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20.Aug.2006 at 2:12 am | hso
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I am pleased to announce the release of K2 Redux-Warhol theme. This customizable theme provides the options of black and white page colors using K2 backend and header picture from my wife’s paintings!
@ Matt
The first part of the question: No I did not experience that issue, ever. Send me your sidebar.php file in a txt format via email, I will check it.
Second part, yes you can, there are many ways around it;
1) You could include a code in your index.php file to show posts from just one category, and use that cat posts to have a just one post welcoming visitors.
2) You could modify the index.php file to not include any posts, and have your welcome message right in that file, but this would require some hack skills.
If you go the first route, you should mod your index.php code (the first 3 line) to look like this (11 lines). Change the cat=1 to whatever the category your welcome posts would be.
< ? php
/*
Template Name: News Page
*/
? >
< ? php get_header(); ? >
< div class="content" >
< div id="primary" >
< ? php >
query_posts(’cat=1′);
?>
I have deliberately introduced space between the < and ? to prevent it from executing in the comment!
Hi! I’ve downloaded this theme (and love it!) Was wanting to do a tiny customization. I’d like to change the background to a pattern I have. I thought I found the correct background in the style sheet, but, ah, nope.
Is this possible? If so, please how?
hey there!
love your theme and am almost done customizing it, but i have a question or two. if you take a look at my site, i managed to remove the site admin button on the right side of the screen, however now i can’t find where i did that so i can put it back hehe
also i managed to change the button on the homepage, but it still remains on the post pages, so how would i change it on them? ok finally(i know, i know this makes three ?’s)the page title shows up as “etc. etc. etc. at” where can i change that?
other than that (i think that’s enough) cheers for your fabulous theme!
regards,
christie
@ Christie
The admin button code needs to be in the header.php file below the wp_list_pages code. Use the original admin (wp_register) code.
I am not sure what button you are talking about, it appears like “well, well, well” is a page, not a post! Please write a more detailed question and I will be able to help better.
i replaced the theme with an original download and have just changed the main header so far. the site admin tab on far right is back…how do i change that to link to something else?
and also if you look at the left sidebar i now have a repeat of the categories and archives at the bottom….where are my links and blogroll options or are there not any with this theme?
and if you click on any of the pages like well, well, well, submit, mission etc. it says for example Mission at on the top of the window you’re in. does that make sense? i can send a screenshot if you want to see it.
cheers!
ok weird. i replaced the header.php wth the original and the site admin tab was there. i changed some stuff in the style.css and now it’s gone? but i didn’t change anything that had to do with the siteadmin, however it still shows up on the other pages, just not the home page.
@ Christie
You can not use the admin tab to point elsewhere, it is a WP tag and not a HML code. If you want something like the admin button, and want it to point to another link, simply add HTML code like
href=”http://whatever.com” mce_href=”http://whatever.com”
and use the style
li class=”admintab”
That will put the button where the admin tab is, unless you messed up the stylesheet, in which case you need to go back to the original stylesheet.
If you do not tell me what changes you made to the stylesheet, I cam unable to tell you how to fix it. If you do not know what you changed in the stylesheet, then we are out of luck!
This theme has all the bells and whistles, so you should be able to get the blogroll and archives and there is no way you should have a repeat of categories, at least that is how the original theme is!
Hi,
I have downloaded the K2 Redux-Warhol theme. I try to add a button “login” or “logout” near the “site admin” button on the right side of the screen. Users now can see only the “register” button and not the “login” button. Is possible to add it?
I have try with this code:
‘ . $user_identity . ‘‘) ?> /wp-login.php?action=logout” title=”"> »
but don’t work.
@ Manual
Try using this code between a < and >:
?php wp_loginout('< li class="admintab" >‘,’< /li >‘); ?
Remove space between < or > and text
or refer to this:
Hello!
I’ve downloaded and installed this theme. However, there seems to be something wrong. When I choose it as my theme, I get an error on line 108. What have I done wrong?
Kind regards and thank you in advance
José
I love sports so much I blog all day about it. My wife is ready to divorce me cause I just cant get past my sunday ticket. Hahahaha
Anyway, I love reading about this!
@ Jose
That is strange, never heard that one before. What happens when you activate other themes? Send me your URL.
Thank you for replying swiftly. The message does not appear when I activate other themes. Do you have an e-mail address?
