Reflection: Photoblog Theme
Due to popular demand, my photoblog theme — the creatively named Reflection — is now available for download.
Update: Reflection 1.1 has now been released.
I was quite shocked by the amount of people that said they wanted this thing. I thought it was actually okay, but not good enough to publish. However people seem to think otherwise so I decided to put it up.
Design-wise it’s all very simple. There’s a heavy amount of AJAX behind the front page, but it’s handled in a graceful way should JavaScript not be running. Everything on the site uses mootools for any AJAX requests or effects, which is a cracking little library. By far and away the best 3rd party JS library I’ve ever seen.
Anyway. If you want it, go grab it and tell me what you think.
11/4/2008 4:01 pm
Dave, I love the theme – thanks so much for letting others make good use of it!
Also, your photos are great!
19/4/2008 4:07 am
It is a beautiful theme. The AJAX effects makes it more elegant. Good work.
19/6/2008 6:54 am
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20/10/2008 10:59 am
Reflection – Photoblog Theme…
It is a simple, clean and elegant Wordpress theme that you can use for running your photoblog. Reflection theme uses “Yet Another Photoblog plugin”. Cool AJAX effects on the front page makes it a beautiful theme. Reflection also includes a template f…
20/11/2008 11:44 am
Thanks very much for the positive feedback guys, it’s very much appreciated. I will try and do some work on it over the Easter break to make it a bit more user-friendly.
6/11/2008 11:45 am
Hello hello,
Thank you for making such a nice theme! I used it on my photoblog, customized it a little.
8/5/2008 5:28 pm
Hi Dave,
Your Reflection template for photoblogging is just great!
I would have liked to use it but when clicking on the link I have a error message: “No post matches your criteria.”
Is the template still available?
Thanks for your answer!
12/2/2008 2:45 am
i get the same error.
12/11/2008 11:00 am
Hi Dave,
I have a error message too: “No post matches your criteria.”
13/5/2008 5:16 am
Hi Dave,
Unable to download from the link
you’ve provided. Kindly advice the correct
link to download this wonderful theme.
Thanks a lot
trenowden
14/1/2008 1:44 pm
Hi guys,
Sorry about the unavailability. I’m working on fixing it at the moment.. hopefully should be working within the next couple hours.
15/5/2008 5:06 am
Hi Dave,
It’s fantastic! I have successful file download, set permission (cache 777), activate YAP plugin, and select beauty theme.
I tried a post, but i have fatal error message: “call to a member function getThumbnailHref() on a non-object in …/yapb_filter.php on line 9″.
I tried search the function, but i don’t found it. If you know this error then please help me! Thank you!
16/6/2008 6:21 pm
it works great. really beautiful! my only problem is that I can’t seem to get the mosaic page working. Any advice?
29/6/2008 6:23 pm
Hello,
Wonderful theme. I just tried the install and got the following error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /home/content/h/c/h/hchangodaddy/html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/reflection/index.php on line 20
Any advice?
Thanks.
31/12/2008 12:20 am
I can’t seem to get the Mosaic page to work either. I have created a new page with the title ‘Mosaic’ but nothing shows up. Can someone help please?
Thank you!
31/12/2008 12:02 pm
Hi all,
Sorry for the slow response, best to send me an e-mail if you don’t hear anything from me:
gorati:
You probably have a post which does not contain an image which causes this error. I’ll add this to the list of things to correct, but in the meantime you should try to delete any posts which don’t contain images.
analgesia-doc, Justin:
Creating the page isn’t quite enough. You need to select the Mosaic Page template. In WordPress 2.5.1 in the Create Page screen, go to the bottom, click the arrow next to Page Template and change Default Template to Mosaic Page. You can then put in custom content to be shown above the mosaic and call the page whatever you want.
Hank:
I think this is because you’re using PHP4. Try upgrading to PHP5 and see if the error disappears. If you don’t have the option to upgrade, then let me know and I’ll put a fix in for it.
31/2/2008 2:31 pm
Hi Dave,
I realized that YAPB causes the problem. I don’t create upload directory in WordPress. I’m sorry, and I say thank you for your answer!
The theme works, and fantastic!
31/2/2008 2:53 pm
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5/1/2008 1:29 pm
Hi Dave,
A very nice, clean, simple theme. Just what I needed
Thnx
9/11/2008 11:07 pm
I get this instead of an image?
<img id=”mainimage” src=”
3/3/2008 3:38 pm
Thx to your great work!
I’ve uploaded all files directly….but in my PRESENTATION it said that The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.Stylesheet is missing.
so I need your guidance….
