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In reply to: How to remove a page from being shown in search results.

#22275

You can always use a robots file, but remember that you have no control over what pages a search engine decides to list. So it may not work for all search engines.

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In reply to: Remove page title from header nav but keep in sidebar

#19770

I wouldn’t do any of that. You don’t need a plugin (which risks a plugin conflict), and you definitely don’t want to edit core files.

Instead, just use a custom menu. It’s easy (and fun!). Use one for the header navigation and another for the sidebar. Here’s a tutorial: http://blog.kjodle.net/2011/08/25/how-to-create-and-use-custom-menus-in-wordpress/

As far as I know, you can have as many custom menus as you want.

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In reply to: How to change the text in the "Read full article" button

#22273

Yes, you need to use a child theme, which you need to set up first. But it’s easy.

Try this post: https://forum.graphene-theme.com/graphene-support/wanna-modify-view-full-post#post-10320

or this one: https://forum.graphene-theme.com/graphene-support/more-tag/page/2#post-14148

One of those should work for you. If not, let us know or look around in this forum as this has been discussed quite a few times. Those are just two of the most recent examples.

For child themes, see my links here:

https://forum.graphene-theme.com/graphene-support/resize-header-image-to-height-120px#post-14255

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In reply to: Add template to theme

#22272

You can always try using Kalin’s Post List Plugin: http://blog.kjodle.net/2011/10/30/kalins-post-list-a-brief-tutorial/

I love it, and am gradually using it to replace all of my category archives.

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In reply to: Slider won't dislay image +

#22264

Any idea why the images wont show?

Possibly because they are png instead of jpg?

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In reply to: Styling the Main Navigation Menu

#22221

Wow! I’m suffering from menu envy now. I love the fact that the text also changes color in the hover state. Well done!

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In reply to: How to link to different positions within a page?

#22257

The short answer is yes, you can. The long answer is that you will need to use the HTML editor. Surround the text you want to link to with anchor name tags, like this:

<a name="link1">Paper that I'm linking to</a>

(This will appear as normal text.)

To link to that location, you’ll need to use a link like this:

<a href="http://www.example.com/index.html#link1">Read this paper</a>

You can read this page for more information:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_name.asp

and this one:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp

Like I said, you’ll need to use the HTML editor, which I don’t often use, so this is untested. YMMV.

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In reply to: Styling the Main Navigation Menu

#22218

Well, using a transparent png could eliminate a lot of that.

Set the color of each item using regular background:#123456

Then create two png images, each one pixel wide and however many pixels high your menus are. Create a transparent gradient on each one. The only difference would be that one would be your normal state and the other would be your hover state.

Then add background: url('path to these images') all at one go all of your menu items. Then you would only need one line to define the gradient for all of your images in the normal state and one line to define the gradient for all of your images in the hover state.

Of course, this assumes that you want to use the same type of gradient (say transparent to trasparent black, grey, white, or whatever) for all menu items. But even if you didn’t, you could still create two separate gradient images for each color. That would still reduce your css load. And a transparent png image that’s only 1px wide and maybe 20 or 25 pixels high should still come in around 100-150 bytes. If you use caching, that’s not too great a demand on the server, I think.

I’m not sure if my thinking here makes sense. Basically you are swapping out a fair amount of time in Photoshop for a fair amount of time writing code. Let me know what you think.

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In reply to: resize header image to height 120px?

#22251

You can do this, but you will need to create a child theme first.

In your child theme’s style sheet, add:

#header {height:120px;}

and in your child theme’s functions file, add:

/* Modify the height of the header image */

function graphene_modify_header_height(){

return 120;

}

add_filter('graphene_header_image_height', 'graphene_modify_header_height');

How to create a child theme:

https://forum.graphene-theme.com/graphene-support/how-to-modify-the-theme-using-a-child-theme

and in the theme’s wiki:

http://wiki.khairul-syahir.com/graphene-theme/wiki/Customisation_using_a_child_theme

And Josh’s excellent video tutorial:

http://www.joshlobe.com/2011/10/video-tutorial-creating-a-child-theme-in-wordpress/

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In reply to: Widening of the Page

#22249

Do you mean getting rid of the black background? Just go to Appearance >> Background and upload a new background image there.

If you mean making the content stretch all the way across the page, I recommend against it, because it makes it very hard to read on wide monitors.