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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: how to remove sidebar?Create a template for that page.
<?php /* Template Name: templatenamehere */ ?>Open page.php and then add the following to the top:
adding whatever name you want to give the template. Then remove the <? get_sidebar(); ?> from the page and SAVE AS nosidebar.php and upload. Now in the manage pages edit your forums page and assign it to this template on the right hand side where it says page template.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Can’t get any new themes to workCould be something wrong with your CSS file. Have you got a URL that we could look at?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to add my own links and remove the existing ones?You will need to add another DIV in the header and style it in your style sheet. Inside the div you will need to create the links to the pages you want.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Editing background color with background photos presentMake the background colour of your body tag (currently transparent) the same colour (391B08) as the bottom of your body background image.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to add my own links and remove the existing ones?Yes. Go to Presentation > Theme Editor. The files must be writeable to the server.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to add my own links and remove the existing ones?You need to edit your sidebar.php file in your themes folder and also your footer.php file in your themes folder. You will find those bits in those two files.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Navigation Covers ContentIf you let me have the site URL I can try and work it out
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to test the browser compatibilty of your WordPress blog?I have noticed this for Firefox windows users which enables you to view IE inside Firefox. But this doesn’t allow testing on a mac etc.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
If you find a solution then it would be good to know.
Yes once you have installed you can access the admin section online at yourdomain.com/wp-admin
WordPress is great for a CMS and I use it for my clients all the time. Take a look at two of the examples of sites that I have created as a CMS below:
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Position Problem (IE and Firefox)Great glad its sorted for you.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Theme No Longer WorkingExcellent and glad you got it sorted. I use the fasttrack theme and it is easy to modify to. My blog shows a modified version:
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Theme No Longer WorkingGood idea.
The screenshots on the homepage come from the screenshot image that is in your theme folder.
Have you changed the name of the theme folder?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Position Problem (IE and Firefox)The content div is to wide. Make it narrower.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Theme No Longer WorkingIf it is set to 777 then this means that the files can do anything so maybe that is not the problem.
Try selecting a different theme (maybe back to the standard) and then see if that works.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Changing the font color in post titlesChange the colour in line 125 (currently 333333) to whatever you want. That should do it.