This is a really stunning design. I haven’t downloaded any of your themes and so this was the first. I’m really impressed. I wish it fit with the theme of my blog so I could use it.

Two things I noticed on this theme that you might want to consider for the upcoming designs:

1. The recent post area – long titles overwrite the date. Is it possible to truncate the title or wrap it?
2. The line space between links for my archives and sitemap was really tight. It makes it a bit hard for bad eyes.

Great, gorgeous job. I’ll keep an eye on your future themes.

Hi! I’m trying with this theme but in the live demo i see that don´t see well in internet explorer, i only can see correct in Mozilla. There is any solution? Thanks!

Hi! Internet Explorer 6 cannot see this theme because it can’t see PNG. I was seeying a lot of webs with information, but the solution is very difficult

What a wonderful and stylish theme, which I really would like to use on my blog. It’s really cool, well designed and placed and comes with a fresh and readable interface. Nice gimmicks though.

Although I found some issues here, which should help you for further progress (not browser related):

- Links like Login or Dashboard seem to be hardcoded, so as I installed WordPress under domain.com/wordpress/ they for instance point for the dashboard to domain.com/wp-admin/ instead of domain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/

- I really would like to have categories displayed (above Recently in the blue bar or at the bottom in the pink bar.

- Login bars don’t appear

- When using with Gallery2 plugin, a new window opens instead of loading into the main windows.

These are my found problems, but you did a wonderful job. Hope you can fix them and keep the good work up.

Thank you very much!

hi, thanks for your comments, I would like to address some issues you brought up:
- blue area staying empty or yellow area not showing content or mixed up titles:
you are required to either change the code snippet of
< ?php $my_query = new WP_Query('cat=5&showposts=1'); ?>
to suit your need or create at least five categories, so that you will have a category 5. This query takes all posts from category 5 and shows them on the top part. If it worked on the themeviewer and my local installs it should also for you. Also for it to work you need to have some 3-4 posts. Send me your ftp details and I will have a look.

- Login bars not showing:
This is due to a setting you need to change on the Dashboard, it is under “General” and called “Everyone can register”. This will show the login forms.

- Gallery2 issues:
I am sorry, but I do not use g2, but it sounds like a setting related to the plugin. Check if there is an option to change the target=_ setting. Or even better, ask the developer of the plugin, I am sure he/she will be of greater help than me

- PNG issues:
I am working on a fix. I will upload it once the themeviewer is back online.

Thanks!

Jack, thanks for your comment, I already sent you an email!

Hello,Julian!
I love your theme,but I have the same problem.And your fix doesn’t work in the title and the content in the blue area,they’re still mixed with different entries.

im a lil late.. but wow… every theme has its unique character.. i find this one fuss free and overtly neat! great job again jez

Hi Julian! I absolutely love your theme and I decided to use it for my upcoming blog! I was thinking of changing the header title to my blog name instead. I won’t be taking the credits out. I hope you don’t mind! If you do, please let me know!

hey there,
if the title is borked,
you need to make sure you either have a category with the id of 5 (five),
or change the call in the php file to an id that does exist in wordpress.
to check if you got a category five,
go to your wordpress admin screen, press manage and go to “categories”.
the id is visible there.

hope this helps,
jez

groetjes ron,
ik kan ook nederlandse praken, maar niet zo goed.

I checked wordpress.h4x3d.com again and couldn’t find the bug you have found. damn. can you send me a screenshot or two? this would be greatly appreciated!

also include a screenshot of your category IDs. might come handy soon or later. thanks again!

hi stefii, since this site is international, why not write in english as well?
to answer your question, yes full display of posts with images is possible if you change the_excerpt to the_content in the corresponding php files.

I would not do that though, because Google will hate you.
You can use a plugin like the excerpt reloaded (av. on Google) to make sure images (

Good luck,
jez

Hey this is a fantastic theme! Keep up the great work and a big Thank You to you mate.

Cheers,

Kev

xin, with all due respect I can not make sense of your post.
The error you specify cannot be duplicated by me or any of those people that checked the theme so far.
Concerning the sidebar, what do you mean?
If you don’t like it, don’t use it – everything I offer here is free and I do not get paid.

taggy: I am sorry for the confusion, but this theme is currently not widgetized. I must have carried over the function from one of my old themes that are widgetized!
Widgetizing this theme is currently scheduled for 2-3 weeks when I will have another vacation. (As you can see I am working on themes for free and spend a great deal of free time bringing you those high-quality wordpress themes for free)

xin’s issue has been sorted out via e-mail: he had the font-size set to x-large in Firefox

great theme, jez! thank you very much!

hey terence (cool site you run), it depends on where you want them to be.
you could put them into a div layer and have it displayed absolutely (z-index), or you could use a 336px rectangle version that really pays out well and position it just before the_content(); look at the source and see if you find it (php files).

hope this helps,
yours jez

Well, I do have them, but I never give out PSD files, as this is my general doctrine.
If you really want to make efforts changing the theme to meet your needs, you wont mind spending an extra squeeze of brainpower about how this can be done.
Using a PSD file is not the easiest way to go, I assure you (had to port many designs for companies last summer holiday).

what do you need help on?

