TripleK2 - A Three Column K2 Mod for WordPress

Updates

Version 0.9.3

made TripleK2 compatible with WordPress 2.1

Version 0.9.2

fixed Sidebar Modules problem
updated to K2 SVN release 198

TechnoBlue Style

TechnoBlue Style for TripleK2

Installation

Copy ‘TechnoBlue’ folder to the ’styles’ folder of TripleK2
Go to Presentation > K2 Options
Select technoblue.css as the K2 Scheme
Click ‘Update Options’ to save

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Posted on September 17th, 2006 | Category: WordPress Themes |

57 responses so far,

1

Carol

September 17, 2006 at 3:42 pm

Hey John, have a look to the 3 column themes from http://www.fahlstad.se/themes/
You might like what you see.
2

Ryan

September 18, 2006 at 4:01 am

This is a great-looking mod. I’ve been trying to figure out how to make one that looks just like this, with no success. 3K2 wasn’t working with my latest install of WP+K2, so I’ll definitely be trying this.
3

Nat

September 26, 2006 at 3:51 pm

Hi John!

I started a mind boggling journey down the wp path a few days/weeks ago. I’ll leave out the gory details, but suffice it to say, I think it’s time to FINALLY make a squeak online, and you have the dubious honor of being the first to hear it

Long intro, for a really short question I notice that TripleK2 seems to have only one Sidebar on the Sidebar Widgets page - as in I seem to only be able to easily control (via widgets, that is) the contents of that sidebar.

Hakan’s earlier version of 3K2 appears to have 2 Sidebars on the Sidebar Widget page, making it easy to control (via widgets) the contents of both sidebars. Of course, Hakan’s appears to be based on a significantly older version of K2 (right?), so I’d be happy to use the more up to date TripleK2. Just wondering if there was a way around this sidebar thing?

Also, while my newbie self is here, some quick random questions:

- do you know of any good style sheets that work well with TripleK2?

- is K2 basically the only WP improvement of its kind?

- besides your cool blog, which other places are good for keeping up with developments of K2 based blogs that have more than 2 columns?

Thanks so much sir! Really really appreciate all your good work!
4

John T P

September 26, 2006 at 8:26 pm

Nat- TripleK2 currently let’s you control only one sidebar from the sidebar modules page. I will add support for both sidebars as soon as possible.

TripleK2 is a basic theme. I have not tried any styles with it as I myself is designing one for this site.

After designing one for my blog, I will design some for public use

is K2 basically the only WP improvement of its kind?

There are a lot of themes designed for WordPress. But I consider K2 as it’s best theme. You can find many WordPress Themes from here

besides your cool blog, which other places are good for keeping up with developments of K2 based blogs that have more than 2 columns?

Bharath has a good 3 column basic theme with both sidebars on the right side. You can downlaod the latest version of his theme from here
5

Nat

September 26, 2006 at 11:18 pm

And there’s my first reply!

Thanks John I’m really looking forward to both that sidebar support and your style designs, thanks!!

Style design wise, I’ve found interfaces like Tiga’s Tigarator Option page - which allows basic alterations to design without having to go into the code extremely helpful

I finally stumbled upon K2 after almost settling on a theme, and it got be wondering whether such high tech improvements were unique. Still not sure, but it doesn’t look like K2 has any ‘competitors’?

Bharath’s theme is pretty good; if I understand correctly, I have to convert to the switch.css to change to 3 columns, thus sort of disabling a simple style/skin change thereafter?

TriK2 is also good, but using the fact that the theme does not include a K2 Custom Header as my only clue, I take it it’s not using the latest version of K2? (How big of a difference does that make anyway?)

I’ll try wading through Paul’s tutorial as well as the WP codex over the next few days and do the best I can.

As always, thanks so much for reply and your great sharings!
6

garnet david

October 11, 2006 at 10:03 pm

I solved the single sidebar problem by replacing your themes functions.php with the one from 3k2. It has a call for Be Sherratt’s SBM plugin, and now I have 2 sidebars in modules.

Your Triple k2 did not seem to have the “k2 sidebar modules” option in the k2 options. The regular k2 had it. So I had to use Sherratts. I saw a “bootstrap” call but k2sbm never showed. I’m fine, but I was a little confused about it.

thanks for the useful theme.

David
7

JohnTP

October 12, 2006 at 6:05 am

TripleK2 does have “k2 sidebar modules. It’s just that it only allows you to control one sidebar like the original K2.
8

Nat

October 12, 2006 at 11:11 am

Mr. David T. sir, thou art genius!

