Abundance 3.0 Multi-Featured Magazine Theme For WordPress

[leesr]

Butting in here, but hoping to be helpful.
Is your ReviewAzon homepage post actually posting only a partial excerpt, or the full thing.

If it's posting the entire excerpt then you need to go to ReviewAzon's Advanced settings; then the second item down "Show excerpts on the following pages:" and uncheck "Frontpage" or "Homepage" (or maybe both- whatever works).

You may also have to go to "Text Options" (a tab at the top of ReviewAzons Advanced Settings page) and shorten this value "Truncate post excerpt after XXX characters."

Hope I helped.

[Diana Lane]

Hi all.

As I've said, I've not used ReviewAZON because of the lack of developer license, but so many people have been asking about it's compatibility with the theme that 'I don't see why it shouldn't work' didn't seem good enough, so I bought it today to make sure it worked. Naturally, it didn't

Not out of the box, anyway. Four minor edits to the Abundance theme files and it was a different story...

Software Reviewed

This site is still a bit ropey because it was put together in a hurry just to test ReviewAZON, but it also shows PHPBay working with the theme (The 'Software Auctions' tab in the navigation bar), and TubePress ('Videos'). The auctions listed in the lower banner area towards the bottom of the page are displayed via the ReviewAZON eBay auctions plugin.

For ReviewAZON to work with the theme...

In the three places that it appears in home.php, the_excerpt needs to be changed to the_content, and the same again in the the only place the_excerpt appears in archive.php.

This is because to display excerpts, ReviewAZON uses a truncated form of the_content instead of using the_excerpt for some reason. Adding any kind of parameters to the_content so that it will produce truncated content when non-ReviewAZON content is posted causes ReviewAZON not to work again, which means for ReviewAZON to work in conjuction with other content on the front page, you'd see excerpts for ReviewAZON content but the whole post would be displayed if the content was produced by anything else. It would be a bit of a mess to say the least.

So... if you want to show ReviewAZON posts on the home page and in archives, you'd just change the_excerpt to the_content. Since ordinary content isn't truncated by the ReviewAZON plugin, it will be displayed full length in the archives where ReviewAZON posts wouldn't. Like this...

Articles | Software Reviewed

However, if you were to put your 'normal' posts into a category and put it in the 'blog' page template (we didn't edit this particular theme file, remember) it would show as a list of excerpts...

Articles | Software Reviewed

I could sleep standing up on a washing line right now, but after taking care of a couple of other things that are screaming at me from the 'to-do' list, I will edit the user guide to include this info tomorrow. Unlike everything else you can do with the theme, you'll need to edit the theme files just a little to get it to work properly with ReviewAZON, but the theme and the plugin will work together.

There's more than one way to skin a cat though - grateful thanks to leesr for his contribution. I don't think I'm familiar enough yet with ReviewAZON to have even scratched the surface of what it can do.

Regarding refunds, as with pretty much all WordPress themes and even the ReviewAZON plugin itself, all sales are final. If there's a problem with the theme itself, then as a user I'll want to know about it and will fix it at the earliest opportunity.

[leesr]

On your ReviewAzon demo site given above,
on the Product Post pages, below the "Order Now" button,
The tabded window with the labels "Description", "Additional Details", "Customer Reviews"...
is that something that is built into the Abundance theme-- or something that you tweaked in for this site?

[Diana Lane]

Hi again, LeeSr

The tabbed window is a feature of the ReviewAZON plugin - at least, it's what I got by setting the 'Default Template Group' to 'Tabs' in the ReviewAZON plugin's 'Advanced Settings' screen.

I'd actually forgotten I'd done that while exploring the plugin's capabilities yesterday, so in the latest of the 'Quickly Cobbled Together For Demonstration Purposes' series, here's a site with the Abundance theme having had just the four theme file edits I mentioned, and ReviewAZON straight from the box...

Business Bookshelves

I've used a few ReviewAZON widgets in the sidebar this time, but the plugin's settings are unaltered. As the violent-looking green links everywhere might indicate, I have not edited the plugin's stylesheet and the site isn't displaying the results of a plugin configuration that I'd forgotten I'd been fiddling with, so hopefully it's a bit more clear what's what

[leesr]

The tabbed window is a feature of the ReviewAZON plugin - at least, it's what I got by setting the 'Default Template Group' to 'Tabs' in the ReviewAZON plugin's 'Advanced Settings' screen.

I laughed at myself when I read that.
Guess I need to go play with ReviewAzon more myself.

