Wordpress Magazine theme
If you liked WordPress Magazine theme, you will love that one.
I am happy to announce that my latest Wordpress theme, Worpress Magazine is released.
Theme has been tested with 6 different browsers (Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Firefox 1.5 and 2.0, Safari 3.0 and Opera 9.26) and latest WordPress (2.5) version.
License
You must agree with the license agreement before proceeding to download this theme. You are not allowed to edit footer.php. Do not edit any of footer links and keep the links intact
Download
English Preview | Download
Chinese Preview | Download (by Qiuzhang)
If you are intended to translate this theme into some other language(s), and you would like to share it with community, please drop me an email at mhmtozek at gmail.com with the translated theme files. It will be open to download on this page along with a credit to you.
Features
- Tableless and Unique design
- Improved Widget support (3 sidebars)
- Dropdown navigation
- Valid CSS
- Valid XHTML
Donation (Isn’t it worth of 5 dollars?)
If you find this theme download helpful, please consider a small donation which which will go towards hosting costs and peace in the world (: Feel free to send donations via paypal to k_anafor56 (at) hotmail.com or use the paypal button below.
Before submitting a question
Make sure that you went through the installation guide that comes along within the zip file you downloaded. If the answer of your question is there, please check faq section. However, if you still can’t find the answer of question, submit it as a comment on this post.
Questions about modification
If you believe that you are going to ask a simple question, go on submit it. However, hundreds of questions that I received via email, contact form and here on this post took a lot of time for me to answer. So, I wont guarantee to deliver answers for modification questions.
Changelog
- April 10, 2008: style.css is updated. Whenever you add an image into a post, assign a class for it as alignleft or alignright.
- May 26, 2008: Theme is translated into Chinese language (Thanks to Qiuzhang)
March 20th, 2008 at 7:29 am
I am very excited and i really want to try this.
March 21st, 2008 at 12:21 am
wow i love this theme its beautiful , thanks.
March 21st, 2008 at 3:17 pm
The theme is very good?thanks
March 21st, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Great template!
How do I alter the “advertise here” bit?
March 21st, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Hi Alex,
Thanks for your comment. Can you please describe little bit more what you exactly want to do?
If you want to leave some space between image ad and recent posts block, then add style=”margin-bottom:15px” into your img tag.
If you want to place two image ad on your sidebar, then assign class=”left” and class=”right” to them in your img tag
March 21st, 2008 at 9:01 pm
I was hoping to put a widget type box containing HTML. If not I can settle for a .gif image which links to a page.
I shall proceed to show off my new site in the meantime!
March 21st, 2008 at 9:08 pm
I sent you an email to the address that you left while leaving comment. Please check it Alex
March 24th, 2008 at 1:51 am
I installed it but news don’t show up. :(
March 24th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Did you follow all the written instruction on installation guide moni? I wanted to ask more info but seems that you’ve left a fake email address while leaving a comment
March 24th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Hi, Mehmet. I didn’t read it , silly me. Everything is OK now.
I don’t know why the template is centered in Firefox and not in IE. I didn’t change anything in css code. Can you help me to solve this problem, please?
March 24th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Can you write your website address here or email it to mhmtozek at gmail dot com
March 25th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Hi Mehmet, nice job.
Would you tell me if this template runs well on other languages rather than English? Is it easy to translate all the titles into Spanish?
Thanks,
March 26th, 2008 at 5:16 am
Hi. I insert a picture in the post like directed….300 px, etc. When I view the page in IE, the featured article has the text to the right and pushes the whole page over. Any suggestions?
March 26th, 2008 at 9:19 am
@Leonardo,
It is very easy to change the language of the theme. You need to change the proper words in to spanish language that are located in index.php and comment.php
Ask for further help, if you can not figur out how to translate it. I will be pleased to help you.
@Nathan
I guess you are using a visual wysiwyg editor for writing articles. Please try to open your source (html) codes and find the following line.
You’ve placed a lot of uncessary codes which are causing a mess with IE. Remove hspace=5, align=left, vspace=5, border=0. That should fix your theme.
Btw, the widget support of this theme is very weak. I will re-install widget today. So I suggest you to re-download theme today.
