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  • Forum: Themes and Templates
    In reply to: Help creating a header menu — wisdom needed [Theme: Tempera}
    Thread Starter astrali1

    (@astrali1)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    There is a way to hide the top bar through the Tempera theme also, so no worries on that.

    Forum: Themes and Templates
    In reply to: Help creating a header menu — wisdom needed [Theme: Tempera}
    Thread Starter astrali1

    (@astrali1)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Devoted is too strong of a word, but I do like the ability to choose the color and the hover feature. Actually I’d like them to be bigger. What plugin do you recommend? Putting them elsewhere would be great, perhaps under the main menu.

    Forum: Themes and Templates
    In reply to: Will I lose my settings if I switch themes??
    Thread Starter astrali1

    (@astrali1)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    OK, thanks.

    Forum: Themes and Templates
    In reply to: Help creating a header menu — wisdom needed [Theme: Tempera}
    Thread Starter astrali1

    (@astrali1)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    That’s the closest I’ve gotten so far! Thank you very much. I tweaked the font size and the percentages a bit to make it work…although I don’t understand it all, it works!

    http://www.astralingua.com/makeitso

    Now I want to get rid of the top bar, but my theme only offers the social icons I want in the top bar, side and footer, but not the primary. Is there a way to get them in the primary menu?

    Forum: Themes and Templates
    In reply to: Will I lose my settings if I switch themes??
    Thread Starter astrali1

    (@astrali1)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    So if I activate a new theme, decide I don’t like it, and switch back to Tempera, will everything look the same as before I switched?

    Just want to be sure I don’t lose my work. For backups, I am exporting the tempera settings. Is that correct?

    Thanks.

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: beginner needs header menu help! wisdom sought…
    Thread Starter astrali1

    (@astrali1)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    I am still unclear on what you mean when you say:

    ” Your prime_nav ul has a class of menu, so you that class with the starting css and then tweak it to what works for you.”

    When I look at my style.css sheet within the child theme, this is all that is there:

    /*
    Theme Name: Tempera Child Theme
    Description: First Child Theme created for Tempera
    Author: Anne Thompson
    Template: tempera
    Version: 1.2.6
    */

    @import url(“../tempera/style.css”);

    How do I indicate that the code refers to the menu in some way? Am I missing something within the child theme?

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: how to change the URL of WP site
    Thread Starter astrali1

    (@astrali1)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks for the thorough answer. My original, primary domain was not a wordpress site, it was developed by someone else years ago. Does that change things?

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: how to change the URL of WP site
    Thread Starter astrali1

    (@astrali1)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    I am not sure how to tell if it is a simple sub-domain or not. I started the site at /makeitso so I could work on it without disturbing the existing site.

    Copying it all to root is something I would do within File Manager, right?

    How do I update the database?

    Thanks

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: beginner needs header menu help! wisdom sought…
    Thread Starter astrali1

    (@astrali1)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    PS Is there a free theme that you recommend instead? I chose Tempera because it seemed to have the most customizable interface (colors, formatting, etc). I am curious to see what others are like but afraid to activate another theme lest I lose my settings and have to start over with what I’ve done on Tempera.

    Thanks again for your advice.

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: beginner needs header menu help! wisdom sought…
    Thread Starter astrali1

    (@astrali1)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks for the reply Frank.

    Where do I enter that code? I have the ability to add CSS through one of the misc. tempera settings or by going into the code with the editor. From what I understand about how a child theme works, I shouldn’t edit anything except for the child theme style.css, which currently has nothing in it.

    So where do I enter this code and specify that it is for the prime_nav ul ?

    Clearly I’m new to this 🙂

    Thanks!

    Forum: Themes and Templates
    In reply to: Help creating a header menu — wisdom needed [Theme: Tempera}
    Thread Starter astrali1

    (@astrali1)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    I would like Astralingua to be larger than the rest of the links but to still have them on the same line. So maybe 24 size font for the title and 14 for the rest? Just an estimate.

    If possible I would like the title to remain a different color than the rest also.

    Thanks.

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Help! How to add main menu to my header!?
    Thread Starter astrali1

    (@astrali1)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    When I make those changes it looks like this:

    http://www.astralingua.com/makeitso

    That’s pretty close, but what can I adjust so that the menu is exactly in line with the bottom of the title?

