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Johnson County Family YMCA » Blog Archive » A Fourth Sub-Feature — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:24:46 +0000

[...] This site is using the highly customizable but easily maintained WordPress blogging software and a “theme” called AmberGreen by Factory42. [...]

By: Adam in California

Adam in California — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:08:49 +0000

For those trying to figure out how to get the image on the main post to appear …

There is this saying “Feel the force, read the source”

And the source code for index.php in the theme directory says that the custom field name should be “Image”. Pop that in as the custom field name and reference the image name as the value and you are done!

Don’t fear reading source code.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:19:44 +0000

I’m also having trouble getting the front page image to work. The tutorial says “The name will be the holding function for that image class. Depending on the theme and the position of this image the name will be different. So please check the relevant instructions for your theme to get this setting.” The problem is that I don’t know where the “relevant instructions” are. How do I know what to name the custom field? Other than this the theme is great an I may upgrade in the near future.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:16:31 +0000

Hi Andrew, did you have a look at this tutorial here http://factory42.co.uk/images-in-custom-fields/ Not sure what area your having problems with. Hopefully that will help, if not let me know and I will be only too pleased to help some more.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:47:14 +0000

Thanks for this theme. Exactly what I was after. I’ll likely upgrade so long as I can sort out this feature and top story issue.

I can assign everything fine but I cannot find how to add the image to the top story on the front page.

Any direction would be great.

Thanks

By: mark

mark — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:16:00 +0000

I am really excited about the clean design and colors of this template. I love the pages listed on the tool bar.

I am dumb as a rock on this stuff.

I have having trouble with the front page. What I want to do is have one top feature (not abbreviated) without an image and no secondary features. I looked at a few other template but none were as clean and neat as yours. can I get advice?

By: admin

admin — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:20:14 +0000

Kelvin. Have emailed you, hopefully we can sort it out!

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:07:14 +0000

First, I have to say it’s a great piece of work!

However I have encountered 2 puzzling problems.

1. The Top Feature Story’s picture is a white blank box although I’ve posted a picture in my post. I have tried linking to a url and uploading it onto WP from my desktop, but both instances returned the same result.

2. Following the above instructions from peilin regarding the Top Feature Story and Secondary Feature Stories’ assignment of category IDs, my most recent posts disappeared from the front/home page. I can’t figure out what happened.

Will anyone please enlighten me what went wrong and what should I do?

Thanks.

By: pelin

pelin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:06:14 +0000

Thank you so much for your help.
I prepared some instructions for dummies like me. Maybe help other people.

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Using instructions for “Top Story Area” and “Secondary Features Area”

Click image to follow up instructions.
img5.imageshack.us/img5/1929/ambergreen.jpg

TOP STORY AREA

1)Open Categories and create categories that you want to use in Top Story Area and Secondary Features Ares.

2)After that move your mouse cursor on TOP STORY AREA categorie, you will see a link at Status Bar of your browser.

In this picture you can see that TOP STORY AREA’s “Cat_ID= 7″ (at the bottom of page).

Note that!
We will use “7″ number in our theme functions to use Top Story Area.

3)Open Appearance/Editor.
Then select “Theme functions(functions.php)” at right side of window.

Change number to 7.

Update File.
That’s all.

SECONDARY FEATURES AREA

It’s the same with “TOP STORY AREA”.
This time move your mouse cursor on SECONDARY FEATURES AREA categorie and note that number.(Ex:10)

Only the difference is you will change “$colcat” in “Theme functions(functions.php)”

Change number to 10.

Update File.
That’s all.

By: knight42

knight42 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:53:04 +0000

Hi Pelin, Thanks for your nice words! Yes you have to open functions.php which is in the theme folder and the first two lines are the ones you want to change. Ive emailed you with that file with some more details on it. Sorry if this wasnt clear.
Yes you can change the colours, thats no problem at all! Hope you come up with something nice!