stacyduval

What about a plugin like Google Doc Embedder? You could host a master schedule file somewhere on the internet in Word. Say on Amazon Web Services or DropBox for instance. Then embed the document into your homepage using Google Doc embedder. Reading the documentation you’d have to chose .doc not .docx as the file format but that is doable. The file could also be downloadable to anyone who wanted to download it.

Can you post a link to your website?

You’ve got to put the code in the right place not just in the beginning of the file.

You can copy the code to your archive.php file here or if it is too large you can use pastebin.com to post it.

Stacy

I’m wondering from what you said if one of your plugins is conflicting with the Hemingway Theme? Can you activate the Hemingway Theme and deactivate all of the plugins and then activate them one by one testing the image upload problem after each activation to try and find the one that is causing the problem?

Stacy

Hi Gareth,

Your site looks really good! Did you fix the problem?

Stacy

Hi Suzanna,

Sign on to your hosting provider or call their support to ask them how to put into the Host and port sections. They should be able to help you with that.

Were you able to download a new copy of your theme? If you download it to you desktop and look inside the theme folder, you will see a clean copy of functions.php. Then you can use filezilla to copy that to your host and get your site back.

Stacy

The Responsive Theme actually looks pretty good. And the company Cyber Chimps also looks really good. One of the things when you are looking for a theme is the support issue. Do the developers provide support or does it have community where you can ask questions or look at tutorials on how to do things. You just have to get used to WordPress. I searched for Responsive Theme Full-Width Header and got this page.

Put this code in Custom CSS:

#logo img {
max-width: 960px;
width: 100%;
}

Then I downloaded a header that was 960 pixels wide and it looks great. This took me about 2 minutes.

Creating a Child Theme is super easy, there are many tutorials and videos that show you how to do it. You could keep looking for another theme because there are 10s of thousands. I feel like a cheerleader here. COME ON KEN YOU ARE A PROGRAMMER! YOU ARE GOING TO END UP CUSTOMIZING ANYWAY BECAUSE THAT IS THE WAY YOUR BRAIN WORKS!

Btw, the second thing I do when I create a new WordPress site is create a child theme. Its the way I have done it since my first site. I always want to customize the theme, make it my own. Over time, I have gotten better at the design aspects and my sites keep getting prettier and prettier.

The first thing I do is try to find a parent theme which is similar to the way I want my site to look. Doesn’t have to be exact, just similar. Always look for responsive themes. Why were you drawn to the Responsive Theme? Was it because of the way it looked? Now that you know a little bit more about the way you want your site to look maybe you should look again.

Keep up the good work and remember content is key! Start adding some more content and then you will really start to figure out what you need.

Stacy

Phil-

You were right in the beginning. There is no div that goes just around the content. The .entry-content div includes the social media icons and the bottom post navigation.

You do have to change single.php. I tried to download the theme but it doesn’t seem to be on www.remarpro.com any more. Did you try asking the theme designer here? He seems pretty responsive.

Here is a entry in the Codex that tells you how to do it.

You would first need to copy single.php to your child theme folder. Make the changes right in the editor. You might want to create a copy of your site on your local computer or in a development sub-directory so you can try changes out.

A work around is to always put the div my-custom-content around your content but the styling in your CSS file.

Ciao, Stacy

Travelify theme has a place to put your Custom CSS. To change the spacing you would put in code like this into your Custom CSS file:

#content h2 {
padding-bottom:0px;
}

The best way to make your questions Purple is to assign a header like h4 to them and then in your custom CSS put this code:

h4 (
color:purple;
font-size:12px;
}

And of course you can change the color code and the font-size to whatever you want.

Cheers, Stacy

Yes just add the code to your styles.css in your child theme!

Sorry about this! Hope you took a backup before you started!

Your posts and settings are in the SQL database. The wp-config.php file has the code that connects your site to the database. Check in that file to make sure the settings are all okay. Check the codex for what wp-config.php is supposed to look like.

Hopefully you have figured it out and everything is okay now.

Let me know if you need advice about moving your site.

Cheers, Stacy

Sounds like a permissions problem with your hosting service provider. Did you contact them yet?

Cool site btw.

Stacy

This can be accomplished using media queries in CSS. Either you can find someone to help you or take some CSS tutorials online.

Here is a description of how to add new pages to a menu.

Scroll down a little bit and also read the section: Creating Multi-level Menus.

Let me know if you need more help or don’t understand something.

Stacy

Hi Phil!

It is great you have created a child theme for your customizations!

What you are talking about is changing the style of your content and the styling language is called CSS or Cascading Style Sheets.

You created a styles.css file when you created your child theme. This is where you put your styling (CSS code) so it effects all posts globally.

The code you created has both HTML and CSS. We are going to just use the new CSS you created and use the existing HTML code.

But first you need to find out the CSS class for the div for the post. To do that you use Firebug in Firefox or Chrome. Or you could post your url and I’ll find the div element for the post for you.

Here are some instructions for using Firebug:

CSS basics
This is for people who are pretty new to CSS and have never used or heard the word Firebug. It is not theme-related but deals with CSS+Firebug usage, which is essential for easy modification of any styles.

Change styling
You look at your page and say to yourself, “I would like to restyle that element right there on the my page”. But how do you know what the CSS class or id you need to specify in your custom.css? Without tools this would be hard – thankfully both Firefox and Chrome makes it easier.

Enter Firebug
This addon that exist both for Firefox and for Chrome (as a lite version) will save you a lot of time. I use it my development all the time – it’s incredibly useful.

* Download for Firefox
* Download for Google Chrome

Installed it? Good. Now, go to your website and right click on any element you want. For example, let’s say you want to recolor the dropcap shortcode text color, that you’ve just inserted on your page. To find out what class or ID this element uses, right click on it and select “Inspect Element with Firebug”. This will open up a window at the bottom. To the left side you should see the HTML. On the right, the CSS.

Try hovering over the HTML-section for the button. You will see that the button will be highlighted so that you can easily see what element you are viewing. The HTML would look something like this: <span class=”dropcap”>L</span>

The CSS should appear on the right side in the Firebug window (If it doesn’t, click on the <span> part of the code, and it will appear). You should see something like this:

.dropcap{color: #444444;display: block;float: left;- etc -}

And there we go! You’ve found the CSS class you are looking for, and all the CSS styling that is currently used for this element.

There are many good Firebug introduction videos out there on YouTube. Here is one short and simple one I found useful: View Video

As shown here, Firebug also allows you to preview styling changes directly in your browser window. It’s great when you want to see how something looks before adding it. It can also be used to test to remove HTML or CSS values, and many other things.

Adding CSS to your child theme styles.css:

Go to Appearance->Editor

There you will see the files in your child theme including the styles.css file where you want to add your CSS code.

Thanks to Firebug, we now know that our dropcap element is called .dropcap. We want to change the text color to red, so all we need to do is to add this to our custom.css file:
.dropcap { color: red; }

Save it, and your dropcap text should now be red!
This method can be used to restyle any element on your website. It is also useful to use for troubleshooting, to see what CSS styling you may have added that breaks the page and so on.

In your case you may find by right clicking on a post that the div for a post is has been given the CSS class post-content. Then your CSS you would add to the styles.css file would look like this:

.post-content {
   width: auto;
   float: left;
   padding: 0px 10px;
   border-radius: 5px;
   border: 1px solid #00bfff;
   text-align:justify;
   background-color: #e1e8e2;
}

Cheers! Stacy