GameNow Frequently Asked Questions

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01. 04How do I add an article to the Latest Previews section?
02. 04How do I add an article to the Latest Reviews section?
03. How are the Top Articles calculated?
04. How do I add a photo to my users' profiles?
05. How Do I Add Images to the Featured Posts Section?
06. How do I change the featured video?
07. How do I change what widgets appear in the sidebar?
08. How do I remove certain advertisements, featured video, or the subscribe section?
09. How do I remove the sidebar advertisement?
10. How do I replace the default advertisements?
11. How do I replace the default logo?
12. How do I set which articles appear in the featured article slideshow?
13. How do I set which categories show for the Highlights?
14. How do I setup the GD star ratings?
15. How do I setup the WP-Polls plugin?
16. How do I show or hide certain menu items?
17. How do I update the twitter link URL?
18. What are the common image dimensions for GameNow?

0104How do I add an article to the Latest Previews section? The Latest Previews section on the sidebar is controlled by the "WP Now: Latest Previews" widget

- To add an article to the Latest Previews, simply add the tag "preview" to that post or page
0204How do I add an article to the Latest Reviews section? The Latest Reviews section on the sidebar is controlled by the "WP Now: Latest Reviews" widget

- To add an article to the Latest Previews, simply add the tag "preview" to that post or page
- To set the rating value, navigate to the "Standard Post Review" section on the right-hand side of edit post pages. Where it says "Value:" choose what value you want from the first dropdown. Leave the second dropdown as 0 or /.
03How are the Top Articles calculated? Top articles are any articles posted within the past two weeks ordered by comment
count in descending order.
04How do I add a photo to my users' profiles? Sign up at http://www.gravatar.com with the email address that you've associated in your blog with your user account, and upload your image to gravatar.com. After you've done that your gravatar.com image will appear whenever you post on your own blog. This photo will also appear when you post comments on other Wordpress blogs (if you use that email address in the mail field of the comment form).
05How Do I Add Images to the Featured Posts Section? To setup the featured posts section you need to add the following to the custom fields on your post page:

Names: thumbnail and featured_thumbnail
Values: the URL to those images

*You can use the WP Post Thumbnail Plugin to create the specific image sizes and insert their URL in to the Custom Fields automatically, or do it manually by uploading each image size to your Media Gallery and pasting the URL into the Custom Fields).

To Determine which Posts are Displayed in the Featured Section:
1) Create a new category (such as Featured or similar)
2) Any posts you want shown in the Featured section, just categorize under the Featured category
3) Set the Featured Category in the Theme Options Panel located under Appearance in admin
06How do I change the featured video? Navigate to your theme's directory inside the wp-content/themes/. Open the file “video.php” found under “editable/sidebar/video.php”. Instructions can be found once inside.

Please Note: For the simplista theme and onward we will not be including a video.php file to be edited (Unless the video is somewhere other than the sidebar). The same effect can be achieved using WordPress' built-in "Text" widget. To add your featured video add a new Text widget and enter your title, and paste the HTML embed code into the box. Resize the width/height as needed to make it fit nicely.
07How do I change what widgets appear in the sidebar? Login to your wordpress admin dashboard and navigate to: appearance -> widgets.
08How do I remove certain advertisements, featured video, or the subscribe section? Find the file you wish to remove in the “editable” folder. Clear the code out of each file you wish to delete and re-upload the empty file to your server.

Important: Do not delete the files completely!
09How do I remove the sidebar advertisement? Find the file you wish to remove in the “editable” folder. Clear the code out of each file you wish to delete and re-upload the empty file to your server.

Important: Do not delete the files completely!

Please Note: In our most recent themes we include a sidebar advertisement widget so you can move it around to your liking, if you want to get rid of it just remove the widget.
10How do I replace the default advertisements? Navigate to your theme's directory inside wp-content/themes/. Once there, you will notice a folder named “editable/ads”. This folder is the home to the standard advertisements. Each file has HTML comments guiding you through the process.

