Ebony Theme

I have an issue with this theme. great theme by the way. in the sidebar whenever i click newest image or most viewed i get a page not found. it's looking for something but i am unsure as i never did find a popular.php file. is it this theme or something with my files?

i also can not rate photos as admin or regular user.

2.2.4 straight install on sub domain.

thanks.

This Theme is awesome but has lots of bugs and serious issues. It will be good if Jesse fixes it asap else this theme might lose popularity

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Hello,

How I to add Navigation meny and Top menu as you have it in http://www.tuwang.org, random images etc...?

Thank you very much, Mladen

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its an awesome theme , i really like everything about it , only i cant get the
newest photo or most viewed photo to work properly i get a 404 error
i have read , it says u need url rewite and dynamic (something) plugin , i have both installed
i also read it uses imageblock , so i uninstalled and reinstalled it , still no avail , anyone solve this issue?

I'd also like to disable the lightbox. What code do I need to change to do this?

I also want the theme to be they way it is in demo site http://www.tuwang.org . I mean i do not want sliding side bar. i want it fixed and separated.

Any help Please..

is there a way to remove the reflections aspect from primary album thumbnails and only have it used in thumbnails within the album? Thanks

Anyone got the lightbox to span multiple pages in an album.

I tried to follow this http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Lightbox_JS_Tutorial but it looks like this theme uses a different type of lightbox.

It also does untold damage to other themes from what I can see.

Hey is there any way I can remove the "Gallery" image text at the top of the theme? (galleryLogo.gif)

I tried replacing it with a black 1x1 pixel .gif but I still have an empty black box of 55 pixels tall, so it's a lot of space being wasted on my website, and sincce I use frames, I have a link for "Gallery" on my website already. When "Gallery" shows up at 2 different spots it looks silly. Thanks.

To remove the banner:

Open file "theme.tpl" from its location the templates folder.

Scroll down to around line 67 and you'll see:

</div>

{g->theme include="ads.tpl"}

</div>

Remove the text which I highlighted in red.
Save the file. Upload it to the correct location and the ad banner will be gone.

To make the "Newest Photos" and "Most Viewed Photos" links work:

First, you will need to have the URL REWRITE plugin installed and activated.
In the URL Rewrite config page (Admin section of Gallery), make sure the dynamic albums are created like they are in this post:
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/81983#comment-287718

Load file "sidebar.tpl" from its location the templates folder.

Scroll down to line 17. You will see:

<li><a href="/updates"><strong>Newest Photos</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="/popular"><strong>Most Viewed Photos</strong></a></li>

Change the href to reflect your path to your gallery.
I simply put a period in front of the slash to make the path relative instead of absolute:

<li><a href="./updates"><strong>Newest Photos</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="./popular"><strong>Most Viewed Photos</strong></a></li>

I hope it works for you!

Thanks!
Gor.
My Website.

Gor,

Thanks, both your suggestions worked

I had missed the sidebar.tpl part. Thanks again for throwing light on it

Thanks,
maxbuzz

Maxbuzz, thank you!

Yeah we still need to figure out the ones remaining.
Maybe I'll take a look tonight - I've got nothing else planned!

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Really? RTFM!
It's really as simple as upload to themes dir, activate the theme and the select it as your active theme.

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It seems theres some javascript code to do the sliding, theres some code in ebony.js but also a snippet about sliding in mt.js. disabling either of those parts causes the sidebar to superimpose over the main page instead of off to the side like he has it at www.tuwang.org.

Here is the section in theme.css for the sidebar. I'd appreciate it a great deal if someone could point out to me what I need to change to make the sidebar stick outside the main gallery page and not superimposed over it.

}

#gsSidebar div ul {   /* no > in IE */
  font-size: 12px;
  font-weight: bold;
}

#gsSidebar div ul ul { font-size: 12px; }

#gsSidebar ul span { color: #999; }

#giFormUsername, .giFormUsername, #giFormGroupname, #giFormPassword {
  background-color: #fff
}

div.gbNavigator div.first-and-previous { float: left; }
div.gbNavigator div.next-and-last { float: right; }

div.block-search-SearchBlock {
clear: both;
margin-top: 5px;
}

form#search_SearchBlock {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

div.block-search-SearchBlock a.advanced {
  display: block;
  padding: 3px;
}

div.block-core-ItemLinks { margin: 3px 0; }
div.block-core-ItemLinks a { padding: 3px; }

div#gsSidebar div.block-core-ItemLinks a { display: block; }
div#sideBarContents div.block-core-ItemLinks { float: left; padding: 15px 0 5px 0; }