21/8/2008 8:32 pm
Is there anyway of running this theme without japba and how can the xyloid-photo in the tagline changed?
23/9/2008 9:12 pm
Thanks for the great theme Dave. I really love it. I’m just trying to tweak it now to make it work. Maybe someone can help.
Photo Pages – the photo shows up duplicated in the “shot notes” section. So I have two pictures per page.
Page Names – Dave’s blog (and others) have SEO friendly URLs for their pages. So instead of having pageid=2 or some other number, they are nice URLs like blog.com/thispicture – wondering how people are doing that.
Also – Mosaic Page. Finally got it to work once I created the page and changed template to mosaic but still not linked to from the header bar. Header links to /mosaic/ but my mosaic page is pageid=3. I can change this manually but just wondering if there’s a more elegant way to go.
thanks!
Alan
23/9/2008 9:13 pm
Hi Dave,
Wonderful theme – am having problems with PHP4 and the T_OBJECT_OPERATOR problem.
I’m not too good with PHP but I’m guessing PHP5 has changed the way the ternary operator works? Or something?
A direction for a fix for your excellent theme would be much appreciated.
T.
28/5/2008 5:17 pm
For anyone interested. Fixed my Mosaic problem. Permalinks needs to be set to active under settings area of Wordpress admin.
Still having issue with duplicate photo showing up in shot notes. Might be an issue with Efix data cause that shows up with tons of garbled text as well. Any ideas please email me at alanseideman at gmail dot com
28/5/2008 5:26 pm
Fixed the duplicate shot. Under YAPB plugin options you have to remove the checkbox for display image on single page under auto image insertion sub-options.
28/11/2008 11:27 pm
Hi,
I’ve figured out that T_OBJECT_OPERATOR has absolutely nothing to do with the ternary operator as I thought, but as already mentioned, the fact that my web server is using PHP4 and not 5.
Looks like it can’t be fixed until my host upgrades. Never mind.
T.
29/10/2008 10:56 am
Hi guys,
Thanks for the feedback. Here are some fixes that I’ve sent around in e-mail.
For those of you running PHP4 who are encountering the T_OBJECT_OPERATOR error, edit index.php and change lines 25-26 to:
Thanks to Alan for pointing out how to fix the duplicate shot.
6/5/2008 5:16 pm
Hi Dave,
Great template!
I’m having issues getting the Mosaic page to run. It’s probably something simple since i’m quite new to PHP…
I keep getting a 404 error, and i followed the steps on your page. Might be something i need to change in header.php. It’s like the mosaic template never gets used.
Thanks for your help
6/5/2008 5:27 pm
Hello Again,
Fixed my problem by reading through the others posts….
Now if i can just figure out how to change from page_id to a nice looking url name…
Thanks.
13/7/2008 7:13 pm
Hey Dave,
The main page ajax navigation on the photos are not working for me. I have PHP 5.2.5 and with the code you say works with PHP5…it won’t for me. The photo displays when I change the code to the PHP4 compatible T_OBJECT code, but then Iit won’t load. Check out my main photo page on my site and let me know what’s up or if I’m editing the wrong line or something. Above you said line 25 and 26, but there are nothing on those lines and my error is on line 20 when I get the T_OBJECT error and halfway-works when I replace those lines.
Thanks.
21/8/2008 8:04 pm
thanks everybody for all the useful tips for this awesome template. i was able to install it in minutes. one thing i’m having trouble figuring out is how to change the title of the header. any information on this would be really appreciated. thanks.
4/3/2008 3:52 pm
Thanks for this template! It is working great except one thing. When I remove the comment link and try to go next/prev image, the photo will change but the info/title/date stays the same as the first photo.
Any ideas?
1/9/2008 9:30 am
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12/5/2008 5:53 pm
site finally displays without the “call to a member function getThumbnailHref(” error showing, but now instead of an image, i just get the word ‘image’
any clues?
oddly there are loads of other photo blog themes out there but i’m just addicted to getting this one working..
14/2/2008 2:11 am
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15/7/2008 7:24 pm
hi Dave, wonderful job!!!
Just one question, Where can i find version 1.1a?
21/5/2008 5:03 pm
Hi marcgenou,
You can’t get it yet, but it’s coming! I’ve fixed several bugs and improved the efficiency of the animations somewhat. There are some more features to come, but I’m going to release an intermediate version for the time being.
20/11/2008 11:48 am
Hi there, love this theme!
Couple of problems: thumbnails on the mosaic page click through to a page-not-found page, and likewise the random link on the main page.
Any ideas what I’ve done wrong?
