Theme Released: Rock Solid

I'm glad to say that after about 1-2 weeks of on-and-off work, my free WordPress theme Rock Solid is now available for download to the public. I have to say I am really proud with how this theme turned out. I've always wanted to do a "dark" and "concrete-style" theme, and I think I hit the nail on the head with this one. I'll get to the features in a second, I just want to take the time to thank ViciousDuck and Eternal for helping my out with the bug testing. They spotted a few things that otherwise would've gone unnoticed.

Free WordPress Theme

Alright, firstly, let me go over a few of the features in this free theme:

WordPress 2.6, 2.7+ Ready
Widget Ready
Gravatar Ready
IE 6 & 7 Compatible
Firefox Compatible
Safari Compatible
Opera Compatible
Netscape Compatible
Custom Post Image-Thumbails
Four (4) Different Theme Color Styles Available
Detailed Theme Options Page
ReadMe.txt for Help Installing the Theme
Fully-Layered .PSD of Each Header Color Variation + Font Used for Customization
Separate Comments and Trackbacks
Easily Editable CSS - Fully Commented
Web 2.0, Tableless Design
Best of all, it's all FREE

From the Theme Options page, you can do things such as:

Change the theme color style.
Enable the built-in Twitter widget.
Enable the built-in Flickr plugin.
Identify Key used for post image thumbnails.
Manage (and turn on/off) Google Adsense
Manage (and turn on/off) 125px by 125px Ads
View Theme Options Page HERE

Here are a few screenshots showing all 4 of the color schemes aswell as an overview of the Theme Options page:

That's enough of my blabbering on. Here is the download link. Enjoy the theme and let me know what you think.

NOTE: If you download and use this theme in any way, shape, or form, you are NOT allowed to remove ANY links from the footer at all.

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February 25, 2009 -- WPWebhost.com “Best Wordpress Design” Award Competition
February 18, 2009 -- How To: Make Your Wordpress Themes SEO Friendly
February 13, 2009 -- Theme in the Works: Rock Solid
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August 20, 2009 -- Theme in the Works: Wild Tint

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BeyondRandom had this to say, Mar 2, 2009 @ 12:13 am.

Really digging the theme! Gonna download and test it out tomorrow during work. I like the fact that it has an options page to make it easier to setup. Great job.

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Jim had this to say, Mar 2, 2009 @ 1:52 am.

thank you thank you thank you, btw it looks better than your own site

Eternal had this to say, Mar 2, 2009 @ 8:01 am.

Nice job on the theme Ralph.

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Ralph had this to say, Mar 2, 2009 @ 8:56 am.

Haha, I lol'd at what Jim said. It might be true too. Anyway, glad you guys like it. I'll be spending the day promoting it.

Cristhian Bedon had this to say, Mar 2, 2009 @ 9:10 am.

Congrats on the release, looks great!.

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Dan had this to say, Mar 2, 2009 @ 10:49 am.

Oddly enough, the top of the theme's structure looks very similar to FTL's. And no pretty rollovers on the nav? Aww...

Seeing you stamp out these themes has made me want to make my own themes... and I will

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Ralph had this to say, Mar 2, 2009 @ 11:12 am.

Actually, the navigation does have a rollover effect, not very noticeable now that you mention it. Eh, it's fine. The rest of the theme makes up for it

@Cristhian - Thanks.

Dan had this to say, Mar 2, 2009 @ 12:08 pm.

Holy shit Ralph! One of your articles was linked to by Smashing Magazine!

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/02/twitter-web-designer-and-developer-toolbox-api-and-tutorials/

Check it out!

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Antelmo had this to say, Mar 2, 2009 @ 12:29 pm.

Great Theme!, im loving it right know thanks so much for this!.

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Ralph had this to say, Mar 2, 2009 @ 12:56 pm.

@Dan - I just saw that myself, too. Pretty cool.

@Antelmo - Glad you like it.

james johnson had this to say, Mar 2, 2009 @ 2:44 pm.

Is there a way to make it so the posts show the full image as I have placed them without stretching? For instance on my homepage http://www.fanaticalgear.com no images show up, if I use the "image" option it makes them look horrible by stretching and moving them around. I would like if I have an image in the post to just show as the size I already have it set at like it does on other themes. What part of the template would I change to make this happen.

Thanks.

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Ralph had this to say, Mar 2, 2009 @ 3:57 pm.

Hey james. To do that, try going into functions.php and finding this line:

echo '<img src="'.$custom_field.'" alt="Post Image" width="'.$width.'" height="'.$height.'" />';

Change it to:

echo '<img src="'.$custom_field.'" alt="Post Image" />';

This should work.

James Johnson had this to say, Mar 2, 2009 @ 8:58 pm.

Worked like a charm! Thanks.

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James Johnson had this to say, Mar 2, 2009 @ 9:03 pm.

One more question. The images based on the code you just gave me let the full picture fit, however the white CONTENT box is obviously not set to be fluid, is there a way to make it fluid so the WHOLE picture will fit and the box will get bigger as needed. Not sure if this is possible. BTW i'm emailing you for a custom theme request for FanaticalMobile.com which hasn't launched yet.

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Ralph had this to say, Mar 2, 2009 @ 9:45 pm.

Hey James. You can fix that by going into style.css and finding this line:

.post-image {
stuff here
}

Remove this:

height:208px;

And now the boxes will grow in height.

