Monotone for .ORG blogs!
We know you’ve been anxious. So here it is:
Monotone, a photo-blogging theme we created for Automattic is now packaged for download and available for use on .ORG self-hosted Wordpress installs.
The theme is released as-is under the GPL license. We hope you enjoy it. If you do like what you see, it’d be excellent if you perused our work and contacted us, even if you just want to say, “hi!”
If you are using Monotone, on Wordpress.com or with a self-hosted blog, please comment on this entry with a link to your blog. We love checking out great photography!
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June 10th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Yay!
June 10th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
[...] Monotone, the theme eight6 (that’s me folks) developed in conjunction with Automattic is now available for download. [...]
June 10th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Automatic is beatiful.
I’m in Sapporo, Japan.
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June 11th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Hey guys, have been drooling, panting, waiting for this theme to come to .org. I’m building a photo blog and so of course, I downloaded the package and installed it, per the instructions, today. I’m sure I’m making some n00b mistake but I have the following issues that I don’t have a clue as to how to resolve.
1. images are 404ing, seems to be because of a query attribute on the end of the image url:
http://clintivy.com/photos/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/2569695012_692af2957f_o.jpg?w=840
2. In the source are the following warnings which may? be causing the issue above:
a) Warning: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/.honcho/civy/clintivy.com/photos/wp-content/themes/monotone/functions.php on line 105
b) Warning: getimagesize(http://clintivy.com/photos/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/2569695012_692af2957f_o.jpg) [function.getimagesize]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/.honcho/civy/clintivy.com/photos/wp-content/themes/monotone/functions.php on line 105
If it matters, I’m on dreamhost.
Thanks again, I love this theme and think you guys did some awesome work!
June 11th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Follow up to previous comment/issue the errors are caused by fopen being disallowed by the host as fopen is a large security risk. The most common solution seems to be to use a relative URL path instead of remote/full so am wondering if you can provide a change to functions
June 11th, 2008 at 12:36 am
sorry
…provide a change to functions.php that uses relative URLs?
June 11th, 2008 at 4:14 am
Great to see the theme packaged in a zip file finally. Saves me blogging the svn url and explaining how to grab it from there!
BTW - I found it really difficult to read this blog post, the grey text on the textured background merges together for me :(
June 11th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Hey Noel! This is so wicked. I love the theme. Everything seems to be fine except one thing.
Any of my existing photos that I had using the old theme that had comments now have an error on the page and the comments do not show up.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_avatar() in /home/agent/public_html/photoblog/wp-content/themes/monotone/monotone/comments.php on line 28
Any suggestions?
June 11th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Donncha, thanks for the usability note.
eight6 got redesigned not too long ago and I’m still tweaking it. I’ll make sure to up the contrast!
June 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Ok I figured out how to fix the comments.php for any of you that are having trouble with it. I think the trouble was because I am not using WordPress 2.5, so this is what I did.
When editing your comments.php you want to find this line:
and change it to:
Voila! Done.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Donncha’s colorblind, but he’s right. It’s hard to read.
Congrats on getting monotone further out the door. Could you clarify the terms under which you intend to distribute it? The source bundles the GPL, that’s clear enough; but the release announcements imply a non-commercial restriction. Which is intended?
We don’t want to abuse your good work in using it commercially and providing our patches back. So in the context of this post, what does “.ORG” mean?
June 12th, 2008 at 2:25 am
Josh, feel free to use it however you would normally use GPL software - that means you can use it anywhere you’d like - just send in your changes and remember to always give credit where credit’s due.
.ORG just means self-hosted wordpress blogs - commercial or not.
If you do happen to make money off of this theme or just immensely enjoy it, there is no need to send presents (although, we love cupcakes.) Just think about hiring eight6 if you have a project that would be appropriate for us.
Regarding a release with fixes for non local images, etc. That stuff is in the works. Hold tight.
June 12th, 2008 at 4:27 am
[...] Jackson, the author of the theme, recently revealed that Monotone is now available as a .zip download on the Monotone demo page above. Now it’s [...]
June 12th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Just out of interest, how does it play with non photo posts and pages?
I have a blog which I’d like to run partially as a photoblog and partially as a normal blog and have been trying to work out how I’ll integrate the photoblog part of it.
Does this theme allow you to run the photoblog part of it on say one category only? That’d be pretty cool. I’ll probably upload it and try it out, just won’t get the time for another week (very busy at the moment), so I thought I’d drop a question in here :)
June 12th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
great design for the theme.
I like it a lot, simple, and great for showing off photos.
But sometimes the photo doesn’t align properly. Do you know why?
June 13th, 2008 at 3:36 am
Thanks for clarifying, Noel, and sorry if I had a thick skull about the meaning of .ORG here.
I’ll be sure to flag you with our set of changes once they’re significant, and we release all our source and mods on our labs site. (The first patch you grabbed from my blog last month was just so small that I didn’t think to bug you with it.)
June 17th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
This is one of the best themes around. When will you do the next release. There are a few small issues.
