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In reply to: Suddenly getting 404 errors when trying to comment

#26101

Some hosts are pretty sensitive about allowing clients access to their own .htaccess files, because…well, I’m not sure why, but they are like that. If it happens again, you might want to check with your host about that issue.

You could have a plugin which rewrites .htaccess, however.

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In reply to: Backgroung image bigger than 150×150

#26092

You are doing this through Appearance >> Background, right?

Two of my WP blogs use fairly large background images with no problems. The 150 x 150 is probably coming from your Media settings.

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In reply to: Suddenly getting 404 errors when trying to comment

#26099

I can’t really tell, since one must be logged in to comment, and thus I can’t comment to see what is going on.

This might be a plugin conflict. It could be the result of hacking into core files (either WP or Graphene). It could be the result of a hacker. Hard to say, really.

Umm…your ISP isn’t sbcglobal, is it?

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In reply to: Getting web link to work.

#26097

I’m assuming you are using the visual editor. If so, here it is in a nutshell:

1. Type whatever text you want to appear on your page.

2. Select that text.

3. Click on the “Create Link” button in the MCE editor toolbar. (There are two: one looks like three links of a chain, and the other one looks like three links of a chain with the middle one broken. You want the unbroken one.)

4. A link box will pop up. In the “URL” box, enter the address of your link. Be sure to include the “http://” part, which is entered automatically for you.

5. In the “title” box, type whatever text you would like to appear when someone hovers their mouse over the link. You can leave this blank.

6. Tick the box marked “Open link in a new window/tab” if you would like.

7. Click the “Add Link” icon at the bottom.

Cheers,

Ken

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In reply to: reducing size of header

#26071

@Stacey:

That is a beautiful looking header image. And it’s the right size, so it should work with the code above. If not, it could be some sort of plugin conflict.

@saibhreas:

backticks: the button above the tab key on a standard keyboard. Also, your code should include px and a semicolon at the end of the declaration, like this:

#header{height=110px;}

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In reply to: reducing size of header

#26068

Once again, the image you have uploaded (cropped-narrow-header4.jpg) is 940 x 198 pixels. You really need to use Photoshop or GIMP to change the size of the image to 960 x 75 before you upload it. I don’t see an image that size in your uploads folder for February or March.

Backticks: located above the “tab” key on a standard keyboard. I’ve fixed that for you here.

Left-alignment: take out margin-left:16px; and it should look better. It works in Firebug, at least.

Why don’t you post a link to the image you are trying to use for a header here, so we get an idea of what you want your header image to look like.

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In reply to: Set background colour for entire sidebar

#26081

Throw us a link and we can take a closer look. There may be other issues with your code that is causing this issue.

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In reply to: Set background colour for entire sidebar

#26080

Effect: this colours the side bar but ONLY where there are widgets in them. The colour stops below the lowest widget in the sidebar.

I had imagined having the coloured sidebar run all the way down to the footer, framing (in my case) the centre post column.

<div>s will only extend as far as they are needed to contain something else. If you had no widgets, you would see no sidebars! This is a HUGE issue in css, and while there are solutions, none of them are simple. (Most involve javascript and/or magic pixie dust.) The only real way to get this to happen is to use a table, which presents an entirely new set of problems.

this adjustment to the child theme no longer works, it must be made to the main style.css file as the child style.css won’t elliminate box shadow

And you will have to make that change again after you update again. This is why you want to make changes through a child theme. Try adding !important after each declaration in your child theme stylesheet that’s not ‘sticking’. (Add it just before the ;)

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In reply to: Top bar background image only on home page; Change header height

#26075

this long confusing wall of text

Indeed! But it’s usually better to get more information than not enough. (I.e., “header broken” tell us nothing.)

To change the header image size, you are going to need to create a child theme, and then enter this in the child theme’s functions.php file:

function graphene_custom_header_width(){

return 900;

}

function graphene_custom_header_height(){

return 198;

}

add_filter('graphene_header_image_width', 'graphene_custom_header_width');

add_filter('graphene_header_image_height', 'graphene_custom_header_height');

You will need to change the above values to the values you want.

Previously, I also tried removing the function which pulls the header image from the settings in header.php file

Hacking core theme files is NOT recommended. Such changes will be lost at the next update, and if you don’t know what you are doing, you could mess things up. That may be what is happening with some of your other issues.

So:

1) Reinstall a clean copy of Graphene

2) Create a child theme

3) Add above code to your child theme functions.php file

And next time, be sure to post a link to the site in question, because that’s often the best way to figure these things out.

Cheers,

Ken

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In reply to: Put an image in the main content

#26000

padding adds space between an element and its border. (It will also make it bigger by that amount.) Feel free to change it to 0px to see what it does. You can actually preview this with Firebug without actually making permanent changes to your css.

Scrolling backgrounds? Très 1998!