Free WordPress theme: Channel
Latest Version: 1.0 – 09/16/2009
Live Demo: http://www.theme-junkie.com/demo/channel/
Download: http://www.theme-junkie.com/download/channel.zip
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Inspired by WooThemes’ great gazette theme, we decided to release a similar one for free.
Absolutely, everyone have rights to download/use it for free!
If you have any problems, please contact us, thanks!
Theme Features:
- Advanced Theme Control Panel
- Automatic Thumbnail Creation
- Advertisement Management
- Analytics/Stat Management
- Built-in FeedBurner Support
- Built-in Flickr Support
- Widget Ready
- Gravatar Ready
- Threaded Comments
- Cross-Browser Compatible
- WordPress 2.8.4+ Compatible
- Dropdown Menu Navigation

aliche
December 23, 2009 at 9:59 pm #
i like your themes. it’s very greats
Jakolien
December 25, 2009 at 6:38 pm #
Hi I really love your theme Channel
I am fairly new to WP. I have used Blogger for the last 2 yrs. Quick question if I want to download, upload, activate any of the items on the theme options panel I go to the next page that is completely blank except for “Security check” in the left upper corner? Can’t figure out how to activate these very needed snippets?
Thanks for the help and Merry XMAS
Jakolien
Roy
December 25, 2009 at 11:22 pm #
Do you have a live demo to show and let me check?
To install the theme properly, you need to deactivate all plugins(especialy the limit-post and flickr-rss plugin) first, then start upload/activate the theme package and the plugins that we included in the theme package.
Merry Christmas!
Jakolien
December 27, 2009 at 5:49 pm #
Hi Roy,
= http://www.sokrates-academy.com
that helped, 2 other things, my footer widget are doing strange stuff on the bottom and is there a way to get dropdown menu’s for this theme? I need the site for a biz in e-learning. Site (under construction
Thanks again!
Jakolien
Jakolien
December 27, 2009 at 5:54 pm #
And also on more thing (If I may
) How do I change the title and tagline. I have done so in WP but it is not showing. (I must say I kinda feel dumn again after mastering blogger quite well
)
SPFK
January 4, 2010 at 4:54 am #
Hello Jakolien,
Your site looks good! Where did you get this slider? To change the title you need to change the logo image in the file
Matt
December 29, 2009 at 7:08 am #
This is exactly what I’m looking for. Fantastic!
Thanks!
Happy New Year.
Lasantha
December 29, 2009 at 7:50 am #
Hi, When i embed youtube video’s, I cant see thubnail on post in home page. its doesnt show thumbnail only the home page. but when i click post its ok. Any idea’s?
Lasantha
Roy
December 30, 2009 at 7:13 pm #
The Channel theme doesn’t support video thumbnails.
paula
December 30, 2009 at 6:16 am #
Is there a thumbnail tag that can be used to specify the thumbnail picture in the post box of the home page?
paula
December 30, 2009 at 12:43 pm #
Hi Roy,
I was wondering if there was a way to specify the thumbnail picture in the postbox. Great theme by the way. I love the simple look.
Roy
December 30, 2009 at 7:14 pm #
The thumbnails are selected from the first image in the posts.
Nick
December 30, 2009 at 3:03 pm #
Hi Guys, I am kind of new to this FYI. I have been unable to get the Footer Widgets to show on my page as the Live Demo shows. I have the option check to “Display Widgets on the Footer” on the Theme Options page. I also clicked “no” one time to see what that would do, and know all the side widgets will not show up either. Please help if you can, I love the theme and want to get it working.
Roy
December 30, 2009 at 7:17 pm #
Hi, I checked you site and saw that the theme seems broken.
gethin
January 2, 2010 at 9:58 am #
How can I fitness the footer? This theme is really cool but the footer is always messing up. Help please?
Roy
January 2, 2010 at 4:47 pm #
What exactly the messes are? Can you show me the site url?
Astorre
January 26, 2010 at 8:56 am #
hi gething!
you can resolved de problem with the footer?
