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Stallion SEO Ad Theme Version 6.0
The update to Talian 5, Stallion 6 is now running on this site as a test.
It is almost ready for release (maybe tomorrow), got one relatively small bug to fix and we should be good to go.
I normally test an update for weeks before release, but so many people want to use and promote Stallion (as affiliates) I’m skipping my normal long testing period.
The plan is to release it to current Talian customers first, if I get no major bug reports over the first few days I’ll activate the Stallion Clickbank affiliate program (it’s ready to go) and start selling Stallion at the Stallion SEO AD Theme Sales Site.
Stallion 6 will be sold on Clickbank for $70 with a 50% affiliate revenue share.
To anyone holding off buying Talian until the update, note the price difference. Talian 3, 4 and 5 customers receive a free update up until Stallion 6.0 is released. When Stallion is released I plan to drop the price of Talian 5 to $50, but those purchasing Talian at the lower price will NOT be entitled to a free Stallion 6 upgrade. Although I’ll fix bugs in Talian 5, I won’t be releasing any more Talian feature updates : all my development time will be on Stallion 6 (it includes everything that Talian 5 includes and much, much more).
David
Stallion SEO Ad Theme Version 6.0
Adsense Templates Stallion SEO Ad Theme Version 6.0
Hi Dave,
I was looking at your website (trying to understand which plugins you use for Facebook and how you place it just below the post ~ still have not understood it).
The fact is that I noticed two things (not sure if it’s my pc or a real issue), just mentioning in case you want to check. I can post tomorrow night some screen-shots if you need to):
#1) Internet Explorer Issue: IE Version: 7.0.5730.13
The left bar is misaligned to the left (it’s totally moved to the left).
Firefox is ok.
#2) Try this, on the right bar (Facebook) and click on one of the Hyperlinks, it will take you to the post, then click on the browser’s back-arrow, and see what happens. In my case it takes to the following page:
Then, it shows only the rectangle only, not the previous page (post page).
Héctor
Adsense Templates Stallion SEO Ad Theme Version 6.0
Reviewing Stallion SEO WordPress Theme
I’ve just installed the Talian 5 update, Stallion 6 to this site for real world testing.
The new FaceBook Like and Twitter Tweet buttons at the bottom of each post is built into Stallion (activated on one of the options pages). I built the FaceBook/Twitter code directly from the code they supply (so not a plugin). As a Talian customer you’ll have access to this soon.
I’ve tested Stallion in the main browsers and don’t see any misalignment. Could be a caching issue at your end, you might be getting a mixed up combination of Talian 5 styling and Stallion 6 styling, try CTRL F5 to force a refresh to see if it removes the problem. Do you see the same thing at 45 Year Old Millionaire, It’s running Stallion 6 as well?
The Facebook back button thing is a bit weird. Seems to only be with IE, Firefox redirects back to the page you started on.
The Facebook widget (built into Stallion) is the code from Facebook with the domain name pulled from WordPress so we don’t have to do any setup beyond drag and drop the widget on a sidebar. Looks like a bug in the FaceBook code with IE only, but will double check my code in the morning to make sure I didn’t make a mistake.
Thanks for the feedback, if the CTRL F5 doesn’t work let me know.
David
Reviewing Stallion SEO WordPress Theme
Holy Grail CSS layout : CSS IE7 Fix
I don’t run IE7 on any of my PCs, so use a program to emulate IE5, 6 and 7 and it wasn’t showing any problems (think it was showing the latest IE version!). Have installed another emulator and got the same sort of problem you are seeing.
Was related to some very complex CSS coding that’s actually referred to as the Holy Grail by web designers :-)
Allows for fixed width sidebars with a fluid main content while placing the code for each area in whatever order you choose. Wasn’t designed for what I wanted to achieve with it which included the ability to have the navigation menu code and search form code in the footer area so the first thing search engines read isn’t a bunch of links or a search form, but the main content: many SEO’s believe what’s at the top of the content code wise is given more prominence SEO wise, despite plenty of SEO tests I’ve not been able to confirm this either way, but as it can’t cause SEO harm having less important content at the bottom code wise, I’ve moved as much of it as possible to the footer area (also means the main content loads before the navigation links, good if your server is struggling resource wise).
Anyway, rewrote the code again and fixed the CSS problem in IE7. Thanks for the feedback on this, would have missed this one otherwise.
From a web designer perspective IE is a real pain in the butt, Microsoft refuses to follow HTML/CSS protocols designed by the groups that develop new versions of HTML and CSS, which means what works in a well thought out browser like FireFox messes up in IE! The man hours wasted having to put in IE fixes must cost the world billions in wasted hours!
