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WP Theme Support: Recent Posts http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ post your questions here! en Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:41:02 +0000 ulysses on "Make Black-Letterhead 960px wide" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=34#post-113 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:26:09 +0000 ulysses 113@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Yes, make the following changes to the original stylesheet: #page { width: 960px; } #footer { width: 960px; } #sidebar { margin-left: 745px; } .narrowcolumn { width: 650px; } .widecolumn { width: 650px; } ulysses on "Make Black-Letterhead 960px wide" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=34#post-112 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:22:04 +0000 ulysses 112@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Is there a way to make Black-Letterhead 1.6.1 default to the wide (960) pixels version when a user lands of the page without forcing the user to use the preferences link at the bottom? ulysses on "Theme Toolkit" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=33#post-111 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:20:09 +0000 ulysses 111@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ If you want to apply the Theme Toolkit to version 1.6.1, you can start by downloading Black-Letterhead 1.4 with the Theme Toolkit. 1. Copy the themetoolkit.php and rotate.php files to the 1.6.1 folder. 2. Open up the 1.4 functions.php and add it to functions.php of 1.6.1. 3. Open up the 1.4 header.php and copy the first line to the header.php of 1.6.1. 4. Also copy the following functions in header.php to the header.php of 1.6.1. There are 5 lines of code starting with <code><?php blackletterhead_sidebar(); ?></code> ulysses on "Theme Toolkit" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=33#post-110 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:59:34 +0000 ulysses 110@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ I see the Theme Toolkit was not included with the newest version of black-letterhead 1.6.1. I tried placing the 1.4 version Theme Toolkit into the 1.6.1 root directory, but Wordpress is not recognizing (displaying) the Toolkit in the 1.6.1 newest update. Any idea how to get Theme Toolkit working with the new update? ulysses on "Deactivating comments" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=32#post-109 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:40:35 +0000 ulysses 109@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ D38, The code you are looking for is inside post.php. Just look for it and place HTML remarks around it like this: <code></code> d38 on "Deactivating comments" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=32#post-108 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:17:45 +0000 d38 108@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Ulysses, I've deactivated post comments. Yet each post appears with a "Leave a comment" link that leads to the post page and a note that comments are closed. Is there a way to eliminate the "Leave a comment" link on posts for which comments are closed? In my case that would be all posts. Thanks. d38 Black-Letterhead 1.5 emmajames on "Google Analytics" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=31#post-107 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:05:26 +0000 emmajames 107@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ oh rock on!!!! thank you thank you thank you! you have saved me countless more days of tugging at my ears, chewing my hair, and generally going mad! ulysses on "Google Analytics" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=31#post-106 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:22:21 +0000 ulysses 106@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ emma, the <code></body></code> is in footer.php. emmajames on "Google Analytics" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=31#post-105 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:13:33 +0000 emmajames 105@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ I'm using the Black Letterhead at my sight - <a href="http://pleasurenotes.com" rel="nofollow">http://pleasurenotes.com</a> - and want to hook up to Google Analytics. I'm supposed to paste some code someplace so Google can track me, but I can't for the life of me figure out where it is supposed to go - please help!! (I need step-by-step instructions specifically for this theme, because I tried to follow Google's instructions and couldn't find anywhere the </body> marker to which they were referring.) Thanks! -emma Mikkel on "add new page, but NOT show in menu" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=30#post-104 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:51:46 +0000 Mikkel 104@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ figured it out, using this plugin.. <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/</a> thx for a great theme :) Mikkel on "add new page, but NOT show in menu" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=30#post-103 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:43:03 +0000 Mikkel 103@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Hi, i'm currently building a webpage using the Mountain dawn theme is it possible to add a new page that is not added to the menu?.. bedst regards - Mikkel ulysses on "BLH 1.6 Footer Glitch with IE" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=29#post-102 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:50:28 +0000 ulysses 102@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ just the footer issue with IE. Atlas Cerise on "BLH 1.6 Footer Glitch with IE" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=29#post-101 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:57:19 +0000 Atlas Cerise 101@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Did you make any other changes to BLH 1.6.1, or was it primarily the IE fix? Atlas Cerise on "BLH 1.6 Footer Glitch with IE" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=29#post-100 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:11:58 +0000 Atlas Cerise 100@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Awesome. You rock. Thanks. ulysses on "BLH 1.6 Footer Glitch with IE" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=29#post-99 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:19:44 +0000 ulysses 99@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Atlas, the footer is working! I just checked in IE 7. Atlas Cerise on "BLH 1.6 Footer Glitch with