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“Magazeen”: Free Magazine-Look WordPress Theme
We love our readers. We respect the hard work of designers and developers across the globe. And we do our best to make the web design community stronger and the Web a little bit prettier. Therefore we ask talented artists and creative professionals to showcase their skills and release something unique and beautiful as a gift to the community. And when designers agree, truly impressive works see the light of day.
Today we are glad to release Magazeen — a free advanced Wordpress-theme in a magazine-llok created by the talented WeFunction Design Agency. This bold magazine 2-col-theme was designed with the main focus being on typography, grids and magazine-look. It was created especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
Download the theme for free!
The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish.
- live demo
- large preview (.jpg, 1.7 Mb)
- download the theme (.zip, 0.3 Mb)
- download the PSD-sources (.zip, 4.5 Mb)
- release post on WeFunction.com
Inspiration behind the design
As usual, here are some insights from the designers themselves:
“We’ve created the Magazeen theme to try and pump as much style and functionality into a WordPress theme to give people something they might not expect from their standard Wordpress theme. There really is very few limits to what WordPress handle, so we’ve built in a lot of custom features and options to give people a little taste of what is possible, and how some small functionality tweaks can make a huge difference to the overall experience of browsing a blog. On top of that we’ve wrapped all that functionality up in a really cool and modern theme, with nice big title fonts, and a stylish colour scheme.
The Magazeen theme is packed full of cool features to really encourage your readers to explore new posts and similar items. The first thing you might notice is the jQuery image showcase at the top, which is fully automated and will display the image from the latest post, and the title above it without you having to do anything other than define the image URL in the custom field we have created which will appear on in your admin post area.
Drop-Down Menu
The other cool and fully automated feature is the related posts drop down effect. It’s a simple idea, if you click the category of the full posts a drop down will appear with some related posts from that category. And if you don’t see a post you like you can always view the full category by clicking view more.
Sidebar
The sidebar area’s have been created to give you a lot of control over the featured posts, and recent posts. Once you’ve installed the theme, you need to go to your Widgets area, and simply activate the “Magazeen Latest Posts”, and “Magazeen Featured Posts” widgets. You can easily control how many posts each feature displays, and using this widget will ensure the area is styled correctly with the post image showing correctly.”
Footer
Thank you, guys. We appreciate your great work, your attention to details and the brilliance of the execution.
Related posts
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The team here at Smashing Magazine. Mostly Sven & Vitaly.
- 414 Comments
- 251
- 252April 14th, 2009 2:20 am
Hey Guys, all I can say is wow! I’m using this theme and it’s incredible, I have four quick questions…
1. Is there a way to keep the 4 square post snippets on the homepage (underneath the 2 main latest posts) consistent in size rather than fitting to content as it looks a bit messy?
2. Where is the Code to change the colour of the comments counter in the top left of each post snippet.
3. How do I change my horrendous avatar its on every site I post on?
4. where can we donate some money for your hard work
Thanks
Chris
- 253April 14th, 2009 3:11 am
Ignore the gravatar question, i’ve found out where to change it
- 254April 14th, 2009 9:12 am
Hello, i download the theme which is great, but i dont know how to put the thumbnails in the new post in the header. Can sombody help me ? Thanks
- 255April 14th, 2009 9:15 am
Sorry, now i know how to make the thumnails, Great theme…Im going to use it for my blog, Thanks
- 256April 15th, 2009 7:44 pm
Looks good, and great,
i’ll download it and use it on my local first yup… - 257April 16th, 2009 9:14 am
I love this theme. I played with it for beyond karma, but the content calls for zen-like simplicity. I did however use some of the ideas from this theme!
- 258April 16th, 2009 9:53 pm
God, I got soo frustrated with this theme at the start, but I hung in there and have finally worked all the bits and pieces out and have to say it’s one of the most awesome themes I’ve played with. Thanks to everyone in the comments stream for solving everything for me :) If releasing updates, maybe a few simple instructions with it would be great? Or did I miss those.
AWESOME! Keep it up guys!!
- 259April 19th, 2009 6:27 am
Great theme, i use it in my photography blog
- 260April 21st, 2009 10:09 am
i checked one of the posted blogs and saw you *can* post video so i’ll figure out how to do that. GREAT theme. so functional. love it.
- 261April 22nd, 2009 5:48 pm
Okay, I’ll admit it: I’m totally lost. I figured I would be downloading code that I could apply in Word Press. However, although I have downloaded and unzipped all the files, I’m not seeing anything I recognize, or any instructions.
I have looked around your website for guidance, but I don’t see any. Am I missing something majorly important, like certain programs that will open these files?
- 262April 22nd, 2009 8:03 pm
Need help. Article date and comments are always the same. If article is published on April 19, all comments show April 19 regardless of when they were added. (www.uknox.com).
Thanks!
- 263April 23rd, 2009 9:08 am
i need help with this! i want to use it for our radio blog, and i chose this style because the demo was perfect. if i click a link on the demo (about or another page, search) the sidebar isn’t reloading, what means a radioplayer would continue to play. on my site it won’t work as the demo and will reload with every other page i click :(
sorry for my bad english
any help is appreciated! - 264April 23rd, 2009 2:29 pm
for those experiencing problems with the jquery rollover images and titles not working …. deactivate the Contact forms 7 plugin. This should fix the problem. For some reason, cforms 7 and this theme don’t mesh well.
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- 266April 27th, 2009 2:28 am
Hi, I am trying to use this theme along with a lightbox. I already have tried the following plugs and neither work with the theme:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jquery-lightbox-balupton-edition/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lightbox-2/Any ideas? How can I combine a lightbox plugin with the magazeen theme? Thanks guys.