    I tried changing the 45 and 55 values in the script a bit but the menu jumped around, and I also tried changing the spacing values for the header and title, but nothing made them line up.

    Can you explain what the branding and access code does? (Trying to learn what I’m doing as I go)

    Thanks.

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Help! How to add main menu to my header!?
    Thread Starter astrali1

    (@astrali1)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Matt,

    Thanks for your guidance with this.

    Before I go further changing the code around, I want to make sure I understand the way to use my child theme.

    Is it true then that I should NEVER make changes to the original tempera file, and instead only make changes in the functions.php and style.css files that I created? That’s what I’m understanding.

    How do I copy the header.php template and add it to the child theme directory? Is that something I do within WordPress or through my file manager? Am I creating a whole new file? Or do I just copy the text of the header.php file and paste it into the child’s function.php file?

    I imagine these are pretty elementary questions, but I don’t really understand the mechanics of these files and how they work yet.

    I undid the changes I made to the tempera file so the header menu disappeared. I will try the custom css that you suggested. I know how to do that 🙂

    I don’t want all three menus in the end, I’m just trying them all out until I get what I’m shooting for.

    Thanks again.

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Help! How to add main menu to my header!?
    Thread Starter astrali1

    (@astrali1)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    I tried inserting the code you gave me into the original tempera header.php file, although I am not sure if that is the right place. Even though I am using a child theme, should I still avoid altering that file?

    I tried it in a few different parts of the file and got the menu to appear in a few different levels above and below the header. At this point it is here:

    http://www.astralingua.com/makeitso

    So I’m getting closer! But how to I make it horizontal instead of vertical, and how do I align it to the right, get it in the same font, color, etc. My goal is to have the menu look exactly like the primary menu does now, except at the same level as the title.

    I am pasting the entire header.php file below so you can see where I inserted the code you gave me.

    Thank you very much for your help!
    ————-

    <?php
    /**
    * The Header
    *
    * Displays all of the <head> section and everything up till <div id=”main”>
    *
    * @package Cryout Creations
    * @subpackage tempera
    * @since tempera 0.5
    */
    ?><!DOCTYPE html>
    <html <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
    <head>
    <title><?php wp_title( ‘-‘, true, ‘right’ ); ?></title>
    <?php cryout_meta_hook(); ?>
    <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=<?php bloginfo( ‘charset’ ); ?>” />
    <link rel=”profile” href=”http://gmpg.org/xfn/11&#8243; />
    <link rel=”pingback” href=”<?php bloginfo( ‘pingback_url’ ); ?>” />
    <?php
    cryout_header_hook();
    wp_head(); ?>
    </head>
    <body <?php body_class(); ?>>

    <?php cryout_body_hook(); ?>

    <div id=”wrapper” class=”hfeed”>
    <div id=”topbar” ><div id=”topbar-inner”> <?php cryout_topbar_hook(); ?> </div></div>
    <?php cryout_wrapper_hook(); ?>

    <div id=”header-full”>
    <header id=”header”>

    <?php cryout_masthead_hook(); ?>

    <div id=”masthead”>
    <div id=”branding” role=”banner” >
    <?php cryout_branding_hook();?>
    <?php cryout_header_widgets_hook(); ?>
    <?php wp_nav_menu( array(‘menu’ => ‘Header Menu’ )); ?>
    <div style=”clear:both;”></div>
    </div><!– #branding –>
    <span> </span>
    <nav id=”access” role=”navigation”>
    <?php cryout_access_hook();?>
    </nav><!– #access –>
    </div><!– #masthead –>
    </header><!– #header –>
    </div><!– #header-full –>

    <div style=”clear:both;height:0;”> </div>

    <div id=”main”>
    <?php cryout_main_hook(); ?>
    <div id=”forbottom” >
    <?php cryout_forbottom_hook(); ?>

    <div style=”clear:both;”> </div>

    <?php cryout_breadcrumbs_hook();?>

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Help! How to add main menu to my header!?
    Thread Starter astrali1

    (@astrali1)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks. I am not sure where to find that theme file. Is this something I should paste into the custom css part of my theme? Or into the function.php file I created? Or into the original tempera theme css sheet?

    I’m quite new to this, so I am cutting and pasting and having things work sometimes, but not understanding why/how they work sometimes. 🙂

    Thank you.

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