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One thing I can not figure out though. How do you insert the 468X60 banner?
The easiest way to replace it is open the header.php file. You'll see a "div" named banner-block. There is an opening tag (says "banner-block") and a closing tag two lines later. Replace the line between those 2 tags with your ad code and your ad should appear. I would print the code here for you to see, but WordPress won't allow me to do so in the comments without messing things up.
A quick question... The search results page doesn't keep the right column in place. It appears at the bottom of all search results. Might you consider tweaking this element to more closely match the rest of the superb design?
You are absolutely right! In the search.php file, I have a div with an id="content float-left two-column". That's wrong. It should be an id="content" and a class="float-left two-column". It's on line 3 at the very top. I'm going to upload a changed version to WordPress. Thanks for pointing this out.
I think there is still one small tweak that needs to be made to search.php. I think you are missing a div tag right after the excerpt section, and right before the no posts match your criteria section. I added that to my search form and it works great. Thanks again for the work on it, and I gave you 5 stars!
I've downloaded this them and I like it a lot. There is one thing though. I would like to change the blog title to font-family: forte. I changed this in style.css, but however when i view this the change doesn't appear. Any ideas why this is happening?
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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I don't have forte on my computer, but when I test changing other fonts in the theme on my PC, it works. In the stylesheet, I have all fonts set in the body tag, which is where you'd want to change it.
Could I replace the ad with a logo that measures the same as the banner ad?
You may absolutely do that. In fact, I like seeing people modify the themes. If you need any help getting it done, just let me know.
PS I love this theme. Its very clean and simple, yet functional.
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I've sent you an email with the sidebar file attached. Thanks for using the theme!
How can I substitute a logo for the banner ad, and is it possible to delete the black box at the very bottom of the page that says, blogroll, etc?
Thanks for the help!
Thanks for using the theme. I've written some instructions for changing the banner in the header here. And to remove the blogroll you have two options. Create a new widget in sidebar 3 and it will automatically replace the blogroll, or open up footer.php and delete lines 44-47.
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If you're using WordPress at least version 2.3, right above the post editor should be a little row of icons where you can add various kinds of media, including pictures. I've pre-styled photos in all my themes to handle the built-in caption functionality.
Thanks for everything!
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On it's way by email. Thanks so much.
I love the Balance Of Blue...very soothing. Thanks for the great work - it caught my eye immediately. I'm using it for a company blog and am wondering why all my links in the blog roll and basically anything I add end of on the pages I created (Welcome and About page). How can I make sure more is adding to the landing (Home) page? Please talk slowly...it's my first blog.
Like your blog too!
Thank you in advance,
I'd love to help, but I'm not sure I understand your question very well. The links in the footer of the site exist with every new WordPress install. You can delete them all by going to Manage > Links and selecting them all and deleting them. Then you can supply your own. Or, to replace the blogroll (links) altogether, just go to Design > Widgets and put any widget you want in Sidebar 3, which is where the blogroll appears. Your new widget will replace the blogroll.
Any new posts will show up on your home page automatically. You determine how many will show up by going to Settings > Reading.
Let me know if this is what you were asking. If not, I'll take another shot. Thanks for the compliment and for downloading Balance of Blue.
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I've tried deleting various lines but cannot get this stuff to disappear!
Thanks again!
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You can remove it, but you'll need to access several files. In index.php, single.php, you'll fine a line that begins with p class="premeta". You'll need to remove that all the way to the closing /p tag. I can't put the full code here or it will mess up this page, but in the original file, it's line 12 in both files.
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First time blogger here who went through all of the WP themes and fell in love with what you've created here. Simple yet very cool. Excellent job.
Question for you. I'm not sure why, but on my "About" page, the sidebar is appearing horizontally at the bottom of the page (below my "About" blurb). When I look at the Design editor, I don't see a page for "About", so I don't know how I could have screwed this up (although I'm sure somehow I managed to do so!). Do you think you can take a look and help me out?