March 26th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Thank you so much….worked great. I’ll re-download the theme today. By the way….any way to make the pictures small thumbs in the middle column instead of 300 px?
March 26th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Nathan,
With this method, you can align them all to left;
1- Open your style.css file. Go to end of document. and paste following line
In that case, you will align all the images to left, and your text will appear next to images. But there is a problem, allowed word count for middle column is 30, so if your images is going to be higher than 50 px, text will be short, image will be long and that will look ugly. To fix this problem;
2- Open your index.php file and find
30 is the number of the words to be displayed on the middle column. Increase it to 60.
After all, if your middle column looks higher than left and right columns due to increased text counts, open your index.php and find &showposts=4′); ?>. 4 is the number of posts to be displayed on the middle column. Decrease it to 3
I hope all these makes sense
March 26th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Thanks. How about SEO, is this theme optimized?
March 26th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Thank you….you’re great.
March 26th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Leonardo,
No, I didn’t do anything for that. Actually, I believe that the only problem comes with WordPress is the duplicate content problem. Everybody has different solutions. If I would try to fix it with some snippets, then people who use robots.txt (to prevent duplicate content issue) could face such a situation like blocking everything from search engines. That is why I left optimizing part to the end user.
Actually, you can copy my robots.txt to your webhost. This way you will fix duplicate content issue. As for rest, you can use all in one seo plugin
I hope all these makes sense
March 26th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Mehmet, thanks again. You’re doing a great job!
March 26th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Hi
I’ve downloaded and install the theme on localhost, its awesome. Is there a plugin i could use for the sponsors column. lets say i want to show ads from openads?
Or
do you know any plugin that could measure the click rates of the ad.gif for example?
March 26th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Hi Bob,
I unfortunately don’t know the answer of your question. I didn’t check if there is a Wordpress plugin that tracks the outgoing links yet.
I would be very pleased if you could share with us in case if you find the plugin that you are looking for.
March 26th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Actually, vanilla WP-stats does fairly decent outbound tracking:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/
Truly awesome theme, Mehmet… It’s truly terriffic. Why don’t you include some additional info about it? Is it CSS-driven, tableless, etc. I haven’t done validation tests myself, but I suspect it’s 100% XHTML 1.0. Wouldn’t hurt to include that in the info! That, and it loads really fast, too. Not to mention that it’s pure eyecandy. Makes me wish I had time enough to implement it and blast off a magazine myself…
March 26th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Thanks for the head up Alvaro, I have missed to add features part into the description. Now it is there.
Also thank you for the plugin (which is already installed) and your nice comments about the theme. It means a lot since I didnt have any negative feedback yet and all the comments I’ve encouraged me to start to build up another magazine style theme or photo album that is based on Wordpress :)
March 26th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Bob….I also believe that google analytics is now able to track outbound clicks.
Mahmet - Thanks for the help and i absolutely love your design….you have done a very good job and your response to questions is remarkable. I just have one last question….do you know of a way I can use an image for my title, plus use two outbound clickable graphics within the header? for an example, here is the way my old html header was: http://www.nationalsquib.com/html/space_shuttle.html
Thanks!
March 27th, 2008 at 4:59 am
hi Mehmet
thanks for the great and beautiful theme. i have tried so many others the past 1 year.. yours is one of the best that i have tried..
i tried customising it somehow and i have problems with the 300X250ad and the smaller ad. i know i can replace the respective ads images under the theme image folder to show my own banner ads… but my question is how i do enable my own banners to become a hyperlink itself so that when someone clicks on my banner, they will be sent to the designated URL?
also if i want to insert a word “Sponsor” just before the placement of the 300X250ad, how do i do it?
hear from you soon on this..
last but not least, thanks and do continue to build us more themes. we all appreciate your talent and hard work in releasing those great themes for free to us! I salute you for this! :) thank you!!
