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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: disable comments on images?Hey, great, works perfectly. Thanks!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: header link: http://gmpg.org/xfn/11OK, yes, http://gmpg.org/xfn has much the same information as /xfn/11.
Neither seems to be a page that the program can use–both seem to be display pages to be read. Yet they are hidden away from both visitor and many site owners in the header file. What’s the point? And especially if–I am a bit unclear here–IF this page must be successfully accessed on the way to loading the WordPress page. Seems like it would just slow things down and add bazillions of “hits” to gmpg.org, all to no end.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: 2010 css errors and warnings (validation)get good at explaining why the css validation isn’t an issue
problematic, if part of one’s selling proposition is clean, standards-compliant code… I was in process of getting good at explaining why this is better than buggy, deprecated, full-of-hacks code!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: 2010 css errors and warnings (validation)OK, well I’ve read Eric Meyer’s article on vendor tags on A List Apart, and my zeal for web standards has gotten a little more flexible.
BUT, I’ve been using the validators not only to check for (“real”) errors in my own code, but also to reassure potential clients (who are likely either new to the idea of standards or not very sophisticated about them).
So it doesn’t exactly work to put links to the W3C validators–only to have them return error messages. Are there alternate validation services in which WP 3.0 and Twenty Ten actually validate???
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: branding img height controls other images now!esmi–the screen capture images on my Design page have been squeezed down from 185px to 160px –they don’t look bad, but they’re not displayed correctly. I removed a photo of myself from my About page–it was stretched from 115px to 160px and looked REALLY BAD.
alchymyth–I changed the site briefly to Twentyten 1.1, straight from WordPress, and Firefox outlined THE WHOLE PAGE as included in #branding. (Also, my 160px squish of the custom header had no other effects UNTIL the update.)
Updates: I have been informed in admin that TT 1.1 is available AND I have updated it ON THREE SUCCESSIVE DAYS. On this site and on another (test) site both. My images went haywire with the first of those updates.
I’m trying to ditch the custom header entirely now, so this issue is becoming temporarily less critical.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: 2010 css errors and warnings (validation)Well, the same vendor prefixes that don’t validate as CSS 2.1 also don’t validate as CSS 3.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Twenty Ten Remove Header ImageI tried to remove the custom header in style.css by setting the #branding img height to 0 in my child theme. This worked before the update of TT 7/23, but then it set the height of all images to 0… it seems that #branding extends the whole length of your page! (Yes, I checked this in the TT theme, it’s not just my child theme.) Double annoyance, because I was also trying to use a header image that was narrower and setting the height to less than 198–but it stretched photos in my pages to my new height, even overriding size information included with the photo url!
I removed the whole business in header.php–not functions.php–by deleting it (you could comment it out, too). I began after the div branding was set up, and ended with an endif just before it code about the site-title.
For a child theme, don’t copy all of TT, just style.css (with REQUIRED note at top) and any other folders you change. If you change header.php you must copy it to your child theme folder or it will be clobbered at next TT update.
I tried this just last night, seems to work fine so far, but not extensively tested. Hope this helps.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: longer title, shorter menu entry–how??I’m using a child theme of Twenty Ten–little altered beyond the CSS. Yes, I am hitting the Save Menu after entering my short title everywhere. Nothing changes the menu title besides changing the actual page title.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: branding img height controls other images now!(Sorry for duplication–I thought I’d posted, but returned to forums and found the form still open and no post from me listed, so I hit post–and then there were two!)
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Super Cache] [Plugin: WP Super Cache] supercache cannot be deletedHmmm, well, thanks for the information, denharsh.
A plugin that must be modified in order to be uninstalled is not my idea of a plugin (a plugIN should also plugOUT without having to be hacked). Having gotten rid of it, I won’t be returning to WPSuperCache any time soon.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: 2010 css errors and warnings (validation)Thanks! Don’t know how I missed that big “more options” link… duh.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: 2010 css errors and warnings (validation)Yes. The W3C validator does not validate for CSS 3. Do you know of a validator that will assess for CSS 3?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: 2010 css errors and warnings (validation)OK, lest you think my complaint is that I have screwed up my theme, I changed my theme back to Twenty ten. Virgin style.css, straight from WordPress.org.
CSS validation from W3C: 14 errors and 81 warnings!
Why????
Forum: Alpha/Beta/RC
In reply to: not getting to single post view, 3.0 RC3 2010 themeThanks. I’ve been using (my own evolving) child theme of 2010, as I mentioned.
I DO want a “static” front page. This is a business site WITH a blog, not a blog site with an About page, etc. Not a weird idea, if one’s thinking of WP as a CMS. This is an unremarkable sort of site arrangement–assorted static pages, including the front page, plus one or a few blogs–is there a “standard” or “non-weird” WP way of accomplishing that?
Today I gave up on using the Page Attributes template picker, and decided to use sidebar.php to split out the primary sidebar widget to one group of pages (“static” pages) and the secondary one to another group (pages with posts, which turned out to be most simply done with is_archive (ALL kinds of archive) plus comments_open and pings_open to catch the posts “page” by catching its newer postings. (I’m sure there are other ways to do this, too.) After the usual php frustrations, this is working nicely, and was easy enough to style, too.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Super Cache] [Plugin: WP Super Cache] supercache cannot be deletedRemoved whole folder via ftp. But this is the wrong sort of “stickiness”!