Bibi
February 9, 2010 at 4:32 am #
I have problem with the footer, i use 7feeds in the footer widget and i miss css footer
KenyaInez
January 2, 2010 at 6:31 pm #
Hi,
Thanks for a great theme. I seem to be having a hard time with the stream uptop. I deactivated my plugins prior to installing. Activated and it’s still not coming through, what do I have to do to fix it.
Thanks
KenyaInez
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Hava Durumu
January 4, 2010 at 12:49 am #
Help me! featured content plugin wordpress 2.9 also does not work.
Roy
January 4, 2010 at 2:09 am #
Check the official site: http://www.featuredcontentgallery.com/install-setup/
Anlık Hava Durumu
January 4, 2010 at 4:53 pm #
Thanks, I fixed the problem!
paula
January 5, 2010 at 12:16 pm #
Hi.
When I click on the category name (in the category list menu) it only lists 10 posts of that category. Is it possible to have it paginate for the user to be able to view all of the posts under the category?
Thank you
paula
January 5, 2010 at 1:17 pm #
I figured it out. I had to install page-Navi….Thanks
Paula
January 5, 2010 at 9:07 pm #
I am having a problem with the thumbnails where most of the time it does use the first image in the post. When I upload the first image, it will display that, but then when I upload the second image, the post box will change and display the second image.
Malinda
January 12, 2010 at 7:17 am #
I also have the same Problem.Could someone please help me to solve this..
paula
January 29, 2010 at 6:24 am #
Did you fix this?
I found out the “problem”. The theme does not look at the first picture in your post but the first picture in the your post’s gallery (which is somehow the last one that was uploaded)
Odevlik
January 9, 2010 at 8:17 am #
İt’s Great!
iskolares
January 13, 2010 at 1:47 am #
I can’t seem to get the Thumbnails to work..
does the images need to be hosted in my space before thumbnails will show up?
Roy
January 16, 2010 at 8:16 pm #
Yes, the auto thumbnail function works for internal images only.
James
January 13, 2010 at 4:18 am #
I cannot get thumbnails to work at all. I insert an image from a URL into the post but no thumb shows. Anyone, help?
Roy
January 16, 2010 at 8:15 pm #
Hi, the auto thumbnail function doesn’t support external images.
Senyor
January 21, 2010 at 6:18 am #
I can’t seem to get the Thumbnails to work..
does the images need to be hosted in my space before thumbnails will show up?
Roy
January 21, 2010 at 7:17 am #
Yes.
joy
January 22, 2010 at 3:19 am #
Thank you for this great theme. I have one thing to ask how to get this theme localized in another language (arabic). thank you very much
felipe
January 22, 2010 at 8:47 am #
Hi,
I have problems with the footer of the theme, this is positioned on the right side next to the widget, probe disabling plugins, even delete the page footer and not change anything. even modify the css sheet.
please help, thanks!
ct
January 26, 2010 at 2:43 pm #
Thanks a TON for the awesome theme! I found it yesterday and have set up nearly my entire blog within just an hour or less worth of work. Pretty sweet.
Quick question: Is it possible to add a footer menu to the theme? Y’know – disclaimer, legal notices, advertising options, etc.
Thanks again!
ct
January 27, 2010 at 5:43 pm #
Hi again. Don’t mean to be a bother but ditto to felipe’s footer issues. Anyone got a solution?
Roy
January 27, 2010 at 9:54 pm #
Please submit your questions to our forum, thanks.
bill
February 9, 2010 at 5:23 am #
How can reduce the number of articles with pictures that appear on the first page ?
Thanks
TR
February 15, 2010 at 6:36 am #
Hi All, I have 2 problems with the theme
1. thumbnail picture is taken from the last picture of the article inside the article
2. the footer of the theme is not shown in my website http://www.bahtiar.net
Thanks
op
February 20, 2010 at 3:40 am #
Hi this is a fantastic theme!
There is a way to see the posts as the default in wordpress like this website? http://www.anecdotario.net/ that uses this theme?
