The Cutline Theme is designed with serif fonts (Georgia, Times New Roman) as body text, and sans serif fonts (Helvetica, Arial) as header text. Not everyone is a fan of this combination, however, as we’ve received this question from several of you. The key is in finding all instances of font family declaration in the stylesheet.

1. Open your style.css file.

2. Everywhere you find

   Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif

   replace it with

   Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif

   The key is in the serif vs. sans-serif declaration.

One user wanted to use Geneva instead of Helvetica, so this is the font stack we recommended:

Geneva, Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif

Which means we also advised the addition of Geneva, Tahoma to existing sans-serif declarations as well.

If you want to customize the way your Cutline theme looks by changing fonts, here are some recommended resources to peruse:

• Revised Font Stacks by A Way Back
• CSS font stacks by Max Design
• 8 Definitive Web Font by Sitepoint

We’ll also be sharing the tips, hacks, fixes that were posted in the forums over at this blog over the next few weeks, plus stay tuned for announcements about updates to the theme.

Your accounts should be still intact, but since we’re still moving things around, some links may no longer work. But as of today, premium support via the Forums can now resume. Other support services continue, as listed here.

Again, visit the Cutline Forums at Performancing Hive here. Thank you for your continued support!

• Unique header images for each page, category, etc.
• Fix tags list that run too far to the right
• Dropdown menus to show child pages in the header navigation – Hot!

Head over to the Forums for more!

• Adjusting columns/header widths
• Random rotating banner with AdSense occasionally
• Customizing link lists and link categories on the sidebar
• Insert logo in sidebar

Want more? Head on over to the forums and make some new friends!

The community support forum will, like before, let Cutline users exchange ideas, tips, mods, and fixes. Anyone is free to post and respond here (and we do encourage everyone to do so).

The premium support area is basically the paid version of the community support. This will not only include discussions among community mebmers, though. The folks who currently maintain Cutline (meaning Splashpress Media) will also directly respond to inquiries here. We know we’ve been a bit busy with replying elsewhere, but now that the forum is part of our business plan (meaning we get a small return in exchange for our time and effort in responding), we will definitely have a faster turnaround.
Monthly subscription is $3.99 per month, charged annually.

If you have more urgent concerns, we would be happy to help you if you can get in touch with us directly. Simple fixes would, of course, be free (or you can send us beer, tea or espresso), but more complicated ones would have to be charged the usual rate.

The old forum is archived here, as we know there is still a treasure chest of knowledge (and discussion) stored there.

We hope to see you at the new forum!

I’ve moved the old forum to another directory. If you need to refer to information stored on the old forum, please head on to http://cutline.tubetorial.com/forums-archive. We’re keeping the old content archived.

• Cutline 2.2 (black and white)
• Cutline 1.4 Three-Column Right
• Cutline 1.4 Three-Column Split

As I’ve written previously, the upgrade is for compatibility with the new features of WordPress 2.7. A summary of fixes in these editions:

1. Gravatar support (which replaces the comment numbering)
2. Threaded comment support (if activated within WordPress settings)
3. Post classes (you can differentiate the look of sticky and other posts)
4. Image class support (compatible with the classes used by WordPress image uploader)
5. Some under-the-hood tweaks

I’m currently working on setting up a preview site for all four versions. If you’re upgrading your theme, be sure to upload the entire thing, as many of the files have been edited. Don’t forget to backup.

Enjoy Cutline!

And so we are pleased to announce the release of Cutline 1.4, which is an upgrade of Cutline 1.3 (two-column, right sidebar). This stems from the original Cutline release, in contrast to version 2.1 and the three-column versions, which are newer variants.

We consider this new release to be a major one, but users might not notice the difference from the outside. Much of the improvements we did are under the hood. Cutline 1.4 was an update by our resident designer, Sophia Lucero, who has also done several other designs in Splashpress Media’s blog network.

Update

The following editions have also been updated. Same basic release notes apply.

• Cutline 2.2 (black and white)
• Cutline 1.4 Three-Column Right
• Cutline 1.4 Three-Column Split

What’s in this Release

1. Threaded comments

WordPress 2.7 allows up to 10 nested levels, but in this case, we recommend only a few (up to 5 perhaps), especially because of the width of the main column, which might not accommodate more.

We replaced comment numbering with gravatars. The comment permalinks can be accessed through the comment time stamp.

2. Post classes

Each post in The Loop is now wrapped with its own DIV. Sticky posts have the corresponding CSS classes. These are unstyled as of now, but the update gives you the option of changing the styling of sticky posts.

3. Image CSS classes

Cutline 1.4 now supports WordPress’ built in image classes (.alignnone, .alignleft, .aligncenter, .alignright), image captions, and image galleries.

4. Minor tweaks to several other theme files.

5. wp_page_menu() was not used.

Why? It’s just a wrapper around wp_list_pages and adds extra code that we don’t need for the top menu.

Notes

Note that you should only use Cutline 1.4 with WordPress 2.7 up. Cutline 1.4 is not compatible with older versions of WP.

If you are upgrading from an older Cutline version, we recommend that you replace all your existing theme files with this one (be sure to make a backup, if you made some customizations). While you might not notice many changes from viewing your blog, much of the work we did here were under the hood.

Also, we wanted to release all the updates in one go, but since we’re still working on the other editions, we will just update this post with incremental releases.

You can download Cutline 1.4 here.

This might take some time, though, but we’ll do our best to come up with the updates before the year ends.