Biography: Just because I like this ... Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed ante nisl, porta eu tempor ac, molestie ut nisl. …∞
@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,
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 – 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,
thanks for this :-). 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
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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-‘).
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.
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;
}
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 put
span.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.
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.
@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.
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'); ?>
@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.
@Steve – The `dmm_dynamic_copyright` function was written so it could be easily modified via a call from a Child-Theme’s ‘functions.php’ file; or by adding a filter in the Child-Theme. These would be the best methods in most cases that I would recommend. Depending on what you are trying to accomplish, you may also consider the `dmm_theme_version` function, too; it behaves in a very similar manner when it comes to making modifications to it.
I’m very new to WordPress as well. I was wondering if there is a way to get rid of this section on my website. The ‘Leave a Reply’ icon and all of this at the bottom of the page.
I really love this theme, and think it fits my business wonderfully, however, I do not need/want the “Leave a Reply” on there.
Also, I do not want there to be an option to Leave a comment (the little sticky note with pushpin that has the number of comments on it) Is there a way to get rid of that as well?
@lavon = If you turn off comments in the Settings > Discussion panel then most if not all of the items you are asking about should be addressed although you may need to individually edit each existing post/page to turn off their existing comments.
the theme is used on listproducer.com however can not seem to get the metadata showing which shows up the follow as a meta description whilst sharing:
//<![CDATA[
function alo_em_pubblic_form ()
{
//edit : added all this for
var alo_cf_array = new Array();
document.alo_easymail_widget_form.submit.value="sending…";
document.alo_easymail_widget_form.submit.disabled = true;
document.getElementById('alo_em_widget_loading').style.display = "inline";
document.getElementById('alo_easymail_widget_feedback').innerHTML = "";
@Azzam – The code you are quoting is not part of the theme and you are currently using an older version than the current. Before I would be able to consider any suggestions to address your issue I must advise I only support current versions of my themes … and I generally do not offer free support for code that is not part of the current theme in question. Otherwise, you have made some interesting edits to the theme header and background that look very nice. Well Done!
Thanks for the rapid response Edward.
Unfortunately I did not work on the site and speaking on behalf of the site owner and she just realised that it is an older version and the first thing I advised was the upgrade and not feasible due to the customisation on the site 🙁
I thought you may have a quick fix to the problem on first glance.
I have suggested Yoast SEO plugin that should be able to inject the metadata.
I will ask her if she wants to pay for a fix via your services.
@Azzam – The theme would still need to be brought up to the current version; the customizations should be able to be picked out and placed into a Child-Theme … that is the most correct method to go forward with.
I would still be concerned with the code you quoted, it appears more an issue with a plugin that is causing this problem.
I too love the theme. I’ve been using it on a bbPress powered forum site.
Version 1.9 worked, Version 2.0.2 doesn’t display the forums list or author details pages correctly.
Here’s it working on v1.9 of Desk Mess Mirrored: http://www.webay.me.uk/forums/
@David – I’m very happy you like the Desk Mess Mirrored theme, but I was not aware of this issue with bbPress as I do not use it (ever), nor does the theme officially support its use. I will however make note of it and see if there is anything obvious that may be causing this to occur as the menu system had an almost complete over-haul at version 2.0.
Thank you for the feedback; I would suggest going forward with the method being used on the second example site for the time being.
Hi Edward
Thanks for the reply. I think I’m going to move forward using a version of the theme that works (currently I know that to be 1.9) and then keep checking when you release new versions to see if you’ve worked hard on (or fluked upon) a solution!
If you want to email me zips of all the versions between 1.9 and current, then I’ll test each until it breaks – might help you if you’re gonna trouble shoot it.
As an aside, I’ve actually child themed your theme (primarily to loose a bit of the space at the top and add something to functions.php) hope you’re happy with my change to the footer.
@David – Thank you for the offer of helping with troubleshooting this issue. If you look in the Theme’s ‘readme.txt’ file at the very end is a list of the Theme’s “Trac” tickets … it just so happens the most current version lists the links to these Trac tickets.
