Dezzain Free WordPress Theme – Timeline Digest

Richie KS 01 February 2008 WordPress Themes

Another month goes by and i finally got a chance to round up the prolong theme i wanted to release few weeks ago. The last free theme release from dezzain studio are nobusx2 in way back end of 2007 and here i present a new theme that finally seen the light from dark corner of the site

Here Are The Theme Features/Functional

3 column theme with separate top sidebar block and bottom sidebar with split 2 widget sidebars
Theme Option to control your font style, featured category and frontpage post control (full content or excerpt content)
6-8 adspace for 125 x 125 banner advertisment to generate aside income from your advertising
top header 728×90 skyscrapper banner *optional – you can replace it with google adsense
300×250 ad banner compatible in sidebar
Bottom left post content to featured 2 parent category from your archive
Sidebar featured category with custom field and auto excerpt
Custom Category Page With Inline Left Custom Image
Archives page and Sitemap page included

Plugins Tested With Theme

Using Post Styling In Post

You can style any additional information for your post, example below:

you have to write in code view and make the necessary post write such as below:

This is download styling classes
This is warning styling classes
This is note styling classes
This is alert styling classes
This is info styling classes

Using Theme Option

Basically the theme option is easy and user friendly, nothing much for you to worry

Using Custom Field For Featured Post/Category Page

This one a bit tricky if you are not familiar with custom field usage. First the theme option include a setting for a custom field value, by default the custom value is featured images. You can set this a different value beside the default in theme option if you already running a blog with your own image control key value for post.

Step one

when writing your post, you’ll notice a Custom Field below the Optional excerpt and trackback [+] tabs. Open or click the Custom Field tab and it will display:

Select box *this is useful if you already create the custom value
key *custom key – featured images – default for this theme
value *this will be the image url…etc

Step 2
Everytime you wanted to publish a post with images, you can grab the full url of the images and paste it into the Value box

sample value accepted:

http://domainname/wp-content/uploads/filename.ext
http://img-upload-url/filename.ext

Resize the images is not necessary since the category page featured custom value will be hidden if overflow and sidebar featured images will auto resize

Tags: 3-column custom field theme option White Widget-ready

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Michael Clark - February 4th, 2008

I just tested this great design on one of my sites. Did you mean to include all of your advertising banners in the downloaded files? It would be nice if that was more clearly stated. But I’m 99% sure I’ll be registering this theme with you and adapt it slightly for one of my sites. Thanks, Mike
Richie-K - February 8th, 2008

hello michael
no..the ads banner and top banner etc is just mere decoration
for sample on inputing your own ads

you can remove it..and it just had link with # so don’t worry
about any hidden linking in the theme

cheers
Kim - February 9th, 2008

Is there a way to change the font colors. I’m very new at this. And is it possible to add a custom header.
Richie-K - February 10th, 2008

yes, kim
the font are changeable via css..
and yes header also changeable since it is just a back ground
repeat image..you can input your own images in backgorund

not sure about what kind of modification you want for the
header tho…..
if any problems with the code and theme option just knock
me here awright
Luca - February 16th, 2008

Hello Richie,

Your last theme, which I have translated was a big success. It is still under the top-dowloaded themes in the german blogosphere (http://themes.wordpress-deutschland.org/).

I think these one is even better and I began to translate it, first for my own use. Sadly there is a problem in the comments-area, which i couldn’t fix now.

I hope you can help me. You can see it for example here: http://www.2-blog.net/2008/skt/

Big thanks for the great work!
Luca - February 17th, 2008

I deleted the destructive code, now it looks clean, but before I publish the translation, I have to look for a solution to separate comments and trackbacks.
yossie - February 26th, 2008

Hi I love the theme but the box below the “Want to advertise with us, contact us” I have the following

“Latest in Choose a category“. It doesn’t show any feature articles like in your theme preview. Is there a way to show the articles in that section.
Li-An - February 28th, 2008

Same question as Yossie… I did not understand how to manage this option. It’s my first WordPress theme and I like it very much…
Li-An - February 28th, 2008

OK; I found it Timelines options in Theme. Great work !
Bert - February 28th, 2008

This is a great theme, I’ll be purchasing soon. How would I reset the feedburner reader numbers?

