richardpd

Same thing has happened to me today.
My blog has no theme install tab after updating to WP 3.1.2

Why is this? Do I have to reinstall manually (& make sure I have a backup)? What a nuisance!

New animass site link (with new background):
https://www.chris-dickinson.com

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Unfortunately there is no edit post function here so I cannot change the post above.

Hi bfit
I am sorry to hear of your problem with background edit.
I have just done a new site with a new background and all was fine (see https://www.chris-dickinson.com).
If you can give more details of the problem I can try & help.
It should be straightforward in dashboard>appearance>background & follow the instruction to add a new background.

Also there are 3 background images in animass images directory
. The blue pleatedmetalcu.gif is the default background.
It is possible to edit style.css to change the image
Go to dashboard apperance>editor>style & find:

/* =Global Elements
-------------------------------------------------------------- */

/* Main global 'theme' and typographic styles  */

body {
background: url("images/pleatedmetalcublu.gif");

change this to one of the other background images I included in the images directory (eg pleatedmetalcu.gif / pleatedmetalcuLite.gif) eg:

/* =Global Elements
-------------------------------------------------------------- */

/* Main global 'theme' and typographic styles  */

body {
background: url("images/pleatedmetalcuLite.gif");

Of course if you want to add your own background image this way then upload your image to the animass>images directory and edit the style.css with the name of the image you uploaded.

Well I hope that helps and works.
I apologise for not replying earlier but I do not usually visit this page & have only just done so!

Thanks mercime for pointing out that I will always answer questions about anIMass theme at my blog https://www.richard-dickinson.com

Best wishes

Hi ipstenu
Thanks for your helpful reply. All working fine now.
(I thought I had tried that before but anyway it worked when I tried it again).
Best wishes

Is there anyone on this forum?
I rarely get replies to my posts for help eg
1.Theme page display problems-theme help needed please You last replied: 6 days ago. No replies since.
2.Theme sidebar and footer need positionining-help please You last replied: 3 weeks ago. No replies since.
3.Comments page not displaying sidebar & footer properly You last replied: 1 month ago. No replies since.

Managing a wordpress website is not easy and some answers cannot be found in docs despite the large amount of information in the codex…

I shall not give up (yet) on managing my WordPress websites.

Hi
Is there anyone here? I have had no reply yet to my initial post.
I have kept trying to fix my theme but with no success yet.

If there is anyone on this forum I would be grateful for a helpful reply to try to fix my theme problems (as I have stated in my previous post).
I have been trying to get everything to work and both in IE & Firefox but I still have issues with the navbar and pages display both in IE and Firefox.

Can anyone please try & help me fix my theme problems and get my site to work properly? I look forward to any helpful replies, many thanks

Hi gr1zzly
Thanks for your reply!

I do not really understand it as I am bad with css coding but it is good to know what should work-thanks! (I want to learn css / html5 /WPtheme coding).
I tried increasing the margin in #content but that didn’t work so I am still stuck (I wondered if I was missing a div somewhere as I have had that cause problems before).
Anyay here is my stylesheet code and I would appreciate some advice:

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If anyone can help me fix & understand this I would be most grateful. I look forward to helpful replies, thanks

Further rapid response update!

I added this theme to my chess blog and my footer & sidebar are now displaying out of position!
They display fine in my online theme test viewer
onlinewpthemetest

but not on my chessblog atchessat.richard-dickinson.com

Can someone please tell me how to fix this?
I look forward to helpful replies, thanks

Quick reply update!

After I edited single and page.php to be identical to index.php the comments page displays fine (footer & sidebar back in proper position)now.

However I still need to fix the sidebar length displaying in IE8/9-any help please?

Again I look forward to helpful replies, thanks

Help still needed please!?

I validated my code but I still have problems!

Now I find in IE8 my sidebar does not fit the page /content length as it should (should fit/stretch from header to footer-it works in Firefox-is this something to do with the CSS3 code?). How can I make it run the whole way in IE8/9?

The other problem is when clicking on comments from the home/index page, the page that displays has the footer & sidebar out of place-see:
onlinewpthemetest

I have tried to fix this but with no success yet.
Please can somebody help me figure out why this is and how to both fix these problems?!

I look forward to helpful replies, thanks

Hi alchymyth
Thanks for your reply.
I will look both at validating and check for missing </div> in single & page.php. How did you know a closing div tag was missing from those files? How does one debug a theme?

My theme developing skill just now is basic and limited so I have a lot to learn. So far I am getting experience with what I call ‘basic/core’ theme files eg header.php,index.php,sidebar.php,footer.php,functions.php,style.css but I have yet to get to know all the other files (I call these ‘extras’) eg comments.php, single.php, page.php,archive.php, category.php, 404.php, and several more!
For many of these ‘extra’ files they just contain code direct from another theme (often default theme Kubrick or TwentyTen), so it is not surprising there are errors!

Anyway I will try & sort my theme code and try to keep learning & gaining experience with WordPress theme development. My goal is to be able to make a theme designed by me that has the features I want! So many custom themes have some but not all the features/layouts I like!

Best wishes

I still have not been able to fix my comments page displaying properly.
Can someone please reply with help & advice on how to code comments.php? (see my theme at link in my first post).

As always I look forward to helpful replies, thanks

Hi Paulo
Does embed chess have a ‘flip’ board feature?
Can one use embed chess & embed chess Iframe in the same post?
See my chess blog https://www.chessat.richard-dickinson.com

Thanks

Update-
I did use TwentyTen theme for guidance & have a much better nav bar showing site pages now.

This is the wp php code I use to add my homepage as a navbar link
<?php wp_page_menu('show_home=Home&menu_class=page-nav'); ?>
Thanks to Justin Tadlock at justintadlock.com

Twenty Ten uses the code below but I haven’t edited that to add show the homepage & currently I am using Justin’s WP2.7 code!

<?php /* Our navigation menu.  If one isn't filled out, wp_nav_menu falls back to wp_page_menu.  The menu assiged to the primary position is the one used.  If none is assigned, the menu with the lowest ID is used.  */ ?>
<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'container_class' => 'menu-header', 'theme_location' => 'primary' ) ); ?>

Perhaps this code can be edited to add ‘show home’?

Anyway my nav bar is quite a bit better now-see
ChessatmyboarD

It has taken quite a while for me to get to this stage!
Now I go onwards with WordPress!! ??

Update:
I am making some progress fixing my theme.
I restored page background image and header image.

However the nav menu bar background image shows in IE8 but doesn’t show in Firefox?
I cannot understand why not at the moment. Can someone please have a look and suggest what I need to do to fix this please?

onlinewpthemetest

I am very grateful for helpful replies, many thanks