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Hmmm, I think that as it is, you’ll have no end of trouble making that happen. There’s so much to move around and play with to make your background happen the way you want it that in my opinion, you’d be better off starting from scratch.

Draw just an html page, a “dummy” page and establish the basic layout you want. Make it work there, then worry about maing that into a theme.

FWIW, I would use background images rather than putting the image in the header like that. I would also not have that header image start the columns, I’d do the columns in their own divs, and then use background images for that.

I know it’s not much help, but you have a lot of work ahead of you. While it take a while to start from scratch, you may find that you’ll save time in the long run.

Of course, someone else might just pop in and say “do it just like this”… ??

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Category_Templates#The_Menu

I was trying just the “second part of the menu”, but even the entire thing, or bits thereof don’t work.

//Edit: When I try the menu “as is”, I get a parse error “unexpected $”… But I can’t seem to find any stray issue that would cause the parse error.

Ah ha! Thanks moshu, that solved *that* problem. I’d looked at that tag, but somehow got mixed up, thinking *it* had to be in the loop.

All right… Next… How to do my original question? anyone? ?? anyone? ??

Hmm, funny, same here. Right, well, I’ll put “increase comment font size” on my to do list for the next upload of changes to the live server. Thanks

Right, that did make it work, but is not giving me what I want at all, as it adds the category above every post. I only want the category name to appear at the top of my page, not above every post. In fact, I’m loading both name and description.

If the category has children, I only want to display the parent category. I looked around, and this looks like it might be solved by a similar approach as the other issue in my original post, but since *that* doesn’t work, I’m feeling beleaguered. Spending a couple hours on this is one thing, losing an entire day quite another. Even following the Codex to the letter doesn’t work. Is this a case of the Codex being written for a prior version (and why aren’t each article in the codex specifying which version it addresses, but that’s a side issue! )

Soooo, surely it’s doable. How is the question…

moshu, I’ve set the font size of the comment smaller on purpose, though from what you say it seems it’s too small. I don’t want the “Comments (0)” to have the same visual weight as the rest of the text. Looking at it in IE, it seems a reasonable size compared to the rest, and in Firefox it might be a little too small, though it doesn’t appear so for me. Strange.

What browser are you using? Screen size? Resolution? Help me troubleshoot it ??

Thanks Dread. Have you tried the High Contrast option? This should give you a white-on-black approach. You can also obviously use your browser’s built-in function to increase font size.

Thanks ??

Surely there’s more to say about it than “looks good” ?? Or maybe not ??

Re meta, thanks HandySolo, I’d looked at that one, and discarded it because it only did descriptions, and didn’t give me enough control. I’ve opted for XFish, which seems to do the trick. Only downfall to it is that it piles all desc/keywords for all posts on a category page. Solution to that was to design the site so that tag didn’t show on home, category or archives. I think that’s done ?? Of course, I have to still manually enter all the desc/keywords ??

Never mind, I did it in phpmyadmin. Simple update query.
Cheers

Hmm, I think what you are after is
p {
text-align:justify;
}

Try that in your css file.

Hope it’s what you’re after.

What, specifically is the issue?

For some reason, I’m getting a “problem loading page” at the moment anyway. I’ll check it a bit later, but if you could describe what you’re trying to achieve, it would be helpful.

Solo, thanks for your comments, they made me think in another direction, which sent me looking for a “menu manager” plugin.

I found https://tela-web.com/wordpress-plugins/sticky-menu/

Installed it (2 minutes flat) and it looks like it’ll do the trick!

Cheers

Thanks for the response Solo,

I’ve seen those tags, but the only sort order available is either by ID or alphabetical.

Pages allow you to assign a place in the ordering, so you can sort by id, alphabetical, or you can manually override it to have the pages listed in the order you want.

Categories don’t allow that manual sort (unless there’s a plugin somewhere I couldn’t find).

What I’d like to be able to do is to set the ordering for the categories like I do for the pages, and then mix both the list in a single list.

Yes, I might have to end up building my list manually, but it defeats the purpose of being able to drive the content dynamically when you hard code the links.

I guess I wish there was a better menu system. Hmmm, perhaps I should hunt for a menu plugin… That’s a thought! ??

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Anyone? Please?

moshu, thanks for that explanation. Adding the word “itself” in that one liner would make a world of difference. In a world of SMF, vBulletin, and many other forum systems that use BB code, similar to html, in that you use an actual tag before and after the code, this makes a difference.

I must admit, I was tired last night, but I also got upset. Your comment wasn’t very friendly. Considering that a) English isn’t my first language (despite appearances), and b) I had only a handful of post here, instead of a sarcastic comment, and explanation would have been more welcome.

In any case, my original question has been answered, and I now know how to insert code

<code>This is some code</code>

Cheers