[dload]January 11, 2011: BlueBubble v3.4 is released. Click here to download.[/dload]
Finally arrived! An update to the original BlueBubble WordPress Theme by designer Thomas Veit. This new version is a collaboration project, with designer Mike Walsh, founder of imaginalgo (imagine something) adding the updates for version 3.0.
This site is the BlueBubble 3.0 demo. Although it doesn’t allow you to play with the Theme Options Panel or change the theme colors, you can see how the site works.
You can download the latest version of BlueBubble 3.0 from one of the following locations. All versions from these sites are original:
This version of BlueBubble is compatible with WordPress 3.0 and later – older versions will not work!
[info]BlueBubble 3.0 Theme Features:
- 8 Different Styles/Colors
- New User Profile Fields – add Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc.
- Advanced Theme Options Panel – Control everything from one location.
- Updated design using CSS and new CSS3 elements.
- ColorBox image popup for Portfolio items.
- Author Details box with list of their posts – all in one place!
- Custom color for author comments.
- New Contact Form:
- JQuery Form Field Validation
- Users can send themselves a copy of email.
- Animated thamk-you message when email successfully sends.
- Connect your Twitter account and show latest posts.
- Social Media icons – button links provided for 16 popular social media types. Easy to add from Theme Options Panel.
- Automatic image resizing for Portfolio items – same as previous versions of BlueBubble.
- Support for Search Engine Optimization in Theme Options – add Meta content and more!
- ABSOLUTELY FREE! DOWNLOAD AND START USING TODAY.
If you have any questions, leave a comment on this page and I will try to answer as quickly as possible. I will answer comments in English and Spanish.
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*** Some plans for BlueBubble v3.4 ***
- Custom Shortcode Buttons on Write Panels.
- Advanced Colorbox Hover Overlay.
[info]*** Changelog for BlueBubble v3.3 ***
- FIXED: Shortcode Button text color – now appears white on all themes.
- Theme Update notification improved.
- Updated styles for various widgets: Meta, Archives, Calendar, Recent Comments, Recent Posts, and Search.
- Added optin to turn on/off the old menu styles.
- Added option to display navigation menu on the righthand side.
- Added BB Archives Widget. (a slight modification of default archives widgets)
- Full-Screen Portfolio page. (no sidebar, 3 portfolio items per row)
- New silver border for portfolio items. (old border for full-screen)
- New Top Horizontal menu.
- Added search results count and highlighted search results.
- Changed location of BlueBubble Admin Panel in Admin menu.
- New Favicon and Admin Panel icon design.
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[info]*** Changelog for BlueBubble v3.2 ***
- Turn On/Off Tweet buttons.
- Localization support.
- Spanish language translation.
- Custom metadata for Portfolio items.
- Direct uploading for Logo and Favicon.
- Advanced Contact Form customization.
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[info]*** Changelog for BlueBubble v3.1.1 ***
- Fixed Portfolio pagination error.
- Ascending/Descending Posts Order.
- Turn on/off Colorbox.
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[dload]January 11, 2011: All the downloads of BlueBubble have moved to the imaginalgo website. Click here to download.[/dload]
Under page attribute there doesn’t seem to be the template section?
Hello,
First off great theme!
I’m new to wordpress & found your theme to setup fairly simple. However, one of your setup instructions for a portfolio is confusing because I just don’t see those options there. In your step #7, you say to make a static page in the Reading settings, but that option isn’t there. I have v3.2.1 of WordPress & downloaded your theme today so I presume it’s v3.4. I believe this setting is not allowing me to create my homepage like how it is here on the demo.
Am I missing something or has this setting moved to another location inside WP? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
I guess I jumped the gun a bit on my question! I didn’t have any pages published which is why those options weren’t visible, sorry!!
Hi!
Can you help me with the installation of the theme please?
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Thank you very much!
Janet
Hi Mike! I love this theme! Thanks!
