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Writer Responsive Wordpress Theme

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sorry, that was unclear. If i want to set up a magazine type home page layout with 2 or 3 columns of posts, with the most recent post being full width on top – is that something I can do with Writer? (More details of theme options or screen shots would be helpful) Thank you

iKreativ

You could do that with any theme. Writer has a basic grid system built in for creating columns…

nik9

thank you, your input is appreciated

nik9

note – I really appreciate the elegant simplicity of your theme demo – just not completely sure what I can do under the hood.

iKreativ
http://d.pr/i/CRLb http://d.pr/i/Dzy0 http://d.pr/i/QVk5 http://d.pr/i/Mfye http://d.pr/i/M1vY

Also, as it’s built around my Workless framework, you can use any of that too: http://workless.ikreativ.com/

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Thanks for the Good Theme!

However, I have a few questions:

1. How can I disable the Fluid Layout feature? 2. How can I completely remove the Home Slider caption, which layovers on top of the home page image.

Thank you!

iKreativ

From the options panel you can simply add .nivo-caption { display:none!important } to hide the caption.

As for the fluid layout, you’ll need to remove the media queries at the bottom of application.css and just leave the CSS for the width you want to use.

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Bb7 Purchased

Hello, Thank you for such amazing theme! I’m totally in love with it! But I was wondering if I could apply a stroke border around the main body of the website, if so, how can I do this? I tried to do it in the CSS and stuff but It’s not working.

Thank you!

iKreativ

How do you mean?

Default-user
Bb7 Purchased

I hope this might helps you get the idea, thank you for the response. http://i50.tinypic.com/2vunhqv.png

iKreativ

Yes, use the code provided from the example. Add the divs to header.php and the CSS to application.css

Default-user
Bb7 Purchased

It worked like magic, thank you!

iKreativ

No worries!

Default-user
Bb7 Purchased

Sorry for being annoying but I got one more question, is it possible to make each item in the portfolio linked to each page of its own?

iKreativ

Sure. Open template_portfolio.php and change this:

http://d.pr/i/Lesg

to this:

http://d.pr/i/mdcX
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Hello! I am having trouble with the navigation sub menu. For some reason, when I hover over the navigation (see ‘portrait inquiry’ link) the submenu pops up but then it just stays visible after I move off of it and onto other things. I haven’t messed with any of the navigation code so I’m not sure what’s causing it. Can you help?

http://www.birdandbeeweddings.com/kap/
iKreativ

I think its this: http://d.pr/i/2jM0

Why add Nivo slider plugin when the theme has Nivo built-in?

Default-user

I asked several times about restricting the image dimensions and was not able to figure it out with the built-in Nivo. The plugin allows me to crop the images and they don’t zoom in/out which I prefer. I’m not sure what is causing the sub menu to stick still, is there something I could do to fix that or will it do that as long as I have the slider plug in?

iKreativ

Probably, you need to find out how its conflicting, you may be able to fix.

Default-user

Hi there, I tried switching back to the theme’s slider, commented out the responsive queries in ‘application.css’ and have set the slider size to 700px by 239px. I would like it to be that size and I have uploaded slide images with those exact dimensions. However, you can see here: http://www.birdandbeeweddings.com/kap/ that it’s showing up smaller than it should be and it’s not quite centered even though I set the margins to ‘0 auto.’ Can you please advise?

iKreativ

Open inc/slider.php and modify the size value there too. You’ve also got some weird CSS going on as you’ve got a horizontal scrollbar too: http://d.pr/i/argt

Default-user

Thanks! That worked!! I’m not sure where that scrollbar is coming from, I don’t see it live so hopefully…it’s gone :)

iKreativ

The scroll is still there. In Builder go to the custom CSS and add #wrapper { overflow-x: hidden; }

Default-user

Thanks, for some reason I didn’t see it on my browsers (neither Chrome nor Safari) but I added the code.

Also, I just downloaded the updated file but since I’ve tweaked a lot of the styling, I don’t want to replace all of the files. For the fixed media query bug, would I just need to grab the media query code from ‘application.css’? or somewhere else as well?

Have any of the options on the builder been changed?

Thanks!

iKreativ

Yeah just the media queries section.

  • Bought between 1 and 9 items
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Really happy with the theme – looks so good!

I can’t really edit code, so I was wondering – how to get rid of the text below each post: “This article is 709 words long, that’s 4366 characters. It should take you about 3 minutes, 32 seconds to read?”

