Hey Lucian, I really appreciate it. Thank You so much! This will help me out a lot.

Chris, I hope there are no hard feelings. I didn’t mean to be abrasive, but I was a bit frustrated trying to explain something. I realize that everyone has different perspectives.

I appreciate your taking the time to respond and it is obvious that you have made a big contribution to this community. I am sure that people here really value your help.

–Dan

I am totally familiar with what you are saying. I just wish that you would acknowledge the value in being given a complete demo. It does present, time-saving and learning opportunities via example. I don’t think that can be debated.

If all that doesn’t matter, then they should be presenting this template the way that it unpacks on install and not something that has been dressed up.

++ Upshot – the layouts are included with the theme — open a post and note all the options for layouts; note the theme panel for layouts and note you can specify default template for posts and over-ride that on per-post basis.

++ But wait for TagDiv to help, I guess you’re not “getting” my attempt to help on how to explore the built in LAYOUTS you already have — the demo content doesn’t add to that, it just uses the built-in LAYOUTS to populate dummy content. You already have all the LAYOUTS from the demo!

Yes, and I already have had a couple occasions where that layout had issues. Now if I had their sample I could start reverse engineering things to try to determine what was different. I didn’t post until I played around for a bit and saw issues that I had to spend time resolving. I would have just been as well off, had I not installed the demo content because that in its default state is an UGLY mess.

I am not the only way that feels this way by the way. I am just a bit more outspoken on the matter.

Anyways I appreciate your time but wish you would acknowledge that a certain percentage of the population feels the way I do. You might feel that I am a fool but not everyone that feels the same is.

Again…I have understood what you are saying from the beginning. I merely have a difference in opinion on presentation.

Incidentally, if the demo pages aren’t important, can you explain to me the difference between Newsmag and Newspaper?

I know how to make a menu also. That wasn’t the point of my post. I was after LAYOUT.

My question is whether the XML file would give me all of the content and layout.

Yes, I have played around with the demo styles. Again styles and a template are 2 different things.

If you look at my previous comments, I recognized the copyrights on photos. My question is whether or not they would give me all the menu and article content / layout. Again we get these things because what is presented has given us ideas. Other wise we could simply download a bunch of fonts and plugins and do the whole thing ourselves.

I have bought many themes over they years and most of the time they do give you a sufficient amount of demo material. Recently I bought “The7” theme and it is a good example of my claim.

++ If you also need the xml files of the demo you can make a request for it on email and we will send it to you.
Can you supply a full demo? Could this be used to do a full DB import? (meaning all pages and menus???)