Desk Mess Mirrored
The current version of Desk Mess Mirrored submitted to WordPress.org is 2.0
The latest working version can be found on GitHub.
*WARNING: The GitHub version may be a “work-in-progress”, please make back-ups of your current theme before using. Please be aware you are using a GitHub version at your own risk!*
Marble desktop covered with a mix of old and new items, such as some vintage papers, a stainless steel pen, and, a hot cup of coffee! Now with drop-down menu support! Please read the included changelog.txt, readme.txt, and support.txt files for details of the latest changes and important notices.
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Changelog: January 9, 2012
= Code =
* Added additional PHPDoc style documentation
* Added `DMM WP Title` – utilizes the `wp_title` filter to add text to the default title output
* Added `DMM Use Posted` function for posts without titles
* Added minimal doc-block to each template file as relevant
* Added ‘desk-mess-mirrored’ loop template
* Added ‘dmm-navigation’ and implemented in 404, index, archive, and author template files
* Added post-formats: aside, quote, and status
* Added clearing `div` at top of ‘author’ and ‘page’ templates
* Added project TODO section to ‘index.php’
* Added `DMM Add Body Classes` – Adds additional classes to the core `body_class` function
* Changed `BNS Theme Version` to `DMM Theme Version` with extensive re-writes to text displayed
* Changed `my_theme_data` to `active_theme_data` in `DMM Theme Version`
* Changed post navigation test to ‘Older posts’ and ‘Newer posts’ replacing ‘Previous entries’ and ‘Next entries’ respectively
* Implemented ‘desk-mess-mirrored’ loop in 404, archive, author, index (home, front-page), page, single templates
* Re-defined each widget area separately to allow for descriptions to show end-user more details about each area
* Removed ‘Home” link code from `dmm_list_pages`
* Removed unused images (from IE6 support)
* Renamed `BNS Dynamic Copyright` to `DMM Dynamic Copyright` (refactored changelog)
* Renamed `BNS Modified Post` to `DMM Modified Post` (refactored changelog)
* Replaced TEMPLATEPATH constant with `get_template_directory_uri`
* Rewrote class used in ‘author’ template to add author role as a class element
* Updated documentation to clarify `DMM Dynamic Copyright` parameters
* Updated ‘readme.txt’ information – NB: All open and new TODO items will be found in their appropriate file going forward from this version
= CSS =
* Added ‘Order of Contents’ reference to the stylesheet with minor re-organization
* Added id `wp-link-pages` wrapper to `wp_link_pages` output
* Added CSS placeholder elements (.administrator, .editor, .contributor, .subscriber, and .guest) for new comment author classes
* Changed bottom of post to have smaller separating margin and added a bottom border to better delineate posts
* Changed base font-size to 100% and adjusted typography as needed/required
* Removed the right and bottom borders from the gallery images; and added additional elements to handle galleries up to 10 columns wide
* Removed (using comments) `background property` from `code` element
* Removed margins from a blockquote if it is within another blockquote
* Reorganized stylesheet and added ‘Order of Contents’ section for reference
* Updated forms and search widget styles
= Internet Browsers Reviewed =
* Apple Safari v5.1.2
* Firefox v9.0.1
* Google Chrome v15.0
* Internet Explorer v9.0
* Opera v11.60
/** ————————————————————————- */
* Desk Mess Mirrored
*
* Theme Description: Marble desktop covered with a mix of old and new items,
* such as some vintage papers, a stainless steel pen, and, a hot cup of coffee!
* Now with more documentation and post-format support for the following types:
* asides, quotes and status!
*
* @package Desk_Mess_Mirrored
* @since 1.0
*
* @link http://buynowshop.com/themes/desk-mess-mirrored/
* @link https://github.com/Cais/desk-mess-mirrored/
* @link http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/desk-mess-mirrored/
*
* @internal REQUIRES WordPress version 3.1.0
* @internal Tested up to WordPress version 3.3.1
*
* @version 2.0
* @author Edward Caissie
* @copyright Copyright (c) 2009-2012, Edward Caissie
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
* the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, as published by the
* Free Software Foundation.
*
* You may NOT assume that you can use any other version of the GPL.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
* ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
* FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
* this program; if not, write to:
*
* Free Software Foundation, Inc.
