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Hey there. What font family did you use for the word “Float” in the theme at the top left and where can I get it from?
The font of the logo is Bello Pro. It’s available for purchase at http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/underware/bello/pro/
Figured it out. An extra div closing tag was hanging around. All fixed now.
Got the site set up (and quickly too for this hobbyist). Am thrilled with the results. Thank you!
For future releases, I’d love to see a Goodreads social icon. 
Thanks again!
Thanks!
Goodreads icon will be added in the next version.
Loving this theme, and am in the process of tweaking it for me.
Some of the widgets that should be showing up in my sidebar are going down to the bottom of the page. Is there fixed amount of content allowed in the sidebar? I’ve tried removing/moving various widgets, and some of them still end up below my main content.
thanks for any insight you have!
Hi, I am still very happy with this theme! 
Still have a question, though. I want to change the “Older posts” button to pagination, so that you see 1 2 3 4 5 > . I know that Wordpress Codex offers a lot of information about this, but it’s not working for me for some reason (maybe because I am just starting to understand php). I do know that is has something to do with either the <?php next_posts_link( function in the loop.php file, or with the <?php wp_link_pages( function in the loop.php file. But I am not sure. Does anyone know how to change the “older posts” button to pagination? I am quite lost.
You could use a plugin. Here’s one: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-paginate/
It’s possible that I’ll add an option to use the pagination in the next version. I can’t promise anything though, so if you need it urgently, maybe you should try the plugin
I’m happy that you like the theme
Thanks! Yes, I absolutely love the theme!
I have installed the plugin, but (obviously) the plugin’s buttons are not as fancy as the theme’s buttons :’( I know I could change the CSS, but I saw that it is quite complicated. So I really do hope you will come up with an option to use pagination in the next update 
One last thing: there’s one thing I have been missing in the theme (yet, because of the awesomeness of the theme, I can live with it): the option to use a (sidebar in the) footer.
Hey,
I love the theme, bought it a few days ago. I’ve had some hosting issues so I haven’t been able to play around with it. But it’s all back up and running now!
I have a question, is there an option or way to upload your own favicon? I’ve installed a plug-in to do so but the default one still shows up?
Cheers Lewis
Hello Lewis!
There’s not option for the favicon. Maybe the browser is still showing the cached version of the favicon, it’s quite normal.
Try to open the favicon directly in your browser. Address should be something like: http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/themes/float/favicon.ico
If it doesn’t work, send a email via my profile page, and I’ll help you
Wow. Super fast response. I’ve waited weeks for an answer from previous theme authors. Amazing
Ok, the site is still showing the default favicon at the moment. I’ll give it 24 hours before messaging you about it.
But I have another question haha. How do I get posts on the front page not to show the full content? I’ve selected “For each article in a feed, show: Summary” but the content on the front page still shows the entire post, unlike your demo site.
Lewis
Have you split the content? Take a look at this article: http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/
Thank you! That would do the trick. I have one final question.
I use Google analytics, do I just paste the code into the option available in the themes customization section, or do I still place the code individually into the pages? I’ve done both but for some reason it’s still not connecting.
Only in the Theme Options. Should be something like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-12345678-9']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();
</script>
That’s the one I’m using. I have Google analytics set up on other sites of mine,(via wordpress) I’ve been getting – Tracking Not Installed – for the last couple of days. Any ideas?
You’re getting the error on the other sites too?
Check the source code of your site. If you can find the tracking code (in the end of the file), then there’s not much I can do.
No just on this theme?
Did you check the source code?
Yeah it’s in there, towards the end :/
Then it’s not caused by the theme itself.
Please send a mail via my profile page. Include the address of your site.
Hey, the theme has been going great, getting a lot of traffic, the favicon still hasn’t changed though, despite it appearing when using the wp admin panel. Any ideas? And also is there an option or code to have a single blog post wide screen?
Lewis
Hi!
Please send me the address of your site via my profile page. I’ll take a look at it.
No, there’s not an option to display post wide screen.
Love this theme. Do you have instructions on how to update the theme to latest version? When I simply activated the new 1.1 Theme I had to manually reset settings such as Google Analytics code, social widgets, etc.
Overall, this theme is incredible to work with, and I highly recommend it to anyone who sees this.
1.1 version included an updated framework for the Theme Options panel, which may have caused that. I will take a closer look at it.
Thank you very much, appreciate your feedback
Hi! I leve this theme as well, just instaled and working fine but I´ve got some problems: 1. Tags and comments bubble on post: not showing the colour set up on the theme option menu. 2. Not showing read more on the excerpt. 3. How can I link the about the author excerpt with the author file page?
Thanks in advance, great theme and support!
Best David
Hello David!
1. Did you save the options after setting up the colors? That’s the only possible reason I can think of. Unless there’s something wrong with your WordPress installation.
2. Are you using the more tag in the post editor? Take a look at this article: http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/
3. Just add a link on your author bio at Users > Your Profile. For example:
<a href="http://blog.com/profile">My profile</a>
Thanks for purchasing!
