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)
Download
Community Forum
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!
Luca Beltrame meint
Hello. Since BB uses the old category table, it’s probably incompatible with WP 2.3. Is the fix doable, or too complex? (I mean, I’m asking if it can be fixed by hand)
Thanks.
Walle meint
4null4.de läuft ja jetzt mit der Entwicklungsversion 2.x. Wird Version 1.5 jetzt übersprungen? Dachte die war eigentlich schon fertig?
Grüße
Kai
FiveEasySteps meint
Good theme…love AJAX!
Carsten Albrecht meint
@rosina:
by default, the comments are always numbered, but the numbers are kinda small and directly in front of the comment date, so it’s likely to oversee them.
If you want to apply changes to the comments’ numbers, you’d have to modify the file
paged-comments-AJAX.phpthere’s a PHP section with the code
change this for example to
this will allow to use different colors and font-sizes for the comment numbers.
Rosina Lippi Green meint
I’m using the Arena scheme, and I’m wondering if there’s an easy way to arrange for the comments to be numbered. A pointer in the right direction would be very much appreciated.
Aantn meint
Ok. Thanks again.
Carsten Albrecht meint
I just started to implement and test a couple of new features, implemented support for some nice new plugins, and I am thinking of getting rid of prototype (it’s grown way too large in the mean time since the first BB releases), and last but not least I need to design a couple of new schemes to support some new eyecandy for you, so it’ll still take some time before the new version will be released.
Aantn meint
Hello,
I love the theme.
I was wondering when version 2 was going to be released.
Thanks in advance.
Rosina Lippi meint
I’m glad I stopped by, because I found the solution to the single page sidebar-drop. Thank you.
Another question, though. I’m sure you’ve noticed that some WP weblogs have an option for increasing or decreasing font size, according to the reader’s wish. I’ve tried a couple plugins, but not of them worked with BB. Do you know of one that does?
Thanks for your help.
CountZero meint
there are two possibilities….
the one is to choose your desired amount in the dropdown field at the “tip jar” chapter, enter your website in the second field an hit the “donate via paypal” button.
the other one is to surf to the static page called “impressum”, where you can find a sub page in the upper right sidebar, named “wishlist” - this is my amazon wishlist.
thanks for your interest and your appreciation.