Journalized Theme Version 2
Journalized theme Version 2.7.2 for WordPress versions 2.5 through 2.7 is now available.
The latest version fixes a couple of bugs and is now ready for internationalisation. It comes with Russian translation files (Russian translation kindly supplied by Dmitriy Donchenko)
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or TAR ball journalized-theme-2.7.2.tar.gz
Update: The theme has been updated to version 2.7.2.
The theme has the following features:
- Comes with six seven built in ‘skins’ (including the old Blue, Sand, Winter, and Xmas)
- A new administration interface to configure the theme.
- All known browser bugs addressed. Tested in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Webkit (Safari), and Opera
- Support for widgits, tags, and Gravatars
- Can be configured to have 1, 2, or 3 columns.
- The number of columns can be configured separately for archive pages and single posts or pages.
- Supports custom header image, including in the background
- Supports full-width or center column header
- Compatible with WordPress versions 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7
- Supports threaded comments (WordPress 2.7 only)
- Supports paged comments (WordPress 2.7 only)
- Supports drop-in custom skins
- XHTML 1.0 transitional
- Supports multiple languages. Comes with Russian as a second language.
Here is a screen shot of the new administration interface used to configure the theme.
And here is an example of the nested comments. It also supports paged comments in WordPress version 2.7.
You can configure a number of features of the header:
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After almost two years of inactivity, this theme is finally updated and available again.
You can download the final release here:
ZIP file journalized-theme-2.7.2.zip
or TAR ball journalized-theme-2.7.2.tar.gz.
This version completely replaces all the old versions, including the standalone Journalized Sand, Blue, and Winter themes (unless you are still on WordPress 1.5).
Please give it a try and let me have any feedback in the comments on this page. I have kept the old comments here, just add any new comments as usual. The theme is licensed under the GPL. So you may modify it and distribute it. I’m very interested to hear if you use it, modify it, etc. If you have any questions leave a comment on this post with your question. Comments are moderated so you wonβt see your comment immediately.
I will write some more information about creating your own skins in the next few weeks. I will also document some of the hundreds of configuration possibilities!
Update: You can now download an extra skin! This is the Xmas skin I occasionally use on this blog. Note this skin is now included with version 2.7.2.
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You can download the xmas skin here:
xmas-skin-2.7.1.zip.
- Once you have downloaded it. Unzip it, then upload the files to your journalized/skins directory.
- Go to Appearance -> Journalized Options in the admin screen, and select the new skin.
- If you want a picture of Santa to appear along side your blog title, type ‘santa.gif’ into the ‘Header Image’ box and uncheck both ‘Add the image in the background’ and ‘Turn off the blog title’.
- If you want your header to be full width, check that box and set header image height to be 138 pixels (that worked for me)
- Finally save your settings and you are done
322 thoughts on “Journalized Theme Version 2”
Yep. Yep. Yep. Convert for a fee works for me.
And the option to add a photo in the header (with ease) is great. I’ve been wanting to do that for months but just haven’t gotten around to figuring it out.
What about that randomizer script that allows you to have different header images with each page load. Will that work with this? And if not, it would be nice if there were a way to have that available as an option.
I’ve been looking around for a 3 column theme and came across this one. Installed the beta and it looks SLICK. Very excited to see the finished product. It is beta – I’m guessing this is why the skin didn’t really show up properly? Specifically, it seemed the css file wasn’t being linked – no styles were being applied. Everything was readable, as far as I could see. the internal admin was just so dandy! Thanks, and again, can’t wait.
-amy
Yeah that would be me being dumb and not properly checking the properties of the skins dir. LOVE IT!
I’d love to see a flickr plugin supported. Like this one:
eightface.com/wordpress/flickrrss/
Wow, I just started using journalized winter on my new blog, but I really like the changes! I will try this over the weekend. Looks great!
Aine, The random header image plugin works fine. Just put the images in an images subdirectory of the journalized theme and specify ‘headerblock’ as the header id.
Amy, I will look at incorporating the flickr plugin.
