Post & Rating Questions

[ebony76]

I must also give thanks for the great work in your CSS Theme and also you taking the time to provide added support.

I believe that I have followed your directives as per your readme file but I seem to have two issues/questions;

1. ratings doesn't seem to work as nothing happens when I click on the stars. I have made the changes in the rating's template directives as per your directions from the readme.

2. I'm not quite sure what url to provide for the url function? I am using the url to my domain and I see the thumb pic on my post but when I click on it, it returns a page but without the larger image being viewable?

I hope I have been clear enough and I kindly thank you for any support you can provide.

btw: What is your going rate for custom work?

Thank you,

Chris

[Shabu]

Site URL does help me to better understand.

If you are adding site to make a design showcase then you need to add your targeted site URL.

Check this site to get a clear idea that how your site should like to be.
http://www.bestcssgallery.com

[ebony76]

Hi Shabu and thanks for getting back to me. I was able to resolve my problem and things are fine now. I do have one question and something I thought would have been easy to guess but after looking at all your *.php files I can't seem to figure out where to change the default of only displaying 2 posts on the main page? I also have another question but this one is probably one that you'de like to charge for. I was wondering how I would go about creating a new custom key so that I can add youtube videos instead of the large images? I am open to consultation fees for this question depending on the fee of course.

Thank you.

Chris

[suspence]

actually i have the similar problem. my url is www.bigdaddyclay.com


I figured out the thumbnail part but the rating still wont work and I cant type an actual blog entry. I wanted to use it to post pictures, blog entries and post videos and allow viewers to vote on them. can you help? thanks for the kickass layout!!

[ebony76]

Hi Suspence, I still haven't figured out how to embed youtube videos instead of the large image but I will get back to working on it. I like how you added myspace under forums on your site. How did you do that? I didn't realize you could post full html pages like that... very neat. Hopfully Shabu can back to us but I am sure that he is an extremely busy guy!

[Shabu]

Originally Posted by ebony76

Hi Shabu and thanks for getting back to me. I was able to resolve my problem and things are fine now. I do have one question and something I thought would have been easy to guess but after looking at all your *.php files I can't seem to figure out where to change the default of only displaying 2 posts on the main page? I also have another question but this one is probably one that you'de like to charge for. I was wondering how I would go about creating a new custom key so that I can add youtube videos instead of the large images? I am open to consultation fees for this question depending on the fee of course.

Thank you.
Chris

File name: index.php under CSSGallery folder

Find this:

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

Replace with:

<?php $recent = new WP_Query("showposts=2"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>

It will show only 2 post for home page.

And if you don't need to show large Image on single page then you can use image field for adding YouTube videos. Otherwise you have to use different custom field.

PM me your ftp and WP password.

Originally Posted by suspence

actually i have the similar problem. my url is www.bigdaddyclay.com


I figured out the thumbnail part but the rating still wont work and I cant type an actual blog entry. I wanted to use it to post pictures, blog entries and post videos and allow viewers to vote on them. can you help? thanks for the kickass layout!!

Uninstall your PostRating plugin and upload a fresh copy.

I think you still did not figured out the thumbnail and large image part. Nothing showing on your site.

Adding a blog entry required modification of this theme, take any expert help on this part.

[suspence]

Originally Posted by Shabu

Uninstall your PostRating plugin and upload a fresh copy.

I think you still did not figured out the thumbnail and large image part. Nothing showing on your site.

Adding a blog entry required modification of this theme, take any expert help on this part.

Thanks for the response! Ill try that as soon as I get home! I did figure out the thumbnail part its just I kept experimenting and deleting that after I figured it out I deleted everything so I had a clear page to test.

I cleared it so I can test doing a regular post and embeding videos and testing the rating system.

[ebony76]

Hi Shabu, thank you very much for having gotten back to me and everyone else you help out in this forum! I really appreciate your assistance and I will PM you my site credentials for further assistance. Thanks a lot and I'd like to compensate you for your time and good will.. let me know how I can do so!

Chris

[ebony76]

Well I was correct.. you are an extremely busy guy as when I tried to PM you, I wasn't able to because your mail was full. I will try again at a later time.

Chris

[Shabu]

@ ebony76
Now PM box cleared

Originally Posted by suspence

Thanks for the response! Ill try that as soon as I get home! I did figure out the thumbnail part its just I kept experimenting and deleting that after I figured it out I deleted everything so I had a clear page to test.

I cleared it so I can test doing a regular post and embeding videos and testing the rating system.

Well, let me know the update. if it's not ok then PM me ftp and WordPress Password. I will check it.