With its clean, minimalist and professional-looking design, WP-Clear is one of our most popular premium WordPress magazine themes. Multiple home page layouts and a built-in control panel make it flexible and easy to use. It can be used as a blog, an online magazine or a business website.
Please Note: This area is for pre-sales questions only. If you already own this theme and could use a little guidance, please visit the Solostream Support Forum. Thanks so much.
Question by linuxguy
I don’t require all the ad space.
Can the ads in the sidebar be replaced with sidebar widgets of my choice?
If so, how/where is this done (theme settings page or somewhere else)?
Thank you
Answer by Michael Pollock
Hi Linuxguy. For support issues on this theme, please visit the Solostream Support Forum http://www.solostream.com/forum/. We do not address support issues via email or site comments.
Thanks for your understanding.
Question by amir
Hi,
1-Is it possible to increase the number of category boxes at Home Page??
2-Featured Articles…Is it possible to increase number of posts from 6 to 10 at Featured Content Glider??
Waiting for your reply.
Thanks.
Answer by Michael Pollock
Amir. It is possible but would require quite a bit of customization beyond what available via the theme settings page.
Question by Jamie
Hi there, I have a few questions prior to potentially purchasing this theme:
1. can I add a ‘featured video’ on the home page (which can also be played from the homepage), or get this added/customised by you guys?
2. can I add social media sharing links at the end of each blog posts, before the ‘about the author’ and ‘comments’ section? And custom ads?
3. can I add a full-width option?
Thanks
Answer by Michael Pollock
1. can I add a ‘featured video’ on the home page (which can also be played from the homepage), or get this added/customised by you guys?
You can easily add a featured video in the sidebar via the sidebar widgets. If you want it somewhere else on the homepage, yes, it would need to be customized.
2. can I add social media sharing links at the end of each blog posts, before the ‘about the author’ and ‘comments’ section? And custom ads?
there are several plugins that will add social media links/share links. custom ads would also need some sort of plugin.
my best advice woudl be to search the wordpress plugins directory.
3. can I add a full-width option?
this is easy to do.
Question by Jonathan
I have a few questions pre-potential purchase:
1, Just how customisable is the theme? For example, I would wish to get rid of the 3rd column down the left hand side on post pages and extend the main column into that space: is that possible?
2, How customisable are the tabs? Can you edit them to be in CAPS, edit colour, font etc?
3, On the homepage, could you move the ‘Other Recent Articles’ section above the Category boxes? And can you reduce/increase the amount of posts in those Category sections (currently 3 for each in the demo, I’d perhaps like to reduce that..)
Thanks, I’m new to Wordpress so these questions may be basic but I have no idea!
Answer by Michael Pollock
Hi Jonathan. It’s quite simple to remove the left sidebar via the theme settings page.
Tabs can be edited via the stylesheet.
You can edit the number of posts in the category boxes quite easily.
As for moving the other recent articles up, that could be done by tweaking the code a bit, but it’s not difficult.
Question by sarah
Hi, this is exactly the type of theme I have been looking for, and would like to use it for multiple sites. It is imperative that I have a bilingual English/Chinese site. At the moment I use qTranslate with Wordpress 2.9.1. (any higher version of WP, that plug-in does not work). Would the qTranslate plug-in work with your template?
Answer by Michael Pollock
Hi Sarah. I don’t believe there would be any problems using the plugin with WP-Clear, but if you run into any, just let us know, and we’ll work with you to sort it out.
Question by Mothanna Almobarak
Hello there,
I want to buy the WP-Clear theme, but need to ask if it supports arabic.
I mean can i change the aligment of the theme to Right-to-Left?
Thank you
Answer by Michael Pollock
Hello Mothanna. There is no RTL stylesheet provided with WP-Clear, however, you may change it on your own if you like,
Question by Paul Trapp
I am just beginning to set up this site, and want lots of flexibility because I’m not sure what “direction” this is going to go. I may want to turn this site into a membership site with secure area for members.
Would this theme/template allow me to do that?
If not, can you recommend a theme that would be more ideal for a membership site?
Answer by Michael Pollock
Hi Paul. Not sure how much research you’ve done on membership sites, so forgive me if you already know this. To set up a membership site with WordPress, you would need a 3rd party plugin/script, such as Wishlist Member or aMember. They allow you to set up a membership site regardless of the particular WordPress theme you choose. There’s nothing about WP-Clear that would prevent you from using it in conjunction with either of them.
Question by Daniel Holmes
Hi. Can a company logo or header image easily be added to wp-clear?
Answer by Michael Pollock
Hi Daniel. Yes, you can upload your own logo and easily add it to the site via the Theme Settings Page.
