Who is This For?
The Erudite is a free, open source theme for writers . If you rely on superfluous visual design and/or content to distract your visitors from the shoddy state of your writing, move along, nothing to see here (literally).
For those still here, The Erudite is a theme for writers who want readers, not visitors, traffic, click-throughs, CPMs or what-have-you. Just the words that you put on the virtual page, alone and naked. Nothing to distract your readers from your prose. Scared?
Click the image to see a demo.
Features
But The Erudite isn’t one of those minimal themes that might as well not have a stylesheet included. Features include:
- 960px (em-based) grid layout (inspired by, but not using, 960.gs)
- Non-bloggy home page, giving prominence to the most recent post and excerpts of the rest.
- Painstaking attention to typography
- Carefully crafted font stacks
- A dark theme option (new in 2.0)
- Menu uses WP 3.0’s new Nav Menu feature, or falls back to page or category-driven menus
- Dynamically created pullquotes
- Epigraph support (new in 2.5)
- Visual editor style (new in 2.5)
- Dynamically show & hide the secondary content that would ordinarily reside in a sidebar
- Pretty section divider fleurons
- A 3-column, widgetized footer
- Disabled threaded comments (they’re rubbish, but you can turn them back on if you must)
- Easy Google Analytics support (but don’t go crazy with your stats - write good stuff, the rest will take care of itself.)
- Ability to turn off theme credit in footer (but why would you do that to me?)
- Localization ready (currently including Dutch & Belorussian translations)
How to Use
First, you must download it: (or grab from the official themes directory)
The Erudite v2.7.2
- Install it (see the Codex if you don’t know how to do this)
- To achieve a pullquote, wrap the desired text in a span element with a class=”pullquote” such as below.
<p>This is a paragraph with <span class="pullquote">a pullquote</span> inside</p> - Section dividers are inserted with an
<hr>element - Associate a menu with the “Header Menu” theme location to have it appear in the header. (WP 3.0+)
- Most importantly, write. When you’ve done that, write some more.
Recommended Plugins
- wp-Hyphenate
- wp-typogrify
- wp-Typography (replaces both of the above plugins)
Known Issues
- Will not write for you
Changelog
- 1.0 Released (May 8, 2009)
- 1.1 (May 13, 2009)
- footer widgets are supported better
- links and archive pages now styled properly
- 1.2 (May 18, 2009)
- added a localization template file and instructions
- 1.3 (May 26, 2009)
- added preference for turning off dynamic “keep reading” functionality
- fixed improper display of pingbacks
- 1.4 (June 29, 2009)
- added preference for turning off dynamic header & footer show/hide functionality
- fixed typography surrounding nested lists
- 1.4.1 (July 13, 2009)
- fixed improper escaping of analytics code
- 2.0 (October 12, 2009)
- Dark theme option
- Option to choose category-based navigation rather than
- 2.0.2 (December 21, 2009)
- Bugfixes for homepage layout
- Slight code cleanup
- 2.5 (January 30, 2010)
- Matching visual style in the code editor
- Optional epigraphs
- Improved default image styling
- Dutch translation (props Dennis)
- 2.6 (May 7, 2010)
- Support for WP3.0 nav menus
- Belorussian translation (props Marcis)
- Option to disable visual editor styles
- Lots of code cleanup
- 2.6.1 (May 26, 2010)
- Better support for the upcoming WP 3.0’s custom menus. You can now explicitly set a menu as your “Header Menu”.
- Properly internationalized some strings that weren’t previously. If you’re a translator, update to the newest the-erudite.pot in the translations/ directory.
- Removed previous use of get_the_modified_author() in favour of get_the_author(). I have no idea why I thought the former was ever a useful idea.
- Added a Swedish translation. Props Fredrik.
- 2.6.2 (May 26, 2010)
- Added a Norwegian translation. Props Rune.
- 2.7 (June 20, 2010)
- 2.7.1 (June 25, 2010)
- Couple of missed i18n string. Props Markus
- Added German translation. Props Sebastian.
- Different js vs no-js strategy to avoid FOUC.
- 2.7.2 (July 8, 2010)
- added nonce for options updating
- removed old sandbox prefixes
- fixed errors on saving options
Inspiration
- The 100% Easty-2-Read Standard
- Gruber & Mann’s blogging panel from SXSW ‘09
- A List Apart: In Defense of Readers
- A Working Library
- Readability Bookmarklet
License
The Erudite is licensed with the GNU General Public License v2.0.
255 Comments
beautiful.
Nice and neat, indeed. Thanks for sharing!
this is something! congratulations!
Thank you! The theme is just the one I’ve been looking for! Simple enough, yet style-driven, true gem for all writers. Thank you for such a gift!
Thanks for the kind words all.
Very nice theme idea and execution
John Myrstad
There’s so much beauty in this world, and this theme is part of that.
I really like this, stylish and something I’d like to test out and implement as a complete style change of my blog.
Is it WP 2.7 compliant? I do not see threaded comments in the demo.
@Uthfull It supports threaded comments—sorta. If you would have read through the Features section, you would have seen:
Threaded comments are useful in some cases, but not most. They also do not fit well with the overall direction of this theme.
Hello,
Congratulations ! Great Job !
I would like to use your theme. But I have to translate it in french. Do you allow it ? How can I do ?
@Matt : I’m so sorry that I missed out on that point. I really don’t know about the usefulness of threaded comments as a feature but this theme is just spectacular. Better than any of the premium themes I see floating around. Great job!
@Stéphane Oh, it’s definitely allowed - this is open source, after all. I’ve updated the theme to include a .pot file which eliminates the most painful part of the process. Look in the /translation directory for the erudite.pot file and some instructions on how to go about translating.
Let me know if you have any success!
@Uthfull Not a huge deal, easy to miss one item. Thanks for the compliments.
Thank you for the beautiful theme and for the footer improvement in 1.2. I am fiddling with it today as an alternative for my book group’s web site migration from HTML and YahooGroups.
I noted that, in both FF 3.0 and IE6, the bullets are moved out such that while the text is aligned with the preceding paragraph, the bullets jut out to the left. Since bullets are usually indented, I presume this is a style choice rather than a bug. Can you point out where in the CSS code this could be changed for users that prefer the traditional approach?
See my sample page at http://thebookertea.com/readinglist/previoustitles/
Separately, in an inserted table, the text shrank. Where too might that be modified in the style sheet? http://thebookertea.com/readinglist/
While your theme was not intended for a group purpose, I hope our example spurs some thoughts on how this could accommodate a group of writers and commenters. Again, thanks for offering it.
@ArcherTC Yes, the bullets are lined up that way on purpose. If you care to know some of the reasons why “normal” is wrong and the way I’ve done it is “right,” see Mark Boulton’s Five simple steps to better typography - Part 2.