* 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor
* Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*
* The license for this software can also likely be found here:
* http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
*
* @internal Project To-do List – see readme.txt for pre-2.0 PTL
* @todo Review / Update 404.php page
* @todo Review adding ‘category.php’ template back into theme files (also consider ‘tag.php’, ‘date.php’, etc.)
* @todo Review `the_shortlink` in post meta being displayed
* @todo Review post meta comment text – sort out how to show amount of comments if they exist when comments are closed
* @todo Add Post-Format: Link
* @todo Add ‘search.php’ template? (see http://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-desk-mess-mirrored-searchphp-for-theme-version-191)
* @todo Add specific CSS to the placeholders used by the new (comment) author classes
*
* Last revised January 3, 2012
*/
* Last revised January 2, 2012
* This file was introduced with version 1.7 of Desk Mess Mirrored and will be maintained with future releases. The following information may be found and/or updated as needed:
* This file was renamed to the more standard readme.txt 2010 August 27.
== Contents ==
* Basic FAQ
* Notes
* TODO items
* changelog.txt extended details
* Review Tickets
== Basic FAQ ==
= Q: Where did my conversation balloons go? =
A: The conversation balloons now only show based on the following criteria:
1. The post is not password protected; and,
2. Comments are open *or* at least one (1) comment has been made on the post.
Also to note, post meta text has been added to indicate the post comment status.
= Q: Does the theme support multi-level, or drop-down menus? =
A: Yes, as of version 1.8; with significant improvements in version 1.8.7!
= Q: Why does the tack above the widget not appear sometimes? =
A: The easiest solution to this issue is to either insure there is always a title used for every widget; if you wish to not have any text in that particular widget using a `space` (` `) will work very well.
Also to note, if you use the escape sequence ` ` you may notice the widget title is empty afterward. ` ` is a `non-breaking space` and appears as such.
= Q: How do I use the new BNS Dynamic Copyright function? =
A: The function now accepts four (4) parameters. Leaving the function as is will produce the copyright statement as it was produced in version prior to 1.8.5
Using the following parameters you can change the copyright statement accordingly:
- start: This is generally the primary statement of copyright including whatever license you may choose to use
- copy_years: This is the years dynamically calculated from published posts
- url: The default will point back to the ‘home’ page of the website using the website title as the anchor text
- end: A closing statement, such as the default, All Rights Reserved.
It is also recommended to use this functionality in a Child-Theme versus modifying the original Theme template file(s).
== Notes ==
* Always use a title in every widget or the push-pin top of the widget box will not resolve correctly, even a single space will work.
* add_custom_image_header() is not implemented as it will not handle multiple header images; in the case of this theme, there are three (3) being used in the header.
* It is recommended to not have an excessive quantity of menu items, for example a quantity causing the top menu to exceed two lines, may obscure the post title in some views
== TODO ==
= Short Term Goals =
* [x] Ticket 418: meta information generator is handled by wordpress this should be removed in the header.php
* [x] Address spacing issue for comment from fields (user not logged in)
* [x] Ticket 418: sticky tab menu bar not handling children or grandchildren
* [x] Ticket 418: Review and re-work graphics use for menu items to display drop-down or multi-level menus (long-term)
* [x] Review `editor-style.css` file, address image alignments
* [x] Clean up new functionality of `dmm_dynamic_copyright`
* [x] Move supported browsers minimum to LTE IE7 … NB: Theme is only tested and supported in current browsers as noted in the changelog file.
= Long Term Goals =
* [-] Correct widget no title / no image issue … may not have a solution; use a `space` in the title as a work-around – see `No Widget Title` in functions.php
* [x] Review second “Home” page scenarios for possible solutions
* [-] Theme Options? Not likely.
== Changelog.txt ==
* see changelog.txt for brief details
== Review Tickets ==
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/418
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1016
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1027
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1935
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1946
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3196
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4108
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4206
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4322
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4549
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4556 – version 1.9
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5877 – version 1.9.1
* http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6174 – version 2.0
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293 Comments
Love the theme its really charming design
@Ahmad – Thank you! It’s still one of my favorites, too.
Great theme!
Any way you can get rid of those love hearts in the upper right corner ???