Thanks in advance.
Brendan
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Brendan, I've looked at your blog's code and somehow, the sidebar gets started 3 times. I'd have to see your sidebar.php file to understand why, and I'd have to know how you've added widgets, but basically, there should only be one div with an id of sidebar. If you want to add elements or widgets within the sidebar, they would need to be a div with a class of widget instead of an id of sidebar. Make sense? Let me know if I can help further - I'd be happy to dissect your code if you'd like. Thanks!
You can open stylesheet.css and find the line that says #navbar .topics li and add an attribute like font-size: 0.8em; and see if they fit. You can also increase the height of the navbar to allow for 2 lines, but you would need to re-create the gray background in a graphics editor. Make sense?
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Yes, you can do that. With the pages in the navigation, open up header.php and find the line that says php wp_list_pages(); (can't print the full code here) and between the parentheses, add this 'include=1,2,3' where the numbers are the ID's of the pages you want to include. The same works for exclude. Here's a link to the specific page in WordPress' codex that gives more detailed instructions about listing pages and here's the link to the codex page that talks about the same issue with the categories.
Love the theme. I am having a small problem. On my home page, the sidebar gets pushed out of the way and disappears to the bottom or gone completely. It doesn't do this on any other page. I think it must not lock into position and wrap the text so the text ends up pushing it out of the way. Any suggestions?
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I have looked at your home page and I think the problem pertains to text that you may have pasted from Word. In your second post, there is a table inserted with a class of MsoNormal, which is part of the code that Word puts out. I would recommend opening up at least the second post (and any you've pasted from a Microsoft program) and click on HTML. You'll see a large block of code at the top and bottom, which needs to be deleted. Basically, this code has taken the sidebar and included it in the second post on the page.
You can paste from Word, but do so in html view, then switch to visual so that it strips away Microsoft's bloated code. Let me know if this works or not. Thanks for using the theme!
I took out all of the MsoNormal code and that still didn't work, but was able to find the problem. I had a rouge piece of code at the beginning of one of my posts and once I removed that, it went back to normal.
Love the theme by the way.
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Mark, I'm so glad it worked and thanks for the compliment. Don't hesitate to ask for help if you run into anymore issues.
I am using your theme for my new blog.. and I must say, it was just what I needed. Thanks so much.
I was wondering if I can replace the header text with an image.. a logo for to be precise. If yes, how could I go about doing it. Thanks a lot! And one again, thank you so much! :)
I just would like know the color code that has been used for the header-bg.jpg. This would be very much useful in choosing an 468x60 header image or ad that can be properly blended into it. Thank You!
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It is #003466. I'd also like to recommend ColorZilla, a Firefox add-on that lets you discover the color of anything on the web. Thanks!
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Thanks again for your help!
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Thanks
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It's a great theme, thanks for shared it.
I only have a problem: the li-bullet icon, applied to comments area, appears on the name of author and on the entry name.
I tried to edit the style sheet, but any change affect to the rest of areas (blogroll, recent entries, etc.)
Do you have any solution or suggestion?
Thanks a lot.
Hector Urzua.
You did a great job. Many thanks.
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Again, good work!
I really like you Balance of Blue theme. Using it now for my blog. It rocks! It is simple but very stylish.
I have one question. I noticed that the Articles by Category and the Recent Posts in the sidebat part of the sitebar template and thus cannot be removed. Is there any reason why you did this as both are part of the available, selectable, widgets?
If I want to remove them, what is the best solution?
Thanks, Patrick
Is there a way to make the main content area a single column?
Thanks,
Jack
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I echo the comments made above when I say, great job on the theme, you did a wonderful job!
Question: When I edit the header.php file from within Wordpress and wrap a URL around my banner image at top right, and update, it makes my banner image disappear. Why is that? I'm fairly savvy with HTML but haven't found the answer in the short amount of time I've spent.
