Magloss V2 is a 3 columns fluid width WordPress theme developed by MagPress. This flexible width theme is a newly improved version of our previous Magloss theme. This theme comes built-in features such as featured content slider, featured latest posts from category with thumb, customize single page with thumbnail related posts, Adsense ready, Twitter ready, enable user to insert up to 5 YouTube videos, etc. All these settings are controllable via easy to use theme options.
Theme Features:
- 3 Columns Fluid Width
- Featured Content Slider
- Featured Latest Posts From Category with Thumb
- Customized Breadcrumbs
- Adsense Ready (Loops, Single and Sidebar)
- YouTube Video Ready
- Twitter Ready
- Threaded Comments With Gravatar Enabled
- Easy To Use Theme Options
- Tested On Firefox 3+ And IE7+
- Compatible With WordPress 2.9+
- Valid XHTML And CSS
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
This interface is very nice and I like the interface that has horizontal bar category.
my YM: toan_net_tc
Pretty nice and feature rich theme. I am going to use it in my blog.
how do you add the thumb?
Hai, Santiago. Basically, it will automatically pull the thumb from attached image post, not external images. If you enable Timthumb, you have to make sure that your hosting support it.
Also, you can manually add thumb by using the custom field ‘post-img’. Please refer to the readme.txt for more info. Thanks.
anyway to take off the Categories Tabs/bar that’s under the pages?
Hello, Amy. To do that, please open the header.php and look for div id navigation_category. Delete it and everything within it. That’s should do the trick. Thanks.
How can i exclude a category from the last posts shown in the first page? And why aren’t all the categories shown in the “Choose Category To Feature On 1st Block?” options? It displays only the ones which don’t have “children”, other categories don’t appear here. Please help!
Hai, MwKoko. Please refer to this page on how to exclude certain category on home page post:
http://www.cre8ivecommando.com/exclude-a-category-from-your-wordpress-index-page-830/
Regarding the selection of child category on theme options, please open the functions.php and look for $wp_dropdown_rd_admin. Within its query please replace parent = 0 to parent > -1
Please try it out and let me know how it works. Thanks.
Thanks for your answer, but it’s my mistake for explaining my problem. Sorry for my bad english. I don’t want to select a child category. I want to select a parent. But the parent category which i want to select doesn’t appear here in the dropdown list. I must say that this category has also subcategories. If i put parent > -1 it shows the children of that category, but the parent still doesn’t show up.
I hope you understand my problem and thank you anticipated.
Well, it should shows up if you have attached post on the parent category as well as its sub category..Please go to your categories panel and check whether the parent category showing any posts. Thanks.
Nicetheme. I will use it if the thumbnails work fine. I see they are screwed up in the demo.
Thanks,
D
Hai. Can you please let me know which thumb in the demo screwed up? If you meant the Timthumb, I didn’t activate and use it on the demo page.
Thanks Ronald. I got the solution somehow. Not sure if it was the correct way. let me explain the issue again:
On home page, when you “do not use timthumb”, the image gets a width= and height= parameters in the output. For me I set it 100X100. This did not render correct dimensions in IE8. The whole image shrinks to 18X100 while the page source shows 100X100. It looks ok in firefox tho. I see the same issue on your demo.
As a solution, I removed the code that adds the height,width parameters to the img and added it as a inline style for the post-img div. it’s ok now.
I need your help on one thing. I want the front page to show usual blog style output. (no thumbnail and excerpt). This is because I want my users to play the youtube videos directly on homepage (as happens in many default style themes). What do I need to do?
Shall I remove thmbnail code, excerpt code and insert the_content() instead? Just did some research. testing now.
Another question, how do you rate the SEOptimization of this theme? And any plans to run a support forum for the themes here?
Thanks,
D
Hai, Deepak. Thanks for pointing out the problem. Sure, you can just put the_content() within the post-content div class if you want to display standard blog format.
Regarding SEO, I’m not an expert on it but I did code this theme with some basic SEO knowledge such as H1 tag for website title, H2 tag for post title on homepage and give it another H1 tag on single post title, etc..some basic stuff only.
We’ll be setting up a support forum for MagPress themes in the near future. So, in the mean time we’ll supporting theme users by post comments or email.
Anyway, thanks again for your input. I appreciate it.
Yeah. I see Magpress themes are excellent and often under-rated. A proper support forum will increase users.
BTW my two new sites run magloss v2 now.
Any idea (piece of code?) to show an attached image in thumbnail? I don’t want the image inserted in my actual post. Many other themes do this.
Please refer to this links on how to do that:
http://wordpress.tv/2009/01/05/creating-an-image-gallery/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode
Ronald, I am not sure how to use that. Isnot it possible to add some code to the section in index.php where you have the thumbnail code?
