Fhi-zin, free AJAX Wordpress theme template for Portfolio and Photography //. byDust ( New media, Design and Web developer : Nick Van der Vreken )

#389

March 5th, 2010

Anonymous says:

hi guys,

i have a situation,i cant get the photos together in one line and make them slide.I dont know that I’m foolowing right approach?

I add new post, upload image from directory and get the URL and paste it to the value of custom field called
image_small_120×120.then I add new URLs in same way then i ssave draft and publish, but it shows only one image and no sliding.

#388

March 5th, 2010

mali says:

hey Jimic,
your solution worked on my system thanks :)

btw I wanna thank u Nick also.

#387

March 4th, 2010

markomarko says:

Thanks you for this theme

#386

February 27th, 2010

Jo says:

It’s me again :P

I wasn’t too lazy and read the prevoius posts. Aaaand I’ve found the solution. All the time i thought that the carousel (did I douchebag say slides?! Sorry, it’s already pretty late) is a function that automtically appears (like a gallery). Now I fixed it and I can finally get some sleep ;-)

Bye!

#385

February 27th, 2010

Jo says:

Hey Nick,

I’m really impressed. This theme is terrific! But I’m having some issues with the ’slides’. Like here: http://www.bydust.com/examples/fhi-zin/#/examples/fhi-zin/category/photography/ I’m trying to figure out for hours how I can make my images appear in a row. The only result I get is the charming “image not found” picture and the option to view 3 images above. The lightbox is working totally fine and I read the instructions a thousand times but I just don’t get it. Maybe you could help me?

Best regards, Jo

#384

February 17th, 2010

jimic says:

oupsss !
think I made a little mistake using the “

" to insert the code sample... sorry for this

#383

February 17th, 2010

jimic says:

Hello there,

First my greetings to Nick for your great job, and many thanks for sharing it.(and sorry for my poor english if I were to make mistakes)

As many of us here, I had this problem with viewing the thumbnailed images with reflection : those famous “image_small_120×120″.

Looking in the html code of the element, an image with an height=”NaN” was searched (and of course not found) even with the “image not found” image.

After reading all the posts here (uuhh!) and trying differents solutions, the only way I finally found was to by-pass those lines in the reflect.php :

 /*
    if (ereg_replace('[[:alpha:][:space:]()]+', '', $gd_info['GD Version']) < '2.0.1')
    {
        echo 'GD library is too old. Version 2.0.1 or later is required, and 2.0.28 is strongly recommended.';
        exit();
    }*/

May be this will help some of you…

And Btw, if someone have any idea about the reason I have to do that…he will be very welcome
(I’m actually working in local-mode : apache server - php 5.3.0 - with GDsupport enabled and GDversion bundled 2.0.34 compatible.)

#382

February 3rd, 2010

jean says:

Hi I really want to use the Fhi-zin theme for wordpress and i have incorporated it into my site …the only thing i do not now to change is the message on the home page …….

“Hi there,

welcome on the Fhi-zin example blog.
This blog is set up so you could see what the Fhi-zin Wordpress theme would look like in action. It is available for download on http://www.bydust.com.”

Where do i change this….please help
Jean

#381

February 3rd, 2010

Tiffany says:

Hello,

I am unable to get the photo gallery/lightbox feature to work.

I’ve attempted to follow the directions in comment #94 by adding custom fields, but have been unsuccessful in getting the links to display. I have also tried going into the image library in Word Press to “attach” the image to a post. No success.

What do you suggest? Let me know if I need to provide you with additional detail.

Thanks in advance!

#380

January 26th, 2010

Debi says:

Sorry. I think I forgot to include the website URL when my husband started talking to me.

Please let me know if you need an admin password or anything to look around.

Debi

#379

January 26th, 2010

Debi says:

Hi, Nick. Beautiful theme! I searched through about 200 themes to find one for my business/portfolio site. Yours was the only one that really stood out and looked like it would suit my personality.

That being said, I am new to WordPress and am having some problems. I hope you can help me with these:
1. I created pages for main categories (Home, About Us, Contact, etc.) and numbered them but they still show up in the navigation in alphabetical order. Any idea why?
2. Because this won’t function as a blog, I don’t need any “comment” fields. I was able to alter the code to delete the footer, but two of my pages show up with “Comments” in the upper left corner. How do I delete those?
3. I also don’t want my posts to show the date/time info. I went through all previous posts and found a reply from you to alter the “single.php” file after “the_title” function and to add “display:none” in the style.css sheet. I still have dates and times. Any other ideas?
4. I have uploaded images for the home page and portfolio posts. They show correctly on a preview, but not on a published page. My other two pages are correct and I’ve followed the same instructions so now I’m stumped.

Thank you for any help. Once I figure out how to fix these issues, I’ll finish building out my portfolio pages with more posts and will tackle adding a contact form. That might lead to more questions!

Debi
4. Even though I have numbered by pages

#378

January 26th, 2010

Mak says:

It does not seem to work with wordpress 2.9
The above given example links also do not work.

#377

January 25th, 2010

yusuf Wijaya says:

This may be a little stupid to ask, but how do I change the logo? I want to use my own logo and I really am not familiar with the coding stuff.

#376

January 15th, 2010

Happy says:

I have to say this is absolutely fantastic design for portfolio….amazing work done….

Thanks….

I will post the link where I have used this….

#375

December 30th, 2009

Dale says:

Hi Nick,
Awesome theme! So clean and classy…I love it. I have modified it quite a bit and managed to work out most of the details, but there is one thing I can’t figure out. I would like to display the “caption” that I assign to an image in the WP-library, instead of the “There is an attached image for [post title].
I think the change would happen here:

&lt;a class="bda_ignore" title="There's an attached image for ''" href="" rel="lightbox"&gt;View image</a>

But I don’t know what to do.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
~Dale

#374

December 30th, 2009

ashley says:

Hi! I am in need of some assistance with customizing this template.
1. How can I make the post section (with the text) bigger? It feels a little cramped the way it is.
2. How can I replace the white/grey background with an image?
3. How do I get multiple images to show up as a gallery in a post?

Thank you!
-Ashley

#373

December 28th, 2009

Fab says:

Hi Nick!

F.o.a.: This theme looks amazing! Nice work ;-) But unfortunately I can’t see any uploaded pictures or photos. Firefox doesn’t screen them at all. And the carousel doesn’t work either. I already tried typing x manually in the custom field (image_small_120×120) instead of copying it, but nothing happened.

All my uploades pictures are wp-content/uploads.

Info from Wordpress Dashboard: GD Version : 2.0 or higher | # PHP Version : 5.2.6-1+lenny4 | # PHP Safe Mode : off

My admin says, that I have got the newest GDlib available. When I check GDlib with the reflect script it says: “GD library is too old. Version 2.0.1 or later is required, and 2.0.28 is strongly recommended.”

I don’t know what to do…

#372

December 9th, 2009

Stéphanie says:

Hi,

I like very much your template and I just want to know how do you process to make a link “View image” which opened Lightbox… I don’t understand anything to lightbox and I would like to do the same effect than you for your photography with mine. Maybe the question even been asked but there is a lot of comment’s page.
Help me please !

#371

November 24th, 2009

Gadget says:

Hey Nick!

thanks for your efforts, that’s the best portfolio WP theme ever (and I’ve seen dozens)!

here are few tips on how to improve it:
* implement a plugin to manage images attached to a post e.g. nggallery, probably the most sophisticated piece of code for gallery managing. It will save loads of time, specially if you have to manage dozens of galleries daily, bet lots of people gonna appreciate that move
* my personal request - is there any way to setup the index page carousel in single post? so it could display the images attached to the post? It seems quite easy, but since I’m no coder I’m only able to do some very basic changes :)

Thanks in advance!
btw why there’s no paypal donate link? ;) I know it won’t pay your bills, but at least it’ll give people show their appreciation.

#370

November 19th, 2009

Raja says:

Hi Nick,

It’s me again. I finally got the site online and everything working. Had been doing this for a friend. She had asked me Is it possible to have the “About Me” page show up first and have the carousel moved to a separate page. Is there a way to do that?

#369

November 17th, 2009

Max says:

Hi, Nick. Thx for the great WP theme, however i came over a small problem. Thumbs (120×120) are not displaying properly if the upload folder differs from ‘wp-content’ but located on the same server. So i looked through the single.php file and developed a quick fix.

//if the upload folder differs from wp-content we get a problem creating a reflected thumbnail, so all 'wp-content' should be replaced with 'ur-upload-dir' 
			//creating a variable $upload_dir to ease up the replacement
			$upload_dir = 'wp-uploads';
			$imagepath = $image_small_150x150?split($upload_dir,$image_small_150x150):split('wp-content',$image404);
			$image_small_150x150_refl = get_bloginfo('template_directory').'/tools/reflect.php?img='.$basepath[0].$upload_dir.$imagepath[1].'&amp;cache=1&amp;merge_images=1&amp;fade_start=70&amp;spacing=1';
			//end of replacements

Probably this issue should be at least mentioned in Fhi-Zin theme info.

#368

November 17th, 2009

Meg says:

Thanks for the quick response! Unfortunately I have no idea how to do what you just told me to do. This is my first time ever playing with this stuff. Any chance you could spell it out for me? Thanks!

#367

November 17th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Meg,

if you edit single.php you’ll be able to do this, just check if the custom field value is empty. If it is, don’t place the img-tag in the source code.

Cheers,

Nick

#366

November 16th, 2009

Meg says:

Hi, me again!

After getting some sleep and re-reading my last post I think what i’m trying to get at is this: Is there a way to get rid of the “image not found” picture so that if there aren’t any pictures with a page/post it just shows nothing? Thanks again!

#365

November 16th, 2009

Meg says:

Hi Nick,

New to all this so please bear with me as I try to make sense. So far I have had no problem getting the images to show up. I have a few posts were I would like to NOT have any image. Is there a way to do that? I’ve tried to cheat it by creating an image with a 1px dot that matches the background and saving it as a .png, but it’s not respecting the transparency. Any help would be appreciated! (Hopefully that made sense! lol)

#364

November 15th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Will,

it only works with images located in the WP-content because the script is designed to look for them there. Can’t add reflection to images located on another server without downloading them first, and i was too lazy to implement this :)

Jati,

the white line is defined in the CSS (style.css), you can remove it there. Don’t know which line though :)

Cheers,

Nick

#363

November 15th, 2009

Jati says:

Hi Nicks, great theme. I used your theme for my blog. Btw,
i have question to ask, Why is there kinda one pixel white line between content.jpg and the header? That line is annoying. I think that would be simple solutions, but i still can’t figure it out. Can you help me?

#362

November 9th, 2009

Will says:

Hey,

So after playing around with it for a bit more I got the home page text to work, and have gotten the small images to display, but ONLY if I host them inside of the wp-content folder. I had been hoping to link to them from picasa/flickr/photobucket, but that doesn’t seem to work at all. I’m thinking it’s a permission error. Any advice on what directories of my wordpress install need to have lax permissions?

#361

November 5th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Will,

you can select the Home page template to insert text on an image carousel page. The most recent posts will be shown underneath.

Retype the custom fields key instead copy/pasting it, or read through the comments on how other people solved this problem ;-). If you copy/paste the key you might not get the same string due to a charset conflict or something.

Cheers,

Nick

#360

November 5th, 2009

Will says:

In order to debug the situation further, I replaced the imagenotfound.jpg file with the one I was trying to link to and created a post with no image. Using this setup, the image displays properly, including the reflection. Is it possible that this could be related to me using WP 2.8.5?

#359

November 5th, 2009

Will says:

Hello,

Sorry to write again. I seem to be having the same problem everyone else is having with the 120×120 pictures not showing up. However my default “picture not found” is displayed properly (reflection included). I am just linking the URLs to the files, which start in “http://” and end in “.jpg”
Please advise

#358

November 5th, 2009

Will says:

Hello,

I was wondering where I can input text like on the sample site for the middle of the main page. That is to say, on the sample where it says “Hi there, welcome on the Fhi-zin example blog.” And the text directly above and below it. Thanks in advance.

#357

October 31st, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Raja,

if you can place the website online I can take a look at it, but can’t tell you out of my head where the error is.

Maybe you can take a look at the documentation for the ajax class used, it’s at http://www.bydust.com/examples/com.bydust.ajax/ .

Cheers,

Nick

#356

October 31st, 2009

Raja says:

Hi Nick,

Thanks for the fast reply. I reinstalled all the php files and now every works fine. I must have accidentally added or deleted something when I was going through them.

Now I have a new problem. Hope you or anyone else can help me with this. I’ve been trying to add a front page text. I went and created a new page, named it ‘Home’ and used the Home template then went into settings>reading and change the front page to ‘Home’ but all I keep getting when I click to go to Home is

“External location. I can’t parse content from the retrieved data.The page you requested will open in a new window, and you will return to the previous page shortly.”

Hope you can help.

Thanks.

#355

October 30th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Raja,

this can be an error in the javascript (conflict with a plugin or something else) or one of the images in your source code cannot be loaded. I can’t tell you more if I cannot see the website :)

Hi Dirk,

if you browse the comments on this page you’ll find other people which had the same problem and how they solved it.
I’m not going to repeat it again since it’s already here in more than 20 comments.

Hi Chis,

thanks for the feedback :)

Cheers,

Nick

#354

October 28th, 2009

Raja says:

Hi Nick,

I’m new to wordpress and have found your theme fantastic. I have followed your instructions for adding images to the post and to the scrollbar. It worked perfectly yesterday when I did it but today when I click on an image to open a post it just says “Preloading images, parsing content…” and just stays there. Any ideas? FYI, the blog is not online, I have it on localhost using XAMPP.

Thanks in advance.

#353

October 26th, 2009

Dirk says:

I am using wp 2.8.4. I can’t get the images to appear. I am confused about the 120×120 image and how to use the keys and values. The template information does not work for me. In which order and with what method do I have to add the images? Starting with a blanc 120×120 pic followed be the normal pictures? Let#s say I want to show 2 real pictures. This means I have 3 blogs opened , correct?