NiKo had this to say, Mar 2, 2009 @ 10:22 pm.

I get this error when trying to activate the theme:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /home4/nxtlvlmu/public_html/wp-content/themes/rocksolid/functions.php on line 62

Jody Sachse had this to say, Mar 3, 2009 @ 12:18 am.

Wow this is one of the nicest themes I've ever seen... out 10's of thousands. Great Work!!!

ism. had this to say, Mar 3, 2009 @ 12:23 am.

Hey man real nice theme!! Also you made it to the big times with smashing magazine link! You should be getting lots of pretty random people checking out your site! For your next theme i think you should make a very simple one. All of your themes so far are made for wordpress blog sites. I no that's kind of your goal and your a wordpress theme designer but some people have websites with blogs on the side (like mine!) The blog is not the main part of my site so i don't use all the fancy ad on's like twitter on the blog i put it on the homepage. So a minimal but still sweet looking theme. I don't just an idea !! Good Job man!

koen had this to say, Mar 3, 2009 @ 3:17 am.

Thanks WpVote I found this theme! Your work is awesome and i'm going to use it for my upcomming blog!

msabas had this to say, Mar 3, 2009 @ 7:39 am.

Great looking Theme.

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Eternal had this to say, Mar 3, 2009 @ 8:04 am.

Holy crap Ralph. 24 comments, and 215 downloads, and a spot on Smashing Magazine. This is your best WordPress theme yet.

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Ralph had this to say, Mar 3, 2009 @ 11:42 am.

Thanks all. Well, Eternal, the Smashing Magazine thing was part of my Twitter post I made a few weeks ago.

@Niko - I have no idea why that happens with certain installations, but MANUALLY upload functions.php to your server, don't do it via ftp That's the fix that I've seen works from the WordPress.org forum.

Sorin had this to say, Mar 3, 2009 @ 1:25 pm.

OOO great theme, i try to install and and i will back with a feedback

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ivan had this to say, Mar 3, 2009 @ 2:50 pm.

If you have error with this file functions.php, only that file upload in binary mod. And it's shold working.

james johnson had this to say, Mar 3, 2009 @ 3:15 pm.

One last question. Does anyone know if their is an ALL-IN-ONE-SEO-PACK conflict. When I go to for instance http://fanaticalgear.com/garmin-unleashes-nuvi-1200-and-nuvi-1300-gps-series/ there is no TITLE Tag and if you view the page source it shows the meta description and meta keywords using All-in-one but the Title tag is just outside of the WP HEAD section and is just the site name. Any suggestions.

BTW I extended the content section and increased Picture size, it works better for my tech blog

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james johnson had this to say, Mar 3, 2009 @ 3:23 pm.

Ignore my last email. It was an odd fluke.

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NiKo had this to say, Mar 3, 2009 @ 5:01 pm.

Thanks Ralph! Not only did it work, but I learned something new in the process. Great theme!

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Ralph had this to say, Mar 3, 2009 @ 7:00 pm.

Glad everyone is liking it

Diego had this to say, Mar 4, 2009 @ 10:24 am.

I don't understand how to show in the upper part the image 512x200...where I should upload it and how to call it?
I'm sorry I didn't understand how it works
Thanks to anyone who can help me.

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Ralph had this to say, Mar 4, 2009 @ 10:49 am.

I included the ReadMe to hep with issues like this.

You don't have to use images in posts, but if you want to, make sure they are 520px x 212px or they will be
stretched. To add an image to a post, from the "Write Post" page in the dashboard, scroll down to the "Custom Fields"
area and input "image" as the key and the url to your image as the value and then save the post. (Note, if you
have been using a different key other than "image" and don't want all your past pictures to go to waste,
simply go to Rock Solids Theme Options page and change the post image keyword to the one you've
been using. Rock Solid will then retrieve all of your old pictures.

Diego had this to say, Mar 4, 2009 @ 12:20 pm.

Thanks alot...it works to show the the image inthe top of single post but I was referring to the top of the site where you have rolling photos to "Featured Post". In you demo you have a chamelon at beginning....

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Ralph had this to say, Mar 4, 2009 @ 12:49 pm.

Oh I see now. Your the first person to have that problem, hm. That's weird.

Alright, try this.

MANUALLY (not using an ftp program, use the cPanel) upload the contents of the /js/ folder to the appropriate place on your server. That should fix it.

Diego had this to say, Mar 4, 2009 @ 1:32 pm.

The folder /js/ is already in /themes/rocksolid/ directory, uploaded via FTP when I installed your theme.
Should I delete such directory now and create it manually via DirectAdmin (my hosting do not use cPanel) and then upload the JS files?
If not where to store the js directory?

Diego´s last blog post: Messaggio di prova.

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Ralph had this to say, Mar 4, 2009 @ 2:11 pm.

Yeah, delete the js files from your server then reupload all the .js files manually. Should work.

Diego had this to say, Mar 4, 2009 @ 2:23 pm.

It doesn't work

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ViciousDuck had this to say, Mar 4, 2009 @ 3:01 pm.

Way to fail Ralph.
@Diego - Make sure you have javascript enabled and supported in your browser. Also, make sure you have the latest version of WordPress (the earlier ones don't come with the jquery library). If that doesn't work, try deactivating all of your plugins, since they can often cause some type of problem. If that doesn't work...listen to Ralph, he occasionally gets things right.