However, if you feel a need to change it, probably the best way would be to add a
margin-left: 2em;to line 129 in erudite.css.As for the table thing, yeah, I forgot to include styles appropriate for tables, as I never thought of using them. I’ll address that in a future release, but in the meantime you could insert the following code in the erudite.css file somewhere:
As for the use, a book club sounds grand and certainly in keeping with the spirit of the theme.
Hi there. Love this theme! On the homepage of the blog in your example site, I saw that you had the three most recent posts displayed horizontally. How did you do this??
@Lou Under Settings → Themes, look for the options that says “Blog pages show at most ____ posts.”
I’m guessing yours is currently set to 1. To replicate what my demo site does, set it to 4. Increasing multiples of 3 (7, 10) can also look nice.
Hi!
How can I insert an image into the header? I want the title “floating” over a concrete lanscape, customizing my site, if it’s possible…
Thank you.
Sorry… I forgot to tell you this is a beautiful theme, the one I really need. Thank you
@Revangel This theme hasn’t been set up for header customizations, so you’re going to have to understand some basics of CSS to do so. W3Schools has some good CSS tutorials to get you started.
Ok, Matt. Got it!
One last question: is it possible to disable de “pullquote” to show the entire text at once? I use to write poems and I like to include pictures and/or drawings to make them more sensitive. Now, if I do so, I only see the picture (300x300) and just one line of the text…
Thank you very much,
Revangel
Spectacular theme. I’ll use it on my fresh new blog.
@Revangel If you know anything about editing JavaScript, simply comment out or remove the stuff under “set .entry-content to height of first paragraph, add view more link” in common.js. Otherwise, I’ll probably add a preference for this in the next update, as I know there are some contexts in which it’s not useful.
Stunningly simple and beautiful. Thank you!
Thank you, Matt. I’ll be waiting for that update
The Erudite is a great theme. Thanks!
However, I’m having a problem with the formatting of trackbacks: The information is being written at the far left side in the top of the page. See, for instance: http://fejer.ucol.mx/cursos2/?p=962
Matt -
This is a great theme! I only had one question about it and saw you already answered it earlier. Thanks for creating this for free & keeping up with supporting it! You rock!
Brilliant !! This one is one among the few finest, much needed themes I have seen…!
Job well done
I finally got to implementing the theme on my website. As Ricardo has pointed out, the trackbacks / pingbacks has an issue. There is another issue that I faced while creating lists. I started with an ordered list. In one instance, I decided to created an unordered sub-list. But even though the list was UL, it showed numbers instead of bullets. When I removed the bullets from the sublist and decided to space them out with line breaks within that particular instance of the ordered list, it dramatically changed the font of the text seperated by line breaks in a point / instance of a list. I’m hoping you understood what I said otherwise I could implement it or show it with some screenshots.
Thanks for version 1.3. Pingbacks now show correctly.
Great theme!
Matt — I’m using your theme for my first weblog, great work! Just one question at this point:
I notice that the earlier entries on my home page aren’t showing up horizontally in three columns. Seems like they did before I upgraded to 1.3 — has something changed there? I’ve got “show at most 4 posts” set currently.
I’ve messed around a bit with the main CSS file for footnote purposes, so it’s possible I may have caused this. Just thought I’d ask if you’d changed the default layout for the home page.
Thanks!
@Uthfull Sorry for the slow reply, but at least the pingbacks have been fixed now.
As for the lists, I don’t recall setting styles for nested lists, so things might be a bit wonky, yes. Send me a link to the offending page and I’ll have a look when I have a chance.
@Robert Nothing changed in 1.3 related to that. I had a quick glance, and you definitely deleted some necessary bits in the erudite.css file. You need the line that starts with
.home div.home-post.Wow, great theme! I love the white space and typography best. What a great design. I will be using it for my articles as well as photographs… nothing to distract the viewer. Thanks again!
I have one question for you. Would it be too difficult to have the menu always visible and remove the tab? Please let me know, thank you.
Hi!
I have a question. If I wanna add Adsense-ads in my posts, the nice graphics of the first letters doesn´t show as they are supposed to. Any suggestions on how to fix this?
André
Is it possible to have SHOW MENU as defaut ?
Thx
Mike, Roger: This may be added in a future update.
Andre: The first letter formatting targets the first letter in the post. Anything like adsense at the start of your post will interfere. If you need help with this, feel free to contact me. My rates are quite reasonable.
Thanks
It is a great theme, very clean and clear.
Best
Roger
Hello Matt,
thank you for your answer.
In order to translate your theme in french, I’ve downloaded the latest version of the theme.
I’ve edited the .po and the .mo. But when I place the .mo file (fr_FR.mo) in the same directory as The Erudite, the buttons “Show menu” and “Further Information” disappear.
What’s wrong ?
Thanks for your help !
@Matt : Thanks for yet another update Matt! I just can’t thank you enough for this theme. It just keeps getting better with each and every revision. I did not follow up with the lists error as I feared that it could have been the result of my own foolishness and the WP editor. I saw the changelog listing something related to nested lists being fixed. I hope you found what I had tried to convey to you. Once again, thanks a lot. This is truly a work of art. Maybe you could post an alternative, darker (black, gray, white) stylesheet as well (as an option within the theme panel). Thank you.
This is a fantastic job you’ve done. Thank you very very much!
The Analytics code doesn’t seem to work - I’ve pasted my usual code into the box on the settings page, but when it’s output in the page there looks to be some sort of escaping going on:
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
And no page hits show up on Analytics (it’s entirely possible no-one is visiting the blog, but I would expect at least my own visits to show up).
Hmm, in fact the escapes disappear when pasted into a comment, perhaps a clue? I’m going to try doubling everything:
var gaJsHost = ((\”https:\” == document.location.protocol) ? \”https://ssl.\” : \”http://www.\”);
@Rob: Hmm, right you are. I can’t believe it’s taken this long for someone to notice this!
Anyway, the hot-off-the-presses v1.4.1 has addressed that issue.
I have some problems with erudite font-size look my page ( http://www.mipequenomundo.edu.pe/contactenos/ ) Is difficult to see the text, I know it has to be with erudite.css but I can’t fix it, Could anyone help me please?
@Fernando: I don’t see any issues on the page you link to.
Having a problem with the first letter (the big one with the background) showing up funny…
This WordPress theme is very beautiful. Thanks for the hard work.
Some wordpress themes uses custom fields to place images in the posts. I would love to see such a feature. Anyway it`s a great theme.
@Yuppie Thanks for the kind comment. I hear you re: custom fields and images—they make working with a theme much easier. But, since the focus of this theme is on writing, it’s not a feature that I think I’ll add.
I’d like to add my Web host under or next to the “wordpress / erudite link, how do I do that?
thx
@roger You’ll have to edit the footer.php file.
Darling,
The template is fantastic. But the brown header and footer are so dreary. I really want to change the color to, say, pink. Where are you hiding the color codes? You were so clever about skirting the style issues on the style sheet. Please let me know! And how about the background of the page? xo
Tina
@Tina You can edit the CSS to your heart’s content in the “erudite.css” file inside the css/ directory. If you fancy some help with that, my rates are quite reasonable and I’m easy to contact.
