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RockinSuckerfish2 - 2 Column Suckerfish Free Wordpress Theme Released

March 27, 2007

RockinSuckerfish2

Following up on the success and requests of RockinSuckerfish1, RockinSuckerfish2 is a very stylish, web 2.0 looking theme with bold outlines and suckerfish dropdowns in the top menu! Also, in this newest version, I’ve added a right-hand, widgetized sidebar, so you can add whatever you want down the side of your blog! Great for adsense, or other widgets that you weren’t able to include in the original version.

Key Features:

Suckerfish dropdowns!
Web 2.0 look
Bold, blue outlines
Right hand sidebar
Customizable header, with photoshop file included.
Widgetized sidebar

Download it here
Demo it here

Bugs:
None reported yet

Changelog (from 1.0):

Moved the search box to the header. Fixed the problem with the dropdowns staying down.
Added right-hand sidebar
Removed categories from suckerfish menu.
Added Links to suckerfish menu

Author’s site: www.nathanrice.org

If you would like a custom modification of this theme specific to your needs, please fill out our design questionnaire and we will get back to you ASAP with a quote.

This is the support page for this theme. Please report all problems here in the comments. Thanks!

Posted by Nathan Rice | Filed Under 2 Column, Blue, By Nathan Rice, Free WordPress Theme, Suckerfish, Web 2.0, White

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42 Responses to “RockinSuckerfish2 - 2 Column Suckerfish Free Wordpress Theme Released”

Weblog Tools Collection » Blog Archive » WordPress Theme Releases for 3/27 on March 27th, 2007 11:50 am

[...] RockinSuckerfish2, the sequel to the original RockinSuckerfish, is a 2 column, widget ready theme, with suckerfish drop-downs in the top menu. [...]
Norm on March 27th, 2007 1:18 pm

Thanks for the quick build! love it!
latest news on March 27th, 2007 8:05 pm

Very nice designe and cool links waiting for 3 col. cms like theme
Ross on March 27th, 2007 11:21 pm

Looks great, but there still seems to be a redraw problem with the drop-downs.

In the Links dropdown, the alt text appears as it should AND as it shouldn’t. It seems to do a non-destructive overwrite.

Also, the alt text in the blogroll that is in the sidebar doesn’t display correctly. Sort of a similar problem as in the links dropdown.

Will leave it up so you can see what I’m talking about.

Thanks in advance.
Andrea on March 28th, 2007 3:29 am

Really nice theme!

With 3 columns would be great! Do you think that is possible to release a version with 3 columns?

Andrea
Nathan Rice on March 28th, 2007 6:19 am

Ross,

I assume that by “alt text” you mean the description following the link, correct? Or do you mean the “tool tip” you see when you hover? (which is technically the “title” text)

How exactly is it not showing up correctly in the sidebar? I see a link followed by a dash and then the description after it. How did you expect it to show up? If you’d like a line break instead (link with the description under it), then in the sidebar.php file, change this:
<?php get_links(-1, ‘<li>’, ‘</li>’, ‘ - ‘); ?>
to this:
<?php get_links(-1, ‘<li>’, ‘</li>’, ‘<br />’); ?>

In the links in the top navigation menu in the header.php file, change this:
<?php get_links(-1, ‘<li>’, ‘</li>’, ‘ - ‘); ?>
to this:
<?php get_links(-1, ‘<li>’, ‘</li>’, ‘ - ‘, 0); ?>

This will remove the description from the dropdown menu and only display the link title as the link. The suckerfish menus can’t handle all those words. They really need to be able to fit on 1-2 lines. Having them only show up as the title is the easiest fix for this problem.
Angela on March 28th, 2007 10:56 am

I blogged you today!! :-)
http://angela-stevens.com/archives/project-pimp-my-blog/
o_mores on March 28th, 2007 1:24 pm

Hello.

