Installing the Custom Arthemia Theme
Building your site in WordPress is easy and quick enough without a custom theme… but several of you have asked about how I made changes to the Arthemia theme, to get it working the way I wanted. This post is a quick video recap of installing the Free Arthemia WordPress theme, with the edits in place.
Before anyone gets started on this, as much as I wish I could, I simply cannot answer “site specific” support requests on it, due to EVERY site being different! It will take me 30-60 minutes to help each person! I changed this theme to work for myself, and it relies heavily on using the posts and pages in WordPress, the same way I have done on my own site.
The directions below assume you already have your post reviews in place, as well as the phpBay plugin installed. Also, if you are not familiar with how to use the “Image” custom field in Arthemia, you should read the read me file in the theme as well. The theme itself relies heavily on the custom field, and this theme edit uses it in several places also.
- Download and Install the Slightly Modded version of Arthemia to your WordPress backend.
- Download and Install the List Tags Plugin.
- Make SURE you already have your site setup with categories and pages in place.
Edit for Clarification – In the video, I show how to use a custom field for displaying phpBay plugin driven results on your site, the way the theme is coded. You DO NOT HAVE to use this method… it WILL work just fine if you use phpBay as it is intended. It is simply a shortcut I USE, to make the site more flexible for my own needs.
Edit 2 For Further Clarification – If you prefer to use the phpBay code within your posts like you are used to doing, it works perfectly fine! You are NOT required to use it if you have a market that comes from several different categories.
Watch the Video for Configuring the Theme to Work with your Website
Video Length - 19 Minutes
(Sorry for the long runtime – I tried to explain alot of things)
Links for working with Arthemia
- Original Arthemia Theme
Images FAQ For Arthemia (Also at the link above)
im-FAQ 1 : How to get the thumbnail image resizer working??
Actually the explanation above is clear enough for you to get the thumbnail working, but in case you missed something, you could read these step-by-step to-do list. Before you start, make sure that the image is already there, located in your own server. The script can not generate thumbnails if your image is located outside your server (eg. Flickr photos, Picassa, etc.)
- Add a custom field in the post. The custom field key MUST be
Image(letter cases are important). - Fill the custom field value with the path of your image. It MUST start with
wp-contentI repeat it MUST start withwp-content. If you have the image located athttp://www.yourblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/file_name.jpgthen the key value of the custom field MUST bewp-content/uploads/2008/06/file_name.jpg(Notice there is nohttp://www.yourblog.com/in the value)
Hi Mark,
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this Arthemia Theme video! Your detailed help and guidance, as always, is most appreciated!
However, the video isn’t working on my end – it appears to be just an image file and not video? Anyone else having this problem?
Caro
@Caroline – Wow 0- It really makes a HUGE DIFFERENCE when I put the link into the post!
Thanks for posting that Caro – try it again, its all set now!
mark
Hi Mark,
LOL! Putting in the actual link might be helpful!
Video works great now – off to watch!
Caro
Great video Mark
However, as I already have Arthemia installed it didn’t like me installing Arthemia1. Told me the destination folder was already there so I ftp’d it instead. Have sent you email.
Cherie
Hi Mark
As you know, I have this theme installed on one of my newest sites and it has made my life soooooo much easier when it comes to putting together a new site. It now takes me around 2 hours to add a full sites worth of content as opposed to the 10 before:)
Cheers, Mark!
Ben
@Cherie – Yes, you will first need to pull out any existing arthemia theme you may have running on the site.
@Ben Johnson – Its very quick and easy once the theme is up, for sure! Post ONCE and everything else just falls into place!
Super great video, Mark.
I admit I was a bit lost when it came to configuring the theme but your video makes it seem alot less confusing.
I especially liked the part about how to use custom fields – I certainly have been doing things the hard way in regards to adding images, LOL!
Perhaps you could go into further detail about this subject in another video? Explain other ways we could utilize custom fields to make putting together a site easier?
