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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Validation with a themeThanks I ran the Addthis plug through the validator and yeah it does seem to have a problem.
I haven’t worked out a fix yet but thanks for your input, not sure why I didn’t think about that Doh!
Not sure if anyone else is having the problem, once I find a fix I’ll post it here.Thanks again
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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Please help! style.css has stopped workingJust a suggestion, if you rename the template in the style.css of your modified CSS, it will change the name of the template. This means you can have your version and the Twenty-Ten version uploaded in your installation. You can then switch between the 2 themes.
Glad you solved your CSS problem.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: css and tags (i need a kick in the right directionYour style sheet will be called style.css and will be located in your themes directory.
If you have FTP access (i.e. Uploaded the files yourself) you should be able to find it in the folder wp-content/themes/YOUR-THEME-NAME/style.css (Obviously replace YOUR-THEME-NAME with the theme you are using).
If you can’t do that then you would need to login to the wp-admin section, under the header ‘Appearance’ at the bottom is ‘Editor’, providing the permissions on your style sheet are set to Write enabled, you should be able to edit the css and any other file in the theme.
If you wish to be able to edit the meta descriptions then you will need a plugin like the Yoast plugin available here
That will do a lot of the hard work for you.hope this helps
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How to make a template blog page your…jrp this is my site Titan Design. I’ve been learning about template design in WordPress for the last 3 weeks and with a little help from various places came up with the design and layout.
It’s a really simple design, very few actual images, most of the work is done by the cascade, if you want a copy of it for yourself to practice with let me know.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Please help! style.css has stopped workingIf it’s still not showing after you have uploaded the twenty-ten theme, download your theme via FTP to your local computer. Then delete your theme from the wordpress install. This will force wordpress to reload the original twenty-ten theme and not your modified one.
I had to do this the other day when I was testing a new theme I created for my site.
Have you tried using the toolbox 1.1 template from here? It would be a much better place to start as it is an un-style theme, easily customisable to how you would need it to be. CSS knowledge is a must though.
Oh I nearly forgot, if you have your style.css file you can test it by going to the W3C CSS validator as Sixhours posted earlier (link is in Sixhours post). You will need to use the DIRECT INPUT section as you have it on your local machine, this will show up any problems in the CSS. You probably find you have missed either { } or ; somewhere in the file which can break the CSS code in certain situations.
Hope this helps
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Need advice: Best basic theme to build custom theme on?I have to say I like the new Toolbox theme by Automattic, like Mike says it is html5 though.
I did find an alternative, Small Potato
It’s quite a good tutorial if your a little unsure of how WordPress works and it gives you a basic clean code to work with and he gets you to validate it as you work. One thing he does miss though is the top nav menu, but a quick check in codex will give you the correct php code for the nav menu, which you just add to header.php
hope this helps 😉