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13.Feb.2007 at 10:12 pm | Sunny
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Just released a 3 column version of Praca, a theme based in part on Blix and Blix Redux. This theme is widget ready, but works well just as is. The 3 column provides ample room to sort the navigation components and advertisements.
Well, at last I’ve found The template for me to work on!
Thanks for this and next…
@ Alex
Thanks for point out, yes there was a glitch and we fixed it, please download the updated version. Do let us know how it goes.
Hello. I have a problem with the template, when active widgets shortens the titles like archives, categories,meta…to me and all the titles of widgets. You have some solution?
thanks.
@ Noesh
I can’t see any problem on your site? The sidebar widgets and our sidebar uses h2 tags, are they not matching the design?
Hi,
I am now using a theme but would like to use Praca Redux and modify it slightly so it suits my needs better.
However, I have a small problem concerning the modification of the sidebar. First, can I modify your theme ? (off course I will keep the credits), In a second part, can I ask you some help with my sidebar ?
Yours sincerely,
Edouard Stenger
@ Edouard
Check your email. Yes, you can modify any of our theme as it suits you best.
Hi, how can i eliminate the top and the bottom grey margins. Tnx! J.
Hello, I really like your theme. I’m having trouble customizing Praca Redux to suit my needs. How do I:
1) increase the default font size in the entries?
2) widen the the overall margin of the layout and narrow the gaps btw the sidebars?
3) ‘the holly hack’ does not work in ie.
thanks in advance for your assistance. best, anh
@ Anh
1) Open style2.css and change this line for font szie:
body {
margin:0;
padding:15px 0;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:75%;
line-height:1.6em;
}
2) To reduce sidebar margin, go to this section in the same style2.css file:
/* subcontent
————————————————–*/
#subcontent1 {
float:right;
width:190px;
padding:15px 20px 0 15px;
font-size:0.9em;
line-height:1.5em;
}
* html #subcontent {padding-top:32px;} /* dirty fix for IEWIN; temporary! */
#subcontent ul, #subcontent p {margin:0 10px;}
#subcontent2 {
float:right;
width:190px;
padding:15px 20px 0 15px;
font-size:0.9em;
line-height:1.5em;
}
Hint: reduce the 20pc and 15px padding!
3) the holly hack?
Hi, thanks for the reply. The Holly Hack was mentioned in style2.css
* html #navigation a {width:1%;} /* see http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/escape-floats.html */
when I checked out that link, it referred the solution to the IE Floating Sidebar bug was called the Holly Hack.
I don’t think that its working as when you view my page in IE the top navigation link shift lower then when viewed in Firefox. It tried loading your theme von a new site with no entries and the same thing occur as well. Any reason for this? Thanks for the help!
@ Anh
I just noticed it on IE, You are right, the fix is not working! We usually check it with FF as well as IE before release, but this must have slipped through. I will try and find a work -around for that, if there is one.
[...] Praca Redux [...]
Downloaded the file, and extracted it. Read the instructions… says to uplaod the themes folder to the themes directory. Sounds easy enough… but the download had no themes directory? I am sure this is me… but how??
@ packfill
The folder that is extracted from zip is the themes folder, for example, in your case it will be the “pracaredux” folder, so:
1) Just remove the plugin folder from the pracaredux folder and move the contents of the plugin folder to the wp-content/plugins folder
2) upload the pracaredux folder to the wp-content/themes folder
That should do it!
@ packfill
Also, the top bar is an image, but it’s a tiny image that repeats along the x axis. You can replace it with a larger image, just make sure you have the bottom green bar included in it!
Thank you for all your help… Question on the image… What size should it be (as one image, not repeating) and do I need to change anything else in the css code to compensate for just one large (thin and wide?) image… Again, thanks. Your templates really are a cut above…
I’m also awaiting a fix for the grey bar in IE. In the meantime, I’ve noticed that the trackback url is not automatically being provided when sites ask for it.
I can manually add the URL and type in “trackback/” but that’s no fun.
I changed to pracaredux, and upgraded to the new WordPress at the same time, so I’m not sure which is causing this. I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this with the theme? I’ll be checking with WP forum but I thought I’d check here to weed out the theme first. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.
