OptionsSEO Adsense Ready Advanced WordPress Theme: Black and White
Black & White is an advanced 3-column Google Adsense ready WordPress theme (re)designed and search engine optimized by MandarinMusing and Headsetoptions. The theme is based on work by David Herreman.
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There was bug in the header that migrated from our demo site where we tested this theme before release, sincere apologies! Thanks to David for pointing it out.
Thomas pointed out another bug, thanks!
Apologies to those who downloaded and got frustrated trying to make it work. Please download the theme again, I think we nailed all the bugs.
This lightweight (only 4 tiny icon images) semi-magazine style WordPress theme includes numerous advance functions to edit the theme style without touching a line of CSS or code. It relies on intelligent conditional statements to improve user experience, including a “Featured” post section, location based outputs and navigation, intuitive SEO corrections, and comes styled for Google ads. The theme completely validates and has two right widget ready sidebars, a tabbed interface and three 125px square ad blocks. The theme works with WordPress versions 2.0.x through 2.3.1.
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January 22nd, 2008 at 7:31 am
Does it work on 2.3.2?
I get:
Warning: include() [function.include]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in E:\xampp_httpdoc_folder\ThemeMachine\wp-content\themes\black+white\header.php on line 39
Warning: include(http://www.headsetoptions.org/play/wp-content/themes/theme-switcher-header-code.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in E:\xampp_httpdoc_folder\ThemeMachine\wp-content\themes\black+white\header.php on line 39
Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘http://www.headsetoptions.org/play/wp-content/themes/theme-switcher-header-code.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.;C:\php5\pear’) in E:\xampp_httpdoc_folder\ThemeMachine\wp-content\themes\black+white\header.php on line 39
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_theme_switcher() in E:\xampp_httpdoc_folder\ThemeMachine\wp-content\themes\black+white\header.php on line 41
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:20 am
@ David
It works in all versions 2.0.x upwards.
The error is from my play site, I need to fix it.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:55 pm
@ David
It was indeed a bug in the theme header file, thanks for pointing it out.
Please download the theme again for the corrected files.
Alternatively, you could just download and replace the header.php file.
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:38 pm
No picture could be displayed except in the “featured” category. I mean, I insert a picture in the post, it could be properly displayed under another theme, while I switched to black+white, no picture is there, not even in the source code view. And I don’t know why?
January 24th, 2008 at 3:02 am
No picture could be displayed except in the “featured” category. I mean, I insert a picture in the post, which could be properly displayed under another theme, while I switch to black+white, the picture was gone. No existence even in the source code?? I don’t know why?
January 24th, 2008 at 3:05 am
@ oiio
The previous posts section uses the_excerpt in place of the_content within the WP loop, that is why it displays the excerpt instead.
If you want all your posts to display in full, simply edit the index.php file or Main Index Page in WP Admin and look for:
Make it:
That should do it.
January 24th, 2008 at 6:05 am
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January 24th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Hi hso and thank you very much for this great template.
Unfortunately, after I worked a few hours on it, I noticed that something is not working (and it does not work on your test blog either):
When I click on “x comments” or “add a comment”, it does not send me to the comments and post form. It just redirects to the full post with no way to post a comment.
This means that the comments actually don’t work at all. Can you help ?
Thanks a lot,
Thomas
January 25th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
@ Thomas of White Label Dating
I just realized that I never added the comment tag in the single.php page, I am kicking myself for putting out such a half-baked theme without testing it fully. I created this theme as part of a demo for the series of posts I was writing and I totally ignored some key functional aspect.
A quick fix it to open single.php and look for this:
Copy this:
Paste it between the
and
The end result should look like this:
Add one line of style in style.php file:
Or even better, download the theme once more and rewrite only the single.php and style.php files or the whole theme.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
January 25th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Thank you so much HSO, you’re a star!
Now the comments work, however there is still a small bug. When I click to add a comment, the frame (where I am supposed to enter the body of my comment) is way to wide, and it expands over the rest of the design. However, this does not happen on your live demo.
Any idea?
Thanks a lot!
January 25th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Sorry, I forgot to mention that my blog is http://www.datingaffiliatecourse.com.
Thanks !
January 25th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Hi again HSO,
No worries, I actually figured out how to fix this.