I love this theme! But I cannot get it widgetized… Cand anyoane help me? How can i modify sidebar.php to accept widgets? What code should i introduce there…

Lots of thx.
Nathan Rice on March 28th, 2007 1:47 pm

It should be widgetized. You’ll need the widgets plugin installed, but past that, you should be able to drag and drop widgets into the sidebar via the admin panel in WP.
o_mores on March 28th, 2007 2:23 pm

Case closed. :-> It is widgetized now.(i messed up with functions.php, replaced with the original… and that’s it)
Ross on March 28th, 2007 9:06 pm

I assume that by “alt text” you mean the description following the link, correct?

Exactly. The text that shows up if you hover or mouse-over the link.

How exactly is it not showing up correctly in the sidebar? I see a link followed by a dash and then the description after it.

In the sidebar, with the WP 1.6 default theme, all that text after the link name, beginning with the dash -, showed up only if you hovered over the link name, in the little yellow window. Now, it all appears together. That’s what I mean by not showing up correctly.

I’ll make your suggested mod in the header file. I agree there’s no need for the alt text to show up there. Brevity is the answer there.
Tom on March 29th, 2007 11:23 am

Hi Nathan!

Very great theme, but we have a problem in IE. The sidebar is under the content. In Firefox is good.

What can we do?
Nathan Rice on March 29th, 2007 11:36 am

Tom,
Which version of IE. I just looked at your site in IE6 and it looks fine. Are you using IE7?

Nathan
Tom on March 30th, 2007 12:47 am

Hm.
I use IE6.

Check this in IE:
http://themes.wordpress.net/testrun/?wptheme=2026

We have checked our theme in differents PC’s.
Whereby can I fixed this error?

Thanks,
Tom
Charles on March 30th, 2007 8:36 am

I also see the sidebar problem in IE 6.0.29 at my work computer. The IT guy uses something called the Maxthon browser and he can’t see any sidebar at all.

Not a big deal for me because my site is targeted at Mac users. I really do love the theme - keep up the great work!
Ross on March 30th, 2007 2:35 pm

Nathan, I’m using IE7 and am not having the sidebar does appear, but the alt text appears all the time, as described above.

I tried the fix you recommended:
———
In the links in the top navigation menu in the header.php file, change this:
’, ‘’, ‘ - ‘); ?>
to this:
’, ‘’, ‘ - ‘, 0); ?>

This will remove the description from the dropdown menu and only display the link title as the link.
——–

but it doesn’t change the behavior of the dropdown link menu.
Ross on March 30th, 2007 9:35 pm

FWIW, I fixed the problem with the alt text showing up in both the links dropdown and in the sidebar by editing the blogroll and deleting all the text in the Description fields where I had something. Now there’s no clutter.

It’s still a great theme Nathan. Thanks for making it.
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Charles on March 31st, 2007 6:48 am

I think I’ve lost my mind : )

For the life of me I cannot find where the BlogRoll links are located. Where are they? I want to edit them.
Ross on March 31st, 2007 10:15 pm

Charles, get ready to kick yourself. ;)

Go to the dashboard screen. Located between the Comments link and the Presentation link, is the Blogroll link. Click on it and you’re there. You can add, delete, and edit them right there. At least thats where it is on my version. I think its always been there in every version.

Whatever changes you make there will be shown in both the dropdown ‘links’ menu and in the blogroll listing in the sidebar.

If you’re using the rockinsuckerfish2 theme, like I am, better leave the description field blank. It doesn’t render like you would want it to.
Ross on April 1st, 2007 6:12 am

Charles. I checked your site and see that you’re using the MAC version. So all my advice might be useless because I don’t know if my PC version is functionally the same as the MAC version.
Charles on April 1st, 2007 11:14 am

Thanks, Ross. I’m sure the PC version is the same as Mac - I use PC at work and it looks the same. So I found it hard to kick myself so I had my wife do it : ) I didn’t even think of looking in the WoodPress admin area but I had obviously used it to edit the links in the past. I’ve been looking in every .php file within the site. doh!
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Chris Baker on May 1st, 2007 5:27 pm

I love the theme. The suckerfish menu is awesome. I was wondering how could I turn it to be vertical and replace the normal sidebar menu?
Ross on May 28th, 2007 8:49 am

I wrote (above) that I was still having re-draw problems with the dropdowns. Yesterday, when I switched from IE7 to Firefox, that problem went away.

