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6:33 pm
March 14, 2008


DeeH

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Could you please tell me where I will find the place to change the background colours for the comments?

Also, I would like to change the heading for the sections provided by a couple of the plug ins after each post. One is titled 'Latest' and the other 'Other Related Articles'. I am assuming these are <h?> tags the colours for which are pulled from a CSS file somewhere.

If anyone could help with these queries I would be extraordinarily grateful

Thanks 

 

 

6:36 pm
March 14, 2008


DeeH

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Ah, one more thing!

I have changed the look of the left and right sidebars but the header text on the left sidebar doesn't reflect the change....The text colour has defaulted to black.

Is that taken from somewhere other than the presentation>sidebars option?

It might be helpful to look at the site!!

The text for the sidebar headings  is supposed to cream on both sides.

http://murmurz.com

Thanks 

9:47 pm
March 14, 2008


Best WordPress Template

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posts 77

DeeH said:

Could you please tell me where I will find the place to change the background colours for the comments?

Also, I would like to change the heading for the sections provided by a
couple of the plug ins after each post. One is titled ‘Latest’ and the
other ‘Other Related Articles’. I am assuming these are <h?> tags
the colours for which are pulled from a CSS file somewhere.

If anyone could help with these queries I would be extraordinarily grateful

Thanks 

 
Hi Dee, to change the < h3> heading for "Latest" and "Other Related Articles," open up "Related-Articles.php" in the "include" folder of MintTree-V3 theme and look for every instance of those 2 heading. (It should be easy as there are not a lot of code =).

 For the background color of the comment, I'll keep that in mind and will add it to theTo-Do list for some minor updates of this version 3.0. (plus the Footer CSS styling too =).

<a href="#header">Top</a> Admin Mint Tree

9:52 pm
March 14, 2008


Best WordPress Template

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posts 77

DeeH said:

Ah, one more thing!

I have changed the look of the left and right sidebars but the header text on the left sidebar doesn’t reflect the change….The text colour has defaulted to black.

Is that taken from somewhere other than the presentation>sidebars option?

It might be helpful to look at the site!!

The text for the sidebar headings  is supposed to cream on both sides.

http://murmurz.com

Thanks 


From the looks ofyour site, I think you've figured that part out -- that the "text color" for your sidebar can be configured in the boxes for "Left Sidebar Content CSS Style:" and Right Sidebar Content CSS Style:".

Hope I have answered all of your question Dee! If not, post away :D.

Best regards,

~Mint Tree~

P.S. To have a border at the top of your "Entry Title", go to "Presentation => Entry" and delete 'border-top:none;" from your "Other Entry Title CSS Style".

<a href="#header">Top</a> Admin Mint Tree

6:10 am
March 15, 2008


DeeH

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posts 9

Mint Tree

Having posted for help I decided to have another go, determined not to be beaten!!

I did get the left sidebar text to change in the end but only by making changes in style.php.

What I don't understand is why changes made through the Dashboard of WP (presentation>Sidebars) took effect for the right sidebar but the same changes were ignored for the left?

Thanks for the tip about the border. I'll take a look at that.

I have one last question! The hover on the header menu. It is still changing to dark blue and whilst I can find many mentions of 'hover' I can't find where to change that colour!!! If you have a minute and can point me in the right direction I'd be grateful!

Mint Tree I have to congratulate you. This practice blog I have been working on was on the Semiologic theme (free version) and the load times were just dreadful. There are lots of other improvements too, but that's the one that is most noticeable.

As I activated those plug ins I confess to having some doubts :-) I wondered if the blog would be even slower - but quite the contrary.

I shall be transitioning my other blogs on to your theme over the next few weeks and am wondering what happens when we have used our 10 licences???

Thanks once again

D

 

 

 

 

 

7:43 am
March 15, 2008


DeeH

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posts 9

Hi Mint Tree

I followed these instructions as a learning exercise

"Hi Dee, to change the < h3> heading for "Latest" and "Other
Related Articles," open up "Related-Articles.php" in the "include"
folder of MintTree-V3 theme and look for every instance of those 2
heading. (It should be easy as there are not a lot of code =). "

But just wanted to come back here to check my understanding.

