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Want to stand out? Try our “Fancy” theme
Posted on October 2nd, 2008 102 comments
Latest version 1.1.0 (04/12/2008).
- Added 100% height to the background.
- Re-packed the zip file, when it’s decompressed the files would be in a folder “fancy”.
Latest version 1.0.9 (27/11/2008).
- Included wp_footer() in footer.php, stats plugin and many others should work fine now (bug discovered by Antonio, thanks)
Version 1.0.8 (20/11/2008).
- Fixed some font issues.
- Styled blockquote, code tags in comments.
Version 1.0.7 (05/11/2008).
- Made XHTML code valid again. My previous updates broke it.
Version 1.0.6 (05/11/2008).
- Reorganized the way I do modifications to my CSS file (thanks for raising this issue Joseph Scott & E-namers). Now everyone would be able to load this theme without any issues.
Version 1.0.5 (04/11/2008).
- Added an addittional option which controls font size of the whole template (smaller, bigger). Big font looks really nice, don’t forget to try (I’m currently using this preference on my blog).
- Fixed sidebar’s paddings. Any widget would look nice now.
- Fixed search widget styles.
- Some minor design fixes.
Initial version 1.0.0 (02/10/2008).
“Fancy” is a free WordPress theme which really lets your blog stand out from the crowd. Make your blog unique by changing the primary and secondary blog colors (pink, yellow, green), background pattern (available over 20 background variations), banner etc through an options page. In addition you have the ability to choose the color of sidebar blocks (violet, yellow, green).
Tech folks might find interesting that we built this theme based on CSS framework “Blueprint”. If you like to make grid visible, just put “showgrid” class on the main div which already has the class “container”.
Features:
- Let’s your blog stand out from the crowd.
- Ability to change the primary & secondary blog colors (pink, yellow, green).
- Ability to choose a background from over 20 variations.
- Sidebar blocks available in 3 colors (pink, yellow, green).
- Based on CSS framework “Blueprint”.
- Valid CSS & XHTML
- SEO optimized.
- 2 columns.
102 Responses to “Want to stand out? Try our “Fancy” theme”
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This is a pretty good theme!
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how do comments look?
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it’s colorful.. i like it very much
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Wrote a little post about this theme, looks really great and besides, it really suits younger people
That’s why I just had to post about it 
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Wow thanks this is a great theme.
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Thanks for the kind words, I see it really fits well your spongebob’s website
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By the way, if you want to get rid of the upper white space, you need to change 2 things:
1. remove the whole div < div class="span-24 header" > from index.php, page.php and single.php
2. change the paddings of container class (you would have to edit style.css.php).
from:
div.container {
padding: 30px 17px 20px;
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div.container {
padding: 15px 17px 20px;
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Thanks i really like this template
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[...] The first WordPress Theme that I’ll be taking look at is the Fancy Theme. when I first thought of rendering this kind of service (sort of review of some good themes) to my readers, this theme was the first one that caught my eyes and just like mentioned on it’s list of features, it makes your blog stand out from the others. [...]
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I failed to install it properly. It looks like it loses its styles when beeing activated. But it installs ok at the other site. Actually there is no difference between them. Both are Wordpress 2.6.3. But at the one it runs and at the another doesn’t. Why?
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Press E-namers to see how it looks like. I put the link to the site where it runs incorrectly
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E-namers, the ability to change the main color, background variations through an options page requires a dynamic CSS file.
It means that instead of static style.css, I use style.css.php. It seems that your server doesn’t want to interpret style.css.php file. As a result it gets blank http://www.creactor.ru/wp-content/themes/fancy/style.css.php and you lose all the styles.
It’s server side thing, I’m still not sure how to fix.
Well, there’s one way but you will lose an option page… Just copy CSS file from my website, put everything in yours style.css and change “style.css.php” to “style.css” in header.php file.
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Thank you very much for the response. I have transferred the site to the hosting with the php5 support and it runs ok now. The previous was php4.
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I used it on my blog - thanks.
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I’m glad you liked it
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E-namers, I fixed your issue and released 1.0.6 version.
