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MBR12

5 months ago

Hello,

I’m currently using a website that was based off of ZillaPress but with many customizations, so my web developer discouraged me from simply updating to a new version of ZillaPress.

My problem is I want to add adsense to the 468×60 banner space to the right of my logo in the header. However, in the version of ZillaPress that I’m using I can only add a link and image within the theme options.

I’ve tried to modify the code so that adsense will show up in the banner space, however without any luck. So, I’m looking for some code suggestions to enable the theme to show an adsense banner in the header .

Thanks!

awesem Author

4 months ago

Hi MBR12,

thank you for your query regarding our ZillaPress theme. Your developer is right and you shouldn’t simply upgrade your theme as you would lose all your customisations. You would have to merge your changes into the latest release using e.g. WinMerge.

If you only want to display Adsense at the top of your site then this should be a simple change in header.php:

<div id="banner-header">
   PUT YOUR ADSENSE CODE HERE
</div>

You need to make sure the banner is enabled in your theme options.

Please let me know if you experience any problems with this.

Thanks

Olaf

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melonlabs Purchased

4 months ago

hey great theme, got no problems during install and setup! exactly what i wanted! short question, i couldnt find any answer here.

how can i change the featured image of each post. i need it link to the article too.

thanks for help and keep on working this great theme!

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awesem Author

4 months ago

Hi Melonlabs,

I hope you are well and thank you for your query. We are pleased to hear that you like our theme and that you didn’t experience any problems during the install and setup.

In regards to your question, you can set the featured image directly on the post as shown here:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/

Please note that this functionality has changed significantly in WP 3.5 and it’s much easier now compare to how it was done before.

Let me know if you experience any problems with this.

Thanks

Olaf

melonlabs Purchased

4 months ago

thanks for answer and sorry for my bad question.

i need to know what to change in the theme php files to turn the featured image of each blog post preview into a direkt link to the post. at the moment you only could access the post page with click on read more or the headline, the picture is no link to the post. how to change this? the featured image should link to the post.

thanks

awesem Author

4 months ago

Thanks for clarifying this and I see what you mean now. You could try wrapping the image in a link as shown below:

<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php printf(__('Permanent Link to %s', 'framework'), get_the_title()); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail-lead'); ?></a>

You need to change this in index.php on Line 29 where the_post_thumbnail is output.

Please note that I’ve not tested it but it should work in theory

Cheers

Olaf

melonlabs Purchased

4 months ago

thanks for fast reply, i found the search.php the line:

 <a title="<?php printf(__('Permanent Link to %s', 'framework'), get_the_title()); ?>" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail-lead'); /* post thumbnail settings configured in functions.php */ ?></a>

and replaced it with the line 29 from index.php i changed the div in class=”post-thumb” to use the outline effect. thanks for your code, i will use it!

last problem now, i cant find the right line to replace it too, but if i use the categories to filter my posts. the featured imaged lose his link again.

awesem Author

4 months ago

Yes, the category page (archive.php) also doesn’t have the link around the featured image in Line 55. Just add the link around like in the two snippets above and that should solve it.

Kind regards

Olaf

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Has been a member for 2-3 years
United States

TheFashionistaChic Purchased

4 months ago

Hi Olaf! Hope you are doing well! I emailed you a couple days ago about the my template and an image widget. Can you please respond? Thanks!!!

awesem Author

4 months ago

Hi Toni, I hope you are well and thanks for your email. Please feel free to get in touch again if you have any further questions.

Thanks

Olaf

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Has been a member for 1-2 years

mngo888 Purchased

4 months ago

how do you disable the “by author” hyperlink on each post that is posted?

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awesem Author

4 months ago

Hi Mngo888,

I hope you are well and thanks for your query. In order to remove the “By author” link you need to amend the following files and remove the code below:

>>> index.php, archive.php, search.php and single.php:

<span class="author"><?php _e('By', 'framework') ?> <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></span>
<span class="meta-sep"> | </span>

Please let me know if you experience any problems with this.

