CONNECTIONS: This is the newest release of the Connections theme as of April 17th 2005. There are some minor corrections to the theme originally sent to Alex King’s competition and we also added a static page template, as well as a comments template.
I have been receiving a considerable number of emails from people who can’t find out how to edit the links in the top bar. So here’s how:
In order to edit the links in the top, you need to find the header template in your theme editor area inside WordPress admin (Presentation>>Theme Editor) . Then edit the links accordingly inside the html code. The links already have the code, so you’ll just have to edit the link names if you want to change them and replace the “#” signs with the corresponding urls. I hope this helps.
FLEUR-DE-LYS: This is the default Fleur-de-Lys theme, officially and initially released at WPThemes.info, where Sadish and I partner. Fleur has 3 different color schemes, but this is the only one that is ready for WP 1.5 so far.
June 29th, 2005 at 11:03 am
Estou iniciando hoje meu blog e gostaria de agradecer pelo lindo tema que tomei a liberdade de utilizar (alterei apenas a imagem de top). Mais uma vez obrigado.
June 29th, 2005 at 4:53 pm
how very strange, i had been reading a MT vs WP debate yesterday and decided firstly to start a blog (are you ever too old to blog!?) and also to go with WP this morning.
your connections theme was the first to catch my eye so i downloaded it. now strangely, 12 hours and 100’s of clicks later, quite perchance, i seem to have actually stumbled upon your very site. what a very happy coincidence!
July 3rd, 2005 at 8:35 pm
I’d like to convert your connections theme to b2evolution. Is that ok with you? Of course you’ll be credited with the original theme.
July 19th, 2005 at 12:00 am
Congrats on the win at AlexKing, I like your skin a lot. I don’t know how easy it is to port from MovableType to Wordpress, however, but I’ll definitely bookmark this site in case I do.
July 28th, 2005 at 8:00 pm
Hi, Graham, I guess replied this to you by email, but just for the record, yes, you can poort the theme to b2 and I’d appreciate it if when you’re done you post about it here:
http://vanillamist.com/blog/?page_id=81
Thanks much!
July 28th, 2005 at 9:45 pm
Lamento informar mas tem esse ponto indesejável ai antes do titulo “Pages” no menu (sidebar) que eu ainda não consegui resolver.
Alguém ja conseguiu?
July 28th, 2005 at 9:47 pm
Ha .. o seu notify ta dando fatal error no manage subscriptions:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: add_options_page() in /home/vanillam/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-contactform.php on line 239
August 5th, 2005 at 9:17 pm
Any chance you’ll create an archives.php file to supplement the rest of the theme?
August 8th, 2005 at 11:04 am
Hi like matt i’m also using blogsome, followed his little tutorial about the porting thing but i’ve also combined “fast track” with “connections” hope you don’t mind
thanks
August 10th, 2005 at 3:18 am
Patty, thanks for Connections! My blog uses your template now and I love it.
I wanted to display categorized links. I modified the theme’s index.php use “get_links_list()” instead of “get_links()”
But when I do, I get a big ugly bullet next to the link category.
How would I alter the style.css file to fix this? I would be deeply grateful.
August 11th, 2005 at 5:31 pm
Anyone? There are more details on this issue here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/41454#post-233950
Thank you!
August 15th, 2005 at 6:06 am
Great theme I have to say!
However, I ran into a small problem:
How could I show the sub-categories? I couldn’t get it shown on my sidebar.
Thanks!
August 15th, 2005 at 6:45 am
Oh well, I managed to get the subcategories shown up. But the bullet is just not in the right place
Any way to fix it?
August 16th, 2005 at 1:13 am
I was bored, so I converted the Connections theme to myspace. The best I could do with a few hours and limited HTML structure. Not meant to be validated, so I could care less, actually:
http://blog.myspace.com/iamn0tasian
http://www.myspace.com/iamn0tasian
August 23rd, 2005 at 5:43 pm
I implemented Connections on my own site. THANK YOU!! I fell in love with the theme the second as I saw it! It was the perfect launching pad.
bluecamel.org
Thanks so much!