You may have in a single stroke solved a dilemma for me that’s lasted quite a while - my deepest gratitude

Had a brief problem with the Headers Options page, but managed to see to it (beep if anyone else has same )

One extra question: I’m using Sidebar Widgets instead of SBM’s, so i guess the code at the end of the original (TripleK2) functions.php - ie, ‘//SBM for K2′ and ‘// Sidebar registration for dynamic sidebars’ do not apply for me?

Even if so, will there be problems somehow later? (I don’t forsee switching, but who knows… is SBM really better than Widgets anyway? Except for controlling when and where the widgets/modules appear I suppose….)

Lastly - what other problems, if any, do you think may crop up as a result of this switch?

Again, thank you so very much sir (cool site, btw ) - you should spread word of this innovation further and wider. I think it could very well facilitate a whole lot more switchovers from 3K2 to TripleK2! And thanks as always, John!
9

garnet david

October 12, 2006 at 10:13 pm

John or Nat- I’m glad someone else enjoys my simple solution. So far I haven’t seen any other problems with using the newer funcions file from 3k2.

Regarding widgets vs smb, I wouldn’t know since the k2 I was using seemed to use its own version of sbm, and so when I switchyed over it was the same. I thnk sbm is more customizable, which I like.

best,
David
10

kral

October 13, 2006 at 1:23 pm

Thanks, it’s great work! Thanks a lot! I prepare guncelyorum.com that’s a turkish blog with k2. But, the theme has errors with IE 6.0 that is used frequently in Turkey. John, can u solve these problems of IE6 ?
11

Nat

October 13, 2006 at 2:10 pm

David: I most certainly do enjoy the brilliant solution! Glad to hear there probably won’t be problems down the road - we’ll keep our eyes and ears open!

You might be right about sbm’s being better. What’s on this theme seems a bit more hi-tech then the last SBM I saw. Will continue to experiment

Possibly of interest, my ‘K2 Sidebar Modules’ page actually shows THREE sidebars right now (this is with the original 3k2 functions.php page). Hmm.. Not a big deal since it appears to be redundant and does no harm (it could be great tho - maybe add a sliding menu? I love more sbm space ), but I am curious as to why that is… any insights?

John-ji (I know you’re not from the North, but.. ) - would you consider creating a new release for TripleK2 that used these alterations? I’m not sure, but it seems users will have nothing to lose and quite a bit to gain (more sidebar control!) by incorporating David’s changes? You’re the boss of course, but just a thought

Thanks so much again to both of you!
12

JohnTP

October 13, 2006 at 2:50 pm

kral- Aren’t you using TripleK2? btw, your site is down.

Nat- Yes, why not. I will release TripleK2 with the changes. But let me first see if there is a better solution to this. btw, I will be releasing TechnoBlue style for TripleK2 soon.

Also, are you an Indian?
13

Nat

October 13, 2006 at 3:46 pm

Malaysian, actually Tho I wish I spoke Malayali!

Great news about the release, thanks! Of course, if there are better solutions, all the better And yes, there seem to be so few styles for K2, all additions will be appreciated!

Not that it’s super important, but any idea why that 3rd Sidebar thing came up?

Also, i forgot to mention, the sliding menu option I mentioned was from a theme by iqwolf - I’m personally a fan what do you think?

Sorry, but on the subject of new releases, here’s one other feature that I think is super useful, for newbies like me to avoid going into style sheets and code - the WP Themes Toolkit. If you could somehow incorporate this, I think it’d be a great leap forward for K2 themes, esp 3 column ones!

As always, really appreciate all your work!
14

Nat

October 13, 2006 at 3:49 pm

ps- sorry forgot to mention, I think one of the better incorporaters of the WP Theme Toolkit is Shamsul Azhar’s Tiga Theme . I was thrilled by the way you can control so many variables (font, colours, etc) from the dashboard
15

pattyce

October 16, 2006 at 6:34 am

1) why i don´t have some administration link under META?
2) i whould like to have numbers of post i wrote in ARCHIVES (each month) like as CATEGORY, how can i do that?
3) In the header, i can´t see anything in each PAGES!!

ok.. it´s so late and is my second theme after ACLIDE I upload
16

pattyce

October 16, 2006 at 7:15 am

sorry, i´ve been searching & searching, & i can´t run if just know crowl.
17

JohnTP

October 16, 2006 at 7:20 am

I checked the latest stable version of K2, they seem to have removed the Meta links that used to be there in the previous versions.

Anyways I can mail you the code to get the Meta links on your sidebar (I find it hard to put code here in comments).

Categories and Archives are already there and I can see them on your site.