March 27th, 2008 at 7:23 am
Nathan,
I will explain how to set a header images just like on the example page you showed
We need to edit our style.css first, so please open that file and
1. Find the following lines
#wrapper {
width: 970px;
padding:20px 0 10px;
And change 20px to 10 px
2. Find the following lines
#headerleft {
width: 650px;
float: left;
border:1px;
}
Change it to
#headerleft {
width: 650px;
float: left;
border:1px;
height:78px;
}
3. Find the following lines
#headerright {
width: 300px;
float: right;
margin: 0px;
text-align: right;
}
Change it to (we are going to insert some padding value here)
#headerright {
width: 300px;
float: right;
margin: 0px;
text-align: right;
padding-top:15px;
}
And for the last step, open your header.php file and remove following line completely
<h1><a href=”<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>/” title=”<?php bloginfo(’description’); ?>”><?php bloginfo(’name’); ?></a></h1>
Paste this lines instead of the one you removed
<img src="http://www.nationalsquib.com/assets/images/LFFLogo.jpeg.jpg" style="float: left;margin:20px 10px" height="38" width="129"><img src="http://www.nationalsquib.com/assets/images/newsbanner.gif" style="float: left;" height="78" width="339">
<img src="http://www.nationalsquib.com/assets/images/LFFLogo.jpeg.jpg" style="float: left;margin:20px 0 0 10px" height="38" width="129">
March 27th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Hi Donald,
I will explain step by step. Open your WordPress admin area and click Presentation>Theme Editor> (from the right side of screen)300×250ad.php
After all, you should have following lines on your screen.
<!-- Left column 300*250 piksel ad --><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/300_250add.gif" alt="" />
Remove the above codes completely and paste following lines
<h2>Sponsor</h2><a href="#"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/300_250add.gif" alt=""></a>
Dont forget to change # to the website address that you want your visitors to be redirected when they click on your 300×250 ad image.
By the way, your middle column looks shorter than sidebar. If you are not going to use images on your middle column why not to display 5 posts instead of 4? To do so, Presentation>Theme Editor>Main index template and digg coding until you find out showposts=4 (there is also showpost=10, dont touch it, it is the count of latest features stories). Change showposts=4 to showposts=5
March 27th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
thanks Mehmet!
i really think you are amazing especially when you are giving support to people who are using your free theme..
you responded to my queries fast, with clear, precise instructions to fix my problem, as well as giving me feedback on my site on how to better use your theme!
thanks so much! i will check back your site often! :D
best wishes to you in whatever you need..
March 27th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
2 more questions, hope you do not mind!
1. how to go about editing 125×125ads.php to show my ads banner as hyperlinks to another site?
2. how to change the background colour of the theme which is current grey.
Suggestion: I think the questions that all of us are asking you, mine included, should be added to a FAQ so that you can save time answering those frequently asked questions :)
thanks!
March 27th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Donald,
I sent the answers of your questions via email. Let me know if you didnt receive it.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Hi Mehmet, awsome theme! I am preparing a site for launch and there is only one “bug” that I can’t seem to tackle. It relates to the built in “tag cloud” widget from WordPress. There is no line break or space that separates the tag cloud from the widget that is below it. Do you have any ideas? I searched all over the Wordpress site but found no solutions. The site is at graymarketnews.com. Thanks!
March 28th, 2008 at 12:57 am
Wow!! A really awesome theme!!!! Nice ever!
March 28th, 2008 at 5:11 am
Yes Mehmet
I have received your email and have just replied them :D
Thank you! hehehe…
Regards
Donald
March 28th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Mike,
Thank you for your comment. A quick solution for your problem would be to replace the place of blogroll and Tag cloud. If you dont like to keep tag cloud bottom of the page, I have some coding work for you. let me know.
Hanep
Thanks for you mail. I believe your site would look much better if you would open your stylesheet and paste the following column to the end of document
#featured h3 {margin-top:20px;} #featurednewslist {margin-top:20px;}
March 28th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
hi Mehmet
thanks for your help again! i managed to sort out the ads link.
BTW to everyone else,
Mehmet is really a great guy! I need help with the Wordpress Magazine theme and I asked him various questions. Not only did he offer to help me solve my issue, he even did more than what i asked for! And he responds fast!
March 30th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Really nice! But what about: Printing of single posts? Emailing single posts? Related stories? Tag cloud?
March 30th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Hi John,
I believe that most of things that you mentioned can be handled by widgets, but to be honest, you inspired me for V2 (:
March 31st, 2008 at 3:13 pm
I use your wordpress magazine theme with wordpress 2.5. I insert image from flickr, but no lead image at front page. Is it because the wordpress 2.5 or I did something wrong with how to embed the image. I follow your instructions at downloaded zip.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:44 pm
C Sutanto,
I checked your site, and I saw that there were some flickr pictures. Can you tell me exactly what you would like to do?
