Themeology - Portfolio and Blog Theme

1. Thanks! A lot of people liked Atlantica and two weeks ago I released a “tentatively” final update for it that allows it to be compatible with WP3 .0; this theme is built with the same design mentality, but a completely different and cleaner approach to coding. Bottom line: I felt like the design style deserved an overhaul so that users of the old theme could get a healthy upgrade that truly embraces 3.0 as well as some brand new design tricks like multi-column support and Cufon, shortcodes, etc.

2. We actually do have a few fixes on Airmail coming soon – there’s been a lot of discussion behind the scenes on it.

3. I took nearly 3 months off to get married and handle some “life” stuff, so I’ve been stockpiling a bunch of new original theme designs behind the scenes that should start to trickle out in October. There’s no real secret information beyond that

Brandon

Thanks Bebel – glad you like the new design

Thanks steve

It depends on what gallery you’re using – the project galleries have a somewhat fixed size to make things uniform – the classic photo galleries will take images of any size and display them Now – you can always change the default size inside the project galleries if you want, it just takes a couple changes in the stylesheet.

Cheers! Brandon

That’s excellent – thanks a bunch t4!

Hi Phoenicdoula,

1. Yep – you can make the blog full-width – there’s already the “grid view” that you can use, but it’d be super simple to make the standard list view a full-width version as well.

2. There’s a ton of customization possible in the menus – You can actually just set the delay to be any time you want (right now it’s zero) so that it’s super simple to find the nav. I just adjusted it to be a little higher than zero – try it again and let me know if that helps

Cheers! Brandon

Thanks so much! Can you explain what ‘super simple’ means ? Would it be a CSS fix, or is there an option for that?

Thanks so much for your quick (and positive) reply!

It’d essentially entail just removing the “get_sidebar” line from the blog template (to remove the sidebar), and then adding a single css class (.wide) to the main column (to make it full width).

B

Heya Fitz,

You can use a “static page” as the homepage if you want by using the Settings > Reading panel. Right now it’s setup to use a bunch of blog posts as the homepage – just use the Themeology Admin Panel to adjust the number and category If you want to use an entire blog post, it’ll take a little extra customization to the index.php page.

Make sure you check out the theme Installation Instructions for more details.

Cheers! Brandon

It’s possible – there are a ton of third party plugins out there (over 10k), so it’s hard to really build with each one in mind even though I did run quite a few tests. I know WP Commerce is a big one though, so I’ll check it out.

If it is a jQuery conflict, you can tinker with the loading methods in header.php in case you want to poke your nose in there.

B

Inside the Themeology options page, it’s located under the “Homepage BlogSpace Options” – just set the Blog Page ID to be your blog page (the page that you have that uses the Blog template).

Cheers! Brandon

Hi Haydiz,

Unfortunately this isn’t how the slider works at the moment. It’s been built specifically to draw from Featured Blog Posts, not from a particular gallery. If you wanted, what you could do is hard-code the slider images located inside the “homepage_conditional.php” file instead of drawing from the Blog; another alternative is to just have the slider blog posts not link back to the posts… so you’d effectively have a couple “Slide Posts” that have no blog content but just act as Holders for each slide.

Once you look into galleries instead of posts, you also have the added complexity of not being able to manage the details on each slide besides an image (like the URL , lightbox, caption, etc.). Ultimately, the way its built now is about the simplest way it gets as far as WordPress as we know it goes.

I hope that explanation helps clarify the matter

Cheers! Brandon

Thanks Chris!

Heya Oddity,

I’m a bit confused – which HREF tag are you referring to? What part of the documentation are ya referencing? I’ll be more than happy to help out, I’m sure I’m just misunderstanding your question.

The sidebars work in this order:

1) All pages that use sidebars use the Default Sidebar (Appearance > Widgets) by default. 2) If you’ve created a custom sidebar (from the Appearance > Sidebars) panel, you can load it on a per-page or per-post basis using the Sidebars panel inside each individual post or page.

Cheers! Brandon

Appearance > Sidebars link href

Hi Koh,

Yes – you can have 2 blog areas – each blog page allows you to specify a particular category if you want, so that’s the easiest way to separate two different blogs (using Category 1 and Category 2).

And yes, both can be password protected using the standard Private Password system in Wordpress.

Yes, it’s easy to move through previous posts easily – you can use standard pagination or use one of the many free Archive plugins available for WP

Finally – I built this with Atlantica users in mind, so you’ll notice that a lot of the tricky parts of Atlantica (managing the slider galleries, etc.) have been smoothed out in Themeology.

Cheers! Brandon

Absolutely! That is what’s called a “page caption” and you can add/edit/remove it from any page on the entire theme