Jello Wala Mello WordPress Theme

Jello-Wala-Mello is a news / magazine-styled WordPress theme created for multi-media sites. It requires WordPress 2.3 to work properly.

This theme uses the optional excerpt and two custom fields: Thumbnail, and Thumbnail Full (case sensitive).The values of Thumbnail and Thumbnail Full should be the addresses of the images attached to each post. Thumbnail is for the small image and Thumbnail Full is for the bigger one. Learn how to use WordPress image uploader and custom fields.

At least, make sure the first ten entries of your blog use those custom fields and have optional excerpts. Ideally, you want to use this for a new blog as the need for two images and an optional excerpt for each entry is a bit of work for established blogs with hundreds of entries.

However, you can easily tweak it for an established blog with many entries, if you know how that is. (Another version will be created for established blogs to easily adopt this theme.)

Example of excerpt and custom fields:

Features

  • News / Magazine-styled front page layout
  • A sub-page design for single post view
  • Integrated Domtab
  • Separated Comments and Trackbacks through Domtab
  • Flexible sidebars that change location and styles depending whether you’re viewing the front page
  • Widget-ready sidebars (unlike some of the other magazine-styled themes out there)

Installation / Activation

  1. Upload this folder to your themes folder at: wp-content/themes
  2. Log into WordPress administration and click on “Presentation”
  3. Look for the Jello-Wala-Mello image and click on it to install / activate this theme
  4. Go back to your blog’s front page and refresh / reload it

Download(s)

Usage

  • By default, the second horizontal menu displays only three category links to prevent over-loading that second menu with too many links. To add more category links: open header.php and find wp_list_categories(’hierarchical=0&title_li=&include=1,2,3′). 1, 2, and 3 are examples. Add your own category ID numbers to add more category links to that menu.
  • Use the ads-300×250.php file for advertisments.
  • To replace the ads with a list of your most popular content links: open index.php, look for ads-300×250.php, and change it to domtab.php. Modify the domtab.php file to fill in your own list of links.

Disclosure

This theme has a link back to Wpdesigner to credit me for creating this theme. You may remove it. Leave the link in tact if you’d like to credit me for it.

Licenses and Credits

Support

For answers and support, use the Wpdesigner.com support forums.

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Nate:

Congrats on the release SP!
This theme is probably my new favorite next to your Wrath theme.

well played, looks really nice.

Thank you SM, I’ve been so excited waiting for this. It’s going to be one of those themes you see EVERYWHERE for a while but I’m sure you can’t complain about that can you? Congratulations on your success and props for your hard work!

Thanks a lot!!! Tried it! lookin’ crisp!!

I’m really confused about the Thumbnail / Full Thumbnail thing. I’ve been messing around for the past hour trying to get this to work. I’m typing ‘Thumbnail’ in the ‘Key’ field and the image source url in the ‘Value’ form. Then I save and check the homepage, nothing. Is my image supposed to appear where it says ‘Hello world! thumbnail’?

I’m probably missing something really obvious, but I would appreciate if you could break it down a bit more for me. Thanks again for the awesome theme, I’m just loving it!

Yea! I’m having the same problem, also using custom widgets messes up the theme’s layout :(

What, no preview? :( sniff

But hell, the theme looks amazing. Well done SP! :)

Dave

Alex:

I figured it out after some experimenting… these thumbnails are a really cool feature. I love how you can display a different thumbnail for each post without actually publishing it within the post… you’re a genious!

Yes, I agree the theme is very nice indeed.

So how do ya customize the thumbnails Alex?

Yo Small Potato, I’ve downloaded the theme and look forward to giving it a crack asap. Congrats on the release of your first free premium theme. Send us that PSD as well so we can get going on some variations which you can then maybe post up along with the original. I know I’m gonna run into problems with the custom fields thing as I’ve never used them before but I suppose this is as good a time as any.

Thanks a million for all your efforts man. :)

@Alex and Aaron - I added a screenshot for you to model your custom fields after.

@Dave - The Wpdesigner WordPress demo installation needs upgrading to 2.3, custom fields, and excerpts before I can set up a demo for this theme.

@Thanks Nur - I’ll release the PSD soon.

Thanks a million SP! JWM is truly the best mag style theme I’ve seen :)

Congrats SP! The theme is loooking good. Althought I won’t be using it, I’ll probably end of up taking a peek at the backend code!

Keep up the good work! You’re my hero.