Thanks

Olaf

mngo888 Purchased

4 months ago

thanks but i already figured it out myself…...P.S you really should sort out your support cos waiting for 10 days in the forum support is not on. I’m still waiting for a member of support to sort out another problem, 2 days after i gave him my WP login details.

awesem Author

4 months ago

Hi mngo888,

I hope you are well and apologies that you had to wait such a long time for the support. We’ve had a very busy start to the year and we were struggling to stay on top of the support. We’re almost back on top of it all and I’ve just recruited another two support analysts to help us provide high quality support again.

The fastest way to get support is our forum as we now have five support analysts monitoring the forum at different times.

Thanks again for raising this.

Cheers

Olaf

mngo888 Purchased

4 months ago

Olaf, i waited over 10 days for support for an issue via the forum and now it’s been another 5 days for another support issue. i was asked to give my login details to my wordpress site to help remove the image borders and i’m still waiting…..my username is the same on the forum , feel free to check out my latest query that still havent been resolved

mngo888 Purchased

4 months ago

seeing as i’m getting no reply on the support forum, maybe you can give me the css code to change this….i don’t want the borders around the image….how do i do this? http://s7.postimage.org/qujji71hn/04_03_2013_21_51_24.jpg

awesem Author

4 months ago

Hi mngo888,

apologies for taking a while to get your issue resolved. We’ve just replied to your query here and please feel free to respond to this ticket if you require anything else:

http://support.awesem.com/forums/topic/photo-outlines/

Thanks again for your patience.

Cheers

Olaf

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Has been a member for 2-3 years
United States

TheFashionistaChic Purchased

3 months ago

To anyone interested in buying this template. I am extremely happy with this template, i think I have used it over a year, maybe two. The developer is so amazingly attentive. I am saying this because I almost purchased another template from another developer today for a different project. I read the comments and customer are upset. I have never had this problem with Awesome. I have to be honest, I have bugged Olaf, he’s is pretty awesome. So if you are interested I highly recommend!!!

awesem Author

3 months ago

Hi Toni,

thanks for the kind words

I’m pleased to hear that you are still happy with our theme and support after the two years you’ve been using our ZillaPress theme.

I am trying to provide a consistently high level of support. I am fully aware there were periods where we were slow to respond due to our workload. To overcome this in future, we’ve added another three support analyst to our team this month in order to keep up with demand so that we can continue to provide a quality service.

Kind regards

Olaf

Bought between 1 and 9 items
Has been a member for 2-3 years
Ireland

flyawaybride2011 Purchased

2 months ago

I’m trying to change the RSS feed in our theme and just realized there should be an options page – for some reason we’re not able to access the themeoptions.php page; it says You do not have suffiecient permissions to access this page. I’m an admin of the site so I don’t understand why it won’t allow me to access this page. Someone else did some customizations on this and we’re not longer in contact with that person. I did take a look at the themeoptions.php file and it says is_adminn; I tried to change it to a lower level user but it broke the site so I just left it at is_admin. I also tried to update the theme to the current version but it still gave me the insufficient permissions error. Can you help me figure out how to access this page or even to change the feed to our feedburner feed? Thanks so much!

awesem Author

2 months ago

If you only want to change the RSS feed URL then you could consider doing this directly in the database if you are familiar with e.g. PHP My Admin. The value is stored iin plain text in the _options table and you could simply change it.

In regards to the problem with the permissions, I’m not entirely sure what might be causing this. It could be related to your customisation. If you would like us to look into this then please feel free to request a quote via http://www.wpcustomize.it or http://www.awesem.com/tweaky

Please let me know how you get on with this.

Thanks

Olaf

Bought between 10 and 49 items
Has been a member for 3-4 years

petres_007 Purchased

2 months ago

Hi awesem,

Can we expect a responsive version of this great theme? If so, when?

awesem Author

2 months ago

Hi petres_007,

I hope you are well and thank you for your suggestion of a Responsive version of our ZillaPress theme and we’re pleased to hear that you are getting on well with it. We would love to make it responsive but right now we don’t have the resources for this unfortunately. I will add it to our list and we will consider it when we have some breathing space again.

Thanks

Olaf

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

ProJDM

2 months ago

Hello Sir, If I buy your theme, would you or your support help me to make custom boxes for the widgets? I want to have corner rounded boxes in light blue background.

