Digital Raindrops

This is how I make a wide 1140 twenty eleven theme:

In my child theme style.css

#page {
	max-width: 1140px;
}
.featured-posts,
#ie7 article.intro {
	max-width: 1140px;
}

In functions.php

/* 200px less that the width! */
if ( ! isset( $content_width ) )
	$content_width = 940;

That’s it!

HTH

David

In Theme Options:
Go to: Admin > Appearance > Theme Options
Choose option: Default Layout > One column No Sidebar
Then: Save Changes

In Child theme Stylesheet:

#primary,
#secondary {
	display: none;
}

HTH

David

What elements are you trying to overwrite, if you hide the sidebar you will then have to change the template margin or you will have a big space?

A little more information as to which template page you want to loose the sidebar on?

If you go to Appearance > ‘Theme Options’ you can choose a different layout!

Using a style to change a class in a child theme:
Change the float in a Child Theme:

#primary,
#secondary {
	float: left;
}

Change the width:

#primary,
#secondary {
	width: 260px;
}

Hide it:

#primary,
#secondary {
	display: none;
}

HTH

David

It might be something to do with the theme, or a rouge plugin that uses the editor, the solution is a process of elimination, de-activate plugins and change theme, and see if it returns!

The element for the buttons has a style to ‘hide-if-no-js’ is java script enabled in the admin area, when you login do the menus flyout and other panels slide ok?

Use FireFox and FireBug look for the css and scripts to see what is hiding the buttons.

HTH

David

Is there comments in the footer file, as the validator does not show these?

It is likely an illegal character like the hyphon in the comment line ‘-‘, I had the same thing in a theme based on the twenty ten theme, the comment is in the Twenty Ten ‘Posted On’ Function!

The dash between “post” and “date” is a non-standard hyphen, likely added by Word or some other text formatting program. The code below is clean and would make TwentyTen the first theme I have run through the theme-checker to thoroughly validate.

/**
 * Prints HTML with meta information for the current post-date/time and author.
 *
 * @since Twenty Ten 1.0
 */

Since it is in a comment block, it would never throw errors.

HTH

David

I opened up style.css with Notepad++ and was going to paste the hex color code in to see if it worked

Open in FireFox and FireBug, select the [ CSS ^] files from the menubar, then “Edit” > “Live Edit”. paste in the style changes and have a look (it is instant), it is only a temporary live edit, no files are changed.

HTH

David

Add to you themes functions.php

/* Get rid of the admin bar for other users by capability */
if ( is_user_logged_in() && !current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) ) {
     add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false');
}

Or:

/* Get rid of the admin bar for other non admin users */
if ( is_user_logged_in() && !is_admin() ) {
     add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false');
}

HTH

David

@sonic
This is the same as the twenty eleven dark theme option, other styles are loaded in the header after the stylesheet so they cannot be over-written, this was my solution for a twenty eleven child theme, I have changed the code below for a main theme, so it is untested.

This will load the custom-style.css after all stylesheets and header styles have been loaded.

Create a second style.css file like custom-style.css, then in your functions.php add:

add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'post_theme_setup' );

if ( !function_exists( 'post_theme_setup' ) ):
function post_theme_setup() {

	/* Add our custom styles after all stylesheets have loaded */
	if ( !function_exists( 'custom_enqueue_style' ) ):
		function custom_enqueue_style() {
			wp_enqueue_style( 'custom_style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/custom-style.css', array(), null );
			do_action( 'custom_enqueue_style', 'custom_style' );
		}
	add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'custom_enqueue_style', 11 );
	endif;
}
endif;

HTH

David