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!
DJ Allyn meint
hmmm, I am still seeing the post there, and the problem still exists.
Meanwhile, I am trying to recover from an upgrade problem with WordPress. I no longer have any entries after upgrading to the new WP 2.01
Web meint
Just turned this article to draft and everything seems fine/
You’re absolutely right! There is a problem with this article.
Thanks for pointing me to the reason of the problem DJ Allyn!
DJ Allyn meint
Have you tried turning that particular entry to draft to see if the problem is resolved? From what I am seeing, there is something else going on with that entry.
Web meint
Thank you for the reply DJ Allyn!
I removed the quotation marks and now the sidebar goes below
the articles in Firefox too.
I made localization changes but I also translate some comments in
sidebar.php, theloop.php and some other files. I changed the style.css
but I mostly made font/color changes.
I’ll compare now the original style.css with mine. Maybe I’ll find something …
Thank you once again!
DJ Allyn meint
CountZero,
If you are interested in the Shoutbox plugin (the live chat I put on my site) you can find it at AJAX Shoutbox by Jalenack. I think it is a great addition to your theme.
DJ Allyn meint
Web,
I can see right away what the problem is. You cannot put quotation marks in your titles. The entry I see causing the trouble is “VIVATEL” - “и аз бях там”… и сега приказвам …
As far as the changes you’ve made, are they CSS changes, or localization changes?
Web meint
Hello,
Firstly thank you for the great theme!
I have two questions if you don’t mind
1. How can I make an update from version 0.9.1 to
version 0.9.5 (6) without losing the theme changes I’ve made?
2. I just noticed a problem with slidebar under IE6 on the start page.
).
The sidebar moves below all articles.
I’ll be thankful for any idea what the problem can be.
I checked all files but I didn’t see anything wrong (probably I miss
something
Thank you!
CountZero meint
Short news: in the styleswitch box now you can find another new scheme that demonstrates the simple switch from two to three column layout
The small changes I needed to realize on the theme’s files will take part in the upcoming 0.9.6 release. So from now on everybody who likes three column layouts is not handicapped anymore to use Binary Blue as a base for his theming efforts 
CountZero meint
Hi Ville,
the layout makes use of many cascaded divs, so a missing one may result in several side effects at once.
just ran across your site through technorati a few minutes ago and saw the problem with my own eyes. it seems as if you have broken the buttons div in sidebar.php by accident. as the buttons aren’t displayed in posts and pages, it’s sort of logic that this does not affect them
nice job on the header graphics and the topmenu, by the way - it looks very nice.
Ville Oksanen meint
Hi,
Thank you very much for excellent theme, I just installed it to my blog with slight modifications:
Usko Järkeen.
Unfortunately, I seem to have broken something in the process e.g. the backround image is visible also in Sidebar and middle. In addition, the container is also broken (black lines don’t match) below the top. Any tips where to start look for these errors would be greatly preciated! (”About”-page is still correct, hmm…)