IE" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=29#post-98 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:46:48 +0000 Atlas Cerise 98@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Okay, I uploaded your sidebar.php minus the <code><h2><a href=";">Preferences</a> ← click</h2></code> line (I don't want theme changing). I have not tested it in IE7 yet (I am on a Mac) but I will. If you have access to it faster, give it a shot. <a href="http://www.oldfishandlemonade.com" rel="nofollow">www.oldfishandlemonade.com</a> Thanks for the patch, here's hoping it works. ulysses on "BLH 1.6 Footer Glitch with IE" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=29#post-97 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:50:13 +0000 ulysses 97@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Hmm, it didn't work? Do you have a link so I can take a look at it? Here's the sidebar.php file. Please download and test. <a href="http://ulyssesonline.com/files/sidebar.php.zip">sidebar.php.zip</a> Atlas Cerise on "BLH 1.6 Footer Glitch with IE" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=29#post-96 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:46:41 +0000 Atlas Cerise 96@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ I am probably pasting this wrong or something, but when I do, it moves everything within the footer to the right and out of the "box" so to speak. It does this in Firefox and Safari. I'm 99.9% sure it's me pasting it incorrectly, though, and not your code. I assume it goes in the Sidebar.php file, right? Where do I start in terms of replacing the code, and what do I "past over" and where do I stop? Thanks again. FWIW, I, too, HATE IE as well :) ulysses on "BLH 1.6 Footer Glitch with IE" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=29#post-95 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:16:49 +0000 ulysses 95@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Atlas, Thanks for pointing out the display issue with IE7. Yes, I checked it and sure enough, IE 7 was not rendering the HTML code correctly. Safari and Firefox were just fine. I thought it was a missing closing div at first, but it turned out to be an issue with IE 7 using this format <code><li><h2></h2></li>.</code> Hmmm. Still scratching my head about that one. That's a valid code. Anyways, I will release 1.6.1 in a few days. In the meantime, here is the code. The first line just adds a break statement if the browser is IE. Again, IE behaves erratically. I hate working with IE. :) You always have to put some kind of trick to make it display properly. In addition, notice <code><h2></code> is no longer encapsulated with <code><li>.</code> <pre><code><?php if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) && (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE') !== false)) { ?> <?} else {} ?> <h2><a href="javascript:;" onmousedown="toggleSlide('mydiv');">Preferences</a> &larr; click</h2> <div id="mydiv" style="display:none; overflow:hidden; height:70px;"> <ul> <li>Narrow <ul><li> <a href="#" onclick="setActiveStyleSheet('style'); return false;">O</a> &middot <a href="#" onclick="setActiveStyleSheet('red'); return false;">R</a> &middot <a href="#" onclick="setActiveStyleSheet('blue'); return false;">B</a> &middot <a href="#" onclick="setActiveStyleSheet('green'); return false;">G</a> &middot <a href="#" onclick="setActiveStyleSheet('yellow'); return false;">Y</a> &middot <a href="#" onclick="setActiveStyleSheet('purple'); return false;">P</a> &middot <a href="#" onclick="setActiveStyleSheet('teal'); return false;">T</a> </li></ul> </li> <li>Wide <ul><li> <a href="#" onclick="setActiveStyleSheet('wide'); return false;">O</a> &middot <a href="#" onclick="setActiveStyleSheet('redw'); return false;">R</a> &middot <a href="#" onclick="setActiveStyleSheet('bluew'); return false;">B</a> &middot <a href="#" onclick="setActiveStyleSheet('greenw'); return false;">G</a> &middot <a href="#" onclick="setActiveStyleSheet('yelloww'); return false;">Y</a> &middot <a href="#" onclick="setActiveStyleSheet('purplew'); return false;">P</a> &middot <a href="#" onclick="setActiveStyleSheet('tealw'); return false;">T</a> </li></ul> </li> </ul> </div></code></pre> Anyways, test it. Please let me know how it goes. Atlas Cerise on "BLH 1.6 Footer Glitch with IE" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=29#post-94 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:15:30 +0000 Atlas Cerise 94@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ The footer information does not display correctly in IE7. It is placed at the bottom of the page, instead of within the proper paginated area. Here is how it looks in IE: <a href="http://www.oldfishandlemonade.com/blh_ie.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.oldfishandlemonade.com/blh_ie.png</a> And here is the correct display from Safari (which also displays properly in Firefox): <a href="http://www.oldfishandlemonade.com/blh_safari.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.oldfishandlemonade.com/blh_safari.png</a> I thought maybe I screwed something up because I modified the stylesheet, but these grabs are from your site. It's a minor thing, really, and more of an annoyance than anything. If you are able to fix it, please post the necessary code so I can paste it into my stylesheet as well (if that is, indeed, where the bug lies). Thanks much. Atlas Cerise on "Threaded comment - reply box size" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=28#post-93 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:26:51 +0000 Atlas Cerise 93@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Never mind, I see where you changed the code. Looks fine now. Atlas Cerise on "Threaded comment - reply box size" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=28#post-92 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:15:18 +0000 Atlas Cerise 92@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Did you change the code for the size of the reply box on your site? You only have 5 or 6 pixels of space between replies on your threaded comments, but I am getting a lot more space on mine (about the size of a medium gravatar). Any ideas what would be causing this? You can see an example here: <a href="http://www.oldfishandlemonade.com/index.php/2008/12/why-yes-yes-you-are/#comments" rel="nofollow">http://www.oldfishandlemonade.com/index.php/2008/12/why-yes-yes-you-are/#comments</a> ulysses on "Mountain Dawn header image" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=27#post-91 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:58:55 +0000 ulysses 