[Subscribe to Comments Reloaded] Adjusting subscrip mgmt page

  • tovar

    (@tovar)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    Hello –

    I’ve been using WordPress for a couple of years, and am finishing up a redesign of my website. I’ve switched over to the Thesis theme, and would like to switch my comment-notification system over to “Subscribe to Comments Reloaded.”

    Overall, I’m having no problem arranging things as I would like them. But the subscription management page (where comment subscribers manage their own subscriptions) is giving me trouble.

    I’ve done very little custom css and php work: just enough to adjust WordPress themes here and there. And I have searched the StCR forum (where new registrations seem to be blocked at the moment), but haven’t found any specific recommendations.

    With Firebug, I can visually alter the way the page currently looks, and make it look the way I want it to look. (Screenshot images linked there, on Picasa.) But I’m not sure how to implement those changes in custom css or php.

    As I’ve noted in the image caption, the most important changes are (1) narrowing the checkbox field from 239px to 25px so everything fits on one line, and (2) adding a line break after “Action:” so that the radio buttons line up.

    Other, less critical, changes I hope to make are: (A) removing the date/time signatures from the post listing, (B) changing the legend separators from “:” to “=”, (C) removing bullets from in front of the checkboxes, and (D) styling the color of text/background for the “Update” button.

    Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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  • Thread Starter tovar

    (@tovar)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    P.S. I got the smallest issue, (D), figured out. The “update” button text and background are now styled as I hoped.

    Jason Crouse

    (@coolmann)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Hi there,

    you can definitely work on the CSS to make things work the way you want. Also, most HTML tags generated by my plugin have classes or ID’s associated to them, so that you can customize their look-and-feel just by adding a few rules to your stylesheet.

    Unfortunately, having total control over the content of that page is something that would add a significant overhead, and not so many people have asked for this level of flexibility.

    As for your requests:

    1) set the width for input[type=checkbox] in your css to 25px
    2) make that paragraph display:block
    a) will be available with the next version of StCR (you will be able to associate a display:none to the corresponding class)
    b) I can do that in the official release, I don’t think other people will complain, and if they do I’ll think of something else 🙂
    c) again, that’s something you can already do by styling the class subscribe-reloaded-list
    d) same as above, class subscribe-form-button

    Cheers,
    Camu

    Thread Starter tovar

    (@tovar)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Camu –

    Thanks very much. I got (1) and (D) all set, and look forward to (B) and options for (A) in the next version of StCR.

    That just leaves (2) and (C).

    For (2), I know I need to assign {display:block;}, but am not sure how to specify that particular paragraph.

    Likewise, for (C), I imagine I need to assign {list-style:none outside none;} to the class subscribe-reloaded-list, but have not yet figured out the right way to do it.

    Thanks again.

    Tovar

    Jason Crouse

    (@coolmann)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Hi there,

    (2) sorry, you’re right, this will be possible with the new version!
    (C) in your CSS define a new rule: .subscribe-reloaded-list{list-style:none outside none;}

    By the way, a vote for my plugin would be a nice way to thank me for my plugin 🙂

    Cheers,
    Camu

    Thread Starter tovar

    (@tovar)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Hi again –

    (2) Okay, I’ll look forward to that. On other sites, I’ve seen all the radio buttons lined up (even all on one line). On Thesis, that section must inherit some odd spacing. It looks weird for now, but hopefully will look better in the new version!

    (C) That’s just what I tried. It doesn’t work for some reason. In the scheme of things, however, it is a very minor issue.

    Thanks for your help.

    I’ll definitely vote, and probably make a donation soon, too.

    Cheers,

    Tovar

    Jason Crouse

    (@coolmann)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Try emptying the browser’s cache 😉 Or post the URL so that I can take a look!

    Thank you for your vote!

    Camu

    Thread Starter tovar

    (@tovar)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Vote: Done!

    Browser cache cleared: No luck.

    URL (just a sandbox site): http://www.mindfulcarnivore.com/ (Will be ported over to my regular url when I’m ready.)

    I went into the plugin editor and got the “:” changed to “=”. I was also going to put in the display:block, to line up the radio buttons, but wasn’t sure exactly where to put it and didn’t want to break anything! I’ve discovered that I can mess with CSS with impunity, but can easily crash the site with a PHP error.

    Jason Crouse

    (@coolmann)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    It seems like line 130 of your style.css (.format_text ul) overrides the other directive you added to your custom.css. Try defining it as ul.subscribe-reloaded-list, instead of just the class name

    Camu

    Thread Starter tovar

    (@tovar)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    That worked perfectly. Thanks so much for taking the time to look at that, Camu.

    I may try to insert the {display:block;} in the plugin editor, to line up the radio buttons. Or I may just wait for the new version of StCR.

    Either way, I’ll make a donation. Great plugin and great user support!

    Jason Crouse

    (@coolmann)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Yes, you may want to use the inline CSS feature to add some styles to the checkbox 🙂

    Best,
    Camu

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