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:04 am
I am using WordPress 2.5. Will your theme still work with this version?
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:35 am
Yes Jessie, it works fine with Wordress 2.5
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Thank you Mehmet, your help very useful. Now I can use wordpress magazine theme with wordpress 2.5.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Wow, this looks nice! By chance: Anyone who have tried to attach “print this post” and “send by email”-plugins? That would have made this one just genius.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:59 pm
I think I need to write a changelog. I’ve inserted another CSS file that is going to reformat the single page when somebody wants to print the an article from File > Print options on their browser.
This css file is going to remove all the unnecessary divs, such as sidebar, header and footer while printing of a single article.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Great template.
Like Donald, above, I am also interested in how to have a different gif (with link) for each of the four small ads positioned in the upper right side.
Thanks
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Darryl,
Upload four gif files into images folder. Let me know the file names and the links that you will like visitors to be redirected when they click on them and email this information to mhmtozek at gmail dot com. I will send you back some codes to put them into 125×125ads.php file
April 4th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Mehmet, this is a great theme….it reminds me of Revolution News theme by Brian Gardner, but you have surely tried to make it unique, and free. I am sure this will receive lots of adoption. It might be a good idea to just post all the support answers you are offering on email on this blog page as well!
April 4th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Thank you Ashih,
Donald also gave me same idea, to collect all the answers and questions and create a faq sections with them.
I guess it is a great idea. Only problem is, I am a bit out of time currently :) But I’m on my way to do that
April 4th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Thank you for making this available. I am having a problem, however, following your installation instructions in Wordpress 2.5, since the category IDs no longer show up in the “Manage Category” tab. Any idea where I might find that information in 2.5?
April 4th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Hi Marry,
It is possible to see category ID’s with WordPress 2.5 as well. To do so, when you move your mouse over a category, watch the address that is written on the status bar.
Check this picture to understand what I mean.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Thank you, I would have been searching for ages. I also found that someone came up with a plugin for this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/reveal-ids-for-wp-admin-25/
Well, back to installing! Thanks a bunch for this!
April 4th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Your welcome Mary, Just ask if some another issue comes up
April 5th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Hi Mehmet,
I wanted to know how to edit the footer on this theme without messing up the info and link-backs that are already there. Please let me know… thanks!
April 5th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Hi Jessie,
I sent the answer by email. Let me know if you didn’t get it.
April 5th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Hi Mehmet,
If I change the middle column posts, how to show other posts like wp-pagenavi(plug-in) to put the pages navigation.
It will be convenient for the readers.
April 5th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Hi Corker,
I never tried to add a page navigation to the bottom of middle column. Today, after your question I tried to do that, but it seems that it doesn’t work. However, I dont belive that a page navigation would be a good idea to use on the main site of a magazine style theme.
Currently you do display 4 posts on the main page, how about to display 10 more? I mean, you will be keeping your latest 4 news there with excerpts, but what about to show (only) headline of other 10 latest news category? This way, user will have 14 news headine on the main page.
If that interests you, add following snippet right after endif on your middle column.
There are some ready list styles on your stylesheet. Just assign one of them for #midcolumn to have a better looking list.
April 6th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Thanks for your reply,anyway it’s just a idea.
Maybe readers don’t wanna read the pages one by one,and pick a page instead and casually to review.(Just like really to read a magazine)
April 6th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Hi!
I just wanted to express my thanks for this wonderful theme. The design is awesome and it’s just what I’ve been looking for.
Here’s the blog if you want to see how it’s being used.
http://www.lavrai.com/blogs
Thanks again.
April 6th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Corker, I wish I could have the answer how to fix it. But with customized loops, I dont have the answer. Readers can search articles by using date from the sidebar. In that case page by browsing articles page function works.
Lavrai,
Thanks for your comment. But I believe that your site has chance to look even better. I will send you an updated and customized CSS file today.
April 6th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Hi,
Thank you for the word you did on this theme. I just moved from Joomla to Wordpress.
