109 Comments

1. 
   Andrew August 10, 2010

   very clean and minimal. Excellent design. And the best part is that it’s for WordPress. Thank you guys!

   Cheers!

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2. 
   Jen Urbina August 10, 2010

   Nice theme…. Thanks for sharing it for free.

   Jen :)

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3. 
   vivek khendalwal August 10, 2010

   WOW! Cool theme…
   Thanks a ton.

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4. 
   Seth Templeton August 10, 2010

   Hey, just wanted to thank you folks for the lovely template. Used it as a base for my latest collage news portal.

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5. 
   Pete August 10, 2010

   Hello. First of all thank you for this great theme and making it free for us.
   I don’t know if its asking to much but can you help me out with the slicing of the .psd file or if possible give the sliced one?

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6. 
   zip August 10, 2010

   Thanks you so much guys! I’m gonna create a wordpress website with this!

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7. 
   Tomasz Topa August 10, 2010

   It looks like the link to Live Demo is broken

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8. 
   Jorn August 10, 2010

   Looks like Live Demo link is broken for me…

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9. 
   Jesus August 10, 2010

   I get an 404 error when I try to download the files or see the demo. Any idea?

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10. 
    chris veltman August 11, 2010

    Great Theme! Congrats! But … the downloadlink does not work? Cheers Chris

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11. 
    Andrew August 11, 2010

    Hey, guys! The whole bunch of your awesome goodies is stolen! =)))
    Any link (DL, demo, userguide) – they are broken, huh?

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12. 
    winlwin August 11, 2010

    Not only demo, user guide and download links are all broken.

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13. 
    Torben Eik August 11, 2010

    404 errors on alle the links… :(

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14. 
    suraj August 11, 2010

    Now thats called a perfect theme. Really loved the design and color combination. Thanks a ton for creating this wonderful theme. :)
    Demo link is not working please update it.

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15. 
    hchicha August 11, 2010

    Great Bravo !

    But the demo and download links are not working …

    Can you help please ? !

    MERCI !

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16. 
    Ravi Ahuja August 11, 2010

    Great theme but demo link is not working please update.

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17. 
    Deekay August 11, 2010

    Hi,

    I’m unable to download this wordpress theme. It is showing me 404 page. Please can you tell how i can download this link.

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18. 
    Rafi August 11, 2010

    The demo link is not working. Can you pls link it properly so we can see the demo before downloading. That’d be really helpful.

    Thanks,
    Rafi
    GraphicsFuel.com

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19. 
    Joe August 12, 2010

    Thanks for the them. It’s looks great. Unfortunately I get a 404 error when I click the download link. Also the Demo link isn’t working.

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20. 
    Dkumar M August 12, 2010

    Guys, We had found some serious bugs in the theme which was caused by one of iShift’s servers which was under the malicious attack. Therefore we had to remove all the related files from main server.

    We will make it available to you within a week with fresh post. Till then you can suggest us any new theme feature or any related comment about existing feature you like to improve.

    Don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS-feed and follow us on Twitter — for recent updates about this news theme.

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21. 
    Desmal Yeşilmen August 12, 2010

    Hi, thanks for theme and nice screen but Demo is not working :(

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22. 
    Billy Parker August 12, 2010

    sir…
    that link Nothing Found….

    can sending to my email that nice theme? hehe

    thanks

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23. 
    Ivan August 12, 2010

    Demo and download is not working

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24. 
    Enloudy August 19, 2010

    This theme design can be used for any project and will be useful especially for news-related projects.

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25. 
    Chris August 20, 2010

    Great looking theme! I hope to use it for a project soon. Thanks guys!

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26. 
    Orikinla Osinachi August 27, 2010

    I love it. But I need help to install it on my http://www.247nigeria.com WordPress news site I am developing for free for all citizen journalism.

    Can you help?

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27. 
    Gerardo Colmenares August 29, 2010

    bbuenas tardes, la presente es para ver si me envían, como configurar y diseñar la pagina de Global News, ya que quiero diseñar una pagina de noticias, gracias de caracas venezuela saludos.

    (TRANSLATED: good afternoon, this is to see if you send me how to configure and design the website of Global News, because I want to design a news page, thanks greetings Caracas Venezuela.)

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28. 
    Name November 10, 2010

    very nice themes

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29. 
    Ionutz November 25, 2010

    it’s not working! what’s the problem? i instaled the theme and it’s nothing happend. I can’t see the post or pages. What’s the problem? My wordpress version or something else?