#352

October 22nd, 2009

Chris Paul says:

My wifes website (amarapaul.com) uses your theme and I was able to use imagecopymerge_alpha (from php.net’s comments on article about imagecopymerge) in the

if($merge_images){

block of reflect.php. It seems imagecopymerge does not implement alpha transparency and the longer of the two imagecopymerge_alpha functions listed in the comments worked like a charm. All I had to do was add _alpha to two lines and post the new function in the base of the file. I’ve also added a second sidebar, as well as slightly altering the way people click on the pictures. Now, you click on the picture to make it lightbox and NOT the link. In addition, I’ve swapped the prev/next buttons on the singlepost.php since many users complained about being confused by the switch in navigation direction. Thanks for a great theme AND most juicy AJAX layer. Very impressed.

#351

October 13th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Ke,

thanks for the info, I didn’t think about case-sensitive filenames.
And I completely share your thoughts on Fiorita :)

Cheers,

Nick

#350

October 12th, 2009

Ke says:

Hi,Nick

I just found out something about the “Loading time +20 sec” and “no image apprear in reflection”

The problem is caused by the name of the file. For example, if we use “abc.JPG” as the value of the key, but the real file name was “abc.jpg”. Our sensitive program will keep looking for “abc.JPG” until time out.

As we can see here “http://www.pencil-to-paper.co.uk/”, our lovely Fiorita Albanese could use this for a little help :)

Many thanks for your great work, Nick :)

#349

October 8th, 2009

Nick says:

No, it doesn’t work with the reflection

#348

October 8th, 2009

Sonik says:

Cannot display a transparent PNG on the “image_small_120×120″, is there ideas can fix this problem?

#347

October 5th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Pierre,

can you give me the link to your WordPress installation so I can see the problem?
I don’t really understand your problem.

Cheers,

Nick

#346

October 1st, 2009

pierre a says:

Hello Nick!
Sorry, I thought my English was not good enough!!!

Firstly, I had a real “coup de coeur (in french)” for your WP-theme, both aesthetic and functional. I decided to use it to build my portfolio.

I’m a beginner the WP environment. I created 1 page with a slideshow for each of the 7 “image_small_120 × 120″ of my homepage. But I havn’t found the good way to create a link for each “image_small_120 × 120″ (homepage) to the corresponding page with the slideshow.
Currently making a click on a “small image”, I open a new page with the “image_small_120 × 120″ at the bottom left but either the link to open the slideshow or the content of the center of the page appear.

How to solve this problem? How to make the link? Thank you in advance for your help.

#345

October 1st, 2009

Nick says:

english please

#344

October 1st, 2009

pierre a says:

Hello Nick!
Tout d’abord, j’ai eu un véritable “coup de coeur” pour ce thème est tant esthétique que fonctionnel. J’ai décidé de l’utiliser pour construire un portfolio. Merci de mettre le résultat de ce superbe travail à disposition.
Débutant dans l’environnement wordpress, j’ai créé 1 page avec un slideshow pour chacune des “image_small_120×120″apparaissant en bas de la page d’accueil. Je n’ai pas trouvé de solution pour créer un lien pour chacune des “image_small_120×120″ de la page d’accueil vers la page correspondante avec le slideshow. Actuellement en faisant un clic j’ouvre une page avec l”image_small_120×120″ en pied à gauche mais sans le lien pour ouvrir le slideshow, ni le contenu au centre de la page.
Comment résoudre ce problème ? Merci par avance.

#343

October 1st, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Rinfelc,

you need to enable the GD2 library on Wamp ( it’s somewhere in the right-click menu in your taskbar).

Cheers,

Nick

#342

September 30th, 2009

rinfelc says:

I run on localhost using wamp. The first time i install fhi-zin everything works fine except the problem which i post earlier(comment#328), but then because of some reasons i reinstall wamp&wordpress and the themes too, now my post didn’t appear neither the noimagefound pictures too. I didn’t know if u have encounter this probs but i need yr help?

I’m busy with my proj this days and couldn’t give an early thanks to my previous post reply… again thanks!! :-)

#341

September 27th, 2009

Nick says:

If that was a question you already provided the answer. Click the link you gave. and please be polite:)

#340

September 27th, 2009

Domenico says:

i can’t vie images… (www.brunocardei.it/index.php)

all works on my local server. Image links appears to be broken!

http://www.brunocardei.it/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/tools/reflect.php?img=/home/mhd-01/www.brunocardei.it/htdocs/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/01_120×120.jpg&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1

#339

September 24th, 2009

squishee says:

Oh sorry, it’s me, it works perfectly =)
Thanks for your design, it’s beautiful

#338

September 24th, 2009

squishee says:

Thanks for speed postRply =D

It works =) But, only in ” wp-content/themes/fhi-zin1/images ”
it doesn’t work in ” wpcontent/images ”

it’s normal ?

#337

September 24th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi GarJanis,

glad it works :)

Hi rinfelc,

if you add the bda_ignore class to the links everything should work fine. please read the manual before posting :)

Hi Squishee,

the only problems I know of are in Internet Explorer 6 or below, because of the shitty CSS support. The script may be heavy on your computer if you have a long page, for example on this page here:(

The script discovers the path to your images as “/homez.109/squishee/www/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/random_image-4.jpg”, this is apparently not correct. This can occur if you moved the wp-content folder (WordPress function). Eitherway, your problem probably lies here

Cheers,

Nick

#336

September 24th, 2009

squishee says:

Sorry for my last post, i repost most clearly.
And sorry for my bad english
i have 2 problems =/
First : your blog bug a lot on my computer, ajax?
2 : On my blog, your design, images doesn’t appear ( http://squishee.fr/#/page/2/ ) “image not found” ?
That is correct : http://www.monsterup.com/image.php?url=upload/1253812068980.jpg ? =/

#335

September 24th, 2009

GarJanis says:

Hi Nick!

You was write. I changed server and Your beautiful theme is working. Thank You wery much!

#334

September 24th, 2009

rinfelc says:

Nice and cool theme. But i need your help.

I would like to put a “login” (as well as “logout” and “SiteAdmin”) some where, i know where to put but when i put it in the place i want, after clicking the login button, it go to a new tap and give the wordpress login page, can u help me to do this in the same page and not in the new tap.

Also when i logout, i got some problem too.

#333

September 23rd, 2009

GarJanis says:

As You see I tried to publish my code 3 times but there is some mistake. :(

#332

September 23rd, 2009

GarJanis says:

		while (have_posts()) : the_post();
			$postCount++;
			if ($postCount ID, 'image_small_120x120', true);
			$imagepath = $image_small_150x150?split('wp-content',$image_small_150x150):split('wp-content',$image404);
			$image_small_150x150 = get_bloginfo('template_directory').'/tools/reflect.php?img='.$basepath[0].'wp-content'.$imagepath[1].'&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1';
			?><a onmouseover="showScrollerInfo(this.lang);" lang="" onmouseout="hideScrollerInfo();" href=""><img id="scroller_image" src="" width="72" />

#331

September 23rd, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Garjanis,

the code you posted doesn’t seem valid, but this is probably because some characters are dissapearing.
please use the pre-tag to insert code as displayed above the comment text area.

I am willing to provide free support with my theme but will not provide support if you want to add your own things or change the theme code.

I’m very sorry, but I’m also running a company and this is a bit too much work :)

Cheers,

Nick

#330

September 23rd, 2009

GarJanis says:

while (have_posts()) : the_post();
$postCount++;
if ($postCount ID, ‘image_small_120×120′, true);
$imagepath = $image_small_150×150?split(’wp-content’,$image_small_150×150):split(’wp-content’,$image404);
$image_small_150×150 = get_bloginfo(’template_directory’).’/tools/reflect.php?img=’.$basepath[0].’wp-content’.$imagepath[1].’&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1′;
?><a onmouseover=”showScrollerInfo(this.lang);” lang=”" onmouseout=”hideScrollerInfo();” href=”"><img id=”scroller_image” src=”" width=”72″ />

#329

September 23rd, 2009

GarJanis says:

 		while (have_posts()) : the_post();
			$postCount++;
			if ($postCount ID, 'image_small_120x120', true);
			$imagepath = $image_small_150x150?split('wp-content',$image_small_150x150):split('wp-content',$image404);
			$image_small_150x150 = get_bloginfo('template_directory').'/tools/reflect.php?img='.$basepath[0].'wp-content'.$imagepath[1].'&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1';
			?><a onmouseover="showScrollerInfo(this.lang);" lang="" onmouseout="hideScrollerInfo();" href=""><img id="scroller_image" src="" width="72" />

#328

September 23rd, 2009

GarJanis says:

Thank You wery much for Your time!
I have problems still now.
I changed those lines but can’t post the first image 150×150.
Did I corect work?:

“

" to insert code:

 		while (have_posts()) : the_post();
			$postCount++;
			if ($postCount ID, 'image_small_120x120', true);
			$imagepath = $image_small_150x150?split('wp-content',$image_small_150x150):split('wp-content',$image404);
			$image_small_150x150 = get_bloginfo('template_directory').'/tools/reflect.php?img='.$basepath[0].'wp-content'.$imagepath[1].'&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1';
			?><a onmouseover="showScrollerInfo(this.lang);" lang="" onmouseout="hideScrollerInfo();" href=""><img id="scroller_image" src="" width="72" />

#327

September 23rd, 2009

Nick says:

Hi GarJanis,

please take a look at comment #249 ( page 8 atm )

Cheers,

Nick

#326

September 23rd, 2009

GarJanis says:

I am sitting all day at computer and trying to find how to swich off this mirror You wrote about to work in:
GD Support enabled
GD Version 2.0 or higher
FreeType Support enabled
FreeType Linkage with freetype
FreeType Version 2.3.7
T1Lib Support enabled
GIF Read Support enabled
GIF Create Support enabled
JPG Support enabled
PNG Support enabled
WBMP Support enabled

I am not a computer specialist and need some idea :). Can You help me?
Thank You!

#325

September 23rd, 2009

Nick says:

I don’t understand it either if you don’t give me a few details. Your host probably has an old version of the GD2 library, common problem.

#324

September 22nd, 2009

squishee says:

Hello, i don’t understand, your theme doesn’t work on my blog http://squishee.fr/ =/

#323

September 22nd, 2009

Nick says:

Hi GarJanis,

your GD library is too old: “GD library is too old. Version 2.0.1 or later is required, and 2.0.28 is strongly recommended.”

You can ask your host to upgrade their software or find another server. The GD library is used for the reflections on the images. If you want to display the images without the GD library you can bypass the reflection tool, browse through the comments for a how-to :) ( I explained this a few weeks ago to someone )

Cheers,

Nick

#322

September 22nd, 2009

GarJanis says:

Hallo Nick!

This is a mission impossible to start work in Your theme “Fhi-zin”. I can’t post any pictures. I did Your instuctions with image_small_120×120, but nothing shows. Actually I can’t see any pages except “About”. Can You help me pleace?

#321

September 19th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Billy,

I don’t see why you need to use a WordPress installation for external links, you can do this with RSS.

Anyway, if you want external links you’ll have to edit the theme. :)

Cheers,

Nick

#320

September 19th, 2009

Billy says:

Hi,
I want the blog posts to automatically link to a new website. How do I do this?

Instead of the user clicking a blog post and its showing the post, I would like it to go to an external website. Please help, thanks in advance.

#319

September 6th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Al,

thanks for mentioning, I wasn’t aware of that bug.
I don’t think i’ll release an update for this theme due to lack of time, but it will be helpful for others to know.

Best regards,

Nick

#318

September 6th, 2009

al says:

A little bug:
When you hit the “right key” on keyboard, all the display move to the left, it’s a problem when you use the navigation keys to move from one pic to another in lightbox display.

(Not reproductible in Internet Explorer, but tried it in K-meleon (browser using Gecko) and I have the same bug)

#317

September 6th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Nutri,

it’s not possible because the script works client-side, and so it would crash by lack of the “#” sign which you filtered out server-side.

#316

September 6th, 2009

nutri says:

Hello Nick, you said it’s not possible to remove the ‘#’ because this will fuck up the template.
Can’t we use htaccess to filter it ?
It’s just an idea, I don’t know if we can replace ‘category’ by ‘#’ with this trick :
http://www.askapache.com/seo/remove-category-from-wordpress-urls.html

Thank you :)

#315

August 31st, 2009

Achel_Jay says:

Ok, i’ll try to find another plugin :p

#314

August 31st, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Jay,

you can’t remove the #, if you do the theme will fuck up. I suggest using another plugin or another theme :)

#313

August 31st, 2009

Achel_Jay says:

Hi nick, I just have seen a little problem with the template when I click on a link : it make me a link like http://www.xxx.com/#/?page_id=XX

It’s just a problem with the flipping book plugin (in java) which doesn’t work with this crappy “/#/” … this objet in the URL doesn’t appear with other templates : where do you think that I can find a solution to remove this add in the adresses of my site when I click on a link (http://www.magasin-guillaume.com => problem with the vintage link, if you remove the “/#/” from the URL, it works fine).

Thks a lot

#312

August 31st, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Clement,

are you using another location for the wp-content folder? if so, that might be the problem.

I don’t have a clue otherwise, unless you typed the key wrong or the Custom Field value is faulty, everything should work just fine.

Cheers,

Nick

#311

August 31st, 2009

clement says:

Thanks for the quick reply nick!

av checked my php settings and the gd2 extension is enabled. what i dont get is that the image is generated, including the reflected one, but it just cant show. av also tried retyping the custom key. what am i missing?

thanx

#310

August 30th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Clement,

the error in the generated image may be caused by the absence of the GD2 library, you need to enable that on wamp(PHP extensions).

To display the image you specified in the custom field, retype the custom field key instead of copying it. That works in most cases :)

Cheers,

Nick

#309

August 30th, 2009

clement says:

hi,

congrats for this great ajax theme…av looked for one like this n i cant evn get a match. got a slight problem though. i am trying it out on a developmental server, WAMP server 2.0i, on a windows vista home premium and cant get the post thumbnails to show, but they are being generated, with a url:http://localhost/arthur/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/tools/reflect.php?img=C:\wamp\www\arthur/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/images/imagenotfound.jpg&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1.

even if i specify the image using the custom fields key, it swaps the ‘image not found’ with the image name but still does not display the thumbs.

on firefox, trying to load the url yields the following alternate text for the thumb: The image “http://localhost/arthur/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/tools/reflect.php?img=C:\wamp\www\arthur/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/images/imagenotfound.jpg&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

what could be the error. av tried using the files you have hosted to no avail.

thanx.