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Ralph had this to say, Mar 4, 2009 @ 3:24 pm.

I agree with the Duck.

Richard Spencer Davies had this to say, Mar 5, 2009 @ 9:21 am.

Amazing theme!! Great addition to the free themes.

Diego had this to say, Mar 5, 2009 @ 10:19 am.

I found it!!!
My problem is due to this plugin: Wordbook vers. 0.47.6 - WordPress-Facebook integration -
Hope this will be useful to someone else.
Thanks Duck!

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Ralph had this to say, Mar 5, 2009 @ 12:20 pm.

Thanks for reporting back in. And thanks to ViciousDuck for helping out.

james johnson had this to say, Mar 5, 2009 @ 12:57 pm.

Hey Guys, I've been trying to send you an email and it says the DNS server can't resolve. I need a custom template, shoot me an email if you have the time. Thanks.

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ViciousDuck had this to say, Mar 5, 2009 @ 3:03 pm.

@Diego no problem, I live to solve Ralph's customers' problems.

BeyondRandom had this to say, Mar 5, 2009 @ 3:54 pm.

@ViciousDuck lol

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pixeltunes had this to say, Mar 6, 2009 @ 5:59 pm.

This was one of the best themes i've everseen since 2004 where i setup my first wp-blog.
I missed the doing to work with language packs to internationalize the theme. I would translate it to german if there come the opinion to work with .po & .mo files.
Ralph, please please please
Hard Coding translation is so uncool

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Element218 had this to say, Mar 6, 2009 @ 11:38 pm.

Hi!
I use this theme since today. I think this is the best theme ever! I want my visitors to feel good on my blog, so I will probably translate it in French soon.
Whatever, I have a little problem. The images that slide in the top of the blog are 3. I would like there are more than 3. How can I do it?

PS; excuse my poor English please, I try to learn but it's really hard ^^

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Ralph had this to say, Mar 7, 2009 @ 10:32 am.

Hey Element. That's simple, first open up index.php and find this line:

$my_query = new WP_Query('showposts=3');

I'm sure you can figure it out from there

Element218 had this to say, Mar 7, 2009 @ 12:36 pm.

Hi Ralph! Thank you very much for the help! It works perfectly!
You rock =)

Darkwish had this to say, Mar 7, 2009 @ 12:39 pm.

First off, love you theme. Its just awesome =D.

I don't have much skills when it comes to theme building, and only have mediocre skills when it comes to edit code following a simple tutorial or a readme file.

But I had some questions about Rocksolid theme, more specific the sidebar. The sidebar is quite wide, which is nice when using widgets like "recent comments", "recent posts" etc. But when using "shorter" ones like "meta info", "category" or "archives" the widget only takes up a small part of space making. I was wondering if it is possible to make make more sidebars?

Something like:
Sidebar 1 (top) the widgets under each other
Sidebar 2 (middle) 2 widgets side by side,
Sidebar 3 (bottom) the widgets are under each other

I don't know if this made any sense tho . Anyways, was just a suggestion to an already awesome theme =D

Lenny13 had this to say, Mar 9, 2009 @ 5:40 am.

Great theme ! Thank you... I would like to know if I can translate it in french. Another question is : How can I change the code in the footer.php to display last 5 comments since I don't use the cloud tag function ?
Thanks again

Mayooresan had this to say, Mar 10, 2009 @ 6:13 am.

Hi,
The images that slide in the top of the blog is not showing up??? what could be the reason???

please give feedback.

Mayooresan had this to say, Mar 10, 2009 @ 6:13 am.

you can check my site at mayuonline.com/eblog

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Ralph had this to say, Mar 10, 2009 @ 8:13 am.

@Mayo - Try disabling plug ins one by one. Some of them cause problems with the jQuery plugin.

Mayooresan had this to say, Mar 10, 2009 @ 8:36 am.

Wp Grin (http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress) is the plug-in conflits with the JQuery

Thanks for the reply..

Mayooresan´s last blog post: Facebook in Tamil.

Creamania had this to say, Mar 11, 2009 @ 1:35 pm.

Can anyone help me please!, I just installed the theme and it's working perfectly but when I open the homepage of the blog...the pictures and the links in the posts are not visible, I must open the post to view them!! can anyone help??

Admin

Ralph had this to say, Mar 11, 2009 @ 1:50 pm.

@Creamania - That doesn't make sense because it's the exact same line of code that calls for the pictures. Link to the problem please.

Creamania had this to say, Mar 11, 2009 @ 2:35 pm.

okay, here you go..
This is the homepage of my blog http://mostafa.creamania.org and here's a topic,, you can compare one of the topics in the hompage view with the full view of a specific post, which does exist on the index..I mean that the images and the links only appear when I open the post (standalone) when I view a single post at one time...

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Ralph had this to say, Mar 11, 2009 @ 2:48 pm.

@Creamania - It's because your not doing it right. The excerpts in wordpress strip all formatting, thats why you don't see the links, images, bolded text, etc on the index page. Just a few sentences (just the excerp).

Your also not using the Custom Fields and the key "image" to display your post images. Open up the ReadMe that was included in the theme to learn how to use Custom Fields if you don't know how to.

