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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Shivani, there is a new option in version 1.6.8 for you to try an alternate cropper file. Please try that to see if it is any help. Upgrade to Version 1.6.8 which you can download from the download page then go to your news magazine options and look for the option “Thumbanail File Switcher“, set it on 2 and see if the thumbnails show up then.
ro7477, because the theme content blocks have very specific dimensions, you will create a problem with the layout by using the full titles, so you’ll need to be prepared to go into the stylesheet and do some adjusting as needed to accommodate the new use of space. To use the full titles you need to go into the block files in includes/featuredx.php where x represents the numbers 1 – 6 and correspond with the block you are editing. Inside these files look for lines similar to:
if(strlen($thetitle) > 75)
{
$thetitle=LimitText($thetitle,10,75,”");
$thetitle.=”»”;
}
The block of code will vary by string length (75 in the example) from file to file. What you want to do is comment out the code that is causing the title to shrink like this
/* if(strlen($thetitle) > 75)
{
$thetitle=LimitText($thetitle,10,75,”");
$thetitle.=”»”;
} */
Note that the difference is the /* to start the comment indicator and the */ to close the comment indicator so everything that falls between the comment indicators will be ignored.
jrmartin, the last uploaded picture will be the picture that shows up.
hi,
i loved the news mag theme,i only have small problem which is i dont know how to edit styles.css to change the color of my post titles into blue color and excerpt text into blue as well.could you pls help me how to do this??
samaron, look for the following in styles:css to change your header titles:
The excerpt text defaults to the page font color. If you change that it will affect the entire page. If that is what you wish to do, then modifying color: #000000; in the body class should do it.
Paul Rizzi, if you would like my assistance with trying to figure out why you cannot get the News Magazine Theme 640 activated on your site please use the contact form to reach me.
Just activated your theme, and seems easy enough to use. However, a leaderboard ad is showing up at the bottom of the pages. Is there a way I can remove this?
Jarrett are you sure that is not coming from outside the theme. I’ve never seen that one before. The theme does not have ad space at the bottom on the page, only in the areas where indicated. Might you have some type of ad plugin installed that you could deactivate momentarily to see if that is what is putting an ad at the bottom of your pages?
No. No plugins added to the theme yet. See if it comes up for you http://www.hbcudigest.com.
Yes, I see the ad at the bottom of the page. I’ve also checked your source code and see there is ad code in the footer of your page that matches the code you’ve placed inside the leaderboard box. Why it would be duplicating itself at the bottom of your page is the question.
I checked the footer code and see a line for site tracking, but nothing for adsense. Doesn’t make sense to me.
Jarrett, might you have accidentally placed the adsense code inside the Analytics box in the theme options?
That was it. Thought I copied and pasted Google analytics code. Sorry for wasting your time, and thanks for a great theme!
Fantastic theme,but in home page it’s impossible to see images,what can I do
Hi,
I am using earlier versions on this theme with success.
However, image thumbnails are failing in the latest version. 1.6.8
I tried switching between 1 and 2 in both places in the control panel. No result.
If I try to access the cropped image url directly on browser, is says “you dont have permission to access cropper.php…..”. Please help.
My News Magazine Theme 640 version 1.6.7 is showing the date in UTC form at the top of the page, it is not adapting to the current time zone. What can I do to fix that if the Time Zone settings in the WordPress configuration are correct?
why is the news (paper) date off one day as i have all time zones correct as i do times. easter standard,(new york). it is a day or at least 12 hours ahead or more.
Hello
I’m using the New Magazine Theme 640 and wanted to share that I was sucessful in inserting code from a affilate pro software on to my page.
I was worrying that it would be difficult for this to work. It’s the graphic banner tower in the center. Its my own click thru processing not someone else. I don’t pay myself for the click thru. It’s just a way to track what goes where.
Is it possible to duplicate the nosidebar.php template and that choice show in the dropdown box? I wanted to create photogalleries and not have a lot of info on the page. just gallery pictures.
