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Pre Sales Questions Regarding Byline
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Hi - I am interested in possibly purchasing your Byline theme. But I have had bad experiences with frameworks (namely Thesis and Genesis) in the past. While they allowed for relatively easy customization for minor to moderate tweaks, they make it virtually impossible (or at least exceptionally difficult) to make multiple custom post templates and heavily modified custom category templates. Here are my main questions prior to making a final decision whether to buy your theme or not: 1) In my current standard Wordpress theme (which is a heavily modded version of Solostream's WP-MediaMag template) I have 4 different custom post templates. The default one is single.php and the others are single-posttab.php, single-comprehensive.php, single-evergreen.php, and single-video.php. I have a plugin which allows writers to manually select which of these post templates to use from within the post editor for a given post. Is this possible using Byline? If so, what is the process for doing it? 2) Same question, but in relation to custom category templates. I have a number of different custom category templates that are currently assigned to categories by creating category-catid.php templates in my theme's directory. They have various different ways of calling, structuring, and displaying posts so we aren't just talking about different text at the top of a template (which I know can be achieved through custom hooks). 3) Is it possible to disable the theme's SEO functionality? I want to stay with Joast's Wordpress SEO plugin. Your theme looks to be well written and the demo has a great page load time - something that most "premium" themes strike out on. As such I really want to go with this template if at all possible. I look forward to hearing back from you. Thanks Mike |
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Hi Mike Thanks for the message and the interest in the theme. Before trying to answer your questions, you can test the theme and control panels here: http://preview.prothemedesign.com Secondly, you should know that Byline is a child theme of Elemental. Elemental being the parent theme (the equivalent to Genesis or Thesis - however my approach to theming is a little different to theirs. Hopefully it's more developer friendly :) As such any changes you want to make to the theme should be done through Byline, or through a custom plugin. This is so that future Elemental updates don't break the theme. In answers 1 & 2 you would need to tweak the html in your existing templates to fit the Elemental html, but nothing is hidden in the code so it should be easy to see what you need to change. 1) Elemental has a custom post template system already built in (you can test these on the preview site above). All you need to do to make use of them is to add a comment at the top of the custom files (the same way you add custom page templates - use Post Template Name, instead of Template Name). elemental comes with 3 custom post templates built in, besides the standard single post layout - so you can see how to add this easily enough. 2) I don't see why that wouldn't work - I use this on my personal site currently for one of the categories 3) Elemental tries to do the best it can for SEO without getting in the way. There's a couple of areas in which it does custom code but mostly it keeps out of the way, so you should be able to use WPSEO just fine. |
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