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This is what i was witing for! Whell done!

nice theme

I really like this theme…I want to get it into action I have a huge project with great potential in store…I emailed you trying to fix some glitches in it…Please respond.

@NewAb: You have a reply.

Congratz Mihai, it’s a great theme, its great to see quality themes released for free

I’ve included your theme in my 10 FREE high-quality wordpress theme releases in June post

cheers

Amazing theme. Love it. Modding it now for a new site.

Anywho, here are a couple of points and suggestions…

1) the “read the rest” image on the homepage needs fixing

2) The HOMEPAGE link in the breadcrumb needs fixing (you have get_cat rather than the_cat

3) Use the post thumb plugin from http://www.alakhnor.com/post-thumb/?p=156 and then put calls and support for it in your theme. For example :
the_thumb(’altappend=.featured_&link=p&height=145&width=250&keepratio=0&limit=6&showpost=1′);

I use that on my homepage for the featured image. It is quite clear how you could also use that for the mini thumbs etc. It means no one has to use custom fields etc either. Really nifty

Finally, it would be REALLY nice to have a slight re-design to the theme at the header section to allow for far more page links (I have 15) and for a logo to be used etc. Indeed, some better design implementations for comments to be shown around the site would be great as it shows that users are interacting with the posts etc.

Overall, amazing theme, even better that it is free, and only a few bits away from being the perfect theme

Dave

@David G:
1. I need more details, I don’t understand.
2. Also.
3. I don’t want to use any plugins, I will try something new.
4. Ok, I will try something.
I will contact you tomorrow to talk about what’s wrong, thank you very much!

1) open your demo at http://sponsoredwp.info/brightness/ and hover your mouse over the READ THE REST image. You can see that it does NOT link to the post. It is because you have instead of .

2) on a page like http://sponsoredwp.info/brightness/?p=5 you have a breadcrumb trail at the top. The HOMEPAGE link is not set. You need to change this to “/” in the url code.

3) plugins are up to you. I mean have support that uses “if” statements. So IF the user has the plugin it will use code a, if they don’t then it will use code b (the custom fields).

4) Once the DNS changes you should see a slightly modified version of the theme showing up at http://www.eatingbritain.com (credits to you are going back in when I add my re-designed footer so don’t worry and I will be donating too). All the thumbs and featured images are generated automatically from the first image in the post. No separately created images etc. Plus I have my modified header in there with logo and extra links. I would LOVE to see what you could suggest along those lines but in a better style

Cheers,
David

First of all, amazing theme Sorel!

I noticed the permalink on “LATEST POST IN XY CATEGORY” is not working.

David or Sorel, would you mind posting the fix for that?

Thanks.

thanks for your great work friend the theme is very usful
it is nice good luck

great theme, i like the clear design!

This is a great theme! Its has a clean design and nice style. One of the best I’ve ever seen!

Great work!

Are you using an auto-thumbnail generator, so that that an article’s first photo can be auto-thumbnailed for the main page? I think that’s the way to avoid using a custom-fields to add thumbnails.

hey sorel, great job on the theme. i was hoping to get started on it right away but I did notice one small bug that I can see also on the demo site you have and was hoping you have a solution.

On the main page where it lists the 10 latest articles, it seems that whatever text is in the “excerpt” for the last article in the group, is repeated for the remaining articles in the “Latest posts in category…” section.

for example I have 10 different posts appearing in the “latest 10 articles” section, and then 2 posts in each news section. Each article in the first 10 has its own unique intro text .All of the .$text. for each news item is the same even though the titles and images are different.

I was hoping to get some help and can turn on the theme to show you what I mean. Right now I have it turned off.

nevermind all of that.. to simplify the issue.. the “read more” hyperlink in the “Latest Posts in blahblah Category” is not Hyperlinked at all .. which is likely related to why the same intro text is displayed for all of my posts below the 10.

This is a fresh installation on a new copy of wordpress 2.5.1 with nothing modified/added.

thx again

Magnifique! J’ai pris votre thème et je l’ai mis en vert plutôt que rouge. Il manque je pense un champs “recherche” !

I took this theme for my blog, and i think that it miss a search form. But it’s very good also !

All well and good, i like this theme a lot, its nice a clean and easy to navigate.

Would it be possible if you could release a copy that just has post by post? And not excerpt posts? With custom fields?

I see more and more themes coming out, that have these shortened posts etc.. and people dont understand how to use them, but they really like the theme.

Anyone else? Post by post?

I’m having an error with this theme that is weird. I get the text from the last displayed post under “Latest 10 Articles:” under every post in the category “News” section.

