Amy Hendrix (sabreuse)

It takes a few days after approval for approved themes to be uploaded to extend.

EDIT: Now that I look at your ticket, your theme has not yet been approved. The message you got was that the ticket was accepted by a reviewer. When the reviewer is finished, you’ll get much more extensive notes, including whether the theme is approved or not.

You can’t nest child themes — in other words, there’s no such (working) thing as a child of a child.

You’re talking about the toolbar, not the dashboard. (“Dashboard” refers to the main page of the admin.)

You can hide the toolbar on the front-end of the site for lower-powered users like so:

// show admin bar only for admins and editors
if (!current_user_can('edit_posts'))
    { add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false'); }

You’ll also want to redirect users’ logins so that after they’ve successfully logged in they’re returned to the current page (or their front-end profiles, or whatever else you want) instead of being sent to the admin.

755 should be just fine for next month’s posts — it means that the owner of the folder (which may be the webserver itself, depending on how your host sets things up) can write to the folder, but others cannot.

First, if you’re going to edit you’re theme, I strongly suggest creating a Child Theme: that way, you can make changes to only the parts of your theme you want to change, and you won’t lose all your changes the next time the parent theme is updated.

As for your header, themes that allow custom images in the header define the height and width in the functions.php file. Look in there for the line:

define('HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT', 128);

You can change the number to whatever you need it to be.

On your local machine, unzip the zip file you got from Themeforest and check out what’s inside: this problem usually happens when the real theme folder is packaged up with extra stuff that isn’t actually meant to be installed on WordPress. So inside your Sommerce_Premium_etc. folder, you might find a psd file, some marketing material, and so on, as well as another folder called Sommerce. The inner folder is the one you actually need to upload and activate.

Try Ctrl-0 (that’s a zero, not a letter “O”), or Command-0 if you’re on a Mac. That’s the standard command to return to the default font size after you’ve changed it with Ctrl-+ or Ctrl-(minus sign).

(And note that this isn’t a WordPress issue — you can use those commands to adjust the font size anywhere you need it, in all the common browsers).

Nope – the idea of multisite is that the whole installation shares one database. When you create subsites, WP will create a set of tables in the database for each site, but you won’t need to create anything manually.

Look for “Screen Options” at the top of the edit screen and tick the checkbox for “Discussion”. That will show the box you need to turn commenting on or off for individual pages.

This sounds to me like a question about WordPress.COM (the blog-hosting site), not www.ads-software.com (the software you install on your own site). The support forum for .com is at https://en.support.wordpress.com

You want the instructions on this page: Creating a Static Front Page.

As Ipstenu says, you should delete unwanted headers through the media library rather than FTP. At the moment, the now-missing image is still marked as your current header in the database, hence the broken image. Hit “Restore Original Header Image” to go back to the default and clear the broken image icon.

As for png/gif, they are supported, but only if you upload an image of the exact dimensions your theme calls for — the conversion to jpg happens at the time the image is resized, so if you don’t resize, you bypass the problem. This *should* allow transparent images as well, but I don’t have one of the right size handy to test with just now, unfortunately.

I’m not sure what tools you used to develop your theme, but the reason you’re seeing this behavior is that in the current code, the sidebar is a child element of the footer (the one with the pink line), so the position is set relative to that.

You need the sidebar to be contained within the middle div rather than the footer.

Click the “Install Themes” tab at the top of the themes tab (next to where it says “Manage Themes”, and you can search for Coraline directly, or explore the 1400 or so other choices.

You’re correct about the CSS question, but you’re missing the point of a child theme. The goal of child themes is to keep your changes separate from the parent theme. If you edit the parent directly, all of your changes will be lost the next time the parent is updated — even if you don’t ever plan to switch themes, consider that the parent theme may be updated for a security issue or some feature nobody’s dreamed of yet.