Currently its taking the image inserted in the post. I want it to alternatively look for an attached image in the post.
OK. You can try using custom field feature to add custom image thumbnail without having it attached into a post. Please look at the readme.txt of this theme on how to use it. Thanks.
Hi Ronald,
I have used the custom-feld method. I was asking if this could be automated to take from an attached image.
I have another question. My site dropdown menu JS is slowing down the page load time. Can you tell a way to remove it and still have the dropdown. (without smoth effects)
This is badly needed as most users of this site use use dial-up.
Thanks a lot for all ur time and help.
“As a solution, I removed the code that adds the height,width parameters to the img and added it as a inline style for the post-img div. it’s ok now.”
Could you explain to me exactly how you do this? I am having this problem in IE8 as well and I would like to fix it before I get to carried away with Maglos.
Thanks
Mark
In reference to:
http://www.magpress.com/wordpress-themes/maglossv2.html#comment-2372
I would like to know first what kind of content block you’re on for this matter. the full content or the default content with auto thumb and auto excerpt. Because as you said on previous comment, you’ve made change to the_content() which shows full content block.
Regarding the dropdown menu, I’m afraid the js is required to make the dropmenu work properly. You can try it out by removing code for dropmenu_category.js or dropmenu_page.js on the header.php.
Thanks Ronald,
I am on the default content with auto thumb, auto excerpt. The thumbnail code is using either inserted image, or a custom-field. If your auto-thumbnail code could also pull an “attached” image, that would make the theme more standard.
[my qn on the_content() was for another installation. Not relevant here.]
And yes, I just removed all JS files and the dropdown worked. (No more smooth transition effect though). Is there something more I can remove from page code related to the non-existant JS now?
Regards,
Deepak
Hai Deepak. Unfortunately, the auto thumb feature on this theme will only pull first image on post or by using custom field where you can just upload the image via media tool and grab it File URL to use as custom field value with ‘post-img’ as custom field name for the standard post thumbnail setup without having the image put on post.
Anyway, if you can direct me to a theme which has that feature you’re looking for, I’ll modified this theme auto thumb feature to suit your need.
Regarding the JS, the 2 .js codes on header are the only lines you have to delete if you don’t want the effect. The others are necessary for featured content slider.
Thanks Ronald.
Regarding the code for automatically pulling a “attached image” thumbnail, please check a theme called “news magazine 640″ on WP theme list.
The theme pulls 1st image inserted into a post. If it’s not there, it pulls any image attached to the post.
Would be nice if you implement the same in your themes.
Regards,
Deepak
Hi there,
Great theme and options. Is there anyway to make this into a 2 column template by removing some code?
Cheers
Sure. If you’re familiar with PHP code. You can open the sidebar.php and delete the sidebar-left or right code and readjust the width percentage css for #content and #sidebar..
First of all let me say great theme. I am trying to add 125×125 ad slot but it only adds one column and is shifted all the way over to the left. I try to make it two-column by reducing the padding in the wp-125 widget according to the documentation but it still does not work.
/* Styles for two-column display */
#wp125adwrap_2c { width:100%; }
#wp125adwrap_2c .wp125ad { width:125px; float:left; padding:10px; }`
Changed to -> `#wp125adwrap_2c .wp125ad { padding:4px; }`
The reason I ask is because I see you have 125×125 ad placement on similar themes like (Free WordPress Theme – BlueFluid).
There was no RSS subscribe button so I used a rss subscribe widget. I don’t have a live set as I’m testing on a development server (home network). Any help you can give is appreciated.
OK. Change the wp125.css as below:
/* Styles for two-column display */
#wp125adwrap_2c {
width:100%;
}
#wp125adwrap_2c .wp125ad {
width:125px;
float: left;
margin-right: 2px;
margin-top: 4px;
margin-left: 2px;
}
#wp125adwrap_2c .wp125ad img {
border: 0 none;
}
Then, open the functions.php and change the after_widget from only [/li] to [div class="clearfix"][/div][/li]. Change on both left and right sidebar widgets.
* replace [ ] with <>
Please try it out and let me know the result. Thanks.
Thanks Ronald it worked perfectly. I can now add 125×125 ads on theme in the sidebars. This is great.
One note I add is that in the wp-125 plugin settings, check the box to
Include default ad stylesheet?
If this box is not checked it won’t apply your changes.
Great theme. I am evaluating themes and this looks interesting but can I customize the header like in the Vina theme? You can see what I have done on my site and I would do something similar with this.
Thanks.
Sure. Feel free to edit the header to customize it as vina theme. But, please remember that this theme is a flexible width, using the sliding header effect may break the layout.
Can I disable the sliding header effect? I just want to use the same static image as I am using now.
You can place a static image on the header, but the css for the header has to be modified to accommodate the big width image. Feel free to edit it if you want to. Thanks.