Just like this one: http://unbounce.com/blog/

Please let me know.

awesem Author

2 months ago

Hi ProJDM,

thank you for your query. Regarding your customisation, you could try adding a radius around your widget div like it’s done on your example site:

-moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px;

I suggest you inspect the CSS on that site using Chrome and this should show you how it’s done. You can also have a look at this website which generates the code for you:

http://border-radius.com/

If you need any help with the implementation you should have a look at Tweaky who can assist you with this.

Please let us know how you get on with this.

Kind regards

Olaf

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ProJDM Purchased

2 months ago

just purchased it, hope you can help me

awesem Author

2 months ago

Hi ProJDM,

I hope you’re well and thanks for purchasing our ZillaPress theme and I hope you get on well with it.

Please see below for our response regarding your query.

Kind regards

Olaf

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

ProJDM Purchased

2 months ago

Hello awesem, I achieved the desired outcome using this code:

.widget {
-webkit-border-radius: 7px;
-moz-border-radius: 7px;
border-radius: 7px; 
border-color:#cfd9e5;
border-style:solid;
border-width:1px;
background-color:#eff6fd;
margin: 0px 0px 25px 0px;
padding: 10px; }

Thanks!!

awesem Author

2 months ago

That’s great that you managed to do the customisation and thanks for letting us know!

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ProJDM Purchased

2 months ago

Hello Awesem, One quick question, the theme is not showing featured images, how to enable them?

Thanks.

awesem Author

2 months ago

Hi ProJDM,

you can enable the featured image slider on the homepage under Appearance > Theme Options > Post Settings > Show Featured Slider

In regards to featured images on the single post page, you need to check this option on the same settings page: “Auto-insert Post Thumb”

Please let me know if you experience any problems with this.

Thanks

Olaf

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

elysebogacz Purchased

1 month ago

Hello,

I purchased this theme last night and I’m loving it. Only thing is I’m having difficultly with the featured slider.

I have a large archive of posts and I dont want to have to go through all of them and set a featured image for a thumbnail to appear in the carousel. Is there a way to add a piece of code that will pull the first image attached to a blog and use that instead?

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awesem Author

1 month ago

Hi elysebogacz,

I hope you are well and we’re pleased to hear that you’re loving our ZillaPress theme

In regards to your images, that’s a very common problem and there are a number of plugins available that can help you automatically generate these, e.g. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-add-thumbnail/

Please let us know how you get on with this.

Kind regards

Olaf

elysebogacz Purchased

1 month ago

thanks i was able to figure it out but adding a function in the function.php file an If statement in the featured.php file.

Do you guys plan to update this with a mobile version of the theme? I didn’t realize it wasn’t responsive when I bought it. The web portion of it is exactly what I want and i love it, would just be nice to have a mobile version as well.

awesem Author

1 month ago

Hi elysebogacz,

a number of people have asked us about responsiveness for our ZillaPress theme and we are now starting to consider this. We won’t be able to do this immediately but it’s certainly something I would like us to do by the end of June – depending on other commitments of course.

Please let me know if you have any further queries.

Thanks

Olaf

elysebogacz Purchased

1 month ago

Awesome, maybe i’ll hold off on trying to do it myself then. Thanks for being so helpful.

Bought between 1 and 9 items
Has been a member for 2-3 years
United States

TheFashionistaChic Purchased

17 days ago

Hi! How do I add a photo to the author, contributor and other user. Thanks

awesem Author

17 days ago

You can have a look at creating Gravatar.com accounts for your users. The avatar image should then appear automatically and it’s based on the user’s email address.

http://codex.wordpress.org/How_to_Use_Gravatars_in_WordPress

Let me know if you experience any problems with this.

Thanks

Olaf

Created	25 August 10
Last Update	5 April 13
Columns	2
Compatible Browsers	IE7, IE8, IE9, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome
Software Version	WordPress 3.5, WordPress 3.4, WordPress 3.3, WordPress 3.2, WordPress 3.1, WordPress 3.0
Documentation	Well Documented
High Resolution	No
Layout	Fixed
ThemeForest Files Included	Layered PSD, CSS Files, JS Files, PHP Files
Widget Ready	Yes

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