Producer is a highly flexible free WordPress theme that can be used to build a standard blog or a magazine style blog. Producer provides an attractive default theme which you can use as is. For even greater flexibility use the premium CSS styling tool to change background color, add background images, change font colors, sizes, styles and completely change your site’s design without editing a single line of code. With the CSS styling tool you can create an unlimited number of unique designs based on the Producer mainframe. (This site uses the Producer theme. The CSS Styling tool was used to modify the design)
Run Producer in static mode to use the out of the box design or switch to widgets to drag and drop featured categories where you want them and mix them up with your other widgets to achieve the look you want for your site.
Run with 1 sidebar activated, both sidebars activated or no sidebars activated.
Place sidebars side by side to left of content, side by side to right of content or separated on left and right of content.
Control which sidebars appear on 404, index, search results single post pages and regular pages.
Magazine mode has 2 layout options.
Header section items ( logo/slogan row, horizontal menu row, search bar row, hidden leaderboard row) can be rearranged.
10 featured category slots available. Use only what you need. Sticky post, feed-burner and many more options.
The CSS styling tool is the only thing not included in the free package. As with any other theme, you can still edit the styles manually to achieve the look you want. The below is an example of a design done with the CSS Styling tool using Producer in non-magazine mode.
Example of a desgin done with the CSS Styling Tool
The CSS Styling tool has been created to make the task of changing the look of your theme as easy as entering the colors, sizes, image file URLs and other styling elements into a text box and pressing the submit button. The CSS styling tool is pretty extensive as it aims to give you control over as many styling elements as possible. This means you can create completely new designs without having to change any code, which will make updating theme versions less of a hassle. It’s a lifesaver for anyone who doesn’t know how to edit PHP code and even for those who do but prefer a simpler, faster way of getting the job done.
Producer is in the first phase of it’s life. If you are using the theme and would like to help improve it please report any problems you are experiencing with it.
Can you use this CSS styling tool with Antisnews theme?
Hi trotter, no Antisnews will have it’s own styling tool, which is currently in development and should be available soon.
Hi There
Thank you very much for making this template available for free.
Here are some things I’ve noticed:
1- The Leaderboard position seems not allow left or right positionings:
2- Is there any way to add a dropdown menu for categories?
3- Is there any way of disabling “follow comments via rss” availability?
4- Is there any way of activating the Rss stuff only on the footer?
jose, the rss links can be changed to something else. You can disable the icons or replace them by providing the URL to your new icons in the options page. To change the links to something else you also go to the options page. I did not anticipate someone might want to completely disable them. I think completely disabling them creates a new issue where you’ll have all that blank space so it would make more sense to change them to something else. You could put links to facebook, twitter etc. as an example. Thanks for the feedback.
hi,
can you send me the link where i can buy the ‘producer theme’? also,how much is it? will you provide tech support if i decide to edit some of the stylesheet?
thanks.
Jane, the Producer theme is free to download. If you wish to purchase the CSS Styling Tool to use with the Producer theme you can use the link below
http://www.antisocialmediallc.com/products-page/wordpress-themes/producer-themes-css-styling-tool/
Yes, technical support is provided
Hello, I installed the producer theme and when I try to preview it get the following:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_BOOLEAN_AND, expecting ‘(‘ in /…/functions.php on line 9
How do I fix this?
Thanks
hahaha. wrong question :0 thanks for making the theme free. as for the styling tool, will purchase it
Just like pantlicker81, I downloaded the theme and tried to install it. Now whenever I go to my website all I get is
Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘)’, expecting ‘(‘ in /home/content/… /themes/producer/functions.php on line 9.
I deleted it from the content folder then reinstalled and the same problem came up. How do I fix it or delete to get back my website. I am using WordPress 2.9.2 beta
laosan, I’ve followed up with you via email. In the meantime is there anything you can tell me about your server, who are you hosting with, version of php and so on?
I wonder if the functions.php problem is related to a plugin or widget?
pantlicker, so far it appears to be a PHP version issue. Please see the post below if you haven’t fixed the problem for yourself yet.
http://www.antisocialmediallc.com/2010/01/producer-theme-error-parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-now-cant-log-in/
Just tried the new version 1.9 in Preview only.
Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘)’, expecting ‘(‘ in /home/content/…/…/…/…/html/home/wp-content/themes/producer/functions.php on line 9
Hi pantlicker81, sorry for the delay in replying. I am trying to collect data from persons experiencing this problem for comparison to see if this might be a server issue or php version issue. If possible can you please email me info on who you host with and your version of PHP? Thank you.
I had the same problem. This is due version of PHP. It works on PHP 5 and shows this error on PHP 4 (at least for me).
I’m playing around with Producer, but there’s a limitation that I’d like to know how to get around. I want a “magazine” look, but with two sidebars, both on the right. There’s not even an option to do two sidebars on the right in the magazine mode.
Is this something I can adjust via CSS or do I need to play with the php coding (which I’d rather not do)? Or is there a way to get some of the magazine functionality with the “static” option?
Thanks.
Brian, the layouts for the homepage in magazine mode only use 1 sidebar. I will do a third layout option that uses 2 sidebars. Please check back soon for an update.
So if our DB is PHP4 is there anything we can do? Upgrade perhaps then reinstall? My problem is that I can’t even get into my sites admin page.
laosan, download this version of functions.php and upload it into the Producer theme folder to replace the one that is currently there then go to your dashboard and change to a different theme. Yes, you cannot use the currently downloadable version of Producer with a version of PHP less than 5. The next released version will be fixed for this compatibility issue but until then you should remove the theme until you upgrade your PHP version. If you need my help with this please use the contact form to reach me.
Hey dude nice theme love it, o nly 1 thing, how can i change the colour of text links to be standard blue please ?
Rich, edit the file includes/styles/styles_body.php at around lines 271 – 275. You can also consider purchasing the CSS Styling Tool which allows you to change a large number of style elements via your dashboard.
Hi,
Producer theme looks great. Trying it out now and have one question. I´d really like to place pages in the horizontal navigation bar, but I need the sub pages to be visible all the time when the page is accessed, not only on mouse over. Is that possible, or will it be in later versions?
Thanks.
Alex, right now the theme is configured to hide the sub pages until the parent page is hovered over.
Hi,
How can i change the background color of the site as well as the background color of the feature title and text.
also, can i adjust the font of the menu and put a background, like the one on your site?
Thanks.
Levi, you have two options.
1. You can purchase the CSS Styling Tool ( http://www.antisocialmediallc.com/products-page/wordpress-themes/producer-themes-css-styling-tool/ )
2. If you prefer not to purchase the CSS Styling Tool, you can edit includes/styles/styles-body.php. At around line 597 you will find the body class that you need to change. For the featured sections, you need to edit includes/styles/styles-featuredx.php where x represents the numbers 1 – 10 and correspond with the featured section you want to edit. In each of these files there are two sets of class, the ones used by the CSS Styling Tool and the ones used if the CSS Styling Tool is not installed. You need to make your changes to the ones used if the CSS Styling Tool is not installed. For each file you will find the correct classes at the bottom of the page after <?php } else { ?>
Please let me know if you need additional help.
Hello,
I started translating Producer theme in french.
Here is a french file : http://blog.djos.biz/wp-content/themes/producer/fr_FR.po
around 20% done as shown here : http://blog.djos.biz/wp-content/themes/producer/fr_FR.po.html
Slightly modified and language files can be downloaded here : http://blog.djos.biz/wp-content/themes/producer/fr_FR_Producer_start.zip
README included,
bye,
djosfr
Hi,
This is my first blog. Did modify a few .css and .php entries to try different colors for the header. Great theme! Thank you.
I removed the Sidebar Two from the right position but I do not see how I can have the posts flow to the right into the area used by the now removed Sidebar Two
Thank you very much for the help.
John
John, the theme should be adjusting itself and stretching across when a sidebar is removed but it appears not to be doing this. Will be fixing this problem and updating the theme version shortly.
Hi
My blog title is showing Jpires.Org instead of jpires.org.
How can I disable any prevent this from happening?
Thanks
Jose, go to includes/styles/styles/styles-logo-slogan.php and go to about line 148 where you will see the class #maincontainer .sitetitle .logo h1, #maincontainer .sitetitle .logo h1 a, remove text-transform:capitalize;
Sorry to bother you again
How do I do have my blog title all capitalized? instead of showing Jpires.Org ?
Also is there a way of allowing Featured Category #1 to display more than post with photos?
