News Magazine Theme 640 v 1.5.3
News Magazine Theme 640 has been updated to version 1.5.3. The update fixes a few issues and prepares the theme for translation. Among the issues addressed, there was a problem with the narrow sidebar. It was picking up the widgets from the sidebar used on the index page. It is supposed to be picking up the widgets placed in the widget box titled “SidebarNarrow”.
Some people were having problems with the images not displaying. The function that prepares the image for display has been modified to make it work on a wider range of servers.
In some cases images were overlapping the post details box on when viewing single posts. This has been fixed.
The preparation of the theme for translation is still a work in progress. If anyone needs the default POT file that’s currently available contact me via the contact form and I will email it to you.
hi admin!
thaks for this great theme: the one I was looking for
but
as you may see if you click on the website link
under the date
there are nothing!
no post
ni widget
its grey and only grey!
Can you help?
Thanks
Hi medzo, will be more than happy to see what I can do to help, but please use the most up-to-date version of the theme before we begin any troubleshooting. You can download the most recent version (version 1.5.9) from the downloads page. It looks like you might have downloaded version 1.5.4 from wordpress.org. Still trying to get wordpress to update to most recent version
Hi!
Thanks for your quick reaction. i’ve uploaded and installed now the last version but
unfortunatly the problem remains the same…
Could U help?
medzo, please contact me via the contact form with your site details so I can take a look if you wish.
hi, very nice template. im new in wordpress. i have an event calendar widget on my site, but then after i install your template, i cant see the name of the current month in my calendar. because its in black color. so how do i change the text color ? thank you
Belly, please accept my apology for the delay in answering your question. Have you tried editing the calendar related class in style.css?
Help! I upgraded today and my navigation bar melted down. It partially shows up in IE but all messed up in Chrome. Can anyone help me with the css to fix this?
I can’t get the leaderboard 720×90 to display if I have the magazine layout turned off. Is there something I can do to get it to display? Thanks!
Like everybody else, I LOVE THIS THEME! But I have a lot of question. Add a forum! BBPress integrates with WordPress pretty easily; you might want to consider it: http://bbpress.org/.
Gator, there is already a forum. You can locate it by following the “Forum” link in the menu. Let me know if you can’t see the link.
I am looking for the place where I can add the images to show. Right now the place for all the images tells me “no image”. I have looked up and down but I am not finding the place to load the images I want to use.
I thought maybe it would take the image from the post, but that didn’t happen either.
Please help.
Thanks,
George
George, you need to upload the images on a post by post basis and insert into your post. The rest should happen automatically.
I have fixed it by my self.
Thanks
I just want to know .. how can I change Back Ground Color and Font Color of “Page” titles. (Such as – HOME, ABOUT, SERVICES etc)
Amit, you can make all style changes for this theme in styles.css. If I am understanding correctly what you are trying to change, they you need to refer to the classes #nmag-navbar and #nmag and their sub classes
First, thanks for a great theme, I love it. I do have one problem, though. I have created several pages (not posts) and they show up in the bar across the top. That’s cool for most, but there’s 2 that I don’t want to have included up there. How can I un-include them?
TJ, you will need to edit header.php at around line 50. Look for wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&sort_column=menu_order’); and modify to include the IDs of the pages you want to exclude:
wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&sort_column=menu_order&exclude=1,2′);
In the above example you’ll see exclude=1,2,3 you will need to change 1,2 to the IDs of the pages you want to exclude.
This will have to be redone with each theme update so you might try to see if you can find a plugin that allows you to filer wp_list_pages
Dear Admin,
Thanks for your all support.
Here I need more more suggestions from you.
How will display “post” images on home page and “featured post”.
I am unable to find any option on “News Magazine Theme 640 Options”.
Please advise me.
Looking forward for your earliest reply.
Thanks,
Amit
Hello,
Hoping you can help me with these questions. Appreciate your effort in getting all this done.
1. What is the suggested size for a logo to replace the header section.
2. If I do not use the logo and instead just go with the default of the blog title being displayed, is there a way to change the color of that text being displayed.
3. Lastly, the picture/text combination you have in the demo at the leaderboard section is just amazing. Is there a way I can do something similar of combining picture with text for the leaderboard. I noticed that the leaderboard space in the settings page takes html, is that what we should be doing to get the picture/text combo?
Thanks again.