1. Of course!! The only thing that it is saved at the layout and colours menu is the logo uploaded, the rest it is not working properly (bg or col). Any Idea? If the solution is to installing again I will fix it on the editor… 2. Thx, there are many themes doing it for you. 3.Thx, idem.
Thanks!
You can check it out here: blog.etnykasocialmedia.com
There’s something wrong with the custom.css.php file on your server. Try to upload it again to your server. If that doesn’t solve the problem send a mail via my profile page, and we’ll take a look at it
My custom.css.php (I didnt modify…): <?php header(“Content-type: text/css”); if(file_exists(’../../../wp-load.php’)) : include ’../../../wp-load.php’; else: include’../../../../wp-load.php’; endif; ob_flush(); ?>
html { background:url(<?php echo get_template_directory_uri() . ’/images/’ . of_get_option( ‘background_image’ ) . ’.jpg’ ?>) 50% 0; }
.hentry-outer, body { background-image:url(<?php echo get_template_directory_uri() . ’/images/’ . of_get_option( ‘hentry_background’ ) . ’.png’ ?>); <?php if (of_get_option( ‘hentry_background’ ) 'hentry-3') echo 'background-position:50% -128px;' ?> }
a, aside a:hover, #main h1 a:hover { color:<?php echo of_get_option( 'link_color' ); ?>; }
.meta-comments { background-color:<?php echo of_get_option( 'comments_color' ); ?>; }
.meta-tags li a { background-color:<?php echo of_get_option( 'tags_color' ); ?>; }
::-moz-selection { background-color:<?php echo of_get_option( 'comments_color' ); ?>; }
::selection { background-color:<?php echo of_get_option( 'comments_color' ); ?>; }
<?php if (of_get_option( 'sidebar' ) ‘sidebar-left’) {
echo ’#main { float:right; }
aside { float:left; }’; } ?>
<?php echo of_get_option( ‘custom_css’ ); ?>
<?php ob_end_flush(); ?>
Could you send me the email, so I can reply to you with possible solutions As you can see, it’s not very useful to post lots of code here.
thank you, great support!
No problem, David
I have a red background and the social media icons are not showing up because of the grayish side bar on the right.
How do I change the color of side bar to white?
My website is http://www.hong-tran.com
Hello Hong!
Go to Appearance > Theme Options and add the next line in the Custom CSS:
aside { background: #fff; }
Thanks for the quick reply!
How do I change the color of the headings like “TAGS” and “FOLLOW ME”?
Add this to the Custom CSS:
aside h3, aside h3 a, .widget_calendar caption {color:#666;}
You can replace the color value (#666) with the color of your choice. Here’s a tool to get the value for colors, if you’re not familiar with this: http://csscolorpicker.com/
How do I add different “pages”, or “menu’s” on top of my home page? If I make a “blog” section, I don’t want people to have to search for it, I want there to be a tab they can click.
Do you mean the navigation? Go to Appearance > Menus.
^^ Any response to the above? Also a second question: I’ve added the Flickr stream, and it showed all my photos. However, I’ve added 8 eight more, but it’s still only showing five. Do you know how long it takes to refresh/anything I can do manually to speed it up?
Flickr Widget is using the Flickr API, so it’s completely up to them when the new photos will show up. I really can’t tell you how long does it take
The new photos have appeared must have a set time limit or something. Great theme, think it’s the best straight-up blog one I’ve come across for a long while.
Great Thank you very much Kane!
Hi. Wonderful theme – using it at kanefulton.com. However, I would like to disable the responsive features. Is there any easy way of doing this? Thanks.
Hello!
There’s no easy way to remove the responsive features. Why would you like to do that?
That’s a shame. I don’t think it gives any real benefit with central-positioned themes. It’s conflicting with my smart youtube plugin as the video continues to jut out when you make the browser smaller.
I could make some changes to the next version, so it would be easier to remove responsiveness. I will let you know, if and when that happens
This theme supports fluid videos, with jQuery plugin http://fitvidsjs.com/. I don’t know why the videos won’t scale on your site. Maybe it’s the WordPress plugin you are using.
PS. I just tested with the demo site. Vimeo and YouTube videos are fluid, and scale just as intended.
Thanks, I’ll try the plugin. I would appreciate some way to disable responsive features and will use it if you include it in a future version
The plugin is already built-in the theme. It makes the videos responsive. You can take a look at the demo site, and resize the browser window.
Why it’s not working on your site, I don’t know. Maybe it’s the YouTube plugin you’re using.
I’m interested in buying this theme, primarily because it emphasizes text over images. However, I would want to use more than one image for posts everyone once in awhile. Is there a slideshow widget I can use, or can I just put several images in one post? Also, does this work with YouTube videos? I’m sure it does, but I have to ask.
Hello!
