http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:09:43 +0000 http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/improving-tags-and-search-returned-items#post-26128 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:46:25 +0000 helgatheviking 26128@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>glad you got it solved. for future readers, this function (like EVERYTHING we suggest here) belongs in your CHILD THEME'S functions.php </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/improving-tags-and-search-returned-items#post-26125 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:00:44 +0000 miguel_lopez 26125@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Nevermind, got it solved with your function, Helga.<br /> Thanks so much. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/improving-tags-and-search-returned-items#post-26110 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:48:48 +0000 miguel_lopez 26110@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Sorry for the bad explanation, in my case there is no excerpt because the posts don't contain any text, each post is an image so no excerpt can be generated. That's why I need to see the content (the image) of every post the loop is retrieving.</p> <p>I'm really noob at this, and I bet the solution u put in there is fully functional, but I don't know how to include it to make it work for me (I put it into Thematic's functions.php and save changes, but nothing happens).</p> <p>Is there any other way of doing this? I mean, like changing the loop in tag.php and search.php in place of thematic_tagloop(); // thematic_searchloop();</p> <p>Thanks in advance. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/improving-tags-and-search-returned-items#post-26109 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:22:58 +0000 helgatheviking 26109@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>don't understand what you're asking. sounds like you want to modify the loops, but the default tag and search loops show thumbnails AND excerpts so it isn't like all you get is title, tags and comment link. if you'd like search to display the full post content (in lieu of the excerpt you should be able to do this:</p> <pre><code>function kia_content($content){ if (is_search()){ $content = &quot;full&quot;; } return $content; } add_filter(&#39;thematic_content&#39;,&#39;kia_content&#39;);</code></pre> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/improving-tags-and-search-returned-items#post-26108 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:23:49 +0000 miguel_lopez 26108@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I realized the search and tags widgets return the adecquate posts to their queries, but incomplete (only the title, tags and comment links, etc). The results of a search don't show the content of each post it returns, and in my case I need to do so...</p> <p>I'm new in WP, newest on Thematic template, any suggestions/ideas to solve this quick and clean?<br /> Thank you for your time. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/changing-the-search-box-text#post-25317 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:35:20 +0000 danromanchik 25317@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>OK. I've changed the text for the search box, but how do I style the text? And, can I add an image? The designer wants to add one of those little magnifying glasses to the text box. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/editing-thematic_searchloop-and-search-results-page#post-25276 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:15:37 +0000 middlesister 25276@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>What do you want do do?</p> <p>This thread is a bit old, and the OP doesn't even seem to be using the Gallery theme anymore. While the code above should work fine (fixing the error like kodamapixel says) you can also use a childtheme_override function. Just create a </p> <pre><code>function childtheme_override_search_loop() { // Your content goes in here }</code></pre> <p>in your functions.php file and you are good to go. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/editing-thematic_searchloop-and-search-results-page#post-25271 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:05:19 +0000 sixfootjames 25271@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Did anyone ever get this resolved? I too would like to clean up my search results page without hacking Thematic core and would appreciate it if someone solved this. I have tried everything suggested here and more but no joy yet. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/changing-the-search-box-text#post-24784 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:03:16 +0000 sixfootjames 24784@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Managed to hash it together from this post...</p> <p><a href="http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/style-search-bar-and-button-change-title-of-widget" rel="nofollow">http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/style-search-bar-and-button-change-title-of-widget</a></p> <p>Thanks! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/changing-the-search-box-text#post-24783 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:57:08 +0000 sixfootjames 24783@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Could someone please tell me how you go about changing the button's text from "Search" to "Go"?