(4.25 out of 5)LivingOS UPSILON
A 2-column WordPress theme with sidebar widget support and a totally cool SmoothGallery header. Also support for falbum. This is identical to Epsilon apart from the SmoothGallery integration.
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Latest version: 7th August 2008 (2.4)
(15 votes, average: 4.13 out of 5)
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This theme is licenced under the GNU GPL license.
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51 responses so far!
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I’m not very code savvy - how do I implement the SmoothGallery?
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You need to edit the code in the extra.php file. The code you change is inside the gallery div. Check the SmoothGallery’s web site for specifics about options.
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Tim, I’ve gone through the code and altered it to all my own text/links/images but nothing is happening.
When I implemented the theme, even before I altered any of the code, the only thing that was showing was your background image (as specified in the CSS).
I erased the URl for that image and the space where the SmoothGallery goes is blank.
I turned off the manual options on the gallery and nothing.
I made all the links thoughout the css and php pages that refer to the SmoothGallery stuff absolute URLs and all the title and text that is supposed to come up with each image is suddenly all displayed.
You can see this for yourself by following my link. Any ideas?
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OK, I’ve re-uploaded the files to start from scratch.
The first thing I need to figure out is why the SmoothGallery is not working in the files you put in your theme. ‘
In your previous comments you said that I need to alter my code. What do I need to alter to get the thing to work in the first place before I swap in my own files?
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If it isn’t working out of the box, see if you have any other plugins running like lightbox for example. SmoothGallery does not sit well with some other scripts.
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OK, I figured it all out. It didn’t want to play nice with a plugin. The plugin was dispensable. But, then it only displayed a black screen.
You had this code: in every img src code line. I stripped it out and the SmoothGallery worked.
Is this extra code an error of yours?
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I’ve been using this theme for a few months now and think it’s fantastic - especially the image rotator. In fact, I like it so much that I have two ministry blogs with this theme! But my question is about changing the color scheme on one of the two sites. Is there an easy way to do this? Specifically, I would like to change the green/gold scheme in the header and extra sidebar. Thanks in advance for your help!
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Hi,
I’m loving this theme but am having some trouble with the thumbnails displaying in the carousel. I notice that in the LivingOS demo they don’t load either - the carousel just shows a set of blank images. Clicking on one of these blanks does in fact load a corresponding image, it’s just that the thumbnail isn’t being displayed.
thanks very much.
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Hey, great theme, I’m loving it. However, I’m wondering whether you could help me out with some problems I’m having with the carousel. Unfortunately I cannot get thumbnails to load in the carousel. I then tried to hide the carousel via the gallery js file but nothing I change in here seems to affect what’s on the site. Also, the gallery seems to break in Safari in that the carousel sits about halfway up the image.
I’d love it if you could get in touch and point me in the right direction.
Thanks very much,
Jarret
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I just installed this theme to use as part of a church project, and really like the look of it. Header rotation works out of the box for me.
What didn’t work after a quick look around was the 404 error page. It was trying to show a sidebar2.php which didn’t exist, and didn’t have the 404 error wrapped in the wrapper div.
Thanks for the theme! Once the church’s site is up, I’ll send you the link for your list.
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I’m using this theme for our Camp Victory website, and everyone loves it. One question though. I got the gallery to work, but how do I modify the “What’s Happening” area beside it? I’ve looked through all the files, and can’t seem to figure it out. Thanks!
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Mark, you need to use widgets. The theme has two sidebars for widgets. Sidebar 1 is down the right hand side and sidebar 2 is the What’s Happening space.
I also updated this theme in the last week to fix a couple of things. You may want to re-download it. -
The 404 page is fixed in the latest update.
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Hi, I’m trying to use rs-events calendar on a holiday and festivals page. I created the page and switched the template to rs event page. The page is blank even though I have events listed on the calendar which show up on the front page. How can I get this to work?
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I notice you use tabbertab on this page. Anything special to adding it to a WordPress theme? Thanks.
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One more thing. I’ve added two widgest to sidebar2 — recent posts and event calendar. The “recent posts” header is a different color than all the others. How can I get it to match? Thanks again.
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Looks like you fixed it?
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Tim, are you asking me or Mark? If me, then no I didn’t I just removed the page.