- 267April 27th, 2009 12:15 pm
If you are having problems with some of the features try deactivating plugins fixed most things for me.
- 268April 27th, 2009 9:23 pm
Does anyone know whether you can publish an article without the big image displaying, but for the thumbnail to still generate for the top and side navs? I’d like to do this for selected articles only, for example… if I embed a video, I don’t want a big image and a big video player displaying. But I do want the thumbnail for the article to appear in the Featured News panel. Thanks.
- 269April 28th, 2009 10:05 am
Thanks… anyway… and Great Job.
- 270May 5th, 2009 1:02 pm
Would like to start off with saying this wordpress theme is beautiful. I would like to put it on my own blog, but i have no idea how to use wordpress. I bought a domain name but i dont know all the css and wordpress coding. Please any help or advice is greatly appreciated. adam1test@yahoo.com i would love to learn as much as i can im on this site constantly. Thanks again.
- 271May 7th, 2009 2:29 pm
I have to say that this is the best Wordpress theme yet. Well to me at least. The one problem I kept on having was the thumbnail image issue that a lot of people seem to be having. I think that the majority of the people that continue to have this issue might be doing what I kept on doing. I now feel dumb for doing it, but being new to Wordpress, I didn’t know better. Here is the wrong way I added the image. I would add the image to the body of the blog. As that turns out, that is not what you do. What you need to do instead is upload the photo to your site, using wordpress. Then get the URL for and then put that URL in the Magzeen Post Options. That took me hours to figure out. Sometimes we just try to make things more difficult than they have to be.
- 272May 12th, 2009 3:27 am
Great theme!
Just one question though:
How can I change the height of the images in the “post-image” class?
Because once I add an image then it cuts off parts of the image.Any help appreciated :)
Thanks
- 273May 13th, 2009 9:05 am
hello !
i did rtl to this theme and i get this problem (cheket with firebeg):
createVmlStyleSheet()()pngfix.js (line 45)
pngfix.js()()pngfix.js (line 303)
[Break on this error] styleSheet.addRule(this.ns + ‘\:shape’, ‘{behavior:url(#default#VML)}’);
pngfix.js (line 45)
$(”.category”) is null
(?)()()functions.js (line 2)
(?)()()jquery-latest.js (line 2912)
each()([function(), function()], function(), undefined)jquery-latest.js (line 686)
ready()()jquery-latest.js (line 2911)
(?)()()jquery-latest.js (line 2936)
[Break on this error] $( ‘.category’ ).click( function() {
functions.js (line 2)whats rong ?
thank u
- 274May 14th, 2009 9:54 pm
Thanks for a great WP theme!
I have put it to use with some slight modifications here: http://www.blitzedmag.com
- 275May 16th, 2009 1:58 am
I noticed that there were several people who had issues with the dock thumbnail rollovers not working properly. I had the exact same issue but only after I installed the WP-Slimbox2 plugin for viewing images within a post.
I think it had something to do with both plugins using jquery and defining their own versions of the same js function. Check your rendered blog page source to see what other js code is referenced just prior to the code used for the Magazeen template. Either way, I was able to get the dock rollovers working again with a slight mod to the header.php file.
Basically, I just put the Magazeen js references *after* the wp_head and it fixed the problem for me. I tried to paste the before and after code snippets in this comment, but that didn’t seem to work, so if you’re interested in the fix, just email me at dale[at]blitzedmag[dot]com and I’ll give it to you via email.
I’ve tested the functionality of the WP-Slimbox2 and it still works fine after my slight mod. If you’re using other plugins or js code that are competing with the Magazeen js code, then your results may vary.
Good luck. And thanks again to Smashing and Function for the great theme!
Cheers,
Dale - 276May 17th, 2009 3:21 pm
Hi All,
Having a super frustrating problem with my mod of this theme. I fixed it once but was silly and didn’t make a note of WHERE. D’oh!
What I want to do is move the post content (the entire post) over to the left a little bit and maybe move the sidebar to the right. Problem is, I can’t find WHERE in the CSS allows me to do this. I’ve tried just about everything.
If anyone can help, that would be GREAT.
Thanks!!
- 277May 17th, 2009 6:49 pm
it’s one of the most perfect templates I’ve seen! thanks a lot for sharing!
- 278May 19th, 2009 12:45 am
The theme is gorgeous! I finally got it to work on my blog. One thing: I can’t seem to use my Link/Blogroll widget.
- 279May 19th, 2009 5:28 am
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- 280May 19th, 2009 12:56 pm
Hello, I need help and maybe someone can help me.
First of all thank you for this theme.I need to change the adresse feed ont he RSS button.
Can you help me?Thank you
- 281May 21st, 2009 11:58 am
Hi there,
How do you add pages? The navigation through the blog is a big difficult without pages i.e 1,2,3,4 etc
Thanks! Great work!
- 282May 22nd, 2009 9:40 am
Great theme, thank you for making this available.
To those who have noticed the issue where hovering over the Latest Articles thumbnails sometimes causes the text to overlap with the article names, there is an easy fix: Open the functions.js within the js directory and change the fadeIn value on line 19 from “1000″ to “100″. All this does is speed up the fadeIn animation of the text and solves the overlapping text issue.
- 283May 23rd, 2009 6:28 pm
Hi,
I had the same pagination problem as others who mentioned it here. I found a solution to the problem and the modified index.php file can be downloaded at my site through this blog post.
Thanks for the great theme.
- 284June 2nd, 2009 6:56 pm
Hello all
I´m having a little problem with my little pics on the top. This is the picture right here http://img10.imageshack.us/my.php?image=isoca.jpg
Can anyone help me?
