and so I am perplexed by this! I will do more research on this for anIMassv6 and if anyone can give me a simple explanation of this I would be grateful!).

I hope anIMass v6 meets the standards and is approved soon. Time will tell…..

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Preparing anIMass v3

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Richard

I am currently working on version3 for anIMass theme which I will submit to and hope will be accepted by and added to the WordPress Themes Directory.

Until I release the new version3 I am removing v2 (no longer available for download).
I hope this process will be quick and that I can soon make anIMass version3 available for download.
I will post progress updates here.

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anIMass version2 free WordPress theme

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Richard

Well today I have edited my free WordPress theme anIMass (now version2). This can be downloaded from here.

I had some trouble with Amazon widget not displaying properly in the sidebar in anIMassv1 so that needed editing and I have gone ahead to radically edit the code & design so it is now done in html5.

This theme should work fine but still needs further and more rigorous testing. I shall be continuing with this and will keep developing and improving it so do return here to check for new versions.

I hope you like this theme and here is the download link:
anIMass(v2)-
XXXX-EDIT_link removed v2 no longer available for dl
(version3 should be available for DL soon)_XXXXX

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Free anIMass WordPress theme

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Richard

This is my new WordPress theme named anIMass (v1.0)

It is designed for Internet Marketing blogging and other use, and it can of course be used on any website as it is very adaptable.

The header and background can easily be changed through the user admin page >Appearance function.

I have just completed it and am already planning to thoroughly and rigourously test it and improve it with more features (including html5 and admin page theme options link).

I hope you like it and feel free to give me feedback either here or at www.richard-dickinson.com

EDIT 17/08/10
anIMass version2 released see new post with free download link

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Hello world!

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Richard

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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Readability Test

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Richard

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, “Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!” This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

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