Art of Blog

everything you need to know about running a successful Wordpress blog

1. Ben 1.22.08 / 6pm

   Thanks for your theme! I’m using it on my blog http://www.dailycommonsense.com and it really look awesome! I’ve searched a lot for a clean and simple WP theme and it’s by far the best I’ve found. Good job.
2. Sun Tzu 1.22.08 / 6pm

   Thanks, Ben. Glad you like it.
3. rap poulin 2.8.08 / 4am

   Hello - very nice and neat theme. One question so far: how to put some marging or padding around images aligned to left or right? Thank.
4. Sun Tzu 2.8.08 / 11am

   To pad the images you can go into code view and put in the following code within the img tag:

   for left aligned images:
   style=”padding:0 10px 10px 0;border:0″

   for right aligned images:
   style=”padding: 0 0 10px 10px;border:0″

   That’s one way to add padding
5. Frank 2.11.08 / 5pm

   After running a very slow template for a while, I decided to go on the hunt for a fast, clean, SEO, and easily customizable template that I could use.

   After sifting through a bunch of rubbish, I’m convinced this one is by far the best! I’m yet to have a good go at playing with it, but have loaded it and love it. The coding is stripped right back to the bare essentials meaning it’s going to clearly be a breeze to play with.

   Thanks for your efforts and this offering to the world of blogging. I appreciate it.
6. jeff 3.25.08 / 1pm

   LOVE the simple layout, thanks. How do you get the SUBSCRIBe widget to appear? I don’t see it listed, please advise. thx, Jeff
7. Sun Tzu 3.25.08 / 1pm

   The Subscribe block is there if you don’t have widgets in your sidebar, but disappears if you don’t (in case people don’t want it there). You can grab the code from the sidebar file and place it in a text widget manually.
8. jeff 3.26.08 / 10am

   Thanks Sun Tzu, much appreciated. One last question:

   On my Categories page:

   http://www.tinylyons.com/category/news/

   the teaser text shows up first, followed by the entire post. I just want the teaser text (like a normal wordpress presentation), not the entire post.

   How do I fix that? Again, I love this theme. Thanks!
9. Sun Tzu 3.26.08 / 2pm

   @Jeff: Thanks for the heads up. I fixed it in the version and updated the download.

   To fix it on your end, go to archive.php and delete line 31 or line 33 - either of these 2:

   < ?php the_excerpt() ?>

   < ?php the_content("» Continue reading " . the_title('"','"',false), 0); ?>

   If you delete the first one (excerpt), your “more” tag will cut off the post (if you use more tags in your posts). If you delete the 2nd one (content), your excerpts will show.
10. jeff lyons 3.26.08 / 2pm

    Thanks Sun Tzu, worked like a charm.

    Last question… each excerpt ends with […]. Is there any way to make this a link to the full post or replace with READ MORE>

    I ask this because I do a lot of usability work, and a good majority of new wordpress users don’t realize they have to click on the top header Post Link to read the whole story. Some think the except is the whole story.

    Especially for this style where the Header Post is not underlined as a link… the user should really have somewhere to click to proceed.

    Again, thanks for your help!
11. Sun Tzu 3.26.08 / 4pm

    find this line “And add a line similar to the following underneath that line” on this post:

    http://blog.websitestyle.com/index.php/2008/02/29/using-wordpress-excerpts/
    it gives you the code to add a read more line in your template
12. Jesper Hultqvist 5.2.08 / 6pm

    Great looking theme! One question though. Is is just on my computer the left column pushes the right column out of whack and in below the left column?

    Jes
13. Sun Tzu 5.2.08 / 6pm

    Add clear:left; to the main ID in your CSS file.

    Replace it with:
    #main {margin : 0 auto;padding:10px 0px 0px 0px;clear:left;}

    I might add this to the official theme release since others might run into the same problem.
14. Hussein 5.17.08 / 9am

    Such a great theme. I’ll use it now in my blog. Hope will not get some error since i’m using wp2.5
15. Sun Tzu 5.17.08 / 10pm

    Thanks Hussein, glad you like it. I’ve tested it with WP 2.5 and it works just as well as with previous versions.
16. Hussein 5.18.08 / 2am

    Take a look at my blog.. The theme is now up with my blog.. Thanks for giving this cool theme. I really love it..
17. Jesper 7.28.08 / 10am

    Hi again! It seems the theme is not validating. Go to a specific post page and let W3C validate it. Your demo and my site both get “ID “respond” already defined.” Is this something you can fix?

