FAQ

How to setup your front page:

 

How to create review types and write reviews part 1

 

How to create review types and write reviews part 2

 

How to setup non-review posts within your review types

 

More to come…

 

The demo xml file that comes with the theme contains one review type completely setup called Movie. Before you import this file, you need to create this review type in your Review Options page. Then you need to specify all of the necessary options, which are detailed in this screenshot of the demo review options (you only need to setup Movie).

After you setup the review type, go to Tools >> Import and choose WordPress. Upload the demo xml file that came in your Made-Theme folder and click Upload File and Import. Do not make any selections or assignments for the authors.

After the import finishes, go to Appearance >> Menus and in the Theme Locations panel select the menu for each of the menu locations (for some reason the import process creates the menus correctly but does not assign them to these three spots).

Then, you will need to go to Appearance >> Widgets and setup your widgets since the import file does not contain widget information.

Finally, you will need to go to Appearance >> Theme Options and setup your theme options to match the demo. All of the demo theme options are detailed in this screenshot.

We also provide a screenshot of the full review options from the main Made demo which is located here: Made Demo Review Options. Some browsers have trouble displaying an image of this size in the colorbox. If you have this issue, right-click on the link and open the image in a new window (or save it to your computer) to view it.

Yes! A .sql file is included that you can import directly into your mysql database via phpMyAdmin. Here is how you do this:

1. Backup your database!
2. Open your WordPress database using phpMyAdmin on your web server
3. Drop all of your tables: Structure >> Check All >> With Selected: Drop
4. Click Import tab at the top
5. Click Choose File and select the .sql file in your Made-Theme folder
6. Click Go
7. Open your wp_options table
8. Change the value in the siteurl and home records to your domain (currently they are pointing to http://www.brianmcculloh.com/wp-made-demo)

After you make these changes, you can access your WordPress admin panel using the following credentials:

Username: brianmcculloh
Password: MadeDem0

Once logged in you should see one review type called Movie and 5 sample movie reviews, as well as all of the Review Options for that review type and all the Theme Options from the demo.

1. Install Made and activate it.
2. Go to Appearance >> Menus and re-assign your menus in the Theme Locations panel. The layout of the menus is not exactly the same in Made as in Swagger, so you might have to do a little tweaking to get them where you want them.
3. Install and run the free plugin called AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild. It is only necessary to run this once right after you first activate the theme.
4. Go to Appearance >> Theme Options >> Front Page and select a size for your Featured Slider Size and specify a layout for your Latest Posts >> Latest Layout and click Save Options.
5. Go to Appearance >> Review Options and click Save Options.
6. Go to Appearance >> Widgets and open each Extended: Latest Reviews, Extended: Latest Review Tabs, and Extended: Post Tabs widget in all of your sidebars and click Save on each one (this fixes thumbnail sizes).
7. Go to Appearance >> Miscellaneous and specify a color for your Main Color Scheme.
8. Your review types, rating info, posts, pages, categories, tags, taxonomies, etc. will all be visible without any further modifications. Keep in mind Made is not the exact same theme as Swagger so you will definitely need to spend some time getting your site settings how you want them.

You need to go through the exact same steps as if your site was a review site. That means creating your “review types” (which will just be regular posts on the front-end of your site), filling out all the settings for each review type, and writing “reviews” (regular posts on the front-end). The difference is that when you write your “reviews”, you need to use the settings in the Rating Info panel below the post content editor and hide the rating, overview, and full article bar. Also, go to your Review Options, expand your review type, and expand the Global Settings panel and tick Hide “Review” Verbiage. Now your “reviews” will appear as if they are regular posts within that review type, but you also get the functionality of the mini-sites. Also note that you can have non-reviews and reviews in the same mini-site.

It’s possible, but rare, that another plugin is “overwriting” the menu location of the review types. Try disabling your plugins and see if the review type begins displaying in your sidebar.

This is because you have attempted to view a taxonomy that doesn’t contain any reviews. Add a new review and assign it the taxonomy you are trying to access and the page will begin displaying correctly.

Depending on whether you are installing this theme on a brand new WordPress installation or just changing themes on an existing install, your widgets that used to be in the sidebar might get thrown into the Frontpage Main widget panel. Go to Appearance >> Widgets and move the widgets from the Frontpage Main widget panel into the Frontpage Sidebar widget panel.

If you have images that were uploaded prior to installing this theme and you are trying to show them in the featured slider, you need to install and run the free plugin called AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild.