I have MSN ( msn@vetora.com.br) and Gtalk (publicidadeba@gmail.com)
Thanks
Guys - 285June 3rd, 2009 12:28 am
very nice theme, although it has dozens of XHTML and css bugs plus
the sidebar is kinda above the footer in the IE. does anybody have the same problem and got a workaround?let me know
- 286June 4th, 2009 2:55 pm
Can anyone tell me how to fix the bug that has the comment submitted dates showing the same dates as the date the post was created?
Great theme otherwise.
- 287June 4th, 2009 3:12 pm
Thanks so much for the theme.
Also, I’m having a problem with a bunch of the default widgets not showing up. I can’t activate the following widgets: Archives, Links, Recent Posts (which I don’t care about because of Magazeen’s custom widget), and Recent Comments (which I certainly care about). These things are super important, and I hate to have to install some crazy other non-wp standard plugin to manage our simple blogroll. Any thoughts?
- 288June 8th, 2009 6:53 am
I am also having an issue with the comment dates – all comments use the date of the post regardless of the actual dates of the comments. I noticed that @Hahn did post a solution but the code he inserted in his comment does not appear. Does anyone have a fix for the comment-date issue?
Thanks, and great theme!
- 289June 9th, 2009 8:58 am
hey,
any chance anyone has figured out a way to have a “default” thumbnail image so as to avoid having to place an image url in the special field with every post? thanks.
- 290June 9th, 2009 9:56 pm
great theme! thank you! what can i do with the psd file? im aware its the template source but…if i want to change the theme color images how do i export it?
- 291June 10th, 2009 3:47 pm
can u please do an rtl css file … and there is a lot of problem on exsplorer 7 … can u fix theme please … thank u for an amazing theme…
- 292June 11th, 2009 6:56 am
Great theme! Thanks for this.
Maybe someone can help me with a little problem? Would be great. It seems that the jQuery Latest Image Showcase won’t work correct with Firefox 2.x.x.xx (checked with different versions) and IE 6.0. The text (post topic) will be showed over the thumbnail and not above.
You can see this on the screenshot: http://tinyurl.com/magazeen-jquery
Sorry, I’m a newbie on this stuff.
- 293June 13th, 2009 7:01 pm
This is a really nice theme. Thank you very much!
- 294June 15th, 2009 8:49 am
Can’t download theme- Failed to Connect
- 295June 15th, 2009 5:43 pm
i love the theme! Is there a setting you need to change to get the thumbnail pictures to show up in the sidebar? Mine just has text…
- 296June 17th, 2009 10:31 pm
Hey guys, this theme is AMAZING! but 1 problem that I really need help with.
It doesent allow people to post comments! and under the comment box it gives me this error at the bottom“Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_previous_comments_link() in /home2/imbedgfx/public_html/allengfx.com/wp-content/themes/magazeen-wordpress-theme/magazeen/comments.php on line 54″
does anyone know a fix for this?
- 297June 18th, 2009 2:51 pm
Yikes! It says that the theme’s broken, although I’m not sure if it’s a problem with my server:
Warning: file(/home/starlakarr/theluckinitiative.com/wp-content/themes/magazeen-wordpress-theme/style.css) [function.file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/user/domain.com/wp-includes/theme.php on line 180
Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in /home/myuser/mydomain.com/wp-includes/theme.php on line 180
- 298June 19th, 2009 10:42 am
Вот это да! Благодарю! Теперь на неделю есть работа! :)
- 299June 21st, 2009 5:17 pm
I need help getting the thumbnails to appear –
I read the posts above, but need help understanding what to do to solve this in plain english – not programmer speak! Please! Thank you!
- 300June 23rd, 2009 7:18 am
pleas send me best seller picture
- 301June 26th, 2009 2:26 am
wow Great theme, i cant believe this is free, you guys ROCK!
- 302July 1st, 2009 4:17 pm
This is a GREAT theme, but for some reason today it screwed up on me ( or — more likely — I screwed something up)! When I look for it in WordPress I can’t find it. Is the theme still available?
Apologies if this is a dumb question, I’m a n00b.
- 303July 1st, 2009 8:41 pm
about the custom field, here is a hack to have it default to an image. although i still haven’t been able to implement it. anyone who has better luck i hope you can repost!
http://epicalex.com/default-custom-fields/
see “bonus”: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/13/10-custom-fields-hacks-for-wordpress/
- 304July 2nd, 2009 2:33 am
How can I change the color of the header? When I change in CSS it seems to be a image in the middle and I cant find how to change all like a one blokc
thanks - 305July 4th, 2009 4:43 am
i can´t find “featured Posts”? the site is getting bigger and bigger, do i need to get a widget for it?
Thanks for ideas
- 306July 4th, 2009 4:54 pm
can I add a “next page” “previus page” to this theme?
if yes… how?!
thanks
- 307July 6th, 2009 1:32 pm
i am getting errors in iexplorer 6
- 308July 7th, 2009 3:45 am
Лучше многих скрасить расслабление могут наши девочки по вызову. Ведь именно они знают тайные желания клиентов гораздо лучше, чем обычные дамы. Как правило, элитные шлюхи настолько опытны, что их секс услуги никогда не оставляют клиента неудовлетворенным. Проститутки и шлюхи часто ищут заказчиков на улицах и в метро.
- 309July 11th, 2009 2:25 am
you really believe that by writing “do not spam” above the comment text box Nobody will spam you? lol, you looks very smart guys lol stupid
spam spam spam
- 310July 15th, 2009 5:07 am
I am having issues in regards to the home page. The permanent link to each post at the top of the page should display images but instead i am getting squares with little blue question marks in boxes. how do i fix this issue? it’s frustrating as it looks like the blog is incomplete
- 311July 17th, 2009 5:08 pm
Can someone please assist with a workaround on getting pagination – previous page, next page, older posts, newer posts – working? This is quite frustrating..