Also – how to get rid of the date, comments, likes, and views stats? Really want to just strip it down to the post content only.

Thank you!

iKreativ

Open index.php and single.php and remove the includes.

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sjo1jcl Purchased

Hi! I’ve run into a few issues while populating this theme. Everything between the top nav and the footer is shifted to the right. Doesn’t seem to be a browser issue and I’ve looked on a mac/PC (both displays 1680px wide)

Only other issue is I’d like to link sliders to featured portfolios but I can’t see any option to change the link to something other than /slider/

Thanks!

iKreativ

Link? The slider links to the custom post type. To link somewhere else you’ll need to modify the theme.

Default-user
sjo1jcl Purchased

Any advice about what I need to modify specifically?

The site is at love-words.co.uk

iKreativ

You’ll need to check the Wordpress codex regarding linking custom post types to somewhere else.

Default-user
sjo1jcl Purchased

Any ideas about the body content being shifted to the right?

iKreativ

it’s working fine for me. Will look into it.

Default-user
sjo1jcl Purchased

I’ve now replicated the issue across 4 machines (mac/pc). Definitely not just a problem at my end.

iKreativ

I think the media query is hitting late.

Default-user
sjo1jcl Purchased

Thanks, but that means nothing to me. Does this mean you’re looking at fixing it?

iKreativ

Yep! When its done you’ll see an update in Builder.

Default-user
sjo1jcl Purchased

That’s great, your help is appreciated!

Default-user
sjo1jcl Purchased

Any idea when you might be able to look at this?

iKreativ

The update has been pushed.

Default-user
sjo1jcl Purchased

That’s odd, I’m still seeing exactly the same issue. I’ll check from a few different machines tomorrow but I’m pretty sure it’s not a caching issue at my end.

iKreativ

Did you get the latest update? You need to download the latest version from here, updates are not automatic, they just notify you.

Default-user
sjo1jcl Purchased

Yes I’m up to date, builder now shows 0 available updates. I’ve hard-refreshed but nothing changes.

iKreativ

Hmm strange, all central here: http://d.pr/i/Xqoz

Default-user
sjo1jcl Purchased

Is that test from a 1680px display? I’ve double-checked on a few machines now and the issue is still there.

iKreativ

Yes.

Open this file: http://love-words.co.uk/wp-content/themes/writer/assets/css/application.css

Scroll right to the bottom and find this section: http://d.pr/i/9H5v

Remove the #content declaration and let me know if that fixes it.

Remove all of this:

#content
{
    width: 1360px;
}
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sjo1jcl Purchased

That fixes the slider alignment, but breaks the portfolio alignment. Columns and header are all over the place.

iKreativ

Grab the latest version.

Default-user
sjo1jcl Purchased

Not seeing any changes after updating to latest version.

iKreativ

Switch layout from boxed so I can see if its a layout issue or global.

Default-user

Sorry, I’m abandoning the theme, responsive code is still broken and I’m wasting too much time with this back and forth.

  • Bought between 1 and 9 items
  • Has been a member for 0-1 years

Não era para vim junto com o template os demais arquivos descritos nesse link (http://themeforest.net/licenses/regular_extended)?

Não veio no pacote o slideshow!

  • Bought between 1 and 9 items
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OK, it is mentioned about Workless, that “line heights, margins, spacing and more…” can be changed – I don’t mind snipping and tweaking code, but am no master – will I need to be doing that, or are those adjustment intuitive within Writer, or? Cheers

iKreativ

You shouldn’t need to adjust line heights etc… They’re done for you.

nik9

well, what I’m after is a layout like http://erudite.somadesign.ca/ – very exacting and exceptionally readable (but with the options Writer has to offer)

iKreativ

You’re good to go then!

nik9
nik9 Purchased

OK, you suggested it would be easy to set up a magazine type home page layout with the most recent post being full width on top and (3) columns of most recent posts below that – but there is scant info in the documentation as to how I would approach this… can you clue me in

iKreativ

Modify index.php and add relevant CSS for the latest posts and sub posts. Use the Wordpress codex for modifying the loop.

nik9
nik9 Purchased

That doesn’t help or tell me anything does it – if I knew how to modify php and css I wouldn’t be asking. So you are telling me this theme does not support short codes or any other user friendly means to customize my site? As far as I know, that would be the whole point of using a premium template such as this is advertised to be.

iKreativ

What you want wouldn’t be possible with shortcodes anyway, you need to modify the loop.

nik9
nik9 Purchased

what the hell is a loop? You said “You could do that with any theme. Writer has a basic grid system built in for creating columns… your good to go” – I feel mislead. I don’t write code, which is why I purchase templates. I’m sorry, but this one is the most bare bones misrepresented and poorly documented theme I have worked with to date. Not ok.

iKreativ

You can do it, and it’s simple, but honestly, you’re working with Wordpress themes and you don’t know what the loop is?