#308

August 26th, 2009

dave says:

ahhhhh……ok,

here’s the new error:

GD library is too old. Version 2.0.1 or later is required, and 2.0.28 is strongly recommended.

Guess its time to upgrade!

dave

#307

August 26th, 2009

dave says:

Thanks for the quick reply nick!

GD version says “2.0 or higher”

PHP version is 5.2.5

I’ll upgrade to php 6, but I’ll try re-uploading the reflect file first to see if that fixes things.

I’ll let ya know what happens!

dave

#306

August 26th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Dave,

when looking at the source URL of your reflected image I found an error from your hosting provider:

http://www.mikebarrett.ca/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/tools/reflect.php?img=/home/www/mikebarrett.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/shows.jpg&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1

I’d try replacing the file “reflect.php” - maybe there was an error while uploading. If it doesn’t help contact your host and ask them what the error could be and if they have the latest versions of GD library and PHP installed.

Cheers,

Nick

#305

August 26th, 2009

dave says:

Hi Nick,

I liked this theme so much I downloaded it and started playing with it locally with bitnami wordpress stack. Everything was working fine until I set things up online. Following all of the directions, I can’t seem to get the thumbnail carousel, or any of the thumbnails for that matter to appear now that the site is online. I’ve also tried this online with a new installation of wordpress with an empty database but to no avail.

The site that I’m currently working with is http://www.mikebarrett.ca

Maybe you could have a look and see if there is anything obvious I’m missing??

Its a fresh install with just two posts…..hello world and one titled shows. the shows post has the 120 image attached with proper key and value, i’ve tried methods others mentioned in other comments here.

What version should GD be??

thanks!

dave

#304

August 26th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Mohammed,

the search function works fine: http://www.melbasyouni.com/#/?s=a& , if you’re searching for something and it cannot be found it is possible that you get the “Page cannot be loaded” error. You can change that text in the index.php file.

The apostrophes in the title bar are caused by the charset, some browsers cannot display special characters in their title or status bar. I don’t know if that’s fixable.

Scroll bars can be added by downloading the scrollbar version of the theme ( for posts and pages ) or by editing the CSS of the theme (for example for widgets).
It is possible but I’m not going to do it for you :)

Cheers,

Nick

#303

August 26th, 2009

Mohammed El Basyouni Abou Nour says:

Hi Nick,
The “Page can not be loaded” came up again, when I was testing the search feature of the theme.. Do you have any idea ??
Also, if a page title includes commas like it’s patchi (you can see it on my blog), the comma appears anything else except comma..
I would like to ask you sth, if I need to add a scroll option as the text in some posts may exceed the space dedicated for it, what can I do ? and also how to do it if I need to add it to the widgets ?? ofcourse if it’s possible….. (I hope so)
Thanks in advance

#302

August 24th, 2009

Mohammed El Basyouni Abou Nour says:

Hi Nick,
Thanks a lot for your support, indeed the error was a result of activating the permalinks, and the small images are now working, but the hint of permalinks was helpful.
I will continue working on the website and will contact you again if any error came up (I hope you don’t mind)… :)
Thanks
Mohammed

#301

August 24th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Mohammed,

The “Page cannot be loaded” 404 error is not caused by the theme itself, I have the same error if I browse to those separate posts or pages directly, like this:
http://www.melbasyouni.com/archives/18
None of the pages except the home page seem to work.

Are you using a redirect in the URL ?
Try disabling permalinks, redownloading the theme from this website or activating another theme to see if the links work.

To use the small images you need to retype the key, not copy. The “x” character is replaced with a similar character, which causes confusion internally. Also make sure the links you supply for these images are valid.
If you browse through the comments in this page you should find the solution, but I suggest fixing the first issue before you start with this ( it can be caused by that ).

Cheers,

Nick

#300

August 24th, 2009

Mohammed El Basyouni Abou Nour says:

hi, i have installed your theme on my new website, but some errors came up so you may have answers for these problems
the 1st one is in opening the post itself, a message came up titled “The page could not be loaded” ??
the 2nd one is small images with reflection on the home page introducing the posts. i have made one and i am sure that i have done the instructions about this part but still the image doesn’t appear ???
until now, these errors came up, i will keep informing you with any problems came up later, just in case a bug you can fix
by the way, i’m using chrome browser, and wordpress latest version downloaded from wordpress.org “sure you know” :))
thanx in advance

#299

August 21st, 2009

Amber says:

Hi,

a friend helped me and everything works perfectly now, thanks for the awesome theme and the info about the reflect.php stuff!

#298

August 21st, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Amber,

if they want to keep the current version you can use the theme without the reflections on the images. You’ll have to edit the single.php and index.php to use the image url given in the custom field instead of rerouting it to the reflect.php file.
It’ll require some PHP knowledge however :)

Cheers,

Nick

#297

August 21st, 2009

Amber says:

Hi!

Well thanks for your quick reply, I’ve sent an email to my host this morning, let’s hope they’ll update their GD library eh. I doubt it though haha.
Anyways I was wondering, what if they won’t update their GD library, is there, in that case, another way to use this theme or won’t I be able to use this theme then?

Thanks!

#296

August 21st, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Amber,

unless you can administer the hosting server it is impossible to update the GD library by yourself. The best way to get this done is to contact your hosting company, and ask them if they can update their GD library to the latest version.

Good luck ;-)

Nick

#295

August 21st, 2009

Amber says:

Hi!

First of all I have to say I’m new to all of this hahah. Well, I have to say I really love this theme, so I really wanna use it. The thing is, I’m having problems with the 120×120 image, it just doesn’t appear. I’ve been going through a lot of your comments and I’ve tried everything. After a couple of pages I realized my GD library is too old or something like that. I have to say that at first I didn’t even know what a GD library was, but then I googled it. I have absolutely no idea how to update it or something like that, which is a shame because I really want to get the images working so I can use this theme. I was wondering if you could help me, that would be great!

thanks!

#294

August 19th, 2009

Achel_Jay says:

Thks a lot Nick, it was wath I planed to do :p. For the form error, I follow your link and add the exeption in the main.js and It works perfectly.

Thks a lot again for this perfect template, It’s really a marvelous template :-)

#293

August 19th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Jay,

I made this theme a year ago, I can’t tell you this out of my head. I happily provide support for normal problems people have when using this theme, but I also run a company and don’t have time to get into this.

You should get the gallery page to work with a template, maybe start from the home page template which is included in the theme.

I hope you don’t mind, and good luck.

Nick

#292

August 19th, 2009

Achel_Jay says:

Hi Nick,

It works for the scrolling-bar, I’ll watch for the form later :-), thks a lot for your fast answer.

Just some question, for a possible évolution, is it possible to add an other type of page model for the scrolling version : a page like the Home one without the image links of the news (to include a gallery for exemple, without the scrolling bar) => because it cause that king of little problem : http://www.magasin-guillaume.com/#/?page_id=136 (when it s in normal model it compress the gallery).

OR => how can I reduce the space between the header and the start of the inside frame of the scroller (in other word, wich is the variable inside the css which define the height of the inside scrollind frame to start it just under the footer). If it was like that and if the scroller is “auto”, when a news is shorter than the heigt of the site, ther is no scroll-bar.

Thks a lot
Achel_Jay

#291

August 18th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Jay,

you need to replace 3 files for the scrollbar version:

For all users who want scrollbars in the post/page content text, I’ve made a modified theme which includes scrollbars. You can download it here. If you already uploaded the Fhi-zin theme, you just need to replace the files “style.css”, “single.php” and “js/main.js”.

I have no idea why your contact form gives this error, try adding the class “bda_ignore” to the form. This makes sure the AJAX library skips this form. More information about that on http://www.bydust.com/examples/com.bydust.ajax/ .

Cheers,

Nick

#290

August 18th, 2009

Achel_Jay says:

Hi Nick,

Thks for this superbe wordpress template !!!

I have two questions :

1. I download the non-scrolling bar content version but now I want this function, I tried with changing the css file with the scrolling version but I have no result => http://www.magasin-guillaume.com/#/?p=24

2. I use habitually the plugin easy-contact when I buid a wordpress website but this one make me an error (I suppose that it come from the template, I use it on several wordpress sites up-to-date and I never had this error) => onsubmit=”bda.postForm(this); return false;” on the page http://www.magasin-guillaume.com/#/?page_id=22

Best regards
Achel_Jay

#289

August 17th, 2009

Med says:

Hi Nick,

it’s not working yet but I appreciate your help.
I guess your theme simply dont like free hosting services :-p

thanks for all ..

#288

August 17th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Med,

if you don’t need the AJAX functionality you can place the “bda.start( refreshed_content );” line in the file main.js in comments, so it doesn’t get executed. That will fix the #-sign in the URL but no AJAX request will work.

I think it’s pretty strange this is happening however, the only reason I can come up with is if an image cannot be loaded ( then the loading screen stays on for 20 seconds ).
Maybe setting the maximum load time to a lower number of seconds may help.
You’ll find more information about the AJAX libary on http://www.bydust.com/examples/com.bydust.ajax/

Hope this helps with your problem, wouldn’t know another solution than this…

#287

August 16th, 2009

Med says:

Hi !

I did what you said , now that I work with one url , the homepage image is missing and it’s not working properly yet .

when you click on something , you can see the # in the url , and when you remove it the page opens .

anyway , thanks for your help ;)

#286

August 16th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Med,

what happens if you change the site url and home url to serhane.co.cc in your administration ( I think it’s under Settings>General ). This way WordPress should configure all links with domain serhane.co.cc instead of the 000space.com subdomain.

I saw all homepage links redirect to the 000space.com subdomain, but they are also available on the serhane.co.cc domain ( for example http://serhane.co.cc/?p=6 ) so maybe this may work. It would be less confusing for the script as you work with two different domains now, AJAX calls cannot be made cross-domain.

It’s a long shot, but it might be a solution.

#285

August 16th, 2009

Med says:

Hi Nick,

I have a problem with the # too , well , I guess the problem is coming from that .

this is the url I use for my website : http://serhane.co.cc/
the homepage image is missing but the website works fine .

and when I use the hoster url :
http://mrhankey.000space.com
everything looks perfect but when trying to go to a page ,it never shows up .
then I noticed the # , I removed it from the url and it worked .

I dont have any clues :(

#284

August 13th, 2009

Sacha says:

Hello,

Hey, no worries! The site is not finished and not in production!
I prepare a “credit” page with all information regarding all people who made the website possible.

You are completely right and I don’t want to steal your very good work.

Best regards

#283

August 13th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Sacha,

would you provide free support if you see that the people who use your product take away the small information notice with the link to the creators website and claim it as their own work ?

#282

August 12th, 2009

Sacha says:

Hello again,
Thanks for your swift answer.
I have another question for you.

On this page: http://www.galerie-yvart.ch/pages/actualites/#/pages/2009/08/cest-les-nocturnes/
… you can see the webpage title is weird.
I understand that you replace the page title in the com.bydust.ajax.js file. And somewhere in the treatement, some letters are no more web-friendly… But your knowledge in Ajax is far better than mine.
Any solution?

Kindest regards

#281

August 12th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Sacha,

the # in the url is for the ajax requests, which are built-in in Fhi-zin. If you want to know more about how these work, please check out http://www.bydust.com/examples/com.bydust.ajax/ .
Without the # these ajax-request would not be possible.

This is not a problem for referencement, in fact it is there so you can send people to the right page. What happens if you give a #-url to someone is that they will load the main page and be redirected to the page you want them to see ( the page behind the #-sign ).
You can copy the link and paste it in a new browser window to test if you like.

Cheers,

Nick

#280

August 12th, 2009

Sacha says:

Hello,
Thank you for sharing this very nice theme.
I currently adapt it to suit my needs, and I have a question.

If I look at the url in the page list on the right on your demo, I can see something like “http://www.bydust.com/examples/fhi-zin/about-fhi-zin-and-bydust/”, but if I click, I can see in my address bar “http://www.bydust.com/examples/fhi-zin/#/examples/fhi-zin/about-fhi-zin-and-bydust/”.

On my website, if I use the default theme, this doesn’t happen. Only with your theme.

Is this normal? Do you think it can be a problem for a good referencement?

Kindest regards

#279

August 7th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Helm,

you can add a class to the body element, in order to see the difference between the home page and other pages.

Change the body tag in the header.php

<body class="<?php echo is_front_page() ? 'home' : 'other'; ?>">

Now you can add a background in css like this:

body.home #element-where-you-want-background{background:url(images/img.png) no-repeat;}

This should work :)

#278

August 7th, 2009

Helm says:

Hello, I have a question concerning this theme. I would like to add a background image, but only on the startpage, not on the articles.

What would be the easiest way to do this?

my page is: http://hrichert.rws-richert.de/

thank you in advance,
Helm

#277

August 1st, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Bogdan,

what happens if you replace

36	$basepath = split('wp-content', TEMPLATEPATH);

with

36	$basepath = '/home/users/web/b2379/moo.cristescu/bucatarialujorjette/';

and “$basepath” instead of “$basepath[0]” on line 43 in index.php? If this works you should replace it in single.php too.