By the way, I am loving this theme! I also appreciate the logic with which your stylesheets are set up–makes it so easy for a non geek like me to tweak stuff. I’m not using widgets, cause the sheets are virtually plug and play already 
Thanks for all your hard work!
@ packfill
Ideally, the image should repeat, because if the browser resolution is larger, a fixed image will end at some point and will look incomplete.
Alternatively, you could use the stylesheet to add a floating image in place of the header text, open style2.css and look for this:
h1#blogname a
{
color:#FFFFFF;
font-size:1.3em;
font-weight:normal
}
Add these lines of code to it:
height:100px /* height of logo */
width:100px /* width of logo */
background:url(yourlogo.gif) no-repeat;
text-indent:-9000px;
So the end product should look like this:
h1#blogname a
{
color:#FFFFFF;
font-size:1.3em;
font-weight:normal
height:Xpx /* height of logo */
width:Ypx /* width of logo */
background:url(yourlogo.gif) no-repeat;
text-indent:-9000px;
}
Really, the color and font size codes should not matter since the text will not be visible.
Anyway, create a image that you want to have in place of the text heading of Xpx height and Ypx wide (replace X and Y in the stylesheet to your images height and width in pixel). Add this image to your images directory and you should now see the images in place of the text heading!
Let me know how it worked and send me your URL if possible.
@ Cardin
The trackback tag is not included in the single.php file. To add it, open single.php and add the code below within whereever you want the trackback URI to appear:
?php trackback_url(display); ?
I would place it right after the edit_post_link tag!
Hope it helps!
Hi there, love this theme! Only thing…is there a way to get the post titles to show up on single post pages? My site only has them on the main index pages…thanks so much!
THis is what I did… but no change in site?
h1#blogname a
{
color:#FFFFFF;
font-size:1.3em;
font-weight:normal
height:227px /* height of logo */
width:743px /* width of logo */
background:(images/skyline.gif) no-repeat;
text-indent:-9000px;
}
.description {
font-size: 0.9em;
color: #CAE972;
text-align: right;
height:24px;
padding-right:10px;
font-weight:bold;
height:100px /* height of logo */
width:100px /* width of logo */
background:url(images/skyline.gif) no-repeat;
text-indent:-9000px;
Hso,
Hi, thanks for your quick response. Per your suggestion the trackback URL now shows up at the bottom of a single post, but it still does not automatically fill in when I’m on a form at another site.
So now I have to manually put in the trackback URL. Do you know of a fix for this?
The kind of thing I’m talking about is, for example on blogcarnival.com. They ask you for your perm URL when you submit a post to a carnival. With my old theme, the trackback URL would then automatically pop up in the form on their site. But with pracaredux, it doesn’t get automatically filled in.
Hope I’m making sense, I’m kind of a newb.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
I have one more small issue:
Is it possible to make the number of items that show up in an archive/category view, not dependent on how many posts you have on a page?
I’d like to have one or two posts per page, but have 10 or so on the archive/category view.
Again, I hope in my newbie-ness that I’m making sense.
Okay!! I have made some progress… I got the image to display… but it appears as though the header color? is still appearing… My image is of the Seattle skyline at night and is very blue… but it shows as gray and kinda like an xray?
I love this template so any help you can offer is sre appreciated… thanks in advance!!
-pack
@ david
That is strange, I just checked the original files and it has the h2 header tag for headings in the single page. To check, open signle.php from WP Admin > Presentation > Theme Editor > and open Single Post (single.php) file and look for the h2 tag with the WP tag (below) for title within it:
?php the_title(); ?
Let me know what you find!
@ packfill
Both of your images are called skyline.gif, yest you define their size differently? Also, send me your URL for me to check, I might be able to better help you that way!
@ Cardin
For the comment regarding trackback, can you tell me what theme you were using and I could check to see how it auto-filled the forms?
As for the number of posts/archives are concerned, it is possible to make 2 posts show on the main page and 10 archive posts and such, but would require you use a conditional query in the index.php page, are you up for that?
Check the codex for some examples of conditional calls within a loop.
I sent you my url in both this form and in an email… thanks for your help!
