Comments on: Mahusay

By: Kristina

Kristina — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:11:16 +0000

Awesome! Yeah, having spent some more time with it, I wonder if it’s actually by design that the pictures aren’t pulled automatically from the RSS feed. Blogger sizes the photos down in the RSS feed to only 320 pixels wide. If the template pulled the photos in automatically, it might require that the feature box be smaller (or else you’d get black bars down the sides). So it may actually be impossible to have this work the way we’d like. Unless perhaps you could add the URL for the image you want into an “additional info” field (like the podcast link), and get the feature slideshow to pull that URL as an image out of the RSS feed?

By: The Influencer

The Influencer — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:13:39 +0000

@Kristina wow.. that really helped me. I really want to know how to change the pictures too. ^^

thanks

By: Claudia

Claudia — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:22:35 +0000

Dadik:
Click on “Template Settings”

By: dadik

dadik — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:43:57 +0000

How can I change the slides??
Someone can help me? it keeps showing crabs?????
need some help please

By: Kristina

Kristina — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:28:47 +0000

Strike that. I had something missing from the RSS script.

If this helps, here’s how you get the slides to show what you want. There are five blocks of code for the five slides. Don’t copy over them, because each one is marked specifically for which article to bring in. For each of the five blocks of code:
- Replace the RSS feed URL with the URL of your RSS feed, but make sure you stop at /default (the stuff after that is important). You’ll need to do that in two places on each of the five blocks of code, for a total of ten replacements.
- After each block of code, there are two URLs for the image that will go on the slide. Replace both of those with the correct image.
- Each of the five blocks also includes a place where you need to put in the permalink of the article.

One drawback is that if you use your main RSS feed, the articles will be bumped down the list every time you update… but the pictures and links won’t, because they’re hard-coded, and only the title and description are being pulled from the RSS feed.

I got around this by using the RSS feed of a particular category. I made a “decemberfeature” label, marked five articles with it, then entered the RSS feed as mysite.com/……../default/-/decemberfeature because that is the RSS feed for just that label. This way, as long as I don’t add a new article with the “decemberfeature” label, nothing will move on the slideshow.

I’d love to get the pictures brought in automatically somehow, so that the theme won’t have to be edited by hand each and every time I want to change the featured content. But I’ve worked with SmoothGallery before and I know how temperamental it can be, and I can’t seem to figure out a way to bring the info in and still keep the slideshow working. I’m guessing the Mahusay designer couldn’t, either, when transferring this over from WordPress. If I understood JavaScript better (or at all) I might stand a chance…

By: Kristina

Kristina — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:46:29 +0000

Especially since it does display (beautifully) in the screenshot. Am I just not seeing it? Because it’s missing from the live demo for me, as well.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:45:27 +0000

I’m curious about why the post title doesn’t display on the slides. There’s a space for it, but it isn’t visible. Why should that be? I’m not spotting anything in the CSS that makes it look like it’s deliberate.

By: Noam

Noam — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:53:20 +0000

How can I change the slides??
Someone can help me?

By: Saemenes

Saemenes — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:11:05 +0000

How do I change the photos and post content? it keeps showing crabs with links to posts that aren’t mine. What is this and how can I change it?

By: Juan

Juan — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:55:03 +0000

Hi! I love this template,but i don’t know why, when i put on my Blog, the right side is cuted.

Can someone tell me what’s happen?