If you ordered Talian before the release of Stallion 6 you’ll have received an email about updating to Stallion for free. If it didn’t arrive join the Stallion Theme List (on the left menu) and you’ll get access to the Stallion zip file (put your Talian 5 order email address into the Transaction ID Reminder form to obtain your Stallion ID for activating Stallion). If you ordered Talian 5 recently and want the Stallion 6 look you’ll need to Order Stallion 6.

David

Take into account I’m not the developer of the MPP plugin and I don’t use it on any of my live sites yet (plan to when I get the time after releasing Stallion 6 which includes SEO features for that plugin), I have the plugin installed on a development server to check for issues with Talian 5 and Stallion 6 when released. The best place for support for the MPP plugin is Bill McRea’s support system.

David

They’ve given the table various CSS classes, don’t they provide some example CSS for styling?

BTW noticed you have some nofollow attributes in your code, nofollow deletes link benefit. View source on your home page and track down how they are generated and ideally remove them. For example you’ve added the Recent Comments widget instead of the GAT Recent Comments widget. The former uses nofollow on links to the authors website, the latter doesn’t add links to the authors site (I use the GAT widget on this site, see right menu).

You should also use the GAT Meta widget not the default one, the default one adds a link to the login forms which wastes link benefit. The GAT one protects link benefit that would go through those links.

David

Thanks for the info. As far as the Ad is concerned I think it is a case of the diparity of php versions between live and development sites.

Re the calendar, I have got my head round the “cause it was there” syndrome and decided I can live without it. But! I will be using the eMember plugin and am experiencing the same displacement effect when I place the login/sign up form in the sidebars. Only in Firefox, IE and Opera are OK.

Would that be a similar css tweak that is needed?

Many Thanks

Paul

The calendar widget is an SEO disaster and I’ve not supported it in Talian 5 (css code removed) and in Stallion 6 I’ve removed it completely (will no longer show on the widgets page).

This default WordPress widget is so poorly coded and SEO damaging you should not use it in it’s current form. Every day link on the calendar holds the text content of an entire post in the title attribute of each link! Imagine having a blog with a new post every day, that’s the full text content of 28-31 posts just within that widget, that’s potentially making each page ~30x bigger than they should be and for no gain!!!

If you still want to include a calendar widget I can post the CSS you’d need to add to the style.css file?

David

Iam setting up a site utilising the Talian Theme and have at present installed it to an apache development server on my Desktop and the server at the website included in this comments details. AT the moment I am experiencing two problems.

1.) On my development server the large ad that floats to Left/Right of page content does not show up no matter what setting I apply in the adsense.php code page. this is the same in IE8, Firefox 3.6.13 and Opera 11.

2.)On the live website all is OK with IE and Opera, but with Firefox, If I place a Calendar widget in the Left (sidebar1) the heading shows in the sidebar but the dates are hidden behind either the page content or the adsense ad depending on whether I have it set for left or right.

If I set the calendar in the Right (sidebar two), again, the heading shows in line below the sidebar but the dates are again offset to the Right of the heading.

Is this a known problem you already have a solution for, or have I won the jackpot for finding this.

Any chance of a pointer to what I have to tweak to adjust for these cases?

Other than these niggles I think this Talian 5 theme is great.

Many Thanks

Paul