Putting text next to “Copyright 2006, . “

This isn’t Denis’ site, but I would imagine you look inside footer.php

Well, let me give this a try, I think he might be talking about something else. At the bottom of the page, if you do not enter a blog title somewhere in the back office, forgot where exactly, it will only show “Copyright 2006” as described above. This same blog title also puts a title in the header at the top.

This is where I think there is another problem, and maybe Denis can expand. I plan to put a full header graphic in the top of my semiologic themed blog, and thus will not need the blog title displayed at the top. But this then causes the footer to have the same issue described at the top of this thread. Another thing, I suspect the blog title is also placed between a couple <h1> tags, and thus valuable to the SE’s, so just leaving it out is not a good option.

Denis, can we put the blog title there but make it invisible at the top, or have it rest behind graphics if graphics are placed in the theme folder?

@riggie:

Copyright … displays:

Copyright current_year, admin_name

@smic:

drop a file called header.jpg (best option for SEO) or header-background.jpg (looks better, but has no h1 tag) in your theme directory. it will automagically do what you want.

Ah, I see I was incorrect above about the copyright thing. The copyright line in this theme behaves differently than another theme I an using (regulus).

I dropped the header.jpg into the theme folder, and it worked as expected. It would be nice if there were exact dimensions for the header area and the header.jpg completely filled the header area, no space around. Thus retaining the h1 tag.

I tried the header-background.jpg, and stopped fooling with it after several attempts to make it completely fill the entire header area, using the same image as in the header.jpg file. I tried varying the size, and I could never fill the space to the right of the image, was always a space there. Also with some sizes, the image was cut off at the bottom. But then again, I was probably misusing the header-background.jpg file in the first place, I don’t know.

In any event, I am MOSTLY satisfied, only if the header.jpg with the right dimensions would exactly fill the header area. ??

you should be able to “force” this by creating a custom.css file and dropping it into your theme directory:

.custom #header,
.custom #sitename
{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

don’t forget to shift+refresh your page to force the browser cache to refresh.

Denis,

That gets the margin to zero for the left and right ends of the header graphic, but no matter the size I make the header, there is a small 5 or 6 px space below it, and a much sider, 60 to 70 pc space at the top. But it is much improved over previous looks.

Thanks!

mmm… try:

.custom #header,
.custom #sitename,
.custom #sitename h1
{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

Thanks for taking a shot at it Denis, but that change took be back to space all around the graphic.

You are much appreciated!

just to be sure — did you copy paste the entire thing, or did you merely add the newest line and forget a coma (which should result in a css error, and what you describe)?

Denis,

I think perhaps that I did miss a coma, as this time I copied the entire set. The result was no change, which is better than the last result, which was a step back. Hmm, I will look more at it later, but this .css still has the small space at the bottom and larger one at the top. Now, I did not enlarge the image, nor did I delete the text that appears across the top of the header area. Perhaps that will have some impact.

Thanks Denis!

Well, must have been a cache thing, because my header image has no space at the bottom now, and the space at the top is likely because my image is not tall enough, will test that sometime. Also, I have the “by-line” still in there, so that displays, does not look bad at all, and perhaps is the reason there is still a space.

Denis, I know this is terribly basic, but where do I find the “admin_name” in Word Press to be able to add it to my Copyright at the bottom of my blog?

Search all over for it. Beats me…

Thanks,
Riggie

admin area > users

simply rename the admin user ??

Denis, somehow this makes no sense… I’ve always had the admin user filled out, but have nothing appearing…

Looks like this:
Copyright 2006, .

-Riggie

In fact, I have 2 new blogs, one with Wp 2.0 and one with 2.01 which I update today, and they both show no admin_name for some reason…

-Riggie