Motion WordPress Theme
Motion is a simple, dark WP theme meant for personal blogging. It’s colorful, widget-ready, with lots of transparency features. It works out of the box with no mandatory configuration.
You can try it out live right here and download it here at the official repository (version 1.0.3).
WordPress.com users – please note:
Motion was recently (Feb. 2010) made available for users of WordPress.com. While I’m very happy about this, please note that I don’t have full control over this version of the theme and the way it is updated and maintained. If you have requests and feedback about that particular version, or questions on how to edit your site under the WordPress.com options, it might be a good idea to use the WordPress.com support forums.
View the attached readme file for a changelog of updated versions.
Features include:
- Ready for WP 2.8.6+ (backwards compatible to some point…)
- 5 widget-ready areas
- Threaded comments (WP 2.7+)
- Drop-down categories menu
- Gravatars enabled in comments
- Valid xhtml and css (some css only valid as css 3)
- Tested on Firefox 2+, Safari 3+, Opera 9+, Chrome 2+ and IE8, IE7 and IE6 (some transparency features disabled)
- Tested and ready for the wp-pagenavi plugin for better navigation
Frequently asked questions:
How do I change the sidebar and footer modules?
You can do so using widgets. Go under the Appearance tab in the WP admin panel and locate the Widgets link under it.
How do I display a page full-width? And with sidebar?
By default, pages on this theme display without the sidebar. Pages in this theme cover the full-width of the site by default. You can however enable the sidebar very easily by choosing the appropriate page template from the screen in which you edit your pages. In WP 2.8.6, simply go to the right of the screen and find the Attributes tab. Under it, find the Template menu and click on the drop-down to see the page templates available. Choose the one called Page with Sidebar.
Can I modify this theme?
You are certainly welcome to modify this theme to your taste! Don’t hesitate to get in touch to show me the result!
Do you have this theme in other color schemes?
Not yet. However, if you have a dark background image you like, it is easy for you to change that and it will change the look of the site completely with little effort. Simply override the bodybg.jpg image included in the theme.
Licensing and Terms of Use
This theme is released under a GPL license. It has been tested with the most popular browsers and on the latest WordPress version when released, with a number of popular plugins and widgets. It is provided as is, with no guarantee, and functionality with 3rd party applications is not guaranteed. You are free to use this product for personal or commercial use and on as many sites as you wish. However, please refrain from using this product on sites promoting illegal activities.
Credits
There is a subtle credit link back to this site, in the footer. It’s a way to acknowledge the work done by the author (me!) and help spread the word about the open source initiative and community behind it. I think it makes sense. If you really wish to take it out, and still wish to show support, please consider making a donation of your choice.
Support
If you have questions about the theme, you can contact me using the comments below. I’ll do my best to track issues related to the theme, but please note that I can’t offer detailed customization instructions right here. You can also try out the official WordPress support forum, particularly if your question relates more to using WordPress than using this theme.
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What’s the best way to add a custom logo?
Hi Charlie,
the way I would insert a logo is to modify the header.php theme file to go from this:
<div id="logo">
<a href="<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/images/genericlogo.png" alt="<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>" /></a>
<h1><a href="<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>"><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></a></h1>
<div id="desc"><?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?></div>
</div><!– /logo –>
to this:
<div id="logo">
<a href="<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/images/logo.png" alt="<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>" /></a>
</div><!– /logo –>
where logo.png would be your logo.
Hope this helps,
S
Hi Sam,
Thanks for this awesome theme. I’ve do some modifications and I’m using it in my blog. Please take a look and say what you think.
Bye m8
Cool, nice job
Heya. How do I put summaries (with read more button) on the main page like shown in the demo? I’m using the wordpress.com version.
Hi Rik,
you can do this by using the ‘more’ shortcut, in your wysiwyg editor.
Best,
S
Genius, thanks
Great theme, what is the best way to center the top nav?
Thanks
Sean
Hi Sean,
To do this, I would take out the search and then play in the css using ‘margin:0 auto’ and ‘text-align:center’ for the appropriate division. It may be necessary to take out some floats, and perhaps modify the display attribute of the list elements from the default ‘block’ to ‘display:inline’.
Hope this helps,
Sam
Hi, im trying to put post thumbnails to appear at Home. I’ve tried several plugins but its not working, I also try the new feature of Wordpress 2.9 to generate thumbnails but is not working either. This is my first wordpress so i don’t know very much about code and stuff. I google a lot trying to find the answer, please help me.
This is for the Motion theme by the way.
Thanks.
Hi Gonzalo,
you will probably need to do some html/css modifications manually, and perhaps use custom fields. It’s not super complicated to do, but I sadly don’t have the time to go into all the details.
Best,
S
Hi Sam,
I really like your theme, but is there any way to use it without the whole WordPress business? Don’t get me wrong, WP is great but I’m just so used to using Dreamweaver CS4 and uploading myself etc, any ideas on how to ‘port’ this over in a neat package or am I just dreaming
?
Thanks again for the theme, you certainly have creativity!
Hi,
thanks for your comment. Yes, that is possible. What you can do is simply save your site on your desktop (File->Save Page As…), and take it from there. Since the php is server-side, what you see in your server is html/css/javascript only. You may need to manually adjust the paths etc…
Best,
S
hi! I like your theme a lot and it’s very easy to personalize. Thx so much!!
but I have a little problem…
I’m trying to use “read more” button but doesn’t work properly. If I use the ‘more’ shortcut from the editor it adds other button: “view full article”.
