MaglossV2
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.
Free WordPress theme - MaglossV2ZipDownload HerePreview This Theme1.116,848WordPress - update to compatible with WordPress 3.5.1
- fixed twitter api issue
- added custom menu support
- added post thumbnail support
- added social sharing
- initial release
Version and Changelog
- update to compatible with WordPress 3.5.1
- fixed twitter api issue
- added custom menu support
- added post thumbnail support
- added social sharing
- initial release
Is there a way for the images of the Featured Content Slider to fit inside the box?
never mind read the readme file
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
do we need smoothgaller2.0 plug in installed ? i could nly find smooth gallery1.15 in my plugin search?
also some where i found that i need to add custom filed ast smoothgallery and then [smoothgallery] in post ,
what are the basic steps need to stup for featured news to run, both in settings and in posts
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.
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.
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..
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:
https://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
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.
Hy,
How can i exclude a post from the last posts shown in the first page? So instead of excluding one or more categories on home page post, is it possible to exclude some posts on home page. If yes, is there something like this: Or something else?
Thank you
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.
Hi Ronald, is there anyway to choose the order of these tabs, and not have it in alphabetical order?
Hai. You can change the sort_column=menu_order on the wp_list_pages variable, please refer to this page for more available variable:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_pages
Can you be more specific on where to find this? I have been trying to organize my menu for a week! It’s very disturbing that you provide nice templates and then give no option to organize the menu within the script. More information other than what you have provided above would be very helpful.
Maglossv2 doesn’t support custom menu. Please email me regarding this, I’ll send in the modified file to support custom menu.
I am interested in using Maglossv2 for my site if it supports custom menu can you send me the file as well please?
Thanks
Michael
Theme files sent to your email. Thanks.
I am using Maglossv2 for my site can you send me the file for custom menus as well please?
Also is there a way to have my bio included at the end of every post?
hi shani, i just updated the maglossv2 to version 1.1, just redownload the theme with updated version. see changelog.
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.
Pretty nice and feature rich theme. I am going to use it in my blog. 🙂
This interface is very nice and I like the interface that has horizontal bar category.
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