Will Taft
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Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Blog route or full word press websiteJust as a follow up to anyone searching and finding this thread. The above explanations are great. I addition last week after reading this thread, I also found the following page in the Codex that explains some of this.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can’t get this image to linkOK – Thanks! On another note, what did I do to my 2nd post above to make this thread losse it’s formating or width? Was it just pasting in the code snippet that had width=’200′ in it?
I looked and:
img, img a {
border:none;
}is not in my css file. However all image links in the theme I am revising use the border=0. So I am guessing that if I change the css file, I need to also change every other php file that links to an image and take out the border= Think the change is worth the effort? I noticed that even the Google rss button I grabbed from Google’s site uses the border=0 so it is all over my theme.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can’t get this image to linkWell, I tried a few more times and got it to work using the code below. Does it look OK code wise?
——————————–<img src=
‘http://www.geocaching.com/stats/img.aspx?uid=86892647-4b41-4ade-81ff-cd52d7cfbc11’
border=’0′
width=’200′
height=’50’Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Where is this in default theme?Just to be clear… My post of thanks above is directed to Rudolf also. He stepped right in when vkaryl got dragged away by life and stuff. Big help, both of them!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Where is this in default theme?No problem – You DID help me work it out by telling me what I needed to do and then letting me stumble through it and learn a bit.
I’m sure I’ll be posting questions again once I progress enough to try and work out the validation errors. The problem with the validators I have tried is that they assume that you wrote the code yourself so you will understand the explanations of the errors. They are not expecting novices to hack up perfectly good files to try and get something a bit different.
Thank goodness for the volunteers in these forums!
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Blog route or full word press websiteVery interesting doodlebee. I would have to think about that for a while. I am just transitioning over to WP and love it so far. But the idea of using WP to make a website with a variety of different pages and maybe even a shopping cart does not click with my novice brain right away!
I guess if someone was to use something like Expression Web or DreamWeaver, then it would be best to have WordPress in it’s own directory and just link to it from the website created with EW or DW?
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Blog route or full word press websiteYou raise an interesting question for us novices. At my hosting site, I have a subdirectory off my root directory called “WordPress”. This is where I have WordPress installed and where the content of my blog is. I don’t yet have anything else in the root directory of my domain except for “cgi”, “php_uploads”, and “stats”. I assume these were automatically put there when I purchased the domain and hosting at GoDaddy.
I have just assumed if I build a website separate from my blog, it will just go in the root directory and I can link to the WordPress directory from that website. With technology, I tend to think things through very logically, as opposed to having actual knowledge and experience, and sometimes that gets me into trouble!
Maybe someone with expertise will come along to answer your question and say whether my approach is correct or the best one.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Where is this in default theme?OK, I got this to work and learned a bit more in the process. Thank you!
I really do have to get better at this, though. I feel like my questions are sometimes so elementary, it is embarrassing. Also it is frustrating that even when things work and look right, if I run my changes through a validation web site, there are errors that I don’t really understand how to fix. Because the page works, I leave it, but feel uneasy doing so thinking the errors may cause trouble with something else in the future. Oh well. Guess the thing to do is to keep studying and asking questions.
Thanks again for the time you put in helping!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Where is this in default theme?Now that’s an idea that conceptually even I can see working. Question is if I can pull it off???
So all I would have to do is in the page.php file, change “<div class=”content”>” to “<div class=”singlecontent”>”?
Then where in the style.css file would I put what is needed? Would I just add something like:
.singlecontent {
padding: 20px 0 0 15px;
float: left;
width: XYZpx;
margin-right: 17px;in the “main” section? Or would I need a new section? Right now my style.css file has header, main, sidebar, comments and footer sections.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Where is this in default theme?Thanks Rudolf. I am enough of a rookie with this that I am not sure I understand your suggestion. This:
<div class=”main”>
<div class=”content”>is in the page.php file and this:
.content {
padding: 20px 0 0 15px;
float: left;
width: 564px;
margin-right: 17pxis in the style.css file. The width reference in the style.css changes the content width of the post on the main blog screen, (maybe on all pages). I only want to change the content width on the “single” page screen where I removed the sidebar.
Sorry if I am confused and not following your suggestion correctly.
Maybe if vkaryl has time to look at the actual theme files I linked to above, it will be obvious what needs to be done.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Where is this in default theme?Thank you VERY much for your help. I could not find any reference to width in the single.php file. In the style.css, it seems only to control the “main” body width, but as I said, I am a novice, and a tired one at that!
But here is the link to the theme. Really appreciate you looking at it!
http://studio.st/i-feel-dirty/
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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Where is this in default theme?Actually I am not revising the default theme. I just liked the way the single post looked in the default theme and wanted the theme I am working with to have the same sort of clean looking single post page.
The theme I am working with is called “I Feel Dirty”.
I thought maybe you would know what file to look at to adjust the width of the content just for the single post page. I guess you are saying that is different in every theme?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: issue with sidebar on themeYou know, I had the same issue, but decided I did not want the side bar on the page that was doing it anyway. It was very frustrating as changes that seemed like they should be totally unrelated would cause it. I would undo the change by reverting back to a backup copy of the edited file and it would be fixed.
I did find the following site that has several suggestions. None of them worked for me, though!
http://wpthemepark.com/2006/10/13/sidebar-drops-down.html
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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Where is this in default theme?OK, guess I am getting tired, another look and I found it. Thanks
The last thing I would like to do tonight now that the side bar is gone on the single post page is adjust the width of the content just for that page. Of course I can’t find where to do that. Any ideas on that?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Where is this in default theme?OK – Thanks for the quick reply. These forums are a life saver, not just when posting, but when searching. It is amazing how many people have already had the same problem you are running into.
I have a single.php file and I did look at it so I am glad I was on the right track. I could not find anything that looked right to remove to not call the sidebar. However, I am a novice am probably missed it.
I’ll take another look and if I still can’t see it, maybe I can paste the code here and you will see it right away!
Thanks.
and thanks for that codx link. I use the codex all the time and find it written well enough even for a novice like me to understand. I had not come across that page though. Very helpful.