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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can’t see my tagline<?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?>
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: CSS Rendering Problems in IE 7 and other browsersdidn’t look at the site to see what the state of the code was… just going off what he said about how it doesn’t render in 7 or firefox…
the backup is there as the ie_override.css file…
my thinking (and I’m reading between the lines here) that it worked fine on ie6… if that’s the case then that stylesheet should be fine to keep around and link to conditionally.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: adding ALT value to next/previous post linkslink to site?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: CSS Rendering Problems in IE 7 and other browsersmy bet here…
from what you’ve said I’m willing to bet that your designer designed your current site for ie6 which requires some cajoling when it comes to displaying what’s intended. And that they did not take into account firefox and other browsers.
with the release of ie7 (which does a better job of implementing standards) the bits of the css which were cajoled are no longer needed but your stylesheet is still making the tweaks.
That said, you’re in good shape… you’re actually in pretty good shape…
What you’ll want to do is to make a copy of your stylesheet and give it a different name… something like ie_override.css and place it in the same directory as your current stylesheet (style.css)
Then go in to your header.php file and add find the line which says something like
<LINK REL=StyleSheet HREF=”style.css” TYPE=”text/css” MEDIA=screen>
and add a conditional statement that looks like…
<!–[if lt IE 7]><link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”screen” href=”ie_override.css” /><![endif]–>
(you might need to play with where that is pointing… should be pointing to the same directory as the other style.css)
now you’ve got two style sheets running… one specifically for ie6 and older ie browsers and one for all the others.
At this point you would go in and start fiddleing with your style.css file to fix any display errors that are showing up in ie7 and firefox and what not. Your site will then be able to display as you wish in both ie7 and ie6…
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: How do I structure this site?If you make them as posts they don’t have to appear on the frontpage… you can set certain categories not to show up on the front page… there’s a plugin for that…
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Make “Leave Comment” more noticeableIf you’re going to be using an image, the first thing I’d do is change the color from blue to something more distinguishable… like a bright red.
the next thing I’d do is place it in it’s own css class and set up a rollover image to go along with it…
I might try to make it look more like a button also… depending on how the previous suggestions worked.
replace
<?php
if ( is_home() ) {
bloginfo(‘title’);
} else {
echo($title);
}
?>with a static link to your site.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Theme.php is totally whack!can you give us the first 15 or so lines of your CSS…
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Can’t install WordPress on USB drive.change your db user name to root
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to know how many people subscribed to your RSSmaybe check out “feedburner” (free) and Feed Manager (paid) services
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home
https://manage.feeddirect.com/feedmgr/index.do
(feed burner plugin)
http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/feedburner-plugin/Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Separate sidebar from main page?in a word yes… but it’s going to depend a lot on your theme… and require some reworking of it.
I don’t know if this is true of most themes (it is for the ones I make) but a lot of themes rely on creating a main container and then placing the divs into that container. You’re going to want to place the sidebar outside of that container and fix it’s position.
However you’re going to end up needing a call to a seperate style sheet to take care of IE 6 and below…
these links might help get you started…
http://www.divinentd.com/experiments/emulating-position-fixed.html
http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/menus.htmlI’d also suggest placing your updated sidebar on the left hand side of the screen otherwise you’re going to have to fix the size of your content area.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Adjusting FramesetCopy your index.php and rename it to something else like store.php.
strip out the call to the sidebar.
place the link to store.php as the link to your store.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Need API key for YouTubelol… pretty sure that’s what I said to do in my first reply…
must not have said it right!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: the basics?comfort level…
it’s all a question of degree
I tend to give out too many options instead of sticking with the easiest… I don’t know your comfort level so I was giving lots of options…
wp is by far the easiest package out there to pick up and run with for someone who’s feeling overwhelmed…
If you want I have a spare domain and extra space that you can use to play with wp on…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: the basics?you might think about trying WP out on your home system and seeing if it will work…
you’ll need to have a working testbed to test on… Easiest way to do that if you’re scared of installing apache / php / mysql / etc… is to go to http://www.wampserver.com/en/ and downloading they’re self installer which does most of all the really bad stuff for you…
Windows
Apache
MySQL
PHP(unless you’re running linux… then you’ll need to look for a LAMP…)