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How do I get my slider to look like this? http://carringtonwholesale.com/ In essence, only 735 pixels wide with a space for a widget/graphic/whatever to the right of it?
Hello gdavidt,
Actually that site is customized to show a widget area on the right side of Slider. I have those changes which I created for the buyer in Feb. right now, I can not provide any personal customization, but I can send those same updates to you (along with instructions). May be you can implement it in your own ways. For that you can drop me a mail at xconsau[at]gmail[dot]com.
Regards
Hi!
On the ‘blog’-page, I would like to remove the ‘Author’-link and the ‘Categories’-link that show up as small icons on every blog post.
How do I do that?
Regards
Hello Albertov,
Inside style.css file, place the following rule at the end:
span.author, span.cats { display:none }
For your reference, these are generated inside functions.php, at around line no. 296:
function cruz_posted_in() { ... }
Author and category link can be edited inside this function too. But I’d recommend using the CSS option.
Regards
Hey – just an update. Fixed this. My error.
Thanks again!
Hello dpipitone,
No problem. I’m glad you fixed it. While using a Child theme, paths to images and CSS may need relative reference using ../
Regards
Sorry – correction, I got the permissions wrong, so it is now seeing the css, but the navigation menu is not showing the nav items.
Any advice would be great. Sorry – I am a child theme newbie.
Sorry, one more thing – i created a child theme and used:
@import url(”../cruz/style.css”);
but it doesn’t seem to see it. Is my path incorrect?
Thanks!
Will I have luck using a child theme so I can safely make changes that I am sure will remain if you release an update?
Daniel
Hello Daniel,
Yes you can use a Child theme.
If you are going to change only the CSS , you can include a user.css file inside header.php and customize this CSS file. This will override default styles, and you can always keep a backup of this file.
Regards
Hi there. Thanks for the great theme.
I am having a problem with the header widget. When I add a the “Cruz Social Icons” widget in the default header widget area and all it displays are plain bullets.
Any advice on fixing that?
Thanks again
Daniel
Hello Daniel,
Open style.css file, and look for the following code inside section 9. Secondary:
.sidebar ul.social, .secondary ul.social { ... }
.sidebar ul.social li, .secondary ul.social li { ... }
.sidebar ul.social li a, .secondary ul.social li a { ... }
Change the selector name to the ones, as shown below:
ul.social { ... }
ul.social li { ... }
ul.social li a { ... }
i.e. remove sidebar and secondary specific class names. Only ul.social will work globally.
Regards
Hello Saurabh,
I have a question regarding the “Recent Posts” widget. I would like to add an excerpt of the post to it (with a certain max. chars) – but i’m having a hard time figuring out how.
I did get the excerpt with the get_the_excerpt syntax. But I can’t figure out how to actually limit the amount of characters.
Any idea how I’d best proceed?
Kindest Regards,
Hello JanVan,
Thanks for trying on this. I hope you are editing the includes/recent_posts_widget.php file. You can limit the excerpt length using a built in function, as shown below:
$my_excerpt = short(get_the_excerpt(), 100);
The short() function can be used to limit the characters. You can change 100 to any other value. Finally, you will need to echo or print the value of $my_excerpt. I hope that will help.
Regards
Hi Saurabh!
Is it possible to adjust the blog-post layout somehow?
I am using the 4-column portfolio page on my website. As designed the portfolio is populated by a special category of blog-posts. Today each picture in the portfolio is linked to a blog-post. What I would like to do is that each ‘picture’ in the portfolio links to a gallery of around 20 images. As the layout of the blog-post is not suitable for a gallery of 20 images I wonder how I can change the blog post layout to a full -width layout without any sidebars (same as for regular pages) (Is it also possible to change the blog-post layout only for a certain category of blog-posts?). Or if I can link the images on the portfolio-page to another page that I specify instead of the blog-post (the reason for this is that I can anticipate that I still want to keep the regular blog-post layout for blog post of other categories) Any help appreciated and thanks for a fantastic theme
Hello albertov,
Changing the single post layout may affect other posts. However, I can change the portfolio template code to link to custom pages. Kindly send me your portfolio php file at xconsau[at]gmail[dot]com. If you are using 4 columnar, it will be port4.php file.
Regards
Hi Saurabh,
How I can add good looking breadcrumbs? You can see my site at www.piyanosanati.com this address.
Thanks!
Hello there,
You can use any popular Breadcrumbs plugin like NavXT or search for some more good ones. 