Each ticket links to a “zip” file for it’s related version.
One thing that I can’t seem to get to work is the “view more from [the author]” link at the bottom of a post. When I click the author I arrive at a 404 error page (within the theme). I did some research in the WP forums, and the theme’s hierarchy looks fine (even has the author.php file). The author.php file looks a lot like the author.php code in the WP forums…yet it doesn’t work. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
@Daniel – Thank you for the compliment. I can see what the issue is, although I do not see right off why it occurred. The issue has to do with your author name having a space between the first and last names. WordPress itself is trying to reach the author page for “Daniel” not “Daniel Carlson” and since it is not finding a “Daniel” author page a 404, or page not found, is being returned. I do not see this as directly theme related. Do you see this issue if you use the default Twenty Ten or Twenty Eleven themes?
PS: I just tested creating a new user name that has a first and last name (without a space) and was not able to re-create your issue; by default the most recent version of WordPress added a hyphen between the two names allowing it to better handle user names with two (or more) names/words.
I was actually able to modify the author-template.php file, line 238, so that it takes the space out of the Author, but it’s still not pulling up the author’s bio (which there is one; a widget I’m using displays the bio).
@Daniel – In your reference to line 238 you must be referring to editing another theme as the ‘author.php’ template used in Desk Mess Mirrored is not that many lines.
This edit also appears to have affected your author name in all instances as there is no longer a space in the author URL.
@Daniel – Although I have not reviewed the code for Twenty Eleven, I can see that it is quite possible that particular PHP function may be used to remove a space, but I have also noticed modifications to the Desk Mess Mirrored theme have been made.
As edits have been made, I may not be able to offer any suggestions as to what options are available for you to now correct this issue.
I edited the file in wp-includes/ folder called author-template.php, line 238. I have just returned it to how it was before my edit, if that will help you.
@Daniel – You should never edit any core WordPress files (it is an extremely rare occasion where I would even consider editing a theme’s core files). Unfortunately I still do not see an immediate solution to this issue, can you provide me with a direct link to your author page? It may or may not help, but I am unable to discern one from what I expect given the information I can currently see on your website.
ALL Fixed!! I added a plugin which enabled me to edit the author slug (I added the “-” between first and last name) and it fixed the problem completely. I could have done that in the database as well, but it’s easier this way, especially if I get more authors to use the site.
I’m looking to change the items on the desk. When I uploaded the images to a child theme (or even overrode them in the parent theme images folder) The item is completely removed from the desk. Neither the new image or the old image appear. Any ideas?
@Chris – It appears the path to the background image is incorrect; use the (Child-)Theme root folder as your base then construct the path from that point.
I hate to ask this because I know this question is so basic, but I’m certainly not as computer literate as all of you. But I love this theme and want it to appear on my WordPress blog, but I don’t know how? I have downloaded the zip file but when I go to ‘appearance’ and ‘themes’ on WordPress, Desk Mess isn’t showing up as a choice. Help?
@Lisa – Thank you very much for the compliment, but it appears you are hosting your website via WordPress-dot-com; and although this request does come up from time to time, it is out of my hands to add Desk Mess Mirrored to the themes that are offered by WordPress.com for use on their hosted web sites (such as yours). Please feel free to ask the WordPress-dot-com support team if it can be added; or, if you choose to use a hosting service other than WordPress’ then you would be able to add it to your site.
@DeBora – The “talking quote”? Do you mean the comment balloon? If so, simply turn off comments and pingbacks for those posts / pages that you do not want it to appear on.
@DeBora – The >>Page Link<< is coded into the Parent-Theme (Desk Mess Mirrored) desk-mess-mirrored.php main loop template file. Look at, or near lines 64-66 ... copy this file to your Child-Theme folder on your server and then edit those lines as necessary. Remember to make back-ups before editing.