PJ.
sorry i meant upper left corner
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@PJ – Unfortunately the original PSD for the design was lost in a hard-drive crash; the only way to “get rid of those love hearts” is to remake the image from scratch which I do not have plans of doing.
I love everything about this theme (dropdown esp.) EXCEPT pic at top. Anyway to just have a plain marled background? (Then I can add my own header pic)
@mary – Thanks for the feedback, but its the header images that make the Theme what it is. Also to note, I only support the original WordPress version of the Theme. (The blogger version was made after mine and without my knowledge.)
Hi!
Thanks for the great work on the theme! Much appreciated. For our around the world trip, we would love to use your theme, however we seem to struggle with the sidebars.
You’ve mentioned you’ve put all default widgets in 1 sidebar, which is the case, however we’re not able to remove widgets or edit them for instance, the meta widget, ít’s not showing in the admin part of wordpress, or actually no widgets are shown that are on default. If I add a widget in sidebar 1 it overwrites all default widgets. And if would add search, it’s a different search…
How would I be able to add or remove the default widgets in sidebar 1?
@Sjoerd – Thank you, I’m glad you enjoy the theme. I find the background you have chosen to quite interesting, too.
As to the sidebar issue, each “default” widget is based on a standard widget included in a default installation of WordPress, you can simply place the ones you want, in the order you prefer, in the Sidebar 1 area and that should accomplish what you are trying to do from my understanding of this comment. You might also consider creating a Child-Theme (to preserve edits) and then having the `sidebar.php` template file rewritten to your liking but I would only suggest that as a last resort as the widget system should allow you the freedom to be as creative as you want.
I am enjoying using your theme and have gotten compliments on the overall look of things. When I preview a post it shows the comment form after the post, but once published only the little post it note appears to the right of the title. How can I make it easier for readers to comment?
Thanks
Sara
@Sara – To the immediate right of the post title is a “pinned” note with a balloon and a number inside of it. Your readers can click on that and be taken to the comment form of that particular post; or, they can click on the title of the post and scroll to the bottom of the page where the comment form is that you see in the preview.
Thanks, I appreciate your prompt reply! I didn’t know they could click on the title of the post to get the form. Is there anything I can do so the full comment form shows up after the most recent post? My blog is very new and I am trying to encourage comments and feedback.
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Hi Edward, thanks for your prompt reply.I’ve figured it out and everything is working fine. I only had some issues with the latest version of wordpress but after installing some hot fixes it’s working fine.
Interesting background it is indeed.
My friend, a graphical designer, will be playing with your design, hope you don’t mind.
One of the things we would like to do, is to reduce the space used for the images with 30-40%, as it takes a bit too much space… as well as alter the images to our style, we have a around the world travel blog..
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Hi Edward, just a message to thank you again for your work, although we altered the design a lot.. check http://www.reisdewereldrond.nl your theme helped us very much!!!
So credits should be given, kindly let me know, where and in waht way we can best honour your appreciated hard work… so we add it to the site!
Thanks again and keep up the good work!
@Sjoerd – The site looks really great! Well Done! Although I would suggest taking all of your changes and re-write them into a Child-Theme so you can continue to update the Desk Mess Mirrored theme as I release new updates. As it stands now you will lose these edits if you update. If you need more details on Child-Themes you can search here for an old post; or, you can visit another of my sites and read a more recent article: http://wpfirstaid.com/2011/04/wordpress-child-themes/
It seems the latest release has borked the menu for me
My site was fine http://dansgalaxy.co.uk/ (i think I was on 1.8.3) upgraded to 1.8.7 and menu just doesn’t display correctly. (for both the main theme and the child multi theme which I just installed.
@Dan – Yes, it was an oversight on my part, the Multi Child-Theme menu will likely be broken until I can get a (quick) fix written and posted. Desk Mess Mirrored should be displaying fine, please change to the parent theme (you may need to refresh the page in some cases) to have the menu display correctly. Thank you in advance for your patience.
Not sure what changed I updated to 1.8.7 and the nav menu no longer shows up on my site. Doing a little digging. But I’m not using any plugins, just the standard Menus from WP 3.x.x
@Tony – Thank you for the report. There is an issue with the new code/style I implemented for menus that appears to be dramatically affecting custom menus only. If this is not the case you are seeing please send me more details. Thanks!