IE is so rubbish you can’t even get a site to show the same in IE5, IE6, IE7 and IE8 without limiting functionality. I try to have my themes work with IE7, IE8 and because of the incompatibilities don’t worry too much with IE5 and IE6.
Rant over :-)
I’ve uploaded the fixed CSS to this site.
David
Holy Grail CSS layout : CSS IE7 Fix
WordPress Theme IE6 Backwards Compatibility Issues
Hi Dave,
thanks for the information about facebook and Twitter , I’ll wait instead of playing around with plugins or the template itself.
Hey, I know you’re not paying too much attention to IE6, just wanted to let you know I see other odd thing (using IE 6.0.2800.1106) on windows2K :D so probably you don’t need to bother. Notice that both side bar are way down after the related articles.
check at
Héctor
WordPress Theme IE6 Backwards Compatibility Issues
WordPress Theme Web Browser Backwards Compatibility vs New Features
Unfortunately if you want to add new features you have to stop backwards compatibility to a degree. Microsoft is no longer supporting IE6, so even they accept it’s an old out of date browser.
When I get the time I’ll take a look to see if there’s an easy fix for older browsers with the new code I’m using in Stallion, but that code is essential for the next update where I’ll be working on different layout options (both sidebars on the left/right, one large sidebar). When I start working on the new layouts will look then.
Found and fixed a couple of bugs in the Stallion copy protection system today, I think it’s ready for release. Going to upload to a dozen more sites for testing, if no problems will release to Talian customers before general release.
David
WordPress Theme Web Browser Backwards Compatibility vs New Features
Stallion SEO Ad Theme Works in WordPress 3.*
WordPress 3.1 was just released, and accidentally automatically upgraded a site which is running Stallion 6 and haven’t seen any issues :-)
That’s one way to upgrade to the latest release, was installing Stallion 6 on a bunch of sites for real world testing and at the same time was updating to WordPress 3.0.5 which was the latest version. Said on the Dashboard upgrade to WordPress 3.0.5, but when I did the auto update it upgraded to WordPress 3.1 :-)
Guess WordPress development has only just added the WordPress 3.1 zip file to their servers and not updated the automated upgrade system yet.
I’ve been testing Stallion 6 on WordPress 3.1 release candidates, so didn’t expect any problems, but normally wouldn’t upgrade that way on an important site first :-)
This site is running on WordPress 3.1 and Stallion 6.
David
Stallion SEO Ad Theme Works in WordPress 3.*
WordPress SEO Theme for Niche Websites
Hi David,
I dont remember if i have asked this question or not. Will it be possible to add background and header to the new theme? I am no good at php and am just wondering how hard it is to do this?
Billy
Stallion WordPress SEO Theme Header Images
As you can see on this site there’s an image behind the header, that’s part of the Stallion options, currently there are 21 built in header images and 10 custom slots available (5 jpg, 5 gif). As long as you know how to use an FTP program like Filezilla you can upload a custom header image (or 10 :-))
Similar the random banner area, there’s 22 built in banner sets (10 images each, so 220 banners) and 5 custom slots, so again as long as you can use FTP you can upload your own banner sets.
My youngest son (14 years old :-)) is making niche banner and header images to be sold at Stallion Theme Custom Banners and Header Images. He’s far more artistic than I am, so far he’s made sets for Money, Space, Travel, Food, Fitness and Nature with more planned.
David
Stallion WordPress SEO Theme Header Images
How to Activate WordPress Theme?
Hi, Dave
I’d bought Talian 5 on 21st this month, downloaded free Stallion 6 upgrade, but don’t know how to activate it?
Couldn’t find the place to insert the transaction ID of Talian 5, please help! Sorry for the trouble of me being stupid.
Haiyan
How to Activate Stallion WordPress SEO Theme
It’s relatively easy to activate Stallion as long as you know your transaction ID. After installing the Stallion files click the activate link under “Appearance >> Themes” (like you would with any WordPress theme) followed by clicking the new “Stallion Theme” Menu below the “Appearance” menu.
On the main Stallion options page you will find two boxes, the top one is for your transaction ID from PayPal/Clickbank. If you aren’t sure which number to use (PayPal has two IDs and quite a few customers are using the wrong one) enter your email address (the one you used to order Talian/Stallion) into the second box and click the “Request Transaction ID” button, give it a minute and check your email for the reminder email. If you don’t receive the email within 15 minutes (check your SPAM folder) drop me an email/comment and I’ll email you your transaction ID **.