Why hasn’t such a feature been implemented into such an incredible theme? This is something nearly every blog writer would want, of course.
Other than that, awesome theme. Thanks for releasing it free of charge.
- 312July 21st, 2009 9:33 am
I would like to know if it was possible to change the color theme of the template. I tried with photoshop but it doesn’t work. So i just wondered if I could do it with wordpress.
PS : i don’t know nothing about html - 313July 22nd, 2009 2:58 am
Nice theme.
Which font is used for “magazeen”?
- 314July 22nd, 2009 1:37 pm
Advice to all: download Firefox. Download Firebug (Tools – Add-ons – Get add-ons). Use the ‘Inspect Element’ feature to find the code you’re looking at, edit it, and then find those same lines in the css in wordpress. Simple, easy, great fix to anyone looking to change the colour theme, size of comment boxes, etc…
Hope that helps someone!
- 315July 23rd, 2009 9:14 am
Installing Theme from uploaded file: magazeen-wordpress-theme.zip
Unpacking the package.Installing the theme.
Theme Installed successfully.
Warning: file(/home2/xxx/public_html/wp-content/themes/magazeen-wordpress-theme/style.css) [function.file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/xxxl/public_html/wp-includes/theme.php on line 180
Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in /home2/xxx/public_html/wp-includes/theme.php on line 180
- 316July 24th, 2009 8:51 pm
still having issues with pictures not showing on my site, or showing for a few days, then disappearing, can someone PLEASE HELP!!!
- 317July 25th, 2009 6:54 pm
i am having same problem with errrors (same message as @errors above) when i try to install. thanks.
- 318July 28th, 2009 6:56 am
For anyone experiencing problems with getting the images to show up as thumbnails in the jquery showcase, featured posts etc…
For some reason, jpeg is not a supported format (not open sourced?), bmp are too large, so gif and png images only. Give that a whirl.
Also: has anyone found a solution to getting the titles to appear in the jquery showcase instead of ‘Check out the Latest Articles’ when you rollover them? It was working fine until I updated to WP 2.8. Thanks for any help!
- 319
- 320July 31st, 2009 10:40 am
Pagination?
I would love, and really need some good pagination with this theme. Any ideas?
- 321November 13th, 2009 10:34 am
Check this link out… Pagination and other features have been added
http://www.ryanyockey.com/146/wordpress-themes/magazeen-wp-theme-pagination-fix/
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- 322August 1st, 2009 10:54 pm
I have the same issue with the thumbnails, doesn’t appear. I had solved deleting all the files in /cache folder and when reload again the page all was automatically in order, even the files in /cache folder.
Did the same thing today but there’s nothing, I think that is de Wordpress version or I dont know, anyone??
- 323August 3rd, 2009 10:27 am
The post title over hover does not work in wordpress 2.8. Any fix would be highly helpful!! Please. Also has someone been able to find page navigation options.
- 324August 5th, 2009 8:50 am
Freaking awesome, its free and so professional, i will add it to my blog.
- 325August 7th, 2009 12:50 pm
Thank you for this really nice theme. There were many bugs with jquery rollover images and titles not working… but I have fixed on my site ” Pixiome”.
Enjoy !
- 326August 8th, 2009 2:18 am
ok, i still cannot fix the images, where it says “check out latest articles” it’s just white boxes with red crosses in them. How can I make them display an actual image?
What are the steps to do so?????
- 327August 9th, 2009 6:59 am
You need to download an image, not to insert in the article, but in the “image” when you write your article.
If you do not have a picture, the thumbnail will have a problem ! - 328August 11th, 2009 3:32 pm
Great theme, but I wonder if there will be a fix for IE7 bugs in the near future.
Thank you so much. - 329August 15th, 2009 2:35 pm
HI…love the theme trying to figure if out to customize it.
i am brand new to this stuff…
how do i drop a picture in the header?thanks
- 330August 15th, 2009 11:11 pm
Thanks for a great theme.
Have one question though, i would like to be able to link directly from the “front page” to a external website by clicking on the image (such as http://www.notcot.org does) does. But when it makes a thumbnail it automatically create a link to the blog post on my own website (as most people of course would like it)
I have looked in the coding of the app but can´t find a good solution to this, does anybody have an idea on how to solve it?
Thanks in advance /Johan - 331August 16th, 2009 10:20 pm
great theme but i need help how to display thumbnail at upper? plz..
- 332August 17th, 2009 12:20 am
can someone email (bong8558@gmail.com) me or post comment here how exactly to make thumbnail at sidebar and below header working please? Really appreciate your kind..thnx..i follow the instruction in older comment still cannot figure out
- 333August 17th, 2009 3:55 am
can someone give me readme file please…dammit..
- 334August 17th, 2009 7:09 am
I’ve also installed this amasing theme, but it wont seem to work.
I get this error messeage:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function post_class() in /var/www/mayroi.dk/blog/wp-content/themes/magazeen/index.php on line 21Does anyone know what I’m to do?
Thanks!
- 335August 17th, 2009 7:40 am
Is there possible to make image in post with original size?
- 336August 19th, 2009 5:18 am
Yes its possible..
To make an image in post its original size you need to open up the file ’single.php’ and find the following code:
“image_value”, true ); ?>&w=225&h=246&zc=1″
replace that with:
“image_value”, true ); ?>&w= imagesx($image);&h= imagesy($image);&zc=1″
I was all happy with myself for sussing that until I realised that there is still no fix for comment dates error which makes this theme almost useless. All comments added to a post show the wrong date (the date that the post was created)! Check out the themes demo and you’ll see this.
