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• 1 Len // Jan 3, 2008 at 8:28 pm

  Very nice theme. Crisp, clean and quite professional looking. One thing I noticed while playing around with it on my PC using XAMPP is the sidebars will wrap under the main content if they (sidebars) are quite long. (which doesn't take much really if you're running a couple of those Blogrolling.com blogrolls)

• 2 dennis // Jan 4, 2008 at 9:48 am

  Len: Thanks! Yes, the sidebars can wrap if they're long. That's the symptom, I suppose, if the content block is too small (especially apparent for very short posts).

  Maybe I'll tinker with the single post template for the next version...

• 3 skarld // Jan 5, 2008 at 3:06 pm

  Excellent concept and execution. Your readers can vote for Antropov as their favorite WordPress theme on wpthemez.

• 4 dennis // Jan 5, 2008 at 3:32 pm

  skarld: Thanks for the great write-up! Also, I somehow managed to not know about wpthemez -- great site, I'll be sure to keep visiting.

• 5 Giovanni // Jan 8, 2008 at 6:15 am

  really cool theme, thank you

• 6 shep // Jan 8, 2008 at 9:35 am

  very nice looking theme. I also notice the problem with the sidebar wrapping, especially in safari on a mac. Otherwise, the theme would be great!

• 7 Missy // Jan 8, 2008 at 12:20 pm

  How simple would it be to add some color to the theme, as in background color?

• 8 dennis // Jan 8, 2008 at 12:30 pm

  Missy: Pretty simple! One of the first lines in 'style.css' defines the overall look of the page. If you edit the 'background' color value (the first item on the line), you can set the page background to any hex color you like:

  body { background: #E8EDF1; ..... }

  Or, if you wanted to use an image, something like this would work:

  body { background-image: url('http://yoursite.com/images/someimage.jpg'); background-repeat: x; background: #FFFFFF; ..... }

• 9 David S. Steele // Jan 8, 2008 at 7:39 pm

  Dennis, can I put another widget in where the tags are on the double column sidebar area. would like to put a form there. Thanks for the template very clean. I like it a lot.

• 10 dennis // Jan 8, 2008 at 8:39 pm

  David: Absolutely. There are two ways to go about it -- use the ads block to display your form, or create a new block altogether. To use the existing ads block (the easiest way):

  1. Edit 'ads.php' and replace the text Ad blocks go here... with the code for your form.

  2. Uncomment the display for the ads block in the files Master Index Template, Page Template, and Single Post. This will display the block on each page.

  To uncomment the block, change this code (located near the end of each file):

  < -- Uncomment the following line to include the ads block
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/ads.php'); ?>
-->

  ...To the following:

  < ?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/ads.php'); ?>

  Hope that helps.

• 11 Robbie Wright // Jan 9, 2008 at 3:40 pm

  Dennis - I love theme! Everything is working great except the full posts aren't being displayed. WordPress is displaying the full posts and I am not using the Excerpt Reloaded plugin. It here a flag or something I can flip in the themes files to make it follow the WP options?

• 12 Robbie Wright // Jan 9, 2008 at 4:27 pm

  Dennis - I managed to hack the code a bit and changed the main index template to this:

  <php the_excerpt_reloaded(110, '<a><blockquote><em><strong>', 'content', FALSE, '', FALSE, 1, TRUE);</strong></em></blockquote></a> ?>

  and it seems to be working great now. Thanks again for the great theme!

• 13 dennis // Jan 9, 2008 at 9:43 pm

  Robbie: Excellent, thanks for the kind words!

• 14 derick // Jan 12, 2008 at 12:38 am

  tried to follow robbie's code hack, but got an error . any other way to make it default to a full post showing?

• 15 dennis // Jan 12, 2008 at 1:39 am

  derick: Find the following line in the index.php template:

  < ?php the_excerpt(); ?>

  ...And change it to:

  < ?php the_post(); ?>

  That should do it.

• 16 Rapidshare Bloggers // Jan 12, 2008 at 12:05 pm

  Great theme :) thanks

• 17 brian's lawyer // Jan 16, 2008 at 12:41 am

  I think if I were Brian Gardner, I would consider suing you for ripping off copyrighted material.

• 18 dennis // Jan 16, 2008 at 10:55 am

  brian's lawyer: If you were Brian Gardner, you probably should have said 'no' when I asked you if you were okay with me releasing this theme... :)

• 19 CristianR // Jan 19, 2008 at 6:03 pm

  It seems to be having problems with IE 6.

• 20 CristianR // Jan 19, 2008 at 8:17 pm

  P.S : I've also changed the padding of the ad bar to 20px from 40px, but in order to keep the alignment I've increased it's size with 20px.
  Checked with FF and IE and it shows up good.
  P.P.S : You might want to modify the top padding of the ad bar to 20px so it can be aligned with the title.

  Thanks for a great theme dennis.

• 21 Mark // Jan 20, 2008 at 12:14 pm

  Very nice theme. I don't like having the tags displayed in the sidebar. How do I remove them?

  Also, I noticed on the home page if I have too many widgets in my sidebar, some will "slip" underneath the excerpts side instead of staying in the sidebar area. Is there a fix for that?

• 22 Mark // Jan 21, 2008 at 9:06 am

  I figured out the tags. The same approach as the ads you described in the comments applies to tags too.

