AcosminMAG – new wordpress theme ready for download
It is time to release a new wordpress theme, a theme which I think is much better and improved than my latest ones. The theme’s name is AcosminMAG, “mag” comes from magazine because as you can see from the live demo, this actually is a magazine style wordpress theme. Also you should take in consideration that this is the beta version, so if you find some bugs let me know about them and I will handle them.
AcosminMAG Features:
- Valid xhtml/css code
- Featured Posts
- Featured Video
- Widgets ready sidebars so that you can use any plugins/widgets you want
- A few ad spots in different formats: 728x90px, 300x250px, 468x60px, 160x600px.
Things you should know before activating this wordpress theme on yout blog!
This wp theme comes with three plugins that you should activate, for example:
Recent Comments – this is a simple and highly customizable plugin from rmarsh.com. As you can see in the live demo, it looks great and it has a lot of options. After activating this plugin in your wordpress admin panel, go to the Settings tab > Recent Comments > Output and add the following code to the the output template text field:
<li> {gravatar:40px:rating:http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/default} <span>{author}</span> <br /> <a href="{commenturl}">{commentsnippet:50} [...]</a> </li>
CoolPlayer – I’ve used this wordpress video plugin a lot on this blog as you can see and the only reason I use it is because it allows me to embed media from a lot of video sharing websites. Another reason is that when you embed videos from youtube it will not use youtube’s player, it will use a nice player that is xhtml valid and without any watermark from them. You can find more info about this video plugin here.
Post Plugin Library – required for the Recent Comments plugin
How to use the featured posts and the featured videos options.
First of all you need to create two new categories, one named featured posts (or another name, or you can use a category that is already created) and the other one named featured videos (you can rename it as you want and I strongly recommend that you create a new category for this option, because you need to set up the videos with a precise width/height size).
After creating/deciding which categories to use, you need to get their unique id. This can be done by going into your wp admin panel > manage > categories and when you move your mouse over the categories link, you’ll see in your browsers bottom border the id. Bellow you have an example and keep in mind those numbers!
Now let’s modify the wordpress theme so that it shows what you need.
For Featured Posts, go in the index.php file and find the line (on line 4):
<?php $featured = new WP_Query('cat=10&showposts=1');
Replace the number from cat=10 to cat= the id number of the featured posts category. You can also set how many futured posts to show up on your index by replacing showposts=1 to showposts= the number of posts.
For Featured Videos go in the sidebar.php file and first find line number 8:
<?php query_posts('showposts=5&cat=11'); ?>
Replace cat=11 with cat= the id number of the featured videos category. Also do the same thing on line 16 and after go back in your index.php and find line number 37:
<?php $novideos = new WP_Query('cat=-11&showposts&orderby=post_date&order=desc&paged=' . $pagination); $wp_query->in_the_loop = true; ?>
Here you need to replace cat=-11 with cat=- the id number of the featured videos category. This will prevent showing videos into the main articles.
To write a featured post just write a normal article and select the featured posts category (or whatever your category name is). To add a featured video you do as with featured posts, but you must select the featured videos category and instead of writing an article just add a video, for example adding a video from youtube using the coolplayer plugin (use width 290 and height 220, info on how to use this plugin here):
I think that is all and I hope you enjoy using it. Also in exchange I have only three links in the footer which I hope you don’t delete. I’ll update this post if something comes up, until then you can see this magazine wordpress theme here and download the beta version from bellow. Don’t forget to digg 
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Download AcosminMAG Wordpress Theme v1.0 (unknown, 4,029 hits)
Beta version (with problems)
Download AcosminMAG Wordpress theme (419.9 KiB, 1,030 hits)
PS: Updated the categories, tags and archives pages. It should work fine now.
PS 2: Take a look here for some fixed problems.
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Tnx a lot! A’ll test it.
If you want, I can translate this theme into russian. If you are interesting – contact me
I saw some errors. When you click to a category or tag … (www.url.com/tag/x or http://www.url.com/category/y) you see all the articles … not just that who are clasified in that category.
When i try to actived the theme it doesnt work, hmm..
Brilliant piece of work man
thx guys
I’ve updated the theme, removed some small bugs.
@SoftView – it must work, just upload the folder acosminmag to your themes directory
@Asoccer – It works now, I’ve updated it and the categories and tags pages work fine.
@Radzevich – not for now, when I will launch a final version I’ll contact you. Thx for the support
Great theme!
Salut Cosmin. Eu am intampinat ceva probleme. Atunci cand accesez o categorie la intamplare imi afiseaza posturile de pe index. De ce face figura asta? Tin sa mentionez ca am scos partea cu “featured post”.
imi poti explica si mie cu ce am gresit?