Without a fix for that basic function, who would seriously want to use this theme??
- 337August 21st, 2009 10:42 pm
Nice theme! Please fix it for 2.8
- 338August 22nd, 2009 1:19 pm
Wow! This wordpress theme is sooooo awesome!!! I’m a new blogger, figuring out how to use wordpress and such. I just add your theme on: http://www.halfemptywallet.com.
What are the best steps you could recommend for someone that wants to play around and change the colors on this theme? Thank you again!!
@dianawei
- 339August 22nd, 2009 9:45 pm
For people who still having problems with Dock Thumbnails i found a solution…
Instead of using “TimThumb.php” I use “imgsize.php” Mike Lopez script (http://tech.mikelopez.info/2006/03/02/php-image-resize-script/)
Upload imgsize.php in the template directory (where “TimThumb.php” was)
Then, modify the line codes in the index.php, header.php to match with the new script syntax.
FOR EXAMPLE… in “header.php” where you have:
“<img src=”/timthumb.php?src=ID, “image_value”, true ); ?>&w=69&h=54&zc=1″ alt=”" />”
you have to replace that with:
“<img src=”/imgsize.php?w=69&h=54&img=ID, “image_value”, true ); ?>” alt=”" />”
You don’t have create a folder with CHMOD 777, it’s not necessary (i didn’t do it and it work fine, by the way i don’t know where image are saved on the fly jejeee)
- 340August 22nd, 2009 10:33 pm
Guys,
I have installed the theme and have almost got it to work perfectly while it’s FILLED with plugins! It took me a few days but now everything seems to be working except from 1 thing!
The comments!!! Everytime I try to post a comment, I get to a blank page ++++ 2 comments that have been submitted and approved are not showing! Do you have ANY ideas as to how I can fix that? It’s such a small thing, but as you very well know, commenting on a blog post is a VERY important function so it has to be fixed or I won’t be able to use this theme! Please help.
Thanks in advance!
- 341August 25th, 2009 6:05 am
Great theme! i love it, check out what I have done with it at http://www.citygeisha.com
I have a few questions though:
1) how can I add an image in the header bit (in the black blank bit)?
2) the comment date is always the same. the publish date will be august 1st for example, yet comment dates will always be the publishing date even if comment was made two weeks after. How can I fix this?
Thanks very much in advance.
Julie - 342August 26th, 2009 9:41 am
Any chance of having this as a website non-Wordpress template?
- 343August 26th, 2009 10:16 am
The WP125 widgets don’t work properly with this :( Is there any way to fix this? Category/Archive counts also aren’t aligned properly
- 344August 27th, 2009 6:29 am
Hello guys,
I am new to wordpress..My thumbnails are not showing in the top of the page.
I follwed older post but still it showing error….please fix it..it would be great for me..
- 345August 27th, 2009 4:09 pm
Hi
Still having major issues with thumbnail linking at the top of the page and and the recent articles. I’m new to computers and a crap with programming. I’m had to google CHMOD and cache – to give you an example of the simple terms I need.
tried removing “www.” to no avail.
Thanks
- 346August 27th, 2009 9:24 pm
Actually the most amazing thing is that the developers never stopped for a second to read the comments, particularly the date comment bug. I’m no developer, but I’ll do my best to try to fix it :P
Sorta sad because it’s a great, great theme! :D Congrats
- 347August 28th, 2009 5:47 pm
Philip Downer #216 – you solved the image loading problem….
Sort of bush league of Smashing Magazine to give away a template that has such obvious bugs…. let alone the lack of a readme file which they clearly link to in the post edit area….
- 348August 30th, 2009 8:44 am
Can you tell me if this theme is ok for Wordpress 2.8.4?
Thanks a lot
http://www.clementlepetit.com - 349August 30th, 2009 6:56 pm
TO FIX THE COMMENT BUG READE PLEASE:
1) open “functions.php”
2) Search “the_time” and change it to “comment_date”… so now you have “comment_date(’M j, Y’)”
3) That’s it… comment bug fixed :D
- 350August 31st, 2009 11:18 am
@luxladee: Regarding thumbnails on top: I had to delete the cache folder, manually create a new one and then set appropriate permissions (777). When created by the plugin/script, the cache folder won’t work on all servers, even with permissions set to 777. Some server security issue, mayhaps…?
To get the dynamic titles to work, move the javascripts in header.php below the wp_head entry. I know this has been stated before, but thought I’d mention it again. Not sure if it has any side effects, though…
@misterclem: I’m using this with WP 2.8.4, all working nicely.
@dlv: Thanks for the comment fix! :)
How about porting this theme to Thematic, will that be a difficult task?
- 351September 2nd, 2009 1:57 am
@eiv: Many Thanks for your answer.
- 352September 2nd, 2009 9:30 am
@luxladee: if @eiv answer doesn’t work, try doing what i’ve explained in comment number #339
- 353September 4th, 2009 4:24 am
hi, sorry for my english because im french.
installing the theme was very well spent,
you can check it here : cyclonesmag.fr
but i got a big problem, i don’t find how to use sIFR on it, because when i use it on “”, the title disappear, and i don’t know why…
someone can explain me how to do that? - 354September 4th, 2009 4:27 am
“when i use it on h3 title”, sorry :-)
- 355September 4th, 2009 3:26 pm
@alone92 If sIFR don’t work… try using font-face css property. It doesn’t work in Ie, but yes in FF and Safari. You can see an example here, look at the titles : http://www.demianvillanueva.com/blog/
- 356September 5th, 2009 6:04 pm
I see alot of questions about the title of the post doesnt show up when rolling over the thumbnails at the top of the page (or the dock or the jquery section). i have the latest WP, and deactivated all other jquery plugins with no resolution. someone please help. this is a very important part of the theme I believe. please advise.