I have just installed the blue bubble theme and I am very new to wordpress so excuse my silly question: Where is the error?
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Thank you very much!
Janet
Got cut off again…. hmmmm….
Sticky note slider instruction
*** Add the function to your index.php before line. ***
Hi Mike,
Beanpoo again. Some of my comment got cut out. That specific instruction for Sticky Note Slider was
“Add the function to your index.php before line.”
Thanks again and look forward to hearing from you.
Cheers, Beanpoo
Hi Mike,
Brilliant work with this theme – I absolutely love it. After searching high and low, long and hard for a theme that had the looks and functionality that I was after I was about to give up and POP! along came BlueBubble. Thank you thank you thank you! I am quite a n00b at this stuff so just a pre-warning (sorry). I have tried a few different sticky note plugins to get 3 of my posts to stick at the top of the page (they are set to sticky) but none seem to work – it doesn’t throw up an error message or anything, it just doesn’t seem to make any difference to the page. The plugin I’m trying to use is called Sticky Note Slider. Specific instructions are “Add the function to your index.php before line.” which I’ve done but it doesn’t seem to work – nor do any of the other sticky note plugin options (I’ve tried about 4 others). Can you please help me please?! I’m a bit stuck. Thank you, I really appreciate your help.
Cheers,
Beanpoo : )
Mike, this is a great theme and works perfectly on my site.
I haven’t updated to 3.4 because I’ve made a number of changes to 3.3 and customised it a lot. It will take very long for me to fix all those things after I’ve updated versions.
Are you able to tell me which files are the critical ones to update? That way, I can avoid overwriting everything and only upload the ones you changed.
Thanks.
Hi Sorry I figured out how to change the text!
Another thing though please!! Can I change the colour of the hover of the links in the navigation menu? I’d like to change them from gray to light pink? Thanks!!
Victoria
Hello! I have just installed the blue bubble theme and I am very new to wordpress so excuse my silly question… Please can you tell me how to change the copy at the left hand side under the menu and logo so I can add my own profile text? I can’t figure it out! I especially love how these guys have used your theme and would like something similar…
http://www.smalltowntatas.com/
I love the theme by the way, perfect for what I need it for!
Thanks,
Victoria
Hey Mike,
Im using BB 4.3 and latest WP, but when I use this theme the Admin page runs incredibly slow. If I change back to WP standard theme all is fine again. have you had this problem reported before?
best
x b.
Hi Mike, do you have time to answer a BlueBubble Question? How can I link my portfolio thumb to an external site?
Thanks for taking the time to upgrade the theme.
Mark
Nice template, thx you
I read all the comments but I don’t find the soluce for multiple portfolio.
Do you have the soluce please ? Thx !
hi Mike,
Loving this theme, one of the best around.
The only thing I was wondering is whether it is possible to have different thumbnail and featured post image for each post? I’d like to clean up my homepage by keeping the thumbnails to a certain style, but for each post image to be a more colourful, lively version of the thumbnail.
Anyway, thanks again for a great theme, any help geatefully received.
Col
The contact form for bluebubble 3.4 pushes the sidebar down when hitting send…..any ideas on how to fix this? sorry i didnt specify that this only happens in Safari web browser.
The contact form for bluebubble 3.4 pushes the sidebar down when hitting send…..any ideas on how to fix this?
Hi There, Thanks for the theme! I really love it, the code it very neat! There is just one thing, i changed the font-size beneith the thumbnails and putted it in the centre of a thumbnail, but with long titles, it doesnt show everything, is their a maximum of width? I want this to be just as wide is my thumbnail is, but i can’t find where to change that.
I really love this theme, respect the skills!
nice themes . . .
Hi Mike,
I love the BlueBubble theme and I sincerely hope that you will keep developing it!
I figured out the reason why my site was crashing in Firefox and IE8 when I was using the BlueBubble theme options panel.