Thanks a lot for this great theme.
Hi Jose, you can purchase the CSS Styling tool (http://www.antisocialmediallc.com/products-page/wordpress-themes/producer-themes-css-styling-tool/) and make these changes from your dashboard, or you can make the changes manually in the related files.
To make your blog title all capitalized, go to includes/styles/styles-logo-slogan.php at around line 148 and change text-transform:capitalize; to text-transform:uppercase;
Featured Category #1 displays 1 main post with photo and excerpt followed by X number of additional post titles where X represents whatever number you select from your theme options page. Please clarify what you mean when you ask
Hi
Thanks for your answer.
What I meant was to have two main posts on Featured Category #1 displayed.
I am still testing this theme and I am considering buying he CSS Styling tool.
Jose, I’ll include the option to set the number of main posts in featured category #1 in the theme. Should have some files for you to download shortly.
Hi,
I see that you have a new version dated January 15th. Now again, it’s my first blog, can I just upload the updated theme as producer2 (for example) and apply it in the admin area without having to worry about losing the existing posts?
I was looking where the actual posts are saved but could not find them.
Thanks for the great product.
Further to my post posted at 9:47 am I want to add the following:
I did not change the theme yet but when I go to the admin area Manage Themes I see Current theme Producer 2.0 and available Producer 1.9
If I take a look at Add New Themes/Recently Updated I do see Producer Version 2.0 Last Updated 2 days ago.
Is the update done for me? or do I have to initiate it and what is the best/most efficient way to do it?
I notticed styles-adjust-width-for-sidebar.php updated on January 15th that must be what I need for the posts adjusting themselves and stretching across when a sidebar is removed?
John Stockli, very sorry to only now be replying to your inquiry. Yes, you can try just installing styles-adjust-width-for-sidebar.php and see if that alone resolves the sidebar issue, but I advise you to update the entire package. You could manually upload the theme as Producer2 if you feel safer doing that and once you are satisfied all is working you can simply rename the original to Producer-Orig, then rename Producer2 to Producer.
Hi,
I just purchased the CSS Styling tool via paypal and was wondering how long it would take to receive it.
jmuro1, the files are on their way. Give it 10 minutes from the posting of this reply.
jmuro1, please check your email account. You should have received the files. Let me know if there are any problems. Thank you.
Thanks for the information, admin. Can you give me a rough idea of when you’ll be able to have Producer updated to handle 2 sidebars in magazine mode (days, weeks, months)? I’ll keep checking back, but if it’ll be a month or so, I won’t bother checking every day.
Thanks.
Brian, will include a third magazine layout option for two sidebars in the next update. Maybe a couple of weeks.
If I purchase the CSS Styling tool, can I use it on 2 or more installations of Producer (for sites I manage, not for reselling)
Thanks for the info.
JS, you can use the tool on any number of your installations that are using Producer.
This is by far the best WP theme I’ve ever seen, great job!
All I want is to change the link colors in the body and the sidebars. Can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
Rob, if using the CSS Styling Tool navigate to Page Body CSS Settings->Main link color then Sidebar One CSS Settings->Sidebar One widgets link color and Sidebar Two CSS Settings->Sidebar Two widgets link color.
If not using the CSS Styling Tool you’ll need to manually edit the file includes/style-body.php at around line 601. Look for a:link, a:visited {
I check the CSS file and want to change font format to Verdana or Arial. I cannot find font formats used for texts. Can you help on this?
khoo, modify the body class in includes/styles/styles-body.php line 597. Look for font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Verdana;
I LOVE this theme!
Using it at smartetips.no.
A couple of questions, though:
1. I am having trouble translating it all (into Norwegian).. Do I have to do this manually, or is there some “how-to-manual” out there, who point out where exactly in what file I should change things?
2. I’m really considering buying the css-tool, just because I fint this css-file harder to read than in other themes. I want to change the red “top” under my logo – but where in the css-file?
3. I want to make the borders around the widgets to be thinner, and with a different color, how?
Thanks for the help in advance – and again, a very very great theme!
