I’ve described in many way that how to make a new post when you are using CSS Gallery theme, but still people don’t getting it. Most of them don’t know what is the custom field. It’s really hard to teach them.

In comments, email and in forum I’m getting a lot report that their thumbnail and images are not showing, for this reason I decided to make a visual guidelines. After a few hour work I got it done. Now I think newbie and old Wordpress user can get it easily.

Download custom field guidelines.

Last few months I have provided templates support by Webmaster Desk, people had to visit another site for getting help. Now you can get help within this site, you don’t need to visit another site anymore.

After working couple hours on searching and templates modification, forums has been launched. I’m using Premod phpBB SEO, it’s saved my time to making forums SEO friendly.

Visit support section

Recently I have started a CSS Gallery site by a customized script; I bought that script form Maxiscript.com by $100. The script did not meet my expectations, it shows same image for detail page and thumbnail (by manual size compression)!

I knew that there are a lot CSS showcase site powered by WordPress but I had no idea how to do that with WP. I’m a newbie on WordPress.

Last week I thought of trying WP for CSS Gallery theme like I have in my CSSDaddy.com. So, I started to work on it and within 2 days my gallery theme was ready to use.

Though it was in WP But the problem was same like the script I have bought; it was using same image for thumb and detail page. It will take time to load a main page and detail page can’t use a bigger image.

As I started thinking to release this theme for free! But People won’t like it, if it takes time to load. So, I started to search that how can I show a thumbnail on main page and a bigger image for detail pages. I found a lot of blog posts about custom field in WP. Also found a great post with details PHP code for implementing custom field on theme.

I found a great door to make the CSS Gallery theme for public release

After completing the theme, I was thinking of using it in my site OS Designer. OS Designer was using a custom script since 2006 for template downloads. So it had many extended features. After a lot of research I have added extended functionality in CSS Gallery theme and made it ready to use in OS Designer!

Right now OS Designer is using WordPress! Not to mention that maximum features are done by custom fields!

Special thanks to bloggers:

Giving each WordPress post a thumbnail, and display the thumbnail on the home page

Change Default Thumbnail Size in WordPress 2.3 (I have a couple of comments there)

Special thanks to friends:

Iceberg, Titu and Rezwan: They were asking everyday about the release day of CSS Gallery theme!

Back in January 2007, Jason Hendricks, a GreyLine template user requested me to add a donate button on this site. He wanted to donate me a few bucks for GreyLine templates. After adding donate button, we received a good response from our templates user and from my friends.

As a reward, I offered a link back to the donor site. Here is the list of our donors:

• Jeffrey Behrendt ~ Aviva Directory
• Jeffrey Behrendt ~ SevenSeek
• Jeffrey Behrendt ~ Kwikgoblin
• Jeffrey Behrendt ~ Apahcinc
• Jason Hendricks ~ Tidal Wave Media
• Kevin McLain ~ Sitefind Web Directory
• John Oliver ~ DroolingMonkey Directory
• John Oliver ~ gDotz web directory
• Tyler Dewitt ~ DeWitt’s Media Company
• Antonio Zhang ~ Submission4U Directory
• TiTu Hossain ~ HelloIndex Directory
• Duguleana Mihai ~ My Green Corner Directory

Now we accept donation but we are not offering any link back to the donor site. OS Designer wishes best of luck to the supporter’s business