</p> <p>Many thanks,<br /> James </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/changing-the-search-box-text#post-24461 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:53:44 +0000 bluejpro 24461@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Helga - thank you</p> <p>I am using the native 'search' widget and dragging it into the custom header-aside widgetized area.</p> <p>And I just discovered that for the change to apply, I have to drag the 'search' widget out of the area and then drag it back in.</p> <p>Go figure...</p> <p>And thank you again -- I found your functions.php code for changing the <a href="http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/search-box-to-long">search input box size too</a> using functions.php.</p> <p>What a gem. The css style option didn't work for my purposes but your code did.</p> <p>Thank you - your posts are like little presents.. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/changing-the-search-box-text#post-24460 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:47:47 +0000 helgatheviking 24460@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>how are you adding the form? thematic_search_form() or something else? </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/changing-the-search-box-text#post-24459 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:06:17 +0000 bluejpro 24459@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>This works to change the search box text in thematic's widgetized area</p> <p>BUt when I create my own widgetized area (header-aside) this doesn't work - the native search hint still shows. And it doesn't disappear on click.</p> <p>Inspecting the element shows the childtheme functions.php is active.</p> <p>But it's not being applied to my childtheme widget....</p> <p>If you want to see a screenshot showing the problem: <a href="http://bit.ly/uEoEDS">Here it is...</a></p> <p>Any advice?? </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/how-to-replace-wordpress-search-with-google-custom-search-in-thematic#post-24407 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:10:49 +0000 gluca 24407@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Now box is appearing. but search still doesn't work. it seems to recall home page simply <a href="http://www.minimarketing.it/?q=test" rel="nofollow">http://www.minimarketing.it/?q=test</a><br /> No search at all :( </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/how-to-replace-wordpress-search-with-google-custom-search-in-thematic#post-24404 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:29:24 +0000 gluca 24404@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I follow step by step your recipe (thx!) but my search box is showing a sad "loading"<br /> could you take a look at my blog <a href="http://www.minimarketing.it" rel="nofollow">www.minimarketing.it</a> ("cerca")<br /> I tried several workaround, as to disable js plugin, but nothing seems to work :(<br /> script seems ok! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/how-to-replace-wordpress-search-with-google-custom-search-in-thematic#post-24300 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:41:13 +0000 wlanni 24300@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hello peoples!</p> <p>I've mucked with WordPress' search before, and I always feel like I'm fighting a battle not worth fighting. Its results are kinda crappy, relevance is non-existant... all in all pretty much a waste of my time.</p> <p>I figured I'd let Google do the hard work for me, since they specialize in Search, right? But how to do that easily in Thematic, without having to go and completely rewrite search forms, search results, or even worse... download outdated plugins that refer to outdated Google Search techniques like iFrames!?</p> <p>As of Dec, 2012, the following information should hold true. Hopefully Google doesn't change things up any time soon, and if they do, well, hopefully I'll get the emails to come update this.</p> <p>First off, <a href="http://devpress.com/blog/using-google-search-within-a-wordpress-site/">refer to this wonderful web page that describes setting up google custom search and how to set up all the code on the Google Side.</a></p> <p>You'll return back here once you have the google code that the author of that page instructs you to cut and paste into the contents of searchform.php and search.php. We're going to do it differently, using hooks'n'filters and your child theme functions.php.</p> <p>OK... I assume you're back, and you got a page of from Google with a couple fields of code on it.</p> <p>What you'll do now is open your functions.php file in your child theme that you're developing out of rather than altering the default Thematic templates (Right? RIGHT?!)</p> <p>In your Functions.php, you're first going to create a filter to rewrite searchform php. You're going to copy the blurb of google code from the top field, and insert into a custom function that looks something like the following:</p> <pre><code>function childtheme_search_form() { ?&gt; INSERT YOUR CODE HERE (and replace this text) &lt;?php } add_filter(&#39;thematic_search_form&#39;, &#39;childtheme_search_form&#39;);</code></pre> <p>The default look and feel of the wordpress search won't change, but the functionality behind it will.</p> <p>Next you'll make use of the really handy childtheme_override function that's already built into Thematic, for the Search Loop. You'll insert the block of code from the second google field where I describe:</p> <pre><code>function childtheme_override_search_loop() { ?&gt; INSERT YOUR CODE HERE (and remove this line). &lt;?php }</code></pre> <p>Lastly, you might want to customize some of the look and feel of the google elements. You can either sign up for their paid-for search partnership, OR you can go back and download the .css file from the theme you chose when you were setting up your search. It will be the 2nd to last link at the bottom of the "Get Code" page, and it should say something like</p> <blockquote><p>You can customize the look and feel even more or extend the functionality of the Custom Search element by:</p> <li>Downloading the CSS source file.</li></blockquote> <p>I copied the contents of that css file into its own search.css file that I plopped into a "layouts" directory in my childtheme. I then used an @import in the style.css to have it automatically included. I then proceeded to restyle the theme I chose to match the site I built. <strong>Note: you have to use !important after any style elements you update, as the google css is pulled in after your style sheet.</strong></p> <p>And that's it. The site I just finished about 30 minutes ago (so the site hasn't been indexed and there are no results showing yet, as of Dec. 14 2012, 3:40am) is <a href="http://pacificstandardtimefestival.org">Pacific Standard Time Art and Performance Festival</a>.</p> <p>All right, hope that helps! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/replacing-wordpress-search-with-google#post-24205 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:14:21 +0000 helgatheviking 24205@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>no tutorials that i know of. your code for replacing the search loop looks fine. however, if you are getting a 404 then your loop isn't the problem. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/replacing-wordpress-search-with-google#post-24184 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:22:05 +0000 Nate H 24184@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I must be missing something. Is there a tutorial for adding a Google Custom Search to Thematic? </p> <p>Thanks again for the help. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/replacing-wordpress-search-with-google#post-24177 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:18:05 +0000 Nate H 24177@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Thank you for the help!</p> <p>I found this tutorial:<br /> <a href="http://www.newtechie.com/2011/11/how-to-add-google-custom-search-to.html#axzz1fmuG5yr5" rel="nofollow">http://www.newtechie.com/2011/11/how-to-add-google-custom-search-to.html#axzz1fmuG5yr5</a></p> <p>Which uses the Two Page layout method. I get a 404'd when I tried getting it to work.</p> <p>Here is my latest attempt, that isn't working, at removing the Thematic loop and adding the google code within the functions.</p> <pre><code>// remove the standard search loop function remove_search_loop() { remove_action(&#39;thematic_searchloop&#39;, &#39;thematic_search_loop&#39;); } add_action(&#39;wp&#39;, &#39;remove_search_loop&#39;); // create your own search loop function my_search_loop() { // Your content goes in here &lt;?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?&gt; &lt;div id=&quot;cse&quot; style=&quot;width: 100%;&quot;&gt;Loading&lt;/div&gt; &lt;script src=&quot;//www.google.com/jsapi&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt; function parseQueryFromUrl () { var queryParamName = &quot;s&quot;; var search = window.location.search.substr(1); var parts = search.split(&#39;&#38;&#39;); for (var i = 0; i &lt; parts.length; i++) { var keyvaluepair = parts[i].split(&#39;=&#39;); if (decodeURIComponent(keyvaluepair[0]) == queryParamName) { return decodeURIComponent(keyvaluepair[1].replace(/\+/g, &#39; &#39;)); } } return &#39;&#39;; } google.load(&#39;search&#39;, &#39;1&#39;, {language : &#39;en&#39;, style : google.loader.themes.MINIMALIST}); google.setOnLoadCallback(function() { var customSearchControl = new google.search.CustomSearchControl( &#39;XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&#39;); customSearchControl.setResultSetSize(google.search.Search.FILTERED_CSE_RESULTSET); customSearchControl.draw(&#39;cse&#39;); var queryFromUrl = parseQueryFromUrl(); if (queryFromUrl) { customSearchControl.execute(queryFromUrl); } }, true); &lt;/script&gt; &lt;?php endif; ?&gt; add_action(&#39;thematic_searchloop&#39;, &#39;my_search_loop&#39;);</code></pre> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/replacing-wordpress-search-with-google#post-24175 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:32:47 +0000 helgatheviking 24175@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>thematic_search_form() is the form</p> <p>and </p> <p>thematic_searchloop() is the results</p> <p>don't know if that helps </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/replacing-wordpress-search-with-google#post-24174 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:55:45 +0000 Nate H 24174@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Aloha,<br /> I have been trying to get Google search results on my webpage and seem to be missing something. I have found no plugin that will work, because google recently changed their Custom Google Search Control panel to not have an iframe option.</p> <p>I thought I was getting somewhere with this article, but it seems like Thematic overrides the search results page: <a href="http://iamtgc.com/2011/07/10/integrating-a-google-custom-search-engine-into-your-wordpress-blog/" rel="nofollow">http://iamtgc.com/2011/07/10/integrating-a-google-custom-search-engine-into-your-wordpress-blog/</a></p> <p>Any insight would be very much appreciated.