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Arras Theme

Has anyone tried to use Arras Theme, http://www.arrastheme.com/ which is a free magazine-styled WordPress theme? it works on my MU site but I have a problem with the thumbnails/slideshow there. It works perfectly on a single user instance but in my WordPress MU 2.8. 5.2., the thumbnails doesn’t seem to work.

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:24:53
  • Qlof
    • The Crimson Coder

    Arras Theme is one of the themes I’m translating for my MU sites. I’ve only tested it real fast but I found no problem. Since translating a theme takes a long time I better test it some more before I start translating it then…

  • raymondmannion
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    I have been using arras theme also (love it) but needed to build all the buddypress stuff so I just switched.

    The rotating home image stopped functioning but I never dug into why. The thumbnails and such seemed to work fine though.

    Note that /wp-content/uploads/ is now

    /wp-content/blogs.dir/<blog number>/files/

    so you might want to poke around in the theme files for references to those. You might also need to change the way the thumbnails are saved in the posts

    i.e. try ./files/myfile.jpg in addition to the full url of http://mysite.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/myfile.jpg

    I find that testing the timthumb url is a quick way to determine the correct construction.

    Zy has a post in the forums on his site arras-theme.com where he describes how to test this.

    Good luck – if you transform this into a buddypress theme – I’m all over it!

  • Richie_KS
    • HummingBird

    the arrastheme are using timthumb for their slideshow and thumbnail.

    it is well known timthumb did not/not out of the box work with wpmu.

    some slight modification to the timthumb.php to point cache folder

    to blogs.dir for each blogs should fix it.

    i personally tested with modified timthumb and it works.