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You could use a plugin, but I think you’ll be better off in the long run by learning how to actually write and use the code for CPTs.
I’d start in the Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Post_Types
And then have a look at these:
http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2011/06/02/how-to-build-a-media-site-on-wordpress-part-1/
http://wplift.com/wordpress-custom-post-types-tutorials-tools-advice
John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google
It is possible – every widget is assigned a specific ID by WordPress which you can use in your CSS to customize that particular widget. Firebug will help you drill down to what that ID is.
John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google Are you using Jetpack for a comments plugin? Or something different?
John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google You’re welcome!
John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google We’re getting there…
Add !important to #header, so it looks like this:
#header {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #fff !important;
border: none;
width: 100%;
}Then, the logo isn’t showing up because of a strange character in the image URL. I’d recommend renaming that image file name without any special characters, and then using that in the following code. For example, a better file name would be xohawaii-logo.jpg
#header #title-area {
background: url(http://xohawaii.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/xohawaii-logo.jpg) no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
}
John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google Nick,
Amen to the community aspect – that’s what I appreciated about WooThemes’ forums at first, but then they disabled that so you could only comment on your own forum threads. Bad move in my opinion, but it did keep newbies from posting questions in other user’s threads. No perfect solution, I guess.
Do you think we can get RSS feeds turned on for the forums? I don’t mind helping out, but (I think) it would be easier for me to keep an eye on the forums if I could add them to my feedreader.
John
John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google I think you’d be better off pasting my code at the end/bottom of your style.css file because of how the CSS cascade works, at least for now, rather than replacing the default code.
John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google Kent,
Once you start using CPTs your WordPress possibility horizons will expand considerably – I highly recommend using them.
I’ve had good experiences with a plugin called Taxonomy Picker and using the provided widget in a sidebar. Here’s one example of that: http://aheartforjustice.com/organizations/ (it’s the “Search Organizations” widget)
When you create your CPT you’d need to create one or more taxonomies to go with it, and one taxonomy could be “name” or something similar, and then you’d add terms (just like tags or categories), with each term being a letter of the alphabet. From then on it’s dynamic and does the filtering for you, as long as you “tag” a post with the right term.
Once you wrap your brain around how CPTs, taxonomies, and page templates all work together, you can do all kinds of cool WordPress stuff.
John
John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google If I understand correctly what you’re asking, I think this is what you want to do:
#header {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #fff;
border: none;
width: 100%;
}
#header .wrap {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 960px;
}
#header #title-area {
background: url(http://xohawaii.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/xoHAWAi’i-Logo-465x110.jpg) no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
}And I’d keep a border under the subnav by adding this:
#subnav {
border-bottom: 1px solid #D5D5D5;
}
John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google I’m thinking that creating a custom post type called ‘player’ is going to be your best bet, and then use a page template(s) that queries that CPT.
Styling will be easier to figure out once you actually have some posts in place and then you can figure out the specific class or classes you need to use.
That’s an interesting use of WP-Table Reloaded on your Player Stats Archive. Are you going to manually link each one of those cells to the archive for that letter?
John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google I became a WooThemes customer almost two years ago, and a big reason for doing so was their excellent support forum. I learned a ton about WordPress, both on the design and development sides, by reading through the forums and occasionally asking a question when I couldn’t find an answer. Woo recently did away with their forum and switched to a ticket system, which was not well received by their more loyal and vocal clients. They’ve since backpedaled on that decision and are still trying to figure out what they’re doing and how they’re going to do it.
They also made some other big changes which caused me to look elsewhere for a more stable primary theme provider, and I rediscovered StudioPress / Genesis and decided that this was a framework and theme provider that I could build a better business on. Shortly after I switched the announcement came out about big support changes, and I thought, “Here we go again!”
Fortunately I’m on a part of the WordPress learning curve that isn’t so steep anymore, and I don’t rely on support as much as in the beginning, but if I was just getting started I would “probably” look for a provider that had an active support forum where I could search for solutions and not have to wait on a ticket system.
For what it’s worth…
John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google Hey Kent,
If you provide a link to the site, and the specific page, that will help us help you.
The post title style can be changed in your style.css file, but the order in which the posts appear is modified in your page template.
John
John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google The home page widget areas that come with the theme only work if the home page is not set to a static page. It’s somewhat counter-intuitive, but that’s the way the themes work.
John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google And personally, I’d add this to make the space around those social icons more proportional:
#subnav li.social-facebook a,
#subnav li.social-facebook a:hover,
#subnav li.social-rss a,
#subnav li.social-rss a:hover,
#subnav li.social-twitter a,
#subnav li.social-twitter a:hover {
margin: 5px 10px 0 0;
}and then change the padding in #subnav to
padding: 0 0 4px;
John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google Try this at the end of your style.css:
#subnav {
background-color: #fff;
padding: 0 0 8px;
width: 100%;
}
#subnav ul {
float: none;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 960px;
}You might want to play with the padding size in #subnav to get that lined up correctly.
John Sundberg | blackhillswebworks.com
A WordPress developer’s toolbox: Firebug | WordPress Codex | Google