Is this template Fluid ? and if not how can make it Fluid.
Thank you !
April 7th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Fantastic work you have there, Mehmet. High five for making it standards compliant and validated. I’ll definitely feature it in my gallery. Keep up the good work.
- Dulce
April 7th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Hannibal,
Can you detail it little bit more. I am not sure if I understood what you mean when you said fluid?
Dulce
Thanks for the nice comment.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
hello Mehmet.
thanks for the theme - i’m a beginner and your clear instructions are really great!
i have two questions: first - how do i get rid of the little flower?
second: my blog description is not showing up in the header - what should i do to make it visible?
thanks.
ab
April 7th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Hi Mehmet,
I had to leave you a note. I tried countless Wordpress magazine-style themes and after hours of frustration with tinkering in the code I found your theme. And while I did tinker in your code to make the theme do what I wanted, it was comparatively painless when compared to Mimbo and Branford Magazine. I love this theme and I’m so happy that I found it - and thank you for writing it. You can see how I modified it at Skeptics GlobalWarming. One question, though: how do I enable widgets in your theme? The Archives and Categories are part of the code and widgetized and when I add widgets I don’t see them. Did I miss something obvious?
April 8th, 2008 at 6:19 am
boomtak,
1. Open your stylesheet and remove the following lines,
padding-left:45px;background:url(images/flordeju.gif) no-repeat left center;
2. To add also description tag next to site name; open header.php and find the following line
<h1><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/" title="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>Replace it with the following line
<h1><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></a></h1>April 8th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Skeptic,
I emailed you new sidebar.php which I adjusted as you wanted to have. Let me know if it doesn’t land to your inbox.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Hi, Mehmet and thanks for your excellent theme. Just a question:
in single post view when I up just an image, with no text, the post info doesn’t flow under the image but on the side…can you correct the problem? Anyway your theme is great…thanks
Roberto
April 9th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Hi Roberto,
Open your stylesheet and find the following lines
.post img {
float:left;
margin: 5px 15px 5px 0;
display:block;
}
To delete, float:left should fix your problem.
Or someother way;
open your image in code editor You will see something like
<img src =”
Insert style=”float:none” right after <img. So it will become to <img style=”float:none;” src=”
April 9th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Great theme, I love it. I’m just testing it out now, but I was wondering if there’s a way to have the featured and news images on the front page link to their specific posts. Right now only the post title links. For example, on your preview page of the theme (http://wp-magazine.gabfire.com/), I’d like to have not only “Narrow streets of Barkhor” link to the post but also the image of the woman link to it. I know I can do this after the fact, but it would be handy if it was automatically taken care of.
Thanks!
April 9th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Hi Mike,
Images used in posts are dynamic. They always changes. So, they are never same, for that reason, I am unfortunately not able to create links for images as well along with the title.
You can do that manualy while writing the post, but I wouldn’t suggest that since it can cause a mess later if you decide to change your permalink structure.
By the way; stay tunned, I am going to come out with a news theme (:
April 10th, 2008 at 6:24 am
Thank you Mehmet, the float:left; modification solved my problems.
Could you share with us the sidebar or the code that accepts widgets that you sent to Skeptic?
Could you share with us the code to modify the 4 square ads in the upper right area of your theme? (The one you sent to Darryl)
I am building up a faq for you, so in case you don’t have time, I will send that to you.
I know it’s maybe too much, but do you have a roadmap for the “news theme” you are going to release… ;-)
Thumbs up high for you and your theme!
Roberto
April 10th, 2008 at 6:41 am
Hi Roberto,
I am not writing a change log but I apply each changes also into the file and then re upload it to server to make it possible for others also to get benefits of it.
For example; right after answering to your question, I’ve updated my style.css file and re-uploaded theme. So, sidebar has widget support.
I built three sidebar support. So, the column where categories are placed called as sidebarleft, the column where links and archives are placed called as sidebarright, and as extra, there is a widget bar called as sidebarbar, where widget is subjec to both sidebarleft and sidebarright.
About square ads; if you do have basic knowledge of html, you can edit theme easily. Squareads are placed in the 125×125ads.php file. Just to open and modify the image names or inserting links to images should do whatever you want.
