Comments on: Oulipo Theme Release

By: Elizabeth Yalkut

Elizabeth Yalkut — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:29:19 +0000

I’m in love with Oulipo; not only does the name appeal to my lit-geek self, it’s gorgeous and flexible. One of these days, in my copious spare time, I’ll get around to a few tweaks, like the line-height of text and the like, but it’s so good out of the box that it’s not high on my to-do list.

By: Paul Gero

Paul Gero — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:38:31 +0000

I’m loving Oulipo…elegant and clean design. Thank you for posting it…using it on my photo blog.

Paul

By: naomi

naomi — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:51:54 +0000

AWESOME theme. The fonts are great and the style is perfect in its minimalistic approach. Quick question. . .I would like to add a tag at the very top above the dotted line, next to the search bar. Can you let me know how I do that? Lastly, how can I change the blog title to my own logo? Thanks for any direction given.

By: Bhomatude

Bhomatude — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:50:56 +0000

Just figured out the padding issue — I was dropping in the attribute in the wrong section! Still working on the text color change for current page.

By: Bhomatude

Bhomatude — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:29:10 +0000

I switched over to Oulipo last month and love the design – simple, clean and elegant. I’ve been able to tweak it here and there so that it works with my content, but two things I haven’t been able to figure out:

I changed the justification of the main_nav to right.:

#main_nav {
width: 9.7em;
margin: 4em 0 0 0;
float: right;
display: inline;
position: fixed;
text-align: right;
padding-right: 10px;
}

But the padding-right attribute has no effect. I need a bit more space between the border and text when the page is hovered and selected.

The other thing I can’t figure out is related:

#main_nav a:hover, .current_page_item, .current {
width: 100%;
border-right: 6.7px solid #EEE;
color: #1f496f;

The color attribute I added works fine on hover, but does not remain like the border for the current page. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

By: jason

jason — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:37:28 +0000

I am having problems just changing the color of my post titles, could you point me to the right part of your stylesheet?

By: Christiane

Christiane — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:47:43 +0000

I input what the code you gave him and also followed his instructions, but I cannot seem to get any of the font colors to change into white. I’ve manually input the color code for white, and the links, the text, etc. remain black. Any suggestions?

By: Jonathan Poritsky

Jonathan Poritsky — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:37:15 +0000

Found it! I’d been trying that every which way but it never worked, but I found out what was confusing it. I’m not sure if this was one of my tweaks or in your original file, but under Typography there was a setting for “body, .delicious-desc{…”. There was a background field there pointing to #FFF. I removed it, moved a body{ } up to the global section and voila, all better.

The only other tweak I made was that I added a few more sidebars. One on the header and one on posts. I hope I don’t litter your theme too much, I just like the sidebars for their customizability down the line.

While we’re conversing… ;) Know of an easy way to prepend text to specific posts. I’d like to integrate about 120 posts from an older site into my blog, but with a disclaimer of sorts informing their lineage. Haven’t found anything clean and simple, and that seems to be your bag. If you know anything for that, love to hear. Thanks again.

By: pnts

pnts — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:58:04 +0000

Hey Jonathan,

I’m so happy to hear that you like Oulipo! Thanks for the extremely useful update on the Smart Archives reloaded plugin. I’m hoping to get around to some needed updates to Oulipo in 2010, and will incorporate the plugin for archives.

To change the entire background you’ll need to edit the CSS property for the background element and change it to #000. And be sure to change the font-color to something lighter like #EEE. Something like:

body { background: #000; color: #eee; }

Let me know if you run into any issues :)

By: Jonathan Poritsky

Jonathan Poritsky — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:43:58 +0000

I love love love love love the Oulipo theme. I’d been searching forever for a theme to redo my website with and this theme is just miles ahead of anything out there for people who want their writing to take center stage. I just took the new site live with a tweaked version of Oulipo:

http://www.candlerblog.com/2009/12/30/new-design-the-what-the-how-the-why/

I wanted to recommend to everyone the Smart Archives Reloaded plugin which is a simplified version of Justin Blanton’s plugin. I was fiddling with the original for awhile before I discovered the newer one, which is configurable from within WP.

One thing I couldn’t figure out was how to change the background of the entire page. I changed the color of almost everything, except there was still white to the right and left of the sidebars. Not sure what I’m missing. But I loved the white on black look enough I went live without figuring it out. Maybe when I do I’ll change again.

Thank you for making this. I really love it.