Blu Mag WordPress Theme
Blu Mag is a blue theme, with sliding menus, featured posts and sliding tabs. It is a Search Engine friendly theme, with widgetized sidebars and footers.
Blu Mag is easily customizable and you get the maximum control over the theme’s layout. The Footers, Featured Posts section and Thumbnails can be easily disabled or enable through the Theme Options Page.
Thumbnails in Home and other archive pages are created using the first image uploaded for a post. Hence, make sure that you first upload the appropriate image for every post. But don’t worry, in case you uploaded the wrong image first.Simply delete all the uploaded images for a post and upload them in the right order.
Blu Mag WordPress Theme:
If you are using an older version of WordPress (WP earlier than 2.8.4), then you can continue to download Version 1.4 of the theme here.However, it is highly recommended to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress – 2.8.4
Blu Mag is SEO-optimized, ad-ready, WordPress 2.7 compatible with widgetized sidebars and footer.It is a pro theme and is suitable for blogs or websites in any niche.
Features of Blu Mag WordPress Theme:
- 3-column Theme with clean layout and less clutter
- Featured Posts
- Multi level sliding menus
- Automatic thumbnails of first uploaded image of Posts, in Home page and other archives
- SEO optimized CSS layout
- Gravatar Ready Theme with support for an attrative Comments layout. You will have to enable “show Avatars” under Discussion Settings in WordPress admin
- Social Media integration
- Compatible with most WordPress plugins
- Compatible with WordPress 2.7 and earlier versions
- Easily spiderable, structured navigation
- W3C XHTML and CSS Validated theme
FAQs:
You can find these in the theme’s ReadMe.txt as well.
Where can I find the Theme Options Page?
You can find the Theme Options Page under Appearance folder on your WordPress Admin Menu Bar. It will have the title “Blu Mag Options”.
How to mark posts as Featured Posts?
Create a category by title “Featured”. Add every Post to an appropriate category and if you want to display it under Featured Posts Section,add it to “Featured” Category as well. Once it is done, all the latest Featured Posts will be displayed under “Featured” section in the Home Page.
How many posts can be displayed as Featured Posts?
In the Theme Options Page, you can set the number of Posts to be shown as Featured Posts. But decide on an optimal number (taking performance into consideration).
How to display medium sized images in Featured Posts?
Go to Settings –> Media and set Max width for Medium size as 300. Then, in the Theme Options Page (“Blu Mag options”), check the option “Display medium sized image for Featured Posts”.
Note that by default, thumbnail images are shown for Featured Posts.
How to Change the Top Header Banner?
You can easily change top header banner by replacing banner.jpg file under Images folder (in the theme) with your own banner. But name your banner as banner.jpg
or
go to the stylesheet (style.css) in the theme folder, search for #head-bottom section and replace banner.jpg under background property with your banner name.
How to place my ads on the sidebars?
Open sidebar.php and there are provisions for a 300×250 ad and a 120×600 ad in the form of images.Replace them with your corresponding ad scripts.
How to convert Blu Mag into a 2-column Theme?
In the Theme Options Page, disable Middle sidebar and the theme is automatically converter into a 2-column theme with a single right sidebar.
How to modify tab content in the sidebar tabbed widget?
It is very simple.Take a backup of sidebar.php. Open sidebar.php and check how the existing tabs like category, recent, popular and videos have been added to #sidebar-tabs div. Add your tab content and title it in a similar fashion. Note that the video tab has been commented out, to serve as a guide.
How to add submenus?
Simply create pages and specify the hierarchy (Parent Page) via WordPress admin interface. Blu Mag takes care of creating the sub menus. Blu mag can support even 4 levels of sub menus and higher.
How to add my own videos to the video tab?
The video tab is commented out in the code (sidebar.php). First uncomment the code. If you want to embed your own videos , make sure its width is not more than 300px and set the height correspondingly, in your embed code. Replace the current embed code. You can always remove video tab, if your niche does not require it.
What happens if I disable Footer?
If footer is disabled, then the widegetized footer section will not displayed. However the theme is smart enough to retain your blog’s Copyright section.
Enjoy free Blu Mag WordPress Theme !!!
Tags: Blu Mag, Free Wordpress Themes
Hi,
What a great theme mate really !!!
However before I can use it on my websites, I have a couple of issues I hope you can help me with.
1. I use a welcome page as my landing page on my website, but cannot seem to get the featured post to work on pages, it only works on posts..???
2. Is there any way to stop the auto scroll on the feature block & have users just use the next & previous buttons…???
3. I tried adding a 4 x 125 x 125 ad block using widgets, unfortunately although it reported everything as fine, the block did not show at all..?
