New magazine style theme for WordPress “WyntonMagazine” - Version 1.1 available now

Last update: Jul 19, 2008

Here we are: The official version 1.1 of my second WordPress magazine style theme “WyntonMagazine” has been released for download.

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WyntonMagazine is somehow the “brother” of my first WordPress theme “BranfordMagazine”. It uses a lot of Branfords code but also has its own face and style. The homepage has got a complete new face without a tabed section. Besides the page templates you might know from BranfordMagazine I added another interesting one: The Section Page.

Screenshot of WyntonMagazine

Just as BranfordMagazine, WyntonMagazine is not a “plug&play” WordPress theme. It requires a little more setup in the beginning and advanced WordPress knowlege would be helpful.

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DOWNLOAD
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TUTORIALS

Theme history / Changelog

2008-03-15
BETA Version (0.5) released

2008-04-21
First official version (1.0) released

2008-07-18
Version 1.1 released.
Finally fixed the rollover issue in the menuebar which occurs in MSIE7.
Many thanks to Evis from Israel. You saved my ass, dude.

Update from previous version

If you run version 1.0 and like to update, you need to update at least the following files:
- archive.php
- page.php
- single.php
- tpl_3-column-page.php
- tpl_featured-page.php
- tpl_section-page.php
- style.css

Credits

Thanks to all the WordPress theme developers who have been an inspiration the one way or the other.

Thanks to Patrick Griffiths who delivered the script for the dropdown menues. http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/

And last but not least my very special thanks go out to all of you out there using the theme and sending me tons of emails telling me how great this theme is.

THANK YOU ALL!!!

WyntonMagazine in your language

Currently WyntonMagazine supports the following languages (Seperate language pack for download):

- English (standard)
- German
- Chinese (Translation by Ralph Dunn)

If you like to contribute to this project and translate the file into your language, please make sure you do it properly. Please send me both files (*.po and *.mo) and I will publish them on the themes website and you´ll become not rich but famous

Installation

Installation is as easy as usual with WordPress:

1. Download and unzip the file
2. Dump the theme folder into your “/wp-content/themes/” folder
3. Log in into your WordPress control panel
4. Click the Presentation tab and activate the theme
5. If you need help, please use the Support Forums

General useage of the theme and configuration

WyntonMagazine is built to support Wordpress 2.3 and above. If you get fatal errors related to tags (”Call to undefined function: is_tag”), please upgrade.

In the “index.php” and “sidebar.php” templates, you will find a series of query_posts functions which refer to specific category ID numbers from my database.

Example:

< ?php query_posts('showposts=1&cat=4'); ?>

You will need to change them to reflect the ID numbers in your own database. They can be found in your control panel under Manage >> Categories.

The category ID

Tested in

- Firefox
- Internet Explorer 7
- Opera

Internet Exporer 6 however causes an issue with the category dropdown menu. If you have categories without children you might not have any problem. If someone has an idea how to fix it I would appreciate.

That´s all for the monent. I hope you enjoy playing around with the themes functionalities.

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Published:: Apr 21, 2008 | 16:20

Category:: WP Themes

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Thomas: Clean & lean, sieht schick aus. Probier ich mal auf WP 2.6 um ein Portfolio...

Rakhmat Ichsan: very nice template.. very well done…

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Joachim: I love this theme!

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Rakhmat Ichsan Jul 22, 2008 | 21:41

very nice template.. very well done…

Mjkhl Jul 19, 2008 | 21:49

@Michael Oese: Sorry, I really wasn’t testing it on your themes, but I have noticed appearence-similarity between themes and I didn’t know if you were solving uploading.
If you were looking inside the plugins code, there is just about few mods needed (my plugin doesn’t use custom fields at all, it is just uploading images so just you need to setup upload and display folders
It doesn’t even have form sanitization, it is 0.1, but I will make a mod for and clean the plugin for use with your themes (in default settings without mods) ’cause I like those
Thanks 4 feedback.

Michael Oeser Jul 19, 2008 | 11:03

@Mjkhl: Nice idea although I´m not sure if it really works for Branford and Wynton since they use a slightly different way of working with the custom field images. Have you tried it?

Maybe it would be worth adding a little manual howto adopt the plugin for my themes or to create a version for them

Mjkhl Jul 19, 2008 | 09:22

Some plugin’s screenshots:

Admin panel

Post Images Browser

Mjkhl Jul 19, 2008 | 09:20

Hello, I have just created ugly, but working WordPress-admin plugin called “Mimbo post images” (useable for Wynton and Bradford too) to add free premium feature - uploading “Post Images”, which are used via “Custom Fields” in your theme on “index.php” page and possibility to browse those to get actual list of those images and easing getting image names for Custom Fields.
I didn’t like to be forced to manually upload files using FTP, so I have decided to create my own little plugin, which allows me to upload and view those images directly from Admin > Manage > Mimbo post images Tab.

Plugin download is available here.

Feel free to check it out.

Btw thanks for nice rework of Mimbo, buddy

Ps: This plugin is ready for Custom Field Feature, only one “Image” field, but separate image folders.

- Install the plugin, set it up (see README.txt)
- Activate plugin
- You need to create three different image folders in “mimbo2.2/images/” folder (”lead/”, “feature/” and “/icons”) and chmod it to 777, set up plugin’s “upload1.php” (full path to lead image folder…), “upload2.php” (feature…) and “upload3.php” (icons…).

Then you need just to set up the template - set up folders for images in index.php (for lead template change “/images/” to “/images/lead/” on line 10, then for feature template change “/images/” to “/images/feature/” on line 38 and for “rightcol” icons change “/images/” to “/images/icons/” on line 69.

Now you can go to - Manage > Mimbo post images - upload all three files using plugin’s form with the same filename for all those files (example: “/images/lead/image.jpg”, “/images/feature/image.jpg”, “/images/icons/image.php”).

Set up Image Custom Field in post and put there only “image.jpg”, as it appears in post-images-browser in Manage > Mimbo post images.

Now you can switch the post between lead, feature and “rightcol” categories as you like, images are appearing as they should. Little bit enhancement.

I have done this in a hour today, I have used wordpress plugin generator (www.wp-fun.co.uk) for setting up the framework and then I have used some “safe mode = on” upload and directory listing scripts. It works for me very well

I have updated plugin package and added screenshots, so take a look (194 kB - mostly images, plugin scripts have 7,9 kB total)

Of course, it is little bit ugly and unfriendly, you must set up so much things but it is version 0.1, so keep calm

Diana Jul 19, 2008 | 04:11

I love this theme. I’m having a hard time with some parts - when I try to give my links a category most of them default to my default “blogroll”.

Also, often the entire theme reverts to Default. I think its because this theme is in a subdirectory whereas most other ones are directly under my main site so I think the default loses its path to the Wynton magazine sub directory.

Does anyone have advice on how to put this theme in the first directory below my site or know which file I would edit in wordpress so it would find the sub-sub directory easier?

Thanks!

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Theme history / Changelog

Update from previous version

Credits

WyntonMagazine in your language

Installation

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