iTeam : Sports Team WordPress Theme

What You Get With This Theme

Cory Miller — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:24:59 +0000

Our designer, James Dalman, saw a need for sports teams, like his son’s football team, to have a quick, easy and affordable way to get a team website up … and today, we’re unveiling that vision in iTeam: a Premium Sports WordPress Theme.

With iTeam, your sports team can get a website up and starting informing your fans, parents and others of what you’re team is doing!

Based on input for what we saw sports teams wanting to put on their websites, we’ve included the following features into the theme:

Post your game videos – Use YouTube or Vimeo and embed those videos straight from the iTeam Dashboard options
Post your team photos — There are two great ways to do that … first, the main home page feature image can display random images of your choosing … and second, we’ve got a Flickr photo gallery embedded too
Post Live Games Updates – Using Twitter.com and iTeam, you can easily post live game updates to your team’s website

Check out iTeam demo site here and purchase details here

Sample Test Post

Cory Miller — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:10:00 +0000

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Game Photo Gallery - September 28

Cory Miller — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:19:44 +0000

Use the WordPress Photo Gallery feature to quickly post game photos to your website!

Make a List, Check It Twice

Cory Miller — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:15:20 +0000

This is how lists look with bSocial! What HTML tags would you like to see?

Let’s start with an unordered list:

One
Two
Three
Four

And then move on to a more interesting ordered list:

one, two
1. buckle my shoe
three, four
1. knock at the door
Five, six
1. pick up sticks
Seven, eight, lay them straight
1. Nine, ten, a big fat hen
2. Eleven, twelve, dig and delve
3. Thirteen, fourteen, maids a’courting
4. Fifteen, sixteen, maids in the kitchen
5. Seventeen, eighteen, maids a’waiting
6. Nineteen, twenty, my platter’s empty …

Vikings Running Back Breaks Rushing Record

Cory Miller — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:03:57 +0000

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Why Everything in Your Sidebar Disappears

Cory Miller — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:03:07 +0000

Here is a scenario: You installed a brand-new, shiny copy of your iThemes premium theme and want to get your widgets installed in the sidebar(s). As soon as you add a widget in a sidebar to, say add a text widget above the existing built-in widgets, all of the widgets disappear except the new text widget you added.

Why Did it Do That?

What happened is a simple result of the code doing what it is told to do, which is to either show the built-in widgets (all of them) or show the widgets selected on the Widget screen under the Design tab.

I am going to get a tad technical here for those who are interested. If that is not you, then feel free to skip to the next section for what to do regardless of why things happen.

Looking at the code to the right, locate the “dynamic_sidebar” code. That is what you will find in every “widget-ready” theme because it calls out the function.php code included in the theme, which can include 1, 2, 3, or any number of widgeted sidebars or areas in the theme. This particular code is affecting a sidebar named Post Sidebar, which is created in the function.php file and filled with widgets by going to Design->Widgets and selecting the Post Sidebar area from the pulldown on the right side under Current Widgets.

The way to read this code in plain English is, “If the function.php file includes a sidebar called ‘Post Sidebar,’ then ignore all the code until the ‘end if’ statement IF there are widgets selected on the Design->Widgets page.” If there are no widgets manually selected in editing page, then the code below rules and appears. If only one widget is added, then it, and only it, will appear in the sidebar due to the nature of the If/Then statement.

How to Fix It

Navigate to the Design tab and click ‘Widgets.’ On the left side of the page, every widget included with WordPress and added by widget plugins that you have added is listed with and ‘Add’ button to add that widget to the sidebar selected in the pulldown on the right side of the page. Many widgets come straight out of the box fully functioning with no customizing options. Others allow you to edit items, such as the widget title, after you Add it and make the changes to it over on the right side. The Text widgets are able to be added numerous times to multiple sidebars to allow multiple text widgets throughout a site.

To review one property of widgets quickly for those who skipped the previous section, when you select a widget, all of the pre-coded widgets in the theme’s sidebar you changed will disappear. If you want to keep the ones already present and add more widgets, then you must include those already present to still see them.

Click the Edit button on any widget that you want to or need to change or add information to, such as a Feedburner ID or RSS feed address and click Save Changes to set that sidebar’s settings. From there, you can move on to other sidebars or leave them set as default, unaffected by this sidebar’s settings.

New iThemes Premium WordPress Theme Club

Cory Miller — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:59:56 +0000

Here’s some big news for our customers!

We’ve recently taken our All-in-One Developer’s Package and turned it into a value-packed Theme Club.

16 Themes for One Low Price, Plus NEW iThemes Created in 2008 – Save over $900 by buying this special package
Multiple-Use Licenses – Compare this benefit to other theme clubs and you can easily see the value! Use the themes on as many personal and clients sites as you want, as long as you do not resell them
Lifetime Theme Updates – Get series updates on each theme series included as long as the theme is offered
Themes to Meet Almost Every Need – With our diverse offering of themes, almost any type of business can find a theme they need. Plus, you get all the themes you need to start your freelance business off right
Active Support – Get the help you need to customize your themes in our active support forums

Check out the 2008 Theme Club purchase details here
Upgrade Details: For Previous Customers
Here’s an even better deal for customers of previous themes … You can upgrade to the 2008 Theme Club for the price difference in your original purchases. To upgrade, contact iThemes with your original receipt or Paypal email address today!

Check out the 2008 Theme Club purchase details here

Free WordPress Tutorials

Cory Miller — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:49:55 +0000

Below are some video tutorials that cover general issues related to using WordPress and specific ones relating to how to tweak and use our individual theme series. If you have specific questions beyond what’s covered here, please visit our Support Forum.

In order to view the view tutorials, please download the free Adobe Flash Player here.

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