Mike
1. As long as you keep it at or under 990 pixels in width you should be fine.
2. You will have to edit style.css to change the color of the text.
3. The picture/text combo is a graphic that was designed in PhotoShop
Amit, I am not sure if I am understanding your question fully. If it is what I think you’re asking you don’t have to do anything different from what you normally do when you post. As long as your post has an image and the image is not being pulled from an offsite location or a location that WordPress has no data about your images should show up
The day and date are about 12 hours ahead of my time zone how can i fix? This is just on the newspaper heading i’m est(new york)It’s all set up properly in the settings.
also i was posting in size 11 font and all was well then i made my last page post on my training page,11 also, but when i went to view site everything came up in 9 and thats two small to read plus i did nothing out of the ordinary.How can i fix that also. If needed i’l get you access to find the problem i just need it fixed those two problems.I’m kind of afraid to add any more content just in case i have re-du it all. when i go back to edit page/posts it all shows up size 11 in the edit window, nothing has changed there. The last page i edited is actually the smaller of the three i believe. Other then that i really like this theme.
Thanks
John
dmark.us
John, will hopefully have the date issue fixed shortly
Thank you for your feedback on the logo. Quick follow up, any suggestions on the height of the logo?
How do i exclude a category from the recent topics sidebar. I tried the exclude tag in the query but it broke the code.
Really having trouble adjusting the header position….
my image is stuck to the left for some reason.
please email with fix. Thanks for your help
Feb 5 2010
TSZ, your comment is posted about News Magazine Theme 640 but it looks like you’re using Producer. It also looks like your image is aligned center already.
Mike, were you asking about the logo or the leaderboard space? I believe my previous answer was made thinking you were asking about the leaderboard space. If indeed it is the leaderboard space the measurment is 728 by 90.
Justin in recenttopics.php look for query_posts(’showposts=’.$numlatesttopics); and add your exclude categories. If that is what you did initially perhaps you had an error that you didn’t notice. Try
In the example the -1,-2,-3 should be replaced by the actual IDs of the categories you want to exclude.
Admin, It actually was for both. Leaderboard and logo. So the leaderboard image has to be 728×90. The logo width is 990, what would you suggest for the height?
Mike, you can really make it any height desired as the rest of the page will adjust accordingly, but I imagine 100 pixels would be ideal.
I love your theme. I just hope I can do it justice. I’m new to this and have been trying to figure out how to have the pictures in the posts appear on the front page. I thought they would pick up automatically. Maybe I am not familiar with the terminology or something in the options area. Please provide a step-by-step for me. Thanks.
Hi !
I have changed in the Stylesheet the wrapper to black and in the Home page is looking good but in the other pages is not looking so good as is the black is taking over the whole page. Can someone tell how can i have the same look as in the main page also in the post pages?
Ellen, the images should pick up automatically. It looks like you have the alternate cropper file set to 1 and the alternate cropper function set to 2. Try setting the alternate cropper function to 1 and see if that makes any difference.
remy, where can I see an example of what you’re talking about?
Hi admin,I have tried various combinations of the the 1 & 2 functions and files, however, I am still unable to get the photos to show. Is there another way this can be done? Are you able to assist?
Ellen, please download functions.zip and unzip and replace functions.php with the copy in functions.zip and let me know if it solves the problem.
http://www.antisocialmediallc.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/functions.zip
Thanks very much for your assistance. The pictures look great and the site is functioning perfectly. Also, thanks for fixing the sidebar on that one page for me. The page looks good now and I appreciate you going the extra mile.
Dumb question from a WP newbie here. How do I get my own banner ad into the leaderboard space?
Hi,
I love your Magazine Theme!! all of them!!
I’m working on a Spanish website, is there a way to translate some of the title you have in the Side Bar?
First I tried to use this Magazine theme 640, but I changed to Producer because I want my categories placed in the header bar, but I like the 640 better. Can I have the categories in the header instead of pages in the 640 theme?
Thanks!!
J.
Hi Joan, at this time you can’t switch between pages and categories in News Magazine theme but I will be sure to add this option for the next update of the theme.
Thanks admin!! I guess that mean I will use producer instead.
What about the translation? Can you tell me where can I go to translate words like: Log in, Written by, Article…. etc?
Thanks again.
J.
Joan, will get you the translation file shortly.
My previous question here went “poof”?
Any help on changing the background color would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
MikeC, the main background class is the body class in style.css. The main container classes are
#wrapper { width:1030px; margin:0 auto; padding:0; background:#ffffff; }
#maincontainer { width:990px; margin:0 auto; }
#contentcontainer { clear:both; overflow:hidden; padding-top:5px; margin:0 auto; width:990px; }
Only wrapper has a background setting.
There will be individual settings for the different tiers so you will need to look for and adjust the background colors set in:
#tier1
#tier1 .tier1main
#tier1 .tier1main .tier1mainnarrow
#tier1 .tier1main .tier1mainwide
#tier2
#tier2 .tier2ad
#tier2 .tier2b
#tier2 .tier2bexpanded
#tier2 .tier2c
#tier2 .tier2cbexpanded
Can’t swear those are the only classes you’ll have to change. You will need to view the source code to find the class name for any additional sections you need to modify then modify the class in style.css.