Comments on: WordPress 1.5.1.2 from 1.5.1.1: Version Changes

By: George

George — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 01:30:05 +0000

Thanks Ken for the comment form fix! I just applied it, and it seemed to work.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 04:15:17 +0000

I recently had time* to fix the comment form textarea box scaling issue, but haven't made time to update this blog's style.css. I copied a couple of items from the WordPress "classic" style.css theme. I added the following lines right above the #footer and beginning of the calendar section (about 7/8 down from the top of the file):

#commentform #author, #commentform #email, #commentform #url, #commentform textarea { background: #fff; border: 1px solid #333; padding: .2em; }

#commentform textarea { width: 100%; } #commentlist { font-size: 12px; margin-right: 3em; } #commentlist li ul { border-left: 1px solid #ddd; font-size: 110%; list-style-type: none; }

Of course, play around with the values until you like it.

* Disclaimer: Not only was it the time, but also the specific knowledge. On this site I had made a change in some code (don't remember precisely which file right now) to narrow the width of the textarea box (the box people write in to make a comment), but there a percentage didn't work, the setting that did work was a narrow value of number of columns: I did not make that change in the CSS, and the change I did make didn't scale with the browser window or with various display settings. In the CSS, a percentage value appears to work fine. The solution was right in front of my eyes the whole time, but I couldn't see it!

By: Fat Pitch Financials » New Server and New Blogging Software

Fat Pitch Financials » New Server and New Blogging Software — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 03:16:19 +0000

[...] Financials over the next couple of days. Ken over at Conscious Junkyard has been great in helping me update my template for Wordpress with the templates that he has shared. I appologize for this [...]

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 01:53:13 +0000

George, you’re welcome. Be advised that some instructions in my older post need to be ignored, as they were for 1.2.x versions. Leave the files in your blog’s root directory alone. The logged-in blog administrator uses the administration interface, ‘Presentation > Themes’, to activate and select the desired theme.

By: George

George — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 01:18:05 +0000

Thank you,

I'm a total newbie at WordPress. This will get me going. Hopefully, I'll get a moment tonight to try this out.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 01:13:14 +0000

You caught me sitting at the computer, George :-)

Index.php and style.css (renamed from wp-layout.css) go into your new theme directory: /wp-content/themes/'your theme name'/

The comments.php file is from the WordPress theme named "classic", this file is located in the following directory of your blog: /wp-content/themes/classic/comments.php Copy comments.php into the directory you created: /wp-content/themes/'your theme name'/

By: George

George — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 01:05:13 +0000

Thanks for the quick response!

I found your index.php and wp-layout.php files you provide on this site and made the changes. What do I do for wp-comments.php? Do I need that file too?

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 00:19:13 +0000

George, did you see this posting?

The two files, index.php and wp-layout.css are for 1.2.2, but it's fairly easy to follow the codex instructions to upgrade to 1.5 compatibility. You will also need to copy the comments.php file from the WordPress "classic" theme, so your new theme directory will have 3 files in it.

By: George

George — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 23:45:42 +0000

Did you upgrade to WordPress 1.5.1.2 yet? If so, I would love to see a copy of your WordPress theme. I had a Blogger site that used a Skidoo Too based theme, but now that I just switched over to WordPress, I have no idea how to make a theme based on Skidoo Too.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

George http://fatpitch.home.comcast.net (old Blogger site) http://www.fatpitchfinancials.com