Regards
Hello again Saurabh,
Please check my site (www.energylab.gr) just above the footer and help me solve the spam content that is displayed in every page. I have the latest wordpress version and I cannot see anything in my rich text editor in wordpress. The site is in Greek language, but if you check every page, you can see spam content in english language.
Thanks in advance.
Regards, Dimitris
Hello Dimitris,
I hope you are not using the old version of timthumb. (The vulnerable one). If so, I’d recommend updating timthumb.php to the latest version.
After downloading this file, follow these steps:
1. Delete the old scripts/cache folder.
2. Replace timthumb.php with the latest one.
3. Create a new cache folder inside scripts, and provide 777 permission to it.
I hope that will solve the issue.
Regards
Hi again! Is there any way to remove the secondary area on just ‘one’ page. I have a portfolio page with a flash component which fills up the whole primary area with a picture. I remove all excessive margin on left, right and top by using embed it in the following div: div style=”position: relative; left: -30px; top: -30px;
But i have not managed to remove the bottom, secondary area.
Regards
Hello Albertov,
Open/edit that page in WordPress. Next, scroll down to the page options panel, and enable the checkbox “Create an exclusive secondary area”. This will register exclusive secondary widget areas for this page. Next, DO NOT use any widgets in this area. The secondary section will not show because the widget areas are not active.
Regards
Hi again!
Is there any way to remove the secondary area on just ‘one’ page. I have a portfolio page with a flash component which fills up the whole primary area with a picture. I remove all excessive margin on left, right and top by using embed it in the following div:
But i have not managed to remove the bottom, secondary area.
Regards” />
Hi!
I have increased the left margin on a page by moving all text on that page 30 pix to the right by using the WordPress button “Indent”.
Now I would also like to move the Form on the ‘Contact’ page 30 px to the right. How can I do that?
Regards
Hello Albertov,
Open style.css file and add the following rule at the end of file:
.commentform { padding-left: 30px }
That will shift the form 30px to the right.
Regards
I’m back with another question. I’ve never used the content slider but it, and the mini slider don’t work for me. If I use the example text between brackets it simply displays the two lines of text without scrolling. The scroll arrows link to #. Any clues? Thanks!
Hello mate,
In both these widgets, make sure you provide a unique Slider ID. For example, my_content_slider, my_slider, mini_sl, etc.
In case of content slider, you will need to wrap each slide content within an li tag. If this doesn’t work, kindly send me your site URL so that I can look further.
Regards
Hi!
Thanks for a fantastic theme. What I wonder is how do I change the default font color to black from light grey?
Regards
Hello albertov,
The body font color is set inside style.css file, section 2. Typography:
body { ... color:#666 .. }
This can be changed to #000 for complete black. The heading colors are set inside the same section as:
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 { ... color:#333; ... }
You can change this as well.
Regards
Hello again Saurabh,
I’ve completed my site and want to thank you again for the theme. It works wonderful. One tiny minor issue (not really an issue) but just bugs me. In IE 7 -8 the header is taller than it should be….....not by much but I notice it. Doesn’t display that way in FF, Chrome and Safari…......just wanted to know if you had any ideas. URL is http://www.dci.edu
Hello mate,
Open css/ie.css file, and look for the following code:
.header_wrap { padding-bottom:23px }
Change this padding to the desired value. Since this CSS file is IE specific, you were seeing that extra 23px padding only in IE browser.
Regards
Hi! The home slider is not working for me and I don’t understand why. Can you help me? I can give you access if you let me know your IP
Thanks!
Hello jorlafer,
Kindly send me your site URL at xconsau[at]gmail[dot]com. I think there could be a permission issue with timthumb file and cache folder. I will tell more after looking at the URL . Meanwhile, you can also re-check if the CHMOD permissions are appropriate as described inside the documentation file.
scripts: 755
scripts/timthumb.php: 644
scripts/cache: 777
Regards
I just send you a mail with the access
Thanks!
Hi!
Hopefully a simple question.
Between the Navigation Menu and the slider pictures there is like a thin black line. How can I make that black line even more thinner, maybe looking like the line above the navigation menu
Regards
Hello albertov,
That line is a background image which is set inside style.css file’s section 3. STRUCTURE :
.utility_wrap { ... background:#333 url(images/nav_bg_overlay.png) 0px 1px repeat-x }
You can either remove this background image (images/nav_bg_overlay.png), or edit it inside the PhotoShop.
Regards
Disregard last post about Contact Form 7. Found out that it does inherit from your style sheet.
Hello Swoosh,
Thanks for figuring out.
Regarding the font tag, I just checked the site and it seems to have been fixed now.
Regards