Caro
This is brilliant and what a time saver and you explained it perfectly – thank you so very much!
Hi Mark
Fantastic post as usual. I have been looking at some of your sites and have admired the clean and simple layout, but could never figure out how you achieved such a great result. Thank you for sharing this great secret with us – it is much appreciated. Whilst I have dabbled in the PHP coding of some themes in the past, it has very much been on a ‘hit or miss’ basis. Your step by step instructions are clear and simple and demonstrate that while Wordpress was designed to get us uneducated people onto the net, being able to delve into the code moves you from a basic site to a real winner.
Thanks again for a great post.
Tony
PS. I echo Caro’s call for some more information about custom fields as they seem to be great time savers and perfect for maintaining a standard format across your site. I would also be interested in more information in relation to changing the phpBay call page to other affiliate programs such as Amazon. Asking a lot, I know, but the information would really be appreciated.
Mark -
Thanks for the great video! I have certainly gone through it a few times. For those of us who are absolute newbies it might take a little longer to get it done but I am practicing on non-essential material while I await real content from my preferred author from TB.
I agree with Tony and Caro on custom fields and diversification of affiliate programs just in case something happens to one of them.
I know you are busy doing your own thing but we certainly appreciate the time you always take out to help us all.
Many thanks!
Musqui
Hi Mark,
Thanks for taking the time to create this video. I’m in the middle of making the modifications, but came up with a question that’s about 10 minutes into your video.
In this portion of the video you instruct us to enter the category ID inside the phpbay code. Looking ahead, this appears to be a problem in my case and perhaps the case of other readers here. For example, the products in my niche can be associated with a couple of ebay categories.
In fact, depending on what is being searched for in ebay, one category (ebay motors) can show more results than another one (business and industrial). So I was planning on entering in the specific ID as needed when I make the corresponding post.
Is this a dead end for me, or is it possible for me to remove the post-listings.php file and insert the phpbay code in each post?
Again, thank you for your time and help. Hopefully, this will help others, too.
@ All –
I will drop some of the cusomt field MODS I use in a future post… It TRULY makes life very easy!
@Mark Sierra at MeAndMyDrum.com – Good point!
The way the custom field works with phpBay works is this:
< IF > [ebaykeys] is not blank < THEN > [get the keywords] and use the post-listings.php code.
So… IF you DONT use the ebaykeys custom field, it will never call the post-listings.php file, and you just use phpbay long as you normally would on any other post.
Mark
@ All –
Just to clarify that last comment a bit further – I DO have this coded for myself where I use several custom fields instead of the phpbay long code.
I use a series of custom fields for several of the values, in order to get fully customized results:
minprice =
maxprice =
catid =
ebaykeys =
sellerid =
For ME, I find it easier to use the custom fields and more flexible for future use. For tohers however, it may just be easier to use the phpbay code.
Purely a matter of preference.
Mark
I don’t seem to have a cache folder so cannot change it to 777 or 755. Is it supposed to have this folder or not?
Thanks for the reply, Mark.
Once I got to the end of the video, I had an idea. If I understand your last comment correctly, it may be what you’re explaining, but just to be sure…
Are you saying that just like the value “ebaykeys” is used for keywords, the code can be configured to accept another variable for the catid? If so, this would solve my issue, but I’m unclear as to how to do that.
Oh and one more thing, please: at the very end of your video you briefly mention the ability to use “Image” in the custom field so that a thumbnail image is associated with the post. I tried that, but my image is not showing, so is a plugin needed or is it part of the Arthemia theme that does this and I’m just overlooking something?
I really appreciate your help!
@Cherie – Cherie – you shouldn’t have to do anything, the folder is generated as the theme starts to work. I have never had to touch anything to do with the cache folder on a hostgator host.