</p> <p>Thank You,<br /> Nate </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-custom-homepage-with-multiple-category-search-fields#post-24018 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:55:26 +0000 helgatheviking 24018@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>why are you are manually calling the widget. the readme.txt (always a good idea to check out) says to do so if your theme doesn't support widgets. thematic has something like 13 widget areas and in my very first reply i mentioned how to add another. regardless, glad you have solved it. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-custom-homepage-with-multiple-category-search-fields#post-24017 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:17:16 +0000 MrChase 24017@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Thanks Helga for your usefull reply and the tricks.<br /> I'm using the .home class now, thanks for mention it.</p> <p>Well, I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to PHP but the problem was the following:<br /> <pre><code>&lt;div class=&quot;home&quot;&gt; &lt;?php ctf_widget() ?&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</code></pre> <p>I replaced the ctf_widget line with the this<br /> <pre><code>&lt;div class=&quot;home&quot;&gt; &lt;?php the_widget(&#39;cat_tag_filter&#39;, $instance, $args); ?&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</code></pre> <p>The solution was in de readme.txt in the plugin folder:</p> <blockquote><p> If your theme doesn't support widgets, you can use this code:<br /> &lt;?php the_widget('cat_tag_filter', $instance, $args); ?&gt; </p></blockquote> <p>Lesson learned! From now on I'll always read readme files ;) </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-custom-homepage-with-multiple-category-search-fields#post-24016 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:48:46 +0000 helgatheviking 24016@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>are you using firebug? or the chrome/safari equivalent developer tools? if you aren't you absolutely NEED to be, as these types of questions are rendered extraordinarily simple.</p> <p>for instance, thematic's default style is </p> <pre><code>.aside #searchsubmit { display: none; }</code></pre> <p>which is probably hiding your submit button. (by the by, you can wrap code with two ` backtick marks... if you have a US keyboard that is usually up next to the 1. so you'd need to override that somehow</p> <pre><code>.filter-cat .ctf-submit{ border-style:solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#000; display: block; }</code></pre> <p>that might not be specific enough, i'm not sure w/o actually testing it, but hopefully you get the point.</p> <p>where did this ".home-only" class come from? did you add it to the dynamic body classes or is it a place holder b/c you don't know what to actually put there? if the later, you can again use firebug to read all the dynamic thematic body classes</p> <p>home page page-id-62 page-template-default logged-in admin-bar windows chrome ch15</p> <p>and the first one happens to be home so in lieu of .home-only you'd just use .home</p> <pre><code>.home .filter-cat{ font-size:24px; border-style:solid; border-width:8px; }</code></pre> <p>if you have hidden selects i'm not sure what the problem is. but you can probably sort it out w/ firebug. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-custom-homepage-with-multiple-category-search-fields#post-24010 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:53:35 +0000 MrChase 24010@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Ok, some screenshots:<br /> <a href="http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/2603/themehome.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/2603/themehome.jpg</a><br /> <a href="http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/7624/themesub.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/7624/themesub.jpg</a> </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-custom-homepage-with-multiple-category-search-fields#post-24009 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:44:00 +0000 MrChase 24009@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Ok, it's kind of working. Now I've got another problem:<br /> I want to have one plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cat-tag-filter-widget/) with two styles: one style for the homepage, one style for the other pages. Let's say I want the form at the homepage having bigger fields than on the other pages. (Sorry for my bad english.)</p> <p>Is this possible?</p> <p>This is in the plugin functions PHP file:<br /> Note the form within the "filter-cat" div.</p> <p><code><br /> function ctf_widget(){<br /> global $ctf_options; ?&gt;<br /> &lt;div class="filter-cat"&gt;<br /> &lt;form action="&lt;?php echo get_bloginfo('wpurl') . '/' . PLUGINDIR . '/' . dirname(plugin_basename(__FILE__)) . '/cat-tag-filter.php'; ?&gt;" method="post"&gt;<br /> &lt;?php if ($ctf_options['cat_list_label']) echo '&lt;label for="ctf-cat-select"&gt;' . $ctf_options['cat_list_label'] . '&lt;/label&gt;'; ?&gt;<br /> &lt;select name="cat" class="ctf-cat-select" &gt;<br /> &lt;option value="-1"&gt;<br /> &lt;?php if ($ctf_options['all_cats_text'] != '') echo $ctf_options['all_cats_text']; else _e('Any category', 'cat-tag-filter'); ?&gt;<br /> &lt;/option&gt;<br /> &lt;?php echo cat_options(); ?&gt;<br /> &lt;/select&gt;<br /> &lt;?php if ($ctf_options['tag_list_label']) echo '&lt;label for="ctf-tag-select"&gt;' . $ctf_options['tag_list_label'] . '&lt;/label&gt;'; ?