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Great release, if only it would’ve been released a bit sooner though, I just completed editing my Pink October theme. =D

Good work Derek, but man, I had just finished modding Pink for October! I noticed that a lot of the PHP files are fairly similar (eg. main_right.php is exactly the same if you aren’t going to use the widgets) so I just updated the CSS and whatnot and it runs fine with the old version.
Thanks!

I downloaded this copy, great theme! thanks! I noticed theres problem showing up my comments, which I have able to show on my previous october pink theme. Weird.

woah, yet another nice theme!

hmm, i think it’ll be really cool if this had the scriptaculous drawers like in 5thirtyoneV2.

Hello derek.
nice work there.

i wonder if the bottom posts is not displaying the first post that shows on top. i am testing it with this:

ID == $first_post ) continue; update_post_caches($posts);

and it works!

well, i just want to say you did a great job. maybe i’ll use this theme after i’m get bored with my current theme. sorry for my bad English.

Hey Derek,
Great job on your widgitized theme.

The question is, is it possible to add “next” and “previous” on the main page. I know you already have it on the archive, but when I did add the links on the main page.. it just seems doesn’t like it much.

Let me know if I was missing something…otherwise I will go ahead and modify it.

Thanks

I installed this theme on my wordpress but it seems to have issues with comments.
here’s a scenario.
i have 3 posts 1-3 , when a comment is posted under post 2 it shows as though it’s been posted under post 1 but when i click on individual posts the comment shows up under all of them regardless of whether or not it was posted for that particular post.
this issues seems to be only with this theme
any suggestions? thanks for a great theme by the way

Hey Derek,

Just installed your great theme on by WP installation after upgrading to 2.0.5, and I get the error …

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare getcolorscheme() (previously declared in d:\customers\watchingwow.com\wwwroot\wp-content\themes\octoberspecial\functions.php:78) in d:\customers\watchingwow.com\wwwroot\wp-content\themes\octoberspecial\functions.php on line 85

… on about every page in the admin and also on the main page of the blog.

Any tips would be appreciated

Thanks,

Acacia

looks like that issue i mentioned earlier has something to do with the widgets.. i took off the first (top) widget and comments work fine. once again thanks for a great template and happy thanksgiving

Is there any required plugin for this theme? and how what plugin do you use for the “current popular” section?

Derek, I tried the_author (http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author) and the_author_posts_link. The author posts link is working on the Single Post pages but not on the main index page.

Derek,

Thanks for this fantastic theme. It’s well coded, easy to use and even better to look at. I do have a question regarding comments…or the lack of them.

If you take a look at this post on my blog, there should be 3 comments, however two of them from October simply are not appearing. I took a look under the hood and simply don’t see why this should be happening. Any thoughts on why comments from the past don’t want to appear while the test comment I left this morning does?

Thanks,
Dave

I tried the tag you suggested, and similar tags. Still nothing showing on the front page. Weird.

I’ve integrated FAlbum on http://www.admartinator.de/photos/ . If someone likes to have the album.php drop me an email.

I’ve been using this for a little while now and I really like it. I wanted to say thank you for creating it!

Ah… just simply added the Adsense code below the edit link in the templates. I didn’t know that, it will show up below tags.
BTW, awsome theme

Thanks Derek

Hey Derek, does this theme work with gravatars? I followed the instructions while I was installing the gravatars plugin but when I go to my comments all I see is the snippet of code I was suppose to use in the comments.php page:

if (function_exists('gravatar')) {

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer, great theme by the way!

Hi, I wanted to try to install this theme and I am a total newbie. I clicked on the download box above, I saved the zip file on my desktop, I double clicked the zip file, I made a new folder named october_theme, highlighted the 4 things (2 folders and 2 docs?) and tried to drag them into my new folder. I box pops up and says “The system cannot find the file specified.”

Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong?

I appreciate any help I can get … Thanks! Suzanne

A Very Happy New Year to You!
I had been looking for a cool theme for about three days but could not find anything to suit my needs. Then I stumbled upon October Special theme. I think its really cool.