@Joel – I believe I have seen this with another theme; if I recall correctly, it is a matter of changing (a not so obvious) setting in the plugin but I do not remember which.
i have contacted the plugin (TheEventsCalendar) author and i am awaiting a reply. Is it possible that the sidebar is not leaving enough room? and therefore it is pushing all the divs down under the content?
i have tried in vain to create a page template that would not load the sidebars, but i cannot figure out how to do it. Is this possible?
Hi! I’m a total noob to this wordpress stuff. LOL So forgive me with this basic question! My friend’s blog uses your theme which she so loves! We have the older version though and should get her wordpress version updated as well as your theme. Its been customized though so it gives us a warning that we’ll lose customization. I’m not entirely sure how it’ll affect her blog. Is there a way you could pop over to glance at it and see what we will lose if we update? I’m afraid to update her and what I should do. her site is gailsidoniesobat.com/blog
I’m worried I’ll need to redo all the pages or posts, but I have no idea if thats the case and what I should do in preparation before updating… (again apologies for my ineptitude)
@Rayven – I’m not seeing anything that jumps out and says this is going to break. I would not expect to see any significant issues with updating the theme … and I do not see what “customization” has been made. Any plugins/widgets you are using should not have any issues with the theme (I know of no current conflicts). I would not even expect there to be any issues with updating the WordPress version to the latest either. Your posts and pages should also be fine, their content is not tied to the theme … just their look and feel.
If you are still concerned, there are many back-up plugins / services you can use just in case to preserve the content of the site.
Thanks Edward! Ya, I don’t think there was much customization, but I guess I wasn’t sure what exactly that meant originally… (as if creating tabs, adding plugins, or turning off stuff like the calendar etc would be considered customization or if it was something more like going into the code and totally revamping it somehow).
I attempted to back up the site so fingers crossed when I update everything this weekend that it all is smooth sailing. 🙂
Do you have any recommendations for a plugin for a good photo gallery I could use? (If not, seriously no biggie!) I’m trying to find a way to have multiple albums on her site somehow, like the old iWeb/mobile me photo galleries.
Anyway, thank you SO SO MUCH for your reply. It’s always lovely to find an independent template/content creator who actually cares and helps people with their work. It is so so much appreciated. :)) And Gail gets so many compliments on this theme. 🙂
@Rayven – You’re welcome! I’m not very familiar with the iWeb/mobile me galleries you mentioned and as such I do not have any specific recommendations at this time. Although just with a standard installation you can have a separate gallery on each post / page you have. If that is what you are looking for you might find this article useful: http://codex.wordpress.org/Photoblogs_and_Galleries
I write you because I found a little problem with translations and was traying to translate this theme to spanish, but I can’t. I resolve that changing the call to load_theme_textdomain this way load_theme_textdomain( ‘desk-mess-mirrored’, get_template_directory() . ‘/languages’ ) it didn’t work for me using get_template_directory_uri()
Greetings! I did some updates to wordpress (version, theme, etc.) and now it seems the background that should be behind the text entry is missing. Looking at your blog here, it’s “main-page-middle.png” and that file is still in place. I did not make any changes to the code or the files but, it seems to not be working. No idea why.
And now for reasons I don’t understand (as I still did not make any changes) it appears to be working again. So it seemingly broke AND fixed itself. Oh well. 😉
@Miss M. Turner – Sometimes all it takes is a screen refresh or saving an option … but whatever the case I am glad to see your site appears to be working fine. Good luck with the jewelry business, too!
I had this happen as well – I was adding a number of plugins and one affected the background. I removed the all and have added them one at a time – checking each to be ure they were not the culprits. Seems to be working fine now.
@Barb – It’s good things are working now; although I would be interested in knowing what plugins were activated when the background appeared to be affected.
@Barb – Where do you want to put the links? What are you referring to when you write “each page”? Generally, you will most likely need to have some additional code written for the theme (read: create a Child-Theme and modify the theme templates), or you may be able to implement a plugin that will sort this out. A lot depends on the placement of the ads and which “pages” you are referring to.
Im having one Issue with tables however. Basically whenever I create a table, all of the columns become collapsed together. This makes each row of data appear like one big string. Is there a fix for this?