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@Nico the
post_class()function was introduced in WP 2.7, so you’re obviously using a version prior to that. You should upgrade, as 2.8 is the current version.Thanks for the great theme.
I understand the focus of this theme is on writing, but I often add some embedded video to my posts.
If the video(or I guess any flash object) is embedded to the latest post, it just overlays all other posts on home page. (You can see that error on my website home page http:\brijux.com).
It appears fine if the post is opened separately. The issue is only when the post has embedded video on home page (when posts are shrunk to only display briefing). Is there any work-around?
@Brijesh Under Appearance → The Erudite Options, check the box to disable ‘Keep Reading.’
Hello!
I love your theme, it is really beautiful.
I am translating it to spanish and editing the .pot it seems that this line can not be replaced:
%s wrote:
I want to translate “wrote” to “escribió”.
Saludos from México
@Jos Try to make sure you hang on to the %s portion. Your name is substituted for the %s. Does it work then?
Also, if you get a translation working properly, I’d love it if you could send it to me for inclusion in the next version!
@Matt: Please, check out this image, I think there is nothing missing.
http://josvelasco.com/wp-content/themes/the-erudite/translation/wrote.png
@Jos Well shoot. My experience with translation is all theory and no practice, so I’m afraid I can’t be of much help to you. :/ Good luck!
Thank you for the theme. I’m a journalist and writer - and I like it. I made a german translation.
Just one question: I don’t get my favicon displayed. How should I do that?
Favicon is online, just one line of code. Very nice theme!
This is a gorgeous theme! I love it, it is exactly what I am looking for.
I am trying to move the “show menu” to the left instead of where it sits on the right. I can’t figure out where the “show menu” details are located.
Thanks for your help!
@Edgar Glad you got the localization and favicon working for you.
@F.E. You’re looking for:
#menu-toggle divin erudite.css@matt - Thank you for your theme!
One suggestion for a coming version: It would be nice to place also categories in the menu. On my site http://www.franzmann.de I did it with pages and linked them to the categories pages.
@Edgar You’re welcome.
Your suggestion is quite good actually, and shouldn’t take too long. Stay tuned, it might just happen.
I was forced to remove jQuery effects because the menu and sidebar does not remember its state, and this does not good.
If in the next versions this feature will be added, am will be glad put it back.
Thanks you!
Hi Matt
Superb theme this although I have made some tweaks
Thanks for all the hard work - hope my content does it justice!
Graham
@Graham Nicely done. You’ve definitely made it your own.
Hi,
I really like this theme. After a long time using quite loaded and image heavy themes on my blog, this one is like a breath of fresh air. I especially like the fonts and styles.
Concerning the fonts, I am facing a peculiar problem. Wherever I have used bullets or numbered lists, the font is becoming double the size of normal.
Can you help me with this please.
The example is here: http://hitchedhiker.com/2009/09/20/photo-apps-for-linux/
And 1 more thing I have noticed that the captions of images that I link to in picasa are a larger font than the content making the whole thing look weird.
Sorry about the multiple posts. I wanted to add to the previous issue of the image captions.
The captions I am talking about are not the standard image captions which you would insert with an uploaded image.
These captions are basically in the tag and have their own style defined the the Picasa-Image-Express plugin.
The problem is that this particular under the image (linked to an image in my picasa account), doesnt seem to apply the font size to the , instead taking the font size from the erudite.css file here .entry-content p, .entry-content li, .entry-content dt, .entry-content dd {font-size:1.6em; margin-bottom:.75em;}
All the other style elements are taken by the except the font size.
I hope I made enough sense for you to understand cause I am really not a developer and may be sounding like gibbrish.
Your help would be appreciated.
@Abhilash This is a free theme, and as such I’m not promising support, although I try to be helpful when and if a problem arises. If you tell me what the particular problem is and provide a link that demonstrates the problem, I might be able to help. Otherwise, just explaining it is pretty pointless.
Hi Matt, Congratulations for this awesome theme!
I’d like to ask you a question:
- is there a way to turn off the dynamic keep reading function only in selected posts? or, if not, a way to enable it only in some posts (after disabling it in the general options), like using the tag that uses the deafult wordpress function for the “read more”?
Thanks again for this awesome theme,
Will
Hi Matt,
The issue I am facing is this.
I use picasa for storing images that I use in my blog. I use a plugin called Picasa-Image-Express (PIE) to link to those images in posts in the form of a gallery. The images that have captions, is where I am facing a problem.
I am attaching a screenshot of one such post with a PIE gallery in it.
http://hitchedhiker.com/wp-content/fontsizeexample.jpg
As you can see the caption text is very large. Firebug tells me that the style defined in PIE’s style sheet says test-size:11px but it is not getting applied to this tag. Instead Erudite’s tag style is getting applied but only the font size. The font face is still coming from PIE’s style sheet.
@Will That’s not functionality I’m interested in adding, sorry. Since the “keep reading” functionality only ever applies to the most recent post on the home page, there’s no reason why toggling the theme option as you see fit won’t do what you want.
@Abhilash Just edit PIE’s style sheet and throw an
!importantafter the 11px. It’ll override the post styles.Hi Matt,
I put in the !important into the PIE stylesheet next to the font-size, however the font size still seems to be coming from Erudite.
/* containing a caption */.pie-caption{
font-size:9px !important;
font-family:sans-serif;
line-height:15px;
color:#000;
text-align:left;
padding: 0;
margin-top:10px;
}
Firebug shows:
pie-caption {
color:#000000;
font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,san-serif;
font-size:9px;
line-height:15px;
margin-top:10px;
padding:0;
text-align:left !important;
the font-size:9px; line in firebug has a strikethrough, not showing in the previous comment.
@Matt Sorry my mistake. It’s fixed now. Thanks from your help and the awesome theme.
@Graham Dell
I would like to customize my header and footer with my own images. Could you tell me how you did it?
I would really appreciate it.
How can I change the css file? I want to put some colour, something like my blog (bremaneur.wordpress.com. Thanks.
This is a wonderful and very clever theme. I love the typography! Smart quotes, no less, that’s pretty cool.
I have some questions, all related to hacking the theme a little.
1) How do I alter the typography of the pull-quotes? I’d like them to be non-caps, and flush left rather than justified. Where is the code, so I can play around with it?
2) The previous/next navigation links, which in the theme are below the comments section — I copy/pasted the code to just below the post itself. You can see what I mean here: http://dminoz.com/?p=20
But the new links are more left-indented than the originals below them. How do I play around with this?
