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IAMWW Forums » Recent Posts http://forums.iamww.com/ Theme Support and Discussions on WordPress en-US Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:04:48 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://forums.iamww.com/search.php margita on "Plugin" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=154#post-685 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:44:26 +0000 margita 685@http://forums.iamww.com/ Please, ignore the above. A solution has been found - something got corrupted. margita on "Plugin" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=154#post-684 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:03:37 +0000 margita 684@http://forums.iamww.com/ Sorry, I found a solution for the current_page_item in the header removing the HOME link: <li class="<?php if (((is_home()) && !(is_paged())) or (is_archive()) or (is_single()) or (is_paged()) or (is_search())) { ?>current_page_item<?php } else { ?>page_item<?php } ?>"> So, that seems to be resolved. I am now not sure if a code like this can be put into the sidebar? margita on "Plugin" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=154#post-683 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:18:03 +0000 margita 683@http://forums.iamww.com/ Hello, Sorry to come back with the following: in another post I asked how I could remove HOME from the menu. You very kindly advised me to remove: <ul class="navlist"> <li class="<?php if (((is_home()) && !(is_paged())) or (is_archive()) or (is_single()) or (is_paged()) or (is_search())) { ?>current_page_item<?php } else { ?>page_item<?php } ?>"> <a>">home</a> <?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li='); ?> <?php wp_register(' <li>','</li> '); ?> <li class="headright"><a href="javascript:;" onmousedown="toggleDiv('slickbox');" title="Browse the archives">browse ↓ to: <ul class="navlist"> <?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li='); ?> <?php wp_register(' <li>','</li> '); ?> <li class="headright"><a href="javascript:;" onmousedown="toggleDiv('slickbox');" title="Browse the archives">browse This worked as I said before. However, I then found out that this action also eliminated the "current_page_item" capabilities. This means that I would not be able to style "current_page_items". Would you be able to advise me how to remove the HOME link, but keep the "current_page_items" coding? In connection with this, this is exactly the problem I am having with styling the sidebar subpages in CSS. The sidebar page widget is not showing the "current_page-items" in the page source in my browser. I did manage to hide the subpages with the help of CSS, but I am unable to display the subpages on the current page because the "current-page_item" is not being added. Sorry for bothering you again - I hope to hear from you. Many thanks. iamww on "Plugin" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=154#post-682 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:03:52 +0000 iamww 682@http://forums.iamww.com/ margita - That would be one way you could do it. You want your output to be in the flow of the list items, so that's probably where I would do it. margita on "Plugin" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=154#post-681 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:50:38 +0000 margita 681@http://forums.iamww.com/ Many thanks. I am still trying. Just to confer with you: I am using sidebarleft. Would I be right in thinking that I would have to put the code in the ul id section sidebarleft and use the tag <li id = "pages-2" as this is what comes up when I analyze the page in the browser? Or can the whole code be put in the top section of the sidebar.php without the tag <li id ="pages-2"? I would really like to get to the bottom of this. Best regards. iamww on "Plugin" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=154#post-680 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:53:39 +0000 iamww 680@http://forums.iamww.com/ margita - I don't have any experience with what you are trying to do. I don't know of a plugin that will do this out of the box. In your code, changing the header tags shouldn't matter on whether it works or not. You are probably going to have to custom code something in the sidebar.php file to make this happen. I do believe you are on the right track using the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages">wp_list_pages</a> function. Since I am not familiar with trying to implement this and it is not specific to my theme, you would probably get a better answer if you asked this question on the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/">WordPress forums</a>. margita on "Plugin" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=154#post-679 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:39:54 +0000 margita 679@http://forums.iamww.com/ I very much apologise for coming back to this question. I have been trying to display subpages or subcategories only when the parent page or category is clicked in the sidebar. I have pasted countless suggested codes into the sidebar.php, but nothing worked. I noticed that the sidebar widget I have in my sidebar is classed as "pages-2" and the category one as "category-2". For the pages I tried for example this code: <li id="pages-2"> <?php if($post->post_parent) $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->post_parent."