Comments on: Ultimate guide to Amazing Grace and Blue Grace themes http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/ultimate-guide-to-amazing-and-blue-grace-theme-modification Web 2.0, Marketing, Analytics, WordPress SEO Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:01:44 -0600 hourly 1 By: Merylhttp://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/ultimate-guide-to-amazing-and-blue-grace-theme-modification/comment-page-2#comment-16923 Meryl http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/?p=998#comment-16923 Hi Vladimir, First of all, at the moment I can't recall how I learned of you, but I think I was following up on information on plug-ins a few days back and came across your site and your themes for WP. In any case I was shocked when I came across your site and your excellent beautiful professional free themes, Amazing Grace and Blue Grace, (I chose Blue Grace for my blog.) Now I see how you offer support and a forum on the themes and Wordpress, far above and beyond what is typical. I'm very excited, because you're themes are in my opinion far superior and prettier than the majority of WP Themes I've found. I have a quick question now, but I will be searching the forums for more useful info and hope to communicate directly with you soon as well. I am so busy with my sales job, I don't have the time I'd like to devote to my site. Under the area for Leave a reply you give the following instructions which appear on my site and I'd like to utilize the info and of course have the code not appear on the site. The code is You can use these tags: <a href="" title="" rel="nofollow"> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> Please explain to me what to do pertaining to the code. I am just beginning to be able to interpret a little of HTML which is a giant leap of understanding, but let me know how to handle this. Thank you and WP Brian for your help and I'm really stoked about your work! Cheers, Meryl Hi Vladimir,
First of all, at the moment I can't recall how I learned of you, but I think I was following up on information on plug-ins a few days back and came across your site and your themes for WP. In any case I was shocked when I came across your site and your excellent beautiful professional free themes, Amazing Grace and Blue Grace, (I chose Blue Grace for my blog.)
Now I see how you offer support and a forum on the themes and Wordpress, far above and beyond what is typical. I'm very excited, because you're themes are in my opinion far superior and prettier than the majority of WP Themes I've found.
I have a quick question now, but I will be searching the forums for more useful info and hope to communicate directly with you soon as well.
I am so busy with my sales job, I don't have the time I'd like to devote to my site. Under the area for Leave a reply you give the following instructions which appear on my site and I'd like to utilize the info and of course have the code not appear on the site. The code is You can use these tags:

Please explain to me what to do pertaining to the code. I am just beginning to be able to interpret a little of HTML which is a giant leap of understanding, but let me know how to handle this.
Thank you and WP Brian for your help and I'm really stoked about your work!
Cheers,
Meryl

]]> By: Johnhttp://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/ultimate-guide-to-amazing-and-blue-grace-theme-modification/comment-page-2#comment-16833 John http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/?p=998#comment-16833 I followed the instructions for inserting a logo and it worked. I inserted the .logo entry in the stylesheet just above the .btitle The only other thing I can think of that may be going wrong is that your changes have not been affected on the server you are viewing. Hope this helps. I followed the instructions for inserting a logo and it worked. I inserted the .logo entry in the stylesheet just above the .btitle The only other thing I can think of that may be going wrong is that your changes have not been affected on the server you are viewing. Hope this helps.

]]> By: Vladimirhttp://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/ultimate-guide-to-amazing-and-blue-grace-theme-modification/comment-page-1#comment-16770 Vladimir http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/?p=998#comment-16770 Yes you can actually, contact me and I'll pass on the details. Yes you can actually, contact me and I'll pass on the details.

]]> By: Vladimirhttp://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/ultimate-guide-to-amazing-and-blue-grace-theme-modification/comment-page-2#comment-16768 Vladimir http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/?p=998#comment-16768 Always nicest to hear people tackle it on their own :) Always nicest to hear people tackle it on their own :)

]]> By: Johttp://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/ultimate-guide-to-amazing-and-blue-grace-theme-modification/comment-page-2#comment-16744 Jo http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/?p=998#comment-16744 I really like your Amazing Grace template. Is there a way to make main section in the middle, and the two sidebars on either side of the main section? So that the layout is left sidebar, content, right sidebar. I've played with where it floats, but can't get it to sit in the middle. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.Jo I really like your Amazing Grace template. Is there a way to make main section in the middle, and the two sidebars on either side of the main section? So that the layout is left sidebar, content, right sidebar. I've played with where it floats, but can't get it to sit in the middle. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Jo

]]> By: J Christianhttp://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/ultimate-guide-to-amazing-and-blue-grace-theme-modification/comment-page-2#comment-16739 J Christian http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/?p=998#comment-16739 Hi Vladimir,After trial and error, I've just replaced "<?php the_excerpt.." with and the post contents are shown fully on archives, category, and tag pages.Frankly speaking, I'm not sure if what I've just done is right. Please let me know if there is a better way to do it.Best regards. Hi Vladimir,

After trial and error, I've just replaced "<?php the_excerpt.." with and the post contents are shown fully on archives, category, and tag pages.

