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I had this same problem when I first used blix with the one of the tabs on the sidebar (the links one). It looks like the tab appears twice and looks doubled up. This has something to do with CSS and issues with IE I believe. Hence the repeat of the tab. I had posted this problem on the forum and a kind person suggested to add some links in and voila! The problem disappeared.

My workplace doesn’t support Firefox so I’m only viewing it in IE, I suspect that CSS and browser issues are the problem.

This may not solve your problem with this but, perhaps give you some idea as to what to work with.

cheers.

Usually in cases like this you will need to make an adjustment to your float properties, if as I suspect the new themes are the culprit.

I clicked on your link and I just get a static “site under repair” page, so I’m not sure what to say.

Whenever I get annoyed with CSS layouts I usually go to the listamatic website and play with their float tutorial so I can visualize what works and what doesn’t.

Are you familiar with CSS layouts?

cheers!

Hi Shergil!

There is a codex page that details how to customize the “read more” to your liking at:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Customizing_the_Read_More

Hopefully this is what you’re looking for.

Cheers!

In the blix help file (which is the readme.html located in the blix theme files) it will give you instructions for creating a secondary nav bar for the extra pages.

Thank you tutortec..However it did not work! Uh oh! ??

This is very odd indeed. I tried both suggestions that 2 members suggested to me above but the form continued to work in a wonky way. I did delete my caches in all instances and it still did the same thing. I did experiment with the contact form so perhaps if I post what happened someone out there may know something:

1. If I leave a field blank or the email field blank. I get a message such as “you must fill in all fields”/”Your email address didn’t validate. OK! Check! that works beautifully.

2. If I try to test email myself (admin) using the email address of one of my hotmail accounts (pretending I’m a visitor), filling in all fields and I hit submit button the form disappears and I get no message/confirmation at all! Uh oh! Problem here!

3. If I try the test email again but enter my admin email in the email field…voila! An email is sent and the message “Hey so and so will get back to you soon” appears and I get an email sent to my inbox. Works great but why would I want to email myself? he he

That is so strange. While I am a newbie at PHP the contact.php looks fine to me. I’m reasonably versed enough in Javascript to beable to read the template for the most part and I recognize the email validation, the conditional statements, functions, declarations of variables. I even looked up php tutorials online for making contact/feedback forms and it seems to look the way it should.

Wow! It’s a mystery! :-S

Thanks for your help.

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Hi!

I’m using blix too. As you add pages the page buttons will automatically show up in the horizontal nav bar beside Home and About.

for an example see my site:
https://careerspaceezine.com

There is really only 4-5 spaces for buttons though so if you want to create more pages you will have to create a secondary nav bar (which is detailed in the Blix readme.html file), if you haven’t located it already…..

There is a cheat sheet for Blix that comes with your theme although you have to dig for it in your theme files. It will show you how to hook up your archive and contact (with a handy contact form) that is included with your theme. It will also show you how to add an “about” shorty in your side nav bar as well as the secondary nav bar.

The version of wordpress will be in the wordpress readme.html file. It will also say in the main template.

For editing the color of the words my guess would be to try an inline class of CSS. An inline will override the set CSS font color for the website.

Many thanks again gornick321 for your help, however your solution did not work for me! It doesn’t seem to be the issue as you can see below.

Even though I’m still having problems with my contact form working I did make an “interesting” discovery!

It seems that my form does work if I use my admin email to send a message. So basically it only works if I send an email to myself from the contact form. Ha! Interesting.

I’m not too well versed with PHP although from JavaScript I kinda understand some concepts (conditional statements, methods, variable etc…). My guess is that when I use the contact form it’s validating the email address entered against what I have set up under users???!! This shouldn’t be that way, it should accept any valid email (it should recognize [email protected]), I know this can be done in JavaScript but I wonder what I should be looking for in PHP?

Any ideas?

Thanks!!!
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Many Thanks Gronik321!