I mean that it works but the function is double: “view full article” + “read more”. How can I fix it? I would like to see only your “read more” style button. Can u help me? thx!
Hi Melissa,
if you just wish your story to cut in a fashion like (…), you must modify this in the theme files manually (home.php and archive.php). It’s not hard.
Locate this:
<?php the_content(‘View Full Article »’); ?>
And chage to this (to display suspension points, for instance):
<?php the_content(‘…’); ?>
S
THANK YOU VERY MUCH SAM! ^^
Hi Sam,
first thanks very much for this theme, it’s awesome i love it ^^
it’s very versatile the way you built it, it makes it easy to amend!
still i’ve got an issue as i’ld like to have excerpt on the category pages. i tried to remove ‘the_post’ with ‘the_excerpt’ but then i got some king of a bug were only one excerpt repeated itself thousands of times, and outside the ‘text box’.
any idea where this problem might come from?
cheers
thibault
Hi,
if you wish to display excerpts, you should try to change ‘the_content’ (and not ‘the_post’) by ‘the_excerpt’.
Hope this helps,
S
Hi Sam,
I love your theme! However, I’m pretty new to php work, etc., and I’m having one small issue on my WP page.
I created a new custom field (meta) and am trying to use the standard to display my meta data. The line works in the standard WP theme, but not in Motion. Any help? I’m pretty new to php but not to programming, so give it to me straight
.
Thanks! I love the look!
~Mo
Ack! It looks like I can’t post the code…
erm…it’s the one that has php the_meta in it. Hope that helps.
~Mo
Hi Mo,
I’m sorry, I don’t quite understand the issue you are referring to. Can you provide more details?
S
Sure thing. I’m using the most recent version of WP, which has a feature called “Custom Fields” which allows a user to specify new fields that are, by default, not displayed on posts. They are, however, displayed, if you add a quick line of code, and unfortunately since it’s php I can’t post it here (I tried in my first post). The technical term for what is stored is meta-data (according to WP http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields) and you use a php call to the_meta to retrieve the custom fields.
This feature works with 0 issues in the 2 stock templates for WP, but it appears not to work for the motion theme. Was curious if you had any idea how I could get it to work. Check out the link above to see what I’m talking about. I appreciate any assistance you can offer!
Yes, I am aware of custom fields, I use them often. I don’t see any particular reason why they shouldn’t work on this theme, I used them on variations of the theme quite a few times.
Well, I’ve tried to make a reference call to the_meta and it doesn’t display anything, regardless of where i put it within the loop. Am I missing something?
I can’t say without looking at it. This theme and the other 2 you are referencing may not be coded exactly the same where you are pasting this, so perhaps there is a syntax mistake that you do not see.
Aloha from Hawaii
I just wanted to say Mahalo!
After doing my own web sites for years I finally started a public blog on wordpress.org, and am using your theme. It is so beautiful, I couldn’t have asked for better colors, totally perfect for me!
After being used to spending hours creating something on my own it was such a joy to be able to find something that works so well for what I wanted to do, and have it be so easy LOL.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate you for creating it.
Go team you!
~Erika
Thanks Erika!
VERY NİCE:::::::::)
Me encanta este template. Es una pasada. Gracias!!
I love the look of this. I’m new to wordpress, and I wonder am I missing something obvious, but comments I’ve approved are not showing up. Any idea why? Do I need to do something special?
Thanks,
James
Hi James. Comments should show if you’ve approved them. Since you are on WordPress.com, consider using the official support forums at http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ if you think your software is not behaving normally.
awesome theme.. thanks for it… it is exactly what i was searching for…
of course i have little problems like everyone ;
i want to add right dynamic sidebar..can i do it without playing with the codes?
thanks for the theme again.
Yes, changing the sidebar can be done without going into the code. Use the ‘widgets’ to do so (located under the ‘Appearances’ tab on the left in your admin panel).
Ok i did it…
Can i add also LEFT sidebar?
i want it 3rd column? any easy way to do it?
thanks.
hi.. great theme, exactly what i’m looking for.. i need to modify some of the features of this theme. can you tell me what are the things to modify in order for me to have a site that looks exactly like this http://www.tvadik.co.cc
thanks and more power!
Hi James. I see you changed themes. Best of luck.
Hi,
Love the them.
I was wondering if you could tell me how and where I access the widget to the right of the categories bar, where you can add a picture or write.
I cant seem to find it anywhere.
Thanks.
Hi,
all widgets can be accessed in the same place, under the ‘Appearance’ tab in the admin panel.
S
I just want to congratulate you on such a nice theme. Thank you very much and keep up the great work.
Kind regards
Thanks Manuel!
Sam, Love your theme! I’m tweaking things a bit, since I’m using the theme more as a web site than a blog site. My BIG question: How can I turn the top-of-page rollovers (for web pages) into dropdown lists of sub-pages? I want the same functionality here as in the Catagories Nav buttons below. Do you have a “Fix” for this? Thanks so much for your efforts!
Hi Eric. Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately, I don’t have a quick fix for what you’re looking for.
I really like this theme and I have chosen to use it as base design for my new blog. I’m modifying it a bit to adopt for my needs and I stumbled upon one problem I can’t overcome by myself.
Is it possible to modify drop-down menu so it can properly display lists with “depth=3″?
Thank you in advance and thanks for this awesome theme!