@Mark Sierra at MeAndMyDrum.com – The “ebaykeys” custom field, calls the include file. So, if you have one-off listings that are in different eBay categories than you put into the post-listings.php file, you can just NOT even use the ebaykeys custom field, and add the phpbay code directly into your wordpress editor.
IF however, you WANT to use the custom field, and also supply a custom field for the catid of the listing for that post, it CAN be done as well.
Here is a separate post-listings.php file
Use it to replace the one I included with the theme. It has “4″ variables that can be passed to the code:
1 – ebaykeys = “clock” [keywords you want to search for]
2 – minprice = “250″ [minimum price of the items to be displayed]
3 – maxprice = “750″ [maximum price of the items to be displayed]
4 – ebaycat = “16115″ [ebay category of the items to be displayed]
It relies 100% on the ebaykeys field being in place… meaning, if the ebaykeys custom field is not there, none of the code will be called at all.
It is FINE to leave ANY other field blank as well… if the minprice, maxprice or ebaycat, is blank, it will just insert nothing into the code, and draw from EVERYTHING on ebay.
Mark
love the ebay custom key (now that I’ve figured it out). Now if only I could figure out how to do the image one. Ah, slowly, slowly
Awesome, Mark! Thank you for going to the trouble of modifying that file.
@Cherie – Try this link…
@Mark Sierra at MeAndMyDrum.com – NP at all Mark – I use an even more detailed flavor on many of my own…
Mark
Thanks Mark That’s brilliant
We got there in the end. One thing, if I’m using an image from wiki or flickr etc. is it best to put a link below the image giving attribution or on the image itself?
@Cherie – Its a very nice gesture for sure if you are using their image. But I rarely actually use a “Link”, I just mention where it came from. “Image from Flickr”
M
Oh that reminds me about the other question I had about using the image custom field. Is that a plugin or Arthemia thing?
@Mark Sierra at MeAndMyDrum.com – Striclt arthemia in this case, but it can be done with ANY theme with a bit of coding.
M
Mark, thanks for the video! Very easy to understand and works like a charm. I noticed one thing that I have a question about. I first noticed it on my site, then pulled up your site and see that the same thing happens, so I’m assuming I didn’t do something wrong.
At the bottom of each post where it says “View All Your Category Title”, the titles for the different articles show but the first few lines under each title are from the current article being read. I probably make no sense – LOL. Just curious.
Thanks again for sharing this and all the time you put into helping us all. My sites about ready and this mod makes it so much easier!
Sherrin
@Sherrin – Sherrin – you found it!
Actually, I made changes to the uploaded files yesterday, right after I posted this and another reader brought it up as well.
If you downloaded the theme prior to yesterday afternoon, you may have the residual content in place still. Which is apparent if you noticed the same text in the bottom of each single post.
1 – If the theme is already installed, simply go into your theme editor, and open the single.php file:
admin > appearance > editor > single.php file
On line #36 you will see:
< ?php the_content_limit(150, ""); ? >
Just remove that entire line and save the file. You are done.
2 – If you do not have the theme installed yet, no need to do this, it was updated in the code already.
Mark
I seem to have a bit of a problem pulling items from ebay. I see that there are 28 items but I’m getting nothing. I put exactly the same search terms into ebay itself and get results but nothing in the phpbay code. I tried with both the ebaykeys and the other code.
Any ideas as to why this may be?
@ All –
Anyone using the custom “post-listings.php” zip file I attached in these comments a few back, well… you may be wondering why they won’t display 4 auctions in 4 columns!
Smack me… I left in a small bit of sidebar code!
The download zip file file is already updated, but if you just want to edit the file you already have, open up the post-listings.php file and on line 14, you will see:
echo phpBayPro($text, true);
change it to:
echo phpBayPro($text);
Sorry for the error…
Mark
One question. What about posts that don’t have any images attached? Or do they all need images? Because those with images are showing up on the home page at the top right, but those without have the missing image white square thing.
