Sunday, June 14th, 2009
It’s always amend to improved. Thanks for the people that love the theme and leave the comments. Especially appreciated and thanks to Hendrik fixed the JS code. Now I used CSS gradient instead of js gradient( but forget the IE 
). These may improved the site loading and speed. Another setting like number of gallery photo was ready to use, maximum number is 100. The photo link preset default to open in new window. Threaded comments and calendar widgets’ style fixed, Enjoy the hoPE!
hoPE Theme Setting Screenshot
1. flickr or Picasa Web Album Photo Gallery
2. Options to number of photo
3. Threaded comments, Widgets Support
4. Twitter link ready
5. Custom header image
6. Support Wordpress and Wordpress MU 2.7+
Download the latest version: hoPE Theme 2.5 or find it on Wordpress Theme Directory
Bichei on 
I am having trouble viewing the fickr and picassa web albums. The box just remains black. I’m pretty sure i’ve copied the correct rss feeds.
Any suggestions?
LOVE THE THEME!
Check you don’t have any gallery plugins relating to flikr or picasa activated. I deactivated the plugin I had on my site and then the images appeared. I also found that if you resize the images 9 (I went with the 640px option) before uploading them to picasa then they render a lot better on the blog page.
If you are using picassa make sure you check the post I made earlier under nextlevel username. It contains code I used to get my album working with picassa.
Yes! That’s it. Just deactivate your image plugins and the rss feed works fine. Unfortunately it seems you can have a ‘lightbox’ or ‘fancy box’ plug in at the same time on your site. Rob Peter to pay Paul.
Thanks for the theme!
Hi Patrick,
I just intsall Wordpress hoPE Theme 2.5.1 in my wordpress 2.8. very impressing design. But the flickr does not show anything.
Hope you can help
Thank you
Check your plugins make sure you do not have any other plugins that use conflicting Javascript libraries. Lightbox or protottype will cause problems.
If you are using FireFox then download a plugin called Firebug enable the console and look for errors. Post those back more specifically.
Greetings Patrick,
Sorry it too so long for me to response we have been working on updating the website. I wanted to say thank you, what you told me worked! Now we would like to know if we could add our own title image to the top of the page instead of having writing? Also can we upload our own pictures to the slideshow?
Kristin Clement
Divine Unity1
header graphic in Violinesth Forever 4.5 is not correct size when 1024 x 279 . The beige coloured bar at the top cuts the graphic. What is the correct size so my graphic is not cut off at top and bottom?
I could not get picassa.google albums to work. It does look like Flickr was supported specifically in the code.
If you are also having this problem here is the code I put together to fix it.
in functions.php
line 68:
new code :
if(preg_match(“/picasaweb\.google\.com/”, $photo['guid'])){
preg_match_all(‘/img.+src=”(.+)”\s/i’,$photo['summary'],$sub,PREG_SET_ORDER);
} else {
preg_match_all(“/<IMG.+?SRC=[\"']([^\"']+)/si",$photo[ 'description' ],$sub,PREG_SET_ORDER);
}
Wonderful template!
I posted earlier found the real problem. Lightbox uses prototype.js while your simplegallery requires jquery (the better library in my opinion.) If using lightbox plugin you should deactivate it. It will cause the error I mentioned in my other post.
prototype namespace and jqueries conflict and cause bad things to happen.
Image issues from picassa.
I am using the RSS feed from picassa but I am getting a js error from simple gallery. I have not made any template changes that should cause this. Using FF3 but also not working in IE.
site http://qcnextlevelfitness.com
error:
$(“”) is null
[Break on this error] setting.$navpanel=$(”)
Hello Patrick. Love the look and functionality of this theme.
I’m working on a website for a friend which I hope will end up using this theme for some time. I’ve run into just a couple questions from playing around with it. If you’ve got a minute more for questions?
1. The slick navigation on the left of the custom header image. Is there a way to change “blog” to something like “home?” I suspect I’m missing something simple somewhere.
2. Any insight on how long it takes for changes to a Flickr account to be reflected in the gallery? I dumped some test pictures and renamed everything else so the title shows in the image, but now I’m getting “Image not found” messages in there from Flickr.
Site in progress at http://backyardsinparadise.com
Thank you so much.
I’m having the same problem as you solved?
Please help me
Brian, I see that you still have a “blog” page on your menu. Were you able to get an answer to your question? I am having the same issue. Well, actually, I want to delete it altogether. I’m making a website for a local church. I followed the WP instructions for choosing a static page for my homepage, and directed the posts to go to a new page I created called “Sermons”. But on the header the menu continues to list “blog” as one of the pages on the site. I can’t seem to locate the code where this page is listed.
Patrick, are you able to help with this? It’s a lovely theme, I’d really like to be able to use it.
Hi Brian. I checked out the backyards in paradise website. It is beautiful. I love that you found the way to make the gallery photos clear and readable.
Any tips for me? I am trying to follow the discussion here and not sure which direction to take.
Thanks, S
Hi! I am trying to upload a PicasaWebAlbum to the slideshow portion of the header and have successfully copied the RSS url into the slot. However the pictures aren’t automatically changing from one to the other and you have to manually click the arrow buttons to move to the next picture. Any advice how to fix that? Thanks!
Edit the ‘functions.php’ file.
Search for the following line:
autoplay: [false, 2500, 2],
And change it to:
autoplay: [true, 2500, 2],
I love the HoPE theme, my new favorite! Just a quick question, I noticed the flickr images are a little on the low-res side, kind of fuzzy, anyway to fix that or is that because of how the RSS feed comes from Flickr?
I really like the theme, nice work, thank you!
Hi Dave, thank you for using hoPE. Just open the functions.php with notepad editor. Find this line:
$photo_url = str_replace( "_m.jpg", "_m.jpg", $sub[0][1] );replace with this$photo_url = str_replace( "_m.jpg", ".jpg?v=0", $sub[0][1] );If you have problem to edit the file, please let me know, I’ll email the file to you.
Alright let me make that change. Thank you very much
Hi Patrick,
I am trying to install your theme and the flickr RSS feed including display of navigation images does not seem to work on my site. Any idea? I looked at some suggestions above for Simplegallery file but that doesn’t seem to resolve it.
Greeting Patrick,
How long does it take to see the changes? I went into the file and change all the wp-content to blog/wp-content for the play, pause, left and right codes but nothing has changed on our blog page. what is my other options
hi, I checked the file. You are missing a / in your directory. Please change it to ../blog/wp-content/themes/hope/images/ not ..blog/wp-content/themes/hope/images/left.png
Our images are missing the buttons to change the photos from left to right do you know how to fix this? Also is there a way to change those photos?
Kristin Clement
Hi Kristin, because your blog installed in sub directory, so you need to edit the file
simplegallery.jsfind this line:images: [ '../wp-content/themes/hope/images/left.png', '../wp-content/...replace the../wp-content/with../blog/wp-content/. That’s all.Thank you I will try it now and if there is an issue I will comeback and post it. OH is there away to change the pictures in the slideshow?
Hello.
I am currently using HoPE 2.5 with WP 2.8 and the java still is not working. Unfortunately I don’t know enough java to start looking at it. Any ideas? Otherwise I like the design.
Thanks
hi, your JS is working, just missing navigation image. please check your theme images.
Hi, because your blog installed in sub directory, so you need to edit the file
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