My coding skills are negligible so I simply cannot figure out how to do the following:

1. Previously I had three more pages but since changing the theme, they do not display in the navigation menu. How do I display them?

2. Do I need to create a page for Colophon to make it work?

Once again, your theme rocks dude.

Don’t you have any idea how to solve the problem described above?

Argh, I meant the problem described by me! http://5thirtyone.com/archives/703#comment-37000

Hya: http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/1584/namenlosig1.jpg

Hey derek!

Phenominal job on yet another WP theme! I had a question that is similar to one that was never solved earlier in the comments.

Problem:
On my blog (found by clicking on my name) I only have about 5 comments. But those same 5 comments are found under every post. No matter if they apply or not. And I cannot figure out why it is doing that.

I use wordpress 2.0.4

If you have any ideas please let me know.

Thanks for the quick response. To answer your question.

Wordpress Plugins that are installed:
Akismet
Google Analyticator
Text Link Ads V2
Thee widgets (Sidebar, Google, Delicious)

Modifications that I made besides the obvious visual ones:
I changes the # of posts on the front page
Nothing else really

Could it be the whole widgets in the comments area? because that is where the problem lies. Thanks again for your help!

three problems in IE:

http://www.seniorcitizens.com

1. the header title is being mispaced underneath it. it adds two or three lines.

2. when I add adsense to the single post page so it appears in the left hand column, it drops the entry below the bottom of the adsense column.

3. how do you add an adsense column to the left side on index page. which file needs to be edit, and where does the code go? and how do you add adsense to the colophon area on index page?

is there a new class entry that has to be made to the stylesheet?

these problems don’t occur in firefox, but do occur in IE. thanks!

Hi Derek,

Gorgeous theme, and very functional.

I just wanted to ask whether there is any way to change the number of posts appearing in the “white” section on the index page. My blog often combines short and long posts, and the theme does not work so well when the latest post is really short.

Do you have any advice on how this can be done? If so, can you also change which posts are displayed further down, so there is no double-up?

I suspect doing all these might be beyond my coding skills but I thought I would ask in case there is a relatively easy solution.

Thanks!

Derek, I LOVE this theme, and I am very thankful that I can use it.

I have a problem though. I notice that in longer posts there is a strange breach in some of the paragraphs. It happens on various posts and II can’t find anything wrong in my HTML source code.

I am using Firefox. Check this post for an example: http://www.boemlauw.nl/2007/02/05/inzicht-in-de-overlap-tussen-jouw-talent-passie-en-meerwaarde/

In some of the paragraphs there seems to be a that I didn’t put in there.

Do you have a clue? Thanks!

Great theme! Love it!

One question - I have a post with 407 comments which seems to get stuck on loading for Firefox/Mac. Could that be down to the sheer size of the page? Or what could be doing it? (untested on a PC).
Here’s the post in question

Hey Derek, excellent theme! I wondering how you got the “possibly related” section done, i’m afraid CSS isn’t a strong suit of mine I assume it’s similar to .content_right_sub, correct?

Hi Derek,

I really love this theme and have been trying to use it on my website. Like JJ above, I found that the Comments systems becomes broken when the Sidebar Widgets plugin is activated. Comments no longer appear under the proper post, and all comments end up being associated with the very first post. As soon as I turn off the Sidebar Widget plugin, comment behavior works as advertised. Have you had a chance to look any more into this? Would appreciate a fix or some insight as to what is happening!

Dear Derek and others,

In my previous comment I indicated that I am having problems with the comment section of my site in combination with the side bar widgets. Other people indicated that they are having this problem as well. Well, before I continue I must point out that I am a novice to PHP / SQL, so I learn by trial an error. I thought, though, that it would be a shame not to share some observations. What I did:

I disabled the widgets plugin first. The comments were back. Then I edited the main_right.php and added the following code under the “PHP if … sidebar” line:

<ul>
<h3>Recent posts</h3>
<div id="archived_posts">
<?php query_posts('showposts=5'); ?>
<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); if(!($second_post == $post->ID)) : ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title() ?></a></li>
<div class="clear"></div>
<?php endif; endwhile; ?>
</div>
</ul>

The 5 most recent posts appeared on the right, looking exactly as they did with the widgets turned on. The comments disappeared again. By the way, I need to change if(!($first_post == $post->ID)) to if(!($second_post == $post->ID)) in order to get the last 5 posts listed there. Anyway, the problem is still there.