Nope, I’m using custom menus. So that must be it.
Edward, thank you for your hard work. I installed 1.8.7.1 and my custom menus appear to be working again.
@Tony – I’m glad it’s working more correctly for you.
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Iv’e tried to remove this line from under the comment box and can’t seem to find it in the HTML code to remove it or hide it any help here?
@Rick – This is the second time in as many weeks I have been asked this question. Your comment gave me the idea of writing a post to cover this issue. Please feel free to read it here: http://wpfirstaid.com/2011/08/do-not-display-comments-html-tags/
Love the desk mess theme
but I cannot get the sub menus to work or I cannot find the place to activate them? I installed version 1.9 from the wordpress site but not sure from the above whether you say you have fixed the parent child menu feature yet. It works on this site but as I say cant find it for mine
cheers
@Rich – The “sub-menus” should work by default, provided the menu structure uses a parent-child setup. The version of Desk Mess Mirrored being used on this site is always the same version that is available from the WordPress Extend repository. The Child-Theme only makes some minor changes that in this case do not affect the menu system at all.
woops its was me all along – menus working fine now – what are the main differences in the child of desk mess mirrored? is there a list somewhere?
Do I have to install both to get the extra features?
@Richard – I’m glad you sorted it out; and, yes, you do have to install Desk Mess Mirrored (the Parent Theme) for the Multi (Child-Theme) to work … and get all of their features, too.
I am using Desk Mess Mirrored 1.8.3 on WordPress 3.1.1. Any idea why the widgets don’t show in the sidebars. Also, adding a widget in Sidebar 1 deletes the search box and some of the default widgets in sidebars 2 and 3.
Appreciate any help.
@Levi – I only support the most recent version of any of my Themes running on the most current stable version of WordPress. Please try updating and seeing if the issue persists.
Bi the way where did you find the twitter follow plugin ? I have looked everywhere for a simple follow button but cannot find it .
@Richard – I wrote the Twitter Follow plugin I use on my sites. Just follow the links under plugins from the top menu or search via the Administration Panels for “BNS Twitter Follow Button” … it should be at or very near the top of the list of results. If you need additional help with plugin installation, please read this article I wrote: http://wpfirstaid.com/2009/12/plugin-installation/
It is a very nice theme and I have only one question (actualy more a bug report) namely: …is following a bug or…
If an user clicks on Post comment >without< any input in the comment-box then he/she is sent to a (error)page telling there is an error…and there is no "go back button" or whatever. This can scare users imho.
Wouldn't it be more logical to put a kinda triggger which checks if there is any input in the comment box and if not..just having a pop-up which explains to the user that the comment field needs to have input else no option to post any?(btw same happends here in this theme if you "forget" to fill out your name or e-mail address…/nasty mode on….crappy coded? /nasty mode off)
(no version info needed because it also happends here live wow..surprise surprise)
@Alicia – Thank you for pointing out the not-so-obvious potential short-comings of the WordPress core code function `comment_form()` I imagine the text “Required fields are marked *” was simply not clearly written for you to understand, or perhaps you did read it but felt obligated to ignore it as how could it apply to you with your all too obvious familiarity with WordPress, Themes and the development that goes into making them. You know … we could use more dedicated people like you on the WordPress Theme Review Team, perhaps you could help out there?
Or, better yet (and I am certain you made every effort to do this after you managed to operate this widely used form), you could submit a ticket to http://core.trac.wordpress.org expressing your insightful findings regarding the downfalls of using this function, perhaps you could even write a proper patch to fix all of them … or you could just leave another commentary like you did here. I’m sure that would be helpful …
I have no clue why you respond this way and am sorry if you feel offended, and again as said I like the theme very much. The only issue is that error page which comes up as soon a user doesn’t give any input in the comment field.
Just want to find help for this, but you think it is an attack on your person. (which isnt!)
And your so brave pointed out “Required fields as marked *” is not at the comment box so don’t be such a smartass with a bad mood!.
I wont mind if you delete my posting above, your comment on it and this reply. At least it shows some of your not so professional behavior.
Have a great day sir.
