Fixes:
- Adds IE6 & IE7 support (still a work in progress but FAR better than before).
- Fixes the ‘Leave a comment’ page jump link.
- Fixes images on the home page using the blog formatted index.php template file.
- Fixes image ‘floating’ issue in the front page template that broke the image alignment.
- Improved static navigation arrows for an easier UX.
- Now pulls the ‘large’ (800px wide) image instead of the full size image for CSS backgrounds on the homepage (Images loads faster as a result).
- Adds EXIF Data to image attachment pages (However, Shutter Speed does not work).
- Fixes borders and shadows for Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4.
- Reworked comments section to include Pings.
- New 404 template that adheres to the site’s format.
Download it here.
IMPORTANT: If you’ve made modifications to your AutoFocus theme, you may want to back up your current version before over-writing the files, so that you don’t lose anything.
A big thanks goes out to Walker for some insight into pulling EXIF data from images uploaded to WP.
Also thanks for all of the GREAT comments I keep receiving about AutoFocus. I really appreciate it! If you find any bugs or errors which is kind of inevitable, please be sure to leave a comment so that I can include fixes/corrections in the next update.
157 Comments
Hi!
Thanks for the grat theme and the update!
Is there a possibility to switch off the page with the EXIF data or to modify the data displayed?
Martin
Can I simply remove the lines of the data I don’t want to see in the file “functions.php”?
Thank you for you help!
Hi Martin,
Not if you don’t know what you are doing or unfamiliar with how PHP functions work.
Hi Allan,
thanks for your reply! I tried to delete the following lines of the functions.php on a test-installation:
echo “<liCopyright: ” . $imgmeta['image_meta']['copyright'].”";
echo “<liCredit: ” . $imgmeta['image_meta']['credit'].”";
echo “<liTitle: ” . $imgmeta['image_meta']['title'].”";
echo “<liCaption: ” . $imgmeta['image_meta']['caption'].”";
It worked, and these attributes are not shown anymore on the EXIF page.
Hi Martin,
The EXIF Data is pulled from the uploaded JPEG file. So any setting you’d like to change should be done either on your camera, or with some type of image editing program. I don’t think there is an option to change these settings in WP(yet?).
AutoFocus is an awesome product, but will you work on IE8 support?
Thanks Samsun,
It was actually already working well in IE8.
IE76 & IE7 were causing problems but those should be some-what fixed with this latest version.
Hai Allan, you’re doing great job buddy :)
How i can use AutoFocus only for main appearance, when the visitor visit my blog then he/she click the picture link going to another post with different template?
Now i using Wordpress 2.8.1 with AutoFocus 1.0.1 plugin
PS: Sorry double comment.
Is that mean i only need index.php? Because i want using another template as subdomain.
Not sure what you question is here. Could you clarify your question?
Thanks Nick,
You may have to check the WP Forums for answers to that question. I only provide theme support for bugs and errors here.
I am kinda a blog dummie, so excuse my question, but I can’t figure out how to have the admin login show up on the theme. It’s definitely active and works on my other themes but I can’t find it on this theme.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this theme, but I need to have the login available since I blog from several computers.
:) Please help!!
thanks!!
Hi Mary,
AutoFocus doesn’t display any sidebars on the home page, so you can’t add the Meta Widget (which has the login link) to the home page. However, you can add it to one of the sidebars and then create an archives page using the archives template as it describes in the instructions.
Thanks Allan,
We will keep it in mind when we are doing translation work for any clients who want image management.
Thanks for the update to the theme. It’s appreciated.
Is there any way to enable the sidebars for posts instead of just pages using the Archive Page template?
Hi Matt,
At the moment, No. But with a little theme customization, you could get something like that working.
Thanks, Allan.
Is something like this what you had in mind when you mentioned theme customization?
add to single.php
It was a suggestion from someone on the wordpress support forums and seems to be doing exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks again for the theme, I love it.
Hey Matt,
I can’t see your code. You’ll need to wrap it in
tags for me to see it, but I am glad you got it to work.Hi Allan,
thanks first of all for the great theme. It is really what I was looking for.
I only have a problem that recently some of the photos I upload are shown in their full size, while some are resized according to the page width. The resize tag also does not work. The insert code and the original size is for all images the same. Do you have any idea?
Hi Allen!
Thanks for your great Theme!
I have a problem with “activating” of the Psuedo-Image protection!
How does it works?