3) I played around with the headings in category.php, and ended up using h4 and h5. However, on http://dminoz.com/?cat=3 you can see that there’s a whole lot white space below the h4 heading. Is there any way I can tweak this? Ideally without breaking other times that h4 (or maybe it’s space before h5) is used in the theme, of course…
I’m quite happy to wrangle with code, I just need to know where to look… I’m used to Atahualpla, which uses config. panels to do a lot of the complicated stuff…
Thanks again for the theme,
David
ok, I answered question no. 1, by finding the erudite.css file. Now here’s another one … is there any way I can have quotation marks automatically inserted at the beginning and end of the pull quotes?
Me again
Ignore question no 3 in my original post, I found the answer in the .css file…
Hi Matt,
I just signed up for wordpress and came across your beautiful theme. I love the simple design and the typography is amazing. I just had one question. I was wondering if there was a way to keep the 2 column design of the first post. I’ve read that you created the theme for text but I would love to keep the 2 columns going. Thanks for such a great theme.
Hi Matt,
I need a little help with 2 changes that I am trying to make:
1. I would like to replace the default title and description with a logo
2. I would like to put 3 links to my feeds in the header to the right of the title and description.
Can you guide me on this.
Thanks.
Hi Matt, this is a question about the navigation (previous/next) links at the bottom of each post. Is there any way to limit those to just posts in the same category as the post that is being viewed? The reason — if I have one category as my novel that I’m working on (which I do), and another category for articles and rants in general (which I do), I’d like to _not_ have posts from other categories appearing on the navigation links below a post.
@David For things like this, the codex is your friend: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/next_post_link and http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/previous_post_link . Pay attention to the
in_same_catargument.@Abhilash Everything you’re looking for is in header.php.
Hi, Matt
Is there a way for me to make the template show 2 “extended” posts in the home page instead of just one?
Matt, I made a comment way back in May and I haven’t changed my mind on that.
This is indeed a truly fantastic theme. I’m using it for a writing site and it looks absolutely fantastic.
I’m a typographer from way back, before DTP days. Your attention to typography makes this theme stand out from pretty much everything else that’s available. I’ve hacked it a bit here and there to try and fit in with the way I use typography within my writing, however the underlying robustness of the code has meant that nothing got broken.
An excellent theme.
@Will If you look on line 10 of home.php, you should see:
if ($first == 1 && !is_paged() ). Change the 1 to 2 and you should be off to the races. I haven’t tested it, nor do I guarantee that it’ll work.@Boz Thanks for the kind words, glad it’s serving your writing.
Hey Will, I have been trying to keep the first 2 posts “expanded” as well. I think I figured it out. Go to line 11 of home.php and change “if ($first == (1)” to “if ($first == (1 AND 2)” It’s worked on my blog. Hopefully it will work for yours. Hey Matt thanks again for an awesome theme!
Hi Matt,
I would like to read all the comments after no. 71 by Graham to take a look at some of the customizations made by others, but this page only shows 71 and there are no pages to the comments either.
How do I see the comments beyond no. 71 on this page?
@Abhilash Thanks for pointing that out. You should be able to see everything now.
Hi, First of all congratulations on this wonderful work. I am glad to have come across this. I am using this to build my website. Two features I wish you could add is
1. ability to group posts under a page - making navigation easy. I have done it partly for my site thou i am not an expert coder
2. A good table of contents displayed as a widget on right or to open up like header on top as another button. This will make it complete in all respects.
I will be adding credits to your wonderful site too (Don’t worry what you see now I am hiding it till i launch)
Thanks a lot.
Rohin
@Rohin For #1, what you’re starting to do is the way to go. For #2, you could put a pages widget in your footer, but moving stuff like that to the top is pretty much against the point of the design. Good luck with your customizations.
Hi Matt,
Thanks for taking the time out to visit my website and providing your thoughts. Just a request. Is it possible for you to add separate options for dynamic show /hide for header and footer?
Also What i mean’t by TOC was TOC for a particular page kind of Wiki like. Where headings and subheadings can appear as a TOC on the page or on the side. or above for that matter
Thanks!
Hi Matt,
Is it possible to use the Keep Reading effect on any other page apart from the home page? I have started to look at doing this for my prose section.
Thanks once again
Regards
Rohin
@Rohin Sorry, the way this is currently set up will only work with the first post on the homepage.
Matt,
Can you please take a look at my website. I have used a pullquote on my latest post and it is overlapping with the rest of my post. Am I doing something wrong ?
Regards
Rohin
@Rohin You need to understand what you’re doing when you edit CSS. You changed:
.hidden .pullquote-display {display:none;}todisplay:block. Change it back to get rid of overlapping.@Matt Thanks a lot for the help and pardon my ignorance at the basics of css. The more I am running my hand through your theme the more I am appreciating your hard work. Thanks once again for such a beautiful theme.
I have it installed with tweaks to the CSS for img wrapping on old posts. I turned the block quotes into offset blocks of text with a box around it. This lets me tell the reader if I am offsetting text or introducing a quote; that means that the b-quote option means indexed and offset as opposed to always being a quote.
I like your design and philosophy, and I hope to create a menu option that turns the categories into multi-level menus. That should be easy if I find an example.
You have done the hard work, and I think it is fantastic. Thanks.
I am following the comments to get ideas on customizing your design. But I cant seem to see comments beyond 71 until I post a comment myself.
@Steve Glad you like it and that you can make it suit your needs.
@Abhilash I would say that you’re crazy if I couldn’t replicate it myself. I’ll have to look into it.
Matt,
Thanks again for the software! Tweaks I made: I wanted my category codes to constitute a main menu with sub menus being generated from sub-category codes. All of this I wanted displayed in the top header. An easy change which I had to make was to change your java code and retrieve the categories and orderby=slug. In that way, the main menu is not alphabetical but ordered by slugs. In this way, I was able to control the layout of the menus. I also made it so that only the date (not the time) shows on posts. If I write something at 3:00am (while the rest of humanity sleeps), then I might want to keep that to myself!
Steve
Why the comments form is not showing in the pages? The “Allow Comments” is allowed.
Thank you
@Abu Add a custom field of “comments” with a value of “comments” to the page to get the comment form. It hasn’t been tested.
Thank you for version 2.0 with the new categories-menu.
One question: Is there a chance to display fotos in teasers (though I know that the theme is dominated by text).
@Edgar You are free to make whatever changes you want to the theme - that’s the beauty of open source. If you don’t know, it’s not that hard to learn! (This is how I got my start with WordPress: customizing other people’s themes.)
For post images, you might want to look at Justin Tadlock’s excellent post Everything you need to know about WordPress 2.9’s post image feature
@Matt,
when I make certain posts, I find that the keep reading link does not appear but for other posts it appears. Is there a condition when the Keep reading post will appear or not?
Regards
Rohin
Thank you for your most beautiful theme. Very much appreciated. I wonder if you could help. Why the we comments functionality are not showing on pages when enabled? I’d be rateful if you can email me your reply. Thanks again
Abu-Laila
I went through loads of themes before finding this one - just what I was looking for - such an amazingly clean and attractive design. Thank you so much!
