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Vfxdude » User Favorites: LoveFillies lovefillies premium wordpress themes en-US Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:42:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/search.php vfxdude on "Tips and Tricks" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/tips-and-tricks#post-8203 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:43:14 +0000 vfxdude 8203@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ Image placeholder for bfthumbs add this code to functions.php (of a child theme) to add a placeholder for bfthumbs posts (a default image when there's no thumb image): <pre><code>function bf_thumb_placeholder() { $placeholder = 'http://domain.com/default-thumb.jpg'; ?> <script> jQuery(function($){ $('.thumb.bfthumbs:not(:has(img))').each(function(){ $(this).prepend('<img width="'+($(this).width())+'" src="<?php echo $placeholder; ?>" />'); }); }); </script> <?php } add_action( 'wp_head', 'bf_thumb_placeholder' );</code></pre> Change the $placeholder url to the thumb placeholder url. To only apply it some bfthumbs shortcodes, add a class paramater like this (in the shortcode): class="phthumb", and in the code above, change ".thumb" to ".phthumb .thumb". ------- Here's another solution, using the bfthumbs_content filter: <pre><code>function bfthumbs_placeholder($thumbPost, $atts) { if ($atts['pholder']) $placeholder = $atts['pholder']; else $placeholder = 'http://domain.com/default-thumb.jpg'; if (!($width = $atts['width'])) $width = '255'; $placeholder = '<img src="'.$placeholder.'" width="'.$width.'" />'; $image = false; if (is_array($thumbPost[0])) { foreach ($thumbPost as $items) if ($items['image']) $image = true; if (!$image) array_unshift($thumbPost, array('image' => $placeholder)); } else if (!$thumbPost['image']) $thumbPost['image'] = $placeholder; return $thumbPost; } add_filter('bfthumbs_content', 'bfthumbs_placeholder', 10, 2);</code></pre> This will only work for bfthumbs, but the jQuery one can be modified to work with the blog thumbs, portfolio template, featured widget etc. The advantage using the filter one is that a pholder parameter can be added to the bfthumbs shortcode with a placeholder image url (can have different placeholder per shortcode). vfxdude on "Tips and Tricks" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/tips-and-tricks#post-7807 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:39:14 +0000 vfxdude 7807@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ Child themes do's and dont's 1. Do not change the header in style.css of the child theme, unless you know what you are doing. 2. The parent theme must be installed correctly. It must be in a folder bigfeature under the themes folder. Some install the downloaded zip file and then the bigfeature folder will be in a subfolder, and then child themes will not work. And this will also cause many other problems too. 3. Do not import style.css of the parent theme like done in other child themes. The importing is handled in functions.php. This improves the performance, and sets the right order of importing. 4. Do not copy all css from style.css of the parent theme into the child theme style.css. This will override all the theme setting styles and cause all kinds of problems. Only copy in those styles that should be overriden. 5. Do not copy header.php into the child theme, unless you know what you are doing. Changing this template will mess up the theme. 6. Do not remove any hooks, like wp_head or wp_footer since they must be there for the theme and plugins to work. 7. When copying templates into the child themes for modification, do not remove the importing of the header or footer, since these are essential for the theme to work. 8. If creating templates to be used with the import shortcode in the shortcode template system the header and footer can be removed and the whole div structure can be in the template. The "Remove the header & footer html" setting must then be enabled. 9. If using the yarpp plugin with child themes the yarpp-template-bf.php template (from the bigfeature folder) must be copied into the child theme folder. 10. Functions added to functions.php of the child theme must have unique names. Many have copied code and gotten errors, then it's most likely a naming conflict with an existing function (in the child theme, parent theme, wordpress or plugins). vfxdude on "Tips and Tricks" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/tips-and-tricks#post-7579 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:56:15 +0000 vfxdude 7579@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ Targeting the BF Page widget In version 1.4.1.1 the BF Page widget was modified to use the shortcode template system. This means that the content added in the template outputted by the BF Page widget will only show where it's targeted. Here's how: 1. Enable the "Enable Custom Templates Feature" theme setting. 