Coming soon to wordpress.org, and available here now (for free), this latest version of Rustic is a major upgrade. It has three new styles including “Pink Light”, “Blue Light”, and “Brown Wood”. You can choose your own Google web font, and font color. It comes with built-in portfolio capability. Add music, video, and pictures to your portfolio pages and view them in “Pretty Photo” lightbox (see RUSTIC PORTFOLIO DEMO in the main menu). There’s an option to use your own Logo Image in the header as well. WordPress 3.1 or later required. Here’s the Download Link. (Videoplayer powered by NonverBlaster:hover.)
Patrick,
Hello again, I have your theme up and running on my website. I’m still learning all the ins and outs of making a website the way I’d like it to be. I want to be able to create “drop down tabs/links” from pages, but am having trouble going about it. Many of the plugins out there, create tabs within the page’s information, but not where you are able to on the top of the main page listing. Is there a certain code that can be used to create drop down tabbed pages under specific headings? For an example on my website I have “Genealogy Scrapbooking & Crafts”, but I’d like to break it down with the main tab being called Genealogy Crafts, then sub pages(drop down) scrapbooking, quilting, etc, etc.
Instead of putting all information on one page. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Below is a link to my website. I’m looking forward to hearing your response. Have a nice day!
http://www.tracingancestorsbacktothebeginningoftime.com/
You’re in luck Meika! Making sub-menus that drop down is easy. I just discovered it myself recently. Go to Appearance->Menus and make a menu. Don’t forget to save it in the Theme Locations box. You’ll notice that if you move a menu item a little to the right, it will stay there. Now it’s a sub-menu item. Press Save Menu and your done! This means you’ll need three pages: Genealogy Crafts, Scrapbooking, and Quilting to make it work. Hope this helps. Patrick.
Yeah, I had tried that once. But the title page names get put on multiple lines if there is too many words in it. Thus, making it look messy and hard to read and navigate. Also, when creating your main category, ie Genealogy Crafts, you physically have to create a page with that title to create sub pages underneath for it. Therefore, you are left with a blank page for your main name tab. I think the concept would be better if it possibly was “boxed” accordion style tabs, then you can input titles with a letter limit per se 25 or something. Similar to your side wood panel on your theme, not as big of course. But to give an idea of how the top heading tabs would perform. I don’t know anything about coding, but it’s a thought on how to implement user friendly tabs into this wonderful theme.
Hi Amie. I found a way to make your “Genealogy Crafts” tab without making a page. On Appearance->Menus find the Custom Links box. Make your “Genealogy Crafts” tab using javascript: void(0) as the URL. The link does nothing but show sub-pages on hover. It’s also possible to make room for longer sub-page titles by using css. Open style.css and put this code at the bottom of the page.
#access ul ul {width: 180px;
}
Just adjust the 180px until it looks right. Good luck, and let me know how it works out.
Patrick,
Thanks for the quick response. Your solution for the “void” tab worked great with the main category. But there seems to be no response for me when I add the coding text to “Appearance/Editor” then copy and pasted the code to the bottom of style.css page. I even bumped it up at one point to 2000px and had no changes on my end. It still wants to display page title text on the next line, and not all on one line. I left the tab running on my website, if you wanted to see what it is doing with the sub-pages text there. Have a great day!
Hi Again. Try this code instead.
#access ul ul {
width: 250px;
}
#access .menu-header li li {
float: none;
}
#access ul.sub-menu a,
#access ul.sub-menu ul a,
#access ul.sub-menu ul ul a {
text-transform:capitalize;
}
Let me know what you think!
It still is unresponsive. I had a question about where to be placing this code. I’ve been placing the code at the bottom of the stylesheet (style.css). Shouldn’t this code be placed on bottom page of Rustic: One column, no sidebar Page Template (onecolumn-page.php)? Because placing the code has no effect here – Rustic: Stylesheet (style.css).
Just was wondering.
Hi Amie. You’re putting the code in the right place. The changes aren’t showing up because the browser (i.e. Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.) needs to get rid of it’s old copy of the page. This is called “clearing the cache”. For Internet Explorer, click the gear icon in the upper right hand corner, and choose Internet Options. Under Browsing History press Delete. Make sure Temporary Internet Files is checked, and press Delete again. Now refresh the webpage and the changes will show up! I run into this problem a lot when I’m developing a website. Often I think something is wrong when it’s just the browser feeding me an old version of the page.
Hi Again. I found a small mistake in your style.css file. Find this code near the bottom of the page.
.no-wood-frame .last {margin-right:0;
Notice that the closing bracket is missing
}Put this in and see what happens!
Great theme! I’m trying to organize portfolio items, is there any other way to organize items except by date?
Thanks for any help!
Great website! You did Rustic well. Komanche was asking the same thing. I found a good plugin to re-order posts. Here’s the link http://bannerfish.biz/rustic-wordpress-theme-2-1-x/comment-page-1/#comment-934
Thanks for the quick reply and kind word!
I have 1 more (hopefully simple) question…
Is there any way to remove the search function and box? I removed the call to ” at the end of header.php but it looks like the search box still displays as a dead object. . . is there any way I can remove that somehow?
Thanks again!
