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Customize theme installation

Posted by Shawn M. (he/him/his) on October 26, 2010 at 9:46 am

Hello everyone:

I need to get under the hood of a WP theme I activated for a group blog. Is it possible to do this? I don’t see the area where you can normally access php/header/footer files in the dashboard.

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Rowena Li

Member
January 2, 2011 at 1:23 pm

Hi Scott,
Thanks. I can alight right, but I cannot float right. I would like my writing to fill on the left, while the pic is on the right. Check my Contact page at http://gslis751.commons.gc.cuny.edu. Thanks.

Scott Voth (he/him)

Member
January 2, 2011 at 2:45 pm

Hi – I was able to wrap the text around an image by clicking on HTML in the edit screen and adding

and

around each of the first four or five lines: see my test blog: http://svsandbox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/contact/

I have attached the HTML that I used
Scott Voth (he/him)

Member
January 2, 2011 at 2:49 pm
You could play around with other html tags – like unordered list –
and add list items
…

if you don’t want the extra lines in between the items.

Scott Voth (he/him)

Member

January 2, 2011 at 2:53 pm

oops – looks like the tags got stripped out – they are ul and li, surrounded by greater than and lesser than signs

Rowena Li

Member

January 2, 2011 at 9:29 pm

Thanks, Scott. I finally figured it out. Because I do not like it to be a list, so if I put the lines into paragraphs, they skip lines (like you did in the sandbox), so I put them into div s and defined padding-left. Here is the codex – I did a screenshot. But I still think this is a bug for this theme, because I put them between p with greater than and lesser than signs, and they worked fine in another theme. Thanks.

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Arne Christensen

Member

September 11, 2011 at 9:54 am

I’m putting together a simple web page to serve as a schedule of speakers for a seminar series. This page will get updated each semester to reflect the new seminar series. I’m using the Atahualpa theme, because it seems pretty flexible and I need to strip most of the bells and whistles. I’d like to have a right hand panel which includes an archive of past speakers and a few links, but I’m having trouble tailoring it the way I’d like, does anyone know how to remove the “New Posts” header? It isn’t appropriate for this relatively static page.

http://nsssyork.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

TLDR: How do I remove the New Posts header in the right-hand panel of the Atahualpa theme?

Scott Voth (he/him)

Member

September 11, 2011 at 10:36 am

Hi Arne – Do you mean “Recent Posts”? (these can be controlled in the Widget area). But I clicked on your link but didn’t see the “New Posts”. Also could be because you are the admin for the site, and can add New Posts (and I can’t – so it is not visible). You could log out and then come back in and see if it disappears. Maybe you can provide a screen shot of what you are seeing?

Arne Christensen

Member

September 11, 2011 at 11:57 am

Hi Scott,

Thank you for your reply. I had totally removed the right panel, which is why you didn’t see “Recent Posts”. I’ve added the right panel again. “Recent posts” is still there when I log off. ScreenShot2.

I’ve checked out the widgets, and the right panels do not have any widgets loaded. See ScreenShot1.

I’d like to remove “Recent Posts” but keep “York College Links”.

Thank you for your input.

Arne

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Matthew K. Gold (he/him)

Participant

September 11, 2011 at 12:03 pm

Hi Arne,

Since, as admin on the site, I have admin privileges on all blogs, I took the liberty of looking at your dashboard and fixing the problem. As shown in the screenshot you took, you had the “Links” widget in the “Left Sidebar” area rather than the “Right Sidebar” area, where you wanted it to appear. Moving “Links” to the right sidebar area fixed the problem; when I look at the blog now, all I see are the York College links.

Please let us know whether we can help you in any other way!!

Best,

Matt

Scott Voth (he/him)

Member

September 11, 2011 at 12:48 pm

Thanks Matt!

Arne Christensen

Member

September 17, 2011 at 6:17 pm

Question 1.

Am I posting requests for assistance in the right place?