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In reply to: Affiliate Banner sizes don't work

#25284

I’m not quite sure what CJ is, but the same thing happens with Google AdWords.

What is happening here is that these people sell advertising space on your website to various advertisers. Because these companies are paying for this space, they exert a lot of control over the size of the ads. After all, if you paid the phone company for an ad of a certain size, you wouldn’t be very happy if it were published at only half that size.

However, most themes simply aren’t designed around the standard size of most ads (because these do vary from ad company to ad company), so designers try to use sizes that will fit most ads. So no, you aren’t doing anything wrong. It’s just the way it is, and unfortunately, there isn’t much you can do about it.

There are a few things, however. In your case, you can wrap your ad code in <div>s and use in-line styling or a custom CSS declaration to align the ads in the center of the widget. Not perfect, but a pretty good compromise.

You can also upgrade to Graphene 1.6, where you have some control over the width of the main content area and the sidebars, and adjust them to fit the majority of your ads. This may require placing narrow ads in one sidebar and wider ads in the other sidebar.

You can also drop out the background of your widgets so that your ads appear to float on your page. I would provide some code for this, but you’ve disabled right clicking. (Which is really annoying, as I prefer to open links in new tabs, and completely powerless to prevent people from stealing your content, as there are multiple ways to accomplish this. Oh gosh, I’m ranting. Enough of that.)

However, if you look at this tutorial:

http://blog.kjodle.net/2011/09/12/fun-with-text-widgets-part-one/

You may get some ideas about how to do that.

Cheers,

Ken

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In reply to: Header fram seperator

#24925

Create a transparent image in Photoshop or GIMP the size of your header, save it as a .png, and upload it via the media gallery.

Then, use some custom css to define that image as the background for the header, making sure to add !important

I haven’t tested it, but this is the only way I can think of making this transparent. (Header images are .jpg by default, and .jpg doesn’t support transparent images.) YMMV

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In reply to: Slider Suddenly Stopped Working

#25054

@kaarinalisa

I noticed this a long time ago too, but have not had any luck getting TPTB at WordPress to notice it. I think even Syahir mentioned it to them a while ago and nothing.

You’re right — it’s extremely frustrating. I’ll try contacting them again.

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In reply to: Custom CSS Problem

#25256

Nope–every time I do something with one of my blogs, I check it in all major browsers and it looks fine. Then I check it in IE and it looks okay. I’ve never had any complaints that people can’t access my site.

nice blog, btw

Thanks! It’s a result of hours of hard work and plenty of help from the folks on this forum, and especially from Syahir for developing such a great theme.

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In reply to: wrong action hook action :)

#24876

Try disabling your plugins temporarily and seeing if they magically appear. I still see them on my side–so it’s weird that you don’t. Scratching my head to the point of baldness on this one, but I’m pretty sure it’s something simple.

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In reply to: Custom CSS Problem

#25254

Property -webkit-box-shadow doesn’t exist : 0 0 10px #000

-webkit-box-shadow is CSS3, not CSS2.

This is from Syahir’s post about Graphene:

Note that due to the usage of a few bits of CSS3 in a CSS2.1 stylesheet, validating the CSS will yield a few errors.

(You can read the entire bit here: http://www.khairul-syahir.com/wordpress-dev/graphene-theme)

Doesn’t it create two different properties for the page elements?

CSS stands for cascading style sheet. You can redefine an element as many times as you wish with css, and it is the last one that will take precedence. For example:

p {color:blue;}

p {color:red;}

p {color:yellow;}

will make your text yellow, because that is the last color you defined for your paragraphs.

The CSS specifications do this to avoid conflicts if things should be defined more than once. Whatever is last is what will go.

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In reply to: show category meta under page title after log out.

#25227

Try temporarily disabling your plugins and see if they appear.

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In reply to: Duplicate name in feedburner

#25209

Looks okay to me.

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In reply to: Error pages

#25245

It could have been some sort of server update done by your host. This is one of the sources of downtime. If your host has some sort of blog or mailing list where they can update you of these things (and they really should), check to see if it’s mentioned there.

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In reply to: Slider Stopped working

#25264

Moved to Support.