- Marita, Norway
Marita, here are the answers to your questions:
1. For translations you need the language file which you can download here
2. The CSS files are in PHP to accommodate the CSS Styling Tool so they do require a little bit more caution to edit. The edit the background color for the row under your logo that contains the search box and RSS news and comments links, you need to edit the file includes/styles/styles-rss-search-bar.php. You need to navigate to line 98 thereabout and change background:#B50D04;
3. To change the border width and colors around the widgets you need to edit the files includes/styles/styles-sidebar1.php (line 229) and includes/styles/styles-sidebar2.php (line 228). Look for border:5px solid #f2f2f2;
Thank you so much, I will get to the css-ing!
Your answer to my question no.1 – I don’t see a link where you say “download here”.. Maybe you mean on this site? :confused:
And – I would like to remove the “register” and “log in”-links i the footer, how?
I may also want to get the search-bar a bit more to the right, how do I do that?
Marita, to remove the login and register links in the footer you need to edit them out of the file footer.php. The search bar class can be found in styles.css. Look for #maincontainer .dtsa .sa { Looks like I did not link to the language file and now in checking the file I see it contains some errors so I will fix those errors and then provide the download link for the language file.
Any way to configure thumnbail generated in the main page. I found the thumbnail looking odd/ugly if picture in the posting is small.
Or I need to engage your paid service to receive support for this technical question. If yes, please let me know your charge.
Thx
khoo, can you show me an example of what you mean regarding the thumbnail? Right now there are no dashboard options for controlling the thumbnails. You’ll need to edit the file to change the dimensions there so let me know which section so that I can be more specific as to which file needs to be edited and where.
Hi
Great theme, thanks for sharing. I’ve just installed the Producer Theme and I was wondering if you can tell me the settings that I should use to make it look precisely like in the demo picture. Thanks in advance.
Regards
Dan, the demo picture is based on running with magazine mode set to: on using magazine layout 1 in static mode
Great theme.
I have installed and activated this theme, I would like to use it for my photography business. What do I need to do to show a slideshow of my portfolio and how do I use css styling
Thank you
mutape, if you could describe what you have in mind for a slideshow of your portfolio, I can probably add something to the theme to accommodate this need. The CSS styling tool is something you need to purchase.
Do you have some kind of page to let complete novices know what each of the things I would be changing with the CSS tool? For instance, I have having hard time knowing what H1, H2, TH heading, etc…doing trial and error tweaking is little time consuming. i need some kind of guide so I know what I am trying to change…am I hopeless? Thx.
Lola, each item has a description of what it does, but I will try to make the descriptions a little bit clearer. I can see where some of them might not be clear enough.
Just some of the header names etc are not clear. But I will figure it out. Where do I change the background on the page navigation, on this page it’s black, with Home, About, Buy Products, etc…
I thought it would be Page Navigation under Page Body. I want it to be black, but it doesn’t seem to work. My page is http://lolracepics.com if that helps.
Thanks!
Lola, all the navigation CSS settings are under Horizontal Navigation Menu CSS Settings so if you scroll down to that you will see the options, and if you mean to change the link color then you need Color For horizontal menu links
Hi again,
Can you look at my site (http://lolracepics.com) and tell me why the horizontal nav. row is too wide and the title and search rows are shorter. I would think they should all be the same width and also the same with as the page body…but i don’t see where i can tweak think in CSS tool.
Thx! (sorry to be a pain here)
Also…I can’t seem to get the Sidebar 2 to become outlined like Sidebar one is. I have the border turned on in CSS tool and have the same settings as the sidebar 1, but it doesnt want to show up.
Lola, an update with some style fixes will be released today. Will let send you the files when ready.
Lola, you should have received an updated copy of the CSS Styling Tool along with a copy of Producer 2.1. These should fix the issues you are having with margins and the sidebar border settings not taking for sidebar 2. Please let me know if the problems persist even after the update.
To Admin,
I have installed the producer theme and is working fine. However no posts are showing on the default homepage! Why is this?
Jayce
Jayce, are you running with magazine mode “on”? If so, have you setup any featured categories from the theme options page? You need to setup the categories that the posts need to be pulled from.
Thank you for your free great theme, and I really love and apply it on my web.
Regards….
I was wondering why, on my sidebar, under my featured categories, it lists the main post and then the subpost, however why does it list the main article again as a subpost? I want every thing to look the way it does under my “Lifestyle” category, but can’t. The pictures are a little too big and cannot figure out how to change them. I am also noticing a problem with some people’s computer’s at work. The pictures posted are overlapping the text. And my last question is where can I find the CSS styling tool?
