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201 Comments

  • gbigsby says:

    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.

  • 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.

  • Scott says:

    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.

  • Jayson says:

    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.

    • Scott says:

      Thank you! That’ll work.

  • r3bb says:

    Edward, thanks for your quick response. I’ll follow up with them and see what I can do.

    Thanks again!

  • robyn says:

    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%;’

      • robyn says:

        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.

          1. Add a <br /> before ‘iRobyn’
          2. Use the following style:
            #bottom p {
            clear:both;
            line-height:14px;
            padding-top:100px;
            text-align:center;
            }
          3. Hope that helps …

            … I will add this issue to the to-do list for the theme, although you might consider a child theme solution.

          • robyn says:

            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!

  • robyn says:

    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.

      • robyn says:

        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.

  • 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=)

  • Jim says:

    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 p element 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.

  • Jimmy says:

    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.

  • NYCWAO says:

    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.

  • NYCWAO says:

    Thanks, I’ll try what you suggested.

  • NYCWAO says:

    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

  • Kate Kelly says:

    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.

    • Kate Kelly says:

      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!

  • Rob says:

    Hello,

    I’m using your theme and I really like it :D
    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.

  • Zac Bolan says:

    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?

      • Zac Bolan says:

        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 …

  • Zac Bolan says:

    Ha… it was the “google custom search” plug-in… removed it and search is working now. thanks for your help!

  • 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.

  • Adrian says:

    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.

      • Adrian says:

        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.

  • Char says:

    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.

  • Zac Bolan says:

    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

  • Zac Bolan says:

    Hi again, I figured it out and installed the Multi child theme… thanks again for your great themes… cheers,
    zac

  • Pat says:

    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.

  • Bruce says:

    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 from the_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() for the_excerpt() as needed.

      • Bruce says:

        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.

  • Bruce says:

    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.

  • Grayson says:

    I am trying to build my website without using wordpress…can I still use this theme? I am pretty much a website “rookie,” so how do I use this Template without using wordpress?

    • @Grayson – You are more than welcome to make use of the theme for other projects and applications. The GPLv2 license it is released under allows you those freedoms.

      How you would implement the theme without WordPress falls well out of the ability of these comments to discuss. If you wish to contract our Premium Services to help with this please feel free to use our Contact Us page.

  • Grayson says:

    Thank you very much! I will send you a message soon

  • Karen says:

    I inadvertently deleted a section of code within the header.php and now my menu has shifted to the left. How do I fix it? Is there a line of code I deleted without realizing it?

    • @Karen – I would recommend either uploading the original header.php file to over-write the existing corrupted one; or, edit your style.css file, set the version to a “lower” number, then simply update the theme via the automated process found in the Administration Panels.

      The update method will set the theme back to the most current version available from the repository and may be your safest choice.

  • Hannah says:

    I uploaded a wordpress theme and I’m trying to add a horizontal navigation bar into my header. I am not an expert in CSS or PHP but I understand basic html. By looking at my website, can you help me with the coding in the stylesheet, header, and index page?

    thanks,
    Hannah

    • @Hannah – These types of reviews and code suggestions are much more than Five-Minute-Fixes … please have a look at our WordPress Services page as this would be a premium service. Thanks.

  • Michelle says:

    I’m having trouble getting menu items to be clickable. I’ve worked in the menu section of the dashboard, set up links and pages both and they are just not clickable. I have to be overlooking something! Also, I adore this theme!

    • @Michelle – The edits you made affecting the header images are overlapping the menu items making them unable to be clicked.

      • Michelle says:

        Oooo, that is some awesome feedback. Thanks a bunch!!

        • Michelle says:

          Hmmm, I went back and tweaked and it’s cropped pretty tightly to the image. There’s a pretty big gap there. I might also add that adding new menu items don’t show up and I can’t delete that one, although one might be a default. Menu is currently deleted. Thanks for replying, not a lot of theme devs do!

  • Scott says:

    I’m using WordPress to create a site. Once I’ve pretty much got it setup I’m installing this theme. Problem is the navigation gets messed up. When on any link other than Home I get two Home links. When on the Home link/page I get only one. Plus, the nav buttons are out of sequence from where I set them in WordPress under menu. All was fine with the default theme.

    • @Scott – The multiple home menu sticky notes are due to the theme displaying a Home link when you move off of the Home page; the reasoning is: if you are on the home page you do not need a link to it.

