Its been a really while since i last posted. I been really busy these last three months so sorry for my absence.I am really happy to release this video template. I have tried to make this template as simple as possible to use. As you all may know its my my first video template. This template is only compatible with YouTube videos only.
More templates with simple usage and cool functionality will be released in near future. I have many cool ideas regarding more templates.
Features
- Simple elegant design
- Automatic carousel makes first five posts as featured.
- Dropdown menu
- Stylish commenting system with comments having zebra background style.
- Comes with its own recent posts widget.
- Cross browser compatibility.
- Title and Description compatibility
- Two columns
Customizations
1. Adding the Navigation- To add the navigating menu go to dashboard>>design>>page elements. There you will see the widget named “ADD TOP MENU CODE HERE”. Click “edit” and add the following code to it.
<ul class="sf-menu">
<li><a href="/">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Example Page</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Browse categories</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Trailers</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Music videos</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Tutorials</a></li>
<li><a href="#">TV shows</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Live Events</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">About</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
You can add submenu as seen in the above code
2. Creating a post – Creating a post is the real thing that’s you should really look at. Firstly lets see how to get the sharing URL from YouTube. Bellow a YouTube video there’s option of “SHARE”. Click it and you will see box like this:-
In the above image there is a link called “show options”. Click it and you will see two options. From those one option will be “Long Link”, check that and you will get the Long sharing URL. Which is what we want, it should look like this.
Get this URL and while creating any post use the URL like shown below:-
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEBo0Hf3LqE[/youtube]
The link should be enclosed by [youtube]YOUTUBE LINK[/youtube].DO NOT ADD EXTRA SPACE INSIDE THESE MARKERS.You can insert it anywhere in the post but i suggest you insert it at the top. Only the first instance of this code will work if you are inserting it more than one times.
Please note these things while posting otherwise there may be errors in the post and the template might mess up or video might not work.
1. While posting do not use apostrophe s in the post title. For example “Michael Jackson’s new album MICHAEL released”. This might cause an error.
2. In the posting style shown above do not add space inside [youtube]LINK[/youbube]. It should have only the YouTube URL.3. Adding Recent posts widget – Below it the code which you can use to create Recent posts widget. It will only work for this template not any other so be careful. You can change the variable as per your need.
<script type="text/javascript">
var numposts = 3;
var showpostthumbnails = true;
var displaymore = true;
var displayseparator = true;
var showcommentnum = true;
var showpostdate = true;
var showpostsummary = true;
</script>
<script style="text/javascript" src=http://f.cl.ly/items/0f430p1Y0S0f2q32453w/recent_videos.js></script>
<script src="/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published&alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentpostswiththumbs"></script>
<div class="clear"/></div>
So these were the customization you will need to do. Please do write me through comments if you find some errors. Good luck for using the theme