Please take a look at my blog at http://blog.sacredkiln.com/ and let me know what you think.

I can’t have this text repeat on every post in every category in the news.

Thanks,
Angelo

@Angelo: I’ve fixed the bug, reinstall theme or follow the update guide for “Brightness 1.2″

You do a good job men… Brightness News is awesome.

Great theme! I really like the colors and the simplicity. Does this theme support Gravatars?

First of all, WOW! This is a great theme!
Fell in love with it immediately when I saw it yesterday, and have been working on translating it into Hebrew, and modding it for one of my blogs (comment counts/gravatar/edit links).

You can see it here: http://meshune.net/wptest/

However, I have two problems with the theme:
(a) I can’t get the change to for ver 1.2 to work - the first category (”uncategorized”) is OK, but the 2nd and 3rd categories show the excerpt (but not the titles/linkID/thumbnails) of the same unrelated post that doesn’t even belong to these categories.

(b) Search is broken. Whether the function is added in the sidebar code, or via sidebar widgets.

This said, I *really* love this theme, which looks great, and is wonderful when it comes to easy navigation an usability.

@Tayler: My version does not come with gavatars but you can add them very easy, the comment structure allows you that.

@Sharon: I will fix the search results page today. And about the first, please contact me at probmels [at] dailywp [dot] com with IM info. I’m not sure I really understand what’s the problem.

Thank you it’s working now as long as there is text in the excerpt area. If there is no text there the error continues.

My other problem with this beautiful theme is that I’m only showing 4 articles instead of 10 in the last 10 section. Any ideas?

Thank you,
Angelo

is there a search in this theme?

Hi There,

How come i receive a message code while opening the “brightness settings” button? It says that the functions.php file is not found (code 404 etc.) I have checked the file on the server, and it is there.

I did not make any changes in the name of the file, can someone help me out?

Thanks!

Wouter

@Wouter:
It depends on what version of Wordpress you use. If you use WP 2.3 there will be problems with opening the admin page. If you use WP 2.5 there will be no problems.

Thanks Sorel,

I have the latest version now, and it works!

Wouter

thanks for fixing the excerpt bug. there’s one more bug I noticed which is not major but affecting xhtml validation.

when I put my adbrite code into the ad boxes in the brightness settings page, i am adding the & a m p ; for each ampersand symbol and after saving the settings it is stripping that out and replacing it back with a & .

thanks!

I dont think you got my comment. Or maybe yo you did and didnt understand what i ment.

I was asking, would it be possible if, you could release in the admin page, to change the featured posts etc.. have an option there to display it as a blog and not a magazine theme?

Like just post by post?

@Anto: I will try an option in the admin page and if involves a lot of code I will release another version, but this tomorrow, I’m to tired right now.

All your theme are fantastic!!!

Sorel - Great theme! I upgraded to 1.2 and I still get the problem where the excerpt text on all my News posts is a repeat of the 10th post.

Thanks!

This WP theme is well designed and reads very easily — I like the use of orange and darker colors.

Are there any plans to add pull-down menus to this theme?

Oh geez. Please delete the previous two comments…

To echo Chris above, I started with a fresh download of the latest theme files, even checked the code on newssections.php and the excerpt text on all my News posts is a repeat of the last latest article.

I am kinda in love with the way the inside pages display Latest Posts, but I would be absolutely head over heels if we could still incorporate sidebar and widget functionality there. I tried that by adding <?php get_sidebar(); ?> after <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/singlesidebar.php’); ?> in single.php and page.php - that works but in the stylesheet .homesidebar floats right, which works great for the home page but is off by about 20 pixels on all the other pages (you can see that on the site I am working on - http://www.southjerusalem.com ). I tried creating sidebar2.php and then replacing <?php get_sidebar(); ?> above with <?php get_sidebar2(); ?> which floats to the left in the stylesheets (added .homesidebar2) but for some reason that didn’t work. Any ideas? I really need to have widgets on every page… and there’s no reason that can’t look good, right?

Otherwise, great theme!

Great theme mate! I’ve been using this theme for a few days now. One of my readers suggested that I show the number of comments for each post below the thumbnails/titles.

In fact, I have done a little modification to allow the number of comments to show up. I embedded the following code in the MainIndex.php

Comment(s)

Perhaps you could include this suggestion for the next improvement.

It is a fresh theme, but the lack of auto-thumbnail generation makes it more work than it needs to be. Why can’t a blogger upload a photo, insert it into his post (per usual), and all of the appropriate thumbnails are generated for the main page?

Chris,

You have to add text to your excerpt for each post or you will continue to get that error I think.

