I’m happy to be able to announce that Emesen (0.2.2) is now the default theme for Escargot Spaces! And as such if you notice something wrong with the theme by all means yell at me or make a new issue on GitLab. :)
If you have an existing blog you can set the theme manually in Appearance > Themes.
When you sign up for a new blog, I believe it’ll give you the new theme automatically.
And as always, you can find the source code on the GitLab repo. Thank you for all your support!
The new version of Emesen has better comments from Near Nothing, styled block quotes, more spaced out margins and it loads faster directly from the php/css file because everything’s embedded into Base64!
Grab it here. If you want to use the MSN logo as a custom logo use this:
To keep it transparent skip cropping. It’s already sized correctly.
Two things on my checklist last time were completed: Custom logo support + text fallback, and removing those stubborn bullets from the sidebar. As it seems, like magic, BuddyPress looks just like it’s supposed to now, which wasn’t the case before:
I haven’t done anything with the comments section at this point, yet:
Another thing to look into is to make the theme 100% standalone. Right now it hotlinks a bunch of files from Archive.org which definitely isn’t a good way to do things.
And I didn’t think I’d continue working on it. Crazy, now it’s actually shaping up to be a “real theme!”
Now the header (replacing the search bar due to it hanging out and laziness on my part when it comes to fixing it) and footer menu bars are functional and you can assign menus to them. How the actual content is laid out is kind of… meh, but there’s not much I can do at the time being. I keep trying to remove those darn bullet points from the sidebar, but nothing I’ve tried works. I’m probably missing something critical.
The MSN logo now links to the homepage of your site, and the admin bar actually shows up properly this time around. If you want to try it out for yourself (maybe fix it a little?) get the latest changes from GitLab. Maybe this theme will get to a point where it’s decent enough to be used on Escargot Spaces, who knows.
To do list as of the moment: