oldis

Thanks Driezzie.
The page is primarily for keeping track of the changes I have done to my own website, so I haven’t spent too much time on making it user-friendly ??

Though this is marked as resolved, I would still like to chime in with an easier, more persistent approach:
Instead of doing the modifications in the style.ccs file, its better to apply the changes in the “Appearance” -“Mystique Settings” – “User CSS” field. Modifications to styles done here will override the core styles, and will stay on upgrades.

I added the following to my User CSS:

/* Remove "wasted" space from header area Mystique settings - User CSS */
#site-title{padding:1em 0 0.0em 0;}
#site-title #logo {line-height : 0;}
#header .shadow-right {padding-bottom: 0px;}

For more modifications you might want to look at my wordpress fixes…

If I understand you correctly this might be what you want:

Problem:Remove description from header area
Solution:Add to User CSS of Mystique theme
Code:

#site-title p.headline{display:none;}
#page{background:transparent no-repeat center top;}

You might also want this:

Problem:Remove “wasted” space from header area
Solution:Add to User CSS of Mystique theme
Code:

#site-title{padding:1em 0 0.0em 0;}
#site-title #logo {line-height : 0;}
#header .shadow-right {padding-bottom: 0px;}

To see more of my solutions to Mystique, you might want to have a look here:
https://misty.gsj.no/wp/om-bloggen/wordpress_fixes/

Hope this helps..

Thanks for the update, always good to hear back when things are sorted. Maybe you could mark the topic as resolved as well, by using the menu in the right side of the screen. That way it stands out from the other posts in the list.

One little suggestion:
If you create tour own logo image, you might want to check filesize for the file in JPEG-format as opposed to PNG-format. If you use images, the file might get a better compression in JPEG. If so, you could change the stylesheet to reflect logo.jpg instead of logo.png, and thus shave of a little loading-time for your site…..

Oldis..

Agothale,
sorry, all my responses were ment for ohad258.

But I think he/she does not want help, just phishing for other info.
I don’t see what Skype/MSN/ICQ details would do either. I think its better to just ignore and let this thread die.

see you later, alligator..

Ok, so you are from Israel. Then if you type your question up in Hebrew, some felow Israeli might be able to help you.

But anyway:
How difficult can it be to tell us the name of the Theme you are using?

I have responded in your original thread. Please don’t use more than one thread for your issue.

agothtale,
You need to let us know the name of the theme you are using.

In the mystique theme, for example, there is a Sidebar widget.
So to display both the themes sidebar, and all the other widgets, you just drag them to the area where you want it.

In other themes it might be done differently. That is why we need to know what theme you are using.

What country are you from? Someone in here may be able to help you in your native language..

When loading your site in firefox, and inspecting it with firebug, I find the following defined in the styleheets for the site:

#header h1 a {
    background: url("images/logo.png") no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
    display: block;
    height: 55px;
    margin-top: 10px;
    outline: medium none;
    padding: 5px 0 0;
    text-indent: -9999px;
    width: 400px;
}

so I guess if you find that css file (possibly style.css) you can either remove the background style, or you might want to create your own logo.png file and copy it to your site.
I am not familiar with this theme, so I can not give you more specific details. The theme might have a User CSS setting or something that you an use to override the default values.

TechMansor,
my comments to DistinctNews and FMacastro had to do with modifications to CSS styles for various elements. If you are able to find the style, and edit it in the style.css, then you know what element, class and style you are working with. And thus you should know what to put into the User CSS field. Mapping these classnames to what you actually see on screen can be challenging, but will get easier as you familiarize yourself with your chosen theme.

If you find a modification that you want to apply to one of the Mystique .php files, here is my suggestion:

Navigate to the Appearance – Editor section within wordpress admin. So if instructions tell you to edit header.php, find that file in the list to the right. The file will be shown in the Edit Themes dialogue.

Edit the file directly in there, and press the “Update File” button when done. Or, you can copy the text and paste into your favorite php-editor (for example notepad) and edit there and then copy-paste it back before pressing Update.

Alternatively you may want to use an approach where you logon to your server and do the edits there. That way backup is easier. Explaining that workflow is out of scope here…

The reason firebug seemingly does not help (it really do, just not the way you seem to expect), is that it only work with the html, css and scripts that the browser see when you call a page. It does not have the ability to tell you which PHP file(s) generated that html etc.

That is where the recipe comes in:
If do you use google (as I sarcasticly suggested), you might decide to follow the recipe on this link:
https://keremerkan.net/posts/adding-facebook-and-linkedin-icons-on-mystique-v2-x/

It actually does not require modifications to the core PHP files at all. It is all done in the mystique settings “User CSS” and Advanced – “User Functions” input dialogues.

Follow it step by step, and you should have your facebook icon in place. If you can’t get it to work, you might want to leave a comment on that page?

Hope this helps…

PS: As for how things are done in other themes: I don’t think that belongs here, as this thread was specifically created for mystique.

One humble suggestion, DistinctNews and FMacastro:
Any changes to CSS is better done by modifying the User CSS that can be found in “Mystique Settings”. That way they will be persistent, even if you upgrade the theme later. By modifying the various css files directly, I guess you will loose your changes on upgrade. And thus “messing” up your blog.
Whatever you put in the User CSS will override the classes and settings in the core css files.
This is one of the really cool features of Mystique. Makes it very easy to apply an change, and to remove it if it doesn’t work as intended.

TechMansoor,
Let me suggest a small website named google.com. Its really great. It has this little input field where you can type in stuff. I typed in the following words: facebook icon mystique wordpress
Then I pressed the little grey button just beneath the input field.
Wow, would you know that! a whole list of links to people that has implemented just what you want, and even wrote how they did it….

Update:
I couldn’t find an email address to use for submitting such a request, so I just submitted it as a comment on their feedback/discussion for Mystique. I guess there a good chance it will just drown in between all the other 7000+ comments, but lets see.

I don’t want to point fingers, after all this is a free theme, and I can understand that with its popularity there would be a lot of support involved in having an open email.

I guess the proof of this themes quality is the fact that this is the only quirk I have found… (+ having to copy the favicon.ico file manually to override the builtin…)

So well done, DigitalNature! And thanks for sharing.

Thanks a lot for your help!
I will checkout the link you supplied, and read up on localisation. Not something i just want to jump into, as it may have undesired side-effects. I will play around a little on my testsite and se what I do.

I leave this thread open for a little while and see if anyone else would like to chime in..
Kudos!

Oh, by the way:
My blog is mostly in Norwegian. Do you know how I can localize the output of these date functions? So that I get the Day and Month in Norwegian spelling?

Current (US English):
Tuesday 7. December 2010

Wanted (Norwegian):
Tirsdag 7. Desember 2010

Either hardcoded, or based on browser locale.
Thanks…

PS: Let me admit that I have done absolutely nothing to find out, not even a google search. It was just something that struck me right now. If you want me to do my own homework,thats fine…
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