Rask News Theme Demo Available

June 8th, 2009

Rask, which means fast in Norwegian, is now in its beta stage and is shaping out nicely. It was created as answer to need for efficient team blogging platform as well as simple blog alternative to micro-blogging systems like Twitter.

Rask Theme Demo

Demo however lacks some features that are still in development phase, so stay tuned for more news on this incredible theme release:

Remaining features not yet available in demo:

  • Re-tweet button
  • Full Twitter integration (auto posting on Twitter from your blog – no duplicate post writing)
  • Bottom navigation
  • Social network icons (links to your social profiles)

Rask Beta Print Screen (click to enlarge)

rask-pscreen

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42 Responses to “Rask News Theme Demo Available”

  1. Joel

    14 years ago

    Great theme dude! 😀

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  2. JohanSJA

    14 years ago

    I have to say that you are really making great themes. I am currently using the Inuit Types and it makes my blog looks like a commercial website. Thanks for your great work. And I am really excited to see this theme coming out as well.

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  3. koopera

    14 years ago

    Very good theme! But the background color is too sad. Why not white?

    Best regards!

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    • Željan Topić

      14 years ago

      I also hate the background, white isn’t the option though because content box wouldn’t catch the eye of user, any other suggestions?

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  4. KI

    14 years ago

    Like the wood background!

    How about some features like:

    adding a larger more specialized search feature so hopefully a busy site with lots of discussions and Q&A type interactions could be searched easily

    Be able to vote on the quality of responses and have those move up the list.

    Related posts/comments in the sidebar below the “thread”

    Login/profile page or would that be handled by a facebook connect / twitter integration, but for those who want a new profile that might be good

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    • Željan Topić

      14 years ago

      – There will be apx 11 backgrounds to choose from
      – Search feature will stay as-is from WP
      – Voting on comments is interesting but this takes time…do you know a plugin that does this?
      – Related posts/comments is interesting – I’ll consider using this
      – Profile management will also stay as-is from WP as this isn’t going to be WP-Mu site which handles these things much better. I however incorporated redirect to front page after login.

      Thanks for your collaboration 😉

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  5. KI

    14 years ago

    How about community news type plugin like
    http://www.frank-verhoeven.com/wordpress-plugin-fv-community-news/

    vote it up http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vote-it-up/
    not sure it is up to code though

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w-popularity/

    vote it http://www.zauberpage.de/vote-it-wordpress-plugin-english.html

    No exp. with them, but a genius code/designer guy like you should be able to tell if they are worth it or not

    Another one I like but haven’t used and not sure it fits with this theme and the function I mentioned is: http://www.paradoxdgn.com/archives/622

    Thanks for the great themes!

    Oh you keep saying you are offering paid services any more thoughts on that?

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    • Željan Topić

      14 years ago

      Rating on comments won’t fit in first release as it’s already finished (just few XHTML validation fixes left),…maybe in next one, still, tnx for your praticipation!

      I do offer paid services, learn more here.

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  6. Lou

    14 years ago

    I like your theme! This is my only problem so far….How do you add a link to the navigation? Can I do this?

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    • Željan Topić

      14 years ago

      Open home.php and add Menu text line where menu code is represented. If you add page top black menu will get populated, if you add category menu above content will get populated automatically.

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  7. John

    14 years ago

    Zeljan – you’re using various Prologue functions in your Rask them – one of which (prologue_get_avatar) replaces the get_avatar hook.

    Facebook Connect relies on get_avatar to display avatars with posts and comments – consequently Facebook users will show up as guest users. I’m relying heavily on FB users – any pointers you can provide to solve this issue?

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    • Željan Topić

      14 years ago

      You’ll need to clean library/functions/prologue-functions.php a bit: just delete prologue_get_avatar function and replace all prologue_get_avatar hooks with get_avatar and you’re done … still I don’t believe this is cause for your issues with FB connect: fast way to check this is to delete prologue_get_avatar function, clear browser cache and see if anything happens to FB connect – if not, than prologue_get_avatar function probably isn’t the issue.

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      • John

        14 years ago

        Hmm, I did as you indicated above. A few things…

        1. Inline comments now show the gravatar icon, instead of the mystery man. WordPress settings have the mystery man as default.

        2. All avatars are enlarged, I’d say 64px?

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        • John

          14 years ago

          And just to clarify, Facebook avatars are not displayed.

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          • Željan Topić

            14 years ago

            Hopefully you’ll solve your problem with FB connect,…I’d love to help you out but FB connect plugin is new to me so I don’t want to play a smartass too much =)

  8. John

    14 years ago

    No go yet – I’ve implented FB connect before so I am pretty sure this is a theme related issue. I’ve been looking around for p2/prologue/rask and FB connect fixes – but no luck yet.

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  9. Cool Statuses

    14 years ago

    Is there a way to keep the display on the home page the same as in the origina p2 theme. For my site it suits me not to have the titles displayed and when I tried Rask it displays the post titles as well. Other than this tiny hiccup, it is an awesome theme

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  10. Richard

    14 years ago

    Mm, I think post titles and categories and tags could be removed, but you have to remove the errror catch when you try to post without a title or category. I haven’t found where it is yet, probably in functions somewhere??

    I’m surpreised this isn’t an option in the theme…

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