Please Note: In our newer themes, as well as older themes that have the theme options panel, all advertisement code is handled through the theme options panel. Just paste your code into the ad spot specified and click save.
11How do I replace the default logo? Simply overwrite the existing logo found under “wp-content/themes/YOUR THEME/img/logo-trans.png”. If you would like to find guideline dimensions, right click the current logo in your browser then select “Properties”.

Please Note: For some of our themes that have multiple colors, the logo files are placed in the color folder inside the img folder. For example, in Huex, the blue logo is located in img/blue/logo.png, etc.
12How do I set which articles appear in the featured article slideshow? Create a new category for featured articles (call it Featured, or something similar). Any articles that you would like to appear in the featured section, add them to that category.

Once you've set the featured category , navigate to your Theme Options Panel located under Appearance in admin. Find the drop-down menu labeled "Featured Category" and select the category name that you have set up.
13How do I set which categories show for the Highlights? To set the highlight categories open the wpn_config.php file found in the theme's
root directory and edit the 3 category IDs for under highlights_category_id_1,
highlights_category_id_2 and highlights_category_id_3.

Note: In some of our themes that have text excerpts in the highlights, you can use the custom field highlights_text to set the text that appears.
14How do I setup the GD star ratings? IMPORTANT: These directions will show you how to setup the plugin exactly as you see it in the GameNow demo. You must follow these directions exactly or you may run into some issues.

1)Activate the plugin

2) Go to the Settings page under the GD Star Rating menu in WP admin
- Turn off "Thumbs up/down rating support." (or leave on if you prefer Thumb's Up/Down to appear)
- Save Settings

3)Go to the Articles Tab
- Uncheck everything under "Auto insert rating code:" except for for Individual Posts. If you want the ratings to appear on pages, archives, etc. then leave the other boxes checked.
- Set the number of stars to"5" under Rating
- Scroll down to the Review section and set the size to "Icon [16px]" and the number of stars to 5.
- Save settings

4) Go to the Comments Tab
- Uncheck everything under "Auto insert rating code".
- Save settings

* Change any other settings you want but please note that WPNow does not provide support for this plugin as we are not the author. There are extensive Tutuorials, FAQ's and a support forum at the plugin's website: http://www.gdstarrating.com/
15How do I setup the WP-Polls plugin? 1) Go to the Poll Options page in the WP admin
2) Where it says Poll Bar Style choose Use CSS Style
3) Clear out/erase the default poll bar background, border, and height
4) Set any options you want
5) Click save changes
16How do I show or hide certain menu items?
To hide item(s) from the menu:
In order to hide specific items from one of the menus included with your theme open the file wpn_config.php using Notepad or Wordpad inside your theme's folder. Your theme's folder is located in wp-content/themes/. Once you have the file open, find the options for menu_exclude (for sub / secondary menus find submenu_exclude). Inside the two single quotes after => enter your page or category IDs in as comma-seperated values.

To show only certain item(s) on the menu:
In order to show only certain items on any of your menus, open the file wpn_config.php from the above instructions and locate menu_include and submenu_include if you have a secondary menu. Enter your category or page IDs as comma-seperated values into the two single quotation marks to the right.

Note: Include items override exclude items, so if you are having troubles make sure you only have IDs in either or.

Please Note: In our newer themes and old themes that have the theme options panel, all menu include/excludes are handled through the theme options panel. Choose how you want your menu/submenu to be displayed, check any items you want hidden or shown and then click save.
17How do I update the twitter link URL? Open the wpn_config.php file and edit the twitter_username value.
18What are the common image dimensions for GameNow? Logo: 318 x 114

Featured Slideshow (custom field: featured_thumbnail): 630 x 230
Thumbnails (custom field: thumbnail): 200 x 110
Small Thumbnail (custom field: thumbnail_small): 50 x 50

*Click Here to read how you can pre-define these sizes in the WP-Post Thumbnails Plugin. This is the easiest method for adding a Post's image to the Featured Slideshow on the homepage.

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