Hardhat

Hi all

Nailed it!

Just for clarity: I’m using a hacked about version of the Andreas Viklund theme WP-Andreas01.

Although Andreas’s theme features a sidebar, the code that dwzemens mentions is actually in the header.php file.

In that file (and following d’s instructions) the code I found was this:

<h2 class="hide">Main menu:</h2>
<ul class="page">
<?php if (is_page()) { $highlight = "page_item"; } else {$highlight = "page_item current_page_item"; } ?>
<li class="<?php echo $highlight; ?>"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?></a>">Home</li>
<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li='); ?>
</ul>

After trying a two options (php isn’t my forté at the moment, but I’m getting there!) I removed the following:

<li class="<?php echo $highlight; ?>"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?></a>">Home</li>

In doing this I successfully removed the unneeded ‘Home’ link, but maintained the theme’s ability to highlight the current active page in the menu using CSS.

The only thing other folks may need to remember is that if, like me, you’ve worked up a number of different headers for different templates, but all are based on the theme’s original header.php, then you obviously have to go in and do the same surgery on those to replicate the success of the fix across the site.

And that’s it.

Although I consider this resolved I’ll leave this open for a day or so to see if anyone has any further comments on the matter.

But as I said: fixed 🙂

Just a brief note to the continuing success of these support forums. I don’t know there’s anything similar with this regular successful depth of response.

Long live WP!

Hardhat

Hi all

Many thanks for the assist 🙂

To Calcifier:

I just wandered back as I’d forgotten to mark this question as resolved.

To put your mind at rest, it’s not someone else’s blog: it’s mine.

Do you really fly of the handle like that every time somone asks a straightfoward question? You just extrapolated a whole chain of events from that question.

While I appreciate the concern, I’m rather alarmed at your determination to run around pointing at ‘falling sky’.

Just FYI, but I think you went a bit too far there.

Hardhat

Just to add:

header77.php include this for it’s stylesheet link:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" />

: )

H

OK: in advance, please forgive my massive dumbness:

I’m sorted on the whole @import for linking other stylesheets via style.css…

If I understood correctly: I duplicated my existing stylesheet which I renamed basic.css…

In the original styles.css I then deleted all the style information and replaced it with the following:

@import "basic.css"

That’s great because I’ve managed to move all the CSS rules for the majority of my site pages which are controlled by one template to an imported stylesheet.

So far, so cool…

Returning to my dilema…and with more clarity…

I’m working on a music related site.

The majority of the pages will be controlled by the default theme template page (ie: the page.php ).

Certain areas of the site will have the exactly the same layout as page.php but require different CSS (eg: font usage and background colours etc).

To give an example: one page is about the year 1977. To create a template for the main page and all sub-pages that relate to this page I’ve created a dulicated page.php and renamed it page77.php. I’ve also duped the default header.php to create header77.php (this is so that I can link the banner image to a different one for that era). Thus far I know the template side of things is working because it appears in my template list and I can create pages from it that look the same as the rest of the site but include the different image.

My problem now remains to call a new stylesheet (…shockingly called 77.css…) to pages created from the page77.php template.

I’m still not sure how to do this.

How do I employ KG’s @import to do this, based on the concept of WordPress themes using one controlling style.css?

I know this was a longwinded descrpition…and – believe it or not – I’m quite happy with XHTML and CSS…but know bugger all about php.

All help very much appreciated.

H