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30. 
    John C. December 5, 2010

    Looks like a great theme and exactly what I was looking for. I wish there was a forum here so users of this theme could compare notes because when I installed the theme and checked it with IE8 it looked perfect, but when I viewed it in Firefox the advertisements had moved from the right column over to the left side overlaying the article area. Anyway, I completely understand Instantshift’s position on support for freebies but alas, a user forum would have been nice.

    Thanks for the theme. I’ll try to figure out why it is different in Firefox.

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31. 
    jon January 2, 2011

    You might want to update your themes docs as i spent a good 30 mins trying to figure out the blasted weather zip code thing.

    You dont mention that you have to go to the RSS url after browsing to the city. and then get the code there

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32. 
    bowo January 15, 2011

    nyoba dulu themesnya :)
    nanti koment lg :)

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33. 
    bowo January 15, 2011

    yang ini gak cocok dgn wp 3

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34. 
    michael March 11, 2011

    great theme.
    But I have a little problem. No matter what I do I can’ t show the featured content on the home page. I add “featured” tag for the post but nothing show up. Please help if you can.

    Thank you very much.

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35. 
    michael March 11, 2011

    please disregard my last comment. the tag slag was automatically saved to feature-2. I changed this to feature and now it is working great.

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36. 
    Bali May 2, 2011

    Thanks for this amazing template.. I just use this to my new blog about Bali beach, sure with your links too.. :)

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37. 
    Aftab May 5, 2011

    i dont believe it. is it for free. really nice. installing on my mobile site.

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38. 
    Dhiraj Kumar Jha July 3, 2011

    Amazing, truly beautiful!

    You can’t imagine how helpful it had been to me.

    Thanks, God bless us all!

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39. 
    Jon July 16, 2011

    The theme and WP Photo Album are not dancing together. The WPPA developer blames the jquery coding in the header.

    wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-photo-album-plus-page-drops-when-activated-on-page?replies=26#post-2225886

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40. 
    Tony October 17, 2011

    Beautiful magazine theme! Thanks sharing!

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41. 
    PA October 19, 2011

    I’m getting errors related to YARPP with latest WordPress. Most pages load fine but occasionally getting stack overflow, e.g. on search page. Hope I don’t have to change themes as I like this one.

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42. 
    jahabar December 30, 2011

    Does it have search engine friendly url?

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43. 
    Mummy Ninja January 21, 2012

    Great.. just great! THis theme is perfect for my news blog.

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44. 
    Pakita April 27, 2012

    Hi. I love this theme but it just became crazy when I inserted an ordinary worpdress gallery in a post. I thinks it’s because a css problem, but I really apreciate any sugestion of how can I solve this problem. Thanks!

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45. 
    Cecilia May 5, 2012

    When installing the zip, wordpress says that the file style.css
    can help me with this problem?
    thanks

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46. 
    Boon July 30, 2012

    This is the CSS error that people are talking about for WordPress:

    Unpacking the package…
    Installing the theme…
    The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.
    Theme install failed.

    I’ve tried it zipped and unzipped. Doesn’t work.

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47. 
    Loren B August 27, 2012

    HOW TO FIX:

    1. MISSING STYLE.CSS
    I had the same problem
    So I opened the globalnews.zip file into a local folder and had a look in the CSS folder,
    Style.css was in there – not missing after all.

    So just deleted the first intall I did of WordPress onto my hosting account
    Reinstalled wordpress
    Then installed the BlobalNews theme zip file again the usual way – thru Dashboard – upload option
    Then used FTP to upload the missing style.css directly into the folder that contains the globalnews theme – into its css folder.
    I used the free FileFTP program for windows

    That sorted the “missing style.css” problem

    2. MISSING POSTS ON FIRST PAGE
    Next problem – no posts showing on front page
    Re-read notes that come with this theme
    2 THINGS NEED DOING

    1. GET THE PLUGINS MENTIONED IN THE NOTES THAT COME WITH THIS THEME
    Hadn’t added the plugins – YARPP and the other 2
    Login to your WordPress install on your hosting account
    Go to the plugins link on the lhs menu
    Search for the plugins suggested or find them online
    I found them already in the system so just had to click install once they turned up.
    I have skipped the email one in my case so only loaded the other one.
    Seems to working ok now

    2. ADD THE FEATURE TAG WHEN YOU MAKE A POST FOR IT TO SHOW IN THE ALLOTTED SPACE ON THAT FIRST PAGE
    See the notes that come with this great theme
    * * * * * * *
    Questions from me
    1. MISSING PSD FILE for logo.
    If you have it can you please post a link to it?