- 357September 6th, 2009 6:31 pm
@dlv
Thank you!
- 358September 7th, 2009 8:09 pm
@div – your fix works for old comments but now the the theme won’t publish any new ones. =(
- 359September 8th, 2009 12:27 pm
@dlv Thank you!!
i fixed it : http://www.cyclonesmag.frbut it doesn’t work on IE :-/
- 360September 8th, 2009 10:33 pm
I am getting this error -
Warning: file(/home/kangenva/public_html/forumasian/wp-content/themes/magazeen-wordpress-theme/style.css) [function.file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/kangenva/public_html/forumasian/wp-includes/theme.php on line 180
Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in /home/kangenva/public_html/forumasian/wp-includes/theme.php on line 180
Looks like somebody else is having the same issue? Any fixes to the latest download zip file?
- 361September 8th, 2009 11:52 pm
hi,
this is an excellent theme, but i need to get it working in wp 2.8.4
the images at the top do not show title, and some other things do not work either.
thank you - 362September 10th, 2009 10:19 am
hi,
thumbnail problem.
lates articles..
- 363September 10th, 2009 2:16 pm
@cory and @ruyjol: When you install the theme and without modifications, titles are not showed ? That’s strange…
@RandomJan: I check it. First I wrote and doesn’t show any new comment. But, I check in admin panel and I saw that Askimet catched my testing messages like spam. I accept them and new message are alive now (my blog is under constructions, so you can see this test message in some posts). Do you have Askimet enable? It catched your messages like spam?
@alone92: yes jejee, IE don’t support font-face (here i have WinXP + IE7 and it render my custom font.. it’s rare jejeee), i told you.
@Adrian Castro: I don’t know… taht is huge for me jejee
@tarik: read my message… number #339 here in the list comments
- 364September 11th, 2009 1:32 am
dlv
thanks for your reply regarding the comment date problem. all fixed now, thanks! - 365September 11th, 2009 2:47 am
EIV, or anyone else that can help!
“To get the dynamic titles to work, move the javascripts in header.php below the wp_head entry. I know this has been stated before, but thought I’d mention it again. Not sure if it has any side effects, though…”
this is computer progamming talk to me…please could someone explain how i can get the post titles to show whenever i have the mouse over the thumbnail images??? not sure what happened but it was working fine a week ago and all of a sudden, it’s disappeared. only the permalink information is showing..
thanks in advance.
julie - 366September 11th, 2009 4:09 pm
@julie:follow me on twitter ( @dlv_ )to view your website and try to understand which is the problem…
Just for start, try to remember which changes you have made in theme.. perhaps something you touched is the beggining of the problem - 367September 11th, 2009 7:24 pm
@ Julie that was perfect and yet so simple. thank you kindly for the tip. fixed!!!
- 368September 12th, 2009 2:36 pm
anyone willing to help me now with the tag cloud? the tags hang over the widget dimensions. thanks.
- 369
- 370September 13th, 2009 9:43 am
Sorry, call me stupid (or newbie) but how do I change the copyright notice to the current year at the bottom of the page?
Thanks.
- 371September 13th, 2009 1:35 pm
Hi DLV
you wrote the following:
@julie:follow me on twitter ( @dlv_ )to view your website and try to understand which is the problem…
Just for start, try to remember which changes you have made in theme.. perhaps something you touched is the beggining of the problemthere was no link, so how can I follow you on twitter pls? and how would this answer my question re the post title not showing when mouse is over the thumbnail image??
to Cory:
did you solve the problem in the end?? and if so, how did you do it please???thanks
julie - 372September 13th, 2009 7:42 pm
@ Dan, I had to do this ’cause by default it says “2008.” Its in the footer.php under
- 373September 14th, 2009 1:28 am
Thank you Cory, excellent theme. … I knew as soon as I’d posted that I should have looked harder to find it. Thanks for doing the digging for me!
- 374September 14th, 2009 7:44 pm
TO FIX DOCK TITTLE’s:
This is my dock-javascript code that you can see working on my website (not finished 100% yet.. the link is on comment #355), this is inside “functions.js” file.
This isn’t my entire javascriptn file of course, just the dock:
$( function() {
$( '.category' ).click( function() {
$( this ).toggleClass( 'active' )
$( this ).siblings( '.dropdown' ).toggle();
$( this ).find( '.indicator' ).toggleClass( 'indicator-active' );
return false;
} );
$( '#dock > li' ).stop().css('opacity', 0.5);
$( '#dock > li' ).hover( function() {
$( '.latest' ).stop().fadeOut( 'fast' );
$( this ).stop().children( 'span' ).fadeIn( 200 );
$( this ).stop().css('opacity', 1);
}).bind( "mouseleave", function() {
$( this ).stop().css('opacity', 0.5);
$( this ).stop().children( 'span' ).fadeOut( 200 );
} );
$( '#dock' ).bind( "mouseleave", function() {
$( '.latest' ).stop().fadeIn( 500 );
} );
});
I’ve change the position of the tittles (under the post-images), I did it with CSS.
I hope you fix it. Also, it’s rare, the first time I installed, all animations (included titles) work nice.@julie To see me on twitter, my user is “dlv_” .. you have to got a twitter account of course :)…then, you can follow me typing twitter.com/dlv_
- 375September 15th, 2009 9:52 pm
@dlv Askimet didn’t catch the comments either… but anyway, I don’t know why but I changed webhost and all of a sudden, the comments work now! Thanks so much for the fix!!