Ti-am zis si pe blogoree, iti zic si aici. Tema e super! Felicitari. Chiar o folosesc la blogul cu care m-am semnat aici. La mai multe astfel de teme
Am rezolvat si eu cu categoriile..am downloadat iarasi tema. (nu am dat importanta ps-ului). Felicitari pentru tema si succes in continuare. :*
Love the theme! However, for some reason at the bottom where it has pages, it will always show the same on every page. Any advice on how to fix this?
Great theme Cosmin! I really enjoy my blogs theme that is of course designed and coded by you. You’re doing a great job , keep up the good work !
hi,
after choosing the theme, it kills my wordpress admin. cant do nothing anymore. cant switch back to the default theme. i get this error in the wp-admin :
fatal error: Cannot redeclare wp_pagenavi() (previously declared in /home/www/doc/16867/webmaster-resource.de/www/wp-content/plugins/pagenavi/pagenavi.php:58) in /home/www/doc/16867/webmaster-resource.de/www/wp-content/themes/asco/functions.php on line 20
need some help!
@marcus well you have a plugin, pagenavi which is activated. The only solution for this is to delete from the functions.php file (from the theme’s directory), the lines from 20 to 64. That should fix it.
Coolplayer dont work.
Wait a moment, please! Loading…
Any hint or help?
Hi, great theme yet I have the same problem as Joel Nichols a few comments above: the neither clicking a number or a next arrow get’s me anywhere. Always shows the same and there are sufficient posts to display.
I had also several issues with sidebars on pages, single, archives but with a little CSS teaking no more probleme.
I’ll wait to continue until you may post an solution on the navigation prob. Mabe it helps but the tag cloud / simple tags does the same when click tag only refresh page in same way as with navigation. Sorry, my english not so good, hope I descibed still ok to understand.
The Coolplayer don’t work with WP2.5 and the are some Troubles with you tube.
“This media can NOT be support to embed into the page,
but you can download it by the following link.”
can you use an actual player? like this:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/
La Recent Comments arata doar numele adminului blogului nu a celui caruia ii apartine comentariul
Cu recent comments am rezolvat.Dar m-am izbit de alta problema care insa nu reusesc sa ii dau de capat.Daca folosesc widgetul Search, si caut un anumit cuvant, da o eroare, cum ca ar fi ceva in neregula in Search.php
Hello Acosim?
I think I’ve fixed all the problems. You can see some info at the link bellow:
http://www.acosmin.com/acosminmag-v1-free-wordpress-theme-magazine-style/
Hey,
How come it shows the oldest posts first not the newest ones? Also how can i get rid of the test advertising?
@Andrew – a link to your blog plz
Thanks!!
http://www.stevesbarfridge.com
I got rid of the advertising by editing the code but i wanna know how o make new posts come first, i can e-mail you what the code looks like i would just need to know the pages u want the code of.
Yep, email me the code for the index.php file
Hi can you tell me what’s wrong with the video player in my install? (click on my name to see my site)
The video player (in the sidebar) jumps off to the right a bit and sits outside the box. I’ve tested it in Firefox, Opera, and IE6. In IE6 it actually breaks the layout so I had to reduce the video size width to 280.
ThatGuy: I had the same problem and had to fiddle with the CSS file of the player itself to make it work. (padding etc.)
Question for the developer of that theme: great theme and I like it a lot yet I have some problems with the sidebar on pages, it is all the way to the right. It is correct at the index page. Any advise on that. Sorry, no URL since on LAN/network server to develop – will send you or post URL when all kinks out and going live, however some advise would be greatly appericated for that propleme. I’m glad to send a screen shot or code needed yet I did not change anything in there. I made the player work in above described way.
Grambus, I’m having the same problem with the video player.. could you possibly help me out on what to do..
Im rather confused!
lol. Also I have edited the theme and totally removed sidebar160.php, now when posts are displayed on the page you have the gap where the sidebar was, how do you make the box that the posts are in wider.
http://mediabra.in
Cheers
Chris
Can I replace the “Acosminmag” title?
However it’s a cool theme & i really like it
thx
It looks awesome! Bookmarking it for later. Might use it for a television blog
What is the font used in the psd for the header? I can’t quite match it.
thanks.
dowsnt work, maybe the latest wordpress version needed ? waiting for reply !
If you search for a term not found, it shows no message? PLS Fixe
Amazing theme mate. I was just wondering how I could replace the test ad images with real ads? Are there any instructions? Cheers!
oh nevermind that, I’ve figured it out, I’m not that great at coding but it was quite easy, thanks again for this fantastic theme!
