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The screenshot of Promised Land looks great. Good luck in the competition!

I’m really looking forward to digging through your designs and learning from them. Particularly the stuff about Template: Sandbox, etc.

I’m especially excited about learning about grids.

I downloaded your theme and applied it to a new sandbox themed site I had http://www.massagers101.com, take a look. I was using this theme before applying yours, [OT snipped, please follow the guidelines]

@will, engtech -
thank you! good luck to both of you as well!

@john-
I’m glad you like it, so left the main link, but i’m not a fan of niche marketing, so do try to be more discerning with links in comments.

Adam those are really neat. Good luck in the comp.

This looks like a great theme. I’m having some problems though with both this and the “bus full” theme. I get this error when I try to install:

The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.

Do you know what is happening? I’ve added the theme.php you linked in the other post.

Thanks!

sorry, didn’t read the whole comment before replying. there should be a new release shortly that will fix the issue. otherwise, you may need both theme.php, and /wp-admin/themes.php, which you can download here.

is themes.php and theme.php the same file, just in two places?

no, different files, /wp-admin/themes.php is the admin page that displays the available themes and switches between them. /wp-includes/theme.php does the actual handling of the themes when someone looks at your blog.

Oh, you linked to theme.php instead of themes.php. Do I need to wait for the new release, or is there a way to download themes.php?

apologies. the link has been corrected now.

i’m a little late, but i thought promised land looks really nice. almost as good as bus full of hippies!

Is there anyway to make my tagline(blog description) show up on the theme PL. When I hover over “home” the title shows up, but I would like to know if there is anyway to make the tagline show up as well?

I’ve played with it but don’t seem to be able to get it.
Don’t worry about it unless it is an easy answer.

@cooper -
i think it’s possible, i think instead styling of h1:hover, you could change #header:hover. lemme kick that around a bit.

The pseudo class :hover is not going to work on anything except a link in IE.

IE6, you mean. works fine in IE7, which listed as a critical upgrade. in IE6, :before doesn’t work either, so the first word of the title shows.

I never thought I’d fall in love with a 1-column theme, but damn if this one hasn’t done it for me. Fact is, I was desperately looking for a decent 3-column theme when I stumbled upon this entry in the Sandbox competition - I guess on the theory that I wanted a template that would be, I dunno, encompassing. But I’m a writer, not a designer (much less a programmer!), and at times, I have all the aesthetic sensibilities of mud.

But I know “gorgeous” when I see it, and this is it. The fact that you built on a Wallick theme (I LOVE his work; it’s the cleanest, text-centered platform or whatever you want to call it around) makes perfect sense. Truly I’m bowled over, and looking forward to playing around with the template (in my extreme novice way).

Thing is, it doesn’t look like a blog at all. Which was exactly what I was after. If I could pay you for this work I absolutely would.

Only thing that isn’t working particularly well for me (which is something that would happen on a vast number of other templates; again, total novice here) is on category pages and the like where I have Flickr images in individual posts, e.g. here. What’s happening now is that with the template excerpting the entry rather than showing it in its entirety is lines of incomprehensible text, like this:

If you have any brilliant ideas you can lay on me, I’d be enormously grateful, otherwise I’ll keep mucking about.

Thanks so much for your design!

that’s actually default functionality of the sandbox theme. to fix it, open up your category.php file, and replace <?php the_excerpt ?> with <?php the_content ?> (same for archive.php, tag.php, and author.php)

Wow, a quick and painless fix, thank you! Seriously appreciate your work and for commenting back so quickly. While I probably could have figured that out on my own, it would have taken me hours and, given my frustration tolerance threshold, I may well have given up. Cheers!

happy to help. you can also go to http://flickr.com/blogs.gne?from=extend and click the “Layout” link for your blog. you can remove the embedded <style> element, and use the classes left, right, or center, that are built into the theme.

then your posts will still be excerpted, but you won’t see the mess of code. I’ve created a bug report for this issue.

I love this theme. Very beautiful.

I have a question about your first widget footer area. If, say, my archives are too big, the standard box shown crops out the entire listing so readers can’t get to all the archives. If I use a drop-down format instead, then the footer area has a large gap between the bottom of its widgets and the top of the next footer area.

Is there any solution to either of these problems?

Thanks so much, and nice work.

Unfortunately that was a limitation of the competition (not being able to change the widgets). Since that’s no longer an issue, I’ll work on making a widget that’s more compatible.

(third try’s the charm? my first couple of tries at a reply didn’t go through)

Thanks so much!

I will definitely check back to see if you’ve made any tweaks. To see what happens to the theme in action, check out my site. I’ll have it up for a little while.

I may try to fiddle with it myself, but my css is a little thin.

Hi! I love this theme and I really want to use it on my website.
There’s just one question I’ve got.
I’m using WP 2.5.1 and am using the identicon plugin. That has also an build-in gravatar-option. But in this theme there’s also a gravatar option. Is there any way I can remove this from the theme? I’ve been looking through the files, but I can’t find it.
The identicon-plugin gives you the option to get the gravatar of people or instead of the boring default gravatar and identicon.

I’m getting that error message about a stylesheet and a template, but it says that the template is missing.

Is that what the theme.php stuff is about?

No, that theme.php stuff is based on WP 2.1 or something. if you’re up-to-date with your wordpress install (2.5.1 at time of writing), you shouldn’t have any issues.

Make sure you have Promised Land and Sandbox installed in their respective folders (and make sure the sandbox theme is in a folder called sandbox). If that fails, can you give me a URL for your blog so i can take a look?