The Frantic theme is a straight up blog style theme, with a red and grey color scheme. Like all our themes it is widget ready, supports custom menus, and comes with a full width page template. All that means it can also be used quite easily for simple static sites as well as a blog.
The home page and archive pages on the Frantic theme can also display a featured image for each post with automatic thumb-nailing so there is no fiddly image resizing to do.
Theme made for Frantic.co.nz
Hi, can you help me remove the “read more” from the main page, and have it so this theme shows the full post text instead?
Thanks for the great theme anyway!
Hey Chris, it’s Chris! Go figure. Both on the same night.
Anyway I have the OPPOSITE question.
How can I suppress something weird happening..? It’s showing mainly summaries of posts with “read more” but every couple posts it’s showing the ENTIRE text of a post..?
Hi Chris, can you give us a link to see what exactly is happening?
Thanks
Charles
I’m getting the same behavior… some have the “read more” link and some do not… I’d like them all to be “read more” on the loop and usually do that by replacing the_post with the_exceprt in the main loop… but can’t seem to find that in this theme… thoughts?
http://Syracuse08.com
Thanks very much to Chris and Joe for the feedback. We’ve updated the theme to fix this issue. The new version 1.2 will be available on WordPress.org soon, but you can download it above immediately if you like.
Great theme! Really digging it. I have come across an issue when adding the e-commerce plug in to your Frantic theme. The product descriptions in the general store do not wrap properly and the right edge of the description & ‘add to cart’ button get cut off a bit on the single product page.
Is there a work around for this?
Hi Sean, thanks for the feedback. Can you share a URL where I can see the problem you’re having?
Absolutely!
The shop is: http://fivemonkeyspublishing.com/?page_id=4
The product page is: http://fivemonkeyspublishing.com/?wpsc-product=test-item
Excellent response time.
Thanks Sean,
I’m not familiar with that particular plugin so not sure what controls it provides for in the admin.
I was able to fix this in Firebug by changing the width of the single_product_page_container class from 650 to 100% in the plugin style sheet (wpsc-default.css) so that is one solution.
Cheers
Charles
My hat’s off to you good sir. That knocked-out the problem on the product page. The store is still not wrapping, but I’ll monkey with the code to see if a similar change someplace else will wake up the wrap around.
Much appreciated Charles, Much appreciated.
(sorry, replied in the wrong area)
My hat’s off to you good sir. That knocked-out the problem on the product page. The store is still not wrapping, but I’ll monkey with the code to see if a similar change someplace else will wake up the wrap around.
Much appreciated Charles, Much appreciated.
i installed theme on my blog all is good http://phpdeveloperatlanta.com/blog/. it is not showing photo on home page which each post have. can you tell me what exactly i do for that ?
Hi, looking at your site is seems that the thumbnail image doesn’t exist on your server, eg. http://phpdeveloperatlanta.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/PHP-MVC-structure-150×150.jpg returns a 404 error. I think that is something to do with your WP installation, but can’t be sure what is causing that.
When you uploaded your image to the post, did you set it as the featured image or did you create a separate thumbnail?
Beautiful theme. I have been struggling all morning to find the “just right” layout which works first time, and Frantic is sensational. Everything is clean, elegant and beautifully laid out. I do have a problem with Slick Contact Forms not rendering correctly when added as a widget, but otherwise, I LOVE this theme.
Hi, I have updated this theme to the newest version. It has fixed the problem of showing the entire text however it is still not showing a little picture beside the posts. Any ideas how I can get this back? Thanks
When uploading an image for a post, set it as featured and it should show up as the thumbnail.
Hello,
Today I backupped the Frantic theme on my computer. Then I upgrated the new version of this theme. I did some translations to Dutch in the PHP files.
Can I upload these to my server?
I changed the next php-files: 404, archive, full-width, index, page, search and single.php
Hi Pieter,
Without knowing what changes exactly you made to the files it isn’t possible for me to know if it will still work. I suggest making sure you have a backup of everything prior to making the changes and then trying it out. That way you can always roll back to the previous version.
It worked!
I only changed some language. From Englich to Dutch ihe files. Maybe you could check it?
But, when there will be a new update on the theme, how do I save these setting I like more? Manually?
Thanks in advance!
Best regards, Pieter
This isn’t possible?
I like this theme, but like also my touch and feel in Dutch? Any idea?
Also, how do I get the spam protect when someone wants to give a reply. Like this copy/paste code?
Thanks in advance!
.widget .tagcloud a {
color: #707070;
}
You should add this to the CSS, when using tag cloud, the links are red.
I notice after updating, the main blog page will not show the text by paragraph. P tags don’t work, and neither do BR tags.
Hi Randy, yes that’s correct. The update was to ensure that the home page only displays a snippet of the blog post rather than the entire post. This is preferable from an SEO perspective.
Hi, like the theme but since the update, my photos no longer show – http://www.xpd.co.nz/photos/
I use BWS Gallery for the photos and was working fine until today with the update
Any chance this could be looked into ?
Cheers
Hi XPD, hmmm that’s odd. Will look into it. Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks for the prompt reply, hopefully its something simple
Using BWS with the theme before, did tend to mis-align some of the theme, but wasnt a big issue as such.
