to be more precise, neither my Weblog title, or my tagline is showing;and menza.org is the theme designer’s website, as it appears in the WordPress Theme Brower, where I downloaded it:
Having not seen the theme before (or your blog for that matter) I would guess that both answers may be found in the theme’s header.php file. At least, that’s where I’d start.
HandySolo, Mesozoic, which came out recently, is the number one downloaded WordPress theme (over 700 downloads).
My blogsite is jayjerome.com. My weblog title is supposed to be “Jay’s Cafe.”
I looked at the header.php file, but sad to say, I’m not savvy enough to know what I’m looking for. Here’s the HTML (I hope it ok to post it here); I’d appreciate it if someone could point out what I have to do to remedy the problem.
from header.php:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php get_bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> » Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /> <!-- leave this for stats -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body>
<a></a>
<div id="page">
<div id="header">
</div>
<hr />
Well, I swung and missed. Definitely not in header.php. Hopefully someone familiar with the theme will wander by.
Did it come with any sort of readme.txt file, by chance?
no readme.txt provided.
Any suggestions what HTML syntax I’m looking for?
Moshu—
I haven’t felt this inept since I failed to qualify for my first Cub Scout merit badge.
I looked thru every file in the theme, including header.php and style.css – and could not locate any reference to that header.jpg.
Or should I be looking for something without a jpg-extension? And where should I be looking?
And if I locate it, what do I do with it to get my blog title and tagline to show?
That’s a lot of ‘ands.’ Actually, I’d prefer to just replace the graphic header with one of my own design – so it has some individuality, like, crosscultural.transycan.net, and not just another a cookie-cutter blog—
Any step-by-steps you can provide will be thoroughly appreciated.
clarification:
I know where the header graphic is in the theme IMAGE folder, but I don’t know where the references to it are in the theme file(s) that call it up on the blog page…
Ah… (lightbulb!) Do I replace that graphic image with my own, and name it the same as the original?
Yep.
It is defined as bg image in the stylesheet – toward the end of it.
That’s the most I can say because being a K. clone I don’t touch it.
As an obvious ‘novice’ at this, I’m not sure what the reference to ‘K.clone’ means (I believe that Kubrick was one of the original WordPress Themes); should I not be using the Mesozoic theme? Am I transgressing some ethical boundry or other?
No, no, no!
It is absolutely OK to use it!
I, personally, just don’t like it (them) and am very reluctant to offer support for the Default and its derivates.
But you can (and should) disregard this 🙂
Assuming I stop spinning like a wobbly top and get a semblence of ‘bloggin’ equilibrium, what catagory of themes do you recommend I investigate next? (hope you’re not going to say ‘write your own’)
I hope you are familiar with the themes site:
http://themes.wordpress.net
As to what do I recommend… that’s the most difficult question. I always think a theme/design should be related to the content of the blog (or any other site for that matter). I don’t think there are general recipes.
The image you’re looking for is not a .jpg – it’s a .psd, and you can find it in the installation.
(I’m guessing that it’s in that format for the support of layers & transparencies & such…)