&echo=0"); else $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->ID."&echo=0"); if ($children) { ?> <h2> <?php $parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent); echo $parent_title; ?> </h2> <ul> <?php echo $children; ?> </ul> <?php } ?> I tried all kinds of combinations with <h3> and <h2> - nothing worked. The same thing hapened when I tried the categories code. The sidebar.php does not list anything on pages, so I tried to add a code to the page.php, but it didn't work either. I know I have taken up a lot of your time before, so I apologise for having to come back to you again and I hope you will forgive me, but I would really very much like to find out why I am not succeeding. Many thanks. boogan on "How do I remove "Register" from the Navagation Bar?" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=155#post-678 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:01:15 +0000 boogan 678@http://forums.iamww.com/ That was way too easy. Thanks a bunch! iamww on "How do I remove "Register" from the Navagation Bar?" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=155#post-677 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:41:40 +0000 iamww 677@http://forums.iamww.com/ Go to WordPress admin > General settings and remove the check for "Anyone can register" then save the settings. However, if you still want to allow registration and just remove the link, edit the header.php theme file and remove the following line of code: <code><?php wp_register('<li>','</li>'); ?></code> boogan on "How do I remove "Register" from the Navagation Bar?" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=155#post-676 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:11:31 +0000 boogan 676@http://forums.iamww.com/ How do I remove "Register" from the Navagation Bar? I love the theme, thanks! margita on "Plugin" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=154#post-675 Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:50:53 +0000 margita 675@http://forums.iamww.com/ Hello, I hope you can help with the following: I installed several plugins for subpage listing - such as Hierarchical Pages and Flexi Pages Widget. I would like pages to be shown in the sidebar without the subpages, but show the subpages only when the current page which has subpages is clicked. None of the plugins have worked. So I was wondering if I have to alter a code somewhere in sidebar.php? Many thanks. Many thanks. margita on "Another sidebar question" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=153#post-674 Mon, 24 May 2010 13:47:35 +0000 margita 674@http://forums.iamww.com/ A BIG THANK YOU. This is a relief. Best wishes. iamww on "Another sidebar question" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=153#post-673 Mon, 24 May 2010 13:11:22 +0000 iamww 673@http://forums.iamww.com/ Looks like it's working fine. margita on "Another sidebar question" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=153#post-672 Mon, 24 May 2010 12:19:36 +0000 margita 672@http://forums.iamww.com/ Hello, I found the following code in the index.php, category.php and archive.php under the post and except class: <?php the_content('Continue reading...', FALSE, '', 100); ?> and <?php the_content('Read more...'); ?> (for the post - I changed the words when I started with the set up). I have replaced the codes in all the templates with: <?php the_excerpt(); ?> <a>" title="Read the rest of <?php the_title(); ?>" class="more-link">Read more</a> This is all working fine. I hope I have done the correct thing? Many thanks. iamww on "Another sidebar question" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=153#post-671 Sun, 23 May 2010 13:09:06 +0000 iamww 671@http://forums.iamww.com/ I'm not sure what you are exactly looking for but, I think you are now referring to the links at the bottom of the excerpt on category pages. The category.php file contains the following code: <code><?php the_content_rss('Continue Reading...', FALSE, '', 100); ?></code> This is what is displaying your content excerpt and the "Continue Reading..." link. This title of the article and this link both point to the posts page. If you wanted a link pointing to the post's page at the top of the posts in the categories, you could use something like the the_permalink function - <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_permalink" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_permalink</a>. I hope that helps. margita on "Another sidebar question" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=153#post-670 Sun, 23 May 2010 08:55:58 +0000 margita 670@http://forums.iamww.com/ MANY THANKS! I succeeded in changing the header for the navigation. I also managed to move the search fields down a little. This displays very well in Firefox, but in IE8 it is not aligning the way it does in Firefox - I tried to manipulate the relative position a little with margins set to 0, but it is not exactly wonderful in IE The "Read more" link is on the Articles page and the "Continue reading" link is in the archives link in the side bar. I am puzzled because you mention the <?php the_content_rss(); ?