Yes, that is possible, but it’s not something I have quick instructions for. I have not done it yet.
very nice themes ! clean and suitable.. thank you
Thank you, Sam, for making the theme Motion! available to us. I am brand new to the world of blogging and this theme is like a magic carpet to me (it floats so nicely). The header has a text field for RSS feeds starting with “Hey there….” how can I delete that? Cheers _kk
Hello Sam,
me again. Problem solved. I was browsing your comment section and the comments from March 10 & 11 addressed exactly the same issue I had. I followed the suggestions and it work – There was an invisible default widget in the header. Just overrode it by adding a new widget.
Again, thank you for a great theme. It made my experience as a “first-timer” even more rewarding. Just love the colors and the way it let’s me organize things. Especially the categories bar under the header.
Great, glad you figured it out! Happy you like the theme!
S
I love this theme. I’m just having a few problems doing what I want to do. I’m new to Wordpress and to CMSing. I do understand how to find things. I am trying to add more to the header menu. I was going to keep the “Home” link and get rid of “Uncategorized” but I’m not sure how to go about it. I want to add more pages and use this more as a website and not so much as a blog. I’m not sure how what it is I need to do exactly to add more links and link them to the new pages. If you could e-mail me with an answer to this, I would greatly appreciate it. Again, congrats on making such a wonderful looking theme!
Hi Sam, Thanks for the beautiful theme. I am very new to blogging and I have selected your theme. I am wondering how to set up my blog like yours in the menu area. It is the place were you have your example – home page – ramblings – stock imagery, etc. I would also like to make the pages drop down like the one in stock imagery. Sorry if I don’t have all the lingo down. I am a very visual learner.
Thank you so much for any help you can offer here.
K
Hi,
the menu sets itself up automatically using the categories you will create when writing posts. The dropdown works by displaying 1st level children categories, once there are entries associated to them.
S
I want to start a blog and i really love your design. However I am trying to change the header and put a long logo design for my blog. How can I change that? Also where do I go if I want to change the background to a darker color? Thank you!
Great theme. How could I change the number of posts that show up on an author page or a category or tag page without changing the number of posts that show up on the home page? How can I have different #s of posts show for different pages?
Hi,
to do this, you will need to slightly modify the loop in the theme files associated with the desired archives. To find out how to manually change that parameter, I suggest you try to google it.
Best,
S
Hi Sam,
Love Motion, 1.0.3. What’s new with 1.0.4? Also, is there a way to only have specific ‘pages’ show at the top rather than all of them? I don’t want to delete any pages from my site, just want only certain ones on top. Thanks!
Hi,
I’m happy you like it, thank you. The best way to customize the top menu is to perform the modifications manually in the header.php theme file.
Version 1.0.4 is a minor update. It includes small modifications, as well as an author tag to display author’s name on top of each post.
S
Hey Sam, great theme! Love the colors!
May I ask how can I change the favicon (16×16 pixels)? I tried replacing the favicon.ico file with the same name but diff image but it won’t just work.
Hi,
if you’ve changed it by another favicon.ico file, it will be replaced. You may need to restart your browser or delete temporary cached internet files to see it updated.
S
I like your theme most. But one things need to update is “When we disable allow comments it shows – Comments are closed”.
Kindly do the needful
THanks
I really like the design and colors, Very original. Looking forward to using this theme on my next website.
Hey I LOVE the theme! There was no second choice for me when I picked my blog theme
I have a question though. How can I change it so that my main page doesn’t include ALL my entries. It says “Latest Entries” but it still shows entries from two months ago. Can I limit it to maybe my 3 latest entries?
Hi Ryan, thanks for your comment. There is an option for changing the number of posts in your admin panel. Look into it, you’ll find it
Best,
S
Oh wow do I feel silly… :p Thanks now it looks perfect
Thanks for the Theme, I would like to know how to modify this theme ( I am a beginner with Blogs) to change the language to spanish. Or in case you could provide with the translation spanish files, that would great. Thanks
Hi! I would like to replace the default search box to Google AJAX search, how do I do that? I’ve already installed the Plug-in, it seems that I need to edit the code? Thanks in advance!
Hi!
Just a note to say: how beautiful! And thanks!
Need to delete the text upper right corner (rss) yet, but I’m so happy I can barely stop thinking about how beautiful it is!
Salud!
michelle – spain
Thanks Michelle, happy you like it
Oops, sorry: the blog where I used it is a poetry/painting/narrative blog: Your death in my dreams and the animals: http://tumuerteenmissuenyosylosanimales.wordpress.com/
Hi, I want to show pages only on the sidebar,
But althoug in the footers and in the header appear no widgets. The site shows pages in the footer and in the header as well. I think it is by default. Now, can I erase footer and header completely and how is that done?
Thanks,
Demian
Hi Demian. I see you are on WordPress.com. Please see my reply to the comment above.
Best,
S
Thank you for the stunning theme MOTION! I love it – my blog looks fabulous: http://www.newsbird.wordpress.com
I have a problem with time stamps and comments not appearing in the right places or in th right order in one post (so far, I just converted last night). Should I ask WordPress to look into?
I also have a wish: the comment entry box is at the bottom of the post comments list rather than below the comment I selected for a reply. The “cursor” goes back to the correct nesting level after submit.
But I’m dreadfully picky and would like the comment entry box to be right below the comment that I am creating a reply for. At times I want to read the comment again or copy specifics from the comment. Also there is a strange delay before the comment box is made available.
Thank you again for the best blog theme!
Hi. Unfortunately I don’t have that kind of control over the WordPress.com version. You may wish to address your requests to the WP.com team.
S
Hello!