Just need to add pagination and this theme will be perfect. I found a fix for that here if anyone is interested:
http://www.ryanyockey.com/146/wordpress-themes/magazeen-wp-theme-pagination-fix/ - 376September 16th, 2009 10:07 am
@RandomJan: nice to hear that..
- 377September 18th, 2009 3:43 am
PLEASE can someone please help me, I have not received a reply regarding the following problem:
post titles are not showing when mouse is over the thumbnail images….arrrrrghhH!!!
dlv, sorry but I don’t know how to use Twitter!!!!!
So if anyone can help me out on here, that would be great.
thanks
julie - 378September 18th, 2009 7:41 pm
if someone read this… julie’s contacted me and i saw this problem: she has a conflict between Instant Slide Up javascript and jQuery…
- 379September 23rd, 2009 9:33 am
Where
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ReadMe?It’s no longer bundled with the zip.
- 380September 23rd, 2009 11:57 am
We have the same problem – the images are not shown and the tags hang over the widget dimensions. Can anyone help us?
Thanks - 381September 24th, 2009 4:22 am
@Deja: I know about this theme like 4 months ago, i’ve never seen a readme file…
That is the reason of many message and comment making questions about theme functionalities and bugs…There is no readme file, be free to read the comments to know how to fix some theme issues…
- 382September 25th, 2009 5:15 am
Hi thanks for this amazing wp theme!
I downloaded the .psd sources thinking slices would be shown so that I can change colors easily and save the image files perfectly but it’s not the case.
Could someone tell me how to save new theme image files from the psd source? which image file goes with which layer for instance? that would be neat! thanks! - 383September 25th, 2009 5:56 am
@Sophie I’m not a profesional webdesigner but, what i do is modify some of the images of the folder “image” in the main folder theme “magazeen” and save with the same name, and then upload to the folder
Hope i help you ;D
- 384September 26th, 2009 4:14 pm
Great theme, but How can I remove the search form in the header and insert 728*90 adsense unit instead.??
- 385September 26th, 2009 7:20 pm
Just published my webpage using this theme.
I’d love to add Facebook and Twitter Icons that link to my FB/Twit pages in the header under the Search tab.Anyone know how to do this?
I’d be happy to pay for your service as I am not an experienced coder.kyle (at) cckirkland (dot) org
- 386September 26th, 2009 8:29 pm
Great theme only the pics don’t show up in the sidebar. I’m not sure what the problem is.
Can anyone help? - 387September 26th, 2009 9:47 pm
@Kyle: Ask to the guy on this page, he do that what you want
http://www.ryanyockey.com/146/wordpress-themes/magazeen-wp-theme-pagination-fix/
@Rina: Read the comment n° 339 from DLV (in the list)
I give the folder “cache” the CHMOD 777 and then fix that
- 388September 30th, 2009 3:22 pm
@Sophie: yes, there isn’t slices in .psd source file. Make your own images or edit the .psd and try to create slices that match with the original sliced images.
If you look at my theme modification, i make my own images, i’ve just open the .psd just one time for fun, i’ve never edited it.@Kyle: what I’ve done in my website (in dock area, right side…the “fading” icon) is something like you want ? My website is http://www.demianvillanueva.com/blog/
@PalSoftwares: to remove the search from, open HEADER.php and remove the line 42:
@Rina: like Mauro said, try doing what i’ve explained in comment number #339
- 389September 30th, 2009 8:56 pm
I seem to be having the same problem many are experiencing with the thumbnail images not displaying.
I’ve gone through all of the comments and attempted all the fixes, but somehow it’s not working. (I swear I’ve aged 10 years trying to get this theme to work. LOL.)
I tried using the imgsize.php, per #339, but this is what the code in my header says:
<img src="/timthumb.php?src=ID, “image_value”, true ); ?>&w=69&h=54&zc=1″ alt=”" />
ps: there are no images in my cache folder. this is not supposed to be, right?
Thanks.
- 390September 30th, 2009 9:01 pm
whoops, that code should be:
<blockquote cite="<img src="/timthumb.php?src=ID, “image_value”, true ); ?>&w=69&h=54&zc=1″ alt=”" />”>
- 391October 1st, 2009 8:59 am
@Paul: yes, imgsize.php script doesn’t create or need a specific folder to resize images on the fly (that is what I see, i’ve asked to the author but i did’t recive an answer about that)
If it help, my link/image code in dock are is:
<a href="” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to “><img src="/imgsize.php?w=70&h=70&img=ID, “image_value”, true ); ?>” alt=”" />
Anyway, change “&” to “&”… “&” doesn’t validate…
- 392October 2nd, 2009 7:50 am
I’ve been using Magazeen successfully for several months but I’m suddenly getting the same error message as boylogik above (Feb 29)
Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in ……./wp-content/themes/magazeen/functions.php on line 107
I’ve disabled all plugins and still get the error so it’s not a plugin conflict. Anyone have any ideas? I’m using WP 2.8.4, but I’ve been using it for awhile and the problem only emerged today, so i doubt that’s the issue either.
- 393October 2nd, 2009 8:03 am
Well I found a solution, although I can’t guess why it worked. I disabled the “Featured News” widget, then reinserted it. Voila – all’s well with the world.
Go figure.
- 394October 5th, 2009 8:05 am
Hmmm….still a little flaky – all seemingly related to the Featured Posts widget. No clear solution – I finally just disabled it :-(
- 395October 5th, 2009 8:48 am
I tried a lot of things desperate to make the thumbnails start working(including the cache permissions), and then I tried the “workaround” that Philip Downer wrote and it worked perfect!
