Minor bug fixes and the child them path added.
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Hi
I’ve just downloaded your lovely theme and have been playing around with it.
One question/issue : The two columns on the right hand side have no padding between them. For example, I was trying to put Recent posts in the left column and categories in the right column, but the text in each column is hard up against the text in the other column.
Could you add five or ten pixels of padding between the two columns? Or tell me how I can do it myself?
Many tks
David.
Hi David,
in the main stylesheet, you will find the setting in the following sections:
^9 Lower Narrow Left Sidebar
^10 Lower Narrow Right Sidebar
You can edit them in Appearance > Editor > Stylesheet
Around line 919:
#l_sidebar {
float: left;
width: 170px;
margin: 10px 0 0 0;
padding: 0px;
display: inline;
}
Around line 964:
#r_sidebar {
float: right;
width: 150px;
margin: 10px 0 0 0;
padding: 0px;
display: inline;
}
Best Practice:
Use the provided Child Theme (sample-child-theme) and make your custom changes there. Upgrading future versions will delete your changes and you will need to re-apply them.
Link: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
Hi Jason,
Great theme, it is incredible all what you can do. I’ve been using it these days to create a new webpage.
I just had a question: I changed the side bars (widget areas) to the left using the sidebar option you provide. And it works fine for all the pages, but not for the categories. If I click in a category, the sidebar is moved to the right side. Is that expected behaviour for some reason? And if it is no, how can I make the sidebar stay on the left side?
Thank you very much for the theme and your help!
Sergio
Hi Sergio,
I can not duplicate the behavior error you are experiencing. It should stay on the left once it is selected.
could you send me a link to the website?
the action occurs in simply-works-core > header.php which should be called by everypage.
thanks,
Jason
Hi Jason,
It was a silly mistake from my part, I had no pages associated to the categories (entries). So the side bar appeared to be in the right, since there was nothing to stop it. (First time I use WordPress)
Thanks for the help though, going through the code made me realize what was happening after I saw the “float: right;” option inside header.php :
if(get_option(‘swc_theme_sidebar_selection’) && get_option(‘swc_theme_sidebar_selection’) == “Left”) {
echo “#contentarea {float: right; border: 0;}”;
Thanks again, and I like the theme more as I get to know it better!
Sergio
Hey Jason,
Thank you for an awesome theme… it was among the few I found to suit what I was looking for! I love how flexible it is!
I hope you can help me out with this question, I would like the default theme navigation bar to cover the page as it does on the orange option, and not leave an inch on either side like it now does.
Look forward to hearing back from you!
Hi Crystle,
it should “cover” the entire menu bar. Can you send me the url of the website so I can look at?
thanks,
Jason
Sorry and I wanted to know how I could change the title font as well… thanks a ton! – Crystle
The font is set in the style.css under general setting around line 49 in the body tag. You can change the font by going to: Appearance > Editor > style.css
First off, thanks for this team. It’s as clean as it is functional and I really like it.
One thing I noticed though was that the amount of space between the title/sub-title and menu is quite a bit more than in the theme thumbnail on the ‘Manage Themes’ page in the dashboard.
Two questions: 1.) Was increasing the space a conscience design decision? If so, why? and 2.) Is there an easy way to reduce that space? If so, do I need to create a child theme as you suggested above?
Thanks in advance for your help on this.
Hi Joseph,
You can change the padding for H2 around line 62 in the style.css. It is current set to 10 px (top and bottom). to make the change go to: Appearance > Editor and change it to: padding: 3px 0 10px 0;
thanks,
Jason
Thanks Jason. I just re-read my question and don’t think I did an effective job communicating what I’m trying to do — I wish I could post a screen capture to illustrate my question! Let me try again…
What I’m trying to do is reduce the space below the tag line and above the primary menu. For example:
[tag line]
— Blank Space —
[primary menu]
What I’d like to do is to reduce the blank space so that it looks more like the thumbnail:
http://simplyworkscore.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/simplyworks-5-colors.gif
I’m assuming there is a row height setting or a spacer image I can tweak somewhere and I am hoping you can tell me where to look.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Joseph,
okay, go to Appearance > Header and click on “Remove Header Image”. This will remove the 140px background image.
Jason
Perfect! Thanks again!!!
Hi, thanks so much for a beautiful theme. It works perfectly for me, but I really need to figure out one thing which I hope is possible. I’m using this for a publication, and although I want the most recent posts on the home page, I just want to give a teaser to the post, but have my readers have to click to read the full article. Can I do that with this theme?
Hi Stacy,
Use the “more” link in your posts.
thanks,
Jason