I just tried installing the BWS Gallery plugin, added a page, uploaded some pix and inserted the gallery no problem. Can I ask you to try inserting the Gallery again and confirm that it still doesn’t work.
FYI – the update to the theme didn’t touch the page template so shouldn’t have changed anything. The update was only to the home page template.
Ok, thanks for looking into it, will try re-doing the gallery when i get home this evening.
Hi,
I really like you theme. I want to add a dropdown menu on the menu bar. Could you please help me?
Thank you
Hi, thanks for the feedback. Can you describe more what you mean by drop down menu?
If you nest pages under one another the theme will display sub pages when you hover over a top level page.
Cheers
Hi,
It worked. Thanks for your assistance.
Have a good one
I have a phantom home page–it won’t let me delete it and won’t let me edit it. What do I do? I can’t find it in the pages tab. I’ve tried a custom menu and it didn’t go away.
Thanks!
Hi Sunny, I’m not sure what you mean by phantom page…can you post a link to your site so I can see what you mean. Thanks.
I would like to go back to the design where the videos would show on the main page.. how can I do that?
Hi Glenn, you’ll need the older version of the theme for that. You can still download the old version here: http://wpthemes.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/frantic.zip
Hope that helps.
Rgds
Is there anyway to get a left sidebar in this theme? Any plugins available that could install this? I am fairly new to blogging, and really like this theme…and am not too knowledgeable on the topic of adding sidebars.
If not, is this something where the theme codes could be customized to add a side bar?
Hi Trevor, getting a left sidebar would require making edits to the style sheets and templates. There’s no plugin I’m aware of that will do this for you. Sorry, probably not the answer you were wanting
hello, great theme and about to use it! but how do you get rid of the bit on the leave a reply…
You may use these HTML tags and attributes:
Many thanks!
Hi Jimmy, You’ll need to have access to the templates via FTP or the template editor in the control panel, from where you can easily remove (or comment out) this content from the single post template.
Hi Charles,
Great theme. One thing I’m trying to do that I cannot find a fix for is how to remove dates posted on both pages and blog posts, would like to do that in categories too if possible.
Thank you very much,
Brian
Okay, I asked my question because the static home page continued to show after deleting all code relating to time and date on page php index.php, single post, etc. The dates are gone, but not on the static home page. That’s the only date that remains.
Also, hopefully, my last questions:
1) Can I change the color of the sidebar background?
2) How do I make a completely blank full-width template with be able to change the background color to red?
That should be all I need, I hope.
Thank you very much,
Brian in Texas
Can you tell me how I can make the sidebar portion of the theme smaller and also move the divider to the right slightly? Thanks.
Hi. great theme . i just have one question i cant figure out .
how do i display in my home page more then one post? at the moment my home page only display a preview of my last post with a “read more ” button.
how do i show multiple posts on the home page ? how do i control it ?
thanks
I love the look of this theme and might use it for a website. But, the client would like the header at the top to be a different font. (Probably would keep the tagline font the same to match the menu.) Is there any way to do that, either through the code or replacing with an image? Thanks so much for your help.
How do I add a RSS button to this theme? For some reason none of the links are working. And the site already is good for RSS thanks to wordpress but I want to add the button. I can subscribe to my site on Google Reader. But I want to add a button. What is the link or feed URL that I need?
Hi Dustin, the default rss feed url to a WordPress website is http://yoursite.com/feed
You may also want to read this article http://hotgluemedia.com/blog/wordpress-basics-adding-an-rss-button/
There are also plugins that may help you with this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss-icon-widget/
This was the coolest theme, so I thought…
Looks like this on Google Chrome: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzNjNVWsWJSDejBseGxPR0F6aXc/edit?usp=sharing
And looks like this on IE: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzNjNVWsWJSDd3NHUDJPcDlOd3M/edit?usp=sharing
Thoughts?
Hi Jeff, are you running any plugins which minify style sheets or otherwise inject or change code? I ask because I can’t replicate this problem on my test install of the theme. What version of IE are you using?
Hi Jeff,
I just ran the web page http://albemarletruthintaxation.org/ through the html validator and the first couple errors found were regarding a missing doctype – which is why IE is choking.
If you view the html source code, you will find this:
<script src='http://www.sitebrains.com/scripts/acBase.ashx?domainid=5882' ></script><!doctype html>
A script is being called before the doctype is declared. Must be a plugin or something most likely echoing out the script call. Try deactivating the plugin Sitebrains spam blocker and see what happens.
Hi thanks for this theme, i just installed it on my blog: http://www.website-analyst.co.il I know you can’t read it, because I wrote the content in hebrew. but it’s very easy to use and made my life alot easier! Thanks again!
Is there a way to change the header image to something custom, and possibly change the page background color at the top and or the menu banner color at the top. Thanks
Hi @frank,
Thanks for using our theme.
The settings don’t have an options for background and logo, but there are still a way to change it and you need to have knowledge in CSS and HTML.
1. open header.php and at line #47 replace the site name to your logo.
2. To change background open theme file and update
bg.pngit located inlibrary/images/bg.pngHope that helps.