New Features and Improvements
The new version is out — meanwhile read about what’s new:
- The path to files and images now uses the template_url parameter instead of a hard-coded link. This should make upgrades easier.
- Contextual sidebars: on single-post pages, the sidebar now contains a “More from this category” module.
- ‘News’ headlines have been removed from single-post pages to make room for the module described above.
- On the homepage sidebar, I’ve linked the word “News” to its archive.
- On a recommendation from this forum thread, the author photo now checks for a username.
- Tags and formatting have been added to single-post pages.
- The <title tag> on all pages checks for current category instead of saying “Blog Archive»”
Upgrading
Mimbo is a strange beast in that it’s made to be customized, but cannot necessarily be “upgraded” in the traditional sense. For folks who have greatly customized their site and don’t want to overwrite it with v2.2, I would suggest downloading this recent version and copy-pasting in whatever bits of code you need — I have done my best to write concise comments for these recent changes. Let me know if you can’t find anything.
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Thanks for your continued efforts in honing your classic design. Basically I have your mimbo to thank for helping me ‘get into’ wordpress, so viva for a great educational resource….
--November 28, 2007 @ 9:41 amThanks a lot. Will go through the updates and make changes accordingly.
--November 29, 2007 @ 7:35 amWell done for providing such active support.
--November 29, 2007 @ 9:47 amHello, I was wondering if it’s possible for Google to index the main index page?
As I experience it now, google only indexes the posts, but not the front page…
Thanks for mimbo!
--December 2, 2007 @ 8:27 amIt would be great (especially for people who have no clue who to write PhP) if you could insert conditional IF in the code for the lead story and feature images.
Those images have to be of a fixed size both for width and height and some authors are not able to edit the images accordingly prior to publishing their articles.
The conditional would insert a predefined default image to allow the time fir somebody else to intervene later by inserting the related correct image.
Anyway great “beast”
Many thanks
Best regards
--December 19, 2007 @ 4:15 pmDarren, i´ve downloaded your theme Mimbo 2.2, and i´ll install it. Great theme and lovely site/blog!!! Congrats! Would you put a translate button at it, for brazilian visitors and others can read it in an easy way? Happy Holidays.
--December 29, 2007 @ 12:12 pmHi,
I upgraded my theme to 2.2 but I noticed that 404 is not working.
--January 20, 2008 @ 5:20 am^In IE7.
--January 20, 2008 @ 9:35 amHi! I have a problem with the theme and I do not know how to fix it. I installed Mimbo theme at http://tinerisararie.bycoddot.com. Basically it works fine, but it adds a point http://tinerisararie.bycoddot.com/. after the address in some browsers and the page does not work anymore. Could you, please , be kind, and fix this?
--February 1, 2008 @ 7:39 am