Organized Themes Support

Photobug

Bill Robbins — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:58:30 +0000

We’ve worked hard to make Photobug easy to use and set up on your site. We’ve also included these instructions to help you get up and running. If you have any questions that aren’t covered in the instructions, please feel free to ask for help in our forum. Theme Options When setting up [...]

YouTube and Drop-Down Menus

Bill Robbins — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:33:47 +0000

Sometimes drop-down menus need a bit of help being visible on top of video, particularly video from YouTube. That’s especially troublesome considering it is the largest video service in the world. But thankfully you can have your drop-downs appear on top of your video by following these instructions:

Once you’ve found the video you’d like to use on YouTube, select share and then the embed button.
Next copy the embed code that should look something like this:

Paste this embed code in the spot where you’d like your video to be visible.
Lastly we need to edit the embed code just a bit. The src of this iframe ends in


rel=0

We want to remove that and replace it with this:


wmode=transparent

Our finial code should look like this:

That should allow your drop-down menus to appear over video from YouTube at last.

Epic

Bill Robbins — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:50:28 +0000

Getting Started Once you have the Epic theme installed in your WordPress site, you’ll want to set it up. To start go to the Appearance section of your WordPress dashboard and select theme options. Here you’ll find the theme options for you to set. Identity The first tab deals with options [...]

Disappearing Background With WordPress 3.3

Bill Robbins — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:41:47 +0000

If you’ve had your custom background image disappear after upgrading to WordPress 3.3, here’s a quick fix to bring it back.

Go to the appearance section and select edit to open up the theme editor.
From the list of files on your right, choose header.php
Look for this spot:
and replace it with this:
Save your changes

That should bring back your custom background image. All of the affected themes have an update available to that fixes that as well.

If you have any trouble, just let us know.

Default Home Page

Bill Robbins — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:31:40 +0000

Many of my themes make use of a default home page that appears automatically. If you’re using a fresh WordPress installation you won’t need to do anything to make this page visible, but if you’re upgrading from a theme that required you to actually create a page for your home, you will need to make a quick change.

Go to the Settings section of your WordPress control panel and select reading. Here you should set the “Front Page Displays” to “Your latest post” and then save your changes.

Uploading Images In WordPress 3.3

Bill Robbins — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:12:56 +0000

With WordPress 3.3, a new image uploader has been created that is much easier and faster than the Flash based solution available previously. Now instead of separate buttons for images, video, audio and media there is one button for all media types. Clicking this will open up a lightbox as before where you can browse your computer’s files for the one you’d like to include. You will now also be able to drag file(s) into the uploader box itself to add them to your site. It’s quick and easy.

If you’re using one of my themes that’s built on the Options Framework (currently Foundation, Foxy, Ventana, and Progress), you’ll need to clear out your browser’s cache in order to have the media uploader appear on your theme options page.

Progress

Bill Robbins — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:06:37 +0000

Theme Options Guide Adding Slides To Slideshow We created the videos above to walk you through the available theme options and how to add slides to the slideshow. Here is how to use other features that are found in the theme. Staff Section To include the staff section, select “yes” to include [...]

Simple Staff and Slide Order

Bill Robbins — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:56:28 +0000

You can set the order that the staff members and slides are set using the attributes box, but that can become quite tedious if you have a long list. There is a plugin called Post Types Order that lets you arrange these by drag and drop.

The easiest way to add it to your site is to go to plugins in your WordPress control panel and select add new. Then search for “Post Types Order” and select it from the list. Once it’s installed, activate it and the plugin will add a new menu item under each type called Re-Order. Just drag and drop your content to order it as you see fit to rearrange your content. It’s easy as that.

Foxy

Bill Robbins — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:30:35 +0000

Here’s how to set up the Foxy Theme. If you need help installing Foxy or WordPress there are screencasts in our video section that will walk you through that. Once the theme is activated, go to the Appearance section of your WordPress control panel and select “Theme Options” to configure your site. Theme [...]

Set Up A Custom Facebook Page Tab

Bill Robbins — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:44:13 +0000

Updated November 4, 2011

This post assumes that you already have a Facebook page set up. If you need to add one, you can log into your Facebook account and click on pages in your left hand column. That will list all of your pages as well as give you a button to create a new one.

You can add a custom tab to your Facebook page by following these steps:

1. Create a new page on your website. In the right hand column, you’ll notice a box for “page attributes.” From the “page template” drop down, select the “Facebook Page” template and publish your page. There’s no need to add this page to your menu as we only want it to be visible on Facebook and not on your website. Once the page is published, you’ll need to copy that page’s URL to use later. This page will use the slideshow or video from your home page as well as widgets that you can select by going to Appearance>Widgets.

2. Go to developers.facebook.com/apps to sign up for a developer’s account. Once you’ve signed up, click the “Create New App” button in the top right hand corner. That will bring up a small dialogue box where you can name your app, pick a locale and agree to the terms of service. Fill in your information and select “Continue.”

3. Now you’ll be ready to fill in the information for your app (see image below). At the top of the “Basic Info” page, you have a chance to upload a custom icon for your app if you’d like to. For best results, use a square graphic. Below that you’ll see the “Basic Info” box. Facebook provides a ? next to each field to provide some contextual help in filling out each blank.

Give it a descriptive name that is specific to you for the app. You’ll also need to enter a public email address that you don’t mind being visible to others. Down below the “Cloud Services” box you’ll find several checkmarks. Select the one beside “Page Tab” and fill in the information there. The “Page Tab Name” is the name that will actually be on tab in your Facebook page (you can change that from inside your page later).

The “Page Tab URL” is the page on your website that you created earlier using the Facebook page template. Enter the URL to that page here. Facebook now offers secure browsing to its users, so if you have SSL certificate for your website, enter a URL for the https version of your site. If you don’t have one, you can just copy the URL to your page and replace the http at the beginning of the URL with https. The click save changes.

Basic Facebook Page Settings

4. Now that you’ve created your app, click the link in the left hand column for “View App Profile Page” where you’ll be able to see this:

Facebook App Page

Now click the “Add To My Page” link in the left hand column. You’ll be presented with a pop-up with your available Facebook pages on it. Select the one you’d like to use and you’ll now have a custom tab on your Facebook page.

Be aware that changes to your app sometimes take a few minutes to propagate across Facebook’s servers.

That’s pretty much it. There are some other options available for your app if you look at advanced settings on your app’s page at developer.facebook.com. If you’d like to further modify it’s options you can do so there.