Great Theme….for months I’ve been looking for a theme like this.
I would like to suggest one thing here if you would like to consider……..Why not add something in the feature article to be animated or may be it has its own navigation menu(clickable) to make it more interactive. Also adding flash slide show like articles would be great.
I hope in your next version you would consider this option.
I’m gonna try this in my new site: http://www.bdpropertyinfo.com
Let see how it comes up.
Thanks a lot and good luck.
I think I can place only 3 google adsense codes and I think the top banner is for placing some other ads. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Nandu
Hi, I had a new blog with a different theme I liked, but after trying to monetize with ads, I checked how it looked in IE, OMG!
So I keyworded “wordpress themes monetized ads” and after clicking around through 4 blogs with monetized wp themes, AND checking live demos in IE, I decide on this theme.
I DL and unzip, then unzipped the required plugins and uploaded those into my hosts plugins directory.
Then I activated the 3 new plugins in WP admin.
And the theme is being uploaded into the themes directory during this time.
So after activating plugins, and seeing that the theme upload is finished, I go though admin to DESIGNS, and activate this theme.
I have no site, nor do I have an Admin area!!
To make sure the above is very clear:
After successfully activating the required plugins, and FTP’ing the theme to the themes directory — I activated this theme in the designs section of admin panel, and that was the last I saw of my site — both the actual site, as well as the admin panel.
I had not made the code changes from this post yet, because I was hoping to make those after activating the theme. I don’t know if that’s what caused my blog to ‘disappear’ or not 8^)
Everything appears normal through FTP, and I did NOT change any permissions anywhere, just in case you’re wondering =D
Please advise what I did wrong, and how to correct it, thanks so much.
Shreela
any errors or something showing up?
It’s a complete blank in FF, and here’s what I get in IE6: The page cannot be displayed
There is a problem with the page you are trying to reach and it cannot be displayed.
——————————————————————————–
Please try the following:
Open the ptc.shreela.co.cc home page, and then look for links to the information you want.
Click the Refresh button, or try again later.
Click Search to look for information on the Internet.
You can also see a list of related sites.
HTTP 500 – Internal server error
Internet Explorer
FTP appears normal. I’m wondering if I deleted this theme would WP revert back to default theme?
Try to contact your hosting agent. I don’t think the problem comes from my theme
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I renamed the directory with your theme by appending it with .OLD, then it reset to the default theme, and everything is loading now.
So now that I found how to undo the problem, I’m going to try to replicate it…
It did it again, but I did learn that renaming the theme’s through FTP resets to default theme.
I’m going to try a theme from another site that appeared properly in both FF and IE7 (I wrote IE6 earlier, oops). And if my site disappears after activating the other site, then I’ll know it’s my host’s settings 8^)
Hi again, it’s not just your theme, another one caused my wp2.5 to go blank too.
But, I was able to get a different one loaded. I’m guessing it’s some kind of host setting like you said, where some themes work, and others don’t. Too bad yours and my host don’t work together, your theme was spiffy 8^)
How do i disable the featured post? what if i want it to be a normal wordpress theme? i didnt like the featured post
then you should use http://www.wpthemesfree.com/view.php?theme_id=3021
Hey,
Love the theme, plan on using it. Hopefully when my site is up and running (and earning) I can make you a nice donation
One major hurdle! How can I edit the logo.psd file to make my own logo? I saw a few other people post the same or related questions. I think if you could post a quick tutorial on that it would really help some of us newbies out who would like to use your theme. The more people who can use the theme, the more exposure for your great work (and newbies are the least likely people to remove your link backs, so we’re good promoters of your work provided you can help us make it work)
Thanks again, brilliant theme, it’s exactly what we’ve been looking for.
@James You’ll need Adobe Photoshop > open the psd file with this software > edit the content of the file with the type tool > save the file as a .png file with transparency (File > save for web). Thx for the comment
I don’t currently own photoshop, but I do have GIMP. I should be able to adjust the logo with that right? If you take a look at my site http://www.alphamantra.com you’ll see that I have sort of managed to edit the file, but I couldn’t figure out how to edit your text, so I had to delete your test, and then do 2 separate text boxes to get the red to white effect. When I changed font color in a given text box, GIMP would change all the text within that box. That’s why you’ll notice that the text is not exactly lined up. I’m going to take a better stab at it, I just wanted to check and see if you had any familiarity with GIMP. Perhaps I should either spend a great deal of time perusing GIMP tutorials or just bite the bullet and get photoshop. Thanks for the help!
Hi, thx a lot for your themes. It work and usefull, coz i use it. Great job…
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