&gt;<br /> &lt;select name="tag" class="ctf-tag-select" &gt;<br /> &lt;option value="-1"&gt;<br /> &lt;?php if ($ctf_options['all_tags_text'] != '') echo $ctf_options['all_tags_text']; else _e('Any tag', 'cat-tag-filter'); ?&gt;<br /> &lt;/option&gt;<br /> &lt;?php echo tag_options(); ?&gt;<br /> &lt;/select&gt;<br /> &lt;input type="hidden" name="ctf_submit" value="1" /&gt;<br /> &lt;input type="hidden" name="home_url" value="&lt;?php bloginfo('url'); ?&gt;" /&gt;<br /> &lt;input class="ctf-submit" class="button" type="submit" value="&lt;?php echo $ctf_options['button_title']; ?&gt;"/&gt;<br /> &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/div&gt;<br /> </code></p> <p>This is in the style.css in the childtheme folder:<br /> <code><br /> /* =Cat Tag Filter<br /> -------------------------------------------------------------- */</p> <p>.filter-cat{<br /> font-size:12px;<br /> border-style:solid;<br /> border-width:3px;<br /> }<br /> .filter-cat .ctf-tag-select,.ctf-cat-select,.ctf-submit{<br /> width: 130px;<br /> }<br /> .filter-cat .ctf-submit{<br /> border-style:solid;<br /> border-width:1px;<br /> border-color:#000;<br /> } </p> <p>/* =Cat Tag Filter Home Only<br /> -------------------------------------------------------------- */</p> <p>.home-only .filter-cat{<br /> font-size:24px;<br /> border-style:solid;<br /> border-width:8px;<br /> }<br /> .home-only .filter-cat .ctf-tag-select,.ctf-cat-select,.ctf-submit{<br /> width: 200px;<br /> }<br /> .home-only .filter-cat .ctf-submit{<br /> border-style:solid;<br /> border-width:5px;<br /> border-color:#FFF;<br /> }<br /> }<br /> </code></p> <p>Styles are just an example.<br /> I've got a different homepage calling the Cat Tag Filter widget within the "class="home-only" div.</p> <p>It's working, only the<br /> .ctf-tag-select, .ctf-cat-select and the .ctf-submit aren't visible at the homepage.</p> <p>I hope you'll understand this problem. Thanks in advance for your replie! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-custom-homepage-with-multiple-category-search-fields#post-23977 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:42:11 +0000 MrChase 23977@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for your reply Helga! That widget area looks nice and quite simple. I'll go figure it out! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-custom-homepage-with-multiple-category-search-fields#post-23973 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:57:56 +0000 helgatheviking 23973@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>you can add any amount of divs you'd like to the header. that part is easy, but thematic does not have that type of search ability built in. in lieu of writing it yourself, i'd go w/ the plugin. why re-invent the wheel? </p> <p>you can always add a widget area in the header and drop it in there. </p> <p><a href="http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/something-new-bout-widgetized-areas#post-6660" rel="nofollow">http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/something-new-bout-widgetized-areas#post-6660</a></p> <p>if the plugin is loading its own stylesheet, but you'd rather that it didn't... assuming that it is well-written you should be able to deregister it's stylesheet and then handle all of its styles in your own style.css</p> <p>see Devin's post on deregistering stuff<br /> <a href="http://wptheming.com/2009/12/optimize-plug-in-script-wordpress/" rel="nofollow">http://wptheming.com/2009/12/optimize-plug-in-script-wordpress/</a> </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-custom-homepage-with-multiple-category-search-fields#post-23970 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:05:40 +0000 MrChase 23970@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Here's a sketch: <a href="http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/232/thematiccustomexample.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/232/thematiccustomexample.jpg</a> </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-custom-homepage-with-multiple-category-search-fields#post-23969 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:49:57 +0000 MrChase 23969@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi there! This is my first post. I'm from the Netherlands so my english isn't that good. I'm sorry for that! First thing I want to say: Thematic rocks!</p> <p>Okay, here's the deal: I want to make a custom homepage (frontpage) with an extra area below the header section. In this custom area, I want to have a multiple category search widget. (See: <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multiple-category-selection-widget/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multiple-category-selection-widget/</a> and <a href="http://wordpress.zackdesign.biz/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.zackdesign.biz/</a> )</p> <p>In other words: I want a huge header with a nice background image and a div containing the multiple cat search, so visitors can filter categories.</p> <p>My questions:<br /> 1) Is there already a kind of "Thematic multiple category search filter" ready to use?<br /> 2) If not: Do you guys and girls know a tutorial so I can create this multi-cat-search box straight into my custome homepage / frontpage?</p> <p>I just don't like to add lots of non-thematic plugins to my wp theme and want to have a clean childtheme with only one stylesheet.</p> <p>Is there any kind of solution, or should I keep dreaming?<br /> I'm kind of a noob with PHP, but I'm familiar with HTML and CSS.<br /> Thanks for your replies! </p>