Justin Case

Firstly, thanks so much for responding, guys, and sorry it is taking me a little while to reply back.

Which theme are you using?

I haven’t decided yet. I first wanted to see what sort of capabilities the theme would need before picking it out.

If you have suggestions for a theme that would have the features I need, I would be much obliged.

The site is for a one-person therapist (although they have two office locations)

They will have about 30 “articles” (which I thought would be best put on PAGES instead of posts) divided up amongst about three OR FOUR categories and about 6 to 8 subcategories.

Then they have a lot of blog posts that are divided up amongst maybe four different categories (and probably NO subcategories for the blog posts).

I would like to have a menu bar (navbar) with about 8 links total (home, contact us, testimonials, most important article #1, most important article #2, most important article #3, All Articles, blog)

So I am thinking the navbar would probably have to come the full width of the screen.

Or, have two menu bars??? Would that be better?

A slider on the home page might be nice, but not necessary.

I will need to be able to put a bit of written text on the home page, too, since the owner is kind of bombastic!

A couple of themes I like the appearance of are:

https://inkthemes.com/wpthemes/dzoniamaditation/

and

https://inkthemes.com/wptheme/traffica-theme/

and

https://inkthemes.com/wptheme/blackbird-yoga/

But if there is a FREE TEMPLATE similar to these paid ones above, that might be better.

And if all else fails, I would probably go the genesis route, but would prefer not to, because I am not really getting paid for this project.

thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Thank you, WPyogi:

I will look into that. I will let everyone know if it works.

Thank You, shamratdewan:

so basically, I need to look for a them that offers separate sidebars depending upon which page the visitor is on.

Would anyone by chance have a few suggestions for a more busiiness-oriented theme that allows for different sidebars?

I think genesis does this, but would prefer not to spend the $80 if I don’t have to <smile>

UPDATE:

figured it out.

Basically, I had an older theme that I needed to uninstall by ftp first, and then install the updated version of that theme via ftp.

the older version of that theme was so incompatible that it wouldn’t even allow the WP admin panel to load.

so if you are all having troubles with your upgrade, make copies of your themes and plugins folders on your local disk, and then upload the new themes and plugins folders, and see if that fixes it. Hope this helps.

Thanks Jarret:

Really it is fine the default way. I just wish there had been some sort of popup or note or something saying that hotlinked images can’t be used for thumbnails.

Aha… I understand.

I was trying to use an image that I was hotlinking to as the featured image. But you can’t do that for a thumbnail.

I guess you have to use an image that you actually upload. If you instead give it the address of an image that already exists on the web somewhere, it won’t actually upload and crop the image.

Oh well… it only took me all day to figure it out ??

Ok, I am fine if I can use the default thumbnail But I don’t understand why the default is not working.

So what you are saying is to remove the:

if (function_exists(‘add_theme_support’)) {
add_theme_support(‘post-thumbnails’);
}

From the various functions.php file?

And if I do that, shouldn’t this code work then by simply setting an image as a “featured Image”?

~~~~~~~~
?php
if (has_post_thumbnail()) {
$thumbid = get_post_thumbnail_id();
$image_attr = wp_get_attachment_image_src($thumbid,$thumbnail_type,true);
$imgpath = $image_attr[0];
} else {
$imgpath = $padd_image_def;
}
?>

~~~~~~~~

Is it possible it doesn’t work because no arguments are being sent in:

$thumbid = get_post_thumbnail_id();

It says in the codex that arguments are optional though, so I don’t know why it wouldn’t work if a post has

Thanks in advance for any suggestions. I really need to get this working. I like the theme, but it isn’t supported so I would hate to have to give up on it now.

Hi there, JarretC:

thanks for the response. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to work.

My loop.php page already has:

<?php
if (has_post_thumbnail()) {
  $thumbid = get_post_thumbnail_id();
  $image_attr = wp_get_attachment_image_src($thumbid,$thumbnail_type,true);
  $imgpath = $image_attr[0];
} else {
  $imgpath = $padd_image_def;
}
?>

and then later where it is supposed to display the thumbnail, it has this code:

src="<?php echo $imgpath; ?>"

Yet it still shows the default thumbnail image (the one that is defined with:

else {
  $imgpath = $padd_image_def;
}

Any other suggestions?

thanks in advance.