Yesterday, i have reviewing Linoluna Wordpress theme, actually, that is not my original review , i copied from its original site. That is purely Linoluna’s creator review, and simple tutorial from them.

After visiting into their site, soo many comments say that they were get in troubled with image and thumbnail. Most of them were frustated when they want to add thumbnail into their Featured Post, somebody were succeed, but they complaining for it’s complicated step to do with.

Then, today i wanna try this theme into my own site. And i wanna share to you about this. You can call this as Linoluna Wordpress Theme Tutorial. First, i want to try the original theme, and i wanna ‘taste’ it’s difficult, then i will modify it to make it easier. Once again, if you were confuse with my description, leave comments her.

Let’s the Linoluna Tutorial Begin

You can see my demo site for Linoluna Wordpress theme here : HDTV Information

First Step, i read what is inside the index.php files for this theme, and i found this script

<?php query_posts(“showposts=4&cat=3“); $i = 1; ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<div id=”feature_<?php echo $i; ?>” style=”display: none”>

<?php $values = get_post_custom_values(“Image“);?>
<a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>”><img src=”<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>/wp-content/themes/linoluna/images/slideshows/<?php echo $values[0];?>” /></a>

Look at the bold text that i give some color. Number 4 in showpost were mean how many post will be display in featured content area (slideshow area), and the number 3 were the Category ID (which category you want to display). Next, you can concern into Image text inside get_post_custom_values, this Images were the Name of the Custom Fields that you must give inside those featured category post, and usually fill the value of the customfields with the image URL.

Then, i try to do this ‘usual’ step.

Shit!. The image won’t show!!!

Let’s we take a look again into this script.

src=”<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>/wp-content/themes/linoluna/images/slideshows/<?php echo $values[0];?>” /></a>

That’s why my image won’t show. This script tell us that the VALUE inside customfield will call that URL also. For an example, i fill the value with this url :

http://www.hdtv.get4today.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/063_myth_hdtv.jpg

then this theme will try to show images at this url :

http://www.hdtv.get4today.com/wp-content/themes/linoluna/images/slideshows/http://www.hdtv.get4today.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/063_myth_hdtv.jpg

Of course it will not works!. Because there is no image at this location! Shit! 

According into Linoluna’s theme creator, the value inside Customfields should be name of the file image only, and it should be inside Slideshow folder. That make sense when we see the script above. Then, what should we do?

First, we must upload some image into /wp-content/themes/linoluna/images/slideshows/ folder via FTP. For this post example (http://www.hdtv.get4today.com/description/50-inch-daewoo-plasma-hdtv-reviewed/) i have upload image with name daewoo_dsp_5010lxs_500.jpg. Then we must fill the custom fields like this one :

Problem solve!????

No! shit !

The image were too large!

We must change this image size!. And every featured post, we should to do this again and again. Resizing, and upload via FTP. It will frustated me (maybe you too), because i have no time for this kind of works. How about if i wanna display another category for Featured Content area? I will change and upload all the image again manually!!

Later, i will change this script, so i will works easier than the original version.

Featured Content area SOLVED!

Next, let’s configure the ASIDE location. Aside location were placed below the featured content area. There are two post will be displayed here. Let see this script below :

<div id=”aside”>

<?php $arr_cat = array(3,4);
foreach ($arr_cat as $cat) { ?>

<?php query_posts(“showposts=1&cat=$cat”); ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div>

<?php    $values = get_post_custom_values(“Image“);

if (isset($values[0])) { ?>
<a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>”><img src=”<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>/wp-content/themes/linoluna/images/asides/<?php $values = get_post_custom_values(“Image”); echo $values[0]; ?>” alt=”" /></a>

Just like the Featured Content Configuration, this Aside configuration were same. You can see <?php $arr_cat = array(3,4); and the number 3 and 4 were the ID of category that you willing to display. Change it as you like. The different is the location for upload the images. You should resize your image, and upload it manually into this folder :  /wp-content/themes/linoluna/images/asides/

The last part is Thumbnail Area. Thumbnail area were post that have location below this theme, it shown below Aside location. There are three Category area that you can display here. How to configuring this part were as like as two area before. The different were the place to upload your image. Your image should uploaded into /wp-content/themes/linoluna/images/thumbnails/

All of them using Custom fields key with “Image”, and fill the value with the name of your image (not your URL).

My Summary for Linoluna Wordpress Theme:

This theme were great!, it have good looking layout. At single post, there is placed for placing our Adsense code. That is nice. But, the disappointed things were at setting thumbnail. To much works to show this thumbnail, not simple, and little bit confusing.

That is my first Tutorial for Linoluna Wordpress Theme, i’ll try to modify this theme, and i will write it on my next post. I will share to you the result also. You can download it for free.

Just wait for it,.. oke?