Thanks for a great theme
bert
Li-An - February 29th, 2008

OK, some new questions. I’ve got some strange behaviour: the random function does not seem to work (I’ve got always the last post showing after the comments), the date and time are not shown in “last comments” in the sidebar and the text in italic in the last published post is in dark colour and not white so it’s not readeable (bold works fine).
Thank you for eventual answer.
Richie-K - March 2nd, 2008

Luca
thanks luca..you’re the man

yossie
the theme option – category dropdown only work if the parent
category are selected…child category still not working..i have
to look deep into that

Li An
..you found the secret easter-egg

update:
the function should render the random post…depends on how
many post you got….i will look into it..thanks
the last comment..please clarify if its a plugin or you meant the
recent feedback ok

dark italic problems
em {
color: #333333;
font-size: 11px;
text-transform: lowercase;
}
change the color so it can viewable it light and dark backgorund
something like #CCCCCC

Bert
no need to reset it..you need to have an account in feedburner and
go to your feed panel and copy paste a line of code they provide there..read through the goodies while you at it..some good stuff there
Li-An - March 2nd, 2008

Great!!! An answer ! And a good one. The italic problem was the most important for the moment and I will try your code.

Well, it’s “last comments” (in the sidebar, the last comments posted on the blog with name of the poster and name of the comment)
I am getting a little mad with this because I downloaded the “get recent comments” plugin and I tried to make it work but I don’t get what I want. Are the functions you wrote interfering with this sort of plugin (I want name of the poster, title of the comment, date and hour of the post and maybe some excerpt)? Is there a way to “desactivate” the function.php to make some test ? Sorry for this dumbs questions, I don’t know anything about php and it’s disturbing to see you cannot find why something does not work
For the number of posts…well, I think 500 will be enough for making work the random machine But it’s not the important point for me.
Thank you for your answer again. I am a newbie with WordPress and your theme convinced me to take a try. But it’s hard
Richie-K - March 2nd, 2008

no problems Li-An

i see..i see..you’re using get-recent-comment plugin and want to
show a commentator-date-comment excerpt..right?

is it something like in the demo..please check it since i make some adjustment mainly to the plugin option..if thats the case simply config the
option to show the comments

admin panel > options > recent comments > copy paste below code to the template for comment field

<li>
<a href="%comment_link" title="%post_title, %post_date">
%comment_author</a> %comment_date at %comment_time %comment_excerpt</li>

let me know how’s it go awright
Li-An - March 3rd, 2008

CSS correction works fine (I knew it was something like this but did not know it was possible). Is there a simple way to have italic words not concerned by this em call for the posts contents ? (I saw you use this for the sidebar fonts).
Get-recent-comments is nearly perfect: for some odd reason, there are no comment title showing ?
I’m near heaven
Li-An - March 3rd, 2008

OK, another question. The theme does not show images and only excerpt of the posts in category pages or Tag pages. Is there a way to show at least one image ? (best of all will be the possibility to use the thumb used in the sidebar but I will have a lot of work to build them) or the whole post ?
Li-An - March 4th, 2008

image problem: OK, I’ve found a solution with the post-thumb plugin and taking a look into category.php and tag.php
Shireen - March 4th, 2008

With this template, how do I add ads after the first post?
Li-An - March 5th, 2008

Sorry for so much posting: problems in recent comments solved.
Another one : in category or tag page (why did you choose to create 2 differents templates for them ), I’ve got in the bottom suggestions “more of a category” and “last in a category” but it’s always the same category. So I don’t understand the use ? (or is it another problem with your random function ?). It’s just a little problem for me.
Li-An - March 6th, 2008

All “problems” solved. Sorry for being so dumb…
Richie-K - March 7th, 2008

glad to hear it Li An

any more problems just asked ok..
Li-An - March 13th, 2008

OK… It’s me again
I try the Dagon sitemap plugin http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/sitemap-generator-plugin-for-wordpress/
It does not want to work with the default template. I was so upset I tried the other templates and the sitemap template (what’s this one ???). It seems to work with this one but the presentation is a mess (sidebar is under the page). So how to use this template ? I take any good idea you’ll have about this…
Li-An - March 13th, 2008

Sorry, forgot to give you the propre link http://li.an.free.fr/blog/?page_id=643
mark - March 14th, 2008

For some reason the “click here to read the rest” link that should show under the excerpt on the frontpage is not showing…

all i get is [...] and If I include a excerpt in the post, I get no dotdotdot and no link at all.