Creamania had this to say, Mar 11, 2009 @ 3:04 pm.

ok, now I used the custom field name 'image' and it's working fine but still the links don't appear on the index, so what shall I do 8-|.
Thanks

Creamania had this to say, Mar 11, 2009 @ 3:07 pm.

ah sorry, but i forgot to tell you that between the image and the text there are alot of space!.. this is another problem
thanks again

Alin-San had this to say, Mar 12, 2009 @ 8:42 am.

i've got a problem, i can't make to show the full post, i tried to replace that line like someone told a few comments above but it doesn't works

Admin

Ralph had this to say, Mar 12, 2009 @ 2:48 pm.

@Alin - Go into index.php and ctrl+f to find "the_excerpt". Replace that with "the_content". That will definitely work. If that's what you did and it didn't work, you must've deleted something you shouldn't have, like an apostrophe or parenthesis.

Admin

Ralph had this to say, Mar 12, 2009 @ 2:51 pm.

@Creamania - The links will not show on the index page. It's just an excerpt. WordPress strips all formatting from excerpts. There's no way around that aside from just showing your entire posts on the front page instead of just an excerpt. As for the images and text gap, this is because your images are not the correct dimensions. To fix this, go into "style.css" and search for:

.post-image{
...
}

and REMOVE this line:

height: 208px;

Hope it works.

Alin-San had this to say, Mar 12, 2009 @ 2:51 pm.

thanks a lot ralph for the fast response.

i have one more little problem, i did all you said with the flickrss but it doesn't work, i don't see any picture.

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Ralph had this to say, Mar 12, 2009 @ 2:54 pm.

That can be so many things. Is the plugin activated, do you have it to display "8" "user" photos to be displaed? Did you imput your Flickr ID number? Is your output code properly formatted with:

<li> *default flickrss code here* </li>

Alin-San had this to say, Mar 12, 2009 @ 3:01 pm.

yep, did all that! i saw some versions for modifing the footer something like this: 10, 'type' => 'public', 'tags' => 'london,people')); ?>

but this didn't work

Lenny13 had this to say, Mar 12, 2009 @ 3:55 pm.

@Element218 : Is the french language translation available somewhere ? Merci

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Mike Herman had this to say, Mar 14, 2009 @ 6:31 pm.

Is there a way to change the number of posts it rotates through at the top?

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Ralph had this to say, Mar 14, 2009 @ 8:15 pm.

@Mike - Simple, first open up index.php and find this line:

$my_query = new WP_Query('showposts=3');

Change 3 to how many posts you want.

Michael J Herman had this to say, Mar 14, 2009 @ 10:46 pm.

I use Intense Debate for my comments and noticed that when I get a trackback it is not displayed in this theme when using intense debate, if i turn off intense debate it displays the trackbacks/pingbacks. Is this a theme issue or a plugin issue?

Admin

Ralph had this to say, Mar 14, 2009 @ 11:13 pm.

It should be a plugin issue, because I followed all of the correct procedures when making the theme.

Shannon had this to say, Mar 15, 2009 @ 6:51 pm.

Hi,
This theme is amazing, but I have a little problem: on the homepage when I try to clic on 'Comments" of one of the articles, it doesn't work! The link is there but when I clic, nothing happens!
Do you know what is the problem?

Admin

Ralph had this to say, Mar 15, 2009 @ 7:06 pm.

@Shannon- Change your permalink structure to something other than the default one. I recommend a custom one, use /%postname%/. This is addressed in the ReadMe.

Shannon had this to say, Mar 15, 2009 @ 7:21 pm.

Yes, but when I'm doing this, here what happen when I clic on every links:

Not Found
The requested URL /2009/03/15/bonjour-tout-le-monde/ was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

FutureTechie had this to say, Mar 15, 2009 @ 7:48 pm.

Really appreciate you offering this theme for free. This is definitely one of the best free themes I have seen out there.

FutureTechie´s last blog post: Brains, Computers, and Robots.

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Ralph had this to say, Mar 15, 2009 @ 8:59 pm.

@Techie - thanks

@Shannon - Thats weird, sounds like a WordPress problem. try switching themes to see if it still happens. I really don't know what to tell you there, that hasn't happened to anyone else.

Edit - A plugin might be messing it up, too. It's a possibility.

Shannon had this to say, Mar 16, 2009 @ 8:21 am.

Hey,
I passed!!! Everything is ok! You're right I needed a pluggin!

JM had this to say, Mar 17, 2009 @ 3:53 am.

GREAT-looking theme!

Question:

Using the Rock Solid Options panel, I specified my own pix for three ads, called from the root directory. I left one ad default untouched. Works like a charm. But when I go to the About page (unmodified), none of the pix show up--and neither does the default pic. Any suggestions?

Many thanks.

John had this to say, Mar 20, 2009 @ 3:14 am.

Hey - I LOVE this theme, and I have already been working on some customization, but I CANNOT get the pictures to show up, let along slide through on the index page. I have tried everything already suggested. I know my Java Script is running, I already deleted and reloaded the .js files (not through my ftp program), and I still cannot get it right....any ideas?

Thanks

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JM had this to say, Mar 20, 2009 @ 5:51 am.

aHA! Got it--or a workaround at any rate. If I put the entire url address to the image in the Rock Solid options panel, the images show up on every page. I still don't understand why they show up on the home page (and no other page) without this, though...

