MartinGBEdwards

Some of those tools are pretty specialised. There are plenty of calculator plugins here you could probably find a pretty good mortgage calculator there that suits your design/requirements and then once you’ve got it installed you could use it as a model for creating your own plugins with the specific functionality that you want by replacing the functions with the ones on the existing site.
Hope this gets you a bit further on.
Give us a shout if you need any more help!

Martin

A few questions! ??
1. Which theme did you base the child theme on?
2. Are you saying that you copied the contents of the header.php file into the style.css file?
3. Can you give us a URL for the site so we can diagnose please

Your’e welcome!
I hope I didn’t make it sound too “techy”, the whole point of using WordPress is that you shouldn’t need to get involved in code. Most of the time these things are quite simple – unless you are trying to do major customisation work on a theme.
I’ve had a bit of a dig around to see if there is a simpler way for you to do this.
The first thing to note is that this theme, according to the entry in the WordPress theme directory “hasn’t been updated for over 2 years and may have incompatibilities with newer versions of WordPress”. This isn’t necessarily a problem, its a great looking theme and I can see why you wouldn’t want to switch to another one just to fix a paragraph bottom margin!
I’ve had a closer look at the theme itself and if all you want to do is fix the spacing problem then there is an option in the Appearance > Theme Options tab to enter the location and name of a custom stylesheet. If you have ftp access all you have to do is upload a file called “adventure-custom.css” to the “/wp-content/themes” folder and enter the path and name of the file in the field ie. “wp-content/themes/adventure-custom.css” .
The file should contain the following:

p {
       margin-bottom: 0.3em;
}

Then if you need to ask for any more help with css tweaks you will just need to add the code people here will give you to this file and it will override the main css, without interfering with the things you aren’t tweaking.
Hope this helps – give me a shout if you need any more help.

Regards

Martin

No problem, very pleased to have been able to help, let us know if you need anything else.

Martin

Ah yes sorry, I missed that bit ! You need to download and install the “Page Builder SiteOrigin” plugin (it is free and in the repository) that’s what the (PB) stands for. Once that is activated you should see those widgets – and quite a lot of other ones too!

Martin

Hi Jared,
You need to set up a static page first. Choose the optional “front page” template in the side bar options of the page creation tab. Then in the Appearance > Customise > Static Front Page options set the front page to the one you have just created.
In the Appearance>Widgets tab there is a “simple image (pb)” widget which you just drag to the “Second Front Page Widget Area” and then just fill in the image URL and the link URL if you want it to navigate somewhere.
The “Call to Action” button is another widget which you just drag to the Front Page Banner Widget Area and enter the text you want to appear. If you want it over to the left you can drag an image to the Second Front Page Banner Widget Area.
Hope this helps!

Martin

Hi Gingerling
Can you confirm that you have been making these changes to a Child Theme please?
Looking at the site there are divs in there with no id or class which dont appear in the original theme.
If you haven’t been making changes to a child theme then make sure you have a copy of the theme folder that you have made changes to so that you can apply them to a child theme after you have set one up and reinstalled the original theme. Apologies if I am “teaching Grandma to suck eggs” here but the main benefit of a child theme is that you don’t lose the changes after a routine theme update.

Martin

Hi Merry,
Your theme is putting a 1em bottom margin on your <p> tags. In english what that means is that when you press return it is creating a new paragraph which is perfectly normal. The problem you have is (and having looked at your site I agree ?? ) that the space between paragraphs is too big. You can edit the <p> entry in your style.css file directly but I would strongly advise you to set up a child theme first, and add the css change to that. This means that if the theme gets updated you wont lose the change.
Once you have the child theme set up you can make whatever changes you like to the .css file and you can always get back to the original theme later if you break anything.
In the style.css file you need to add the following to adjust the bottom margin on the <p> tags:

p {
       margin-bottom: 0.3em;
}

you can play with the value to get something more visually appealing!
Hope this helps

Martin

Hi Doukeshi,
You can turn off the comments using the option on the “Discussion” panel of the page editing page. If this panel isn’t visible you can display it using the “screen options” tab top right of the screen. You can also select whether or not to show the sidebar on single view pages.
Hope this helps.

Martin

That’s great, so glad to have been able to help. The site looks great too! It may be a WIP but it is clearly going in the right direction! – love the animation stuff your working on!

… Or you could switch to one of the 2000+ free ones here on www.ads-software.com – I’m sure there will be one that is close to what you have at the moment and you get free help to tweak it from the lovely people here! ??

Hi Jon,
This isn’t really the way to do it. The easiest way to get started here is to have a look through the 2000+ themes at www.ads-software.com/themes to find something wth a layout and features as close as possible to what you want – for example you might look at “Attitude” which puts post title and intro text over the featured image for posts.
When you have chosen one download and install the free version so that you can get more help here if you need it. (we can’t support commercial themes)
I would also get yourself set up on a hosting account rather than doing on your local machine. If you need help you need to be able to give a link to the live url so we can check your css etc.
You can get a simple plugin which will put the site in maintenance mode if you don’t want the general public to see it while you’re working on it.
You will probably find that you can upload logo’s and images to most of the themes and customise them without having to touch the code or css at all.
If you are tempted to start tweaking the css then read this about how to set up a Child Theme
If you need any more help be sure to post your query in the forum for the Theme you are using and give a link to the live site and you will stand a much better chance of getting a quick response.
Hope this helps! Have fun!

Sorry, I didnt read that properly! “Structure” is a commercial theme, you will have to contact their support people for this I’m afraid. Organic Themes

Could you tell us which theme you are using and provide a link to the site so we can help you please.

If you haven’t already done so you will need to create a Child Theme.
Copy the file called blog.php from the parent theme to your child theme folder. Then edit it with a plain text editor.
Find the following section at about line 36 :

<?php
   printf( _x('Posted on %1$s by %2$s in %3$s.', 'Time, Author, Category', 'colorway'), get_the_time(get_option('date_format')), get_the_author(), get_the_category_list(', ')
                                );
?>

You need to comment out the printf function by putting /* before it and */ at the end
To get this

/* printf( _x('Posted on %1$s by %2$s in %3$s.', 'Time, Author, Category', 'colorway'), get_the_time(get_option('date_format')), get_the_author(), get_the_category_list(', ')
 ); */

Save the file and this should do the job.
Let me know how it goes!

Martin