@Chris: Please contact me at problems[at]dailywp.com with an example. The excerpt, if it’s empty it will be auto-generated by wordpress.

Everybody: About the auto-generated thumbnail. It is so complicated to upload a image, copy it’s link and paste it? For a auto-generated thumbnail a plugin is needed, a plugin with settings. This theme is for non-technical users too.

yeah, i think is very nice! great job. but I get trouble in New Sections on Read The rest href. it doesnt work as purpose.

i have try to change variabel
$text = get_the_content();
in newssections.php with
$text = get_the_excerpt(); and work it:
I was Install it on:

http://beningstock.com

Hi Sorel,

Great theme, exactly what i was looking for.

I am a complete novice with programing so can you or somebody show me how to get rid of the URL in the header ? i want to replace it with my own header graphic.

Also i want to reduce the height of the header down.. how do i do that?

thanks for your help

Very nice theme. I’ve been looking for a free magazine theme that rivals Revolution Theme and finally I can say I’ve found one. Good job on the nice clean design and innovative features.

Very nice themes.I like it.Will use in my new blog.

I love this theme!thanks a lot!

This theme is awesome! It leaves a lot of premium themes for dead — and it’s free!

I’ve added Brightness to http://www.bestwpthemes.com, a collection of the best WordPress themes available today.

Great work…

Really cool a theme…

hi, thanks for a great theme. How do I put widgets in the sidebar for single page views? I would like Archives to show up on them…

hi, how do I add Google Analytics code to the theme?

A wonderful theme - exactly what I was looking for

Hey guys, I am in love with this theme, but have one problem…

I want to have my logo show instead of the default or the blog title, however I can’t seem to make it work. If I trash the H1 section from the header, the whole thing is gone.

Is there a way to move the reference to the header image outside the h1 tags, so that I can just hide them? I am not really a coder… I am a history teacher!

Anyway, would appreciate any help that you could offer… hey, did I mention that I love this theme?

Great work!

Robin.

http://www.mistercitrin.com

good stuff neat theme ill have to play with

Superb job on your themes! A couple observations on Brightness:

1. “Latest Posts in Blog category” references correct title and Big Thumbnail of latest post, but quotes wrong post.

2. A few things don’t render correctly in Internet Explorer 6.

–Page Navigation links in header have gray boxes around them.
–Long blog title gets cut off.

Looking forward to more themes from you!

Simples question: how do i change the number of recent articles from 10 to 2?

Hi. I Just downloaded the theme, but when I try to unzip it, it creates a cpgz archive… cannot upload the theme…

@Adita: It is working here. Try “JustUnZip”, it’s a freeware, it’s just perfect.

Hey Sorel… just tried it again. No luck. I use a Mac… any other options?

Having issues with the Picture Link to Post Thumbs
It’s not working ??

Everything this else is great !

OMG ! Ok Ok, I worked it out whoa ! Im such a Duntz.
Thanks
e-

Did anyone ever figure out how to lower the number of most recent entries from 10 to something else?

I am in love with the theme, but this makes too much reading for my students… 4 or 6 would be perfic!

Thanks much!

Robin

Hi,

Robin just go to setting > Reading of your wordpress blog and change the setting to 6-4 what ever you like.

The go to Design -> Theme Editor and open main index template (index.php) in edit mode and search for Latest 10 Articles:

change it to your relevant setting and you are done

Hi DailyWP.

Great theme; thanks for releasing it.

I’m having issues trying to seperate the comments and trackbacks. Can you shed any light (or code) on the matter..?

I have made coding changes to do exactly this, but it causes both the comments and trackbacks to be displayed as trackbacks. Whereas out-of-the-box, the trackbacks are displayed in the same manner as the comments. So it seems like it’s either one or the other.

I’m wondering if ths is due to the specific comment section of the BrightnessNews theme, or if I’m erring in my php..?

I cant seem to get the feature img to work, it doesnt display the image. i set the feature for the correct vategori, and the thumb img works fine …

I can get the 85×85 “Thumbnail” to work but the “Big Thumbnail” just won’t show. I can see from the code that the term is “Big Thumbnail” and even though I’m using the correct image size (250×150) nothing comes up.

Do you have any suggestions?

Regards,
Mikael

Sorry about that. I found my error. Now it works perfectly.

Aditya: I had the same problem using Archive Utility. Stuffit Expander worked fine.

Thanks for taking the time to do what I would love to be able to! This is perfect for my needs, and I’ve looked just about everywhere for it!

