Posted 6 years ago #
Hi Denis and all,
Denis, would just like to compliment you on the new
Semiologic version. It's just great compared to
the last one. Easy to install now too.
Denis, just one thing... how do you manage to
put text next to the "Copyright 2006, . " ?
I've tried everything, but just can't find the place to
put this text.
Thanks,
Riggie
Posted 6 years ago #
This isn't Denis' site, but I would imagine you look inside footer.php
Posted 6 years ago #
Well, let me give this a try, I think he might be talking about something else. At the bottom of the page, if you do not enter a blog title somewhere in the back office, forgot where exactly, it will only show "Copyright 2006" as described above. This same blog title also puts a title in the header at the top.
This is where I think there is another problem, and maybe Denis can expand. I plan to put a full header graphic in the top of my semiologic themed blog, and thus will not need the blog title displayed at the top. But this then causes the footer to have the same issue described at the top of this thread. Another thing, I suspect the blog title is also placed between a couple <h1> tags, and thus valuable to the SE's, so just leaving it out is not a good option.
Denis, can we put the blog title there but make it invisible at the top, or have it rest behind graphics if graphics are placed in the theme folder?
Posted 6 years ago #
@riggie:
Copyright ... displays:
Copyright current_year, admin_name
@smic:
drop a file called header.jpg (best option for SEO) or header-background.jpg (looks better, but has no h1 tag) in your theme directory. it will automagically do what you want.
Posted 6 years ago #
Ah, I see I was incorrect above about the copyright thing. The copyright line in this theme behaves differently than another theme I an using (regulus).
I dropped the header.jpg into the theme folder, and it worked as expected. It would be nice if there were exact dimensions for the header area and the header.jpg completely filled the header area, no space around. Thus retaining the h1 tag.
I tried the header-background.jpg, and stopped fooling with it after several attempts to make it completely fill the entire header area, using the same image as in the header.jpg file. I tried varying the size, and I could never fill the space to the right of the image, was always a space there. Also with some sizes, the image was cut off at the bottom. But then again, I was probably misusing the header-background.jpg file in the first place, I don't know.
In any event, I am MOSTLY satisfied, only if the header.jpg with the right dimensions would exactly fill the header area. :)
Posted 6 years ago #
you should be able to "force" this by creating a custom.css file and dropping it into your theme directory:
.custom #header,
.custom #sitename
{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
don't forget to shift+refresh your page to force the browser cache to refresh.
Posted 6 years ago #
Denis,
That gets the margin to zero for the left and right ends of the header graphic, but no matter the size I make the header, there is a small 5 or 6 px space below it, and a much sider, 60 to 70 pc space at the top. But it is much improved over previous looks.
Thanks!
Posted 6 years ago #
mmm... try:
.custom #header,
.custom #sitename,
.custom #sitename h1
{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
Posted 6 years ago #
Thanks for taking a shot at it Denis, but that change took be back to space all around the graphic.
You are much appreciated!
Posted 6 years ago #
just to be sure -- did you copy paste the entire thing, or did you merely add the newest line and forget a coma (which should result in a css error, and what you describe)?
Posted 6 years ago #
Denis,
I think perhaps that I did miss a coma, as this time I copied the entire set. The result was no change, which is better than the last result, which was a step back. Hmm, I will look more at it later, but this .css still has the small space at the bottom and larger one at the top. Now, I did not enlarge the image, nor did I delete the text that appears across the top of the header area. Perhaps that will have some impact.
Thanks Denis!
Posted 6 years ago #
Well, must have been a cache thing, because my header image has no space at the bottom now, and the space at the top is likely because my image is not tall enough, will test that sometime. Also, I have the "by-line" still in there, so that displays, does not look bad at all, and perhaps is the reason there is still a space.
Posted 6 years ago #
Denis, I know this is terribly basic, but where do I find the "admin_name" in Word Press to be able to add it to my Copyright at the bottom of my blog?
Search all over for it. Beats me...
Thanks,
Riggie
Posted 6 years ago #
admin area > users
simply rename the admin user :)
Posted 6 years ago #
Denis, somehow this makes no sense... I've always had the admin user filled out, but have nothing appearing...
Looks like this:
Copyright 2006, .
-Riggie
Posted 6 years ago #
In fact, I have 2 new blogs, one with Wp 2.0 and one with 2.01 which I update today, and they both show no admin_name for some reason...
-Riggie
Posted 6 years ago #
there is a drop down under 'Display name publicly as:'
Posted 6 years ago #
riggie - Or, you just could go to Options > Captions , then look for "copyright notice" and replace %author% with YourDomain.com or whatever you want.
Posted 6 years ago #
I checked out both options, and thanks Jimmy, replacing the %author% tag with my domain name worked.
Very cool.