4. Finally on my current theme, I dropped the menu bar from the top to place it between the banner and the rest of the page, is there anyway to achieve the same setup with Blu Mag..? The reason I query this is that I noticed that directly under the banner is not full width, there is a step above the black ad box…?
Sorry if the explanation is a little vague, but if you take a look at my current page on my website, you will see what I am trying to achieve.
Hope you can help me out with these problems because I would really like to be able to use this theme on all my websites.
Regards
Steve
I love this theme
Hello from Norway.
I have been using this theme for a while now, and I like it very much. I have translated it into Norwegian (hope you don’t mind), but I haave one problem. If I put more than one picture in a post it is the last one that is displayed on the front page as thumbnail. Is there any way I can change that and get the first picture in the post on the front page?
Great themes,
but how to remove meta sidebar, Log in and Log out?
almost perfect,
it will be if you make the featured post, continue rotating, not move back and forth,
but anyway Thank you for this great theme….
I have been using this theme for a little while now & I really like it. This is among the very best I have seen. It is far easier to use and customize, than most similiar themes.
i have upgraded to WP 2.7.1 and now my featured content slider won’t work. Can anyone help? Thanks,
This site is on WordPress 2.7.1 and there are no issues that I notice.
I would like to have clickable links on the home page. . .. .
I’m not sure how to find that feature in the style sheet. They are clickable in single.php, but not on the home or in the feature scroll.
What can I do?
@Chris
1) Add this in you functions.php:
function improved_trim_excerpt($text) {
global $post;
if ( ” == $text ) {
$text = get_the_content(”);
$text = apply_filters(‘the_content’, $text);
$text = str_replace(‘]]>’, ‘]]>’, $text);
$text = preg_replace(‘@<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>@si’, ”, $text);
$text = strip_tags($text, ‘<p><a><big><small><em><i><strong>’);
$excerpt_length = 55;
$words = explode(‘ ‘, $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
if (count($words)> $excerpt_length) {
array_pop($words);
array_push($words, ‘[...]‘);
$text = implode(‘ ‘, $words);
}
}
return $text;
}
remove_filter(‘get_the_excerpt’, ‘wp_trim_excerpt’);
add_filter(‘get_the_excerpt’, ‘improved_trim_excerpt’);
==================
2) Add this to your style.css:
#featured a {
color:#FFFFFF;
text-decoration:underline;
}
===========
3) Add text-decoration:none; to #featured .title a {}
i.e. make it:
#featured .title a {
margin-left:20px;
text-decoration:none;
}
Thanks for the code.
One other tweak: how can I have thumbnails with images I’ve already uploaded (I’m reusing an image already in my folders) or linked to off site.
This is a great theme and far surpasses my expectation. .
@chris, The theme is automates to show the thumbnail of the first image uploaded for a post through wordpress Write Panel. If you upload it directly to your folders or have the image elsewhere, this may not work. Let me look at providing an option for this in my next release.
Thanks for looking into it.
I have changed themes, and only the first image upload is thumbnailed.
Images that I insert by link off site (like flickr) or reuse from a prior upload (in my images folder) are not.
I’ll make the other changes a little later. . .
Thanks for helping with these things. This is an awesome theme for me.
The latest WordPress Upgrade to 2.8 seems to have disabled the tabbed Sidebar Widget. Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks
The problem is with jquey. WP hasn’t included the latest ones. They should have included jquery1.3.2 and related ones…I am waiting for wordpress to fix these in the next release that is expected soon as wp 2.8 is having a lot of jquery issues…
Excellent Theme guys,
Just 2 minor irritations that maybe you can shed some light on;
1. this [...] at the end of every excerpt created either by the theme or by WP is not a link, it does nothing ! Any chance you could tell me where & how to fix this…???
2. I have spent days trying different plugins from WP that are supposed to collaps the sidebar widgets / boxes, the last one I tried was widget-voodoo and that failed to work also, although after much messing about I did get it to work in IE8, but FF 3.09 was a complete mess, it basically trashed the whole page ! Do you know of any plugin that is compatible with BluMag & will allow the sidebar boxes / widgets to be collapsed…???
Other than that this theme is great although you will probably see that in my case to call it BluMag now is totally crazy hahaha
hello admin,
one of my blog using mag blue theme, I want to use the nextgen gallery plugin, but when I install this plugin, I do not support the dashboard, when I change the theme blue mag with another theme, this plugin to work as usual, if you have any suggestions?