2. Create a new post in the Templates custom post. 3. Add the content to be outputted by the BF Page plugin into the editor. 4. Select the targeting under the editor (single, blog, page etc.) and the "BF Page widget template" checkbox, and then publish the post. 5. Drag the BF Page widget to a widget area and select the template created in step 2-4. Now the widget will only show where it's targeted (set in the template). And it's also possible to add a widgetarea shortcode to the template, this means you can combine sidebars. In other words, you can create a custom sidebar in the theme setting (1.4.1 functionality) and add widgets to this sidebar, and add it to the main sidebar with the BF Page widget, and then use the targeting to determine where it should display. vfxdude on "Tips and Tricks" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/tips-and-tricks#post-7577 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:48:36 +0000 vfxdude 7577@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ Shortcode Template System Here's a short tutorial (to clarify some stuff that was not shown in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/vfxdudedotcom#p/u/0/mzFXQVhiNOs">the video</a>): 1. Enable the "Enable Custom Templates Feature" theme setting. 2. Create a new post in the Templates custom post. 3. Add a bfthumbs to the editor (in html mode), like this: <code>[bfthumbs sid="bfthumbs-loop" showposts="10" width="153" height="120" numcols="5" marginright="20" numwords="10" ajaxnav="false"] </code> 4. Select the targeting under the editor (blog, search etc.) and publish the post. The shortcode above is a 5 column bfthumbs layout. The numcols="5" sets the number of columns, and the showposts="10" sets the number of posts shown on every page (must install wp-pagenavi or "wp page numbers" plugin for page navigation). The ajaxnav="false" parameter makes it so that it's normal page navigation (the page reloads). The clue here is that there's no post fetching parameters in the bfthumbs shortcode (category, tag, tax etc.), so that it will show the post relevant for where it's targetted. For example, if the blog is the target then it will replace the normal blog design, but show the same posts, just with a custom design (same for the archive and search). This makes it possible to have custom designs per category/taxonomy/custompost etc. For example a portfolio can be created with categories, and every category/taxonomy can have a different design. And there's more shortcodes for this template system, for example one for sidebars (widgetarea) and one for outputting hook content (bfhook), and also one for including php templates (bfinclude) added to a child theme (use the shortcode GUI to see the possible parameters and a description of each one). One of the possibilities with this is also to include external php templates and target those. Just add an include shortcode with the name of a custom single.php template and it can be targeted with this system (enable the "Don't include header & footer files" setting below the targeting if the template imports the header and footer). This means that the <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/bigfeature/2009/10/faq/#customsingle">custom single functionality</a> is not necessary anymore since this is way more flexible, since it can target just about everything (custom post type, taxonomy type, taxonomy term, category, tag). Another feature is to remove the header and footer html for just this template. This makes it possible to have a custom div structure (100% width designs etc.) for just the portfolio, while the blog is using the normal layout. Many possibilities with this system, and I'm exploring those with some new child themes coming soon. The shortcodes from the "custom blog frontpage" and "featured thumbnails with bfthumbs" tutorials above can used in these templates. It uses 2 parameters that is important to learn, offset and onlyfirstpage. The offset parameter makes it possible to use many bfthumbs and continue the flow of posts. For example offset="1" makes the shortcode skip the first post and together with numposts or showposts (pages) the design can have many bfthumbs making up the post design. The onlyfirstpage parameter makes the bfthumbs only show up on the first page, but not on other pages when using ajaxnav="false" for normal pagination. Also read the <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/bigfeature/2010/01/changelog/">changelog</a> for version 1.4.1, since it got a lot of information about this system there. And also <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/announcements#post-7040">read this</a> for more information and also some shortcode examples. vfxdude on "Tips and Tricks" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/tips-and-tricks#post-7572 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:34:34 +0000 vfxdude 7572@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ Custom related posts design In the latest version of the theme (1.4.1.1) it is possible to use the bfthumbs shortcode with the yarpp plugin. Then you can have any design (number of columns, width etc.) of the related posts thumbs. Here's how: 1. Enable the "Enable Custom Templates Feature" theme setting. 