First let me congratulate you on a wonderful theme! I want to use this particular theme really bad but I have a problem.
Excuse me if this has been asked already. I couldn’t find a similar problem anywhere.
My blog will be in Spanish and I can’t find a way to change the “Latest Entries >>” title to the spanish wording.
I toyed around with the widgets. My language for writing and interface is in spanish. Perhaps it’s related to the theme.
Thanks again!
Hi Pedro! To change that sentence, you will need to manually modify it in the home.php theme file.
Best,
S
Have you tested compatibility with buddypress?
No, I have not tested it against buddypress.
Ack. I figured out the problem — so simple, I should have seen it’s just a different widget entirely. Sorry about commenting before I really worked it out. Please delete my comment!
Again, terrific design, and thanks.
Glad you figured it out, Jim!
Thanks for sharing this great theme. The design and colors are cool, I like the way they make my blog stick out compared to most usual plain themes. Keep up the good work.
Thank you! Glad you like it!
how can i remove the “Latest Entries” word above the post?
by the way..nice theme thnx Ü
Hi Mark,
you can delete it manually from the home.php theme file. The code to look for is:
<h2 id="contentdesc">Latest <span>Entries</span> »</h2>
Best,
S
Hi Sam,
I really like your wordpress theme and I would like to use it in wordpress.com. I was wondering whether there were a way to modify the text on top of the page where it says “Hey there! Thanks for dropping by X! Take a look around and grab the RSS feed to stay updated. See you around!”
Is it possible to modify it? how do i do this? Do I need to buy the CSS upgrade? Please let me know.
Thanks.
Hi Gloria,
This can be modified using widgets, so no need for a CSS upgrade.
Best,
S
How does one do this with widgets? I am new to WordPress.
Hi Alyson. You can modify widgets by going under the “appearance” tab in your admin panel.
Very nice theme! Thx a lot!
I have one question… How can I translate internal headers in page such as “Recent entries” (file sidebar.php)? Then I try to replace text to my native analog (Cyrillic Windows encoding) I see only “????????” string on result page.
Pls help)
Hi Konstantin,
That’s a good question. I see 2 ways of addressing this. The first would be to encode your text in its string of utf-8 equivalents (html, iso). The second could be to try to modify the character encoding on your installation. I see it still shows utf-8. You can change this in the “reading” settings in your admin panel (ISO 8859-5 seems to be the encoding for Cyrillic alphabet). Perhaps that would do it.
Best,
S
Hello Sam!
I really want to thank you for creating these lovely themes.
I have your magically theme “Motion” on my blog:
http://osamasalti.wordpress.com/
I created tables (using HTML) and placed images in the cells of tables.
I noticed that when pointing on a cell (image) the whole row highlights, not only the cell itself.
Someone told me that I need to change a class in CSS:
table tr:hover td { whatever property }
to
table tr td:hover {whatever property }
I don’t know if that might work, anyway I am newbie in HTML and don’t know anything in CSS.
Would you please advise me what to do?
Or could you please modify your theme so it can highlight each cell by itself?
Check the tables on my blog:
http://osamasalti.wordpress.com/
Again thank you!
My best wishes.
Osama
Hi Osama,
Thanks for you comment! The modification you mentioned above seems correct, it is worth trying out. Unfortunately I can’t change the WordPress.com version at will, so you will have to edit it on your installation yourself.
Best,
S
nice versions ..
thanks
Great theme!
How can I change the dotted underline links to be a solid line? Can’t find it in the css.
How can I make the author page show more than 3 past posts? Same with a category page?
Thanks!
Go into edit themes and go to the “stylesheet” on the 9th line when you see .postcontent you will see this line
.postcontent a {border-bottom:1px dashed #a8ef9d;}
change to this
.postcontent a {border-bottom:1px solid #a8ef9d;}
Hi Sam, thanks for Motion!
I use it for my wordpress blog now.
If poeple click reply button to reply a comment, the browser will go to ‘another’ page (actually it is still in the same page). It may take few seconds. I think, it will be better if some javascript code put in ‘comment reply’ button so that when this button’s clicked, the browser doesn’t load anything.
I’m sorry if my comment is a repost comment. Thanks.
Hi! Yes, that would be a nice feature. I may add something like that in the future. For now, I believe there are plugins to help manage this for those interested.
Best,
Sam
thx for the theme!
e… if i can remove the “fotter left middle right” ? and how ?
thx again.
Hi. You can remove it by manually editing the footer.php theme file.
Brilliant. This is the best looking theme in the WP Featured themes. Thanx
I wondered if anyone has used this theme with Infinite Scroll. All the selectors appear to be correct and wired up properly. However, no go.
Anyone else got this going?
Thanks all!
j
Thanks J. I haven’t tested for that plugin, so I can’t tell for sure, but there shouldn’t be any problems if the files are where they should and the markup is correctly edited.
Best,
S
Hi,
I am a newbie to the wordpress. And I really like the Motion you design. Great design.
But i have a problem. Hope you can help me.
My problem:
I know in your design you have “Drop-down categories menu”. But after several testing and trying, it looks like only can be first order of hierarchy. Can I extend this limitation to second hierarchy.
For example, i have one category called “A” then i have “a” as first order hierarchy. And i desire to add one more hierarchy to “a” with “aa”. But after testing, it cannot work. In the drop down menu, “aa” will be overlayed with other (let’s say “b”).
So how can i fix this problem?
Thanks for your help.