There are three steps necessary in getting articles to display in your main featured slider:

1. You must make sure the value in Appearance >> Theme Options >> Front Page >> Featured Slider >> Featured Tag matches the name of the tag you want to use. To find the slug of the tag you want to use, go to Posts >> Tags and locate the tag in the list and look at the slug to the right of the tag name. Here is a screenshot to help you:

2. You must tag your articles with the tag you want to use. So, if you have chosen to use “featured” as your tag, you must tag your posts “featured”. Here is a screenshot to help you:

3. You must assign featured images to the posts that you have tagged “featured”. Here is a screenshot to help you.

If after doing these steps your featured slider still does not display anything at all, it is due to one of the following two reasons:

1) You have a plugin conflict which is causing a javascript error. Test to see if this is the case by temporarily disabling all of your plugins and see if the featured slider begins working.

…or…

2) Another slider on the page is broken, which will also cause the Featured Slider to not work. Make sure your Latest Slider, Spotlight Slider, Trending Slider, Don’t Miss slider, and Category Panels are all setup correctly on your home page (see Theme Options >> Front Page and Miscellaneous tabs to setup these sliders).

If, after making sure you try all of these steps, you are still unable to get the featured slider to work, please post a question on our support forum.

In Review Options make sure you have filled in all of the text fields for Rating Criteria under the Ratings, Colors and Styles toggle panel. You can adjust the number of rating criteria using the drop down above the input fields.

This means you have not fully filled out all of your review options for your review type. Go to Appearance >> Review Options and for each review type expand the panels and fill out the necessary fields. Pay particular attention to the Taxonomies, Rating Criteria, and Meta Fields, and make sure there are no blank fields. These are the minimum required fields for the review type to work.

You can change the sizes of any of the images used in various places throughout the site for post thumbnails by editing the functions/custom.php file. There is a function that dictates all the various sizes on lines 209 – 229. The function should look like this:


//add thumbnail support
if ( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) { // Added in 2.9
add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
set_post_thumbnail_size( 160, 160, true ); // default post thumbnails
add_image_size( 'latest', 163, 109, true );
add_image_size( 'featured-full', 1000, 550, true );
add_image_size( 'featured-small', 650, 360, true );
add_image_size( 'footer-thumbnail', 40, 40, true );
add_image_size( 'spotlight', 300, 170, true );
add_image_size( 'spotlight-small', 230, 135, true );
add_image_size( 'loop-large', 630, 350, true );
add_image_size( 'loop-large-full', 960, 450, true );
add_image_size( 'panel-small', 190, 108, true );
add_image_size( 'trending', 105, 70, true );
add_image_size( 'widget-thumbnail', 70, 70, true );
add_image_size( 'single', 625 );
add_image_size( 'single-medium', 300 );
add_image_size( 'single-small', 180 );
add_image_size( 'single-full', 960 );
add_image_size( 'single-review', 350 );
add_image_size( 'related', 110, 70, true );
}


Find the line that corresponds to the image size you want to change. For instance, if you want to change the size of the images that appear in the spotlight slider, you would edit line 216. The two numbers on that line represent the width followed by the height in pixels. So, if you want to change the spotlight images from 170px height to 200px in height, you would change line 216 to this:

add_image_size( 'spotlight', 300, 200, true );

IMPORTANT – after changing any of these values, you must install and run the AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild plugin so your existing images can be resized to fit the new dimensions. It will not be necessary to run the plugin again after the first time (unless you change a value again).

Go to Theme Options >> Other Pages >> More Page Options and change the number specified for Reviews Per Page to match the number specified in Settings >> Reading >> Blog pages show at most. If you still have trouble after doing so, go to Settings >> Permalinks and click Save and then see if it begins working.

Go to the Disqus plugin-settings (not the general Disqus-setting) and enable “Output JavaScript in footer” under Advanced Options.

Make sure your review types all start with a capital letter in Review Options. Then, when you’re creating your review mini-site front page, make sure you capitalize the name of the review type in the custom field that you add.

I merely provide a translation-ready PO file with this theme that you can then take and translate using software such as Poedit (http://www.poedit.net/). I have not translated a WordPress theme myself, nor do I really know how to translate one, so I am not the best resource to help you with this specific task. I do know that the PO file I provide works, because hundreds of customers have successfully used it to translate their themes. To get much better information than what I can provide you, start with this resource: http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress, and then ask any specific questions on WordPress Answers: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/, or the WordPress support forums: http://wordpress.org/support/.

Increase the number of posts that display in this slider to 6 (or more) in Theme Options >> Miscellaneous >> Don’t Miss Bar until it begins looping. If you have very short post titles it might take more than the minimum 5 posts that is selected by default.

You need at least 3 posts in the latest slider or else it will only display 1 post (or none at all).