#276

August 1st, 2009

Cristescu Bogdan says:

Ok, i check that, and the result are:

TEMPLATEPATH value: /hermes/web09/b2379/moo.cristescu/bucatarialujorjette/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin

That is not my corect path … what can i do now?
I try do change in the wp-setting.php the line:

define('TEMPLATEPATH', get_template_directory());

with the line:

define('TEMPLATEPATH',  '/home/users/web/b2379/moo.cristescu/bucatarialujorjette/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin' );

and i recive that error in the browser :

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare add_fhizin_info() (previously declared in /hermes/web09/b2379/moo.cristescu/bucatarialujorjette/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/functions.php:14) in /hermes/web09/b2379/moo.cristescu/bucatarialujorjette/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/functions.php on line 15

Than i remove all the content from the function.php, and the line with the define function from the wp-setings file work good …
i recive that :
TEMPLATEPATH value: /home/users/web/b2379/moo.cristescu/bucatarialujorjette/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin

but the image still dont appears!
So, pls tell me your idea for that shit…

#275

August 1st, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Bogdan,

your previous comment was marked as spam, I approved it so it would be shown here. Do wonder why your comments end up as spam :-/

This is the code I use to create the image source URLs, so they pass the reflect.php file (reflect.php, line 34):

		if (have_posts()):
		$postCount = 0;
		$basepath = split('wp-content', TEMPLATEPATH);
		$image404 = get_bloginfo('template_directory').'/images/imagenotfound.jpg';
		while (have_posts()) : the_post(); 
			$postCount++;
			if ($postCount <= 7) :
			$image_small_150x150 = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'image_small_120x120', true); 
			$imagepath = $image_small_150x150?split('wp-content',$image_small_150x150):split('wp-content',$image404);
			$image_small_150x150_refl = get_bloginfo('template_directory').'/tools/reflect.php?img='.$basepath[0].'wp-content'.$imagepath[1].'&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1';
			?><a onmouseover="showScrollerInfo(this.lang);" lang="<?php the_title(); ? rel="nofollow">" onmouseout="hideScrollerInfo();" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><img id="scroller_image<?php echo $postCount; ?>" src="<?php echo $image_small_150x150_refl; ?>" width="72" /></a><?php elseif($postCount == 7) : ?>
            	<script type="text/javascript">alert('Please set the maximum items/page on 7, if not some items will never be shown !');</script>
            <?php			
			endif;
		endwhile;

To do this I use WordPress’ TEMPLATEPATH constant, which points to the local path of the theme directory ( according to WordPress Codex: “The constant TEMPLATEPATH is a reference to the absolute path to the template directory for the current Theme (without the / at the end). ” ).

The only reason for a faulthy path I can see is that the value of TEMPLATEPATH is wrongly returned. You can easily check that by placing following code in a file included by WordPress:

<?php echo 'TEMPLATEPATH value: '.TEMPLATEPATH; ?>

#274

August 1st, 2009

Bogdan says:

i send an onother comment to you … pls check if is in spam! i found my problem and i expplaine there what is …

#273

August 1st, 2009

Bogdan says:

I found what is my problem!
When i check the code of the page … i found that

that path > /hermes/web09/b2379/moo.cristescu/
In my control panel of the fatcow.com account , the path of the home directory is not that … is /home/users/web/b2379/moo.cristescu/ , so i contact with the live chat a customer support …
I did that with 3 persons, and in the end they send me to speak with the wordpress developer.
At the last one I try to explain that the problem is that path …
After that he told me he is unable to help me with that, and soon another expert will contact me to resolve my issue.
Now i`m waiting.
The interesting thing is that the path witch appears on the blog page, it is not shown in they logs … That is stupid!

#272

July 31st, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Bogdan,

maybe the other comments are automatically spammed by the spam-filter installed. I’ll check after this.

I can’t tell you what to change there, I don’t know much about mimetypes either except that they are very useful to fuck things up :-). And that it’s possible that you get a 404 back if they are somehow misconfigured.

You can contact your host, maybe they’ll know why that request is returning a 404-error. Or check your Apache logs if you have access to them, they should be in a protected folder in the FTP-root of your hosting account (but these are not always accessible). These show all faulthy requests and sometimes the reason - depending on the server configuration.

Cheers,

Nick

#271

July 31st, 2009

Bogdan says:

I send another 2 comments, but i think there was an error.
So, i check the think with the mimetypes on my cpanel, but can u tell me exact what i must to make with that thing?

I`m not an expert with this … i know some php, some html, some .. some … but i dont know to use this function!

Thx, Nick, u are the best with this theme…

#270

July 31st, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Bogdan,

when I browse to the images in the scroller I get a 404 error shown by Fhi-zin, this is most likely because of some security setting on your server or because the file “reflect.php” is not located in the folder “tools”.

This is the link in the source code (correct link, but gives unwanted 404):
http://bucatarialujorjette.uniego.com/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/tools/reflect.php?img=/hermes/web09/b2379/moo.cristescu/bucatarialujorjette/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/images/imagenotfound.jpg&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1

This is the original image without the reflection (works):
http://bucatarialujorjette.uniego.com/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/images/imagenotfound.jpg

The “imagenotfound.jpg” is the default image shown by Fhi-zin. That image is valid if you request it over http, so everything works fine there.

Please check if the file “reflect.php” is located in “/fhi-zin/tools/” and your server settings/mimetypes. I don’t think this is caused by the theme as it returns a 404.

Best regards,

Nick

#269

July 31st, 2009

Bogdan says:

Hi there!
I have the same problem with the rest of the people, how can i make the tumbnails to apear on the posts and the first page?
I read all the comments, i try to verify GDlib, i verify the pach to the domain, i check the name of the “key”, and for me all are good…
Pls, help me with something, i like very much this theme, and i have a great idea of what I can do with it, but i must go on with this step, the problem with the 120×120 thumb!

#268

July 23rd, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Matt,

the search function works fine here in IE8 and Safari. I haven’t heard any complaints about that yet, so I suppose it works for most users.

Can you give me the URL of your WordPress installation so I can take a look ?

Cheers,

Nick

#267

July 23rd, 2009

matt says:

ah ha! Search works with firefox but not IE or Safari.

#266

July 14th, 2009

matt says:

Hello! Awesome awesome work! THANKS!

Everything works beautifully except when I search I always get

“The page could not be loaded If you keep getting this the server can be down or somethings wrong with your connection. 404″

Im guessing it has something to do with my domain name or php somewhere…

Thanks for any suggestions!

#265

July 10th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Is,

I already told you how to bypass the reflect.php file in comment #232 and #249. You can find comment #249 on top of the second page ( at this moment ).

Or you can re-download the theme and overwrite your theme files, so they would be valid again.

#264

July 10th, 2009

Is says:

Now, I’m a little bit envious as I dropped by at thor’s homepage, the theme works well for him/her.

To Nick, I aint got no problem with search, category and achieve except for the reflect php. I wish you take away the script and make me without the reflect php and I’ll be the happiest man living on earth :)

#263

July 10th, 2009

Thor says:

Woohoo. Thanks for this theme :D

#262

July 9th, 2009

Nick says:

Hey Is,

I don’t have IE7 installed, so can’t check it out myself. I have no idea why it appears there however, that’s a part of the links for a carousel page. Do you have the same error in search results, category views or archive views ?

#261

July 9th, 2009

Is says:

Hi Nick,

Back again with another question.
If you’re looking at my homepage using I.E 7, you’ll probably come across with imagenotfound.jpg&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1 at the left-bottom content wrapper. How to prevent from appearing? I ain’t have this problem with FF 3.5

Please advice me.

#260

July 7th, 2009

Is says:

Well said and I can understand your feelings. Hope someday, you’ll be just like Brian Gardner. Keep it up!!!

#259

July 7th, 2009

Nick says:

Thanks Is :-)
If I find a way to make sure people stop taking out the copyright notice and claim it as their own work I might, but it’s pretty demotivating…

#258

July 7th, 2009

Is says:

Thanks Nick.Your AJAX theme is superb. It will be way more pleasurable if you keep producing such themes :)

#257

July 7th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Is,

add “display:none;” to the date style definition in the style.css sheet. You can find all style related stuff in that file :)

#256

July 7th, 2009

Is says:

Nick,

I’ve installed your theme but still I can’t figure out how to bypass the reflect.php as I’m not a coding expert. Anyhow, I’ve changed the blog post to 1 and it works well without the scrolling pics :)

My next question is how to make the date of post disappear?

#255

July 4th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Is,

it’s comment #232:

in the file “index.php” you have this code from line 38 to 43:

		while (have_posts()) : the_post(); 
			$postCount++;
			if ($postCount <= 7) :
			$image_small_150x150 = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'image_small_120x120', true); 
			$imagepath = $image_small_150x150?split('wp-content',$image_small_150x150):split('wp-content',$image404);
			$image_small_150x150_refl = get_bloginfo('template_directory').'/tools/reflect.php?img='.$basepath[0].'wp-content'.$imagepath[1].'&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1';

You see that the variable $image_small_150×150 contains the URL you gave as a Custom Field in the administration. We can simply add this image to the slideshow instead of the reflected one, and so bypass the file reflect.php.

if you change the src-attribute of the image from $image_small_150×150_reflected to $image_small_150×150 the reflect.php file is bypassed, after that you just need to alter the height in the javascript file as you did.

<img id="scroller_image<?php echo $postCount; ?>" src="<?php echo $image_small_150x150; ?>" width="72" />

The keys could be with “image_small_120×120″, I’m not sure if I already changed this version here or not. Anyway, this should do the trick.

#254

July 4th, 2009

Is says:

Nick,
I’d appreciate if you could furnish me with the link to the said article :)

I did create a new custom field named “image_small_120×120″ but unfortunately it didn’t work

#253

July 4th, 2009

Is says:

Wow, thanks for your fast reply pertaining to the matter. I’ll get back to you once I read through the said article.

Thanks Nick

#252

July 4th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Is,

there are no images appearing because you didn’t specify any image with key “image_small_120×120″ for your post. That’s the square image in the demo btw.

I don’t know if that’s going to solve your problem tho, there seems to be a problem with the reflection tool Fhi-zin uses to add a reflection to the square images.
By default the “not found”-image is displayed when there’s no square image found on your post meta. The theme is doing this correct, but after passing through the reflection script the image is corrupted:
http://iskandar30.co.cc/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/tools/reflect.php?img=/home/a5830747/public_html/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/images/imagenotfound.jpg&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1

Might be a problem with your host, maybe the GD class is not supported. That’s a PHP class used to create and edit graphics.

The best option is to bypass the reflect.php file, which will cause your images not to have reflection but at least they will show up. I explained someone the easiest way to do this 10 post back ( previous page ), but it requires some template editing.

The other option is to ask your host if they support the GD2 library on their accounts. I doubt if thats going to help you out however.

Cheers,

Nick

#251

July 4th, 2009

Is says:

Hi Nick,

I’m having a problem with the theme as I can’t view the home page as like your demo homepage. The homepage would only load after clicking the link content on the right sidebar.

Please advice me what to do next.

Regards,

Is

#250

July 4th, 2009

helm says:

thanks, it was the lightbox plugin, now everything works fine!

#249

July 4th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Steven,

adding the category widget to the sidebar will probably solve your problem :)

You can add widgets under appearance -> widgets in the WordPress administration.

Cheers,

Nick

#248

July 4th, 2009

Steven Knapp says:

Hi Nick. Thanks for an amazing theme. I’m just getting started with it, and I wanted to ask about the categories not showing up on the right hand side on my website. I’m using wordpress 2.8. Any thoughts?

#247

July 4th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Helm,

I see you have the Lightbox 2 plugin installed.
Try disabling that one first, the theme is working fine if everything works on the 404 page.

If you checked the custom field values for any HTML tags and it came up clean you should find the problem by disabling all your plugins one by one ( start with lightbox and other javascript powered plugins ;-) )

Cheers,

Nick

#246

July 4th, 2009

helm says:

Hi Nick,

I didn’t change the theme files. the interesting thing is: if i type an url like

http://hrichert.rws-richert.de/dsfsdfsd

then the correct layout shows up with a “file not found” page. if I click now on the logo, everything works fine.

But if I go directly to hrichert.rws-richert.de then it doesn’t work.

#245

July 4th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Evopub,

if you want your image in the post to open up like the others, but not in the full slideshow you can just change the rel-attribute to for example “lightbox[fhizin_post]” or so.

In the lightbox script separate galleries are created with separate “keys” between the square brackets of lightbox[], IE lightbox[fhizin_images] and lightbox[fhizin_post] will include separate image(s).

I think this is what you’re looking for ?

Cheers,

Nick

#244

July 4th, 2009

Evopub says:

Hi Nick,

Yes, it was on purpose (I’ve now suppressed one of them) and the result surprised me. Thanks for the link to Lokesh Dhakars, I’ll have a look there and if I find something I’ll tell you here.

Best !

#243

July 3rd, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Evopub,

you’re getting the extra two images because there are two more links with rel=”lightbox[fhizin_images]“, you probably copied them unintentionally.

The first one is here:

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.baraa.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/hor-21-r-web-bis.jpg" rel="lightbox[fhizin_images]" rel="nofollow"><img class="post_image" src="http://www.baraa.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/baraa-aks-r-web-21-120.png" width="120" height="120"></a>

and the second one here, in your content:

<p>Robe longue, dos nu, en Jean, avec brodures traditionnelles (<em>cliquez sur l’image pour afficher les photos</em>) :</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a target="_blank" rel="lightbox[fhizin_images]" href="http://www.baraa.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/hor-21-r-web-bis.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-68" title="Robe longue Jean brodée baraa" src="http://www.baraa.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/hor-21-r-web-bis-300x187.jpg" alt="Robe longue Jean brodée baraa" width="300" height="187"></a></p>
<p><em>Photos prises au Restaurant Le Borghese, 9 rue Fodéré, Port de Nice</em></p>

If you remove the rel-attribute it should be ok.

I used Lokesh Dhakars lightbox plugin for Fhi-zin, you can find it here: http://www.lokeshdhakar.com/category/development/lightbox/.
I have no idea if there’s an option to restart the slideshow after the last slide, maybe you’ll find something on his website.

Cheers,

Nick

#242

July 3rd, 2009

Evopub says:

Thanks Nick for your answer. Finally, I’ve left my hack as it was already working and just a short term solution before migrating the server.

I’ve made a few other changes to the page single.php, one of them with a strange result: I wanted to add some links to the lightbox and in this aim I’ve used the rel=”lightbox[fhizin_images]“. A “funny” result is that the lightbox add one image for each additional rel: as I’ve added 2 rels, the lightbox now displays n+2 images, the last ones being the repetitions of the first one (if images are A,B,C,D, the lightbox will display: A,B,C,D,A,A).
You can see it online at http://www.baraa.com Any idea?

Another change I’ve made is the reverse of the array of images in the lightbox:

$lightboxImageURL = array_reverse($lightboxImageURL);

This was necessary for the link from the image in the post.

I would add a suggestion: is there a way to have an infinite loop in the light box, that is to be able to continue from the last one to the first one?

Thanks again !

#241

July 3rd, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Helm,

have you changed anything about the source code of the theme?
If so, revert or download the theme files again from this page. If this doesn’t help, check your Custom Field values for any not-URL values ( IE HTML-tags or < signs ).

Axton,

I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about or if that was a question or not. ( I suppose it is :) )
Can you please be more specific ?

#240

July 3rd, 2009

Helm777 says:

can you please help me, why are on my page (http://hrichert.rws-richert.de/) two black stripes?