Hi,
You are correct, the drop-down menu only displays the first level children categories. I sadly don’t have the time to walk you through customizing it to display more, but if you know html and css a little bit, it shouldn’t be extremely hard to perform.
Best of luck,
Sam
I understand now.
Since I am still new in wordpress, so still have many thing do not understand here.
But i will try my best to catch up others.
Anyway, I am still appreciated your reply.
Thanks.
Jun You
Thanks for great themes. I use it now.
1. When i use Drop-down categories menu, it only show 2 category under 1 parent. After several testing and trying, it same and i hope you can help me to solve it.
2. How to modify css/html? I don’t anything about it. newbie.
Hi Mohamad. There is no limit in the theme to the number of children categories to display under a parent category. The subcategories are however limited to the 1st level (children of children categories won’t display).
Best,
Sam
thanks for great themes
1. Sub cotegory only display 2 cotegory under 1 parent. I hope you can help me to solve it…
Love this theme, only wish it would take a larger logo. Is there a way to change the logo size in the header.php file? If so, can you tell me which line. I looked for it and could not find it.
Thank you.
Hi Pat. To modify the size of the logo, you need to modify the CSS stylesheet. Look for this: #header #logo img
Best,
Sam
I think you renamed page-with-sidebar.php to page_with_sidebar.php but accidentally left both in your last release. According to these links, the page_with_sidebar didn’t exist until 1.0.6 and is a restructured version of page-with-sidebar.php.
Version 1.0.5: http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/motion/1.0.5
Version 1.0.6: http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/motion/1.0.6
Dashes: http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/motion/1.0.6/page-with-sidebar.php
Underscores: http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/motion/1.0.6/page_with_sidebar.php
Congrats on getting picked up by WordPress.com.
Thanks Callum! You are correct, that seems to be a mistake on my part. I’ll update the theme right away.
Sam
Hi -
I wanted to replace the Blog title section in the top left with a logo (image file). do you know how / where i would do this?
thanks,
Matt
Hi Matt,
This must be done in the header.php theme file. A way to do it would be to use the following markup:
<a href="<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/images/logo.png" alt="your site name" /></a>
(where logo.png would be your logo file)
… And of course modify the existing markup accordingly, as well as the CSS.
Sam
Thanks for the hint, Sam, on replacing title with a logo. but what other ‘existing markup and CSS’ files are you referring to , to change.
Have been working with your beautiful Pixel theme and cannot get that to work. ie. replacing title with a logo.png or any other image file.
am working on a MAMP on my Mac, so can’t give you a live link.
thanks for any guidance.
René
Hi Sam,
figured out how to do the CSS changes. Lucky I have Dreamweaver to look at the code and see my options.
Just one more question. I looked at that list of conditional codes you suggested, but cannot find anyway to add a signature class or …/
i want to be able to add my swignature to the ‘Welcome” message, with somefont and other coding.
Realize not every OS or browser will pick it up, but many will.
so is there any way to add that to the that ‘welcome’ message?
thanks again, will look through this and the Pixel comments to see if this is answered.
Hi, Sam,
meagain.
All I had to do was insert my code in the message. Voila’!
Hope this helps anyone else looking for those answers.
Sweet themes, Sam.
Thanks so much for making them available for us.
wow! is very good this new theme! I congratulate you! so if I have broken the cloud of tags in flash I had in the sidebar … Is there any way to fix it?. Greetings and sorry for my basic English.
Hi Patricio. I think you are referring to a plugin, since there is no built-in module like that in the theme. You can try to uninstall the plugin and reinstall it again. Or if you’ve made modifications in the markup and/or stylesheet, you can try to revert back to an earlier backup.
This is a beautiful theme. You have put it together so well, with such attention to detail. Transparencies, colors and rollovers are perfect. I just had to stop by and thank you.
Patricia
Theme is at http://www.eagleswingswallpapers.info/
Thanks Patricia!
Hi Sam,
Thank you for this great theme.But I have a problem.Starting from today(June 12,2010) I cannot update plugins automaticcally.I keep seeing this after clicking auomatic update is:
” PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature ”
Could you advise me what to do about it.
Thank You
Respectfully
Hi. I don’t believe this problem is related to the theme. It would be best to ask the official WordPress support forum, at http://wordpress.org/support/
Just wanted to thank you for this theme, Sam I know there must be a ton of work involved in developing a theme, but from my point of view as a web designer, the beauty is that it can be made to look completely different by just changing the one background image! I love that! I also love the background image you chose (or created). Sadly, I had to change it out to match the colors / look of my own web site!
And best of all – I don’t even have a question or a problem! yet…
)
Thanks for the kind comment Suzi! I’m happy you like it!
Hey, this theme is great!
I have edit this theme, change the background, but it isn work and i not find the mistake.
At the first view you can see the fail.
I hope you can help me!
My test blog url: http://test.keynex.de/
(I’ve changed only the “bodybg” picture)
best regards,
Michael
Hi Michael. It seems to be working now, so I’m guessing you found the answer.
Hi, yes thanks! I dont know why, but now it works. strange =)
Hey, I love this theme! I modified the colors to look more like my existing website, but I like it so much I am going to apply it to my other pages. While I’m still working on the content, I’ve been trying to shrink the posts on the homepage to just a summary with a read more link, but I’m having trouble with it. Does your theme come with a read more option (just for the home page)? If not, can you redirect me to a place where I can learn how to add it to the php? Again, LOVE the theme!
Thanks Julia! There is no particular option in the theme itself for a “read more” button, but you can use the “read more” tag from the WordPress built-in editor to insert a link (it truncates the post and inserts a “read more” link).
