Well it looks like the responsive design functionality of my new theme will have to wait for the next version. It’s really hard to get it to work in every possible scenario. The gallery shortcode is the major culprit here. I’ll most likely need to rewrite it’s handler to accommodate. Which is best done in a plugin IMHO. I keep thinking that I’m almost done and then I find new things that need to be addressed. Hell, I even talked myself into adding an options page! Right now, I’m thinking that documentation is more important than anything. So I’m going to tighten that up, run a while slew of tests and then release it! Hoping some of you can check it out and give your opinion!
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If you’re looking for gallery shortcode fun time, I’d suggest cleaner gallery by Justin Tadlock.
Looking forward to seeing the theme. Good on you for trying out the responsive design layout. Tackling a wordPress would be quite the undertaking.
I, too, thought I would not need an options page for the theme I am building. Then I realized people might want to, uh, name their comic something other than the site name. Now there is an options page… just for naming your comic. *head desk*
Hey Frosty. That’s a pretty good plugin but I don’t know if it will really help me on this project. Trying to make the gallery stretchy so that the browser can scale it as well as all of the image contained within automatically across most resolutions without ever blowing out an image. Scaling single images as well as vidoes was pretty straight forward but the gallery’s a beotch :)
Awesome! Can’t wait to get it finished, to be quite honest. Unfortunately, I’ve temporarily abandoned the responsive feature of the theme it will still be a fixed-width/fluid hybrid that shrinks to accommodate browser size. Will have to test, test, test to get galleries working though. and there’s no time for that :(
Ouch! Watch out for that desk :) I found that it was necessary to give users the ability to fine-tune the custom header section. Unfortunately I could not find a way to control the “Site Name” and “Tagline” independently. The only UI provided for this allows you to toggle the display of all header text at once linking these twp separate entities. This is probably something that I wouldn’t have caught following the docs, but I found that developing with my own child theme was a great way to catch such things and be able to provide solutions.