2008-10-21 posted in Wordpress and Blogging Tips

To use the following emoticons, you need to first enable it in the admin following the steps below:

Settings -> Writing -> Formatting

Tick this box:
Convert emoticons like  :-) and  :-P to graphics on display

Click here to view the full Emoticon list

2008-10-21 posted in Wordpress and Blogging Tips

With the more tag, your posts will be splited. The excerpts will be displayed on the home and/or the archive page. The full article will be shown in the post itself.

There are a few ways to use the more tag.

Method #1

A link showing “more…” is placed at the bottom of the post where you insert this code in the HTML mode:
<!--more-->

Eg, one full article has 3 sentences as follows:

Hi, this is my first post. I have many things to write about myself. I live in a wonderful city of Angels.

To display only the first 2 sentences in the home or the archive page, you add this more tag in the HTML mode of the post:

Hi, this is my first post. I have many things to write about myself.

<!--more-->

I live in a wonderful city of Angels.

In the home or archive page, the post will be displayed like this:

Hi, this is my first post. I have many things to write about myself.

more…

Note: The link “more…” is defined in this coding: the_content(”more…”); which can normally be found in index.php, search.php or archive.php
Click here to continue to Method #2 and #3

2008-10-20 posted in Latest News

Hi all,

I am honor to receive all your good comments about my themes. This does me proud when your visitors like the way your new theme looks like :)

This is what I do and my goal is to make Templatelite your first choice when it comes to free quality themes.

Some of you requested to make custom theme for your WP blog. Due to limited resources, I don’t do custom theme at the moment. However, I am listening to your request and am happy to have more new releases for public downloads soon. For those who use my themes, please abide by my terms of use.

Any ideas or suggestions are welcomed. You can show me the links of the themes you came across that you like. Just leave your comments and I’ll do a study about it.

2008-10-14 posted in Latest News

We have just fixed this issue! All preview links are working perfectly now :)

2008-10-14 posted in Latest News

I am sorry to tell you that the theme “Preview” links are not working at the moment. They are showing only our “Green Light” theme.

We are fixing it now and it should work well 4 hours later (11:30am Eastern Time). The “Download” links, however, are working fine.

We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.

2008-10-10 posted in Wordpress and Blogging Tips

To add a new theme to your WordPress, follow these basic steps:

  1. Download the zip file and extract the files it contains. The extracted files are grouped in one folder. The name of the folder is the theme name. Take the Coffee Desk theme for example, the folder name of the theme is “coffeedesk
  2. Download and install Wordpress to your server by following the instruction at http://wordpress.org/download/
  3. Using an FTP client to access your host web server. Go to the “wp-content” folder and create a sub-folder called “themes” and the structure will look like this: /wp-content/themes/
  4. Upload the theme folder to “themes” on your host server. Again, taking the Coffee Desk theme for example, after uploaded, the structure will become like this:
     /wp-content/themes/coffeedesk/
  5. Login to Wordpress admin, select Appearance  -> Themes.
  6. Click on the theme you would like to activate. On the top right side of the theme, click Activate + “Theme”
  7. You are done. Enjoy the new look of your blog!

Please contact us if you encounter problems with our themes and we’ll be glad to resolve the issues.

2008-10-10 posted in Latest News

Yes! This is the brand new look of Templatelite.com.

We are in the midst of fixing all the minor issues like correcting the dead links as well as adding some features such as newsletter. You’ll soon see a better and more user-friendly Templatelite.

Hope you like this new design :P

2008-10-05 posted in About My Themes

I try my best to make my themes work for everyone. However, due to the big amount of comments I’ve been receiving, I can’t give timely response to every request. I have since figured out a way to address those issues effectively with different priority set as follows:

Top Priority
If you encounter functionality issues (eg. themes display wrongly in Firefox), I’ll look into that as first priority and will try to address the problems within 3 working days. You can post the problem in the comment section of the most relevant theme page.

Note: My themes are not designed to work with ALL plugins. Unless you show me how popular the plugin is, please don’t ask me to fix the compatibility issue with the individual plugins. 

I consider a plugin as popular when the All-Time downloads in Wordpress is above 200,000. Take Wordpress Stat plugin as an example, the all-time downloads can be found at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/stats/ and it is more than 500,000 as of this writing. Therefore, we’ll fix the problem, if any, pertaining to this plugin.

However, due to the strict coding standard that I always adhere to, my themes should work well with most of the popular plugins.

Less Priority
For other issues, I’ll make your comments live and will address them whenever I have time. The solution is not guaranteed. I also hope that other users can help solve your issues while waiting for my reply.

However, if you are kind enough to make a small donation, I’ll give the first priority to resolve any of your issues. Simply donate to my Paypal via wpsubmit @ templatelite.com and specify your comment ID.

I hope this is the most efficient way to address your problems and requests.