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Tammie
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13th July 2010
We'd like to announce the release of Business Feature today.
So what is the Business Feature theme?
Business Feature is all about making your content count. Get your content noticed with this great flexible and high impact theme.
Based on the design of the incredibly popular wpplugins.com – Business Feature brings all the power to feature content that site has to your doorstep. Not only that but we’ve added the ability to link in BuddyPress also.
Just some of the amazing features are:
- Set a strapline for the header
- Header feature section - set a background image, title, text and link, turn on or off the feature section
- Featured post section - pick a category, set a title and number of posts
- Sidebar news feed - set a link and title
- Front page sidebar posts - pick a category, set a title and number of posts
- Twitter block - set text, link and button title
- Add text to your BuddyPress panel
- Blog / news template
- Threaded comments styling
- Custom logo - set image, square logo and text or just text
- Create your own colours - use a simple colour picker or select a font from the drop down to change links, headers and other global features.
- Join now feature - create a custom join now block with message and set the link
- Post thumbnails
- WordPress 3.0 menus
- Drop down menus - automatically appear if you have multiple levels
- Parent and child theme
- Works for WordPress, Multisite and with or without BuddyPress
We'd like to announce the release of Business Feature today.
So what is the Business Feature theme?
Business Feature is all about making your content count. Get your content noticed with this great flexible and high impact theme.
Based on the design of the incredibly popular wpplugins.com – Business Feature brings all the power to feature content that site has to your doorstep. Not only that but we’ve added the ability to link in BuddyPress also.
Just some of the amazing features are:
- Set a strapline for the header
- Header feature section - set a background image, title, text and link, turn on or off the feature section
- Featured post section - pick a category, set a title and number of posts
- Sidebar news feed - set a link and title
- Front page sidebar posts - pick a category, set a title and number of posts
- Twitter block - set text, link and button title
- Add text to your BuddyPress panel
- Blog / news template
- Threaded comments styling
- Custom logo - set image, square logo and text or just text
- Create your own colours - use a simple colour picker or select a font from the drop down to change links, headers and other global features.
- Join now feature - create a custom join now block with message and set the link
- Post thumbnails
- WordPress 3.0 menus
- Drop down menus - automatically appear if you have multiple levels
- Parent and child theme
- Works for WordPress, Multisite and with or without BuddyPress
I have been playing around with it, I have run into one issue where when I enable buddypress on it.. I end up with two of the orange ribbons going across the screen. I attached a screen shot..
Any help would be appreciated in removing it so there is just the one...
@Tammie. Thanks for the beautiful business feature theme. Then all of them are great.
I am using this theme for a sub blog and have a problem with the menu. I can add one new row of menus but it does not seem possible to edit or change the existing menu. The screen shot will explain:
@Johan: No those are the BuddyPress menus you can't remove them unless you go into the coding and then you can however then they would be gone for the root blog too. Should you wish them gone then you can edit library/components/buddypress/buddypress-navigation.php.
Here are two possible solutions. The one involves me and the other you ;-)
1) Is it possible to add this theme fresh from the zip file and then give it another name, like Business-Feature and Business-Feature-Child?
I can then take the one I am using, make the changes and only make it available to this sub blog.
2) The other idea would be to ask you to add a feature in the Theme Options to show or not show the buddy press nav bar? Tammy I know you are busy but if it's simple to do and you can share the HTML to do that then I will add it to the theme's code.
@Johan: We won't be adding that feature you would have to edit the theme. We may if enough users request it later but we won't be supporting that with code or adding now. It wouldn't just be HTML and involve telling you how to edit functions which we'd not advise unless you've explored before.
@drmike: Yes sorry about that it's our new demo site - I had missed that one link in changing them all over.
@Johan: Yes you can do that we won't be providing a new zip though. You would have to not call it child though as that is what it's already called. You need to make it have the new name in style.css also.
As you have said: The Business Feature Theme (BFT) can be used for a sub blog, but it has a nav menu that needs to be coded out if I don't want it on the sub blog.
My Questions:
If the BFT can be used for a sub blog why would it include the BuddyPress Nav? Am I missing something?
@Johan: Because you've got buddypress enabled on your site it comes on for ALL instances. Those links just refer to the main site that is all - if you want those off you would have to edit the files as I've said and make a new theme copy. There is a switch in the theme that says 'if buddypress is on show this navigation' well as buddypress is on for your root blog it will show.