Hi Sam, not sure if I commented yet before, Here is the blogger templates version Motion theme
Cheers
http://www.wordpresstoblogger.com/2010/04/motion.html
Thanks for sharing!
HI, thanks for the theme! Where do you change the font size for the name next to the logo? I know its somewhere in the stylesheet but where?
Hi Andrew. That would be under this selector: #header #logo h1 a
Hello;
I am also using motion template on my blog but i guess the paginator3000 script has been deleted from http://all-in-one-blogger-widget.googlecode.com/files/paginator3000.js because my page navigation widget dissappeared suddenly!
What do you suggest for me to fix it?
Thanks,
Hi. I’m not familiar with this script, it is not included in the version I have released. Perhaps you can ask the person who ported the theme for blogspot?
http://coolwindor.com/cw/
It’s my site. Now on the header there is only category “Giới thiệu”. How to add more? Thanks
(I am really bad at english.)
Hey Sam, first of all: Thumbs up! That’s a great theme you created! I am using it at aone of my blogs and I love it!
I have but one question: I am using your theme version 1.0.6 with a few modifications (some images and css…). Now everytime I open the themes page Wordpress tells me that there’s a new version (1.0.7) of the theme available. Since I made a few modifications, I don’t know, if I can just upload the files I did not modify or if I don’t need to upgrade at all. It would be nice to know the changes in the new version anyway. I just upraded to WP 3.0 by the way.
Hope you get to read this! Thanks in advance.
Thanks! There is a readme file included in the theme files when you download it. In there, I try to specify which changes were made. 1.0.7 was not a major update, so you don’t really need to upgrade.
Hello! Thanks a lot for this outstanding theme. I am using this on my blog now, after modifying a little bit. I just have to change the color to avoid replicas. I hope it will work the same with Wordpress 3.0. Thanks again and have a nice day.
Thanks for the comment Marlene! Good luck with your blog!
I’m trying to edit the top nav bar to highlight the current page and am having problems making it functional using standard methods for sliding doors. Can you let me know if you have a “quick fix” for this?
Thanks!!
Hi Anastacia. I don’t have a quick fix for this. Personally, I will usually perform this by using conditional statements (http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags). But there is certainly an easier way out there… I will have to find it one day. Best of luck!
Gorgeous work!
Being an artist, i was seeking a theme with a lot of transparent features to be able to personalize the background with one of my design. Not only this theme is perfect for that, but it is well balanced visually, creative without stealing the focus of the art displayed and so functional!
Thank you for a truely well done job!
http://daalliniirae.innermagic.net/
…oh and btw i still can not figure out how to create the menu in the header (your’s is : rambling etc)
I red this answer you gave to someone else :
“… the menu sets itself up automatically using the categories you will create when writing posts. The dropdown works by displaying 1st level children categories, once there are entries associated to them….”
…but i don’t get it!
Would you be kind enough to explain a little bit more?
Thanks again!
Sure! As you create posts and assign them to categories, the categories will line up in the menu. Children categories will display as a dropdown. However, children of children won’t. Does that help a little?
Thank you! I love what you did with the background.
Best of luck!
Thank you so much Sam.
Yes i get it now
I wish you the best.
I still love the look of this theme
I am having a few odd issues with it though, now that I installed the most recent version and am using it with WP 3.0
I was entering a post, a poem actually, and wanted a couple of lines of space between the stanza’s. Every time I clicked “save draft” it took out all the formatting (ie spaces). This happened a number of times.
I tried to manually put the page breaks in via the html editing tab, and the preview would work until I hit save draft and then same thing happened.
I tried to just hit enter a bunch of times to see if that would show up on the draft as showing lots of space between paragraphs (just for the sake of testing it) and it didn’t show up at all.
Any idea why this is happening? This is really simple formatting the kind of thing I would do all the time in a post, and have never had an issue before the update.
I just gave up tonight, hoping that maybe something will resolve by magic over night.
Thanks in advance.
Erika
I have had the spacing problem with every theme I have used.
Is there something that WP does wrong? I can’t believe so many themes have the same problem.
The only way I had been able to control spacing is by using the (blank) in html mode.
has always created a space line and to pad you can of course repeat that as many times as needed.
I use all the time to control text wrap next to photos, and also as tabs.
Shoot – I forgot the htlm code will not display!
non blank space is coded (without the spaces) with this 6 character string in html mode: & n b s p ;
Stick that & n b s p ; string between the paragraph p and /p tags and you will get a blank line. Also try br for line break. I can’t put the for the p or br here.
The space character allows for precision line spacing and space padding within a line.
I don’t know how to display html code but hope that helps.
Hi Erika. That’s a bit weird. It doesn’t sound like it’s related to the theme. Perhaps you could address your concern over at the WP official forum: http://wordpress.org/support/
I went back to using the earlier version of word press (not just because of the theme issue, but because I think I’ll let them work a few bugs out before I use it), I didn’t go back to the earlier version of the theme. I am still having the same issues with spacing, so maybe it wasn’t about the 3.0. Not sure what it’s all about.
Sorry for the double post, I forgot to add this, just for more information.
I ended up just working around the issue, by using the indent feature so I could at least post my poem to my page.
I tried the suggestion of the & n b s p ; (without spaces) and it would work until I saved the draft and then it would clear all the spacing html out of the post and reset the spacing to what it was before. It didn’t touch the indent code for whatever reason.