Greetings
Chris
Hey Christian,
This isn’t something that you activate. All it does is place a transparent div over top your images so that users can not Right Click and Save. It doesn’t do anything more dramatic than that. LOL.
Hi Allan!
I know this, but i dont know where my failture is. It does’t work on my website! I haven’t any plugins, a new WP install and a clean Them installation.
Greetings Chris
Hi Allan!
I want to change my title blog by the other file with .jpg or .png format. How do for this work?
I using Autofocus.0.9.7
I’m excited to see the 1.0.1 update, but I’ve done a lot of little tweaks to the theme files (and not just the CSS) and really only need a few things from your fixes/features list, mainly:
# Now pulls the ‘large’ (800px wide) image instead of the full size image for CSS backgrounds on the homepage (Images loads faster as a result).
Can I just update the functions.php file for that?
Hi Lynn,
You can actually just change it in home.php
Change this line so that is says this:
<span class="attach-post-image" style="height:300px;display:block;background:url('') center center repeat">Thanks for the reply, Allan. Turns out it was my bad. I had the “Thumbnail for Excerpts” plugin activated and that was causing my problem (a smaller image of the posted image appearing on hover) with how home.php behaved. I deactivated that plugin (don’t need no stinking thumbnail excerpts anymore thanks to your beauitiful theme!) and recovered the beauty that is AutoFocus!
I just installed the newest AF version on one of my testbed domains and will explore that to see if I should upgrade e-livingston.com and integrate my tweaks in there (assuming they are compatible). “Look to the plugins” should be a motto of the first order guess. . .
Hi Allan!
Thanks for a fantastic theme!
Is there a chance that in a future version you could add horizontal navigation as an option to a vertical ‘grid’ ?
What I am thinking here is browsing posts in a timeline so, the initial posts on the screen would be either the most recent or the oldest. Then the user would browse horizontally to see either newer posts or older ones.
Thank you for your time invested in this great theme!
Best,
Arturo
Hi Arturo,
I didn’t have that in the works for a future version, but it shouldn’t be too hard if you apply a few basic CSS tweaks.
Hey! Great theme!! :D I was wondering if it is possible to do so that when you press a post link (picture) that the post opens up in a new window so you never leave the first main site, only the post opens up in new windows? Is that possible?
If not, thanks ayway! Great job, extremely neat!
Hi there!
Congratulations for your site and for the theme, i’m using it for the “Photo” section of my website. The theme is working perfectly with firefox and safari, and it’s very visually pleasing. But when it comes to IE7, some glitches occur:
The upper menu (home, info, rss) is shifted to the very top of the page. Furthermore, when wieving a post, the “browse – older – newer” buttons and the arrows are shifted to the right, rather than having “older” on the left of the page and “newer” on the right.
Maybe you’re already aware of this minor glitches, otherwise you can notice it in my page http://www.rivistahydepark.com/photo .
Thank you very much in advance, keep the good work up!
Hi Alessandro,
I did do some minor changes specifically for IE7, which should have fixed those issues. You are using AutoFocus 1.0.1 correct?
Hi Allan – Thx for the awesome theme!! My site is a work in progress and I’ve been working my way through customizing it, but I’ve hit a brick wall. The lower nav-previous “Older” btn is not working. I have 4 test posts set up and if you click through them, you’ll see that both the next/previous arrows and lower nav-next all work, but the nav-previous is acting up. I’ve tried everything I know to try. If you could lead me in the right direction, I’d be forever grateful!!
Thanks again – Bnw
Hi BNW,
Is there a live version of this error I can check out? This functionality seems to be fine on other AutoFocus site’s i’ve tried.
Hi Allan,
i love Autofocus!!
I’ve installed autofocus on a WP 2.8.2.
As you know, there are some incompatibility with this version?
Thank you.
Marco
Hi,
Thanks for a great theme. I love the way it looks in Firefox.
However, in Explorer, the Home page looks more the Collections page with one line of rectangular images going down the page… white space between each. The titles are showing up in the lower left of each image. There’s random text at the bottom of the list.
Then, when I click on one image, I get that image but no comment box. I have Fotomoto loaded for purchasing prints, which works fine in Firefox. In Explorer, when I click on Purchase this print, I get a message that says please wait for this page to finish loading.
If I move around too much, like using the back arrows to view previous images, eventually I get an error message that Explorer cannot open the image. Operation aborted. That leads to an blank error page from Explorer.
Please help! I love the theme, but won’t be able to use it if it has this many problems for people who use Explorer.