PS Sorry but, like Graham above, I couldn’t resist making a few tweaks!
Must have had a really outdated cached copy of this page :S Graham’s post from September was the latest comment when I submitted mine :S Oh well. Anyways, thanks again!
@Aaron Cheers, glad you liked it.
Hi Matt!
Great theme you got here. I recently converted my blog theme into The Erudite and it suits me very well. Thanks for the great design, and thanks a lot for your generosity by releasing it FOC.
One thing, though. I couldn’t activate my usual Meta widget on Erudite Footer 2. I dragged it to Footer 3, switched place with another widget within Footer 2 and Footer 3, but none of the above worked. What could be the problem, please? Thanks again.
@Jules Thanks for the kind words. I’m afraid I have no clue as to your widget problems - I’ve never seen anything like that before.
Oh well, never mind. No big deal. I’ll just type in the login URL through the address bar. Yeah, I’ve never encountered such problem before, too. Not sure what could’ve caused it.
Update: Problem solved. I deactivated The Erudite theme, dragged in the Meta widget while in other theme mode, and switched back to Erudite. It’s there alright.
I’m using your theme on my blog, and it is beautiful. I’m also using the shadowbox JS plugin. As soon as I activate the shadowbox plugin the text from the first post on the home page disappears completely. If I click the read more button the posts expands and all of the text is visible. If I “put away” the post the page goes back to the regular layout and all of the text stays visible. However, if I refresh the page the text once again disappears.
A link to my page is included and I am leaving the shadowbox plugin running so that you can see and recreate this issue. Thanks for any insight you might have!
Hi Matt!
Sorry to bother you again, but I suddenly have a problem similar to Robert Wood up there. The earlier entries on my home page did show up horizontally in columns ( I set it to 3 blog posts, and they showed up like your demo). However, when I inserted the pullquote tag in my latest entry, I noticed the horizontal column of previous entries below the homepage entry had changed. I’ve taken a look at erudite.css, it’s still the same. I even re-loaded the file again, but the same problem remain unchanged. Any ideas, please?
@Bonnie sorry, a quick look didn’t show me any problems like you mention.
@Jules For some reason, your homepage isn’t loading a class of
homeon the homepage, and I have no idea what that might have to do with a pullquote. However, I’ve been wanting to refactor some of my homepage targeting logic for a while, which I’ve done now. Go ahead and download it on the project page (it won’t be on the WP themes repo for a few days or so).Hi Matt!
I’ve downloaded The Erudite v2.0.2 (the zipped file name states it’s v2.0 though), reloaded and reinstalled it, but the same problem persists. Anyway, thanks for your kind attention. I’ll wait for the next release.
@Jules Your erudite.css file has not been updated to the newest version.
Matt, I have updated the erudite.css file with the latest version (downloaded from the project page). I’ve re-loaded it several times, replacing the old file. It’s still not working, though
Hi Matt,
thanks for this most excellent theme! It was love at first sight. Finally a refined theme that puts content before, before uhh, well, before all that other stuff!
I have a Dutch (non techspeak) translation for you. Don’t know if you want to package it or something? Let me, know, OK? I’ll sign for updates as long as I am using this theme. Chances are that will be for the life of my blog!
Thanks again,
Dennis Meulensteen
@Dennis emailed ya.
Hi Matt! Thanks so much for this super lovely theme. It’s definitely one of my favourite themes for WordPress!
I’ve noticed that the entry meta doesn’t show up for the main post. Do you know if anything could’ve triggered that?
@Eunice Try upgrading to the newest version (2.0.2). It should resolve your problem.
Hi Matt. Unfortunately, it hasn’t resolved my problem! I would try to give you more information, but I haven’t changed anything at all! Weird!
@Eunice I checked, and you’re still running 2.0 on your site. Try deleting The Erudite and reinstalling it.
Ahh, I just noticed that the one I’ve continued to download from this site isn’t 2.0.2 but 2.0. I got the newest version off of the theme directory! Thanks, Matt!
@Eunice Ahh, that would be a problem. I appear to have neglected to update the download link with 2.0.2. That is now fixed.
Hi,
I love the theme, man. Nice work. Exactly what I was looking for.
Was wondering if there is any way to put some text above the paragraph that has the woodcut style first letter. I like to use epigraphs in my text. Any ideas?
Thanks
@Tom Congratulations on having the first truly excellent feature request! That is definitely something that would be good to put in the next version.
Hey glad you found the suggestion useful. For now, I’m pretty happy with using a blockquote at the top. This eliminates the woodcut altogether, but is better than the alternative. Keep up the good work.
Hi Matt!
The previous problem on my blog has been fixed already (after downloading the right update of Erudite). Thanks, and have a nice day
Tom - A fantastic idea to have epigraphs in the theme.
Matt - It would be great if you can get your hands around the same.
Hi there … I absolutely LOVE the theme but am having some trouble adjusting the font size for regular posts (I simply like to make it a bit smaller). I’m tinkering away at the css file but don’t seem to achieve anything. Any hints would be much appreciated!
Quite the most beautiful and spectacular theme I’ve ever had the pleasure of using.
Thank you.
Jon
@Jon Thanks for your kind words! Glad it suits you.
Hi Matt,
I really like the Erudite theme, although I have tweeked it a bit, but there is one thin that really bugs me (yes, I am a perfectionst…):
When clicking either ‘show menu’ or ‘further info’ using Google Chrome, the blog title section jumps a bit to the right, and back again on second click (and only on the home page, not while browsing an article page)
Sort of ruins the very professional overall look of the theme…
Is it fixable?
regards
Finno
@Finno The problem you were experiencing is due to scrollbars appearing when you click the show/hide things. I doubt it’ll be a problem now that you have more content, but here’s how to force vertical scrollbars.
have you tested the theme using mac os x and safari? the drop cap first letter is not centered on the dark background and so the top of the letter is cut off
Absolutely beautiful! It’s the perfect theme for my site
Thanks A LOT for the “hard work”!
Matt,
I am currently taking a metadata course which requires us to keep a weblog. I have searched the Word Press themes for awhile now and Erudite is exactly the style and format I have been looking for.
Only problem, I am not able to activate a comment function. It remains at “comments off.” Is there a way to turn the comment function on?
Because of class requirements, we need to use a theme that has “post comments” capability.
I am not proficient at all when it comes to CSS style sheets and not for sure what to do to get the post comment function activated
Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Matt,
First off beautiful theme! Very liberating!
I had question concerning the category page.
As I look at the category.php template I see that it has information present to display a “read more” or >> after the excerpt as well as Meta information, date, author, comments, etc. Yet as I look at the demo and blogs that use this theme, none of this is present.
Is there a reason that this is not displayed? Thank you for your response.
@Anthony Thanks. The info is not displayed because I didn’t like it there. You could edit the CSS (or make a child theme to bring it back in a manner that suits your purposes.