91@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Sunnycoast. Please post your link? So, I can take a look at it. ulysses on "WordPress 2.7 compatibility" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=23#post-90 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:57:08 +0000 ulysses 90@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ neandergal, i just checked your page. the widgets are in the sidebar! im using firefox browser. sunnycoast on "Mountain Dawn header image" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=27#post-89 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:01:13 +0000 sunnycoast 89@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Have looked and tried same instructions for Darkletter though cannot get an image to appear on header. Also how do you get pages under a parent page NOT to all show nav bar - do I have to turn something on or off. Site is more a site than blog so lots of pages. Thanks in advance neandergal on "WordPress 2.7 compatibility" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=23#post-88 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:06:09 +0000 neandergal 88@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ I have just added a new post and found that my delicious and pages widgets are now at the bottom of the page. How do I change it back? Is this a new bug? I can't figure out what I have done (if anything). Help! Please see <a href="http://www.neandergal.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">www.neandergal.wordpress.com</a> thx. Ramon on "Change color/width removal" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=26#post-87 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:09:22 +0000 Ramon 87@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ I guess I have to delete both lines in the header.php: <script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/styleswitcher.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/motionpack.js"></script> I think it's working.. I didnt remove the rotate.php in the css file. As far as I can see it's only for the rotating header image. I dont mind about that, I only have one. Didn't want to remove that, I might use it in the future. <a href="http://www.ramongoeseast.nl" rel="nofollow">www.ramongoeseast.nl</a> ulysses on "Change color/width removal" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=26#post-86 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:38:44 +0000 ulysses 86@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Ramon, The changes are located in three files: header.php, sidebar.php and style.css. Remove the alternate stylesheets and the javascript in header.php. Remove rotate.php in style.css. Finally, remove the Preferences link in sidebar.php. That's it. :) Ramon on "Change color/width removal" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=26#post-85 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:17:37 +0000 Ramon 85@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Hi Sorry, I know it is still hot and new, but I already want to remove things :D It's the Change color/theme width feature. It's nice, but not what I want. Is there a way to remove it (completely) without destroying the rest ? Thanks in advance, Ramon ulysses on "Turn off the Header and Description text" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=25#post-84 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:26:06 +0000 ulysses 84@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ If you have placed header images in your theme and would like to turn off the header and description text, there is a simple way of taking off the header and description text without deleting code in header.php. Here's the CSS code to suppress the text in the header section. h1 { display:none; padding-top: 40px; margin: 0; } .description { display:none; text-align: center; } ulysses on "Threaded comment" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=24#post-83 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:32:32 +0000 ulysses 83@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Giorgio, I have a the latest version up and running on my <a href="http://ulyssesonline.com/blackletterhead/">Black-Letterhead</a> site now. The threaded comments works great. I also included legacy comments so the latest theme will also work with older versions of WordPress. I'll test the latest version for a couple of days before releasing it. Thanks. giorgiogs on "Threaded comment" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=24#post-82 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:17:12 +0000 giorgiogs 82@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Hi, I have Black Letterhead 1.5 on wordpress 2.7: <a href="http://giorgio-photos.com/wordpress/" rel="nofollow">http://giorgio-photos.com/wordpress/</a> I have enabled under the wordpress setting the threaded comments but nothing happen, i just have the standard "Leave e reply" dialog but not the "Reply" link under the comment. Can i check something in the code to verify this feature is correctly enable? Thanks Giorgio ulysses on "WordPress 2.7 compatibility" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=23#post-81 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:11:05 +0000 ulysses 81@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Emma, It's in the works. I'll throw in some new features as well. Look for an update next week. emma james on "WordPress 2.7 compatibility" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=23#post-80 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:56:02 +0000 emma james 80@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ I love this theme and want to continue using it, but it is not currently listed as one of the themes which is compatible with WordPress 2.7, or WordPress 2.6 for that matter, and I would like to upgrade. My site is not hosted by WordPress.com, if that matters. Please help! Thanks! pleasurenotes.com ulysses on "Changing custom image width" http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/topic.php?id=22#post-79 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:54:50 +0000 ulysses 79@http://ulyssesonline.com/forum/ Colb, I just realized you're probably hosted at WordPress.com. The folks at WordPress.com added the custom header feature for this theme. Unfortunately, you can only edit CSS, not the code at WordPress.com. They do this for security reasons. I think the custom code crops the header image to fit 760x200 dimension. Sorry about that. There's not much you can do at this point, unless you're hosted somewhere else where you have complete freedom of your blog.