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Will this work with godaddy shared hosting? Also, when are you making the url SEO friendly? If you blog for a living this is huge! Thanks
Hi Yarseloic,
Yes it should work, Please make sure it is running PHP 5.5+. I recommend you try our shared hosting @ fasthive.com. Will be working on SEO friendly URLs this week.
Best.
Any release date for SEO friendly urls? I can’t use it unless it’s added. Thanks
Hi Yarseollc,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Working on it and almost done. I will be uploading it in the next 2 days.
Best.
Let me know when you update it. I’ll keep coming back to check. Thanks
Hello Yarseollc,
I am still working on it, Taking much more time than expected. but the results going to be awesome, Have a look here; http://zaltom.com/poly/this-is-a-test.html
Best Regards, Dave
Hi Yarseollc,
Which you think would be better or how you would like it to be? example.com/post/post-title.html or example.com/post-title.html
Best.
How about example.com/sports/sport-post-title?
Hello Yarseollc,
I went with example.com/post-title.html and category/category-title.html, Will be adding another 2 options in the coming updates as it is switch able via the admin panel.
Please have a look here and let me know if you suggest anything else in general http://zaltom.com/poly/
Best.
Hi. There’s an error page
Have a look now, Should be working fine.
It looks great! Great job. When are you planning on uploading? I’d like to start with this new updated file rather than buy, install and then have to update. Thabks
Thank you!
Will finalize the package now. Hopefully in an hour will be submitting it for approval.
Best.
Awesome, thanks! I’ll check back later this afternoon.
5 Stars extremely easy to setup and excellent documentation. Very impressed.
Thank you amj_Html for the heart warming thoughts about our product. Please let me know if you need any help,customization or any suggestions 
Best
Images and Links?
1 – How can Images be reduced to wrap around text? and 2 – How can be links added within blog posts?
Hello Dan,
In the menu click on Insert. You will see both Insert/Edit Image and Insert/Edit Link.
Let me know if there is anything else I can do for you.
Thanks. However, when I add an image, it displays much smaller. When I try to resize, it only will resize in width, terribly distorting it. Is there a way to modify the source code?
You can view the source code of your content by clicking on Tools > Source Code.
Let me know if there is anything else I can do for you.
Hi, I can’t resize the image correctly and being 340×320, when it appears it looks like a small thumbnail. When I try to resize, it only resizes horizontally and becomes very distorted. I know I can view pages using a browser’s View Page Source, but that won’t let me edit the source code, specifically the size of the image.
Can you show me an example of this issue by sharing your website link or creating a post in the demo ?
Hi, the link is www.my-parental-alienation.co/blog. If you like, I can send a login for the admin area. But as I said, when I add an image, it resizes and appears in a small thumbnail size and when I want to resize it, it only widens, it won’t resize proportionately.
Which Image ? the logo ?
I don’t want to add an image that can be viewed. It is when I add an image using the text editor.
Just added an image in 2 different sizes and it is working perfectly. http://computerland.co/post.php?post=37
Please have a look at the demo for the source code.
Here is the image I insert in it’s 320×240 size. http://www.my-parental-alienation.com/images/megan/26847.png
Here is the page with the distorted image I’m trying to resize. http://www.my-parental-alienation.com/blog/post.php?post=41
I have to resize, because when I add it or any image by inserting into the post through the text editor, it is 8 to 10 times smaller. It looks like a small thumbnail. I have to grab one of the corner handles and when I expand it, it only expands horizontally and distorts as seen here:
The image editor won’t let me set the height and width and I can’t edit the source code in the text editor itself.
The image you inserted in the post size is set to 92px for height and 281px for width.
Select the image in the text editor and click on the image icon in the editor menu and have a look at the dimensions and adjust them to whatever you wish.
You can edit the source code by clicking on Tools > Source Code.
I’m an IT guy and create websites, I use editors in Dreamweaver, Joomla, Wordpress, etc. from JCK to TinyMCE. This editor doesn’t have a Tools>Source and when I click on the image icon, I only get three settings to change, URL, Alt Text and Align. There is no place to change the image size. Nor is there a “Tools” on the editor to give me a source option.