    Regards
    Jesper
18. Gary 7.28.08 / 8pm

    Hello,
    I’m trying out your theme and it is fast. I am wondering if I can make the header’s length shorter and how would I change the globe that appears in a browser tab?

    The globe is very cool but the pic I have is more with my theme of the site.

    Thanks,
    Gary
19. Gary 7.28.08 / 9pm

    After looking at the code more I think my question is how does one make the blue horizontal navigation bar shorter in length or be able to bring the right column up higher in the fold.

    Thanks,
    Gary
20. Gary 7.31.08 / 9am

    Hello,
    Is there a way to keep the page info from showing in the top blue bar? Or a way to make the blue bar smaller in length?

    Thanks,
    Gary
21. Gary 7.31.08 / 9am

    Sorry, I just noticed that my other questions were still awaiting moderation. I figured out how to change the globe.
    But still interested in the other questions. I was playing with the css and header files to get it to do what I want. I was able to shorten the length in the blue bar but it added a lot to the file size.

    I love the way you streamlined these files, it’s a work of art.

    Gary
22. pfctdayelise 8.8.08 / 6am

    This is a nice theme indeed. My dad chose it and I did a bit of tweaking for him on his new travel blog.

    The CSS file could do with some newlines though. I also added this (adjusted from the edit side of Wordpress) to make the image frames and captions look the same in preview as when published:

    .wp-caption {
    border: 1px solid #ddd;
    text-align: center;
    background-color: #f3f3f3;
    padding-top: 4px;
    margin: 10px;
    -moz-border-radius: 3px;
    -khtml-border-radius: 3px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
    border-radius: 3px;
    }

    .wp-caption img {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    border: 0 none;
    }

    .wp-caption-text {
    font-size: 11px;
    line-height: 17px;
    padding: 0 4px 5px;
    margin: 0;
    }
23. Richard.H 8.10.08 / 7am

    Just upgraded my blog and using your theme now. Very nice, good work!
24. Laurence James 9.12.08 / 1pm

    Hi There

    Brilliant clean and crisp theme. I’ve just got one question please:

    How would I put a banner image right across the top, under the blue horizontal menu (where the globe is and blog name/tagline). I know which code to delete so the blog name doesn’t show in the header, but I want to replace this and the globe with a banner image. I’ve succeeded in putting one in, but it’s mispositioned to the right too far by about 20 pixels. I want it to sit right across the 860 pixel width snugly. I can’t code the CSS to make this happen. it keeps pushing it out to the right.

    I hope this makes sense, it’s a great theme and I’d appreciate your help. Thanks!
25. Sun Tzu 9.13.08 / 2pm

    @Laurence. Emailed you. Change the #logo div to have 0 padding.
26. Afraz 9.20.08 / 7am

    I have sought many themes that I could customize. I could find none till I came across this one. Its truly been a dream to be able to finally customize a theme to my liking. I have done extensive rehashing to make it look different. Truly a great theme for beginners to work with!

    http://www.shorebound.net
27. nad775 9.27.08 / 2am

    How can i replace the globe, blog name & tagline with my own banner image? I don’t know html, php & css.

    Please email me as soon as possible. Thank you very much for a wonderful theme.
28. Sun Tzu 9.29.08 / 9am

    @nad775: replace the contents of div=”logo” in the header.php file with your image (just make sure it’s wide enough) and take out div=”slogan” and its contents altogether.
29. Bob 10.18.08 / 6pm

    Great theme. How do I change the font size of the titles of the widgets in the sidebar?
30. Sun Tzu 10.19.08 / 7pm

    @Bob: in CSS file, for #sidebar h2 add the font-size attribute.
    example:

    #sidebar h2 { whatever is there ; font-size:10px;}
31. Bob 10.20.08 / 7pm

    perfect, thanks!
32. Bob 10.20.08 / 8pm

    Sorry, one more - how do I move the date so that it is up with the title of an entry, rather than at the end of an entry?
33. Sun Tzu 10.21.08 / 1pm

    @Bob: swap class=”postfeedback” and its contents with the class=”postentry” div and its contents in the main index template.
34. Isti 11.6.08 / 1am

    Thanx for the nice theme mate. I will use it in some of my blogs.

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