Travelogue 2

The full version 2.7 of my WordPress theme Travelogue has been released on WordPress’s Theme Repository. You can download it below.

Download Travelogue v 2.7 (includes PSDs)

This finally bumps it up past 2.6.9 with a couple small but important bug fixes. Here’s the lowdown:

Changelog for v 2.7:

  • Fixed a bug caused by a deprecated function called in sidebar.php if no widgets were activated.
  • Fixed a formatting issue when using the Search widget in the sidebar, causing all widgets after to be messed up.
  • Changed the default rotating script for the polaroid images to rotatorm.php instead of rotator.php. Hopefully that helps people have less issues with the polaroid images.
  • A couple other very small things.

If you have questions about the polaroid images, please search on this site and read the comments before you send me an email. I’m often happy to help, but I have very little free time, and many of the questions have already been answered multiple times. Other than that, enjoy!

Update: See this post about the polaroid images!

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Birdy

Thank you!

September 25, 2008 1:06 pm

Michael

thanks for the work I am looking forward to the new version. I use your theme for a family diary and it is still working well with WP 2.63.

November 25, 2008 5:17 am

bArtAA

i’m still using version 1.0.1 on my wordpress 2.6.3 and it’s running fine. Any news about the release of Travelogue2 ?

December 4, 2008 1:43 am

Ross

I, too, have been using Travelogue 1.0 for my Family Blog and would love an updated one. Any news?

December 9, 2008 8:39 pm

uplink

A beta is now available of the new theme! Check it out at http://www.podq.com/2008/12/10/travelogue-25-beta-testers-needed/. Thanks for all the interest!

December 10, 2008 11:31 am


Michael

Hi, I just installed version 2.7 (which is by the way labeled 2.6.9 on wordpress.org) and everything seems to be working (including polaroid rotation).
I made a german language file and it took it well. So Josh, if you are interested…

thanks for the great theme
Michael

July 5, 2009 5:15 am

umar

awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!

July 6, 2009 4:02 pm


Kelly

Hi! I just installed this into a travel blog that I”m creating but cannot figure out how to change the polaroids. Can you point me in the right direction?

March 3, 2010 5:56 pm

Lane Lester

A friend who has a travel service asked me about installing a blog for them. This theme looks perfect, but the photo switcher doesn’t work for me in either Firefox or IE.

Somewhere I have a plugin that switches photos at timed intervals. Maybe it would work here.

March 6, 2010 7:09 am

Lane Lester

Oh, yes, I tried both versions of the rotator script.

March 6, 2010 9:51 am

Lane Lester

For those who might be interested, I found a free rotator script that works at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/. It’s called the Ultimate Fade In Slideshow, and good instructions are provided. In header.php, the relevant section became:

March 7, 2010 7:13 pm

Lane Lester

Whoops! The HTML got eaten. I changed it so it shows now:
(div id=”polaroidimage”)
(div id=”fadeshow1″)(/div)
(/div)

March 7, 2010 7:16 pm

Joshua

Thanks for the find Lane. I hope that others will be able to apply Lane’s solution if the original rotator scripts aren’t working on their servers.

Unfortunately I don’t have the time to do much with Travelogue anymore, but when people in the community like Lane can help others, well that’s the whole spirit of the Internet anyway! :)

March 9, 2010 1:40 pm

dave

how do i change the polaroid? are there size requirements?

March 13, 2010 10:31 am

kenge labe

i would highly reccommend this theme to anyone on wp, great job guys…

March 21, 2010 11:00 am

8one6

Hi, I just wanted to say that I’m using your theme and think it’s great.

March 26, 2010 3:16 pm

Henrik

Hello,

I was wondering, if the one who made the theme, could help me with some few questions?

My email is hherlev@hotmail.com

I tried to find you on this site, but no luck.
Please get back to me

Regards, Henrik

April 17, 2010 6:15 am

Joshua

Henrik, check the readme file that comes with the theme for my email address. If they are general questions, consider posting them in the comments so that others can see and learn from them as well.

April 17, 2010 7:55 am

Candace

Hi,

I’m not sure where to paste the rotator script. I’m not sure where to find the code for the theme, as I just rotated to a newer version of wordpress.

Any help?
-C

May 5, 2010 12:51 pm

Joshua

Candace, all files for the theme are found in your website’s directory at /wp-content/themes/travelogue/, and the rotator scripts are found in that path in the randimages folder. Gluck!