Jean Vallery, yes, you can duplicate the page, just give it a different file name and also change Template Name: Page With No Sidebar to something else
john, will check the date
Deepak, sorry for late response. May I check this problem on your site?
Andrea where can I view the problems you’re experiencing with the images?
Hi,
Thanks for your reply. As it was weekend, I thought of digging more into it and got it fixed without any code change.
People often discussed about this problem with “timthumb” and suggested to “contact the WebHost and say you have a problem with timthumb script. They know the problem and will make changes in mod_sec to fix the issue.” I did that and prob solved in 2 seconds.
BTW the forum is down, any specific reasons? I tried your other free theme “producer”. Have some suggestion.. will post there.
Thanks.
I thought I posted this question last night but I don’t seem to see it so I will post again.
I just loaded the News Magazine theme 640 theme and I love it. The one problem I am having is when I try to get pictures on the front page in the different categories, it shows up on the post but not on the front page. What do I need to do to get it to post on the front page also. I’ve tried switching from 1 to 2 as you suggest on the options page but still am not successful. HELP !!!!!
Thanks
Rich, thumbnail issues with News Magazine Theme need to be checked on a case by case basis. There’s nothing I can do to assist without actually visiting your site and trying to find the problem for you by running tests to find out exactly what the issue might be. If you would like my help you will need to use the contact form to reach me.
Deepak, was having some problems with the server that seemed to have been caused by the forum plugin. Once I can be sure it wasn’t the forums plugin I will restore the forum.
Rich, also in the meantime, this comment from another user of the news magazine theme who was having issues with the thumbnails might be useful to you:
Don’t know who you’re hosting with. In case they might not automatically know what the problem is, you can also specifically ask them whether or not your GD library installation comes with the ability to use the following functions:
ImageCreateFromJPEG
ImageCreateFromPNG
ImageCreateFromGIF
ImageCreateTrueColor
ImageCopyResampled
ImageJPEG
Hello…First off, great theme. Really love it.
I am having a bit of a problem though. Installed v.1.6.8 from wordpress.org. Seems the date at the top, to the left of the search form, is off by an entire day. At first it was echoing a day ahead. I searched through the header.php code and found where the call was for the date:
***This line was echoing a day in advance.
I changed the code to:
***At first this seemed to work, however, on the next day, the date was now showing the prior day. In other words, it hadn’t changed.
I created a page http://anaswebsite.com/date-index.php with the following code:
**This works just fine. Date changes as day changes.
I am officially baffled…I’m not the best PHP programmer and Wordpress is new to me but I do know that the same line of code in two different files should, in theory, produce the same results.
Anything you can do to help out?
Thanks so much…
Arvi
Arvi, not sure what is going on there with the date, but try replacing line 55 in header.php with the below to see if it makes any difference.
<div class="date"><?php echo date_i18n( ‘l F jS Y’, false, false ) ?></div>
The thumbnails on the front page are no longer working after my upgrade to v1.6.8. I have tried both switchers and both croppers. I even contacted my host about Timthumb and we sorted things out there.
Michael are you saying the thumbs don’t work or that they stopped working but are now working again since you asked your webhost’s help?
No, they never started working again so I reverted back to an old version of the theme. There is something in 1.6.8 that isn’t allowing thumbnails to load on the front page at all.
I was stating that I had tried all of those methods to no avail.
Love the theme — thank you!
But, how to I get the all the UPPERCASE words to be Sentence Case? I tried switching to “capitalize” in theme editor stylesheet, but didn’t work….
Thanks,
Laurie
Oh — sorry — it DID work (changing caps to sentence case). It just took a few minutes to show up on my blog, is all
Thanks again!
Hi,
I’m sorry — I have one more question! My link from the narrow sidebar on the left side of the page is spilling over to the individual Page settings. So, the first sentence on the Pages are live links to the last link in the narrow sidebar.
Any clue how I can fix this?
