I always say this is my best theme to date but yet once again: THIS IS MY BEST THEME TO DATE 🙂 …I’m really proud of it and love it’s simple, yet advanced functionality. Posting with this theme is LIVE, which means no page reloads are needed to see the updates made to posts or comments. Editing is also AJAXED and runs on front page so no more visits to WP admin panel.
Theme is perfect for team or news blogging where more post authors collaborate and discuss LIVE on variety of topics which can be categorized and tagged according to topic of discussion. Web designers may use it for their online projects and offer their clients web sites with all premium features they will need.
Here are some unique features:
- AJAX posting
- AJAX commenting
- AJAX editing
- Live conversation – no page reload needed
- Front page posting/editing/commenting
- Advanced relative dates
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Hide/show threads option
- Redirect to home page after log-in
- Custom translations of all blog areas
- Sidebar Image Stream via Flickr (widget)
- Popular Posts (widget)
- Twitter integration (widget)
- See the remaining list of features here
Special thanks to:
- Prologue P2 theme (I used it’s JS file as background for Rask AJAX functionalities)
- Background Labs (Rask uses some of their backgrounds as options to choose for your blog)
- Tweetmeme (re-tweet button on front posts)
- Twitter (inspiration for blog functionality)
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Željan Topić
13 years ago
Looking forward to your responses…
Michelle
13 years ago
Hi,
Thanks for this theme, which I chose and customize for my blog.
I like and I tested all your themes, but this one is the most suitable for me : simple, clear, and Twitter friendly. Great job!
Željan Topić
13 years ago
Glad to hear you like it 😉
don
13 years ago
hi great theme, thanks.
one question, i can’t seem to get any more categories to appear in the drop down box on posting section. am i using it wrong? have added them to posts / categories but just not appearing to select when i make a new post. thanks if you can point me in the right direction. cheers don
Željan Topić
13 years ago
Empty categories won’t show up, I think here is the issue.
idntt
13 years ago
Željan, this is great work! You continue to raise the bar with every new project. Thanks you for sharing. I am testing the theme (so far so good) and will report back if I find any issues.
Ivan
13 years ago
Excellent theme, nice work.
SuperMario290
13 years ago
Amazing theme man! I think that this will actually replace the current theme that I am using for one of my sites. Keep up the amazing work~! 😀
Palm Pre
13 years ago
Ever since your first theme, I have fell in love with your design. I will be using this as the next theme for my blog. Just need to edit the header a little to make it all work.
sham
13 years ago
Really nice..Awesome woody background..
Željan Topić
13 years ago
Just updated Rask to 1.0.1 – small minor big fix.
Acacia
13 years ago
Hello there,
Im trying out Rask for the first time and it’s looking really good. I have two minor wishes for a future version (if there will be one) and that would be to be able to set threading to “off” by default and an option to hide the Post form on the front end.
I think they are both excellent features but they deprive the site from giving a quick overview sometimes.
Otherwise I’m a very happy camper so far, keep up the good work!
Željan Topić
13 years ago
Suggestions seem quite realistic, however I will consider hiding Post form on front but won’t hide threads by default as you’re just one click away from hidding it so it’s quite simple already.
Thank you for suggestions, just keep it comming 😉
Acacia
13 years ago
Cheers for the quick reply 🙂
“threads by default as you’re just one click away from hiding it so it’s quite simple already”
It could possibly be handled at the back end as a “Do you wish to hide or show threads by default” – kind of option?
Going to continue customizations today, still very happy with the theme!
Julius
13 years ago
Thank you for such a wonderful theme! I will implement this on my blog. More power to you, my friend!
Yip Bop
13 years ago
Thank you for a great theme. Is there anyway I can use the google adsense code in place of the 468×60 Ad Banner Settings, instead of using a set image to a url?
Thanks again!
Željan Topić
13 years ago
Go to library/includes/ad-468×60.php and replace all code with your adsense one.
SuperMario290
13 years ago
Does the theme only work for wordpress 2.8? I tried installing it on wp 2.7 and had a problem? Maybe it was my customizing it beforehand though……
Željan Topić
13 years ago
2.7 should work also.
Michelle
13 years ago
Hi,
Is there a possibility to activate the second sidebar, mentioned in the widgets ?
Željan Topić
13 years ago
New update is comming for Rask soon so stay tuned,…some bug fiexes + one u mentioned above, sidebar2 is appearing in widgets with no reason.
Nikola Ovcharski
13 years ago
Good theme
Anthony
13 years ago
Hey – I’m using this theme as an internal blog for our company. Any chance you could make it possible to choose more than one category while posting from the front page?
Anthony
Željan Topić
13 years ago
Make more categories in WP admin … if that is not the case provide URL to your site.
Many
13 years ago
Hey, really nice theme ! Quite awesome.
I just got one question : is it possible to add media from the front page ? It seems to me that I’d only be able to write an article with just plan text. Or am I wrong ?
Thanks for the great work 🙂
Elfy
13 years ago
What are the plugins that you use for the theme?