Hi Marueen, can you give me some information about how you are setup? For example are you running in static magazine mode, widgets magazine mode, blog mode etc and what’s supposed to be in your sidebars? Have you dragged any of the Featured Category widgets in Sidebar One or Sidebar Two?
I am in widget mode. I have all of my Featured Categories under Sidebar One.
A little more info for you: I have magazine layout mode ‘on’ and am in the widget layout mode. I also have Sidebar One selected for my homepage and all of my Featured Categories are under Sidebar One. Hope that helps you.
Maureen, I think I might have misread your original post. If I am understanding correctly, the reason the display is different from your Lifestyles display is because each featured category has a different layout. They are really not meant for your sidebars, though you can put them in the sidebars if you want, but they will display the way they are setup to display. Some of the categories are displayed with a pic and excerpt, some with just the post title in a list of latest posts from the category, some with a pic, excerpt and an additional list of titles from latest posts in the category.
Let me know if I am still misunderstanding your question.
You answered my question, thanks. I was also wondering why I find the CSS Style kit thingy.
Maureen the CSS Styling Tool is not included in the package. It’s something that has to be purchased. You can read more at http://www.antisocialmediallc.com/producer-theme/
Hi… great theme with some really cool features.
I’m having a problem… in magazine layout, with widgets and layout 3, the title (and the title link) for the top post is displayed for each subsequent post in the featured category. The image is correct in the posts following the top post and the image link is linking to the correct post, but the title for every post in the category is the same.
I appreciate your advice and assistance with this.
Andrew this seems to be a problem happening only in widgets mode. Will be trying to get it sorted soon
this site is really nice. I am just having trouble with the design, widgets and the sidebars. Is there a guide/handbook for the site or better yet can you help customize my site and indicate how much the charge will be. Thanks so much-I desperately need to get this site up and running and need help immediately!
I really need help in customizing the layout with the magazine style, three columns and widgets. Is there a handbook. Also can you contact me about customizing for me for a fee.
Thanks for a great template. I am barely using any of the functionality and love it, can’t wait to play around with it a little more.
I have not purchased the CSS tool (sorry) and there are two changes I would like manually make.
1) turn the borders off for the sidebards (or set to 0px)
2) change the color of the top bar
Are those possible to change in the editor files?
Thanks!
Hi Rob, yes these can be manually changed. I will go ahead and answer your questions by making a post and a forum topic for the benefit of anyone else who needs to change these options manually; but I do recommend purchasing the styling tool so that you do not have to keep on making these changes with every new update.
Will you post the reply on these comments?
Hi Rob, not sure I’m following but in case you mean the links to the how to for the previous questions you’ve asked here they are
How to turn the borders off for the sidebars in Producer
How to change the color of the top bar in Producer
Hiya,
I have been using this theme on 3 sites recently. You helped with a problem a couple of weeksback when it was an issue with a plug in causing the posts to have a mind of their owm.
Well, now i have moved servers and all three have stopped working. If i do a normal db back up to move servers it kills it totally and if i delete the theme then move servers and re upload the theme it kills it too.
This is the line i get:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_BOOLEAN_AND, expecting ‘(‘ in /home/sites/westbromblog.co.uk/public_html/wp-content/themes/producer/functions.php on line 12
Any ideas please?
Best
Paul
You probably did answer my question before (Sorry I cannot see trace of it).
I have the CSS Styling Tool and I am using for navigation the categories. I am looking for a way to change the HOME (main page) to display Accueil in french. Is ther any way to do this ?
Thank you
John S, you would have to do it by editing it directly in the file header.php.
I have installed the latest 2.1.8 Producer CSS Styling Tool
I can no longer see where is the “Page Body To Margin” option.
It used to be under Page Body CSS Settings but is no longer there (I think).
Many thanks,
John S, I am checking on that missing Page Body Top Margin setting.
Hi, i’m trying to use this beautiful theme on the blog i’ve linked (no-profit organization), but when i activate it the website doesn’t load anymore. Anyone has a solution or the same issue?
Livia, the problem you’re describing sounds like an issue with PHP version. Producer will not work on PHP 4 versions. If in fact you are using PHP 5 then let me know but what you describe about the site not loading any more is consistent with the PHP 4 compatibility issue.