What do you mean you can’t see anything on the header? Everything seems to work well on your site.
18

JohnTP

October 16, 2006 at 7:26 am

I checked your site again and I find Meta links on your sidebar already. Then what is the problem?
19

pattyce

October 16, 2006 at 7:54 am

you are sooo kind!!! i´ve -8hours than you

ok i clicked on K2 OPTION, ASIDES, asides sidebar, then all the sidebars modules appears.

but i used (in ACLIDE) links of my pages in the header (i will let ACLIDE theme for 2 days more) and i can´t do that in this theme.. tomorrow i will try to do it.
20

pattyce

October 16, 2006 at 8:10 am

i found K2 spanish version http://blog.moskis.net/downloads/traduccion-k2/

but i will try first in english
21

pattyce

October 17, 2006 at 8:44 pm

*still categories are in alfabetic order, nor in categories/subcategories

*and livearchives i couldn´t do to work

* why some of my comments in my blog are shown inside a grey-box and somes not?
22

Ubaldo Pernigo

October 18, 2006 at 3:56 am

Grazie. Thank’s.
Tema proprio bello. Really a very nice theme.
The only problems is the localization process (I’m doing in italian) with so many files to have to know how dos they work.
I’ll start anyway to translate in Italian because it’s, I can say again, one of the best I tried:
http://www.comprensivovr02.it/

I’m not very expert so any suggestion is welcome.

Grazia ancora
A presto
Ubi
23

JohnTP

October 18, 2006 at 4:23 am

pattyce-

still categories are in alfabetic order, nor in categories/subcategories

That is how categories are shown in K2

and livearchives i couldn´t do to work

I have not tried LiveArchives on the latest stable version of K2, so I am not sure about it.

why some of my comments in my blog are shown inside a grey-box and somes not?

When you comment with AJAX Commenting turned on, author comments won’t be marked unless you refresh the page. Does this problem occur even after you refresh the page?
24

JohnTP

October 18, 2006 at 4:39 am

Ubaldo Pernigo- why have you removed the footer links pointing to this theme page.

pattyce- Why have you added a rel=”nofollow” to the footer links?

Don’t you guys like giving credit to the designer?
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pattyce

October 18, 2006 at 5:11 am

omg!!
many thanks JT; i activated the ELA plugin and works, but some months (like 2006-jun) are post above other.

2) still to arrange pages, header & footer.

3) about no follow, cames from the zip I installed :O didn´t see it, pls excuse me. (just see it & had the links!!)

where say NO FOLLOW? what i have to do?
26

pattyce

October 18, 2006 at 5:13 am

hey, i come from the links of the footer!!
27

JohnTP

October 18, 2006 at 10:15 am

pattyce- What you downloaded is a modified version of TripleK2 by a troublesome kid called Thilak. He linked to his own site in the footer and edited my links with a rel=”nofollow” so that Search Engines don’t follow the links.

I have no idea what all nasty changes he has made to the theme,so Please download and use the original Theme from here.
28

pattyce

October 18, 2006 at 11:54 am

OM*G
i hope my husband didn´t read your comment, because he awarness about that (did u dowload the original version??!!).
well i have to uninstall all in my server and install yours today.

thank you for tell it me.
29

Ubaldo Pernigo

October 18, 2006 at 4:56 pm

>Ubaldo Pernigo- why have you removed the footer >links pointing to this theme page.
Sorry averithing now is ok - I just cut and past code we use before.
Any suggestion for localization in Italian?
30

Jochen

October 19, 2006 at 3:55 pm

Hi
thanks for this great theme.
But if you have a lot of pages, how will these pages displayed in the header?
What is with the subpages?
Thanks in advance Jochen
31

Frez

October 25, 2006 at 8:09 am

Hi, great theme you have here. I would like to use it for my blogs. But I have a question here. I can never figure out how to make the homepage of my blog to display only the summaries of each post, not the whole of it. I’ve seen in your blog there’s something like click at the link to read more. How do I do that? What plugin do you use?
Thanks in advance.
32

Ubaldo Pernigo

October 25, 2006 at 10:09 pm

Yes, your theme is ready for localization…
Sorry for my previous question.
I do some works with po e I have now e it_IT.mo file localized just for the part I need.
By time I’ll translate all.
Thank’s again.
33

Thomas Novotny

October 31, 2006 at 12:31 am

first, thanx for an excellent wordpress theme. i esp. like the technoblue style, but unfort. i had to disable it, as its not quite displaying correctly on the IE. the main quirk is that the submit button is invisible. also, the fontsize in the comment edit is too big. thanx for listening.
/thomas
34

yan

November 3, 2006 at 9:08 am

I am having the same problem with Submit button. A very nice style otherwise.
35

yan

November 3, 2006 at 9:22 am

I have found that this fixes the problem with missing submit button in IE:

In the technoblue.css file change this:

.comments form #submit {
background: #88abca;
padding: 2px 40px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
color: #fff;
margin: 3px 0 0 3px;
display: inline;
float:left;
}

to this:

.comments form #submit {
background: #88abca;
padding: 2px 40px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
color: #fff;
margin: 3px 0 0 3px;
position: relative;
}

Apparently IE doesn’t like float.
36

Paolo

November 6, 2006 at 6:10 am

Great style this theme, I like it very much but I’m still having a problem so I decided to contact you: i’m using Lazyest-Gallery plugin and my problem is that the thumbnails of gallery’s image are too small. If you go inside the page of gallery all goes ok.. but when you select a gallery to visit the thumbnails of photos inside the gallery are small. I’m experiencing this problem with Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and 2.0 RC, IE 6 works good. Can you help me?

