Comments on: Blogging Your Church with WordPress:– Tweaking a theme

By: Steph

Steph — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:08:37 +0000

Hi Tim,

I’m attempting to setup a site using Alpha. Is there an easy explanation on how to change the width of the main menu buttons? Currently, my buttons are appearing on two lines and overlapping each other. Everything I’ve tried seems to make it worse. I’m a relative novice at editing css code. Thanks for your help.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:25:44 +0000

You probably just need to set width to some value for element in question. But, be careful of the IE box model. If you give something width, don’t use padding.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:22:59 +0000

Is there a way of locking the header buttons to one size in Upsilon rather than according to word length?

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:33:26 +0000

Actually what you need to do is edit the index.php file in the theme you are using and add the code that inserts the coments stuff. It is probably just one line of code that calls the comments template. Copy and paste from your single.php file.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:56:38 +0000

OK, I get it thanks - what I want to do then is have the front (home) page as a post single page of the latest entry so that Comments Form appears underneath. How do I do that please? Andrew

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:34:29 +0000

It is but it all themes do this and actually your site does have a comments field at the end of the post. You must be on your posts single page (not home). It can be turned off in the Dashboard, but by default comments are on.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:18:29 +0000

Hi Tim, I know it’s off topic, so feel free to delete this, but I’ve searched the Wordpress Support Forum and can’t find how I can set a theme to display this Comment form ‘Leave a reply’ after each post, ie. an open box like this you have inviting comments? I think it’s very inviting and encourages interaction. Any suggestions please? Thanks, Andrew
PS. the site is at http://www.anamchara.org.uk/andrew

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:58:44 +0000

Done! (Although I do have a problem with editing out certain text, but worked around it!)

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:57:16 +0000

Arggh! Here, I’ll try again!

div id=”myGallery”
div class=”imageElement”
Item 1 Title
Item 1 Description
a href=”mypage1.html” title=”open image” class=”open”
img src=”images/brugges2006/1.jpg” class=”full” /
img src=”images/brugges2006/1-mini.jpg” class=”thumbnail” /

div class=”imageElement”
Item 2 Title
Item 2 Description
a href=”mypage2.html” title=”open image” class=”open”
img src=”images/brugges2006/2.jpg” class=”full” /
img src=”images/brugges2006/2-mini.jpg” class=”thumbnail” /

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:54:46 +0000

Sorry about that. I found all the code entries mentioned at smoothgallery’s site, but not “myGallery”, namely:

Item 1 Title
Item 1 Description

Item 2 Title
Item 2 Description

So I can’t change the elements. Also the captions or the links are specified where? as when you show carousel and arrows, you have your edited captions in there. I have tried to turn off captions (carousel or links) and retain the timed slideshow to no avail.

function startGallery() {
var myGallery = new gallery($(’myGallery’), {
timed: true,
showArrows: false,
showCarousel: false
});
}
window.onDomReady(startGallery);