I replaced cols=”100%” by cols=”50%” in comments.php and it actually worked
I don’t know if it is the best way to do it, but it seems to work… my first steps in template customization
Thanks again,
Thomas
January 25th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
@ Thomas of White Label Dating
That is one way to do it, but most styling is controlled in the CSS that way the template remain intact for future styling.
That is what the style #commentform textarea {width:350px;} supposed to do, control the width of the comment area.
Check the last instruction in my earlier comment
January 25th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
You are right, sorry about that :). I didn’t pay attention to this because I did it the second way:
I just replaced the two files “styles” and “single” (twice), assuming everything had been fixed but it didn’t solve the problem.
January 25th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Hi again,
I just put back 100% on the comments.php page and #commentform textarea {width:350px;} on the styles.php page, and everything is ok now.
Got it now… I didn’t pay attention and replaced - twice
- styles.css instead of styles.php.
My mistake, thank you !
January 25th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Hello,
Great theme, I’m currently working on switching my site to it. I have 1 quick question, as far as SEO goes, do I need the categories list in the sidebar? Is having it up in the tabs box enough? Thanks!
January 26th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Me again, it appears that alignment does not work in the post section. I cant center any pictures or text. Theyre all left aligned right now. Ive checked the code in the posts and I’m not seeing any open tags….
http://www.dailystab.com
Thanks!
January 26th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
@ David
Tags alone should do, in fact, the sidebar is not where the SEO corrections are key, it’s the content area.
As for the alignment, the bug is from a earlier version that was corrected, either download the theme once more and use the new style.php file or open your current style.php and look for this line:
If it looks like this:
then you are fine, if it looks like this:
then delete the “float : left;” from the style.
BTW, your site look nice. Good job with the header!
January 26th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Hello again,
The code is up to date, and its more than just the img that is not centered. Its also the text. I’m pretty sure its not any open tags in the posts. So I’m lost. Im not to worried about it at the moment. Just on my list of things to do.
Is it possible for you to center something in your live demo and see if it works? That way I know its something in one of the posts or on my site.
Thanks again for your help and the great seo theme!
January 26th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Also, do you use the title tags plugin? Im having some issue adding the code in the title…..
Heres the current title code…..
‘ ‘
and title tags asks to add this:
“
Ive tried replacing the code after the else statement with yours but i keep getting expression errors.. any ideas?
Thanks!
Dave
January 26th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
@ Dave
What browser are you viewing the site on? It looks fine in FF, IE6/7.
Title tags plugin? Did you mod the header file? Also, all plugin questions are best answered by the plugin authors.
January 26th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
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January 27th, 2008 at 2:57 am
Im using FF and/or IE 6/7. I got the plugin to work fine, although I cant seem to center anything on the left side. Im not that concerned with it at the moment. Thanks again for your help.
Would it hurt anything if I moved the tags in the posts from the top of the post by the category down to the bottom by the ‘poster’? Also should I create a tags page for them? Is there a plugin for it?
Thanks again!
January 27th, 2008 at 8:33 am
@ Dave
WordPress WYSIWYG editro has the middle option, which is not the same as center align in HTML (which will not validate in XHTML). Are you able to center the image with any other theme? Is so, which theme?
As for moving the stuff around within the theme, fee free to, it will not mess anything up, make sure you are moving only the PHP code and not the divs.
Also, to create tags in WP 2.3.x, you do NOT need any plugins. Check this for info on how to create tags cloud with WP 2.3.x.
January 27th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Will do, thanks for the help.
I also made a donation, and I suggest to anybody else who is reading this and using your theme(s) to do the same. Show the love!
Dave
dailystab.com
January 27th, 2008 at 11:29 am
@ Dave
Thanks!
January 27th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
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January 28th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Hi,
Great wp theme..
One question here.. how to add picture header to this theme.. thanks..
February 1st, 2008 at 11:58 pm
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February 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 am
@ Fizfaz
First create a header image of size 958px wide, add it to the images folder within your theme folder.
Next you need to edit style.php, open and look for this
Change it to:
header-image-name.jpg is the name of the image, the XYZ is the height of your image in pixels.
February 2nd, 2008 at 11:05 am
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February 3rd, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Just a note…. I tried and tried to modify the theme…. every time I used my Wordpress admin panel to try to edit the theme files, Wordpress would pop up an error that said that the page was not allowed to be edited….. I got the brilliant idea of going into my NetFTP and renaming the file to remove the + sign…. it now works like a charm….. just thought I’d mention that in case someone else comes along with the same problem….