Frankly speaking, I'm not sure if what I've just done is right. Please let me know if there is a better way to do it.

Best regards.

]]> By: J Christianhttp://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/ultimate-guide-to-amazing-and-blue-grace-theme-modification/comment-page-2#comment-16737 J Christian http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/?p=998#comment-16737 Hi Vladimir,Thanks for the theme. It's great. I'm trying to find a guide to make category, archive and tag pages to look like index page. I mean, those pages display the contents of the posts (not "Continue reading about ....")Please help me out.Thank you in advance. Hi Vladimir,

Thanks for the theme. It's great.
I'm trying to find a guide to make category, archive and tag pages to look like index page. I mean, those pages display the contents of the posts (not "Continue reading about ....")

Please help me out.

Thank you in advance.

]]> By: Courtneyhttp://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/ultimate-guide-to-amazing-and-blue-grace-theme-modification/comment-page-2#comment-16713 Courtney http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/?p=998#comment-16713 I was able to change the photos and adjust sidebars and all that, but for the life of me cannot get my logo image to appear. It uploaded to my library correctly and shows up in my library as it should. I double checked the name of the file and the name in the code... it matches. I changed the line of text in the header.php, but do I change that line of text at all? As in do I change 'name' to my logo.jpg file name? Change something else?Also, there is a LOT of code between rss-big a and btitle. A LOT. I tried inserting the new code immediately after rss-big a and immediately before btitle, as well as a few places inbetween. Nothing. All it does is make my title go to a teeny little plain text.Anyone get this to work? Any suggestions or tips?*****************************I was able to change the photos, so I will see if I can help the past few who had trouble.I went with a fall theme, and have 9 fall images I saved to a folder on my desktop. I went to my ftp program and connected to my site, then I went to content, to themes, to amazing grace, to images, and I copied the bg-portrait0 file to my computer and opened it in photoshop (my editing program of choice). I then took each of my fall photos, opened it on photoshop and through trial and error figured they needed to be 285x178 with 72 resolution. So, I change the image size to close to that since they are not all in the correct proportion, meaning I might change the image size to 285x210 and then I cropped or changed the canvas size the rest of the way so that the picture is not warped, just part of it is cut off. Then I ctrl-C that image and ctrl-V it on the bg-portrait0 image and drag it until it covers the original photo. I then save it as bg-portrait0.jpg. Repeat with 8 other photos naming them bg-portrait1 through bg-portrait8.THEN I go back to my ftp program (I use firefox's FireFTP by the way) and I replace the files I mention above (content, themes, amazing grace, images) with my new photos. Tadaa!!Hopefully that helps. It did take me a bit to figure out what I was doing, but you can see I have 9 new fall themed photos: www.barefootinmykitchen.com. Good luck!!! I was able to change the photos and adjust sidebars and all that, but for the life of me cannot get my logo image to appear. It uploaded to my library correctly and shows up in my library as it should. I double checked the name of the file and the name in the code... it matches. I changed the line of text in the header.php, but do I change that line of text at all? As in do I change 'name' to my logo.jpg file name? Change something else?

Also, there is a LOT of code between rss-big a and btitle. A LOT. I tried inserting the new code immediately after rss-big a and immediately before btitle, as well as a few places inbetween. Nothing. All it does is make my title go to a teeny little plain text.

Anyone get this to work? Any suggestions or tips?

*****************************

I was able to change the photos, so I will see if I can help the past few who had trouble.

I went with a fall theme, and have 9 fall images I saved to a folder on my desktop. I went to my ftp program and connected to my site, then I went to content, to themes, to amazing grace, to images, and I copied the bg-portrait0 file to my computer and opened it in photoshop (my editing program of choice). I then took each of my fall photos, opened it on photoshop and through trial and error figured they needed to be 285x178 with 72 resolution. So, I change the image size to close to that since they are not all in the correct proportion, meaning I might change the image size to 285x210 and then I cropped or changed the canvas size the rest of the way so that the picture is not warped, just part of it is cut off. Then I ctrl-C that image and ctrl-V it on the bg-portrait0 image and drag it until it covers the original photo. I then save it as bg-portrait0.jpg. Repeat with 8 other photos naming them bg-portrait1 through bg-portrait8.

THEN I go back to my ftp program (I use firefox's FireFTP by the way) and I replace the files I mention above (content, themes, amazing grace, images) with my new photos. Tadaa!!

Hopefully that helps. It did take me a bit to figure out what I was doing, but you can see I have 9 new fall themed photos: http://www.barefootinmykitchen.com. Good luck!!!