@Norbert – I have got the theme setup to NEED the image on every post, so if there is no image, it actually starts skipping other portions of the post as well, like the link.
Next time I update and use the theme, I will code that out and make it optional. I didn’t even consider NOT using the images. Sorry about that…
Mark
If you are using the geotargetting mod from the phpbaypro forum will it still work if putting in the category number in the post-listings.php page
@Charlotte – Good question I do not know the answer to Charlotte. I target US only, so I haven’t used the Geo Plugin.
Do let me know if it gives you an issue though – I can jump into your site and see if there is a quick solution, which will likely be using a variable for the catid, versus a hardcoded id.
Mark
Thanks Mark
I’ve had a look further through the PHPbay forum and it would appear that if you put a category number in for one country that is a different category number for another country then no listings show up. But having searched some more, luckily for the US and UK the cat number is the same, just a bit higher up the category tree, so I’m hoping that will satisfy the QPC for eBay, so eg, instead of targetting say “golf markers” with the appropriate cat number, it will have to be the cat no for “accessories” Do you think that will be ok?
@Charlotte – Makes perfect sense to me Charlotte!
I tend to stay one level higher on most sites already anyhow, versus targeting EXACT categories. In most cases, the parent categories have more of the same products as well, and it can be narrowed with the keywords easily.
Mark
That’s so true, Mark, about going a level up. With so many places sellers have to choose from to put their listings in, it’s best to be general in most cases and then do the fine tuning with keywords.
Hope you’re over your flu bug. If it was “swine” flu, did you take oinkment? LOL
Hi there, I recently installed the arthemia theme. I’ve added some test posts. Great video, by the way. For some reason, I cannot get the images to load and I’m deparately hoping that you can take a look and tell me what I might be doing wrong. I have followed the instructions to a tee. Over and over again. Anything you can do to help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
@michelle – Michelle –
It looks to me like you are using the FULL image URL in the custom field. With Arthemia, you have to remove the domain portion of the image location.
Instead of:
http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/sexyback1-150×150.jpg
Just use:
/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/sexyback1-150×150.jpg
Mark
Thank so much Mark for the quick response
Well, that is actually what I was doing (i’ve tried it both ways and when I went to edit it again, it did not have the domain as part of the url, at least not in the custom field value) BUT, I did not have a forward slash before “wp-content” in the path, so I’ve got that now and it is still not working. I copied your path exactly. I think what your were referring to may have been the fact that in the post I also inserted the image. I just put up a different post called “trying sexy back” and I created the custom field with the value as you have noted. I did not insert the image into the post. Is there a place in the body (text) of the post where I have to reference the custom field. Something such as “insert custom field?”
Could this have anything to do with the fact that I had to create a cache folder on the server and then change the access??? I dont know. I have no idea why this is not working. I have tried every which way it seems. Thank you again for your help.
On another note, the theme tends to load somewhat slow. Is there a plugin or something else that you could recommend to remedy that?@Mark -
I could email you my loging and password info if necessary. @michelle -
Hi Mark, I was putting up another site using your modified theme and noticed that the post-listings.php file available for download here is not the one you mean to have in the zip file. It’s configured to show only one category: 56199.
Just thought you should know.
Hey Mark,
Although I read this ost weeks ago, I’ve only just got round to installing it on my new site and I’ve got to say it’s looking wonderful so thanks for all your help.
The one area I’m struggling with is the List_Tags plugin, does it mean I can onlt use tags that I want to show in the drop down menu in the header, or can it be modified to only show the tags I want to show?
Thanks
Ray
@Ray – Hey Mark,
I managed to figure this out. I was looking inside the files for the plugin then realized that it was the header file I needed to modify.
Thanks again for this theme it is awesome.
Ray
That’s a great video Mark. Just one thing, I’ve tried to change the wording on the single-post.php page but it won’t let me change the wording. Well it let me change it once but not since. Could you please offer some insight as to how to get it to behave
thanks
@Mark Sierra at MeAndMyDrum.com – Yes… the original zip contains the single catid functions, the file attached within these comments is the only one with all the variables in place.