It was an issue with BlueBubble > SEO > Meta tag: Description. About a million /////////’s had been inserted after the text I entered. This bloated my site from 13.57 KB to 2061.21 KB and caused timeouts in IE and crashes in Firefox.
I deleted all of the slashes and now the site is working fine.
In case it helps, I think I may have used an link in my original Meta description. Maybe that messed up your code.
All the best,
Laura
Hi Mike,
Great work on the theme – it’s a stunner.
I’m slightly confused by something that’s happened with my install, however – I seem to have lost a lot of the fancyness from the demo theme: http://daveleejblog.com/folio/
The menu is appearing as just plain links – rather than the nice hover overs – and there isn’t a nice hover over effect on the individual portfolio items.
Can you help?! I appreicate you probably have loads of people hassling you for answers, but hopefully this is a quick fix.
Best wishes,
Dave
Hi Mike,
Great theme, I’ve really enjoyed working with it! I’m having a tiny problem iwht editing the information that populates the Blog pages.
http://www.cicadabooks.co.uk/new/news/
I am trying to take out the Comments tag, I figured this would be in the blog.php template but no matter what I try nothing will allow me to edit that line of code. I had not problem taking the small piece of code out of the single_blog.php
Any help with where to edit this bit of code would be much appreciated!
Thank you,
Megan
Nevermind, I got it, it was in the index.php file.
Great theme, thanks again!
Hi, I love the simplicity of this theme and its really easy to use. I have a question though, what if I have multiple types of portfolios, say, a web design set, a photography set and an illustration set. how can I categorize them as to separate them in different pages.
Because I tried it and only one portfolio can be created. Others fall in the blog section and they don’t generate the “box-new” class in a thumbnail.
Hope you can help. thanks!
Hi Mike,
Thank you so much for updating the BlueBubble theme and keeping it alive!
I just installed WordPress version 3.0.4. Now the BlueBubble Theme Options Panel will not open when I am using Firefox 3.6. (But it still works in IE8.)
Here’s what happens: When I go to my WP Dashboard > Bluebubble, Firefox tries to load /wp-admin/admin.php?page=functions.php for a long time then it just stops responding.
Do you have any idea what might be causing this?
Laura
Of course as soon as I post, I figure it out after 4 hours….when you create your portfolio category, the slug MUST match the category name *exactly*. Once upon a time I had already created a “Portfolio” category then deleted it, so the slug “portfolio” was taken. BlueBubble didn’t work as long as my Portfolio slug was “myportfolio”. Now I’m using “Work” as the name and slug of my portfolio category.
I hope this helps others in the future!!
I LOVE this theme. It was worth the 4 hours pulling my hair out!!
Hi Mike,
I’ve been trying to get this theme to work until blue in the face. I’m a seasoned WordPress user so there has to be something deeper here. I’ve read every install guide out there to make sure my categories and pages are set correctly. I’ve done everything to book! What else can I do to make my portfolio show up?
Thank you so much for your hard work,
Sally
Que tal, cuando instalo el template me salen unos errores en el functions.php y cuando voy a crear un nuevo post, no sale el campo de Post Options para poner la imagen… qué puede ser? ayuda por favor.
Tengo la última versión de WP y he probado con la última y la penúltima versión del template…
Muchas gracias por la ayuda
Que tal, cuando instalo el template me salen unos errores en el functions.php y cuando voy a crear un nuevo post, no sale el campo de Post Options para poner la imagen… qué puede ser? ayuda por favor.
Tengo la última versión de WP y he probado con la última y la penúltima versión del template…
Whilst the theme works perfectly on my own site, when I went to upload it to a brand new (fresh install) site earlier this evening I was greeted with the following messages on installation : (uploading BlueBubble.3.4.zip)
Warning: fopen(/home/username/public_html/about/wp-content/themes/bluebubble3.4/style.css) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/username/public_html/about/wp-includes/functions.php on line 4165
Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/username/public_html/about/wp-includes/functions.php on line 4168
Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/username/public_html/about/wp-includes/functions.php on line 4171
This also causes problems on the front end when the theme is activated.