I really don't know what you mean now the way it goes it this:
1. Main blog + buddypress = your root blog with it all on
2. Sub blogs which link back to the main blog and that's buddypress
Thanks for being patient. You are not only supporting me you are also training me. Thanks.
Please bear with me.
Those links just refer to the main site that is all
Is the following statement correct?
If anyone use the BFT for a sub blog the BP NAV bar becomes obsolete. Because the links are referencing the local blog and not the route blog. Therefore if one wants to use it as sub blog theme editing of the code is a unconditional. Strictly this is then not an out of the box sub blog theme. (Note: I am asking rather than criticizing :-))
Let's assume the above is correct:
Please give me a short version of a step by step procedure to take the BFT theme and child theme.... and copy it for my needs... as I want to keep the original.
For example:
Do I only make a copy of the child theme and call it, for example, Business Feature Child-SubBlog Theme? Do I then make changes in this new child theme at library/components/buddypress/buddypress-navigation.php and add the new name in the style.css of the new child theme?
@Tammie Thought you would ask me that ;-) I edited the post above to show you that I have such an image. I suppose I added the image of the menu while you were answering me.
@Johan: Why the is front page? I can't even read half that code you've put on did something go wrong in your inputting it? I'd say if it works without your changes then you have done something wrong somewhere.
@Johan: Have you tried just having that in buddypress-navigation.php? Sorry just saw you've removed the buddypress-navigation link. Can you zip up header.php, home.php and navigation.php for me and send them all to me. Also any other files you have changed. If you can't send via this form (it does take zips) then just email to tammie@incsub.com. I will look tomorrow at this for you then.
@Tammie I have emailed you the files. Thanks for being patient. I suppose it's difficult sometimes. I could not upload header.txt as I suppose the "header" is not allowed.
@Johan: No problem I have looked at the files and I'm scratching my head a little as to what could be the issue. I even created my own child theme duplicate to see and as you can see by the attached files it works. Now the only things I can think you could be missing are these:
1. You haven't set the menu under appearance > menu
2. You didn't have the file path for navigation correct
All that aside maybe the attached files resolve it for you as it worked on my set up. Let me know if you do have any problems though or I'm not understanding your issue fully and haven't solved it.
For what it's worth, it'd be much easier to use a non-buddypress theme if you don't want the buddypress links and what-not on the site. I believe the Business Feature theme was specifically designed to have those buddypress features.
Also, if you'd prefer to have only part of your network use buddypress, another solution would be to enable buddypress on an individual site by defining that in your wp-config file.
*Edit* The Business Feature theme will work fine with only WordPress installed, but it checks for buddypress and when it finds it, enables the buddypress features. I'm just thinking of solutions outside of theme modification. You know, muddy the waters a bit! :P It appears Tammie's uploaded the solution for ya :D
@Tammie Thanks for trying to help me.
@masonjames thanks for the suggestion. It can work.
I don't want to admit it but I am giving up. This may be good because it made me question the need for Buddypress. My simple and cop out solution is to unplug buddypress. Here's confirmation for my particular situation and need. Basically I don't need to have buddypress.
@Johan: Hmm worked for me using the theme I made for you and uploaded.. not sure why that wouldn't work. Fair dos though if you don't want BuddyPress. My own opinion is BuddyPress rocks and it can easily work for any situation but for every hoorah there is a nope.
@Tammie I understand. I need more experience with BuddyPress. I obviously did something wrong. BuddyPress is not the issue. For this site I don't need BP and by doing what I did I solved a problem I created ;-)
Tammie's off for a couple days, but I think we can get this resolved. ;D
The post images should only appear on the blog page if you have set an image to be the "featured image". On the edit-post page, this setting is located at the bottom of the "Publish" column.
@ masonjames: Maybe I am not making myself clear (or I may not be understanding you). I don't want that empty field to appear at all. I have no plans to feature images for the blog. I will just include them within the blog posts as needed. I want the text to of the post to take up that area. Please let me know if I am not being clear.
I want the text to of the post to take up that area.
Hmm... That is what the theme should do automatically. If there is no "Featured Image", then the Post Title and Text fill the entire area. I'm attaching a screenshot of what the theme should look like with and without the feature image enabled.
Also, if you have a link that's always helpful! :D
@rillc can you tell me what browser you're using? I'm not seeing this in firefox or chrome. It may be a bug in the theme in which case we'll want to get it patched up. Thanks!
Ok, thanks. I'll alert Tammie to this when she returns.