I think the instruction you give above would be appropriate if I wnated to change the text headlines for those sections. Or to change the H3 tag to something different.  However, I think to change the style instruction for the H3 tag it is the style sheet that needs to be changed? (In fact, I have changed style.php to roduce the H3 look and feel I want)

There is no style code giving insturctions regarding the display of the actual H3 code in the 'related-article.php file.

On the subject of style sheets. For each of the themes style.php is already included. For my chosen theme I have uploaded the relevant style sheet and it sits in the style folder with style.php. When we make style changes using the screens we find under the 'presentation' tab of the dashboard I assume these then supercede the theme wide style sheet and that it shouldn't be necessary to  modify the stylesheet unless we want to change something for which there isn't a tab/form in the dashboard?

I hope the questions make sense Mint Tree! I know exactly what I mean :-)))

Thanks once again.

 

 

7:58 am
March 15, 2008


DeeH

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posts 9

Hi!!

I've just noticed that what look as if they should be active links, aren't!

At the bottom of single posts and also at the bottom of the hom page there are two 'links.

<<Previous and Next Page>>

Should these be clickable? Mine aren't!

Also, when I click on the category in the breadcrumb trail I get a 404 error. I suspect this is not the template but something silly I have doen with Wordpress.....I don't know if anyone has any ideas about that?

If I am being a pain, I apologise!

Dee 

 

 

1:57 pm
March 15, 2008


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Hi Dee, here is my reply from Top to Bottom for the First of 3:

Dee: What I don’t understand is why changes made through the Dashboard of WP (presentation>Sidebars) took effect for the right sidebar but the same changes were ignored for the left?

M.T.: I think you will need to copy the same code from the Left Sidebar into the "Right Sidebar Content CSS Style" box?

Dee:The hover on the header menu. It is still changing to dark blue and whilst I can find many mentions of ‘hover’ I can’t find where to change that colour!!!

M.T.: There is no option to change it yet. But to change the style color of the hovered menu, open up "style.php" and go to line 65-67 and change to the "background" the you'd want:

#pageMenu a:hover, #pageMenu li li a:hover,
#catMenu a:hover, #catMenu li li a:hover
{background:#000048; color:#FFF;}

Dee: I shall be transitioning my other blogs on to your theme over the next few weeks and am wondering what happens when we have used our 10 licences???

M.T.: Well, there is no "Developer/Unlimited Pacage" yet (you'll have to wait =). However, you can either purchase another package with the same price that you've paid for the first by sending a payment to wp-support [at] minttree.com => then PM me in via WF to let me know, 'cuz I have to track down you down... in PayPal =).

*Also: I'll add the option in there in the next minor updates (so don't change ALL of your blog to this template just yet... and if you do, you'll need to back up the style of your configured template to use when the next update is available - probably today or tomorrow =).

Here's how to back it up: view the source code of your site and locate:

/*### BEGIN => BACKUP => Copy this css block ...

 /*### END => BACKUP => Copy this css block....

Then, just copy and save the CSS block inbetween the above /*### comments, as either a .css or .php extension.

You can then input this new CSS file name as the "Name of the Style Skin for the Whole Layout" to use in the "Presentation => Layout" config page.

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2:28 pm
March 15, 2008


DeeH

New Member

posts 9

Smile

Hover menu altered and looking good!!!

Thank you for finding the code lines for me Mint Tree

I am grateful

12:50 am
March 16, 2008


Best WordPress Template

Admin

posts 77

This my reply for the later Second of 3 Questions:

Dee: There is no style code giving insturctions regarding the display of the actual H3 code in the ‘related-article.php file.

M.T.: There really is no option to configure the tag: I'll keep it in mind for the next update Dee (you really want to tweak even the smallest thing, hehehe =). *Will be added as a config in "Other Setting".

Dee: For my chosen theme I have uploaded the relevant style sheet and it
sits in the style folder with style.php. When we make style changes
using the screens we find under the ‘presentation’ tab of the dashboard
I assume these then supercede the theme wide style sheet and that it
shouldn’t be necessary to  modify the stylesheet unless we want to
change something for which there isn’t a tab/form in the dashboard?

M.T.: I think I kinda understand the  latter longggest question Laughing.

Anyway, here is my explanation of the use of another style skin.  The style skin stored in the "style" folder should be your style "color scheme" or skin. Let me give you an example on how to use i, using murmurz.com as an example:

 

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