Hey guys,Thanks for this theme-just uploaded it today.
This is very smooth.
Question:
-How do I remove the grey box that appears when I hover over a link in the sidebar?
-How do I make the page title text thinner? For example, when I click About Me, the words “About Me” appear at the top of the page. How do I make that text thinner?
Hi I have followed the instructions but I have failed to get it to show. am I missing something from making a portfolio page and then making a post? Should these be put in the same category or what? I have failed to see why you need to get a page and then a post as well in the category “Portfolio” all I want is to add my portfolio pages and have them show up on the frint just like in your demo.
Thanks
featured images will resize in two sizes… one for thumbnail and one as a larger image… Now i dont that larger image to be there, because I want to fill that place in by myself, with images of all diferent sizes at the top and also video on top… How can i do that?
Hello!
Thank you for your great theme!
I got a question.. is it possible to choose an background color beside the standard colors in the option menu of WordPress?
I tried to change some codes in CSS but nothing works..
Please help me!
Thank you!
Greets, Carola
from the Netherlands
Carola,
Yes you can certainly change background colors. Keep in mind that the style.css is the main sheet. You should change the colors in this stylesheet and in the options menu select the default (light grey)
This is the style.css.
Hi
Thanks, the theme is great. I do have a niggle – it inserts a number of \\\\\\ before every ” or ‘ character in the Footer Copyright Text and Google Analytics code text fields under General options.
It doesnt have any direct impact, but I think its only a matter of time before the whole form is flooded with \\\\\\\.
Can you please help? Once again, thanks for the theme.
Cheers,
Mixed
A little bit same question, i guess
)
Some vertical positioning problems, i dont know…
but there was no good answer
The problem with those images. If they are default size 657×318, everything’s ok, but else… They just fly somewhere
i.e. i changed the box size to 400×400 (in single post); so now, when i upload 400×400 image it still doesn’t show full image… i just don’t know, where to edit, hmm, something
Btw, thanks for help in advance
Btw, great theme, just damn great
Hello
First thanks for theme
Second: I have one Problem How To Put IMAGE to BACKGROUND
PLEASE HELP
Mike, great theme.
When I use the custom menu (Home, About, etc), it looks great (like it does on this site). However, when I use the search function (widget), the search results page removes the menu.
When I click on the tags, the menu stays as is. And I’ve compared the archive.php and search.php code and they’re almost identical.
How do I keep the menu on the search results page?
Hello,
I am currently using this theme and loving it. I do have one question, I made a custom header and called it logo and uploaded it into the images folder (so i replaced the original header/logo).
but now i want to get it fluid but i doesn’t seem to work. I’ve tried adding 100% for heigth and weight in the css style sheet. I’ve tried to ad the banner in the header.php file which worked (it was fluid) but then i would also get the bluebubble logo… i’ve tried to erase some code from header.php but that didn’t work.
Do you happen to know in which file and where i can add the height and weight percentages for the header?
Thanx,
Hanneke
thanks for such a great work, just a simple question, how i can hide portfolio (front page) posts in blog page i dont want it repeat in blog page.
Hi
I think the theme has bug. Posts arent showing up on main page. Have a look http://atlasmed.pl/
Hi,
Great theme. At http://ifihadmyownschool.com/ why is the details link not showing up one of the front portfolio page?
Thanks,
Richard
Hi, Mike
First I want to congratulate You for this cool WP theme and for the time You spent to create it!
I have one request about JS function which crop the thumb images. I tried to modified X and Y position on it but without success. I want all images (thumb and full-size) to be positioned on the left top (XY) after cutting (cropping) by the script (timthumb). Currently the script positioned images centered (center center or 50 50 by left top). what I should do to solve my problem?
