Chimera WordPress Theme FAQ's

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I add thumbnail images to articles?

How do i set up the flash image script on the homepage?

How do i change the flash images on the homepage?

Google Adsense - How do i add my publisher ID?

How do i limit the links displayed in the top menu and the footer?

How do set up the 'you may also like...' related post plugin

How do i add in the two thumbnail images under the flash banner on the homepage?

How do i add my profile picture?

How do i choose which categories appear on the homepage?

Theme Spinner FAQ

Please note: there is no reason to use the wordpress '<--More-->' system. We have limited how much text displays on the homepage, archives, categories etc. If you have Read More --> appearing around your site, please go back and remove the "More" tag from these posts.

Please make sure you upload and activate all the plugin's found in the themes folder!

1. How do I add thumbnail images to articles? Login to wordpress admin area and edit any post, once there scroll down until you see the custom fields box. In the 'Key' field, type 'Thumbnail' without the quotation marks. Then in the Value field print the URL to the image.

After that Click Add Custom Field, or just save your post instead.

I recommended using a nice upload plugin to make things easier.

Please note: Thumbnail has to begin with a CAPITAL letter.

2. How do i Set up the flash image script on the homepage' When installing your theme, drag the contents of 'ROOT-CONTENTS' found in your themes folder into your root folder, remember by root folder this means where you blog is installed. Upload these files separately.
Open slideshow.xml and scroll down to the bottom of the page, line #54, here you can change the file path to your images, the URL to where the images link too, and the text that appears when you hover over the image.
See the FAQ below to find out how to change the images that display.

Please make sure you upload the contents of /ROOT-CONTENTS/ in Binary FTP mode
For more information please visit: Flash Nifties

3. How do i change the flash images on the homepage In your theme's folder, located in /root/wp-content/themes/Chimera, you will notice a folder named 'flash-images'. Currently there are 3 images here, you can overwrite these if you wish or add new ones.

If you want to keep the same style images as the default ones, open the flash image PSD found in the chimera-psds zip folder.

There isn't a limit to how many you can add. But remember to update your 'slideshow.xml' file, instructions for that can be found above.

For more information please visit: Flash Nifties

4. Google Adsense - How do i add my publisher ID? In your themes folder, located in /root/wp-content/themes/Chimera, you will notice a folder called 'adsense'. Replace the adsense code in all files. don't forget to save and upload your changes.

5. How do i limit the links displayed in the top menu and the footer? Visit: http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=functions.php Or in the admin area, visit: Presentation->Exclude Top Links

6. How do set up the 'you may also like...' related post plugin After activating the plugin, visit: www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?page=related-posts.php. Once there, enter these settings:

How many related posts would you like to show?
I recommend showing 3

Before / After (Post Title)?
first box = <div class="related-posts"><b>
second box = </b>

Show excerpt?
True

Excerpt length (No. of words):
I recommend showing 25

Before / After (Excerpt):
first box = <br>
second box = </div>

Show password protected posts?
you decide, i left this as false

SQL Index Table Setup

If this is your first time installing this plugin you will have to run this script (opens a new window) in order to create the index table required by the plugin. If this fails, please refer to the readme on how to create it manually.

Click the 'the script' link and this should add the database tables automatically. If this fails, follow below:

If after clicking the link you receive an error, that means the script can't add the necessary tables to your database automatically.

So lets do this manually:
Just open your database in phpMySQLadmin and paste the following code into a SQL command

ALTER TABLE `wp_posts` ADD FULLTEXT `post_related` (`post_name`,`post_content`)

Note: You may have to change wp_posts to something else if you are using a different prefix, which is common when you have multiple WP installs running of the same database.

7. How do i add in the two thumbnail images under the flash banner? Login to wordpress admin area and edit any post, once there scroll down until you see the custom fields box. In the 'Key' field, type 'Homeimage' without the quotation marks. Then in the Value field print the URL to the image.

After that Click Add Custom Field, or just save your post instead.

I recommended using a nice upload plugin to make things easier.

Please note: Homeimage has to begin with a CAPITAL letter.

8. How do i add my profile picture? Ever author on your blog can add there picture automatically when posting simply by signing up to Gravatar. Please remember to sign up using the same email address as the one entered in your user profile on your blog.

9. How do i choose which categories appear on the homepage? In your theme's folder, located in /root/wp-content/themes/Chimera, open 'home.php' search for the category you want to replace, currently labled 'Featured Category'.

When you find the category you want to change you will notice some code below:

< ?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=1&showposts=1"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>

Notice in the code 'cat=1' change the number here to category you want to display.
If you are unsure on the categories number you want to change to - you can find out by visiting: yourdomain.com/wp-admin/categories.php and under the 'ID' is the number your looking for. don't forget to save and upload your changes.