February 11th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
I had the same problem as Kayecee. I also removed the + from the folder name and it works fine now!
February 12th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
great theme. I am using it for one of my sites but seems like the sidebar went down instead of showing on top. take a look when you get a chance
Thanks
February 13th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
@ Ghengis
Check the size of images you are using in the post, if it is larger than 470 to 500px, it might break the column in IE.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
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February 20th, 2008 at 5:19 am
Hi I’m Nelson. I am new to this cool world of blogging and want to use this theme for my travel website. But first want to know how much customization can be done to make it look like a travel site.
Can the top red area where the site name goes be changed to add images across it? I would want to ad my logo and other images that make it obvious it’s a travel site.
I am just becoming familiar with all this, so if this is something that is common knowledge, thanks for your patience and help!
Nelson
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:19 am
@ Nelson Freytes
The theme can be customized and/or hacked to however much you want. I am not sure how the travel site you are imaging is, but the theme has built in options to change color/font and more.
Also, check above comment regarding image in header.
Let me know how it works out for you!
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:50 pm
thanks to the folks who found the error on the “Sorry, that file cannot be edited.” issue. Removing the + sign is something I would not have thought of - why would the programmer make a filename that blocked his product from working?
March 9th, 2008 at 5:13 am
@ Richard McLaughlin
I changed the file name, so no more hassle with that. I have not heard of this being an issue before and I am able to edit my files from within WP Admin panel on my test sites!
March 9th, 2008 at 11:34 am
great theme. I am using it for one of my sites but seems like the sidebar went down instead of showing on top
March 9th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
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March 9th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Hi - Great theme, I downloaded it and installed it but I have a problem with the header still. I’m using IE 7.0 and the header doesn’t show up - just the blog title…
I’ve downloaded the file again, but same problem.
How can this be fixed?
Thx!
Mohamed
March 17th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
@ Mohamed
This theme does not have a header, just the site name.
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April 1st, 2008 at 1:35 am
Maybe he meant that the Nav isnt as it is in the screenshot or the demo.
The top menu looks like:
Home
Archives
Page2
Page
April 1st, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Is this WP2.5 compatible? I’m asking because I’m setting up a new blog which is using WP2.5. When I selected this theme, the header (nav? top menu?) doesn’t work. The search box and RSS icons are missing and I have the issues listed by Shireen above. Basically, my header doesn’t look like the demo.
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:26 am
@ Lis
I tested it with 2.5, it works. Most all our themes built for 2.3.x version will work with 2.5.x.
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April 5th, 2008 at 3:08 am
Hi
I added the black&white theme to my blog and I’m not able to get it to work.. not sure why the the header shows the categories and nothing else..
if you could look at it that would be a great big help.
April 5th, 2008 at 11:52 am
@ Mohamed, Shireen, Lis, Joe
Please download the theme once more and reload the header.php file to the online folder. Looks like the was a bug that moved from the test site to the theme folder.
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April 7th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
HI - great theme i have adpoted. Question: what will be the best place to add an ‘Edit’ link section or line for every article and page we see as admin. thanks.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
@ rpoulin
I would add it next to the published by link in single.php right above the comments box.
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April 13th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
HSO
Thanks for the response to my question.. I downloaded the file and the header works great…
I was wondering if there was a way to have the “Tags” panel be the default instead of the “Archives” tab?
Thanks again
April 17th, 2008 at 9:57 am
@ Joe
To change the tabs, open tabs.php and read the instructions. All you do is change the order of tabs heading by cutting and pasting it in the order you like, then changing the ShowTab numbers, then adjusting the id=”div” number to match the order of tabs.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 5:06 am
Hello,
I modified the theme for my site (great theme, btw!), created a Featured category and a featured post, but alas, it doesn’t show. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Barbara
May 5th, 2008 at 9:31 am
@ Barbara Ling
You do have the featured post on top, notice the rest of the posts are below a small sub-heading called previously…
Unfortunately, in this theme the distinction between featured and regular posts are not significant, except the background color which can be hanged in the theme options page from within WordPress admin dashboard.
May 5th, 2008 at 10:08 am