Five-Minute-Fix™
… and it’s free!
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.
Feel free to look over our profile at WordPress.org to see our recent activities, including our ongoing involvement with the WordPress Support Forums.
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Is your ‘Desk Mess’ theme compatible with Weebly?
Thank you!
@Paula – I see that you have the Desk Mess Mirrored theme active at your domain, thank you. Although I have not looked at using Weebly or how they implement their services, if they accept WordPress themes then I would expect “Desk Mess Mirrored” to be compatible.
Your Desk Mess theme is great!
I have only one little problem. My wordpress is in german. and the background of the “Leave a Reply” Button for posts is to small. In german, wordpress uses the much longer sentences “einen Kommentar hinterlassen” instead of leave a reply. Any Idea how to fix it?
@Adrian – Thank you for choosing Desk Mess Mirrored. I see the issue you have and can suggest this as a possible solution. In the style.css file around line 880 you will find the ‘#respond h3′ element. Try changing it to this:
#respond h3 { font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:20px; font-weight:normal; left:5px; padding:30px 0 0 25px; position:relative; top:-20px; width:100px; }This is not the “best” solution as you will need to re-edit the style.css file after every update, but it is something for you to start with.
thank you for help. Ill try this. But for now i need to switch to default theme, because my advertising script doesnt work with your theme. See website link.
@Adrian – if your scripts are working in other themes I would be interested in seeing their original source code; if you have time, please email me a direct link … thanks.
I would love to use this template on our intranet. Is this possible…don’t know much about .php though.
@Char – I suspect you are referring to the Desk Mess Mirrored theme; and, yes, it should work just fine on your intranet providing you have a functional installation of WordPress working on the intranet, too.
Hi… Just wondering how to get the RSS feed to show up in the coffee cup the way you have your landing page configured. thanks, zac
Hi, sorry, i didn’t give you any details. I’m running Desk Mess Mirrored 1.5.1 on WordPress 3
Hi again, I figured it out and installed the Multi child theme… thanks again for your great themes… cheers,
zac
Love your theme, but I want to turn off the meta menu. It’s not there (the widget) to begin with on the right, after theme install, so I can’t figure out how to make it go away.
@Pat – Thanks! I see you found the solution from your other comments.
Quick question. When I click on a category or a date on the calendar, the next page only lists the first few sentences of each post. However, I’d prefer that the whole post shows up. So, where can I make that change? Under reading settings I have the button selected for full text vs. summary, but that doesn’t seem to affect the results of the category or date search function.
Thanks!
P.S. And thanks for this theme. My daughters both love it!
@Bruce – What you are seeing is
the_excerpt()function, which is used for all of the pages that display “archive” posts. This differs fromthe_content()function which is what you are describing and how the main page information is displayed.Your installation of the theme can be edited to display the information in the form you are referring to, but these changes may be over-written by future theme updates. To edit: simply replace
the_content()forthe_excerpt()as needed.Edward, thanks! I’ll do that. I also changed the text size back to before this last update. 14 pt. just seems too large. So, I’ll keep a little cheat sheet of changes to make when the updates come out. Thanks for your speedy reply! And thanks for a perfect design for my site http://www.lettersformydaughters.com. It looks perfect for a dad talking to his daughters!
@Bruce – You’re welcome; and, thank you for the feedback on the font size! It is much appreciated and I will take it into consideration for future updates.
Edward, I’m writing another post for my daughters and remembered that there are two other oddities to pass along (in the coding). 1. Whenever I want to use an elongated dash, in most WordPress editors, I just type in two dashes and it converts to an elongated dash. However, with this theme, I have to always add three dashes to get the same effect. It’s not a big deal. I can easily type in an extra dash. But my word processor always redlines the three dashes
. 2. Whenever I paste my text in from my word processor, it always adds an extra line between paragraphs that I have to delete. Again, this isn’t a biggie. It takes only a moment to delete a few extra lines. But based on your earlier comment, I thought you’d appreciate some feedback from an actual user.
@Bruce – The theme has no control over how your editor’s copy and pasted text will be processed by the WordPress editor. To the best of my knowledge, the most you will find is the styling of the built-in TinyMCE editor; and, that function was just added with the release of WordPress 3.0 (although other authors have used plugins and extensive code to change its functions in the past).
The extra line spaces are again a function of the copy and paste from your editor into the WordPress editor. I can appreciate you may prefer this method but it is not one I support; and I also appreciate the insight to creating an em dash by simple keystrokes alone … I may start using it myself.