I tried to modify this part of function.php:
/* Add Post Image Theme Support */
add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
add_image_size( 'portfolio-thumb', 310, 150, true );
add_image_size( 'portfolio-big', 657, 9999, true );
add_image_size( ‘portfolio-big’, 657, 9999, true ); <– 9999 shows me full Height of image cuz i want to show the full height-size of all uploaded image (I want all images to be resized only by their width) <– that's OK!
The thimbs are ok too, only position is small problem for me
(Sorry for my bad english)
Regards: Burofar
Hi,
I’m really new to WordPress so sorry if this is a basic question. On the theme demo the border around pictures on the main page is a thin silver band. When I create a similar page it is a much thicker silver band. Is this possible to change?
Thanks
Hi Mike,
I’m attempting to develop my portfolio using Blue Bubble v3 3.1 and I’ve run into a bit of a problem. I’m not sure what happened from the last time I created my posts but where the text used to run about 2 lines and have a ‘details’ link that led to the page in question. Currently I’ve run into a problem where the text keeps running and the details link and the line of text it sits on seems to be chopped off. Is there something I’ve done or should do to fix that? Any help that you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much!
Colleen
Hi Mike! I love this theme! Thanks!
But I had one problem… my lateral menu not appear with the background color. Coul’d you help me?
http://djzahle.mucambo.org/blog/
Thanks in advance!
Peace!
Hi Mike,
Thank you so much for creating this theme. I love it! Btw, I want to inform you that gbutton and bbutton class are not displayed correctly in my favourite browser, Opera. The white link are displayed but not those green and blue boxes surround them. Hope you can fix it next release!
Lou
Hey Mike,
Great theme!
One question. If I have it set to where each portfolio item has it’s own page instead of a lightbox, how would I set additional images within that portfolio item’s page to use a lightbox?
Thanks!
Josh,
Thanks for the comment. That option is currently not available, but I will try to have it ready for the next version.
Hi Mike,
Is there a way to incorporate all my latest posts from my different subdomains automatically using this theme? I won’t be blogging or using the posts function, I just want to use this theme to showcase all my subdomain latest posts.
Hello Mike!
I have a question. I would like to have a bigger logo in height.. But when I do this, it hides my menu.. Is there something I can do to give more space to my logo?
Thanks!
Paty
Patricia,
At this time there is no way to allow a larger height without changing some css coding. If you want, let me know what size logo you want and I will see how I can help. The current maximum without problems is 77px. (i am looking to change this in future versions)
Hi Mike!
Humm… Top bad! I don’t want to bother you with that.. But still, if you have a little time for me, that would be awesome!
My logo is 192 x 219 px. Is it too much? If I cannot do that, i will have to change to another theme.. And that would be bad because I love BlueBubble!
Thanks.
Found a solution!
#sidebar {
font-family: verdana, arial, tahoma;
font-size:13px;
width:210px;
float:left;
margin:0;
margin-top : 142px; //Add this line, depend of the logo size. Logo size minus 77 px.
padding: 0;
line-height: 20px;
}
Hi Mike, Thank you very much for this update. Really great theme. But I’m having a problem with portfolio thumbnail images. When I add some images, they doesn’t crop correctly to fit the thumbnail box. You can see my portfolio here.
http://dakshinasd.com/page/2/
Can you give me an idea what should I do to overcome this question?
Many Thanks!
Dakshina,
It seems that BlueBubble has trouble cropping vertical images, which is something I will look into for future versions.
I know if you upload an image with the dimensions 657×318, you will have no problems. Or if you upload a larger image but it has the same ratio as 657×318 it will resize well.
That is the cause of the odd image sizes.
Thank You very much for your quick response. If so I’m waiting for your next release.