If missing the more button in the spotlight slider, increase the height of the panels, since if a taller element is not displayed at first and rather rotated into, its height is ignored when coming up with the height of the slider, which is why 450px had to be selected as the defined height of this area. look for this in the style.css file: #spotlight .post-panel {float:left;margin-top:20px;margin-right:20px;width:300px;height:450px;position:relative;}

Because the slider and tab shortcodes both use jQuery and have specific ID’s, you cannot put more than one slider or tab shortcode inside of each page/post content (you can have one of each, however, since they don’t affect each other).

You cannot add more than one of the exact same type of tabbed widget to any one page. That means you cannot put the Extended: Latest Review Tabs widget both in the sidebar and in a footer panel, or else it will cause them both to break.

Use the title attribute in the custom menu to make the main menu ancestor highlight appropriately. It must match the name of your review type (but the title can be anything you want, as well as the name of the page and the page slug). Basically, review page custom field value and custom menu item title attribute must exactly match the review type name you have specified.

See this handy step-by-step guide.

This is because you haven’t named your menus correctly. When you create your menus, you must name the top menu “Top Menu” and the main menu “Main Menu”. If you name them something else, they will not display correctly when viewing on a mobile phone.

If you’re using a photo gallery plugin that has a built in lightbox effect, such as the ones mentioned, you should disable the Colorbox jQuery plugin in the theme by going to Theme Options >> Miscellaneous >> More Options and disabling it there. If you want the Colorbox to still apply to your featured images but not your galleries, you can alternatively open footer.php and delete lines 187 and 188. Those lines look like this for reference:

jQuery(".page-content a[href$='.jpg'],a[href$='.png'],a[href$='.gif']").colorbox(); 
jQuery('.page-content .gallery a').colorbox({  rel:'gallery' });

You probably have a caching plugin such as W3 Total Cache active. Disable the plugin and perform your changes to your Review Options page, and when you’re done, re-enable your caching plugin.

Make sure you don’t have any taxonomies, categories, or meta data with the same name as the name of the review page.

This is just the first version of user rating integration and I’d like to add even more features in the future. Here are some things worth noting regarding user ratings:

Make sure the title of your review mini-site page does not match the name of your review type. For instance, if the name of your review type is “Movie”, then the title of your review mini-site front page cannot also be “Movie”. Change it to something else, like “Movies”. Important: if you change the name of your review type rather than the name of your review mini-site front page title, you will lose all of your settings for that review type and you’ll also have to run a post type converter to convert all of your reviews in the old review type name to the new review type name.

Check out this forum post, much thanks to Made user JackYu!

Make sure you don’t put a trailing forward slash after your permalink structure. This was affected by changes in WordPress 3.4. So, if your permalink structure looks like this: /%postname%/%post_id%/ you should remove the trailing forward slash so it looks like this instead: /%postname%/%post_id%

Try renaming your review type and then naming it back. For instance, go to Review Options and look at your list of review types. If you have a review type named, for instance, Movie, change it to Movie2 and click Update Review Types. Then change it back to Movie and click Update Review Types again. That should fix your issue of being able to add new taxonomies.

Let’s say I have two review types: Movies and Music. Let’s say my primary taxonomy for Movies is Genre and for Music it’s Artist. Now, lets say I usually write 3 different types of posts generally speaking: Newly Released, Classics, and Announcements. So, in my Movies mini-site I will have reviews about newly released movies, classic movies, and announcements about upcoming movies (announcements would not be reviews and would have the rating information hidden so they look like regular posts – see theme documentation or the FAQ for information on how to do this), and I will also have those same three general types of posts in my Music review type. So, I create three standard categories: Newly Released, Classics, and Announcements. Notice how all three of those categories could be applied to any types of posts, both reviews and regular. Then I put those in the menu so that when I click on, say, Classics, I am taken to a post listing page of all posts or reviews in the Classics category (I will see both Music reviews and Movie reviews listed together). However, if I click on one of the artists within the Music review type it will keep me within the Music review type and only list music reviews, since that has nothing to do with my other review type(s).

This is just one example. There is no one right way to setup your site. You can do it a million different ways, whichever best suits your site and how you want to organize your content.

Made requires that you install the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin if you are going to use BuddyPress. If you don’t install this plugin, you will lose a lot of the styling and fancy AJAX functionality. This plugin is made by the creators of BuddyPress and is meant for enabling themes to work with BuddyPress, so it’s very reliable, trustworthy, and recommended, and doesn’t add any strain to your server load at all. Note: this plugin is obviously not required if you are not going to install BuddyPress