20/1/2008 1:35 pm
Ok, figured it out – it was a problem with the permalink set up (d’uh)
18/10/2009 10:05 am
hi!
like your theme, but what about your version 1.1a? when is it finally coming? i’m also waiting
31/3/2009 3:26 pm
Dave–
Thanks so much for the theme. I’ve been using it forever now and love it. I’ve customized it a bit for use on my site and deleted the function that makes it AJAX navigable on the main photo page. Any hints you can give me on returning that to normal. (I took it out because my server didn’t upgrade to myPHP 5.25 for a while and it would only display the error message.) Thanks. You can just send it to the email listed.
CK
1/5/2009 5:38 am
Hi i’ve gotten a fatal error message: “call to a member function getThumbnailHref() on a non-object in …/yapb_filter.php on line 9″
I’ve tried setting the permissions of the folders in uploads/cache to 777 but it did not work.
Is it got to do with phpthumb? which i have no idea how to use it
1/6/2009 6:07 am
hi. After i’ve uploaded an iamge with the YAPB function in the NEW POST section, after eveything’s done. When i view the page. the image does not come out, instead a word “image” appeared. Why is this so?
4/11/2009 11:13 pm
Hi Dave,
, I still have a problem with “mosaic” and “about” page, they can not work well. I have make a page with mosaic name also change the default template to mosaic template but it not work!
thanks for share you template for us
do you have any suggestion ?
thks ..
13/5/2009 5:25 pm
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27/9/2009 9:22 am
I’m now using your theme in my photoblog (http://jorgeestevezphoto.com) and it’s great!!
Thank you very much for allowing us to use it!
27/10/2009 10:24 am
Great theme Dave. And Cheers Alan for following up with the solutions to your problems. I was having the exact same problems, and was about to give up, but took your advice and got everything clicking.
Dave – it might be worth it to list the bits about changing from the default template to the mosaic, the permalinks turned on (to go to /mosaic/ instead of ?pageid=x), and the duplicate images (in YAPB plugin options, removing the checkbox for display image on single page under auto image insertion sub-options). I was beginning to think the theme wasn’t compatible with WP2.7…
27/8/2009 8:52 pm
Seriously a great theme. I’ve been tweeking it to get it just how I like it, and I realized that the chronological left-to-right of the navigation is opposite that of the mosaic thumbnails. I’ve been trying to modify it to go to the “right”, and swaping the prev_post and the next_post functions does the trick… all except for the default image (most recent) which still shows [Prev]. I know it’s just a minutia, but as an reader of a left->right language it just feels intuitive to have the interface work that way too (much like other photo gallery interfaces).
Has anybody else confronted this yet?
27/10/2009 10:09 pm
Ah, here’s a fix. In blog.js, change:
src:this.templateDir+’/images/’+(el.id==’overPrevLink’?'prevlabel.gif’:'nextlabel.gif’),
styles:{top:”30%”,position:’absolute’,border:0}
}).injectInside(el.id);
if (el.id == ‘overNextLink’) img.setStyle(‘right’, 0);
to this:
src:this.templateDir+’/images/’+(el.id==’overNextLink’?'prevlabel.gif’:'nextlabel.gif’),
styles:{top:”30%”,position:’absolute’,border:0}
}).injectInside(el.id);
if (el.id == ‘overPrevLink’) img.setStyle(‘right’, 0);
And in style.css, swap left and right to:
#overNextLink{left:0;}
#overPrevLink{right:0}
5/1/2009 1:26 am
hi dave, can you let me know how i can change the heading “xyloid/photo” to something else. i believe someone else asked as well but i couldn’t find the answer. thanks (great theme by the way)
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19/10/2009 10:38 am
raf… edit the logo.jpg file to change the heading.
great theme
29/10/2009 10:43 am
Hello! It’s a very nice template (Thanks for it)!
I have WordPress 2.7.1 running under PHP 5.2.9 and i cant activate the template. When I click on Reflection i have an error :
“No EXIF information available.”; $output = ‘
* ‘; foreach ($exif_info as $k => $v) $output .= ”.$k.”.$v.’
‘; return $output.’
‘; } function yapb_get_exif_filter($exif) { /* Any exif filtering gets done in this function. Modify if you want it. */ return $exif; } // Uncomment the following line to enable EXIF filtering. //add_filter(‘yapb_get_exif’, ‘yapb_get_exif_filter’); ?>
Parse error: parse error in C:\wamp\www\blog\wp-content\themes\reflection\header.php on line 37
If someone find a solution… Thanks a lot!(I already have another photoblog plugin activated.)