So at least the post is going to be up. It doesn’t have the spacing that I really wanted but it will have to do for now.
Very odd quirk. It didn’t ever happen with the original version of the theme for whatever reason.
still love the colors though.
-Erika
Sam – I’m one of the newbies too. I’ve tried half a dozen themes and really like MOTION. Kudo’s to you.
I have two confusion I hope you can shed light on:
1. on my blog in the side bar is Meta – if a visitor “registers” and then comes back and logs in – they don’t really see the blog – they “seem” to be in some sort of administrator mode”. Since they have to “register” to be able to leave a comment – this is VERY confusing. What am I doing wrong? Everyone except me is a Subscriber (vs Administrator).
2. Sam, can you recommend an “Email Subscription” plugin/widget that REALLY WORKS in this theme? I’ve been trying to make Subscribe2 perform the task. (I’ve tried for 2 weeks) – but it doesn’t send out notices as it should – very unreliable in this case. YOUR perspective would be appreciated.
Thanks
Robert
Update: I’ve learned that Meta is for registering people who will be allowed to actually publish their own posts on the blog – and have now removed that from the page. That just leaves the issue of getting reliable deliver of new posting notifications via the “subscribe2″ plugin – or something BETTER if anyone has a recommendation for a better plug in.
Thanks,
Robert
Patience and tenacity have their place in life – I’ve learned about Google’s FeedBurner in the past 15 hours of digging.
If this works as expected – I’m a happy camper. And for those who are new like me, I hope this tip serves you well.
I agree with the other comments here: MOTION is beautiful. Thanks for creating a theme with coolness and elegance.
Thanks Robert!
Hi! I love the features of this theme. But I am having a problem with reply to comments (100+ comments with photos).
After I hit reply, I see the top of the page/post. Then the comment entry box. After I submit my reply, I see the top of the page/post again. Then the comment is displayed n the correct nesting place.
This is really becoming annoying to everyone. I think the problem comes from how the Theme/WP navigates.
I had to delete the shading of comments because that seemed to slow down scrolling of comments (100+).
Would you be willing to change the reply so that the reply form is opened intantly after the comment, as it is in the CONNECTIONS theme. This is the best and most logical place for the reply form because at times I want to look up something in the comment to complete my reply. And it looks like it does not cause any wait time.
If not, how much would you charge to make this change for my custom version of this theme?
Best regards,
newsbird
I’d like to hear other people’s experiences with upgrading to Wordpress 3.0 before I press the button. Any compatibility problems with the motion theme?
There is no reported problems that I know of right now, it should work fine.
Hi dude! great temaplete, but i have one question….
what should i do for create submenu in top menu?
thx for hlp
Hi. It’s not extremely hard to do, but unfortunately I don’t have enough time to go through the details. You can look at how the other menu is made and copy a number of the elements and modify the javascript accordingly.
Hi Sam, i’ve used Motion on my personal blog, http://www.boogle.co.uk and it’s stunning. I haven’t had a play around with any of the look and feel yet (other than the menus, widgets and plugins) but it looks really simple to do, so thanks for that.
I’m using WP 3.0 and have seen no problems at all, seamless. I’ve also added http://85ideas.com to my Blogroll as well as leaving the ‘credit’ link in the footer. Top site, top work.
Thanks again,
Will
Great! Thanks Will!
Does this theme run fine on WP 3.0? Can it use the Menu / dropdown option on 3.0?
Hi!
The theme runs fine on WP 3.0, but it isn’t fitted with the latest features yet.
S
Love it, would love to know if the WP e-commerce plug-in works OK with it? has anyone tried ‘motion ‘with a shopping cart?
Hi Conor,
The theme should work with the plugin, but it will likely need to be styled a little bit to look good.
Best,
S
Hello,
I love the MOTION theme and I like PIXEL theme, I chose MOTION first Because that is the theme that I wanted, did not work, said fatal error on line line 27. did it again to no avail, tried the next one that I like to see if I was doing wrong but it worked as it should. Can you help me as I really would like MOTION as my theme.
thank you
Hi David,
What version of WordPress are you using? The theme should work fine with WP 2.8+. Also, perhaps your files were corrupt on download; you can try downloading them again.
Hi! Im using your template for a site im making and i cant get the dropdown menu to work. I have a parent page then 3 pages that should be in the dropdown from it. They show as indented in the Pages Widget but just not when you hover over the parent menu item. Is there something i need to activate or anything to get this to work?
Thanks
Hi Mary,
The dropdown, by default, works with categories, not pages.
Hi Sam,
How can I modify/change the message that appears on the top right side of the page that says:
“Hey there! Thanks for dropping by Motion Demo! Take a look around and grab the RSS feed to stay updated. See you around! ”
Thanks,
Geraud.
Hi Geraud,
You can modify this using widgets.
Hi Sam. I have the same question as Geraud regarding changing the header text about “Thanks for dropping by…” I know your response was that this can be changed through widgets, but HOW? Which one? How do I do it?
Thanks,
Shae
Hi Shae! The widget is called “header” and should display along with the other widgets in your admin panel (under “appearance”). Are you still having trouble finding it?
Hi,
I’m using this theme and want to edit the fonts using Typekit. The problem I am faced with here is that this theme isn’t listed under the the drop-down menu when Typekit asks me which theme I’m using. When will this theme be added to that list and/or does this theme allow for font editing? Thanks. Cheers!
Hi Patrick. That’s a good question! I’ll keep it in mind for a future update.
