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  • in reply to: Sponsors page #3734
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Ellen,

    Glad you found it. You can also add a sponsor group under the edit sponsor screen. It looks like the category box when you’re editing a post. Here’s a screenshot of what it looks like:

    If you have any other questions, let me know,
    Bill

    in reply to: Facebook Links #3731
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Thanks. Make sure that each link starts with http:// as that let your browser know that we’re going to a different site instead of a link on the current site. Let me know if you have any other trouble.

    in reply to: Widget Question #3727
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    David,

    One option is to actually use a text widget. To use one of these with the Foundation theme, you’d need to size your image to 290 pixels wide (the height can be variable). Once that’s done, go to Media in your WordPress control panel and select add new. Upload the resized image and once it’s finished copy the URL to the image file that WordPress gives you.

    Now go to your widget section and drag a text widget into the sidebar where you’d like to include the image. Paste this code in the body of the text widget:

    <img src=”http://www.yoursite.com/image.jpg&#8221; />

    Just replace the http://www.yoursite.com/image.jpg with the URL you copied earlier. To make the image a link, use this code:

    <a href=”http://www.yourlink.com&#8221; rel=”nofollow”><img src=”http://www.yoursite.com/image.jpg&#8221; /></a>

    Here replace the http://www.yourlink.com with the URL you’d like the image to link to in addition to the image URL.

    Click save and you now have an image in the sidebar with the ability to have optional links.

    If you’re going to have quite a few ads, you’ll probably want to use an add plugin. That will let you track clicks, rotate them and even sell them in some situations.

    Enjoy your weekend and let me know if you have any other questions,
    Bill

    in reply to: Facebook Links #3725
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Chris, glad you like the theme and sorry for the trouble. Any chance you could send me a link to where you’re working with it so I can take a closer look?

    in reply to: Menu links javascript sluggish #3724
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Jim,

    It looks like you’re off to a good start. I took a look at the menu, but it doesn’t appear there are any sub-menu items added yet, but outside of that things looked ok. If you want to add some, I’ll be glad to take another look.

    Enjoy your weekend,
    Bill

    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    No one was born with knowledge of CSS or HTML so you’re in the same boat every professional was in at one point.

    Here’s how to change the font-size for page content. Go to the “Colors and Styling” section of the theme options again. Scroll down to the very bottom for the custom css box. Paste this code in there to control the page paragraph size fonts:

    .wrap p, .wrap li, .wrap { font-size: 18px; }

    You can adjust the size by changing the 18 to a different pixel size. Next to change the page titles, you’d use this:

    .page h1 { font-size: 32px; }

    Again change the 32 to adjust the size.

    in reply to: Video Home Page #3719
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Glad to hear you got the result you’re after!

    in reply to: Video Home Page #3715
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    There are a couple of things you can do here. If you’d like to edit the size of the area, here’s how to do 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 style.css
    3) Look for this spot:

    #slideshow {
    float: left;
    display: inline;
    width: 630px;
    position: relative;
    z-index: 1;
    }

    and edit the line “width: 630px;” by changing the 630 to the width you’d like for the area in pixels.

    4) Save your changes.

    The other option is to change the size of the video you’re embedding. You can generally set that when you are given the embed code for your video. For example Vimeo has height and width values as part of the video embed code. You can manually adjust them to get the size video you’re looking for.

    Let me know if you have any other questions,
    Bill

    in reply to: Need help with setting up Slide Show #3712
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    If you don’t see the “Featured Image” section (see screenshot at http://d.pr/9eFg), the first thing to try is click “Screen Options” in the top right hand corner. Make sure the “Featured Image” checkbox is checked.

    If you don’t see “Featured Image” available in your screen options, you need to make sure you can upload images. If the site is a part of a networked WordPress installation, you’ll need to make sure the network administrator has enabled image uploads for your site (they are generally disabled by default).

    Let me know if that doesn’t work for you.

    in reply to: Staff Page not working #3710
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    If you’ll delete the original staff page and empty the trash, you can probably change the page slug (just below the page title on the edit page screen) back to staff. As long as there is a page in the trash with the slug of staff, WordPress won’t let you create a new page with that slug.

    in reply to: favorite hosting vendor #3708
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    There are a lot of good hosts out there. I’m recommending Site5 or Host Gator for hosting. They both have a wide variety of plans to fit just about any need and they’re easy to work with.

