stevensj2

Figured it out. Static page + re-configuring my custom php. Works like a charm.

Sorry for the hasty post.

Thanks for that info.

I’ll have to read up on the Loop – that’s very similar to what I am currently doing with Drupal.

Thanks again!

I bet more than anything its that you have your sidebar <div> within a content or wrapper <div> of some sort.

Make it so that your side bar is not nested in any other divs, and it should be fine.

I’ve tried minibb, and though it is very lightweight, it seems very cluttered and unintuitive.

I think bbpress is the perfect example of what a light minimalistic bb should be. Especially from the design point of view, since it can easily be molded into any design you’d like.

The final version of bbpress should be very nice – and I agree: It probably will (and should) be developed seperately. I think it would be nice if the install gave you the option of integration, where it would then use your WP database and the WP user login info if you checked a box or something.

For my uses, I like to keep it seperate so that I can keep the “bloggers” and the clients completely seperate.

I see – didn’t know the codex had that.

Still though, I don’t think there’s much difference, and by doing it manually, there’s no reason it should look any different at all.

Plus, adding pages manually gives you the HUGE benefit of being able to have different information in the sidebar, individual to each page. Maybe that’s in the codex too, but if I’m creating individiual static pages, I’d like them to be completely seperate of one another and not be based on the same structure if I don’t want that.

Since it’s static content, and no way is easier or more difficult, I think it all comes down to personal preference.

I thought about this too, and for what it’s worth, I think the best option is not using WP’s Pages, and uploading your own HTML instead.

You still have to manually edit stuff, but the way WP does “Pages”, it doesn’t give you any more options or advantages over doing it all manually.

You could make it so that creating a new WP-Page would make a new tab – but this would effect the kinds of tabs you want to use. If you want all your tabs the same color, with only a color change on hover, then this would be OK.

But if you want to have it so the tab designated to the page you are currently viewing is a different color so it stands out and lets you know where you are, you’ll have to upload your own HTML content.

I chose to go with uploading my own.

You can see the tabs I’ve done @ https://www.nautilus7.com

I thought Opera was cross-platform as well? It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux (x86 and sparc), BSD, QNX, Beos, etc. In total, it supports 10 platforms.

Firefox only supports Windows, Mac, and Linux, and Solaris.

Granted…not too many people are using QNX and BeOS…lol

If you’re going to linux, I wouldn’t worry about what *does* work in linux…but be glad about what *doesn’t*…(in other words, you’ll never see IE again, and be lucky for it!)

Even if MS made IE *exactly* like firefox, mimicking it in every way, I think people would still choose FF over IE.

Thats really great!

I was thinking about restyling my admin panel, but didn’t feel like putting the time into something that only I would be seeing.

Tons of respect from me to you !

I don’t think I would consider that a bug???

“that’s not really perfect… if you hover around a lot of “hidden” links show up.”

Where? I don’t see any hidden links on any of the examples given so far (though freshpolitic’s site seems to use the “hand” curser).

It shouldn’t be too hard at all.

I’ll take a look at this and see what I find.

–Edit–

10 minutes later, and I have this: https://www.nautilus7.com/wp-login.php

What you have to do is a lot simpler than it looks. All the PHP in there can make it look daunting, but it’s easy.

You have to do everything *twice*, since that one php file specifies two pages – one for login, one for lost password.

What I did was:

-Remove link to admin stylesheet.
-Add link to my current theme’s stylesheet.
-Add in my own markup to specify my header and general layout (you may have to view the source of one of your normal pages if you’re unfamilar with how yours goes).
-Remove all references of “id=login”, “id=email”, etc etc that refers to something that was obviously in the admin CSS.
Change <div id=”login”> to <div id=”entry”>
-Save, upload, and basque in its glory!

**Remember, you must do all the above steps twice – once each in two different locations. Browse through wp-login.php to find that “two” actual pages are really in there.

On your ‘test’, you are missing the very first div “wrap” that is present in your blog.

The footer also seems to be part of the sidebar, rather than the “wrap”.

Perhaps you’re not closing your sidebar div before beginning your footer div?

I imagine the second problem is what’s causing the horizontal scroll. Fix that, and it should go away.

cool link! Thank’s a lot.

I figured something with PHP could be done – I just wasn’t sure if it would remember the user’s setting when going between WP pages and non-WP pages.

Thanks again!

Sweet links – thanks man!

I think I’m just going to either make it a very very light blue, or maybe even still green, but much lighter.