Visualization
Visualization is a grid-based, magazine-style theme for Wordpress 2.3 and higher that is easy to customize and make your own. The theme utilizes Blueprint, a CSS framework, which streamlines development time by utilizing an easy-to-use grid and sensible typography. Visualization can transform your blog into a full-blown magazine or news Web site.
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This $99 package is for users who intend to install this theme on multiple websites.
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Visualization Includes
- Widgetized sidebar and bottombar
- Optional custom header images
- Dynamic sidebar to maximize homepage real estate
- Nine spots on the homepage to pack with content
Getting Started
To get Visualization off and running, you will need a minimum of 9 categories. The main section on this page is the latest article posted in category 1. The other sections display the latest articles in their respective categories. If you want a post a Sports article and have it show up in the main section, you would simply put the article in category 1 and Sports categories. The Sports section below will offset by one, enabling the main page to never publish duplicated content. See the screenshot below for reference.
Using Photos
Visualization utilizes Wordpress’ custom fields to display and manage each individual entry’s thumbnail photos. These include the 270 X 100 px skinny horizontal images (custom field key value=thumbnail) and a 75 X 75 pixel images (custom field key value=square). The screenshot below demonstrates the custom fields used for Visualization. The “photo” key value is optional if you prefer to program in additional lead photos measuring 590px wide into your theme design. 
Common Issues
JQuery, the javascript framework used in this theme, and Prototype, the javascript language that powers some Wordpress plugins, don’t like each other. To create a pleasant user-experience, deactivate all plugins that use the Prototype javascript framework.
December 7th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
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December 17th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Hi Thad
Great looking site. I am considering using it to replace an aging Joomla site for a Business Magazine http://www.dynamicbusiness.com we run but I have a few questions.
Sorry about the length but willing to pay for developer license and only use it on one site
1. Social Tagging Plugin - ie Digg, Technorati, etc, can we put in one of the standard plug ins?
2. Link to site plugin - Any issues with implementing this as well
3. You have put day/year into the URL, is there any problem with adding time? I assume its just standard permalink /%/ syntax (we are being syndicated by Google news which requires a unique number in the url, Joomla cant do this with SEF enabled and so we are missing out on 1000s of visitors a week)
4. Can we have author profile photo for one of the categories on the front page (we are trying to implement Entrepreneur Blogs and dont want them to have to change/add photo each new post)
5. Assume we can add Feedburner plugin without problems
6. Can I add Magazine Cover images for each month
7. Does it support multiple pages per article for long articles (and more ad impressions)
8. Can I simply put openads Javascript tags into the header and sidebar widgets to display ads.
9. Can I put Openads Javascript tags between the articles running down the front page?
10. Would you consider assisting for a fee to move Joomla Articles to Wordpress (and keeping month and categories tags)
Great design, hope we can work out these questions, I think our site would be a great reference site for your designs
Thanks
Mike Nicholls
Dynamic Business Webmaster
December 17th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Hi Mike
I’ll answer your questions sequentially:
http://www.yourwebsite.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_link_pages
http://www.timtrice.com/wp-openads-wordpress-plugin/
Hope this helps! It should be known that plugin compatibility has more to do with the version of Wordpress that you’re using, rather than the theme. Chances are, if it’s something that you need for a site, the Wordpress community already has a free solution available for download. Let me know if that covers your questions!
Thad
January 8th, 2008 at 10:33 am
I just bought the $99 deal - these do look great. But I am a little foxed by these instructions. When you say ‘The main section on this page is the latest article posted in category 1.’ Do you mean I need to create a category called ‘category 1′. Or is this Category ID 1?
The problem is this means I need to make a category just for that spot - say, Latest - and it hten appears in Departments and at the top of the page.
Sorry for basic question - fantastic themes.
January 8th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Hi David
Glad you like the themes. You are correct. It is category id 1. The logic behind this goes like this: Sometimes publishers don’t want their latest news item to be the main feature on their website. You can change the category id # to the category of your preference by opening home.php or index.php and changing the cat=1 number referenced in the first loop. Happy publishing!
Thad
January 8th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Thanks for the superfast response Thad. Two quickies and then I sit down… I have a number of categories and sub categories. In the top menu I need to get rid of them - and the sub categories which are showing. Also the articles pages have no sidebars. Please excuse the ignorance - these are like no WP themes i have ever seen!!! So exciting..
January 13th, 2008 at 7:50 am
I seem to be making some progress with this Thad but one thing puzzles me In the documentation above you say the main home page feature is the latest article in category 1, In fact it just seems to be the latest article, whatever the category. Also - is there some way to get sidebars on pages please?
