TimeWaster’s Place

I really like the look of this theme but I immediately had a number of issues after installing. I am no Wordpress expert, but it appears to be extremely sensitive to widgets. Many of the widgets I attempt to add throw off the formatting of the sidebar. What’s up with that?

hm… i only tested it with the standard widgets available from the standard wordpress installation. they’ll do fine.

can you send me a screenshot to sebi at timewaster dot de? i’ll take a look then, maybe i can guess what’s the issue.

ok, i debugged the code and found the error:
the search widget has no title, instead it is including the standard search form.

to fix this issue, i have to hack a wordpress function (which originally causses the error), which takes time. i think in one or two days i’ll do a bugfix release, so stay tuned.

nice and clean theme!

@virtualbeggar:
The bug is fixed, please note the release notes at the end of this article and download the fixed version v1.1.

@Bas:
Thank you very much!

Yes, it’s realy “too cool for IE”… but 70% users use IE :’(
Very nice theme, thanx!

This theme is very nice. I like it very much. But, although I hate IE, there are a lot of people using it. So I have to quit these theme
I saw, that you are using quite advances CSS features. I thought of making compromise, if the bug on IE with the round corners at the top of the post didn’t exist, so it is ugly but still readable.

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Nicest template I have seen in awhile. But then I found this page, and read that it does not look good in explorer 6.0 and older. I have a laptop with 6.0. It doesn’t just look bad, it barely displays. There is no title, or title tag, no color. It looks great on my desktop with IE 7.0. Too bad, because I really liked it. Can’t it be fixed, because using it for a business site is out of the question if it won’t diplay 6.0 properly.
Thanks Glenn

Hello,

I like your theme and am using it. I tried to use the wordpress ’simple sticky’ plugin and it changed all the permissions on my server in all the files on that domain.
Image files, text files, and all the folders had to be manually reconfigured to the proper permissions. I eventually had to de-activate the plugin.
However, I am still using the theme and have replaced the header with one of my own. I would like to know how to make it link back to the blog home page. I am not a coder and don’t want to spend hours trying to make a simple fix.

Thanks,
BW

that’s simple.

go to your theme editor into the head.php file and replace the line:

<div id="head">

with this line:

<div id="head" onclick="location='<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>'" style="cursor:pointer;">

that’s it.

hi there,
i really like your theme. i’d like to change all of the white to another color, but cant find where to do that. can you help me?

thanks!

Is there a simple way to change from rounded to square corners throughout the theme?

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I love this theme and don’t have a problem with IE 6 issues. However, I just noticed that in IE 7 the categories, archives, pages, recent posts and blogroll do not display the list of items with >> like it does in Firefox. Is there a fix for this? Also, I want to be able to just show the parent category, but it shows all of them parent & child for both browsers so you can’t identify where the parent category is.

@Jeff: you’ve had to change all the pictures in the theme, which is, without the original (layered and masked) files, nearly impossible. so i have to say no.

@Dana: the same applies to your request.

@Lady D: you’re right, MSIE 7 isn’t capable of handling the :before and :after pseudo elements of css 2. in MSIE 8 (which was released some weeks ago) this is working.
in general i have to say that wordpress is VERY complicated to handle in the making of a theme, many html blocks are included in the php files itself, which makes it impossible to control the whole html code. due to this issue i had to trick around with css elements to get the look you see here.
there is no fix for this.
about the categories: i think this is a wordpress issue, a theme is only a set of html files and does not controll any behaviour of wordpress itself.

Is there any way to add a second sidebar on the left. I have tried doing it using the link that the wordpress support forum provides but it hasn’t worked yet. Is it even possible?

Also, you made making the header image a link so much easier than what I’ve been reading on other threads. They were saying that I had to change the index.php so that it’s not a background anymore, and then align the image, and then make it a link.

Thanks!

i don’t know a way to use 2 bars with wordpress, maybe this is a new feature?
anyway, my theme does not support this. sorry.

about the header link: thanx! :o)

Ok, not a problem. Is there a way to exapnd the content section and make it a little wider?

well, if you know how to use photoshop or a similar program (which can handle 8-bit transparency masks) you could make all the images a bit wider, and then adjust the css file to match that size.

Haha Okay, it’ll probably take another day of googling, but it’s worked so far. I didn’t even know what CSS was 2 weeks ago and now I’m getting a good feel. Thanks

Does this theme support threaded comments? If so, how can I make them work?

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New to Wordpress…How do I remove some of the items in the Blogroll and the Meta

I’d like to move the sidebar to the left. You say above:

To switch the menu to the left side, edit this file at the end (there will be more instructions there): /yast/style.css

But I can’t find instructions. Could you provide the exact code changes needed?

I successfully followed your instructions for switching the menu to the left side, but the sidebar is still on the right side. Is the sidebar different than menu?

These are the instructions I found:

/* Remove this comment (not the code) if you wish the menu to be on the left side
#content{float:right; margin:113px 24px -9px 0px;}
#sidebar{margin:113px 0px -9px 24px;}

I removed the line that starts with “Remove this comment..” but the sidebar (menu) is still on the right side. What am I doing wrong?

change this code:

/* Remove this comment (not the code) if you wish the menu to be on the left side
	#content{float:right; margin:113px 24px -9px 0px;}
	#sidebar{margin:113px 0px -9px 24px;}
*/

to this:

	#content{float:right; margin:113px 24px -9px 0px;}
	#sidebar{margin:113px 0px -9px 24px;}

caution: the “*/” at the end is also to be removed.

tested it again on opera, firefox and msie and worked perfectly.

Still didn’t work. This is what I have at the end of the style.css file and the menu is still on the right side:

CONFIGURE YOUR COLORS HERE: */

#head .m h1 a, #head .m div{color:#fff;} /* head area text color */
#sidebar > ul > li{background-color:#e6eaf2;} /* menu background color */
.news{background-color:#dae2f2;} /* post background color */
.nav .left a, .nav .right a{background-color:#dae2f2;} /* previous-next navigation buttons background color */

#content{float:right; margin:113px 24px -9px 0px;}
#sidebar{margin:113px 0px -9px 24px;}

I see the problem — it doesn’t work in Safari. Too bad, that’s my preferred browser. Guess I’ll have to work in Firefox. Thanks for your help! Bruce

Just checked it in Safari and now it works! Go figure. Anyway, problem solved. Thanks again.

Does YAST allow one to post a YouTube video within a message, or can you only post a link?

Hello,
I would like to change the font and size of texts in the side menus. How can I do this ?

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