Thanks,
Laurie
Laurie PK, I have checked your site but don’t see an example of what you mean. Perhaps I am not looking in the right place? Or do I need to check with a specific browser?
Michael, thank you for the info. I will see what I can find different in the cropper that could be causing the problem for you.
nice theme… i just install on our web http://downloadcentre.info seem thumbnails does not work on Latest Post, I set both thumbnail option to no 2. Can you help me. thanks
Hi again,
It’s weird, because when I go into “blog” mode, then I can’t get rid of the Categories or Interesting Links boxes in the Narrow sidebar. I deleted most of those pre-set links by deleting them from the Links section of WordPress, but just can’t figure out how to delte Interesting or Categories when the theme is in Blog mode.
But that might not matter if I can get my thumbnails to work! I’d love to use this them with the Magazine style ON, but can’t get rid of the broken thumbnails and boxes wwth red X’s in them. I’ve tried different combinations of 1’s and 2’s in the Thumbanails sections, but it’s all a big mess.
http://theadventurouswriter.com/quipstipsrelationships/
Thanks,
Laurie
Laurie, once you drag your own stuff to the sidebars in Appearance->widgets the default widgets should disappear. The default widgets are really only place holders. If you are not planning to replace the default widgets and you want to remove them you’ll have to do it manually by editing the sidebar php files.
Wow, you’re fast at responding — thank you!
Ah, I get it about the default widgets.
Now — if I want magazine theme, how to I get rid of the boxes with the X’s in them, which show that the thumbnails aren’t uploading properly?
I don’t want any thumbnails to show. I just want the post titles to appear in each category. How do I do this?
Thanks again,
Laurie
Laurie, I am not always so fast, just in case you post one of these days and I take a few days to respond. I just happen to be on at the moment but do sometimes take a bit of time to respond.
Regarding the thumbnail question, you can’t remove the thumbnails altogether, but if you don’t want the “no image” graphic to show up for posts that don’t have an image, you can set that from the theme options under “State of default no image thumbnail“
Thanks — I understand about sometimes taking more time than a few minutes to respond!
On all my blog posts, I feature a book image with a direct link to Amazon. Your theme displays the book cover in the post and in individual pages beautifully (eg, when I click a cagegory page). But, that book cover is causing a problem in the front page.
How do I control which thumbnail shows up? That is, how can I override the book cover and insert a chosen image thumbnail?
This is my last question, I promise! The rest of the theme seems to work great….
Laurie
Laurie, you might be having a problem with the cropper that is affecting a number of other people. The individual pages and non-magazine mode do not use the cropper but in magazine mode a cropper file is used to crop the images to specific dimensions and it appears to be giving some problems to a few people. For some the problem is server based. For others it appears to be something else in the cropper file. It will be hard for me to guess what might be causing the problem. I’ll be happy to take a look to see if I can figure it out, but it will require me to have backend access to your files. I see you are using the alternate cropper file. Can you try switching the cropper file to 1 and the cropper function to 1 for testing?
Download Center, please download functions.zip then upzip and upload functions.php over your current copy and let me know if it fixes the problems you’re having with the thumbnails. http://www.antisocialmediallc.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/functions.zip
I have News Magazine Theme 640 1.6.8
It shows the wrong date.
I think it’s just the wrong time zone. I am in Alaska.
How can I change the time/date to my zone?
Thank you!
Diane
I just want to say THANK YOU for all your help, and for writing this wonderful theme. I really like it, and appreciate everything you’ve done to support us non-techy users!
Best regards,
Laurie
Dianne Neill try this copy of header.php and let me know if it resolves the problem. Unzip header.zip to access header.php
http://www.antisocialmediallc.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/header.zip
@29, regarding the date fix: If by “make a difference” you mean “causes entire site to be unable to load”, then yes, it does make a difference!
Code which finally worked . . . I think:
In other words, just add _i18n after date and before (‘
Any way to easily turn off the narrow sidebar on the posts page, and allow the post area to expand into that space?
Thanks!
How can I post the code without the comment form reading it as code?