Steven Jones

Wait for WordPress 2.5 and upgrade (out in the next 24 hours). It’s got better image management in it.

Steve

That’s a poor attitude, it’s incredibly easy. Take Moshu’s advice and it’ll be done in 5 mins. It takes me no longer than a minute from the moment I click download to install a new theme on my wordpress blog.

Search for “AJAX Tabs Menu” or just “AJAX Tabs”

Are you sure there’s only one folder and then the files? For example is should be

wp-content/themes/THEME/index.php

NOT

wp-content/themes/THEMEversion1.1/THEME/index.php

Hope that helps.

Steve

Does anyone at all have a view on this matter?

Steve

Change the post template, that’s the idea of the dynamic content, if you change the stylesheet and the template you won’t have to do it on a post by post basis.

Cheers,
Steve

Just to back up my point something like this for a template to replace a normal page template.

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn”>
<IF LOGGED IN THEN>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class=”post” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<div class=”entry”>
<?php the_content(‘<p class=”serif”>Read the rest of this page »</p>’); ?>

<?php wp_link_pages(array(‘before’ => ‘<p>Pages: ‘, ‘after’ => ‘</p>’, ‘next_or_number’ => ‘number’)); ?>

</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
<?php edit_post_link(‘Edit this entry.’, ‘<p>’, ‘</p>’); ?>
</div>

<ELSE>

<p> Please login </p>

<CLOSE IF STATEMENT)

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

I’ve not looked at any of the cookies so I don’t quite know what the <IF LOGGED IN THEN> would comprise of but surely that would work? Again it’s just the first thing that came to my head.

Cheers,
Steve

Couldn’t you just create a different template that had a conditional statement before the content to only show if the user is logged in and then if they aren’t say “Must be logged into view this”?

Steve

1. Try and make the recent post stand out a bit more, I’m guessing that’s what you are after with a change of colour.

2. Your menu is clashing with the recent post (same colour and underneath it, should be to the side of it) – that needs addressing asap.

3. Do you have to have those adverts in the right hand column? Could you make them more subtle with just text links and maybe direct your readers to them by other means?

4. Get rid of the background, a nice pale plain colour will do, whooami is right, it’s tripod stuff from the 90’s.

Steve

Maybe think about paginating the posts once you get a few more, I know you talk about the whitespace being a good part of your site but as the two outer columns are quite small then you don’t want it going on forever!

Nice clean site with informative articles, good luck!

Steve

It’s a very well presented site, I’d say maybe the parent pages (Home, Saddlebags and Horn Bags) stand out a little more, maybe bold, a different color or a different colored background.

Cheers,
Steve

There’s also a plugin for changing the font size which is extremely useful for accessibility reasons.

It’s available here:

https://www.rodenas.org/blog/2007/03/08/wp-chgfontsize/

Sorry if that’s a bit more than you wanted and whooami
answer was sufficient.

Cheers,
Steve

It could be from a plugin, have you checked in any of those?

amen Kafkaesqui,

WordPress is a very advanced package with a very generous community you’ve only got to look at the plugins and themes to see that.

my advice is read the documentation first and if you are unsure about that then ask on the forums. Yes, sometimes the documentation can be daunting but it’s better to ask a question on something you understand a little than something you have no idea at all – it makes it a lot easier for the person explaining it as well.

Big thanks to the WordPress developers and the community.

Steve

Yeah, thanks guys, needs two templates in order to offer the drop down.

Resolved!