@Ray – Glad it worked out Ray!
@Charlotte – I’m not sure I understand what you mean Charlotte. Once its changed within the single.php file, it should not have to be changed again. It may be archive pages that show something different versus single.?
Mark
Mark
This is what I have on the single.php page
If you would like to provide some more information for this , please go to our <a href="/contact/”>Content Submission page to submit your article.
but it comes out
If you would like to provide some more information for this Review, please go to our Content Submission page and give us a few days to moderate give your content approval.
I am also having trouble with this. have looked in my file permissions and some are set to 644 – these seem to be the pages to do with the editing of the theme. Even if I edit the pages such as review and guide pages template, it’s not showing up on the live site. I get my “greyed” page title showing like this “TitleReview Page” – without a gap inbetween the title and review words. I don’t seem to be able to change the working on the main template pages.
@Charlotte – Please post a URL, or send it along via the contact page.
@cherie – Cherie – it should have nothing to do with file permissions… same as above, shoot me an email with a URL so I can see the result on a page.
M
I have found my problem – somehow I’ve ended up with the arthemia theme folder within another arthemia theme therefore I wasn not editing in the place I thought I was in. Another numptyhead moment. It’s been a long day.
@Charlotte
I suggest you look at yours and see if that’s the problem.
Cherie
How do I change the colour of the side nav bars from black to something else?
@cherie – If you go to line 620 of style.css you should see ‘#sidebar h3′ you need to change background:#999999 to whichever color you want to show.
Ben
@ Ben
thanks for that. however, I don’t seem to have that coding, mine is
#sidebar h3 {
font:1.1em Arial;
font-weight:bold;
background:#333;
color:#fff;
margin:10px 0px 5px 0px;
padding:3px 10px;
}
But further down is this
#sidebar li {
list-style:none;
border-bottom:1px dotted #ccc;
display:block;
padding:2px 0px 2px 13px;
background:url(images/sub.png) no-repeat 0 0px;
}
I did see somewhere that the black bar (that I want to change) is actually an image called sub.png but when I looked at it, it shows an image of an “L” shape done in dots, it’s not the solid bar. Do you know how to change that bit?
thanks
@cherie – Sorry Cherie, my fault, in the following:
#sidebar h3 {
font:1.1em Arial;
font-weight:bold;
background:#333;
color:#fff;
margin:10px 0px 5px 0px;
padding:3px 10px;
}
Change: background:#333;
To: background:#yourcolorcode;
This will change the black background of the sidebar H3’s. The sub.png is just an image for the list items.
Ben
Brilliant – Thanks very much Ben
@cherie – No problem, happy to help
Hi Mark
Still getting a problem with “View All Your Category Title”, the titles for the different articles show but the first few lines under each title are from the current article being read. Even though it’s the new download, I looked for this bit of code in the single.php
but it’s not there.
Can you help?
thanks
Cherie
oops – I tried to find this code
but couldn’t
Oh, it’s not letting me post the code, but you know the one I mean, I hope.
Oh my, what a pickle, I found the code and deleted it. Sorry
thanks
Good looking wordpress theme
Just wish it was more colorful instead of mostly grey
@CoolGames Guide – Arthemia is super easy to change colors… Heres one and another
1 – bg-body.jpg sets your site background.
2 – navbar.png sets the navbar color.
3 – bottombar.png for the footer.
Aside from those three files… its all css changes, which are few.
I have several others using the theme but don’t want to post too many.
Mark
Nicley done, Mark! Very creative.
Hi Mark,
First off I want to say thanks for all the info you provide. You allow others that don’t have the knowledge to produce nice looking sites. You will be rewarded.