Hi Ronald,
first of all I would like to thank you for the great themes!
I´d like to adapt the the Magloss V2 theme. But there are some problems, that I can´t solve at least.
1) no advert banner in the header – no matter if the option is enebled or not
2) the term “continue reading – should be replaced by “weiterlesen” but I don´t find where to set this up
3) Recent Comments: After the Name of the last comment user, there is the word “says” this word should be changed into “sagt” – but I don´t find where to set it up
4) Hot Topics: x comments should be changed into x Kommentare – but I don´t find where to set it up
5) no matter, where to write – the first letter of a word is written large – in german only the first letter of a sentence is written large – where to change?
6) The most annoying thing is at leat, that the function in the featured news isn´t working as in your demo. There is only a picture an no slideshow effect.
Thanks ahead for helping.
Hai. Regarding your questions:
1. It suppose to show the default dream template banner if you didn’t enter any code inside the theme options > “Insert Header Banner HTML Code”. Please check your banner html code, make sure it’s in proper format. i.e [a href="affiliate url"][img scr="banner url" /][/img][/a]
* Please replace [ ] with <>
2. Please open the functions.php and scroll down until you see “Standard Post Excerpt” heading, under it you’ll see $more_link_text=”Continue Reading”. Change the continue reading to weiterlesen
3. Again on functions.php, scroll down again until you see “Get Recent Comments With Avatar”, under it you’ll see the piece of code contains the word ‘Says’.
4. Scroll down more on functions.php until you see “Most Comments”, under it you’ll see ‘comments received’
5. You can try opening the style.css and look for css containing text-transform: capitalize; delete this line of code on id or class you don’t want.
6. This usually happen when there’s a conflict in jquery. Please try disabling plugins that using jquery too.
Please try out above solutions and let me know if you need more help. Thanks.
Hello Ronald,
thanks for fast and detailed information. All things work fine now! Let me ask at least two questions. How to set the sidebar with additional widgets? By dropping downloaded plugins/widgets into the different sidebars (in the backend) the existing widgets are away. If oneday there is a clients who´d like to place an advert on the page, how to do?
When I have replaced the default images (with the eastern people) by my own I relaunch my site and post a little info if you like. Thank you for the nice theme.
Hai George. You can simply use text widget to insert the advert code and arrange its placement within the left or right sidebar widget admin.
Not sure about your 2nd question regarding the default images..if you want to replace it, just upload your custom image name it ‘post-default.jpg’ inside the theme image folder.
How do I stop the theme from pulling the default image that comes with it (of the girls). If my post has no image I want it to be blank.
Forget it I figured it out.
On my related posts plugin it is picking up the infamous smiling girls default page. Which image do I delete and where so this picture no longer shows?
Hai. it’s the feat-cat-img.jpg inside the theme image folder. You can replace it with a blank jpg image and name it the same.
I really love this theme but I have two questions about the thumbnails.
1. When I look at the site on my new computer at full resolution this morning the thumbnails are squashed to the point that there are not viewable. Why is this? These are images pulled from RSS feeds using FeedWordPress. Everything seemed to be working well yesterday but not today.
2. I deleted the default image so that on posts where there is no image attached there would not be that image of the smiling girls but now it shows an “x” as in the post is missing an image. How do I fix this?
Finally, I am considering upgrading to a premium theme. Which one replicates the functions of Maglos?
Thanks.
Mark
It seems to be squishing all images, not just the ones from FeedWordPress. The ones that I uploaded in my features section are squished as well. There must be a setting that I have screwed up. How would I manage the images better?
Thanks.
Where can I change the heading of Featured Content Slider from “Featured News” to something else?
Look under the featured.php file in the theme. You can change it there. I am still looking for a way to change the color of the text on the featured news?
Hai. You can change anything regarding the featured slider by editing its css inside the css folder > gallery.css > slideinfozone
I got it, a big thank you to all.
Is there a way for the images of the Featured Content Slider to fit inside the box?
never mind read the readme file
What is the best size of an image for the featured news slider? I can’t find it anywhere in the theme.
I always use 700 x 300 size image. It’s all depend on your screen resolution.
Hi Ronald great theme BTW
I have problem with category posts. the title bar on the front page only shows “latest articles on (blank)” but does not show the actual category as in your demo “latest article on cell phones”. Please help!
Thanks
dont worry fixed this one with the response to child caterories
oops forgot to ask where i can change the thumbnail size in cat posts..they are too squashed
thanks
fixed
sorry Ronald one more quetsion
is there any way not to show the tags in posts featured on front page. If i have many tags it dominates the excerpt.
Thanks in advance
Love this theme! I do have some issues though:
First off when i posted a test comment an error appeared on the post. It is here:
http://cinegeek.com/?p=1633
You’ll notice the sidebars don’t appear either.
