Bill Robbins

[Bill Robbins]

One of the best things about WordPress is that just about anything is possible. If you’ll let me know what the name of the category is you’d like to display on this new page, I’ll send you the changes you need to make.

[Bill Robbins]

I did limit the number of drop downs, but you can change it if you’d like to. You’ll need to edit the sidebar.php file and look at the very top for this:

<?php wp_nav_menu( array( ‘theme_location’ => ‘side’, ‘container’ => ‘nav’, ‘depth’ => 2 ) ); ?>

where it says ‘depth’ => 2 just change the 2 to 3 and save your changes. That will output another level to your menus. Let me know if you have any trouble.

[Bill Robbins]

Thanks for the login. I deactivated the WP Super Cache plugin. It creates static files of your pages which is great for helping your site be faster and handle large traffic spikes. The downside is updates aren’t immediately visible. I’d suggest leaving it off while you’re developing the site and then switch it back on after you’ve finished the majority of the development. If you have any other trouble, let me know.

Enjoy your week,
Bill

[Bill Robbins]

Rob,

They should be updating when you make changes. If you wouldn’t mind sending an admin login to support@organizedthemes.com I’ll be happy to take a closer look for you and see if we can’t figure out what’s causing the trouble.

Enjoy your week,
Bill

[Bill Robbins]

Great question. There are several WordPress shopping cart plugins out there you might find useful. I’ve been developing a site using the JigoShop plugin and I’ve been quite pleased with it. It’s free, though it does have some optional paid extensions. You could make your event registrations an item in your store to purchase, like a shirt. That would probably be the easiest way to go.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

[Bill Robbins]

Robert, let me see if I can help you out a bit. The theme has a width of 960 pixels. I resized your logo to that width and you can download it at https://support.organizedthemes.com/samples/customer-images/Contributing-Society-Logo-Nova-960.png

You’ll still need to make the header a bit taller in order for the logo to fit more comfortably. To do that, go to the appearance section of your control panel and select theme options. Then choose the “Styling” tab and scroll down to the very bottom to the custom css box. In the box paste this code:

#header { height: 170px; }

and save your changes. You can adjust the 170 to the height in pixels you’d like to have in order to give you the room you need.

If you have any trouble, let me know.

[Bill Robbins]

You can change the number of slides that show up by default. Here’s how to do it:

1) Go to the appearance section of your WordPress control panel and select edit to open up the theme editor.
2) From the list of files on your right, choose home.php.
3) Look for this spot:

<?php $loop = new WP_Query( array( ‘post_type’ => ‘slide’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 5, ‘orderby’=>’menu_order’, ‘order’=>’ASC’ ) ); ?>

where it says ‘posts_per_page’ => 5 change the 5 to the number of slides you’d like to have.

4) Save your changes.

I wouldn’t recommend including too many more than that as it will being to affect the page load time. Images tend to be larger files and that can impact how quickly your home page loads.

You can add a slideshow to a post using the “Gallery” post template. It will look like this post from the demo http://www.organizedthemes.com/try/foundation/2010/12/06/sample-gallery-post/

To use it, first you’ll need to set the size of your images. Go to the settings section of your control panel and select media. In the options for the medium size images, use 630 as the maximum width and 500 pixels as the maximum height. Save your changes.

Next upload all the images you’d like to include in your post slideshow on that post. You don’t need to insert them into the post. Next select the “Gallery Post” post template from the post template drop down menu (it’s in the right hand column below the publish and categories boxes). Then just publish your post.

The gallery post template, uses the built-in WordPress gallery to create the slideshow which is why you don’t need insert the images, but that’s also why you have to upload the images on that particular post.

If you want to use images you’ve already uploaded, you’ll need to use the “Regenerate Thumbnails” plugin to resize those images appropriately.

[Bill Robbins]

Thanks for letting me know and sorry for the trouble. I’ll update the file and add it to the theme.