You may use your old web hosting company now
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Green color suits your blog very well
It’s a “must have” for me
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How do I change colors of boxes in sidebar?
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Ximo, go to your admin panel, choose Design => Widgets and there you have the ability to assign your widgets to any color box you want (green, yellow, pink).
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Thanks a lot Now it looks great!
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i use Pink (pattern 1) as the background, it works fine in Firefox. but in IE, the background does not show.
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kimji, I tried to validate your HTML code (http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kimji.net%2F) and it failed.
It seems that some widget or due to the encoding issues the HTML code is broken that’s why you lose the background in IE. I also noticed another issue: the content of the sidebar’s boxes are horizontally centered.
I’d suggest to try disabling some of your widgets (like the player) or reinstall the theme, hope it helps.
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thank you so much,
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I would like to use a color other than pink green or yellow for my main color. Whre in the stylesheet can I edit that?
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Nevermind, I found it in custom.php. I just changed all the “pink” items to the colors I wanted. Thanks for the template!
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Hi,
Love your theme! I’m trying to do a modification to it before putting it in use, but since I don’t know any php it’s hard to understand how I should do it.
This is what I want to do
Under TAGS: TAG X, TAG Y, TAG Z
I want to have comment displayed like this;
It works fine, but I want it to be in the same font size as TAG X, Y and Z.
Is this possible?
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Hmm,
The PHP-code disappeared.
?php comments_popup_link('INGA KOMMENTARER', 'EN KOMMENTAR', '% KOMMENTARER'); ?Like this
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I use it for my blog, didn’t know julia seeliger does too
did some kind of handwork et voilà
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dogma p, sure, why not
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Couldn’t figure it out, and couldn’t wait. I’ll have to look into it later.
Thanks again for a great theme.
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Mats, you’ll have to create a custom class or simply wrap your php code with a span tag and put this style like this:
span style="font-size: 12px;">
?php comments_popup_link(’INGA KOMMENTARER’, ‘EN KOMMENTAR’, ‘% KOMMENTARER’); ?
/span>PS I had to strip the first symbol of span tag in order to be displayed in comments
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Thanks.
I’ll try it soon and see if it’ll work or not.
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Hi AZ,
I’m using your Vista WordPress Theme and like it alot. Thank You!
I don’t yet have a lot of tech skill, so I’m hoping you can help me -
I’d like to be able to change the outside border color.
I’d also like to try using the template without the bar that contains the tabs and search box.
Could you please tell me how to do these things?
Thank You Again,
David -
Hi! Great theme! I think I’ve encountered one problem though. I don’t think it works with the wordpress.com stats plugin.
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Great theme. The pink footer on my site somehow shifts to the left. I am viewing firefox 3.0 on win xp using a widescreen monitor.
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Thanks so much for the theme- it’s great and I’ve gotten lots of compliments on it. I was wondering how do we change the font for blog posts. I’m new to CSS so please forgive if this is a really obvious question!
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Antonio, I’ll check that later.
turbanhead, all the widgets which do not generate box headers (like in my design) would broke HTML code. When it’s broken, you may encounter many weird things.
By disabling buzz widget would fix your footer.
Jay, I implemented this feature through an options page. You just need to go to wp admin panel, choose Design and Fancy theme options. Where you find many options which could help you to customize the theme.
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Just did a little bit of looking around and you may find the answer here http://wordpress.org/support/topic/152194
I’ve only just implemented that code, so haven’t seen if it’s effective yet.
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It was a widespread issue among my themes, I fixed it and later today post the fixed versions, thanks Antonio.
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Very cool design, Right now am using for my blog
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I love love love this theme… I’ve got one question though:
How can I change my blog’s title text to an image? It seems that the title text is defined in the page.php file, but after playing around with that and the stylesheet, I can’t figure it out!
Any help is appreciated, and thanks again for the phenomenal theme!
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Hi
Do you know if this theme will work with Wordpress 2.7?
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Chuck, try to put an image tag inside and see how it looks. Or you may want to put an image as a background through CSS.
Mats, I didn’t test it, but I’ll check all of my themes soon.
