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Hi I got myself a copy of this book. I think it′s great, though my PHP isn′t quite up to the level assumed by the book. Can anyone recommend where I can learn basic PHP for WordPress? Thanks

Nice one, thanks!

it’s a background image in CSS. If you use Firefox and download the plugin Firebug you’ll be able to see the code for any part of the page you mouse over.

Thanks – I did use WP Audio in the end!

Ok – I pasted the code from the page template I want into loop-index.php then selected it under Page Attributes on the Blog page. This gave some odd results – I’m guessing I’ve made a mistake here?

Esmi, it’s people like you that make the web go round. Thanks so much.
Don’t know if it will help anyone else but this was my final solution on the active links:

#access ul li.current-menu-item.page-item-10 > a,#access ul li.current-menu-item.page-item-10 > a:hover,#access ul li.current-menu-item.page-item-10 > a:active {
	background-position: -700px center;
	cursor: default;
}

Yeah… I’ve been trying all sorts of permutations of this, nothing seems to be happening. The home page active class is page-item-10. So I would expect this to work, but it’s not:

#access ul li.current-menu-item a.page-item-10 {
	background-position: -700px center;
	cursor: default;
}

Thanks

I just cannot target the active menu item. Does anyone have any advice?
Thanks

Having a bit of trouble targeting the current page. Should the selector look something like this?

#access ul.menu li.menu-item-28 a.page-item-10,#access ul.menu li.menu-item-28 a.page-item-10:hover,#access ul.menu li.menu-item-28 a.page-item-10:active

Cool, thanks.

Thanks for your response Esmi. I have no intention of editing the twentyten theme. I have created and have been using a child theme. I was planning to use the solution I suggested above in my child theme. Bad idea?

If I were to use Firebug to find out what IDs WordPress has given the various menu items and then target them using these (eg “menu-item-28”), would this work? Or is there a more elegant solution?

So close, yet so far away. Would anyone mind posting this tutorial or similar.

Thanks heaps.

I’m wondering the same thing…
Did you find a solution?

Um, yeah might have helped if I’d saved as a .png 24 to preserve the transparency rather than a .png8 and then done this:

#wrapper {
background: url(images/transparent.png) repeat;
}

D’oh.