Thanks,
Riggie
Posted 6 years ago #
Jimmy, had not thought of that, works great, thanks!
Posted 6 years ago #
Denis, and sminc,
After reading this thread again, I came across an issue I am struggling with currently. I like the header-background.jpg but I dislike not having the text on top for SEO. Would like the best of both worlds (as sminc appears to want).
I would like to know how to do what Denis says here:
"create a custom.css file and drop it into your theme directory..
.custom #header,
.custom #sitename,
.custom #sitename h1
{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
"
How do I make this file? Is this all the code that goes in it?
ALSO.. Theres no way to put a .jpg (company logo) in front of the big text (the link to the homepage) in the default setup is there?
Thanks.
Jack
Posted 6 years ago #
Jack,
Use a plain text editor (textpad.com for example) and paste the code into the file just exactly as Denis has it, then save the file as "custom.css", force the .css extension over the usual .txt extension.
I added the header.jpg file in there with the custom.css, and it worked, not as expected, but it worked. But I think I like the way it worked better than what I expected. It left the tag line at the top right above the header, This turns out to not look to badly.
But if you look at the code, here is what you get for the title tag:
<title>"tag line" | "weblog title"</title>
so, the full tag line AND weblog title is still there for the SE's to "see".
Not sure about your logo question, Denis will have to reply there.
Posted 6 years ago #
Thanks sminc.
Posted 6 years ago #
I'm sorry, but I have to say something on this, why is it that when someone downloads a theme, it's more of a hassle to add "text" next to the copyright in the footer OR where ever it's located, then it is to install it, itself?
I mean Jesus! Either add this information in the readme file for download, or just make it a simple normal editing section of the "files"..like the footer.php file. BANG! That's it! There you go! ...then from there it can be changed..
Can't ya just use this as an example:
<div id="footer"><!--start footer-->
<p>© 2005-2006 <a href="http://www.vindictivebastard.net">The Vindictive Bastard</a><br />
Original Template Design by <a href="http://andreasviklund.com/blog/webdesign/new-template-andreas08/"> Andreas Viklund</a> | Theme Revamped by <a href="http://www.vindictivebastard.net">Spencerp</a> | Blog Powered by <a
href='http://wordpress.org' title='Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.'>
<strong>WordPress</strong></a></p>
</div><!--close footer-->
</div><!--closes maincontainer (from header)-->
<div class="clear"></div>
</body>
</html>
CSS INFO BELOW:
#footer{
background:#2d455a url(img/footerbg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x;
clear:both;
width:750px;
padding:5px 0;
font-size:0.9em;
color:#f0f0f0;
}
#footer p{padding:0; margin:0; text-align:center;}
#footer a{color:#f0f0f0; background-color:inherit; font-weight:bold;}
#footer a:hover{color:#ffffff; background-color:inherit; text-decoration: underline;}
As far as I know, that's what makes the footer in this A08r theme of mine:
http://www.vindictivebastard.net/blog3/
spencerp
Posted 6 years ago #
Or are you ppls trying to add "special" stuff to something simple and still can't get it..? Just was wondering...and believe me....I wondered around here long enough and still this post past me three times....still with the same shit.. where you're lost, rather then I..
spencerp
Posted 6 years ago #
spencerp: denis's stuff is basically a "fork" of wp. It doesn't live by the same simple rules you are talking about.
Posted 6 years ago #
Oh..ah! Thanks for explaining that vkaryl. =) Sorry then for my sarcasm... =( However, you got me interested in this "fork", where could one get it? Sorry, I wasn't really intuned on getting something other then the Basic WP before or whatever.. =)
I'd like to mess around with various things and or additions of WP. It'd be educational purposes of course lol.. =)
spencerp
Posted 6 years ago #
Oy, lemme see if I still have a link around.... Oh right - nev'mind, it's in Denis's name, just click on it.... name not member link....
Posted 6 years ago #
Oh ok.. vkaryl. =) Will do.. =) Just ignore my last updated, edited p.s. section of last post then.. get carried away sometimes lol...
spencerp
(Removed it myself) =)
Posted 6 years ago #
@sencerp: It's not a fork of wordpress. at best, a couple of wp funtionalities and template tags have been wrapped, to simplify the process of adding features to the theme.
In the immense majority of cases, this means that a feature is a mere click away. Typically, if you enable/disable comments on a post, the comment-related stuff will show/disappear. In other themes, you'll need to 'manually' remove a couple of them by editing your template.
The downside is that a select couple of things are not easily changeable unless you happen to be a coder. In this particular case, it's mostly lack of having read the documentation, probably because it is hard to find. The documentation states that the admin's name is displayed, even if a bug in wp 2 makes it no longer work out of the box.
In short, though, it's a theme for Joe Average -- Joe Hacker will have absolutely no use for it.
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