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Sweet! I’ll wait with the 2.7 update until I know for sure then.
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William December 8th, 2008 at 3:38 am
?PRINT?
Hi,
I’ve tried to insert a ‘print’ plugin to ‘fancy’, via this page:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-print/other_notes/I uploaded and activated the plugin, but it did not show up on the blog’s front pages.
I love this theme and want to use it, but I will need a ‘print’ feature. What can you tell me? Can you put this in?
Thank you!
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Hi
Im using your template in my blog and look perfect!
i add google search bar, and i would like to put it in the right as it was the old one.
How can i do it? i have check the css trying to find where to do it without luck.
thanks
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Hi AZ,
How can i remove links color or changing to another color?
Thanks
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Sorry i meant by bg (background) color of link, i want to remove that black color.
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It looks like I should be able to change the image header in the “theme options” section, but that option isn’t appearing. Am I looking in the wrong place?
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H, unfortunately, “Fancy” doesn’t support this feature yet.
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Thanks for the response…Maybe I’m asking the wrong question. Is there no way to upload a custom banner image? Looking through some of the other posts, it looks like most people have changed the banner without a problem.
I hope that clarifies the question. Thanks!
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Just answered my own question…nevermind.
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Hi,
Our blog has been running fine with this theme for a couple of weeks now today something went wrong and only the latest post is published and the sidebar widgets are missing.
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Did anyone try Fancy with 2.7 yet? Did you change to 2.7 LG?
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I’m trying to help my fiance set up her blog with Fancy theme. She wants to change the title to use a “park avenue” font. Since park avenue font is not common to most computers, I was thinking of swapping the title with a pic that is simply the blog name in park avenue font. How exactly do I do that and still make the picture title still clickable?
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Hello!
im using fancy theme and is perfect! but i have an issue!
i have to change the color of the menu hover , i have changed colors but all is still GREEN!i have changed gif’s and color scheme in style.css but all is still green!
where i wrong??
king regards
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I’ve found what I would call a bug, maybe it’s fixed in a newer version but I’m not sure.
If you look at the green picture at the bottom of this post http://www.tram7.se/2008/12/22/spelning-herman-dune-till-stockholm/
I’ve linked it but more than the picture is linked. Move your cursor to the right of the picture and you’ll see what I mean.
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Why not make your themes so its easy to translate? it would not cost you much work.
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Sorry, I never done this before, so I’ll have to research how to prepare my themes for easy translations.
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I can’t get this theme to work with wordpress 2.7. I tried to update the about page got a 404 not found when I went to view it. Tried to make a post again 404 not found. When I switched back to one of the other themes, the post appeared.
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How do I get rid of the text from the top of the blog? I just want it to show the buttons and an image. No TEXT!
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I’m running 2.7 now. Seems to work fine. But the “bug” above is still intact.
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I installed the theme and everything worked fine for five minutes, I refreshed and the post area became yellow with errors. Is there a fix for this? Also when I go into widgets and select show green and add the widgets I want my site sidebar remains yellow. How do I change that?
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Hi,
Firstly - excellent theme!
Can anyone advise how I can do the following with the fancy theme?
1. I want to reduce the width of the side bar by around 75% of it’s current width - how do I do this?
2. How do I move the side bar so it appears on the left hand side of each page?
Many thanks for any advice you can give me….
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Melissa January 5th, 2009 at 7:04 am
I’ve installed the theme on 2.7 and it works fine - no problems with the install or otherwise.
One question: I cannot, for the life of me, change the background-color property on the title and sidebar hover links. No matter how many new wrappers I set, or how many new classes I create, the links ALWAYS display a lime green background color on hover. (I’m using the default pink theme, with yellow sidebar)
The funny thing is: I cannot see where in the .css any lime green color is set *at all* - much less where a lime green background color on link hover is set.
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Mats, I know that you are talking about. It’s because the images with links on it are set as block element instead of inline. When you edit the post through your WordPress editor and preview a post it acts the same, so I thought I’d follow the same rules. I might change this behavior in the future.
dibbo & Mellisa, I suspect that you miss some CSS styles which are embedded directly between head tags. I do this in order to support options page.
