Monochrome Magazine free Blog, Clean, Personal Wordpress Theme

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Theme Features:

Content slider built in
468 x 165 banner slot
4 125 x 125 custom banner slots
Banner positions can be turned off
Theme Options
Flickr widget
Twitter widget
About us widget
Follow us (Facebook, Twitter, RSS)
Post thumbnails (automatic image resizing)
Page navigation included, no plugin required
Google Analytics code script can be inserted
WP 3.2 ready
Readme included
PSD Logo included
Gravatar ready
Threaded comments
WordPress 3.0 menu system supported
Cross browser compatibility IE7, IE8, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera

Layout: 2 columns, Fixed width, Right sidebar Colors: Black, Gray, White

16 Responses

Courtney Flaherty October 26, 2011 at 4:09 am | Permalink | Reply

Can you disable the slider on the category pages but not the home page? I tried removing the php but then the sidebar moves into the middle column. I also tried to hide the slider under theme options but the sidebar still moves. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!
1. sin2384 October 26, 2011 at 4:17 am | Permalink | Reply
  Hi, you did something wrong. To remove slider from category, you need to delete this from category.php:
```
<?php if (get_option('swt_slider') == 'Hide') { ?>
<?php { echo ''; } ?>
<?php } else { include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/includes/slide.php'); } ?>
```
  1. Courtney Flaherty October 26, 2011 at 7:04 am | Permalink | Reply
    
    I did that. It shifts the sidebar over. Here is my site with that removed: http://medmonthly.com/mywp/category/news-briefs/
    
    Is there something else I can change?
    1. sin2384 October 26, 2011 at 7:19 am | Permalink | Reply
      
      No, there is something you could return in original state in sidebar.php. You’re calling banners outside of div id sidebar, and that’s why you’re having an error.
      1. Courtney Flaherty October 26, 2011 at 7:33 am | Permalink
        
        What do you mean by “return in original state”?
        
        The sidebar.php is set up with banners outside the div if sidebar. If you put banners inside then the black sidebar is behind the banners like this http://medmonthly.com/mywp/category/news-briefs/
      2. sin2384 October 26, 2011 at 9:23 am | Permalink
        
        You’re right! This was a bug in a theme. I missed to add a clear when there’s no enough content. This is happening cause you dont have enough content in that category – only 2 posts. Sorry I thought you changed the code.
        
        You need to add
        
        <div style="clear:both"></div>
        
        to banners.php (includes folder) at the end. And then you can return also call for banners above div id sidebar. Im really sorry you lost your time cause of me.
        
        All best,
        Sinisa
Courtney Flaherty October 26, 2011 at 10:29 am | Permalink | Reply

OK, now for some reason that fixes the problem on for the category pages but on the home page the sidebar drops down. Looks great on my category pages though. http://medmonthly.com/mywp/

If you don’t have any ideas on this one I can always manipulate the CSS a little bit. Thanks for your help!
1. sin2384 October 26, 2011 at 11:15 am | Permalink | Reply
  
  Please download theme again. I overlooked some things again. Not my day
  1. Courtney Flaherty October 26, 2011 at 11:45 am | Permalink | Reply
    
    Thanks so much for working on this with me! Hopefully this will be the last you hear from me
Courtney Flaherty October 31, 2011 at 8:26 am | Permalink | Reply

Sorry, it’s me again. I am having problems getting the slider to display my photos. I did exactly what you said in the read me. I created the custom field for my post and labeled them correctly but it doesn’t seem to be pulling the correct thumbnail and it doesn’t pull anything for the slider. If I set a featured image it pulls that image for both the thumbnail and the slider.

Any help would be appreciated.
1. sin2384 October 31, 2011 at 12:16 pm | Permalink | Reply
  
  Hi, no problems, as long as you have problems, Im here. I think I know why is this – images. Your images are really really big, and there’s probably some kind of a limit on image size that slider can run. You need to optimize that (big time!), resolution of image is at least 4,5 time’s bigger than it needs to be! If you have a photoshop, use it to resize image, in 800×600 let’s say, it should work.
  1. Courtney Flaherty October 31, 2011 at 5:14 pm | Permalink | Reply
    
    I resized the images on one story to 72 dpi and 800 x 500 px but it still doesn’t pull the images. I can see it pulls the text though. I don’t think it’s pulling the correct thumbnail either because they are distorted. If I set a featured image then it uses that for both the thumbnail and the slider and then they are both distorted. Other than just created a custom field on the post is there anything else I need to change?
    1. Courtney Flaherty November 2, 2011 at 7:54 am | Permalink | Reply
      
      I can get the slider to use the image if I set a featured image but then that image is used for both the feature and the thumbnail. I thought if I set up custom fields then it would use those images to populate the slider. Please help.
      1. sin2384 November 3, 2011 at 9:23 am | Permalink
        
        Hi again, small thumbs are made to use featured images, but you can modify that, like this in slide.php:
        
        change <?php get_the_image( array( 'custom_key' => array( 'slimage' ), 'link_to_post' => false, 'default_size' => 'full', 'width' => '99', 'height' => '91' ) ); ?> to this: <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'bigimage', $single = true); ?>" alt="<?php the_title() ?>" width="99" height="91" /></a>
        
        The same thing you can do with big image.
        
        change <?php get_the_image( array( 'custom_key' => array( 'bigimg' ), 'default_size' => 'full', 'width' => '608', 'height' => '283', 'link_to_post' => false ) ); ?> to this: <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'smallimage', $single = true); ?>" alt="<?php the_title() ?>" width="608" height="283" /></a>
        
        Now, you can even set different images for slider – for big image you type bigimage in custom field, and for small thumb – smallimage.
Juko December 16, 2012 at 2:16 am | Permalink | Reply

Hi,
Thank you for this stylish theme!
I would like to know if it is possible to slow down the slide?

Thanks!
1. sin2384 December 17, 2012 at 4:01 am | Permalink | Reply
  
  Yes, open up slide.php from includes folder and increase 3000 to what you want.