@Greg I’m not sure where your problem lies, but The Erudite works just fine with comments. The only thing I could imagine is that you’re using pages instead of posts, which don’t allow for comments by default.
Hi Matt,
This is a gorgeous theme, and I’m using it right now. I have a couple of questions, though.
1. The comments on this page don’t follow the posting sequence, i.e., my response to K.L. Richardsson came before K.P. Kincaid’s comment, so I was wondering if there’s something I need to tweak so that the order of the comments actually reflect the sequence in which they were posted.
2. On my home page, the bottom left post has a weird link in place of the plain “Read more”. Is it because the text breaks off in the middle of a blockquote?
Thanks so much for your time and help!
@Hayden As for #1, there doesn’t appear to be a problem. As for #2, it looks like WP Typography is inserting a span inside the title attribute. Before I put out a fix, you can easily just turn off the “Wrap acronyms (all capitals) …” feature in WP Typography’s settings.
Thanks for the fix for #2. It looks okay now.
As for #1, the regular order of the comments should be K.L. Richardsson - me - K.P. Kincaid - me. Right now it’s KLR - KPK - me (in response to KPK) - me (in response to KLR). Was there a glitch in WP itself that messed up the comments sequence? I previewed the same post with the comments using other themes, and the sequence came out okay.
Thanks for the fix for #2. It looks okay now.
As for #1, the regular order of the comments should be K.L. Richardsson - me - K.P. Kincaid - me. Right now it’s KLR - KPK - me (in response to KPK) - me (in response to KLR). If you look at the comments’ times, they’re off.
Was there a glitch in WP itself that messed up the comments sequence? I previewed the same post with the comments using other themes, and the sequence came out okay.
@Matt: I had so much fun working with your theme and have got it almost close to what I wanted. except a couple of issues. I write a lot of poetry which sometimes does not adhere well to the website layout. I sometimes feel it would be great to have a two column layout for writing my columns with pictures and also the ability to add Footnote to my blogs in case I want to refer to some other website or blog, but then again thats just me.
However I have a question for you? Come wordpress 3.0 a lot of tweeks are being made, as to how menu are managed and how the images are managed(Some of the changes came through in 2.9.2). Would you be updating the theme to incorporate these new features? Would love to use an updated version which use these enhanced features.
@Rohin There are a bunch of footnotes plugins out there, but I’m not going to offer a two column layout in this theme. You are, of course, free to hack/change it however you like.
As for future WP feature compatibility, I’m not really interested in adding post thumbnails, as I can’t see them fitting in with the philosophy of the theme. I will likely add support for the new menus from 3.0 though.
Great thanks! Looking forward to the new features and changes. Also could you suggest a good related post plugin that would gel with the theme. I used a few but none gel into the theme. They look glaring. I used one [Contextual related post plugin] which was very decent and simple. Somehow it recognized epigraph as a separate section or something and I had two related post list on the post. One next to the epigraph and the other at the end of the post.
Hi. This is a great job!!! First of all sorry about my English. Second, I did a bit of modifications on your theme, but since I’m still learning web developing and I don’t know how to change stuffs, I’d like to ask you how could I take the caps and indent behavior on WP edit page, I did disable it through css apparently on the blog, but couldn’t disable it on the admin sections.
Thanks for your attention.
Marcio
There is one problem with formatting trackbacks.
Solution:
erudite.css, line 193
change:
li.comment, li.pingback {position:relative; border-left:1px solid #aaa; margin:1.2em 0 2.4em 12em; padding-left:2em; min-height:6em;}to:
li.comment, li.pingback , li.trackback{position:relative; border-left:1px solid #aaa; margin:1.2em 0 2.4em 12em; padding-left:2em; min-height:6em;}@koras huh. I wasn’t aware that anyone still used trackbacks. This’ll be released in 1.6.1 in the not-too-distant future.
Actually it’s the best wordpress theme I’ve ever used.
Thanks!
Beautiful theme, exactly what I was looking for as a writer.
I am slowly going through the WordPress 3.0 beta’s, and am curious if there will be any issues with this theme and 3.0?
Thanks for all of your hard work!
Kind Regards,
Bryan J Zimmerman
i am currently on version 2.6 - i love the theme in every respect but one: “previewing” a post does not work for me at all. i simply get an empty page and i don’t know why. anybody else experiences that issue? this is very bothersome…thanks!
@finnegan Sorry, that’s not anything I’ve been able to reproduce.
Thank you for an excellent theme!
I am providing Swedish language files for The Erudite:
http://www.fredrikarvidsson.com/2010/05/25/swedish-language-for-the-erudite-wordpress-theme/
Hi Matt,
I love your theme and try it on my blog.
But I found that on entry-meta class the author’s name doesn’t show up, but everything else (date, time, category, tags) were show nicely.
Can you help me to guess whats wrong, since I’m not so familiar with theme editing.
Thanks.
Hi Matt,
Sorry for the question before, it seems that only post that posted from XML-RPC client (e.g. WLW) were having this issue, a post directly from wordpress dashboard has no issue at all.
Regards,
Cahya.
@Cahya Ah, interesting. I’ve heard the same bug report a couple of times in the past. Good to know.
@Fredrik Thanks Fredrik! Your translation has been bundled with 2.6.1.
Matt,
please refer to comment 151 about fixed scrollbars:
I just upgraded Erudite, and need to add this tag again, but cannot for the life of me find the correct file to alter…
Which file needs the fix, please…?
Thank you for a beautiful theme, Matt.
I’m having a small problem. One of my post titles begins with a double quotation mark, like this:
“Title”: subtitle
It’s showing up like this-
Title”: subtitle
Any idea how I can get the first double quote mark to show up?
Thanks again!
@Finno you’re looking for erudite.css in the css directory.
re: comment 178 above - I figured it out! It was an issue with the typography plugin that their FAQs addressed. Sorry to bother you, and thanks again!
Hi,
Great theme!
How do you change the color of the first letter in each post?
Thanks!
Dave (post # 181) - alter the erudite.css file to change the color. Under /*Posts*/, you’ll see an item: .entry-content > p:first-child:first-letter … where you can make the changes.
Hi, Thanks for your reply!
Do you know how I could make all the posts on the home page the same width as the first post. (I want to have just one post for each “row”)
I want to do that since I will be adding video for each of my post…
Thanks!
I’m using this magnificent theme and I love it but …
… IE6 people (forced to use IE6 from their places of employment! ugh!) are telling me they cannot see a “post comment” button and thus are unable to leave comments.
Anyone else dealing with this issue? Any fixes? I’m not much of a coder but I can manage if it’s … simple enough. Thanks for any help.
And thank you again for this amazing theme.
Great work! One question: in the visual editing window when typing a post, the first letter is replaced with the woodcut and then no further editing can be done there for some reason. I can switch to html, finish the opening line and then switch back to continue, but I can’t write the first line in the visual window.