Thank you!!!!
Hi Cara,
Unfortunately, I don’t offer too much support for non-standards compliant browsers like IE6.
I have included some fixes in this last update so that the theme functionally works in IE6, but there is no way to make it match Firefox exactly.
well when you click on my links to projects that are pdfs, they just open to a big ?. will pdfs not open on this theme? if so, what do I need to do to make sure they will open?
thanks!
sorry if this is a completely ridiculous question. really am a beginner.
jennifer
Sorry Jennifer,
PDFs will not work.
Dear Allan,
Wow this such a beautiful theme, thank you for your efforts. I love it! Allan I must ask you a question, I would like to tweak the theme in 2 ways. 1. Is it possible to change the font that used throughout the theme? 2. I would like to remove the big white dates on the post thumbnails.
Is this possible? If you could help me I would be very happy..
Tanya x
Thanks Tanya,
You can play around with the fonts in the style.css to use which ever font you like. To hide the dates, just set the
.bigdateselector todisplay:none;hello,
I seem to be having an issue when trying to put a gallery into a post. I am putting in picture A into the top of the post, and then adding a gallery of 15 images below the text of the post. for some reason it is pulling in the last image in the gallery and replacing picture A at the top of the post.
does anyone know a way around this?
thanks,
steve
Hi Steve,
Have you looked at the FAQ? I think that’ll help you figure your issue here.
thanks for the reply allan, sorry to waste your time with something that was right in front of me. thanks for the killer theme!
Hi!
There is a bug in page.php.
Bad one:
< ?php if ( get_post_custom_values('comments') ) comments_template() // Add a key+value of "comments" to enable comments on this page ? >Bug fixed:
< ?php if ( get_post_custom_values('comments') ) comments_template('', true) // Add a key+value of "comments" to enable comments on this page ? >Thanks for catching that Connor!
I add this and update the theme files asap.
code: http://nopaste.org/p/a3nuw2SzH
I’ve made a small hack on this theme. The author can change the background-position on the attachment image. You can see it in action:
http://blog.orbandomonkos.hu/
This feature uses jcrop jquery plugin:
http://deepliquid.com/content/Jcrop_Examples.html
Any chance you could make that hack available?
Hi Dave,
I am working on a fix for this. The problem is that if you change the image size to ‘LARGE’ the page load time increases rather drastically.
I’m working on a way for AutoFocus to figure out whether the image is vertical or horizontal, which would open up a lot of doors.
I’m sure you know this already, and it probably sounds pretty patronising, but:
http://lt.php.net/manual/en/function.getimagesize.php
Array[0] is with, Array[1] is height.
I was wondering if anyone has been able to remove the exif data that shows up with every photo when you add a gallery to a post? I would like to have that info removed, and then have the “previous” and “next” thumbnails to move up right underneath the larger image.
any information would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Steve,
I’ve added a section to the FAQ that shows you how to remove the EXIF data. Repositioning the Next/Prev sections will require some more advanced theme customization.
thanks allan! keep up the great work…and thanks for the awesome support.
WOW!! Just found your template and looks like i finnally found something perfect! Very good work.
One question: is it possible to link somehow pictures shown on the WP site with their bigger version on flickr?
I used this solution so far, pulling everything from flickr and saving my server bandwidth. Maybe a walkround would be posting smaller images inside wordpress (low quality previews), but after clicking on any of them a page with a flickr link would appear. Is it possible in any simple way?
Thank you again for a beautiful work!
Hi Blazej,
Give this plugin a try: Page Links To.
Just a bit more work on the Flickr side of this theme and it will be perfect for me. I would love to see an auto-resize of flickr images loaded as the “main image” in a blog post.
Currently when posting a link to the original size of an image it does not fit stream-lined into the post. Instead it is too large. I’m sure it wouldn’t be too difficult to “fit” the image at 800xXXX, therefore restricting the size to the usual photo size of this theme. The only down-side I can see to loading a full-size image as a smaller photo would be artifacts in certain browsers.
The fix I currently have for this is just uploading images at 800xXXX and displaying the original link.
Anyways, thanks a bunch, the theme has been amazing so far, I’m looking forward to future updates and to see what you’ve got in store for the future of this theme.
Thanks a lot for letting us use it!
Zack
Thanks Zack,
Unfortunately, hot inked images don’t work as well with AutoFocus when it comes to sizing. Your current fix is probably the best way around it at the moment. If there are any new developments in this area I will surely update the theme.
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