> function which I didn't find anywhere in your templates. I would like to keep these links if this is possible, displaying the destination page starting at the top, not the middle. I am emailing you the url of the site. iamww on "Another sidebar question" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=153#post-669 Sat, 22 May 2010 22:37:25 +0000 iamww 669@http://forums.iamww.com/ I'm still not understanding what you mean by the "Continue Reading" links. Send me a link to your site to wmwilkins at gmail dot com and I will try to help. To remove the home link from the header change this code in the header.php file: <pre><code><ul class="navlist"> <li class="<?php if (((is_home()) && !(is_paged())) or (is_archive()) or (is_single()) or (is_paged()) or (is_search())) { ?>current_page_item<?php } else { ?>page_item<?php } ?>"> <a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>">home</a></li> <?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li='); ?> <?php wp_register('<li>','</li>'); ?> <li class="headright"><a href="javascript:;" onmousedown="toggleDiv('slickbox');" title="Browse the archives">browse ↓</a></li> </ul></code></pre> To: <pre><code><ul class="navlist"> <?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li='); ?> <?php wp_register('<li>','</li>'); ?> <li class="headright"><a href="javascript:;" onmousedown="toggleDiv('slickbox');" title="Browse the archives">browse ↓</a></li> </ul></code></pre> margita on "Another sidebar question" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=153#post-668 Sat, 22 May 2010 16:07:34 +0000 margita 668@http://forums.iamww.com/ Many thanks for this. I will play with the search box and hope to succeed. Regarding the "more links", I take it that it also applies to "Continue reading". Do you mean to say that I should not use them at all? What can I use instead of "read more" as I would like to have only a few lines on that page and have the full article on another page? I succeeded in changing the front page to the static page and creating another link for the posts. Howver, I am having great difficulty in editing the navigation links in the header.php. I am not sure how I can delete "Home" and have the navigation bar show only "About" instead of the default "Home" which is still there. Sorry for asking more questions about this and I am very grateful for your patience. iamww on "Another sidebar question" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=153#post-667 Sat, 22 May 2010 15:34:14 +0000 iamww 667@http://forums.iamww.com/ The main navigation links are in the header.php file. Once you have removed the RSS feed, you will need to adjust the CSS for the #global-search div and the enclosed elements to get the alignment that you want. Adjusting the top margin or padding should allow you to move the elements down. The "read more" links should not show up on the post's page at all. The theme uses the old <code><?php the_content_rss(); ?></code> function to insert the link to the full post. You can read more about it <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content_rss">here</a>. margita on "Another sidebar question" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=153#post-666 Sat, 22 May 2010 14:23:46 +0000 margita 666@http://forums.iamww.com/ Many thanks for your kind reply. I will try this out and I hope I'll succeed. I take it that I will have to find the navigation links in one of the templates to change them. I hope you won't mind if I ask about the following: I have changed the size of the search box and input field in the header. This is OK, but I would like to align the bottom of these two boxes. I haven't worked out how to do this. They look OK, but are slightly out of alignment at the bottom. I will also delete the RSS feed below and I will need to move the search box plus input field down. Could you possibly advise me on this? The other question is on "Read more" and "Continue reading" links. These link end up in the middle on the relevant pages. I would prefer them to end up on the page in the normal way (starting at the top). I haven't worked out how to do this either - I can't find the reference. Could you help me with this as well? Many thanks and best wishes. iamww on "Another sidebar question" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=153#post-665 Sat, 22 May 2010 12:55:40 +0000 iamww 665@http://forums.iamww.com/ It sounds like you are figuring it out. Changing the content and sidebar float directions and the margins on those containers should fix the