KK, I will kindly offer my help, but the site does not load and returns a parse-error.

hey, easy fix KK:
dont have that much content in the top post. it uses the EXCERPT(); function.
the area there is only intended to show a limited amount of text, not that much as you put there.

maybe line breaks at your site (or your input in this post) break it.
once you have only 4-5 sentences there (you can add the “more” from within wordpress admin -> post “more”), it is all fixed. now that was easy, init? =)

and for the off-set sidebar: there is a css class for the div that says where it should be placed. since you added a picture of yourself, you might need to adopt the height of the container.
I plan to have this done automatically, but as you can read in my latest post, I am really short on time. I reckon this will be done as early as end of december.

unfortunately, not in this release, I seem to have put up the neccassary functions (functions.php), but forgot to implement it to the php files correspondingly. also, widget css is missing for now. if you were to add it manually it would work flawlessly though (edit the files as you used to do 2006 =) another thing to improve, thanks for noting!

hey max, thanks for your valuable feedback. In case you dont entirely like the pink, I can understand that =) you should get the modification mentioned in the article above, “my centershock” or search my page for it. It is more “mature” and less pink. for the fluid width: it is not fixed, but only semi fixed. the elements dont break if you are surfing at a larger screen resolution. I myself use 1600×1280 and it looks quite okay and not out of shape. Care to post a screenshot mate?
thanks again,
jez

fixed, thanks for reporting

Is there any way to show up the images from the post under the Archive of some category? for now it shows only the title and the text…thx

so, I have hard-moded your feather theme. it can be seen here: http://www.zeroweb.ro . It’s not ready to go yet…
I use it to show up my portfolio. On every post I have an image with some text. I would like that on the “archive” page for any category to show up the image and some text from the posts, not like now, when only the text is shown up. I’m not a guru on php, just used my intuition to mod up your theme. thx. Also, another problem, with the png’s in older IE, now I am working on that…
thx again

well..thank you for your appreciation.
first, were exactly I can find “the_excerpt()”, in which .php page?

second…I really don’t know if there is V1 or V2..I have moded them so much that I am a bit confused about that…but, I have changet the theme, the footer is one single footer.php for all the pages, the sidebar.php also, they are included in every single page, much easy to update the contents there…so…

I have noticed that the IE.css file used some jpgs instead of png files…manage to work that like you, but still for the IE6 looks nasty, because the wood texture in the background…still, it’s a start.
so, thax again, and I am waiting for the the_excerpt() response. Would like to start the new year with the new site finalized.
BIG THX

I am glad it worked out for you and good luck with the additional modding!

Hi Jez, thanks for the great theme! I’m trying to make the background of the posts wider to allow for larger images. I already have 500+ pixel wide images from my blog that don’t automatically resize smaller, and the text field grows with the image. It’s probably better that the image doesn’t resize because I do want them larger, so I need to widen the BG. I’m not an expert with PHP or CSS, so I’ll try to ask first – What’s the simplest way to widen the post background? Here is an image of what’s happening: http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/3605/featherpr1.jpg
Thanks so much!

Thanks Jez for the quick response! I extended the right side of trans1.png by 100 px just to test it, so it was 651px instead of 551px. I also changed the style.css “trans1″ width from 541px (yes it was 541, not 551) to 651px and there was no change. Any ideas what I’m missing? Thanks and get back to your vacation!

The theme doesn’t seem to word with Lightbox plugin for wordpress

Awesome work man!! I’m having troubles testing this theme with my WordPress installation.
1. In IE7, the first post (in the blue section) appears much lower than the date/no.of comments bar
2. Also, the login forms and others in the pink section appear one below the other.
3. There’s a blank white space on the rightmost part of the page. I see this in both IE7 and Opera? I love Opera and can’t imagine parting with it for Firefox.

Some help please!!

Hi Jez!
I’ve attached the screenshots (1st from Opera, and rest 3 from IE7 as you would see). Note that the ‘white’ space that I was talking about suddenly turned Pink!!
Screen1
Screen2
Screen3
Screen4

using version 2

And checked the site at higher resolutions.. It look like what its supposed to look like (awesome)!! Waiting for some way to fix it for my 800×600 resolution!!

