gmsand

ok, I was lookin at the footer.php and found this:

I was trying to put the code in here, but nothing showed up ??

Seems like it is coded.

Use the ‘code’ button here to wrap any code that you want to display.

And for the sidebars. I dont really know what piece of the code I can delete or not.

Be adventurous. Save an original copy for reference and then just start deleting to see what you can and can’t do.

One thing to keep in mind, is to clear your browser cache (ctrl + F5) after every change so that you can immediately see the results of any changes that you have made.

The footer.php file is one of the smallest files in the whole package. Very little of it is necessary for the proper display of your theme.

Suggestion: Save a copy of it and then replace it with:

</div>
<div id="footer">
 /* add what you want to here */
<?php wp_footer(); ?>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Admin > Manage > Manage Links
and / or
Admin > Manage > Link Categories

If it were me, I’d use an image and apply it globally via your css. Something like this:

#sidebar ul ul li a:link,
#sidebar ul ol li a:link {
        background: transparent url('images/#.gif') no-repeat 0% 50%;
        background-position: absolute;
        display: inline;
	color: #777;
        font-style: normal;
	text-decoration: none;
        padding-left: 7px;
}

Those links are contained in your W-P Theme Files /Templates / Footer (footer.php) to be found in the admin section under the Design / Theme Editor links. You can find all the appropriate W-P links contained in the footer of the Default Kubrick theme.

The sidebar can be customized in the same area.

Have you considered using rotating headers? I use five different header images that change with each click on a new link. I know it’s not ‘exactly’ what you’re looking for but it works. Check it out here.

I found and repaired the problem with the list image bullets displaying but am still looking for a solution to the paragraph spacing. As I suspected, my problems are all in my css inherited values.

I have found numerous cases of superfluous and redundant and mostly deprecated coding in the html and css of the W-P php files. Sorting it all out is very time consuming and a daunting task to keep it all W3C compliant. I’ve discovered and concluded that most of these cases have apparently been from modders changes that have somehow worked themselves into the core files and that just never get questioned and expunged. W-P can well afford to go on a diet and I’m doing my best to trim the fat from the files that I use.

Please disregard my post above…my head was someplace the sun doesn’t shine!

You can indeed configure W-P to display a static page, your forums, actually just about anything you’ve published as a front page. I just discovered that this morning.

It’s easy to access. Just go into your Admin CP (Dashboard) and click on:
Manage/Settings/Reading => Front page displays

Great Stuff!

the solution to ridding yourself of that whitespace is to reduce the number of posts displayed per page, or put more stuff in your sidebar.

Thanks for the suggestions but I have my sidebar overloaded with images which slow down my page load too much already, so adding more content isn’t really an option that I would consider. As far as reducing posts, I’ve always found that people would scroll over clicking on another page link. I guess I’ll just shelve the idea for now and maybe come back to it another time.

From what I see and read, there’s a common thread to all or most of your problems and that is that you’re ‘overwriting’ files versus deleting them and then uploading new.

For instance: To upgrade to v2.51 what I did was find the list of files changed in the upgrade. It was apparent that nearly all of them were contained in the wp-admin and wp-includes directories and just three other files,
>> wp-content\plugins\akismet\akismet.php
>> wp-login.php (root directory)
>> wp-settings.php (root directory)

This was great news for me because all the theme files are in the W-P content directory and I run a ‘heavily’ modified site.

So, all I did was delete the two above mentioned directories and files and then uploaded two new directories and the three necessary changed files. I then run the database upgrade script and sportsfans, I have had not even one little problem. As with most things, the devil is in the details. More often than not, we’re our own worst enemies. I hope this was of some help.

Happy blogging!

Glenn

Anyway, I just want to know what you think of it.

It’s a nice clean theme and should appeal to many who like your colors and the double right sidebars. I like it…a lot. Keep up the good work.

This is a blog program…not forums. The newest post will always be on top. If you want a welcome page, you need to create an html homepage for your site that is linked to the wp-index.php either directly or perhaps via a meta forwarder. The index.html page should always display before the index.php page without any action on your part as long as they’re side by side in your root directory.

Did you complete the database update?

Your database should be intact unless you deleted it at some point. Simply save a copy of your wp-config.php file and any other files that you want to preserve such as any customized themes and image files to your pc hard drive and then delete your current blog in its entirety. Then upload a fresh copy of WordPress 2.3.3. to your server. Upload a copy of your old wp-config.php file to that and you should be back up and running in just a few short minutes. I hope that this has been a lesson in why backups are so important before making any changes, regardless of what program or whatever it is that you’re dealing with on your PC.

Please explain how you went about upgrading. Any number of things could have happened depending on just what you did. Be really explicit. Don’t panic, most things you do can be fixed.