Regards,
Eric
June 21st, 2008 at 11:47 am
Just installed it on my server after liking it a lot on WordPress.com. Unfortunately, the photos don’t appear. Any idea why? I’m hosted on GoDaddy.com — no abuse please; they’ve always worked fine for me — if that matters.
Anyway, the above link will get you there. Hopefully if others follow it, the problem will be resolved. Thanks for making this available. I hope I can get it to work right!
June 25th, 2008 at 12:32 am
I’m having the same problem Maria had, images not showing up?
hosted by dreamhost
thanks for any help
CW
June 25th, 2008 at 2:11 am
Maria,
you’re pictures are showing up for me - not too shabby.
June 25th, 2008 at 6:43 am
I have been using this theme for sometime on http://photoblogger.in. However, I am yet to find out a way to get the exif data pulled into the posts by wordpress. Also, right now I am resizing the images myself.
June 26th, 2008 at 2:15 am
Christopher,
Dreamhost doesn’t allow the use of fopen (it’s a security hole). You can see error messages if you view source. Without fopen, the theme cannot execute correctly and image URLs get messed up.
June 28th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
[...] Monotone is a photoblog for WordPress. The layout is clean and non-intrusive, but the way it handles images makes each entry unique (and requires no intervention to do so). I can’t help myself but try to install it in my WordPress.com hosted domain jotuvillo.com (check it out!). Yet, I guess I still have to stick with photopixel for my photoblog (check out http://imagery.deuts.net/) Monotone, Photoblog, Wordpress, Wordpress Theme [...]
June 30th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Does anybody know how to remove the margin around the images? The monotone demo just aligns the the photo to the edge, I get a margin on both the left and the right side. Am running monotone on a self hosted blog. Thanks for any help in advance!
July 8th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I can’t get my images to display either. I host with ICDSoft. They do have access to ImageMagick. Can I somehow use that instead? https://www2.suresupport.com/faq/30/169
Is there a better place to ask support questions on Monotone?
July 9th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
And here goes mine (http://boston.scheeko.org), rolling fine since May 19th!
Thanks!
July 11th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Hey, I just downloaded this theme for my blog, http://notsomotivational.com and absolutley love it except I cant get a lot of my plug ins to work for it. Does anybody know a good plug in or app that I can use to view web stas for my blog? Or a plug in kinda like sociable that will work on monotone?
July 11th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
nm, I cant find any plug ins for it. Im switching back.
July 18th, 2008 at 1:35 am
Monotone…
A photo blogging theme with one column. Colors change to match the photo….
July 21st, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Just got it working on my new site section at Balko Photo: http://balkophoto.com/pix/
I am so pleased with it - thanks so much!
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:47 am
I’m trying your theme on Wordpress, but I just don’t get it. How do I get it to work?
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I can edit the file in WordPress, but the background remains black no matter which image I enter.
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Theme installed and seems to work properly (you can see the images, they resize properly) - only the page doesn’t change color to match images. Where might I find the clues for that? Is there a better place to go for support on this? This is a self-installed WP on dreamhost.com
July 30th, 2008 at 11:14 am
I have the same problem with Clint (but my hosting has “fopen” allowed):
1. image dont appear because the img url look like this: domain.com/wp-content/uploads/image.jpg?w=840
2. so, i think the problem was “?w=840″ such thing that monotone added to the img url
3. i find the “?w=840″ in functions.php. in line 84 (less or more) i find this: …image_url.’?w=…
4. i try to hack little, adding space and double quote before ?w=. so the line will be: …image_url.’” “?w=…
5. and now, the image appear. i am not a programer, and very little knowledge with PHP. i just try, and it work. do someone know what really happen?
6. however, it’s great theme. thanks you very much.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Hi there. Thanks for Monotone - I was so impressed with it that I totally changed the direction of my site to use it!
I’ve slightly modified it though to suit my tastes a bit more (different fonts, full coloured background, photo border, wider content widths etc).
Thank you again!
August 9th, 2008 at 2:56 am
Oh, i get it. It means WordPress.com vs WordPress.org (aka self-hosted). Not blogs with .org domains.
Took me about half an hour for it to click. I was wondering: how are they gonna stop anyone from installing it on .com and other domains? I’m dumb.
August 9th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Hi Guys and Girls please check out my cool monotone photoblog..
http://trcwest.com/photoblog/
Does any one know of a list of top monotone photoblogs?? As it would be cool to have a list of all the different ones?? if not i can make one…
August 13th, 2008 at 5:59 am
It’s true, it’s a nice theme for Wordpress… if it would be work fine, but it does not. I do not know why I get the same error than Clint (but I can published). I do not know why in my case is a fixed column theme (it does not resize the column depending of the image size). I have four blogs with diferent themes in the same hosting, and no troubles with them. And the archive page of the theme does not work properly in IE 6 and 7 (in my case and in the other two examples of the comments here that I have seen). Too much problems!
September 4th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
My Monotone blog has been working for several weeks now without any issues and I love this theme.
Thanks,
Eric
http://www.erictakespictures.com