Cheers,
Jamie
@Jamie – Thank you! As to the table issue, most can be “corrected” through additional CSS and/or table properties, especially if you are manually writing the HTML. I would suggest either creating a Child-Theme to add the additional CSS; or, using a plugin such as my BNS Add Style to add a custom stylesheet to the active theme folder. The table properties method will only work for the table they are applied to, the CSS (usually) will affect all tables used on the site in the theme.
Hi Edward – Hopefully you won’t find another compliment tiresome, but I love this theme. Great job! I’m most definitely in the “newbie” category. My name in the blog header contains 14 letters, plus the space in between, making it look very crowded in the available space. Is there a way to separate my first and last names into two lines (preferred)? Or is there a way to shrink the font a bit? I notice that for some reason the crowding is not as bad on the iPad as it is in Safari on my Mac. so that makes it a bit more complicated.
Second newbie issue: I want a simple photo of me on the top of the sidebar. I have tried the Gravatar plugin (for some reason it insists on displaying my user name below the photo). I noticed your comment in this forum for BNS Corner, but that has my picture in places other than lined up in the side bar. I just want to take an image from my computer, and have that show up at the top of the side bar.
@Michael – Thank you for the compliment and for choosing Desk Mess Mirrored as your theme. Interestingly enough, depending on the browser you are viewing your site with will affect the look of your site’s title (in this case your name). You could try putting your first name in the Title (or first name and middle initial) and your last name in the site’s tagline (it will appear below your first name). Otherwise you can look into the CSS of the site and try some adjustments there. I would suggest creating a Child-Theme or making use of my plugin BNS Add Style to create a “safe” stylesheet to use for these adjustments.
As to the second issue with your picture at the top of the side bar, I would likely still suggest BNS Corner Logo (if the image is your Gravatar simply check that option, then set the dimension accordingly … about 248px should be about right). Otherwise, there are other plugin options or (Child-Theme) customizations that could be considered.
Thank you! I have solved (after much agony) the picture issue, but grabbing the Jetpack image widget and pulling a picture from Dropbox. That seems to work.
In reading this support forum, clearly I need to tackle the parent-child thing, although it looks complicated (to a newbie). Any “parent-child instructions for dummies” would be appreciated.
Is there are place where I can view others who have used this theme, to see how they have used it? I feel like I’m part of a community now.
@Michael – I generally recommend this article I wrote regarding Child-Themes: http://wpfirstaid.com/2011/04/wordpress-child-themes/ … feel free to review the “Resources” at the end of the article as well for more links to other articles.
How can i make tags visible just in article?!
I don`t want to have those visible in the homepage.
I’ve tried to modify in desk-mess-mirrored.php but doesn’t work with last version of DMM.
Can you give me a solution for this?
@Mary – The code example you included in your comment did not display …
… now, provided I understand your request, you would be looking at changing the following line in each of the ‘desk-mess-mirrored’ loop templates:
Desk Mess Mirrored
111 Responses
110 Comments
1 Pingback
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
I fixed it by renaming the pages on the tabs. So comment field gone now 🙂
@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 🙂
@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
@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,
thanks for this :-). 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
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.
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.
@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
@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 – 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
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 – 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.
I would like to add a second line to the footer. Not sure how to add to dmm_dynamic_copyright function.
@Steve – The `dmm_dynamic_copyright` function was written so it could be easily modified via a call from a Child-Theme’s ‘functions.php’ file; or by adding a filter in the Child-Theme. These would be the best methods in most cases that I would recommend. Depending on what you are trying to accomplish, you may also consider the `dmm_theme_version` function, too; it behaves in a very similar manner when it comes to making modifications to it.
I’m very new to WordPress as well. I was wondering if there is a way to get rid of this section on my website. The ‘Leave a Reply’ icon and all of this at the bottom of the page.
I really love this theme, and think it fits my business wonderfully, however, I do not need/want the “Leave a Reply” on there.
