Comments on: Mimbo for bimbos: Making Mimbo do what you need http://www.spidermarket.com/index/2008/04/27/mimbo-22/ Helping You Make the Web Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:59:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Samuel Diamond http://www.spidermarket.com/index/2008/04/27/mimbo-22/#comment-121 Samuel Diamond Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:32:24 +0000 http://www.spidermarket.com/index/?p=20#comment-121 Also, is there a way to produce a randomizing code for the Lead story and the 3 features on the left? If the lead story can be randomly fetched by the articles in that category, as well as the others, it will give the site more of a difference each time it is used. Also, is there a way to produce a randomizing code for the Lead story and the 3 features on the left? If the lead story can be randomly fetched by the articles in that category, as well as the others, it will give the site more of a difference each time it is used.

]]> By: Samuel Diamond http://www.spidermarket.com/index/2008/04/27/mimbo-22/#comment-120 Samuel Diamond Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:19:40 +0000 http://www.spidermarket.com/index/?p=20#comment-120 These are unbelievable modifications that can help a lot of people for this theme. I want to ask an important question: Can the category_name function can be done also with the category array sequence? The array is probably many more times annoying than the lead story module in terms of tweaking. I am thinking of adding the _name in place of it but not sure how the syntax or coding will work. What do you think I should do? Or is there anything that can be done? Great work btw. These are unbelievable modifications that can help a lot of people for this theme.

I want to ask an important question: Can the category_name function can be done also with the category array sequence? The array is probably many more times annoying than the lead story module in terms of tweaking. I am thinking of adding the _name in place of it but not sure how the syntax or coding will work.

What do you think I should do? Or is there anything that can be done? Great work btw.

]]> By: Joshua Unseth http://www.spidermarket.com/index/2008/04/27/mimbo-22/#comment-85 Joshua Unseth Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:19:04 +0000 http://www.spidermarket.com/index/?p=20#comment-85 Steve, I'm not sure if this is exactly what your looking for (and I'll confess I've never actually used this plugin). But, I think what it's supposed to do is pull the first image you use in a post and put it on the frontpage. It'll probably require some tweaking to be integrated into the Mimbo theme, but it sounds like it might be what you need. Steve, I’m not sure if this is exactly what your looking for (and I’ll confess I’ve never actually used this plugin). But, I think what it’s supposed to do is pull the first image you use in a post and put it on the frontpage. It’ll probably require some tweaking to be integrated into the Mimbo theme, but it sounds like it might be what you need.

]]> By: Steve http://www.spidermarket.com/index/2008/04/27/mimbo-22/#comment-81 Steve Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:21:28 +0000 http://www.spidermarket.com/index/?p=20#comment-81 I have been working with the Mimbo theme for a day or so, and the most obvious problem is with the lead story/featured/category headers and the image capabilities. Having to ftp images to your site for use with articles is pretty bad, and I have been able to bypass this with some PHP code however, its still not fullproof and I am trying to come up with a better way to integrate WP 2.5's media library to allow a user who has an image at the top of the "lead story" post, to appear as the image on the home page. If anyone has an idea, I would love to hear it. So far I am running into complications in trying to dynamically pull and image out of a post and use it on the home page as the placement image for the lead article for example. I have been working with the Mimbo theme for a day or so, and the most obvious problem is with the lead story/featured/category headers and the image capabilities. Having to ftp images to your site for use with articles is pretty bad, and I have been able to bypass this with some PHP code however, its still not fullproof and I am trying to come up with a better way to integrate WP 2.5’s media library to allow a user who has an image at the top of the “lead story” post, to appear as the image on the home page.

If anyone has an idea, I would love to hear it. So far I am running into complications in trying to dynamically pull and image out of a post and use it on the home page as the placement image for the lead article for example.

]]> By: rad_thundercat http://www.spidermarket.com/index/2008/04/27/mimbo-22/#comment-31 rad_thundercat Fri, 09 May 2008 20:14:24 +0000 http://www.spidermarket.com/index/?p=20#comment-31 thanks for posting this! It was really helpful that you didn't skip over the 'obvious' stuff ;) thanks for posting this! It was really helpful that you didn’t skip over the ‘obvious’ stuff ;)

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