“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.
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gilson Archondo
July 1st, 2009 8:41 pmabout 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/
Marga
July 2nd, 2009 2:33 amHow 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
wydad-al-oumma.com
July 4th, 2009 4:43 ami can´t find “featured Posts”? the site is getting bigger and bigger, do i need to get a widget for it?
Thanks for ideas
Chuck
July 4th, 2009 4:54 pmcan I add a “next page” “previus page” to this theme?
if yes… how?!
thanks
sasa
July 6th, 2009 1:32 pmi am getting errors in iexplorer 6
Spammer
July 11th, 2009 2:25 amyou 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
MWebb
July 15th, 2009 5:07 amI 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
Jody Mitoma
July 17th, 2009 5:08 pmCan 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.
CM
July 21st, 2009 9:33 amI 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
Silver Firefly
July 22nd, 2009 2:58 amNice theme.
Which font is used for “magazeen”?
fromama
July 22nd, 2009 1:37 pmAdvice 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!
ms
December 7th, 2010 5:18 pmOMFG!!! this is THE most helpful thing ever. thank you a million times over!!!
errors
July 23rd, 2009 9:14 amInstalling 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
MWebb
July 24th, 2009 8:51 pmstill having issues with pictures not showing on my site, or showing for a few days, then disappearing, can someone PLEASE HELP!!!
mc
July 25th, 2009 6:54 pmi am having same problem with errrors (same message as @errors above) when i try to install. thanks.
fromama
July 28th, 2009 6:56 amFor 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!
stefanobeck
July 28th, 2009 7:14 amFor me work correctly!! I have only a problem with Firefox 3.5 visualization in the post Hedaer miniature image.
hlynnt
July 31st, 2009 10:40 amPagination?
I would love, and really need some good pagination with this theme. Any ideas?
Richie
November 13th, 2009 10:34 amCheck this link out… Pagination and other features have been added
http://www.ryanyockey.com/146/wordpress-themes/magazeen-wp-theme-pagination-fix/
alislas
August 1st, 2009 10:54 pmI 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??
Tuhin
August 3rd, 2009 10:27 amThe 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.
Luis F.
August 5th, 2009 8:50 amFreaking awesome, its free and so professional, i will add it to my blog.
Pixiome
August 7th, 2009 12:50 pmThank 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 !
MWebb
August 8th, 2009 2:18 amok, 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?????
Pixiome
August 9th, 2009 6:59 amYou 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 !
Jepthe
August 11th, 2009 3:32 pmGreat theme, but I wonder if there will be a fix for IE7 bugs in the near future.
Thank you so much.
ns
August 15th, 2009 2:35 pmHI…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
Johan
August 15th, 2009 11:11 pmThanks 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
Fernando
August 16th, 2009 10:20 pmgreat theme but i need help how to display thumbnail at upper? plz..
Tony
August 17th, 2009 12:20 amcan 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
Suri
August 17th, 2009 3:55 amcan someone give me readme file please…dammit..
Maia
August 17th, 2009 7:09 amI’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 21
Does anyone know what I’m to do?
Thanks!
Jojo
August 17th, 2009 7:40 amIs there possible to make image in post with original size?
Comments Fix
August 19th, 2009 5:18 amYes 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??
Spacer
August 21st, 2009 10:42 pmNice theme! Please fix it for 2.8
Diana Wei
August 22nd, 2009 1:19 pmWow! 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
dlv
August 22nd, 2009 9:45 pmFor 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)
Maria
August 22nd, 2009 10:33 pmGuys,
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!
Julie
August 25th, 2009 6:05 amGreat 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
Kayla
August 26th, 2009 9:41 amAny chance of having this as a website non-Wordpress template?
Sumeet
August 26th, 2009 10:16 amThe WP125 widgets don’t work properly with this :( Is there any way to fix this? Category/Archive counts also aren’t aligned properly
suresh
August 27th, 2009 6:29 amHello 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..
luxladee
August 27th, 2009 4:09 pmHi
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
PaBLoX
August 27th, 2009 9:24 pmActually 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
Owen
August 28th, 2009 5:47 pmPhilip 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….
misterclem
August 30th, 2009 8:44 amCan you tell me if this theme is ok for WordPress 2.8.4?
Thanks a lot
http://www.clementlepetit.com
dlv
August 30th, 2009 6:56 pmTO 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
Kirsief
May 18th, 2010 5:11 am@dlv THANK YOU!!
JB
May 27th, 2010 12:56 pmWorks perfectly! Many thanks!
Rebekah
May 27th, 2010 3:33 pmThanks so much, it works perfectly!
Yana
June 17th, 2010 4:16 amThank you VERY MUCH!!!
Nito Anello
November 19th, 2010 1:04 pmThanks Man!! I had the same problem… not any more.
eiv
August 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?
misterclem
September 2nd, 2009 1:57 am@eiv: Many Thanks for your answer.
dlv
September 2nd, 2009 9:30 am@luxladee: if @eiv answer doesn’t work, try doing what i’ve explained in comment number #339
alone92
September 4th, 2009 4:24 amhi, 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?
