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| MouseExtra |
 Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject: Tagline question for Wordpress |
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| I'm trying to customize a template that does not automatically put the tagline in/under the header. Can anyone tell me how to make it add this? |
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| Shawn |
| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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Hello David
Are you refering to the discription tag / Tagline that appears at the top under your Blogname?
If so look inside the header.php file!
Go to Presentation - Theme editor -> then select header.php to view the source!
You should have the following tag just under this tag
| Code: | | <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> |
And this is the tag you need to show the discription!
| Code: | | <?php bloginfo('description'); ?> |
Now if this is in there login to the WordPress Admin panel and navigate to:
Options -> General
Insure the tagline is present and if not put one in and be sure to click Update Options.
Hope this helps!
Shawn 
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| MouseExtra |
| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Shawn, but I don't see exactly that. And when I tried in a similar spot it didn't work.
Here's the closest I see...
<h1><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></h1>
That's towards the bottom. Also it just says header, not header.php |
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| Shawn |
| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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Ahhhhhhh...........
I said you should see this
| Code: | | <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> |
It don't matter about the H1 tags, I just needed you to verify if this tag was in your header.php file....which should be under the above code!!!!
| Code: | | <?php bloginfo('description'); ?> |
Then I said to verify it by going to the WordPress Admin Panel - click -> Presentation -> then click theme editor!
Once on the Theme editor page select header.php file from the right hand side and see if this tag exisit!
| Code: | | <?php bloginfo('description'); ?> |
If it doesn't you will need to add it to the header.php file
So change it to this
| Code: | | <h1><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1><br /><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></h1> |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:51 am Post subject: |
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Perfecto!!
Now, I only need to figure out how to change the color, font, and size. Off to my reading material!!! |
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| Shawn |
| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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Hello David
Well to do that you can wrap it with another H tag and set it with a color value for example
| Code: | | <h1><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1><br /><h3><span class="color: #YOURCOLORCHOICE;"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></span></h3> |
The blog looks good, it has a scoll bar at the bottom but I am sure your still working on it so keep up the great work 
Hope this helps
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| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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And then in that tag I can set font-size: WHATEVER and all that?
One last thing, and this one really has me vexed as I can't find much on it. On this template, it has About and Contact tabs at the top. I can't for the life of me figure how to activate them. Right now they just refresh the page |
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| MouseExtra |
| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Shawn wrote: | The blog looks good, it has a scoll bar at the bottom but I am sure your still working on it so keep up the great work
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What's that? I assume you mean "scroll bar", but I don't know what that means |
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| Shawn |
| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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Hello David
If you use my above tag it sets the font size to a H3 size or you can simply remove the < h3 > </ h3> tag and specify a font and size within the span style class...
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| Code: | | <h1><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1><br /><span style="font-size:1.4em;font-family: Georgia;color: #YOURCOLORCHOICE;"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></span><p> |
Yes I ment the scroll bar at the bottom of the browser
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| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Shawn wrote: | | Yes I ment the scroll bar at the bottom of the browser |
Shawn, I'm not seeing that. No scroll bar for me |
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| Shawn |
| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 8:46 am Post subject: |
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So can it be fixed to make sure that doesn't happen?
A friend just told me they saw it too. |
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| Shawn |
| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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Hello Dave
Well for starters you would need to modify the CSS style sheet, and fix the widths on the center column..
To do this login to the WordPress Admin Panel, click Presentation and then theme editor!
On the right hand side click the file thats called style.css!
Now your going to want to find the CSS attribute for the center column, and by looking at the source code I see the following
So look through the style.css file for the atribute 'content'.
You should see the following
| Code: | #content {
float: left;
text-align: left;
padding: 15px;
background: white;
margin:2px;
overflow: hidden;
width: 568px !important;
display: inline; /* IE double margin bug fix */
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Now you just need to edit the width as its set to 568px's
Example:
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#content {
float: left;
text-align: left;
padding: 15px;
background: white;
margin:2px;
overflow: hidden;
width: 380px !important;
display: inline; /* IE double margin bug fix */
}
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I would set this to 380px or 400px's at the most once you do that I'll take another look to see where you are and what else needs to be adjusted!
Shawn
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| Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Ok, that's done. As you can probably tell, it just shrinks the center column and keep the overall width |
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| MouseExtra |
| Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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| when this does fit correctly into a 800x600, will it look the proper size for larger resolution screens? |
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