In fact, I’m seeing more graphics and text that IE7 was not. It all seems to work better with Firefox.

Switch to FireFox if you’re still using IE to browse the web.

And Chris Baker: I like the idea of drop-downs in the sidebar. Given a choice, I’d prefer they be in the sidebar too. Nothing to drop down over your posts.

And thanks to Nathan for a fine theme.
Ken Luallen on June 4th, 2007 9:12 am

Adding the following code to my CSS took care of the IE7 sticky dropdown issue for me.

———–
#nav li:hover, #nav li.hover {
position: static;
}
———–

Ken
Skyler on June 7th, 2007 7:37 am

The sidebar is still showing up for me under the text in IE6. Personally, I use Firefox, but I know most of my visitors won’t. I love the theme, though. Any suggestions?
Skyler on June 7th, 2007 9:13 am

I kept toying around with things, and changing

* html #content {
width: 782px;

to

* html #content {
width: 510px;

seemed to fix the problem. I hope it doesn’t break anything else on the page … :)
Nathan Rice on June 7th, 2007 1:09 pm

Skyler,
Glad you got things going!
Nathan
Max Black on June 22nd, 2007 3:03 pm

Hi Nathan,

Trying to give your Suckerfish theme a whirl, but I can’t seem to upload any of the PHP files to make any modifications — getting a 501 POST error that says it won’t post to the wp-admin/theme_editor.php. My site host says there’s nothing wrong on his end, and I have no problems uploading PHP files from other themes. Have reloaded it twice. I’ve put the site into the default theme until I can get this fixed. Any ideas?

Thanks, and congrats on an excellent-looking theme. Hopefully I can use it.

Max
Max Black on June 22nd, 2007 4:31 pm

Never mind, it isn’t the theme. Bleah.
Mikey Leung on July 2nd, 2007 12:39 am

Hi,

I really like this theme as well and am using it for an NGO I’m building a website for.

I do have a request.. if you do upgrade this theme a dropdown pop-out menu would be fantastic :) also, is there any way to get around the Opera specified widths? because I’d like the text to render more naturally across the navigation bar, as opposed to having a set width.

Any thoughts?

The site I am building is http://www.aas-bd.org.

Thanks again for your work.
Roopesh on July 3rd, 2007 10:56 am

Also hit with the IE6 bug… Tried Skylar’s change, but the alignment of the body went out of whack in IE. FireFox still works and looks right.
Roopesh on July 3rd, 2007 11:03 am

I think I have it fixed:
Changed

* html #content {
width: 782px;

to

* html #content {
width: 480px;
Mark on July 9th, 2007 4:55 am

Hi,
Love the theme, just want to know if I can remove your links from the footer of each page if I add them onto a links page of the site that’s using the theme instead.

Mark.
http://www.fastwealthnetwork.com
Nathan Rice on July 9th, 2007 7:13 am

We would prefer for you to keep the author attribution in the footer. Any other links are not required to stay under the theme license.

However, a link page should be fine for you. Thank you for asking. I give you permission to do so on your site. Please post a link to the link page here in the comments when you have it done.

Nathan
Greg on July 31st, 2007 6:59 pm

Hey, firstly great theme! I’m having a *small* problem though. The posts in my blog rely heavily on lists, which work fine when on the home page and single post pages, however when I go to the archive the list formatting is removed. Any ideas?

Greg
nix on August 12th, 2007 6:26 pm

Hi there, I went to download version two from this site but unfortunately the link only brings in version 1?
Henry Gwensonic on August 13th, 2007 10:02 am

Hi Nathan, really love the theme!

I’d like to be able to use the Suckerfish menus to show pages and their children(sub-pages). I have it sort of working but the background of the drop down menu is not there — you can see the underlying text.

Is there a way of doing this? I’m kinda a noob…

The site is http://babymassageireland.com/

Thanks and regards,

Henry
Henry Gwensonic on August 13th, 2007 10:30 am

Sorry, I figured it out…

H
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