About my themes and plugins
Most of the WordPress themes I do are pretty custom. Tailor-made for specific projects. Like the one I did for my movie review website. I’ve tried converting that theme into a generic theme, but it didn’t work out. With all the crap we’re using on that site removed from the sidebars it looked awfully empty, and just didn’t work anymore.
Occasionally, I’ll do a general purpose theme. Most of them start out as new designs for this blog and grow from there. If they’re any good and somewhat complete I’ll release them. I usually attach the GPL license to my projects because I want to encourage people to modify them to fit their needs. And if somewhere along the way you end up creating something that only vaguely resembles the original theme, that’s very much OK. In fact, please release your theme so others can benefit from your work as well. Many people have emailed me asking if it was OK for them to change things. It really is. I’d appreciate it if you do leave the credit link, but I can’t make you.
Please bear in mind that my WordPress themes and plugins are provided “as is” with no support whatsoever. If you run into trouble with them, please check that your page is valid xhtml. In 99% of cases something added to the theme introduced errors in the markup, causing browser to render the page incorrectly.
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Roy,
I absolutely love your WP template! Everything works so well for my music-oriented blog. However, there’s only one thing that I’m not sure about. Every time when one opens my website on a PC, the following message pops up on the bottom of the screen: “Done, but with errors on page.” Would you have time to tell me why is this so? Otherwise, it works great on a Mac.
MANY THANKS!
Zvonimir
Comment by Zvonimir Nagy — February 2, 2008 @ 4:36 pm
Hi Nagy. I test themes on Windows, using IE6 and 7, Firefox and Safari. None show javascript errors, but I did notice some added javascripts in your site. You could try diabling them one by one, adn see whether this fixes the issue. Some scripts may be inserted by plugins, so try disabling them as well. Best of luck!
Comment by Roy — February 2, 2008 @ 8:46 pm
I downloaded one of your themes, Tranquility, for a major site redesign I did a year and a half ago. Beautifully designed, and easily customizable even for a real amateur like me. Thanks for making this stuff and putting it out there!
Comment by Owen — August 26, 2008 @ 8:22 pm
Hallo Roy,
May i ask you how you create the globe moving tag’s
what is the flash plugin name ?
i like the concept, gona save space alot
Regards
Joseph
Comment by joseph roberto — August 27, 2008 @ 6:09 am
Hi Joseph. The plugin’s called WP-Cumulus, and is available from wordpress.org.
Comment by Roy — August 27, 2008 @ 7:26 am
hi,
i’ve developed a tag module for Zikula CMS (http://code.zikula.org/crptag) and i was wondering if i can include/use your swf in it for a block
thanks
jami
Comment by jami — January 27, 2009 @ 10:13 am
@jami: WP-Cumulus is open source software. You’re completely welcome to use the swf.
Comment by Roy — January 27, 2009 @ 11:06 am
Hi Roy
Can the cumulus flash plugin work outside of WordPress? Can it be used in a website?
Many thanks
Mark Hayes
Comment by Hi Roy — January 30, 2009 @ 12:46 pm
@Mark: Yes it can. See this post for details.
Comment by Roy — January 30, 2009 @ 2:35 pm
how was it u did the flash display in the tag i love the way t moves can u teach me how am using dreamweaver
Comment by ehis — February 8, 2009 @ 5:14 pm
how did u do the flash on tag i love the way it moves can u teach me
Comment by ehis — February 8, 2009 @ 5:16 pm
@ehis. Please feel free to download the source files and have a look. To create an effect like this will require some knowledge of Actionscript and PHP skills, but you won’t be needing Dreamweaver.
Comment by Roy — February 10, 2009 @ 12:12 pm
hi roy, the wp-cumulus doesnt work with hebrew / arabic fonts just english (i use WP 2.7, utf8) any chance of a fix in the future…? (maybe because the font in flash isn’t multilanguage like: arial, verdana…)
Comment by pixelman — April 23, 2009 @ 10:53 am
@pixelman: It’s a little more complicated than that, but I’ve written a tutorial that should help you.
Comment by Roy — April 23, 2009 @ 3:14 pm
Hi Roy, I had some problems while trying to add Flickr widget into my Yahoo Plus Blog. It asks for Flash Player 9 although I Installed it already. Could you give me some ideas? Thanks
Comment by Keira — July 1, 2009 @ 3:48 pm
Hi Keira. That message means either the Flash plugin is missing or the html code has somehow been compromised. I assume it’s the latter. Could you look in the page’s source code and see if it still looks the same as what you copied in?
Comment by Roy — July 1, 2009 @ 8:06 pm
there was one of my friend who viewed my blog and so the wp cumulus … she jus gave an idea …
she said it will be great if the tag gets a get zoomed in when mouse over … i also think dat it would be something nice … when the mouse is kept over the tag gets kinda zoomed … is it possible
Comment by ne3 — July 4, 2009 @ 7:57 pm
Greetings. Soon I will appear a few times a week in a major paper as a writer and just renovated my site to “inove” at WP. I don’t usually have problems – but installed the lovely Cumulus plug in but it does not display my tags or does it show up at all. Do I need to re-install flash player? Is it a code glitch? When looking at your site, I can observe the globe spinning around just fine. Suggestions?
Comment by allison — October 4, 2009 @ 12:38 am