Poly is using TinyMCE, have you updated the administration folder ?
Plus clear the cache in the administration folder.
Ok, I was wondering why we were going in circles on this. I had updated but didn’t clear out the cache, so I didn’t see the editor change. Great, great, great!! Btw, do you know if you’ll have a version that can order posts? Thx!!
Glad it works fine for you now, By order posts you mean ?
You are more than welcome
Oh, sorry. To clarity, be able to change the order of how they’re displayed. Latest post overall, category then date, etc
To be able to sort posts by date and category ? Is that what you mean ?
On the Update, is there documentation so as not to overwrite the customization?
I also assume this won’t affect present blogs?
Hello Dan,
You made any changes to the default files or template?
If you applied some changes to the default template; I recommend you rename it to something else.
If not you can replace the files but don’t upload the database file as there is no changes in it. Please take a backup first
Best Regards.
Adding Variables on Higher Level Folder
I have Poly in a subfolder called “blog/”
I’d like to add the ‘Latest Posts’ widget in the folder level above. How can I add the widget one folder level above as the following just displays the code in the { }.
<div class="panel panel-pale">
<div class="panel-heading" role="tab" id="headingTwo">
<h4 class="panel-title"><a class="" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion2" href="#collapseTwo" aria-expanded="true" aria-controls="collapseTwo">Latest Posts</a></h4>
</div>
<div id="collapseTwo" class="panel-collapse collapse in" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="headingTwo">
<div class="panel-body">
{% for post in latest_posts %}
<div class="panel-post">
{% if post.photo != NULL %}
<img src="blog/uploads/posts/{{ post.photo }}" title="{{ post.title | raw }}" alt="{{ post.title | raw }}" />
{% endif %}
<div class="desc">
<h5><a href="blog/post.php?post={{ post.id }}">{{ post.title | raw }}</a></h5>
<p>{{ post.date|date("F jS, Y") }}</p>
</div>
</div>
{% endfor %}
</div>
</div>
</div>
Hello Dan,
You can do so by requiring the includes/dbc.php and includes/lib/functions.php files in the page you want to show the latest 5 posts widget in.
Twig template wont work in this case, and you would need to create a foreach loop in that page based on the $latestposts variable.
Best Regards.
Just a Feature Request -
In the phtml files, can you create an include for the menu navigation in a future update. This would allow one place to modify the nav menus (categories) instead of going to each page.
Btw, thanks for the “cache” clearing tip. If anyone needs to know, sometimes Dreamweaver’s “Remote Server” window does not display updated phtml files or the cache files. I have to go to FireFTP and go to cache and they show there and flush. Then I go to the phtml files in FireFTP and they are there. I actually delete on the server and upload my updated files and it all works.
Hello Dan,
Will do in the coming release. Will be including the cache tip into the document as well.
Do you have a template for your blog ? You can find many HTML blog templates on themeforest. We are able to convert it to a usable Poly template – It’s free of charge for the first 50 buyers.
Best Regards.
Thank you!
Email Submission
I send an email through the contact form and it says it was sent successfully. However, I never receive it. I did a test sending from another email address to the same one I put in the admin settings and I receive the email. Is there something I have to change in the coding? Thx
Hello Dan,
Please edit the includes/lib/contactus.php file. find $options[‘email’]; and replace it with $settings[‘email’]; and that should fix it.
Best Regards.
Perfect! Thank you. I’ve never seen someone on Code Canyon respond so precisely and quickly. With both your customer service and quality of product, you should succeed. (Meaning…people should buy your product.)
You are more than welcome Dan! It is my pleasure to assist you Thank you for your kind comment and heart-warming thoughts about our services.
Is there a way to order the menu items (categories created) the way I want instead of the default order alphabetically?
Hello,
We are going to include a position option in the coming release.
Let me know if there is any other suggestions
Would like to see a few more features with the html editor, especially text color picker and the ability to see and work in the source code.
Not a problem at all, Will replace the current with TinyMCE.
That would be sweet. Let me know when. Would make a great product even better.
