Comments on: New wordpress theme: Talian

By: isadub

isadub — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:45:24 +0000

Hi Kelly,
I’d never heard of the addthis plugin until you mentioned it. I used 6+ plugins with the Talian theme without any problem.

Sorry.

By: Kelly St. Germain

Kelly St. Germain — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:17:00 +0000

Hi there.
If you have a moment…
I added the addthis plugin to this theme. Worked great BUT…
it doesn’t work in my categories.
http://www.buildapipeline.com
any help is much appreciated!

By: isadub

isadub — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:00:28 +0000

Our posts crossed!! Thanks for visiting anyway.

BTW, your ‘about’ link at the top of your page is spelt ‘aboot’. I don’t know if it’s deliberate or a typo?

By: isadub

isadub — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:57:57 +0000

Hi Junior,
Thanks for commenting. First off, just let me warn you that I’m not a computer programmer and I didn’t design the theme. So if I break something, don’t sue me!! I just like pressing the shiny buttons on my computer and seeing what happens.

I will try to help as best I can. Can you give me an example on your website? I can use Firefox’s WedDav to try and fix it (no promises). It’s 9pm (2100 hrs) in my country and I’m travelling for the next few days.

So don’t hold your breath! But you did ask and I will try and help.

isadub

By: Junior

Junior — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:51:56 +0000

isadub – I figured it out, don’t waste your time trying to help me fix the problem. In addition to changing the font size to 12 px and the font style to italic, one needs to delete the “clear: both;” and “display: block;” command lines BUT NOT the commands relating to margins that follow thereafter. Problem solved.

By: Junior

Junior — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:33:17 +0000

isadub, thanks for suggesting ways to fix the italics bug in this theme (talian), which I otherwise quite like. One question, though: I deleted the display: block command (only) at first, with no success – I had to then go in and delete the following series of commands about top margins, etc to get the fix to work. Now, everything is fine so long as I don’t include italics in a paragraph that wraps around an image – if I DO include italics in such a paragraph, there is a break in the text (at the point where the italics occur) and then the text continues on beneath the photo. Have I taken out something I shouldn’t have?

By: isadub

isadub — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:20:40 +0000

@ Mary,
RE the italics, if you look at the em section in the css, you can change that to your heart’s content. I’m too lazy to do it, sorry.

I don’t know what you mean by sub-categories. Can you elaborate, please?

@ parmamagoo
There should be a div in the css called #put-image-here. If you want to remove it, just delete that div. Remember to backup before changing code!!

To put in a new photo, resize your photo to 480x120px and put it in blog’s images folder. Have a look at the put-image-here div for more info on how the pic is defined.

To rotate multiple photos, you could probably create a flash slideshow and replace the current pic with it. I don’t know if that’d work though?

Finally, backup backup backup before you change and code and don’t blame if it still goes wrong!!

By: parmamagoo

parmamagoo — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:43:48 +0000

I see you were able to take out the photo that comes with the theme. How do I update a new photo into the theme or be bale to rotate multiple photos? Thanks.

By: Mary Bowling

Mary Bowling — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:39:38 +0000

I, too, have had to avoid using italics with this theme, since it blows out the post. I’m not a coder, so I guess I’ll have to wait for someone a lot smarter than me to come up with the fix for this.

I’m also have problems with sub categories – they display as having no parent. Does anyone know how I can fix this? Thanks in advance.

By: C. Dickson

C. Dickson — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:59:34 +0000

It worked beautifully! Very nice. Thanks again. c.d.