As you know, from WordPress 2.9 there is an easy way to embed videos and pictures in a post or page, you have only to paste the video page URL to the post content and you will get the embedded video or image. As WordPress uses the oEmbed standard, not all sites will provide media in the proper format, only some of them do it. Sites I know providers of this feature are Vimeo, YouTube, Vidler, Flickr and some others. Check the known providers at oEmbed site.
Some users have reported issues embedding videos from YouTube on a post. I checked this, and as very little information was provided, was hard to find where the problem was and what caused it. I found the problem only with YouTube videos and only in some WordPress configurations. This is not a theme problem or a WordPress problem. This is something wrong with the YouTube oEmbed site or with a particular video.
The most common error is that the video author do not allow embedding the video outside YouTube, you can do nothing with that, just get a different video. Other strange behavior is with media embedding size (set on the WordPress media settings). I had the trouble with some sizes embedding specific videos. Just changing it one pixel above or one below worked with no problems. This seems to be solved at YouTube and seems them are working on this.
A sample of how oEmbed works by just pasting the video URL is that 5 seconds video:
As always, just remember that support questions sent directly to me or posted on the posts comments will get no answer. Please, redirect your support questions to the support forums you will find on each product page.
Released Chameleon Theme 2.1. This new release includes a widget to allow users to change the theme color palette. Due to big issues releasing themes to WordPress site, you can download this new release on the theme’s download page.
The new version for our Chameleon 2.0 theme is here with some interesting improvements. This version has been submited for WP approval and will be available for download in next hours/days. In this new release you will find:
Possibility to set the home page to “widgetized”:
Selecting this new option, your home page will have a sticky posts area, and three additional widgets areas which work the same way than any other sidebar. Just drop your widgets on any of the ‘home’ sidebars, and you will get them in your front page.
Sidebar position:
Now, you can choose to set your sidebar at right (default) or at left. This makes your theme more flexible.
Full support for child themes:
If you want to customize some parts of Chameleon, now you can do it as a child theme. Maintaining the Chameleon code with no changes will help you in future updates. Just create your new theme directory, set a style.css file on it, and set on the file header the template to ‘chameleon’ (or the directory name where you installed it). You will find some useful information on codex about child themes.
Allow to force options on WordPress MU (or Standandard):
You can now change some options by creating an alkivia.inifile and setting there your options. Also, you can use the alkivia.php file to override some framework options. By setting the options on the alkivia.ini file, these will be disabled on the admin options page.
Options can be set on plugins and child themes
The theme includes now many filters and actions. One of them is ak_chameleon_options (from framework hooks) where you receive an array with loaded options and you can change or set new ones and return the modified array.
Other changes
Also, some internal changes have been done and some new settings have been added. Most of them are small corrections or options for best configuration. Samples are to hide the uploaded header image, disable the sidebar search box or exclude some pages from the menu bar.
Just submitted to release Chameleon 1.5 Theme. It will be available for download in next days, as soon as WordPress folks will check it and bring it to the download area.
This new Chameleon release, brings to you some improvements I’m sure you will like:
Styles have been improved and pages show now more stylized and elaborated. In all browsers, other than IE, the theme continue showing rounded corners.
Location for categories, tags and comments have been moved to top of each post, to make it more useful. Also, tags will show only on single post pages and can be disabled if you don’t use tags or don’t want to show them.
A new style for the main menu bar has been introduced. Now, the menu bar allows to include all or selected categories. You can set this on the theme settings page.
The menu bar shows now a jQuery based drop down menu. This menu shows one level child pages and categories (If set). Thanks to JavaScript Array for their samples.
In previous not announced releases, also some improvements have been included to this theme:
Support for socialize plugin. Activating this plugin, and checking the “Integrate socialize” plugin on the theme settings page, you will have a nice way to send your posts to FaceBook, Twitter, Digg and many, many others. (Thanks Jonathan Bishop for this great plugin!).
Support for post pagination. You can use the WordPress tag <!– nextpage –> to paginate the post content.
Hope you all will enjoy this new Chameleon release. More features will come soon to it.
Finally, Chameleon theme 1.0 is here. After some pre-releases, the Chameleon theme has all basic features included. In this version, threaded and paged comments have been included, and now the theme includes all this features:
Four sidebar areas, wide or narrow. Can be used as a two or three columns theme or combine both.
Custom header image can be uploaded on the settings page.
Custom footer text can be edited on settings page.
Some menu options can be set: Show login/register link, show a link to home page.
Five predefined color palettes: Red, Orange, Blue, Fresh and Cafe. And you can create your own palette, just changing colors on a simple CSS file.
Some filters and actions are provided to developers. Extending or customizing the theme is so easy.
You can allow users to change styles. Just setting a query var: ?theme-style=cafe
Self site pings and comments on pages can be enabled or diabled.
Provides author pages. Author name links to those pages.
Download now the Chameleon Theme and discover a clean and fast theme for your WordPress!
On the Chameleon theme, you can allow your users to change styles (or color palettes). To do this, just activate the option Users can switch styles? on the theme settings page. Then, you users can switch color palettes by adding the style to the request:
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The new version for our Chameleon 2.0 theme is here with some interesting improvements. This version has been submited for WP approval and will be available for 