Thanks for the theme Small Potato. I was waiting for this. I am jumping on learning WP themes at this moment and your site and your work are one of my favorite resources.
I am going to still few tricks from you for sure and you can’t stop me :)
Thanks for your work and sharing. It is very appreciated.

Armen:

Dugg! Nice work SP

Nice theme
Dugg

gigionmac:

Awesome theme Small Potato !
Simple and clear !!!!

I’m trying it now, and I have a little prob.
I add more category, and added the relatve ID i the header…but they don’t show up.
WHy ?

thanks for your support

They need to be readl category IDs. If you don’t have a category #4 then adding 4 to 1,2, and 3 will do nothing.

Very nice addition to the Wordpress theme collection. We really need more themes like this, high quality and sponsor-less. Bravo!

Word of warning about your Digg link. Digg will usually puts a cap on sites that have stop self-promote their ‘digg effect’. If I were you, I’d integrate the digg it plugin and just mention it to users without the hyperlink.

Keep the themes coming Small Potato, you are on your way to glory!

Small Potato well done. I’m looking to use your theme one of these days. But for now, I have dugg the article… awesome work!

Andrew and Kanwal - Thanks guys :)

gigionmac:

Thanks ! I got it.

Which is the code if I want to show them all in alphabetical order ?
(thank you for your patience )

very nice, thank you SP - Dugg!

Check here for info on how to sort categories.

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Congrats! It’s looks great although you’ve release it in kinda rush, and it lacking of some image driven part.

Finally!

But what about right sidebar???

cool theme
but there is no artistic view :( it is like notepad :S

The theme looks awesome and I was just searching for some way to organize categories on the front page.

yichi’s right though, images dont load on the front page and only 1 img loads on the category pages

Seth - The preview screenshots are not from a live demo. They’re Photoshop images. Some of the stuff on the original design weren’t included with this initial release.

Is there a way to show the full post at the top of the screen? Or/and take away the ad box.. so the content can strech to the right ?

Fantastic, and Dugg.

I am creating a review site, so this will be PERFECT. It looks like you are getting a lot of constructive feedback so far, I look forward to working with it.

Utimately I may change the color scheme, but will leave the link to your site, since you deserve the credit. It’s also how I found you in teh first place, from someone using the digg 3 col theme.

Great work.

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Matthew:

Hey, great! I dont think you need to call yourself an amateur web designer now!! lol :D

Noticed some strange behaviour, when i post a comment as the admin, it appears with its meta under the meta links in the right sidebar, but on refreshing it goes to where it should be.

Great theme though, dugg

Any ideas how to add riht sidebar?

I would like to see how this theme looks on established websites with content.

@Small Potato

What do you think about showcase?

Take a look at what I’ve do so far…certainly a LONG way to go as far as adding content, but the basic structure is there, and I just need to spend time filling in the blanks.

http://www.AngledReviews.com

I think a showcase area would be great…probably over on the forums?

Que:

Great theme! Thanks. I’m having a slight problem. as i installed fresh out the box and when i view the page, the sidebar comes up blank and all of the xhtml isnt finished. it stops at “filed under” and therefore doesnt call the sidebar or footer.

I noticed that Angled Reviews doesnt have a problem. I have not edited the template at all.

I am using WP 2.2.2, not 2.2.3, so not sure if that matters. I did edit the source ot remove the call to the_tags, as that’s where it was breaking. I removed that in the main index as well as the single post php files. Hope that helps.

Is there a forum help topic for this theme yet? I guess I could start one! ;)

Que:

yes you’re right. i’m using 2.2. I’m sure thats the problem now
thanks. i’ll look into the tags etc. and upgrading!

great help

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nice theme SP !

G:

great theme. I may be using it shortly.
dugg.

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Small it looks great!

My one suggestion is that you should put in an if statement to make sure the custom field variable is not empty.

This way it doesn’t look so strange when no image is used.

All in all it looks like you’ve sculpted another great theme. Great Job!

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I found my problem. My main-menu had to much elements and was to wide.

First off just want to say that I love this theme…Thanks for the hard work.

I’ve been playing around with it for a bit and I’m having a problem using WP 2.3. When I write a new page, the content of the page does not appear when I publish. The page link is created in the header just fine, and the page loads fine, except the content does not appear.

Any idea to what may be the problem?

Thanks again for your help.

This is a great theme! I have one question tho:

I have configured the site to have a page as homepage, and another page for the blog posts. Is it possible to make the homepage the way that the blog index page is set now, with the 3 ‘layers’ and different blocks?

Herko

John - I have no idea.