Thanks,

[rosterling]

Thank you Diana and LeeSr for your input.

Well Diana, you sure can throw a site together and make it look good! Thanks for checking out the ReveiwAZON plugin. So, am I understanding correctly that we have to make the changes you said to the Abundance theme and not the plugin templates? And after we make the changes we will have to make the articles pages and the ReveiwAZON entries posts? Also, did you mean to say that you will be writing up how to use ReveiwAZON with your theme? That would be awesome if you did that.



Thanks for your help!

[Diana Lane]

rosterling

The changes do have to be made to the Abundance theme files and not to the plugin files. I have just sent out an updated user guide which more or less says what I have said here, only with illustrations. You really don't have to change a lot though, four words or so.

Also gone out to buyers is an updated copy of the theme, which fixes a couple of CSS issues seen via Mac or IE. I just wanted to say 'Massive thanks' to tomw and Newton for pointing them out to me. I will update the demo sites with the new version in the morning. It is 3.30am here now and zzzzzzz....

[deltamatrix]

Can we change the width of the sites to suit our needs? Can the sidebars be created in a different color than the rest of the site? I'm looking to create WP blogs that look like ugly old html sites as they may get higher CTR (I hope).

Thanks

[alloo]

Got it today. Glad to see that the user manual is under 40 pages, not the hundreds of pages like the other leading leading magazine themes are.

[nichewebstrategies]

Hey Diane,

Brad Hanson here from reviewazon.com. Please let me know if you need any help getting some questions answered about getting ReviewAZON to work with your theme.

I'll be glad to help any way I can in terms of getting you the answers you need.

Best,

Brad

[Diana Lane]

Originally Posted by deltamatrix

Can we change the width of the sites to suit our needs? Can the sidebars be created in a different color than the rest of the site? I'm looking to create WP blogs that look like ugly old html sites as they may get higher CTR (I hope).

Thanks

Hiya,

The width is fixed, and the sidebars can't be a different colour at the present time. You can make the theme look plain enough, although I have never (deliberately!) aimed for dog ugly. I shall have to give that one a try

Sorry for not being around for a couple of days. There were a couple of things wrong with my computer which I'd been studiously ignoring as they got worse, but the morning when it sounded like an idling tractor and I got complaints that it could be heard at at the other end of the house alarmed even me. It turned out to be a cream-crackered fan - this and the other issues are sorted now, and me and the 'puter are both back and flying

[Diana Lane]

Originally Posted by alloo

Got it today. Glad to see that the user manual is under 40 pages, not the hundreds of pages like the other leading leading magazine themes are.

I'm glad you were pleased with the user guide. To be honest, I can't remember using another magazine theme which actually came with one - any kind of guidance always came via a password protected forum, which is all very well if you are going to be the only one using the theme but not so good if you can't pass the access along to your site buyers. I can't think of an objection to theme buyers giving their own site buyers a copy of the manual where the theme is installed if it makes life easier.

[Diana Lane]

Originally Posted by nichewebstrategies

Hey Diane,

Brad Hanson here from reviewazon.com. Please let me know if you need any help getting some questions answered about getting ReviewAZON to work with your theme.

I'll be glad to help any way I can in terms of getting you the answers you need.

Best,

Brad

Thanks, Brad

Any questions and I'll give you a shout

[Diana Lane]

Around a month or so ago, I was working on an update for The Abundance Theme and was looking around for a live site to put it on, since my test installations were busy with other things at the time and the update wasn’t big enough to justify creating another. I dug up an old .info site that had been quickly knocked together several months earlier in order to test a plugin, and had been languishing around doing very little ever since. It was wearing a fairly nondescript bog standard WordPress theme, which was replaced by Abundance. After checking it in various browsers to make sure that the Abundance update had produced the expected results, I vowed to take more interest in the site in future… and promptly ignored it again.

This poor neglected site was remembered again this morning when I needed to use it – for testing something. It will go to the ball one day. Taking a look at the stats while I was there, I found this…



While we’re hardly looking at a traffic jam here and you can almost see the cobwebs draped gently over the graph, there’s a marked increase in activity since I installed The Abundance Theme a month ago. I haven’t posted a thing on this site since April (though I’ve a feeling that’s about to change!) and it wouldn’t know promotion if it walked up to it and bit it. Interesting.

[mikesan]

Hi Diane,

I sent you a message through you contact form on your website too. But I'm posting here in case someone else might want the answer to this as well.