#239

July 2nd, 2009

Axton Events says:

I can not figure out how to add the text blurb to the main index page. Not sure what I am doing wrong. Thanks!

#238

July 1st, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Evopub,

in the file “index.php” you have this code from line 38 to 43:

		while (have_posts()) : the_post(); 
			$postCount++;
			if ($postCount <= 7) :
			$image_small_150x150 = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'image_small_120x120', true); 
			$imagepath = $image_small_150x150?split('wp-content',$image_small_150x150):split('wp-content',$image404);
			$image_small_150x150_refl = get_bloginfo('template_directory').'/tools/reflect.php?img='.$basepath[0].'wp-content'.$imagepath[1].'&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1';

You see that the variable $image_small_150×150 contains the URL you gave as a Custom Field in the administration. We can simply add this image to the slideshow instead of the reflected one, and so bypass the file reflect.php.

if you change the src-attribute of the image from $image_small_150×150_reflected to $image_small_150×150 the reflect.php file is bypassed, after that you just need to alter the height in the javascript file as you did.

<img id="scroller_image<?php echo $postCount; ?>" src="<?php echo $image_small_150x150; ?>" width="72" />

The keys could be with “image_small_120×120″, I’m not sure if I already changed this version here or not. Anyway, this should do the trick.

#237

July 1st, 2009

Evopub says:

Hi Nick,

How can I do that ?

Actually my attempt was to bypass selectively the reflect.php, the only problem remaining is the modification of the height in the JS file (it’s not automatic and I do not know how I could automatize it)

Thanks for any help !

#236

July 1st, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Evopub,

thanks for posting your solution !

An easier way is to bypass the reflect.php script, IE by just adding the image specified in the Custom Field to the slideshow.

Cheers,

Nick

#235

July 1st, 2009

Evopub says:

Oups! A mistake before copying in the code #1 below, just suppress the line

$type = substr($source_image,-3);

.
Sorry!

#234

July 1st, 2009

Evopub says:

Thanks for the Theme!

Here is a quick and dirty hack to install Fhi-zin on a too old GD, while waiting for an upgrade of the server. This kills the Reflect effect and is not a definitive solution (you’ll notice that code is not optimized!) but it can help. I’ve done it for http://www.baraa.com where it can be seen in action.

Two changes have to be made:

#1: Kill the reflect: in tools/reflect.php, replace the lines 48 and 49 with:

$source_image = $_GET['img'];
$image_details = getimagesize($source_image);
 
if ($image_details === false)
{
	echo 'Not a valid image supplied, or this script does not have permissions to access it.';
	exit();
}
else
{
	$width = $image_details[0];
	$height = $image_details[1];
	$type = $image_details[2];
	$mime = $image_details['mime'];
}
 
$type = substr($source_image,-3);
 
switch ($type)
{
	case 1:
		//	GIF
		$source = imagecreatefromgif($source_image);
		break;
 
	case 2:
		//	JPG
		$source = imagecreatefromjpeg($source_image);
		break;
 
	case 3:
		//	PNG
		$source = imagecreatefrompng($source_image);
		break;
 
	default:
		echo 'Unsupported image file format.';
		exit();
}
 
$output= $source;
 
if (headers_sent())
{
	echo 'Headers already sent, I cannot display an image now. Have you got an extra line-feed in this file somewhere?';
	exit();
}
else
{
    //	PNG
    header("Content-type: image/png");
    imagepng($output);
 
    // Save cached file
    if ($cache)
    {
        imagepng($output, $cache_path);
    }
 
	imagedestroy($output);
	if($finalimage) imagedestroy($finalimage);
	exit();
}
exit;

#2: In js/main.js line 26 change the 180 to 120 to avoid vertical deformation:

26	BDEI.height = 120;

Rem: To revert, just undo the #2

#233

June 27th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Jonas,

I know about the double fade in, it’s actually caused by the com.bydust.ajax javascript class which takes care of the ajax functionality in the theme.

What you can do is disable the opacity transitions, but that’s taking away part of the eye-candy of course.

You can find more information about this class here: http://www.bydust.com/examples/com.bydust.ajax .

Cheers,

Nick

#232

June 27th, 2009

Jonas says:

Awesome theme, Nick. I am just testing it out, if it will work for the purposes and then redo this page: http://www.adelacapova.com.

You theme is actually THE ONLY ONE, that comes close to an acceptable portfolio site. And yes, I have seen them all.

I have one “issue” with the theme at the moment. In the latest safari, the thumbnails fade-in twice, everytime the page reloads. It is a bit irritating, and it does not happen in the latest firefox. I am on latest leopard.

Is there something one could do about that? It is spoiling the experience of the theme quite a bit.

Cheers!

Jonas

#231

June 25th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Satya,

I don’t see why you would like to change the background, but it’s possible by using custom fields. You can use the custom field values already used in the theme as an example, or read more about it here: http://www.bydust.com/using-custom-fields-in-wordpress-to-attach-images-or-files-to-your-posts/

If you implement a javascript scroller function you can let them scroll or place them in a slideshow - whatever you want. Depends on the external script used.
The images are already attached to the post in Custom Fields, to fetch them you can use the php-loop from the single.php file.

Cheers,

Nick

#230

June 21st, 2009

Satya says:

Hey Nick,
Thank you for your wonderful theme. I need help in two things. First, how can I change the background image for every individual post? Also, I want my images to automatically scroll on the top of the post ( all of them are fixed size) instead of clicking on the view images link. Is it possible? Thank you very much!

regards,
Satya.

#229

June 16th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Corey,

I haven’t tested it yet, but there are no functions in the theme files that have been removed or changed in WP2.8 so I suppose everything works fine.

The best way to find out is activate it, if you’re not happy with the result you can put your old theme back. :)

#228

June 16th, 2009

corey says:

hi… is this ready for 2.8 wp?
the preview in my admin panel is not showing up, so i’m reluctant to activate it yet.
thanks

#227

June 10th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Swaswa,

apparently the website of the guy who translated it is no longer online, I have no idea who else put the french version up for download.
If you should find any other source, could you please get back to me about it?

Thanks for pointing this out, I had no idea he vanished. :-)

Best regards,

Nick

#226

June 10th, 2009

Swaswa says:

Nice theme ! I would like to know if the french version is still available, because the link doesn’t work any more… Thank you ^^

#225

May 25th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Volker,

your site looks nice, I like the logo :)

Don’t know anything about the existing lightbox plugins, but it should be possible. I found it easier to put everything directly in the theme because it’s easier for me to control how it works.

Greetings from Cape Town,

Nick

#224

May 24th, 2009

Volker says:

Hi Nick.
Just want to let you know my site is now online. I made some adjustments and found that a “go back” button is quite usefull. This allows a better navigation if you have a lot of content (and I’m not finished yet…). Neomania Design

One more question. You integrated “lightbox” directly with java script. Is it possible to do this with the WordPress plugin system? Other “lightbox” versions allow to show html or video content or have more styling and information control.

Best regards from cologne
Volker

#223

May 19th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Emmanuel,

the GD library installed on your server is too old, this is the message I get when browsing to the image directly:

“GD library is too old. Version 2.0.1 or later is required, and 2.0.28 is strongly recommended.”

Image URL: http://www.carineleroi.com/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/tools/reflect.php?img=/var/www/carineleroi/public/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/images/imagenotfound.jpg&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1

The only way you can fix this is asking your hosting provider to update their version of the GD library to something above 2.0.1. It is a problem with the reflect.php by the way, the file checks the GD library version before applying a reflection to the image.

Best regards,

Nick

#222

May 19th, 2009

emmanuel says:

Hi,
I’ve some problem witn thin-zin template, the images are not displayed : http://www.carineleroi.com/#/?page_id=17
I was thinking it was a problem with the reflect.php and I verified my php version witch is 4.4.4.
Thanks for your help.
Best regards
Emmanuel

#221

May 18th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Cedric,

any contact plugin which doesn’t rely on javascript or AJAX technology should basically work fine.

Personally I use a custom email script which picks up the variables in the $_REQUEST scope, IE variables that have been posted through a normal form.

I have no idea how WP-form works however, if they send the mail without refreshing the whole page on other themes they probably use AJAX technology, and they will not work with Fhi-zin.

Cheers,

Nick

Tiago: thank you :)
I only saw your reply now, sorry ;-)

#220

May 16th, 2009

Cedric says:

Hi Nick,
First of all, thanks for your great template. I’m getting into slowly slowly but still bite the dust when trying to create a contact form.

I’ve been trying with few plugins but dont get the mail, even if SMTP plugin test works just find. Is any special configuration I should be aware of, or these plugins (Wp-form) just dont work on your theme.

Cheers

Cedrid

#219

May 7th, 2009

Tiago Souza says:

Hi Nick,

First, thanks for your quick response, very nice and clear.

Well, here I am rooting for this error is corrected. I will always visiting your site and posted with the news.

Any help you can count on me.

Best Regards,
;)

#218

May 7th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Tiago,

I know about the IE6-bug, but haven’t found the time to solve it yet. It should be done though :(
I suppose the problem is caused by IE6’s lack of decent CSS support.

Jeremy Buff is creating a remake of the Fhi-zin theme, I told him about the bug but don’t know when he’ll publish his version. I suppose the bug will be fixed there :)

Your english seems fine btw ;-)

cheers,

Nick

#217

May 7th, 2009

Tiago Souza says:

Hi Nick,

I loved the theme, I even use it on my personal site (www.tiagosouza.com), but I need to know about the bug when the topic is accessed with Internet Explorer 6, for example. By accessing the site with the theme of Windows XP with IE6, the site is completely disfigured (”unconfigured”).

Despite the known problems and limitations of IE, we can not forget that there are users (unfortunately) still use this browser, and of course, produce a site leaving aside issues such as accessibility and usability are good recommendations.

You are already aware of this problem?
There is a way to solve this?

Oh, I forgot to introduce myself… My name is Tiago Souza, and speak directly from Brazil. It is also important to note that my native language is not English, so my English is not very good.

Thank you for your attention and I hope you read this message. I monitor frequently to know the answer ^^

#216

May 4th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Ben,

I’m using Opera 9.26 on Windows XP and everything seems to work fine here. Can you tell me if you have the same problems on this example blog: http://www.bydust.com/examples/fhi-zin/ ?

If so, can you give me more information about the problem and maybe send a screenshot ( if its something about the layout ) ?

Francis, thank you :)

#215

May 3rd, 2009

Ben says:

Theres an eror with this theme in Opera
Check it out
also how can you fix it?

#214

April 30th, 2009

Francis Simisim says:

There’s only one word to describe this theme…. Amazing…. Thank you for sharing a really wonderful theme

#213

April 28th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Benoit,

I don’t know what else you can do to solve this problem either, other than installing another version of the GD library ( which they are probably unwilling to do ).

What do you get when you request an image while the GD Check is being bypassed ?
If you get a warning or error message about the GD library you can search for this check in the reflect.php file and try to bypass that part too.

#212

April 24th, 2009

Benoit says:

Hi Nick,
This is what I have done. Same lines desactivated.
The host can not continue to help me as I was not able to identify the problem.
:s Don’t no what to do!

#211

April 24th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Benoit,

the full GD Check is this part:

	//	GD check
 
	if (extension_loaded('gd') == false && !dl('gd.so'))
 
	{
 
		echo 'You are missing the GD extension for PHP, sorry but I cannot continue.';
 
		exit();
 
	}
 
 
 
    //    GD Version check
 
    $gd_info = gd_info();
 
 
 
    if ($gd_info['PNG Support'] == false)
 
    {
 
        echo 'This version of the GD extension cannot output PNG images.';
 
        exit();
 
    }
 
 
 
    if (ereg_replace('[[:alpha:][:space:]()]+', '', $gd_info['GD Version']) < '2.0.1')
 
    {
 
        echo 'GD library is too old. Version 2.0.1 or later is required, and 2.0.28 is strongly recommended.';
 
        exit();
 
    }

and starts on line 59 to 99 on my files, but the lines could be different( I have a lot of whitespace ).

I hope you can pull it off :)
If you do, can you come back to me and tell me how? might be interesting for future problems.

The rain season has started here, so we’re fukt for the next three months ;-)

#210

April 23rd, 2009

Benoit says:

Hi Nick,
I tried to bypass the GD check in the reflect.php file by adding the “/*” before line 30 and “*/” after line 51. Still the same… no image and no reflection of it of course.
I will spend more time in order to understand what’s wrong, but I do not have hope about finishing by a happy end!
Thanks for your help ;)
NB: do not cry about African weather, the next days will be rainy in France

#209

April 23rd, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Benoit,

to be honest I don’t know the difference between the versions, I only know that you have to enable the GD Library in your php settings. It’s enabled by default, and I don’t see why anyone should put it off.

Anyway, I’d try bypassing the check. You can always re-upload the old file if it doesn’t work. :)

Greetings from rainy Africa :(

Nick

#208

April 23rd, 2009

Benoit says:

Hi Nick,
I received an answer from my host. They said that there are two slightly different versions of the GD library which have small differences in the functions :those compiled in php, and as an external library. They ask me which ones are needed?
I still do not try to bypass the version check. I will wait your answer about the GD library functions, before modifying the code.
Looking forward to your feedback

#207

April 23rd, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Benoit,

does it work if you bypass the version check, either by commenting it or deleting that part of the code ?

Its a dirty solution, but it should probably work.

#206

April 22nd, 2009

Benoit says:

Hi Nick,
I tried the NextGEN plugins and I have the same problem with it. So, this is due to my host… for sure. But as in the gdlibrary.php page, the GD library version which is indicated in the plugin displaying screen is 2.0 or higher.
I will contact my host again in order to see if they can do something more.
I’ll keep you informed

#205

April 22nd, 2009

Benoit says:

Hi Nick,
I add the php code into the gdlibrary.php page. The information given is the same as phpinfo!! :’(

#204

April 21st, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Benoit,

you’re welcome, I don’t like it either when something of mine isn’t working properly ;-)

I don’t understand why you don’t see anything when checking for the GD Library, but thats probably why the themes check fails also. Maybe it’ll work if you just remove or comment the lines in reflect.php where the check happens. ( Those I pasted a few posts below )

Another way for checking for the GD Library version is this:

<?php
var_dump(gd_info());
?>

You should get something like this:

array(9) {
  ["GD Version"]=>
  string(24) "bundled (2.0 compatible)"
  ["FreeType Support"]=>
  bool(false)
  ["T1Lib Support"]=>
  bool(false)
  ["GIF Read Support"]=>
  bool(true)
  ["GIF Create Support"]=>
  bool(false)
  ["JPG Support"]=>
  bool(false)
  ["PNG Support"]=>
  bool(true)
  ["WBMP Support"]=>
  bool(true)
  ["XBM Support"]=>
  bool(false)
}

Info comes from http://www.php.net/gd_info

The information provided from php info isn’t really helpful, a GD Library version above 2.0 could be anything, but should probably be good enough.