–Steve
August 29th, 2005 at 4:01 pm
Please come to http://codex.wordpress.org/Themes and update your Theme with keyword and license information.
September 11th, 2005 at 8:38 am
hi patricia! i’d really love your theme to work on mine…well i modified it and im hoping you can help me with my sidebar.
i think the problem started when i’ve used a different size for the sidebarnav_top and bottom. ive adjusted the width but it’s not working. can you point me what part of the CSS to edit this?
also, i want to put the_excerpt tag on the index file. where can i insert this tag? thanks for the help!
September 11th, 2005 at 8:54 am
im sorry, i forgot to tell you…please switch the theme to Scream 1.2 beta…thanks!
September 12th, 2005 at 12:56 pm
Hi Patricia!
I absolutely LOVE this theme and appreciate all the hard work you’ve put into this. THANK You!!
But I’ve got to ask though - is there any way to keep the browser text size setting from throwing off the all the links and everything in the side column? I thought being CSS that the browser text size setting wouldn’t affect this, but it does and I’d love to figure out a way to bring that back under control.
I don’t know much about CSS, but I’ll play with this myself and see if I can figure out a workaround.
Thanks so much!
Steve
October 8th, 2005 at 11:55 am
Hi Pat and Hi VanillaMist.com
I’m new in blogosphere.
I’ve made my own blog and i’m proud of use your design.
I’m trying to do my own theme but now i’m using this
It’s wonderful
Angel
October 13th, 2005 at 4:26 am
Connections is great theme. I’m playing with it on a new blog. But for the life of me… where on earth is the “Meta” section tossed into the bottom of the sidebar!!?? I’m not exactly a newbie to WP themes or WP programming in general, but I can’t seem to locate this damn section. Arggh.
The last thing in sidebar.php is bloginfo(’comments_rss2_url’);. Footer.php has nothing relevant… What a mystery. Can you clue me in?
thanks, -wayne
October 13th, 2005 at 4:32 am
OK, at last I found it… too many different template files opened in BBEdit. Over and over I kept looking at another site’s (another theme’s even) index.php file. Sorry. Just delete both my comments and forget it ever happened…
-wayne
October 22nd, 2005 at 6:54 am
Well i have just started blogging and really wanted a Nice template and … was searching for it frm last 2,3 days .. and now i think i have come up to the right place.
COngrats u have really done a nice job .
Cheers
Jeevan
November 6th, 2005 at 6:36 pm
wanted to give credit where its due, I downloaded your WP Theme last week and modified the front end to match my site.
I am a web designer, not a developer, and as such the code needed to drive a blog is beyond me. I just wanted to thank you and let you know that your code is very well done and no problems.
If you have any questions about any of the changes I have made to keep the BLOG consistent with my site, let me know.
Again, thank you for a very well laid out Blog. I highly recommend your theme for anyone needing a WP Blog!
November 18th, 2005 at 8:18 pm
I love your themes, especially connections!! That picture is amazing!
November 23rd, 2005 at 12:08 am
This is the best themes i have even seen. Simple modification only needed. Great thanks!
December 17th, 2005 at 4:42 pm
http://the-name-less-blog.blogspot.com
connections in blogspot blog.
December 17th, 2005 at 4:43 pm
http://the-name-less-blog.blogspot.com
connections for blogspot
February 3rd, 2006 at 12:13 pm
Brilliant Connection style. I love it!
February 3rd, 2006 at 7:35 pm
Hi! I love your themes. I used Fleur-de-Lys on my blog, until I can work on one of my own. Thanks!!
February 11th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
incrediable style ease of use looks cool!
February 27th, 2006 at 10:16 am
You themes is perfect! Thank for you!
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:59 pm
Thank you very much for this theme. I use it since I upgraded to 2.0.1 and am currently customizing it to my needs. Great work!