[Bill Robbins]

Gary,

The staff members images are the “featured images” for those staff members. There is quick screencast in our video section that explains how to use them if you need some help. If you don’t see the “featured image” box in your edit staff page, click the link in the top right corner for “Screen Options” and make sure that it’s checked so it will be visible. Once the image is saved as the featured image, it should appear in the staff listings along with their name and contact information.

If you’d like to change the order of the previous/next buttons you can do that by editing the paging.php file. Look for these two spots:

<p class=”paging-next left”>

and

<p class=”paging-prev right”>

and just swap the left and right classes to float them on opposite sides.

To change the number of staff members per page, you’ll need to edit the taxonomy-staff-group.php page.

The easiest way to change the number of staff members displayed per page is to go to Settings>Reading in your control panel and change the number of post displayed per page there. Once you save your changes it will reflect the number of staff per page too.

[Bill Robbins]

I’m glad you were able to find what you were looking for there. Let me know if you need anything else.

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Julie,

You can create different staff types and add those directly to your menu to create a “page” for each of those staff types. They aren’t actually created using WordPress page templates, but are instead created dynamically in a fashion similar to how adding a post category to your navigation creates a “page” for that category.

Here is a screenshot that shows adding a staff type while creating a staff member:

and here is another shot showing how to add that type to your navigation (Appearance>Menu):

If you don’t see the option to add a staff type to an individual member, or the option to add it to your navigation, be sure to click the “Screen Options” tab in the top right hand corner of both pages. From there you can make sure that the staff type box is checked so you can add a type and then add it to your navigation.

If you need help with using the navigation builder (it’s in the appearance section under menu), there is a screencast about it in our video section.

Should you need any other help, please just let me know.

[Bill Robbins]

Great question. The easiest way to do that would be to use categories to organize your posts. Create one category for your “results” and add it to your navigation (Appearance>Menu). That will make the page for your results.

Next create a master category for your blog posts. Add all the posts you’d like to include in your blog to that category. You can use more than one category if you’d like to. Add that category to your navigation and you’ll now have a separate blog category to go along side the results.

Let me know if you have any trouble.

[Bill Robbins]

Gary, any chance you could send me a link to where you’re working on this? That would be helpful.

[Bill Robbins]

Great question. You can change the bar graph colors. Here’s how:

1) Go to the appearance section of your WordPress control panel and select edit to open up the theme editor.
2) From the list of files on your right, choose style.css and look for this spot:

#donate-graph-base {
top: 30px;
height: 15px;
z-index: 1;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
background-color: #041b29;
-webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px #000;
-moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px #000;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px #000;
}

#donate-graph-highlight {
top: 30px;
height: 15px;
z-index: 2;
position: absolute;
background-color: #2d4452;
border-right: 1px solid #5e89a2;
}

The top part controls the base of the donation bar (the part that isn’t filled in yet) and the lower part controls the percentage that the bar is filled up. To change the colors, edit the lines that say background-color: #041b29 and background-color: #2d4452 respectively.

3) Replace the background colors with the hex color code of your choice. You can find a color picker at http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_colorpicker.asp if you need one

4) Save your changes and you will have new colors for your donation bar.

5) One last change you might make is to the border at the end of the completed portion of the graph. To edit it, change the #5e89a2 in this line: border-right: 1px solid #5e89a2 to the hex color you’d like to use there.

Let me know if you need any other help.

[Bill Robbins]

I’m glad I could help and thanks for the recommendations. I do appreciate it.

[Bill Robbins]

Great question. Go to maps.google.com and create a map to the address you’d like to use. Once you have your address set, click the link button (see picture below) above the map and select “Customize and preview embedded map.” Once there you can set the zoom level and size of your map. For best results, set the map to be 300 pixels wide by 280 pixels tall. Once you have that set, copy the embed code that Google gives you and paste it into the box in the widget.