Acabo de probar BlueBubble 3.3…
No soy capaz de mostrar los [bbutton] ni los [gbutton], el “Link” lo crea, al igual que aqui pero el “Button” del mismo no aparece…
Sin mas, ¡ENHORABUENA! por este genial “Theme” para WordPress 3.0
Un Saludo
Héctor Ruiz
Héctor,
Para hacer los botones de color verde y azul con enlaces, es necesario cerrar el texto en [bbutton url="www.tusitio.com"]textotexto[/bbutton]
Por ejemplo, para hacer el botón a la izquierda que dice Free: BlueBubble 3.1.1, escribo este: [gbutton url="http://bluebubble.dosmundoscafe.com/free-theme-bluebubble-v3-0/"]Free: BlueBubble 3.3.1[/gbutton]
Ni idea, el “Html” esta correcto, de todas formas en esta Web tampoco los logro visualizar Mike… Ni con Mozilla/IExplorer…
Un Saludo
Héctor Ruiz
Si, disculpa Mike… Al final estaba todo correcto, el problema lo tenia en el Pc…
Un Saludo
Héctor Ruiz
Hi Mike, Do you happen to know exactly what elements in Blue Bubble 1.0 prevented it from working with WordPress 3.0? As I work with your revision I’m finding that there are more things from the original theme that I’d like to retain and trying to bring them back into 3.0 is becoming a challenge.
One of the reasons is because of the color theme chooser you added… this requires several css file edits and Firebug is not always helpful in showing what to edit. Some of the things I’m trying to change are font colors, changing hover attributes, etc. and also I’d like to get the contact form back on the sidebar.
If you know what parts of 1.0 were causing problems and don’t mind sharing this info it would be very helpful! Thanks!
Here’s another update… I re-activated BB 1.2 and it seems to be working fine with my install of WP 3.1. This really confuses me since several people said that the theme stopped working with WP 3.0 and I thought that was one of the reasons Mike revised BB. I’ll keep an eye on it and will try it on different browsers and PCs to see if it keeps working.
I think the new BB version is excellent and offers lots of nice features, but for me the simplicity of BB 1.2 may serve my needs better I think, unless there is some other issue I am unaware of that would keep me from using it.
Mike I tried you suggestion and made this change:
/* Add Post Image Theme Support */
add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ );
add_image_size( ‘portfolio-thumb’, 310, 85, true );
add_image_size( ‘portfolio-big’, 657, 175, true );
But now if you look on my site (www.netizentv.com) the thumbs are even smaller! They seem to be 175×85 and I have no idea why!
Mike I used Firebug to take a closer look at what was happening on my site and discovered a few things:
1. I think when I first uploaded my graphics in the original posts WordPress must have created small thumbnails that were 175×85 in size and WP kept referring to these every time I made a new test post using the same graphics. To fix this I deleted the graphic files and then loaded them again when I created a new post and featured image. Now they appear to be the right size. If anyone else wants to use custom size graphics you will need to create a graphic in the original size you want, making sure that it will be somewhat proportional so that when BlueBubble shrinks it the graphic will still look relatively normal. Then when you select it as the featured image make sure you check “original size”. It should then display correctly in full size on the single post page and as a smaller thumb on the home page. But you’ll still need to make some css adjustments so it looks right which brings me to…
2. In order to resize the box that holds the graphic on the home page you just need to change the dimensions in the “.item” attribute within the main style.css file. To change the size of the box on the single post its a two-step process. First you change the dimensions in the “.boxsingle” attribute within the style.css file AND THEN you need to change the same thing in the individual color css file which unfortunately cannot be edited within WP. In my case it was “white.css” so I had to open and edit this in Wordpad and then replace it in the BlueBubble folder within WP. This was kind of a pain and if there is anyway to delete .boxsingle in the color.css files in the future, or somehow include them on the theme editor page, this would make it much easier for people to make the changes I did.
Hope this helps other people. I’ll probably take down my test site next week but when I create my real site I’ll try and post it here. Thanks again!
Scott,
Thanks for sharing the solution!
Hi Mike!
Cool template you made with Tomas!
Only one question.
