Magazeen Options – funny thing with an apostrophe

  • Hello friends,

    I am using the Magazeen template, which is truly good, I sincerely recommend it.

    This template has an option to include custom text that is displayed in the footer.

    I have chose to include a poem by George McDonald:
    Better to sit at the waters’ birth,
    than a sea of waves to win;
    To live in the love that floweth forth,
    Than the love that cometh in.

    …Be thy heart a well of love, my child,
    Flowing, and free, and sure;
    For a cistern of love,
    though undefiled,
    keeps not the spirit pure.

    (From Phantastes by George Macdonald)

    Then, a funny thing happens with the apostrophe that goes in water’s birth… the system inserts this: waters\’

    I have tried using ' instead of the apostrophe, but then the system substitutes the code, inserts the apostrophe and always adds the back slash before it.

    May I insist in using this poem as a custom text for this template?
    Why does it happen than the system inserts a black slash before the apostrophe?
    Is there a way to get around it?

    Thank you!

    Daniel Thomas

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  • Hello this is the theme im using. Obviously you know how i edit the pictures, titles, banner etc, can you tell me how i do this? Thanks.

    PS – Great poem!

    Thread Starter lovecostarica

    (@lovecostarica)

    Hello whiskymac,

    I will be very glad to help if I can… you are asking several things at the same time, please tell me something more specifical to begin with, I will be glad to reply if I know the answer.

    Greetings from Costa Rica!

    Daniel Thomas

    Thank You! The template i downloaded (magazeen) needs to be edited – ie – the rotating images at the top – and the banner replaced – so we can start with the banner – how would i edit this or upload a new one? Thanks.

    Thread Starter lovecostarica

    (@lovecostarica)

    Hi whiskymac,

    The template includes in the header a box that allows for searches within the content of the site. In my case, I deleted this search box, and put a banner there.

    This is how:
    Go to Appearance, Editor (make sure you are indeed editing Magazeen, and not another template). From my experience, it is extremely important to make a backup copy of any code, before beginning to mess with it…

    Then, you want to choose the header.php file (again, make backup copies, you may just open a notepad, and copy/paste the code).

    Look for the code that inserts the search box:
    <?php include_once( TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform-header.php' ); ?>

    Then put there some other code, it may be a good idea to do so between <div>code</div> tags…

    Of course, you do not need to replace the search box, you may try other options, be adventurous and experiment as much as you want (again, provided you always have a good backup copy).

    You may play with the header, editing stuff between these tags:
    <div id="header"> code </div>

    Hope this helps…
    Greetings from Costa Rica

    Hiya, thanks once again for your help and sorry its taken me a couple of days to get back to you.
    Is it possible that i can download the template onto dreamweaver, edit the banner in there and upload it via flash/ftp?

    Thanks again
    Whiskymac.

    Oh and also if you could tell me how you edit your rotating images? ie – add an image to the block? again perhaps on dreamweaver?

    Thanks!
    whiskymac.

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