Reason WP: Smart, Responsive, Customizable

Anytime Pencil I’m happy to help out when I can! B

Hi Tane!

1. Localization: This theme is ready for translation but still require you to actually do the translating (either manually or though a plugin) as I don’t speak any language other than English.

What does this mean? It essentially means that the theme has been coded so that it’s ready to accept mult-language translation without you needing to sift through the code. It’s “internationalized”, if you want to use WordPress developer’s lingo.

For true translations into native languages, I recommend the “Code Style Localization” Plugin, which is available for free in the WordPress plugins directory. Find more details and instructions on how to create the translations here: http://www.code-styling.de/english/development/wordpress-plugin-codestyling-localization-en

Essentially, you’ll need to create a custom .PO file with the plugin, fill in your translations for each text string used in the theme, then use the plugin to create a .MO file that will be used for the theme. If you’ve done a lot of translations in the past, you’ll know you also may need to do this for each involved plugin.

2. What pages are you looking to trim on? There’s a couple different excerpt functions running so I need to point ya to the right now. Likely it’s either “use the more tag” or trim the number in functions.php in the custom excerpt section

B

Thanks again for your good answers epicera! The support is superb!

Glad to hear it! B

Heya Pencil! That ones a bit trickier… are you also removing the text on the left side? It’ll factor into how I tell ya to address this, but either way it’ll take a bit of editing on the code-side because it requires some changes to the layout. Right now that top hat area is coded into two columns, when, for centering, you need just one. B

Thanks and sure! What precisely did ya want to customize though? Keep in mind there’s a ”:hover” selector on Firebug that’s useful for spotting just the hover styles… anyways, fire away with any specific ideas/questions. It’ll either be a CSS patch, element-navigation.php or the functions.php Walker function that sets up the navigation.

B

Heya Turner!

Let’s start with the basic rundown for that page template just to be safe:

1. Create a page – assign the portfolio template – pick a few category filters. 2. Make sure that there are posts using those categories and that each post has a featured image assigned.

For the slider – this theme is slightly different. We’re still using the same basic idea for the frontpage slider where you can upload slides from the Theme Options panel and then “insert” the frontpage slider on any other page… but the new addition in this theme is the “page slider” that grabs all images associated with a page or post and drop them into the carousel. The trick here is uploading images directly to that post or page and not to the generic media library.

Let me know if that helps – you can also file a ticket at http://makedesign.ticksy.com and I’ll be glad to help out over there (it’s a great way to share a temporary login with me so I can take a peek inside and see what’s up). I appreciate the feedback though – especially in these early rounds as it helps me refine the documentation and wording so there’s the least amount of confusion

Thanks for picking up the themes btw! Hope you like them!

Cheers! B

Try this out in your Theme Options > Styling Options > Custom CSS field::

.sf-menu > li:hover {
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.0);
    box-shadow: 0 0px 0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.0) inset;
}

B

Heya Tane! What’s the issue with the search results again? I have a small update coming today or tomorrow (1.9.3), but I’ll make sure to add any search fixes to the list if you can help spot them B

Ok so let’s maybe clarify what you’re trying to change… any chance you have a screenshot or something? I suspect I’m providing a patch for the wrong element B

Lol – triple post – answering on your original

Lol – triple post – answering on your original

Sure! The pagination would by default be a simple { << Previous Posts … Next Posts >> }, but you can absolutely set the post-count to 10 or whatever you’d like B

My pleasure B

Sure! It’ll be in the next update, till then use this in your Theme Options > Styling Options > Custom CSS field:

a.twitter-link div.tweet-thumb {
float: left;
margin: 0 8px 2px 0;
}

.tw-time{display: none;}

.sidebar-advert img {
    width: 43%;
}

.hybrid-blog-4 .aside, .hybrid-blog-3 .aside, .hybrid-blog-2 .aside {
    margin: 8px 0 5px;
}

Cheers! Brandon

Awesome Brandon

I copied the piece of code below that you sent to electro. I think the tidbit you sent me was missing a few. Thanks so much though. You ROCK !

My pleasure! B

Hehe no worries

Oh! Maybe it’s just that silly Chosen dropdown script that’s bugging you – try turning that off from the Theme Options panel. I’m probably pulling it in the next update or two anyways as it causes more phone issues than it solves apparently

B

My pleasure B

Ok…so one more question (hopefully). Is it possible to resize the width of the top hat and footer to match the rest of the content instead of stretching across the entire width of the screen?

Hi Life! Sure – you can do this with CSS – I actually have a skin coming out in the next version that accomplishes something like this – http://reason-boxed.makedesign.wpengine.com B

You can always grab updates for free from the Downloads page here – or even better in this case though – I can just hand over the CSS snippet that I used to create the skin and you can copy/paste it into the CSS field for the theme options panel and you’ll be all set to go B

I’m quite aware updates are free. Unless you’ve submitted an update that has yet to be approved, the download from Sunday didn’t appear to contain the new skin. The documentation would also appear to be un-searchable so helping myself was made somewhat difficult.

At this time, if I could request and actually get a refund (as a store credit / deposit) for Reason WP, I would do just that. However, I don’t see that as being possible / allowed since it was my fault for purchasing it. So I’m abandoning this theme, counting it as a loss, you no longer have to support me, etc.

Heya Electro! The update should be going up today now that I’m back in the office – till then, drop this snippet into your Theme Options > Styling Options > Custom CSS field:

a.twitter-link div.tweet-thumb {
float: left;
margin: 0 8px 2px 0;
}

.tw-time{display: none;}

.sidebar-advert img {
    width: 43%;
}

ul.social li {opacity: 1;}

#section-tophat, #section-tophat:after,
#section-footer, #section-footer:after,
#section-sub-footer, #section-sub-footer:after{
background: none transparent !important;
border: 0 !important;
box-shadow: 0 0 0 !important;
}

#section-tophat, #section-tophat a,
#section-footer, #section-footer a,
#section-sub-footer, #section-sub-footer a{
color: white !important;
}

#tagline{padding: 2px 0 8px;}

#section-header .container {
    border-radius: 8px 8px 0 0;
}

#section-content .container {
    border-radius: 0 0 8px 8px;
}

Cheers! Brandon

That’s actually controlled through your device’s default UI… so if you’re on a computer, the browser defines it (it’ll look different in IE than it does in Safari) – if you’re on a phone, the phone itself defines it. I’m not entirely sure if there are really stable ways of hacking around that default styling without hurting the usability of the dropdown selectors… Hope that explanation at least helps though! B

Updated in your next post – I’ll follow through and check this out though! B

Ok! Thanks for the update DrG! I’ll follow up on this for ya B

I’m a beginner in Wordpress. I’m not able to set up or the menu or slideshow. Help me! lol [ http://michelinemacedo.com.br/blog/ ]

Sure thing! Our installation videos might help out with a lot of the initial stuff – go check out http://youtube.com/makedesignnotwar and report back with any other questions B

ok, thanks!