Comments on: Free Thesis Skin: Network News

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:11:35 +0000

Tanya, thanks for alerting me to the new version! I’ve been out of the loop the last week or so and didn’t realize they’d made changes. That’s a MUCH more user friendly way to do things & I’m glad you got it sorted out. I guess I need to update these skin posts now eh?

By: Tanya

Tanya — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:03:20 +0000

Thank you, Ben, for replying so quickly. I was able to solve the issue. The latest version of the DCG plugin (as of 2010-2-9) doesn’t require custom fields dfcg-image & dfcg-desc. Instead you enter the image/description in the DCG box on the post page located in the right sidebar.

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:55:19 +0000

Tanya,
Sarah’s issue was not being able to see the form to download the skin.

However, if the images are not being pulled in DCG then I’m guessing you either a) haven’t defined the general folder correctly, or b) you’re inputting the entire URL in the dfcg-image special key field. Do you have a URL that you can show me?

By: Tanya

Tanya — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:14:09 +0000

I am working on a new site and have the same issue as Sarah with the DCG slider – the title & excerpt are pulled correctly but images do not show. Anyone knows how to solve it?

By: kristy

kristy — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:09:13 +0000

AWESOME, AWESOME SKIN!!
Works PERFECTLY…and with VERY LITTLE TWEAKING.
Incidentally, the site I listed is just my “practice” domain where I’m pretty much just goofing around and learning the ropes with different themes, so if it looks unfinished, that’s why (I have two other sites using other “premium” themes, but I won’t spam you with them here . Just wanted to share my love for this super killer skin!

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:07:45 +0000

There we go, no I don’t! Must have missed that in the instructions. I knew I shouldn’t do these things after a long day in the office

Oh well, thanks for a very quick response – you rock!

I’ll get some sleep now and go at it again tomorrow.

Cheers!

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:52:33 +0000

Nick, do you have the Dynamic Content Galler plugin installed & activated? The code that’s erroring out is calling a function that plugin creates.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:30:31 +0000

Hi Ben,

Love the look of the theme and would like to try it out on one of my sites http://www.creativegotland.com

Problem is when I upload the “design option”-file I get an error message which I can’t get my head around. Maybe you can spot where I go wrong?

Message is:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function dynamic_content_gallery() in /home/mictur/public_html/creativegotland/wp-content/themes/thesis_16/custom/custom_functions.php on line 44

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:46:59 +0000

Liz, the short answer is that all of those things can be done in your custom.css or custom_functions.php files.

The banner width is fairly easy & is found in the width property following this line of code:

.custom #header #logo a {

The subcategories is not nearly as simple & would be done in your custom_functions.php file. I don’t have the space here to explain it all but I believe the Thesis forum has a couple of threads on this topic.

To change the font color you need to look for this bit of code in your custom.css file:

.catnav li a {

and change the color:# value to whatever color you’d like.

I hope that helps & I’m glad you enjoy the skin

By: Liz

Liz — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:12:46 +0000

I’m working on this on a development site: http://devel.lookinggoodmom.com

Really loving the skin and so grateful you made it free. I’m playing around and have a few questions –

How can I stretch my banner to fill the entire header space?
How can I adjust the category nav bar to support subcategories?
How can I change the font color in the category nav bar?

Thanks again as this is a great skin and I’m finding your instructions to be dead on the money, so things are working really well.