I would try to bypass the check for the version and let the script run as is, I suppose it’s just a bug in the GD Library or PHP veresion.

Let me know if you get it working ;-)

Cheers,

Nick

#203

April 21st, 2009

Benoit says:

Hi Nick,
Thanks for spending time on my request. I really appreciate.
I copied the php code and upload it into the main folder. You can find it at http://v2.my-world-window.fr/gdlibrary.php (you can check the comments in the php file to see the code)
No answer is displayed when visiting the link :s
I add the code for phpinfo. There is some information about gd library (don’t know if it will help you a lot).
Looking to your feedback,
Best regards,

#202

April 21st, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Benoit,

thats weird, I don’t see any way my PHP check could go wrong. I don’t know if you know anything of PHP, but here’s how I check for the GD version:

  if (ereg_replace('[[:alpha:][:space:]()]+', '', $gd_info['GD Version']) < '2.0.1')
    {
        echo 'GD library is too old. Version 2.0.1 or later is required, and 2.0.28 is strongly recommended.';
        exit();
    }

Can you copy the following in a blank php file, upload it to your server and request it in your browser? It will tell you the GD version from the $gd_info variable.

<?php echo $gd_info['GD Version']; ?>

If this version is below 2.0.1 you should contact your host to see if they can check if the newer version is enabled, if not it should work fine.

best regards,

Nick

#201

April 21st, 2009

Benoit says:

Hi Nick,
I just have the answer from my host. They said : “this should already be good. The version used is included in php that would be based on version 2.0.33.”. :s
Any idea?

#200

April 20th, 2009

Benoit says:

Hi Nick,
Thank you very much for helping me on my technical issue. I was thinking this kind of problem origin (without knowing this in this precise knowledge of technical). So following your answer, I contact my host in order to see if they can upgrade the GD library. In all case (I don’t know if it will solved the problem but), they planned the PHP upgrade (going to PHP5) in the next 3 months… So I’m waiting their answer, and if the PHP upgrade is sufficient, I just have to wait a few month…
Thanks a lot for the time spend on my problem.
Best regards

#199

April 20th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Benoit,

I looked in your source code to find the scroller code, this is it:

<div id="scroller">
    <a onmouseover="showScrollerInfo(this.lang);" lang="Projects" onmouseout="hideScrollerInfo();" href="http://v2.my-world-window.fr/?p=11" rel="nofollow"><img id="scroller_image1" src="http://v2.my-world-window.fr/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/tools/reflect.php?img=/home/bmt/v2/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/images/imagenotfound.jpg&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1" width="72" /></a>	</div>

As you can see the URL for the image that should appear in the scroll bar is http://v2.my-world-window.fr/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/tools/reflect.php?img=/home/bmt/v2/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/images/imagenotfound.jpg&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1 , but the image does not appear. If I try to get that image by its URl I get the following message stating that your version of the GD library is too old:

“GD library is too old. Version 2.0.1 or later is required, and 2.0.28 is strongly recommended.”

The GD library is used to create the reflection on the images, and it is included in the PHP-version installed on your server. The theme requires version 2.0.1 or higher, which you don’t have. What you can do is contact your host and see if they can upgrade their version of PHP or GD library, or upgrade it yourself if you have the rights to do so. It’s out of my hands however, I can’t help you any further with this.

About the URLs, thats normal. Fhi-zins AJAX functionalities are powered by the com.bydust.ajax script, which causes your urls to look like this. If you want more info about this library, click on “Projects” on your right hand side ;-).

Best regards,

Nick

#198

April 20th, 2009

Benoit says:

Hi Nick,
Thanks for your reply. I changed the image_small_120×120 key by image_small_120120 in the single.php and index.php pages (and of course in posts). No change.
I’m sure that you are already busy but if you want I can leave you full access to the site in order to see what’s wrong. I didn’t say it but I’m using the English wordpress version 2.7.1.
Moreover I notice some issues with navigation links like for example : I’m here > http://v2.my-world-window.fr/?cat=5
I click on a page (using pages widget) and the web address is http://v2.my-world-window.fr/?cat=5#/?page_id=2
Is it normal?
In all case, thanks a lot for spending time on and sharing your template!

#197

April 19th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Benoit,

I’m glad you found the contact form error, thanks for informing me about the difference between the french and english version. I had no idea there were differences there.

I think you made a typo in the key for the image. Try typing it instead of copying, a few people already had troubles with it. What can happen if you copy/paste the key is that the “x” sign is replaced by a similar character with another code, so wordpress can’t find the image attached to that key.

let me know if that helped ;-)

cheers,

Nick

#196

April 18th, 2009

Benoit says:

Hi, it’s me again…
Just to tell you that the issue with ‘Contact Form 7′ is solved by using the English wordpress version. I used the French previously.
So now… I just have the thumbnail problem ;)
Thanks in advance for the help provided

#195

April 17th, 2009

Benoit says:

Hi,
Just a few words to thank you for this theme and unfortunately to ask your help.
When I write an article, I reach to add the link to the image but no thumbnail is displayed. I have a key “image_small_120×120″ and the linked value is the http link to a 120×120px image.
Moreover, I tried one plugin called “Contact form 7″ (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/)and I’m meeting trouble only with your theme. There is a line which appear before the contact form : onsubmit=”bda.postForm(this); return false;”
Is it a serious problem doctor?
Thanks in advance for the help provided ;)

#194

April 15th, 2009

Volker says:

Hi Nick
Thanks again. I will give it a try in the next days. I’m not a programmer, so it will take a bit and some backups longer. :-))
My first thought was to get lightbox to use the title/description or alt tag of the image itself. But if it works with the additional custom field it’s fine too.

cheerio
Volker

#193

April 15th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Volker,

you only have to add the rule once, it will apply for all urls containing “mailto:”.

To create a separate information text for each picture you’ll need to use more Custom Fields ( one Custom Field per image ). It takes a bit of PHP coding, what should happen is this:

- check if there’s a title defined for the current picture ( IE check if the key “image1_label” or so exist ).
- if it exist, set the value for that key in the title-attribute of the link to the image ( see single.php ).

What the lightbox script does is take the value of the title-attribute and use it as an information notice for that particular image.

More information about the WordPress Custom Fields here:
http://www.bydust.com/using-custom-fields-in-wordpress-to-attach-images-or-files-to-your-posts/

I know its not a decent explanation, but you should get there by reading the article above and a bit PHP knowledge. ( Don’t have the time now to type a long explanation, sorry )

Let me know if it doesn’t work ;-)

//edit: best wishes from Cape Town ;-)

#192

April 15th, 2009

Volker says:

Hi Nick,
Thanks for your quick reply. I modified the main.js and I think that will do it with all new “mailto:” appearances.
I tested a lot of form-mailers and contact plugins. And finally the WP-contact-form works fine and it leads to the correct “thanks for mailing”-text. No more 404 error. That looks more professional.
I got one more thing. [ I'm a designer, not a programmer :-)) ]
Pacman on Reply #23 asked the same question. I read your answer but I cannot solve this on my own. How can I display the Picture Title in the lightbox? I was able to translate the text to german. But I rather have an individual description for each picture in the lightbox. Is that possible?

Best wishes from cologne
Volker

Your theme is soo fantastic. I did some adjustments and work now on the content. It will be online soon.

#191

April 15th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Med,

again, sorry for the late answer.

Does the image float next to the text if you take away the clear:both property of the paragraph? This property tells the browser to display the text under anything with a float-property applied, IE under your image in this case.

If you still have problems, try placing your img-tag inside the p-tag, or outside if its currently inside. ( I’m not sure where it should be, my guess is outside for correct HTML. )

There’s a v2 for this theme in my todo-list, but unfortunately there’s a lot more in there too.
Jeremy Buff is working on a new version for this theme, I sent him the feedback I got on this theme so his version may have some fixes. I’ll post his version here as soon as he publishes it.

hope this helps,

Nick

#190

April 15th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Volker,

Sorry for the late answer, have been away for the past five days.

The solution you found works indeed, another solution was by adding a rule to the ajax-script. Something like this:

bda.denyURLRules.push('url.contains("mailto:")');

This should be added in the main.js, right before the bda.start() method. Anyway, you got it working using the ignore class so thats good too :D

I should have added this rule myself, didn’t think about it at the time. Thanks for getting back to me with a solution.

Cheers,

Nick

// edit: I noticed i forgot to answer your formmailer question, I have no idea which one works best to be honest. I usually script my own functions in the theme instead of using plugins for these things. I can tell you that most AJAX-powered form plugins will not work, but if you use a normal ( basic ) html/php form plugin it might work, the com.bydust.ajax script will automatically convert it to an ajax form.

#189

April 15th, 2009

Med says:

Hi Nick,

thanks for the help , actualy the initial bg works fine , so I’ll leave it like that .
the problem that I have now is that I want text to be next to the image in one page , I tried but failed .

#content_right_page {
	position:absolute;
	bottom:140px;
	left:150px;
	width:750px;
	z-index:4;
}
#content_right_page img.flowat {
        float: left;
        padding: 2%;
        margin-right: 10px;
}
#content_right p {
	margin-bottom:10px;
	margin-top:5px;
	clear:both;
}

I set the image class to “flowat”
left the single.php as it comes (just removed the left content)

please tell me where It went wrong ?
btw , are you working on any v2 or v3 o the theme ?

#188

April 14th, 2009

Volker says:

Upps | The email code is like this:
“mailto:info[at]domain.cam ?bda_ignore”

#187

April 14th, 2009

Volker says:

Hi Nick,
I studied your ajax project and found the solution by myself and now it works fine. I hope I can implement the code into the contactform mailer too. Or can you say which WP-formmailer works best with this theme?
The email code is like this
Linkname
Kind regards from cologne,
Volker

#186

April 13th, 2009

Volker says:

Hi Nick.
Congrats. Very nice theme.
And I’m working on it for my own blog. But how come the “mailto” tag leads to a 404 error page? Is there some kind of workaround?
Kind regards from cologne.
Volker

#185

April 8th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Med,

I understand that the background color disappears, its pretty normal with the CSS you applied.
There is a difference between “body.page” and “body .page”, IE the first one ( “body.page” will apply to a body-element with the class “page” while the second one ( “body .page” ) will apply to any HTML object with class “page” which is a child of the body-element. The spaces are very important :p

You don’t need to replace the CSS definitions for “body, html” however, this should do fine:

body, html {
	background-color:#eceff1;
	overflow:hidden;
	height:auto;
	width:auto;
}
body.page {background-color:#333333;}
body.post {background-color:#222222;}
body.other {background-color:#111111;}

You need to change the background-color values offcourse. ;-)

If you think the PHP code is wrong, look in the source code of the theme and search for the body-tag. It should look like one of these three tags:

<body class="page">
<body class="post">
<body class="other">

Good luck,

Nick

#184

April 7th, 2009

Med says:

Hi,
I tried what you said , and replaced this

body, html {
	background-color:#eceff1;
	overflow:hidden;
	height:auto;
	width:auto;

with this

body .page {background-color:#333333;}
body .post {background-color:#222222;}
body .other {background-color:#111111;}

but still doesn’t work , the background color disappear in both post and pages.
are you sure the php request is correct ?

#183

April 6th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Med,

glad you got it working :)
The cause is not the PHP-safe mode, I’m running it with safe mode disabled. If it works on the new server its probably some faulty server configuration. Anyway, it works :D

I suppose the easiest thing to do to accomplish your page background is giving the body-element a class, and applying different css depending on that class.

In the header.php you can change this:

<body>

to this:

<body class="<?php echo is_page() ? 'page' : ( is_single() ? 'post' : 'other' ); ?>">

and apply css like this:

body.page{background-color:#333333;}
body.post{background-color:#222222;}
body.other{background-color:#111111;}

I haven’t tested this, but it should work fine. Let me know if you have problems ;-)

#182

April 5th, 2009

Med says:

Hi nick,

remember me ? I had the problem with the thumbnails , it was a server security issue , php safe mode thingy had to be on , so it can let php access the folder and create the thumbnails . and because we cant change these things when you’re using a free hosting service , I just changed the webhost to 000space.com and know everything works fine .

another thing , I want to change , I want to make the background of the pages different from the background of the posts . I searched in the css file , but don’t know what to change .

thank you again ,

#181

March 31st, 2009

Isis says:

Hi! Is already solved the thumbnails problem! only had to change the settings of reading, sorry!!

My site is in localhost, when I get online, I notice you! =)

And sorry my bad English! Thanks!

#180

March 31st, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Isis,

glad you got it working :)
thanks for the code ;-)

can you give me the url of your blog so I can have a look ?

cheers,

Nick

#179

March 30th, 2009

Isis says:

Hi Nick!

To view larger images since I have a scroll to lightbox! Here is the code that I changed jijiji

#lightbox {
	position: absolute;
	left: 0;
	margin-top:-67px;
	width: 100%;
	z-index: 100;
	text-align: center;
	line-height: 0;
	overflow-y:scroll;
	overflow-x:hidden;
	height:747px;
}

But I have a problem, I can not see all the thumbnails! =(

Between page and page there are some thumbnails that do not show. I have 52 photos and 37 thumbnails! could you help me please? Thanks!!! =)

#178

March 30th, 2009

Nick says:

Haven’t seen that one yet, but if you’re interested at these libs look at this one:

http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/

“IE7 is a JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many HTML and CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6. ”

I might try this one when I find the time :)
Thanks for the link :D

#177

March 30th, 2009

veker says:

look here

http://www.g9net.com/2009/03/16/the-front-of-the-gospel-let-ie5-ie6-standards-in-line-with-ie7-ie8.html

#176

March 30th, 2009

veker says:

I have ideas for Support ie 6!
————————————————

About

IE7 is a JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many HTML and CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.