@Alicia – Hm, nothing offensive here:
You chose to personally attack my theme on my site but far be it from me to take it personally … I would suggest you need to do your research first. Let me get you pointed in the right direction: the `comment_form()` function is a WordPress core code function; it is used by WPTRT guideline compliant themes; it is not a function of the theme itself.
As to your passive-aggressive postings, please be advised they will no longer be tolerated.
PS: Have you considered a spell-checker and grammar checker add-on for your browser?
Thank you for that answer..thats at least to the point
::edited – Unfortunately the balance of the post required editing for foul language and personal attacks, neither will be accepted nor tolerated. EAC::
Hi there, how do I use this theme? Im new to wordpress and I tried searching for it on ‘themes’ but it wasn’t there. Please help
@Rachel – Are you using a dot-com (http://wordpress.com) installation or a dot-org self-hosted installation of WordPress (http://wordpress.org)? If you were not able to find it when you searched under themes then I would expect you are using the dot-com version of WordPress.
I really love this theme and adapted it for my Ask Dr. Science site at http://www.drscience.com. When a post is added, it’s labeled “Posted by on in ” I would like to suppress the “in ” part of that string. I’ve looked around in the php files for code I can modify but can’t find the right place to do it. Can you enlighten me a bit on this?
Thanks again for the great theme.
My message got kind of garbled when the angle brackets I used were interpreted as HTML code. Ooops. I mean to say that each post gets labeled “Posted by {{author}} on {{date}} in {{category}}” and I’d like to suppress the “in {{catetory}}” portion of that string.
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@Rick – I’m glad you like the theme. Making the changes you are inquiring about should be relatively straight forward, although I strongly suggest creating a Child-Theme of Desk Mess Mirrored as I will still be continuing to update and upgrade the theme as time goes by. Any edits you make to the theme template files will be over-written with the next theme update. Follow this link to an article I wrote for more information on Child-Themes. As to the “fix”, the follow line of code appears in most of the template files, you may want to edit all of them:
… with the key part being at the beginning of the line.
Edward,
thanks for making this cool theme.
I have a problem though. I can turn of the comment-field in posts but not on my pages. How do I fix this?
Here is the link. http://www.ac-group.dk – the first page works fine – but on the others ones I cannot hide the comment field
Thanks
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I fixed it by renaming the pages on the tabs. So comment field gone now
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@Lars – Comments can be turned off by a checkbox option on the edit page window. This options section is generally found beneath the content box. If you do not see it, you may need to turn it on via the “Screen Options” tab at the top right of the window.
PS: Thanks for choosing Desk Mess Mirrored, I’m glad you are enjoying it.
Actually to change the comments option on each page you have to choose the “quick edit” option — and this is found when you go to your list of pages and highlight the page you want to edit.
If I went into my page to edit, this option is not there. This is what I had to do. Hope it helps.
@Mary – As I noted to @Lars, the “Discussion” box may not be visible (which is by default in new installations); although your method would likely be quicker if there are many pages to change this setting on.
Edward,
thanks – I am newbie at this
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@Lars – You’re welcome! We have all been newbies at one time or another.
Edward,
I need some help again. And I hope your help is as fast as the last time around.
When I use my blog http://www.dygtigeelever.dk I would like the “home” tab to stay away when I click the other tabs on the page. How do I prevent the “home” tab from appearing?
/Lars
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@Lars – There are two options here: 1) You can edit the menu section of the ‘functions.php’ template file and remove the code that creates the “Home” item; or 2) the next version, which is due to be submitted to the WordPress repository later this evening, has been updated to not include that code and this issue will simply go away once you update to 2.0
Edward,
. Will wait for the update to be published since I is a relic that only knows html and who does have a clue on how to code in php
thanks for this
Lars Raae´s last post … Welcome
Beautiful theme. Love it.
I’m having a problem with the menu showing up twice. This happens whenever i enter another page than the homepage. My static home page is not named home.
Happy for any solution.
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Correction: The home menu is showing up twice. I named the static home page welcome, and if I enter any page, The theme shows home, then all my pages, and then the page named welcome again, whic is the same as home.
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@Andre – As I suggested in my previous reply, a Custom Menu should be able to fix this issue. Also to note, when you use a Custom Menu you can “sort” the menu items into whichever order suits your site best, by default the `wp_list_pages` function (which anchors many navigation menus and is used here) sorts the page names alphabetically thus creating the order you are seeing.