And the roadmap; I will write a post in the blog about it today. But an estimated time would be 30-45 days and the theme would be something like nymag.com. I’m going to build a lot complicated and big theme which really would look like a news site :)
Last thing; I really appreciate a lot for your efforts to build up a faq. Thanks a lot for that. Once you completed it please email it to mhmtozek {at} gmail com.
Thank you again
April 10th, 2008 at 7:51 am
Thanks. Very helpfull. And the news theme is impressive…
I will let you know about the faq as soon as it is done…
Good work
Roberto
April 11th, 2008 at 3:39 am
Hi Mehmet,
Ur magazine theme is really nice. Thumbs up! Thank you, you are great designer!
April 11th, 2008 at 5:56 am
This is one of the greatest theme I have ever seen, and it fits my need. Thank you for your great work!
Could you help me this little question? I would like to change the navigation bar hover color from RED to another color. I searched the whole style.css but I couldn’t find the default red color code. Could you tell me where can I change that?
April 11th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Hi Simon,
When you open the stylesheet try to find #d92100 and replace it with the color that you want
April 11th, 2008 at 9:20 am
As Al
thanks…now ‘www.recollect.in’ looks like a real news website
please tell how to upload middle column photo and news
can a banner and logo be added
please reply
Aftab
April 11th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Al Sal :)
I am not sure if I understood what you meant Aftab. The picture that would appear on the mid column is your image in the post. If you set everything as its written on the installation guide, just write a post to display on the mid column.
April 11th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Hi Mehmet,
I was wondering the best way to use an iframe inplace of one of the 125×125 ads. Amazon seems to only be giving iframe code instead of images and links.
How can I incorporate this:
into this:
<img src=”/images/ad.gif” class=”right” alt=”" />
Thanks again.
April 11th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Mike, how big is the size of your amazon ad? 125×125?
April 12th, 2008 at 4:18 am
Hi Mr Mehmet,
Tq for ur wonderful site.
Can I ask for some help with this… I tried to change the size and font color of my fonts in my post.
Eg. “This site is under construction”, this words I make red in my “manage post” editing. But when the post appear on the website, the fonts are not red but go back to deafult color.
How may I change the coding to relect the red font color?
I am cpmplete idiot newbie… please hv specific guides.
TQ.
April 12th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Aos,
Find the both following lines on your style.css file and add color:#c00; before } characters
#featured {
padding-bottom:5px;
border-bottom:1px solid #f2f2f2;
margin-bottom:15px;
}
.midcolumnpost {
margin-bottom:10px;
padding:10px;
}
April 12th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Thank you! I can change the navigation bar color now.
However, am I be able to create another new category under “latest features stories” at left side column separately. I tried to add another after , but those new contents will move to the middle. Could you help me?
Thanks!
Simon
April 13th, 2008 at 8:01 am
The Wordpress Mag theme is great and I chose it after a week of trying others. I downloaded the theme when I had WP 2.3, now I have 2.5 and the LATEST NEWS does not update at all- any ideas?
Thanks
Shawn
April 13th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Sorry Simon, I need to adjust some codings for that and I really dont have time to deal with. I am really sorry :(
Shawn,
My demo runs on WP 2.5 and I have tested Magazine theme with WP 2.5. It works fine. Make sure that you have written all category IDs’ of latest news section to index.php file.
Try to post something under some other category.
April 13th, 2008 at 8:55 am
I have posted under new and sub categories new articles but they still don’t show as expected. I will play around with it and see what I come up with.
Thanks Shawn
April 13th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Mehmet
Thanks! I hope that you will have time later on and take this in consideration. Keep it up!
Simon
April 14th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Hi! I am trying to use your theme on this site…
http://www.simplyfamilymagazine.com
however, the drop-down menu is not working.
I would love your assistance. This is a fantastic theme, by the way! I appreciate your hard work.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Hi Traci,
I just checked your site and found out that there is no any submenu for navigation and as expected there wont be any dropdown as well. Try to create some subpages for the page items.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Hi Mehmet,
I like this theme. I am trying out some modifications to colors, column widths, etc. In the meantime, I was trying to add widgets, I downloaded newer style.css as indicated above, but when I add widgets through Wordpress interface, all the current ads and categories disappear. I must be missing something! I want to add my sign-up form and RSS feed info at upper right, which I guess I can do by adding it above the ads in the 125×125 php file, but I’m guessing that’s not the best way to do it? I thought an html widget would be the thing to use.
