Comments on: WP-Genius

By: Michael Pollock

Michael Pollock — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:18:55 +0000

Hi Allen. Thanks for the kind words. Both those items can be done, however, it would require quite a bit of customization beyond the functionality available via the theme settings page.

By: Allen

Allen — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:30:10 +0000

This is one of the best themes I’ve seen and I appreciate the work you have put in to allow customization by non-programmers like myself.

My questions are:

1) Can the 4 “mini” posts lined up across the second row be configured to be “pages” instead of “posts”. In other words, can they just be text boxes that link to a full page description without showing the date/comments etc.?

2) Can you alter the number of these “mini” posts to be 2 or 3 instead of 4?

Thanks!

By: Michael Pollock

Michael Pollock — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:06:15 +0000

Hi Rob. You should have no problem using Disqus with this theme.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:17:15 +0000

I’m interested to know if this theme works fine with Disqus please?

Many thanks!

By: Michael Pollock

Michael Pollock — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:50:42 +0000

Hi Sam. The post order is a function of WordPress, and the only simple way to control it is by using some sort of plugin, such as PostMash (Filtered).

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:47:18 +0000

Very nice looking theme.

Can the order of the featured content gallery be controlled? Assuming it will show the latest content on the top, but is there a way we can control what the order is and avoiding it choose the latest content?

By: Michael Pollock

Michael Pollock — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:10:21 +0000

Hi Sam.

There are several built-in color options that can easily be changed via the theme settings page. You can also change colors, such as the body background color, header background color, font and link colors via the theme settings page.

Adding videos and/or podcasts is not really a function of any particular theme. It’s more a function of WordPress itself. There’s nothing about Solostream themes that would make it any harder or easier to add such items.

When you add a new theme, your posts, themselves, are not changed. The only thing that changes is how the posts are presented on your site. You can see the demo site to get an idea what that will look like.

By: nchslive

nchslive — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:04:43 +0000

Hello,

I am the editor-in-chief of our high school’s online publication. For the last year we have been using Arthemia Pro and are now beginning to look for a new theme. We are interested in your Genius theme. I just have some questions that need to be answered before we take the next step into buying a theme.

1. Is there some type of editor menu where you can change the code to add in different colors and change the design that is provided?
2. Also with solostream themes, is it relatively easy to add in videos and podcasts?
3. Once buying a theme, does all of the wordpress posts easily convert over to the new theme?

Besides that we really like the themes you have!
Thanks, Sam

By: Michael Pollock

Michael Pollock — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:35:58 +0000

Hi Ciso. The only social networks that are supported are the ones shown on the demo site. Youtube and Google Buzz are not included.

As for translation, yes, you’d have to go through the theme and translate. There is no single file currently available.

By: Ciso

Ciso — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:32:00 +0000

Hi Michael,
I’m interested in buying this theme (the multi-account licence) but I have some questions:
1- in the social-sidebar which social-network are “supported”. Are there Youtube and Google Buzz icons?
2- What about translating to another language? Is it there a single file to translate or I have to look all around the files to find sentences to translate?

Thank you very much.

By: Michael Pollock

Michael Pollock — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:08:31 +0000

Hi Nico. You can customize the theme as much as you like. There are no limitations on that.

By: Nico

Nico — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:08:50 +0000

Hello,

I’m interested in this theme but I wonder the degree of customization allowed. For example, what if I want to replace the background color with an image?

Thanks

By: Michael Pollock

Michael Pollock — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:31:00 +0000

Hi Christian. If you’ll be using the theme on just 1 site that you own, you need the Basic license. If you will be using the theme on multiple sites that you own, you need the Premium license. If you will be using the theme as a platform to develop sites for clients, you need the Developer license.

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:27:35 +0000

hi,

I am looking to buy Genius theme, but i have the following question:

If I integrate a classified theme within the genius theme, which license I have to buy?

Classified theme is http://wpclassipress.com/

Thanks for your prompt response,

Best regards,

By: Michael Pollock

Michael Pollock — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:42:30 +0000

Hi Nicole. There are several lightbox plugins out there, and many of them work fine with WP-Genius. We’ve not tested all of them, so it’s difficult to say which one would be best for you. Recently, I’ve tested Shutter Reloaded and Shadowbox JS, and they work fine. You can see Shadowbox JS implemented on this post: http://dev.michaeldpollock.com/2009/06/what-do-you-think-of-these-photos/