    2. POSITIONING OF IMAGES IN POST
    how to get the image to sit in the right place rhs of posts?
    Above the “add comments” etc

    3. The popup effect on the image is not working for me
    Image opens up in a lightbox at larger size when you click on it
    If I ciickthe image it just goes to a new page showing just the image on a dark background

    I really LOVE this theme so want to get it working for my client asap
    It ticks the boxes I was looking for and has taken me quite a while to find.
    Can we get it updated, good to go with latest WordPress version?
    These guys did a great job here, sorry to see it languishing

    If there is no forum I might start one
    churrr bro
    Loren

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    • 
      Fawaz Taj September 20, 2012

      Hi Loren,

      Did you figure out the problem with the Pop-Up image ? I’m trying my best to find a solution but cannot see any issues other than that they guys from the Template used an Old one which is working on their website but the one they have shipped is an new one and I believe there could be a issue on this …

      Any idea for a solution ?

      Fawaz

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        Fawaz Taj September 20, 2012

        Hi, the reason for the pop-up image is the following:

        1. On the Homepage it works fine, but on the single post it does not work fine.

        2. The home page has a carousel that rotates the images, and it is carried out by a stand alone jQuerry file.

        3. On the single post page, there is no carousel and the image would not load in on the image popup.

        4. The primary reason for this is the footer.php file has all the files required for the Fancy-box script, and along with the loading of the Carousel JavaScript, it also runs the Fancy-box JavaScript call. Now they both work on a single JavaScript call. First to run is the Carousel script functions, and then the fancy-box script functions. So when the Carousel function is run, it cannot find the “jcarousellite.js” file and there fore the function breaks down and stops the script from further execution and rending the fancy-box script not working.

        5. The problem is there is no “jcarousellite.js” loading on the single page. It gets loaded only on the home page, therefore the home page the script works fine and not on the single page.

        Finally the Solution …

        6. Go to the funtion.php and on the “// JavaScript Functions” section, remove the “jquery-jcarousel” out of the “if(is_front_page())” condition. Now the jCarousel will load on all the pages, and the problem should be solved. Reason being the footer.php’s JavaScipt will be able to find the “jcarousellite.js” file and not break the script during run-time.
48. 
    DKumar M. August 28, 2012

    Theme updated. Now ‘Global News’ is fully functional with WordPress version 3.4.1. Logo file also included in archive.

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      Jas MP September 1, 2012

      Thanks for the update. However, when I tried to install the theme using the upload option in the administration panel, it’s showing the error: “The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet. Theme install failed.”

      Could you please help?

      Anyway, many many thanks for such a great free theme…

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      • 
        DKumar M. September 2, 2012

        Check the comment by “Loren B” just above.
    • 
      Fawaz Taj September 20, 2012

      Hi Any solution for the Pop-Up image not wkring on the post single page ?

      Pls advice …

      Regards,

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49. 
    Jas MP September 3, 2012

    Hi friends,

    I’m facing a problem regarding the theme. My posts are showing up in the homepage, but when I click on the title of the posts or the read more link, a blank space is shown where the blog post is expected to be shown. The link is ok, and I tested with other themes — they haven’t such a problem. When I click the links to categories also, the same error occurs.

    Also I’m getting the following error on the post pages under the related news column:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function related_posts() in /home/www/helpbuyonline.com/wp-content/themes/globalnews/sidebar.php on line 47

    I tried reinstalling the theme, but in vain. Hope anyone will come up with a solution.

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50. 
    Fawaz Taj September 18, 2012

    Hi,

    Great Template, but needs a bit of fine tuning, and there is not much of a guide in how to get certain things done. Out of the guys who have tried it can soome one perhaps explain how to achive the following:

    1. On the Home Page, “Featured”, how can you get the “Read More” link to get to the rest of the article. When I add the text it just brings the whole of the text on the front page …

    2. How to use the “thumb” value, I have tried it, but does not do nothing. Finally I’m using “Use as Featured Image” option to overcome this, so if this is the case, then the “thumb” issue is not required at all … correct me if I’m wrong.

