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Thanks… anyway… and Great Job.

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.

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

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

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.

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 !

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 !

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

great theme but i need help how to display thumbnail at upper? plz..

can someone give me readme file please…dammit..

Is there possible to make image in post with original size?

Nice theme! Please fix it for 2.8

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)

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

The WP125 widgets don’t work properly with this :( Is there any way to fix this? Category/Archive counts also aren’t aligned properly

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

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….

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

@eiv: Many Thanks for your answer.

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?

@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/

@dlv

Thank you!

@dlv Thank you!!
i fixed it : http://www.cyclonesmag.fr

but it doesn’t work on IE :-/

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

@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

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

@ Julie that was perfect and yet so simple. thank you kindly for the tip. fixed!!!

sorry, should have added the link

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 problem

there 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

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!

@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/

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

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It’s no longer bundled with the zip.

@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…

@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

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

@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

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.

@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…

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.

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!

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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!
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Thanks! And thanks to Smashing and Function for a great theme!

2ny

Thanks for this wonderfull theme :D

@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

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.

@Jack (post 400) – I was looking for that too, but I found it in the functions.php.

@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!

super theme Thank you

@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…

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?

I’ll answer my own question,

You use the custom tag,
image_value

I ripped out the timthumb.php script. not needed if you can resize your own thumbnails. seemed to create too many problems.

Can you help me…

How do you limit the number of posts displayed on the blog page. Tried limiting it in the Admin panel…BUT it doesn’t work.

Need your urgent help as I am facing a deadline…
Is there a workaround in the coding?

Nice Theme. :-)

I figured out the problem with the thumbnails on the first page. I think it depends on the uploaded image size. Images greater than (example) 3000×2000 doesn’t work. But pictures with the resolution of 1000×600 (example) work fine. Maybe there is a limit of maximun seizure. (perhaps 1024×768) ….

And now i have an other problem. If you want to click and read an article, the picture on the single page won’t fit into the layout, its too big. (Check: resenski. de)

I really don´t get it.
Tried everything I read in the comments to solve the thumbnail problem.
Nothing worked.
Anyone who made a complete fix on that theme and wants to share???

o___O

Maybe I´m just trying to find another theme to work with…