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Got a follow up question - when I add level 2 pages, I can see that they are in the header menu, but they're mostly hidden. Is there a way to move the menu up or to extend the depth of the blue background?
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I've recently set up my blog site using your New Balance of Blue theme. Its a great theme, very eye catching. I have a couple of q's though-
I recently added a post that included some text highlighted in orange and since then all of my excerpts appear in orange, can you advise me on how to change them all back to black?
Also,Some of the side bar has recently moved to the bottom of the page, I had this problem before and resolved it by taking off a table that appeared in a post, but I cannot cure the problem this time. Can you offer any advice
Many thanks
Mo
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Brandon - Thanks for this great resource of links, I'll look it over and let you know how I make out.
The blog is coming along and looks very nice! Can you tell me how to add rss feeds for the posts?
Thank you in advance.
Thanks so much for your help Brandon,, you are a gent. Problem solved and site looking good
Mo
You really helped me to fix my last query, my new query is that i want to upload my own header for my blog with a hyper link on the logo. I have it all designed and want to upload it without losing the links 'home, about, subscribe' Can you give me some advice on how to do that please. Thanks again Mo
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Have I somehow corrupted the theme, or is this a problem many are experiencing. I look forward to hearing back from you and hope you are well and good over there in the USA
Regards
Mo
thanks so much for your reply. I did look on the WP forums and found that many people were having the same problem as me that day. Just for future info, it turns out that the plug in 'tweet this' had to be disabled and then the new version loaded. I disabled all my plug ins and then reloaded them just for good measure.
Thanks again
Mo
Here it comes. There is always a but. But, the blue triangle bullets in "Recent Comments" just won't cooperate. They are indented and appear on top of text. This happened once at the start. I got them to not appear at all until I upgraded to IE8. Now, they appear for each entry uniformly. In case you can't see it, I will shoot you a jpg.
Would you consider doing an upgrade to fix that?
Many thanks.
Thanks again Brandon
Mo
Please give me a response. I received an email as though there should be a response but it was missing.
@Roy Johnson -
I'm using your Balance of Blue for a membership site. I love the styling. You did a great job!
I've read through your posts here and found another person who wanted to change the font and/or color of font in the header. My concern, exactly.
I went to the style.css as you mentioned and saw the header section, but I couldn't figure out how to change the main title to color #f5be63. I would like the hover color to be white (ffffff). I want the main title to be Comic Sans. Where do I list that in the script?
I also would like the sub-title (description) to be white instead of gray/blue because I changed the background color to be darker (thanks to Photoshop).
Every time a made a slight change in the .css for the font, it either didn't work or it made the entire heading white (no blue). I finally became frustrated and decided to write.
These posts help a lot!!
Please, if you have time, help. Thank you,
Gail
p.site-title between the {brackets} add font-family: comic sans, comic-sans;
p.site-title a change #fff to #f5be63
p.site-title a:hover change #ddd to #fff
That should do it.
And as a bonus... a post from Brian Hoff about this thing we call "comic sans" (in good fun).
I've read how to put the 468 60 banner on the header and I managed to do it with no trouble. But, how am I going to insert the 300 250 on the sidebar? Using a widget? Or is there a way to do it in the theme editor?
Thanks.
P. S.: it's a very beautiful theme!
I have been trying to find a plugin like the one you have here: "Notify me of followup comments via e-mail". Can you give me its name?
Thanks,
Maurício.
Can I add text to the sidebar? And, if so, how?
Thanks!! (again)
Cheers,
Karl
Did you check your theme for Wordpress 2.8 compatibility? :-)
I'm changing WP themes on my patrickschriel.com blog from Balance of Blue to Thesis. Not because I don't like your theme anymore but Thesis is giving me more flexibility. In fact I like the BoB design so much that I would like to tweak the new Theme to resemble BoB.
Do you mind if I do this, reusing the header and sidebar jpg's and font settings of BoB?
Maybe I don't use all features of 2.8 and in any case, I'm well satisfied with your theme! :-)