Comments on: WordPress 2.7 Theme Enhancements II

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:54:40 +0000

Hi Cole, it sounds like your styles need fixing in the right order. If you post up about this in the discussion forums – http://www.bloggingtips.com/forums/ and post up your two styles then we can look at them and work out how to make them work together. However as a quick point, the post-author-admin style will need to come after the depth style. My solution would be to specify the depth style to both depth and the post-author-admin ie.

depthstylename, .post-author-admin { // depth styles } .post-author-admin { // additional admin styles }

this way the post-author-admin style will inherit the depth styles and then just change what it needs to.

However if that doesn’t work or doesn’t make sense, post up in the forum and we can help you there

By: Cole

Cole — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:08:35 +0000

Thanks for the article. Very helpful. I am curious about one thing – I have set up my depth and post-author-admin styles but there seems to be a conflict. If the admin is replying (a depth comment), I want it to override the depth styles. Unfortunately, when it does override, the depth styles do not work at all and when they do work, the admin style does not. Any ideas?

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By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:30:56 +0000

Thank you!

By: Ajay

Ajay — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:50:58 +0000

Thanks for clarifying.

I was talking about this on a theme developers point of view.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:32:45 +0000

Ajay, yes post_password_required() is a new 2.7 tag/function. Everything I’ve written about has been introduced in 2.7.

I’m not sure what you mean be backward compatible. If you upgrade to 2.7 then you can use these features. If you release themes and want to have them work for both 2.6 and 2.7 then you will need to check the version number or check if the function exists first eg.

if (function_exists(post_password_required) :

By: Ajay

Ajay — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:09:56 +0000

Hi Sarah,

Just a question. When did post_password_required get introduced? Was it in 2.7?

If so, wouldn’t the theme need to be backward compatible as well?

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By: June@Baby Gates

June@Baby Gates — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:49:24 +0000

Thank you for the nice heads up. I found your site very interesting and full of cool stuff that I might use. Keep up the good work.

By: rustin

rustin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:43:00 +0000

Very informative posting Sarah!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:22:49 +0000

Hi Ajith, the changes between 2.5 and 2.7 are minimal. They may sound a lot but I’ve done them on my own theme and it took me around 30 minutes, mainly because I wanted to split up my comments and pingbacks (which I’ll be explaining how to do next week).

As I mentioned, you only need to add in the changes to the comment code if you want to make use of the new features. If you don’t then you don’t need to change your theme. It will continue to work regardless.

To be fair, I’d rather WordPress continually be improved offering the option of a variety of new features. You don’t have to use them, but they’re there if you want them. Much better than a stagnant blogging platform.