    3. The text does not place paragraph’s from what I see the text is more or less jumbled up is it something to do with the CSS ?

    This is to start with, pls let me know …

    The site I’m testing is at the following link : http://majalla.eu/aawsat/

    Regards,

    Fawaz Taj

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      Fawaz Taj September 18, 2012

      To add one more point to my list above …

      4. Do we have to add text in to the ‘excerpt’ area, and if so is there any charachter limitations for this. I have noticed when u add some text on this palce, it either displays or removes the ‘read more’ option on the ‘categories’ page.

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      Fawaz Taj September 18, 2012

      5. What are the email settings. What I noticed is when you get inside a article, you want to send the article as an email. When you click the email icon, it brings up a broken image and the form open on the same page. But seems rather it should be a pop up email box. To set this go to the Email Plugin that you setup and check the “pop-up” option.

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      Fawaz Taj September 18, 2012

      6. The home page’s text ‘featured’ item text goes as long as it is. The only way you can stop it flowing and get it to truncate and automatically add the “Read More” is to add a “” tag exactly were you want it to be broken at. Hope this clarifies my point # 1 above.

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      Fawaz Taj September 19, 2012

      7. How to get the Email to Pop-Out?

      On the Email Plugin Page get under the setup and you will see some options. One of them is how to setup the Pop-Up option. There is a default code on that, but replace that with the one for the popup window, which is:

      %EMAIL_TEXT%

      The above will be under “E-Mail Styles” under the “Email Options” which is part of the Email Plugin that you setup for the theme.

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      • 
        robert February 21, 2013

        how can add drop down menu like your preview demo,site
        according to catagory?
    • 
      Fawaz Taj September 19, 2012

      8. YARPP, the problem of Yet Another Related post can be solved easily. The first thing to do is, some of the options for this plugin is not displayed by default, you can enable them by activating them on the YARPP page on your WP admin under “Screen Options”. Then you can give it a weight of say between 1-5, by default it is 5 for test sake you can try playing with the various options available, and it should ultimately work fine for you. Just one option is that by default the ‘Side Bar’ the text “Related Posts” text is displayed, you can either remove it or use some CS to remove it if you are planing to use it under your post content.

      Check the following link to understand what I’m speaking about …

      URL: http://majalla.eu/aawsat/?p=146

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      • 
        robert February 20, 2013

        Ehi can you help me to set up my site like yours? :)
      • 
        S Griffin February 22, 2013

        I don’t believe he is using global news after all, notice that all of the posts have same date from last year…. I think he gave up like me. I really love the design of GN but alas, I couldn’t get it fully “operational”. If you go into the address bar and remove the following letters: /aawsat/ from the domain name, I believe you will see the wp site/theme he is using. Still looks amazing.
      • 
        robert February 23, 2013

        LOL go to my site and see GlobalNews:)
        http://spazioquote.altervista.org/blog/
51. 
    Fawaz Taj September 20, 2012

    9. Hi, the reason for the pop-up image is the following:

    a. On the Homepage it works fine, but on the single post it does not work fine.

    b. The home page has a carousel that rotates the images, and it is carried out by a stand alone jQuerry file.

    c. On the single post page, there is no carousel and the image would not load in on the image popup.

    d. The primary reason for this is the footer.php file has all the files required for the Fancy-box script, and along with the loading of the Carousel JavaScript, it also runs the Fancy-box JavaScript call. Now they both work on a single JavaScript call. First to run is the Carousel script functions, and then the fancy-box script functions. So when the Carousel function is run, it cannot find the “jcarousellite.js” file and there fore the function breaks down and stops the script from further execution and rending the fancy-box script not working.

    e. The problem is there is no “jcarousellite.js” loading on the single page. It gets loaded only on the home page, therefore the home page the script works fine and not on the single page.

    Finally the Solution …

    f. Go to the funtion.php and on the “// JavaScript Functions” section, remove the “jquery-jcarousel” out of the “if(is_front_page())” condition. Now the jCarousel will load on all the pages, and the problem should be solved. Reason being the footer.php’s JavaScipt will be able to find the “jcarousellite.js” file and not break the script during run-time.

    Reply
52. 
    Cecilia Santos September 21, 2012

    Hi, when I upload the theme I get an error that says “no style.css file” Can u help?

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      Jas MP September 22, 2012

      Just install the theme manually, by uploading the zip file to your themes folder using ftp. There will be no css missing issue. It’s as simple as that..