• 23 dennis // Jan 21, 2008 at 2:08 pm

  Mark: Thanks for the kind words. I've added a small note on commenting out the Tags block to the 'Tweaking' section above.

• 24 Mark // Jan 23, 2008 at 10:37 am

  I have been getting a lot of compliments on your theme so its hard not to ignore it. ;)

  I am having an issue with the logo for the header.

  In the style.css, it states to uncomment this

  /* uncomment the height and background declarations here if you intend to use a graphic in the header instead of the h1 */

  and

  /* uncomment this line if you use a graphic in the header - make sure the height of your header graphic is equal to the height declared in this line of code! */

  for both the masthead and masthead a section. I have done that and added my logo (100 px height) to the image folder and it seems something is missing.

  I am not sure what it is.

• 25 Mark // Jan 23, 2008 at 10:56 am

  Is it possible its the code in the header.php file? It doesn't appear to say anything in there about the logo for the masthead?

• 26 Tone // Feb 1, 2008 at 8:49 pm

  Excellent theme, guys!

  I have a question. I have the TAG cloud appearing on the top where the Ads.php should show.

  How do I get the Ads.php to show there instead of the TAGS Cloud (which is appearing there and on the bottom bottom right where I put it.

  Thanks for the clean theme!

• 27 dennis // Feb 3, 2008 at 10:50 pm

  Tone: To disable the tags block, take a look at item #3 under the 'Tweaking' section of this post.

  For the ads block, take a look at comment #10.

• 28 Tone // Feb 6, 2008 at 5:40 pm

  Thanks for responding.

  I have a strange thing happening. When I click on any link under the "categories" section of the right sidebar, a list of all the articles within the category will show up, but the entire sidebar section on the right (and all of the widget) goes to the bottom of the page, leaving the right side blank.

  How do you fix this?

  Thanks again.

• 29 dennis // Feb 6, 2008 at 10:54 pm

  Tone: I suspect this is probably because your sidebars are much longer than the content portion when you're looking at a category listing. Do you have a URL I could look at to see what's happening?

• 30 Tone // Feb 6, 2008 at 11:03 pm

  Thanks for responding. Please try this link-

  http://wealthstudents.com/getrich/category/learn-how-to-start-and-run-a-successful-business/

• 31 dennis // Feb 6, 2008 at 11:17 pm

  Tone: Looks like the same symptom I mentioned in comment #2.

  The sidebars float, which looks nice but means that the content block has to be at least the height of your largest sidebar. Otherwise, wrapping will occur like you're seeing (i.e., http://wealthstudents.com/getrich/tag/time/).

  One thing that would lessen the likelihood of seeing the wrapping would be to display full posts instead of post excerpts. Comment #15 provides details on how to do that. Note that you'd have to make the change individually for each page type you want to adjust (e.g., index, archives, search).

  Hope that helps.

• 32 tone // Feb 6, 2008 at 11:47 pm

  Dennis: Can the sidebars stay "fixed" as opposed to "float"?

  Also, is this the case with all wordpress templates, or just yours?

  Thanks

• 33 dennis // Feb 7, 2008 at 12:50 pm

  Tone: The sidebars can't be 'fixed', sorry. :)

  I can't speak for all other templates, but for those with 2 column right-floating sidebars and a variable-sized content box, this will be the case.

• 34 rlpartida // Feb 21, 2008 at 6:27 pm

  First of all, congratulations for the Antropov Theme, probably the best I've seen so far. Great theme!!!

  I have a question regarding youtube videos. For some reason vides do not get posted in the first page (blog home), but when you click on the post title, and you get redirected to the post URL, the video is there. Any idea what is happening?

  Thanks

• 35 dennis // Feb 22, 2008 at 12:00 am

  ripartida: By default, only excepts are displayed on the main page. Doing so will strip out pretty much anything that isn't text or image.

  You probably want to display the full post rather than the excerpt, in which case you can find the instructions on the 'Tweaking' section of this page, item #2.

  Thanks for the kind words!

• 36 rlpartida // Feb 22, 2008 at 12:05 pm

  Hey Dennis!

  Thank you very much for your prompt response.

  I changed the Main Index Template from , to as you mention in the "Tweaking Section". But now I see no post content in the main page, only the title and "Continue reading entry...". perhaps I need to edit the Main template somewhere else?

  Thank you for your Help Dennis!!!

  rlpartida

• 37 rlpartida // Feb 22, 2008 at 6:56 pm

  Dear Dennis,

  I found the solution to my problem: used the_content instead of the_post :)

  Thank you for your support.

  rlpartida

• 38 fine art paintings // Mar 26, 2008 at 10:23 am

  Now here�s another three-column WP theme. There are only very few of this kind of themes so I�ll be keeping this one for testing and I look forward to the day when I�ll be using your theme in one of my blogs.

• 39 Luc // Mar 30, 2008 at 4:25 am

  Hello,

  I use Andropov (and I'm happy with it) at http://luc.saint-elie.com

  In order to make it WP2.5 gravatars compatible you just need to add

  1) to style.css
  .comment .entry img.avatar {float: left; margin-right: 10px; border: none; display:inline;}

  2) in comments.php

  just before :

  Luc

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