January 13th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Sigh….. unfortunately this theme breaks badly under IE7. The navbar is positioned to the right outside the frame. I thought this was something I’d done but the demo page does the same thing here.
January 18th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Is this theme ever going to be compatible with IE? Also there is another major issue with it. If you add another post after the Category 1 post (which you don’t want to be featured) its headline will become the headline of the front page featured post, while the featured post text remains below.
I would appreciate a response here. I paid $99 for all these themes in the belief I was supporting something worthwhile. But if this isn’t compatible with IE and a simple thing such as a headline and a story don’t match up it seems to be money wasted.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
David
In the MAIN INDEX TEMPLATE underneath the , change this:
<div class="column span-8 last">to this:
<div class="column span-7 last">In styles.css, find ul#page_nav and change this:
margin-bottom: 15px;
margin-top:0px
to this:
margin:0 0 15px 0;
The featured post problem that you experiencing sounds like a problem with your database, likely caused by a plugin that is incompatible with your version of Wordpress. Wordpress themes simply query what exists in the database. If your titles and post bodies aren’t lining up, disable or upgrade the plugins that interact with your database.
For future reference, it’s best to contact me directly if you have a specific support request. Plus, you will get a quicker response.
January 20th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Thanks Thad - all working now and looks great!
March 18th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Hello,
Great theme, however I’m having a rather large problem. The native wordpress post break breaks the design, as you can see here: http://thefineinsides.com/
It forces the right hand content below the post on the left.
How can I fix it?
Thanks!
March 19th, 2008 at 10:37 am
I really like the design as well as the monochrome series. Is it easy to add an ajax slideshow plugin to this theme ?
March 31st, 2008 at 4:16 am
Hi, I have kind of the same question that Bruce asked. I would like to combine the functionality of this theme with an ajax slideshow for the featured article. Is that possible maybe with a plugin or by copying some code out of the free monochrome theme?
Your help would be much appreciated and if it is possible I would to buy this theme. Thanks, Simon from Germany
April 5th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Thad?
April 14th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
You can put a slideshow using NEXTGEN gallery. check our website.
Best
CP
April 25th, 2008 at 10:40 am
This looks really smooth. Ready to dump Joomla.
This guy’s site really works for me:
http://thefineinsides.com/
Do you have any other samples of live sites?
I need to design “news sites” that are very reliable and user-friendly.
Is this the ticket?
ricland
April 28th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
is not like putting the post in the “nocategorias” on the homepage. not how to solve this problem. please help me.
I buy the theme of visualization.
If we say a factor again.
Dennis Meyer
May 17th, 2008 at 3:28 am
Yesterday I bought Visualition theme but I don’t receive any e-mail to procede the download (I also chek my spam folder). I don’t know what I have to do to get this theme.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:37 pm
You said “it sounds like a problem with your database, likely caused by a plugin that is incompatible with your version of Wordpress.”
I bought the visualtion theme.
Using WP 2.5
Activite the latest Riffly Video/Audio Comments plugin
And the tabs on the front page don’t work anymore.
There are a couple of other plugins that kill those tabs
Also in the header.php the code for the catagories drop down has “get icon” function hard coded into - The icons are bigger than the space allowed for the menu items
what is the code that I need to just have the words there.
Overall this a great theme it just doens’t like it takes well to hacking/changing the way things are layed out.
July 4th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
HI Thad,
This is is my 2nd GPG theme, and the first one works fabulously! However, i don’t get why there is not a “Theme Options” just like on the Monochrome theme, that allows you to set your category placement? Im having trouble figuring out how to change the category name and location.
Also, the latest, most commented, departments, and contributors section - is there a way to change this to render categories, instead of pulling the predetermined “latest” most commented” etc?
thanks! love your themes!
July 6th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
@Denis - You figured this out, correct?
@Ana - sent you this a while back…just letting the comment readers know….
@RP - Visualization uses JQUERY javascript framework. Plugins that use other javascript frameworks will “break” the tabs. Javascript libraries are kind of like batteries: You can’t use AA and AAA together and expect things to work right. More info:
http://docs.jquery.com/Using_jQuery_with_Other_Libraries
@Monica - Glad you like the themes! At the time I built Visualization, I expected that most users would be comfortable editing the category numbers in the theme files. Sometimes, that doesn’t seem to be the case. I will be be adding Theme Options to Visualization soon. I’ll send out an update when I release it.