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Andrea Mignolo replied on June 22, 2009 01:16 to the question "grid picture layout...how to?" in Mignolo:

Hi Varun :)

The grid picture effect is a built-in feature of WordPress (post 2.6 I think...). To display your pictures in the grid (or gallery, as WP calls it), you need to use the built-in image uploader. Once you've uploaded all the pictures to the post or page that will contain the gallery, click the "insert gallery" button from within the image uploader, and it will insert the gallery into your post/page. Click save and you are done! With WP 2.8 you can insert multiple galleries, though I need to check and see if that requires additional theme modification on my end. Let me know if you encounter any problems with the gallery and we'll go from there.

Cheers,

Andrea

Andrea Mignolo replied on June 22, 2009 01:10 to the praise "awesome." in Mignolo:

Thank you Dlbesh for your kind comment :)

Andrea Mignolo replied on June 22, 2009 01:07 to the question "trouble with comments" in Mignolo:

Hi Jack,

Have you been able to solve this problem? There is nothing in the theme that would force options one way or the other... I'm kind of scratching my head on this one. Let me know!

Andrea

Andrea Mignolo replied on May 24, 2009 23:58 to the question "Working with gravatars?" in Mignolo:

Hey Loi-B,

Since WP started providing native support for Gravatars (I think Automattic actually bought Gravatar, if I'm not mistaken), the gravatar display has been moved to a setting. You can toggle gravatar display through Settings -> Discussion. The gravatar section is towards the bottom of the page, and just choose the option not to show avatars. This *should* take care of your double avatar problem. If not, I'll look into it a bit more.

Cheers :)

Andrea

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Andrea Mignolo replied on May 20, 2009 02:50 to the problem "Sidebar problem in Oulipo" in Mignolo:

Hi Chase,

Just add this line to style.css and it should do the trick:


li#tag_cloud h2 { margin-bottom: 5px; }

Please note there is an underscore between tag and cloud: tag_cloud. The textbox cuts it off a bit...

Andrea Mignolo replied on May 19, 2009 04:13 to the question "v1.0.5 changelog" in Mignolo:

Hi Jordi!

The change in 1.0.5 is ridiculously small - a small boolean was added in sidebar.php:

<?php if (is_home() || is_page() ) {?>

That's it :)

Andrea

Andrea Mignolo replied on May 19, 2009 04:09 to the question "Sidebar question (another)" in Mignolo:

Hey Owen,

Sorry for the delay, my support time comes in small bursts every couple of weeks when I get a free moment.

Oulipo is not currently configured to display different sets of widgets on different page types. The conditional sidebar content only works if you are using the theme without widgets. You can customize the sidebar to display what you'd like, but you have to edit sidebar.php directly.

The sidebar relies on a number of conditional if statements that will display various content depending on what kind of page or post it is. To learn more about WordPress specific conditional tags, check out the codex.

I'm not sure why sidebar.php displays nothing when widgets are deactivated... can you give me any additional information about your set-up, plug-ins you are using that might alter the sidebar content, or if you've edited it manually before?

Does that help at all?

Cheers,

Andrea :)

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Andrea Mignolo replied on May 19, 2009 03:56 to the question "Aligning pictures next to each other" in Mignolo:

Hi Loi-B :)

This can indeed be fixed via CSS. There is currently a style that causes all images used in an entry to display as a block:

.entry img {
border:1px solid #000000;
display:block;
margin:1.5em auto 0;
padding:3px;
}

You can either remove the display: block; line, or make a new style that targets the sociable output specifically that makes the images display inline. Hope this helps, let me know how it goes :)

Andrea

Andrea Mignolo replied on May 19, 2009 03:52 to the question "No home link on sidebar" in Mignolo:

Hey Jack.

To add the home link, open up header.php and find this line:

<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1'); ?>

Just above it, you need to add the following:

<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>" <?php if(is_home()): ?>class="current_page_item"<?php endif; ?>>Home</a></li>

That should do the trick!

Andrea Mignolo replied on May 06, 2009 06:08 to the question "Sidebar question" in Mignolo:

Hey Rob,

So, I took a look at the sidebar.php and realized I had a total oversight in the way widgets were being called. The fix was super simple so I added it to the theme and bumped it up to 1.0.5. You can grab it here: http://andreamignolo.com/downloads/oulipo.zip.

