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Christopher Price
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23rd November 2010 (1 year ago)
I have a client who chose to use the "Nature by WebDesignLessons.com" theme and she is having trouble (so *I* am having trouble) with the menus displaying oddly on http://bananasdaily.com.
She wants to use a static home page, and when she does it displays "Home" *and* the name of the page that "Home" directs to. In this case, "Bananas Daily Home".
You need to create menus in dashboard.
Click on “Menus” under “Appearance” and setup the menu.
Once you do that, it will work.
Now, I have wordpress v3.0.1 and the Menus menu (heh) informs:
The current theme does not natively support menus, but you can use the “Custom Menu” widget to add any menus you create here to the theme’s sidebar.
The author's page claims the theme is compatible up to wordpress 2.8, but I believe the good folks at wpmudev.org claim 3.0.1 compatibility. So, I need some assistance with getting the menus for this theme to work properly.
I have a client who chose to use the "Nature by WebDesignLessons.com" theme and she is having trouble (so *I* am having trouble) with the menus displaying oddly on http://bananasdaily.com.
She wants to use a static home page, and when she does it displays "Home" *and* the name of the page that "Home" directs to. In this case, "Bananas Daily Home".
You need to create menus in dashboard.
Click on “Menus” under “Appearance” and setup the menu.
Once you do that, it will work.
Now, I have wordpress v3.0.1 and the Menus menu (heh) informs:
The current theme does not natively support menus, but you can use the “Custom Menu” widget to add any menus you create here to the theme’s sidebar.
The author's page claims the theme is compatible up to wordpress 2.8, but I believe the good folks at wpmudev.org claim 3.0.1 compatibility. So, I need some assistance with getting the menus for this theme to work properly.
* Submenus underlap (is that a word?) main menu items so that the submenu item *under* the second row of menu items can't be seen.
* The footer is not visible in Safari or Firefox on Mac at least.
- I don't know if this is related but I use a FaceBook "Like" plugin that works like this: If a guest "likes" the post (rather than commenting) it will post a backlink on the guest's FB wall and then add the guest' avatar to the post. This plugin has worked perfectly for all other blogs, but on this blog, instead of posting the title of the post on the guest's wall, it posts the content of the blog's footer?! I know you can't support the plugin, but it may be a clue as to why the footer is not visible.
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@Christopher: Hi there whilst we can only advise on a theme that is not ours my advice would generally be don't even use it if not updated to the latest WordPress. Why aside from cosmetic reasons? An unsupported theme basically could have security risks and be using code that will clash or cause issues aside from the visual issues. I would therefore ill advise even using this theme until they update it. That said you will need to investigate such things as drop downs:
As for the footer not visible and other bits this probably is due to them not even testing properly in browsers. If they aren't updated then they won't be testing in latest browsers either. Fixing that could be a small or massive task but will require firebug and a lot of analysis.
Hi there whilst we can only advise on a theme that is not ours my advice would generally be don't even use it if not updated to the latest WordPress...
That's the thing. This theme is part of the 133 Theme Pack. wpmudev does support the themes in there, don't they?
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@Christopher: Farm pack has been updated to at least 2.9 I think so that's already covered - sorry didn't know you got from there .. hard to keep track of all. What I'll do as I know Richie was updating that pack, I will tag him and get him to comment on your 3.0 updates.
It is definitely works way better now, thanks Richie!
Two niggling things for the next version:
* RSS graphic is slightly out of line
* In the footer, part of "hosted by" is obscured by the same background color.
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Member — 23rd November 2010 (1 year ago) #
I should add something about other issues.
* Submenus underlap (is that a word?) main menu items so that the submenu item *under* the second row of menu items can't be seen.
* The footer is not visible in Safari or Firefox on Mac at least.
- I don't know if this is related but I use a FaceBook "Like" plugin that works like this: If a guest "likes" the post (rather than commenting) it will post a backlink on the guest's FB wall and then add the guest' avatar to the post. This plugin has worked perfectly for all other blogs, but on this blog, instead of posting the title of the post on the guest's wall, it posts the content of the blog's footer?! I know you can't support the plugin, but it may be a clue as to why the footer is not visible.
Theme Designer — 23rd November 2010 (1 year ago) #
@Christopher: Hi there whilst we can only advise on a theme that is not ours my advice would generally be don't even use it if not updated to the latest WordPress. Why aside from cosmetic reasons? An unsupported theme basically could have security risks and be using code that will clash or cause issues aside from the visual issues. I would therefore ill advise even using this theme until they update it. That said you will need to investigate such things as drop downs:
http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/ : an easy option but you will still have to code.
As for the footer not visible and other bits this probably is due to them not even testing properly in browsers. If they aren't updated then they won't be testing in latest browsers either. Fixing that could be a small or massive task but will require firebug and a lot of analysis.
Member — 23rd November 2010 (1 year ago) #
That's the thing. This theme is part of the 133 Theme Pack. wpmudev does support the themes in there, don't they?
Theme Designer — 23rd November 2010 (1 year ago) #
@Christopher: Farm pack has been updated to at least 2.9 I think so that's already covered - sorry didn't know you got from there .. hard to keep track of all. What I'll do as I know Richie was updating that pack, I will tag him and get him to comment on your 3.0 updates.
Member — 23rd November 2010 (1 year ago) #
Thanks, Tammie. FWIW, I have all the latest released plugins.
Member — 24th November 2010 (1 year ago) #
Any word?
Theme Designer — 24th November 2010 (1 year ago) #
Sorry did flag for Richie to take a look will try and get him to take a look again.
Founder & CEO — 24th November 2010 (1 year ago) #
Richie should be up and awake in ~4-5 hrs :)
Geeky Developer — 25th November 2010 (1 year ago) #
hi christoper
try replace the attach files with your current one.
- style.css
- header.php
- functions.php
- images/br_footer.png
the home link can be setup in the new wp menu system so your client can create 'home' link
which link to the static page.
cheers
Member — 29th November 2010 (1 year ago) #
It is definitely works way better now, thanks Richie!
Two niggling things for the next version:
* RSS graphic is slightly out of line
* In the footer, part of "hosted by" is obscured by the same background color.
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