Can you also create documentation on how to update an installed application so as not to overwrite custom files?
Thx
Hello Dan,
We have submitted the files and awaiting for approval.
Updates:
Replaced the Wysiwyg HTML Editor with TinyMCE.
Added a menu.phtml file in the default template.
Fixed an issue with the contact form as mentioned in the other comment.
Fixed an issue with description meta tags as mentioned in the other comment.
We will be upgrading the documentation and we will be adding category positioning in the menu in the next update.
Best Regards.
Can’t wait!
After Changing Text Color Gives Error
My first text post was fine, but after I changed the text size and color, the description text and the following html code ”> display on the top of page after clicking “Read More”.
The first page with just the description text is fine, but after clicking “Read More”, I get the full “Post Content” in the blog page, but I also get the “Post Description” text above the top logo followed by the html ”>.
Hello,
We will release an update tomorrow fixing the issue you mentioned. For a quick fix edit the post.phtml template file and replace {{ post.description|raw }} and {{ post.description }} with {{ post.description|striptags }}.
Thank you
Yes, perfect. Would there be a reason to reinstall the update? Thx
Hello,
Not at all. However the update will include a fix for another bug located in includes/lib/contactus.php. find $options[‘email’]; and replace it with $settings[‘email’]; and that’s basically it.
Best Regards.
Great, will do.
Strange Characters
I am getting strange characters where I have apostrophes in my typed posts. For example, where I have “friend’s”, I get ascii text of three characters between the d and the s.
Hello Dan,
Just added a new post to the demo with the word friend’s and it seems to load fine. http://computerland.co/post.php?post=37 Could you please open a support ticket or contact us via the form on our profile describing the issue and how to reproduce it on our side along with your site URL ?
Best Regards.
I fixed it. I remembered a while ago I was doing some coding and had a problem with ascii characters, pasting into a web editor with Microsoft Word. I did the same thing here with your script but didn’t see any curly apostrophes. So I pasted into Dreamweaver and saw the apostrophes did appear of the curly nature, so as soon as I used the correct keyboard apostrophe symbol throughout, voila, it worked fine. It wasn’t your code at all.
Glad it works now for you. By default the system escapes special characters and shouldn’t be any problem with the characters encoded.
Let me know if you need any further help with anything else.
<li><a href="contactus.php">Contact Us</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mysite.com">Main</a></li>
After uploading, there is no change. I’ve also tried to add a Main Site link to the right of the logo at the top like:
<div class="h-logo">
<a href="{{ site.url }}">
<img src="uploads/{{ site.logo }}" title="{{ site.title }}" alt="{{ site.title }}" />
</a> | <a href="mysite.com/">Main Homepage</a>
</div>
But again, no change after uploading the file and it has uploaded per the timestamp.
Hello Dan,
Please make sure you flush the cache folder after you make any changes to the template. That should fix your problem.
Please let me know if there is anything else I can do for you!
Yes, that worked.
Great
I’m missing something. In the admin section, there is no place to set the site URL. 1 – where do I change the site URL and, 2 – where do I change the the map coordinates, and, 3 – where do I change the contact form settings. All of the phtml files are calling the tags… Dan
Never mind, I found I had to edit in the database! Great, awesome script.
Oh, but where do I edit the form fields. Thx
Hello danoshea60,
We are releasing an update later today and you will be able to set the URL from the Settings Page, The map coordinates and the email for the form can be set from the settings page.
If you have any suggestions please let us know and we will consider and implant them.
Best Regards.
Thanks. Do you have documentation on updating without overwriting an installed customized application?
Hello Dan,
Unfortunately not, However it is easy to do so.
You can rename the administration folder to whatever you wish but do not move it to a sub directory.
If you wish to rename the cache folder, have a look at includes\lib\template.php line 6 – array(‘cache’ => ‘cache/’ replace ‘cache/’ with whatever you want and please make sure you create the folder in the main directory. If you wish to disable caching completely just delete , array(‘cache’ => ‘cache/’) from the code and that should do.
For the template folder in the same file template.php at include\lib – line 2. Change “template/” to the new folder name. Make sure you created the new folder and place the default template into it.