]]> By: Karenhttp://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/ultimate-guide-to-amazing-and-blue-grace-theme-modification/comment-page-1#comment-16701 Karen http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/?p=998#comment-16701 I have been working on changing the colors in the stylesheet to match with my blog's theme but I cant find the code that goes with the themes header - the tan color behind the blog title - is it changable?? I love this theme - I use it for both of my business blogs. thanksps- I have given up on changing the pictures at the top, can I pay someone to do it???!! ugh I have been working on changing the colors in the stylesheet to match with my blog's theme but I cant find the code that goes with the themes header - the tan color behind the blog title - is it changable??
I love this theme - I use it for both of my business blogs.
thanks

ps- I have given up on changing the pictures at the top, can I pay someone to do it???!! ugh

]]> By: Margarethttp://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/ultimate-guide-to-amazing-and-blue-grace-theme-modification/comment-page-1#comment-16681 Margaret http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/?p=998#comment-16681 Hi Vladimir, Thank you for building and sharing such a beautiful theme. I am wondering how I would get the title of my blog to display in the 'title tag' of the browser code and title bar. Is this a wordpress problem? I notice your title is displaying as intended in your wordpress blog which utilises the same theme.Regards,Margaret Hi Vladimir,
Thank you for building and sharing such a beautiful theme. I am wondering how I would get the title of my blog to display in the 'title tag' of the browser code and title bar. Is this a wordpress problem? I notice your title is displaying as intended in your wordpress blog which utilises the same theme.

Regards,

Margaret

]]> By: Marcushttp://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/ultimate-guide-to-amazing-and-blue-grace-theme-modification/comment-page-1#comment-16606 Marcus http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/?p=998#comment-16606 I have been trying to change the rotating photos without success. I have followed the above instructions because I want my photos to "" within the original frame however when I paste my own photos to the template, all I see is my photo and no frame regardless of what size I make my photos. What am I missing here? Thanks. It's a great theme. I have been trying to change the rotating photos without success. I have followed the above instructions because I want my photos to "" within the original frame however when I paste my own photos to the template, all I see is my photo and no frame regardless of what size I make my photos. What am I missing here? Thanks. It's a great theme.

]]> By: judyhttp://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/ultimate-guide-to-amazing-and-blue-grace-theme-modification/comment-page-1#comment-16537 judy http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/?p=998#comment-16537 I need help. I have gone through all of the forums, and read everything I could find. I am on day 4 now and still have issues. My ads in my side bars are showing up on the bottom. I have taken off widgets, taken off tags from the tag cloud, removed the search bar, made sure all of my sizes are correct, deleted any unused plugins, and still I have a problem. It appears to be ok while logged in but not logged off. I have also noticed with just by eying it, that the catagory pages are the only ones doing this, and they seem larger than the post pages, which are not doing this. Can anyone please advise? Also, I am pretty much a non coder so please try to make it easy on me. Thanks, Judy I need help. I have gone through all of the forums, and read everything I could find. I am on day 4 now and still have issues. My ads in my side bars are showing up on the bottom. I have taken off widgets, taken off tags from the tag cloud, removed the search bar, made sure all of my sizes are correct, deleted any unused plugins, and still I have a problem. It appears to be ok while logged in but not logged off. I have also noticed with just by eying it, that the catagory pages are the only ones doing this, and they seem larger than the post pages, which are not doing this. Can anyone please advise? Also, I am pretty much a non coder so please try to make it easy on me. Thanks, Judy

]]> By: Gary Andresenhttp://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/ultimate-guide-to-amazing-and-blue-grace-theme-modification/comment-page-1#comment-16331 Gary Andresen http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/?p=998#comment-16331 Thanks for the feedback Vladimir. If I can make just a few people think, it will be worth the effort. Thanks for the feedback Vladimir. If I can make just a few people think, it will be worth the effort.

]]> By: Vladimirhttp://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/ultimate-guide-to-amazing-and-blue-grace-theme-modification/comment-page-1#comment-16330 Vladimir http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/?p=998#comment-16330 Hey Gary what a wonderful use of a blog :) Hey Gary what a wonderful use of a blog :)

]]> By: Gary Andresenhttp://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/ultimate-guide-to-amazing-and-blue-grace-theme-modification/comment-page-1#comment-16329 Gary Andresen http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/?p=998#comment-16329 Vladimir and Brian.Thank you so much for all your work. It made it possible for a novice like me to put together a blog that looks like it was done by a professional.I retired recently and this blog keeps me from getting bored.Thanks again. Vladimir and Brian.

Thank you so much for all your work. It made it possible for a novice like me to put together a blog that looks like it was done by a professional.

I retired recently and this blog keeps me from getting bored.

Thanks again.

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