Usage
IE7.js

Upgrade MSIE5-6 to be compatible with MSIE7.

IE8.js

Upgrade MSIE5-7 with advanced CSS features missing from MSIE7.

You do not need to include IE7.js if you are using IE8.js
PNG

The script only fixes images named: *-trans.png

Unfortunately, the transparent background image cannot be tiled (repeated) using background-repeat. Nor can it be positioned using background-position.

#175

March 27th, 2009

Nick says:

Well, by default it’s not supported, but if you know a little bit of javascript or CSS you might pull it off. I haven’t looked into it myself, so don’t really know if it’s easy to fix or not.

Let me know if you get it working ;-)

#174

March 27th, 2009

Isis says:

ohh .. =( And could be shown that when an image with lightbox to show the vertical scroll?? If I’m going to try it

Thanks again!!

#173

March 27th, 2009

Nick says:

:-)

no, those will only display fully if your screen resolution is 2000px+ higher. It’s advised to resize the pictures you want to place in the gallery, you can always link to the full picture on Flickr or wherever they’re hosted.

Personally I use the Wordpress function that automatically creates thumbnails when you upload an image. You can set the sizes somewhere in the administration, under the Settings panel.

When you upload a picture you get the url of the normal picture and those of the thumbnail version and medium version.

cheers ;-)

#172

March 27th, 2009

Isis says:

wooww sorry, I’m stupid and dont see it U_U… Thank you very much for your response so quickly!!! and.. sorry to be boring … but there is a way of displaying images very high (2000px high)? causing them to automatically adjust the footer?? That would be fantastic. Thanks again!

#171

March 27th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Isis,

once the theme is activated, there should be a new tab available in your Wordpress administration where this is explained.

This is a part of it:

Post and Page images

The small images with reflection which are attached to each post are set using the custom fields. You’ll need a square image with a 120px X 120px resolution for this, without reflection. Upload this image using the standard Wordpress editor tool and copy the “Link URL”. The copied URL would be something like this: “http://www.bydust.com/examples/fhi-zin/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/random_image-4.jpg”.
Now, we can create a new custom field named “image_small_120×120″. Do to this, open the “Custom Fields”-box under “Advanced Options” when writing a post/page.
There you have a “Key” and “Value”-field. Our key will be “image_small_120×120″, the value will be the Link URL you’ve copied. Paste the Link URL in the Value-field and press “Add Custom Field”.
Now your image is attached to your post/page and will be displayed on the website. The reflections are added automatically.
Adding a Download link

Adding a download link is actually pretty easy. To start, we’ll need a downloadable file. If its not uploaded already, you can upload it with the standard Wordpress editor tools. Be sure to copy the Link URL, we’ll need it later on.
We’re going back to the custom fields to attach our downloadable file to the post/page. It works exactly the same way as attaching the reflected images, but this time the key will be “download_file”. The value will be the link to your file. Thats all :)

…

————–

If you are looking for more information about using Custom Fields in generally, take a look at http://www.bydust.com/using-custom-fields-in-wordpress-to-attach-images-or-files-to-your-posts/ ;-)

#170

March 27th, 2009

veker says:

thanks

#169

March 27th, 2009

Isis says:

I love this Theme!!! but… how to use custom fields??

Thanks!!

#168

March 27th, 2009

Nick says:

didn’t test for IE6 during development. Will fix that someday, currently don’t have the time to do so :(

in the mean while, tell people to get a decent browser ;-)

#167

March 27th, 2009

veker says:

why no Support ie 6?

#166

March 23rd, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Crazyhunk,

I don’t know why the script gives an error while generating the image, I’m guessing it has something to do with the GD library.

If the library doesn’t exist or is too old, the script will abort and inform the user about this. Otherwise, it will proceed and create a new image with the image you gave him. Since it proceeds every criteria should be ok, therefor I’m thinking the GD library or one of the dependent files causes a problem.

I don’t know how to solve this however, maybe you can ask your hosting provider to check the libary. I’m pretty sure they’re going to say “everything is ok” but its worth a try.

best regards,

Nick

( Sorry for the late reply, didn’t have internet for a few days ;-) )

#165

March 19th, 2009

Crazyhunk says:

Thank you Nick for your reply… :)

The gdlib version my server is using is 2.0.34 and I guess reflect.php says a min of 2.0.2X I guess…
I am using the image carousel on my home page..it jst doesnt show up at all’ on firefox but on chrome or safari i can see the carousel loading with an ‘x’ (which says ‘image can not be found’ error.)

Hope u got wt I said

#164

March 19th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Melle,

thanks :)

This is the error I get when using your link “GD library is too old. Version 2.0.1 or later is required, and 2.0.28 is strongly recommended.”
You probably get the same one :)

If your provider is right I have no idea why the script returns this error instead of the reflected image. Normally this check can’t go wrong, so I’m guessing you ( or the provider) needs to change a setting or they are wrong about the version number.
I don’t know if you know any PHP, but here’s how I check for the GD version:

$gd_info = gd_info();
if (ereg_replace('[[:alpha:][:space:]()]+', '', $gd_info['GD Version']) < '2.0.1') echo "old version";

The version they say should be enough indeed. I don’t know if its the latest but it should do anyway.

Can you ask your provider if its necessairy to configure something in order to use the GD version they say ?

I suppose you can check your current GD function using this PHP script:

$gd_info = gd_info();
echo $gd_info['GD Version'];

Hope this helps,

Nick

#163

March 19th, 2009

Melle says:

Hi Nick,

I love the theme; it’s the first WP theme I’ve seen that stretches the limits of WP this far. Great work!

I too though can’t seem to get the thumbnail reflect working… :-( My provider tells me the PHP version on my site is: PHP 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.5 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Feb 11 2009 20:09:52) and the GD Lib version is supposed to be 2.0.33 (which should be enough right?) Still when you look at a stripped version of the script it doesn’t work:

http://www.onlineoxygen.nl/test/reflect.php?img=/test/libelle_thumb.jpg&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1

Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated!

Keep up this great work!

Mel

#162

March 19th, 2009

Nick says:

Hey Krishna,

I can’t seem to open the reflected image at the url you gave, I get a message from the php script saying that the image is corrupt. I can view the original image tho.

Do you know which version of the GD library is installed on your server ? If the version is too old you might get corrupt images or a message stating you need to update.

I didn’t see any images in the source code of your website either. Normally the image carousel only appears in search results or category views, to show it on the home page you need to use the template ( you can select this in the page editor ).

best regards,

Nick

#161

March 19th, 2009

Crazyhunk says:

hello ur theme is awesome… thank you for it…

I did run into a small problem though the thumbs do not show.. I read through all the comments and did try all the things in there but still i do have it… u can click here to see the reflect.php thingy….

http://crazyhunk.com/wp-content/themes/fhizin/tools/reflect.php?img=/home/a6261135/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/space-explosion-thumb.jpg&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1

#160

March 4th, 2009

cr0s says:

well done

it’s works at the first time .. your answer unlock many possibilities

many thanxs ! ! !

#159

March 4th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Cross,

the ajax functionality in Fhi-zin is handled by the com.bydust.ajax class. I suppose the link doesn’t work because the script tries to resolve the page through ajax.

If you want the link to be discarded by the script, you can add the css-class “bda_ignore” to that link, for example like this:

<a href="yourlink" class="bda_ignore" rel="nofollow">Paypal</a>

more information about ajax rules or this css class here: http://www.bydust.com/examples/com.bydust.ajax/rules.php

I hope this solves your problem,

Nick

#158

March 4th, 2009

cr0s says:

hello,

Do you know how to make paypal compatible with wordpress/fhinzin ?
because when you click on a buy now bouton the paypal page open in a new page but on the worpdress page we have a 404 error (If you keep getting this the server can be down or somethings wrong with your connection.) with the URL http://www.zuum.fr/wordpress/#/com/cgi-bin/webscr

I really have no solution for this problem so you you have some advice to solve this it would be nice :)

the link to test :
http://www.zuum.fr/wordpress/#/wordpress/2009/02/test/

thanxs

#157

February 24th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Close,

the comments are posted through ajax if your wordpress version is 2.7 or higher. You can test it on the demo blog ;-)

best regards,

Nick

#156

February 24th, 2009

Close says:

Ah, this theme have ajax comments?

#155

February 24th, 2009

Close says:

Fantastic Theme!

#154

February 14th, 2009

not2comply says:

Nice work… thanks for sharing… ;)

#153

February 9th, 2009

Nick says:

Lol, that was what I explained two posts ago. Glad you got it working ;-)

#152

February 9th, 2009

Shelley says:

Ok, I think I got it.

#151

February 9th, 2009

Shelley says:

Hello Nick: What a quick reply!

What I am wanting to do is add text like your example so it appears on the homepage. Here is yours:

“Hi there,

welcome on the Fhi-zin example blog.
This blog is set up so you could see what the Fhi-zin Wordpress theme would look like in action. It is available for download on http://www.bydust.com.”

Any help?

#150

February 9th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Shelley,

you can use the “Home” template in any page to add the 7 most recent posts to the bottom of it.

In the example blog I created a new page, typed the text you see there and applied the “Home” template to it ( you can pick templates below the editor ). After saving it I’ve put that page as front page instead of my most recent posts.

best regards,

Nick

#149

February 9th, 2009

Shelley says:

Hello:

Love the theme. How do I add test to the homepage? You and othes have some comments in the middle of the site, for for th life of me I can’t figure out where to put text to make it show up in the middle

#148

January 30th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Med,

thanks for the thural explanation :)
I’ve thought about your problem and verified the links and reflection script, everything seems to work fine. The only thing I can think of is the “x” sign in the key, but if you checked that I have no idea… I’ll write my findings here, maybe you can think of something.

First thing I checked was if the php reflection script caused errors with the file you specified, but everything worked as it should. Here’s the link of your reflected image:
http://mrhankey.oxyhost.com/wp-content/themes/fhi-zin/tools/reflect.php?img=/www/oxyhost.com/m/r/h/mrhankey/htdocs/wp-content/cncept.jpg&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1

After that I’ve checked the php that loads the images, but I couldn’t find any errors there too.
This is a part of the php-code in index.php, starting on line 36. I’ve cut out a few lines.

$basepath = split('wp-content', TEMPLATEPATH);
$image404 = get_bloginfo('template_directory').'/images/imagenotfound.jpg';
while (have_posts()) : the_post(); 
$image_small_150x150 = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'image_small_120x120', true); 
$imagepath = $image_small_150x150?split('wp-content',$image_small_150x150):split('wp-content',$image404);
$image_small_150x150_refl = get_bloginfo('template_directory').'/tools/reflect.php?img='.$basepath[0].'wp-content'.$imagepath[1].'&cache=1&merge_images=1&fade_start=70&spacing=1';

$basepath[0] contains the path on the server to your wp-content directory, this is needed because the phpscript needs absolute links to the image files.

$image404 holds the absolute link to your 404 image (the lighthouse )

$image_small_150×150 gets the http-link to your post image, thats the one you’ve specified in your custom key.

$imagepath[1] will hold the part of the post image url after “wp-content”, this can be 404image or specified image.

$image_small_150×150_refl holds the link to the reflected image, thats the link I gave above. This seems to work.

I’m suspecting things go wrong when the $image_small_150×150 variable is set, and that it takes the lighthouse 404image instead of the one you’ve specified. The only reason I can come up with is a faulty key.

I must have missed something, but I have no clue what. If you find it, please tell me :D
sorry for the long post, but I hope it helps you in some way.

best regards,

Nick

#147

January 30th, 2009

Med says:

i forgot , thank you for the fast reply ^^

#146

January 30th, 2009

Med says:

Hi nick,

i checked everything , and everything is like you said must be (the “x” … everything)

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/3775/bug1df9.jpg

but still dont work ,

so i searched in internet about the upload problem ( because the wp upload dont work , i use ftp ) and found that the problem come from the host , not from your theme or wordpress .

i dont understand things very well but it has something to do with the permalinks + security levels , and to change these stuffs you have to change them from the htaccess .

actually i changed the security levels from filezilla ,but for the permalink form dont know what to do . maybe i am wrong and these stuff dot have anything to do with my problem :)

here are the links to the images used :
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/9310/ccpt1iq6.jpg

http://mrhankey.oxyhost.com/wp-content/cncept.jpg

#145

January 29th, 2009

cr0s says:

hello nick,

Do you know this bug on the template on ie and firefox : on the homepage if you just press the right scroll or the bottom scroll it move :)

++

#144

January 29th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Med,

thats impossible, the 120×120 images should be in one of the subfolders of the “wp-content”- directory in your Wordpress administration.

The easiest way is to upload them using the wordpress post editor and copy the link.

I don’t see how your .htaccess file could cause problems here, can you explain ?

best regards,

Nick

#143

January 29th, 2009

Med says:

Hi nick,

first thank you for the theme , i just want to ask you if you can make the theme load the 120×120 images from other hosting websites , because i tried everything and could not fix the problem , i think the problem is in the HTACCESS file but i dont know how to deal with it .

thanks ,

#142

January 27th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Michelle,

it seems that your GD library is too old. Thats the libary used by PHP to reflect the images. This is the error I get: “GD library is too old. Version 2.0.1 or later is required, and 2.0.28 is strongly recommended.”

You can have this fixed by upgrading your PHP version, I’m afraid thats the only way…

best regards,

Nick

#141

January 27th, 2009

Michelle says:

Hi Nick
I really love this theme but i am having a bit of trouble with it and i’m hoping that you can help me please

I am very new at wordpress and am not a developer.
I am having trouble with the small thumbnail images they completely refuse to appear even the image not found thumbnail is missing and i have tried everything in the posts above, The main images show ok when you click on them but not the carousel ones.

Please can you try to give me a little guidance, i know you’re busy but i’d love a little help?

Thanks

Michelle Clark

#140

January 22nd, 2009

jay says:

Thank you!! you’re the best! :))

#139

January 22nd, 2009

Nick says:

Thats pretty easy, just change the header.php-file.