–cut–
For those of you having difficulty getting thumbnail images to show up, try this:
Instead of placing the full URL (http://www.your.site/wp-content/uploads/image.jpg) use a relative URL that begins at the /wp-content/ directory. In otherwords, your new image URL would be /wp-content/uploads/image.jpg – I made this simple change and it works great!
– /cut–Thanks! And thanks to Smashing and Function for a great theme!
2ny
- 396October 5th, 2009 8:29 pm
thanks Harvey and 2ny for share your experiences
- 397October 7th, 2009 6:23 am
Thanks for this wonderfull theme :D
- 398October 7th, 2009 10:24 pm
Can anyone help with this little tweak?
I need a little help modding the Comments Tab, please.
Here’s an image indicating what I mean:
http://tinyurl.com/ycwg4krCould someone point me in the right direction for the CSS on this?
My email is kiki77 (at) comcast (dot) net — but I’ll be checking back on this page, also for any posted answers.
I’m just not sure if it would it be a style.php + comments.php combo mod, or style.php only. I have this theme perfectly tweaked, other than this and I just don’t want to mess anything up.
I’m familiar with CSS mods, but if you have the answer, the more specific the better and VERY appreciated.
Thanks so much.
- 399October 9th, 2009 8:59 pm
@Christina: to remove completely, just open style.css, find “.comment-count” and add “display:none;” to that class. The comment count will be not visible.
Another way is to remove totally from the “.php” files, for example open index.php and find and delete “”
You’ve to use a conditional PHP snippe to remove the tab when there are 0 comments; take a look at this, you could addapt it to your situation: http://is.gd/4b6TU
- 400October 13th, 2009 6:44 pm
Love the theme – wondering if there is a way to change the “Featured News” widget to something like “Featured Articles.”
- 401October 16th, 2009 1:07 am
Wow, seems like a lot of people are having problems with this theme. I have had my theme up for over a week now and it’s working fine. I did have some thumbnail issues but found the solutions in the comments on the developer’s site: wefunction.com
But it is a fickle theme, and does not work with some plug-ins and widgets. You can see the theme in action here: Life Without Limits. Not sure if I will keep this theme though. It looks unique, but again I’m not too sure about the look and color.
- 402October 19th, 2009 10:32 am
Hi,
I am trying to find the title for “Featured News” and “Recent News” as I am going to translate the themse into Swedish.
Any idea as to where I can find that?
- 403October 19th, 2009 11:08 am
@Jack (post 400) – I was looking for that too, but I found it in the functions.php.
- 404October 21st, 2009 12:28 pm
Everybody talks about chmod, and thats good :-)
But I cant figure it out. Im inside , I can see the cache folder, I rightclick it.. but then it only shows : ” Open the links in this window ” etc.
Furthermore there are no files in my cache.
Can someone spell it out for all us , that doesnt know how to CHMOD 777 ?
I have spent hours on it now :-)
Thank you for your time
The site is is here. I ONLY need the damn pictures : http:www.aktiv3.org
- 405October 22nd, 2009 4:02 am
@Jimi: if you use CuteFTP Pro like your FTP software you can view this tutorial : http://www.stadtaus.com/en/tutorials/chmod-ftp-file-permissions.php
Also works with other FTP applications…
If with thats chances about CHMOD, try doing what i’ve explained in comment number #339
adeux, have luck!
- 406October 22nd, 2009 4:48 am
I did it ! :)
Its working now. Thank you for the help
- 407October 23rd, 2009 8:33 pm
super theme Thank you
- 408October 25th, 2009 3:26 am
Hi!
What a fantastic theme! Do you have tutorial a readme file? Thanks so much,,, - 409October 26th, 2009 12:19 pm
@Ana: there isn’t README file… A lot of people asked about it, that’s why there are more than 400 comments in this post :D, many of them are related theme bugs and options…
- 410October 29th, 2009 12:26 pm
Magazeen is an awesome theme !
Had some issues with the category drop down but I finally figured out how to fix it.
Here is what I did with the theme (lot of customization) : http://www.workstationsetups.com/ - 411November 2nd, 2009 9:07 pm
I wonder if anyone has come across this and can help me.
I have implemented this theme on a linux server, and have even reinstalled it completely, trying to make the images work. If I upload an image using Wordpress, it will add the image to the cache folder.
But when I try to view the blog, timthumb.php (and imgsize.php as per other posts) always look to the uploads/year/month folder for the images for the post, and for the header.
For some reason, the images are not dynamically added to that folder, but they used to be…I believe that was on a Windows server… Is there something I need to do, or something I’ve missed that might make this not work?
The document root path is home/SharedServerUsername/public_html from the server, whereas in the past it would have been just under the domain name folder. But I can’t find anywhere in any of the code that places the images into the uploads… folder that I can change…
Can anyone help?
- 412November 13th, 2009 3:20 am
Hi all,
What is the custom field you have to use in order to generate the image thumbnails in the post page. For the Lastest articles dock at the top.
Cheers.
- 413November 13th, 2009 6:44 am
I’ll answer my own question,
You use the custom tag,
image_valueI ripped out the timthumb.php script. not needed if you can resize your own thumbnails. seemed to create too many problems.
- 414November 19th, 2009 5:10 am
Thank you for making such a wonderful theme!
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hi guys,
to show up the thumbnails, what custom field does it use?
my precious theme uses thumbnails too, under the “Thumbnail” fields…
the question is, how do I edit theme to match the custom fields with ones I’ve made before?
ps: sorry for my bad english….I’m still learning :)