Comments on: In which I finally fix a theme

By: Maruf

Maruf — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:25:31 +0000

No worries at all.

Yup, the wrap should be pretty straight forward to apply to your dynamic sidebar. Just make the theme live, so I can grab all the new elements, and then i’ll give you a new CSS stylesheet that will fix that problem.

Just leave me a comment on my blog when the theme is live, and i’ll come over and grab the code I need.

By: debra

debra — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:06:05 +0000

Yes, 1.6 solves the category problems and makes the sidebar dynamic, thank you ever so much for the quick response. I really liked the style (white rectangle) and wrap (dark gray border) on the “standard” sidebar. Those seem to be missing if I choose the dynamic sidebar option. Is there a way to get those back?

By: Maruf

Maruf — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:06:48 +0000

Let me know if this version works better: fresh-editorial-1.6

By: debra

debra — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:49:24 +0000

I don’t usually list my categories because there are so many, I would be fine removing it, or subbing in the search bar. I tried moving the search bar in up to the white bar with a right alignment, but the icon didn’t stay placed correctly

By: Maruf

Maruf — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:02:41 +0000

First thing is first, let’s tackle the category issue. You’re right, you have a lot of categories. Perhaps it would be better to list them in your sidebar. Would you be happy with that?

By: debra

debra — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:42:48 +0000

It seems to be working now. I must have tried when you were updating the files. I know I tried a few times over a 3-5 minute period. I even tried again after I saw that it worked in IE before deciding it was a FF3 problem. On to the dynamic sidebar, I’d love to use the theme with widgets. I think the sidebar.php file is missing a statement like this: < ?php
if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>

However, when I put it in, the css style is out of whack. And the categories are a bit out of sorts as well. I have waaaayyy to many categories to actually display, so I could go in to the header.php file and limit the level to show, but I’m afraid there are still too many to be dealt with properly. They start to go over and under the header graphic. In IE, they stretch across the top and then begin to fill the sidebar, pushing intro & actual sidebar further down the page.

By: Maruf

Maruf — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:20:43 +0000

That’s odd.

I was working on the comments file yesterday, so perhaps you looked at it in FF3 while I was uploading the new file. Extremely odd though, because that would have been pin-point timing, to the millisecond.

Can you just check if you’re still having the problem now.

Many thanks

By: debra

debra — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:11:15 +0000

Yes, yesterday when I attempted to leave a comment on the post about Fresh Editorial, I was unable to view the comment section. When I opened the site in Internet Explorer, the comment section was just fine.

By: Maruf Rahman

Maruf Rahman — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:26:45 +0000

Hey Debra,

In reference to the site not supporting Firefox 3- were you talking about BrightCherry.co.uk?

I’ve tested the site with all browsers (including FF3), and everything seems to be accessible. It would be interesting to find out what problems you’re experiencing.

If you’re having problems with the dynamic sidebar, just let me know. We offer free support with all our released themes.

Kind regards,
Maruf.