Also, the dashboard doesn’t show all of my posts, comments, or pages.
Thanks,
Stephen
Here’s the message that appears on the pages where I have approved test comments that don’t appear but the sidebars disappear nad this appears instead:
Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in /home/content/c/i/n/cinegeek/html/wp-content/themes/magloss_v2/magloss_v2/functions.php on line 481
It is also extremely annoying not being able to see all of my posts in the dashboard either. I have posted just over 1635 times but only around 575 are referenced in the dashboard and in the space where there’s a word bubble in the edit post section this error is present:
Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in /home/content/c/i/n/cinegeek/html/wp-content/themes/magloss_v2/magloss_v2/functions.php on line 481
This message is so big it only allows one post to be shown at a time in the list. In both of my issues I’m getting the same error. We really need to get commenting back up and going on this site so any help you could provide would be appreciated. I’ve already tried redownloading the template and copying this php file from the download onto my site and replacing the one that was there hoping that would work. It did not. Any help you can provide would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Stephen
Ok. Please try opening the functions.php and delete these line:
[DELETE if(function_exists('wp_list_comments')) { ]
add_filter(‘get_comments_number’, ‘comment_count’, 0);
function comment_count( $count ) {
global $id;
$comments_by_type = &separate_comments(get_comments(‘post_id=’ . $id));
return count($comments_by_type['comment']);
}
[DELETE } ]
my sidebar 1 don’t work anymore. And sidebar 2 never has. Should i down grade wordpress, i just updated it. Would that be the problem.
Hai. Are you referring to breakfader.com? I don’t see any problem with the sidebars there.
yes i am but not on the site itself its cool but,placing the widgets in the back-in sidebar 1 0r 2 it wont let me drag and drop. it wont let me even grab it.
Can you try the widget function on other theme and see if they’re working. This happened to me once because of incomplete wordpress upgrade that messed up the widgets.
Please try it out and let me know whether it is an internal wordpress error or theme related problem. Thanks.
i changed the theme the widgets did work. i go back to yours no good still. im a try and use one of your other themes but i really really really like this one alot.
i got it. had to go to screen options and enable accessibility mode to add to sidebar 2. but how do i get my avatars back on the recent comments. after this im not gonna pluck your nerves anymore. thanks man love this theme really now.
The best of doing that is to use your registered email on wordpress and register it on gravatar.com.
Featured content and video don’t displaying. I insert feat-imgand links, but nothing happens/
Hai. Please make sure you’ve enable them inside the theme options. As for the featured content slider, please make sure you put more than 1 post on the category you’ve chosen. Don’t forget to read the theme readme.txt too for further instruction on the video embed. Thanks.
Thank’s for fast response. Yes, of course, i’ve read “readme.txt” first of all. i’ve tried in featured content all my categories, but the problem remains. No visible feature, no visible video. You can see the site at “http://newbydlo.dognames.ru/”, this is the “test” site to continue (if everything will be all right) in good project.
Clarify: I’m use opera and firefox.
And (whether this refers to the case) found the following:
Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in /home/krolru/www/newbydlo.dognames.ru/wp-content/themes/magloss_v2/functions.php on line 481
Is this error still exist on your end? I didn’t see it on mine.
This problem was visible in my admin panel in post and page categories, but when i’ve tried to use another your theme – it become visible on home page. You can see it now.
Hai. I see that you’re using another gallery plugin that may clash with the built-in one. Try disabling the ‘featured-content-gallery’ plugin and check it out again.
Regarding the video, you’ve put the whole video url code when it should be only the unique code ‘_-qVRpQ8J2Y’ to put inside the box and save it.
thanks, everything is working well in this theme now. and one more question: is it enable to use another way of feature content changes (for example by user, not independently)?
Sorry. That feature is not available at the moment. If you know which other theme has that feature, please let me know so that I can put that feature on my theme. Thanks.
It seems that the error cause by the comment count. Please open the index.php and delete the whole line of div class post-com.
it solved the problem
but “comments” don’t work, when in post “Leave a Reply” – appear “Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in /home/xxxx/www/xxxxxxxx.ru/wp-content/themes/greenmild/functions.php on line 483
This usually happened when you’re using an older version of wp. Please consider upgrading it to the latest version. Thanks.
hi ronald , theme is great . would you be prepared to modify the home page so that only one featured post is full size and those underneath are 50% and 33% scale
posts in the left column
ie
one main post
then 2 side by side
then 3 side by side.
thanks if you can show me the code to use to modify
Went to start and tweak this but wanted to add pages.
The content on the pages About and About Us will not display.
Reverted to original theme and it still will not display.
Admin says it is published.
Any idea why?
Absolutley love this. The widgets are great.
You have to manually add the content on the page edit for About and About Us. We didn’t make a prefilled content for them. Thanks.