Newster
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
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Free WordPress theme - NewsterZipDownload HerePreview This Theme1.013 October 200912,589WordPress Version 1.0
- initial release
Tags: Adsense Ready, Black, Featured Content, Featured Video, Fixed Width, Free WordPress Themes, Horizontal Navigation, Right Sidebar, Theme Options, Threaded Comments, Three Columns, Three Level Dropmenu, White, Widget Ready, Wordpress Templates, WP Themes
Version and Changelog
Version 1.0
- initial release
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.
where i can change standart post img? Because in post with out img will appear standart image. help please..
thanks before…
its in /images/post-default.jpg, you can change this to your own default image but same name and format
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
Hi,
When I chose imag-feat the slider does not work. I have a black background.
For the post ID number should I? For articles, I’m one /% postname% /. It is a google translation, sorry.
Thank you
Chrys
http://new-business-online.com
Hi Ronald,
This is my third website using your theme
www.azadbalochistan.com i am very happy abiut all setup but one thing i want to do it that put right side bar on left side.
i remember your did help me last time for my site www.loatay.com
can you send me code to put side bar on the left hand side.
I am very happy your themes they are very good and very easy to setup.
keep up good work.
sincerely,
raja
Hai. You just need to tweak some of its css style to:
#content {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
float: right;
width: 60%;
}
#sidebar {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
float: left;
width: 40%;
}
#sidebarinner {
margin-right: 3px;
}
That’s all. Please try it out..
Hi,
recently I`ve moved my blog to new domain using 301 Redirect. Everything was ok, changed the settings concerning the storage of uploaded pics but now it appear that I`ve got a problem when I`m trying to use/upload picture using link to it / the picture is uploaded on another store surver/. I`ve looked over about some function that allows/disallows something like that, but couldn`t find any…Any ideas?
Tnx
I`ve missed – The picture is shown in Featured and when you open the article. If I upload the image directly on my blog (storing it in the host) not using direct link to another server there is no problem.
It`s important for me becouse I want to upload the pics on diferent server in order to save space from my hosting plan.
Can u help me with this issue?
Hai. Boris. Sorry for the late reply. I’ve been away for a while and my assistant is not php or wordpress wise to answer your question. Regarding your problem, first of all please make sure that your picture hosting server allow hotlinking to your blog hosting server, please google on how to do that n your .htaccess.
Now, whenever you want to use images hosted on other server, you can use the custom fields feature for it. For example for featured slider, use ‘feat-img’ on the name box and insert your full image url i.e www.pichost.com/images/content1.jpg on the value box. Please refer to the theme’s readme.txt on other custom field name.
Please let me know if i can be any assistance in your problem. Email me using the contact form for faster reply..Thanks.
Hi,
When I chose imag-feat the slider does not work. I have a black background.
For the post ID number should I? For articles, I’m one /% postname% /. It is a google translation, sorry.
Thank you
Chrys
Hai. You can find the POST ID by going to wp admin > Posts > Posts and mouseover the post title and you’ll see below your browser status bar “post=[number]”. Take that number and insert it inside the featured slider setting, separate posts by ‘comma’.
Hello,
Love your themes! I am using the Newster theme. Why are my images in my post not showing up? Please help if you can.
I see everything looks fine now. Thanks again for using our theme.
Hello,
I noticed that the option to customize my background in settings is not there for this theme. Is there anyway to add a custom background on the main page in the borders? Let me know if you can!
Hai. You can try manually edit the style.css > #wrapper to add your custom background image.
hy, this is my favorite theme, but how to add navigation bar from category list
Hai. You can replace the wp_list_pages to wp_list_categories within the dropmenu section in header.php. Please refer to the WordPress codex page for variable available for wp_list_categories. Thanks.
Thanks for help, it works ^_^
I like beautiful.
thanks for this Gr8 theme i will be using it on my blog…
It run!. I’ve just installed it…
Thank..
Hi,
Newster is a great theme.
I have been searching for a good free theme that actually works and can go with my news website. I am glad I found Newster. However I am unable to set up the featured slidebar. The posts are showing up but the images are not. Where do I set up images for featured slidebar and get them to show?
Help would be immensely appreciated.
Thanks,
T.
Hai. Please put more than 1 post on the slider for it to work properly. Thanks.
Thanks a lottt for your prompt reply Ronald. Okay, I was a doof there and when I put 3-4 posts, the images are being displayed in the slider.
Another problem that I have been struggling with is that the posts line up only in one column. You can see the site and view the problem if you wish. Around 7-8 articles are being displayed in the first column and the remaining articles are listing on page 2! What can be wrong here. I haven’t tweaked anything from the code so far….
Thanks in advance,
T.
Hi Ronald,
I was able to fix the earlier issue. In fact, I could not fix it but was able to tell the cause. When I change the font size of the page (Ctrl + scroll up/down), it displays fine.. but when I reduce the size the posts line up in a single row. Is there some way of fixing this?
Btw, I do have to congratulate you. While searching for solutions to this problem, I came across Bizine and I must say all these themes are so clear and easy on the eyes, yet extremely handy and usable. I really, really do wish to thank you for making these excellent themes available free. My first adsense profit will go to buying you that coffee and hopefully more in a bid to encourage you and everybody else to share online.
Just let me know in case you have a fix for the problem I mentioned.
Cheers!
Hi Ronald,
I installed theme Newster and even after trying some other themes, I felt this was the best of them all. The only issue I have is that I would have liked to have the categories as well as pages menus near the top. Maybe the pages links’ menu above the site name/logo and the categories menu below the site logo or at the bottom of the header. I am not a php expert… in fact I can barely make out what the programs are saying. Is there some easy way to do this … or can you pls provide me some coding for this. I am sorry if I am asking for a lot.
Thanks,
Talat
Hai. That required an addon coding. Please email me regarding this matter (contact us above).
Hi,
any theme`s updates about the option of custom menus available as option after WP 3.0?
Hi Ronald, thank you for a great theme!! Is it possible to show the full blog posts on the first page without having to go to a second page to read more? Thanks Rebecka
Try open index.php and replace all php codes within the div class post-content with:
[php]<?php the_content(); ?>[/php]
thanks for this Gr8 theme i will be using it on my blog…
Hello,
Thank you for the nice Theme!!!
I have a question, how can I add my own logo instead of text?
Yes. Open header.php and change this line:
[php]
<!– Uncomment To Use Your Own Logo
<a href="<?php echo get_settings(‘home’); ?>" title="<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> Home"><img src="<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/images/logo.png" alt="<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>" /></a> –>
[/php]
to
[php]
<a href="<?php echo get_settings(‘home’); ?>" title="<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> Home"><img src="<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/images/logo.png" alt="<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>" /></a>
[/php]
Upload your logo inside the theme images folder. Adjust size accordingly.
thanks for sharing. its good Theme. lol 🙂
really very nice theme