Regards,
J
Hi hso,
Thank you for your theme! I have a problem with the sidebar only in Explorer. It’s on linde 108. The sidebar is at the bottom of the page. could you please take a look at my site? thanks.
hi everybody.
I have a little problem over here on my school’s blog which runs your great theme.
please take a look at http://www.campivisivi.net/blog/?page_id=260
now here’s the problem: we have the “TATAMI” section, which you see on the page, and which is displayed as a page in the top navigation bar. so far so good.
but I need to have several of these “TATAMI” pages (it will be a monthly issue), so I need to create new pages but I don’t want them to be created as “master section” pages (which means they will be visible as navigation sections).
is there a way to do this?
my flow would be like this:
home-> click on TATAMI-> see the TATAMI page with TATAMI01/TATAMI02/TATAMI03/etc. links-> I click one of these links and I arrive to that page. but this page doesn’t have to be visible on the main navigation links (only TATAMI have to be displayed).
any help is appreciated, I can’t find a workaround for this issue.
thank you in advance!
@ Raffa
Nice mod. Yes you can do what you want by simply creating child pages under “TATAMI” and it wil not show as a nav, but when clicked will show as nav on the left sidebar. Hope it helps.
@ hso
thank you! that was so easy. I looked through WP codex pages and then I edited my pages.
http://www.campivisivi.net/blog/?page_id=260
I now have everything in its place 
thank you again, K2 redux rox
thanks for the great themes. one question. i’ve been using k2redux warhol, but have been using it as a scheme rather than a theme– meaning i dropped it in the ’styles’ folder in my k2 theme folder and then selected it as a style in k2options. everything seems fine…am i headed for disaster?
thanks!
tchandler
@ tchandler
If it is working I see no reaosn for it to cause any future issues!
Dear HSO,
I managed to mess up my sidebar and had to reinstall my theme K2-Redux, Warhol White. However previously I had managed to change the page border from gray to black, I cannot seem to recreate this feat this time. Could you tell me where I would make such an edit?
I’m back with one last question. Is it possible/easy/doable to change this layout into a 3 column layout? I have so much in my sidebar that it would be nice to spread them out.
@ Liana
You can, if you really want to attempt redoing your theme, I suggest you download a 3 column version of our K2 redux as a starting theme. If you want to employ our services, email me!
Hi,
I am using this theme but I have one issue. I signed up for a flickr account and tried to connect it to my website, but no matter what, the display on the flickr widget ONLY shows the preloaded pictures from Headsetoptions. How can I connect it to my account?
@ Hasan
Flickr images are not pre-loaded, it uses a simple JavaScript to draw images from Flickr based on tags.
To change the tags to show you own images, create a Flickr account (which I guess you did), add your images and tags them all something unique. Then:
- Open sidebar.php using WP or a text editor like notepad
- Find the Flickr script
- Change “tag=art” to “tag=yourtag” “yourtag” being your own unique tag
Done.
This is the code I currently have in the sidebar php. I removed the tag=3k2reduxScreenshot bit, but when I did that, I get other random images and when I put my own tags, I couldn’t see my own pictures there. Do I need to change anything with the “RANDOM” or “ALL_TAGS” bit? How does this work?
My Flickr
My Flickr
I dont know why I cant paste my code. Grrr..
@ hasan
All you need to change is the tag, if it does not work, check your Flickr account and see if when you type your tag in the search, your images actually show up!
Hi HSO,
Something seems to have gone wrong with my password protected posts. The box for entering the passwords is fine for the post. However no one is able to comment. There is a line that says “enter password to view comments” but there is no box to enter the password. Is there some fix for this? I see this problem on a lot of blogs, but mine used to be OK several months ago, though now it isn’t.
hi,
How do i remove the site admin button and how do i adjust the width of the comment to make it bigger and also reduce the width of the sidebar..
Sorry im really new with css
@ Jerry
To remove admin button, open header.php and delete this line which will be between
?php wp_register(”,”); ?