I’m having trouble getting my thumb nails to work though. Do I need to play with the script (bit beyond me)? It all seemed so simple in your instructions and I’d love to get it working coz that’s a great feature you have, but I can’t. I’ve followed all your steps….any ideas?

Many thanks

Sorry! Sorted now! Thanks again!

Hi There thanks for this powerful little theme, it’s really cool and not too difficult to modify through CSS.

I did however find that when page content is quite short, the whole page.php collapses and the footer and sidebar go wonky. I’m trying to see how I can re-structure that to fix it. Any advice?

Hello
I want to use this theme in my blog, but i can’t put Thumbs and Big Thumbs on it. I’m usibg Wordpress 2.6. I dont’t understand why…and i really need your help.

1 - Create any special category for it?
2 - Custom field…Key…Thumbnail…copy paste the link…nothing.

Please…help me…mail me…
Thanks

snif…snif…that’s not fair
This theme is perfect…and my thumbs and big thumbs just dont want to work…this is a sad day…
anyone here to help?Please…

I made it!
I’m the king of the world!
You’re all invited to see the new look of my blog.

Now…i’ll have to work my old posts and put some thumbs on it!
Thanks

does it use auto-image resizer?

I seem to be having the same problem some others mentioned above, I think. I can’t seem to add images to my posts.

When I select an image and click ‘insert into post’ the box goes blank and stays blank till I have to exit out with X in the top right.

Could anyone help me please?

Is it just me or is Wordpress telling me its version 1.1 after I activate the theme?

Also, David, could you elaborate on the auto thumbnail generation thing you mentioned? The link you gave was listed as malicious and is blocked.

@Joel: Thanks… it worked :))

Dear friends,

After an amazing work to put thumbs on my blog…i need your help.
I would like to have bigger thumbs…like 100×100
Please help me!
Regards

“Everybody: About the auto-generated thumbnail. It is so complicated to upload a image, copy it’s link and paste it? For a auto-generated thumbnail a plugin is needed, a plugin with settings. This theme is for non-technical users too.”

Paste it where. Sorry but this isn’t as straight forward as it seems.

Please help

Dear All

The process to generate the Thumbnail is quite simple. However i agree that, with no information, it’s not easy to understand the procedures.

1º select the desired image, go to photoshop or paintnet, resize the pic to 85×85…save it.

2º Wordpress…write post…upload the 85×85 image and then…copy the link and paste it to “Value” in the “Customs Fields” and create a Key with the name “Thumbnail”.
Attention: don’t insert the image. Just upload and save it.

This is the process to get the thumbnail. All the rest is equal.

If you already have posts, select on the pics and follow this rules.

Done!

Sorry for my english.

Is there a bug with the “Show latest posts of XXX category?”

At my site, why is every article’s author shown as specifically one person, even though he was not the one who published it? On clicking the article, it can be seen who the actual author was.

Anyone experienced this?

Hey guys Brightness Setting Page is not working in wordpress mu user site..

Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_action() in /home/blabla/public_html/wp-content/themes/Brightness Theme/functions.php on line 6

is there any way that i can reach these settings..

thanks & selam

Btw for the thumbnail solution, I’m using the plugin called Flexible upload and I have the default settings to generate photos uploaded to crop at 85px square, so it saves me a lot of time.

maybe you guys can try that plugin!

Hllo All

Installed the theme om WP MU . when I cliking the theme setting am getting this message : c is not registered protocol

any idea’s

@erdem, i’m having the same problem with MU. you can access the settings page directly through this link:
http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=/home/yourdirectory/public_html/wp-content/themes/Brightness Theme/functions.php

but the link from the admin sends you to the wrong place.

Many thanks dear Laura! I will try it now …

NO , i can’t get it to work!!

Is it possible to have an edit post link at every post visible to editors and administrators?

Great theme Sorel. Very easy to tweak and change. The css is neatly structured which is a blessing.

Hi sorel.. I have applied your WP theme. I ahve the same problem stated in comment#29 anda we could not solved it. so we removed the duplicate text in the categories. and we removed the 4 displyed content into three on the reight part of the categories

you can check it out from http://wp.geziyorum.net alson we have solved our search page results manueally.. But the main issue is the first problem; we have installed the last 1.2 version of the template.. But we could not succeed do you offer any code change and write it here or mail it to me so we can fix it.
Please help…
but the theme is perfect for my rich content travelogue…
take care
EMRE

@laura,
i’ll try it with my personal pc when i am home.
thanks a lot for your help..

————————–
selam

Can anyone explain how to change the thumbnail images? I have no clue how?

Hi! where there is a guide on how to use the custom fields for the summaries?