How to add a custom link to a featured image.
I discoverd now, that this can be done with custom fields.
But how to implement this in the theme?
Thanks for helping!
Hi,
sorry for my english
first: How can i have a bigger logo?
Second: where are the site title and description?
Thanks
gil
Hi Mike, Nice improvements to the theme! I was wondering if you could help me solve a mystery.
On my site http://www.netizentv.com I created two test posts, each with its own unique image size. As expected the BlueBubble theme shrinks the 657×318 graphic proportionally smaller for the portfolio home page but with the 657×175 image it appears to be displaying it as actual size, cropping off the right side.
My ultimate goal is to use graphics that are 657×175 in size as the featured image and have their thumbnails show the entire image proportionally on the home page in a size which I think would be 310×85. Is there a way to do this?
By the way, I found the CSS code to change the image size on the post page to properly display 657×175 images (but I have not made that change on my site yet). I just can’t see how to fix the thumbnails so they show the entire image.
(Note to anyone who visits my site after October 2010: the sample images described above (and the site itself) probably won’t be there. I just put them up on a temp basis so Mike could see them.)
Correction to my above post… the 657×175 thumb on the main page is being cropped on both the left and right.
Also, in case I wasn’t clear my ultimate goal is to use featured images that are thin, like a 16×9 movie frame, instead of rectangular like the current format.
Scott,
Good point and this is something I have not yet tried myself. I know that the CSS is only going to change the space around the image. If I understand correctly, you want to change the sizes of the images that WordPress automatically crops. With this I can help you:
You want to open functions.php and look for the following:
/* Add Post Image Theme Support */add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
add_image_size( 'portfolio-thumb', 310, 150, true );
add_image_size( 'portfolio-big', 657, 318, true );
The line with the numbers: 310, 150 tells WordPress to automatically crops the Portfolio thumbs to that size. You want to change those numbers to: 310, 85 or whatever you want the size to be.
Make sure to only change the numbers and not anything else, including the spacing. Good luck, and let me know how it goes.
Hey Mike,
just have a quick question. On the sidebar menu(Home, About, Contact, etc.), I’m trying to change the text color from that light grayish color to black. I can’t for the life of me figure out how to do this. I tried changing all the colors in style.css file but it still never changed. I’m new to this website stuff…Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jake
Jake,
In the style.css, find the following:
.main-nav ul.main-nav li a {
color:#999999;
display:block;
padding:3px;
text-decoration:none;
}
change #999999 to 000
hmm i tried that earlier and it didnt change anything. I just tried it again and it still didnt change..same gray color for the color of the text in the menu on the left hand side..i even tried reuploading everything to the server in addition to editing the css file in wordpress but it still didn’t work…any other suggestions?
Also, i’m running the 3.1 theme, should i update to 3.2? i dont think that would be the problem though right?
jake,
I just tested it on the live site and on a 3.1 version and both times it worked.
It seems you have already tried clearing the cache. The only other possibility I can think of at the moment is if you have added or changed other CSS that might be conflicting with this, or perhaps a plugin’s CSS is the culprit.
ok i figured it out, i changed to default gray background and then just changed the background color to white and then added the CSS code you provided to change the text to black and voila, everything was working!
i had changed my background to white from the bluebubble option pane originally so i think i needed to be editing the white.css file rather than the style.css file when i was working on the white background.
Hello,
I suddenly have an error with the email. the page gets blank with the word error. Yesterday it was still working. Anyone knows how to fix this? I didn’t change anything in the mail script. only in the css file.
Thanx!
merel
merel,
Some of the CSS classes, especially the names of the CSS classes, are tied to the Contact Form code. You should be able to change some of the styles, but if you changed the NAMES of the styles, divs, etc., try changing them back to their original names and see if the error disappears. I have the form still working here, so I think it was probably some of the changes on your end.