I don’t see how this is a theme fault, this is basic stuff and is also modification.

Also, just because you don’t know what you’re doing doesn’t mean the theme is misrepresented or poorly documented.

nik9
nik9 Purchased

ok, you can do it, it’s simple for you – no doubt, I can do it and it would be simple for me with the support, but I don’t write code. I have set up dozens of beautiful sites with dozens of different themes, and when I am told that what I want to do is simple to set up and you’re good to go, then I assume, like all those other themes, I can achieve what I want by working through the control panel, or else given code support – “Modify index.php and add relevant CSS for the latest posts and sub posts. Use the Wordpress codex for modifying the loop.” does not help me in any way whatsoever, nor is there any significant info in the documentation for creating any customised layout short of writing the code in the 1st place – so what’s the point?

iKreativ

So let me get this straight. You’ve built ‘dozens’ of sites with “dozens” of themes, yet have no idea what the loop is or any basic knowledge of modifying a theme?

Also, I’m going to presume that having built ‘dozens’ of themes, these where for clients who probably paid more than the $35 cost of a theme.

Maybe it’s my fault for ‘presuming’ you had even very basic knowledge of modifying a theme, which is what this is….

Why would the DOCS contain anything on changing the theme from it’s specific role? If that where the case the DOCS would be massive, trying to think of every possible scenario.

As I said, modify index.php to call the latest post in a loop, then the rest of the posts. You can then add the grid styling to them like the DOCS show, one_full, one_half, one_third etc…

http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop
nik9
nik9 Purchased

ok, no worries, i’ll figure it out or let it go as I am clearly on my own with this one. Just not where or how I have needed to spend my time until now. If you have any interest in your customer and want to know what I’m talking about, take a look at the live demo of Polyon to name one example or work with themes like InFocus, Striking, EcoBiz, Alyeska, etc…

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This theme looks fantastic, but I’m wondering about the Portfolio section, where you click on the thumbnail photos and a pop-up box appears. Since I’m a writer and want to post articles, not just photos, is it possible to instead link to a (readable-sized) pdf of an article or, preferably, to another page on the website where I post the article? Thanks!

iKreativ

Yes! The theme use prettyPhoto which allows iframe lightboxes and more: http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyphoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/

  • Bought between 1 and 9 items
  • Has been a member for 1-2 years

I’m getting an odd error throughout my site, every page seems to load twice. The page appears, flashes away for a second then loads and stays. I’m not sure if the theme is causing this problem, any ideas what it could be?

iKreativ

Link?

iKreativ

The theme does have a delay loader, so if for some reason it’s slow to load the Javascript then this could cause it. Open js/application.js and look at the top, you’ll see the body onload part, comment that out or remove.

Default-user

Thanks, that’s solved it. ( http://www.jacobarmitage.co.uk )

iKreativ

Cool :D

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nik9 Purchased

OK. Could you please tell me how to modify the index.php file as you suggest to create a home page layout with the most recent post being full width on top and (3) columns of most recent posts below that – thank you.

Also, I do like the “This article is 106 words long, that’s 630 characters” function, but would like to
a) remove the “characters” element as that not useful information
b) have the data reflect the full article, not just the default excerpt, as that is also misleading/not helpful
c) there is no read more link at the end of the excerpt – a reader has to scroll back up to the title and click it to read the article
Thank you, with your support for these fixes, I will be a happy customer

iKreativ

As I said, you can either add a custom loop like the original to pull in the 1st latest post, then use the default loop to pull through the rest.

Or, using CSS you can simply style the :first-child differently from the rest. So something like
.post:first-child { width: 700px; float left; }
.post { width: 250px; float: left; }

Open inc/reading.php to modify any of the post info stuff. If you want a read more add it in index.php

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I want to change the font used in the top navigation. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

iKreativ

Open application.css and change the font family for the nav.