Hi, I am having some problems finding the solution you offered (the bug fixed) in version 1.2, however it doesn’t seem to solve the problem of repeating excerpts in the main page. The link to the download file is not 1.2 either, but 1.1.

Hopefully a solution offered in 1.2 can be posted here. Thanks alot!

nice theme. Thanx 4 sharing!

Hello.
How can I change NO Image default thumbnail image?

Awesome theme, Sorel!

Thanks Guga (#115) for instructions on the thumbnails. I never would have figured it out.

Michael Den, I’d think you just need to replace defaultthumb.jpg in the theme’s Images folder.

One more thing, Sorel. Is there a quick and dirty way to make the admin page accessible while using one of the admin drop-down menu plugins, like this one? With the plugin activated it throws a 404 error.

Thanks again!

Is there a way to reduce the number of posts shown in the “Latest 10 Posts”? Can I make it four or six?

Hi Aditya,

To reduce the number of posts, just go to settings and then click on the reading tab. On “Blog pages show at most” textfield, enter 5 to get 4 posts or 7 to get 6 posts.

Now, another question…. how did some of you guys able to fix the excerpt of the posts in other categories? I can’t seem to get it working.

Thanks

Hi! Thank you for this great theme!
I’m in troubles with the thumbnails… I don’t know what to do to put a thumb for every post. Upload and image an put it in the first line of the post? Upload an image at the themes/brightness/images directory? and with what name? Could you help me? Thanks

Ok, comment 115 solved it! Just I didn’t find those instructions in the theme file

Recommend adding a variation of these new image classes to the CSS to properly style captions. I changed the caption background to your standard image outline and it looks great!

Also, in the comments section the word ‘address’ is misspelled.

First of all let me say, that I really love this theme. But what I’m really missing is a search page. My weblog has over 2000 Postings and a lot of people use the search. Is there any way to solve this problem? And another remark: At the theme homepage the changelog for version 1.1 and 1.2 are 404. And where can I get version 1.2? The download is still 1.1.

thumbs and featured images are not generated automatically. where i am doing wrong or what we need to do?

i’m having a hard time uploading images for my posts - i think i have the correct size but can someone plesae tell me the exact name of the custom fields I need to use for both the big thumbnail and small thumbnail image…?

thanks in advance!

seoulbeats>>>

I know only about small Thumbnail’s key and value

put

Thumbnail into Key and your image path in the Value. Image size should be 85×85 but i am not sure about featured image key and value

it works for me

replace this following lines

<img src=”ID, “Big Thumbnail”, true); if ($thumb == NULL) { echo ”.$nothumb.’/images/defaultthumbfeatured.jpg’; } else { echo $thumb; } ?>” alt=”Post Title” />

with

<img src=”ID, “Thumbnail”, true); if ($thumb == NULL) { echo ”.$nothumb.’/images/defaultthumb.jpg’; } else { echo $thumb; } ?>” alt=”" />

thanks khan…

now only if i can figure out what to do about the featured image - my site will be ready for laundh

“Dear All

The process to generate the Thumbnail is quite simple. However i agree that, with no information, it’s not easy to understand the procedures.

1º select the desired image, go to photoshop or paintnet, resize the pic to 85×85…save it.

2º Wordpress…write post…upload the 85×85 image and then…copy the link and paste it to “Value” in the “Customs Fields” and create a Key with the name “Thumbnail”.
Attention: don’t insert the image. Just upload and save it.

This is the process to get the thumbnail. All the rest is equal.

If you already have posts, select on the pics and follow this rules.

Done!

Sorry for my english.”

THANK YOU for posting these instructions Guga. It works great! And thanks to Sorel for a great theme.

great!I like it!

Use Big Thumbnail as a key for featured Image and Thumbnail as a key for 85×85 image.

Thank you GUGA > 115

is there a way to implement “next page” on this template?

i love how it shows the last 10 articles, but I also would love an option where people can click to the past articles. thanks

Hi, to all:
I am having problems finding the solution for the problem of repeating excerpts in the main page. And, yes, I changed the old theme for the new one, but the bug persists.

Can anyone help me to solve the bug?

Thanks a lot

Hi, and thank you so very much for this beautiful blog theme. I have almost figured everything out…just one thing:
How can I delete repeated text when you click on the article. I love the way it bolds the initial paragraph, but think it is redundant to repeat it just below it. I have looked over the other posts and didn’t find an answer to this, if any one can help that would be wonderful. thanks

Hi,

Great theme!! But I have a quick question, how you add the photo to the post title? like you do in your demo?

When i try to make a post I didn’t find an option for the picture, the only option it shows is to insert a picture in the content of the post, not the t