Hi Mike,
I suddenly have an error with the email. the page gets blank with the word error. Yesterday it was still working. Anyone knows how to fix this? I didn’t change anything in the mail script. only in the css file.
Thanx!
merel
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Hi Mike,
WP newbie… I can’t seem to get my home page to load thumbs. When I go to portfolio page they show.
Can you point me in the right direction?
Hi — these updates are amazing, especially the custom menus support — this was the key I needed to make this template work for a site I’m doing. THANK YOU.
A couple suggestions for future releases — (1) I miss the original styling of the sidebar menu (see http://mu.flexible7.com/bluebubble/); and (2) it would be great to cut off the Tweet button on posts in the theme options.
Great work on a fantastic theme!! Thanks again.
Alex,
Thanks for the comments. I meant to make the Tweet buttons optional, but forgot to add it to the list. I will add it for the next release.
In addition, I will look into adding an option so that people can switch on and off the new and old menu styles – shouldn’t be too much.
Anyways, thanks for enjoying! (I remembered your post about the custom menu support when I was redoing the design)
I downloaded it but can’t open the files. It’s .rar file and I can’t open it on Mac.
i’ve tried it on a different computer and it worked this time. thanks!
Yes, I think it would be nice to have paginated Portfolio on index page. I’ll give it a try.
Mike,
Got it. A friend helped me with this one. A simple but effective solution that works in both cases (homepage portfolio or not).
here is link http://www.malistudio.hr/FTP/portfolio.zip
Made it work.
In portfolio.php line 23
cheers
just insert
paged=$paged&
before …category_name=$bb_portfolio_cat…. in line 23
Mali Studio,
Thanks alot for contributing with an answer! I’ll credit you with the change when I upload the next update.
Mali Studio,
I noticed that when the Portfolio Theme is NOT set at the front page, it all seems to work fine with the pagination. However, I added your code to portfolio.php as indicated above and it doesn’t work – IF portfolio.php is set as the main page.
This problem seems to have been around since the original BlueBubble theme. If you come across any ideas that work as front page AND as a normal page, we would love it!
Pagination on Portfolio turned out to be a real problem. By setting posts_per_page to some number (6) I have succeeded to get links for newer and older entries at the bottom, but it’s not working properly. Adress is changing correctly but it is allways the last 6 portfolio posts that is showing.
Any suggestions?
Good point. I’m working on a solution for that. Thanks for mentioning it!
Nevermind. I have managed to hardcode it. (changed the line 23 on portfolio.php)
Best regards, keep up the good work.
Great theme.
Question: PAGINATION on Blog page is working fine but not on the Portfolio page. I saw the comment in the code of portfolio.php, but no mather how I set it, I can’t get it to work.
Allso a tip for you. You have “back” option on single_portfolio.php but it is not a link to previous page but to home page.
Maybe a Back would be better.
Hope you don’t mind my remarks.
Good points. I will keep in mind these suggestions for the next release. I definitely welcome constructive comments. =)
sorry for bothering you – solved
Excellent. What was the problem, if I might ask?
heyy, cant install it :
PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature
After downloading and unzipping the archive, you will have a folder named bluebubble3.0. Inside of this folder will be README and BLUEBUBBLE. Make sure to upload THIS BlueBubble folder (and all of its contents) to the themes directory of your WordPress install.
Looks great! I’m off to check it out now.
BlueBubble 3.0 for WordPress is here! It will be officially launched at 23.00 on Tuesday, 17 August, 2010. It is completely free and is compatible/tested with both WordPress 3.0 and WP 3.0.1. In addition, it has been tested in Firefox 3.6, IE 8, Chrome 6 beta, Opera 10.5, and Safari 5.
We hope you enjoy this release. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment here and I will try to help as best as I can!
Hi Mike
I am trying to remove the border (or at least have it the same colour as the background) from around the image on a single post. Could find it on the old version but am drawing a blank on the new one. Thanks for a great upgrade, so good to be able to navigate now!
kevin