If you need this changed immediately you can try:
business-feature>library>functions>loop-functions.php
Go to lines 74 & 75 and comment out or delete them. This should do the trick although when a theme update is released it'll over-write these changes. Thanks!
@masonjames here is a link to the site in question. (http://hbcusportsnation.com/blog/) Notice the boxes to the left side of the blog posts. The boxes are what I need to remove.
Thanks for sending me the link. Helped me see what was happening. Good news! It's an easy fix. Go to the Page you made for the blog. In the column under the publish button there's a section called Page Attributes. Make sure you set the Template for this page to "blog news".
That should take care of it for ya. I'd recommend downloading a new copy of the theme or fixing the stuff we tried earlier as well. Just to keep things fresh for upgrades. Thanks!
Toggle the "Front page displays" to Your latest posts and click save.
If you want to have a specific page display for your home page, go back and change the setting above to static page and then change "Front page" to whatever page you'd like.
Leave "Post Page" unchanged. Changing this setting is what creates the problem. (It makes your blog page use the theme's homepage setting).
I'd still recommend installing a new copy of the theme.
Responses (49)
Member — 14th July 2010 #
Fantastic @Tammie
Good Work!
Theme Designer — 14th July 2010 #
@barroca: Glad you like it thank you :)
Member — 18th July 2010 #
Great theme!
I have been playing around with it, I have run into one issue where when I enable buddypress on it.. I end up with two of the orange ribbons going across the screen. I attached a screen shot..
Any help would be appreciated in removing it so there is just the one...
Cheers.
Theme Designer — 18th July 2010 #
@fatal: That's the navigation you have not put a menu in the top navigation hence that's blank :) Go under appearance and menus and set it up.
Member — 19th July 2010 #
Great!
thanks for the great support!
Theme Designer — 19th July 2010 #
@fatal: Cool glad it helped.
Member — 28th July 2010 #
@Tammie. Thanks for the beautiful business feature theme. Then all of them are great.
I am using this theme for a sub blog and have a problem with the menu. I can add one new row of menus but it does not seem possible to edit or change the existing menu. The screen shot will explain:
Thanks...
Theme Designer — 28th July 2010 #
@Johan: No those are the BuddyPress menus you can't remove them unless you go into the coding and then you can however then they would be gone for the root blog too. Should you wish them gone then you can edit library/components/buddypress/buddypress-navigation.php.
Member — 28th July 2010 #
@Tammie
This may now expose my lack of knowledge ;-)
Here are two possible solutions. The one involves me and the other you ;-)
1) Is it possible to add this theme fresh from the zip file and then give it another name, like Business-Feature and Business-Feature-Child?
I can then take the one I am using, make the changes and only make it available to this sub blog.
2) The other idea would be to ask you to add a feature in the Theme Options to show or not show the buddy press nav bar? Tammy I know you are busy but if it's simple to do and you can share the HTML to do that then I will add it to the theme's code.
Have fun
Johan
Theme Designer — 28th July 2010 #
@Johan: We won't be adding that feature you would have to edit the theme. We may if enough users request it later but we won't be supporting that with code or adding now. It wouldn't just be HTML and involve telling you how to edit functions which we'd not advise unless you've explored before.
Member — 28th July 2010 #
@Tammie Thanks. What about option 1?
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 28th July 2010 #
Tammie, the demo link in the first post does not work. I get two gray boxes with links to Wordpress and Buddypress themes.
Member — 29th July 2010 #
@drmike
If you click on one or the other it takes you to the different options. At least that worked for me.
Theme Designer — 29th July 2010 #
@drmike: Yes sorry about that it's our new demo site - I had missed that one link in changing them all over.
@Johan: Yes you can do that we won't be providing a new zip though. You would have to not call it child though as that is what it's already called. You need to make it have the new name in style.css also.
Member — 29th July 2010 #
@Tammie:
As you have said: The Business Feature Theme (BFT) can be used for a sub blog, but it has a nav menu that needs to be coded out if I don't want it on the sub blog.
My Questions:
If the BFT can be used for a sub blog why would it include the BuddyPress Nav? Am I missing something?
Can a sub blog also become a buddypress blog?
And where can I go to read on how it's done?
Theme Designer — 29th July 2010 #
@Johan: Because you've got buddypress enabled on your site it comes on for ALL instances. Those links just refer to the main site that is all - if you want those off you would have to edit the files as I've said and make a new theme copy. There is a switch in the theme that says 'if buddypress is on show this navigation' well as buddypress is on for your root blog it will show.
