emilekott
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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Customising Blog PageIf you want to assign the template to all of your posts (when shown in a list) then simply edit the category.php file in your template (you don’t need to put any template name in the header – this is done for building special page – not post – templates).
If your blog posts are in a certain category (eg blog) then you can change the way that this category is displayed by adding a category-blog.php file and changing this…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to add several posts pagesSetup 2 categories – blog and movies.
Go to appearance – menu. Add blog and movies categories to menu
Create some posts and assign to the categories.
Go to your front end and click on one of the menu items and you will see that clicking on movies will show you just movie posts…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to add several posts pagesDid you make a ‘movie library’ category? and this category (page) is empty?
If you create a (blank) page and assign it as the default post page in the reading settings, then all the posts will appear here no matter what category they are in.
If you want to have 2 separate posts pages, how about having a ‘blog’ category and a ‘movies’ category.
When you view /category/blog/ you will see the blog posts and /category/movies ,you will see the movie posts…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: custom fields for thumbnails?Also would highly recommend this plugin: http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/custom-field-template/
It allows you to have a Browse… box and upload a file in a custom field
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to add several posts pagesThe posts page that you set in the reading settings is just the default post page that every single post (no matter what category) is added to.
If you add posts to a specific category, then they will be shown on page for that category.
For instance if you have a category of cars and assign some posts to it, (depending on your permalink settings), you will be able to view the posts by going to /category/cars
If you want to display multiple categories on a single page and display the posts sorted into categories etc, you would need to create a custom template and use WP_Query: http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Class_Reference/WP_Query
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Question about table formatting (alignment issues)Can you link to the content?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to trigger the dropdown menuI have writtern a tutorial of how to make your own drop-down menus from scratch.
If you can give a link to your site, it may be easier to help you.
Cheers
Emile
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Two Separate Pages for Posts?The most straightforward way is to make 2 categories of posts. For instance, you could call one category General and the other Industry.
When you post, you can choose which category the post is in. Depending on your permalink settings, you could then see a “separate blog” for each category by going to yoursite.com/category/general/ or yoursite.com/category/industry/
You can then link to these using the wordpress menu (if your theme allows).
For instance on my porfolio site, I have a portfolio category so as I add new client posts, they will automatically appear on the porfolio category page: take a look at the acroweb web design portfolio category
Hope that helps
Cheers
Emile
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Help me implement this layoutThis tutorial might be helpful to you.
But I reccomend getting a good basic understanding of html and css before.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Problem with Firefox and ChromeCan you be more specific – what problems do you have? I have looked at the site in Firefox and IE it looks similar in both.
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Emile
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Site Not Loading Properly In Internet ExplorerHi,
When I open in internet explorer 7, it looks very similar to firefox.
Which version of internet explorer are you having the problem with?
Cheers
EmileForum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: PSD to WordPressHi John,
There isn’t really an automatic way of doing this. Quite often I work from flat designs (in photoshop) in order to produce a wordpress theme and I tend to work as follows:
1. Work out which parts of the psd file will be text and which are graphical.
2. Manually slice up the psd file and convert it into the smaller images necessary as well as working out where the text fits in etc.
3. Reproduce your psd in simple html with a css file. Check out w3schools for help with this.
4. Convert your html and css into a fully functioning wordpress theme – take a look at Sam Parkinson’s great tutorial.
5. Add some nice custom css drop-down menus to your theme.Hope that helps a bit.
Cheers
EmileForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Need to remove primary doman name in Header above image2 ways to remove it.
1. As above, by editing your style.css file found in /wp-content/themes/twentyten/
2. Edit the header.php file in the same directory. It should say this:
<a href="<?php echo home_url( '/' ); ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ) ); ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></a>This is line 154 and is the php that echos the blog name to the top of the screen.
Before you go hacking apart a theme, check out Sam Parkinsons great tutorial on building a wordpress theme from scratch.
Cheers
EmileForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Upgraded to 3.0.1 for menu , cant drop down menuI have just written a tutorial for this very problem.
Check out how to add horizontal drop-down css menus to your custom wordpress theme (from scratch).
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Upgraded to 3.0.1 for menu , cant drop down menuThe 3.0.1 menu system creates un-numbered lists as your menus.
When you have a sub menu item, it nests the un-numbered lists.
Using css you can transform these nested un-numbered lists into drop down menus.
However, you cannot just copy and paste the code I gave you unless you have added the relevant div to your php template.
Open your header.php file and take a look.
Try replacing:
<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'sort_column' => 'menu_order', 'container_class' => 'menu-header' ) ); ?>with
<div id="access"> <?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'sort_column' => 'menu_order', 'container_class' => 'menu-header' ) ); ?> </div>This will put the nav menu into the #access div (which is what is being styled by the above css).
I am just guessing here as I cannot see your code. If that doesn’t work, upload your header.php code and I will take a look for you.