Admin

Ralph had this to say, Mar 20, 2009 @ 6:49 am.

@john - Another thing that causes that problem is certain plugins. I don't know why, but they mess up the jQuery for some reason. Try disabling them one by one to find the culprit.

John had this to say, Mar 20, 2009 @ 9:06 am.

Thanks Ralph - good news, I finally got the pictures to rotate, bad news is, it's rotating the "Default-post-image"... I have been working on the settings for the pictures, but at least it's starting to work correctly.

John´s last blog post: Testing Post.

John had this to say, Mar 20, 2009 @ 9:20 am.

I fixed it Ralph - I had to have my custom fields saying 'post-image', I was just putting it as 'image.' Thanks for all your help and the really great theme.

John´s last blog post: Testing Post.

JM had this to say, Mar 21, 2009 @ 4:15 am.

Thanks for the response. Strange, though: I don't have any extra plugins--I'm using Rock Solid as-is.

One other odd thing: though I specify the text size for my pages using the html tab:
I wind up with ridiculously large text when viewed in IE. (Safari is fine.) I've checked the browser text-size settings, and looked at it on different computers. Same thing.

Any thoughts?

Admin

Ralph had this to say, Mar 21, 2009 @ 9:40 am.

That's weird. It probably has to do with the use of "em" 's I used in this theme. Try using lower font size numbers or even heading tags, they do the same thing, no?

JM had this to say, Mar 21, 2009 @ 2:26 pm.

Thanks. Still working on it. Someone told me the browsers are guessing at my font size "3" and so I tried "3pts" and "3em" That ALMOST fixes the SIZE problem in IE (the text is still a little too big; fewer words per line), but the delicious font (which I like a lot) still looks like crap in IE.

Any thoughts? Can this be fixed in css--and if so, what do I need to do?

Thanks again!

JM had this to say, Mar 21, 2009 @ 3:03 pm.

Okay, having some luck with tags like these:

div style=”font-size:1.5em

p style="font-size:0.8em;"

JM had this to say, Mar 21, 2009 @ 4:13 pm.

Can you tell me what bg color I should specify if I want to use your cool stone-effect as a post or page bg?

background:#

Thanks!

Hamid had this to say, Mar 21, 2009 @ 5:23 pm.

its ok now.. thanks for this theme..

i will enjoy with this theme hehehe

Admin

Ralph had this to say, Mar 21, 2009 @ 9:47 pm.

@JM - Sorry, I'm not sure what color you're looking for. You can fnd it yourself though, just take a screenshot of the theme and put it in photoshop or another graphic program like it and use the eyedropper tool to select the color and you'll see the HEX value. If you don't have access to a program, comment back with a little more detail (maybe a screenshot?) Thanks.

Hamid had this to say, Mar 22, 2009 @ 1:08 am.

hi Ralph.. how can i change sidebar color plss

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JM had this to say, Mar 22, 2009 @ 11:04 pm.

Hi again,

I'm now using your default font appearance and h-tags, as you suggested. But no matter what I do, the font displays somewhat differently in different browsers. IE is the main offender. How do I alter the appearance in IE only?

Specifically, I'm looking for code that will alter the font size in IE so the h4 tag = h3 in IE only, h3 = h2 in IE only, and h2 = h1 in IE only?. Because when it looks fine elsewhere, it's now too small in IE. Thanks for the fab theme!

SwasBoss had this to say, Mar 23, 2009 @ 2:01 am.

WoW! I was just having my morning coffee and theme browsing and stumbled upon this GOODNESS! I have been on this minimalistic trip for a while and your theme just wants me to take a small step in the other direction. Hopefully, I will find some time to set it up and give it the business. It is fantastic that you push this out on the $free.99 to grab some support - not easy these days. But your efforts are greatly appreciated. The domain name is kewl by the way!

Keep up the redonkulously good work! I might play around with this theme to lighten it up a bit ... OR ... maybe I should just accept a little more change in my norms

AWESOME!

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Ralph had this to say, Mar 23, 2009 @ 6:02 am.

@SwasBoss, glad you it, lol. Go for the change.

Hamid had this to say, Mar 23, 2009 @ 2:47 pm.

sorry i still wait your answer

how can i change sidebar color plss

ken had this to say, Mar 25, 2009 @ 12:34 pm.

Hey!

Great theme. I was testing it out and noticed that when I click on some links in IE, the twitter feed and other sidebar widgets fall underneath the post as though it were one column. How can prevent this from happening?

Admin

Ralph had this to say, Mar 25, 2009 @ 4:17 pm.

@ken - Sorry, I can't help you without a better explanation or a live demo.

@Hamid - Sorry, I really don't get what your asking. The sidebar is a transparent black image. To change it, replace black.png with another transparent color shading. Note: This will change anything that uses black.png as a background.

PieR had this to say, Mar 27, 2009 @ 6:26 pm.

I'm unable to use any lightbox plugins without interfering with the top image cycle widget

Ongai had this to say, Mar 28, 2009 @ 1:08 am.

Hi Ralph! Great theme! I'm technically challenged but I don't want to give up on using this theme since it's such a nice theme that suits my upcoming blog. I just figured out how to change the header and how to add the pictures but how come if I embed a youtube video, it doesn't show? Instead, it just shows the code. Please help...thanks:)

Admin

Ralph had this to say, Mar 28, 2009 @ 9:55 am.

