Fancy Theme
A powerful WordPress theme special for online blogging and business/personal portfolio (webdesign, photography, interior design…)
Features
- Valid XHTML /CSS Transitional
- Wordpress as CMS – one and two column design
- 4 PSD Files for easy customization (Main layout, buttons, bullets, headers)
- 6 colors schemes
- Green
- Pink
- Yellow
- BrownOrange
- Red
- Blue
- jQuery slideshow gallery for project previews
- Comments of Post Author and admin are highlighted
- TimThumb script for thumbnail cropping
- Gravatar Support
- widget-ready area
- Homepage sidebar
- Posts sidebar
- Pages sidebar
- 3-level drop down superfish navigation menu
Custom Theme Option Page:
- Choose one of six color schemes
- Choose featured page/post
- Choose featured category
- Specify thumbnail settings for blog posts
- Banner sdvertising settings
- 1 x header banner (486×60)
- 4 x sidebar banner (125×125)
Specify position in sidebars (homepage/posts/pages)- Do not show in sidebar
- Sho before widgets
- Show after widgets
- or custom code for sidebar banners (buysellads.com)
Update (10th April 2009), v2.0
- jQuery GalleryView slider animation for feature posts
Detail info on how to configure this option, you can read here.
Update (27th July 2009), v3.0
- New comments page with “Reply to comment” implemented
- Breadcrumb navigation
- Uses Yoast Breadcrumb plugin
- New panel in ‘Theme options’, so you can select where to show it (home, pages or posts)
Important
This theme uses TimThumb to resize pictures and requires the GD library, which is available on any host sever with PHP 4.3+ installed. Once installed and in-use, TimThumb will automatically create a /cache/ subfolder with proper write-permissions. If your host server doesn’t allow this by default, be sure to manually create /cache/ folder in your theme’s root directory and set permissions to 777.
tom March 14th, 2009 at 8:25 am
I am interested in your beautiful “Fancy” theme.
I would like to understand more how “thumbnails” work in posts. Are they
included by the writer in the content of the post (with an “insert image” ) or
are they specified separately (as a custom field? )
What if a post has no thumbnails?
Thanks.
Regards,
Tom
Tim Allen April 9th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Hello….
I messaged you before needed some help with this theme that I purchased. I cannot get the featured section of the page to work properly. Please respond. I need your help.
admin April 9th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Hi Tim,
I apologize if I didn’t answer to your problem. I get a lot of requests and sometimes happens that I miss some.
I looked at your site and I noticed that TimThumb doesn’t save images. You have to create ‘cache‘ folder (/wp-content/themes/FancyTheme/cache/) and give it permission 777.
Tim Allen April 10th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Great! That fixed some of the thumbnail problems. I’m still not able to get the larger preview panel to work. It has the “more details” link, but it’s not displaying images or the “desc”.
Any ideas?
admin April 10th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Feature post/page is not displayed because you didn’t select what you want to display in that area.
Go to ‘Admin panel -> Appearance -> Themes options’ and enter desired value in field ‘Post/page Highlight IDs‘.
Tim Allen April 10th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Thanks for your fast response!
Both of those settings are indeed selected. Any ideas? Is there a 3rd party plug-in of some kind I need to install. I read in your documentation that you use jQuery, and all of that seems to be in order.
admin April 10th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
No, that is all.
Can you create a guest account for me to take a look in admin. Sent it to me via mail info{at]mip-design.com.
Christian April 20th, 2009 at 9:44 am
I cant get the top image rotater to work, can I get some assistance please? I can make you a guest account, but I am stuck and can not complete this project.
ozzie April 22nd, 2009 at 8:51 am
Hi I would like to know if I can use video with this theme? Thank you
admin April 22nd, 2009 at 8:59 am
Yes, send me account details to my email.
admin April 22nd, 2009 at 9:00 am
Yes, but I suggest you install plugin for that.
I suggest pb-embedFlash plugin.
ozzie April 22nd, 2009 at 12:14 pm
thank you. i will look into it. i bought your template and thus far i am learning how to use it.
Toursingapore April 26th, 2009 at 8:48 am
I can’t get the homepage animation to work. Filled up everything as indicated in instructions including indicating posts to display. Thumbnails are also not working. Pls help urgently!
Singapore holidays April 26th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
I’ve tried emailing you my website account but email bounced back. I cannot get the filmstrip to work despite following all instructions to the letter. When I place multiple post IDs, it just shows a blank box. When I put a single post ID, only the small thumbnail appears in place of the big picture. Pls help!
admin April 27th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Did you created “cache” folder in root directory of this theme and set filmstrip thumbnail dimensions??
Bill Hanekamp April 29th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
While I appreciate your quick responses and willingness to look into individual sites, you should consider posting the solutions or workarounds you having to do with people who can’t get the slideshow on the home page to work. I’m having the exact problem. And I’ve created the cash folder, and set all the dimensions. Can you just post what the solution is?
Alper May 17th, 2009 at 10:28 am
Sorry, again me but there is another problem with unconformity.
I want to use tabbed pages in my site and i’ve installed a plugin that called as posttabs (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posttabs/) but after i installed, my Slider(in standard slider mode) isn’t showed in the site. Can you control this issue and give a solution? Thanks from now. Regards.
Scott September 21st, 2009 at 9:42 pm
2nd request.
I’ve set all of the functions up as suggested (cache with 777 permissions) and still no pictures. What now?
Wordpress 2.8.4
PHP 5.x
GD library installed
admin September 23rd, 2009 at 7:23 am
I see that the pictures are working. What was wrong?
Sorry for late response, daily job is killing me.