Title: ponderman's Replies | WordPress.org --- # ponderman [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Hovering over a nav-tab to display text box. How?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hovering-over-a-nav-tab-to-display-text-box-how/) * Thread Starter [ponderman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/) * (@ponderman) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hovering-over-a-nav-tab-to-display-text-box-how/#post-2280711) * Thank you, Christine. The word “tooltip” did the trick – there are plugins that come close to doing what I want. I will look at various plugins and scour the net now that I have a way to get started. Thank you very much. I will mark this as resolved. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [persistent error report related to autosave](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistent-error-report-related-to-autosave/) * Thread Starter [ponderman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/) * (@ponderman) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistent-error-report-related-to-autosave/#post-1601367) * Trying your suggestion and other ideas, I solved the problem. The major mistake I made was to copy the entire 2010 theme’s function.php to my child theme directory. It was my understanding that the child’s function.php will be read first and “ override” the function.php of the 2010 theme itself. That is only partially true. I wanted to eliminate the header image alltogether, i.e. declare its width and height to be zero, and did so. * In the end, I only kept the part of the function.php related to the header image in my child theme’s function.php which was commented with a start/end notation for the hedare modification “business” (the words used in that file). That removed all error messages – all is back to ‘normal’ now, and the menubar plugin is active and fine. Thank you much for your help in all of this – it took much time to figure out. I will now mark the issue as resolved. * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [2010 drop header image – filter?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2010-drop-header-image-filter/) * Thread Starter [ponderman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/) * (@ponderman) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2010-drop-header-image-filter/#post-1533036) * Mike – You were entirely correct, although I initially went about it in a wrong way by copying the entire function.php from the 2010 theme into my child directory and then modified the image settings. That created a host of other conflicts until I learned how to do it properly. I created an empty functions.php in my child directory and then copy/pasted only the clearly commented section related to header mods into that file and then set both, Height and width to zero. * The function.php in the child directory is READ FIRST, so whatever I declare there takes precedence over what exists in the default theme function.php. Basically one has to be very thoughtful about what NEEDS to be in the child’s function. php, and nothing else. Thanks again. Mike * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [persistent error report related to autosave](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistent-error-report-related-to-autosave/) * Thread Starter [ponderman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/) * (@ponderman) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistent-error-report-related-to-autosave/#post-1601222) * Getting to be a bit gun-shy. Activating the plugins (had only three) butchered the 2010 default theme – only showed the blogline and an error msg about the header. Will try to first deal with the header error – use the 2010 theme to display properly, perhaps removing the call for the menubar will help. But all said and done, something about the autosave is the primary culprit. Any idea what callback is expected in the line 395 error msg? * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [persistent error report related to autosave](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistent-error-report-related-to-autosave/) * Thread Starter [ponderman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/) * (@ponderman) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistent-error-report-related-to-autosave/#post-1601215) * deactivating plugin did not help. The same error msg appeared in the admin panel. * Switsched to default theme – the above error had disappeared, but I received a new error msg: * has_post_thumbnail() in /home/newshore/public_html/wp-content/themes/twentyten/ header.php on line 71 * this is entirely new. I suspect that this error is due to having installed the menubar plugin which required an entry in the header. With that plugin removed– this is the likely reason. * But now I have something to work with. If I flush it out, I will make a note of it here. But your comments certainly added a ray of hope —– Many thanks * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [persistent error report related to autosave](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistent-error-report-related-to-autosave/) * Thread Starter [ponderman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/) * (@ponderman) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistent-error-report-related-to-autosave/#post-1601213) * will try rightaway – thank for the pointers — * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [no 3.0 theme has solved navbar offsets](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-30-theme-has-solved-navbar-offsets/) * Thread Starter [ponderman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/) * (@ponderman) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-30-theme-has-solved-navbar-offsets/#post-1563356) * Thanks, esmi – and I can see your point for ‘vertical drop-down only’ situations, though I wonder how often relatively extreme drop-down breakouts are encountered. For situations that list pages (or posts) of parents that extend laterally when hovering over a parent item, color or small lateral offsets would certainly be helpful to all but very large pages or posts. * I will try using smaller fonts and perhaps also split longer tags so that the tabs shrink horizontally and can accommodate deeper hierarchies before being lost so quickly to the display margins. Not sure how to do that, but will give it a try. I appreciate your comment here and all your inputs in this forum * Forum: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/) In reply to: [WordPress as a CMS ? Not without ready made page templates!