Curtis Henson

Glad you like it! If you use it let me know

The theme was developed and tested in WordPress 2.5. Most of the features should still work in 2.3, but it hasn’t been tested in anything below 2.5 so I cannot say for sure.

Sharon,

In the Wordpress admin section click on “Settings”, then on “Reading”. Check the number next to “Blog pages show at most”, this is the number of posts that will show up on the archive,tag, category, and home page.

If that doesn’t work or you already tried that let me know.

Lucifr,
It looks like there is a problem with the timthumb script that automatically resizes the post thumb to the correct size.

It looks like the image is hosted on another domain and I don’t believe the timthumb script will work unless the image is uploaded onto your domain.

One solution would to be to try uploading that image through wordpress and seeing if it works, if it doesn’t then that isn’t the problem.

Another easier solution is, if you don’t care about the post thumb being resized automatically, there is code in index.php commented out that doesn’t use the timthumb script. If you want to go this route let me know and I can tell exactly how to do it.

Whoops, looks like the header file got replaced with a old version somewhere along the line. I’ll fix that, watch this page for the update.

newbie,
Header image has been fixed, let me know if there are anymore problems with that.

Lucifr,
I don’t know how I forgot those. All feeds that WordPress puts out are now detectable by the browser. Feedburner feed will also be findable instead of the WordPress feed if you use that option.

newbie,

You can overwrite the existing Checkmate theme with the new file. You may want to backup the scripts folder if you are using the post_thumb feature.

I’ve updated the theme again, this time with a new page template to include comments. This file is called page3.php, no other files have been changed in version 1.03.

You’ll have to apply the page template to whatever pages you want to have comments enabled.

John,

It is partially fixed now. The error using “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” is now fixed.

I wasn’t able to re create the short post error. Did this happen when using “Users must be registered and logged in to comment”? What browser are you using?

I would suggest to anyone who hasn’t updated yet to update now.

tboggi,
Glad you like the theme and I love how you have modified it, site looks great, I especially like the post numbering!

On to your problems.

The pagination is broken due to bad implementation of query_posts on my part. From your site it looks like you can edit some code so I’ll tell you how to fix this. I’ll be updating the theme later if you would rather wait.

In the index.php file look for the following code, It is on line 39.

<?php
			query_posts('order=DESC');
			if(have_posts()):
			while(have_posts()) : the_post();
			if( $post->ID == $feature_post ) continue; update_post_caches($posts);
			?>

and delete the line that has query_posts, so it looks like this:

<?php
			if(have_posts()):
			while(have_posts()) : the_post();
			if( $post->ID == $feature_post ) continue; update_post_caches($posts);
			?>

This should fix the wp_pagenavi plugin, if you still have any problems let me know. I’ll also be updating the theme later on if you would rather wait.

paskal,
Glad you like it!

tboggi,
That script uses the mootools js library and Checkmate uses the jQuery library. Both libraries use the $ selector as a shortcut so it creates a conflict. I would suggest using kwicks for jQuery, it is the same thing but built for the jQuery library.

Andrea,
When you unzip the file you should get a folder named Checkmate that contains everything. If you don’t you can create a folder named Checkmate and unzip the files into that folder.

Gideon,
I looked at your site and it looks like you got the tab box working.

The only widget that disappears should be the Welcome Box widget, which is by design.

There is a file called Checkmate.pdf in the theme folder which will show you the locations of the sidebars and also how to use them. It also contains some info about the other features.

As for the feature story reload loop I have no idea what could be causing that. Which version of WordPress are you running? It could be a conflict with a plugin also. Try disabling plugins one at a time and see if the problem goes away.

Let me know if there is anything else.

gideon,
It looks like you used the php code at the bottom of the header.php for your new header. You need to remove the if is_home from the code like this:

<?php 
		$header = get_option(’cm_header’);  // Gets the option from theme options page
		if($header == ‘No’) { }
		if($header == ‘Yes’) {
	 	$image_url = get_option(’cm_header_url’);
		 ?>
				<div class="container">
					<img src="<?php echo $image_url; ?>" />
				</div>
	<?php } ?>

That will fix the problem with the header disappearing. Also you should probably take big_header out of the class name, this might cause some rendering problems.

Adding a link to the menu would require editing the html like this:

<div class="menu span-17">
			<ul>
				<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
				<?php 
				$menupages = get_option(’cm_menu_pages’);
				wp_list_pages(’title_li=&sort_column=menu_order&include=’ . $menupages); ?>
			</ul>
		</div>

gideon,
No problem! Glad its working for you now. Let me know when you use it for your main site!

Andrei,

Are you having this problem with my Checkmate theme? If so you may need to go into the Checkmate Options under the Design tab and set ‘Show Header Image’ to ‘yes’

Lino,
To do this you would have to edit the theme files. Probably the easiest way would be to add some HTML to the header.php file. The code below is an example.

<div class="header">
		<div class="container">
				<h1><a href="<?php bloginfo(’home’); ?>"><img src="http://path_to_your_image.jpg"></a></h1>
					<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/searchform.php’); ?>
		</div>
	</div>

You could also do this through CSS. I’ll probably add a feature to do this through theme options in the future as it seems like a lot of people are doing this.

Naysway,
widgets.php is a WordPress core file and not part of the theme. The error is actually a PHP memory error and is part of the server configuration. It can be changed locally via the .htaccess file on some servers, but this may be against your terms of service. Either way it “shouldn’t” be happening but it does.

Nick Fox,
You also need to add the category ID’s to the “feature category ID” option. You can just add all the category IDs like so: 1,2,3,4,5 which will “feature” any new post. There are also some instructions and a chart of the IDs on the theme options page.

Nick,
Set ‘Show Header Image’ to ‘No’ in the theme options.

I’m looking for input on the next version of Checkmate. Let me know what features you would like see in Checkmate 2.0.

Joanna,
Turns out that is easy to fix ad this to the styles CSS

.wp-smiley { float: none; margin: 0; }

Smilies should now work as they were meant to.

Aaron,

The generated divs should inherit the CSS color of the parent div. So if you set .widget_welcome { background-color: #fbe5e5; } then the generated corners should all be #fbe5e5

Let me know if it isn’t working for you.

Aaron,

It should work when creating your own themes. If you look at the pre-made ones they all over write the welcome and feature background colors. Somehow the javascript is seeing the old background property instead of the new one. Not sure how.

Vic,
You will receive more help in the WordPress support forums. Or switch to a better theme, I would suggest Simpla

Jon,
I’ll probably rename it to readme.

Lino,
You have to ad the html code like <h3>Sponsers</h3>
H3 will make the header look like the rest in the sidebar

Joanna,

Inside the css folder there is a file called screen.css, this is where the Blueprint Framework css rules are and it handles the bulk of the typography.

However Checkmate uses relative sizing for many elements so changing the text size may break the layout in some places.

tboggi,

In the style.php you’ll need to change line 26. See here for the code.

You also might want to change anything that says #790000 to your new color.

Joanna,

In the ‘js’ folder change line 3 in cm_javascript.js

Line 10 changes the subscribe by email text also.

Rob J,
Bringing the menu into the header is probably going to require some html and css changing. You can try cutting lines 52 to 106 and pasting them after line 46 of header.php < -- see link for the code

Its possible to change the background by changing the background-color property of the body tag, and adding a background-color property to the content class in style.css, but it probably won't look very good as I didn't design it with padding around the content area.

In the next version I will be adding the functionality to change the background, but right now that is some time away.

In index.php change line 27 from <?php echo $featureimage; ?> to the url of your image. Also delete or comment out lines 23-25 and 28. That should get you a static feature image.