Help a photographer customize “green apples” theme a little

  • Resolved SAphoto

    (@saphoto)


    15 years, 11 months ago

    Hi folks,

    Here’s an intro. I’m moving my wordpress.com blog (https://saphoto.wordpress.com/) to my own server (https://saphoto.ca/blog/). I was quite happy with the look of my current blog but I realized I cannot use the same “rubric” theme. I tried a bunch and finally I like the theme “green apples” the best (https://www.ads-software.com/extend/themes/green-apples).

    PROBLEM 1
    There’s one big problem with it which can be illustrated in this post I have made:
    https://saphoto.ca/blog/?p=369
    I post quite a large number of pictures in my entries, and as you can see half way through the post, it becomes BLACK all the way through the end. Can that be fixed easily?

    PROBLEM 2
    I would like to eliminate the empty space at the top above the tab “about”. Can that be done?

    PROBLEM 3
    I would like the header height to be smaller.

    I’m new to this customization thing… am I asking for too much?

    Sebastien
    https://www.saphoto.ca

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  • I post quite a large number of pictures in my entries

    I’ll say! I estimate around 100 fairly large images. The page stops being rendered around the 48th photo. I think you need to split these down over a number of pages. Or have a look at some of the photo gallery plugins. I suspect that it’s the sheer number of large images that is causing the problem. Maybe a timeout on the server?

    I would like to eliminate the empty space at the top above the tab “about”

    Edit style.css.At line 289, you should see:

    #top {
clear:both;
height:35px;
top:0;
width:100%;
}

    Delete the height:35px; line. That should push the whole header up to the top if the page.

    I would like the header height to be smaller.

    style.css again (line 296):

    #header {
clear:both;
height:230px;
left:0;
top:77px;
width:100%;
}

    Amend the height setting. You’ll almost certainly also have to reduce the header image to suit. It’s called green-apples.jpg and is in your theme’s image directory.

    Thread Starter SAphoto

    (@saphoto)

    Thanks Esmi, I did get problem 2 and 3 taken care of.

    But right now I’m worried about the problem #1 where pictures are not being rendered. While there may be an overwhelming group of people agreeing I have too many pictures, this is not the issue or the debate.

    It works quite fine with all other templates, including my older blog. It even works as is with Internet explorer I just found out. But on Firefox on a PC (tested on 4 computers), it doesn’t. I would like to figure out what is causing this.

    I’m gonna have to start all over with another template if this can’t be solved. I’d really appreciate some input!

    I don’t think that this is a theme or WordPress issue. I suspect that Firefox is simply refusing to display the image beyond a given point (ie it’s a browser problem). Just not sure whether the cut-off threshold is based upon time or file size. Either way, I think that if you tried a page with less – or smaller – images, Firefox wouldn’t complain so dramatically.

    Thread Starter SAphoto

    (@saphoto)

    All issues resolved ??

    For a resolution of the black screen problem, look here:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/261214?replies=10#post-1042910

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