Comments on: Cool Blue – Free WordPress Theme

By: Mathias San Miguel

Mathias San Miguel — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 05:26:57 +0000

Hey really nice theme, i used it on my blog (spanish), but i have a little question, how can i change the header background, the css dont semms to have effects dont know it is because the absolute position, can somebody help me out?

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:15:02 +0000

Sorry, I forgot to say, the last screenshot is from your demo.

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:14:07 +0000

No mate, that did not work.

It seems to be the width of the form when I click the reply to a thread link. It pushes out and causes the h4 to move up and the form cut’s off.

I am using a Mac and the same happens in Firefox, Safari and Chrome?

Screenshot

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:10:14 +0000

No mate. That CSS has no effect. Something to do with the width of the form or something like that and it is pushing the h4 up and cutting off the form. I took a shot of your demo theme. I am on a Mac and the same happens in Firefox, Safari and Chrome???? Screenshot

By: Leland

Leland — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:58:47 +0000

Hi Shane, strange I’m not able to reproduce it on my demo site. Are you sure you didn’t touch anything that would affect any h4 tags?

Try adding this line of CSS for diagnostic purposes, it looks like the h4 in the “respond” div isn’t clearing properly.

#respond h4 { clear: both !important; }

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:41:53 +0000

Hi Leland. Great port, thanks. I have customized the theme nicely.
One small problem I have found.
I have not touched the comment form CSS yet, indeed the same problem occurs on your demo.

See annotated Image here

I will prob work it out myself but just so you can correct it or any theme users can correct it.

Thanks for your work man.

By: Danny Douglass

Danny Douglass — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:06:12 +0000

Sorry to be leaving a slew of comments, but after a little reading I realize that I don’t have to ability to select a page template on the “Add Page” screen b/c the Page Templates didn’t contain the necessary header information that assign a name to the template:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates

After adding in those five lines it is working! Thanks again.

By: Danny Douglass

Danny Douglass — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:49:14 +0000

Oops, can’t include that server side logic…here’s what I meant to add:

php if(is_null($showSidebar) || $showSidebar == true) get_sidebar();

By: Danny Douglass

Danny Douglass — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:48:29 +0000

I’m looking over those instructions now – thanks for the help.

Out of curiosity (from a WP beginner), would it be cleaner to maintain one template and add logic to check for a page-level variable indicating that the sidebar should be hidden? For example (syntax may be wrong, but you can get the idea)…

By: Leland

Leland — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:02:07 +0000

Danny, you might want to look into creating a page template. More info is here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates

I’d suggest copying page.php and removing the get_sidebar tag as a start.