I released the Forte Theme just about 2 weeks ago, and i am encouraged by the reception it has received so far, thank you to those that have downloaded and used the theme and thank you to those that have commented and contacted me with kind words, i truly appreciate it much.
At the time of writing this post the Forte theme has been downloaded 1611 times, that’s pretty amazing since it’s only been 2 weeks, my Technorati rank has also jumped from 2,400 to 1,700.
Money from Link Removal
I offered designers, developers and bloggers a chance to remove the link in the footer for a mere $25, i know some might want to use this theme for a private project and removing the link was essential, and i’m glad to say 9 people purchased this option which netted me a cool $225, not a bad deal i would say!.
If you want to remove the link in the footer please contact me
Variations
The Forte theme is quite tweakable, and if you know your way around PHP and some Photoshop you would be able to edit the theme to your liking, here’s a bunch of sites that i have comes across that are using the Forte theme after tweaking:
And so far the best edited version i’ve seen of the Forte theme is by the people at Gen8x.
The theme has also been translated into French.
Next Theme
I’m not resting on my laurels and in the next month or so i anticipate i’ll release a few more themes, i already have my next theme coming up soon and you can see a live preview here ( my friend runs that blog and i have given him a copy of the theme).
Thanks for supporting me!
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February 8th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
I’ve got to hand it to you, this theme is fantastic. I’m using the site to run my Boston Red Sox blog and couldn’t be happier. I haven’t really scratched the surface on customizations yet, but I’ll probably tackle the header soon. First I have to come up with a logo I like.
I really like the layout of your code, its easy to read, easy to understand, and easy to modify. I replaced the Flickr roll in the footer to a MyBlogLog block and it couldn’t have been easier. Great Job!
February 8th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Thanks for your comment Don, by the way love the way your using the theme on your site, i can see that your on your way to customizing it even more.
All the best!
Cheers.
February 9th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
That’s a nice WP theme. Thanks for your generosity. I shall find a chance to apply it on one of my blogs.
February 11th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
I like the theme very much, it’s really flexible and that’s what I need. The thing is, I don’t know PHP and CSS so I can’t do everything I want.
I wonder could you give a clue where to change the color or background of this theme? I see you have flowers while the default is white with red stripes, which I really need to change.
Thanks in advance
February 11th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Hi Moses
I have been playing around with this theme and it is great. There are many features that one can use. It is definitely the “Malaysian Boleh” spirit.
I have been trying to make it look like yours but only partial, wonder if you can help to make it look like yours.
First, I want to remove the “Tag” below the post heading. Second there are nine post on the home page, I only want five. Lastly on the bottom of the home page change “Older Entries” to “Page 1,2,3… just like yours. I wonder is it too much to asked.
Thanks, this theme is really fantastic. Good work and keep it up.
February 11th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
@ Pandaren – You can change the background image by editing the configurations.php file, replace this the url of the image you from this line:
background: #FFFFFF url(images/flowbg.gif) repeat;
I recomend a 30×30 image file.
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@Ronald Lee – Thanks for the compliments.
– “I want to remove the “Tag” below the post heading.” – you will need to edit the index.php and single.php file.
– “Second there are nine post on the home page, I only want five.” , you can change that in your WP-admin panel , OPTIONS>>READING
– “Lastly on the bottom of the home page change “Older Entries” to “Page 1,2,3… just like yours.” – just install and activate the wp-pagenavi plugin:
http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming.php
February 12th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Thanks I have managed to resolved all of it except for the tag on the home page. I am not able to edit the index. php file. I have tried all the variation and I just can’t removed it.
February 12th, 2008 at 4:38 am
Thanks Moses, now I got it. I appreciate your help.
February 12th, 2008 at 10:52 am
@ Ronald Lee – OMG, i made a mistake, so sorry my friend, it’s not index.php but blog.php in the layouts folder:
wp-content / themes / Forte / layouts /blog.php
Than remove this:
February 13th, 2008 at 1:40 am
I was wondering if anyone here could help me figure out how to fixt my navigation menu bar. It is not displaying properly and I’m fairly new to css and php. I re downloaded the theme and reinstalled it to make sure it wasnt an error. If Moses or anyone can give me a hand on figure out how to fix this problem I would greatly appreciate it thanks. You can see that its not displaying if you go to my site.
Thanks again
February 13th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Thank you brother.
February 14th, 2008 at 3:49 am
Please someone tell me how and where to
- change the 4 squares images on the front page and insert a link on it?
- add a poll in the second tab (after video)
and last but not least:
- add a .swf as a the Header Identity Image ?
many many thanks in advance !!
February 14th, 2008 at 5:57 am
in addition to Ronald Lee suggestion/question i’m wondering whether the “Posted in:” tags can also be removed in the archives (when u click on a post, then you r redirected to http://www.yoursite.com/archives/123... )?
Finally how to insert an ad at the bottom of a post (like what u did above) ?
Terima kasih ! kalau saya jumpa you di Ipoh, saya akan belanja minum!
February 14th, 2008 at 6:24 am
@ ready4london :
Q: change the 4 squares images on the front page and insert a link on it?
A: Hmm..i don’t understand the question.
Q:add a poll in the second tab (after video)
A:You will need to upload and activate the WP-Polls plugin by Lester Chan and edit domtab.php
Q:add a .swf as a the Header Identity Image ?
A: You will need to edit header.php and place the appropriate .swf/flash codes there.
