Update: Be sure to download True Blue 1.4.1 if you’re using K2 0.9.6.
I changed layout dimensions to match K2 and added support for Custom Image Headers (requires WordPress 2.1). You no longer need to use Photoshop to change the image header. Just click on Custom Image Header found under the Presentation tab and upload your image. If the image is larger than 780 × 200, you’ll have the option of cropping it.
This scheme is also hosted at Google Code. There, you’ll find the latest developmental version, file bug reports/feature requests and documentation.
Download True Blue 1.4 for K2 0.9.5.
Download True Blue 1.4.1 for K2 0.9.6.
Hi, Steve:
I upgrade True Blue 1.3.4 SVN to 1.4. It’s ok in Firefox 2.0, but when I use IE6, the “drop down” behavior of main menu is not the same as 1.3.4 SVN. In 1.3.4 SVN, when you move the mouse over the menu, you can click it. But in 1.4, you need to move your mouse near the edge of custom header image and you can click it. I think you can use IE6 to see your blog or my blog, they are the same.
btw, what plugin you use for the comment ? It can preview the comments, so cool.
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THANK YOU, Steve! I’ve been waiting for this:) I was hoping that I don’t have to shrink my header image so much, and now it’s possible to have it the full 200px high..
Yes, I affirm Dennys’ comment that menu behavior is different in IE6. I’m still running IE 6.0/Windows 2000 at work here, nothing much I can do about it. I’ve installed FF2, which works beautifullly (as does this Comment Preview!—I want this too!)
I can’t wait to install it when I get home =D
Where in the CSS would i change the default post text to make it slightly smaller?
Dennys: It’s the best I can do for now with IE 6. I’ll figure something out later.
For my comments, I’m using the Textile Live Preview
Dustin: Look for the following at around line 30:
#page #primary .entry-content,
body.single #primary .k2-asides .entry-content {
font-size: 1.4em;
color: #444;
line-height: 1.6em;
}
change the line font-size: 1.4em; from 1.4 to something else.
Umm! I’m afraid I’m totally baffled. All I want is a bit of kit that takes the jpg that I provide and turns it into a header for WordPress.
Sounds simple. Or so I thought when I started to look for a solution. However I can’t use Kubrickr since it only looks on Flickr for Creative Commons licences and won’t display photos that don’t have them – even if its your own photo. I don’t understand anything about php or css – it might as well be done by pixies, for all I know.
K2 looks far too complicated for what I want, and a good 95% I don’t understand how to use. If I don’t understand how to use K2, then True Blue will be even more beyond me.
So, far from being a very simple task, I am now utterly and completely floundering, and I still can’t get my preferred header onto WordPress. I’m still stuck with WordPress’ idea of a header. All potential solutions appear to require me to have skills that I don’t possess and am not likely to acquire. Hell, I’m finding it impossible to import Livejournal to WordPress, so anything more advanced is going to be like asking me to fly by flapping my arms!
:’-(
I can’t be the only one in this position.
Suggestions?
Kevin
The new version is pretty cool!!
I have got the same problem in head menu.
The reason may be AlphaImageLoader. “ul.menu” layer has covered “li a” layer, so all the li link doesn’t work.
Mostly, just add “li a” property “position:relative” or “position:absolute” can fix it.
But in TrueBlue, It has no effect.
He Steve, is it possible to use True Blue with a flexible width?
Or, would it be possible to get 1.3.2 flexible? I’ve been searching for it, but can’t find it anywhere, just screen shots of it in your progression of true blue gallery.
Josh: You can download 1.3.2 here. It won’t work with the current version of K2.
Thank you very much!
Gooood Jobï¼thx…
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I have to say that you are doing an outstanding job with this, Steve. Is it possible to incorporate some sort of Dynamic Text Replacement for the header link text, possibly like this (http://alistapart.com/articles/dynatext) article describes?
Great job Steve!
