agothtale

This might not be the “cleanest” way to add this links, but I add them manually in index.php with

<div id="topnav">
 for a category
<a href="?cat=number">   category name   </a>   ~
or for a page
<a href="?page_id=number">   page title   </a>   ~ 

</div>

There must be some other way to add them automatically by displaying categories throught php in the loop, but can’t help much on that
hope that helps

Ok just downloaded and tried the whole thing, but I don’t see how it can help ? it doesn’t seem to show me where the mistakes are… spent the day with the equivalent in Chrome and really don’t get it, if anyone knows how this helps, would be lovely.

Weird thing : I just used the css W3C validator, it corrected a few things, but the so-called “correct code” completely blew up the page, so not very useful… happy i had made back-ups.

Took a look at your site, and I think you did it from a coder point of view, and not from a “what does the band needs” point of view.
I’ve worked with a lot of bands on tour, and they usually fail at selling themselves to the world, they tend to believe that their music and talent will be enough.
But it’s not. Your site sounds like “We don’t really want to be online, we don’t really care if you see this or not, we have a website coz we’ve been told we had to have one”.
It doesn’t really feel user-friendly. It doesn’t feel like a place to warm fan’s hearts. You’ve got nowhere to click, nearly nothing to read, you just feel like an intruder and you’d better get away from that place soon.. Tho I’m sure you’ve spent a lot of time on it, it might work on a wordpress theme point of view, but it doesn’t work on a “promoting band website” point of view.
I don’t want to sound rude, I just want to help, please don’t take it wrong.
More technically :
background image is too dark. try lighten it a bit so we can see what’s written, or change the police color. For now it’s too dark, and it’s really difficult to read, and most people will just go away if they can’t read.
The long stretch at the bottom, what’s the use ?
Try to add categories, try to add stuff to click on.
Like… Biography of the band, photos, interviews, tour dates, music, videos links…
It’s ok to have a few blog entries, but it’s not enought.
You can add the above suggestions as pages, so it doesn’t mess with the blog entries.

Purely visually, I find that having that moving images in the header is a bit tiring, first thought is “is that an ad ?”. so maybe change that… And the black parts, header and footer, are not very easy to read, may use dark grey instead ? or a gradient to a lighter grey than the one currently used in the header ?
I like the body and column.

Ho, thanks for your time and idea !
Yes, I can totally lighten that straight line down, it took a look at it, and it’s true it’s a bit too pinky and bright.

I’m wondering if I should put an image or color on the background on the left an right of the blog, I’m afraid it’s a bit too white everywhere, tho I like it being simple…

sorry, the copy went wrong

” title=”<?php _e(‘Syndicate this site using RSS’); ?>”>
<img src=”https://agothtale.free.fr/wp-content/themes/Tropicana/images/button.png&#8221; alt=”RSS Feed” title=”RSS Feed” />

for what i put in the text widget

and

https://agothtale.free.fr/&lt;?php%20bloginfo(‘rss2_url’);%20?>

for the link to error 404

Sorry oldis, I’m not the one having theme issues, ohad258 is, but I couldn’t manage to understand what he wanted to achieve.

ohad258 : of course we can’t understand if you don’t tell us what it is you want or don’t want.
I don’t see why you can’t type it here if you feel like you could type it on instant messengers…

Is the rest of the code in the other files referring to that specific name ? Sometime if the names of the sidebar don’t match, it causes that kind of problem.
But any other idea welcome.

That’s a weird idea to display new posts in a slider, as it’s really uncomfortable to read them…
But I guess you’ll have to modify the php code in feature-front.php to display only posts and no images, if you want to have your posts displayed and no images…

Well, wordpress manages the content, but not the theme.
The same content can be displayed in the million way, and the wordpress admin doesn’t manage that (yet).
But to be honest, I haven’t found a theme so far where you don’t have to mess up with the code to achieve what you want.
Some themes are coded in a more user-friendly way, this one isn’t.
I suppose theme makers suppose wordpress users are familiar with html, css and php.

Good luck with the code ! Come back if you need more help!

I don’t see changes, did you upload your changes ?

don’t delete the files, simply change the text you want to change (inside the file), and change the images (but keep the same name, and format).

Your theme isn’t putting posts in the front page, it’s putting those moving images , and a horizontal sidebar containing text, recent blogs items, and more text/links.

You can technically change all that messing with php, but if you’re not familiar with php, and don’t want to waste 2 weeks learning it and messing with it, just try another theme…unless you hear from the theme author and he provides you a clean code, but from what I’ve seen, the theme code isn’t the easiest to understant if you’re 100% beginner with php, and you might just go nuts and waste your time, while you could have what you want easily with another theme.

If you enjoyed the look of that theme, don’t forget you can keep its images and use them in another theme.

ho, and to change the big “Chromey” that heads the page, it’s actually logo.png, you simply need to make your own image that matches the same width/lenght and is transparent. the background is /images/back, same you can change the image.
the file functions.php tell logo.png to place itself there.

ok, so :
the text “About Chromey, blablablablabla, latin blabla, and link”, is inside front-page.php (quite at the begining)
The moving images and text going along that is above that text, is in chromey/includes/images for the images
and chromey/includes/feature-front-#.php (there’s feature-front 1, 2 and 3)

was that useful ?

I’m going to download that theme to get a look inside a see how I can help you better, will let you now asap.

The content is probably somewhere in the .php file. the easiest way to find it and remove it/replace it, could be to copy the text you want to erase, and put it in the “search” or “search and replace” option of your file.
I don’t know how your theme is built, but all that is likely to be found in the index.php of the theme.

You seem to have 6 (!!) sidebars registered. Maybe check that there was no mess up with their names in the other files…