Hybrid News comes with a dual menu bar, each above and below the header image. Adjacent to the first navigation bar is an internal search box, while the header also contains ad space on the right. There is a slider section to display your latest posts, with a brief about your post and an image. Since the slider script uses Atom feed, it will automatically update the slider content.
Search for the below code in Edit Html and add your feed url
<div class='feature'>
<script language='JavaScript'>
etc etc
etc
etc
startposts = 0;
numposts = 1;
home_page = &quot;YOUR BLOG URL/feeds/posts/default&quot;;
</script>
If you want to add more slides, then copy, paster the same code from Edit Html and change the 'startposts' and 'numposts'. For example, if you want 3 slides then it make it
startposts = 2;
numposts = 3;
Below the slider the designer has included a minipost section, where snippets of each post comes with an image. This is followed by two text widgets in case you want to add some content there. The sidebar has 2 boxes before it splits into two more columns, so you can add any blogger features of your choice.
Hybrid News Blogger Theme also includes a 4 column footer section, so this magazine template gives you ample space to fit in your content.
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Hi,
After uploading the template i get this msg " We were unable to save your template
Please correct the error below and submit your template again.
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure that all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Content is not allowed in prolog."
How can we fix it up..
thankss.. :-)
@ eksha - Try uploading the template again, I just tested it again, it doesnt give me any error. You watch our blogger tutorial on how to upload a template, if you got all the steps right :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiLIH0CHVyY&feature=player_embedded
my slider is working in terms of the post snippets, however, how do I get the photos to change to the photo I have for each story? I still see the "Have Images of your Own" default image. Please o please help I beg you, it would be so wonderful to get this little detail fixed!
@ wall street swat
hey if you look for have images in edit html or the same place where you put in the text in the slider you find an image file
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_t47uhxwKFVM/Snp_aVn8uQI/AAAAAAAABk4/CM4S7nhUO64/s1600/Have_Images_TEXT.png
replace this link with your image file and your done!
Ok, so I cannot have them auto-generated, I must replace the image link each time. Got it!
@ wss
yeah can be quite a pain....
great template and easy to install...works well with my blog thank you very much
This theme is great but I don't seem to know how to "cut" feature slider and posts summaries "by WORDS". It's still cut by characters which looks ugly.
Plus I also want to show a READ MORE link for each post and labels/categories under each post title
Thanks
@ Mabel Tiu,
Your welcomeeeee :D
@ jorp
Cant help you as I cant check your blog, enable profile access or leave your blog link
how can i select content to include in featured slider? it seems that the last three posts i published are automatically included. thanks!
CLYDE
thanks for the reply here's my blog
http://flavoursofiloilo.blogspot.com/
:)
by the way, i want to minimize the TOP and BOTTOM spaces between the sidebars on the right.they're too big. i can't seem to find my way in the html code - lol
thanks
@ Mabel Tiu - this template picks up posts from the feed and displays automatically in the slider, so you cant really choose which posts! But you can add more number of posts to appear in the slider by changing the numbers in this code in Edit Html -
startposts = 2;
numposts = 3;
SO in Edit html search for the code, copy paste it, and increase the number by 1 in the above code.
@ jorp
please watch the understanding blogger's edit html in the video guide just look for the sidebar in edit html css style sheet let me know if you have problems
Thanks very much for the blog - I just came across it as I was fixing up my site. I'm having a lot of trouble getting more than one blog entry to appear. I seem to be following directions, but when I copy and paste the code Blogger keeps throwing it back at me because it claims I didn't close something (either script, div, or body....I close loops and then it just finds some other reason to throw an error). Any help would be greatly appreciated....exactly WHICH bits of code do I need to copy in order to get more posts in the slider?
Thank you in advance.
some one can help me, i instaled hybrid menu but i want add drop down menu. please help me to add drop down menu at hybrid template. please help me.
@ Nick & Nuansa
take a look at the instructions given here
http://www.freebloggertemplate.info/2009/07/hybrid-news-blogger-template.html
Great theme!
I can't seem to work out how to change the border which is now around the image. The blue border I mean.
Is that blue border the background image from the body? (bng_2.png ??)
I would like to use my own style but whatever I do it always shows the border
I tried
background-image:url(none);
background:none;
to apply these and other try-outs on the img tag in the code
a href="'+posturl+'" img src="'+img[i]+'" width="'+imgwidth+'" height="'+imgheight+'" a
But it doesn't seem to work?
@ 79Atoms
ummm are you using internet explorer, it generally puts a blue border around an image, try using opera and let me know
image height and width should work without any issues i have used them myself but on this template paste me your exact image code, parse it and then paste it
Excellent template. I have done all you said but I get one problem. Can you tell me how I make all the letters from left to little bit right?
This is my blog
http://easyliterature.blogspot.com
Hi Clyde,
I'm having the same problem Corp is having in reference to the "read more" cutting the characters instead if the words. I tried to access the tutorial you mentioned but the link is dead.
I'm also having trouble adding extra slides. As far as copying the html, how much of the html do I copy? I've been to several different blog sites and each person says something different and I have yet been able to get a third slide to work.
Also how do I get content added via my headers?
Here's my site:
http://datingwhilebrown.blogspot.com/
Thanks in advance!
@ Selena - To add extra slides you need to read the above post carefully, the instructions re given with the code.
Where do you want to add content via my headers? Do you mean the navigation bars? PLs be specific
I tried to do that but it won't work pass 2 slides. Whenever I tried to add 3 the slide will either stop working or freeze up. Can you tell me where to start and stop copying the HTML? I think that I'm either copying too much or not enough.
Thnx a lot, this is my fist visit here and I love This website .
http://amplifymind.blogspot.com/ i implemented that over this blog, but images are not showing in the slider, please help me :(
@ sumit
read the august 24th comment to get your answer..
Still I can't get how to change the pictures in the slide show......
@ CNP
please go through the comments the instructions have been provided before...
I'm having the same problem trying to increase the post preview. Can you point me to the snippet of html that needs to be adjusted? I would ideally like it to allow me to add the cutoff, using the blogger editor.
godlovesfags - Search for this summaryPost = 350; in Edit Html and tweak the number as per your need. Hope this helps!
thanx for this nice templete