For the uploads and vendor folders please keep the same titles, new uploaded images gets a random numeric names and they wont effect any images you do have.
If you wish to rename the index.php, contactus.php, category.php, post.php or search.php in the main folder that’s not a problem. You can do so! however make sure you change the links within the template files such as in the menu or the navigation.
For the includes folder, you can leave the sub folder lib as is. the config.php and dbc.php you can rename them but you need to address the new file title in the index.php, contactus.php, category.php, post.php or search.php for e.g. include(“includes/dbc.php”); to include(“includes/newfilename.php”);.
If You have any additional questions feel free to submit a support ticket at our website or contact us via Skype for instant support and guidance @ fasthive.
Have a great day ahead!
Hi thanks for the great jub. my question is there any way to add some buttons that just the admin can see them in the index page .
Hello dandon,
Yes that’s possible. But you would need to create a custom function.
What buttons you going to add ? We are open to your suggestions.
Best Regards.
Hi thanks for the great product. I have a question regrading my use of it so far however. I’m having a problem with the ‘Read More’/posts page. For some reason the post on the page renders above the created the template of the page without formatting. Can you tell me why?
Hello macsmansion,
Thank you for providing me with the additional information on the issue you have encountered while using our software. Could you by any chance send me an email with the link to your installation to have a quick look and debug the issue ?
Which PHP version you are using on your machine ?
Best Regards.
I’ve installed the blog onto my GoDaddy webhost @ www.truffulhu.com . The version of PHP I’m using was set to 5.4 although I just changed it to 5.5 and it has made no noticeable difference.
Hi Macsmansion,
I see you’ve copied it directly from a document which adds some unwanted characters to it. Please clean the text you add to the description field.
The quickest way is to copy it into a notepad document and then to the website field.
Best Regards.
Thanks for the quick help, that has sorted the problem. I didn’t realize the person who posted had copied there text.
Hey,
You are more than welcome, Let me know if there is anything else I can do for you.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
I love the simplicity of the product, however there seems to be 2 bugs on the admin 1.New posts allways post as SPORT no matter what i change it to 2.Initial attatchment of image fails. It wotrks editing the post but not on creating post
Item supporteot does not seem to take me to item support, it takes me to hosting site.
Hello,
Thank you for reporting this bug. Our developers will check and fix this as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank You for patience in this matter.
Best Regards.
Hello! Is there no way for comment author to add their url?
Hello thesilkywitch,
Thanks for noting that! Will be included in the upcoming release along with the comment date.
Best Regards.
Hello thesilkywitch,
Please have a look at the new update as we included the Website URL field. As well as comment filtering and validation.
Have a great day ahead!
Seems good. Before purchasing, I want to know which javascript framework is used and whether MySQLi procedural or OOP language has been used in coding.
Hello Deb2015,
There is no Javascript framework used within the code, and it’s using MySQLi Procedural.
Let me know if there is anything else I can do for You.
Have a great day ahead!
One more thing I would like to know, what is the maximum length of text that the topic description field can take, I mean what is the field data type used of topic description field and the data length restriction used for the field?
Hi Deb,
The description field is using longtext defaults.
Best Regards.
good job!...only need a theme option to develop themes to blog cms.
Hello Venewood,
The functionality is implanted within the code already, we will add the option in the backend in the next update.
However, if you need instructions as to how to do it in the meanwhile, please send us a ticket.
Thank you for your request.
Best Regards.
Looks like a great start. 2 things I happened to notice while viewing the demo.
1. Your small, circular thumbnails are loading the fullsize images. While this is nice for later viewing of pages, since the images are already cached, it makes the front page load slower than it needs to be. I’d recommend adding something that auto creates thumbnails for these.
2. Instead of category=2, I’d suggest search-engine friendly urls like /fashion/
Hope these suggestions help you make your product better. This seems like a nice minimalist blog script.
Hello Gutspiller,
We are already working on the SEO Friendly URLs, a Comment Box and Search functionality.
We will plant the thumbnails, and image cropping in the future.
Thank you for your suggestions. <3
Best Regards.