You are welcome, glad it worked out!

I’d like to know how can I add a right side bar, and modify the left side bar to include adsense adds, and display some other widgets, I’d like to use that area at the right of the posts and all the blog pages.

And congrats to all the creators of this amazing theme!!

I want to add adsense content to my website. Is there any way to make the background transparent, so that the ad would fit nicely.
It would also be great if you could tell me how to add adsense content as a widget in the yellow part.

Hi
I love your feather theme. I got many things working, including the adsense. Thanks for your previous answer.
I have another question. Why is the site messed up in IE 7? I have the latest version of feather downloaded this month from this website. I checked in my account. It is v3.0 English.
Please let me know what can I do to fix this.
Thanks

First of all, you made a nice theme!
Hi there, you state that a Dutch version is in progress? Is this going to be released soon and if not, I guess the translation has to be done within the code?
Cheers..

Hi Jez,
I will have a go at the translation. I will let you know when it’s finished.

hello robbie,
first of all welcome to my site and thanks for leaving a comment.

have you read the manual PDF yet?

I assume not, because you have two bold errors on your page.
First of all you should be using EITHER (this is the OR part in the readme) lightbox OR slimbox. The theme comes with slimbox by default. so to fix the biggest errors DEACTIVATE the lightbox plugin (not the ADD to lightbox, but the LIGHTBOX plugin that ads the code to the header). You will notice after a reload that it will look nicer and work out of the box.

for your strange about issue: have you checked the code in page.php (top area with the query part?) ? have you changed parts of the code?

Hope you appreciate THIS FREE SUPPORT,
yours
jez

Great theme, will definitely give it a test run!

thanks for your comment, I highly appreciate any feedback, if you have any questions, feel free to get in touch with me. even though I have limited time left for web activities at the moment due to university term papers I am always interested in helping everyone out (or at least pointing in the right direction).

hey there,
I just checked the screenshot and your site, however I cannot explain this specific issue. looks fine on my setup here (FF+IE7+IE8+Safari), you’d probably best up to add some css yourself if you are concerned, sorry for the trouble mate.

@pquadrat: hi, die meisten problemchen sind echt easy zu beheben: zum header steht im readme.pdf dokument etwas; konkret- der loop oben im header gibt einen excerpt aus; im excerpt wird nur text angezeigt. abhilfe bietet das excerpt_reloaded plugin (link auch im pdf), damit kann man den excerpt manipulieren. freu mich auf dein ergebnis, bin immer interessiert an kreativen umsetzungen! beste grueße aus Duesseldorf!

@pquadrat: “thanks for the kudos”, wie der englaender sagen wuerde… viel spass beim umbauen! ich muss leider wieder an ‘die zahlen’, bzw. ist es nur eine frage der zeit bis ich wieder dadrueber einschlafe – in den nächsten wochen stehen klausuren an, danach gibt es wieder frische themes!

@pquadrat: oh- ja klar, das behebt auch das problem, jedoch sieht es bloed aus, wenn der post doch mal laenger sein sollte. daher hab ich testweise the_excerpt_reloaded genommen und die zeichenlaenge auf 250 chars gesetzt, jedoch den < img > tag erlaubt.

deine loesung geht natuerlich auch; erfordert jedoch immer das verwenden des “more” knopfes (manueller seitenumbruch/break),
regards,
jez

Hi,

ich wollte gerade das Theme in der lokalen Xampp-Umgebung testen, aber wenn ich den Ordner der Zip-Datei in den entsprechenden WordPress-Theme-Ordner schiebe, wird dieser von WordPress nicht erkannt, sprich, ich kann das Theme nicht auswählen.

Nice themes. A bit colorful to me though. Thank for sharing, and keep up the good work!

Hey there, loved the theme. Still in the midst of making some changes and thanks for the advice on SlideShowPro… Will look at other alternatives before making a decision. Thanks again!

@Astris: hello astris, thanks for the kudos! if you dont dig the pink (and I can understand you), you can get the photoshop files and change it yourself, its really a matter of minutes.

in regards to the link: as the CC 3.0 states the link has to stay anyway, but if you want to feature me in addition to that, you are more than welcome. keep in touch, jez

@Again!: hello mate, I think I mentioned the gallery aspect (not sure what you mean by that – the lightbox (popping up thing) or in the footer the widgets?) in the readme.pdf – it is a four pages document that gives plentiful advice on these topics. feel free to address any other questions here, thanks!