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I would like to be able place a plugin or widget on my pages to allow visitors to enter cell phone# that will send the link of the website to a cell phone.
Although a very interesting and potentially useful idea for a plugin, this would be well beyond an FMF to create as I was unable to find one already made.
Dear Support,
I am looking for a fix for Getresponse optin code. It seems to take two clicks on the optin button to subscribe.
Thank you.
The “Getresponse” plugin is not standard with the Shades theme. It appears to be a cgi script running from the plugin author’s server. It may be better for you to present your concerns directly to the plugin author in this case. I also noticed you are using an older version of the Shades theme, you may realize additional benefits by upgrading to the current version.
Thank you.
Hi – I’m customizing this excellent theme for a client that builds custom instruments… I’m wanting to comment out the title and subtitle. Everything I’ve done to do that hasn’t worked. Can you tell me where to find the code that needs be commented out to remove the text? I’m referring to the site title text – where you now have, “BuyNowShop Administrate. Implement. Design.”
Thanks! Love the theme.
@Scott – Thanks for the compliment! This should be a straight-forward Five-Minute-Fix …
Open up the (unedited) header.php file and look around lines 39 and 40. Those are used to display the Blog Title (line 39) and the Tagline (line 40). They are found in the <div id=logo>. If you comment out (or remove) those lines then your text will be gone. You can also use CSS to set the text to not appear. Try adding, in style.css, the property ‘display: none;’ to the elements: “#logo h2″ (line 131) and “#logo p” on line 140. Also remember, if you make these edits they may be over-written with future updates, and you will need to make them again.
Hi Edward,
First, I’d like to thank you again for modifying the facebook sharecount plugin from fbshare.me so that the share button only displays on my main blog page and individual blog posts (as opposed to every page on my website). I recently installed the Facebook Connector plugin from sociable.es, and I am having the same problem – it displays on every page of my site rather than just the main blog page and individual blog posts.
The plugin is widgetized, so I’m not sure if that makes things easier or harder. But is there some line of code I need to add somewhere so that the plugin will only display on the pages I want it to?
My website is http://www.darwinspet.com.
Thank you so much!
-Jayson
The ‘Facebook Connector’ plugin is much more complex than the ‘Facebook Sharecount’ plugin I modified. It would require a lot more than five minutes to trace the code. Then to develop and add what you are looking for. My first suggestion would be to approach the developers at sociable.es and ask them if they will consider or are developing a “custom field” option to allow you to use the plugin only on the pages you want it to display. They may appreciate the feedback, I know I would … this is a commonly asked question and one the author(s) should be able to address.
Thank you! That’ll work.
Edward, thanks for your quick response. I’ll follow up with them and see what I can do.
Thanks again!
thanks for your desk theme! i’m wondering how i get the text to wrap to the next line? my text is extending out of the box, and i’d like to keep it in the box. your help is appreciated!
@robyn – I believe you are referring to the text in the footer section, which I suspect has been manually edited to add the additional text. If that is the case you may look at adding additional
<br />‘line break’ elements to force the line to wrap where you want it to.Another alternative is to edit the style.css file around line 697, change it to:
#bottom p { clear:both; font-size:85%; padding-top:100px; text-align:center; }Note the new property ‘font-size:85%;’
Hi! I’ve just updated my theme. Thanks for the new version! I still very much love the theme. My question is again about the footer. I’ve inserted this code:
#bottom p {
clear:both;
font-size:75%;
padding-top:100px;
text-align:center;
}
My test is still not wrapping? I’m not sure why. Any help would be great!
@robyn – I’m glad you still are using and enjoying the Desk Mess Mirrored theme. To sort out your current footer text you can try these steps.
<br />before ‘iRobyn’Hope that helps …
… I will add this issue to the to-do list for the theme, although you might consider a child theme solution.
Adding the worked! It wrapped the text perfectly. What would a child theme solution do for me? Would it mean that I wouldn’t be using this desk mirrored theme? I’d rather stick w/ this theme. Does this theme come in a child theme like you mentioned? Thanks for your help!
A custom child theme would allow you to make these footer edits once; then, when the theme is updated you would gain all the new features/edits but not necessarily have to re-do the footer edits you have made.
Just something to consider … here is a post I wrote that may help explain further: http://buynowshop.com/2009/07/child-themes-for-everyone/
my question references the footer! sorry!!
No worries. Just remember, all your edits to the core theme files will be over-written when you next update the theme.
I tried going to style.css and editing the code, using the code that you gave in your reply to my comment query. Editing the code didn’t do anything (like reduce the size of the text). I then added another and it literally created 2 boxes w/ text. Is that what the is supposed to do? If you look at the footer on my site, you’ll see it. That’s not the look I’m going after…am not sure what to do.
@robyn – If you remove the
<br />before “Every Right Reserved” you will see the two boxes re-connect; and, your copyright text all on one line. You can still play with the font-size property a bit as there is room to make the text a little larger.Don’t forget to “hard refresh” ( <Shift>+<F5> ) if there is no apparent affect, sometimes the browser cache will get in the way.
Quite honestly the footer has always given me problems with its layout. It will be going back for review once again.
That did it!! Thanks. And, the text is smaller, too.
Great to read, robyn!
Hi=)
Im making a page for my choir with the theme Bluebird 2.0.
I have got a password protected page, but can`t seem to sign out again..
Im really not good at this, but is there any plugin that can solve this problem?
-if people uses a public PC, other people that uses the same PC, can also go into this page..
=) Waiting for hopefully=)
@anette – I would suggest one of the plugins from this search: Password Protected Pages There seem to be several potential remedies to your situation.