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Yes, I was asking Mark. But I’ve just visited your site. RS-Event doesn’t seem to be being updated by the author anymore. But there is a fixed version for use with WP 2.5. It’s here in case you haven’t already got it.
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[...] OK, so I’ve included two of my themes, but while Delta gets the accolades, Upsilon has been the most popular of my themes; and not just for church applications. The main reason is that it includes SmoothGallery for a cool rotating header. See it action on Mazsalacas Baptist church’s site. Theme Homepage [...]
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After much searching your theme was the best for our non-profit.
With both the last version and the new version (with smoothgallery) When we set the home page to a static page the site breaks. It does not show when you are logged in as admin, only when as a normal user. On the home page the sidebar is moved to the left. I can work around the problem by making a page called “Home” but then we have two home pages. (they both work)
Using a few other themes I can not replicate this problem.
Right now the site is set to show the problem. As we look for work around it may change. (the development of the site including logos and edits to the css file (that we have removed) were done with the maintenance mode plug-in so we did not see the problem until we turned that off)
All our other wp sites have the blog on the “home page” or call the blog from a static HTML page. So I have no experience with the home page as a static page.
One other problem is that when using the [gallery] option in the new wordpress 2.5.1 (or 2.5) the images are “crowded” overlap slightly and encroach on the sidebar.
Thanks in advance Tim
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I found a workaround to the two HOME tabs. This plugin lets us turn the extra one off.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/I now need to look for more info on the crowded images when using [gallery]
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Hi there! I am pretty new to Word Press and coding and all that. I’ve figured out a few things, but there’s a lot about customizing this site that I just can’t figure out.
Some of this may be basic, so I apolgize in advance. Where do I change things such as the information under “Contact Us” and “Gatherings”
Also, I’m trying to figure out Smooth Gallery. I re-saved my own pictures in the same locations and gave them the same names as the ones you refer to in you extra.php file thinking that would be an easy way to swap my images for yours, but for some reason it didn’t work.
I was able to change the descriptions and to customize the colors, but otherwise I’m a bit stumped.
It’s also not a very practical solution. I was looking at the Smooth Gallery instructions, but I did not find them easy to follow; I’m not sure which files to modify.
Maybe your design is too complicated for me to modify, but I do like it and would love to figure out how to make it work for me.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Amanda
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Thanks for this nice clean theme and the event calendar implementation… we have used it for a nonprofit site: http://svionline.org/
We used SlideShowPro instead of smoothgallery, and created a simple sub-page navigation layout, but essentially the theme is very much like the original.
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[...] current theme is Upsilon, written by Tim Hyde of Living Open Source. It features a header that runs SmoothGallery, a nifty [...]
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Hello, thanks for the great wordpress theme! I too am confused on how to implement the smoothgallery feature.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Hey,
After a week or two I’ve finally figured out how to use SmoothGallery with it. But is there a way to modify it so I can use the SmoothGallery that draws pictures from Flickr?
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Some info here
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Selina, a flickr feed would be a nice feature, but not here at present. Someone somewhere I’m sure will have done that.
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I love this Theme! Your best one yet imho. I’m having a bit of trouble with the thumbnails however. I’ve gone through the smoothgallery documentation and loaded the mini images, added the code in extra.php but i still only get empty boxes in the carousel. I can’t seam to figure out what i’m missing.
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I’m seeking a new theme for my blog & like the designs here a great deal. I was a little concerned about how long some of the blogs are taking to load the image galllery in the various blog banners using the theme. I don’t want a slow-loading theme.
Also, I wondered if I can set the image gallery to load only a single image per page view rather than having the slideshow rotate during the page view. I assume having a single static image is something I can do?
Also, I’d like to tweak the configuration in a few ways to accomodate my blog. Could the theme author get in touch w. me as to whatever fees he might charge for this?
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Hi, I am using your theme for a site, the trouble is I only want to have the gallery on the home page, like the user 8 posts up on this forum has done. Does anyone know how I can achieve this?
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Just take out the line of code in the index.php file that pull sin the extra.php template.