Also, I do not want there to be an option to Leave a comment (the little sticky note with pushpin that has the number of comments on it) Is there a way to get rid of that as well?
@lavon = If you turn off comments in the Settings > Discussion panel then most if not all of the items you are asking about should be addressed although you may need to individually edit each existing post/page to turn off their existing comments.
Hi,
the theme is used on listproducer.com however can not seem to get the metadata showing which shows up the follow as a meta description whilst sharing:
//<![CDATA[
function alo_em_pubblic_form ()
{
//edit : added all this for
var alo_cf_array = new Array();
document.alo_easymail_widget_form.submit.value="sending…";
document.alo_easymail_widget_form.submit.disabled = true;
document.getElementById('alo_em_widget_loading').style.display = "inline";
document.getElementById('alo_easymail_widget_feedback').innerHTML = "";
var alo_em_sack = new sack("http://www.listproducer.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" );
The point is that there is not meta title or description.
Please advise
Azzam
@Azzam – The code you are quoting is not part of the theme and you are currently using an older version than the current. Before I would be able to consider any suggestions to address your issue I must advise I only support current versions of my themes … and I generally do not offer free support for code that is not part of the current theme in question. Otherwise, you have made some interesting edits to the theme header and background that look very nice. Well Done!
Thanks for the rapid response Edward.
Unfortunately I did not work on the site and speaking on behalf of the site owner and she just realised that it is an older version and the first thing I advised was the upgrade and not feasible due to the customisation on the site 🙁
I thought you may have a quick fix to the problem on first glance.
I have suggested Yoast SEO plugin that should be able to inject the metadata.
I will ask her if she wants to pay for a fix via your services.
@Azzam – The theme would still need to be brought up to the current version; the customizations should be able to be picked out and placed into a Child-Theme … that is the most correct method to go forward with.
I would still be concerned with the code you quoted, it appears more an issue with a plugin that is causing this problem.
OK great.
I believe Paula should have sent you an email directly to find a resolve.
Hi there,
I too love the theme. I’ve been using it on a bbPress powered forum site.
Version 1.9 worked, Version 2.0.2 doesn’t display the forums list or author details pages correctly.
Here’s it working on v1.9 of Desk Mess Mirrored:
http://www.webay.me.uk/forums/
Here’s it not working on almost identical site but with v2.02 of your theme:
http://webay.hostingbydavid.co.uk/forums/
Any clues would be vastly apprecited!
Cheers
David
@David – I’m very happy you like the Desk Mess Mirrored theme, but I was not aware of this issue with bbPress as I do not use it (ever), nor does the theme officially support its use. I will however make note of it and see if there is anything obvious that may be causing this to occur as the menu system had an almost complete over-haul at version 2.0.
Thank you for the feedback; I would suggest going forward with the method being used on the second example site for the time being.
Hi Edward
Thanks for the reply. I think I’m going to move forward using a version of the theme that works (currently I know that to be 1.9) and then keep checking when you release new versions to see if you’ve worked hard on (or fluked upon) a solution!
If you want to email me zips of all the versions between 1.9 and current, then I’ll test each until it breaks – might help you if you’re gonna trouble shoot it.
As an aside, I’ve actually child themed your theme (primarily to loose a bit of the space at the top and add something to functions.php) hope you’re happy with my change to the footer.
@David – Thank you for the offer of helping with troubleshooting this issue. If you look in the Theme’s ‘readme.txt’ file at the very end is a list of the Theme’s “Trac” tickets … it just so happens the most current version lists the links to these Trac tickets.
Each ticket links to a “zip” file for it’s related version.
I love the theme! It is perfect for my audience.
One thing that I can’t seem to get to work is the “view more from [the author]” link at the bottom of a post. When I click the author I arrive at a 404 error page (within the theme). I did some research in the WP forums, and the theme’s hierarchy looks fine (even has the author.php file). The author.php file looks a lot like the author.php code in the WP forums…yet it doesn’t work. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
@Daniel – Thank you for the compliment. I can see what the issue is, although I do not see right off why it occurred. The issue has to do with your author name having a space between the first and last names. WordPress itself is trying to reach the author page for “Daniel” not “Daniel Carlson” and since it is not finding a “Daniel” author page a 404, or page not found, is being returned. I do not see this as directly theme related. Do you see this issue if you use the default Twenty Ten or Twenty Eleven themes?
