Jimisola.com - keepin’ on

What in the sidebar differs from my one? The background color? The header? I don’t think that I’m using a file named sideboxbg.gif, so please be a bit more precise.

@Chris: I assume that you’re asking how I changed the size and location for the header text “Jimisola.com - keepin’ on”?

I would suggest that you compare my style.css with the one that comes with Freshy. It also helps a lot to use the following Firefox extensions:

1. Web Developer
2. FireBug
3. View Source Chart

You’ll find them at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox.

Good luck!

@Nikki & Co

I notice now that I do reference sideboxbg.gif in the stylesheet. I removed that file (faded from white to lightgray) since I prefered to have the background in a single color (lightgray) only.

Appearently I forgot to remove the reference to it. I will comment it out in the next release. For now the image is available for download via a link above.

@Nikki

You’re welcome. Glad it helped.

PS. What song?

@Todd The theme is Jide’s, my version is merely a slight modification of his. I don’t have a clue on rotating headers, so I suggest that you check with Jide. Please come back and let me know if he updates something and I’ll have to update mine (my intention is to stay up-to-date with the original Freshy theme).

@Raymond

Thanks. I use the WordPress Widgets. Simply drag-n-drop.

@Raymond

The reason that the background differs is because you have to specify the id of each widget in style.css. I haven’t found another way to work around at least.

In style.css go to the section that lists #meta, #categories etc (see below) and add your different widget ids to the style definition. I can recommend the Firefox plugins Firebug and/or Web Developer for this.

Good luck!


[...]
#meta,
#categories,
#pages,
#yammyamm-menu,
#recent-posts,
#recent-comments,
#peters-date-countdown,
#calendar,
#scrobbler,
#links,
#text-1,
#akismet,
#wpg2-image-block
{
background: #eee url(images/sideboxbg.gif) top left repeat-x;
padding: 25x;
margin: 5px;
border: 1px solid #ddd;
}


See the blog post Category RSS feeds icons with the Category widget (and Freshy) posted on my blog earlier.

@Erik

Tack! Jag tittade på YammYamm initialt men sedan så bestämde jag mig för att köra en hel engelsk site (det är givetvis ok att kommentera på svenska). Osäker på var exakt som jag ändrade för att få in den svenska flaggan. Vill minnas att det var style.css men jag är inte helt säker. Titta vad de franska och engelska filerna heter och sök på det i filerna. Sidebar-bakgrunden ändrar du i style.css. Ta en titt på den style.css som följer med min mod så ser du.

@Serena

What name is that you want to change? Look at my comment to Chris (February 23) to my list of tools that makes style sheet work a lot easier.

@Perrazoo

I currently don’t have the time to help you that much. You have to check the code that the widget generates you add the “id” that is uses for its div (usually div) to the appropriate section in style.css (look for “sidebar” and background).

Regarding the old date format, that was one of the things that I disliked the most and it took me a while to have it my way. Only solution I have is: use the source. Compare my Freshy mod with the original one.

If you look at one of my posts above you’ll see my recommendation of the Web Developer add-on for Firefox by Chris Pederick. It comes in very handy here as do View Source Chart.

@Orobi:

Check my answer to Perrazoo above. Use to source

The files that I have changed are seen below. Compare those files to the original Freshy theme. I think the files where the date is output is single.php and index.php - with some CSS in style.css.

freshy/comments.php
freshy/functions.php
freshy/index.php
freshy/sidebar.php
freshy/single.php
freshy/style.css