Thanks a lot and sorry for my English, have a nice day and continue with this great work

Paolo (from Italy ;-))
37

Jochen

November 6, 2006 at 6:47 pm

Hi,
one impoprtant questeion:

How can i get or put the

Published on …. in category …. down the bottom of the post?

tx Jochen
38

JohnTP

November 6, 2006 at 7:43 pm

Sorry for the late reply…I have still not recovered from my fever

Frez- You can put summaries of posts on the homepage by clicking the ‘more’ button where you want the post to show the more link.

yan- I will fix the problem and put it for download here soon.

Paolo- I have not tried the Lazyest-Gallery plugin so far. I will try and let you know.

Jochen - For this you will have to hack theloop.php. I have seen a few tutorials in the past explaining on how to do this but they were for K2 beta two r167 which is no longer available for download. So you can try asking in the K2 Forum.

There are many helpful members there who will gladly help you.
39

Nat

November 8, 2006 at 12:17 am

Hey John Long time no see, I hope you’re recovering from your fever!

I’ve spent most of tonight trying to figure this out with no success. I run two sites using your theme (v 0.9.1, hope to upgrade soon though).

Tonight, I discovered a weird problem when viewing with IE that is even weirder because it only occurs with one site - http://www.bangkit.net. The other site - http://www.jelas.info - should be exactly the same, but it does not have that problem at all.

Specifically, the problem seems to be one of those div things, where the right sidebar appears wayyyy down at the bottom of the page.

I’m going to tinker on it and try a little bit more, but will prob give up very soon! Any insights anyone?
40

Nat

November 8, 2006 at 12:54 am

Actually sorry! Just figured it out Sorry for the trouble!
41

Chris

November 17, 2006 at 10:14 pm

Hi John

A great design, but I’ve got a wierd problem.

On the front page, when I posted my fourth post, the first three, together with the right sidebar (after the search box) and the footer, increased font size/spacing etc.

Individual posts, search results and archive pages (and Pages) all appear normal, as does the most recent post and the left sidebar.

Any suggestions on how I overcome this problem?

Thanks

Chris
42

JohnTP

November 18, 2006 at 1:33 am

Chris- I have never faced this problem nor has any other users reported this problem to me.

It looks like you have edited the theme. Go to K2 options and click ‘Uninstall K2′ to uninstall TripleK2. Download TripleK2 again from here and activate it and see if your problems are fixed.
43

Nat

November 18, 2006 at 1:42 am

Chris, this sort of thing has happened to me before. Check the html of your 4th post to see if there are any unclosed html tags. If there are, those tags affect the rest of the content that comes after the 4th post.

John: while I’m here, I might as well mention a problem of my own regarding IE and the right sidebar. Best to just show the sites - jelas.info and bangkit.net. Jelas works just fine, but bangkit has a problem with the right sidebar. Something to do with div’s perhaps? I’m still working on it, but any insight?

Thanks!
nat
44

Nat

November 18, 2006 at 2:04 am

Yikes - just solved it sorry for the trouble, feel free to delete both this comment and the second half of the last one
45

bnpositive

November 18, 2006 at 5:38 am

I’ve installed this theme on a client’s blog and the module titles aren’t being displayed. Can you assist me with figuring out what the problem is?
46

Chris

November 19, 2006 at 12:53 am

John, Nat - thanks for your help guys. Problem solved: bad code in the 4th post. (When I realised the problem wasn’t template specific, I knew it must be in the database, and the only new data was the 4th post. Deleted and rewrote the post and everything is fine.
Chris
47

Nat

November 20, 2006 at 12:36 pm

Most welcome, Chris
48

Michael

November 22, 2006 at 1:19 pm

First, thx for the Great work, I use the 0.91 Version, but can anyone tell me please how to Upgrade to 0.92 ?

You can see my Theme at Escom.Net

Thank´s for any Help
49

Gunnar

November 27, 2006 at 4:40 am

John,

Excellent theme, just what I was looking for. I’m using it on my blog.

Thanks!

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