Tasty Showcase – Free WordPress Theme

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1. Great looking theme Leland! Good job porting it to WordPress. I’ll do a review of this theme as soon as I can.

   • Thanks Jaypee, that would be greatly appreciated!

   • You’re welcome! Btw, I just published my review of this theme.

     WP Theme Review: Tasty Showcase

2. Thanks for the shout out! And seriously the theme looks amazing! So many widget areas, imagine all the things you can do with them :O

   • No problem Omar. Thanks again for your time in testing the theme.

3. Hey Leland, it looks awesome. 3 small things I did notice.

   1. The slider controls are all in their “hover” state until the first slide transition. Seen in Chrome and FF. Probably a PHP JS interaction. No idea how to fix.

   2. I forgot to style the h1 a so it stays wait in the slider descriptions instead of green.

   3. Not sure if it’s possible, but can you make “include the slider on every page” a theme option.

   Again, awesome work!

   • Hey Brad, thanks again for the cool template. About your points:

     1) Not sure how that happened either, I’ll probably have to retrace my steps to figure that one out.

     2) I was wondering about that, wouldn’t be too hard to do with the following code? .karmic_flow_slides .info h1 a { color: #fff; text-decoration: none; }

     3) About the slider on every page, I tried a few times to integrate that on single pages but for some reason the_content_limit() code I was using spewed out the full content on single page, so I opted to remove that feature from the final version for now.

4. Congrats Brad & Leland. this one rocks!

   • Thanks Roshan, glad you like it. I’m thinking one of your free templates will be next. Need to catch up on those, lol.

5. Hey awesome theme. Exactly what I’ve been looking for to spice up a small business I work for. Just wondering if perhaps there was a way to change the sliders to represent static pages vs a blogroll? I’m a novice when it comes to php, but maybe you could point me in the right direction?

   Thanks again for this awesome free theme!

   • It might be possible to put static pages in the slider. I’d recommend reading this: codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts

     Not sure about putting a blogroll in the slider, it would probably have to be hardcoded.

     • Wow, thank you so much for the fast response. I actually didn’t mean blogroll, but postroll – the slider takes the most recent posts and uses them… anyway, your link is very helpful and it looks like I can use the ‘page_id=’ parameter.
       Thanks again!

     • Dunno if anyone else wanted this info – but I changed the query from:
       $the_query = new WP_Query(‘showposts=4&p=’ . $sticky[0]);
       to:
       $the_query = new WP_Query(‘post_type=page&meta_key=hslide&meta_value=1′);
       Adding a custom field to each page I wanted to display, using hslide as the name and 1 / 0 as values. The reason I included the meta_value in the query is in case I want to switch pages around, I can just change their hslide value. This works well for getting pages in the slider – now I’ve gotta figure out how to sort them. Maybe another custom field?

       • Nice idea, thanks for the follow up. This is probably somewhat resource intensive, but maybe try a custom field for the page order (i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4) and show each one in a separate query?

         Would be kind of a pain to change the order but not sure pages were “meant” to be output like this through a query, so that’s the only way I can think of.

         I’d recommend using a caching plugin like WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache on top of this.

6. Really Great Theme…

   I’ve been trying different codes to make the_content_limit function ignore images (they don’t show up, but the push the text down and out of sight). I was able to do it in the slides, but I am not have the same luck with the controller.

   Here’s my site: urbanorleans.com

   Any ideas?

   • Nice customization, strange that it would work for the slides but not the controller (since it uses the same function).

     I think it’s supposed to strip any tags so it seems odd that any img tags would be included in the character limit.

     Can you let us know how you were able to ignore images in the slider part?

7. Think i found a way to do it. Thanx.

8. I ended up using a plugin called “Advanced Excerpt” in both the slider and controller. Worked like a charm.

   wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-excerpt/

9. Also, do you know how i can limit the # of featured post? Right now, if I create a 5th feature, the controller extends past its container to show 5 posts.

   • The query only is supposed to show 4 posts maximum. Does it not say showposts=4 somewhere in the queries?

     • No. This is what i have:

       “have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>”

       • Sorry, can’t get it to show the whole string.

10. No, this is what i have:

    have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>

    • In the original slider.php file, before that is a mention of showposts=4, which prevents more than 4 posts being shown.

      Not sure what the problem could be if that’s still there in your slider.php.

      Edit: Okay now I see what you’re trying to do…

      This is a bug that I’m aware of, it’s the reason why I didn’t put the slider on any other page except the homepage. Mentioned it in this comment.

      It has to do with multiple loops conflicting on the page, when I figure this one out I’ll let you know.

      • Nope, i don’t have it. I’ll check the original file. Thanks.

      • Oh Ok. Cool.

11. OK, last thing (for a while). The .post div is really tall on my post pages no matter how little content is inside, and I’m not sure why. I can’t find anything in the css causing this. It’s only a big deal because my share link end up at the bottom of the div and users have to scroll pretty far to see them or to leave a comment.

    Here’s an example: www.urbanorleans.com/site/?p=367