To remove the “tags” from archives page just go to archive.php and remove the code as stated for Ronald Lee.
Q:Finally how to insert an ad at the bottom of a post (like what u did above) ?
A: Go to single.php and place your ad code (adsense or 468×60 banner..etc) after this line of code:
Kalau singgah kat Ipoh memang kita boleh teh tarik.
February 14th, 2008 at 7:33 am
thanks for the quick reply ! All works fine except the .swf as header.
How do I “place the appropriate .swf/flash codes” in header.php as what I have is a blabla.swf file only and no code ? Also the header.php is empty is that normal ?
February 14th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Moses – this is an awesome theme! I’m loving it for my blog. I’ve been using it for right at 2 weeks and I’ve been able to make a few tweaks with ease.
I still have a few questions but I’m going to try and resolve them myself.
Thanks again for a wonderful theme!
February 14th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
I’d be so grateful if you could tell me how to tweak the mzine option to show more than an excerpt or at least how to lengthen the except… My eyes are going to fall out if I scan the files again
February 14th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
@Kris – you will need to edit mzine.php, replace this line:
you can read more about this here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content
February 15th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Replace this line:
I appreciate your help, I know you’re bombarded for help requests!
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Which line?
February 15th, 2008 at 3:21 am
Hey Moses, any idea for my flash banner ? or maybe someone can point me to the right direction ?
February 15th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
@kris – Ooops…this line:
@ready4london – well, i’m no Flash expert but you will need tp upload the .swf to your server and have the proper embed codes to place in the header.php, something like this.
February 15th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Hey I was wondering can anyone tell me how to fix my horizontal navigation menu bar?
Thanks
February 16th, 2008 at 12:07 am
@how to change the excerpt lenght
all the excerpt length can be found in functions.php..open functions.php
change the 15 to any lenght word you desired…this go for all the other the
excerpt_featured and excerpt_aside too
@gameroplolis
i see the theme url is nested, please make sure you put the forte theme in
the wp-content/forte and not wp-content/forte/forte
let’see if thats fixed the problem awright
@swf/flash embed in theme
this one a bit tricky..embed of swf or flash is possible but need some
converter tool similiar to moses point out above…some kind of code
creation so you just need to copy paste the code to the header.php or any
template..and ready to roll
February 16th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Moses, I have to say I love your theme really much, check my site, fantastic with your theme!
February 18th, 2008 at 2:11 am
Your site does indeed look good, you edited the theme well.
February 19th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Pls put my site into ur show list in ur last Forte Theme post, if u can.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
@ Richie K
I did what you requested and un-nested the folder but I still seem to have this navigation problem… I am hosting on a free server, although I do not know how that would effect the navigation not showing correctly. If you have any more suggestions that would be great. Thanks again.
February 21st, 2008 at 12:56 am
Hello Moses. Thanks for the great theme. We have been tweaking it for a month or so to use it for the home page for our community news and info site. The themes behavior has been really stellar. If you wanted to take a peek at it, it’s at the link above. We are running into this one problem that we were wondering if you might be able to shed some light on: The code for the trackbacks and pingbacks is showing up in the comments section. This page is a good example (we have since turned off comments so that it doesn’t get worse) http://www.channelbv.net/2008/02/07/welcome-to-the-conversation/#comments
I compared the page source to your demo site and found that the code that is showing up gets put into the page’s html on our site and not on yours. Any ideas?
February 21st, 2008 at 4:57 pm
@AlexT – thanks for using the theme, here’s the codes that i’m using, i’ve places in a text file:
http://www.wpthemesplugin.com/fortecomments.txt
February 24th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Moses,
why the …continue reading don’t show up in latest articles?
thanks and ciao
February 29th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
@gamersopolis
Re the horizontal nav bar read the following comment. http://wpthemesplugin.com/forte-2-column-blog-magazine-list-styled-wordpress-theme/#comment-42319
I had the same problem and have a patch. It is up to Moses to see if it is possible to track down the probelm in the downloadable files.
March 1st, 2008 at 7:02 am
Thank you Moses for this theme! I am really happy with the way it turned out and my readers have given me many compliments on it.
Keep up the great work!
March 28th, 2008 at 6:40 am
Great theme, Moses!
“Featured” post don’t show at the top. $tn_mz_featured_post_status seems to not be “yes”, although $tn_featured_articles_cat does contain the category I want featured… looks like a problem in mzine.php – I see references to something but there’s no code showing up anywhere.
March 30th, 2008 at 3:05 am
Hello all. First of all i just wanna let Moses know that this is a one of a kind theme. It’s really great.
However it seems there might be an issue (or not). I’m talking about the mzine layout. It seems like the “Read More” button appears to all the posts that DON’T have anything in the “Optional Excerpt” field.
As soon as you write a brief summary in the native excerpt field the “Read More” button disappears from the bottom the excerpt which corresponds to that certain post on the homepage.
The “Read More” button should show even if you have an optional excerpt.
I think the problem is in the functions.php on line 120, but that’s just a guess.
If anyone knows where’s the problem, please drop a comment.
Cheers.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:10 am
It’s me again
I have solved my problem. It came to me that i have once played with some variables in domtab.js and decided to overwrite the file with the original one. Now everything runs smoothly.
However i have just one more problem with Forte
Here i tried to explain whats that: http://wpthemesplugin.com/forte-theme-2-weeks-later/#comment-46438