    While I use GoDaddy for registration, they are widely considered to be a terrible choice for hosting, especially hosting WordPress sites.

    Hope that helps.

    in reply to: Staff Page not working #3704
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Chuck,

    If you’re using the staff page template, you might try creating a new staff page and see if that doesn’t fix the situation. You could copy over your content/settings to the new page.

    If you’re using the Staff Group and adding the group directly to the menu, try saving your permalinks again. That will clear them out and often fixes 404 errors associated with changes there.

    Let me know if you need any other help,
    Bill

    in reply to: How to change default font size in widget Home page top #3697
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Sorry again for the trouble. Here’s how to change the font size in the widgets across the site.

    1) Go to the Theme Options section and select “Colors and Styling”
    2) Scroll down to the very bottom until you see “Custom CSS”
    3) Paste this into the box

    .widget p, .widget li { font-size: 18px; }

    4) Change the 18px to be the size you’d like to use.
    5) Save your changes.

    You should now have a new font size for the text in your widgets. If you need to change the widget title font size you can do that too. Just paste something like this:

    h4.widget-title { font-size: 22px; }

    Let me know if you need any other help,
    Bill

    in reply to: Need help with setting up Slide Show #3696
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Donny,

    Glad you’re enjoying the theme and thank you for your business. Here’s how to set up your slideshow.

    Adding a slide is very similar to creating a page or post. Go to the Media section of your WordPress control panel and select Slide. Once there, you can click the “Add Slide” button next to the “Slide” title at the top to create a new slide.

    You can give the slide a title to keep things organized (the title isn’t displayed). You can add a link to the slide (this is optional).

    The image for the slide is the “Featured Image” so click that link to add your picture. WordPress will size the image down to 630 pixels wide by 420 pixels high, but for best results, you can resize the image yourself to those dimensions. If you need help adding a featured image, there is a quick screencast about them in our video section.

    Once you’re finished adding the image, you can choose to publish your slide now, or set it to publish at a later date (just like a page/post). You can also set the order of the slideshow using the Order field in the “Attributes” box in the right hand column. I often suggest counting by 5’s so you can easily insert a new slide later if you need to between two existing slides.

    That’s pretty much it. If you have any other questions, let me know.

    in reply to: Sidebar Bullets #3688
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Here’s how to remove the bullets from list items in the sidebar. Go to the appearance section of your WordPress control panel and select edit to open up the theme editor. From the list of files on your your right, choose style.css. Scroll down to the very bottom and paste this:

    #sidebar li { list-style: none; }

    and save your changes. The bullets should be gone. Let me know if you have any other questions.

    in reply to: child-menu not working #3686
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Thanks for your business first of all. Because the navigation is so close to the right, the grand-child elements were often difficult to use, but you can easily add support for them. Go to the appearance section and select edit to open up the theme editor. From the list of files on your right, choose style.css. Look for this spot:

    .menu a, .menu a:visited {
    color: #fff;
    display: block;
    margin: 0 0 0 5px;
    font-size: 16px;
    padding: 6px 9px;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
    }

    and paste this right above it:

    ul.menu li li:hover ul,
    ul.menu li li.sfHover ul {
    width: 160px;
    left: 160px; /* match ul width */
    top: -10px;
    }

    ul.menu li li li:hover ul,
    ul.menu li li li.sfHover ul {
    left: 160px; /* match ul width */
    top: 0;
    }

    #navigation ul {
    list-style: none;
    margin: 6px 0 0 6px;
    }

    #navigation li {
    float: left;
    }

    save your changes and that should enable the grand-child level menu items. If you have any trouble, let me know.

    in reply to: Join list button and Mailchimp #3684
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    I made a change to the newsletter form to better support WordPress installations in sub-directories. Here’s how to make the change yourself:

    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 newsletter-bar.php. Look for this spot:

    and replace it with this:

    3) Save your changes and then open up widget-newsletter.php and make the same change there.