2. In Templates (a custom post that will appear. see <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/vfxdudedotcom#p/u/0/mzFXQVhiNOs">this video</a> for more info.) create a new post and call it "yarpp template". Insert this code into the editor (in html mode): <code><h5>Related Posts</h5> [bfthumbs sid="bfthumbs-yarpp" numposts="6" numcols="3" width="200"]</code> 3. Add this code to the child theme functions.php (use the bf_after_article hook to add above the comments): <pre><code>add_action( 'bf_after_comments', 'custom_related_posts' ); function custom_related_posts() { echo do_shortcode('[bfyarpp template="yarpp template"]'); }</code></pre> 4. Deactivate the related posts setting in the theme settings. Now the look of the related posts can modified with bfthumbs in the yarpp template. vfxdude on "Tips and Tricks" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/tips-and-tricks#post-5359 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:49:23 +0000 vfxdude 5359@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ custom blog frontpage <img src="http://www.vfxdude.com/external-images/custom-blog-frontpage.jpg"> bfthumbs has many different uses, like the featured thumbs above, but it can also be used to create a blog frontpage. The thumbs in the code below use an offset parameter to continue from the first post. That way a whole page can be designed with a magazine style look, adding ads in between and whatnot. There's no category or tag added so then all new posts are fetched. The older posts link can be to the second page of the blog or maybe the archive (replace the hash sign with the url). Add the code to a page using the default template (disable the "Use the name as heading in pages (default template)" theme setting). <code>[bfthumbs numposts="1" numcols="1" width="528" height="250" caption="overlay" text="false" title="false"]</code> <code>[bfthumbs numposts="6" numcols="3" offset="2" marginright="15" width="152" numwords="10" class="thumbframe1"]</code> <code><a href="#">« Older Posts</a></code> Update: In version 1.4.0.4 some new features was added to make this even better. Now it works with normal page navigation (need one of the page navigation plugins listed <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/bigfeature/2009/07/setting-up-the-theme/">here</a>), and also stuff can be shown only on the first page (this is useful for the first feature post). This way bfthumbs can be used instead of the blog or any page template. So the new code will then be: <code>[bfthumbs numposts="1" numcols="1" width="528" height="250" caption="overlay" text="false" title="false" onlyfirstpage="true"]</code> <code>[bfthumbs showposts="6" numcols="3" offset="2" marginright="15" width="152" numwords="10" class="thumbframe1" ajaxnav="false"]</code> The onlyfirstpage parameter is only implemented in bfthumbs, but here is how to do it with other shortcodes and content: 1. Add this css to style.css: body.paged .fponly { display:none; } 2. add this class to the shortcode, like this: <code>[bfslider class="fponly"]</code> or to a wrapping div, like this: <code><div class="fponly">[bfslider] everything inside this div will only show on the first page.</div></code> vfxdude on "Tips and Tricks" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/tips-and-tricks#post-5351 Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:46:52 +0000 vfxdude 5351@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ featured thumbnails with bfthumbs <img src="http://www.vfxdude.com/external-images/featuredthumbs.jpg"> Here's how to create a feature thumbs area (like on Engadget) with bfthumbs. 1. Add this code to a page (it can be a frontpage with no sidebar, or a page added to a widget area with the BF Page widget): <code>[bfthumbs category="feature" numposts="1" width="500" height="170" marginright="2" marginbottom="2" caption="overlay" text="false" title="false" class="alignleft featuredthumbs"]</code> <code>[bfthumbs category="feature" numposts="1" numcols="1" offset="2" width="345" height="170" marginbottom="2" caption="overlay" text="false" title="false" class="featuredthumbs"]</code> <code>[bfthumbs category="feature" numposts="3" numcols="3" offset="3" width="281" height="120" marginright="2" caption="overlay" text="false" title="false" class="featuredthumbs"]</code> 2. Add this css to bottom style.css to remove some margins (preferably in a <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/bigfeature/2009/10/faq/#childtheme">child