Socrates 3.0 In Development

[freedom]

This is a demo of a beta which has already been modified significantly. I had setup a two column right layout for testing, and it should not be active if you're using a magazine layout. It's not a bug. You will need to use the single sidebar 300px left or right with the magazine layouts.

There is no cost if you already have a license.

Thank you so much for your reply.

I do have a license for unlimited sites, so that is exciting news to me - and I commend you for doing it that way.

If my feeble mind understand correctly - the error I see will not be a problem and that is good news.

Like everyone, I am thrilled to see the latest version and can't wait to get going with it.

I hope you will do some of your video training like you did in the past. It made a world of difference to me.

My best ;-) Robert

[AJBrown]

This is a demo of a beta which has already been modified significantly. I had setup a two column right layout for testing, and it should not be active if you're using a magazine layout. It's not a bug. You will need to use the single sidebar 300px left or right with the magazine layouts.

There is no cost if you already have a license.

The theme looks good with the different layouts. When will the update be available because I remember you were saving in November its now February. Not rushing just wondering.
functionality on my sites. I will search the forum for it.

Great job on the theme layouts.
Akil

[Dan Nickerson]

Soon......

[dossantos]

Thanks for your patience with Socrates 3.0.

Finally, here's a 3.0 Sneak Preview

http://socratestheme.com/janbeta/

New Magazine Layouts

http://socratestheme.com/janbeta/magazine-one/
http://socratestheme.com/janbeta/magazine-two/

We are doing some final fixes and tweaks to the code before we can release... please don't ask about release date.. all i can say is we're getting close.

Sir Dan Nickerson,

It is beautiful! Please take your time.

Thank to you and to all involved with Socrates 3.0!

God bless.

dossantos

[umstrategies]

I've been trying to get Google rich snippets working by trying both the Google Authorship plugin and manually typing in the HTML into a text widget on the sidebar.

I discovered the reason they weren't working is that Socrates (v2 and v3b) add a rel=author attribute in the link of the author for each post/page, eg:

<div class="postAuthor">By <a href="http://somesite/author/admin/" title="Posts by admin" rel="author">admin</a> on Tuesday, June 14th, 2011 | <a href="http://somesite/#respond" title="Comment on This Page">No Comments</a></div>

As Google sees this first, all other rel=author attributes are ignored.

Additionally, the author page that Socrates creates doesn't have any scope to add details for your Google+ profile.

I would suggest either removing the rel=author attribute and allow the user to set them using whatever method they prefer, or have a Socrates option that allows you to add the required details needed.

[Dan Nickerson]

Thanks, I have this on my todo list for official release

[alwardi]

Dear Dan,

As a Socrates loyal customer and on behalf of all Arab users please add the following features with Socrates 3.0:

- Arabic WordPress 3.x.x Ready and Compliant.
- RTL /CSS Support.
- Full Arabic Localization Support (contains .po/.mo files).

Best Regards,
alwardi

[Dan Nickerson]

Alwardi,

It won't be in 3.0 but language support is definitely the next thing we're looking into.