Herko - No, the front page layout is not in use if you set a Page to be the home page.

Hi, great theme you made there! I’m just having one tiny question: where do I edit to change the articles in the yellow area from 9 to 6? Thanks in advance and keep up te good work!

That depends on how many posts you want to show through Options > Reading. Also, check out this plugin.

Oh my, didn’t thought about that. Thanks a bunch. ;)

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gigionmac:

Potato,
I noticed that you used the

wp_list_categories

in your header to list categories.

I want to customize the permanent link option, using:
/%category%/%postname%/ for the post title.

Do you know if is it possible to use categories without having to list the category slug when calling them in the header menu or from the post ?

thanks

permalink structure doesn’t matter. wp_list_categories will print what you’ve selected for permalink structure

gigionmac:

Thanks Potato.
I’ m not sure this is perfectly clear…

the wp_list_category is going to print something like:

domainname.com/CATEGORY/categoryname/postname

i want to remove the slug “category” to leave only the categoryname and postname.

Using the /%category%/%postname%/ option in the permanent link menu,
the post link are printed this way:
domainname.com/categoryname/postname

But when you list them using the wp_list_category it ADD the category slug.
I would like to remove it when automatically listing the category.

Hello..

Congratulations on this wonderful design. Since this is a magazine style design, wouldn’t each magazine/blog want their own unique logo in it ?

I was wondering if you could add a small snippet up there, that would allow new users to replace the normal text with a pre-defined logo image.

Regards.

Ehab - The title area is already structure that way. You can simply give that area a background image, which would be your logo.

Mate,

thanks for the awesome theme. I’ve used it on We Finance Loans dot com. If that makes any money, I’ll remember to give you a tip ;P


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Hi SP,
trying a similar theme effect on my website with the post excerpts appearing next to each other like a news column. However when the first one is longer than the second the third post does not fit nicely but misses the first column.

I am stumped on this and found this page via a refferal, I have written in detail on the problem on my website if you can help at.
http://germworks.net/blog/…

Thanks

In case anyone wonders, I did solve the problem (thanks to SP and others) which can be found in the comments.

It seems nice, I will use it as I am considering to change my old theme. Thank you !

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Has anyone integrated YATCP into this theme. I’ve been working on it for a couple of days and can get it to show the comments that reply to the post but not the comments that respond to other comments. Any tips would be appreciated!

Great Theme!

is there any way to remove sidebars in the homepage, but still have them in posts?

thx a lot

Remove get_sidebar from the index.php file.

OMG!!!!

That was fast!!!

many many Thanks

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Just wanted to follow up and say that I got it integrated. Thanks for the awesome theme!

It’s a great theme. Thanks SP :-)

Brilliant theme - thank you. I’ve been using it for about a week or so, and I’ve loved it. Thanks so much!

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Bryan:

Basically, it is the layout that DOES matter.

I love the layout, can u make a tutorial about: how to make a nice magazine layout like this, so I wont have to study your theme then put it on my own theme..

What do you think?
thanks

You’ll have to study the theme :) . Most of it is in the css file. The layout is a combination of css and the use of custom fields.

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I love this theme. What size should the thumbnail images be?

I don’t remember, download it and see :)

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Small Potato,

I just installed this theme for our blog. Thank you very much for releasing this to the public. You do an amazing service to everyone with your help and expertise.

Thanks again, and keep up the great work.

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Hello

This theme is brilliant, thanks a lot.
I have a little problem with the comments using firefox, when using the direct url to the comment :
http://www.yakitri.com/…73#comment-23
the first comment is pushed in the sidebar

but when using the post url
http://www.yakitri.com/…73
everything is ok

I don’t understand where the pb is

thanks!

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Hello SP,

I am using your great theme in my “test-blog”. It works well at Firefox, but I can`t see the thumbnails at Internet Explorer.

Do you know anything about this problem?

Thank You
Victor
http://estanaveja.com

I’m using Firefox and I don’t see those thumbnails.

Hello again,

I fix my mystake.
Thanks
Victor

Thank you for Theme, I use This Theme for Blog Gallery (Directory)

Um,… I fix your code

Thank again…

iDay

Hi!

Great theme!

One question:

- Is it possible put a category predefined image in each post of main page? and an author image?

Thanks!

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It is possible, but you need to know how to do it :)

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Hi,

Great theme! I translated this wonderful theme to french, so, juste let me know if you’re interested by the link ;)

See you!

The .psd file download link doesn’t work… are those files available yet?