Alyssa, Let me know what you think, or if you find any problems.
Finally a nice style and layout selection setting. It builds well on the way the same thing was done in the WP-Andreas09 theme, but in that theme the layout was selected using templates on per-page basis. Nice work with this one…
Yeah, That’s the way to go!
Will I be able to keep my modded JB theme ? Thanks…
What I mean is that I made changes like the expanding contents but from what I see there are more files then before, and how will I keep those changes that I made ? Thanks…
Joe,
Any customizations you’ve made will need to be transferred to the new files. That’s why I’m offering to provide a service to do just that for a small fee.
I would pay a small fee to have you do it for me, yes yes yes!
I love journalized. It’s the best theme I’ve found so far.
I’m still using the old version of Journalized Winter, and it’s running just fine under WP2.
I’ll upgrade it eventually, but I’m in no terrible hurry as I’ve found no problems with it as is.
Mike, great new theme. I use the old winter theme because it seemed to be the one with the most depth. I’ll probably make the change later. Do you have any plans to make the theme adsense friendly? Quite a chore to work out colors on 6 skins.
Also, why in IE does right and left sidebar align:center on both old and new themes? (just noticed)
I use your theme on 4 blogs, don’t use IE, but have friends that do.
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Hello Mike!
Great job wow This got to be your best work and yes I agree that you should be paid for the final version.
I think 50.00 US would be a good fee for all the work you put into it. And for those that cant afford that maybe a monthly donation is a way to pay the 50.00 fees?
Please let me know when it ready my new meds is stoping me to play with it but will try on a gosht site.
Pierre
For plugin for me maybe a mp3 player and video as I produce podcast.
Larry,
Thanks for the compliments.
When I look at your blog in IE6 the side bars are both left aligned as normal. Which version are you seeing that problem with?
As to the making the theme adsense friendly, I was thinking of supporting one of the adsense plugins. But I don’t think that will address the colours. Is there some easy trick to make a stylesheet/page more adsense friendly?
Pierre,
Thanks for your praise. I wasn’t thinking of people paying me for the theme; though I’m always open to donations — see left sidebar
I was thinking more that if someone had customized a version of my theme, I could convert it to the new version (there have been a lot of changes) for a small fee or something off my wish list.
I love -love -love this theme!!! I’m still working out the kinks in it, but so far so good. I notice that it doesn’t like apostrophes in the A and B top text. It gets all weird, adds a ton of “/////” to what you put there if any word has an apostrophe in it. I would also like to put images in those boxes, it doesn’t like that much either. I love this theme, can’t wait until its 100%. thanks for the time you put into it!
Yeah, o.k. All I need to know is what file is what so I can add the stuff again. Like what files are the sidebars and what side are they and also what the header, main, and comments files are called… Thanks.
Mike, I’m also using IE 6, and when I just now loaded it again, all was well. I don’t have any idea what happened.
As to the adsense problem, the existing adsense plugin allows you to set up many different configurations of ad size and color, using a manual select by checkbox. However to automatically select would require a complex set of if statements in the css, and probably a major modification of the plugin itself. Thats my thought, but from a personal standpoint, I think I can choose nnd live with one color rendition, and use the other methods you provide for needed variety.
Even with the choices available, I think most users will pick a theme that fits a givin topic and tend to stick with it. But again if it was easy to change ….
Hi Mike, I’m just about to switch from Blogger to WP, actually found your theme through CT Biz Blogs. I’m slowly stumbling around learning PHP and CSS. I’ve worked out how to change background and post title colours on the heading and centre column, but I can’t figure out where you change the text style for bloginfo description in the header. I just want it as normal/smaller text, and it seems to stay bold, even when I remove “strong”. Help please?
Joe,
The php changes are not too hard too fathom,
leftcolumn -> column_a
rightcolumn -> column_b
index still contains the main loop (and page and single), comments is still comments.
The tricky one is the css. The css rules have all been split between layout.css (which is not meant to be touched), and xxx-skin.css which contains colours, fonts, and layout overrides.
Hope this helps,
Mike