http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/tags/upgrade premium wordpress themes en-US Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:47:20 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/search.php http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/wordpress-3-menus#post-3316 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:33:37 +0000 admin 3316@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>this is why it's better to do the changes in a child theme, then it's no problems with upgrading. Changes for the wp3 menu have been done in metabox.php, options.php and theme-functions.php, but I can't guarantee replacing those files will work though. you can try to replace the whole library folder, but I guess some styles have been added in style.css too though. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/wordpress-3-menus#post-3307 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:14:13 +0000 medina. 3307@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>I'm not using the latest Big Feature.</p> <p>I'm using an earlier version, prior to the release of WordPress 3, which does not support WordPress 3 menus. And I can't update to the latest version of Big Feature because the modifications I have made to the theme will be lost.</p> <p>I need to know what changes were made to enable the WordPress 3 menu so that I can edit my modification. The changelog on the website only states changes and doesn't actually detail the changes made.</p> <p>Thanks. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/wordpress-3-menus#post-3305 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:19:36 +0000 Dany 3305@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>Hi there,</p> <p>I upgraded to the 3 version and the theme gives you the option to use either the wordpress new menu integration or the theme menu, you will find this option under theme settings/navigation.</p> <p>I am personally using the wordpress one but you have to use the theme one if you use the sitemap page template because the pages wont show in it if you use the wordpress one. </p> <p>Good luck </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/wordpress-3-menus#post-3304 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:38:54 +0000 medina. 3304@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>Hi.</p> <p>I'm using a modified version of BF on one website &amp; I don't particularly want to upgrade for obvious reasons.</p> <p>Could you please tell me what was changed / what needed to be changed to incorporate WordPress 3 menus?</p> <p>Thanks. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/couple-of-issues-after-upgrade-to-wp3-and-bflatest#post-3245 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:24:36 +0000 WeddingsByRyan 3245@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>oh you are running version 1.3.4.2 of the theme, did not realize that, it has not been made compatible with WP3.0.</blockquote></p> <p>Thanks - sorry should have explained....I upgraded to 1.3.5.2 and hit problems. As an attempt to fix it I dropped back to 1.3.4.2 which fixed some things.</p> <p>I'll u/g to 1.3.5.2 when I get a moment and fire fight from there.</p> <p>Thanks for the CSS tip - I'll use that as a short term fix then I can work from a test server. "Some browsers" is better then "no browsers" ;) </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/couple-of-issues-after-upgrade-to-wp3-and-bflatest#post-3241 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:21:11 +0000 admin 3241@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>oh you are running version 1.3.4.2 of the theme, did not realize that, it has not been made compatible with WP3.0. I recommend to <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/bigfeature/2009/10/faq/#how2upgrade">upgrade to version 1.3.5.2</a> (latest version), then I think your problems will go away.</p> <p>btw, you can add this css to the bottom of style.css to constrain large images to content area:<br /> <code>#content img { max-width: 100%; }</code></p> <p>It will not not proportionally resize them right it all browsers though, and that's why I added a script for it... </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/couple-of-issues-after-upgrade-to-wp3-and-bflatest#post-3225 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:56:31 +0000 WeddingsByRyan 3225@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p><blockquote> I should take $100 for every support inquiry.</blockquote></p> <p>Absolutely.</p> <p>If you want to sell the theme on that basis then do it. Some of the support you've given would be worth that money and I can imagine big corporations lapping it up (there's a distinct lack of WP themes with pro level support i.e. monitored SLA style with escalation, guarantees and penalties).</p> <p>Since I'm not a coder (I gave that up a few years ago) I'd happily consider a paid for support model. Especially since my options now are<br /> 1. spend a lot of time looking for the issue wherever it lurks - by definition it will take me longer to find it than an experienced coder whose familiar with the code<br /> 2. "heal" the site so that it works with the code as it is now. This could take a long time and would mean that I would never want to upgrade again.<br /> 3. Go get another website. Again a ton of work plus some money. With no guarantee that I wouldn't hit the same issues.</p> <p>So joking apart if you want to charge for support (and accept all that that would imply) then I'll be happy to talk.</p> <p>But back when I managed test projects the rule was simple. If the system worked, and you changed "x" piece of code and the system stopped working then it was down to the developer of "x" to make sure it wasn't their code. Because really and truly it almost always was.</p> <p>--------<br /> As an aside "somebody" needs to fix the ridiculous plugin conflict thing. I'm only guessing but if the WP core developers issued a proper set of standards and nothing was allowed in the codex that didn't comply then these conflicts would be over tomorrow. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/couple-of-issues-after-upgrade-to-wp3-and-bflatest#post-3221 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:47:01 +0000 admin 3221@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>there's a javascript error from you thickbox plugin that can be the cause, but if you deactivated all plugins and no change, but I suggest you try again, and clear the browser cache. </p> <p>It's a javascript error that is causing this, and don't be so quick to blame it on the theme, plugins must be made compatible with new wordpress versions too. I have tested 1.3.5.2 with wordpress 3.0 and it works fine for me. </p> <p>At least 50% of the support I have been doing the last year is caused by plugins, and it sucks to waste my time on such matters! I should take $100 for every support inquiry. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/couple-of-issues-after-upgrade-to-wp3-and-bflatest#post-3201 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:18:06 +0000 WeddingsByRyan 3201@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>OK - I just deactivated every single plugin.</p> <p>Didn't fix it. I guess it must be something else. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/couple-of-issues-after-upgrade-to-wp3-and-bflatest#post-3200 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:11:05 +0000 WeddingsByRyan 3200@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>1. It worked before the upgrade. Yes I can spend a long time trying each of the plugins (though mostly I have the ones you advise) but that's risky on a live site. And what do I do then?</p> <p>2. Um great. I bought your skin because it had image resizing so I could migrate an existing site to it. All of a sudden it's stopped working properly (I can't stress enough that it worked, I applied your upgrade and it stopped working) and now I need to do some random testing of other people's code OR spend literally days resizing pictures OR just junk the skin and get something new.</p> <p>I've been a very big fan of this theme and the support you've given in the past but when you change code and it costs me days of work I go a little cold on it.</p> <p>Any suggestions where I can start looking? I have a live site that I use to run my business. And it looks like crap because your code stopped working. Any ideas which plugins you might suddenly have started conflicting with? </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/couple-of-issues-after-upgrade-to-wp3-and-bflatest#post-3184 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:20:46 +0000 admin 3184@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>1. This is javascript conflict, most likely with a plugin. deactivate them to test.</p> <p>2. it's the image resizing script not working, again a javascript conflict. I do not recomend to insert too large images into the post though, it's much better to resize them in f.ex. photoshop before inserted, ore use the wordpress media sizes. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/couple-of-issues-after-upgrade-to-wp3-and-bflatest#post-3177 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:00:10 +0000 WeddingsByRyan 3177@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>Today I upgraded to WP3 and the latest BF. I had missed a couple of releases of BF - my last version dates from Feb 2010. I now have a couple of issues. I can't say 100% whether these are WP or BF problems since I upgraded together but neither happened before the upgrade.</p> <p>1. Navigation of sub items doesn't work when it's set to Standard. The list drops down like it should but vanishes when you move the mouse off the top item. This means you can't click on any sub items. I'm currently working round by using NavBar navigation but could really do with this working.</p> <p>2. Some (but not all) of my posts now overflow the sidebar. These are posts that used to look OK in WP2.9 and an older version of BF. Here's one that's broken <a href="http://peoplebyryan.com/weddings/louise-and-mark-a-real-wedding-at-the-knowle" rel="nofollow">http://peoplebyryan.com/weddings/louise-and-mark-a-real-wedding-at-the-knowle</a>. And one that works <a href="http://peoplebyryan.com/weddings/salmestone-grange-peter-and-joanna-real-wedding" rel="nofollow">http://peoplebyryan.com/weddings/salmestone-grange-peter-and-joanna-real-wedding</a></p> <p>Any ideas?</p> <p>ETA: both faults show up on Firefox (Mac) and Safari. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/upgrade-from-131-to-133#post-3171 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:08:28 +0000 admin 3171@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>either overwrite the files on the server with ftp (unpack the downloaded zip, then unpack the bigfeature.zip and upload the bigfeature folder to the /wp-content/themes folder) or delete the theme and use the wordpress uloader to install the new version. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/upgrade-from-131-to-133#post-3160 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:06:15 +0000 arilankin 3160@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>Hey Vfxdude,<br /> I upgraded to WP 3.0, after I did the layout of my blog page got all messed up. I see that I'm using version 1.3.3, so I'm trying to upgrade to version 1.3.5. I logged in to Theme Forest and downloaded the zip. But when I went to install the theme, it tells me I already have it uploaded and it can not. My stylesheet is this:<br /> /*<br /> Theme Name: Big Feature<br /> Theme URI: <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.vfxdude.com</a><br /> Description: Clean and flexible.<br /> Version: 1.3.3<br /> Author: Roger Grimstad<br /> Author URI: <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.vfxdude.com</a><br /> */</p> <p>Any ideas? Thanks </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/upgraded-theme-there-is-a-problem#post-3075 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:38:58 +0000 suzlyn 3075@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>Ok, i replaced the functions php file in my child theme and now it works but I have quite a few fixes to do.</p> <p>Great theme btw. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/upgraded-theme-there-is-a-problem#post-3074 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:23:48 +0000 suzlyn 3074@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>Didn't fix anything That error code is still there. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/upgraded-theme-there-is-a-problem#post-3073 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:18:14 +0000 suzlyn 3073@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>ok will try </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/upgraded-theme-there-is-a-problem#post-3072 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:10:29 +0000 admin 3072@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>delete the theme before uploading, probably a mix of versions. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/upgraded-theme-there-is-a-problem#post-3071 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:53:25 +0000 suzlyn 3071@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>I upgraded my theme by overwriting the files using ftp, and now i get this:</p> <p>Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_sidebar_active() in /home/watkins1/public_html/wp-content/themes/bigfeature/library/functions/options.php on line 1167</p> <p>(btw, I have my child theme activated) </p> <p>I can't even get into my admin panel. How do i fix this?? </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/upgrade-questions#post-3046 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:22:53 +0000 admin 3046@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>you can overwrite the files or just delete it and install it with the wordpress installer (the bigfeature.zip file). The child theme files will not be touched. Upgrade to WP3.0 after the theme upgrade. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/upgrade-questions#post-3032 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:17:53 +0000 suzlyn 3032@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>Ok, this is my first upgrade of a theme (any theme). I created a child theme with topart and have it activated and all is good. So when I do the upgrade do I just replace the current BigFeature files (the old version) with the new version? And because I have the child theme activated my CSS stylesheet and functions php should stay the same? (I have modifications in both of course and don't want to loose anything).</p> <p>I am sure this is simple but since I have never done an upgrade yet I am stressing out about it.</p> <p>Oh, and would it be better to upgrade to WP 3.0 before or after the upgrade? </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/blog-post-templates-upgrade-issue#post-1625 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:21:58 +0000 admin 1625@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>that's right, but there is a hack you can do to change this. In index.php </p> <p>replace this:<br /> <code>get_image('feature')</code></p> <p>with this:<br /> <code>get_image('feature',false,200)</code></p> <p>This will set the max height of the frontpage feature images to 200px. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/blog-post-templates-upgrade-issue#post-1624 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:06:32 +0000 bombob 1624@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>the "normal dedault image max height" works only with other pictures on the frontpage but not the big one at the top. so i can´t see a full size image on the post page and a half the size image on the top on the frontpage? </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/blog-post-templates-upgrade-issue#post-1620 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:54:27 +0000 admin 1620@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>bombob: you can set maxheight for normal images in the theme setting: "Normal default image max height". If the post on the frontpage is normal size and the one on the post page (single post view) is feature the heights will be different (since featured size images will not be affected by the max height setting). </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/blog-post-templates-upgrade-issue#post-1616 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:29:15 +0000 zedc 1616@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>@admin top man thank you again! </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/blog-post-templates-upgrade-issue#post-1614 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:00:35 +0000 bombob 1614@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>greate tip. can i set another size for the feature image? i want a 200px height image on the frontpage and a 400px image in the post... </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/blog-post-templates-upgrade-issue#post-1610 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:15:21 +0000 admin 1610@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>1. The one you downloaded should be the latest version. Version 1.3.4.3. You can check the version in the top of style.css</p> <p>2. The feature image will be shown over the sidebar when it's at least the container width (860px in your case). The thumbnails below the first post can be turned off with the "Show older posts on the blog frontpage as thumbnail posts" setting (it is off by default). Read <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/bigfeature/2009/07/theme-settings/">this article</a> for description of every theme setting.</p> <p>Your sidebar should be wider to fit the search box. The featured posts width can be set in the widget. </p> <p>Category Visibility can be used to hide posts from the blog, when used in a page template. This plugin got some bugs, so a better one is the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-category-excluder/">Advanced Category Excluder</a>. You don't have to use the blog and the page templates together, <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/bigfeature/2009/10/faq/#hideposts">read this</a> for more information about this. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/blog-post-templates-upgrade-issue#post-1593 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:31:56 +0000 zedc 1593@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>2 questions:</p> <p>1. Where can I get the link to upgrade to 1.3.4.? Just downloaded from my account at themeforest and overwritten my files, but still getting 1.3.3. I feel daft, but I still need help.</p> <p>2. I love the many hidden features of this theme, however I want my home page to look like <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/bigfeature/" rel="nofollow">http://www.vfxdude.com/bigfeature/</a> as in the posts. At the moment my blog posts are displaying as thumbnails <a href="http://zedcloud.com/" rel="nofollow">http://zedcloud.com/</a> and I don't want that. I have played around with the frontpages section; selected 'blog posts' on the page templates, but still no luck. </p> <p>In the forum someone talked about using a category visibility plugin, but I should have thought this theme with its 'one-clickable' solutions this would be simple? </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/where-do-i-download-the-upgrade-version-of-bigfeature#post-1468 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:23:17 +0000 admin 1468@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/bigfeature/2009/10/faq/#how2upgrade" rel="nofollow">http://www.vfxdude.com/bigfeature/2009/10/faq/#how2upgrade</a> </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/where-do-i-download-the-upgrade-version-of-bigfeature#post-1467 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:56:07 +0000 drawone 1467@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>hello<br /> where do i download the upgrade version of bigFeature?</p> <p>thanks </p>