mattchee

I installed disqus as a temporary fix, but I’d still rather use the regular WP commenting…

Also, is there a way to get the comments above the related posts? I like having the related posts, but it pushes the comments so far down I worry people won’t make the effort to scroll all the way to the comments.

Nevermind, I guess. I’m logged into my site today, and everything is working as it should. I have the admin options while browsing my site, and I can preview posts.

I did literally nothing. Yesterday it did not work (as described above), and today it works perfectly.

I’m baffled but happy!

I tried the custom CSS. Direct edit of the CSS, but eventually I stumbled across:

Appearance>theme options>Bottom Footer Background Color

Don’t know why I didn’t see it before!

You can’t do it through your dashboard. You will have to access your hosting account using FTP.

Somewhere on there should be a folder that holds your WordPress stuff (all set ups are different). If you can find a folder called “wordpress-content” (or sometimes it’s wp-content). Within that folder is a folder called “themes”. And within that folder is a folder called “portfolio-press”. Within THAT folder is a folder is a folder called “images” and that is where you want to put your image.

If you do that in conjunction with the code I used inky response to rat fink, you should be good to go.

It’s worth mentioning for everyone here, that if you ever upgrade portfolio press this will probably get wiped out. It’s really simple to put back in place, thoug, as long as you make sure and save a backup copy of your image. most people would probably recommend using a child theme, but as I qualified in my initial posts, I’m not an expert or a seasoned coder in any way (just an artist trying to tweak this theme to do what I want). I don’t really know how to do child themes, much less give anyone tips on it,

I haven’t personally tested out using the entire URL, I just assumed it should work.

I would try putting it in the images folder inside the portfolio press theme folder (/wordpress-content/themes/portfolio-press/images/) and then use the CSS code as I show above, with your image name of course. And not try using the full URL, and see how that works. Use the code in my response to Rat Fink.

Let me know how that works out for you!

Hi Rat Fink,

I don’t think I explained what I did as clearly as I thought. Instead of adding that whole line at the bottom, I meant to modify the line with the background color info on it.

Here’s what mine looks like:

#branding {
	position:relative;
	display:block;
	background:#900 url(images/IMAGE_NAME.png);
	padding:30px 0 30px;
}

See what I mean? The file path as I set it up here (exactly as shown above), has the background image located in the “images” folder of the portfolio press theme. So it’s located at:

YOURDOMAIN.COM/wordpress-content/themes/portfolio-press/images/IMAGE_NAME.png

I think if you want to have it elsewhere, you might have to write out the full url. IE – if it’s at “YOURDOMAIN.COM/IMAGES/IMAGE_NAME.png” you’ll have to put “https://www.YOURDOMAIN.COM/IMAGES/IMAGE_NAME.png” in place of “images/IMAGE_NAME.png”… if that makes any sense. I would just throw it in the “images” folder of the theme, at the very least to test it out, to keep it simple.

Let me know if that works for you.

I should also note that this does not remove the nav from the individual post pages either… which is good and bad.

Good because I want folks to be able to navigate from the individual post pages… but bad because they CAN keep navigating back into the back dated stuff.

Although, even from a categorized portfolio page, they can still click on an image, then navigate the post pages in this way.

Oh well.

Now I’m off to see if I can figure out how to get the post page nav to the top of the image instead of the bottom…

Thanks, theunartist. However, the changing the order wasn’t exactly what I was trying to achieve.

I wanted to be able to stop folks from being able to click “older posts” to see my back dated stuff that might not fit with what I’m trying to show them on the front page. Basically, I’d like to have 9 images curated for the front featured items, and then anything that falls into a different category only be accessible via the menus.

So, it might be a neat/usefull feature if you were able to limit your front page to only display a certain category. In the mean time, though, I did just find a bit of a work around for anyone who is interested.

In the content-portfolio.php file, there is a line with this code towards the end:

<?php portfoliopress_content_nav(); ?>

if you delete that, it will remove the “older posts” link from the portfolio pages. Which means, I can back date my stuff like you suggested, and anything over 9 won’t show. Then I can just categorize those posts and make them accessible through my menu. Done deal. Which is perfect since I don’t really want to have more than 9 pieces in any given portfolio category anyway!

I was a little worried that it might remove the “older posts” link from the blog archives… but it did not!

Tested. And works. I’ve successfully put a background image behind my header this way (simple gradient to test it out, nothing to write home about). With a little ingenuity, I should probably be able to get some sort of header image up there if I desire. Or at least something that looks a little bit more customized.

I’d love to see/hear if any of y’all come up with something different!

I wanted to do this too… I haven’t had a chance to try, and I’m far from a CSS expert, but I am guessing that if you go into the style.css and edit the spot for the header background color to use an background image of your choosing, it should work. Here’s where I found to edit the header bg color:

/* Branding */

#branding {
	position:relative;
	display:block;
	background:#900;
	padding:30px 0 30px;

And then I think in css the way to use an image would be something like this:

background:#900 url(images/IMAGE_NAME.png);

…and the image would go in the “images” folder inside the main theme folder.

So far this is the only solution I’ve been able to find. I haven’t had a chance to try it yet because I haven’t created an image for the header yet – but if any of you have a chance to test it out, I’d love to hear your results.