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Gosh this isn’t very good is it.

So I take it this absolutely cannot be done then? If not, would anyone be able to talk me through it? I like to do these things by myself so that I can learn better, you see.

But it’s really quite important to me to get this lovely style of notification available to my visitors. If you are in the know, please speak out, I’ve looked all over the Google for answers.

Nobody at all?

Anyone? =(

Hey Nate!

Sorry it took me so long to reply, it’s been a funny week. Can I just say you’re a legend?

You’re a legend. My register button now looks EXACTLY how I want it to, thank you so much! I did re-size it a bit, but that was easy enough to do.

Also, thanks for the videos, anyone else with the low level of HTML knowledge that I have should really check them out, they’re so intuitive. I will be having a watch over them again to keep refreshing the lessons. Hopefully the team behind them will keep making more.

You’ve been of great help to me, and helped me learn a lot this past week – knowledge is the greatest gift of all.. =)

Gosh, thanks so much for all this info, I will get on it ASAP!

I think I will just change the register button as you laid out in your last two steps – I don’t mind repeating the first step each time there’s an update to the plugin, it’s a simple enough thing to do fo the sake of getting my site how I want it. So do I just add the code in step 2 anywhere in style.css? Like at the end of the file? Or does it need to go somewhere specific?

Sorry about the dumb sounding question, I’m new to all this but really want to learn as much as I can =)

Hi Nate,

Yep, that’s the plugin I’m on about. My website is https://tokyoclock.co.uk. The developer of the plugin directed me to FAQ #3 on his homepage which explains that it is a CSS issue, but I’m just a bit too amateurish to figure it out ;-P

Still, I’m in it to learn.

My homepage is fixed!

I have a slideshow on the homepage and did not have any other content up yet. For some reason the mixture of the slideshow and the 404.php file lead to it not lining up correctly.

Now that I have left a little ‘Site under construction’ post that shows on my homepage it is all perfectly aligned.

Thanks everyone!

Hi Nate, thanks for the info.

I’m still not sure how to do this though: The wp-fb-autoconnect plugin simply calls the usual

<?php wp_register(”, ”); ?>

command, which I have played around with and have noticed changes but still remain unsuccessful in putting it inside a typical grey button shape.

I take it this kind of thing needs to be handled in the style.css file for my theme, but I can’t find the register command anywhere in style.css, nor do I have any idea what to alter it to when I do find it.

Eurgh, what a headache.

Anyone? =D

Hi everyone! Just a flying visit for now as it’s late.

Thanks so much for your valuable feedback and help, I will follow up everyone’s advice and let you know exactly what happens just as soon as I get time to implement it (preparing to move house is taking up my time at the moment! Such a drag).

I just made one minor tweak today, which was to copy my ‘Under Construction’ notice into a blog post so that it turns up on the homepage as visitors didn’t see it until they looked at my ‘About’ page. Now that the homepage has content other than the 404 error message, it is perfectly aligned!

This leads me to think that it is a problem with the 404.php file – what do you guys think in your combined wisdom? Should I still be looking at index.php?

Thanks for the advice! As I said, I will follow up everyone’s suggestions as soon as I get a chance =)

Glad I’m not the only one! I’m still tearing my hair out over this one but I haven’t had a chance to do a lot of playing around with it over the weekend. A friend of mine thinks it might be to do with the header / logo code, he said to remove that and see if it changes anything – it didn’t for me but might work for you!

Also, I made a backup of my site and then deleted the theme from WordPress and reinstalled it a fresh. Now, while it was set to another theme everything was fine, but once back to my normal theme it happened again. I’m not sure why this is because when I installed the theme in the first place it was perfect!

I have read elsewhere on the forum that it could sometimes be caused by your sidebar widgets, so removing them will be my next task when I get a few moments. But frankly, this one’s got me totally baffled. I’m not tremendously clued in with coding and just learning as I go along, but honestly this just seems completely illogical. The worst thing being that the command to call the sidebar is the same on all the pages, so I don’t see why it is broken on just my homepage.

Once again, anyone who can help… Y’know, don’t be a stranger =)

Alas, I thought of that yesterday, only to find that ‘Home’ isn’t listed in my Pages menu. It’s a bit crazy eh!

I can tell I’ll be bald by Monday thanks to this =P

I have no clue..

So the validator is good, I now know the issues that need correcting, and the helpful validator has even given me the ideal code to replace it with.. But the right file to edit seems to be evading me completely! I’ve looked all over my theme folder and can’t seem to find the code this validator is telling me to look for at all.

So I went to Firebug Lite to see what that can tell me, and I can see exactly where I need to put a </div> – It looks like somehow my sidebar has made its way into my content, so a div needs to be put there to separate them both.

Once again though, can’t find the file I need to edit (I think it’s the same file). So I could gladly kill two birds with one stone if this fabled file that all these things keep reading would come to light for me.

I sound so dim. I must be being really stupid with this, but I just can’t figure it out =S

Thanks @alchymyth!
I will take a look through index.php and try to sort out these errors.

This theme has given me trouble at almost every turn – I have a feeling a lot of those errors are either left over from getting rid of BuddyPress and bbPress or were simply built into the theme. It’s a pain because I like this theme, it just doesn’t want to make life easy for a novice like me!

I’ll get back to you on what I find!

Hey! Sorry it took so long to reply, my computer died.

Umm.. I don’t get it. =(

But I have altered the sidebar and footer commands in page.php, index.php, and home.php and it has made no difference. I then took a look through all of the files that I edited when integrating BuddyPress, since that must have been what has changed it in the first place – still clueless since they all have the same sidebar / footer commands.

This confuses me because I thought that essentially all pages remain the same as far as the sidebar is concerned and the only alterations are the addition of new pages / posts and their content =S

I am new though..