@ packfill
It appears like your image is behind the background image. Try adding a position and z-index to the syle. Usually, you should chose something like this:
position:relative;
z-index:1000;
That will put your header image above your background image.
@ Anh and Cardin
While fixing packfills site, I discvered a quick fix for the IE header grey area issue, here it is:
Open style2.css and look for this:
#logo {
height:100px;
width:980px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
margin-top:0;
margin-bottom:0;
}
Add a line of code at the very top liek this:
_height:70px;
Although the underscore fix is not valid, it could be used to fix IE issues. So the resultant code should look like this:
#logo {
_height:70px;
height:100px;
width:980px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
margin-top:0;
margin-bottom:0;
}
Also, open header.php and delete these lines (will be between ):
h1 id=”blogname”
a href=”"
?php bloginfo(’name’); ?
/a
/h1
div class=”description”
?php bloginfo(’description’); ?
/div
That should shift the grey up and should look fine in IE. Check and let me know if it works for you!
Hi…this is what I found…Im guessing this is not what I should have found? Should I replace it with ?php the_title(); ?
@ David
I think the code you pasted got removed, do not include the when you paste PHP codes in your comments. As long as you are using single.php from the original theme file, you should be good.
sorry, this is what it says:
?php the_permalink() ? followed by title=”Permalink”
I am guessing this is not the way it should be heh? Should I just change at to your suggestion above? Since I never changed anything by hand, I am guessing some plug in is causing this. Thanks!
Thanks for the template, looks like I’m not the only one enjoying it. I have one issue though that i’d like to fix, but the CSS and layout is soo confusing. All I want to do is move the first side-bar, subcontent1 to the LEFT, so that i have one side-bar on the left and one on the right, is this reasonably possible? Could you or someone else who’s been workin on this theme help me out?
THanks!
-Chris
@ David
If you suspect plugin, the easiest thing to do is deactivate the plugins and check it makes any difference, if not, open the original theme files and copy paste everythig in single.php into your current file or simply replace it with the original file via FTP.
@ Chris Ward
Changing the CSS along will NOT make the one of the two sidebars to move left, you need to also make changes to the sidebar.php file. I requires a lot of hacking, both CSS and .php
I might make one of those if there is enough interest!
Crap…that’s what I was afraid of….I tried to hack it to pieces…both the css and sidebar…and that’s exactly what i got…pieces.
I would really be interested in having this theme with one sidebar to the left and one to the right.
Another question…how can I make the space between each of the sidebars and between the sidebar and the content less…I want to waste less screen-estate (my new word of the day) 
I’ve been hacking at this theme for almost a month, and it’s soooo confusing to me. I can’t figure out what’s relationed to what, and things just don’t work as I expect them too…
Thanks!
And please, would you send me a notice if you do end up releasing a new version of the Praca Redux with left and right sidebars?
I’ll send you notice if I end up getting it to work myself too.
Thanks, I reall appreciate it. You do great work with themes by the way.
-Chris
@ Chris
To reduce padding between elements and sidebars open style2.css and look for this:
#subcontent1 {
float:right;
width:190px;
padding:15px 20px 0 15px;
font-size:0.9em;
line-height:1.5em;
}
and
#subcontent2 {
float:right;
width:190px;
padding:15px 20px 0 15px;
font-size:0.9em;
line-height:1.5em;
}
In both instances, reduce the padding 20px to right and 15px to the left (padding is set clockwise -top, right, bottom and left).
And if I do release the theme, I will announce it on this site and on Theme Viewer.
Thanks! but i guess my issue is how do a make the Content section bigger. If i change the padding for the subcontents, that works, but when i change any of the #content properties like width or padding, i don’t see any noticable difference.
Any hints would be great. Again, Thanks!
-Chris
Well, nevermind, I found it using Firebug. A great firefox extension that i recently found.
The #content is sort of out of place…and i couldn’t seem to see it at first.
Thanks
How can I put the content in the middle, then on both sides, the two sidebars?
Great work, btw.
@ Affy
As commented earlier, the way to do it is hack both the CSS and php. I might work on it soon, I will make the announcement on this site.
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