@Ongai - You have to add the Youtube embed code from the HTML tab of the post box, not the VISUAL tab.

Campori had this to say, Mar 28, 2009 @ 7:20 pm.

Hi Ralph
first i would like to thank you for this amazing theme. I have one question and i hope u can help me:
Is there any possibility to rezise the images on frontpage to 120x120 pixels like in http://www.wprecipes.com/ so the thumbnail is left and the text is right of it? I already got it nearly to work, rezised the image succesfully, but the text wont show in right of it
Hope u can help me out!

Themes Closet had this to say, Mar 29, 2009 @ 4:33 pm.

Very nice theme
We have featured it in our Top 10 WordPress Themes for March article

Will keep an eye on you

darkriderz had this to say, Mar 31, 2009 @ 2:29 am.

How can add i another side bar?

Admin

Ralph had this to say, Mar 31, 2009 @ 5:52 am.

@darkriderz - Uh, yeah... no. If you need more than one sidebar, then Rock Solid isn't the theme for you.

darkriderz had this to say, Apr 1, 2009 @ 5:45 am.

@Ralph
Ok Ralph...i just want to know thats all...a small problem.in ur theme if anyone clicks the post it goes to another page and bottom of the post there are "Link this post" and "comments".same this is there if a user clicks a page.can i remove that for a page...coz no one going to comment in my about us page.. ..please help..

Admin

Ralph had this to say, Apr 1, 2009 @ 5:56 am.

@darkriderz - Go to your theme files and open page.php. From there, remove the line that says:

<?php comments_template();?>

Veronica had this to say, Apr 3, 2009 @ 12:22 pm.

Very lovely theme. It's gorgeous and was so easy to set up. (I fried my noodle trying to get Revolution and similar to work). I've been using this a few weeks now, and have just now noticed something has happened.

1.) The bottom is gone (?) No links, no widget type links, nothing at the bottom.
2.) The Twitter feed has stopped working.

It's the site my name is linked to, and would so appreciate anyone who could possibly help me out with fixing those.

Veronica´s last blog post: Fripp Island Vacation Rentals For Budget Vacations.

Montana Flynn had this to say, Apr 4, 2009 @ 7:59 pm.

Wow this theme is GREAT!

SwasBoss had this to say, Apr 7, 2009 @ 4:04 am.

I DID IT! I uploaded this beauty and it is providing me some shine! WhOa! I made a couple small changes ... the biggie was getting flickr images in posts to link back the photo page ... part of the new flickr community guidelines. Also giving your minimalistic theme the eye ... but then I have just three years of plain blog template for this ... stop pumping these things out! ... hehe. I too was a revolution user ... but this just came with everything I use out of the box.

One small thing that I just noticed while commenting on another site ... cause I tend to like to leave longer comments ... is that the comment box does not expand as you type ... so you end up doing blind typing ... which is not a problem for me, but maybe to readers. So right now ... if I was on a rock solid site ... I would not be able to read these comments. I know that this was done intentionally as you have coded to hide the overflow because of the layout of the theme. Is there a work around besides increasing the number of rows for the comment text field?

AWESOME THEME!

SwasBoss´s last blog post: 3 Months Old Milk - YuM!.

Admin

Ralph had this to say, Apr 7, 2009 @ 5:31 am.

Whoops, sorry, thats just a bug. Go into style.css and find and remove the "overflow: hidden" from this:

.comment-textarea{
...
}

Azah had this to say, Apr 8, 2009 @ 6:50 am.

really nice theme...hope you will come out with lots more free marvelous theme,

by the way, how to use the feature post?

iamcolin had this to say, Apr 22, 2009 @ 11:36 am.

Hey Guys,

I'm having a little problem with the theme in IE (7 & where the side bar on post pages is appearing under the comments. My first impression would be that there is something in the coments code that is messing it up.

Any ideas?

Admin

Ralph had this to say, Apr 22, 2009 @ 10:03 pm.

@iamcolin - First time I've heard of that sort of error. I can't recreate it myself. Maybe be a bit more specific?

iamcolin had this to say, Apr 27, 2009 @ 8:52 am.

@Ralph when I have comments turned the display of the page (in IE) puts the side bar below the post and the footer where the side bar should be. As soon as I disable comments for the post it fixes itself. This is JUST on post pages not the main page.

I'd post a link to show you however I am running an adult blog with this theme and don't want to expose the URL to minors.

My initial thought was that the width of the comments div might be pushing things out of alignment. I keep testing through trial and error but I don't seem to be able to fix it. The only way at the moment is to turn comments off.

Steph had this to say, Apr 29, 2009 @ 5:30 pm.

how i can add in the header a link to the homepage?

iamcolin had this to say, May 2, 2009 @ 10:10 am.

@Ralph - I've figured it out. The problem (with the side bar moving below the post and the footer appearing where the sidebar should have been) started when I started putting pictures within my post that had the same sizes as the feature image (512x200). Because of WP's default way of handling these images, the div it puts around the image, using the wp-caption tag, it was adding an extra 10px around the image - making the overall div 522px, which pushed everything out of the way.