Hi – I’ve got Wordpress 3.0 I can’t make the widgets work. there are two group Available or Inactive – and the widget groups on the right are all empty. I can’t move or delete the RSS comment, friends and links, pages, or monthly archives… can you let me know what i’m doing wrong… thanks
col
Hello, are you working on an update to Motion that takes advantage of the WP 3.0 custom menus?
Thanks for a wonderful theme…
Sam,
I just wanted you to check out our site, we modified Motion a bit, but I really like how it turned out. I am still hoping for an update that fully supports the custom menus for the top menu items instead of just pages.
Hey! im having problems with the background picture of these theme
Hello Dear,
I am utmost happy, You have rolled out a great theme, super cool, stunning, easy to eyes & …it’s Utopian. Thanks for the theme.
Our pleasure!
Loving this theme, great job! Thanks
Happy you like it! Good luck!
Hmmm, my last 2 comments disappeared.
Are you going to modify Motion to take full advantage of custom menus for the top menus?
Thanks – we customized your theme quite a bit, but love it.
Hi Devin. Your comments simply had not been approved yet, they were awaiting moderation. We all got busy with other things for a few days. To answer your question, I would very much like to update the theme in this fashion and I’ll look into it when I have a second. It’s certainly a nice feature!
I’ve tried to find a code syntax highlighting plugin that works well with the Motion theme without much luck. Do you have any experience or suggestions?
Thanks,
–David
Hey David. No, sorry, I haven’t tried any of those yet. If you find an interesting one, do let us know.
Hi, I’ve been using your theme for a while now but last night it randomly disappeared? Now my blog is just black and I can’t find the “Motion” theme by searching on Wordpress anymore…
Did you delete it?
Hi. I’ve checked and the theme is still online. Have you checked again recently?
Hi. Thanks for great theme. I found some weird stuff but I had rebuild it and now it’s ok. I made a lot of modifications but I had left your link in footer
Ok i did it…
Can i add also LEFT sidebar?
i want it 3rd column? any easy way to do it?
thanks.
Hi! Adding a 3rd column can be done and is not that hard. It would however require modifying the theme files a little bit, as well as the stylesheet. It’s not a big deal. Someone with html/css skills could probably have it done in a hour or so.
Am very impressed with the theme you have created. Am wondering about it’s compatibility with S.E.O etc, is it S.E.O friendly? I have a blog for my site and am thinking about changing themes, would like to use this one but would like to know about its S.E.O friendliness first…
Thanks Rob, happy you like it! I believe the theme is ok in terms of SEO. Of course it can always be tweaked and plugins can be added to make it better, but I’d say that it’s an overall fine theme in that respect.
Hello Sam,
my congratulations for your superb work, the theme is really neat and professional!
I’m encountering a problem with permalinks, btw! The images are not showing in single post view! I see that the problem can be reproduced in the live preview available on this site, too! Images do not appear, the filename is shown, instead.
Regards!
Hey! Thanks for your comment! The issue you’re seeing in the live preview of the theme is because I have moved server and did not export the images. The browser therefore displays the “alt” tag. You might be having a similar issue. Make sure your image tags are well formed and lead to the actual images. It doesn’t seem like something associated to permalinks. If you’re still having the problem, however, can you send a sample link showing the issue in details?
Best!
Hi sam! Sure, here’s the link
Here you can see the images without problems:
http://spidernik84.altervista.org
But here, opening a single post, you can’t :O
http://spidernik84.altervista.org/svezia/diario-svedese-scritto-n1-riflessioni-allapprossimarsi-della-partenza/
Actually, i imported all the data from another blog (flatpress) with a custom php script found in the wiki of the flatpress project, and had to manually find-and-replace all the paths to the images. The script doesn’t import the images, so i copied them manually under /wordpress/wp-content/fpimages (i’ve put my blog in a subdirectory).
Could this be the problem?
Thanks for your support!
Hey Nico. Yes, I believe the import must have been the source of the problem.
If we look at the source code of your site, we can see that the image address is referred to as wordpress/wp-content/fpimages/diario.jpeg. Now that is not an issue if we are located on the homepage, as it is the index (i.e. the browser will look directly in the right folder). However, if we are not located on the homepage, that relative url is not coherent.
Your images should point to the absolute url. For instance, on this post right here, the preview image on top links to http://www.webdesigncompany.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/motion.jpg. Your particular image should therefore point to http://spidernik84.altervista.org/wordpress/wp-content/fpimages/diario.jpeg. And so on for all the other ones.
Hope this helps!
Thanks for your great support Sam! I’ll play with mysql to find-and-replace the paths again
Have a nice day!
Sam,
I really like the Motion theme however, I can’t figure out how to change the drop down in the categories. I wanted to make sub-categories…very simple. Can this be done?
Thanks,
Joanne
Hi Joanne,
Children categories will automatically display in the dropdown menu once they are populated with at least 1 post. Perhaps you are creating the subcategories but they are still empty?
Hey there, I really love the beautiful MOTION theme you made!
I’m having a strange problem, though, maybe you can point me in the right direction to fix it: when people leave a comment, there’s no “reply” button for me to press (thus: no threaded comments). Any idea what’s going on? Much thanks!
Thanks Danielle! It’s likely that the problem you’re having is due to your “discussion” settings (under the “tools” tab in your admin panel). Threaded comments are not enabled by default; you may have to check that box. Best of luck!
Thank you VERY much, that did the trick! I appreciate your quick reply. :3
This theme is amazing. I can’t believe it’s free! Thaaaaanks!
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