Hello nanakooy,

1. Yes you can use contact form 7 plugin along with the product image. The theme supports contact 7 plugin. You can make use of column short codes as shown on this page to format your content.

2. The link you mentioned is a single post. A sidebar will be shown on the single post. However, you can have a full width PAGE with any number of columns (or no columns). But for a blog single post there will be a sidebar. (A sidebar can be removed from single post too. That will require re-styling of single post columns and comments section to flow in full width).

Feel free to ask for if you have any query.

Regards

Hello gubbsur,

Yes there is some JS conflict with the old version plugin. Kindly refer to my reply above.

Regards

Hello jhortale and @aplewis

I’ve just installed the theme on WordPress 3.2 and got the issues as mentioned by you. The next update will be available within a day or two. Meanwhile, if you wish you can try it yourself:

1. Slider images not showing: After updating to WP 3 .2, I found that the images inside media library no longer exists. You can make sure the images are still there inside the media library. If not, re-upload them and update the featured image URLs inside the posts.

2. JS Conflict: The easing plugin used inside header.php line no. 39 is too outdated for jQuery 1.6, You need to disable it:

/*wp_enqueue_script("jq-easing", $dir."/js/jquery.easing.min.js");*/

3. You may also need to update the jquery Nivo Slider plugin with the latest version.

I will make these fixes and update the download file. This may take a couple of days to clear the queue. I will also eliminate any ‘easing’ calls throughout the theme. My apologies for the inconvenience caused so far.

Regards

thanks for the updated version. now it works.

My test site is up here:

Thanks so much for your help.

Thanks for the quick response—those fixes solved my problems with the slider and nav menus.

Love the theme, btw; it’s just what I needed.

Thanks aplewis.

Hello Nev,

You can edit the post meta information inside functions.php. At line no. 299 you will find a function as:

function cruz_posted_in() { }

You can remove the elements from this function and save the file.

Regards

Hello Soulnecta,

1. Image and content sliders: If you wish to show them inside page body, they need to be converted as a short-code. You can not use widgets directly on page body (unless you have a widget area registered on that section). As an alternate, you can directly place the HTML markup for slider. You can either see that markup from the sidebar content slider source code, OR mail me so that I will send you a generic markup for the same.

2. Changing blog post dates: Open/Edit a post and look at the far right side inside “Publish” panel. You’ll see a time stamp as “Published on..” and an “edit” link just after that. Click on the “edit” link and change the date to your choice.

3. For using “PT Sans” in menu, you can assign a rule inside style.css file as:

/* Primary Menu */

.nav1 { font-family: "PT Sans", sans serif; .. rest of the styles }
.nav2 { { font-family: "PT Sans", sans serif; .. rest of the styles }

Make sure you are already using PT Sans for the theme (or headings), so that a google api call for the font is already made.

4. You will find the background color for navigation menu inside the same selectors as shown above.

5. For removing “Comments are closed” test, open comments.php file in a text editor and delete the following code at line no. 28,29,30.

if ( ! comments_open() ) : ?>
<p class="nocomments"><?php _e( 'Comments are closed.', 'cruz' ); ?></p>
endif; // end ! comments_open()

6. Color options: I will consider that. The layout structure is different, hence I enabled the WordPress background option. I will see what more can be added.

Besides these solutions, if you get any problem, mail me at xconsau[at]gmail[dot]com.

Regards

Hello peterwhelan,

I have just enabled the twitter widget on live preview. You can check the widget here.

Many thanks – that’s great.

Hi again,

You will find that code inside header.php:

For Cycle slider – Line no. 124 and 127

For Nivo Slider – Line no. 176 and 178.

The code contains php variables that take slider height from theme options panel. You would look for the zc=1 part.

Regards

I did try to remove the rc=1, but the image is still crop.. it this means that if the image is larger, it will still crop even thought the “rc=1” is remove?

Do I need to upload an image 960×360? thanks

Hello again,

The Zoom and Crop parameter (zc) can be used as:

zc = 0 – Resize to Fit specified dimensions (no cropping. The image will get distorted to fit within the dimension)

zc = 1 – Crop and resize to best fit the dimensions (default)

zc = 2 – Resize proportionally to fit entire image into specified dimensions, and add borders if required

zc = 3 – Resize proportionally adjusting size of scaled image so there are no borders gaps

So, instead of removing zc, you can set zc=0. Or you can also upload images of the slider height (960px by 360px).

Hello Sonny,

Here are some steps you will need to perform before installing the theme:

1. Unzip the download package. (That is a collection of documentation, PSD and the theme). So DO NOT install the zip package directly.

2. After unzipping, open documentation/index.html file. (Inside that, you will find steps for installing the theme). I have mentioned “Not to install the theme directly”, but unfortunately you didn’t read the documentation.

3. Inside the download package, you will see a folder “cruz”. That is the actual theme you need to upload to the wp-content/themes/ directory.