Anyway long story short with in the media.php file I changed the following code from:

return ''
. $content . '' . $caption . '';

to:

return ''
. $content . '' . $caption . '';

this corrected the problem perfectly and means that when I put an image into my posts with a width of 512px the template stays together.

iamcolin had this to say, May 2, 2009 @ 10:10 am.

for some reason that it didn't post my code ...

Billy D had this to say, May 3, 2009 @ 11:03 am.

Using this for a new site of mine about Swine Flu. thanks

Billy D´s last blog post: Swine Flu symptoms.

Jon had this to say, May 10, 2009 @ 1:47 am.

Hello Ralph,

Love the theme.
Trying to add an extra sidebar to the site. The code that you have on the functions.php is a bit different then what i am used to.

I tried the code as:

/*For Sidebar Widget*/

if ( function_exists('register_sidebars') )

register_sidebars(2)(array(

'name' => 'sidebar',

'before_widget' => '',

'after_widget' => '',

'before_title' => '',

'after_title' => ''

));

/*End of For Sidebar Widget*/

but no luck,any help would be great.
Thank you in advanced.

Jon had this to say, May 11, 2009 @ 7:15 pm.

OK, well i figured out how to add extra sidebars.Thanks for the Help.
Just change the following:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebars') )

register_sidebars(2,array(

Delete this part for wordpress to add a number/s after the sidebar name at the widget menu.Other wise it will give you 2 or as many as you want with all having the name (sidebar) instead of sidebar1, sidebar2, sidebar3.
--------------------------------------------
'name' => 'sidebar',
--------------------------------------------

cheers.

Andy had this to say, May 25, 2009 @ 8:42 pm.

Need help installing the Rock Solid theme. I've installed the same way I installed any other them but it does not show up in my themes in wp. It loaded to my host ok. What am I missing? I cant figure out whats going on. This is only happening with the Rock Solid theme. I really want to use it, it's perfect and a really beautiful theme.
Thanks

Andy had this to say, May 27, 2009 @ 11:02 pm.

Finally figured out the loading issue. One more newbie question. I cant figure out where to input my Flickr ID. There isnt a labeled spot for it when I go into the FlickrRSS settings. How can I input my ID to get my pics to show up.
Thanks

John had this to say, May 28, 2009 @ 11:22 pm.

Hey Ralph, I have a friend who wants to use your blog theme for his blog. BUT he doesn't want to have the rotating post images at the top...he wants a static image. Is there a way, or code to turn off the slideshow and just show the default post image?

Thanks - John

John´s last blog post: Book Review: Walt Disney-An American Original.

thor had this to say, Jun 3, 2009 @ 6:21 am.

Is there a way to make random change the number of posts it rotates at the top from all the post i have?

thor´s last blog post: Imn.

kenrom had this to say, Jun 10, 2009 @ 11:02 am.

i`m gettin

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /home/bajantec/public_html/redd/wp-content/themes/rocksolid/functions.php on line 62

when i try to enable the theme

edd had this to say, Jun 12, 2009 @ 11:15 am.

sorry for my poor english..
when i open the blog on index page, there are no problems on it. but when i open by post, suddenly the right panel gone..
all panel goes to below and the theme being misplaced.
kindly please look into this issue..really appreciate on it.

by da way..ur theme are awesome

edd had this to say, Jun 12, 2009 @ 11:20 am.

one more thing i forget to inform u, the problems only occur when the un-registered user open the blog. but if the user already logged in, the panel are working as usual...

Michael Lynx had this to say, Jun 16, 2009 @ 2:05 am.

great themes Ralph..:doublethumbup:
i am very excited with rock solid themes... hueheuhue....
but, how to change that's logo with my blog logo? thanks you ralph..
success for you..

JM had this to say, Jun 24, 2009 @ 4:25 am.

Hi Ralph,

Again, excellent theme!

I've replaced the header with an image containing two pictures, left and right.
I want to link the images to different pages. I tried using mapedit to hotlink the header image, then had style-color-blue.css call up header-blue.html instead of header--blue.gif.

The result was a blank black space instead of a header.

What did I screw up?

Thanks!

Mike had this to say, Jul 7, 2009 @ 5:52 pm.

The top post thing that changes. Is that for "featured posts". Or do all recent posts go in there?
.-= Mike´s last blog ..WS: Trip to FeilongShan =-.

MIKE had this to say, Jul 7, 2009 @ 11:13 pm.

OK SO I HAVE ANOTHER NEWBIE QUESTION....
FOR "PAGES" IN GENERAL...CAN I MAKE THEM ACT LIKE CATEGORIES?
I SEE ON YOUR BLOG WITH THE PAGES AT THE TOP HAVE MULTIPLE POSTS WITHIN THEM. HOW DO I DO THE SAME SO IF SOMEONE WANTED TO JUST SEE POSTS ABOUT LETS SAY "THE NBA" THEY CLICK ON THERE AND ALL THE POSTS RELATED TO THE NBA WILL COME UP.

THIS THEME IS GREAT!
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR WORK
.-= MIKE´s last blog ..WS: Trip to FeilongShan =-.

ibdreamy had this to say, Jul 13, 2009 @ 3:20 am.

I'm currently using this theme on a new website called WeLoveDoodles.com and I just want to say Thank you! Perfect title for the theme by the way because it seriously ROCKS!
.-= ibdreamy´s last blog ..Cassie-the OTHER Skateboarding Dog #2 =-.

