New Magazine Theme 640 version 1.6.5
There is a new update available for News Magazine Theme 640. Version 1.6.5 improves the thumbnail functions to allow for images to be re-used from the media library. Previously if you inserted an image from your media library and that image was not in the gallery for the specific post the image would not show up. In version 1.6.5 this has been sorted out so now, if you already have images uploaded that you want to re-use you can just insert them from your media library and they should be displayed.
Working on fixing it so you can also use remote images (images linked to from sources outside of your server). This ability is not currently present so if you have images in your post that have a remote/external URL those images will not show up on the homepage.
Version 1.6.5 also adds a new option to the admin for those of you using News Magazine Theme 640 in blog mode. If you want to include the author and date byline under the title for each post shown on the index page you can activate this option from the admin. It is made optional as some people want the byline and others do not.
Please report any problems you are having with version 1.6.5 of News Magazine Theme 640 and thank you for using the theme.
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jennyd, there isn’t an easy way to turn off the narrow sidebar on the posts page. You would have to edit single.php to achieve that goal.
jennyd, thank you for your info though not sure what fix in particular caused your site to crash. The fix for the date issue has been applied to header.php and can be downloaded from the link below until the theme is updated with the fix.
http://www.antisocialmediallc.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/header.zip
Unizip header.zip and replace your current copy of header.php with the copy inside header.zip.
jennyd, what code are you having trouble posting?
I would like to link an image I want to upload to the Tier 2 space to another page. What steps would I need to take to enable visitors to click to the referred page?
Please advise
Cheryl
Hello,
Is there perhaps a FAQ on this theme that I’m missing? I don’t want to ask redundant questions if avoidable – so apologies if I missed it.
I’m building a publishing platform with wordpress-mu for a group of professional writers and artists. I like the clean & professional look of this theme, as well as the style. I’ve installed it on the site and am currently assessing it to see if it fits the needs of this project.
1) Do you know of any issues that would prevent this theme from working with WPMU? I would like the “front page” category boxes to draw from specific categories on posts by multiple users.
3) I’ve noticed that when the window is re-sized – as it inevitably will be – that the edges of bg.gif image become visible and the background loses its continuity. Is there a fix for this other than to remove the background image and have a solid color? The gradient is quite nice and it would be a shame to lose it.
3) Google AdSense- if we use it. Is there a feature within this theme, or is it supported through widgets?
4) The category images on the front page – are they static or related to each individual post? If they are pulled from the post, then are they able to be re-sized without distortion?
artsfish, I don’t know of any issues that should prevent the theme from working with WPMU. Yes, there are options in the theme for adding your adsense code to display within the theme. The images are related to each individual post and are cropped. There should be no distortion.
cheryl you need to wrap the image code inside anchor tags as in the example
<a href="http://www.thedomaintolinkto.com"><img src=”http://www.domainwhereimageishosted.com/wp-content/themes/news-magazine-theme-640/images/thenameoftheimage.xxx" border="0" alt="your alt text">
If your news magazine theme folder is named something different from newsmagazine-theme-640 then you would change the name accordingly. The image src in the example is only and example.
See
http://www.antisocialmediallc.com/2010/02/how-to-insert-a-leaderboard-ad-in-news-magazine-theme-640/
and
http://www.antisocialmediallc.com/2010/02/how-to-insert-a-120-by-600-skyscraper-ad-in-news-magazine-theme-640/
Thank you for a great theme. It looks incredible.
I have enabled featured category #6 under tier 1. This results in 10 “Recent Posts” showing under tier 2. Question:
- How do I change the number of recent posts that appear
- How do I change the content to something other than recent posts under tier 2?
Thanks again.
James.
Hello, thank you for this theme.
Two questions if I may.
1)I have what might be a strange and basic question. Where do we put the images that we want to appear next to the features? I did not see any info or instructions on where these are to be uploaded. Also, are the images that are displayed for these features always the same ones or do they vary, if so, what determines this?
2)On IE6, the right hand sidebar is appearing underneath the posts, instead of to the right. Is there a quick simple fix for this? If so, what is it?
Apologies again for a what may be basic questions.
James it’s not clear what you mean by “recent posts”. Do you mean recent for the featured category or just recent random? Or are you referring to the sidebar?
Gavin, you don’t need to manually manage the pictures for them to show. In other words, if your post contains images they are supposed to be getting picked up automatically. If that is not happening you might be having a problem with the cropper.
Regarding IE, I will try to remember to get it looked at for the next update.
Hi, thanks for your reply, I will try out the images, you have given me the info I needed, I just didnt know where the images were getting collected from…
Re IE6, I have fixed the problem by cropping the #postsidebar from 210px to 200px in the style-ie6.css file, this now works for me.
Kind regards, and thnak you for your time.
How do I install google adsense on individual posts in Newsmagizine 640
I added the plug-in “adsense integrator” but it doesn’t seem to work.
Where do I put the code from google adsense so that it shows up on the individual posts on the site.
Help
Thank you
Rich
rich, there is an option in the theme options page for single page ads. You insert your ad code there. I don’t know how “adsense integrator” affects the theme or vice versa.
I am using this theme for two sites:
http://jimcamut.com and http://manifestwell.com
My question:
How do I get the page navigation at the bottom to appear like it does on jimcamut.com/blog. If you look at ManifestWell.com, the posts just keep listing and I only want 5 excerpts per page.
I would like the little navigation option that says:
”Page 1 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 »”
Did I delete it somehow by accident? Of do I need more posts for this function to appear? Any help would be appreciated.
Jim, there’s a setting in WordPress under Settings->Reading where you set the number of posts you want to display on the homepage.
hi admin,
i get this error in when search for something:
Warning: Missing argument 4 for bdw_get_images(), called in /home/valeriux/public_html/wp-content/themes/news-magazine-theme-640/search.php on line 117 and defined in /home/valeriux/public_html/wp-content/themes/news-magazine-theme-640/functions.php on line 283
Can you please tell how can i ge rig of it? did i delete something i should have?
Thanks
danny, you can try the attached copy of search.php.
http://www.antisocialmediallc.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/search.zip