@acrylian
Paradigm theme has no file "custom.css" amongst distributed files, only "! rename-to-custom.css".
This way if user uploads whole folder with theme upon upgrade, their custom.css won't be affected, they will only upload empty "! rename-to-custom.css" to their css folder and it's not hooked into head section of the theme, only "custom.css" is (with address specific to Paradigm theme).
I consider this way to be pretty safe in regards to potential mistakes.
A big update to my fork of Paradigm theme: current version is 1.5 .
Link to latest version is always available here: https://www.blog.private-universe.net/web-and-tech/zenphoto-theme-paradigm/
Changes:
- Reworked all Options groupings and settings.
- Fixed Lightbox pop-up with image previews in Albums, Archive, Search etc.
- Links to Lightbox previews were assigned with rel=”nofollow” to exclude generated links to preview images from indexing.
- Added option to disable usage of Lightbox previews.
- Option to choose custom text for Gallery link in Main Menu (it’s also used in Footer menu and Sidebar panel).
- Option to choose custom text for News link in Main Menu (it’s also used in Footer menu and Sidebar panel).
- Option to choose custom text for Pages header in Sidebar navigation panel.
- Options to choose when to display Album Menu in Sidebar (multi-choice: Gallery, News, Pages, Archives).
- Options to choose when to display News Categories Menu in Sidebar (multi-choice: Gallery, News, Pages, Archives).
- Options to choose when to display Pages Menu in Sidebar (multi-choice: Gallery, News, Pages, Archives).
- Change of CSS for Albums, News Categories & Pages Menu navigational panels in Sidebar from id=”nav-local” to class=”nav-local”.
- Option to specify number of levels of Album menu to display in Sidebar (for Gallery; News, Pages, Archives use “Top-level only” setting).
- Option to specify number of levels of News Categories Menu in Sidebar (used for Gallery, News, Pages, Archives).
- Option to specify number of levels of Pages Menu in Sidebar (used for Gallery, News, Pages, Archives).
- Fixed font-size calculation for Popular Tags cloud in Sidebar.
- Option to display Image Caption above or below Image on Image Page.
- Updated Theme functions to use correct time from metadata for Photos in Metadata section on Image Pages (without added timezone of server).
- Reworked settings for additional pages in Main Footer menu.
- Option to display RSS Links in Footer.
- Option to display Social Media Links in Footer (if linked in “Links and Services” section of Paradigm Options).
- Option to remove Tags pages from Search Engines Index by adding “noindex, follow” to Head section.
- Option to remove Archive pages from Search Engines Index by adding “noindex, follow” to Head section.
- Moved News Archive links before Gallery links in Archive.
- Some fixes in Breadcrumbs section (typos, leftover code).
- Added missing icon for H1 in News/News categories pages
- Enabled automatic generation of Description meta-tags from sanitized Custom Data for Pages.
- Other clean-up of rules for auto-generating Meta tags: titles, descriptions etc.
- Reworked auto-generation of Open Graph meta-tags.
- Reworked auto-generation of Twitter-cards meta-tags.
- Favorites plugin now works (with Zenphoto 1.6.3), therefore I’ve completely reworked Favorites page.
Great, you frequently update it. We will update it on our demo. The no indexing of the archive and tags pages I think this should indeed be part of the official html_meta_tags plugin. I will put that on the list therefore.
Enabled automatic generation of Description meta-tags from sanitized Custom Data for Pages.
If I look at the head file I wonder why the theme does what the html_meta_tags plugin actually also does/providees incl OpenGrap and such. As far as I see it does not disable the plugin so you might get things duplicated.
@acrylian
Some of it is just legacy features, as original creator added them, so I keep them too, fixing and updating as I find stuff lacking.
To ensure no duplication occurs, in my installation notes I list stuff that users need to disable/enable if they use html_meta_tags or other plugins.
As far as meta tags go - I've got some ideas for html_meta_tags plugin, will write some suggestions on github, when I get some time.
Okay, I see. You could force disable the plugin, too. But not all meta elements do duplicate as it provides a few more I think.
As far as meta tags go - I've got some ideas for html_meta_tags plugin, will write some suggestions on github, when I get some time.