    That should allow you to more easily sign up with a network installation or WordPress in a sub-directory.

    in reply to: Sponsors page #3680
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Here’s the easiest way to add sponsors to your navigation menu. When you’re creating a sponsor, if you’ll look in the right hand column, you’ll see a box for sponsor group. These are basically categories for your sponsors. Create a group for your sponsors and add your sponsors to that group.

    Next go to the Appearance section and select Menu. In the left hand column, you should see a box for Staff Group with the option to add a group to your navigation. Add them as you would a page or category.

    If you don’t see the Staff Group box, click the screen options tab in the top right and make sure the staff group box is checked.

    That should take care of the sponsor page. Let me know if you need anything else.

    in reply to: Menu links javascript sluggish #3677
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    It sounds like there may be some type of javascript conflict on the pages in question. You might try seeing if any of the plugins you’re working on are loading any scripts on those pages/posts. You could test that by disabling all plugins and see if the drop downs appear consistently across the site. If they do, then you can re-activate them one by one until you find the conflict. The drop downs should gently fade-in when the parent item is hovered over.

    The user profile image is pulled from Gravatar.com so you should be able to change the image associated with your email address there…even if it is a nice picture.

    Enjoy your weekend and let me know if you have any other trouble.

    in reply to: Change background color of post/page #3676
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    There is a plugin called Art Direction (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/art-direction/) that allows you to add styling to individual pages/posts as part of the post editing screen.

    You would need to paste something like this into the Art Direction box for that page:

    That will remove the default background image and give the background a silver color. Just customize the CSS above to fit your needs.

    in reply to: Typography causes array problem #3672
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Hope,

    Sorry for the trouble. I’m actually pulling out the typography manager from the theme in favor of a plugin called Fontific (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fontific/). It is nearly identical, but works a bit better. Here’s how to disable the built in typography.

    Go to the appearance section of your control panel and select edit to open up the theme editor. From the list of files on your right, select admin.php and look for this spot:

    if( !defined(‘DISABLE_TYPOGRAPHY_ENGINE’) )
    require_once(‘library/engines/typography-engine.php’);

    and delete it. Save your changes. That should take out the typography from the theme options section. Install the plugin above and you’ll be able to edit the typography. Let me know if you have any other trouble.

    Enjoy your weekend,
    Bill

    in reply to: Foundation Home Page #3662
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Adding a slide is basically like adding a post or page. Go to the media section and select slides and add a new one. The slide image will be the “featured image” for that slide and there is a field below the title where you can specify a link if you’d like to (it’s optional). If you need any help with featured images, there is a quick screencast about them in the video section. You can set an image that is already in your media library to be the featured image for that slide by clicking the “Set Featured Image” link and then browsing to that image and selecting “use as featured image” while viewing it.

    The theme includes a built in home page. To use it, make sure to have your reading settings with the front page showing the latest posts. That will cause the built in homepage to be displayed.

    If you ever need to disable the built in homepage, you can do that by renaming the home.php file that’s included in the theme folder to something else. That can be done with a FTP program or your web host’s control panel.

    in reply to: Call to Action button and slideshow not working #3655
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Great question. The theme comes with a built in home page that’ll display the slideshow and call to action button. To make the home page display, set your reading settings (Settings>Reading) to “show latest posts.” that should enable the built in home page.

    in reply to: RSS Feed #3649
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Your feed is set in a loop or redirects: http://www.firstprioritysf.org/feed/rss redirects to http://www.firstprioritysf.org/feed which redirects to http://www.firstprioritysf.org/feed/rss.

    Either the Feedburner redirect is causing this or some other redirection that has been set up is causing the trouble. Try resetting any redirects you have and see if that works.

    It’s possible a plugin may have modified your .htaccess file which is in the root directory of your WordPress installation. You could take a look in it either with a FTP program or with your web host’s control panel to see if there are any redirects set there.

    in reply to: Translating the website #3647
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    For running WordPress in multiple languages, the WPML–WordPress Multilingual Plugin is generally recommended (http://wpml.org/). It allows you to provide your site in various languages that your users can choose between. I’d suggest giving it a try.

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