Handyann

Very enigmatic!! ??

Okay, last question, if you’d be so kind please?

If I just use the WP customiser facility to change that bit of the CSS (as it’s involved with another plugin, its hard to locate and change the source code), obviously just copying that section of code without the width command line won’t make a difference, so would I put something like ‘width: full;’ for instance, to achieve an over-ride of the ‘width: 300px;’ command?

I realise that question may be a little outside the spirit of this support, but if you could please give me a hint, without prejudice or comebacks on you if it goes horribly wrong, I would be very grateful. ??

Many thanks,
Ann

Hi Chris,

Many thanks for your very fast reply.
I take it that the fix will only apply to that page? I’m pretty sure it will, looking at the CSS you kindly screenshot for me, but I’m a relative novice and just want to make sure.

Kind regards,
Ann

Ah… gotcha! Yes it is and I think I’ve sorted it. I’m still pretty new at manipulating code etc, so didn’t know what the sizing bit was called. Once I did know, it was easy to find.

Many thanks for your help! ??

Thank you for your fast reply, although I don’t know much CSS and am not sure where the code is supposed to go. I’ll go and Google it.

Thank you very much! That is JUST the sort of help I was hoping for when I posted here. ??

I do have a copy of my theme and work with that, not the original.
I hope you find the jam-making info useful!! ??

Ann

Hi
Every time I’ve asked a question on this ‘support’ forum, you have told me to go to the theme forum. I do understand that specific theme questions need to be asked in the right place, but in this instance I was only asking for some general pointers of where I might look for this coding. I don’t expect to be handed the answer on a plate – just some idea would have been helpful. I though someone here might know.

As it is, the person who wrote this theme is away on holiday at the moment and no-one else seems to answer questions on his theme page, which is the other reason I asked my question here.

Well, I guess I’ll just have to do what I did last time I needed to find one small line of coding – trawl through every word and line of every file until I find it.

Thank you

Ok – silly me – I didn’t realise the table didn’t show up formatted on the write posts page, only on the published blog page.

But, it would have saved me about an hour in wasted time if that fact was included in the instruction/support pages!

Sorry – didn’t realise I’d posted this in the wrong place, so will close this and repost in the correct place.

Oh I do have a copy – I’m not working from the original download. Unfortunately it is the files themselves I’ve modified, but I didn’t think I’d changed anything that would remove those functions.

I’m sorry I posted in the wrong place – I’ll close this one. Thank you.

Hi and thanks very much for your reply.

I had thought of doing that, but won’t it put me back to the beginning with designing the page? I’ve spent a lot of time on it up to now and was hoping not to have to start again.

Ann

I realise you have a life outside this, lol!

I did activate the child theme and it’s running now. I picked this one because it seemed to have more options, or at least easier to edit options, than most of the others. Perhaps I’d be better off with a different one? I’m supposing that you mean PHP files I’ve changed manually via the code editor? That would be none then as I have no PHP expertise at all. I’ll take the excess files out of the child folder.

All I want is a very simple site with my header banner at the top, menu on the left, content in the middle and possibly another sidebar on the right, but that’s not essential. Black background, text in an ochre-yellow colour and pictures. Nothing particularly ambitious really.

Changes are showing up ok but the menu stubbornly refuses to go on the left for some reason.

Not to worry, I’ll keep plugging away and see if I can stumble over the answer. That’s pretty much how I learned Dreamweaver, so anything’s possible!

Many thanks for your time today, it’s much appreciated.

Regards
Ann

Further update – I tried loading the menu onto the right sidebar instead of the left and that worked, so it is on the page now but on the wrong side. According to the theme info and the config page, it should be possible to load it onto anywhere on the page pretty much I think?

Quick update on the menu – I have it configured and can see a working demo thumbnail of it on the configuration page, but it refuses to load onto the page still.

I don’t think I can be doing this correctly!

I placed the code in the Custom CSS as you said and absolutely nothing happened. I’m using a Child Theme, created by making a new folder in the same directory as the parent folder, creating a style.css file and then copying all of the parent files except the function.php to the child folder. That’s how I read to do it anyway.

I just dropped the code into the Custom CSS and clicked the button – is that all I need to do? The meta info is at the top of the right sidebar by the way, not in the footer, if that’s where the CSS is designed to apply itself?

Hi,

I do realise that you guys are volunteers and do appreciate your time and expertise.

I’m using a menu just called Dropdown Menu Widget, as it seemed fairly easy.

Is it not possible to edit the HTML via the code inspector facility (right click an element on the actual webpage and select ‘inspect element’ from the popup)? I can delete code on there and the element disappears from the screen, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to save the changes.

I appreciate you looking for the appropriate code for me, thank you.