PS: I just tested creating a new user name that has a first and last name (without a space) and was not able to re-create your issue; by default the most recent version of WordPress added a hyphen between the two names allowing it to better handle user names with two (or more) names/words.
I was actually able to modify the author-template.php file, line 238, so that it takes the space out of the Author, but it’s still not pulling up the author’s bio (which there is one; a widget I’m using displays the bio).
@Daniel – In your reference to line 238 you must be referring to editing another theme as the ‘author.php’ template used in Desk Mess Mirrored is not that many lines.
This edit also appears to have affected your author name in all instances as there is no longer a space in the author URL.
In the 2011 Theme the space between first and last name is removed in the link. so somewhere in the code str_replace is being used in Theme 2011.
@Daniel – Although I have not reviewed the code for Twenty Eleven, I can see that it is quite possible that particular PHP function may be used to remove a space, but I have also noticed modifications to the Desk Mess Mirrored theme have been made.
As edits have been made, I may not be able to offer any suggestions as to what options are available for you to now correct this issue.
I edited the file in wp-includes/ folder called author-template.php, line 238. I have just returned it to how it was before my edit, if that will help you.
@Daniel – You should never edit any core WordPress files (it is an extremely rare occasion where I would even consider editing a theme’s core files). Unfortunately I still do not see an immediate solution to this issue, can you provide me with a direct link to your author page? It may or may not help, but I am unable to discern one from what I expect given the information I can currently see on your website.
ALL Fixed!! I added a plugin which enabled me to edit the author slug (I added the “-” between first and last name) and it fixed the problem completely. I could have done that in the database as well, but it’s easier this way, especially if I get more authors to use the site.
By the way, the plugin I added is called “Edit Author Slug” and adds the author slug editable field to the User’s profile edit screen.
@Daniel – I’m really glad to see this working for you; and thanks for the plugin name … I’m definitely going to have a look at it, too.
I’m looking to change the items on the desk. When I uploaded the images to a child theme (or even overrode them in the parent theme images folder) The item is completely removed from the desk. Neither the new image or the old image appear. Any ideas?
@Chris – It appears the path to the background image is incorrect; use the (Child-)Theme root folder as your base then construct the path from that point.
I hate to ask this because I know this question is so basic, but I’m certainly not as computer literate as all of you. But I love this theme and want it to appear on my WordPress blog, but I don’t know how? I have downloaded the zip file but when I go to ‘appearance’ and ‘themes’ on WordPress, Desk Mess isn’t showing up as a choice. Help?
@Lisa – Thank you very much for the compliment, but it appears you are hosting your website via WordPress-dot-com; and although this request does come up from time to time, it is out of my hands to add Desk Mess Mirrored to the themes that are offered by WordPress.com for use on their hosted web sites (such as yours). Please feel free to ask the WordPress-dot-com support team if it can be added; or, if you choose to use a hosting service other than WordPress’ then you would be able to add it to your site.
Is there a way to remove the ‘talking quote’ from every page except the Blog?
@DeBora – The “talking quote”? Do you mean the comment balloon? If so, simply turn off comments and pingbacks for those posts / pages that you do not want it to appear on.
Is there a way to remove the >>Page Link<< at the bottom of every page?
@DeBora – The >>Page Link<< is coded into the Parent-Theme (Desk Mess Mirrored) desk-mess-mirrored.php main loop template file. Look at, or near lines 64-66 ... copy this file to your Child-Theme folder on your server and then edit those lines as necessary. Remember to make back-ups before editing.
Any idea why TheEventsCalendar pages are garbled up?
http://www.pack401houma.org/event/webelos-adventure-camp/
@Joel – I believe I have seen this with another theme; if I recall correctly, it is a matter of changing (a not so obvious) setting in the plugin but I do not remember which.