April 15th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Ho Mehmet, related to the tag cloud we previously discussed at graymarketnews.com, the cloud is still cut off at the bottom. Any suggestions? Thanks!
April 15th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Laurie,
You dont need to add RSS buttons, they are already placed on the navigation.
The place where the ads are not widget supported. So you need to edit manualy 125×125ads.php file to be able to configurate them. As for the rest; full sidebar has 3 widget support named as sidebarleft (where categories are), sidebarright (where links and archive are) and sidebarwide (just both column and there is nothing on the area of this widget)
Whenever you add something through widget support, it is very normal that the things gets disappeared. You are customizing the sidebar so you need add your things by yourself (including categories and other stuff)
As for graymarketnews.com; I am not quite sure if I get your question. I checked your site and it looks fine.
April 16th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
We have been using this theme and very happy so far but have a question about images and video in the post intros on the home page.
Is it possible to show an image in the intro and the post page at different sizes (ie show a thumbnail size in the intro and a full size in the post)?
Also - we have embedded a video into a featured post (at the top of the post and have sized it to fit 300 px) but the video will not show up in the featured post intro on the home page - is it possible to have this video visible in the feature intro?
One more question about intros on the home page - how do you make sure that posts in the “featured” articles intro don’t also appear in the “latest” article intros just next to it at the same time?
April 16th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
1. Yes it is possible. Lets say that you inserted both, thumb and original size image into the post. and assigned a class for both as .thumn and .original
in css file something like following would be ok.
#leftcolumn .original, #midcolumn .original {display:none;}
#single .thumb {display:none;}
2. You need some adjustment in coding. open index.php file and find following code block
<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(30, ‘<img><a>’, ‘content’, false, ‘More…’, true);?>
replace it with
<?php the_content(__(’»’)); ?>
3. We have adjusted our codes so spesific categories appears on the spesific columns. That is why featured article and mid column posts dont get mixed
April 17th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Hi Mehmet.
First of all. I love your theme. It was just what I was looking for! And thank you for answering peoples questions on this page. I have learned alot just from reading your answers here. Thank you!
I have a question aswell, that I hope you will find the time to answer. I think its an easy one, but I cant figure it out…
How do I remove the flordeju.gif and the name of the site and instead replaces it with a banner I have created?
The banner is w550X100
April 17th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
LE tisseir,
First of all, upload your image to your images folder and then open your header.php and find the following code block
<div id="headerleft"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/" title="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a>
</div>
Replace the above code with following one
<div id="headerleft"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/imagename.jpg” alt=”" />
</div>
Rename the file name to the one that you uploaded into your images folder.
April 17th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Thank you for the quick answer. It isnt working though. The image isnt showing even though I have placed it in the same folder as the flordeju.gif
When I edit the header.php I cant find the text-block you refer to. This is the closest I get. Is something wrong with my header.php??
<a href=”/” title=”">
<script src=”/javascript/date.js” type=”text/javascript”>
April 18th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Once again: Thank you so much for your help with the header.php
My site is starting to look the way I want it to. I still have some small adjustments, that I am not sure how to do. I have created an image to make it easier to see what I mean
http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=examqf8.jpg
How do I remove the padding to the left (marked as 1)
How do I remove the padding at the top (marked as 2)
How do I remove the border around the site? (marked as 3)
How do I remove the date next to the search box? (marked as 4)
April 18th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Meta in sidebar
How do you remove certain entries in the meta-widget? I have tried other themes where you just have to edit the sidebar.php, but there is nothing in this theme.
I want to keep site admin and login/out, but I just want to get rid of the rest of the options.
April 18th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
LE tisseir,
I am sorry but I believe that I sent you the answers of your questions by email.
April 18th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Yep Mehmet. You have been most helpful and answered all my questions my mail except for the last one about the meta-widget.
Thank you Mehmet!
April 18th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
I don’t know how to edit widgets, I actually don’t use widgets at all, so, I am not very handy with them.
But I can send you the plain login logout code to place on your footer, so you will be just keeping a login/out link on your footer.