To others, I’d gladly accept bugs and fix them. Sorry, but I don’t have time to advise how to customize my themes, please, use forums (like wordpress.org/support/) and I’m sure many people will help you out.
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Aah, okay. More of a “feature” then I guess.
Thanks for the answer.
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is the fancy theme “widget ready”? I’m going to be working with a wordpress guru, and she suggested I check with you cuz I luv the theme.
I would need a calendar and other things, how easy or difficult is that for a newbie?
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jebbeh, all of my themes are widget ready, it means adding a calendar and other things would be very easy.
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I am very new to Wordpress and this is the first theme that I am using. I like it so so much better than all the other themes I saw. Interesting and colorful, but still simple.
However…I am having one problem using it. I have managed to change the banner image, but the one I changed it to is much taller than the one it came with.
How can I move the gray bar with the search field on it down in order to accomodate a taller banner image?
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Just updated my site with your theme using WP 2.7 but banner does not display and sidebar colors do not change with main color - remain yellow. Any suggestions?
Thanks for a great theme!
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Matt, what do you mean the banner doesn’t display? I’ve just visited your website and the banner has been displayed. Regarding the sidebar color, go to your widgets page and make sure you assigned your widgets to the “green” block.
You may also face one issue though. Those yellow widgets may remain even if you unassign them, so you’ll have to open sidebar.php and remove everything between if dynamic_sidebar(1)… endif.
I’ll have to think how to make them disappear through an options page
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Hey AZ,
I love the Fancy theme- no complaints at all. But i do have a little techie question.How do you make the “home” page the home page? I can’t seem to find it on the edit pages space in the dashboard. Do I need to edit the index.php files to include it?
At the moment I am redirecting it to a “Welcome” page as I can’t seem to figure out how to add text to the home page.
Would be sooooo greatful if youcould help me out.
Ross
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Ross, the only way to get rid of “home” link is to open navigation.php and remove the first li item.
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Thats amazing thank you so much. Fixed it right away. I appreciate you taking time to deal with noob questions. I’ll be highly recommending you theme and fire a link or two into my site to here.
Cheers again mate.
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Please help! Two of my sidebars seems to have gone to the bottom of the page instead of the side and I haven’t a clue what to do! Also I can’t seem to change the pattern at all.
Thanks!
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Just switched to this theme, and I love it! I have two questions, though.
1. is there anyway to make the # of comments text next to the title of the posts a link to the comments section? Some of my readers didn’t know that they’d have to click the post title to comment, and I’d like to keep confusion to a minimum.
2. My last widget on the bottom of my sidebar is a text widget where I have two buttons with links. These buttons appear on the main page, but disappear whenever you’re looking at an individual post. Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks so much! Great theme!
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Vishavjit Singh February 10th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
I love the fancy design. Uplifting!
I have it downloaded and all the files are under the /webdocs/wordpress/wp-content/themes/fancy folder. On my site the header is showing up but nothing shows up under that. Any ideas what might be going on?
Thanks
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Vishavjit Singh February 10th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Just an addition to my last post, the homepage view source ends with the following line.
<a href=”http://sikhtoons.com/wordpress/?p=3″ title=”Permanent Link to
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Hello together,
first of all great theme. But I would like to do some finetuning.
Is there a possibility to reduce the width of the sidebars? I took out the bubble images and without those it would be nicer if the sidebar were less wide.
Well, I tried to find it myself but I don’t want to mess up the whole css sheet.cheers
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Really love this theme! Currently using it on my site with a personalized banner image, but I’m running into some issues. I edited the index coding so that the site name and slogan don’t appear above the navigation and banner, but I’m not sure what else I’d have to edit. When you go to another page or click a post title to make a comment, the site name and slogan appear at the top again. It seems like I should edit page.php but when I delete from the coding what looks almost just like what I deleted from index.php, the site looks completely crazy. I’m hesitant to start experimenting with everything, so any advice on getting rid of that stuff altogether is appreciated! Thanks so much.
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im using. i edited the banner. =p
but i love it =pthank u!
