30 Dec 09 Goodbye CorporateMag Theme

About a year ago I found and liked the look of the CorporateMag Theme and so decided to use it for this blog. But having done so, I found it was broken in places and the developers had pretty much abandoned it and its users to their own devices. Fortunately I have some devices and I was able to fix all that I needed to fix to make it work properly. I was happy to post my repair work back on the theme’s web page and ever since I have  been running a kind of clinic for other users who cannot work out how to fix the broken bits. And yesterday morning another of these arrived:

Hey Dave, I was hoping you could help me out on using the corporatemag theme. There doesn’t seem to be documentation anywhere on how to use it. I figured out that I need to use the custom field of “thumbnail” on posts to get the featured posts images loading on the homepage. But how do you get the content previews showing for your Pages on the homepage? And how do you get the image carousel to work? I can’t seem to figure out how to get either of them working. I’m assuming it’s with the simple use of other custom fields similar to “thumbnail”. Can you share what custom fields you use please? I would really appreciate it!

So I had a quick look and lo-and-behold it all broke again.

So to cut to the chase, but I am giving up on CorporateMag Theme and no longer able to help out others with it any more. I am instead installing the beautifully pared down Google Chrome Theme from Smashing Wordpress Themes