theme</a>) <code>.featuredthumbs .post.thumb .thumbcontent { margin:0; } .featuredthumbs .post.thumb { margin-top:0; }</code> Custom captions (independent of the post title) can be added with a custom field called thumbcaption. vfxdude on "Tips and Tricks" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/tips-and-tricks#post-5349 Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:29:12 +0000 vfxdude 5349@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ sidebar tabs for widgets <img src="http://www.vfxdude.com/external-images/sidebartabs-look.png"> There are several plugins that makes it possible to add widgets to tabs in the sidebar. After testing some of them I found one that I like, the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sidebartabs/">sidebarTabs</a> plugin. It supports multiple instances, and got lots of options. Here's how I set it up: 1. See the screenshots <a href="http://www.blogviche.com.br/plugin-sidebartabs/">here</a> how to add widgets to it. 2. Change the looks of the tabs by editing the SidebarTabs options. <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/external-images/sidebartabs-options.png">Here's a screenshot</a> of the one I choose for the look in the image above. 3. To get the same look as in the picture add the css below to style.css (preferably in a <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/bigfeature/2009/10/faq/#childtheme">child theme</a>): #sidebar .sidebarTabs_panes ul li { display: block; float: none; width: 100%; } #sidebar .sidebarTabs_panes .tb, #sidebar .sb_accordion div.pane { padding: 8px 0 8px 1px; } #sidebar .sidebarTabs a { margin-right: 6px !important; } vfxdude on "Tips and Tricks" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/tips-and-tricks#post-5322 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:23:25 +0000 vfxdude 5322@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ make the post image smaller <blockquote><img src="http://vfxdude.com/external-images/post-thumb.png"></blockquote> The best way to make add smaller preview images for the blog posts is to insert the image into the post, with the size selected and left align it, and then add the  tag after the image and the preview text. Then a readmore link will be added at that tags location. Here are some screenshots illustrating what I'm talking about: <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/external-images/insert-image-into-editor.png">1</a>, <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/external-images/insert-image-into-editor-html.png">2</a>, <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/external-images/insert-image-into-editor-visual.png">3</a>, <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/external-images/insert-image-into-editor-blog-frontpage.png">4</a>. You can still have bfthumbs (and slider) images by adding the image url to the "Thumbnail image URL" input field below the editor. If you rather want to make the default image smaller (the one set as featured), you can do it with css, like this: 1. Enable the "Move the default post image below the title" theme setting. 2. Enable the "Disable the feature image on the frontpage" theme setting if you don't want the first image on the blog frontpage to be feature size (container width). 3. Add this css to the bottom style.css (preferably in a <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/bigfeature/2009/10/faq/#childtheme">child theme</a>) <code>.post .postimage.normal { float:left; margin: 0 20px 10px 0; } .post .postimage.normal img { width: 200px; height: auto; }</code> The image must still be the content width to be shown, but css will resize it to the pixel width set in the css above. Increase the "Limit frontpage text" theme setting to show more preview text or use a  tag in the post to set exactly what to show as preview text (adding text to the excerpt field also works). If you only want this on the frontpage of the blog change the <code>.post</code> selector to <code>.post.frontpage</code>. Another way to make the blog frontpage images smaller is to enable the "Show older posts on the blog frontpage as thumbnail posts" settings, then posts and images will be shown in thumbnail size. You can also design a page with the bfthumbs shortcode to be the blog frontpage like shown <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/tips-and-tricks#post-5359">here</a>. vfxdude on "Tips and Tricks" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/tips-and-tricks#post-5127 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:35:20 +0000 vfxdude 5127@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ add a divider between the bfthumbs posts 1. add a class parameter to the bfthumbs shortcode, like this: <code>class="mythumbs"</code> 2. reduce the width of the thumb posts (in the bfthumbs shortcode) to make place for the separator (and padding) by adding a width parameter: <code>width="241"</code> 3. add the separator with css (add it to style.css (preferably in a child theme)): <code>.mythumbs .post.thumb { border-right: 1px solid #ddd; padding-right: 20px; } .mythumbs .post.thumb.last-thumb { border-right: none; padding-right: 0; }</code> vfxdude on "Tips and Tricks" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/tips-and-tricks#post-4824 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:05:04 +0000 vfxdude 4824@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ add a vertical navigation to the sidebar 1. Create a new navigation, call it sidebarnav. 