uliuliuli

Thank you very much as always! Your quick and detailed response is very much appreciated!

I did download the settings as you described, so I won’t I have to redo the site yet again. Good to know this option exists – I will keep it in mind for future sites. However, I’m worried that the incompatibility with the database could also affect the blog entries in the long run. Curiously, I have not been able to recreate the problem to take down the exact wording of the error message.

Thanks – all the best,
uliuliuli

Hello again,
I hope you can help me with this big, new problem! The person who I had created the blog for asked me to get rid of the dates or move them to the right. I found the code for it, commented it out and it worked. But when I looked into the css to see if I could float them to the right, I couldn’t save my changes. The error message I got was that the database seemed to have no capacity or was otherwise not reachable at the moment. When it finally was and I hit save, I checked the page: every change I had ever made had disappeared! No more 2 columns, the dates are back, etc. etc. All the changes I had made to the virtual structure were gone. The only thing that’s left are the color changes I had made directly into the existing (not various.css) css files.
So I went ahead and implemented all the changes again, thinking I must have hit a reset button somewhere by accident. A few days later, the same thing happened all over again!
I called the host company, but they couldn’t help with the database issue.
The only other thing I should add is that the database already housed a wordpress blog. I made sure there was no confusion by adding BB to the prefix. Do you think that could be the problem? I could create a new database, but before I put in hours and hours of work again, just to find out that nothing “sticks”, I wanted to see if you had some insight.
The testblog I did, BTW, does not show the same problem, and the only difference between the two is that the test blog does not share a database.
I really hope you can help once again with this vexing problem!
Thanks in advance – I truly appreciate all the help you have given so far!
uliuliuli

Here it is now: the blog that all this was meant for: berlin-brooklyn.com. The other one was just a test site I set up to practice on – though for possible later use. As you can see, I changed everything to red (#b00b0b) – including all the icons. I’d be happy to share those files with you, if you’re interested in a red Montezuma version.
I had to ask about the photo – I never got permission from the artist(s), so I couldn’t just let you use it for commercial purposes. I’d be happy to let you use another photo of mine though as a little thank you gift!
Also, I did donate – because: yes, I do like the theme! And because I was so impressed with your generosity of support and advice!
Thank you very, very much!
uliuliuli

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I’ll respond in more detail tomorrow. I had more visitors come and go – my head’s spinning… ??

Great – I used your tutorial – again with great success! Thank you once more. I saw that you used my photo for the test page. Do you intend to use it for your tutorial?
I have one more question, if I may. It seems that the most recent post headline becomes the headline for the blog. I’m not sure, if I like that… If I just remove the DIV that it’s in, would that take are of the problem? Or am I inviting other issues with that approach? I guess I would want to remove the bookmark link that’s being created, but I haven’t been able to figure out, how to do that.
I’ll find the donation button when I’m done with this job ??
Thank you very much for all your help!

Thanks again and sorry for the delay! I’m having a visitor, so I’m a little distracted. I was sure I had tried all permutations, but when I just copied your suggestion it worked! Now I’m struggling with 2 more things:
1. The white bar that covers part of the image in the banner area. How can I get rid of that?
2. How can I get the height to adjust to the size of the image? I’ve tried all sorts of options, but only seem to be able to either have the full width of the image and parts of the height cut off, or have the height squeezed into the provided banner and have the image be tiny and only cover some part of the total width. I guess, in essence I want the banner to adjust to the image, rather than the other way around.

First of all, thanks for the hint on the pretty permalinks! I changed that.
I did manage to get the background image to display, but I wasn’t able to use the url like you described. I had to use the full http address – none of the prescribed placeholders: %tpldir%, %tplupldir% or %upldir% worked for the location. Any ideas why that would be?

Great! I starting changing some of the colors from blue to red. I did use the various.css, so the original css file will stay untouched. One thing I couldn’t really figure quickly – I’m sure it’s in the documentation… How do you insert an image into the blog? I would like to put a banner type image into the header. I would appreciate your help once again! If not, I’m sure I couldn’t figure it out somehow. But if it’s not too much trouble, that’d be great!

Thank you so much!

If I remember correctly, I went on the Montezuma Options page and added a main template, then selected it and copied the code you provided into it.
I retraced the steps I took in my mind, and remembered that I had assigned that new template to the posts when I first tried to figure out how it all worked. I just took out that assignment and now the single pages display as they should.
Now just a bit of styling and I should be all set! You said that should be done in the various.css stylesheet, right? Or did that refer only to the additional elements?
Thank you again for all your help!

No! I hadn’t even noticed that. Thanks for pointing it out. How can I get rid of that?

Awesome! I was just going to write back that I got everything to work; see my test page here: https://www.posimistisch.net/?page_id=16 when I noticed you’d written again. I had found the virtual template assignment option, I changed the 8 to 12, just because it was red, but now I know why – great!
My only problem now is that my visitors are still going to the index page first, rather than going to the newly created 2 column page right away. How can I fix that? Can I just copy what’s in the DIV <div id=”content”> and place that into the index page?

Alright: done! The Montezuma theme is loaded. Thanks for the sample page: exactly what I need.
Ready when you are…

Very cool – thank you so far! I got the post in post plugin, created and assigned the categories, created a static page. Now I’m wondering how to create the shortcodes and how/where to add the DIV. I have created many websites with html and css, but am not so familiar with wordpress. My inclination would be to open Dreamweaver and edit the files that way…
Again, any help would be greatly appreciated!