ChaoticSoul - Theme for CPG.1.4x and WordPress 2.x

[Joachim Müller]

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[fionab]

Hi there
Love the theme just have a question regarding the bulk upload option I keep getting errors has that been overwritten or is it standard with your theme?

[Joachim Müller]

Start a separate thread of your own on the uploads sub-board, doing exactly as suggested in the upload troubleshooting section of the docs. Probably not related to the theme.

[Hein Traag]

Gizmo, thanks for porting this to cpg. Looks awesome. I do have one question.. the Chaoticsoul theme for wordpress that i found on the net is not prepared for widget use and looks to be outdated. Do you know if there is a modernized Chaoticsoul theme out there which does do widgets ? Or do you know how much work it would be to update the existing theme ?

Cheers
Hein

[scotty588]

I've been trying to customize this theme and I really don't like the frame it places around intermediate image pages. That whole center box is scrolling horizontally because of them. How do you disable this?

Example: http://scott-d.net/displayimage.php?album=random&cat=3&pos=-49
In FF it scrolls and in IE it messes up the nav on the right side.

edit: nevermind. figured it out. 

[Joachim Müller]

edit: nevermind. figured it out. 

For the benefit of others you should have posted what you actually did instead of just posting that you were able to figure it out.

[scotty588]

Sure. Heres what I did.

Original code from theme.php

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// HTML template for intermediate image display
$template_display_media = <<<EOT
   <tr>
     <td align="center" class="display_media" nowrap="nowrap">
       <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="imageborder">
         <tr>                                                                             
           <td><img src="./themes/chaoticsoul/images/frame/UL.gif" ></td>
           <td background="./themes/chaoticsoul/images/frame/Top.gif"></td>
           <td><img src="./themes/chaoticsoul/images/frame/UR.gif" ></td>
</tr>
         <tr>
           <td background="./themes/chaoticsoul/images/frame/LS.gif"></td>         
           <td>                       
             {IMAGE}
           </td>
           <td background="./themes/chaoticsoul/images/frame/RS.gif"></td>               
         </tr>
         <tr>
           <td><img src="./themes/chaoticsoul/images/frame/LL.gif"></td>
           <td background="./themes/chaoticsoul/images/frame/Bottom.gif"></td>
           <td><img src="./themes/chaoticsoul/images/frame/LR.gif"></td>
         </tr>
       </table>
     </td>
   </tr>

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// HTML template for intermediate image display
$template_display_media = <<<EOT
   <tr>
     <td align="center" class="display_media" nowrap="nowrap">
       <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="imageborder">
         <tr>
           <td background="./themes/chaoticsoul/images/frame/LS.gif"></td>         
           <td>                       
             {IMAGE}
           </td>
           <td background="./themes/chaoticsoul/images/frame/RS.gif"></td>               
         </tr>
       </table>
     </td>
   </tr>

[naewii]

Hmm I really like this theme, excellent job.

[Gizmo]

Hi All,

Here is a updated version of the ChaoticSoul theme. A list of upgrade and fixes are:

• fixed user gallery issue where the albums are not displayed correctly
• fixed bbcode issue when used in album description
• commented theme.php to make understanding easier for new users
• added a thumbnail roll over dimmer to visually show users they are pointing at an image
• added an intermediate image reducer. Read below for more info.

I added a script for resizing large intermediate images so they fit correctly on the intermediate page. The images are currently set for a width of 400px. This means any image with a width larger than 400px will be resized down. But an image less than 400px wide will be increased to 400 which may distort the image some. Most people leave the config default set to 400 so it shouldn't be a problem in most cases but you are now aware of this.

I've tested this theme without issue on FireFox 3.0.1 (Mac & PC), Safari 3.1.2 and IE 7.0.5.X (PC). Sorry I do not have IE 6.X on my PC and will not test this browser version. As always let me know here if you encounter any problems.

Billy

[Update - Aug. 10, 2008] I've posted a new improved version here with additional details.

[Fabrian]

Holy crap, it's Gizmo!  Good to see you back friend 

[François Keller]

Hey good work Gizmo

[Joachim Müller]

Thanks for the fantastic work. I have replaced the version in the downloads section and the demo with the new one. Version 1.0 used to have 13911 downloads when I replaced it with version 1.1 (which will make the download counter start from 0).

[Gizmo]

Hi All,

The fix for truncating large image descriptions has been found and fixed. I had to remove it as this issue was what was causing the user galleries to display all messed up. I spent a lot of time looking for the error and testing to make sure it's correct now so I've incorporated into this new upload (Chaoticsoul version 1.2). Now if you have long image descriptions, they will be truncated when displaying within an album or on the strip of latest uploads or randon file but displayed in full when viewing the image on the intermediate page. This will make the albums look cleaner without all the text underneath the image.

Cheers and thanks for your patience.

Billy

[Joachim Müller]

Thanks for the contribution. I have updated my above posting as usual to reflect the new filename and download link, and of course I have upgraded the demo as well.

Cheers

Joachim

[Fabrian]

Gizmo, thanks for updating all of your themes 

I'm replying here since it seems directly related - Something has changed from the previous theme, and I don't know yet if it's all the themes you updated or not since I've only had time to test chaoticsoul so far.  There seems to be some conflict with javascript.  I've been using lightbox for some time on the previous theme with no trouble.  On this updated theme, lightbox won't work, highslide (or enlargeit!) some image scrollers etc.  They all work fine on the older theme though.

Any idea what has changed that might have caused this incompatibility?

[Gizmo]

Link to your gallery?

[Fabrian]

I'll update in 10 minutes.

[Fabrian]

Ok, here's the link.

[Gizmo]

I don't see any problems but then again I don't see any of the javascripts you speak of. Are you planning on adding them so we can see what errors you are getting?

[Fabrian]

Ok, I setup lightbox with the updated theme from scratch - so right now the site is your bear updated theme with the newest lightbox release and scripts in place as per your thread here, which is what I've been using for a long time on the previous theme with no trouble.  It just doesn't work on the new theme, but when I switch back to the old theme it's fine.