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By: Nancy Yockey Bonar

Nancy Yockey Bonar — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:48:23 +0000

Ryan:

Contact me about a contract for you to design my sub cookbook blog and, eventually, web site.

Aunt Nancy

By: riikka

riikka — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:09:57 +0000

Hi Ryan, thanks for sharing your insights and tips customizing Magazeen theme. The new design is much fresher and neater than the original one. The improvement can be seen clearly when compared as before and after.

Alas, I am in the beginning of the customization task, and would appreciate your advice on the main article image. The original theme crops the article image to square, while I'd rather keep it in full width (just like the latest article in home page). I have been looking for a code snippet to copy-paste, but to no avail. (I'm not a coder but a tinkerer.)

How do you generate your full width article images?

By: Ryan Yockey

Ryan Yockey — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:01:13 +0000

I agree, it was obviously rushed and left solely to the community to deal with.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:03:19 +0000

I'm thinking about recoding the stylesheet or php file to see if I can fix it. I really love the sidebar look. Overall, I really love the Magazeen theme, but there is just a lot of workarounds to figure out. I think WeFunction kinda left it upon the community to figure out all the issues. For instance, a lot of people requested the readme file that was supposed to be with the theme. Not one person responded from WeFunction.

By: Ryan Yockey

Ryan Yockey — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:53:23 +0000

Yeah the Magazeen sidebar has limits. One of the reasons I switched out of it entirely controlling my site.

My sidebar is handcoded. I find it to be much more versatile for me personally.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:45:20 +0000

Interesting article. I'm now struggling with the Magazeen sidebar items. I've noticed several times that if I don't use Magazeen or WP specific widgets, then the sidebar backgrounds won't expand to surround whatever content is placed in them. On my site now at http://chriskinsman.com/ I am experimenting with ad placement and the bottom widget won't expand. I'll be experimenting with the Magazeen Sponsored Ad widget, but it is too basic for my needs.

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