I assume I’m missing something? Thanks
Hello Matt,
Thanks for your theme. I did a French translation, which I uploaded here :
http://rapidshare.com/files/395049977/fr_FR.po.html
@Evan Nothing from my theme would cause that. Did you recently upgrade WordPress? If so, try clearing your cache.
Great theme! I’d like to know how to remove the border from images. Thanks!
- Jody
Hey! Thanks for creating such an awesome theme. I just have a few things that might be useful for improvement:
1. Theme does adapt to zoom well. After a few levels of zooming (in or out) using the browser, the header starts to display incorrectly. Behaviour occurs in Safari 4 on Mac.
2. Letters of drop caps are not centred inside their box. I think someone already commented on this. Behaviour occurs in Safari 4 on Mac. Strangely enough, this does not occur on the iPhone, so I’m thinking it might be a browser issue.
3. While the top menu shows the child pages, if you have many child pages under a parent page, it makes the menu rather large. Not so much a problem if the menu is hidden, but still visually unappealing. Perhaps an option to not display child pages in the menu, or having child pages move into a second column on the menu after a certain number is reached?
@Daniel 1) is an edge case that I don’t care that much about and 3) will be addressed if you use the new menu system in WP 3.0. The goal of this theme has never been to support complex navigation, but rather getting most things out of the way of reading.
As for #2, I’ve seen it happen occasionally, but I haven’t been able to reproduce successfully. Odd.
Hey @Matt, thanks so much for this theme. I love its simplicity and it suits my website - nice clean content, no funny stuff.
I have one question: Is it possible to have widgets showing on the right hand side, under the post details? I’d like to have a section of related posts and a few other lists.
Thanks again for your work!
Cheers,
Luke
I am a writer and I love this template, but even writers need to post a few images or YouTube videos.
Matt (or anyone), do you have examples of blogs that have customized your template to hold images?
Bruce
Very nice theme, I like it alot. Nice plain theme with the functions it needs!
But when I put in my Google Analytics tracking code at the Theme Options, it’s also placed at the left bottom of my website. It does add it just before the tag, but also plain right before the tag.
@myself
It does add the code just before the tag, but also plain right before the tag.
@myself myself
Adds code before the “body” tag, but also as plain text right before the “/body” tag.
@King Did you include opening and closing script tags? Otherwise, it works fine in my testing.
Hi Matt,
just upgraded to WP 3.0,
is there any way I can have my 5 categories in the top menu appear as pop-up menus, where all articles within a category/menu would be listed when clicked?
regards
Finno
After upgrading to 3.0, I’m seeing an “extra” bar underneath the main menu at the top of the page. It appears to be a repeat of the dark background behind the main menu.
Is there an option I need to turn on or something I need to switch around to have everything working for 3.0?
Thanks for your time and work
Evan said: “After upgrading to 3.0, I’m seeing an “extra” bar underneath the main menu…”
I’ve got the same problem. There are two divs “menu”, one is empty.
I really love your work, so many possibilites to make different looking blogs and websites.
@Evan & @koras: That was a logic bug in how I’m handling the menu fallbacks. If you use a nav menu it’ll disappear. A version with a bugfix will be out shortly.
@Finno There is of course a way, but you’re going to have to figure it out for yourself!
@Luke It’s possible, but I’m not going to do it as I don’t think it fits with the philosophy of the theme. But, it’s open source, so go for it!
Thanks for this update (2.7)! And please - keep this theme simple! No sidebars, no graphics, no places for ads… no other distractors - theme for readers not watchers
On my site there’s no place for readers comments:)
Maybe you can think about columns in pages view but I am not sure if it is good idea… Anyway this theme is exactly what I was looking for
Thanks for Polish translation!
Matt,
Recently made the jump from an old MT site to WordPress - found your them and have to say that it’s incredible. Right up my alley in style and layout.
I’ve been playing with some minor tweaks to get to know both your them and WPs CSS layout and have run into a conundrum. I would like to keep the primary container locked to the left and have been playing in the Layout setting it to position:absolute; left:8em. The downside is that doing so causes the Footer and Footer-toggle to float near the top of the page. I’ve searched for the best spot to correct this but so far trial and error hasn’t worked. Is there a simpler spot that I can set the container to lock to the left or can you point me in the direction of where I can configure the footer to lock to the bottom?
If there isn’t an easy answer (I’m trying to remember CSS after not touching it for seven years), that’s fine. Though if you’re still consulting I would be willing to pay for an hours worth of work.
Again, many thanks for this theme!
Regards,
-Nathan
Nevermind - found the trick - I was using the wrong property.
Thanks again for such an excellent product!
I love the theme, just stumbled upon it when searching for a theme for a new blog. I’m in the process of translating it to German (will share when done) and noticed issues in comments_custom.php, see http://perdrizat.net/2010/06/21/hello-world/.
- date not using WP format for dates
- ‘wrote’ not translatable
- l18n of the date-time seems to come from WP, not the theme’s de_DE.mo, as it’s always using the German ‘um’ instead of my preferred ‘–’ (see the date-time of the post for how I prefer it).
Hi Matt,
Just a quick question, is there any chance that in the future, you can make make the navigation menu and footer static, separately? I’d like a static footer but dynamic header (menu).
@Benjamin Not in the plans for now, nope. You could always figure out how to do it yourself!
v2.7.1 does nopt show up in the theme section of the wordpress backend.
I dowloaded it from your site but the installation failed because the folder already exist…
Any help?
Hi Matt,
can I adjust the number of posts on the front page, and if so, where do I that?
regards
Finno
I am using it. Thank you.
Hi Matt,
Your theme had changed the way I looked at a website. Quite Inspirational. I had adopted your theme for myself early on, and Now I have taken the next step of creating my very own personal theme (I don’t think its good enough for a public release) and have utilized some of your bits.
Thanks for introducing me to a whole new dimension to web design.
Regards
Rohin
This is a truly great theme; thank you for sharing. I have one question, though: while I personally love the initial cap, it’s not a good fit for the website I would like to use the theme on.
Could you give me a hint as to where to look to “turn it off”? I know PHP, so a general pointer where the text gets processed might be enough.
@Finno It displays according to the WP setting in Options → Reading.
@Matthias It’s using the CSS
:first-letterpseudo-selector.Incredible! That’s what I want, awesome WP theme.
Thanks for your work, guys!
Thanks guys! It’s a awesome theme, I’m using it on my Weight Loss in LA blog.
Hello Matt,
I am loving this theme, but there’s a caveat:
In Chrome and Firefox, the Post Metadata does not display on the archives page although it does display on individual posts and on the first post on the main page. In IE, it shows in the archives as well as on individual posts and the first post on the main page. (You can see this in action at my website.) I’ve spent all day working on this puzzle (and even called in reinforcements!) and I can’t seem to solve it.