layout to how you want it. Most of the font-sizes are based on ems, so if you change the wrong setting somewhere it could make all of the font-sizes change. You should also be able to create a static front-page using the instructions <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page">here</a>. margita on "Another sidebar question" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=153#post-664 Sat, 22 May 2010 05:11:55 +0000 margita 664@http://forums.iamww.com/ Many thanks for your reply. I think I managed to move the left sidebar to the right by editing the style sheet: float right. Both sidebarright and sidebar left are now on the right in one column as I wanted. I hope I did it correctly. Also, if I wanted to move all the sidebars to the left and the post content to the right, I take it that all I would need to do would be to edit the direction of the float in the CSS for all the elements? I would be grateful if you could look at my site, but I am trying out the site at the moment - can I email you privately the name of the site? I like your template very much and I have a couple of questions: 1. When I change the size of the font, the font appears to be smaller than it should be, so I have to increase it. Is this normal? 2. I am not sure if I can ask this question here or create another post for it: is it possible to have the About page as the landing page instead of the Home (for Posts) as it is in your template? Many thanks again for your help. iamww on "Another sidebar question" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=153#post-663 Fri, 21 May 2010 23:27:20 +0000 iamww 663@http://forums.iamww.com/ Do you have a site we can see? What instructions did you follow? margita on "Another sidebar question" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=153#post-662 Wed, 19 May 2010 13:58:13 +0000 margita 662@http://forums.iamww.com/ I apologize beforehand if this question has been dealt with before. Actually it has been asked before, but it didn't work for me: I am trying out the IAMWW w2 dnd template and followed the instructions to change the two sidebars into one. Alas, it didn't work - the sidebar has completely disappeared. I also made sure I changed the sidebarright and sidebarleft to sidebar1 and sidebar2 in the stylesheet. I would be most grateful for your help. Many thanks. iamww on "media gallery not working" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=151#post-661 Fri, 07 May 2010 23:57:49 +0000 iamww 661@http://forums.iamww.com/ Thanks for sharing the fix Tipiloo. That Sandbox function is probably left over from before the days when WordPress had the built in gallery shortcodes. Tipiloo on "media gallery not working" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=151#post-660 Fri, 07 May 2010 18:44:27 +0000 Tipiloo 660@http://forums.iamww.com/ I guess I did figure my way around the problem - but I'll elaborate here in case anyone else also faces it. More specifically, my problem was that no images show up at all when I insert a gallery. I narrowed the problem to a conflict with the theme. I don't know what is the conflict but it's fixed if in the file functions.php I comment out the line: add_shortcode( 'gallery', 'sandbox_gallery' ); This is easier than commenting out the actual function sandbox_gallery() - which is what I did at first. So now I can add a gallery BUT if I also want the gallery to work with fancybox for wordpress, it doesn't (weirdness I can't easily describe). This I fixed with a small change to styles.css In the constants area there is a line: a{background: inherit;color:#3B3B3B;text-decoration:none;outline: none;font-weight: bold;} fancybox works if I remove background: inherit - so that it looks like this: a{color:#3B3B3B;text-decoration:none;outline: none;font-weight: bold;} iamww on "media gallery not working" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=151#post-659 Thu, 06 May 2010 23:57:43 +0000 iamww 659@http://forums.iamww.com/ I'm note sure what you mean about the "gallery function in functions.php", but did that solve your issue? Tipiloo on "media gallery not working" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=151#post-658 Tue, 04 May 2010 16:56:18 +0000 Tipiloo 658@http://forums.iamww.com/ If I comment out the gallery function in functions.php it works. At least it's a work-around. iamww on "image in "about me" text" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=152#post-657 Tue, 04 May 2010 01:13:50 +0000 iamww 657@http://forums.iamww.com/ You'll have to target the positioning of the image with CSS. Position the image with something like the snippet below... <code>#sidebar li.about img</code> shannalg on "image in "about me" text" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=152#post-656 Sun, 02 May 2010 23:27:00 +0000 shannalg 656@http://forums.iamww.com/ Is it possible to post an image in the "about me" text and keep the text as well? I've tried, but then my image covers the text. Tipiloo on "media gallery not working" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=151#post-655 Sun, 02 May 2010 08:35:04 +0000 Tipiloo 655@http://forums.iamww.com/ Hi there! I'm trying to create a page containing a media gallery (no plugins) and it doesn't work. No images show up. But when I switch the theme to anything else the images are all there. Any clues to how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. I'll just take this opportunity to also mention how much I love the minimalizm of this theme. Thanks for creating & maintaining it! iamww on "Real problems with Internet Explorer" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=150#post-654 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:46:42 +0000 iamww 654@http://forums.iamww.com/ Charlotte - Flash/Youtube embeds aren't usually going to validate, but they shouldn't break the display of your site if everything else validates and embed tags are closed properly... To try getting the main content background to learn first, you could try declaring the background color earlier in the stylesheet. Put this: <code>#container {background:#fff;}</code> As one of the first things in your stylesheet. I'm not sure how much this will help though. The main issue with the content background being delayed in loading is the amount of content that you are displaying on the site, the videos loading and all of the stylesheets and JavaScript that is loading on the site. Some of the extra assets are being loaded by plugins you are using. The site takes an average of 3 seconds to load. Another thing that may be delaying the site load is that you have two different Google Analytics tracking codes loading on the site. One is the old urchin.js and the other is the new ga.js. You should be able to remove the old urchin.js tracking code. The new ga.js codes are also loading after the ending body and html tags. These should be inserted before the ending body tag. These items may be loaded by a plugin so I would check into that too. Screenshot: <a href="http://drp.ly/T072Y" rel="nofollow">http://drp.ly/T072Y</a> My best advise would be to clean up the HTML as much as possible, get rid of any plugins, CSS and JavaScript that you don't need and then look into a caching plugin like W3 Total Cache. These steps will help your site load fast. Charlotte on "Real problems with Internet Explorer" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=150#post-653 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:27:50 +0000 Charlotte 653@http://forums.iamww.com/ Thanks so much for this. That did really help. I'm now working my way through the errors and it seems to be going well. It really doesn't seem to like youtube embed codes though. I have one last (hopefully) question, and I know it's a really dumb one, but how do you get the background of the main content to load first, it loads last for me and would be better the other way round. Thanks again, Charlotte iamww on "Real problems with Internet Explorer" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=150#post-652 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:25:28 +0000 iamww 652@http://forums.iamww.com/ I can almost guarantee most of the IE display errors are because of the broken site structure. The biggest issue that needs to be fixed first is that the favicon link is being output into the page before the DOCTYPE declaration. If you view the source of the site, you will see this as the first line in the HTML: <code><link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="http://www.fromwithinfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/favicon.ico"></code> I'm not sure if you have put this in your theme files or it is being inserted by a plugin. Either way, that statement should be inside the <head> element, not before the DOCTYPE declaration. I believe once that is fixed, you should be able to start walking through the validation errors and fixing some problems. Charlotte on "Real problems with Internet Explorer" http://forums.iamww.com/topic.php?id=150#post-651 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 07:47:50 +0000 Charlotte 651@http://forums.iamww.com/ Hey, Really hoping this is an easy fix. I'm working on <a href="http://www.thedocumentaryblog.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.thedocumentaryblog.com</a> The site works fine in Firefox and Safari. I've run it through tests in various versions of I.E. and it seems to be dying. One version puts the entire site justified to the left and wont load properly, others put the footer to the right. I ran it through the validator and got over 100 errors, a lot of which are just othe css things I can fix easily but it doesn't seem to recognise the DOCTYPE declaration that's in header.php (I don't think I moved it, isn't this where it's placed in the theme?) I have this at the top of header.php <pre><code><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>> <head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11"></code></pre> Any advice/suggestions would be really appreciated, I'm beyond stuck. Thanks, C