Kate

I noticed in your .right that you’re missing a semi-colon “;” on the padding style.

It’s not wrong – I’m using the html call & php coding for inserting excerpts into my posts when I first write them in Write / Post admin section.

When the post is published to a page, it shows only the title and snippet of my post, not the whole post itself. So that’s why there’s the excerpt php coding in the “info” tag.

As for the continue reading part, that allows people to click on it and they’re re-directed to the “whole” post for more reading.

As for your problem, I can’t think of why it doesn’t work, unless you haven’t enabled commenting in your admin section : discussions / comments. But I’d reckon you would have done that. The only other possiblity is when you look at index.php it has a little snippet:-

<?php if ($post->comment_status == "open") ?>

When you made your new page, did it include this call?
Sorry I can’t be more assistance.

No problems. I’m using IE6 browser. Along the top there’s a tool banner with: File, Edit, View, Favourites, Tools & Help. Click on
1) View – then…
2) Source
(Do this while you’re looking at web page!)

This will bring up another window that shows you everything that’s “underneath” your active web page. All the coding. All your typed words. And how your web page is laid out. A lot of people use this “source” view to see how a particular page is designed & coded.

I determined that you’re using diasy rae gemini template because I’ve already studied the template myself so I recognised the layout and the HTML coding. Using the above viewing formula, this is what I saw “underneath” your active web page, and what you wrote…

<div class="post">
<h5 class="storytitle" id="post-7">Cusano 18</h5>
<div class="storycontent"></div>

You’re asking how to remove the border “separator” from your Category titles. If you study your page layout, your category title sits between h5 tags.

<h5 class="storytitle" id="post-7">Cusano 18</h5>

Directly beneath that is your
<div class="storycontent"></div>

I believe your “separator” problem directly relates to the empty <div class="storycontent"</div>. If you were to put dummy text…

… Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non…

between the div’s, then the separator will be forced to the bottom of the text and not directly underneath your category title.

Try it and see how you go. If you want to leave your page exactly like it is, ie: you’re not going to add any text beneath your Category Titles, try deleting the border in your css file (style.css) where it’s attached to the div “storycontent”.

Don’t forget, if you do remove this border-bottom from your style.css, then it will affect all further posts.

Ok. So posts it is…

Like I mentioned before, I’m using Blix myself, heavily hacked to suit my needs. You can find it here Strictly Romance

(Please note that this site is still under design mode, so there’s alot of dummy text in places to remind me where things have to go. So please excuse the mess) ??

When I looked at your website yesterday, I checked out via “source view” and noticed that for each “entry” you have you don’t have the appropriate comment code – whilst you are calling it php style, you’re not calling it css/html style.

In my entry section I have the following:

<div class="entry">
<h2>Whatever</h2>
<p class="byline"><span>by </span><?php the_author(); ?>
<p class="date"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?><?php ($post->post_excerpt != "")? the_excerpt() : the_content(); ?>
<p class="info"><?php if ($post->post_excerpt != "") { ?>" class="more">Continue Reading<?php } ?><?php comments_popup_link('Add comment', '1 comment', '% comments', 'commentlink', ''); ?><!--print/">Print This Article--><!--<?php the_time('h:ia') ?>--><!--<?php edit_post_link('Edit','<span class="editlink">','</span>'); ?>-->

You’ll notice that in this section the call for “continue reading” & “commenting” and other misc stuff reside.

In your page it didn’t have this html code call. Perhaps if you inserted this as shown, to match your own p class=’info’ and closed with a div and then inserted Blix’s css code into your style sheet taking care to track where your images are, this will work. Try it and see – it can’t hurt.

For the previous posts, that too is in the index.php file. Scan down on the original index.php in the Blix folder and you’ll see :

<?php endwhile; ?>
<!-- this is ugly -->
<span class="next"><?php previous_posts_link('Next Posts') ?></span>
<span class="previous"><?php next_posts_link('Previous Posts') ?></span>


The first thing I tend to do when hacking a template is to create a copy and put the original away in a safe place, just in case I stuff things up. If I do, stuff things up, all I have to do is go to the original source template file and selected the file replacement, make another copy and insert it into my site to hack away at.

Hope this helps.

I browsed your page using ‘source view’ – are you using daisyraegemini template or gemini template? If so, I had a look at the original files and I couldn’t find h5 in the css, so I’m assuming that it can’t be a css h5 style markup.

However, I did notice that underneath your h5 there’s div=class”storycontent” and in the css files there’s a bottom-border attached to it. Perhaps because you don’t have anything in between the div’s (storycontent) it’s moved up underneath the h5. If you put dummy text between the div’s maybe the line will drop accordingly.

Just my thoughts… ??

It would be nice if I actually commented on the right query post… [sigh]…

Ok. I’m assuming that you want to have commenting on your page, and that your page isn’t really a page, but a post?

From what I’ve read these last four weeks, the ability to comment on a page isn’t something that’s available to us.

Commenting on a post I believe is fine. Can you clarify if your page is a page or if its a post? I’m using Blix myself, so I might be able to help you out some.

Ok. I’m assuming that you want to have commenting on your page, and that your page isn’t really a page, but a post?

From what I’ve read these last four weeks, the ability to comment on a page isn’t something that’s available to us.

Commenting on a post I believe is fine. Can you clarify if your page is a page or if its a post? I’m using Blix myself, so I might be able to help you out some.

Thanks for the advice. I’ll take it under consideration.

Hi Gaia,
I’ve tried the live comment preview plugin found in the codex plugis, but it isn’t what I’m after. It only provides a “preview while you type” which isn’t what I want at all. I really need something that will load the “comment” into a new page, which original hardcode box area remains available for editing. With something like (5000) words being typed into the page, a top notch preview plugin is what I’m after.

Cheers

Thanks Mark for the advice, but I actually did use the code tags. I put the htmal between proper code tags but still it turned out like such:)

Thanks jwurster. I appreciate your input.

I’ve read them both threads numerous times trying to get my horizontal menu to work.

I’ve very savvy when it comes to html & css, so defining my markup and structure css is ok – I just can’t seem to marry it up with PHP.

The highlighting doesn’t work using the dynamic menu version nor can I use the other thread because my tabs are “categories” – I have tried to resolve this but to no avail.

do you have any other thoughts on the matter?

I’ve resolved my own problem (above), but now have another.

I’ve read, and followed exactly the CODEX forumla for dynamic highlighting of menus. I have a simple horizontal menu that displays categories – I also used the is_fuction, as suggested at the end of the article but it didn’t work and there wasn’t any highlighting on the current tabbed menu.

My simple horizontal menu is:

home
articles
topics
store
members

each “category” is sitting between a tags – there’s no ul or li tags, as I don’t really require them in the markup.

Can someone please advise how I can highlight the current ‘category’ tab in my horizontal menu please. I’m very proficient with HTML & Frontpage, so understanding CSS is relatively simply. Conquering PHP has me stumped.

thanks

I should have said: sacreddoily, have you fixed your sidebar h2 issue?

Have you fixed this yet?

Oh, you’re brilliant! Thank you so much for helping me. Would you believe I’ve been trying to work this out for the last two weeks to no avail?

Thanks again. I like the fact that WP just calls this template into play without me having to worry about inserting another piece of code to call it.

Whew! I think I need a diet coke! ??

Kate