Phil Wareham (author)

20/02/11 at 19:46 (367 days ago)

Just a note to say that once I’m happy that the theme is bulletproof, I’ll submit it to Textgarden.org (which is the ‘official’ way to get new Textpattern themes)

Marc Carson

21/02/11 at 05:08 (367 days ago)

Hi Phil,

I’m giving it a try now, looks beautiful. I appreciate the thought you’ve put into it, like the extra CSS allowances. I had actually wondered how that glz_cf calendar pop-up was going to render with this new theme, “sigh.” :-) Good solution.

I kind of want to eat that little red “delete page” button I’m seeing, too. Very cute. Kind of wanting to make the Save/Publish buttons look like that, maybe I’ll do so.

Are you putting the TXP branding out there for your clients, or replacing that icon with your clients’ branding? I am doing the latter because I’ve had clients get confused about it before, try to contact the software developers, etc.

Thanks again.

Phil Wareham (author)

21/02/11 at 08:09 (367 days ago)

Thanks for the comment Marc. I been thinking for a while that I should change the publish (and save) buttons too because I feel they need to stand out a bit more, so I’ll try them in red as suggested and maybe they’ll be in beta2.

I do replace the TXP logo (and site name) with just a client logo in clients’ sites. I’ll update the readme.txt in the next release to include instructions on that.

Joe Hastings

08/04/11 at 15:50 (321 days ago)

Hello Phil,

I came across an IE7 problem on the Content/Write page. There appeared to be a Z-index glitch in that the Textile Help and perhaps the other h3.plain.lever elements appeared over the lighter yellow drop down panel (#txp-nav ul) despite the latter’s high Z-index value (1160).

I found this article which explains the problem and suggests a remedy. #txp-nav ul is positioned absolutely and the trick is to assign a higher Z-index value to the appropriate relatively positioned parent which I took to be #txp-nav li in the parent list. I added a value of 2500 to that.

I can’t check it out completely until early next week when the user with IE7 is back in her office, but needed to get this off to you while I had a bit of time and the detail was fresh in the old head.

Kind regards

Joe

PS It’s a great theme, stands head and shoulders above anything else.

Joe Hastings

28/04/11 at 15:00 (301 days ago)

The steps I outlined above did not resolve the problem. However adding a z-index value to #txp-body and a higher z-index value to #txp-head does resolve it. The z-index value for #txp-nav ul is no longer required and can be removed. Hive theme user with IE7 is now very happy. Thanks again for a great TXP Admin theme.

Michael Pate

31/05/11 at 15:11 (268 days ago)

One minor issue: I just tried it on an install in a subdirectory. The site name links to the domain rather than the specific install. Classic and Remora do not have this issue so I assume it is the code you used.

Phil Wareham (author)

31/05/11 at 16:34 (268 days ago)

The issues mentioned above have now been fixed. Thanks for the input.

Rob

11/06/11 at 14:59 (257 days ago)

very nice admin theme, just started textpattern and felt the backend seemed very dated. Well done.

Mike Dennis

13/06/11 at 15:06 (255 days ago)

Hi Phil

fwiw – I personally like having a bit of space to frame the tabs. So I’ve been adding 5px padding (left and right) to txp-nav. Thought I’d mention in case you might find the extra space an enhancement to the design.

On other item, also fwiw — with smd_tabber – if a lot of tabs are added, and there is a need for the tabs to wrap – it isn’t doesn’t look to great.

It’s a rare usage case more than likely. I only have one site that is doing it, and it’s a test site at that. So it may never be an issue in the real world. Thought I’d mention it though, in case it was of any help.

Really nice work – you’ve done a great job with this theme!

Phil Wareham (author)

13/06/11 at 15:24 (255 days ago)

@Mike Dennis

The tabs are designed with minimal padding so that it can scale down to a 768px width without problem (for an iPad screen in portrait format). If that is not essential for your user base then extra padding is not a problem to add.

Re the accomoodation of extra tabs – the theme is only intended for use with the standard set of tabs that are as default part of 99.9% of Textpattern installations, not custom tabs added by a third party plugin.

If a developer’s project needs extensive customisation of the admin-side of TXP then they’ll probably modify any bespoke theme for their own needs also – so it’s not something I’d be adding support for at this stage.

Cheers, Phil

John Stephens

25/07/11 at 14:33 (213 days ago)

Wow! I like this theme a lot. Great work, Phil!

I found one plugin-related glitch: bot_image_upload turns the Article Image field into a link that opens a modal window, with content similar to Textpattern’s Images tab.

In most admin themes, the rest of the screen has a semi-transparent grey overlay when the modal window is active, blocking the UI; also, the modal window does not duplicate Textpattern’s main navigation tabs inside it. In Hive, the #txp-head division seems to be positioned above the overlay, so that it stands out with strong visual contrast, and the navigation UI is no longer blocked. Also, the modal window in Hive contains an additional #txp-head div, giving the user access to Textpattern’s navigation within the modal window.

These issues are very minor, but I wanted to let you know. Thank you for sharing your magnificent creative work!