I really don't know what you mean now the way it goes it this:
1. Main blog + buddypress = your root blog with it all on
2. Sub blogs which link back to the main blog and that's buddypress
Member — 29th July 2010 #
@Tammie
Thanks for being patient. You are not only supporting me you are also training me. Thanks.
Please bear with me.
Is the following statement correct?
If anyone use the BFT for a sub blog the BP NAV bar becomes obsolete. Because the links are referencing the local blog and not the route blog. Therefore if one wants to use it as sub blog theme editing of the code is a unconditional. Strictly this is then not an out of the box sub blog theme. (Note: I am asking rather than criticizing :-))
Let's assume the above is correct:
Please give me a short version of a step by step procedure to take the BFT theme and child theme.... and copy it for my needs... as I want to keep the original.
For example:
Do I only make a copy of the child theme and call it, for example, Business Feature Child-SubBlog Theme? Do I then make changes in this new child theme at library/components/buddypress/buddypress-navigation.php and add the new name in the style.css of the new child theme?
Theme Designer — 29th July 2010 #
@Johan: I have already done that however a recap for the parent theme if want to go that way:
1. Copy files into new folder called business-copy
2. Edit styles.css to say:
Theme Name: Bussiness Copy3. Save, activate ...
4. Open up header.php and remove:
Replace with:
I haven't tested this but should work.
Child could work too by creating a new header.php ... all up to you how you do it.
A big 'but' though - you will have a lot of buddypress files you are ONLY removing the navigation here not making a non BuddyPress theme.
Member — 29th July 2010 #
@Tammie thanks a lot.
Member — 29th July 2010 #
@Tammie I did it and created a new business copy. The buddypress nav was removed. The new nav bar shows but no links in the menu.
here's the site.
Theme Designer — 29th July 2010 #
@Johan: Have you actually created a menu? Those need a menu to be created in the appearance > menus section.
Member — 30th July 2010 #
@Tammie Thought you would ask me that ;-) I edited the post above to show you that I have such an image. I suppose I added the image of the menu while you were answering me.
Theme Designer — 30th July 2010 #
@Johan: Can you confirm what you have in navigation.php and that it is still linked.
<div class="nav"><div class="content-wrap">
<div class="content-content">
<?php wp_nav_menu( array('theme_location' => 'primary', 'menu_class' => 'sf-menu', 'container' => '', )); ?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Member — 30th July 2010 #
@Tammie
It looks the same to me:
Here's the header code. Is it correct?
If I change to the original child theme then you can see the new menu I created
Theme Designer — 30th July 2010 #
@Johan: Why the is front page? I can't even read half that code you've put on did something go wrong in your inputting it? I'd say if it works without your changes then you have done something wrong somewhere.
Member — 1st August 2010 #
@Tammie
I have attached the files in question. When I use the theme with these files I get no nav bar,
Theme Designer — 1st August 2010 #
@Johan: I see no files sorry.
Member — 1st August 2010 #
@Tammie Here are the text files. (I did not notice the error as .php files are not allowed as attachments).
Theme Designer — 1st August 2010 #
@Johan: Have you tried just having that in buddypress-navigation.php? Sorry just saw you've removed the buddypress-navigation link. Can you zip up header.php, home.php and navigation.php for me and send them all to me. Also any other files you have changed. If you can't send via this form (it does take zips) then just email to tammie@incsub.com. I will look tomorrow at this for you then.
Member — 1st August 2010 #
@Tammie I have emailed you the files. Thanks for being patient. I suppose it's difficult sometimes. I could not upload header.txt as I suppose the "header" is not allowed.
Theme Designer — 1st August 2010 #
@Johan: No problem I have looked at the files and I'm scratching my head a little as to what could be the issue. I even created my own child theme duplicate to see and as you can see by the attached files it works. Now the only things I can think you could be missing are these:
1. You haven't set the menu under appearance > menu
2. You didn't have the file path for navigation correct
All that aside maybe the attached files resolve it for you as it worked on my set up. Let me know if you do have any problems though or I'm not understanding your issue fully and haven't solved it.
Sales & Support Lead — 1st August 2010 #
For what it's worth, it'd be much easier to use a non-buddypress theme if you don't want the buddypress links and what-not on the site. I believe the Business Feature theme was specifically designed to have those buddypress features.
Also, if you'd prefer to have only part of your network use buddypress, another solution would be to enable buddypress on an individual site by defining that in your wp-config file.