Me too ;-) I plan to extend it but some of it will depend on some changes planned for later releases only…
PARADIGM ver 1.6
- *MAJOR CODE CLEAN-UP**
- Fixed Responsive Behaviour throughout for both Fluid and Fixed layout.
- Added rules for Extra-Large screens (>1900px) for both Fluid and Fixed layout.
- Reworked all H1-H2 Headers for clean outlines throughout.
- Removed all BR and HR tags from pages, now all of that is done via CSS.
- Removed all style=height parameters from Image/Albums Thumbs, now all of that is done via CSS.
- Added flexible styling to Images on Homepage and in Albums
- Reworked Images/Albums/News/Pages Details Sections for consistency.
- All content-zones now have corresponding #ID for ease of CSS styling.
- Some fixes in Breadcrumbs section (typos, leftover code).
- All code was cleaned-up, W3.org-validated, checked for typos, stray tags and other inconsistencies.
MAJOR WORK on Theme Options
Paradigm now has more than 100 options, so it had to be done!
You have to BACKUP all TEXT FIELDS and setup Paradigm from scratch!
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Options were all renamed according to naming rules for Zenphoto themes and plugins.
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Reworked all Options groupings and settings, to make it easier to set up your website and add new options.
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Reworked descriptions for Options.
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Cleaned up Contact Form, fixed errors/warnings
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Cleaned up Comment Form, fixed errors/warnings
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Fixed missing Page indicator for H1 Headers/Head Title tags
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Added options to display Custom Data for Images/Albums/News/Pages separately
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Added options to display Rating for News/Pages
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Added options to display Hitcounter for News/Pages
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Added option to display Download button for fullsize Images
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Added Links to more RSS feeds in Footer/Head [work in progress]
Support for Related Items plugin:
- Options to control behaviour for Related Items in Images/Albums/News/Pages separately.
- Enabled support of Featured Images as thumbs for News and Pages for Related Items.
Extended Featured Images plugin support:
- Option to display Featured Image on a Page
- Option to choose size of Featured Image displayed on Page or News Article separately (Full or Thumb)
Support for User Login-Out and Register User plugins.
- Login and Register pages clean-up.
- Options to show User Menu in Footer and Sidebar separately.
(?) Added support for Default Codeblocks plugin [work in progress]
- Three zones for codeblocks setup in Sidebar, 1 in Footer
- Three zones for codeblocks are setup in details zones for Images/Albums/News/Pages
- Codeblock zones can be seen on my Demo-site
I don’t recommend using DefaultCodeblocks with Paradigm yet,
as I feel that I don’t fully understand it’s logic and therefore can’t > implement with consistent and predictable results.
Download here:
https://www.blog.private-universe.net/web-and-tech/zenphoto-theme-paradigm/
Demo site with screenshots and theme in action: https://demo.private-universe.net
Paradigm on GitHub + Version 2.0
Compatible with Zenphoto 1.6.3 (official release) and above due to changes to comment_form and contact_form.
I've created a repository for Paradigm on GitHub, so users can get snapshots with fixes between releases.
Past releases were added there too, for those who need them.
To coincide, I gave Paradigm a version bump to 2.0 - as I should have done it for v1.6 due to breaking changes to Options.
Changelog:
- Code clean-up (continued).
- Support for Comment and Contact forms changes introduced in Zenphoto 1.6.3.
- Support for Featured Images plugin changes, introduced in Zenphoto 1.6.3.
- Support for Multiple Layouts plugin (1 alternative layout for Albums, more to come).
- Support for FlickrFeed plugin (please, update it to the latest version!).
- Changed placement for custom Logo files to 'uploaded/design'.
- Changed logic for support of custom user CSS files (they need to be placed in 'uploaded/design' and selected via Options).
- Added option to choose Preview image for OpenGraph/Twitter Cards (images need to be placed in 'uploaded/design' and selected via Options).
- Enabled support for full Theme localisation.
- Added Russian localisation
Links
Download Paradigm on Github: https://github.com/kuz-z-zma/paradigm
Demo site with screenshots and theme in action: https://demo.private-universe.net
Main Theme page was updated with instructions and how-to;
blog post and final package to follow soon.