Comments on: Sandbox now available

By: doad

doad — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:31:11 +0000

hi..
i am totally new here and i love this theme.
since i am not a designer but a medical student [ in my final year ] i cant design things but i really liked lorelle ’s custom theme based on sandbox. Any way i can get that ?
Cheers.

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ericsetiawan.com » Sandboxing Day — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:13:32 +0000

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By: Martin McCallion

Martin McCallion — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:44:03 +0000

Never mind, I discovered that you have to be at WP 2.0.3 or above. I upgraded to 2.0.4, and it now works.

I’d still like to know how the comment preview is done, though.

By: Martin McCallion

Martin McCallion — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:22:21 +0000

Hi, sorry to add to this so long after the original posting, and I also sorry if it’s the wrong place to post a report of an apparent bug. Please point me in the right direction if appropriate.

Anyway, I’ve just installed Sandbox on my blog, and I can’t select any skin but the one that was active by default. That is, I see the installed skins on the “Sandbox Skins” admin page, but whatever one I click on, nothing changes. The default “Two-Column Minimalist L” remains in place.

Also, I love this live comment preview. How do you do that?

By: BjÃ¶rn LindstrÃ¶m

BjÃ¶rn LindstrÃ¶m — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:03:19 +0000

I figured out what I did wrong. I assumed that only sidebar 1 was used by a 2-column skin, but it turns out it uses both sidebars piled over each other.

Thus the widgets sidebar 2, which I hadn’t put any of my widgets in, used the default values. Moving some widgets over to sidebar 2 fixed it.

Anyway, I don’t think it would be too far out for a theme to require using widgets, as soon as the widgets plugin comes with WordPress, which is something I understand is in the works.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 04:03:01 +0000

Hey Bjorn: No, none the sidebar contents are hardcoded. Using widgets, you can entirely replace the contents of both sidebars.

In the 0.6.1 release of the Sandbox, I added Sandbox-style widgets to match the default contents. These are loaded into the widgets pallete for choosing, but they’re not hardcoded.

It is interesting, though, to consider having blank sidebars and require widgets to be used for results. Interesting.

By: BjÃ¶rn LindstrÃ¶m

BjÃ¶rn LindstrÃ¶m — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:35:36 +0000

Even using widgets for Sidebar 1, there’s a bunch of sections that seem to be hardcoded (Search, Links, Feeds and Meta). In effect you’re forced to have those, admittedly useful, below all the widgets.

Since this makes the ordering of widgets somewhat illogical on my page, it would be nice if the sidebar were completely empty aside from widgets, when widgets are used.

By: Explaining the New Theme · plaintxt.org

Explaining the New Theme · plaintxt.org — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:09:21 +0000

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By: Zeo

Zeo — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:59:25 +0000

I still can’t figure it out, how could it inherit if the tag doesn’t exist even in DOM. Show me some light!

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:17:53 +0000

The is a part of the hAtom specification. As I mentioned above, you can style it with good success by giving the parent element attributes that the child, this abbr, would inherit.