@Andre – The Theme, by default, displays a “Home” page whenever you are not on the “Home” page. The simplest solution is to use a “Custom Menu” which allows for more control over how your menu will display.
Hello there, I like so many others love this template but am having a little difficulty with just one thing – I want to change the text name of my site to a logo, (the title to the right of the iphone in the header) but don’t know how to do it. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks INTJ.
@INTJ – Two things in regards to what you are asking … 1) When making changes to a theme it is much better to create a Child-Theme and then apply your changes as when the next update to the theme is applied all of your changes will likely be over-written; 2) The CC license can be better applied within the Child-Theme in it’s functions.php template (which you will need to create as well).
Now to your question: look in ‘header.php’ and replace the code in the ‘logo’ block with your image code … again this is best done using a Child-Theme. Also, always make back-ups before modifying anything.
Hi Edward
I love this theme as it reflects the core of my business. One problem I’m facing is I’d like to upload an author image and have used a number of plugins but with no success. My photo has been uploaded to the admin area but I can’t seem to get it onto the site.
Could you agive me some help here.
Many thanks
Pat
Sorry Edward, to achieve upload of an image I’m trying to add an author sidebar widget but with no success.
If you could advise I’d be greatful.
Thanks
Pat
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@Pat – Something you might consider is my BNS Corner Logo plugin … it’s ideal for adding images to the sidebar (or web page corner).
Hello Edward,
First of all my compliments on the them, it is awesome.
I do have a question. What is the use of the link >>Page Link<<? It shows the wp link and brings you back to where you were in the first place. There is probably something nifty one can do with it but I couldn't find any use for it nor any documentation (I might have searched in the wrong place).
Could you shine some light on this matter for me?
Thanks!
@Kees – Thank you for the compliments and the feedback, both are greatly appreciated.
The “Page Link” is basically that, although I probably could have used better verbiage to make its usefulness more obvious. The essential use, or at least the reason why I chose to implement it, is to allow readers to use it for referencing back to the page.
The link uses the_shortlink which creates a short URL to use rather than the standard permalink version found in the browser address bar.
I’ll make a note to review the anchor text as well as include additional information in the theme’s ‘readme.txt’ file.
Hello Edward,
Thank you for your swift reply. I am not sure if I understand what you wrote. My ‘about’ page shows http://www.carrerac.ca/blog/about/ as browser address. I see the short url in the status bar when I hover over the link, but when I click on it, it doesn’t change the browser address.
It is not really important, I’m just a bit confused. Is there a way to remove the >>Page Link<< all together?
@Kees – It seems you are understanding what I wrote correctly. If you right-click (on a PC) then copy the link you can share the shortlink versus the longer site permalink you are seeing in the address bar. If you wish to remove this altogether you can edit the code found at the bottom of the ‘desk-mess-mirrored.php’ loop template; or change the CSS element on line 491 in ‘style.css’ from `float:right;` to `display:none;`.
Keep track of the edit, if you make it, or look into creating a Child-Theme so your edits will be preserved when the next update is released.
@Edward,
Thanks for your help. The ‘problem’ is solved. I put
.page-shortlink { display: none; }in style.css of Multi and it works like a charm now.
Regards,
Kees
@Kees – Well Done! It looks great … I may revert that bit of code, or create an option for it in the next major release.
Hi I love the theme, I’m looking to implement it as a website without comments. I was interested to know if it is possible to remove the comment functionality and comments quote image.
I will be highly grateful for any feedback
@Charles – You may be best to simply adjust the Settings | Discussion > Default article settings et al. to turn off comments on your installation. You may need to go back and turn off individual posts and pages that have already been posted. If you wish to make the change by modifying the code (not recommended) then simply look for and remove (or comment out) the calls to `comments_template` in “the_Loop” template files (they start with ‘desk-mess-mirrored-’).
Hello Edward,
I came across something else. When I create a new page and I use bullets, they don’t show up. I do see the … tags in the HTML view but no bullets on the page. The ordered list does work. I have been searching in style.css for some display:none but I only found that in the nav section.
Any idea what I can do, or where I went wrong?
Thanks.
Kees Scheffel´s last post … So you are hiring employees huh?
