Help finding new WordPress Template

  • Resolved antarkosho

    (@antarkosho)


    15 years ago

    I have created a WordPress website for my acting teacher – see https://www.joyacory.com

    I used the MistyLook template and modified the CSS minimally. Because we have so many menu tabs with long titles, the look is very ragged.

    I tried to center the menu tabs in the CSS code but couldn’t get that to work. Finally I contacted the templates author and he replied that the template was not designed for so many menu tabs.

    We still want to keep 2 columns and would like the menu tabs UNDER the banner photo.

    Is anyone out there familiar with WordPress Templates able to suggest a better template? I have searched the WordPress template sites and so far haven’t had any luck.

    Thanks!

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  • lokrin2000

    (@lokrin2000)

    Find your header.php file and replacewith this. I moved the navigation to below the banner.

    <head profile="https://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> &raquo; <?php _e('Blog Archive','ml');?> <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /> <!-- leave this for stats -->
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" />
<meta name="description" content="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php _e('RSS Feed','ml');?>" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<?php
global $page_sort;
	if(get_settings('mistylook_sortpages')!='')
	{
		$page_sort = 'sort_column='. get_settings('mistylook_sortpages');
	}
	global $pages_to_exclude;

	if(get_settings('mistylook_excludepages')!='')
	{
		$pages_to_exclude = 'exclude='. get_settings('mistylook_excludepages');
	}
?>
<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body id="section-index">

<div id="container">

<div id="header">
<h1><a href="<?php bloginfo('siteurl');?>/" title="<?php bloginfo('name');?>"><?php bloginfo('name');?></a></h1>
<p id="desc"><?php bloginfo('description');?></p>
</div><!-- end id:header -->

<div id="feedarea">
<dl>
	<dt><strong><?php _e('Feed on','ml');?></strong></dt>
	<dd><a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>"><?php _e('Posts','ml');?></a></dd>
	<dd><a href="<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>"><?php _e('Comments','ml');?></a></dd>
</dl>
</div><!-- end id:feedarea -->

  <div id="headerimage">
</div><!-- end id:headerimage -->

<div id="navigation">
<ul>
	<li <?php if(is_home()){echo 'class="current_page_item"';}?>><a href="<?php bloginfo('siteurl'); ?>/" title="<?php _e('Home','ml');?>"><?php _e('Home','ml');?></a></li>
		<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&'.$page_sort.'&'.$pages_to_exclude)?>
	<li class="search"><form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>"><input type="text" class="textbox" value="<?php echo wp_specialchars($s, 1); ?>" name="s" id="s" /><input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="<?php _e('Search','ml');?>" /></form></li>
</ul>
</div><!-- end id:navigation -->
    Thread Starter antarkosho

    (@antarkosho)

    Thanks, Lokrin, I tried replacing the header.php with your code but everything but the header image disappeared. However, I moved the navigation to the end of the original header.php and voila the menu tabs are now below the header image. Simple.

    Now, I have looked at several tutorials on how to center navigation and cannot figure out how to do it with our website https://www.joyacory.com.

    Any suggesions would be welcome!

    lokrin2000

    (@lokrin2000)

    For some reason copy-paste was messing up on my end and I tried about 5 times to get that text right. Glad you managed it.

    I’ve tried playing with your CSS and haven’t been able to centre the links. Maybe someone else can do better.

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