May 5, 2010 12:53 pm

Jamie

I am using your template configured with the Archives widget. My archived posts show up here, but when I click on a post, there is no category included in the excerpt (though it does appear correctly in the full post).

It says “Part of Jamie’s adventure in – (1)” where the – should be a category. How do I configure this to load correctly?

Thanks.

May 8, 2010 7:02 pm

Joshua

Jamie, try changing line 48 in archive.php from

<p class="postmetadata"><?php printf(__("Part of %s's adventure in ", 'travelogue'), get_the_author()); ?> - (<a href="<?php comments_link(); ?>"><?php comments_number('0', '1', '%'); ?></a>) <?php the_tags(' | '.__('Tags:', 'travelogue').' ', ', ', ''); ?> <?php edit_post_link(__('Edit', 'travelogue'),'<strong> | (',')</strong>'); ?></p>

to

<p class="postmetadata"><?php printf(__("Part of %s's adventure in ", 'travelogue'), get_the_author()); ?> <?php the_category(', '); ?> - (<a href="<?php comments_link(); ?>"><?php comments_number('0', '1', '%'); ?></a>) <?php the_tags(' | '.__('Tags:', 'travelogue').' ', ', ', ''); ?> <?php edit_post_link(__('Edit', 'travelogue'),'<strong> | (',')</strong>'); ?></p>

Let us know if that fixes it.

May 8, 2010 8:40 pm

kashish

how idiotic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

May 21, 2010 3:57 am

Natalie

Do you give out the polaroid.psd file? I’d like to change the white background to a light brown, but the polaroid images have a white corner that I need to change to a brown in the psd file in order for everything to match.

May 27, 2010 2:40 pm

Joshua

Natalie, I don’t think I’ve maintained a separate source file just for the polaroid part of the image. However, the entire template PSD is included with the theme by default in the travelogue2-7.psd file, which will just be in the theme’s default folder. Hopefully you’ll be able to make the changes in there!

May 28, 2010 6:39 am

jane

Love your theme :-)

Having trouble with the polariod after upgrading.

Site: http://klappetrips.com/

Direct access to the directory (changed the permissions so you could see)
http://klappetrips.com/wp-content/themes/travelogue/randimages/

I tired to bring up just an image by calling the rotator.php and rotatorm.php but I get a 404 even though they are in the folder. Ive also read through every line of code in the rotatorm.php and it looks great.

Any ideas?

Thanks :-)

June 10, 2010 9:27 pm

Joshua

Hmmm, the fact that we can’t bring it up by even trying to access directly makes me think that it is something wrong with your .htaccess file (if your host is using Apache). This would be a fairly difficult one to troubleshoot though, unless you know your way around the file. As a troubleshooting point, try disabling permalinks in the WordPress settings and see if you can get to it at that point.

June 11, 2010 10:51 am

Babs

Ok, I give: how do you change the blue titles text?

June 21, 2010 2:38 pm

Ann

I am new to WordPress and am using your theme, but can’t figure out how to add my photos to the Polaroid.

July 21, 2010 8:36 pm

HollyAnn

Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE 8 = no problems, however in IE 7, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in the left sidebar is clickable. Can you supply a fix?

August 16, 2010 12:08 pm

HollyAnn

An answer has been found. Apparently, it has to do with positioning and z-index. In an ie.css file, which you must program a browser check for and call in the header, making both the sidebar container and its contents [code]position: relative;[/code], the sidebar container [code]z-index: 0;[/code], and its contents [code]z-index: 100;[/code] did the trick for this site.

August 19, 2010 8:06 am

Joshua

Holly, glad you found a fix for it. Would you post your details so that others having the issue could know about the solution as well? I could integrate into a patch for the theme and upload it for all.

August 23, 2010 9:34 am

jv

Hey Joshua,

Just downloaded and installed the script. I am completely new to WordPress… just wondering where I could find the file or area to change the Author category where it states “Hello! My name is – …”

I’m just trying to get a feel for everything as I start to put content in there.

August 26, 2010 4:46 am

Joshua

jv, you can edit the sidebar.php file directly, but the better way is to go into Appearance > Widgets in your admin dashboard and start customizing what appears on your sidebar from there. Add the widgets you want, and if you want an “About the Author” widget, make a text widget that has that text plus what you want in it.

August 26, 2010 7:15 am

jv

thanks joshua, i figured as much, but just wanted to inquire with you in case i was in err.

August 28, 2010 4:20 am

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