Comments on: Feature Suggestions for Gravy

By: Chris Bauer

Chris Bauer — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:56:04 +0000

Hey Darren,

I assume you plan on updating the theme for WordPress 3? Do you have a timetable for that? Thanks!

By: Tibor

Tibor — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:09:29 +0000

I am not sure if I like it so much that the (or any theme, for that matter) theme takes control about SEO features like the title and description tags.

I would prefer to have this as an option rather, then hard coded in the functions.php file, as it is now.

Having said that, I have used Gravy for my last two projects and love it: great value for the money!

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:11:37 +0000

Can you elaborate about a custom homepage template? Right now, index.php features a simple blog layout. I hesitate to include anything that’s not totally generic and that you wouldn’t use with each and every site. Same goes for column structure – there is vast potential for variation. No two people would probably lay out columns the same.

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:08:59 +0000

Hi Vlad. For better or worse, I haven’t done any real estate sites in a pretty long time.

By: Chris Olbekson

Chris Olbekson — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:27:42 +0000

I would love to see a custom homepage template. Another good feature would be to separate out the structure css like the nav and post is done with a few options on column structure etc..

By: R.Bhavesh

R.Bhavesh — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:11:02 +0000

didn’t knew about the custom page template, will grab it now.

Formatting comments in wordpress has become tough. Ofcourse you’ve designed the comments beautifully in the gravy but I’d love the flexibility. For example, if I wish to make the comments look like on this page, I can’t. ( gravatar on left and username, content on right)

It’d be great to have all the elements codes separate so we can place it however we want. e.g.

- actual comment content
- author name
- gravatar
- reply button

that way, I can place any element anywhere in the comment box.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:48:35 +0000

Darren,

I appreciate the link. I do not however use that “Dig Style Pagination” plugin anymore, the one mentioned in the post you linked to.

I now use WP-Paginate – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-paginate/

I find that WP-Paginate is easier to use. Specially if you have to change the css to match your theme.

Thanks again for the mention. Look forward to return a favor.

On a different subject…… Have you ever developed themes for real estate agents? If so I would love to showcase them on my blog.

By: Tony Geer

Tony Geer — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:07:35 +0000

I haven’t actually checked it out as yet, the request was more because I’ve been using it for a few years now and feel comfortable with it. I’ll be picked up Gravy soon and I’ll let you know if it actually causes any issues.

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:26:11 +0000

I’ve considered it, while wanting to keep the code minimal. To be honest, I’ve built nearly every site for a couple years with the * {} reset and not ran into a problem in any browser. But if it’s obvious that’s causing problems, I’ll definitely consider the alternatives.

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:24:51 +0000

Thanks for the input. Can you tell me what you mean about styling the comments? They are deliberately styled pretty generically with minimal code. Is there something in particular that's preventing specific styling? Regarding a blog page with full posts, in the last version I actually included a custom page template that does exactly that.