That should run the theme successfully.

Hello there,

Those stylish captions are created in PhotoShop, and are part of that image itself. (No HTML used there). The theme supports custom HTML captions that will show as a black bar and white text at the bottom of the Slider.

If you wish to customize your Slider images in the same way as live preview, I have provided a master PSD file that contain those caption text in layers. You can edit the PSD to make your custom captions.

Hi mate,

I am thinking on that. Any such feature that can not be implemented via plugins. For now, any feature like.. social counter, shopping cart etc can be implemented via third party plugins. So, I’ll probably look for something else to implement.

What’s the best email subscription widget/plugin? I have already a social counter (customized)..

Hi again,

You can check this link.

If you wish to collect only e-mail address, you can also use Contact Form 7 Plugin.

No issues. I’ll look forward to your purchase.

Hello iamkj,

The theme comes with a documentation file with all necessary instructions for setting up the theme.

If you are hosting on godaddy, I am afraid timthumb script may become a problem. I’ll suggest you to confirm whether they support timthumb.

Regarding support, you will get all possible help related to the theme issues, installation or setup part. (But no personal freelance work).

Regards

Hi there,

Yes you can have individual sidebars. On each page there is a section named “Page Options” (below the content editor). You can opt to have an exclusive sidebar for that page. After updating the page, go to Appearance > Widgets. You would see the newly created sidebar for that page. Next, you can drag widgets on that particular sidebar.

Regards

Hi there,

The source file for slider image is too big. I guess it is exceeding 1.5MB. Try to upload a web optimized image that is less than 1.5MB. Below is the error generated by the timthumb script:

source file is too big (filesize &gt; MAX_FILE_SIZE)<br />Query String : src=http://www.breadoflifechurchde.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/slider.png&amp;w=960&amp;h=360&amp;zc=1&amp;q=100<br />TimThumb version : 1.25

The file size is set inside scripts/timthumb.php line no. 22:

define ('MAX_FILE_SIZE', 1500000);

You can increase the file size but I would suggest to use web optimized images.

Besides that, there is one more issue that may cause problems. You have directly installed the download package into the wp-content/themes folder. Your current directory structure looks as:

http://www.breadoflifechurchde.org/wp-content/themes/cruz_1_1/cruz/

This should be:

http://www.breadoflifechurchde.org/wp-content/themes/cruz/

i.e. upload the “cruz” folder to the wp-content/themes/ directory. Do not upload entire download package there.

Hope it rectifies your issues.

Regards

Hello iNate,

1. Navigation menu can be configured using the WordPress Appearance > Menus section. navigate to that section and create a menu. Next assign it to the appropriate menu area (Primary or secondary). You will find more details inside the documentation/index.html file of your download package.

2. Navigation color. Yes, it is wrapped inside the (for stretched layout), and (for boxed layout). Since you are using the stretched layout, it’s style is controlled inside includes/load_styles.php file at line no. 275:

.utility { background:#333 ... }

3. Use “Display Blog name and description” option from Theme Options. Next, you can control the font and color inside style.css file’s section “4. HEADER ”

.blogname { }
.blogname a { }
.blogname a:hover { }
.tagline { }

4. Header takes it’s height from the margin/padding of Logo and the widget area. The logo has a bottom margin of 30px inside style.css file:

.brand { padding:30px 0px 30px 30px }

Similarly, header widget area has a bottom margin of 30px:

.header_wgt_area { margin:30px 30px 30px 0px }

Reducing bottom margins will reduce the header height. Header’s top margin is controlled as:

.header_wrap { margin:25px auto 0px }

For more details, you can drop me a mail at xconsau[at]gmail[dot]com. I will assist you further.

Regards

Hello ronrichardson,

Your site is under maintenance mode, I can not see the actual URL .

For slider images, make sure you have assigned appropriate permissions to the timthumb script and the cache folder as stated inside the documentation file. There can be other reasons which I can tell only after looking at the actual URL .

Regards

Hello there,

Replied to your email.

Regards

Hi again,

For removing pagination, you can comment out or delete the following lines of code inside loop.php from line no. 32 to 40:

if ( $wp_query->max_num_pages > 1 ) :?>
    <?php if ( function_exists( 'wp_pagenavi' ) ) wp_pagenavi();
    else {?>
    <div class="pagination">                
      ...
    </div>
    <?php }   
endif; ?>

You would remove the same code inside blog-page.php at around line no. 51 to 59. And the same procedure can be followed for portfolio templates port3.php, port4.php etc.

Regards

Thanks again for the support!

One last question: How do I make button links to open in the same window?

Hi again,

For button links opening in same window, open includes/shortcodes/shortcodes.php file and look for line no. 260:

return '<a href="'.$link.'" class="'.$btn_class.' '.$color_class.' '.$size_class.'" target="_blank">'.do_shortcode($content).'</a>'

Remove target="_blank" and save the file.

Regards