CSS layouts?

  • Hiya… I am a complete newbie at this (having resorted to using WP after having grown used to an entirely different blogging tool that was recently outlawed by my server). I’ve only just installed WP and getting used to it but PHP completely elludes me, though I do understand CSS for the most part (and after fiddling I can generally work things out the way I want them), so that’s not a problem for me.
    Anyway, all that aside – this layout thingie… I’ve gone and had a look and there’s one or two that I’d like to try to use, only and please, please, PLEASE excuse me for sounding really dumb here, but how do I access the CSS and graphics for the layouts? There’s one in particular I’d like to use (eg, https://www.alexking.org/software/wordpress/styles/sample.php?wpstyle=css_compo) but how do I access the files for it? Am I missing something blatantly obvious?

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  • just go at https://www.alexking.org/software/wordpress/styles/ and click on the related “download” link.

    Thread Starter Ren

    (@ren)

    Bah, I knew it was something obvious, found it the same time I posted my query – I actually found the layouts by clicking on another example, hence the download links weren’t there. Cheers.

    Ok, my turn to feel stupid. Once I’ve downloaded the style I want, how do I use it? Is it referenced somewhere, or do I just copy it into the blogroot?

    you get a zip file on download.
    unzip it using a utility like winzip/winrar.
    you will get a css file + some additional files.
    rename the wp-layout.css file to anything else on the server.
    rename the css file from the download package to wp-layout.css.
    upload the files to the same folder where the original css file resided.
    that should be it. ??

    Thanks!

    Hi all – I have done (dl new .css in blog root rename it to wp-layout.css) that. but when I refress the site it created a mess. Data is displayed line by line under eachother…. Do I have to change something in the setup??

    This may not help you but in order to assist I have downloaded the css and I have had a look at the page as published. I do not yet know why but in my browser (Firefox) the whole layout is very badly scrambled. I am Ok at Css but not good enough to read it and immediately see where the problem is. It may be controversial but I have expressed the opinion here before that some of those so called competition style sheets are absolutely lethal particularly in the hands of unskilled users. As the supplied wp-layout.css was designed by probably the best web designers on the planet my strong recommendation would be not to fiddle with it but instead use it as a platform. If you carefully read the css each selector eg #header contains the rules for the equivalent html element. By systematically matching them up you can easily restyle in any color you want, add backgrounds, change fonts, whatever. Comp IMHO isn’t pretty anyway ?? Good luck.

    yeah..i’ve triedthe css as well. i just tried to replace the original css file. But still dont know how to use it . coz the images not showing up ? perhaps this is not the only problem. -.-
    sorry for my dumb at first. I’ve downloaded the Alex’s style switcher at but i dont know how to use it since i dont know php.. so…what’s gonna do now . ~~>_<~~
    thanks in advance.
    tin*

    wheee..it works now… i forgot to change back the index.php
    thanks u guys anyway. ^^

    I’ve followed this instuction but I still get the same old style. No new skin here. I’ve tried 2 different css files. I’ve erased cookies and temp files but still the same old style. Any ideas what is wrong? Only thing I did different was I uploaded the new css, then renamed it wp-layout.css.
    Here’s the instruction I followed:
    you get a zip file on download.
    unzip it using a utility like winzip/winrar.
    you will get a css file + some additional files.
    rename the wp-layout.css file to anything else on the server.
    rename the css file from the download package to wp-layout.css.
    upload the files to the same folder where the original css file resided.
    that should be it. ??

    can u tell us the uri of the site…
    maybe u missed on something ??

    same here. I uploaded a new .css file and renamed it wp-layout.css but my blog still looks the same.
    The only way I can force it to use the new .css is by renaming it to wp-layout1.css and then editing the index.php to use wp-layout1.css
    Funny thing was, I deleted both .css files just for the heck of it but my site still looks ok !!

    so its a cache problem not a css problem.
    as simple as that! ??
    try in a different browser.

    I wonder if your host is the one doing the caching…. what happens if you post something after changing the CSS file?
    TG

    Same thing was happening to me, and I found out it was because I had a muckaround site. In technical terms my blog’s home resides at site.com/wp and I had the site I fool around with at site.com/wpmuck so i could change things without breaking them, the problem is, the varible in index.php refers to:
    @import url( <?php echo $siteurl; ?>/wp-layout.css );
    $siteurl is being pulled from whatever you set the homepage as during installation/setup, so it’s still taking the stylesheet from the directory of the site you don’t want to break (the unmodified .css) All I did was rename /wp to /wpBU then renamed /wpmuck to /wp and everything worked, if something breaks you can just rename the directories back and you shouldn’t have a problem. Hope this helped.

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