I’m sure you caught this but my site address is really:
http://believeandbreathe.com/
And then I edited the code for both the header.php and style.css
That’s the problem. Your edits are not OK.
Your blog doesn’t find the stylesheet – seemingly you messed up something…
Here’s a little more information since I have idea where to go from here…
From this location
/ public_html / believeandbreathe / wp-content / themes / default /
in the header.php file I changed this portion of the code. I deleted kubrick.jpg and kubrickbg.jpg (I think) and replaced it with my image (girltalk.jpg)
Here’s what it looks like:
?>
#page { background: url(“<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/Girltalk.jpg”) repeat-y top; border: none; }
<?php } else { // No sidebar ?>
#page { background: url(“<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/Girltalk.jpg”) repeat-y top; border: none; }
<?php } ?></style><!–p wp_head();–>
</head>
Then I changed only this word in the style.css part in this same location (wp-content)
#header {
background: #73a0c5 url(‘images/Girltalk.jpg’) no-repeat bottom center;
}
That’s all I changed. I tried my best to follow the directions exactly. Can you suggest what I might have done wrong? Thank you so much for your help!
~Kara
For starters: Girltalk.jpg and girltalk.jpg are NOT the same!
the stylesheet can NOT be in the wp-content. It has to be in wp-content/themes/default/ directory
Alltogether: if you are new to WP you should try to modify any theme but the default. I don’t touch it even if they pay me…
Thank you Moshu~those little things are hard for me to catch! I have switched that to make sure it’s consistent all the way across. I hate to be a bother but are there any other suggestions or is it just beyond repair……I only changed a couple things and this was my default template so I don’t really know where to go from here. One of the main reasons I chose wordpress was the ability to customize and it seems like it should be easy from the description but I guess not:-( I really appreciate your time if anyone has any thoughts…please?
does anyone have any idea how i might resolve this…is there any hope?
~Kara
Kara,
Your style sheet isn’t even showing up for me.
I’m with Moshu – the default theme is a beast to mod.
Have you tried another one to see if that helps?
Hey Kara,
Have you seen the theme viewer?
http://themes.wordpress.net/
Lots of themes there to choose from, and most of them are much easier to modify than the default theme.
If you want to restore the default theme to the way it was, the best bet is to delete the current files/images for the default theme, download WP again and just upload only the files for the default theme.
The cause of this kind of issue is folks who have hard coded presentational elements into the bloomin php template files instead of in the CSS where it belongs. For that reason alone many people here are reluctant to futz about with it.