Here's the codex page for more info:
http://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/
*Edit* The Business Feature theme will work fine with only WordPress installed, but it checks for buddypress and when it finds it, enables the buddypress features. I'm just thinking of solutions outside of theme modification. You know, muddy the waters a bit! :P It appears Tammie's uploaded the solution for ya :D
Member — 2nd August 2010 #
@Tammie Thanks for trying to help me.
@masonjames thanks for the suggestion. It can work.
I don't want to admit it but I am giving up. This may be good because it made me question the need for Buddypress. My simple and cop out solution is to unplug buddypress. Here's confirmation for my particular situation and need. Basically I don't need to have buddypress.
Theme Designer — 2nd August 2010 #
@Johan: Hmm worked for me using the theme I made for you and uploaded.. not sure why that wouldn't work. Fair dos though if you don't want BuddyPress. My own opinion is BuddyPress rocks and it can easily work for any situation but for every hoorah there is a nope.
Member — 9th August 2010 #
@Tammie I understand. I need more experience with BuddyPress. I obviously did something wrong. BuddyPress is not the issue. For this site I don't need BP and by doing what I did I solved a problem I created ;-)
Member — 13th August 2010 #
Tammie,
On the blog page I would like to remove the boxes reserved for images and have the blog text expand to take up that area. How do I do this.
Thanks.
Sales & Support Lead — 13th August 2010 #
Hiya,
Tammie's off for a couple days, but I think we can get this resolved. ;D
The post images should only appear on the blog page if you have set an image to be the "featured image". On the edit-post page, this setting is located at the bottom of the "Publish" column.
Let us know if this takes care of it for ya!
Member — 13th August 2010 #
@ masonjames: Maybe I am not making myself clear (or I may not be understanding you). I don't want that empty field to appear at all. I have no plans to feature images for the blog. I will just include them within the blog posts as needed. I want the text to of the post to take up that area. Please let me know if I am not being clear.
Sales & Support Lead — 13th August 2010 #
Hmm... That is what the theme should do automatically. If there is no "Featured Image", then the Post Title and Text fill the entire area. I'm attaching a screenshot of what the theme should look like with and without the feature image enabled.
Also, if you have a link that's always helpful! :D
Member — 13th August 2010 #
Here is a screen shot of what mine looks like. I am trying to remove the empty boxes where the arrows are pointing. Hopefully you can see it.
Sales & Support Lead — 13th August 2010 #
@rillc can you tell me what browser you're using? I'm not seeing this in firefox or chrome. It may be a bug in the theme in which case we'll want to get it patched up. Thanks!
Member — 13th August 2010 #
I use firefox, but the problem occurs in all browsers that I use.
Sales & Support Lead — 13th August 2010 #
Ok, thanks. I'll alert Tammie to this when she returns.
If you need this changed immediately you can try:
business-feature>library>functions>loop-functions.php
Go to lines 74 & 75 and comment out or delete them. This should do the trick although when a theme update is released it'll over-write these changes. Thanks!
Member — 13th August 2010 #
@masonjames: I completely removed it and it is still there. Anymore suggestions?
Sales & Support Lead — 15th August 2010 #
Hiya,
Sorry this is still giving you trouble. Can I get a link? This will really help me see what's going on. Thanks!
Member — 15th August 2010 #
@masonjames here is a link to the site in question. (http://hbcusportsnation.com/blog/) Notice the boxes to the left side of the blog posts. The boxes are what I need to remove.
I hope this helps.
Sales & Support Lead — 15th August 2010 #
Hiya rillc,
Thanks for sending me the link. Helped me see what was happening. Good news! It's an easy fix. Go to the Page you made for the blog. In the column under the publish button there's a section called Page Attributes. Make sure you set the Template for this page to "blog news".
That should take care of it for ya. I'd recommend downloading a new copy of the theme or fixing the stuff we tried earlier as well. Just to keep things fresh for upgrades. Thanks!
Member — 15th August 2010 #
@masonjames I did that and the boxes are still there. There is no change.
Sales & Support Lead — 15th August 2010 #
Hiya,
Go to Settings>Reading:
Toggle the "Front page displays" to Your latest posts and click save.
If you want to have a specific page display for your home page, go back and change the setting above to static page and then change "Front page" to whatever page you'd like.
Leave "Post Page" unchanged. Changing this setting is what creates the problem. (It makes your blog page use the theme's homepage setting).
I'd still recommend installing a new copy of the theme.
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