Do you plan to release soon a svn version supporting the latest K2 svn? (multiple sidebars not yet supported even though you don’t use them…)
C!: yup. I just haven’t committed it to svn. I’m actually using two sidebars. The second sidebar is acting as a bottom bar. Just gotta tweak the settings.
Great! I’ll check it out once available.
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英文：very good.
I just download r16 and the drop down menu is good in IE6 now. But I found the header image size seems not 950×200 ?
And the sidebar is moved to bottom, does it mean True Blue will not use 3 column ?
Hi! I would like to change the color scheme for trueblue – can you please make another set of psd files available? I assume the v1.3.4 psds are not much use because you’ve changed the layout?
Also, I would like to make my (‘static’) pages sidebar-less – I want them to make full use of K2’s width. Has anybody tried this with Steve’s scheme? Apart from creating new layout graphics, what changes need to be made to the code to make that happen?
Hi Steve!
As I already said: pretty cool!
But now I got a little problem using TrueBlue together with Google Maps:
http://alexloth.com/blog/?page_id=16
As you can see, the map isn’t displayed, only a grey box is shown.
Has anybody an idee what is going wrong?
cya, Alex
I also noticed that r16 solves the issue with the drop down menus on IE6. However (surprise, surprise) the svn version doesn’t play nicely with K2 0.9.5-rc1. I’m trying to avoid upgrading K2 until v1 is out – lol – so Steve, is there a way to incorporate the drop down menu fix into v1.4 using K2 rc1?
To add to my previous question: I would like to have certain pages display a set of sidebar-less graphics. I’ve created the graphics to go with that (footer_bg_sbl.png, header_overlay_sbl.png, page_bg_sbl.png), now do I need to add php conditionals some place or can I control this with css custom classes inside the style’s css file?
Dennys: For now, it’s going to be 2 columns with the 3rd column acting as a bottom bar. I’ll add a 3 column version eventually.
ctree: You should try one of the nightly builds. They’re quite stable and might even be more stable than 0.9.5. You can hide the sidebar from certain pages all through css thanks to the semantic classes. Just make note of the id & class parameters of the body tag. For example, if I wanted to hide the sidebar from my projects page which has an id of ‘projects’:
for k2 svn:
body#projects #sidebar-main, body#projects #sidebar-alt {
display: none;
}
or for k2 0.9.5:
body#projects div.secondary {
display: none;
}
Steve, I did not know how to contact you so I am trying this comments. You may want to check your Archives page. It gives currently this error: Plugin is not initialized. Admin or blog owner, visit the ELA option panel in your admin section.
... and I assume it is on your side.
Cheers,
Marek
Thanks for enlarging the header area! I haven’t figured out how to add new drop down tabs to the top of my page. Right now i only have blog and archives and would love to have a few more. Could u please help me out. THanks!
Marek: Thanks for the heads up. All fixed.
Boyd: When you create more pages in WordPress, they will get listed on the tab menu. To create a page, goto the admin panel: Write > Write Page
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I would also be forever appreciative if you could post the PSD’s also. I loved how you did it before. If not post them, is there anyway you could email them to me?
Thanks in advance.
Hey Steve,
Were can I download the photo shop files? I want to do a few edits to the theme.
Thanks!
– Matt
Hi Steve
first of all, thanks for this very nice theme for K2: It looks great and in the last few days I was adapting the theme to fit my needs. But I have one problem, that I couldn’t solve by myself:
How to I put a Rolling Archive Slider/Navigation bar at the Bottom (and the Top) of the Pages (not with the single Posts but with the main pages)?
Any help would be appreciated.
Best regards from Zurich
Max
Josh: You can download 1.3.2 here. It won’t work with the current version of K2.
Steve: 1.3.2 works perfectly for me with wordpress 2.1.2; will it not work with wp 2.1.3? any known bugs? shall i check it out? I am yet to update wp from 2.1.2 to 2.1.3
thanks for the suggestions and of course, for the wonderful true blue theme…
Hi,
I love – LOVE – the theme. I’m using it om the site for my housing cooperative and am considering using it for my private site too. What’s the best way to tweak it, like change background and use sans serif fonts for the headers? Do I make a copy of the css file, make changes locally and then upload? Sorry I’m a noob …
First of all I want to thank you for this theme. I like it very much so I’m using it on my blog
Just a little question, why it doesn’t pass CSS validation?