@Kees – I missed that … add this to your stylesheet:
.page div#main-blog ul li { list-style: disc inside none; }It will be in the next update to Desk Mess Mirrored. Thanks!
Thanks again for your faster than lightning reply. And needless to say that it works now!
Much appreciated.
@Kees – No worries; I appreciate your patience in letting me provide you with a working solution until the next release is available.
I am sorry that I have to bother you again. I do have the following issue:
There are 3 asterisks under the “Leave a reply’ and I would like them to be red. (OK, I am a nitpicker, I admit it). I managed to turn the ones behind ‘Name’ and ‘Email’ red by putting this code in style.css of Multi:
p.comment-form-author span.required {
padding: 0 10px 0 12px;
color: #d21600;
}
p.comment-form-email span.required {
padding: 0 10px 0 15px;
color: #d21600;
}
But I couldn’t find a way to let the 1st one show up red (the one behind ‘marked’) I saw in the source code that it is surrounded by the
*, so I putspan.required{
color: #d21600;
}
in the style.css but that didn’t do the trick. My knowledge of css is limited so I am lost here. Is there a simple way to do what I want? If not, no problem. It’s not the most important thing.
Thanks
@Kees – A quick test showed
span.required { color: red; }changed the asterisks to red in my online and offline test environments; I cannot see a reason why it would matter if the hex code is used for your particular shade of red.
It works now. I must have made a syntax error somewhere. Thanks again for the help. I’ll try not to bother you anymore, but I can’t make a promise
@Kees – No worries! I truly appreciate the feedback and interest.
PS: It may be a bit out of the way, but if your happen to be in the area you might want to have a look at: http://www.meetup.com/WordPress-GTA
I LOVE this theme – However, I would really like to have the main area wider and the sidebar more narrow – Is there anyway to do this?
@Vicki – Thank you for the compliment. Although it is possible to change the widths of the content area and the sidebar area, it would also require a complete re-vamp of most of the visual elements of the theme. Essentially it would would require making a “new” theme due to how the graphic elements have been implemented.
That is sad
Thank you for your reply.
Hi, Edward!
You theme works fine in my web-site.
There is one thing where I need Your’s help.
I want to put read more -tag to static page http://www.leppavirta-liike.fi/blogit/katrina-rajakannas/, because there will be lot of articles in near future, and I want to cut atticles to short teaser with read more-link.
I hope You understand what I mean.
So I find solution, but I cant handle php.language, so I don’t know where to put this code:
How to use Read More in Pages
Please remember that the “Read More” tag is used only on the Home page which shows the latest posts. It does not work in “Pages”. If you want to turn it on in Pages too for showing a set of partial posts, use the following code inside the loop for the dynamic content:
<?php global $more; $more = 0; ?> //The code must be inserted ahead of the call to the content <?php the_content('Continue Reading'); ?>I hope You have time
Sorry,just most important part is missing, the code:
//The code must be inserted ahead of the call to the content
Hannu Ronni´s last post … Päivän puheenaiheet
It seems that it is not possible to put code to reply , so there is adress where to find the code
http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More#How_to_use_Read_More_in_Pages
Hannu Ronni´s last post … Päivän puheenaiheet
@Hannu – To insert “code” into a comment you must use the `code` tag as noted beneath the comment text box.
@Hannu – The code sample (as noted now above) will have to be adapted to be used in “the_Loop” template `dmm-mess-mirrored.php`. You will need to look at the code around line 49 of that file.
I would strongly recommend creating a Child-Theme to make these modifications in as the next Desk Mess Mirrored update will over-write any modifications to the files you make.
I have version 1.9.1 and my sidebar doesn’t show up on the right but on the bottom left (under the page). How can I change this?
@Boris – First, please update to the current version (2.0 as of this reply). Otherwise, I am not seeing an issue with the sidebar.
I don’t see anyplace in the source code to edit the footer.
@Steve – By “the footer” are you referring to the Copyright or the Credits … both are controlled via functions found in ‘functions.php’.
Nothing on this page stands out to be able to edit the copyright and remove the credits.
@Steve – You will be looking for the functions: `dmm_dynamic_copyright` and `dmm_theme_version`
These two functions control the information displayed in the footer of Desk Mess Mirrored.