2. Create a page and add this shortcode: <code>[bfnav name="sidebarnav" style="verticalnav"]</code> 3. Add this css to the bottom of style.css (preferably in a <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/bigfeature/2009/10/faq/#childtheme">child theme</a>): <code>ul.navigation.verticalnav { width: 100%; } ul.navigation.verticalnav li { float: none; padding: 0; } ul.navigation.verticalnav li a { color:#333 !important; padding: 5px 0; } #sidebar { overflow: visible; } #sidebar ul.navigation li li { border-right: 1px solid #ddd; border-top: none; margin: 0; }</code> 4. Add the page to the sidebar with the BF Page widget. vfxdude on "Tips and Tricks" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/tips-and-tricks#post-4638 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:49:40 +0000 vfxdude 4638@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ modifying the bfthumbs output The bfthumbs output can be changed with the bfthumbs_content filter. Here is an example how the post meta information (meta="true" must be set for it to show) can be changed (add it to functions.php of a child theme): <pre><code>function bfthumbs_meta($thumbpost) { global $post; foreach(get_the_category($post->ID) as $category) $categories[] = '<a href="'.get_category_link( $category->cat_ID ).'">'.$category->name.'</a>'; $thumbpost['meta'] = '<div class="meta">'.implode(', ', $categories).'</div>'; return $thumbpost; } add_filter('bfthumbs_content', 'bfthumbs_meta');</code></pre> Add the code to functions.php of a <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/downloads/">child theme</a>. All elements of the thumbnail post can be changed this way, the thumblink, the length of the text or even the image shown. Do a vardump on the $thumbpost array passed to the filter to see what can be changed, like this: var_dump($thumbpost); Here's an example how to remove the comment link from the meta: <pre><code>function bfthumbs_meta($thumbpost) { global $post, $bf_date_format; $thumbpost['meta'] = '<div class="meta">'. get_the_time($bf_date_format) . '</div>'; return $thumbpost; } add_filter('bfthumbs_content', 'bfthumbs_meta');</code></pre> Here's an example how to add a comments link at the bottom (only on the home page): <pre><code>function bfthumbs_custom($thumbpost) { global $post; if (is_home()) { $comments = '<div class="meta"><a href="'. get_comments_link($post->ID) .'">Comments ('.get_comments_number($post->ID) .')</a></div>'; $thumbpost['text'] = $thumbpost['text'] . $comments; } return $thumbpost; } add_filter('bfthumbs_content', 'bfthumbs_custom');</code></pre> You can also pass custom parameters. Example: <code>[bfthumbs numposts="2" numcols="1" text="false" hideimage="true" topdate="true"]</code> <pre><code>function bfthumbs_custom($thumbpost, $atts) { global $post, $bf_short_date_format; if ($atts['topdate'] == 'true') { $date = '<div class="thumbdate">'. get_the_time($bf_short_date_format, $post->ID) . '</div>'; $thumbpost['title'] = $date . $thumbpost['title']; } return $thumbpost; } add_filter('bfthumbs_content', 'bfthumbs_custom', 10, 2);</code></pre> The topdate is a custom parameter that is passed to the filter function. This way you can create all kind of designs based on custom parameters. vfxdude on "Tips and Tricks" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/tips-and-tricks#post-4470 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:31:03 +0000 vfxdude 4470@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ custom header I have gotten several questions about how to customize the header. This can be done in the theme setting by adding/removing features and adding stuff to the header widget areas. For example you can add a header image to the top of the header by creating a page (with an image/ad or something) and adding it to the "Adspace - top of the page" or the "Adspace - Header" widget area with the BF Page widget (it's also possible to add a header image with the logo uploader). However, if you want to do bigger changes creating a function in a child theme is the best approach. <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/bfCustomHeader.zip">Here's a child theme</a> I created as an example how to create a custom header function to replace the built in one. It left aligns all navigation styles (normally the 3 last