March 7th, 2006 at 12:30 am
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March 7th, 2006 at 7:25 pm
[…] Wir haben uns entschieden das Theme Connections als Basis zu nehmen. Es haben bereits einige Änderungen stattgefunden, weitere folgen. Sobald eine “stabile” Version verfügbar ist wird diese hier zum Download verfügbar sein. […]
March 7th, 2006 at 9:21 pm
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March 12th, 2006 at 1:54 am
How can I put a normal text in the top bar (same as the menu), but left justified? Want to move the name of the blog out of the picture…
March 16th, 2006 at 11:01 am
vert impressive themes. long live vanilla mist
March 16th, 2006 at 6:06 pm
[…] This is my first post! I just installed and did some minor customizing to this WordPress-based blog. WordPress is a fairly sophisticated open source blogging platform that is freely available for anyone to use and modify. Thank you WordPress. I would also like to give thanks Patrici Müller for her efforts in creating (and sharing!) the Connections theme being used here. […]
March 17th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
[…] Aproveitei que ia migrar o diário mesmo e atualizei para o Wordpress 2.x. Também mudei para um tema novo, porque estava enjoado daquele tema padrão batido. Meu escolhido foi o Connections 1.0, de Patrícia Müller. Mas, como acho que deu para notar pelo endereço, esta ainda não é a forma definitiva de meu blog. Meu código ruby para servir páginas em várias línguas vai de vento em popa, e no futuro abandonarei o wordpress e passarei a usá-lo para tudo. […]
March 30th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
[…] Of course, the moment was too good to miss, so I decided to make my favourite theme, Connections, in order to make it compatible with the new technology. You cand download the new theme here. […]
April 9th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
Bom dia! I have just started playing with Wordpress and thought your theme looked the most professional on offer, so installed it. However, I was totally confused by the header bar - none of the links worked (About, Archives, Links and Contact). I guess that these have to be set up manually by editing header.php.
Is that right?
Thanks.
Tchau!
Richard.
PS Have fun in São Paulo. I spent several months in Pindamonhangaba many years ago…
April 9th, 2006 at 10:54 pm
Great theme. Love it.
April 20th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
Have just decided i dident like my own design after all - after i have spent about 3 weeks on it. I am now trying to edit yours to fit my needs.
April 21st, 2006 at 9:17 pm
[…] If anyone who worked for me ever attempted a double simultaneous software upgrade, I’d fire them. But as I’m the boss of me, I can do whatever I like on my blog. Last night I upgraded the blogging software to Wordpress 2.0 and moved the Blog Theme from Connections to Connections Reloaded. Huge kudos to Matt and Donncha and all the others at Wordpress for the trouble free upgrade and to Ajay for doing such a slick improvement to Connections. […]
April 22nd, 2006 at 11:30 am
compliments for your job, io want use for my other site.
Ohanks
April 24th, 2006 at 12:22 am
This is the best theme I have seen! Thanks so much for providing this for free. I am using it on my blog at http://www.vpipeline.com
April 24th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
[…] 4. Choosing a Theme: There are oodles of themes for WordPress, and I leaned on two great resources to choose mine: the WordPress Theme Viewer and Emily Robbins’ massive list of WordPress templates. In the end, I settled on Connections, by Vanilla Mist, which was just about perfect for what I had in mind. […]
April 30th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Un theme muy completo y funcional. Un saludo y gracias!
May 5th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
[…] I got this template from Vanilla Mist by way of the kids at Yucatan Living. I stumbled upon the kids in Merida after re-discovering SparksMex website from RV dot net. So there you have the story in links. […]
May 7th, 2006 at 7:47 am
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May 11th, 2006 at 12:06 am
Great template! Clean, impressive, nice work!
May 15th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
oi!
nao falo muito portugues, pero estou tentando.
como disenhador gráfico fico muito feliz pelo suo trabalho.
e invito a você a www.culturaldomeyko.cl
este sitio tem la sua programacao, ainda eu fize el disenho. (tem ainda il suo crédito abaixo da tudo o website).
Saludos desde Chile!
muito obrigado (
May 20th, 2006 at 3:49 am
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May 21st, 2006 at 11:41 am
[…] My good friend, Adam Freetly, won an award for his very sweet theme, Disconnected, which is a heavy modification of vanilla mist’s connections. I say “heavy modification” because to the average onlooker Adam’s theme really looks nothing like connections. At any rate, it’s very cool that his design won for best two column design. I know he’s super happy about it too . The award is well deserved, disconnected is a quality theme. […]