The search box graphic is part of the background image, so it can’t be made to disappear. Was the plugin for re-ordering portfolio items helpful? Your link http://thefirstdamrun.com goes to a HostGator page.
Ok, thanks! Yes the plugin did the trick. I took the site down temporarily yesterday which should explain the Host Gator page. It’s back online now.
Thanks again for the quick response!
OK, making progress on using and learning this AWESOME theme. Portfolios..(I have read the other posts but..) is there a simple way so the picture thumbnails in the “wood frame” are not cropped?
http://twistedtree.us/?portfolio=family-photos
Here’s the tree image I promised you.
OK, so can there be an option to use both portrait and landscape? I have both types of pictures. If not, could I create a seperate thumbnail image that would fit the frame, but look normal when I click on it. I figured out how to put anything I want on the page that the “read more” button opens. Ideally, a frame to fit both landscape and portrait would be great but just may not be reasonable..
Hi Bill. I added an option to choose either landscape or portrait style thumbnails. You’ll find it below the media link box when you make your portfolio item. Now you can use either one on a post-by-post basis. There was a lot of code, so I bundled it into another copy of Rustic. To swap them out, change to some other theme besides Rustic, then delete Rustic, then load up the new version of Rustic and activate it. Here’s the link.
I certainly did not expect you to do that, but thank you. Give me a day or two and I will try it out.
That’s ok. It’s a feature I may add in the future.
So, is changing themes, deleting, reinstalling difficult and safe to what I have already done?. I am an old frontpage user and still am not 100% comfy cozy with word press.
It’s ok. You won’t lose your work. From Appearance->Themes each theme has a delete link. Then go to Appearance->Themes->Install Themes to upload the zip I made for you.
http://twistedtree.us/?portfolio=family-photos
Ok, no problem loading the theme…but what did I do wrong?
That new picture looks great! Here’s how to make the two previous pictures look right. We’ll use the “Jarvis Family (abt 1917)” portfolio item as an example. Go to the edit page for the “Jarvis Family (abt 1917)” portfolio item. Then click Remove featured image link. Then click Set featured image and upload the image from your computer again (not from the media library!). Now choose the portrait radio button and save your work by clicking Update. You may need to refresh your browser to see the change. We had to upload the image a second time so wordpress could make the portfolio size thumbnail image, which didn’t exist before.
Awesome….It did not look right until I hit refresh. Thanks Patrick.
Ok Patrick, this has turned out awesome
http://twistedtree.us/?page_id=236
When it clicked that portfolios were basically categories and how the underlying code created them, I realized how easy this is to get my information across. I have created a “portfoilio” for individual surnames and one for “complete”. This works out great as, for example, can make my grandmother show up in 3 portfolios, her maiden name, her married name and the overall portfolio just by checking the box on her item page. Along with the wood frames this turned out great. Thanks
Glad to help. Good to see Rustic put to good use. It works well with your archive of old photographs. I’ll check back to twistedtree from time to time to see how it’s going.
(as for redoing the portfolio, I am going in “baby steps” until I get it, so starting over now is OK)
Hi there! Love your theme. I love the brown wood but I’m trying to remove the tree from the top and I cannot figure out how to. I keep replacing the header here tenarrowsranch.com/wp-content/themes/rustic/images/final/images (header.png) but it doesn’t seem to be working. Do you know what I’m doing wrong?
Thanks for your help!
Hi Marianne. I made some header images for you that are the right color and no trees. Put the header.png in skins->cream->final->images folder, then put header-att2.png in skins->cream->final->images folder. Here’s the link.
thanks for theme
Is there any way to make the portfolio my home page?
It’s possible, but a little complicated. Check out this thread.
Great thanks, I figured out how to get it to display 2 images side by side and get the widget sidebar to show. What puzzles me is how do I get it to just use the page.png so it looks exactly like home page ought?
Rustic portfolio pages are full width only. Are you trying to make one with a sidebar? That would require re-writing the “portfolio-page.php” and some css.
Yes I am trying to make one with a side bar. To be exactly like a home page layout. Email me with a quote for your time and I will gladly pay to have it.
I’ll re-write that page for you. You can give whatever you feel through the “Donate” button. It would help if you posted a link to your website so I can see what’s happening.
Don’t freak out, I come in peace.
The link goes to the page that has your template I just want to see it using page.png instead of the full width.
Thanks for the link. Got that page template ready for you. It’s a portfolio page with sidebar called Bob’s Portfolio Page. Download and un-zip, and put in Rustic folder. Then make a new page and look for Bob’s Portfolio Page in the Template dropdown. After you’ve made your page, make it the front page from settings->reading. You will have to put your correct portfolio-name in the bobs-portfolio-page.php file on line 12. You can also un-comment and set posts_per_page on line 22. This will kick-in automatic pagination (page links). Here’s the file.
I installed it however the pagination does not work when clicking on page 2 page 2 displays in URL but the page never appears. I disabled all my plugins and retried it still made no difference. I do appreciate your work and thank you for the page it looks great.
Got a fix for that pagination issue. Use this file instead. Here’s the file. Let me know how it goes. Thanks for the donation.
Works great will be using it after I insert another thirty or so images. Thank you.
Glad to help.