I would very much like readers to be able to see metadata when they are browsing the archives so that they can decide if they want to click through! (Additionally, I would love the option, in a future edition of this theme, of enabling a keep reading/put away on the archives page so that readers don’t have to browse away.)
Any idea of what’s going on here?
@meloukhia It’s basically some CSS stuff. I never cared for meta data on the archive pages, so I left them off.
But, try adding the following lines to erudite.css;
Matt, thanks for the answer to meloukhia’s question. I had wanted meta data on the archives pages without realizing it. Works perfectly!
Thanks for a splendid theme.
I was going to update to the latest version, but I noticed it’s not set up to update directly through the wordpress control panel. Is there anything to be concerned about simply overwriting the existing theme files with the new version?
@E The WordPress.org folks haven’t approved the update yet, so it won’t show up in your control panel. Overwriting is only a problem if you’ve made modifications.
I’m not sure if this is the result of your theme, a plugin, or a bug in WordPress, but for some reason pages that have an ampersand (&) in the title will cause the following to display in the browser/tab title: &
Oops, should be this: <span class="amp">&</span>
Hello,
Congratulations and thank you for an excellent theme!
One thing I have noticed, when using plugins that place content before or after the main page content (for example social bookmarks, sexybookmarks, etc.) For some reason they recognise the epigraph as a separate piece of content - placing items below both the epigraph, and main body content.
Hi,
I’m making some tests to use this amazing theme. But I have a problem:
First Capitalls (the big ones) doesn’t show in single and home pages. Just in the excerpts.
Sorry about my pour English (I’m from Brazil).
Thanks for this great theme!
Hi,
I am using your theme. I using the follwoing plugins too.
1. Akismet
2. Google Tranliteration
3. Share and Follow
4. PB-Tweet
I think PB-Tweet has done something, the rss feed shows some error. http://kailashiv.com/blog/feed/
Please Help me. I dont know wat to do with this.
Advanced Thanks
Kailash C
@Daniel Yeah, I get why that’s happening. There’ll be a fix in the next version. For now, find line 15 of library/epigraph.php inside the theme and replace this
$epigraph = apply_filters('the_content', $epigraph);with this:
$epigraph = apply_filters('the_excerpt', $epigraph);@Kailash I have no idea. I very much doubt it has anything to do with my theme.
@Wellington Initial capitals rely on good browsers. They won’t play nicely on IE 6 or 7.
Hi Matt,
That worked like a charm! Thanks!
Hi, Matt.
I think the problem is not the brownser. I use Chrome and Firefox, not IE.
Initial capitals only worked at ‘home’ and ‘pages’, not at single posts neither when you clicked ‘keep reading’ button.
By the way, there’s my site: http://wellingtondemelo.com.br/site/
I had the same problem, @Daniel! Solved!
But there’s another: rating stars is shown above epigraph, instead of below the post title. I think this is an easy isssue, but I don’t know the sollution.
@Wellington Well that’s simple enough. Your social bar is mucking it up. Any plugin that inserts content at the top of a post will do this.
Excellent theme. I’m thrilled with this. Thanks so much.
Hello,
Very, Very nice theme, I love it!
One Question..
Now, In the main page, Titles are not showed completely, I mean it shows only a part of the “long titles”, I want to change this to show titles completely.
Thanks!,
Nima
Sorry to make “second” comment, I forgot to ask.
Is there any way to remove “By ” in the bottom of the posts ? and anyway to “edit” info bar ?
Second (Third!) question is, How can I edit footer details ? For example I want to remove “Archives”.
@nima1024 Comment 1: look at the erudite.css file and you’ll see that the h3 tag is used for the entry titles. Change the h3 property to a smaller size (under /* Typography Base */).
Comment 2: To get rid of the word “By” go to WP admin, then to Appearance -> Editor and select the “single.php” file to edit. On about the 15th line, find the words ” ‘By %s’ ” and take out the “By”. Update your file. That’ll fix the single post.
Do the same in “home.php” and I guess also “author.php”. That should fix that.
Not sure about the third question. Will post the answer if I work it out before Matt answers.
@nima1024 - Looking at your site, you aren’t going to be able to fit your titles onto one line anyway - they’re far too long. Titles are meant to be short.
@nima1024 Sorry - lack of attention to detail in my previous post. It should read:
Comment 1: look at the erudite.css file and you’ll see that the h3 tag is used for the entry titles. Change the h3 property VALUE to a smaller size (under /* Typography Base */).
Thanks Boz,
I tired that at first but no result, I also change the code to this:
h1,h4,h5,h6 {font-family:inherit; font-weight:normal; letter-spacing:.05em;}
h2,h3 {font-family:Gerogia; font-weight:normal; letter-spacing:.05em; font-size:3.6em;}
h1 {font-size:3.6em; line-height:1.333; margin-top:1.333em;}
h2 {font-size:2.4em; line-height:1; margin-top:1em;}
h3 {font-size:13.5px; line-height:1.143; margin-top:1.143em;}
h4 {font-size:1.8em; line-height:1.333; margin-top:1.333em;}
h5 {font-size:1.6em; margin-top:1.5em;}
h4, h5 {letter-spacing:.1em;}
All headings changed unless h3, Even I merge h2 and h3 together but no result.
Thanks,
Nima
Matt, solved capitals issue: I think any plugin that shows anything at the top of the posts, like WP-Ratings or social buttons hides the capitals. Tip: put it below the posts or just don’t use it.
Thanks a lot for this theme!
Hi, Matt.
There’s my Brazilian Portuguese translation. Thank you for the theme:
pt_BR.po
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RGWOKZO4
Hi, Matt.
I have another doubt:
I write short stories but also I write poems. The indentation in the paragraphs is quite inconvenient for poems, but I don’t want to change the indentation for fiction texts because I really like that.
Any suggestion?
@Wellington Firstly, thanks for the Brazilian Portuguese translation! It’ll go in the next release.
As for poems, you’ll need to write some custom CSS. to suit what you want. If you use a “poem” category or tag, the post will get a CSS class that you can hook onto.
Any way to move the Categories and Search features to the top of the page rather the footer w/o manually changing the source/CSS?
Amazing theme Matt, great work. And easy customizable.
Just one question: how does the script determine how much of the first post should be shown and when to show the “keep reading” jquery slider?
I want to adjust that but it’s not in the CSS so I assume it uses JS? Thanks Matt!
Neat and smooth theme. Weldone
@Julian JS indeed. I basically show the first two block-level HTML elements in the post. I figured that made a nice pseudo-excerpt. You’ll want to hack on js/common.js lines 9-18 to make changes.
@Jeff nope. Hack away!
Very nice theme!
You got linked on twitter via smashing magazine. (FontFriend)
Winnipeg represent!
I am new here. I purchased hosting space from godaddy, registered domain through them, uploaded wordpress 3.0 and your the-erudite lates you have given.
now what to to do to get started…. how to activate it?
please give some direction to set the ball rolling.
I will remain obliged.
yours
ssd
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