Thanks!
film izle
February 24, 2010 at 3:06 pm #
Thanks a TON for the awesome theme! I found it yesterday and have set up nearly my entire blog within just an hour or less worth of work. Pretty sweet.
Quick question: Is it possible to add a footer menu to the theme? Y’know – disclaimer, legal notices, advertising options, etc.
Thanks again!
Jimmy Xuza
March 1, 2010 at 9:08 am #
I have installed Channel Theme, but there is some problem when I have submitted more then 10 post blogs, but at the end of 10 post there is no view means more pages references like [Page 1 of 2] [1] [2] [...] [last>>] this not view, what should I do?
Regards…
Roy
March 1, 2010 at 9:10 am #
You need to install and activate the WP-PageNavi plugin to have numeric pagination.
Dantelsepeti
March 2, 2010 at 3:51 pm #
Thanks for this amazing theme. I’ll use.
Roy
March 3, 2010 at 7:15 am #
Glad to see you like it.
RayZhao
March 2, 2010 at 7:45 pm #
why i couldn’t see the “threaded comments” when i am using this theme? do i need to install other plug-in for this?
Roy
March 3, 2010 at 7:15 am #
NOPE. You just need to enable the “Threaded Comments” option at WP-Dashborad -> Settings -> Discussion
Nayan
March 7, 2010 at 5:46 am #
I transfer my blogger blog to WP, all images i have in picasa.com, please tell me what should i do in this theme to show external images.
please suggest something
Roy
March 7, 2010 at 9:05 am #
Hi, sorry but the auto thumbnail function do not support for EXTERNAL images.
Zbysek Nadenik
March 7, 2010 at 6:45 am #
Hey,
nice theme!
I’m considering to use it for a school project where students of journalism would publish their articles.
I was just wondering if I can modify the this theme (design, code) to be more useful for our purposes. I didn’t find anywhere the license for this theme so I don’t know how far I can go.
Is this theme totally free so I can modify it how I need?
Roy
March 7, 2010 at 9:01 am #
Sure, you are free to customize it.
Amr
March 10, 2010 at 10:04 am #
Hi Roy,
When I uploaded the theme i couldn’t activate it because wordpress said the theme is broken because there is an error in functions.php.
Is there any solution for that?
Roy
March 10, 2010 at 11:08 pm #
Hi, please deactivate all plugins before install the theme, also submit the error message at our support forum, let me help you there.
Nayan
March 14, 2010 at 9:41 am #
Hello Roy
In home page, post thumb images will crop not resize, can you tell me, how can i resize the image not crop in home page.
Thanks
cska
March 19, 2010 at 4:40 am #
Thanks for this. Looks great!
Micheal
March 20, 2010 at 12:01 am #
Thank you for this wonderful theme which was so easy to customize.
Regards
Micheal
Kaushik Biswas
March 22, 2010 at 5:26 am #
i was looking for a very simple yet nice looking theme. someone told me about this theme, i am glad, channel theme is exactly what i was looking for! i wanted to ask one more thing, is it possible to change the colors on the page?
vincent
April 4, 2010 at 7:49 pm #
love your theme alot but as you can see am lost on how to properly set it up. am wondering if a simple step by step picture giude could be done to help.for instance to set up featured content gallery this were the instructions ‘If not already included, add this code to your template file where you want the Featured Content Gallery to be displayed:
pls bear with my ignorance but i do not know where the template file is.
thanks for helping
Roy
April 5, 2010 at 7:32 am #
Hi, thank you interested in the theme. Could you submit your issues on our support forum? We don’t handle theme issues here.
sh
June 3, 2010 at 1:42 am #
Very great theme!!!
Paul
August 19, 2010 at 12:18 am #
Hi Roy, awesome theme!
I was wondering if there’s a chance to modify the size of the auto thumbnail for the posts. In the css i’ve modified it from 80px X80px to say 265 x 80. Works but it stretches the image that automatically is 150×150.
any clues?
Thanks heaps!
Roy
August 20, 2010 at 9:56 am #
Hi, please use the support forum: http://www.theme-junkie.com