Change the line

“<div id=”logo”><a id=”logo_link” href=”<?php echo get_settings(’home’); ?>/”><img src=”<?php bloginfo(’template_directory’); ?>/images/title.png” title=”<?php bloginfo(’name’); ?>” alt=”<?php bloginfo(’name’); ?>” /></a></div>”

to

“<div id=”logo”><a id=”logo_link” href=”<?php echo get_settings(’home’); ?>/?cat=1″><img src=”<?php bloginfo(’template_directory’); ?>/images/title.png” title=”<?php bloginfo(’name’); ?>” alt=”<?php bloginfo(’name’); ?>” /></a></div>”

#138

January 22nd, 2009

jay says:

Thanks for the reply!

But what i want to do is to change the url of the title.png when clicked. Instead of going to ” http://mywebsite.com/wordpress ” i want it to go to ” http://mywebsite.com/wordpress/?cat=1 ”

any suggestions?

sorry for bugging you on your busy schedule. :)

#137

January 21st, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Jay,

you need to change the image, i think its called “title.png”. You should find it in the “/images/” folder in your theme root.

The font used for the default title is Scriptina, it’s packed in the zip-file you can download here.

best regards,

Nick

#136

January 21st, 2009

jay says:

hi! very nice theme!

just wondering how to change the link of the blog title? thanks! :)

#135

January 20th, 2009

aaN says:

Very nice theme ^^V

#134

January 13th, 2009

morphoz says:

good luck for your exams ^^ et happy new year everybody!

#133

January 12th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Eric,

no sorry, haven’t had the time yet. I’m in my exam period atm, and don’t even have time enough to finish my school projects. :(

I’ll post it here when finished, should be begin februari *hopefully*. Sorry for the delay :)

best regards,

Nick

#132

January 12th, 2009

Eric says:

Hi Nick,

Any news on the IE6 update?

Thanks,

Eric

#131

January 9th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Cr0s,

I don’t really understand what you mean, can you give me the url of your website so I can check it out ?

best regards,

Nick

#130

January 8th, 2009

cr0s says:

hello,

Could you explain me how to deal with the content.jpg ??? i explain myself

there is an empty space on the left and I cant find the css trick to make the content.jpg take this space (for example on your demo site I would like to put some graphics between the start of the left of the browser and the logo fhizin (title.png) or how to use the title.png to make the same and keep the internet explorer compatibility.)

So if you have a simple way to do that it would be great ! !

many thanxs

ps: sorry for my english :p
cr0s

#129

January 7th, 2009

lili says:

Thanks a lot. Everything works marvelously…

Lili

#128

January 5th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Pigeskryas,

the wp-config.php is a core file of Wordpress, it holds the username, password, mysql-database name etc. This file only displays output if an error occured, so you probably had an error on the server.

Everything seems to work fine now, just visited your website :)

If you get this error again, I suggest you contact your host to ask them if they had problems with server software on your account or try to reinstall Wordpress. As far as I know no Wordpress theme can cause this.

best regards,

Nick

#127

January 5th, 2009

pigeskryas says:

hi Nick
i activated the fabulus theme and i have this problem with the header.
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home…wp-config.php:145

what can i do;
thanks

#126

January 5th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi Lili,

I’m sorry, I misunderstood your problem.

Attaching images to a post goes the same way really, the only thing that changes is the key name.

First of all, make sure all your images are uploaded *somewhere*. Doesn’t have to be in your Wordpress folder, they can also be hosted on Flickr or whatever. Make sure you have the URL’s to those images.

In your post/page, you can add an unlimited number of Custom Fields. For attaching these images, we’ll use the “image1_file” key, where “1″ changes to the number of the image offcourse.
The value of the key will be the link to the image.

For example key “image1_file” with value “http://www.bydust.com/images/image1.jpg”. If you add more images, be sure the numbers follow up, like “image1_file”, “image2_file”, “image3_file” etc. When they are all added, save the page/post and they should appear on your site.

Hope this helps you out :)

best regards,

Nick

#125

January 5th, 2009

lili says:

Hi,

Thank you for your ability to react, Nick.
I realize that I badly explained my problem : I would like that my images are all visible (it’s not the case at present : try to click on “View images”) and appear as those of your example (http: // http://www.bydust.com/examples/fhi-zin/*/examples/fhi-zin/four-random-images/) when you click on “View images”. I used well, nevertheless, “custom fields” but unsuccessfully.
What did I miss ?

Lili

#124

January 5th, 2009

Nick says:

Hi lili,

You need to upload a square 120px x 120px image, copy the link and add it to the post using the Custom fields. The key is “image_small_120×120″. (Retype that, don’t copy).

there’s an information notice added to your Wordpress administration, its mentioned there too :)

best regards,

Nick

#123

January 4th, 2009

lili says:

Hello,

Thanks for this beautiful template…
But…
I don’t manage to see the added images in the same way as on the site of example (http://www.snackirak.com/#/?page_id=353). And I don’t understand why… Is there a secret ?!
A small help would be welcome !
Thank you in advance.

Lili

#122

December 16th, 2008

Nick says:

Hi,

i’m sorry, gave you the wrong file. You can delete everything inside the comments quotes on line 11 in the footer.php file. ( the “begin comments_title” and “end_comments_title”, but keep the comments intact.)

hope this works better :)

bye ;-)

#121

December 16th, 2008

Mela says:

Wow! Thanks for the quick response.

I was able to remove the date succesfully, however I can’t find the function for the comments, though :O Any tips?

Thanks!

#120

December 15th, 2008

Nick says:

Hi Mela,

thanks :)

You can remove both the comments bar and the date from the posts in the file “single.php”. The date should be right after the “the_title” function, do erase the comments bar you need to delete the function with parameters “one comment”, “comments, “comment” or something like that. Can’t remember the name of the function :)

best regards,

Nick

#119

December 15th, 2008

Mela says:

Hi,

awesome theme you got here! :) Anyway, I’ve got a few questions:

1. is there a way to remove the comments bar at the bottom?
2. also, is there a way to remove the date from the posts?

Thank you so much!

#118

December 12th, 2008

Nick says:

Hi Marie,

it’ll take a while, I have some other work to do first (unfortunately) :( .

I’ll add it to the article when its done ;-)

cheers,

Nick

#117

December 12th, 2008

Marie says:

Keep us updated about fixing the theme for IE6.

Thanks!
Marie

#116

December 11th, 2008

antiquarian books says:

Thank you for this information. :)

#115

December 10th, 2008

Nick says:

if you want you can implement it, but I won’t do it. ;-)
Wish you good luck tho, let me know if it worked out well.

cheers,

Nick

#114

December 10th, 2008

morphoz says:

yes i can add widget off course but to keep the minimalist and ‘clear’ aspect of the website, calendar & page widget are enough :) so, with this panel you have 3 column to add whatever you want and you’re able to show/hide the sliding panel (to put your links list for example or login form,…)

i used this template before your ^^ and find this feature useful ^^

it’s just an idea :)

#113

December 10th, 2008

Nick says:

Hi cr0s,

fixing the theme for IE6 is on my todo-list :)
I suggest you to get an update tho :p

best regards,

Nick

#112

December 10th, 2008

cr0s says:

hello,
thanxs for this beautiful template,
I would like to know if you have a trick to make it works on ie6 ?? because I know lot of person who still have IE6 :/

I test your site exemple on IE6 and it doesnt work to

many thanxs again !

#111

December 10th, 2008

Nick says:

Hi Max,

I don’t really understand what you’re trying to say, to be honest :p

You can add widgets to the sidebar, they will be displayed at the right side of your screen. ( if thats what you’re looking for).

best regards,

Nick

#110

December 10th, 2008

morphoz says:

hi again, all works fine, i’ve just a questions / suggestion :p
it could be really nice to have an hiden panel like this one : http://themes.koch-werkstatt.de/#

widgetable, and usefull to acces directly to (for exemple) the latest comment/ admin acces / twitter upadtes,…
i dont know how to add it but i try if you allow me to do :p or if you have some time to :D

max

#109

December 9th, 2008

Luan Damasceno says:

Wonderfull!

#108

December 9th, 2008

Nick says:

Hey Marie,

with the code I gave you can change the image scale in percent (1 = 100%) in the carousel, not in the single post view.

If you change the custom field key that is used in single.php you can use two different sizes :)
just change “image_small_120×120″ in the single.php file into something else.

best regards,

Nick

#107

December 9th, 2008

Marie says:

I did download a widget for the categories, and seems to work well so far :D

I would like to see the carousel images stay the same, but when the post loads have the image just a little bit bigger. Is the code set up for two different images or at least sizes?

What would I change the code: “You can do this in the file “js/main.js”, change the scale on line 30. “BDEI.scaleHover = 1;” is the default value.” to to make it just a tiny bit bigger?

Thanks!
Marie

#106

December 9th, 2008

Nick says:

Hey Marie,

the way your categories are shown ( in the sidebar * ) has nothing to do with the theme you’re running. There are serveral category widgets available for Wordpress, and there’s one available in the standard installation ( although I don’t know if its very customizable or not ).

Which icons do you want to make bigger after clicking? The post images in the carousel ?
You can do this in the file “js/main.js”, change the scale on line 30. “BDEI.scaleHover = 1;” is the default value.

Can you tell me where you’ve seen this theme on Joomla?

best regards,

Nick

#105

December 9th, 2008

Marie says:

@myself. I downloaded my first wordpress widget for expanding the categories and it works beautifully.

Now I’m looking for a way to make the icons (after clicking on the thumbnails) to be slightly bigger. I would have to change the link, or something more complicated wouldn’t I? Please tell me how.

Thanks,
Marie
http://swaps4less.com/wp/

#104

December 9th, 2008

Marie says:

Hi! First of all, thank you so much for the theme. Once I saw it I actually made the switch from Joomla to Wordpress to use it. It’s just what I’ve been looking for my online portfolio.

Questions, would I be able to have a drop down box for just one of my parents categories? I’d like to have my categories listed (by type), and then a parent category called “list by program” that expanded into all the program names. How can I do this in your theme?

Just noting, I’m new to Wordpress and my skills are more on the graphic/design side than coding, but I do know a little.

Thanks!
Marie

#103

December 8th, 2008

Nick says:

Hi Eric,

I know Fhi-zin looks fucked up in IE6, looking into it when I find the time. I think IE6 doesn’t support some CSS-properties used, but haven’t had the time to find an error. Will post an update when done :)

best regards,

Nick

#102

December 8th, 2008

Eric says:

Hi again.

Seems IE6 does not recognize any of the sites being used on this mini forum correctly. I have visited all of them posted here and they all have a problem with squishing the home page carousel pic’s and text to the top. Now, so far, IE7 is working now, except it will not recognize the right hand menu. All is good in Firefox and Opera.

Any suggestions? Possibly load IE6 and view? Let me know when you have the chance. I’d like to shower you with some love from my end, but if we can’t get it to work I’ll have to scrap the work …sadly.

Morphoz, yes thank you :)

Eric

#101

December 7th, 2008

morphoz says:

yes! it work fine now thanks, the problem seem to came from ‘lightbox2′plugins :) . flickrRSS and FlickrManager plugings ‘disable’ the fade black screen effect.

thank you for your reactivity ^^

hi Eric,
sorry for my limited english (lol) but i don’t really understand what you’re talking about :/

if you talk about pics shown in the center of the post after clicking the carroussel, that’s just some pics inside posts linked to my flickr (or not ^^)
maybe it’s not what you mean :/

#100

December 7th, 2008

Eric says:

Thanks for the feedback Nick.

I’ll let you know if everything is proper when I have the time to make the changes.

Eric

#99

December 7th, 2008

Nick says:

Hi Eric,

the preloader keeps running in IE7 too on my pc, there must be an image that cannot be loaded. You can try to disable all plugins, which may solve your problem, or just remove the preloader which is a bit easier :)

You can remove it by deleting the line “hideScroller(); // show preloader” in index.php.

There are two themes available for download, one with scrollers in the content and one without. You can simply download the one without scrollers and replace the files “style.css”,”single.php” and “js/main.js”.

You can use a static page as home page instead of the carousel of latest posts. There’s an option to set this up under Settings - Reading ( i think ).

best regards,

Nick

#98

December 7th, 2008

Eric says:

Hi Nick,

Firstly, well done on the template. Real nice. Just super.

Secondly, on our website, when opening in IE7, the Ajax/JS pictures do not open. The loading screen pops up yet does not load at all. Sure works on Firefox just fine.

Lastly, is it possible to limit the scrolling bar feature on the contact form so it displays on the entire page without scrolling it? Basically, take it out entirely.

Could you find it in your busy day to find out what needs to be done?

Appreciated,

Eric

P.S. Morphoz, I like how you placed that picture in the body of the template after you click an image from the Ajax carousel. Can that be done so that after clicking the homepage pic in the Ajax carousel, it goes to like what you have done, then when clicking on the pic itself the gallery automatically comes up? (Instead of clicking on where it says images above the pic’ to open the gallery?) Nick if you can explain this that would be great also. Thanks again!

#97

December 7th, 2008

Nick says:

Hi Morphoz,

I took a look at your source code, and I see that you have some plugins enabled, among others a lightbox plugin or one that uses lightbox ?

Can you try to disable these and see if it works ?
You can enable them one by one to see which one causes the error.

The script has no problem with images hosted on Flickr btw ;-)

best regards,

Nick

#96

December 7th, 2008

morphoz says:

hi nick, thx for ths splash screen :)

there is one post for the moment using “image1_file”, “image2_file” custom field,
it’s on: http://m-lariviere.fr/blog/#/blog/?p=44
but when i clic on the link, i only show the second pic without lightbox :/
target pics are on my ftp, not on flickr (if it could help) ^^

#95

December 7th, 2008

Nick says:

Hi Morphoz,

thanks ;-)
I don’t see any post on your website where a lightbox image should pop-up. Basically all you need to do is adding custom fields, just like the image_small_120×120 images. The key for attached images is “image1_file”, where the number increases on each image. IE. “image1_file”, “image2_file”, “image3_file”,…

Is this your problem, or have you added these fields and the links aren’t shown in your post?
Beware that you have to start counting from 1, otherwise the theme won’t show any lightbox links.

Btw, I like your splash-screen :)

best regards,

Nick

#94

December 7th, 2008

morphoz says:

hi,
congratulation for this really great theme!
work fine for me, i’ve just a little problem: lightbox doesn’t seems to work for me :/
anyway to enable it?

thx

#93

December 6th, 2008

Res says:

silly ftp proggy…hehe thank you!:)

#92

December 6th, 2008

Nick says:

Hi Res,

just replace the style.css fil

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