      Reply
53. 
    George October 9, 2012

    I’ve installed this great theme and written a few ‘dummy’ posts to see how they look, but only the one tagged with ‘featured’ displays on the home page. The posts are pretty much exactly the same, but those tagged with ‘headlines’ don’t appear at all; instead, the right-hand advert column comes across to sit next to the ‘featured’ story. I’ve experimented with and without pictures, but nothing I do results in a ‘headlines’ story appearing where it should…

    Is there something obvious I might have missed?

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54. 
    Slodge October 12, 2012

    Nice theme. I’ve installed it on my website, but got a few problems header/top and footer menu are not showing. Can u help?

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55. 
    Dave October 16, 2012

    Is there any chance we can get the template etc with the install sample data? I would like to install this theme so that after it looks exactly like the demo. Please?

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56. 
    Ali November 20, 2012

    A great theme. Thanks.

    Reply
57. 
    Adam November 21, 2012

    Thanks for this amazing template..
    I will try it first …

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58. 
    Kaz December 1, 2012

    I dragged some widgets to the so-called “Primary Widget Area,” which is referenced in the sidebar.php, but they did not show up there. How to make widgets appear in the sidebar, or generally on the webpage?
    Also, how to make the sidebars displayed on other pages different from each other?

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59. 
    Dave December 4, 2012

    Having the same problem as George and since he hasn’t been answered in two months I doubt I will… hate getting a supposed good theme only to be left in the dark. It makes the theme just another piece of junk that I wish I hadn’t wasted my time with.

    Reply
60. 
    mostofa January 7, 2013

    how can add drop down menu like your preview demo,site
    according to catagory

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61. 
    masterino January 10, 2013

    Hi,

    Why the slideshow dont work for me. I put slideshow on tag, but it doesnt work
    Can you help me please

    Thanks

    Reply
    • 
      selenia April 7, 2013

      open function.php, on line 381 delete an copy this code

      ks29so_enqueue_script( get_template_directory_uri().’/js/jcarousellite.js’, ‘jquery’, ‘1.7.2’, true);

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      • 
        Avantika June 21, 2013

        I made the changes in functions.php (as suggested above on line 381). 6 Posts appear in the “Today’s Highlight” section but the carousel is not moving when I click on the left/ right arrow buttons.

        Please guide on how to make the carousel work.

        Thanks.
62. 
    yazolino February 7, 2013

    The “featured” tag does not work for me. I put “featured” in the tag section of the dummy post and on the home page I get nothing. Matter of fact, the only tag that actually works is “headlines”… any help out there??

    Reply
63. 
    K Bharath March 4, 2013

    Thanks for the awesome magazine style theme for wordpress.

    Reply
64. 
    selenia April 7, 2013

    hi,
    why news flash don’t work for me?
    Can you help me please

    Thanks

    Reply
65. 
    SELANCARS May 21, 2013

    this is really confusing, I tried it a few times the error continues -,-“

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66. 
    Mike September 19, 2013

    Probably the best news theme I’ve come across in a while. Thanks for that! I have a few questions, though:

    How can I remove the search, Breaking News Alerts by E-Mail, Related News, and Recently Commented Articles widgets?

    Also, how can I remove the “Post”, “Email This”, “Add Comments”, “Print”, “Add to Favorites” when the article is displayed?

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67. 
    Saif June 9, 2014

    Can’t find the latest version of the theme. It has only link to version 1.1, but no link to the latest version (I guess it’s 4.3.1).

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68. 
    Punit Kumar June 12, 2014

    The weather forecast is showing error can some one please guide me quickly why its not working

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69. 
    Richard November 19, 2014

    how to put the sidebar into the right?

    please advice.

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70. 
    Aline February 2, 2015

    Thanks for this nice theme introduction. We recently released a free dynamic news WordPress theme for online newspapers or other editorial websites. If you’d like further details about MH Newsdesk lite, please check here: http://www.mhthemes.com/themes/mh/newsdesk-lite/

    Cheers,
    Aline

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71. 
    اللحظة February 11, 2015

    WOW! I loved your wp magazine. Nice themes and FREE :P

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72. 
    Jessica Bright March 10, 2015

    thanks for this fantastic collection of free magazine WordPress themes and we really appreciate that you did also mentioned WordPress themes above. ;-)

    Kind Regards

    Reply