I do have one issue with the thumbnails. For some reason the thumbnail won’t load, I get the border with the alt showing. I checked the source code and it looks just like it should. Thanks in advance
@CoolGames Guide – Figured I would drop this one in the line as well – Its a new launch using Arthemia.
Womens Jeans
Did a bit of custom work on this one and made use of a few added plugins to help me with onsite pagelinks.
I have a post started about it already – should post it up within a week or two.
Mark
OMG – that is gorgeous!
Hey! Paint-on jeans! LOL
Nicely done again, Mark. I’ll bet you’re tired of hearing that.
I figured the thumbnail issue out. My site is hosted with hostgator and set the permissions to 755 and they work now. The instructions said set permissions to 777. Must be a hostgator thing. Back to work!!
@Rob – Sorry for the slow reply Rob – Approved your message last night and planned to take a peek for you this morning. HG permissions can be a bit tricky for sure, and 777 is out of bounds! Fortunately, 755 usually cures all!
I recently added a stream of eCommerce sites on a HG dedicated server I manage for one of my local customers, and had the same issue. Took me a day or two to grasp it, and eventually just asked HG why it didnt work!
@ Nadiya and Mark Sierra – Thanks! I still have a small bit of work to do on it, and may remove eBay listings and use a different feed… but its getting there for the most part!
Mark
Hi Mark,
No problem. Its always better to figure things out on your own. Besides I think you go above and beyond when it comes to helping people out. I tell ya the thumbnail resizer sure saves a lot of work!! Thanks again for the theme.
Hey Mark,
Like I said in an earlier post I have this theme set up and working on a couple of sites now and it’s still as sweet as ever.
One (more) question though…….. where do you plan to publish the reader reviews you solicit on the product pages? I’ve had a couple come through and just realized that I don’t know what to do with them for the best.
Ray
In my statistics for one of my sites there are quite a few 404 errors for comments – eg “comment-page-1/#comment-16″
Should i be worried about those, I don’t really know what they mean or how to fix them.
Cherie
@Ray – Ray, I have had a couple come in, and I just put them where appropriate. If they are on an existing review, I add them to the bottom. If its a WP Blog, I will activate comments and add a comment review. After the review is approved, turn comments back off.
@Cherie – Thats a function of WP 2.7+ and the pagination in wordpress comments. You can shut down comment pagination in the admin > settings > discussion > “Other comment settings” section. Just un-tick the “Break comments into pages” box.
M
thanks Mark
Mark,
Thanks for the reply – turning the comments on and off seems so obvious now that you’ve pointed it out……I feel really dumb now!
Thanks for all your help AGAIN.
Ray
@Ray – Hey Ray – I use a plugin called One Click Close Comments (Link)
It adds a red or green “dot” within your posts screen in WP. Click the “Dot” and it turns on or off comments.
When a review comes in – turn it green, add the review, then revisit the admin to click the dot back to red.
Mark
“@Ray – Hey Ray – I use a plugin called One Click Close Comments (Link)”
Nice tip Mark thanks again.
Ray
Thanks for the tip on how to change the colors in the theme.
on my site, I can’t figure out how to get rid of the rectangle border that appears on each sidebar widget I have.
Hi Mark,
With epn the way its heading is there a easy way to convert regular bans sites to wordpress without the downtime problem (rebuilding). I built two sites N1way and now wish I would have used wordpress as its easy to convert to amazon or any other affiliate program. These two sites are new but are indexed by google so I am starting to get the traffic. Thanks
@CoolGames Guide – In the stylesheet (style.css) – line 934 (.widget) adds a border around the sidebar widgets. Just remove the border code.
@Rob – I find the easiest way to convert, is to build the wordpress site in a folder directory, like: site.com/beta/
Once its rebuilt with all your content back in place (Copy-paste and rewrite) – just remove the bans file and relocate the beta folder onto the root of the domain.
I wrote some step-by-step directions on this last year specifically for converting to phpbay, but it holds true for ANY wordpress move.