navigation styles are right aligned) and also includes the search box for all styles. The advantage with this function is that you can add stuff like images or plugin calls, or even an <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/bigfeature/2009/10/faq/#xtranavs">extra navigation</a>. vfxdude on "Tips and Tricks" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/tips-and-tricks#post-4337 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:18:09 +0000 vfxdude 4337@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ create a custom navigation style I recommend to check the bfnav child theme, 3 navigations are used there, 2 of them got custom styles (check the functions.php how to call the navigation and set the style). a short tutorial: 1. use a child theme (<a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/bigfeature/2009/10/faq/#childtheme">topArt</a> maybe, since it's a blank canvas). 2. remove the normal navigation hook (in functions.php) like this: <pre><code>add_action( 'wp_head', 'remove_actions' ); function remove_actions() { remove_action( 'bf_header', 'bf_navigation' ); }</code></pre> 3. create a new navigation function like this: <pre><code>add_action( 'bf_header', 'my_navigation' ); function my_navigation() { bf_navigation("","mynavigation"); }</code></pre> 4. style the navigation like this (use firebug to find what to change): <code>ul.navigation.mynavigation { margin-top: 0; } ul.navigation.mynavigation li.current_page_item a { background-color: #333; } </code> Firebug is you best friend doing such work. <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/bigfeature/2009/10/faq/#xtranavs">here's</a> info how to create more navigations. ronenbekerman on "SEO Plugin or SEO options of Bigfeature" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/seo-plugin-or-seo-options-of-bigfeature#post-3550 Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:03:39 +0000 ronenbekerman 3550@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ Would be better to set the sidebar titles to lower heading level. the current H2 is too much for them. vfxdude on "SEO Plugin or SEO options of Bigfeature" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/seo-plugin-or-seo-options-of-bigfeature#post-3519 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:32:22 +0000 vfxdude 3519@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ can you please make another thread for this? you can use the BF Page widget to add pages instead of using the text widget. kurtp on "SEO Plugin or SEO options of Bigfeature" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/seo-plugin-or-seo-options-of-bigfeature#post-3497 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:30:11 +0000 kurtp 3497@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ Thanks. I am now trying to set up tables in a page and it seems that te text widgets are limited in the html they will display. Actually, they seem to display different table properties than the pages. Since I want to display tables identically across the pages and widgets like here: <a href="http://www.bestvaluewebhostingcompanies.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.bestvaluewebhostingcompanies.com</a> I am not sure what to do. I am looking at several themes to do this but there are limitations. The afformentioned site uses a nicely displayed theme, but it really screws up SEO so I need to move to another one. Thanks for your time. Kurt vfxdude on "SEO Plugin or SEO options of Bigfeature" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/seo-plugin-or-seo-options-of-bigfeature#post-3493 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:00:55 +0000 vfxdude 3493@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/bigfeature/2009/10/faq/#sliderblog">here's </a>how to add the slider to the top of the blog. kurtp on "SEO Plugin or SEO options of Bigfeature" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/seo-plugin-or-seo-options-of-bigfeature#post-3489 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:09:39 +0000 kurtp 3489@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ How do I add the slider? It isn't apparent to me. It doesn't appear to be in any of these settings. I tried using the blog as the homepage and then using static pages, but neither works. Thanks Kurt vfxdude on "SEO Plugin or SEO options of Bigfeature" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/seo-plugin-or-seo-options-of-bigfeature#post-3447 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:32:04 +0000 vfxdude 3447@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ with the page slider you have to add the alt attribute yourself. The slider show the code just like it's added. The images in the category slider (posts) do include the alt tag automatically. You can have 3 columns by adding widgets to both of the 2 sidebars, main sidebar and 2. sidebar. The widths can be adjusted