Extending the border

  • Resolved mythuk

    (@mythuk)


    19 years, 9 months ago

    Hi guys

    Total n00b to wordpress as of today, so please be gentle. I’ve got no knowledge of CSS, PHP or HTML so this whole process has been a steep learning curve, but I’ve found these forums really really useful so far. Here’s hoping someone can help with my next issue!

    Basically my site is http://www.mediagoblin.co.uk and as you can see I’ve amended the footer to include my own disclaimer. The thing is I’d like to extend the border of the theme so that it also encloses this extended footer. I’m sure there’s a way to do this but I’ve had a play in several of the php files and the style.css file, and I can’t work out how to do it!

    can anyone help?
    thanks
    mythuk

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    19 years, 9 months ago

    I am not sure I understand what the “extending the border” means…
    But, before you answer, you should consider using another theme if you wan to make omodifications – the default is difficult to modify for a newbie.
    http://themes.wordpress.net

    p.s. you cannot change the footer – it’s an image:
    http://www.mediagoblin.co.uk/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickfooter.jpg

    theiconoclast31

    (@theiconoclast31)

    19 years, 9 months ago

    This is best WordPress theme guide in my humble opinion: http://www.urbangiraffe.com/themes/guides/

    If I understand you correctly, you want to move the Comments (RSS) and Entries (RSS) text up so that it’s inside the border image. This is your footer right now:

    <div id="footer">
    mediaGoblin is proudly powered by <a href="linkremoved">WordPress</a>
    <br>
    <font color="#C0C0C0">This site is a work of fiction and...(snip) contact admin</font><a href="linkremoved">here</a>
    <br/>
    <br/>
    <a href="linkremoved">Entries (RSS)</a>
    and <a href="linkremoved">Comments (RSS)</a>.
    <!-- 21 queries. 0.393 seconds. -->
    </div>

    Just move the two <br>s in a row to just below the </p> and it should look okay.

    Thread Starter mythuk

    (@mythuk)

    19 years, 9 months ago

    thanks for the replies guys. I’ll have a good look at the themes and see if there’a anything that takes my fancy. I presume any changes I make to the default will need to be done again if I change the theme?

    regarding my question above (i’d still like to know, just to improve my understanding!), sorry I wasn’t clear, but I think theiconoclast31 knows what I mean. At the bottom of the page where there is now my text disclaimer, the ‘Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS).’ text has been pushed lower and now sits outside (what I’m guessing is) the footer image.

    I’ve tried theiconoclast31’s suggestion but it doesn’t seem to work, unless I’m doing it wrong. Is there anything else I can do?

    Thread Starter mythuk

    (@mythuk)

    19 years, 9 months ago

    ok I think I’ve sort of sorted it out. I’ve used another theme and that looks a lot better than it did. I don’t think I understood the true nature of the footer being an image, so that confused things!

    thanks for your help guys, I’m sure i’ll be on these forums many times in the coming months/yeard/decades!

    mythuk

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