Newster is a 3 columns fixed width news magazine style WordPress theme with an easy to use theme options. Newster comes with features such as Smoothgallery slider for its featured content, customized featured category block, customized more related category on single page, adsense ready and many more features.
Theme Features:
- 3 Columns Fixed Width
- Featured Content Slider
- Featured Categories Block
- Customized “Related Category” On Single Page
- Thumbnail Enabled Related Post Feature
- Auto Thumb And Auto Excerpt Posts
- Adsense Ready (Loop In Posts)
- Widget Ready Sidebar
- YouTube Embed Video Ready
- 125 x 125 Banner Advertisement Ready
- Threaded Comments
- Tested On Firefox And IE7
- Compatible With WordPress Version 2.7+ and 2.8+
- Valid XHTML And CSS
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
The content slider is not working and I’m not sure why.
Love the theme..so any help in fixing this problem would be great.
Thanx
Hai Johnson, I’m glad you like the theme. Regarding your question, it worked fine on my end. I’m not really sure about what causing it on your end.
Can you try disabling your plugin and refreshing your homepage one by one to determine which plugin is conflicting with the smoothgallery slider’s jquery function.
Please try it out and let me know the result. Thanks.
Hi,
Thanks for the quick response…no I figured out what the issues was, I was using Cat ID instead of Post ID…once I changed it it was fine.
Thanx again…all your themes are supre spectacular!
Hi,
Love the theme. Using it for my site, but I’m having trouble with the 125×125 ads showing up correctly. They don’t line up in 2 columns 3 and 3.
instead I get 3 then blank below and to the side. Any ideas why? I am using your input section in the theme options and the code is google ads.
The side banner is having issues too. Do you have a troubleshooting guide available for this theme?
Hai. First of all, you’re putting too much google adsense on your website. Please limit your adsense placement to maximum of 3 text ads content and 3 link unit content. Refer to this Adsense Help.
The 125×125 ads didn’t inline because the adsense block didn’t show up. Please try fixing your adsense placement and let me know the result. Thanks.
thanks for the reply. It turns out a couple of the 125’s had some bad code. I cleaned it up and it aligned. But I couldn’t get the google adsense to work there so i left them out.
Unfortunately, the side banner still doesn’t show up. I’m trouble shooting that now.
Thank you!
Hai. If you put adsense on the sidebar banner, it wouldn’t show up on homepage because you already have 3 adsense loop between the post.
You can try using conditional tag for it. Please refer to this WordPress Codex:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags
Please try it out and let me know if you need help setting up the conditional tag.
Hello,
I have a question : how do I embed the featured pictures for the blog postings ?
Thanks a lot !
Hai. you can use the custom fields feature for each blog post. Under the post edit panel, you’ll see custom fields area, press enter new, insert custom values ‘post-img’ in the Name box and insert the URL of your image on the Value box, finally press add custom field to update it.
Please try it out and let me know the result. Thanks.
Hi,
I tried to use this but it does not work.
Thanks for help !
Please make sure you can use timthumb on your server, otherwise it wouldn’t show up because this theme use timthumb for its image handling.
Hi,
but how do I know if my server can use timthumb ?
Try calling it directly. i.e
replace the domain and image location with your own.
I opened your link in Firefox, with my domain and files.
I received this strange information :
http://i34.tinypic.com/eg7k36.jpg
Looks like your server is not config properly to use timthumb. Have you use timthumb on your server before? If not, please contact your hosting support and let them know about it.
I’m trying to develop the above website. Two issues I’m having with the featered content slider. Am I able to allocate a category as in the Bizine theme, and secondly I cannot see the featured post using the post ID and the post-imag value. Thanks for your help in advance.
Hai. Unfortunately, this theme featured content slider only use Post ID not by category. Secondly, I noticed that you’re using another featured content slider plugin on your blog. Please deactivate the plugin in order for the built in featured slider to work.
Please try it again and let me know the result. Thanks.
Thanks for this. Does Ecopal theme allow you to select content for the featured content slider by category. I’ve deleted the whole website and satrted again to get a clean install. Should have cleaned up the other slider.
Hi,
Love the theme. Using it for my site, but I’m having trouble with the 125×125 ads showing up correctly. They don’t line up in 2 columns 3 and 3.
instead I get 3 then blank below and to the side. Any ideas why? I am using your input section in the theme options and the code is google ads.
The side banner is having issues too. Do you have a troubleshooting guide available for this theme?
This happen when you put too much adsense on your page. The 125 ads block break because the adsense didn’t show up. I didn’t code the 125 ads for adsense use, only CPA banner code.
If you already using the adsense loop between post, you can’t put adsense on 125 and sidebar anymore because Google only allow a maximum 3 adsense for content per page. Try putting adsense link units, also max 3 only per page.
Please let me know if you need more help. Thanks.
hi,
i love this theme but i’ve a problem about the header and footer, how can i change the header and the footer?
secand, what is the header script code? i dont get it…please help me..
Thanks Khairi for loving this theme. If you want to change the color or anything on the header and footer, you can do it by editing the #header and #footer inside the style.css.
Regarding the header script code, it is just a function where you can put additional script code before the , such as the google analytic code. I just prepare it just in case so user don’t have to manually open the header.php and insert the code.
A notice with the theme is missing, how to use the slide? custom field or not ?For example
readme.html ????
Hai. Basically all the settings are explained inside the theme option. Just read ans follow the instruction on each setting. As for the custom fields, you’ll find it inside the readme.txt.
* feat-img = featured content slider
* post-img = standard post entry
* feat-cat-img = featured category post entry
Please try it out and let me know if you need more help.
Hi,
I love all the features available on this theme. I am new to creating sites and wanted to know how I can remove the header banner as it is hiding my domain name?
Thanks
Hai, AJ. Thanks, I’m glad you like using this theme. Regarding your question, if the banner space is too big for you, you can adjust its width accordingly.
Please open the style.css and look for:
#siteinfo {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
float: left;
width: 35%;
}
#topads {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
float: right;
width: 65%;
text-align: right;
}
Adjust the width percentage of the css to suit your need..Please try it out and let me know if you need more help.
Hi Ronald,
Thanks for responding. I tried reducing the % however the banner just shifted to the right outside the wrapper area. If I increase it then it shifts below my domain name so now I can see it, however too much area above the fold is taken up. I prefer the banner to be smaller. What am I doing wrong?
OK. Please try this, open header.php and delete the whole div id topads code. Then, go to style.css and adjust the #siteinfo to:
#siteinfo {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
clear: both;
width: 100%;
}
That should clear out the banner space.
Hello,
Thank you for the nice Theme!!!
I have a question, how can I add my own logo instead of text?
Best Regards
Habib
Hi, nice theme and I would like to know what, where and how to change so that I could translate the following : “Posted on….by..”, Date(day, month)?
Hai. It should be inside the index.php, look for div class post-date and single.php for div class post-date-single, as well as on page.php.
That`s ok, and what about the days of the week? I`ve checked all files but couldn`t find them…
The days of week is query using the_time function. Please refer to http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php for more variable.
Something about the ads – I mean the loop between the post. How can I limit them, becouse the theme shows 3 loops, 1 header banner, 1 skyscraper on the sidebar and that`s against Google Ads politics. I want to use the ads in the header, sidebar, so I have to limit them to 1 loop between the posts. How can I do that?
I`ve solved the issue…But I wonder what is the code for the collor of the pages inside the post – I mean the loaded page when you read the articles. I need it to set up my Google ads background. Thanks
Hai, Boris. Sorry for late reply. I’m glad you solved the adsense loop problem. Regarding the background color, it is #F8F8F8