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-as-a-cms-not-without-ready-made-page-templates/) * [ponderman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/) * (@ponderman) * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-as-a-cms-not-without-ready-made-page-templates/#post-827091) * Page3.php and header3.php would be the set – different from how I wrote the above. Sorry. * Forum: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/) In reply to: [WordPress as a CMS ? Not without ready made page templates!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-as-a-cms-not-without-ready-made-page-templates/) * [ponderman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/) * (@ponderman) * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-as-a-cms-not-without-ready-made-page-templates/#post-827090) * From what little I have gleamed thus far about WordPress, it should be possible to craft this CMS – like app: * I have a book I want to publish that covers four topics, topic1-topic4, and within each topic there are many nested pages. By creating copies of page.php and changing them to topic1.php etc. and inserting at very top of the code , for example, I can assign that file to a page I am writing in admin. That is covered in codex **[http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages)** * As I see it, I could have a front page with a navbar showing these four topic buttons that link to any given topic and produce the page for it. There are plugins that allow ordering these pages and create a TOC from which I could select what to read. One of them relies on the font sizes h2, h3 and h4 to define what is a parent and what is a child or grandchild, although personally I don’t know how to set these h-sizes while writing. * Finally, I can imagine that I could also create four headers, header 1 through header 4, and hard-code into each the topic name and also its tagline or sub- title, and make a pag3.php file call for a header3 that matches this simulated‘ category’. * If the above is doable, I would certainly welcome it if someone could offer details about the fontsize h and how to set it and how to write the topic header and subtitle into the header code. * Any volunteers? Eternal gratitude would be yours! * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [WordPress categories disappear](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-categories-disappear/) * [ponderman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/) * (@ponderman) * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-categories-disappear/#post-808268) * I had a new and hosted 2.5.1 installed a few days prior to 2.6 and cannot get beyond four categories plus the ‘uncategorized’. So there obviously now are two WP versions that are not solidly implemented. For a non-coding user, what are the remedies? Any help? These glitches are not trivial. * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [old and new hdr images superimposed – why? How to fix?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-and-new-hdr-images-superimposed-why-how-to-fix/) * Thread Starter [ponderman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/) * (@ponderman) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-and-new-hdr-images-superimposed-why-how-to-fix/#post-591202) * Excess blue background above the new 760×130 image was solved by removing the color as recommended by whooami and by changing the height in #headerimg from 192 to 122, i.e. by retaining the 8 pixel reduction (from 200 height to 192), i.e. the 130 height was reduced here to 122. * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [old and new hdr images superimposed – why? How to fix?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-and-new-hdr-images-superimposed-why-how-to-fix/) * Thread Starter [ponderman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ponderman/) * (@ponderman) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-and-new-hdr-images-superimposed-why-how-to-fix/#post-591184) * Thank you for your feedback, whooami. Started with a fresh theme install (with the kubrickheader.jpg) and called the site, which shows the superimposed images again. Made the two changes. No old header and no blue field any longer, but also no new image, although it shows up in presentations. Just white space where the default Kubrick image was. * IF or when the new image shows up which is 760×130, It may show up 70 pixels from the top, that’s where it showed up against the blue 760×200 blue rectangular background before. * As to showing up as ‘member’ before – I have no idea how I even got to place my question originally. But there was a login palce to complete and I took my best shot and it worked. Glad I found my way back here to get your response. Now comes the task of the new image to show up aligned on top, with the “hello world” starting right beneath that. Sure would welcome your input again. Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total)