Excellent work! I know lots of people have been anticipating version 2.0 of this theme. Good to see it available. :)

OK – still tweaking but here’s my personal blog using MIMBO 2.0

http://www.cycling-challenge.com

Thanks a lot! It’s the first time I keep an eye on a release announcement. My
current theme has some issues I just can’t solve and it seems this will do.

something about “tags” that are not supported in wordpress 2.2.2

Guys: I amended the download page to say that Mimbo works best with the latest version of WP, currently 2.3.

Michael: If you’re not seeing numbers in your comment list, it’s because the CSS contains this rule:

.commentlist li {
list-style: none;


If you remove it, the numbers will display, and then you can adjust the padding and margins however you want.

i’m a total newbie and just installed your theme. i’m getting a couple of error messages that i don’t understand, but i’m sure you or some other reader will recognize right away. when i click on any category, i get the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: is_tag() in /home/grooves/public_html/version3/wp-content/themes/mimbo2/archive.php on line 4

on my posts, i get this error message at the bottom:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: the_tags() in /home/grooves/public_html/version3/wp-content/themes/mimbo2/single.php on line 19

i’m sure you know what i’m doing wrong–can you help? also, how do you add categories to the top nav beyond “about” and “home”?

Thanks!

Thanks Darren – awesome design which was relatively simple to set up using your excellent instructions. I haven’t got wordpress 2.3 so I’ve had to remove search options (for the moment), but everything else seems to be working really well. Here’s my site:

http://www.carlobezoari.com

To rephrase Patrick”s question:

How do you get the same formatting for sidebar widgets as the Mimbo sidebar items?

Patrick, open your CSS and change this:


#sidebar h3 {
border-top:5px solid #BBB;
border-bottom:1px solid #BBB;
padding:6px 0 6px 2px;
margin:22px 0 15px 0;
}


To this:


#sidebar h3, h2.widgettitle {
border-top:5px solid #BBB;
border-bottom:1px solid #BBB;
padding:6px 0 6px 2px;
margin:22px 0 15px 0;
}


Great theme. Thanks for all of the help getting it up and running. I’ve finished most of the customizing…. but definitely add me to the list of sites running Mimbo 2.

http://www.hoodgrownonline.com

Thanks Daren. It’s ok but i have always title widget with big format.
look http://blog.patounemedia.net (section Meta)
Thanks

Hi Darren!

How do you add additional graphics to the header? Also, can you change the font and its colors? I tried to make changes in header and image colors but nothing worked (I changed the side colors by using a site editing program.)

Thanks!

First off, let me say this theme is just what I was looking for. So thank you.

I’m attempting to replace the blog name tag with a background image of my site’s logo. I’m having trouble getting the blog description to sit down underneath the image and line up with the search box.

Any advice?

Again, fantastic theme. Thanks for your hard work.

Curtis

@Curtis: I’ve updated the documentation to explain more about how to customize the logo.

Good points, David, and funny timing – James from Cycling Challenge just implemented flyout menus on his own Mimbo site and they look great. Poke around the CC site a bit, there are a few of features he’s added (contextual sidebars) that will probably make it into the next Mimbo release. Keep the suggestions coming.

Tiny fix suggestion: The call to wp_list_authors() in the sidebar should not assume the URL path is wp-content… and should get site info to determine the ROOT of the URL.

@29 Its Will not James :)

Anyway, Darren deserves all the KUDOs he is receiving for this innovative, feature rich, AND great looking theme.

I look forward to MIMBO 3.0. IDEAS:

On my personal blog http://www.cycling-challenge.com I have implemented the following additions that I think help complement the “magazine” concept in his fantastic theme.

1. Simple but Customized Category Templates – Helps complement a “sections” concept

2. Simple but customized sidebars for each Category.

3. A Fly out menu as discussed above. Helps direct users to each Category

4. Changed Category headings on front Page too links.

Latest addition:

5. Modified the front page template so that each area (Lead, featured, Category) use DIFFERENT custom tags for images. this allows two things

a) You can use the same post in two parts of the front page (see my Tour de France article as an example (note it not only uses different size images but different images)

b) Once configured You can transition more easily articles from Lead to Featured or whatever

It is a one minute exercise to make this code change. Just modify the name of each custom tag in Index.php for the Lead, Featured and Category areas.

6. Added “Go to Next article” link at end of posts (works poorly when article is in more than one category)

7. Added gravatar functionality tocomments (it goes well with Mimbo’s's nice comment styling.

Other ideas:

1. I’d love to see some better sort of Issue functionality. Like a different front page for different months with back months. Maybe customizing a page for each month and throwing in a drop down menu??

2. Currently my tailored category/sidebar templates only appear when category links are selected (not when particular articles are selected.

3. It’d be great of someone created plug-ins to simplify the process for separate sidebar and category templates so people didn’t have to dive into the code.

Anyway, sorry for the long ramble but this theme is terrific …

Will

@Will – dammit! I’d just read James’ comment above when I wrote that. Sorry man ;)

About half of Will’s suggestions are going into Mimbo 2.1, due out this weekend I hope. Keep the great feedback coming.

Re: gravatars, sounds like they’ll be included in the core templates soon enough, but I could always include gravatar code in the meantime.

Will-
Did you do the fly-out menus yourself, or is it code from somewhere. I’ve tried and tried and tried to work with the Suckerfish (and son) dropdowns, but they always end up giving me major headaches on IE. Yours are simple and sharp.

Hari-
That’s some mighty fine modifying, if I do say so myself. The only thing that jumps out as quirky to me is that background image that cuts off at the bottom of the page. Otherwise, nice work!

And Darren.. thanks again. And again. :)

I was wondering how to you get the child pages to display content from specific categories. I saw it implemented on hoodgrownonline.com. Is there some code that needs to be added or is it a plugin?. Can somebody clarify that up a little bit please. Thank you