To increase comment area, simply reduce the sidebar area (the comment box is set to 100%, which means as the primary area increases in szie, so will the comment box). To reduce sidebar area, open style.css and find these pieces of codes:
#primary {
width: 450px !important;
_width: 450px !important;
float: right;
margin: 0 25px 0 5px !important;
_margin: 0 25px 0 5px !important;
display: inline;
}
.secondary {
font: 1em/1.5em ‘Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
padding: 10px 0 10px!important;
margin: 0 0 20px 25px !important;
width: 250px !important;
_padding: 10px 0 10px !important;
_margin-left: 2%;
_margin-right: 2%;
_width: 250px !important;
float: left;
color: #666;
position: relative;
}
.sidebar {
margin: 0;
width: 250px !important;
_width: 250px;
float: left !important;
padding: 0 9px 0 9px !important;
_padding: 10px 0 10px !important;
_margin-left: 2%;
_margin-right: 2%;
}
Increase the width in #primary, decrease the width in both .secondary and #sidebar by the same px value. For example, if you increase the width in #primary from 450px to 500px, decrease the width in .secondary and #sidebar form 250px to 200px, get it!
it works, thx!
sorry im very technically incompetent..
Do you know how can i place google adsense just under the banner?
@ Jerry
I am guessing you need it in the priomary area (above content). Open index.php, copy and paste the adsense code right below this line which will be between < and >
div id=”primary”
above this line code
?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/theloop.php’); ?
That might work, try it. I am trying not to get you to meddle with theloop.php file, hence this alternative, tell me if it works.
Hi headsetop,
ive done that, but i realise the ads are only above the content, is it possible for it to be above both the content and the sidebar?
1 last final qn for the night, i realise that for your template, when i click any of the category, it only display all the post that were in that category in a summarize form.. is it possible to display the whole post instead of the summary?
@ Jerry
Open theloop.php and search for this line:
?php if ( is_archive() or is_search() or (function_exists(’is_tag’) and is_tag()) ) {
the_excerpt();
Change the the_excerpt(); to the_content(); and you should get the full post!
hso,
i realise the google ads only appear on the home page, is it possible for it to appear on every page and post?
hi hso,
i have 2 questions.. =)
1) how do i change the colour of the hyperlinks
2) and how do i remove the border from images that are uploaded onto the blog
Thx in advance..!
@ Jerry
1) To change the color of hyperlinks, open style.css and find this code:
a {
color: #7D5B56;
text-decoration: none;
}
and change the color from #7D5B56 to whatever you want!
2) To remove border around images in posts, open style.css and look for this code:
#primary .itemtext img {
margin: 0 5px;
padding: 4px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
max-width: 100%;
}
and change the border: 1px solid #ccc; to border: none;
hso,
done that, however i realise the hyperlink for the links on the sidebar changed colour too.. is it possible to only change the colour of the hyperlink for the content and retain the colour of the sidebar links as its default?
mm..nvm.. i think i’ll stick with the same colour hyperlink.. btw i was looking thru the style.css and i was trying to change the font and colour of the font for the post.. but couldn’t quite do it..
so i’ll like to know how do i change font type and font for the post?
btw, am i flooding your comment page? really sorry about it.. is there another way of talking to you? like a email or something..
really sorry about it
@ Jerry
You are fine here, your questions might serve other trying to do the same mods.
To change the font, open style.css and on the top of the sheet you will see this:
body {
font: 62.5% ‘Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; /* Resets 1em to 10px */
color: #444;
background: #EDEDED;
text-align: center;
margin: 0 0 30px;
}
That defines the font size, font type followed by it’s color. Change away!
ahh!
then how do i shift the add a comment link from the top of the post to the end of the post???
@ Jerry
That is tricky, first make a copy of your theloop.php file. Then open theloop.php file and look for this:
small class=”metadata”
You should have it in two instances, the metadata is the one that calls for “published by” and “comments”.
If you want to move all of it from under the header to the bottom of the post, then copy the whole metadata div and paste it following the the_content and once more below the_excerpt loop tag. If you do not know what a loop is and want to learn more, visit WP Codex.
hi hso,
i realise on my sidebar that there is a unordered list for my links..
how do i remove the unordered list?
@ Jerry
Unfortunately, in WP, the get_links_list tag is automatically generated inside of headings and ordered list! Check codex for more info. In my opinion the best way out is to try the wp_get_linksbyname (which for some reason has been deprecated!). But if you are using the older version of WP (2.0.x) you could still use it.
Hi again,
i’m wondering if its possible to have a bullet for each post under Recent post found in the sidebar?
@ Jerry
You mean like a unordered list?