I got it working but I had to manually add in a permalink after the $tn_timeline_post_style

It says style the more-link in the css class file but I cant find it.
Richie-K - March 18th, 2008

Li-An
i see maybe you mistaken when creating the dagon sitemap page.
Once activate the plugin, go to write > create page > and input something like [dagon code] in the blank page and then publish it…i installed it once in my old blog and if i remember it correctly it should be created in write page and not page template (“sitemap, archive etc)…please try it again ok

Mark
the excerpt code did not include a follow “click here to read more” link, it only showed the excerpt with read more if you used the <!– more –> separation.
you need to create or edit the index or any page template you want to used the excerpt and input something like below

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">Click here to read more</a>

hope that help
Li-An - March 18th, 2008

Hello Richie,
it’s the way I did. Create a blank page, put the code and look at…nothing (only the title is showing). So I tried to create the page with the different templates (in the page editing, you can choose wich template you want). And the sitemap shows when I select your sitemap.php template.

Trying to work with another bad willing plugin, I saw that in fact, the code had nothing to do with it. If I choose this template whatever I put in the code, I will see the page I showed you.
So what is the use of this template ? It’s name make me think it’s for a sitemap but how does it work ?

Another new question: I want to exclude some categories in the pavenavi plugin but I cannot find where I have to put some code in your theme to do so. If you have an idea, I’ll take it )
Richie-K - March 18th, 2008

i see:)
yes, the sitemap or archive(s) template can be added in write page..just leave it blank and choose the page template in the right side of the write panel..of coz title will need to be added

@dagon problems
it works fine…you can check the demo again in xml top page navigation.
i used the latest stable version of dagon and works ok

you should enter the <!– ddsitemapgen –> in code view not normal view when writing the sitemap page..and don’t forget to add this styling in top of your stylesheet..somewhere near body class..

.post-content ul {
width: 90%;
margin-top: 8px;
margin-bottom: 8px;
clear: both;
}

this is to fixed the padding and miss align when using the theme with dagon sitemap..

@exclude cats in pagenavi
not sure…please refer to plugin author on that..is it possible to exclude a category in page to page navigation…i would like to know too..hehe
Li-An - March 18th, 2008

Dagon sitemap: it works !
http://li.an.free.fr/blog/?page_id=643 but as you can see, the text is very very far from the title ???

your sitemap.php: always the same problem of presentation.
http://li.an.free.fr/blog/?page_id=672 (I think I will try another solution for sitemap )

Page navi: some informations here http://forums.lesterchan.net/index.php/topic,957.0.html
but the code inserted before the loop in index.php does not seem to work for me

And at last, a little CSS question. I created a featured box like you did but I don’t see how to get less padding. There is too much blank space at the bottom and after the title…
Li-An - March 19th, 2008

Sorry, I said foolish things.
For PageNavi and hidden categories, I use Advanced Category Excluder plugin and it works well.
My problem is with the two links at the bottom of the single pages showing next and precedent pages (hidden categories are not excluded).
Hedi - March 20th, 2008

Love this theme, using it on my blog
Just wanted notice there’s a “e” missing in the “Click hre to read more” link. Here’s a screenshot:
Don Diego de la Vega - March 23rd, 2008

Buenisimo Theme, deja muchas posibilidades de acomodarselo o mejor dicho optimarlo ara el propio Blog.

Salami
Richie-K - March 26th, 2008

Li-An

ohh..i see the dagon sitemap works fine already. If you already used the dagon sitemap..no need to used the internal sitemap.php again since i included it in just incase no one want to use plugin for sitemap

@post-nav problems
excluding a category from the original wordpress previous and next post (without using any plugin) need for you to touch the function inside wp-function or wp-includes file..i won’t recommend it..try looking for a plugin that can do the work..but so far i still haven’t find anything near your case

@padding in post-features
the featured post already fixed with 30% image witdh…the reason why the padding is you didn’t include any text(well..i mean longer text inside the post) so it will leave the unwanted blank space..sorry dude..nothing much to fix it unless adding some text..25-30 words should sufficient…

Hedi
haha..another one of my typo mistake..been having that “sickness” lately…thanks for notifying me..it is editable right?