Nice theme, thanks!

Caitlin - I updated the post above to include download links.

Help, nobody to help me with my problem please?
http://www.wpdesigner.com/…

Marie - Please post your question at the forums. Fix the errors on your blog first and then let me know if you’re having the same problem on other pages too.

Hi! I just installed this theme for our blog, and it’s absolutely perfect for our usage. However there is one slight problem; the posts won’t categorize with your theme. With any of the default themes the categories show up under each post, but with Jello Wala Mello it says “no categories”.

The category links are listed after “Filed Under:”

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very interesting design. im not that good with exerpts yet but i will be better. Not many different styles out there like this one.

Hi , it’s a cool them , thanks for sharing freely, I wanna use this theme for my other blog http://www.vhxn.com, Keep up the good work

I absolutely love this theme. Thank you Small Potato! The only issue I have it’s the jumping comments in firefox, I’m seeking for solution in forums. ;)

Don Ray:

This looks like an awful bite of Kineda without any credit in the post or theme.

Hi Don. In previous posts, I’ve already mentioned up front that this is a mix of CNN and Kineda.

Boon:

EXCELLENT!

I suggest you add a funciton to DISABLE thumbnail if no images is done.

It would be better than blank image!
And sometiems its cool to NOT HAVE IMAGE EVERYWHERE
its easy juste a loop that detect if there a thumb or not

Also How to remove ADS or right TAB BAR on front ?
i’ve tried removing

Get_sidebar()

but the 1st article is not larger so its not interrresting.

MORE IMPORTANT

Why do you bother with 2 thumbnail .?…
ONE would be REALLY SIMPLER and as the 1st article is not so BIG we dont need a BIGGER THUMB

AGAIN put a loop to show the thumb FULL only if there is one if not use the THUMB and if nothing dont show a image !!

Add some easy cutomization (color and image header) and you make the BEST FRONT News worpress theme EVER )=)

Really good work!!!

Boon:

1. The 1st article it cutted too short it DONT SHOW ENOUGH TEXT
must be mimimum TWICE

(how to change ?)

2. A widget Sidebar in place of the AD block

would be more easy to browse news by catégories or TAG ( a tag cloug will be very good a this place)
how to do this ?

3. THINK OF USING internationalization for allow painfulless translation

thx

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zvh:

Hello,

I got a problem, I use wordtube, and when I search for any subject containing flash player, in search result it lists flash codes, also same on main page on recent posts. Any way to fix it?

Thanks

zvh:

I edited out content part from search result and now it just shows title link to content page so its fixed. but I still like to know if it is possible to fix in recent posts section on front page.

Thanks

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hi, I love this theme A LOT! It’s really cool!

I just wanna modify it a bit by changing some colors and thumbnail size.. Hope you don’t mind my derived theme.. I will put a link at the end to credit you. Thanks again!!

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First of all, thanks for a great theme! I am just playing around with customising it. Particularly changing the colour scheme is … challenging to say the least :D

Anyway, I have the same issue as Marie http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/10/06/…

And I notice her forum post went unanswered: http://www.wpdesigner.com/forums/…

Did anyone ever work out what the issue is with Firefox? If not I suppose it’s not a huge deal …

Chimaera - I couldn’t help her solve that problem because I couldn’t duplicate that bug. I’ve tested my own blog install and other blogs online (using this theme). Not every blog using JWM is having this problem.

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Josh:

TOPIC: Jello Wala Mello WordPress Theme

I would appreciate a little help with the following (please):

I do not want a feature post. I just want to have the excerpt posts(only 4) and only four excerpts on the front page.

I am comfortable editing the index.php file although I am not very confident with the syntax I will catch on with a little help.

I would be grateful for a little guidance,

Josh

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Adam:

Is there a way to define which posts can show up in the feature posts area. The default is to just have the most recent. I’d like to be able to assign a certain post to a “feature” category, and only that post will show up there.

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The comments and trackback switch doesn’t seem to work at all.

Rob - Support forums.

great template, but i have error accured while i put a comment, the new comment will show in left side, but if i am try to see current article, the comment have shown in right place, so have you think it’s bugs?

thnks, sorry, my english is litle, i am a indonesian :D

hi bimo - please use the forums for help.

craigb:

wonderful theme. im tyring to make good use of it now.., what size do you recomend the jpg’s to be sized to for the Thumbnail and Thumbnail Full?

craig - please check the theme’s instruction.

This is one of the best free wordpress themes I have ever seen. Great work!

Thanks Paul

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