Question by eric
Hello,
Are we able to remove the featured rotator at the top of the homepage? We like everything else about the skin, but this, we’d like to make it a small photo and additional space for text that pertains to the photo.
THanks.
Answer by Michael Pollock
Hi Eric. Yes, that would be pretty easy to do.
Question by Gary Nunn
Will the WP-Clear theme support using external images as thumbnails?
Answer by Michael Pollock
Hi Gary. Yes, it will.
Question by Justin
I’m looking for a magazine style theme like this one, do you offer any with dynamic sidebar widgets? Say Category #1, gets Category #1 Widget and Cat#2 gets Cat#2 widget and so on?
I want to do minimal coding.
Thanks,
Answer by Michael Pollock
Hi Justin. I’m sorry, but I don’t know what you mean by “dynamic sidebar widgets.” Are you just wanting a list of posts from a specific category to show up in your sidebar?
If so, there’s a great plugin for that called Category Posts Widget.
Question by cem
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Answer by Michael Pollock
I’m sorry cem, but I’m not understanding your question.
Question by jesse vargas
Michael
Question…Can I purchase the wp-clear theme for $79.00, work on it, put content on it and when I get the rest of the money pay you the rest ($100.00) so I can take the link off at the footer and use it for other projects I have? I just don’t have all the cash to put up right now. Thanks
Answer by Michael Pollock
Sure. That’s exactly how it works.
Question by cem
tema hakkında bir kaç sormak istiyorum. cevaplarsanız sevinirim.
temaya bir kaç özellik eklemek mümkünmü kendim ekleyebilirmiyim birde resimlerin boyutlarıyla oynamak mümkünmü. biraz daha büyük resim istiyorum. yanıtınıza göre sitenizi satınalmak istiyorum şimdiden teşekkürler.
Answer by Michael
I’m sorry cem, but can you ask your question in English?
Question by jay quarton
Will this theme support WP 2.9?
Answer by Michael
Yes, it does work with WP 2.9 just fine.
Question by roro
Does all themes support full page width option? Wp-clear etc.? Regards r
Answer by Michael
No, not all the themes do, but we could create a full-width page or post template for you very easily at no charge.
Question by Joe Milton
Your themes are great and very close to what I’m looking for. If I wanted some modifications do you do customization for a fee?
Answer by Michael
Thanks for the kind words, Joe. Yes, we do offer customization for a fee based upon the specifics of the project.
Question by alan
Hello,
Can the number of boxes be changed under the main slider?
How are ads managed? Can they be timed out, etc? if not is there a way to incorporate a third party plugin for more flexible ad management
Can the slider show a video? If not can video player be added?
Thanks
Alan
Answer by Michael
The number of category boxes available is 4. More could be added if needed, but it would require customization. Someone in our support forum cam provide some guidance on how to easily do that.
As for ads, there are 3 fields on the Theme Settings page where you can place the code for your ads ( see this screenshot ). You could incorporate a 3rd party but not via the theme settings page. You’d need to place any necessary plugin code within the template.
As it’s currently configured, the slider can not show a video without some customization of the code. A vide oplayer could be added if you understand the programming. Otherwise, we could do the customization for additional charge.
Question by Scott
Thank you – that’s great. One last question – should have asked before. Can posts be in multiple categories… I’m thinking here of the ability to make a post a feature, but also have it in a specific other categories as well.
Answer by Michael
Yes definitely. You can place a post in as many categories as you want, although I’d recommend limiting it to no more than 3 if possible.
Question by Scott
Thanks Michael. I can appreciate how the photo galleries wouldn’t show up the same way as Wp-Mag, but I’m not sure how videos show up on the front page of Wp-Mag? I see that there’s a play button image super-imposed over the video pic, but it doesn’t play the video there, it just links to the post, does it not?
So the process for embedding video would be the same for clear and mag?
Thanks again
Answer by Michael
Yes, that’s right. WP-MediaMag only shows the small video icon on the home page. You can not actually play the video on the home page.
With WP-MediaMag, you need to use a custom field to embed your video for it to appear properly on the home page (with the icon) as well as the Single Post page ( see this tutorial: http://wp-mediamag.solostreamsites.com/2009/07/how-to-add-video-to-a-post/ ).
With WP-Clear, you would simply paste your embed code into the post editor and it will appear on the Single Post page according to the embed code you used. When viewing the post on the home page however, there won’t be an icon like you have with MediaMag.
Question by Scott
Hi, are video integration and photo galleries (like Wp-Mag) possible in the Wp-Clear theme?
Thanks
-Scott
Answer by Michael
Hi Scott. The short answer is no. The longer answer is that you can embed video and create photo galleries in any WordPress theme. It’s just that they won’t appear on the home page as they do in WP-MediaMag. They will show up on WP-Clear the same way that any other article/post does.