Don Diego de la Vega
thanks Don…although i don’t catch that except for Buenisimo Theme “fantastic theme” i assume…but thanks a mil..

come again ok
howandt - March 26th, 2008

I have a small problem with the frontpage tab, I want to use a static page as a front page, so I made a new site called blogpost, but I had problems with the posts, they didn’t show, so now I have made a new page call it home, and have deleted the front page tag from the header file, so now it is ok, and I can use page rank plug in to move the pages as i want.
But I can tell you that I like you theme, it is very good.
Li-An - March 29th, 2008

Hello,
I’ve tried the “post styling in post” feature but it does not want to work ?? I don’t understand, it’s only CSS as I can see…
An example here http://li.an.free.fr/blog/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=654
Richie-K - March 31st, 2008

howandt
the frontpage “name” can be changed so it won’t conflicted with your new frontpage template.
just changed the frontpage in header.php to home…
thanks, glad ye like it

Li-An
hello li-An, you need to input the code (sample as above) in your write post code view not normal view..
Li-An - April 1st, 2008

I’m not sure to understand: I’ve got to put the code in the html view or the Tiny thing view ? If it’s this last one, too bad, I’ve decided not to use it.
Li-An - April 1st, 2008

New question
I want to create a third widget ready zone in the sidebar, under the two narrow sidebars (this third one will take all the width). I took a look at this http://www.blogohblog.com/adding-extra-sidebar-to-your-wordpress-theme/
but it seems you did not use the same way to get your two sidebars for the theme. If you can give some advice, I will be glad
Don Diego de la Vega - April 2nd, 2008

Timeline Digest Nicht Kompatible mit WordPress 2.5

Please Help
Li-An - April 2nd, 2008

How can it be non compatible ? I did not install the 2.5 version for the moment (plugins non compatible) but I wanted to. Where is the problem ?
Don Diego de la Vega - April 2nd, 2008

look my 1 post
Don Diego de la Vega - April 2nd, 2008

nicht kompatible mit share this wordpress 2.3 und 2.5
Don Diego de la Vega - April 3rd, 2008

Li An

timeline digest (bug ?) WP 2.5 normal text und image
http://www.blog-latino.com/?p=1396

timeline digest with mygallery (plugin)
http://www.blog-latino.com/?p=1400
insss - April 4th, 2008

thank uu
Li-An - April 4th, 2008

OK, here I am speaking for Don Diego: with WordPress 2.5, he’s got a CSS problem. Take a look at “La Campaña Suiza contra el sida” post: “articulo complento” and “share this” are not one line after the image but at the right of the image.
Don Diego de la Vega - April 7th, 2008

Merci Li An

j trouve l error (j s pas si ca est un error) dans font.php
j anulle :
.post-meta img {
float: left; ;
margin: 15px 5px 2px 0px;

est sa marche

mon digest marche avec wp 2.5 aussi valid CSS et XTML
Li-An - April 7th, 2008

Diego: you could try float: center; (I had a similar problem and it solved it but I don’t know if it’s good CSS).

Richie: I wanted to change the “read more” position and css but it seems you choose a different way to use it than the “official” one ?
gofree - April 9th, 2008

I love the feature of CSS, can this be used with other themes then? How?
gofree - April 9th, 2008

I meant: Using Post Styling In Post
Richie-K - April 15th, 2008

@Li-An
yes, if you want to used the post styling, you have to used the code view when writing the post so it can render the 

adding new sidebar widget
please refer to this step on adding the third widget in sidebar bottom
How to add a third full wide widget for timeline digest

let me know if this help ok

alternate read more
yeap..you can modify the read more anyway you like
sample from original -

<?php echo $tn_timeline_post_style(" Click hre to read more"); ?>

change the (" Click hre to read more"); to ("….Click hre to read more");

if you want it to align with excerpt text etc….typo error in click here..you might to chnage that too…hehehe

thx for answering couple of diego problems..i just miss in translation if you know what i mean

@Don Diego de la Vega

i tested the theme in wp 2.3 and wp 2.5 and it seems fine in my end..let me know what actually the problems incompatibility ok

and share this plugin seems fine also…i know what you meant..you mean the problem when you click on the share-this and the box is at bottom right….i still can’t figure whats the problem since i used the orignal theme and it works ok except if you used the_excerpt post and the share-this will stick to the end of the excerpt…also it may be plugin css problem…plz check it ok

gofree
yeap..you can used the post-styling css code in other theme..just copy paste the class like note,warning etc to your theme css and also don’t forget to copy the styling folder for the style img…
Li-An - April 15th, 2008

Thank you for your answer Richie. I will have a look at your solution for the third widget sidebar and will tell you if it’s OK.

About my problem of link to the next and previous post at the bottom of the single page, I found this http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/previous_post_link and it seems to match with lines 3 and 4 of the paging.php.
So I tried to fix it (hiding some categories) like

< ?php previous_post_link('« %link', '39') ?>

to hide category number 39 but is shows a link named 39 ??? So if you can help (again ! ).
Li-An - April 15th, 2008

Sorry, can be deleted.
Li-An - April 15th, 2008

The third wide sidebar widget seems to work great !