29/7/2009 7:48 pm
hi dave, i really love your themes, i tweaked it a little. i’ve try it first in my local host and it run perfect, but now after i upload it to server the main page cannot show the previous post that i made, its keep loading but nothing shows up no matter how long i wait, can you tell me whats wrong with it? you can look at my site to see the problem in it. i will really appreciated your help, thanks before
1/9/2009 9:51 am
well i guess dave is not around, maybe i’ll just wait for version 1.1 to come, in the mean time i’m gonna use other theme, anyway thanks dave and keep up the good work
8/2/2009 2:19 pm
Hi everyone – maybe someone can help.
Some thumbnails don’t generate on the mosaic page. Anyone come across this issue? My page is at http://theworldisjumping.com/mosaic/ – maybe something to do with the source file I’m uploading?
Also, anyone have any thoughts on integrating this with Flickr Blog this option? It would be easier not to have to manually upload pictures.
thanks
alanseideman at gmail dot com
8/3/2009 3:09 pm
Ok fixed my own problem again. The thumbnails won’t generate if the source image is too large.
This uncovered a different problem though. If images are too small (dimensions) then the reflection at the bottom will act strangely. It cares what size portrait shots are vs landscape too.
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30/7/2009 7:56 pm
Wonderful theme!
Quick question – could you guide me on how to adjust the position of the info lightbox that pops up when you click “info”? I’d like for it to be a little bit higher but cant seem to find the corresponding code… thank you!
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5/9/2009 9:53 pm
Congratulations for this beautiful theme. I noticed an error on my site: you are using ?_e() wordpress function with a second parameter TD which is not defined (wordpress 2.8.4) what is the meaning of this parameter and how define it ?
Regards
Alain
18/3/2009 3:38 pm
Great photoblogging theme. It’s free, thanks for share!
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6/11/2009 11:24 am
Интересно! Конечно, поразительно видеть , когда в считанные часы совершенно практически без повода из пальца высасывается такой “новостной сюжет” и начинает широко гулять по интернету.
28/5/2009 5:30 pm
David, thank you so much for sharing this template! I love it! It worked right out of the box!
1/11/2010 11:30 pm
Hey Dave, I just wanted to say that I absolutely love your photoblog. It is EXACTLY what I have been looking for. I just have one question…
Is it possible to mess with the CSS (or whatever it is, but I believe it is the CSS) to make the blog act like the DUOTONE theme of wordpress.com?
In case you are not familiar with this theme, it can be found here: http://duotonedemo.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/welcome-to-duotone/
Basically what I want to do is keep your exactly layout, however add the ability to add the color matching matte for each photo, as this blog does.
Thanks, and congrats on making such a beautiful photoblog!
-Alex
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13/3/2010 3:42 am
I’m new to Wordpress, but I just downloaded and installed the theme. But how do I get the ‘Mosaic’ and the ‘Latest’ options. Are these part of the theme? I see only ‘Random,’ and ‘About.’
Help!
17/2/2010 2:33 pm
Hi,
Whenever i try to make a post, using YAPB and your theme I get this message : Error: File does not exists!
It shows this when trying to access the URL www.*****.com/wp-admin/post.php
Is this because the file is not in your theme?? There is no post.php file for your theme?!
Help as It is driving me crazy!!!
27/7/2010 7:48 pm
Nice theme, simple but just what I needed.
thanks
3/6/2010 6:34 am
мало инфы. Вы бы хоть постарались написать посто-то. Всё-таки вас читает много народа, да и в поисковике по этой теме вы на первой странице…ай яй яй…не хорошо
7/2/2010 2:15 am
:/ I can’t find the page to download this theme!!! I really really reallyy want it!! Help? Is it just not available anymore??
7/7/2010 7:00 am
Could not download the theme, it says “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.”
Dave, can you give a new link? Thanks!
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7/4/2010 4:00 am
Вот огромное человческое спасибо вам за этот блог. Кроме этого поста нашёл ещё кучу интересного для себя. Теперь буду заходить сюда постоянно..Я Ваш читатель
7/4/2010 4:26 pm
Хотела бы обменяться с вами ссылочкой. У меня блог схожей тематики. Если интересно, то напишите на xizabella24@gmail.com
10/5/2010 5:36 am
Понравился Ваш сайт! В рунете вообще мало чего дельного в блогах пишут. Всё стараются друг у друга скопировать посты. Года 2 назад было интересно ходить по разным блогам-видно было сразу-люди старались писать посты..а щас уже только для яндекса и стараются. Вообщем желаю продолжать Вам в Том же духе.
С уважением Ваш читатель.
11/10/2010 10:33 pm
+1 к предыдущему коментарию..