With regards to paged posts, I use the HTML editor and add the following tag:

<!--nextpage-->

I just used that wherever I want a new page to break. I'm not sure how to do the equivalent with the visual editor (I don't use it very much). Let me know if this fixes the issues you are having.

Cheers,

Andrea

Andrea Mignolo replied on May 06, 2009 05:47 to the question "How do I add the word "comment"?" in Mignolo:

So, to add the word "comments" you'll need to edit both index.php and single.php. Look for the following line:

<p class="date"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <?php comments_popup_link('§ <span class="commentcount">0</span>', '§ <span class="commentcount">1</span>', '§ <span class="commentcount">%</span>'); ?></p>

This snippet displays three comment states - if there are no comments, if there is one comment, and if there is more than one comment. You are interested in the bits inside the parenthesis of comments_popup_link() - in case you want to change this again in the future. For now, just replace that bit of code with the following:

<p class="date"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <?php comments_popup_link('§ <span class="commentcount">0 comments</span>', '§ <span class="commentcount">1 comment</span>', '§ <span class="commentcount">% comments</span>'); ?></p>

That should do it!

Andrea

Andrea Mignolo replied on May 06, 2009 05:40 to the question "Adding a image header" in Mignolo:

Hi Jack :)

The <h1> is a little obscured since it has a class and some WordPress tags inside it. Look for the following line:

<h1 class="masthead"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>

Hope that helps, let me know if you have any further trouble.

Cheers,

Andrea</h1>

Andrea Mignolo replied on May 06, 2009 04:03 to the question "post summaries" in Mignolo:

Hi Marsu,

Sorry for the delay in responding to your question (which is not dumb at all, never hesitate to ask questions) - things have been really busy! To display a summary you need to use WordPress' 'more' tag. If you are using the visual editor the icon looks like two white boxes separated by a dotted blue line. If you are using the HTML editor, just click the button labeled 'more'. Be sure the cursor is placed in the correct area of your post where you want the summary to break. Let me know how it goes, and if you need any more information.

Cheers :)

Andrea

Andrea Mignolo replied on May 05, 2009 23:35 to the question "Sidebar question" in Mignolo:

Hey Rob -

Which version of Oulipo are you using? I made a few changes to Oulipo in March pushing the version to 1.0.4 - reflecting back, I'm not sure I pushed the new version to the themes directory or not (if that is where you grabbed Oulipo from). This would definitely account for paginated posts not working. I'm currently running about town so I can't take a more detailed look at the sidebar widget issue at this moment, but I'll look into it this evening.

Now that you mention it, I suppose I am pretty thirsty ;)

Regards,

Andrea

Andrea Mignolo replied on May 05, 2009 22:45 to the question "Sidebar question" in Mignolo:

Hi Rob,

Glad you like the theme. I'm not sure why your widgets aren't showing up on pages - it uses the same sidebar.php that the post pages do. What widgets are you using? They are showing up on other parts of the theme okay? What version of WordPress? Thanks :)

Andrea

Andrea Mignolo replied on April 20, 2009 14:47 to the praise "You're the best." in Mignolo:

Mathew, thanks for the awesome feedback! Glad to hear you like Oulipo :)

Andrea Mignolo replied on April 03, 2009 16:22 to the question "Why Oulipo doesn't run well in Internet Explorer?" in Mignolo:

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for the details, I'll take a look at what's going on and whip it into shape :)

Andrea Mignolo replied on March 25, 2009 17:40 to the question "Why Oulipo doesn't run well in Internet Explorer?" in Mignolo:

Hi sidewysblog :)

Could you give me more details about the environment you are viewing Oulipo in? What operating system, what browser (and what browser version)? Oulipo has been tested in IE 6 and 7 in XP. While IE 6 doesn't observe the fixed positioning rules, and Windows can't express the full font-stack, Oulipo does work and display correctly. That being said, there are so many different conditions that people might view a web site under that I can't test for all of them, so feedback like yours is extremely helpful in expanding Oulipo's stability and functionality.

If you could send more details, and perhaps screenshots, that would help me quite a bit. Thanks :)

Andrea