Viddler

Hello everyone,

Just wanted to let you all now that we just launched a Free Wordpress theme for video bloggers.

It uses Viddler Companion and ViddlerRSS plugins and has some other cool features.

Feel free to check it out at:

http://www.templamatic.com/template.asp?TemplateID=55

Thanks, and keep on Viddling!

Looking good!

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

Is there any way to set up the "Video" section to be divided into separate pages. I've added a bunch of videos and they all appear on that one page. It works fine for a few videos but it's gonna start getting really long.

Thanks!

This is excellent. Do you mind if I share this via the Viddler Lab? Also, does this theme take advantage of the latest beta? Is it for Wordpress 2.5 only?

OK, I just realized that was kind of a dumb question. The number of posts shown on the Video page (or any blog page) is configured under Settings->Reading. I guess I just need to add the Next/Previous entries links to the template.

A couple other things I found while trying to use this template:

- I changed the default category from "Uncategorized" to "Video" (like it said you should be able to do in the readme file) and some things broke. There's some stuff in the stylesheet that depends on the body class being set to "category-uncategorized." If you change that category name, you'll need to change those rules to "category-video" or whatever.

- I had to change the header and footer nav links after I changed the Permalink structure.

- By default it really only makes sense to show 3 recent videos on the home page, otherwise they wrap to 2 lines and fall outside of the background image. And to get them to display properly you need to add and to the before and after fields in the plugin settings. I don't think that was mentioned in the readme file.

Sorry if it sounds like I'm picking this theme apart . I'm actually really happy with it. I think it just needs a few tweaks (mostly just documentation) to make it work a little better out of the box.

Sinch: Maybe you could publish the changes you've made to the plugin? And, perhaps give us a URL that you have it installed on?

templamatic: Do you offer user submitted patches/changes?

templamatic: There also seems to be a "bug" in Safari?

Compare Safari (left) with Firefox (right): http://skitch.com/cdevroe/juyx/sinch-tv

Apparently you found this already, but for anyone else who's wondering you can find the site here:

http://www.sinch.tv

I'd be happy to submit my changes back to the template author, although some of them you probably wouldn't want. If I have time I can probably just port the stuff that would be useful to everyone back to the original theme.

The Safari bug looks to me like a Javascript issue. This theme (I think) uses some JS to move the embedded Viddler videos into a separate div from the rest of each post. If you go to a single post page the video shows up fine.

Thanks for taking the time to check out the site...

Hey folks, sorry for the late response. We have fixed the safari bug and sending out an update now.

More to come.

Hello again,

We have updated the template zip file with the bug fix. If you want to apply the fix directly to your existing code, you can do the following:

in style.css, remove "overflow:hidden" for the following 3 classes:
.video-box
.featured
.latest-video-post

We also noticed a small overlap in the transparent backgrounds that is only visible on a darker background such as the one you are using on sinch.tv. To remedy this, we have changed the margin to 0 for the .container class.

For your reference, the updated code for the container should be:

.container {
overflow: hidden;
width: 100%;
margin: 0;
}

Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.

cdevro, please feel free to share the template in the viddler lab. I would also be glad to speak with you about how we might be able to further customize this template. I had requested API access last week so I could make the template do more complex tasks but have not heard back as of yet. Let me know and we can chat.

templamatic: Thanks so much for contributing, and patching. It is really appreciated.

Thanks for the quick fix on the Safari bug. I appreciate it.

Hi All,

I just wanted to pop in here and let you know I am using the new template.

I was looking for a blogging template, that was Wordpress and video friendly, and was completely unaware of Viddler before finding Templamatic.

My blog is a general video entertainment blog, but will be used for some marketing.

I wanted to bring up a couple of things.

First off, I really like the look and feel of the blog. One of the things I am looking to incorporate in the near future is a "web ring" like Bravenet. Currently on the main page of my blog, I believe this code would have to go into the little about-me blurb section - but I would like to place this type of "channel changer" closer to the top.

The Bravenet codes typically go into a text widget. The display has a forward and back button, which when you hit the forward button it takes you to the next blog in the group. When someone enters the ring, they are allowed to take a full tour of all blogs in the same ring which are usually focused toward a similar cause or niche. Having this on the front page would allow the viewer to see the most current submissions on each blog.

It is a great traffic generation tool. I want to connect with some other video marketers using Viddler and think this is a good way to do it.

If you have any other suggestions on how I might incorporate this on my front page, I would love to hear them. If you need a sample of a blog ring in action, I have it incorporated on a non video blog for the time being.

The other thing I wanted to mention - this morning when I went to view my site the video was not displaying. I recopied code a few times - and finally got it back up. Not sure if this was a Viddler glitch or blog glitch - other video was displaying on the site and it just seemed that my premier main page video was not working.

Thanks,

Jill