Comments on: Mimbo for bimbos: Making Mimbo do what you need

By: Andrew C.B.

Andrew C.B. — Sun, 10 May 2009 08:34:57 +0000

???
I mean: img src=”

the php bloginfo (template url

By: Andrew C.B.

Andrew C.B. — Sun, 10 May 2009 08:33:40 +0000

upss,
why it didnt show: ‘

By: Andrew C.B.

Andrew C.B. — Sun, 10 May 2009 08:32:27 +0000

Sir, I have a problem with:
php, echo, single-quoted strings inside double-quoted strings inside single-quoted strings,as follow:

{echo
‘’
;}
?>

It results:
parse error, expecting `’,” or `’;”

It seems the problem stems from triple layers strings.
Question:
How do I replace/remove the single-quoted strings in ‘template_url’

By: Samuel Diamond

Samuel Diamond — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:32:24 +0000

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

Samuel Diamond — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:19:40 +0000

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

Joshua Unseth — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:19:04 +0000

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

Steve — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:21:28 +0000

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

rad_thundercat — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:14:24 +0000

thanks for posting this! It was really helpful that you didn’t skip over the ‘obvious’ stuff ;)