However, before I start altering the code I’m not sure what you mean by windows exchange server?

My machine running windows XP and I’m hosting on Yahoo. Does the alteration in the code still apply in this case?

cheers!
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sorry this part:
that contacts have been posted so my email account is itself is working ok.

Should have read:
that COMMENTS have been posted so my email account is itself is working ok.

now that would have been confusing! ??

Hi!

I’m still trying to figuire this out.

I did some more checking and testing I thought it was because I had filled out the administration stuff incorrectly on my blog and that’s why the contact form wasn’t sending through to my email. I am the only user of the blog so I am administrator. But I have doublechecked and I seem to have filled out everything correctly. I even deleted the contact page and readded it so see what would happen but it didn’t work. I didn’t even get the email sent confirmation message on the page, so something is definitely up. I am receiving emails ok letting me know that contacts have been posted so my email account is itself is working ok.

Has anyone else have this problem? What was your solution?

Or perhaps should I ask if any has NOT had this problem and what did you do right?

I thought I must have overlooked something any ideas?

Thanks!

It depends on what you want the pictures for. If you want to put in your own graphics in the header (for example) you will need to ftp the file into the same file on your server that houses the original header. In this way you can keep the same relative path that the header has.

If you want to put a picture in the post you will need to upload it to the server using the upload box which appears underneath the post box. Browse for the file on your hard drive give it a title and a description (for alt text). After you have finished uploading the photos/graphics you’ll see a browse tab beside the upload tab, click on it and you’ll see the photos you’ve uploaded and you can choose the one you want for your post. When you click on it you’ll see a dialogue box with some options:
Using Thumbnail
Not Linked
Send to Editor
Delete
Close Options

Choose Send to Editor to get it to appear in the post.

The photos will stay in the browse box for future use which is handy if you want to reuse photos.

Is that what you’re looking for? ??

Hi!

The instructions for making a secondary side bar navigation are on the readme.html file that is included with your blix theme. I missed over the first time myself! It’s neatly tucked in the themes/blix file.

I wonder if you’re not viewing a cached page?

I’ve found that clearing your browser cache and hitting reload isn’t always enough. If you go to your dashboard and under options choose wp-cache and clear the cached pages there that should get rid of any “ghosts” if that’s the issue.

I overlooked it the first time I downloaded the blix theme. I did see the readme file for wordpress but you have to get into the blix theme files in your file manager to see the readme file for blix.

Archives:
1. Select Write>Write Page
2. Fill in Page Title
3. Select Archives as Page Template
4. Select Archvies as Page Slug
5. Click Create New Page

About
1. Select Write>Write Page
2. Fill in Page Title
3. Select about as Page Slug
4. Click Create New Page

About “shorty” which appears in the sidebar
1. Select Write>Write Page
2. Fill in Page Title
3. Select about_short as Page slug
4. Click Create New Page

– about shorty will be displayed on the frontpage and will be automatically linked to your about page in case you’ve set up one.

Contact
1. Select Write>Write Page
2. Fill in Page Title
3. Fill in Page Content. This will be displayed on the content form.
4. Select contact as Page Template
5. Select contact as Page Slug
6. Click Create new page.

– the contact form’s target e-mail address is the one you’ve specified in WordPress as your admin e-mail address.

The rest of the readme file goes on the discuss setting up a secondary navigation which you may also find useful later.

While there is more than one way of doing something, I have friends that have used the free on-line open source word processor “writely” and they find it useful. It’s for collaborating and distributing documents. You can upload word documents to writely and you can also use it to post to your blog. Right now unfortunately it’s not taking new registrations as google has just acquired it, but the documentation is up if you want to have a peek.

has anyone here tried using this word processor?

I would also like to know any other way that one can use a word document to compose and then put into the blog. I find that I want to compose/edit and work on an article for a while before I actually post it. Not too keen on using the draft feature.

Thanks!