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Hi I love the theme but I can’t get the what’s happening to work. It worked for me in the past and I have the rs event but don’t know what I’m doing wronge
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Tim: can you tell me how to access the What’s Happening section of the main pg. How do you use the sidebar widget plugin to change the display content?
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I haven’t gotten any replies to previous queries but I’m hoping perhaps to have more luck this time.
I’ve got a Upsilon working on a test blog I’ve created:
http://www.rgpc.co.uk/wordpress/However, when I try to activate the banner at my actual blog the slideshow doesn’t work. I believe there’s something wrong in the filepath I’m using, but can’t figure out where/what the mistake is.
Here’s the code I’m using at my test blog to call the slideshow (that’s working):
http://www.rgpc.co.uk/wordpress/Here’s the code I’m using at my actual blog (that isn’t working):
http://www.rgpc.co.uk/wordpress/The folder structure in the test blog is: “/wp-content/themes/LivingOS_UPSILON/smoothgallery/images/shine/”
The folder structure in the real blog is: “/public_html/tikun_olam/wp-content/themes/LivingOS_UPSILON/smoothgallery/images/shine/”
I’d be grateful if Tim has any ideas about what’s wrong.
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Sorry the code was botched above. Here’s the relevant portion corrected:
Here’s the code I’m using at my test blog to call the slideshow (that’s working):
<img src=”/smoothgallery/images/shine/dafnatalimage.jpg” class=”full” alt=”Mahzor” />Here’s the code I’m using at my actual blog (that isn’t working):
<img src=”/smoothgallery/images/shine/dafnatalimage.jpg” class=”full” alt=”Mahzor” /> -
That didn’t work either. Perhaps trying without code tags might work better:
Here’s the code I’m using at my test blog to call the slideshow (that’s working):
<img src=”/smoothgallery/images/shine/dafnatalimage.jpg” class=”full” alt=”Mahzor” />Here’s the code I’m using at my actual blog (that isn’t working):
<img src=”/smoothgallery/images/shine/dafnatalimage.jpg” class=”full” alt=”Mahzor” /> -
[...] doing this for some time for many reasons. After reviewing hundreds of WP themes I found Living OS Upsilon, which I think is quite wonderful because one of its main features incorporates a WP Smoothgallery [...]
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For anyone using the WP Footnote plugin, pls. know that the SmoothGallery feature will not work unless you disable the former plugin. There’s some kind of conflict there.
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Also, for anyone trying to figure out how to access the green What’s Happening box in the main page banner, you do this through sidebar 2 in the widget section.
I’ve now got my site fully working using the theme & I’m pretty happy with it.
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Hi,
I can edit “Whats Happening” with “RS Event”, but cant delete the text “whats happening” its allways there.
How can i delete it?
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Rafa, please make sure you have the latest version from this page, as this was an issue that did exist in an earlier version you may have obtained from one of the other theme sites.
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I’m back trying to find the source of another problem.
I use Text Link Ad’s InLinks program and it was working before, but for some reason does not seem to be working after doing some software upgrades. I’m trying to isolate the problem so I’m starting with the theme.
Has there been any issues that you know of with an ad plugin on the Upsilon theme? I know the smoothgallery was finicky with some plugins, but everything is currently working EXCEPT the TLA plugin.
Your thoughts would be much appreciated. I’d like to continue using this theme but I won’t be able to if it compromises my income (Which went from $15 per month to nothing because of this problem).
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It’s easy enough to try another theme if you think it my causing a problem. I have plenty of problems with TLA but not with this theme.
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great template. i can get the page id to hide a page on the main link, but the top menu (very top of template) does not hide the page link… where can i change this? thanks
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Latest update (2.3) fixes a couple of issues and adds support for the new avatar and image caption features of WordPress.
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Hi Love the theme. I have a problem with ie… the sidebar2 is not inline in ie Looks fine in FF. any sug? I have checked and rechecked the divs….
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Does the preview on this site work in your IE? It seems OK here and there hundreds using this theme. What have you changed or added to the theme?
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We are getting ready to implement this theme for our Sunday School classes website. I’ve noticed that Smooth Gallery also comes in a version with a flickr plug-in. Is it possible to switch the version embedded in your theme out with the flickr version?
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Probably not. I’ve found the more recent versions of SmoothGallery don’t work too well in IE.