Scroll down to the third or fourth paragraph, “Building a new site in the background” and follow from there.
Mark
Thanks,
Worked like a charm
My categories don’t display under the review menu. Is there something that Im missing about getting tem to display in the menu at the top as dropdown?
I get “no categories” for some strange reason.
Ok I’ve went through the video again and now it will display only one of my categories in the dropdown. It also might be worth adding that the id’s of the pages are matching with id’s assigned to my categories so in the video you exclude 1,3,7 as the page id’s but if I do that it will exlude categoires 1,3,7..
Right now only one category will display in the dropwdown none of the rest. I’m getting really confused with the video as what it says doesn’t work in practice. No categories dropping down
Hi Mark,
This can be for anyone that has had this issue. My sidebar.php file for some reason ends up showing the following. This is all thats in the edit file box in wordpress.
vti_encoding:SR|utf8-nl
vti_timelastmodified:TR|29 Oct 2009 03:52:39 -0000
vti_extenderversion:SR|5.0.2.4803
vti_cacheddtm:TX|29 Oct 2009 03:52:39 -0000
vti_filesize:IR|1501
vti_backlinkinfo:VX|
The only way to edit is to re-upload the file.
Thanks in advance.
Hi Mark,
In using the Arthemia theme. When you show you items from ebay. How do you add the title above your auctions like you do on the Bike rack site?
I show my items but your says something like “Yakima King Cobra Bike Racks on ebay”
Thanks,
Randy
I noticed on the sidebar of this site that when you have any lists, you get a shape of a dotted L. How would you get rid of the dotted L on your sidebar if you didn’t want it anymore?
Thanks
The reason why I ask, is because on my site, I get a dark dot for each list. I have no idea how to remove it.
Mark,
I have found all of your videos very helpful. I do have on suggestion however. The videos would be more helpful for me (and I assume others) if they included a pause feature. That would allow us do the updates as we follow the video without playing it over and over.
@Bob – Hey Bob, glad you enjoy the vids – there is a pause button in the lower left corner of the player.
Mark
I’m having problems with the arthemia. After I activate the theme and click on visit site, I get nothing. I get a blank screen and it just stay there. I get the same result on two different sites.
When having lists using a widget, how do you get rid of the icon?, whether it be a square, or circle or in your case, an icon in the shape of an L.
@Bob – Bob – post up the URL or send it via email, it will be easier to help.
@CoolGames Guide – Look for the #sidebar li definitions in the style.css file. It will determine what type of list style, or image to use for each list item (li)
Mark
Hey Mark, when I activated arthemia all of my blog content got displayed except for the title, which remained “arthemia.” I realize after watching your video (which is great btw) that there’s a lot more I gotta do (I’m pretty green at this), but it seems odd that the subtitle of the page got placed while my name for the blog didn’t. Your thoughts?
@Patrick – Hi Patrick, it’s a logo image file in the header… so you need to create your own logo file to replace the one included with the standard theme.
Its not like other themes that use text in the header… (Although it can also do that if you change the code)
Mark
Does anyone know how to pull from both titles and descriptions from Ebay? I am only getting results from words in the title now.
I think the answer to my question lies within the homepage and not the sidebar widget.
What I did was move a widget to the home page, to have the home page act as a widget and now my list has a squares.
Leave your response!
Niche Guide Topics
Time & Money Spent Developing Site
- 1.5 Hrs - Initial Research
- 3 Hrs - Site Development Planning
- 4.5 Hrs - Draft Review Pages to Admin
- 2.5 Hrs - Template & Code Customization
- 4 Hrs - Finalized 24 Product Review Pages and added 11 category summary pages
- Added a home page, and Launch site!
- 3.5 Hours: Added 2 more Guides + 10 more reviews
Money Spent to Date: $186.00Niche Guide Tags
Blog Directories
Pages
Archives
Recent Comments
Most Commented
Blogroll