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What an incredible theme!
I do remember there was a way to edit the colors and background pattern, but can’t find it in WP 2.7. Can you direct me to where it is so I can make the appropriate changes? Thanks!
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I love this theme!
I do have a question about the Page Template. I have a static page as my homepage which I managed by going to Reading and selecting Static Page for Front Page display. Great!
Now, I am unable to make a blog page. I have read that I should be able to make a new Page and then select Blog under Page Template. I also want to make some invisible pages but would be happy to just have the Blog page.
Can you please direct me to how to get the Blog page on your theme?
Thanks!
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Hey! I figured it out!
Thanks again for the great template.
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Hey AZ,
First off, thanks for creating an amazing theme.
However, my issue is multiple sidebars are showing when I’ve selected only one. I’m using Wordpress 2.7. I went into Appearance - Widgets and removed the widgets from the “Yellow” sidebar, which was the default and added the widgets to the “Green” sidebar.
On that page it shows 0 widgets in Yellow and all the widgets I selected in Green. However, when I go to my actual site, http://www.blackgaygossip.com, the Yellow AND Green sidebar shows, with widgets I never selected in Yellow and all the widgets I selected in Green minus one, which is showing under yellow.
Could you please tell me how to fix this?
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No worries. I figured it out.
Thanks again for an amazing theme. Best one I’ve come across in terms of look and functionality thus far for Wordpress.
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Hy!
This is the exact theme for my website, but only now i seen it has a major bug..
In Internet explorer in my homepage(firstpage), i have no right sidebar, i tryed to uninstal plug-ins and stuff, but still no use…
http://zoly.6sense.ro/
Can you give me a solution please?
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Hy
I found the perfect theme for my website http://zoly.6sense.ro/
but, it has a bug, in internet explorer.
The right sidebar doesn`t appear( in the first page) i deactivated plug-ins but still no use..
Maybe you can give me a hint how to resolve itThanks
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Hy again,
I found the bug myself, it was my own bug, because it seems that when you are posting an article that you copy paste from word, and you have links or e-mails don`t know for sure, sometimes it creates bugs like mine, so you all be careful, test the posts in IE too… -
Hi! I love this theme. I tried adding widgets from Lala and picasa in the sidebar but they both skew right and and up existing partially in the yellow sidebar and partially outside & to the right. Is there a way to make them stay in the center of the sidebar?
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Hi, just installed this theme for use with WP 2.7.1. So far so, good.
Thanks for making this theme. Is there a place where I can see what all 20 background images look like so I don’t have to go through them one at a time?
Cheers
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Using this theme for our blog and it’s perfect!!! Thanks!
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Want to change the sidebar colors from yellow to something else. Thought I did in the editor by changing out the hex color from yellow to green. Didn’t change. How do I do it?
Thanks,
Rick -
Hi,
First off, wow, amazing theme, thank you so much.
I am new to this whole world and have a simple question.
How does one change the image header and remove the blog name from the top?
Your Theme documnetation on wordpress hints that it should be in the options section of appearance but I cannot find any reference to changing the header etc.
I am a total noob so be gentle! lol
Many thanks in advance.
Brad
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Hi there. I love this theme but struggling to change the header image, could someone advise me how to do this?
Many thanks,
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For some reason, when I activate this theme, the general page color is gray, instead of white. I see that everyone else who is using it was successful with having a white general page color. Mine stays gray no matter which “background” color I choose. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Dear AZ–Please tell me where in the code I can customize a color for the title. Also please explain why some of the numbers and letters for the colors you have chosen–the pink and green and yellow–are not found in the HTML color codes or Hex HTML color charts.
Obviously I have no experience reading code.
an earlier poster, Brooke, said she was able to find the answer for customizing colors in the custom.php area. But I don’t see anything there.
and is the main title for the site called a special name?
thanks for your help
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I have your template set up on my wordpress. How may I:
A) Place my banner into this template
B) Remove the “scissors” word from the body of the page
C.) Remove the automatic double spacing that’s generated on the body of the page when I add my text.
Please reply ASAP.
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