If so, you will need to place the recent posts tag that calls for the heading within a ul and li. Are you using widgets?
@ Jerry
Try this. Open style.css and look for this:
.secondary ul li {
list-style-type: none;
list-style-image: none;
}
Then make the none for list-style-type to square or round. That should do it!
@ Jerry
Try this, copy and paste this into your style.css and let me kno wif it works:
#recent-posts ul li {
list-style-type: round;
}
Hello,
I love the structure of the Warhol theme, but am trying to make some minor modifications to personalize my blog. I have made some changes on my own, but can’t seem to figure out a few things and would greatly appreciate your help. Here goes:
1) Side bar - would like to add “Search” as a header (treatment would be like Latest or Archives) above the search bar. How and where do I need to do this?
2) I would like the publish date to show up at the top of the post, only as the date (formatted like “August 14, 2007″), so that if I have multiple posts in a day, all of them would show up under the 1 date listed. Also, under the post, I’d like to show “Posted at [time]“. Is this possible, or is it a major modification?
3) I would like to change the format of how the Comments show per post - so rather than “5 Comments” I would like it to appear as “Comments (5)”. Is that possible?
4) In the posts, I want to move Comments to the bottom of the post (with time posted, if that’s possible). Can’t seem to figure this out.
5) I’d like to hide the list of categories showing per post, but can’t find this in the code.
Sorry for the laundry list, I’ve spent 2 weeks trying to find these things and mostly have succeeded in just breaking things! Thanks in advance for your help.
-Jen
@ Jen
All items on your list are possible (some partly), but is quite a task to write in a comment, I’ll list the simple ones here, for the rest email me (using the contact page) along with your site URL and I will write back later tomorrow.
1) Open sidebar.php file, look for this:
<div class="sb-search">
<h2><?php _e('Search','k2_domain'); ?></h2>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
</div>
Move the h2 elemts outside the sbsearch div like below:
<h2><?php _e('Search','k2_domain'); ?></h2>
<div class="sb-search">
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
</div>
The rest of the changes are done in theloop.php and I think it’s best if you emailed me for this info!
Hello hso - I emailed my other changes last week on the contact page and haven’t heard from anyone yet. Anybody there?
-Jen
@ Jen Louie
I emailed back. I am on the road and will be a few days before I can get to it.
Hi,
I’m back to bug you. Things were going well until I decided to add Gravatars to my comments. Now the comments spill over outside the comments box. The Gravatar people said that I should change the comment box width to 80 pixels, but I’m clearly too stupid to manage this. Would you be able to help me?
@ Liana
The width is set at 100%, so there is no way to increase it further.
So there is no way to get the comment text to remain in the comment box?
@ Liana
The theme comes styled for gravatar, did you add any CSS style when you inserted gravatars?
Here’s the style in your style.css:
.comments #commentlist li img.gravatar {
float: right; margin: -5px 0 0;}
As for as I know, I didn’t add any CSS. I looked in style.css and see exactly what you have above written there. Yet for some reason the text is still coming out of the text box. I’m not sure what gives.
Exactly! I used WP-Gravatars. Today I just upgraded to the most recent release.
I just noticed something interesting. The text stays within the boxes in IE but not in Firefox.
Hello HSO:
I went to the WP-Gravatar support forum for help with this. They said that there is a problem with the theme. Gravatar works fine with the original K2 theme but does not seem to work with my version and Firefox. I was told to come back to the theme developer. 
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1. Matt | September 2, 2006 #
Hi-
I have downloaded and am trying to customize (a little) the K2 Redux-Warhol theme. I get it to work quite well. However, when I try to customize the side bar (sidebar.php), I get an error message in the side bar when I view the site:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘}’ in \\nas30ent\domains\t\test.gml-law.com\user\htdocs\wp-content\themes\k2redux\sidebar.php on line 320
The “unexpected ‘}’” appears somewhere between lines 308-320 each time. However, when I say customize, I literally am changing your “Redux-Warhol” h2 label to “Search” or removing two tags. Not heavy things. Nor am I added ‘{’ items that would throw off the ‘}’ bracket. Is this something you’ve experienced, developing this? Currently, the site is on “test.gml-law.com”.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
My second question is: Is there a way to have the “home” page/tab be a welcome page and move the blog to another page/tab?
Thanks in advance.