in the theme settings. Resave the theme settings after adding the widgets if you are caching the settings css to recalculate the widths. kurtp on "SEO Plugin or SEO options of Bigfeature" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/seo-plugin-or-seo-options-of-bigfeature#post-3439 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:36:42 +0000 kurtp 3439@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ I have been spending time with many different themes. The backend of each are so different. I really like a few and BigFeature is among these. For one reason or another I have had to move away from the last couple I have really liked. I don't want to do this with yours, as it seem versitile enough to create several very different looks. The idea that each client has a similar look is a little unsettling, but with the variations yours allows I can possibly get incredibly comfortable with one backend the majority of the time. It seems there I lose half of a day or more learning nuances of each theme. However, what is really important to me is that these themes run very clean from an SEO perspective, and I have experienced that your slider doesn't use alt for the image even though it is one of the media settings. Could you please help me understand your backoffice as much as possible? I am working through Themeforest with several themes, but want the consistency of dealing with one backoffice the majority of the time. I saw several versions of BigFeature that had a slider with several sliding Header images with three columns below. I love this look, but am not sure how to create three columns with your settings. Where these donw with your settings or through html code? Thanks. Kurt Fragrance on "SEO Plugin or SEO options of Bigfeature" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/seo-plugin-or-seo-options-of-bigfeature#post-2667 Mon, 24 May 2010 09:37:21 +0000 Fragrance 2667@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ admin thanks a lot!! I'm looking forward to new theme..1.4 i think i can wait without SEO ALL in 1 plug-in.. vfxdude on "SEO Plugin or SEO options of Bigfeature" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/seo-plugin-or-seo-options-of-bigfeature#post-2649 Fri, 21 May 2010 10:46:51 +0000 vfxdude 2649@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ I'm not saying to not use SEO plugins...use as many as you want. I will consider adding a "canonical url" functionality for version 1.4 though. Fragrance on "SEO Plugin or SEO options of Bigfeature" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/seo-plugin-or-seo-options-of-bigfeature#post-2645 Fri, 21 May 2010 08:31:14 +0000 Fragrance 2645@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ Folks what about CANONICAL URL'S ? its not good i have: tag/news /news 2 same news in 2 different links.. What to do with this issue? vfxdude on "Nextgen bfslider" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/nextgen-bfslider#post-2640 Wed, 19 May 2010 17:38:27 +0000 vfxdude 2640@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ version 1.3.5.2 with sorting support is now available. vfxdude on "Nextgen bfslider" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/nextgen-bfslider#post-2619 Mon, 17 May 2010 11:10:37 +0000 vfxdude 2619@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ it's sorted by the ID, but I will add support for the sorting functionality. timlawrence25 on "Nextgen bfslider" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/nextgen-bfslider#post-2612 Fri, 14 May 2010 18:03:40 +0000 timlawrence25 2612@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ I'm really like all the additions in 1.3.5 As always, you've been working hard. At this time, is there any way to sort the photos when using nextgen for the bfslider? I sort the pictures but it always stays the same. vfxdude on "Nextgen bfslider" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/nextgen-bfslider#post-2610 Fri, 14 May 2010 15:56:19 +0000 vfxdude 2610@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ imageheight and imagewidth can be used with the content slider to resize the image (it was added in 1.3.5). timlawrence25 on "Nextgen bfslider" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/nextgen-bfslider#post-2609 Fri, 14 May 2010 15:36:17 +0000 timlawrence25 2609@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ Yeah putting both imageheight="450" and height="450" for the shortcode worked. Didn't even know imageheight was a shortcode. Thanks. timlawrence25 on "Nextgen bfslider" http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/nextgen-bfslider#post-2608 Fri, 14 May 2010 15:30:15 +0000 timlawrence25 2608@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ Which image height? I've tried height="450" and the that doesn't work. Do I put imageheight="450" and height="450" for the shortcode? Thanks Vfxdude for the help.