I don’t understand why I cannot have the “…read more” in the same line as the exerpt.

< ?php echo $tn_timeline_post_style("... Lire la suite"); ?>
Don Diego de la Vega - April 16th, 2008

no more problems with wp 2.5. i kill this:
.post-meta img {
float: left; ;
margin: 15px 5px 2px 0px;

in fonts.php and have no more problems

gracias
balootisme - May 4th, 2008

thank you for this theme. i’d download it today..
Li-An - May 15th, 2008

The return of the mummy:
I saw in the template there is a “search.php”. It seems it shows the posts as usual and I wanted to show them like in tag presentation or category presentation. Is is easy to do so ?
Fiery Phoenix - June 8th, 2008

thanks for this theme
Nadya - June 11th, 2008

I should certainly register these theme with you and have a try on a couple of my sites. Thank you so much!!
Li-An - June 11th, 2008

I answer to my question

..is it possible to exclude a category in page to page navigation…i would like to know too..hehe

You can try in paging.php in line 3

where 36 and so on are the categories to exclude.
ARS - June 17th, 2008

Thanks for sharing this themes!
madrasblues - June 20th, 2008

Hi Richie-K,

Firstly, Thanks for making such a great theme….
Geat Going !
BTW,
I’m facing a small problem…
I would like to add a header into the existing theme, keeping the headerbg.gif intact.
Want to insert a small logo file, in place to the blog title.

Please find the image attached, which will explain my problem..

Thanks and regards,

MB
Mufid - June 21st, 2008

Hi Richie-K,
Any new themes this month so far?
Silkies - July 1st, 2008

Thanks, I’m going to blog about this new idea on my own site.
Weblogian - July 11th, 2008

How do I put my own ad in the top header
Li-An - July 11th, 2008

Weblogian: search for the image file in your theme/images directory and change it with yours keeeping the same name.
Mikael Rieck - July 13th, 2008

I want to buy this theme but how long do you think I have to wait before Richie will get back to me after sending him a message?

Thanks,
Mikael
Weblogian - July 13th, 2008

Thanks, Can I edit the top Ad banner from the theme editor?
Li-An - July 13th, 2008

Weblogian: you can . It’s a good way to make it work without problem.
booblik - July 15th, 2008

cool, thanks
ale - July 24th, 2008
tech - August 3rd, 2008

hello,

I like the smoothgallery from zoxhegen and im trying to input it into this theme because its such a nice feature.

Does anyone know a easy way to do this?
Raj - August 18th, 2008

another nice theme. Thanx 4 sharing!
Yudhi - August 25th, 2008

Very nice theme, keep a good job man!
Prostoi Max - September 13th, 2008

Very nice theme, thanks author! Good job!
arabforex - September 17th, 2008

Thank you
bert - September 19th, 2008

My Frontpage looks great (depending on who you ask) but when I build subsequent pages the sidebar falls to the bottom of the page. I’m sure it is a problem with my css but since you built it I wonder if you may have an idea as to what I may have done.

I’ve tried to widen the container, content and shrink the post and sidebar divs but nothing seems to work.

Thanks for the great theme and all the great support.
b
jobucks - October 1st, 2008

i’ve install this template on my blog http://www.jobucks.com but I don’t know how to set-up the feed burner count, feed via rrs feed abd feed via subscription. Is there anyone out there can assist me how to do it
vicky ridwana - October 10th, 2008

i like this theme… but are SEO friendly????
belief - October 31st, 2008

How do I edit the adds on the site? I know nothing about css…please help?? Also, does this template allow for widgets? Thanks so much!
Amazung - November 4th, 2008

Thanks for full themes.
Armen Shirvanian - November 21st, 2008

Other than being a clean-looking theme, there are some positive features listed. Informing of the size of an ad that can be placed gives more information for possible users, so that is beneficial. Having a custom Category page is something that may be enough to make a theme get a small edge over another available choice.
daniel florianópolis - November 25th, 2008

what the higher versions wordpress posible for this theme ???
Vlad - December 7th, 2008

Looks very nice but Ithink it looks much better if the colors are brighter
Sophie - February 23rd, 2009

Hi, I use WordPress 2.7.1 with this theme. I wanted to try the post styling classes, but they don’t work. Do you know how to fix this problem?