There is no slideshow widget. But you can have as many images in a post as you like. There are also many WordPress plugins which make it easy to have a slideshow anywhere in the post or page. Here’s one: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/slideshow-jquery-image-gallery/
Yes, it works with YouTube videos. Just copy and paste the embed code from YouTube.
Wow, what a lightning-fast response. Thanks!
No problem
I love this theme … however the latest version will not unzip when I downloaded it? (I get an error)
Where did you get the error?
Did you unpack the downloaded archive first? The actual theme is the theme.zip file inside the downloaded file
this is the zip file that will not open … themeforest-2635174-float-responsive-blog-theme-1.zip
It is working now … cheers
Great
Again I want to stress how happy we are with this awesome theme. If anyone is interested in seeing how we are using it, please check out http://willyCat.org ... we are building something with a pretty sweet story … cheers
Thank you very much Good luck with the site!
your kind words are well received.
ol, ul { margin-left: 20px; }
Also can we see an update for listed items in sidebar widgets to look nicer? Talking about widgets like Recent Posts.
Also, can we please see a CAPTCHA on the contact form?
Other than that, solid design! Thanks.
Hello!
1. Lists are aligned properly. Take a look at this article: http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/five-simple-steps-to-better-typography-part-2
I understand your point however. It is a common practice to indent the lists. In this theme I have tried to keep typography as solid as possible.
2. I will update the styling of the widgets in the next version. Thanks a lot for letting me know!
3. I will take a look at the contact form and possible CAPTCHAs. Do you receive lots of spam from the contact form?
Great feedback, much appreciated!
Hello, thanks for your theme as I think it’s perfect for what I need to do and I choose it especially because it is responsive and it has a really nice layout.
I have just a little problem, on the home page, the archive page etc..it displays the entire post instead of the excerpt + continue reading link. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks Fabio
edit: never mind now it seems to work
Glad you like the theme
Yeah, it’s a feature of WordPress. You can set where you want the ‘Continue Reading’ link to appear.
Hello, I’m looking into buying this theme and i am wondering if it supports a static home page instead of a blog…?
Hello!
Yes, it does. It is a built-in feature in WordPress to have any page as a homepage. You can build your homepage just like a normal page. Use columns etc. if you like.
Then go to Settings > Reading and set the page you just created as the homepage.
I love the theme!!!
Great! Happy new year!
I’ve got a problem though: if you visit my site in internet explorer, the browser shows the mobile version instead of the desktop version.
What version of IE? Can you tell me the address of your site. You can send me a mail if you don’t want to share it here
Here’s the contact form, in the sidebar: http://themeforest.net/user/myTheme
IE 9. The first second it shows my site properly, but after a second it shows the mobile version. My site works fine in Firefox and Chrome though. My site: http://www.annemariesintjago.nl
It must be one of the many plugins you’re using. If you test the Float demo with IE9, there are no problems at all.
Try to disable one plugin at a time and see if some of them fixes the problem. I can’t really help you more, as these are third-party addons
I had no idea one of my plugins could be the problem, so I will try to find which one causes the problem. Thanks!
Sociable was the plugin that caused IE9 to show a mobile version of my site. If I try other social sharing plugins, however, the same problem occurs. Now, I am using a social sharing sidebar, since that does not cause any problems. I wondered whether these social sharing buttons, if they appear under a post, cause conflicts with IE9 with any theme, or only with Float, so I tried it with my previous theme (which also has a mobile version). This other theme shows up normal in IE9. So I guess there is something in Float’s code that conflicts with some social plugins (I tried Sociable, Digg Digg, social sharing toolkit, and slick social share, among others, but they all cause the same problems in IE9). It is not really a huge problem for me, although I would rather use social sharing buttons under a post, instead of floating in a sidebar, but I thought I should mention it to you.
Ok, thanks a lot for letting me know I will take a look at those plugins.
Hello,
I purchased the blog theme of yours Float some time ago. I’m fond of design very much, but I have a problem with it. The point is that my web-site is in Russian and I found out that this theme Float doesn’t support the Russian language. Could you give me a cue to solve this problem, please? Fonts are very good-looking and i’d love to use them.
Thank you for your attention.
Best regards.
Hello!
I think you should change to fonts which have Russian characters. Float is using Oswald for the headers and Droid Serif for the body copy. These fonts do not support Russian language.
However, there are many font in Google Web Fonts that have Russian characters. You should take a look at http://www.google.com/webfonts
Replace the current fonts with the new ones. Send me an email, if you need help with that.
Glad you like the theme
tried to open the Live Preview several times – is your server down?
bobosh.com doesn’t respond too
Hi!
I just tested, and it’s working for me. Let me know if you have problems with it
Hi,
I just purchased the theme and I love it but I seem to be having trouble changing the background. I can change the color fine but the texture options do not seem to respond when I select any of them.
Hello!
Did you try to upload the theme again? Maybe something went wrong with the upload. You are the first one having this problem, so there must have been something wrong with your installation. Tell me how it goes