** Don’t post your transaction ID in a comment as it would mean anyone can activate Stallion with your ID and I’ll have to deactivate/change it. Just use the email address you ordered to contact me or as the email address for a comment and I can easily match you to the correct ID.
When you have the correct transaction ID add it into the top “Transaction ID” box and click the “Save Settings” button.
If you enter the correct ID everything will work as expected, if you enter the wrong ID Stallion will deactivate and TwentyTen will be reactivated. Ideally we’d have coded the theme to give a warning the ID was incorrect, but this is a new activation/copy protection system (my eldest son Cameron, who is studying computer programming at University wrote it from scratch), so maybe in a future update we’ll figure out a better way to handle incorrect IDs.
At least with this system you are 100% certain immediately if you have the right ID or not. In the first version it didn’t automatically deactivate and would deactivate only after the home page was loaded. That would have been even more confusing and would have resulted in users wasting time setting up Stallion options only to loose them after checking the home page!
David
How to Activate Stallion WordPress SEO Theme
Genesis Theme Framework
I’m using the Genesis Framework and loving the child theme functionality.
Is Stallion Better Than a Framework like Genesis or Hybrid?
Stallion WordPress Framework Theme Update
Short answer is no, it’s not better, framework themes have a lot of flexibility.
In the future I’d like to turn Stallion into a framework theme, it opens up new possibilities for user generated child themes and child themes can have new functionality not included in the main theme without having to edit the main theme files.
For the average user with no interest in creating their own child theme it won’t make a lot of difference, in fact the way I’ve designed the Stallion options pages is ideal for those who want a powerful theme with different styling, but don’t want to have to install extra addons (child themes) which is beyond a lot of users comfort level (Stallion is point and click and you have a new look).
There are currently 9 different theme styles in Stallion (not including the different headers and banners), that could be 9 different child themes in a framework theme. In Stallion it’s 9 stylesheets (CSS files) and 9 folders to hold the images for each style (only one of the 9 CSS files and image sets is loaded for each styling).
I plan to add more colour schemes and rewrote the code for this update to allow for a lot of flexibility in the output: plan is to add a single stylesheet and new image folder for each new style without having to edit the main template files at all (going to work on this in the next update). This will allow me to port in different theme looks without changing the Stallion core code, in the next update will add a few custom blank CSS files and image folders so users can create their own styles (same concept as the custom headers and custom banners) without having to edit the main themes files. So if you wanted a pink version of the general Talian style, you could copy the Red CSS files contents to one of the custom CSS files and the Red images to a custom image folder and change the CSS colour codes to pink and edit the images in a program like PhotoShop to make a pink version of the Talian styling.
Better you are at CSS, more you can achieve.
Long term I’d like the power of child themes as well as the simplicity of the current options pages. Best of both worlds :-)
BTW the above is about development value of framework themes, not how a theme works when setup. There is no WordPress theme that comes close to Stallion for SEO features, it is by far the best WordPress SEO theme guaranteed : no one will claim the $1,000 for finding a better WordPress SEO theme.
David
Update: Latest versions (3 years of development since writing the above) of Stallion are as good as any theme framework, in fact better in many respects because unlike with other WP frameworks, Stallion child themes can override ALL parent theme template files and CSS files, tends to be a pain to achieve this with other WordPress frameworks. Pop any Stallion template file or css file into a child theme and without any editing it overrides the parent template file: don’t think any other WordPress framework does this?
Stallion WordPress Framework Theme Update
You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page WordPress Error
Hello
I am trying to uppgrade from Talian 5 plus SEO template to Stallion but when I try to get to the Stallion settings to enter my registered email address the following message appears and the theme reverts to the old theme.
‘You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page’
Any ideas?
Mark Bowles
How To Install the Stallion WordPress SEO Theme
Sounds like you are activating Stallion while all the files haven’t been uploaded. If some files are missing (like when you upload a theme using FTP) the theme assumes someone is trying to hack the activation system and deactivates Stallion and reactivates TwentyTen (default WordPress theme).
If you enter the wrong PayPal Id it also deactivates (going to change this in the next update as causing a lot of problems).
I recognised your name from the Talian comments and tracked down your email address (the antiques site) used to order Talian and have used it to send you a reminder of your ID (lots of customers are getting the PayPal IDs mixed up, there’s two of them!).
David
How To Install the Stallion WordPress SEO Theme
Install WordPress Theme
Hello David
I fixed the problem by installing the theme from the ‘install theme facility’ under the appearance tab and used the ID you sent me.
Just getting use to all the options available. Very impressive.
Thank you.
Mark Bowles