Kat had this to say, Jul 17, 2009 @ 6:01 am.

Hey Ralph, I love your theme =D

Just a quick question though, for some reason the rotating images will not show up despite putting in "image" in the name slot and the full url in the value of the custom fields option.

I tried clearing the pluggins but I'm still getting the same problem where just that default image shows up.

Any ideas as to what could be wrong?
Thank you.

John had this to say, Jul 23, 2009 @ 10:15 pm.

Is there any way to get the youtube videos I have in my posts to show up on the front page. I increased the $excerpt_length in functions.php which works fine for text but I cannot get a video to show on main page.

hanks for A Wonderful Theme by the Way!
.-= John´s last blog ..Test =-.

Isla had this to say, Jul 27, 2009 @ 5:47 am.

Hi Ralph, I LOVE Rock Solid - and really want it for my site. I tried downloading it (with the help of my IT son) but though it ended up in my media library I can't upload it as a theme. And now my son has lost interest in helping his (complete noobie) mother! I've successfully downloaded other themes. Could the problem have something to do with the upgraded version I'm using - wordpress 2.8.2?

Any help gratefully recieved.

Magic had this to say, Aug 15, 2009 @ 1:21 pm.

Can u make it wordpress 2.8.+ ready, please?
.-= Magic´s last blog ..Restructurari masive =-.

David had this to say, Aug 17, 2009 @ 1:41 pm.

Hey - great theme!

Does anybody else get the following error message when viewing any other page than the homepage in IE8?

==========================
Webpage error details:

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)
Timestamp: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:39:49 UTC

Message: '0.id' is null or not an object
Line: 23
Char: 9
Code: 0
===============

David
.-= David´s last blog ..Family Picture =-.

mikeyb had this to say, Aug 24, 2009 @ 2:00 pm.

Just want to know if there is any way to take the sliding images at the top of the screen off the page so it just shows the posts

thanks!
.-= mikeyb´s last blog ..Threadless Tshirt Giveaway at jaypeeonline.net =-.

Ram had this to say, Aug 29, 2009 @ 9:03 pm.

Really nice theme.... i want to know how to enable images in my post when i click on any Categories ? For example when i click on my photoshop category it shows post related to photoshop but without images .

Thanks for the theme once again

chris had this to say, Nov 5, 2009 @ 5:20 pm.

how do i get a banner instead of the 468x60 adsense code?

mikeyb had this to say, Nov 6, 2009 @ 4:37 pm.

HEY RAM I NEEDED THIS INFO AS WELL AND FIGURED IT OUT ALL BY MYSELF!

Here is how you do it

go to the category.php file and find "the_excerpt" on line 118 and change it to.... "the_content"

worked for me!

leigh had this to say, Nov 12, 2009 @ 9:22 am.

Hello Ralph,

I wanted to know can you add videos to this theme?

Kris Roxas had this to say, Nov 14, 2009 @ 5:01 am.

Can you make it compatible with WP 2.8+ please! =)
.-= Kris Roxas´s last blog ..My Depression Screening Test… =-.

John had this to say, Nov 20, 2009 @ 6:00 am.

Hi Ralph, GREAT theme!

One thing I desperately need to know--how to reduce the size of the icons (rss, digg, stumbleupon, etc) and place them in the sidebar--preferably with a widget.

Precisely the same thing you have just above this comments section--but in my sidebar instead.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Mike had this to say, Nov 23, 2009 @ 2:43 pm.

Hey Ralph,

Awesome theme! I tweaked the width of the sections a bit and have started building a photo-blog. One question - Is there a way to prevent certain posts from showing in the slider, or perhaps better, to 'opt-in' to the slider by uploading an image?

I may not always have a slider image created for a particular post or don't want it highlighted w the default image...

Thanks!
Mike

Mike had this to say, Nov 23, 2009 @ 6:56 pm.

OK - so two questions

How can I swap the locations of the links to pages and the "You are here:" and date in the header section as seen on the http://welovedoodles.com/ blog?

Thanks!
.-= Mike´s last blog ..The Creepers – Music Video Shoot: 11/18/09 =-.

Doug had this to say, Dec 5, 2009 @ 4:00 pm.

Love the them Ralph.

Could you tell me how to have the slide on the homepage pull from random posts and not just the first 3?

Thanks

BTP had this to say, Dec 30, 2009 @ 3:06 am.

yes. it is a nice themes. thank for your works.

I have made it into blogspot, and your footer link is still there. Want to see the result..... Here http://www.bloggertemplateplace.com/2009/12/rock-solid-blogger-template.html

Best Regard
.-= BTP´s last blog ..Rock Solid Blogger Template =-.

Tina had this to say, Feb 5, 2010 @ 12:03 am.

Love the theme, but having same sidebar problem as Edd. Please help!
.-= Tina´s last blog ..but wait…there’s MORE!!! =-.

Tina had this to say, Feb 5, 2010 @ 12:04 am.

sorry I have miniblog, but same problem with unregistered users having the sidebar appear under posts.
.-= Tina´s last blog ..but wait…there’s MORE!!! =-.

Sp0nky had this to say, Apr 28, 2010 @ 12:19 am.

I'm very newb with wp... but why i don't see the nomber of page in the theme.. ?

Trance Music Download had this to say, May 26, 2010 @ 3:35 am.

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