Thanks, let me know if you figure it out
@Joel – The various settings for the plugin should be explained in its documentation and/or by its author.
i have contacted the plugin (TheEventsCalendar) author and i am awaiting a reply. Is it possible that the sidebar is not leaving enough room? and therefore it is pushing all the divs down under the content?
i have tried in vain to create a page template that would not load the sidebars, but i cannot figure out how to do it. Is this possible?
@Joel – Have you tried setting the Template to the “Default Page Template” in its drop-down selector?
Hi! I’m a total noob to this wordpress stuff. LOL So forgive me with this basic question! My friend’s blog uses your theme which she so loves! We have the older version though and should get her wordpress version updated as well as your theme. Its been customized though so it gives us a warning that we’ll lose customization. I’m not entirely sure how it’ll affect her blog. Is there a way you could pop over to glance at it and see what we will lose if we update? I’m afraid to update her and what I should do. her site is gailsidoniesobat.com/blog
I’m worried I’ll need to redo all the pages or posts, but I have no idea if thats the case and what I should do in preparation before updating… (again apologies for my ineptitude)
@Rayven – I’m not seeing anything that jumps out and says this is going to break. I would not expect to see any significant issues with updating the theme … and I do not see what “customization” has been made. Any plugins/widgets you are using should not have any issues with the theme (I know of no current conflicts). I would not even expect there to be any issues with updating the WordPress version to the latest either. Your posts and pages should also be fine, their content is not tied to the theme … just their look and feel.
If you are still concerned, there are many back-up plugins / services you can use just in case to preserve the content of the site.
Thanks Edward! Ya, I don’t think there was much customization, but I guess I wasn’t sure what exactly that meant originally… (as if creating tabs, adding plugins, or turning off stuff like the calendar etc would be considered customization or if it was something more like going into the code and totally revamping it somehow).
I attempted to back up the site so fingers crossed when I update everything this weekend that it all is smooth sailing. 🙂
Do you have any recommendations for a plugin for a good photo gallery I could use? (If not, seriously no biggie!) I’m trying to find a way to have multiple albums on her site somehow, like the old iWeb/mobile me photo galleries.
Anyway, thank you SO SO MUCH for your reply. It’s always lovely to find an independent template/content creator who actually cares and helps people with their work. It is so so much appreciated. :)) And Gail gets so many compliments on this theme. 🙂
@Rayven – You’re welcome! I’m not very familiar with the iWeb/mobile me galleries you mentioned and as such I do not have any specific recommendations at this time. Although just with a standard installation you can have a separate gallery on each post / page you have. If that is what you are looking for you might find this article useful: http://codex.wordpress.org/Photoblogs_and_Galleries
Hi!
Thank you for this theme.
I write you because I found a little problem with translations and was traying to translate this theme to spanish, but I can’t. I resolve that changing the call to load_theme_textdomain this way load_theme_textdomain( ‘desk-mess-mirrored’, get_template_directory() . ‘/languages’ ) it didn’t work for me using get_template_directory_uri()
I hope it could be interesting for you
@Carlos – Thank you! I’ll address this with the next update.
Greetings! I did some updates to wordpress (version, theme, etc.) and now it seems the background that should be behind the text entry is missing. Looking at your blog here, it’s “main-page-middle.png” and that file is still in place. I did not make any changes to the code or the files but, it seems to not be working. No idea why.
Help?
And now for reasons I don’t understand (as I still did not make any changes) it appears to be working again. So it seemingly broke AND fixed itself. Oh well. 😉
@Miss M. Turner – Sometimes all it takes is a screen refresh or saving an option … but whatever the case I am glad to see your site appears to be working fine. Good luck with the jewelry business, too!
I had this happen as well – I was adding a number of plugins and one affected the background. I removed the all and have added them one at a time – checking each to be ure they were not the culprits. Seems to be working fine now.
@Barb – It’s good things are working now; although I would be interested in knowing what plugins were activated when the background appeared to be affected.
