You have some code errors that need to be fixed. For example, your ads css (.ads_left, etc.) should be in the document head or in style.css, not in the body and replace this:
<div style="clear: both;"
With this:
<div style="clear: both;">
Also, your theme is HTML 4.01 and I’ve noticed that these themes have more trouble in WordPress than the typical XHTML themes.
http://codex.wordpress.org/HTML_to_XHTML#Why_Should_I_use_XHTML
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mnymgr
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Iridiax, thank you for your post. I grabbed a template which is called Bible and off I went. No idea though how to do a bunch of stuff like you said…
“”You have some code errors that need to be fixed. For example, your ads css (.ads_left, etc.) should be in the document head or in style.css, not in the body and replace this:
<div style=”clear: both;”
With this:
<div style=”clear: both;”>””
Took me 20 minutes but I found out where div style etc was, and added that right arrow thing. but no idea what ‘ads css ( …) can be found. I looked at all the design change pages and did not see that.
I think that bluehost / wordpress should clarify a bit more how hard this actually is for non-code people. If I thought it was going to be this difficult, I would have had someone else do it or would have skipped it.
But thanks again iridiax, will keep trying.
If you didn’t make these code mistakes yourself, then I would recommend finding a new theme. If you are just starting out, then using a theme with errors or display problems “out of the box” will just make things unnecessarily frustrating for you.
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mnymgr
(@mnymgr)
This is really a nice looking theme, imo. If I change themes, does all my previous work, writing, plugins and widgets all get deleted too? That would be horrible.
Is it in bad taste to ask the author if he has any ideas on fixing bugs? I know alot of you do this for fun so helping newbies like me isn’t high on the to do list. I’m not looking to tick anyone off here at wordpress.
thanks again for your input.
Your posts, pages, links, tags, and categories are all in your database and so they will NOT be lost if you switch themes. Your plugins are separate from your theme. Your widgets will be fine if your new theme is widget-ready (newer themes are typically widget-ready).
Check with the author’s website (listed in the style.css file), there may be an updated (corrected) version of the theme available. Otherwise, if you really want to use this theme, fix the code errors and hopefully the display problems will go away.
Hey folks, I designed the theme and would like to clarify – the code in question has nothing at all to do with the theme. It’s in a post.
I would not ever recommend taking ad script and inserting it directly in a post. Rather use an adsense plugin. Here’s a search query…
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=adsense
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mnymgr
(@mnymgr)
thank you again iridiax. And thanks pastorcox for the theme again. I really don’t want to change themes because this suits me very well And my wife likes it. If I was out of bounds to contact you in the first place, my apologies on that also.
Just for clarification on my part, if I changed part of your coding Mr. Cox, it was only by mistake. I just can’t get that big bit of white space to go away on those ‘about’ pages. I keep going from visual to html and do not see any kind of ‘secret’ codes that I could delete to make it flow normal. I will keep trying and will find it.
Thanks for the input gentlemen, very much appreciated. Hey look, the markets are up now nearing the close, see there is light at the end of the tunnel, and I’m not completely broke yet.
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mnymgr
(@mnymgr)
guys, think it was a plugin that I had on the site called adsense that made the white space pop up randomly. took it off and voila, pages and posts look much better.
