Five-Minute-Fix™
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The five minutes is purely subjective and completely based on my personal opinion. If I believe a project should take five minutes then that is how long the project will take. If it takes five hours, or five days, the cost will still be the same: free!
Edward ‘cais’ Caissie
Some common Five-Minute-Fix™ items you may need help with:
- CSS minor adjustments
- WordPress theme code minor changes
- (X)HTML minor adjustments
This list is by no means exhaustive but merely a few examples of issues we have addressed with our Five-Minute-Fix™ services. Another example: a component of our Multi (child) theme was a Five-Minute-Fix™ that ran over five hours!
We believe a project that will take longer than five minutes deserves a fair and reasonable discussion of its scope. We are happy to review any reasonable request; and, we will make every effort to respond to all serious inquiries in a timely fashion. In turn, we expect our responses to receive the same respect and attention.
Obvious precedence will be given to those Five-Minute-Fix™ items that arise from a concern with one of our WordPress themes or one of our WordPress plugins we have developed but we will also be more than happy to review other WordPress themes and other WordPress plugins.
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22 Comments
Hi Edward, thanks for the really fun theme! I’m having trouble getting my Google ads to run in the sidebar. I put the code in a text box in the sidebar, but it is not appearing. http://www.themoneytalkscafe.com Do I need a separate plug-in for that? Many thanks in advance …
@Teri – I’m glad you like the theme, although I would strongly recommend updating to the latest version (2.0) before I am able to provide any suggestions regarding this issue.
OK! All updated. But still having the google problem. I await your brilliance.
@Teri – This is generally not theme related but thank you for updating. I came across this once before; the solution for that issue was to insure there is only *one* Google ad on the website if the Google code itself is being used directly.
You might also consider looking at a WordPress Plugin that manages Google Ads in place of using the Google code directly.
Hi I was wondering if you can tell me how to remove the website section when leaving a reply/comment. I will continue to search and see if anyone else has accomplished this. TIA
@Mary – Depending on the theme and how the comment form has been implemented the solution may vary, but if the theme has implemented comments using the `comment_form` function this page in the codex may be useful as a starting point.
It is the desk mess mirrored theme. Cannot seem to find the proper codes. Am I to work only withing the comments.php page?
@Mary – You have actually inspired me to write a short article on this issue, which includes a working code sample you can use. Please read the following: http://wpfirstaid.com/2012/01/remove-comment-form-website-section/
Hello,
I have been using this theme since I started my blog in ’10 and absolutely love it!
However, I was wondering about the recent change. When I click on a page other than the home page, the “Home” page tab is missing. There is no way to go to the “Home” page unless you hit the back button. Is that how it’s supposed to be?
Thanks for your help.
@Faye – I can only guess you are referring to Desk Mess Mirrored and as of version 2.0 the theme no longer automagically generates a “Home” page link. It was the single most requested item to be able to change. In order to have a “Home” page link in your menu now you will have to use a “Custom Menu”.
Oh, ok, yes I was referring to the theme. Bummer, I liked the home page tab, but I will get over it
Thank you Edward, for your response. I will try to create a custom menu.
@Faye – Setting up and using a Custom Menu is relatively straight-forward and easy to do. I think they can be more beneficial in the long-run than a standard default theme menu.
Hi,
Ok this is not really a five minute fix but I wanted to ask anyway. Is there a simple way to translate the theme “Desk Mess Mirrored” that I missed ? I’d rather not mess with all the code and not being able to get the next update of your theme (which btw I really like ^^). But still, I’m french, all of my friend/visitors are french, the blog is french, so ‘Posted by’ is not pratical nor consistent.
If there is none but you wish to internationalize your theme, I may provide the french translation for you. Otherwise, well I’ll manage ^^
Krysania
@Krysania – Although there is no actual French translation currently available I do greatly appreciate you offering one; and, even as WordPress offers core functionality to use translation “files” they are required to be properly prepared in a specific format.
Although the theme is written with the intent for translations to be made and I am more than happy to include a proper translation file with future releases I do not currently provide the “pot” file that is required to create these translation files at this time.
Thank you for answering
Let me know if you include it in a future release. I’ll sent back to you the completed translation file when you do. Or maybe I’ll look at how to do it, but I don’t really know the structure of your theme.
Have a nice day
@Krysania – Thank you. I will definitely add the idea to the project’s todo list.
I read another post of a user who wanted not to show the entire posts on the homepage, but and excerpt only. I looked at all the files for “the_content”, but it appears only in the files:
desk-mess-mirrored.php
desk-mess-mirrored-aside.php
desk-mess-mirrored-quote.php
desk-mess-mirrored-status.php
Changing “the_content” to “the_excerpt” in the first one did indeed produce excerpts on the main page, however, it broke the formatting on other pages, made entire areas disappear, and there was no “read more” link, so it was impossible to view the entire post, even if you clicked the post to view on a single page.
The other thing is, I want the first “Sticky” post on the main page to display fully, but the remaining posts below it to be excerpts.
Also, how can I limit the length of the main page’s posts and perhaps have a page navigation bar at the bottom?
Perhaps I am asking a lot here, but I like this theme a lot.
@TE5LA – First, thank you for the compliment! There are several aspects of the theme and how WordPress works you are addressing here …
- To show excerpts only on the homepage but have sticky posts show in full should be more or less straight-forward: change the conditional in the main loop (desk-mess-mirrored.php) from:
if ( is_home() || is_front_page() || is_single() || is_page() || ( is_author() && ( $count == 1 ) ) ) {to:
if ( is_sticky() ) {- To have a similar effect on the post-format loops you will have to add some conditional code to the effect: if `is_sticky` show `the_content` else show `the_excerpt`.
- Adding a page navigation bar at the bottom would require a bit more code than this comment would be able to convey properly, but you might look at copying the menu code in the header into the bottom of the loops as a starting point.
- Limiting the output on the main page would likely be best managed by adding a `home.php` template using the default loop code as its base.
NOTE: All of this should be done in a Child-Theme, too … and remember to back-up all of your files before making any edits.
I did the replacement code as you suggested and it did leave the sticky full and condensed the other posts, however, the condensed post were not able to be viewed completely. There is no link to expand them and they don’t expand even when you click the link and open it in another page.
As far as limiting the length of the page, I found you can specify how many posts will appear on the front page in the options.
@TE5LA – My last comment was not necessarily a solution so much as a suggestion. What you are looking for does not fall under my “Five-Minute-Fix” idea. Although this appears fairly straight-forward it will still require more than a simply line or two of code to do.
I also noticed that when condensed, the line breaks are ignored and the text all runs together. Since this is a poetry site, this looks bad. I would prefer it just keep the format as is and remove some lines.
@TE5LA – If you are interested in having all of these modifications done (for a fee) please fee free to contact us regarding our WordPress Services.