Sofa BizMate, WP theme

Hi feeleep,

First of all, thanks. I really enjoy this theme.

I am using the SMTP plugin to send email (Gmail) to send all emails from Wordpress and the contact form’s content is never sent. Site notifications work fine and the contact form submit button works correctly, the form is submitted and passes the tests.

I have looked in the contact.php source to see if I can find where to choose SMTP or another plugin to send mail but I am more of a Python programmer so I’m lost. Where can I look, what can I fix to make the email send through the SMTP plugin?

Also, is there any way to resize the logo fields? I have looked in the CSS but changing the dimensions still only shows a piece of the logo.

Hi, I really like this theme, but am having problems putting images into the showcase on the frontpage.

The image is supposed to be left-aligned and shows like this in the dashboard, but on the website it’s as if the alignment is set to “none,” and this forces the text down into the next showcase item.

I’ve read the manual and made sure I inserted from computer, etc, but it doesn’t work.

I don’t know HTML or CSS , so I can’t muck around with the code. Surely there’s a simply way to sort this out?

I’ve tried installing Scissors, but even this doesn’t sort it out…

Please can you help?

Hi Feeleep,

Thanks for such a quick reply, and sorry not to get back to you earlier.

I’ve got someone to sort out the image problem, so no worries there (thanks for offering to look at it for me) – but I do have an additional question:

Since my website is an e-commerce website, I would like to put product images and descriptions, as well as “buy now” buttons, etc on the centre of the home page.

However I can’t find anywhere to do this – widgets seem to go only on either side, and the pluggers seem to be for other kinds of content.

How can I do this? Ideally I would like to add all the info as I would in a normal WYSIWYG post entry.

Thanks!

Thanks Feeleep, much appreciated.

I do have a plan, and on the whole the website is nearly set up. I can email you the details – where do I send the email to??

Hello. I have a little problem with pages with two or more photos. I think I’m following the instructions correctly for inserting photos, but if I insert two different photos, they both look the same. It displays only one of the photos in medium and small size.

And yes, if you have time, please do make the excerpt part to work. In posts that have excerpt, display the excerpt instead of the post part before the More tag.

Great theme, just one question: do you know if the navigation plays well with drop-down nav plugins? I’m very interested in integrating drop down navigation, but am just curious if you’ve done any testing with it.

Particularly, I’m interested in using the one found here (if it helps): http://pixopoint.com/pixopoint-menu-plugin-beta-0-8/

Thanks! =D

OK, great. I just wanted to make sure before starting to play with it. Thanks for the quick reply! =D

Hi, Just brought this theme and I have a couple of questions.

How do I get my posts to show small like you have in the “News” page on your demo version?

What is happening is its showing all the description as in one big long post, what i want is the “Read More” like you have..

Could you help me please?

Thanks

I can’t even get Sofa BizMate to install into WordPress. I’m not a newbie and have installed and uninstalled dozens of themes.

I purchased SBM today, changed the header images and zipped it for uploading. WP rejects it every time. So I downloaded it again and tried to upload the original files. Nothing.

Thinking it might be a WP or connectivity issue, I tested uploading other themes I have. They all worked.

This is so frustrating because I’ve looked through hundreds of themes to find the ONE that my client is happy with and I can’t even upload it to start working!

Help. Please!

Hi feeleep!

First of all, great theme! I’m using it for a client of mine and they couldn’t be happier with it.

The only question we’ve come across, now that the site is live is how can we change the page title for the homepage, and add a meta description? We are using a plugin to handle the rest of the page titles and descriptions, but can’t find a way to update it specifically for the homepage and not affecting the rest of the pages. I would assume, because the homepage pulls from a collection of Pluggers, that it would need to be hard-coded in the header.php file.

Admittedly, my PHP is limited to reading/understanding and not actually writing, so it might be just that I haven’t of the solution.

Any help is appreciated!

Hello again, Feeleep.

Now that I have the theme working, I have a couple of questions:

My client wants to get rid of the home page with jQuery slider and pluggers until he knows he can devote time to updating blog entries. So…now I need 5 pages, but not the Home page.

I’ve created 5 new pages, but I can’t find any way to turn off the Home/Content Overview page. I tried changing the WP Settings/Reading to have a static front page and selected one of my new pages. But I still see the original Home page navigation, AND the navig_tag of my new page doesn’t show. My 5th page doesn’t show up at all, I assume because the theme only supports 5 total and with the Home page still there, there isn’t room for my new 5th page.

Can you help me turn off the Home page and fix teh navig_tag issue?

Thank you!

I’m loving the theme, but I have the same issue with the slider as was previously mentioned; Any picture I upload just pushes all the text down. The title and text do not align on the right side. What is the process of uploading an having an image featured on the front page normally? Just to make sure I’m doing nothing wrong.

I’m not sure I understand what you mean. I upload the picture within the wordpress article that I want to be featured in the featured slider and it just pushes the text down and doesn’t align even though it’s set to ‘left’. You theme doesn’t have a featured image function, so how can I get it the way it’s shown in your theme?

feeleep fixed my problem after we communited through e-mail, thanks again!