*:first-child+html div#sideBarContents div.block-core-ItemLinks { padding: 0; margin: 0;}

div#gsSidebar div.block-core-PeerList a {
  display: block;
  padding: 2px 0;
}

div#gsSidebar div.block-core-PeerList span {
  font-weight: bold;
  display: block;
  padding: 2px 0;
}

div#gsSidebar div.block-core-PeerList span.current { color: #bbb; }

.buttonShowSidebar a {
  display: block;
  width: 15px;
  height: 15px;
  background: url('../ebony/images/showsidebar.gif') no-repeat;
}
.buttonShowSidebar a:hover { background-position: -15px 0; }

.buttonHideSidebar a {
  display: block;
  width: 15px;
  height: 15px;
  background: url('../ebony/images/hidesidebar.gif') no-repeat;
}
.buttonHideSidebar a:hover { background-position: -15px 0; }

#gallery #sideBarContents { 
position: absolute;
top: 114px;
right: 16px;
background: #3B3B3B; 
padding: 0; 
overflow: hidden;
z-index: 1;
}

#gallery #sideBarContents .gcBackground2 {
background: #131313;
border: 1px solid #3B3B3B;
border-top: none;
border-right: 1px solid #4f4f4f;
}

#gallery #sideBarContents h2 {
  font-size: 12px;
  padding: 2px 0;
  color: #888;
  }
  
#description {
  margin: 5px 0;
  }
  
#description .gbBlock  {
  padding: 0;
  }
  
#tagwrap { clear: both; }  
#tagwrap h3 {
  margin: 0;
  }  

#description, #folksonomy, .gcBorder3 #toolbar, .BlockTitle {
  color: #888;  
  background: #333;
  border-top: 1px solid #4b4b4b;
  border-right: 1px solid #141414;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #111;
  border-left: 1px solid #444;
  padding: 5px 10px;
}

#textBanner #description {
  color: #555;
  border: 0px;
  background: #161616;
  }

#gallery #sideBarContents .BlockTitle {
  padding: 2px 5px;
  }

Is the sliding sidebar a function included in g2 or is it a customization done by je55e?

Great job on this theme!

There are still problems I can't handle myself, maybe you can help me:
- How do I remove borders surrounding my photos? You see it at the first screenshot on page 1, the gray one that surrounds all photos and the comments.
- I want to remove all details to the photos (date I added them, number of visitors). How can I do this?

Thanks in advance!

Best wishes, Max

Hi guys,

I gave up Gallery2 due to server usage. My site has been suspended several times because of exceeding limit of cpu usage.
Gallery2 is nice, but it takes lots server resources. Especially when you have lots of categories and reach 100k pageviews every day.
My mysql cache talbe is usually about 500M(one cache table). I can't solve it between page load speed and server performance.
So I have to choose a new solution to handle 100k/200k's traffic.

The Ebony theme will not be continued, if anyone is interested in developing it, feel free to do it.

Thanks for all you comments.

Jesse
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My Blog: http://www.zzvo.com/
Ebony Gallery2 theme demo: http://www.tuwang.org/

I also really liked this theme. I have decided in light of the news that this theme has ended to learn a bit more about the gallery themes. I have found with a few tweaks, the matrix theme (probably others) can be made to look similar to ebeny.

for example I have found that if I change lines 98,99,100 of the matrix/theme.css to this

The whole site gets centered like ebeny.

Other pages that can be tweaked are theme.tpl & album.tpl

When I have finished playing/learning how to convert the code over to matrix I'll post back, unless someone who actually knows what they are doing wants to revive ebeny...

I have my version available for download at this location:
http://www.psychosoundwave.com/blog/2008/10/ebony-theme-for-gallery-2/

Go there for more information, a demo gallery link and download.

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Great Job. Any Idea why it does not work with G2.3 >?

Unfortunately there no longer seems to be a version of ebony available for download.
Would anyone kindly post it for download?

Thanks,

b

I think this might help you to remove the lightbox it seems to work on mine but you also loose the reflection

I hope this helps

Swampy

Hey all

Jesse - compliments to your theme. Very nice and slick!

I have tried to install in my Gallery as you describe. I get the following:
Inkompatibelt tema!
Krævet Core API: 7.10 (tilgængeligt: 7.3)
Krævet Tema API: 2.5 (tilgængeligt: 2.3)

That translates into something like:
Incompatibel theme!
Required Core API: 7.10 (available: 7.3)
Required Theme API: 2.5 (available: 2.3)

I am running Gallery 2.1.2 in PHP Safe Mode. This the only version that supports Safe Mode, so upgrading is not an uption. How can I get this to work? any ideas are most appreciated.

all the best
HB