Skinning

Angie Bergmann
(@radkitten)

21 years, 9 months ago

Alright, I’ve searched everywhere and finally decided to post and ask this question. I’ve had my site skinned using b2 for over a year now, and I just made the switch to wordpress. Now after much frustration I got everything imported and running happily. Even styled and skinned the same way it was before, but now I have a problem.
I’m using a three column layout, one side being navigation for the site and what have you, the other being the WP calendar, archives, everything like that. Now my problem is when I try to access one of my content pages I get an error. That error being:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: _e() in /home2/angela/public_html/side2.php on line 3
I know it has something to do with the includes for the calendar and what not as line 3 has this on it:
<?php _e(''); ?>
Is there anyway I can set up the drop down menu’s and everything with direct paths or includes as thats how I got my b2 calendar to show up at all times on my site.
Thanks in advance for any help!

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mcfilms
(@mcfilms)

21 years, 8 months ago

Oh!
The Blosxom example is at:
http://host210.ipowerweb.com/~almckayc/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi

mcfilms
(@mcfilms)

21 years, 8 months ago

[bump]
So I gather there is no way to add an HTML header above the WordPress content? No one has been able to do this?

Root
(@root)

21 years, 8 months ago

I am not sure what you mean by *html header*. You can do anything with WP at all. It is only xhtml and CSS. How you choose to reshape the default is up to you. Why not get WP installed as a test at least. Start setting it up. Then post a specific CSS question with a live url . Someone will have you fixed up in no time.

mcfilms
(@mcfilms)

21 years, 8 months ago

Hi Root. Thanks for the reply!
I have successfully installed wordpress. (That was easy). My install is at:
http://host210.ipowerweb.com/~almckayc/wordpress/
What I’m trying to do is get THAT content to land below my header — which looks like this:
http://host210.ipowerweb.com/~almckayc/news.html
Is this possible?

Root
(@root)

21 years, 8 months ago

Well yes but you are going to have a very big preliminary issue to deal with. You have set out your header; which is in general terms very simple with a very complex tables schematic. The difficulty you may find here is that a lot of the folks who haunt these parts only use web standards coding and you may be underwhelmed by the response. Many of us would want to rewrite the code completely. It is a religious thing 🙂
That aside: There is absolutely no reason at all why you should not copy and paste the whole enchilada into index.php at the right spot. No sweat.

mcfilms
(@mcfilms)

21 years, 8 months ago

Yes I _AM_ a Dreamweaver monkey. I appreciate the desire for a concise, tight table structure — but I takes what Dreamweaver gives.
So pasting the Table code into the journal gives me something like this:
http://host210.ipowerweb.com/~almckayc/wordpress/index2.php
And I have two problems…
1.) the second column overlaps the top of the menu.
2) if I click on any link in the JOURNAL portion, I generate a new php page that doesn’t have the header any longer. That is why I was asking about a method to “skin” wordpress. I have been able to do this with GALLERY and hope I can learn how to do it with WP.
Many thanks for your help.

Root
(@root)

21 years, 8 months ago

Well the word *skinning* is causing you some difficulty both here and possibly in the way you are visualising how WP works and what you can do. To get new stuff where you want it you may need to add it to the index php. To style it you should edit the CSS. Adding a new style sheet is easy. What you want to do is major surgery, made more difficult by the nature of your markup. But in either case some knowledge of html / css is really going to help. No doubt about it.
You need to put a new div at the top before #rap to contain all that stuff. Please do not name it id header. Masthead would do. But I have to say I do not support table based positioning in these forums. Some other folks might. Good luck.

mcfilms
(@mcfilms)

21 years, 8 months ago

Ah well, I am able to get the results I want (with my limited knowledge) in Blosxom.
http://host210.ipowerweb.com/~almckayc/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi
Obviously WP is too complex for me. (Or you could say I’m too stupid for WP, I don’t mind).
I follow you about editing the over-riding style sheet. I could see how one might insert tables inside a div tag, but I didn’t see the #rap in either the print.css or wp-layout.css files.
Before I totally bail on this, is there a WP resource , guide or tutorial that will tell me how to do what we’ve been talking about. Or should I just move along?
[in either case thanks for your patience.]

Root
(@root)

21 years, 8 months ago

Well I certainly would not want to lose you. #rap is in index. Inconveniently it is not in the CSS. If I may I would encourage you in your own time to learn a bit about CSS and web standards coding. It is going to be painful and hardwork.
But the skill you gain will last a lifetime. When you are ready maybe start reworking that header a little. My advice would be do not turn your back on WordPress. It is absolutely awesome and a lot of fun.