I’m working on a site for our mom-and-pop literary magazine, trying to use your awesome Comet template, and having some trouble…
I appreciate ANY help you can be; I know you made this freely available and don’t have any obligation to lend support. I really hate even asking… Usually I’d just try another template, but I’ve really fallen in love with this one and want to make it work.
The only code I’ve tweaked so far is the padding around the header image, nothing else. I plan to set this site up with mostly static pages, including a static page front (Home or Current Issue, maybe) and a single post page (Blog).
My troubles are that I cannot seem to get:
a) several of the static pages to show my custom header (it’s just not there!)
b) rid of the default pages that were there when WordPress installed (i.e., Home, About, etc… when I mass-deleted all the WP sample pages, added my own, and tried viewing them in a browser, I found that they’re wearing slugs like “about-3″, which won’t go away even after I delete the pages entirely, recreate new ones, and try to manually name the slugs through the WP admin.)
c) I’m sure it’s related to the above, but there are TWO home links showing in the nav bar. I’ve fixed this before by altering the code in another theme I’m using on a totally different site, but can’t figure out which of the many Comet files I’d have to change to do it here, too — which header is the real header?
Actually, that may be the whole question… where the heck is the code for the headers in general? I’ve found about ten logical guesses, but am afraid of changing too much and breaking the theme.
Oy. Sorry for my ignorance, and thanks again for any help you’d take the time to give. I truly appreciate your sharing your hard work with total strangers and helping our sites to be visually cool even when we (read: I) have so little knowledge of how to create a site otherwise.
Your problems:
a) the problem is that you are using a relative URL and not an absolute. Relative is fine on the front page, but when you go down a directory (or, in this case, a page) it won’t show up. Some info about relative/absolute URLs: http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/design/relative_and_absolute_urls.php3
b) you should be able to manually change the slug of the page after you have create it. If you can’t, there probably is a page with that slug already existing.
c) the first home link is manually added into the menu. You can remove that either by hiding it via the theme options page, or by going into header.php and removing that line.
And header.php is where you make all the changes for the header, except the logo/blog title+ description, those you edit in the functions.php since it’s integrated into the theme options.
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TracyLucas
/ March 22, 2010Hi, and thanks for a simply beautiful layout!
I’m working on a site for our mom-and-pop literary magazine, trying to use your awesome Comet template, and having some trouble…
I appreciate ANY help you can be; I know you made this freely available and don’t have any obligation to lend support. I really hate even asking… Usually I’d just try another template, but I’ve really fallen in love with this one and want to make it work.
The only code I’ve tweaked so far is the padding around the header image, nothing else. I plan to set this site up with mostly static pages, including a static page front (Home or Current Issue, maybe) and a single post page (Blog).
My site is: http://www.smashcakemagazine.com
My troubles are that I cannot seem to get:
a) several of the static pages to show my custom header (it’s just not there!)
b) rid of the default pages that were there when WordPress installed (i.e., Home, About, etc… when I mass-deleted all the WP sample pages, added my own, and tried viewing them in a browser, I found that they’re wearing slugs like “about-3″, which won’t go away even after I delete the pages entirely, recreate new ones, and try to manually name the slugs through the WP admin.)
c) I’m sure it’s related to the above, but there are TWO home links showing in the nav bar. I’ve fixed this before by altering the code in another theme I’m using on a totally different site, but can’t figure out which of the many Comet files I’d have to change to do it here, too — which header is the real header?
Actually, that may be the whole question… where the heck is the code for the headers in general? I’ve found about ten logical guesses, but am afraid of changing too much and breaking the theme.
Oy. Sorry for my ignorance, and thanks again for any help you’d take the time to give. I truly appreciate your sharing your hard work with total strangers and helping our sites to be visually cool even when we (read: I) have so little knowledge of how to create a site otherwise.
Thanks!
~~Tracy
Matt
/ March 23, 2010Your problems:
a) the problem is that you are using a relative URL and not an absolute. Relative is fine on the front page, but when you go down a directory (or, in this case, a page) it won’t show up. Some info about relative/absolute URLs: http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/design/relative_and_absolute_urls.php3
b) you should be able to manually change the slug of the page after you have create it. If you can’t, there probably is a page with that slug already existing.
c) the first home link is manually added into the menu. You can remove that either by hiding it via the theme options page, or by going into header.php and removing that line.
And header.php is where you make all the changes for the header, except the logo/blog title+ description, those you edit in the functions.php since it’s integrated into the theme options.
TracyLucas
/ March 26, 2010Oh my gosh, thank you soooo much.
You make all of this sound so simple. :)
All better — thanks a zillion!