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The joy of templates is that you can use different templates for different views. It seems that the sidebar is changed when viewing “Pages”. So open your Theme’s
page.phporindex.phpand/or thesingle.phptemplate files and see which sidebar is being used for which view and which one has the search function added.See http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates for a good explanation on this.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Codex Themes Page: Doublecheck your submissionsRequests have gone out to many Theme authors requesting they add keyword descriptions to the Codex Theme List. You were also notified via your user page.
The current list is not very usable and the Codex documentation volunteers are working on ways to increase its usability by providing keywords to help users search down the page for Themes that meet their needs. These are not reviews but keywords users will search for to find the information they need, like if there is one or two sidebars and if a sidebar is on the left or right, and so on.
Here is a better warning. Volunteers will be visiting Themes listed on the Codex Theme List and adding keyword descriptions to the List. Authors may edit them, or add them themselves, but there will be keywords that describe the Themes added.
It is important we help the users FIND the themes they need.
Instructions for how and what types of keywords to add to the listed Themes are found at the top of the Theme List and specific instructions are here. Volunteers and Theme authors are requested to help us fill in the blanks, and your help is welcome to help WordPress users get the searchable information they need to find themes. It’s a great way to check out a lot of themes and see how they all work.
As volunteers and authors update and add the new information, we are indeed finding some themes have been placed in the wrong section (this will also help us improve categorizing themes) and many links that lead to dead sites or wrong pages. Volunteers are working to update the list and clean it up as much as possible.
All help is welcome.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Line break in TitleIf you set the width of the container the title is in, it will automatically wrap. Make sure the height of the container is not fixed, or a height that will accomodate the double lines.
So the answer is yes.
Open your
style.cssand find the style reference that encompasses your title. Make the changes there.If you “force” a
<br />line break into the title in the Write Post panel, you will have problems. That title input is used for the<title>Title of your Site and Post Title</title>in the
<head>of your site using template tags and a line break will “break” the title and cause problems.Control the size of the container with the title and it will automatically wrap if necessary.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Image above header not showing up…Okay, there are two issues here and we have a policy of one per post. Regarding the “banner” on the header. Does the person use Firefox and have any form of ad blocker running? It can recognize some “banner” content as ads, whether they are or not. I have problems with some sites in foreign languages when something on their page is thought to be an ad and is “gone” when it isn’t an ad. Ad blocker isn’t a perfect science but it is known to make some content disappear. Temporarily disable it and see if that works.
I just checked your site and that’s the problem. I disabled Ad Blocker and the ad appeared.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Font size changed automaticallyFirst, try checking your browser font settings. From the menu, VIEW > Text Size and set it to normal. Does that fix it? Sometimes a combination of Cntrl+ Plus or Minus keys or other keys can change your browser font size by accident.
Second, the CSS is stored in the style sheet and header of Themes based upon the Default WordPress Theme. Check both spots to see if something got moved or switched accidentally.
Third, run a validation test on your site. You may have left a DIV or tag open and not closed which would pass on the fonts of your header or something to the rest of your site. The validator should catch the problem quickly.
Hope those options work.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: blog in commentsFirst of all, begin by fixing the errors in the Theme you have chosen on the main page. I don’t know if you are using a
single.phptemplate file or not to generate your single post pages. If you are, after you fix the main page, then you can check to see if the errors still apply to the single post page and fix those.The problem is not the images showing over the comments and such. The problem is much deeper.
I recommend that you find the latest version of that theme, or try another of the more than 300 themes available, and work from that, or dig into the theme’s code and fix the problems that are there now.
For more themes, see:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes/Theme_List
http://themes.wordpress.net/theme-viewer.phpAs volunteers, we do everything we can to help on this forum. Your site has a LOT of problems and for now, this is the easiest fix.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: blog in commentsWhat you are using is NOT the Default WordPress Theme. And it is a very broken theme that needs a lot of fixing.
And the “regular site image” for any website is an image that is UNDER 60K. Even weblogs have huge images that are rarely more than 100K. 800K+ is way, way out of the ball park.
Okay, to your issue. The question has to be asked.
If you set up the comments to be viewed on a page without the blog post, then how will anyone see the post they are commenting on? On the front page? On a
single.phppage view and then click to a separate page which contains only the comments?If there is no post, there is no comments. You want ONLY comments and no posts, then set up a discussion/bulletin/chat board and that will give you dialog with no posts.
We’re just trying to help and understand what it is you need and help you to create that with WordPress. But WordPress isn’t always the tool for every job.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Floating image problemYes, is the section where you have your image information in the “excerpt-post” class?
Change the class reference to
excerpt-postto whatever was there in your original section. Keep theclearfixand make sure theclearfixCSS is in your style sheet in the theme you are using.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: dynamic sidebar (right-column) posts…Honestly, the short answer is to probably use “asides” or a “mini-loop” in the sidebar.
Here are some articles that may help:
http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop
http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop_in_Action
http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Your_Sidebar
http://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_AsidesAnd if this is overwhelming, then start with these two articles first and you can enter the other articles armed and ready.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates
http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Template_TagsThere might be another way and that is to feature a specific category in your sidebar as a feed, but someone else here will have to explain how that works.
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds
http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_FeedsForum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: blog in commentsYou will need to be more specific. Do you want a page that shows only the comments for your posts? Or the post without the comments? Or to change the way the post looks before the comments?
Your “blog” is not in the
comments.phptemplate file. The post content (“your blog”) is generated in theindex.phpand/orsingle.phpdepending upon your theme. It is generated with the WordPress Loop, a php script that calls the posts from the database and displays them on the page.For specific information on how the template files work in WordPress, see http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates .
If you can me more clear about what you are asking, then we can be specific with the answer.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Floating image problemAh, welcome to one of the fun bugs in browsers.
I talk about how to solve this on my site as it plagued me until I found the fix.
Basically, some browsers just can’t “tell” the height of the container an image is in. So the float pushes other containers around. You need to fake it out and imply a right. The fix, by http://www.positioniseverything.net is called the “Clearfix” and it basically gives a second CSS reference to a container that instructs it to “clear” itself of the other wraps so it won’t “stick” or push the other ones.
I know it’s hard to explain but I have pictures of what it looks like broken and fixed in the article.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: SEO enhanced>>>Your posts are unranked because you are using the custom permalinks. If you used the out of the box “?p=1? style permalinks your posts would also have a PR of 5.<<<
Could you explain this a little more?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Mass Addition Of Posts From A Custom DBI recommend that you import them using the import-mt.php and a REALLY good multiple line search and replace TEXT editor. There is more information here:
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Blog with a different side columnCustomizing Page templates in WordPress are explained in detail here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages
You can associate any Page with any template file which allows customized looks for each one.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Easy Backup & Restore a must!!This topic comes up a lot so here is some new information.
There is now a new plugin to backup your database to your server, your computer or via email. You can read more about it http://asymptomatic.net/wp/2005/07/22/1775/wp-database-backup-v15/
and download it http://redalt.com/downloads/
It’s called the WordPress Database Backup Plugin.