April 19th, 2008 at 1:24 am
Hi! i Loved this theme and I´d like to use it ,but I´m having the following problem: I´m traducing all the content to spanish, but i can´t find the way to translate the title “Recent comments”. I don´t see any text or command in sidebar.php or index.php. ¿Could you give me some advice?
April 19th, 2008 at 8:20 am
NCV,
Recent comments must be one of the widgets that you are using. To change the text “recent comments” into some other language, you need to play around widgets tab on your admin area.
April 21st, 2008 at 7:17 am
How do you add the links to 125×125.php
Here is the current code: <img src=”/images/ad.gif” class=”left” alt=”" />
If I want to ad a link to each little ad what do I need to do?
April 21st, 2008 at 7:59 am
randel,
I updated faq section and added your question along with its answer. Please check faq page.
April 21st, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Hi - thought you might like to see how we’ve bashed about this theme as an experiment for a new website for our non-profit.
I’ve been quite ruthless, so it doesn’t look much like the original, although all the core architecture is from the original wordpress magazine theme. It has been fun - I’d not played with css before.
One thing I’ve been unsuccessful on is how to move the left-column to the middle and vice versa. Any hints?
http://www.freedom-clothing.co.uk/test
April 21st, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Joe,
here is the answer of your question
Lets play with CSS to replace margin values of left and mid column
Open your style.css and find the following code blocks
#leftcolumn {
float:left;
display:inline;
background:#f2f2f2;
margin-right:15px;
padding:8px 10px 10px 10px;
width: 300px !important;
width: 320px;
width/**/:/**/300px;
}
#midcolumn {
float:left;
width: 320px;
display:inline;
}
Cut margin-right:15px; from the #leftcolumn and (assign) paste it to #midcolumn.
and then open your index.php file and cut everyting that are placed between <!– Left Column –> and <!– /Left Column –>. Paste them right after <!– /Middle Column –>
April 21st, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Mmm.. I tried that and it doesn’t seem to have made much difference!
April 21st, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Hi Mehmet,
As with everyone that writes a comment… THANK YOU for this theme! It’s awesome, and has been so easy to work with!
I do have a quick question though…
I have set up all of my categories like you said to in your installation instructions. I was wondering if there was a way for all of the posts under the news category (middle column) to also be listed in a new page from my main navigation.
Is there a way to run the wp-loop for the news category on a defined page?
Thanks again
April 21st, 2008 at 6:41 pm
britt,
I guess you can achieve this with the help of exec-php plugin
I didnt try but this plugin claims to allow user run php function while writing articles. I guess after activating it, you can write your loop codes as page.
April 21st, 2008 at 8:04 pm
OK, I’ve played a bit more - what was happening was that the left column was fine, but the middle column was displaying the whole post of all the posts in that category, which were then spilling over into the right column, displacing the sidebar. Is there a command to stop the contents going into another column?
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:38 am
Great Theme!!! I really love it. Only thing missing is the “Recent Articles” (and “Recent Comments”) panel.
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:54 am
Not all want to display recent comments or articles ramesh, you can do that through widgets or you can simple copy following line to somewhere on your sidebar.php to display 10 recent articles
<?php get_archives(’postbypost’,'10′); ?>
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:59 am
Thanks, Mehmet. This theme has attracted me very much! I’ll certainly contribute to your PP account after I install this theme in my blog.
Wondering if you’re offering theme customization service, and if so, how much would be the cost.
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:13 am
Thanks Rames, I appreciate that.
Can you list and email me at mhmtozek[a]gmail com about the changes that you would like to make? It will be good to see what kind of modification are we talking about before I quote something.
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Thanks for such a great theme. Once I get it all configed and tested on my test server, I’ll be making the switch. I’ve added a few tweaks to it already.
But I’ve hit a wall with one thing. I want to use thumbs in the middle column, but I don’t want to use the first image in the single post. I want to designate a thumb to use. The thumb will not appear in the single post. Is this doable?
BTW. Once I go live with the new theme, I’ll be sending you something through PP. No joke! I love your work that much. I don’t think I’ve ever sent money for a theme or a plugin before. It wont be much, prob $5. But hey, every bit right?
Thanks again.