  • Zac Bolan says:

    Hi Edward, Just a heads up… the recent Desk Mess Mirrored update to 1.7.2 no longer works with the Multi (Child) theme. When the Multi theme is active, no web page shows up, and this message is displayed in the empty browser window…

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_page_number() in /home/content/s/o/f/softcircusc/html/blog/wp-content/themes/desk-mess-mirrored-multi/header.php on line 8

    Thanks for the great themes!

    Zac

  • Edward,

    Just updated the Multi theme as got caught with same bug as Zac. I’m trying to replace the dmm_list_pages function with a version that excludes specific pages from the top menu. It’s essentially the same code I had in a header.php file in Multi but I looked like it would be simpler to replace in the function. My problem is the page is blank. In my new functions.php file all I have is this single function.

    Am I doing this correctly for a child theme or do I have to replace the entire contents of the functions.php file? The child theme functions.php file is as follows.

    <a href="">

    • Oops, have to escape code.


      <?php

      function dmm_list_pages() { ?>
      <?php wp_reset_query(); ?>
      <?php $exclude_pages="'&exclude=2, 3, 15, 17, 634, 700, 732, 893'";
      if ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) {
      wp_list_pages( 'title_li=&depth=1&include=2' );
      wp_list_pages("title_li=&depth=1" . $exclude_pages);
      } else { ?>
      <li><a href="<?php bloginfo( 'url' ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Home', 'desk-mess-mirrored' ) ?></a></li>
      <?php wp_list_pages( 'title_li=&depth=1' . $exclude_pages );
      }
      }

      ?>

  • Graham says:

    I’d like the menu bar font to be different size to the body text, where can I find this within the style.css?
    Thanks.

  • Brandi says:

    Hi! I am using the Nona theme and really love it. I would like more red in the sidbar section headers. I changed the Nona options to red and that doesn’t seem to do anything. I am NOT an expert at this, can you give me easy steps?

    Also – it states at the top “This theme looks much better on a current browser, perhaps you should come to terms with the advancements of today’s technology.” is there a way to remove this?

    Thanks!

    • @Brandi – Thank you for choosing NoNa!

      As I look at your site I see it has a “red” background, although I do not understand what you are looking for with “more red in the sidebar section headers”.

      As to the message (which may be part of the issue above), it only appears when you use an older (read: outdated) version of Internet Explorer, or are using IE8 in “compatibility mode”. If you are using an older version, it is meant as a reminder to update to a current version. If you are using IE8 in compatibility mode, simply click the “broken” page icon at the end of the address bar. Otherwise, with an appropriate text editor, simply open the header.php file and remove line 38 (it will be obvious if your editor does not have line numbers showing by default).

  • Moni says:

    Love this theme (desk mess mirrored), it’s brilliant and the same one I want to use for my new (first!) blog. One functionality I would love to have is ‘summary’ posts for the front blog page that can then link to the larger post. I tend to write errr… a lot.

    I hope that is the correct terminology to use. One WP theme that I know has it is Atahualpa 3.4.9. But I like your much better. It’s absolutely perfect for my blog theme. Except I have a Droid not an iphone. ;-)

    Is this a 5-minute fix?

    Thank you.

    • @Moni – Thank you for choosing Desk Mess Mirrored … and yes, this would be a Five-Minute-Fix.

      (Make backups first!) In the index.php tempalte file (near line 20) change this line:

      <?php the_content( __( ' ... continue reading. ', 'desk-mess-mirrored' ) ); ?>
      

      … to this:

      <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
      

      This should accomplish what you are looking to do in a simple and quick fashion … there are other possible solutions but those would be more than five minutes.

  • Moni says:

    Thank you so much! I will try this. Much appreciated and again thank you for sharing your design talents with everyone. I learned the hard way it is not my ‘forte’! ;-)

    ~m.

  • Ian Key says:

    Your theme (desk mess mirrored) is amazing, i love it.

    One thing i was hoping you could help me out with, i use social networks (A LOT!) and i was hoping for maybe a facebook and twitter link icons that sit somewhere by the coffee or the iphone.

    I hope this is a five-minute-fix as it would make your theme the best one ive ever used.

    Thanks
    Ian

    • @Ian – Thank you for the compliment! What you are asking for is likely more than a Five-Minute-Fix. I would suggest downloading the Multi child theme (see the main Desk Mess Mirrored theme page) and looking at how the RSS icon is added to the coffee cup. That premise may be able to be applied for your idea.

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