BlueBubble Wordpress Theme

this is a great template! thank you very much for the updated version.

i’ll try setting it up on my upcoming site.

Thank you John! Glad you like it! :)

Greetings from Spain, just wanted to drop you a line and tell you thanks! This theme is one of the coolest I´ve seen for wordpress, keep on with the good work and thanks for sharing it!

Thank you very much Raquel! :-)

Thomas, I like your theme. I’m pretty new with wordpress! I have a question. Is it possible to have more ‘portfolio’ pages? For example, one for video and one for web? The same for the blog? Can you tell me how to do that!?
Thank you very much.

Hi Abe,
Yes you can do that. Duplicate the file “portfolio.php” and save it as “portfolio-video.php” Change the template name (in the first few lines) also to Portfolio Video.

The next thing is to create a new category. Take the name of the category an put it in the query_posts() in your template… replace it with $bb_portfolio_cat.

hope this will help you… :)

one thing that i think you miss it or maybe leave it.

no threaded comment system ??

no, BlueBubble does support threaded comments: http://mu.flexible7.com/bluebubble/2010/02/06/this-is-what-happens-when/#comments

Maybe you forgot to activate it through the wordpress admin settings!?

Hi Thomas,
Thanks for your help. I don’t get the last part. What do I have to replace? My categoryname = portfolioweb. Where do i have to put that? In this line:

I hope you can tell me that. Thank you very much!

It didn’t place the line. Hopefully it works now.
< ? php
query_posts("category_name=$bb_portfolio_cat&posts_per_page=1000

Hello Thomas,
I did replace it like you said. I made “portfolioweb”. I made a categorie. But if I want to put a post in it. It doesn’t show up in my browser. I checked the category “portfolio web”. Please can you help me?

Hi Thomas,

Is ‘t correct that the readmore function doesnt work?

nvm already solved it

Can’t believe this one is free.

Wow, this is great, thanks! I’m new to this…how easy would it be to add a slight tiled background to this? Also, any way I could use the main thumb images on the portfolio page as categories that would take the user to separate galleries & possibly incorporate the “light box” plug in to show the images? Thanks!

Thank you very much John! Add a background image is quite easy with CSS – check this out http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_background.asp

What you want to do is possible, but i think you’ll need help to do that as you are new tho this stuff…

i can do that as a freelance job if you want to…

Cool..thanks again. I will let you know if I need help with the “light box” plug-in once I get a bit further. If I want my logo to be taller than the one on your example, how do I pad it so it pushes everything else (Nav etc.) down? Currently it overlays the nav and the text below it because it is too tall. I expect I will experience the same thing once I start adding image thumbs to the portfolio area on the right. Thanks again!

Hello Thomas!
Love your Theme! A few questions: How do I turn the pagination feature ON if my portfolio page is set as the front page thru Wordpress (like in your instructions)? I’d like it to only show 8 thumbs if possible, then have a link for “next page” etc.

Also, I saw your comment to Abe above in regards to duplicating the portfolio page to make a different portfolio section. I tried your method and it still seems to just show what is on the original portfolio page I duplicated. I duplicated, changed name in theme line and created a new wp category then added that name to the “$bb_XXXX_cat”, with no luck. Any idea? THANKS!

Love it…. love it.. love it… Thank you verry much :D ~<3

Hi Thomas, I love the theme but when I install some errors appear me:

Warning: fopen(/home/tresnuev/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/bluebubble/style.css) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/tresnuev/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3598

Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/tresnuev/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3601

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/tresnuev/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3604

best theme ever… i’m developing with this theme

Hi Thomas…

Well, first of all, congratulations. I love your work.

Second, it might sound a little naif on my side, but, I can´t find the “Post Thumbnail” section on my WP add post panel.

Thank you.

my site using this theme…. a bit of change!!!!

Santaclara:

You’re probably using the new WP 3.0 beta. Instead of “Post Thumbnail” you have “Featured Image” in the same place on the page. Choose this option, then at the bottom where it gives you the option to Insert in Post or use as Featured Image, choose Featured Image. Good luck.

Thomas, this theme rocks. It’s one of the few that seems to take into to consideration the trend today for clean, minimalist presentation that showcases the WORK. Great job!!! I suggest adding a Paypal button somewhere so that people who want to, can donate to your site. Keep up the fantastic work.