I am having a problem with spacing between paragraphs. When I write something, there is no spaces between the paragraphs, even when I add additional spaces between them.
How can I get this fixed? I have version 1.4.4.1
I am not an expert at CSS or PHP, but can follow detailed directions.
Thanks.
The WordPress editor often ignores additional spaces you enter. There are a few different methods to put “noticeable spaces between the paragraphs”.
To suggest two possible methods: you can edit the style.css file and add a
pelement and set its properties to put spacing above, below or both, such as something similar to this:p {padding: 6px 0;}or, you can write into your post this bit of code:
<div class="clear"></div>Either should work, it will be a matter of preference.
When I post with your theme, I have noticed two things. Only half the post is shown and if I add any pictures, they are also not shown.
I can view it just fine when I activate other templates.
How can this be fixed?
Thanks
@Jimmy – Thank you for your time to let me know about this issue, but I do not know which theme or your web site URL to view the possible issue myself.
The description you are giving of the problem almost seems as though you are looking at an archive template such as a page showing categories or tags for example. If that is the case you are likely experiencing the view created by
the_excerpt()function which by default shows the first 55 words of the post and no images from the post.Please consider using our BNS Support plugin; and, feel free to review our WordPress Services page, too. You are welcome to Contact Us with additional details of this issue.
I like your theme, but I’ve been having a problem with my catergories. My posts are not showing in the catergories that I link them to. I keep getting a message of “what you are looking for is not here”. I thought that maybe a plugin that i installed was causing the problem. I removed many plugins and I still had the same problem. Now when I click on a catergory. I get a error message stating that something unexpected is in the on line 16 of the catergory. I am new to wordpress & i would really like to keep using your theme. Bottom line it looks better than the other desk themes. If you have any idea what could be wrong I would appreciate your help. thank you
@NYCWAO – Thank you for your comment. I have looked at ‘line 16′ in the category.php template file and do not see any issue with the code. Have you tried removing (read: deactivating) all of the plugins? Without additional details to review I am not able to make more suggestions.
Otherwise, please considered installing my BNS Support plugin and contacting us directly for additional help.
Thanks, I’ll try what you suggested.
I just wanted to say THANK YOU again for responding so quickly to my comment. The problem was in my permalinks. I had to change it to the default setting. I have also installed your bns support plug in. THANKS
@NYCWAO – Thank you, for your patience in sorting out this issue; and, for installing the BNS Support plugin, too.
Hi, I LOVE LOVE LOVE this theme and get a lot of complements from it. Thank you very much!
I’m having a small issue with the bottom of my page. The background graphic splits up at the footer (sometimes it is off to the side away from the rest of the page) and usually there is a gap between the edge of the main page graphic and the curved bottom of the page graphic. How can I fix this?
Thanks.
Kate
@Kate – Thank you very much, I’m glad your readers like the theme.
I see the issue at the bottom of your page, and also noticed the bottom of the sidebar is at the top of your page; this leads me to believe there may be a widget in the sidebar that is creating this issue.
Provided you have not edited the theme files, I would suggest de-activating your plugins/widgets as a process of elimination. Once the theme returns to “normal” start re-activating your plugins/widgets to see which may be causing the issue. After that, I may be able to provide additional suggestions.
Thank you. I removed my widgets and indeed that fixed the problem. For some reason my 3-Day widget is the culprit.
Another quick question…is it possible to edit what links are in the Meta widget, I don’t see a way to do this. And can I get rid of the Search widget?
Thanks again!
Never mind, I played with the code and figured out how to get rid of the extra Meta links I didn’t want.
Thanks again.
@Kate – I’m glad you were able to find the issue with the widgets.
@Kate – I noticed all you appeared to have left in the “Meta” block is the login link … if that is all you are looking for you might consider using my BNS Login plugin as that is essentially what it was developed to do.
Hello,
I’m using your theme and I really like it
I see the twitter.png file in the images folder and I would like to use it,
can you help me editting the sidebar.php code in order to get it right?
Thanks in advance,
kindest regards,
Rob
From the Netherlands.
This comment includes some code to help with adding the twitter image to the sidebar:
http://buynowshop.com/themes/desk-mess-mirrored/comment-page-1/#comment-682
Please note, although the twitter.png and flickr.png images are included with the theme, they are not used in the theme. They are only provided as a “nice to have” file.
Hi, This is a great theme, thanks for posting it. Quick question, the search on my page doesn’t seem to be working. Am I doing something wrong?
thanks in advance,
Zac
@Zac – Thank you for choosing Desk Mess Mirrored. I generally check all the standard functionality with every theme I release … and I use them myself at my various blogs. The Desk Mess Mirrored theme’s search function works everywhere I tested it, but I do see that at your site it fails at epic proportions.
I also noticed you have made your own edits to the theme, perhaps one of those changes you made affected the search routines, have your tried reversing your edits to see if this issue corrects itself?
Hi Edward,
Thanks for looking into it. The only thing I’m aware that I changed was the PNG/BMP file for the masthead. I kept the file names the same as yours, could that affect it? Did you see anything else that changed? Would changing to another theme, then deleting yours, then reinstalling it help?
cheers,
Zac
@Zac – Your blog “looks” like a standard installation of Desk Mess Mirrored as of this writing, with the exception of the changed center header graphic (which should not affect anything with the search); unfortunately I do not recall what other changes I saw when I looked at your site over a week ago.
A full re-install as you are suggesting may be the solution, I hope it works …
Ha… it was the “google custom search” plug-in… removed it and search is working now. thanks for your help!
@Zac – I’m glad you found the issue. Well Done!