I’d also suggest deleting the last section of the embed code which will look something like this:

<br /><small>View <a href=”http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?
msa=0&msid=202165479458116884242.00048f124a14eb66bd644&ie=UTF8
&vpsrc=0&z=17&source=embed” style=”color:#0000FF;text-align:left”>Bottega Cafe</a> in a larger map</small>

That adds a small “View Larger Map” below the map which can look a bit funny.

[Bill Robbins]

You can modify the theme to add a search bar on the homepage with it and the logo being centered. Here’s how to go about that.

1) Go to the appearance section of your WordPress control panel and select edit to open up the theme editor.
2) From the list of files on your right, select header.php.
3) Find this spot:

</header>

and paste the code from this link http://pastebin.com/WrqrQCZC just above that.

4) Save your changes and open up style.css.
5) Paste this at the very bottom:

.home #logo {
position: relative;
text-align: center;
width: 100%;
}

.header-search {
position: relative;
z-index: 2000;
text-align: center;
top: 57px;
}

input#s-header {
width: 300px;
}

6) Save your changes and you should now have a centered logo and a search bar.

To pin the navigation to the sidebar can’t be done without also moving the sidebar to the left side. If you don’t mind that, here’s how to do that.

1) Edit the style.css file again and look for this spot:

.wrap {
width: 960px;
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
z-index: 20;
padding-bottom: 60px;
}

and change it to this:

.wrap {
width: 960px;
margin: 0 auto;
z-index: 20;
padding-bottom: 60px;
}

then find this spot:

aside.sidebar {
float: left;
position: relative;
width: 180px;
}

and replace it with this:

aside.sidebar {
float: left;
position: absolute;
width: 180px;
left: 30px;
}

2) Save your changes. That should move your sidebar over to the left.

[Bill Robbins]

The background looks ok in Internet Explorer to me. Here’s what I’m seeing:

which is also what I see in Safari.

[Bill Robbins]

Can you send me a link so I can take a closer look for you?

[Bill Robbins]

Thanks for your business first of all. The easiest way to add a blog page to the Agency theme is to first create a master category where all your blog posts will go. You can call it blog or anything else that fits your needs and you can have more than one category too. Just assign any posts you’d like to have in your blog to that category.

Next go to the Appearance section and select menu to open up the navigation builder. From there, add your master category to your navigation thus creating a new blog page.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

[Bill Robbins]

Joshua,

It looks like a bug that appeared when comments are closed on a post. Here’s how to fix it.

1) Go to the appearance section and select edit to open up the theme editor.
2) From the list of files on your right, choose comments.php.
3) Look for this spot:

<div id=”respond”>

and replace it with this:

<div id=”respond”>

4) Save your changes and see if that doesn’t fix the sidebar popping out.

Enjoy your week and let me know if you have any other questions.

[Bill Robbins]

It is a bit of a goof. With Authentic, I tried using a new theme options page that I hate to say just hasn’t worked out as well as I hoped. The page title in the staff section is a by-product of that. I’ve nearly finished an update to the theme that uses a different options page (it’s already in Foxy and Foundation). That should take care of the page title problem.

You can have multiple staff listings. In the right hand column when you’re editing a staff member, just below the publish box, there is a box for staff group. To create different lists, you’ll want to create multiple staff groups. They’re like categories for your staff members. Once you have some staff groups created, they can be added directly to your navigation (Appearance>Menu) where a “page” for that group will be created.

Let me know if you have any other questions and enjoy your week,
Bill

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Not yet. I threw out my back last week and didn’t make much progress coding it out. Hopefully I can wrap it up this week.

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David,

It looks like you’re missing the last ” after the .jpg

Try adding that and see if that doesn’t pull your image up.

[Bill Robbins]

David,

I’m afraid this is a causality of me learning how to use our new forum. When I tried entering the code of an image, the reply kept trying to display the image instead of the code for one.

Here’s a link to the code on Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/B2rV99KL

Use that copy from and see if that doesn’t work better for you.

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