Then, I restored the original settings and I started editing the bottom_right.php file. I put the same code directly under these lines:

<div class="archived_right">
<div class="archived_sub_right">

This time the comments did not disappear… and they are displayed like they should. So I figure that our problem must somehow be related to the main_right.php file. Does this make sense?

I cant change the bottom posts.
Editing bottom_posts.php or home.php doesnt change anything at all.
Any suggestions?

I too have a problem when using the ‘recent posts’ in sidebar 1. I have them in 2 now but would much prefer them in 1 - so if anyone knows of a simple solution (I’m no programmer) I would really appreciate it!! Cheers, Sarah

QuickHack to resolve the Recent Posts/Comments issue:

Its not ideal, as its dependent on javascript, but its working for me for now.

File: single.php (or “Single Post” in the Theme Editor)

Change: Directly under:


<?php the_content('[...]‘); ?>


add:


<div id="comment-hack"><?php comments_template(); ?></div>


Further down the page, where comments are output, change:


<div class="bottom_left">
<?php comments_template(); ?>
</div>


to


<div class="bottom_left" id='comment-space'></div>


File: header.php (’Header’ in the Theme Editor)

Prototype.js users:

<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[
function moveComments(){
output = $('comment-hack').innerHTML;
document.$('comment-space').innerHTML = output;
}
Event.observe(window, 'load', moveComments);
// ]]>
</script>

Non Prototype.js users:

<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[
function moveComments(){
output = document.getElementByID('comment-hack').innerHTML;
document.getElementByID('comment-space').innerHTML = output;
}
window.onload = moveComments();
// ]]>
</script>

Finally, add the following style to your main stylesheet:


#comment-hack {display:none;}


That’s it. Recent posts now works.

Not a pleasant hack, but it doesn’t require altering any of the WordPress code.

I’ve contacted Automattic to see if there is a way to update their widget to not harm the current post ID, so will post if I get a response.

Have fun all.

Dear Derek;
thank you very much for this great theme!
Maybe you could help me with one problem.
I use Wordpress 2.0.1
If I activate your theme, there is always only one post to see in the main area. Have a look at http://www.diegosan.de
The wordpress-menu is put on: show the last 20 entries.
It would be great if you could help.
Thanks very much.

I must say the template is great indeed.
But it goes wrong on my site.It seems the comments can be left follow the right topic and always fix to the unique one.

Pls have a look at my blog,and kindly help me to solve this bug.

Tons of thank you.

Dear Derek;
thank you very much for this great theme!

I tried multiple ways of using Ben’s posted method with no success. It seems everyone has this problem, therefore making widgets useless.

Derek: Is there any chance you could update this theme so that it works, even with WP’s buggy widget implementation? There must be some workaround, but I have no idea what it is because I’m not a programmer.

Any help would be appreciated

I found an easy work-around. Download alternative widgets!

I am using:

Fuzzy Recent Posts - http://www.semiologic.com/software/recent-posts/
Simple Recent Comments (widget port) - http://mika.kfib.org/wordpress/2006/04/07/widget-for-simple-recent-comments/

I found that the default “recent posts” widget also broke your theme, and not just the “recent comments” widget.

Using alternative widgets seem to make everything good. At least on my blog

Hey, I found this Wordpress theme on Digg. What caught my eye was that this theme is optimized for search engines. When I first started using the default Wordpress theme, I thought it was terrible and actually counter-productive to SEO methods. I just wanna say thanks for providing this. It gave me a lot of ideas when creating my own themes.