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Hi Diane,

I purchased your theme last week through the WSO and I'm just starting to use it now.

I'm planning to install the theme on several domains that I own but one thing that I would like to do before I do so, is set some default settings for the theme.

That way when I mass install WP on my domains with the theme they will have the settings and look that I want. Without having to go into each blog and set the layout, colors, etc. seperately.

I noticed that the options for the theme are stored in the database. In table wp_options.

My question is where can I change this so the settings will be changed on the install of wordpress on my domains?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

[Diana Lane]

Hi Mike

They're right at the top of functions.php - hope that helps.

[diymCoach]

Hi Diana,

I've looked at the abundance theme site and it says there is a drop-down menu in the horizontal nav but I couldn't see it in any of the demos. Is that a built-in feature of the theme? Is the developer license still available?

Thanks,
Achinta

[diymCoach]

Never mind...I saw an example of a drop-down at currentplr.com.

I do have another question though. Is it possible to easily omit pages by ID from the nav? If not, can I directly edit header.php with something like this?
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=2&sort_column=menu_ order&exclude=95,97,290,); ?>

Thanks

[Diana Lane]

Hi,

I just use a WordPress plugin to omit pages from the horizontal navigation, called WP Exclude Pages. It's always worked well for me so I couldn't see the point of reinventing the wheel on that one.

WordPress › Exclude Pages WordPress Plugins

The developer license is still available, yes.

Thanks

[diymCoach]

Hi Diana,

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. That plugin will work just great and a lot easier than manul edits.

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Joyous Holiday Season.

Regards,
Achinta

[jmg]

Diana

I bought your package during the weekend and I'm very pleased I did.

Easy to use and make building a website fast.

Thanks very much for your great WSO


Jean-Marc

[globalpro]

Diane,

Really love the theme. Quick question.

On the sites you are displaying the amazon products, is that a setting in the theme or the plug in that's been mentioned?

Want to make sure and get everything.

Thanks,

John

[Diana Lane]

Hi John

That's the WP-Robot plugin. I believe I saw a WSO for it on the front page of the WSO forum about an hour ago.

Best wishes,
Diana

[bronke13]

Hi Diana

Sounds like an excellent theme. Do you know if the Amaniche plugin will work with it?

Regards

Bronwyn and Keith

[globalpro]

Diana,

Thank you very much.

John

[Diana Lane]

Hi

I've not used the Amaniche plugin before but I've just had a quick look at the demo site that's linked to from their sales page and viewed it's source code too, and I can't see why it wouldn't work. The theme used by the Amaniche demo site is a standard one and the plugin outputs genuine content rather than coded Amazon gobbledegook, so it should work just fine. Front page thumbnails won't be square though unless the images sent from Amazon are, which is no different from the way WP-Robot works too.

Best wishes,
Diana

[bronke13]

Diana

Thanks for getting back to us and for taking the time to check the source code for anomalies.

Will have another look at it now that we know that it will probably fit ok.

All the best

Bronwyn and Keith

[JKinakin]

I've looked at your WSO for a while now, but I
just couldn't pass up this "sweet heart" of a deal.


Thanks
Jack

[Diana Lane]

Originally Posted by JKinakin

I've looked at your WSO for a while now, but I
just couldn't pass up this "sweet heart" of a deal.

Thanks, Jack. Happy Valentine's Day

[jfortune0620]

Thanks a lot for this great deal. Was looking for a nice new theme to buy all day so I think I got really lucky to find this offer.

Just wondering, is it supposed to be automatic delivery of the product upon purchase? Was there a link to download? The only email I got was a paypal receipt (checked spam). It's very possible I missed something, sorry if that's the case.

[Diana Lane]

Yes, it's supposed to be automatic (WSO Pro) but it just hasn't been happening for the last few sales for some reason. Download link is on it's way to you.

[korum98]

Hi, also waiting for download link. Bought a few hours ago. Looking forward to using the theme.

Transaction ID: 5ST08989W72490836

[Diana Lane]

Originally Posted by korum98

Hi, also waiting for download link. Bought a few hours ago. Looking forward to using the theme.

Transaction ID: 5ST08989W72490836

Apologies. Link just sent out again.

[FSBO-Jim]

I have not received any emails for a download link either.

Abundance Theme WSO
Item #: wso_sqlyjv_73187
Receipt No: 2099-9832-7056-3880

[Diana Lane]

Just sent again, Jim. Seems to be one of those days. Sorry - you should be sorted now.