Thanls agian for your graet job.
Francisco
Hi Steve!
You got a very smart integration of Picasa!
Do you use a WP plugin to get the album shown at your photo page?
Regards,
Sonja
Yes, Sonja is right!
That’s a damn nice integration of picasa!!!
Steave, how do you handle this??
Parker
Hi,
is the picasa integration a new feature of next TRUE BLUE release?
Great work, Steve!!!
Best regards
Sean
Wow, very nice work!!!
Looks like Lightbox is used!
Tell us how it works, please!!
Esmi
Steve,
I upgraded to the latest version of wordpress 2.2. and the latest k2 nightly and the latest version of the trueblue theme and the margin widths seem to be off for my site. The header is fine and the footer is fine but the body is to small left to right.
I’ve left it up my site so you can check it out if you have the time soon. Whether or not I disable the “sidebar” widgets using the new k2 plugin the format is cracked like this.
Any thoughts?
Joe
http://www.mustech.net
Steve,
I re-posted another comment yesterday, It may have gotten sucked into Spam world. So I’m reposting the general gist:
The problems seems to be with three-fold for me, each element adding a new problem. It looks as though, for me, TrueBlue 1.4 is not compatible with the new K2 nightlies. The middle section and bottom sections do not line up as far as the edges go.
WordPress 2.2 does not want to work well with the k2 rc1 .95 without removing a bit of code.
I ended up sticking with 1.4 and WordPress 2.2. but I went back to k2 rc1 .95 and removed some of the code that was hanging up the system. Mostly had to do with asides, which I don’t use.
Again, I love your theme! Thanks!
J. Pisano -MUSicTechnology.net
Hi Steve!
You got a very nice integration of Picasa!
What you used to display ur Picasa albums?
Regards,
Calvin
@Calvin
As you can see above, a lot of people are interested in this Picasa stuff.
But it seems, that Steve hasn’t time to answer!!
I love your theme so much,But where is the update?!
WP is update to 2.2
k2 is update to 0.9.6
and you?!
what a pity!
I am having the same problem that j. Pisano was having. Using WP 2.2, True Blue 1.4 and newest nightly K2. The header is loo long on the right and the footer is shifted to the left and the body is short on the right. Here’s the site. Thanks.
http://perilunate.com/blog/
Hi Steve, I have a problem with the True Blue 1.4 in my blog, the style are deformate my blog, go in and check out the problem please.
http://gliranzot.phpnet.us/
Hi, I need to know why your blog is so good??? and the mine … looks horrible. I’m using WP 2.2 and K2 0.9.6, but your style doesn’t look good. Thanks
I no undestand, if the True Blue is compatibe with the K2, why in my blog doesn`t work?
Hi
I am Lucy, I have found your website while searching for some info at Google. Your site has helped me in a big way.
Bye
Do you have a listing of all of the classes for TrueBlue 1.4.1 like “alert,” “noteworthy,” etc… ??
Hi!
I’d like to know how to add those yellow fields like you do in your blog to post a note on a blog post.
Would love to see this style applied to the Sandbox theme. Anyone working on a port, I wonder?
Rick: I’m working on one.
What is the advantage of the sandbox theme? Is there something better than with K2?
Hi Steve…
It seems all the super sexy features of True Blue (livesearch, the navigation buttons and the slider) are dead for me…
I updated wordpress to 2.2.3 and I’ve deleted a script in my header.php file
Can you please help me?
Hi Steve, I was just curious if I update wordpress to 2.3, and K2 to RC1 will true Blue work with it?
What is expected date when K2-True blue-3 column version is fully compatible with WP 2.3?
Thanks!
It could be cool to have a pink version