Thanks for the theme, it’s splendid!
Željan Topić
13 years ago
No plugins, just a bit of JS framework from P2 Prologue theme.
Brian Wahl
13 years ago
Thanks for such a great theme! I’m using a very slight modification of it for my website (http://www.brianwahlband.com). Really enjoying it – very clean and elegant, easy to use, and great back-end options.
– Brian
Brian Wahl
13 years ago
Oops – the link to my site is messed up in my comment. To see this theme on my site (currently), hit http://www.brianwahband.com
Thanks again for a great theme!
– Brian
Željan Topić
13 years ago
Nice modification, congrats 😉
Ubi
13 years ago
Any update coming up?
Željan Topić
13 years ago
Hopefully soon 😉
John
13 years ago
A small feature request – can we get a “turn post titles on/off” setting in the theme settings? I tend to like that about P2 and when you use the theme for free-flowing communication, there’s no need for a formal title.
Simon
13 years ago
Hey Željan, I was wondering about the technique you are using to use yoasts breadcrumbs as functions instead of a plugin. I also have it in my functions library (just the way you do it), but how can I actually activate it and change the settings in the admin area? Or is the whole thing meant not to appear in the admin?
Thanks!
Željan Topić
13 years ago
I just include links to plugin files in function.php – I didn’t modify any of yoast plugin files. Setting it up is possible in WP/Settings tab
Simon
13 years ago
Yes right! But I’ve also seen that you commented the breadcrumbs out (not doing it results in the page going white). But there’s nothing coming up in the settings tab for me that way?
Cheers
Željan Topić
13 years ago
I understand but Rask doesn’t use breadcrumbs so it is commented in functions.php.
Simon
13 years ago
I see. I thought I found one file you included it in. Thanks anyways.
Željan Topić
13 years ago
View Berita theme as an example …
Jus N
13 years ago
Hi Zelijan, any comments on the problem I’ve reported? Has anybody else faced the same issue? Please let me know in case you have any workaround for this.
Thanks.
Željan Topić
13 years ago
You’re the first one with this issue … as said in previous comments I have a new heavily upgraded version of Rask waiting, but have to develop BizzThemes platform first before I release it – can you provide a link to broken post?
Narenubi
13 years ago
This is such a wonderful theme. Sadly, looks like no update’s coming up. I understand that you’re busy with your commercial projects. 🙂
Richard
13 years ago
I think the 3 remaining features for a full blown version are
1- Customise/ theme the users login page, registration, password recovery
2- Customise/ theme the admin side pages for registered users (profile etc)
3- Block unnecessary pages in admin, like dashboard, comments etc.
These items can be achieved by using oher plugins like CYC, theme admin etc; but I reckon a one stop theme is the real answer fort many people, as it’s not easy to get admin theming correct.
Many thanks for the theme it’s a great improvement…
Željan Topić
13 years ago
Tnx for your kind word, … I am pushing for update of all my free themes but I’ll wait a bit before I release my BizzThemes.com platform.
Jus N
13 years ago
Hi Zeljan, It’s really a great piece of work. I am really a fan of you and your themes. I have tried Rask on my local host but I’ve found a bug while using it. I use Internet Explorer 7. When we post lengthy text (containing 9-10 lines) it gets displayed over the below displayed post and it doesn’t get fixed until we refresh the page. It works perfectly in Mozilla Firefox (I haven’t tried it on Safari yet). I hope you must be aware of it by now? Any body who’s facing the same kind of issues? Please let me know in case you have fix for this. Again, thanks for the theme. I’m loving it. 🙂
Don Elliott
13 years ago
This theme is really amazing. It is exactly what we needed for our employee-side site. We are using it similar to a wiki-style knowledge base. Nice work!!
-Don
Cristian Antohe
13 years ago
Quick question. Can the theme edit the tags/categories it’s in from the homepage?
Thanks !
Željan Topić
13 years ago
Quick answer – not at this time 😉
Richard
13 years ago
Does this theme show a “tags suggest” modal window when posting ? If not, this would be a great addition! Thanks
Željan Topić
13 years ago
It does, tags previously used pop up when typing.
don aitken
13 years ago
hi – is there any way to allow contributors to still post via the front page but obviously their posts will be sent for moderation as usual?
at the moment if i set someone up as a contributor they get confused having to go through the dashboard to post.
thanks
don
kevin
13 years ago
Awesome theme! I was using P2, only to realize I really need categories! After searching how to hack P2, I came across all the work you’ve already done to improve on an already great theme.
How do I get the site to zoom out on an iphone? The theme seems to prohibit any zooming on an iphone. Any ideas what’s going on?
Heidi
12 years ago
Hi! Thanks for a really nice theme!
I just wanna say that I too would like to have the option to hide comments on default. That’s for my visitors, who aren’t used to themes like this.
And media-uploads on frontpage would be great.
Dayle Cardoso
12 years ago
Intriguing. Have been trying to learn a new language for a while so this is highly relevant! Thank you.