Agenda
Introduction
Binary Blue is a fully WP 2.5 compliant, heavily AJAX enhanced WordPress theme. Its ZIP package contains more than a dozen different schemes, among them the fabulous True Blue style, which is an improved port of the style with the same name originally created by Steve Lam and included with his explicit permission.
Binary Blue contains a fully degradable AJAX enhanced Paged Comments function, which is sort of world exclusive at the current point of time, as there’s no other WordPress plugin or theme yet, which would support such a feature.
Each of the AJAX enhanced features degrade automatically and gracefully if a visitor with a non-javascript browser visits the blog; the functionality then defaults automatically to the default behaviour of any common theme.
Binary Blue is not only a “simple” theme but a complete theme suite resp. sort of a theme platform, which enables you as the user to configure lots of options, so you can customize the complete theme without the need to change a single line of HTML or even PHP code.
Latest Release
- Version 1.4.2 as of 28th of October 2007
This release is a pure bugfix release which fixes the incompiances which have been introduced by the idiots of the WP TEAM (they just did not think about all the themes and plugins which made use of parts of the DB structure) when they introduced WordPress 2.3. Concerning Binary Blue, this affects the archives page and the asides configuration only. So if you don’t use either feature, you may stills tick to the 1.4.1 release, but for everybody else the bugfix release is strongly recommanded. I won’t answer any help requests any longer which concern these issues.
Tip jar
If you like Binary Blue and the work I’ve invested into it, including all the support you receive in the forum and via email, and if you want to do me a favor in return, please have a look at my Amazon wishlist.
Alternatively, feel free to donate any amount you find suitable through Paypal
Features
- Full Sidebar Widgets support, including tons of theme-special widgets, including livesearch, authorinfo box and stuff. I strongly suggest to download and use this, as it is a quantum leap in blog customization!
- Fully Microshaft Internet Exploder 7 compliant schemes
- fully localized
- integrates LightboxJS 2.0.2 as an integrated theme plugin
- fully compliant to Wordpress releases 2.0.x up to 2.5.x
- Fully skinnable with your own schemes
- integrates full comment quicktags functionality
- originally it was partly based on the popular K2 theme by Michael Heilemann and Chris J. Davis
- Degradable AJAX Livesearch
- Degradable AJAX LiveComments
- AJAX enhanced Paged Comments
- Degradable AJAX Inline Content expansion/shrinkage
- Degradable AJAX Inline Comments
- Degradable AJAX Calendar
- LiveArchive available, when Extended Live Archive plugin found and activated
- Integrated support for Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin
- Integrated support for my own WP-Short-Keyword plugin
- Integrated support for Brian’s Latest Comments plugin by Brian Meidell
- Integrated support for Get Recent Comments plugin by Krischan Jodies
- Integrated support for WP-Sociable
- Integrated support for Gravatars
- Integrated support for Optimal Title plugin
- Integrated support for Ryan Prins’s Amazon Wishlist plugin
- Integrated support for xfish_meta plugin
- Integrated support for Landing Sites plugin
- Integrated modified version of Dustin Diaz’ Sweet Titles
- Integrated UDASSS-based scheme switcher support
- Works perfectly together with Spam Karma 2.x
- Intuitive configuration dialog in administrative interface (after activating the theme you’ll see a new subcategory named “Binary Blue options” in the presentation section of your admin panel)
- Dozens of different schemes are available
- Configurable Asides/shorties functionality
- integrates the search hilite plugin by Ryan Boren
- Includes (usually hidden) additional HTML output to comply with WAI and Section 508 requirements (in Germany this is known as “barrierefreies Internet”)
- ZIP File contains a copy of the license.txt (sort of a MIT license - you can do pretty anything with my code that you want, as long as you publish the credits it deserves)
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Important installation / update information
Available Localizations
Complete Version History
Available Schemes
Your feedback, bug reports, feature requests and so on are welcome and well appreciated!
S-Abf meint
Hallo Carsten, ich finde dein Theme wirklich sehr gut, das Einzige, was mich stört ist, dass im Artikel keine Smilies angezeigt werden. Zwar werden sie in den Kommentaren angezeigt, im Artikel wird aber einfach mal gar nix angezeigt, nicht einmal der Code. Ich habe auch schon diverse Plugins probiert, aber da habe ich das selbe Resultat. Ich verwende WP 2.5.1.
Carsten Albrecht meint
ELA wird seit Urzeiten nicht mehr weiterentwickelt und ist nicht mehr kompatibel zu WP neuer als 2.2. Aus BB 2.0, an dem ich ja derzeit arbeite, fliegt der Support dafür daher auch komplett raus.
Kai meint
Hallo,
leider bin ich nicht in der Lage, das Extended Live Archiv zum laufen zu bekommen.
Gibt es eine bestimmte Vorgehensweise? Ich habe das Plugin aktiviert, und bei BB den Haken gesetzt und auf den Button gedrückt…
?
Kai
Xel meint
Das Problem war ja nicht, dass es einen MySQL Fehler gab und auch nicht das das Wörtchen AS gefehlt hat, sondern, dass der gesamte Alias gefehlt hat:
SELECT t.term_ID, name FROM ".$wpdb->terms." AS t, ".$wpdb->term_taxonomy." AS tt
Später im Code greifst du aber auf die Felder cat_ID und cat_name zu, wie sie vor 2.3 verwendet wurden.
foreach ($asides_cats as $cat) {
echo '<option value="' . $cat->cat_ID . '">' . $cat->cat_name . '</option>';
}
Das AS ist also wirklich nicht nötig, aber die Felder müssen eben so umbenannt werden, dass später darauf zugegriffen werden kann.
Carsten Albrecht meint
hi xel, das scheint von der mysql-version abhängig zu sein, ob das einen fehler wirft oder nicht. denn eigentlich ist das schlüsselwort AS für einen Alias nicht zwingend vorgeschrieben. auf meinen servern hat das noch nie nen fehler geworfen, daher musste ich davon ausgehen, daß es nicht notwendig ist.
dennoch danke für deinen hinweis.
Xel meint
Hi Carsten,
hab das Theme mal n bisschen durchgetestet.
So 100% richtig funktionieren tut das Admin Panel allerdings nicht.
Aber das wird es vor 2.5 auch nicht haben.
Bei den Asides hast du bei deinem Bugfix wohl was übersehen:
$asides_cats = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT t.term_ID AS cat_ID, name AS cat_name FROM ".$wpdb->terms." AS t, ".$wpdb->term_taxonomy." AS tt WHERE t.term_ID=tt.term_ID AND tt.taxonomy='category'");
die “AS” bei den Tabellenfeldern waren nicht da, demnach konnten
$cat->cat_nameund
$cat->cat_IDauch nicht funktionieren…
Keine Ahnung, ob es noch mehr Stellen gibt, mir ist nur die eine aufgefallen.
Carsten Albrecht meint
Guys and girls, I upgraded this blog to WP 2.5 - as you can see, Binary Blue works perfectly with WP 2.5. I did not need to modify any line of code.
So, if you are already running BB 1.4.2 including the WP 2.3 hotfixes, you should be safe to upgrade your installations of WP to the 2.5 release as well!
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