Default-user

That seems easy enough but I do not see the application.css file in the Wordpress Admin Panel, Appearance, Editor sub-panel. Where can I locate this?

iKreativ

Use an FTP client to access files, or add your CSS in the options panel custom css box.

Default-user

that’s what i thought. I’ll have to get the login access from my client to do so. It would be handy to have those files plus the style.css file included with the theme installation for those that are not savy enough to go the route you mentioned. Just food for thought. Thanks.

iKreativ

You can override any CSS in the custom CSS box in the options panel.

  • Bought between 10 and 49 items
  • Has been a member for 0-1 years

Hi, nice ! is this theme working now for wp 3.5? thanks

iKreativ

Yep!

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  • Has been a member for 1-2 years
  • United Kingdom

Any PSDs for this? I am going to buy and modify, but will help if I can use original PSDs to show client how I wanna make it

iKreativ

No PSD, not needed, white background black text…

mancuniancreative

I do need it though. Is it not possible for me to get hold of one? Even just the homepage would suffice

iKreativ

There is no .PSD, it was fully designed in browser.

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Hello,

First thanks for your theme, it is really clean and beautiful. I would like to use your workless templates, I succeed in copying buttons, but I can’t figured out why scattfold layout aren’t working. I would like to put informations in columns but it doesn’t work when I copy this in pages or articles… in text like in code. Could you help me please?

Thank you

iKreativ

Add it in HTML view of a post/page. I.E:

<div class="one_third">
content here
</div>

<div class="one_third">
content here
</div>

<div class="one_third last">
content here
</div>
Default-user

Thank you, it works fine. One more thing please, how do you put multiple images in portfolio as in the demo? I get the layout, but when I insert images in my post, they’re displayed just above, not in gallery. I installed Prettyphoto but should I use Slider? Thanks in advance.

iKreativ

Use the portfolio template with the portfolio custom post type. No need to add prettyPhoto, it is built in.

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I bought the theme yesterday, but now I’m not sure I want to use it. It’s listed as responsive, but it’s all wobbly on my phone, meaning that I can push it from side to side. Also, I noticed that it’s off center in Firefox. And it’s not just the demo, I looked up a purchaser’s site and it’s off center too. Are these things going to be remedied? or this just how the theme works?

iKreativ

Link? Screenshot? I can’t fix what I can’t see.

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Well, I took a phone picture, but I don’t know how to upload it. Also, the theme doesn’t have a “previous” or “next” post set up, so I have a list of numbers going all the way across the screen, from 1 to 33.

iKreativ

I’ve just pushed an update for the media queries. You’ll get an notification in ‘Builder’ once it’s live.

Yes it uses pagination instead of prev/next as it allows jumping directly to pages instead of clicking through.

This is displayed in the demo, if you’d like prev/next then you can add it.

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Oh, and by the way, it crashes when Jetpack is activated.

iKreativ

Then the plugin is conflicting somewhere.

  • Bought between 100 and 499 items
  • Has been a member for 3-4 years

This is a great theme I really love, but I am having an issue that it gives all timthumb.php generated images 404 not found error and the slider doesn’t show any images.

Please help!

iKreativ

Set permissions on inc/cache/

Default-user

I set the permission to 777 but still no go..

iKreativ

Thats the only thing I could think would cause a 404. Unless it’s your permalinks and/or htaccess.

Default-user

I just found that the 404 error was from the loading.gif, which is missing from the theme file, but it is actually the 400 bad request error I am getting for the timthumb.php. I contacted my hosting and confirmed that they did not blacklisted the timthumb.php and it seems like the timthumb.php is unable to locate the actual image file it-self. Any idea?

iKreativ

There is no loading gif.

Default-user

plugins.css

line #2

.nivoSlider { position:relative; background: #fff url(”../img/loading.gif”) no-repeat 50% 50%; }

iKreativ

Ohh, I thought you mean’t a loading gif for timthumb… Grab this and put it in the image directory: http://d.pr/i/6RPt

Default-user

timthumb is still having issue. All of my images are not being displayed and when I do view source, it references to the timthumb.php and it doesn’t show any due to error code 400.

iKreativ

Link?

Default-user

I actually edited the slider.php and decide to display images as is instead of having the resize feature to generate the resized image through the timthumb.php .

Thank you.

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How can I disable the response (fluid layout) feature?

iKreativ

It’s responsive. The only way to remove would be to remove the media queries from the bottom of application.css and set static widths.

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