http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/11/01/making-your-themes-comments-compatible-with-wordpress-27-and-earlier-versions

I’ll have to take a look at how other themes hook into the language files *sigh* and this takes some time :p (it’s called “learn to drive while driving” lol)

the footer now says roughly: “Theme: Garland, by Steven Wittens & Stefan Nagtegaal, adapted by Chris Meller for WordPress”

the “get a blog at wordpress.com” reference was a bit out of place, I daresay

I have no problem with you adding links to the footer. Just make sure you give credit where credit is due – all I did was package it up for download.

I have a wordpress blog that is in Italian.

With your theme, it is pleasing to the eye, but slightly disconcerting for the brain

I suppose I have to delve into the .php parts of the theme

I also wanted to put in the footer properly-working links to the authors’websites and to your website.

May I?

Unfortunately I do not have the time to help people make modifications, so you’ll have to track down a CSS guru somewhere to help you with that.

I am facing screen resolution problem with Garland template for my site, not all would be able to view it properly and my site get messed up. I would indeed like to have horizontal scroll bar for my screen to get it fit. My site is http://innovideas.blogspot.com
can you let me know solution for this.

Thanks
Abhishek
http://innovideas.blogspot.com

ps. sorry for the double-post…

Thanks for making this available simply for us! I, like the wonderfully named Vxz above, was disappointed to find it’s not valid XHTML though, so I fixed it.

I don’t use WordPress myself, so I’m not sure how to make sure the code is rendered properly in my comment, so perhaps you can edit this to tidy it up for me?

in the functions.php file, the foreach block (begins ln. 259) should look like this:
[sourcecode lang="php"]

foreach ( garland_images() as $src => $image ) {
if ( is_array($image['el']) ) {
foreach ( $image['el'] as $k => $el ) {
$url = “image.php?src=$src”;
foreach ( (array) $image['args'][$k] as $color )
$url .= “&$color=” . substr(garland_color( $color ), 1);
echo “\n\t$el” . ‘ { background: ‘ . garland_color( $image['color'][$k], true ) . ” url(‘” . get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . “/” . urlencode($url) . “‘) {$image['post'][$k]}” . ‘ } ‘;
}
} else {
$url = “image.php?src=$src”;
foreach ( (array) $image['args'] as $color )
$url .= “&$color=” . substr(garland_color( $color ), 1);
echo “\n\t{$image['el']}” . ‘ { background: ‘ . garland_color( $image['color'], true ) . ” url(‘” . get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . “/” . urlencode($url) . “‘) {$image['post']}” . ‘ } ‘;
}
}
[/sourcecode]

This just shuffles the generation of the on-the-fly css and image-creation stuff (which is dead clever, btw) around, so that you can urlencode() the query string, side-stepping all those nasty problems with html entities.

Then just add “” (no quotes!) to line 36 of sidebar2.php, and that should do it (I think).

@pslStu -

not sure what the problem is there mate, but the custom settings are saved in the _options table, if you want to watch what goes on there and see if that gives any clues, and the default colours are hard-coded in the garland_colors() function in functions.php, around line 190 or thereabouts. Good luck!

Cheers!

Simon

I appreciate that this post is quite old now, but I’m having a lot of trouble getting the Garland theme to work. I’d be tempted to leave it, but, the blog owner I’m helping out wants this blog in particular.

Basically, the colour wheel works ok (as in I can pick the colour and hue that I want, with no problems), but the problem I’m getting is when I try to save those colours. The text and link colours save, but the base and heading colours don’t. In fact, instead of saving, they are removed completely, so I’m left with a pretty much blank looking blog. This can be ‘fixed’ by Reset to Default Colors, which does indeed reset the colours. It might also be worth noting that the Preview on the Color Customizer screen also doesn’t show the heading and base colours at all, all you can see is the white.
(oh, and I have made sure that it’s on Design, and not Presentation).

I really would appreciate some guidance with this. I’ve scoured the internet, and can’t find anything resembling my issue, or anyone willing to help out.

Ideally I’d like to get the Saving of colours working, but failing that, I was wondering, where exactly are the default colours saved? – my theory being that I could change the default colours in the theme files themselves, so that clicking ‘Reset to Default Colors’ applys the colours I manually editted.

Again, I would really appreciate any assistance you could give, and thanks for your time.