Hi Edward,
I ran the update today and now the footer is appearing at the top of my page. Can you check and see if something happened?
Thanks!
Laura
@Laura – I’m not seeing any obvious issues with your site … neither my laptop, nor my iPhone.
Hi – I have a need to add links to sponsors or advertisers. I would like these to be different on each page. How do I do this?
Thanks
@Barb – Where do you want to put the links? What are you referring to when you write “each page”? Generally, you will most likely need to have some additional code written for the theme (read: create a Child-Theme and modify the theme templates), or you may be able to implement a plugin that will sort this out. A lot depends on the placement of the ads and which “pages” you are referring to.
Hi Edward,
I Love your theme so much!
Im having one Issue with tables however. Basically whenever I create a table, all of the columns become collapsed together. This makes each row of data appear like one big string. Is there a fix for this?
Cheers,
Jamie
@Jamie – Thank you! As to the table issue, most can be “corrected” through additional CSS and/or table properties, especially if you are manually writing the HTML. I would suggest either creating a Child-Theme to add the additional CSS; or, using a plugin such as my BNS Add Style to add a custom stylesheet to the active theme folder. The table properties method will only work for the table they are applied to, the CSS (usually) will affect all tables used on the site in the theme.
Hi Edward – Hopefully you won’t find another compliment tiresome, but I love this theme. Great job! I’m most definitely in the “newbie” category. My name in the blog header contains 14 letters, plus the space in between, making it look very crowded in the available space. Is there a way to separate my first and last names into two lines (preferred)? Or is there a way to shrink the font a bit? I notice that for some reason the crowding is not as bad on the iPad as it is in Safari on my Mac. so that makes it a bit more complicated.
Second newbie issue: I want a simple photo of me on the top of the sidebar. I have tried the Gravatar plugin (for some reason it insists on displaying my user name below the photo). I noticed your comment in this forum for BNS Corner, but that has my picture in places other than lined up in the side bar. I just want to take an image from my computer, and have that show up at the top of the side bar.
Thanks!!
@Michael – Thank you for the compliment and for choosing Desk Mess Mirrored as your theme. Interestingly enough, depending on the browser you are viewing your site with will affect the look of your site’s title (in this case your name). You could try putting your first name in the Title (or first name and middle initial) and your last name in the site’s tagline (it will appear below your first name). Otherwise you can look into the CSS of the site and try some adjustments there. I would suggest creating a Child-Theme or making use of my plugin BNS Add Style to create a “safe” stylesheet to use for these adjustments.
As to the second issue with your picture at the top of the side bar, I would likely still suggest BNS Corner Logo (if the image is your Gravatar simply check that option, then set the dimension accordingly … about 248px should be about right). Otherwise, there are other plugin options or (Child-Theme) customizations that could be considered.
Thank you! I have solved (after much agony) the picture issue, but grabbing the Jetpack image widget and pulling a picture from Dropbox. That seems to work.
In reading this support forum, clearly I need to tackle the parent-child thing, although it looks complicated (to a newbie). Any “parent-child instructions for dummies” would be appreciated.
Is there are place where I can view others who have used this theme, to see how they have used it? I feel like I’m part of a community now.
Well done. Very clever theme.
@Michael – I generally recommend this article I wrote regarding Child-Themes: http://wpfirstaid.com/2011/04/wordpress-child-themes/ … feel free to review the “Resources” at the end of the article as well for more links to other articles.
How can i make tags visible just in article?!
I don`t want to have those visible in the homepage.
I’ve tried to modify in desk-mess-mirrored.php but doesn’t work with last version of DMM.
Can you give me a solution for this?
[edited to remove blank code entry – EAC]
@Mary – The code example you included in your comment did not display …
… now, provided I understand your request, you would be looking at changing the following line in each of the ‘desk-mess-mirrored’ loop templates:
… to something along the following:
<p class="single-meta"><?php if ( ! ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) ) { the_tags(); } ?></p>I would strongly recommend you do this in a Child-Theme as well.
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