Kirsief
May 18th, 2010 5:14 amHi @alone92
Can you explain me how you changed the “comments counter” for categories? Tnx! Site looks great!
alone92
September 4th, 2009 4:27 am“when i use it on h3 title”, sorry :-)
dlv
September 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/
cory
September 5th, 2009 6:04 pmI 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.
Ricardo
September 6th, 2009 6:31 pm@dlv
Thank you!
RandomJan
September 7th, 2009 8:09 pm@div – your fix works for old comments but now the the theme won’t publish any new ones. =(
alone92
September 8th, 2009 12:27 pm@dlv Thank you!!
i fixed it : http://www.cyclonesmag.fr
but it doesn’t work on IE :-/
Adrian Castro http://KangenLeaders.Com
September 8th, 2009 10:33 pmI 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?
ruyjol
September 8th, 2009 11:52 pmhi,
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
tarik
September 10th, 2009 10:19 amhi,
thumbnail problem.
lates articles..
dlv
September 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
Julie
September 11th, 2009 1:32 amdlv
thanks for your reply regarding the comment date problem. all fixed now, thanks!
Julie
September 11th, 2009 2:47 amEIV, 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
dlv
September 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
cory
September 11th, 2009 7:24 pm@ Julie that was perfect and yet so simple. thank you kindly for the tip. fixed!!!
cory
September 12th, 2009 2:36 pmanyone willing to help me now with the tag cloud? the tags hang over the widget dimensions. thanks.
cory
September 12th, 2009 2:37 pmsorry, should have added the link
Dan
September 13th, 2009 9:43 amSorry, call me stupid (or newbie) but how do I change the copyright notice to the current year at the bottom of the page?
Thanks.
julie
September 13th, 2009 1:35 pmHi 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
cory
September 13th, 2009 7:42 pm@ Dan, I had to do this ’cause by default it says “2008.” Its in the footer.php under
Dan
September 14th, 2009 1:28 amThank 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
September 14th, 2009 7:44 pmTO 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_
RandomJan
September 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/
dlv
September 16th, 2009 10:07 am@RandomJan: nice to hear that..
Julie
September 18th, 2009 3:43 amPLEASE 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
dlv
September 18th, 2009 7:41 pmif someone read this… julie’s contacted me and i saw this problem: she has a conflict between Instant Slide Up javascript and jQuery…
Deja
September 23rd, 2009 9:33 amWhere
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ReadMe?
It’s no longer bundled with the zip.
Stefan
September 23rd, 2009 11:57 amWe have the same problem – the images are not shown and the tags hang over the widget dimensions. Can anyone help us?
Thanks
dlv
September 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…
Sophie
September 25th, 2009 5:15 amHi 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!
Mauro
September 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
PalSoftwares
September 26th, 2009 4:14 pmGreat theme, but How can I remove the search form in the header and insert 728*90 adsense unit instead.??
Kyle
September 26th, 2009 7:20 pmJust 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
Rina
September 26th, 2009 8:29 pmGreat theme only the pics don’t show up in the sidebar. I’m not sure what the problem is.
Can anyone help?
Mauro
September 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
dlv
September 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
paul
September 30th, 2009 8:56 pmI 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
September 30th, 2009 9:01 pmwhoops, that code should be:
<blockquote cite="<img src="/timthumb.php?src=ID, “image_value”, true ); ?>&w=69&h=54&zc=1″ alt=”" />”>
dlv
October 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…
Harvey
October 2nd, 2009 7:50 amI’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.
Harvey
October 2nd, 2009 8:03 amWell 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.
Harvey
October 5th, 2009 8:05 amHmmm….still a little flaky – all seemingly related to the Featured Posts widget. No clear solution – I finally just disabled it :-(
2ny
October 5th, 2009 8:48 amI 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
dlv
October 5th, 2009 8:29 pmthanks Harvey and 2ny for share your experiences
A.SirajhassanMohideen
October 7th, 2009 6:23 amThanks for this wonderfull theme :D
Christina
October 7th, 2009 10:24 pmCan 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/ycwg4kr
Could 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.
dlv
October 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
kirsief
May 29th, 2010 9:57 am@ dlv Can you tell me how you can change the comment counter to a category.. (Just like the way it is on your site)… TNX!
Jack
October 13th, 2009 6:44 pmLove the theme – wondering if there is a way to change the “Featured News” widget to something like “Featured Articles.”
adrian
October 16th, 2009 1:07 amWow, 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.
Kristofer
October 19th, 2009 10:32 amHi,
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?
Kristofer
October 19th, 2009 11:08 am@Jack (post 400) – I was looking for that too, but I found it in the functions.php.
Jimi
October 21st, 2009 12:28 pmEverybody 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