Great theme. It would be great if you could have a slideshow option so you can view images on each project. Other wise great work. If you update this part of it let me know!!!
Thanks

Congratulations on this template. I love it. The only problem is that I can not get my galleries are seen with “lightbox”. Can you help me?
Thanks

I cannont get the contact form to work, Is there any instructions

P.S. I have reset the theme to blue bubble for a bit. The only way I could see what I described above was to briefly change to the default theme otherwise it would have remained a mystery. However, the problem remains unsolved

Hey Thomas.
Das ist das beste Theme das ich bis jetzt egsehen habe :-) hab gerade auf die neue Wordpress version geupdatet und setzte nun das Theme neu auf. Mir ist aufgefallen, dass wenn ich in den Einstellungen angebe, dass nur die ersten 3 Blog Beiträge auf der Seite sein sollen und dann eine 2. Seite angefangen werden müsste, dies nicht klappt.

Hast du eine Idee warum das so ist??

Gruss

Thomas, this is the best theme ever! I love it. I only have to make the contact form work, I don´t know why it´s not working. I did everything you said, but still not working, what may I be doing wrong?
Thanks in advanced for your help!

While I am pretty sure you are finished reading or responding here I did want to correct my comments above and note that the error was all mine and I have found the solution though I am no longer same url.

Thanks for an excellent theme with lots of room for adaptation

A great template, I was searching for something like this long ago.

I wonder if there is a gallery-plugin within the theme?

Would like to have my starting page as yours
in the DEMO, with thumbnails as a start and,
after a klick on one of it, an overview with a gallery.

You thinks it´s possible?

Beim Draufklicken neue Seite mit Galerie.

Respect!
Manfred

This is a fantastic theme! I’m currently modding it to fit the needs of my site but I’m having trouble getting the email contact form to work, it just gives me an error, even though the email mail.php script has my email settings added correctly.

I’m using the version from http://www.thomasveit.com/blog/ but I’m wondering if upgrading to this version will fix it?

Hi! First of all thanks for the theme. It’s great and simple. Is there a way to make all the categories look like the portfolio category?

Just to let you fellas know, Thomas is doing military service right now (it’s a duty in Switzerland), that’s why he’s not replying to any questions here. But I’m sure he will as soon as he got time.

Great theme. The only thing I dislike about bluebubble, is that a lot of my pieces are vertical, not horizontal. :( I think it’s a good idea that in the next update you considered having lightbox pop up a full size version of each piece. I guess for now i’ll have to do it myself. ^^

Nice theme, simple and useful for portfolio, thank you.

coool theme
Thanks a lot

Desde Buenos Aires Argentina, muchas gracias por el theme, es excelente!

My page is not displaying posts in 2 columns – can you help please?

Thanks

http://madebymood.co.uk/admin/

My page is not displaying posts in 2 columns, too…

Great template, I will recommend it!
Of course I also have a question:
On the front page, I get all of the headlines below each other in stead of next to each other like in your demo (so two on two)..how do I get that?

And question number two, if you click through on one of the items on the home page, you get on the blog entry and there is a big banner on top there..this banner how do I fill this with an image?

Thanks!

Good job!

Alex

I have the 2 column problem also.
Ein antwort auf Deutsch ist auch OK Thomas!
How to get 2 columns in stead of the one that’s standard?

NICE!

Ok guys, for those of you who have the 2 column problem, I found a solotion which works for me..
Go to Settings –> Reading –> Front page displays
Set to static page
Put front page and post page right and then it should work.
I have not yet found out, how to get the images then the big ones at the cliktrhough or the mini’s at the portfolio page…

Again my problem solved itself. For others, if you do not see the featured image, the big image , then select it with featured image, in the image option window.
That should do the trick.
But of course, I have another question. And I don’t think I can find the answer on this one myself.
If I want to link the featured image from each portfolio image, to a different URL (so not to the blog post). How to do so?
Ich will dieser featured image, nicht zu den blogpost linken aber zu ein externen URL..geht das und wie?

Hi Thomas,

your theme is done with a precision & sharpness, like people are got used to from the famous Swiss Knifes. I really love the theme! Thanks for it!

BTW: Good luck with your army duty and wish you a quick return home.

Pretty sweet and fun theme. Thank you!

Hi. 3.0 gives an error report in the format of this theme.

This theme is beautiful and has that balance of blog and portfolio I’ve been searching for. Just getting it set up now.

Also someone’s earlier comment about “set featured image” for Wordpress 3.0 helped me figure out how to set the thumbnail (as you called it in the instructions).

I love this theme – but am struggling to get posts to appear ONLY on the pages i want – they seem to be posting to all pages and then the link TO the post doesnt seem to be working?
am new to wordpress :P

I love this theme. I’ve gotten everything figured out (though still in progress), expect for the social media buttons in the side bar. How can I change the URLs and add more buttons? Thanks in advance!

Absolutely love this theme. Thank you so much, Thomas!

Just one itty bitty problem – if you look at my sidebar, there is an extra “blog” link under my logo. It shouldn’t be there.

I have no idea how it got there and don’t know how to get rid of it.

Please, kindly help me? Thanks a million!

Just figured it out.