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Andrea Mignolo replied on September 12, 2009 17:05 to the question "Moving "Read The Rest Of This Entry" to follow last word of excerpt." in Mignolo:

Hi Jeff,

To display the 'read more' link inline with the paragraph, you need to modify two files, index.php and style.css.

In index.php, look for the following line:

<?php the_content('» Read the rest of this entry «'); ?>

Replace that with:

<?php remove_filter ('the_content', 'wpautop'); ?>
<?php the_content(__('» Read the rest of this entry «'));?>


In style.css look for the following snippet:


.entry a.more-link {
border:0 none;
color:#666666;
display:block;
font-size:1.2em;
font-variant:small-caps;
font-weight:normal;
margin:1em auto;
text-align:center;
text-transform:none;
}


And replace that with:


.entry a.more-link {
color: #666;
font-variant: small-caps;
font-size: 1.2em;
border: 0;
text-align: center;
text-transform: none;
font-weight: normal;
display: inline;
}


Let me know if you run into any problems :)

Cheers,

Andrea

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Andrea Mignolo replied on September 12, 2009 16:44 to the question "question" in Mignolo:

Hi Eugenia!

In style.css, look for the following snippet:

#main_feature img, #home_content img, .post_entry img, #content img, #single img {
background: #000;
padding: 1px;
}


Simply change the padding value to 0 and the border should disappear :)

Thanks for using Ocular Professor, I'm glad you like it!

Andrea

Andrea Mignolo replied on August 23, 2009 05:16 to the question "Help with Navigation and Oulipo's appearance on a PC" in Mignolo:

Hi Rich,

I'm sorry for not replying sooner, was off on a mini-vacation with my mother on gorgeous Vancouver Island!

So, to answer your questions:

1) Yes, you can display child pages in the navigation sidebar but you'll have to make a few tweaks to do so. The first change you'll need to make is in header.php. Look for this line:
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1'); ?>

That snippet tells WordPress to list out the pages you've created, and the depth parameter dictates if child pages are shown or not. Change the depth to 2 and save your file. You'll also need to add the following lines to style.css so that the child pages don't look crazy and out of place:

#main_nav ul li ul { margin: 0 0 4px 10px;}
#main_nav ul li ul li { border-bottom: 0;}


2) Unfortunately, font-rending on PCs is out of the control of ordinary web technologies used to make a page. The typography of the site was built on a Mac, not specifically for Mac audiences, but that is where it truly shines. As web approaches to licensing and using a wider range of fonts matures, there may be emerging solutions that will target the problem of typography on PCs, but until then PCs will render differently, and generally less spectacularly, than Macs. I completely feel your pain on this one.

With regards to poetry, I do read it when someone lends or gifts me a book of poetry. Not exactly voracious, but that's not to say I don't like it! I would be very interested to read your book should you decide to use Oulipo and find the time to send it! Thanks so much for the offer and consideration.

Let me know how the tweaks go and if you have any more questions or run into further problems.

Cheers,

Andrea

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Andrea Mignolo replied on August 08, 2009 16:40 to the problem "Image Caption Text Colour" in Mignolo:

Hi Jawker,

To change the caption color in Oulipo, open style.css and look for this line:

#entry_content .caption {
color:#666666;
font-size:0.85em;
margin:-2.4em 2em 1.5em 0;
text-align:center;
}

Change the color value to the hex of your chooseing (for a darker grey try #333333).

Let me know if you have any other questions!

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Andrea Mignolo replied on July 21, 2009 02:18 to the question "Sidebar question" in Mignolo:

Hi Owen,

To activate certain widgets on certain pages, you'll have to build out a number of customizable widget areas in sidebar.php and functions.php, and then populate those widgets via the admin interface. This is not currently in the scope of what Oulipo offers. If you'd like to take a foray into customizing widget areas, take a look at Auttomatic's intro to widgetizing:

http://automattic.com/code/widgets/th...

You'll need to combine that with conditional tags to target the right pages:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditiona...

I'm sorry I can't be of further help in the customization you are looking for. Those resources should be two good places to start.

Cheers,

Andrea

Andrea Mignolo replied on July 21, 2009 02:11 to the problem "Image Caption Text Colour" in Mignolo:

Hi Jawker,

Sorry for the delaying in responding to you - work has been keeping me exceptionally busy. Which theme is your comment in reference to? I'd be happy to show you where to change it, and perhaps change the default theme settings for future releases as well.

Thanks for taking the time to comment - feedback helps the themes become better for everyone!

Cheers,

Andrea

Andrea Mignolo replied on July 21, 2009 02:09 to the problem "smiley outline in posts" in Mignolo:

Hi Thibaut,

Which theme are you having these issues with? Get Satisfaction has restructured the site a bit and I'm having difficulty determining which theme questions and help requests are referencing!

If you are using Oulipo, that issue has been fixed in version 1.0.6. If you are using a different theme, please let me know which so that I can fix it!

Thanks :)

Andrea

Andrea Mignolo replied on July 21, 2009 02:06 to the problem "Hanami Side Bar Photo Widget Issue" in Mignolo:

Hey Tim,

I just looked at the site - were you able to get the widget working (I see a photo and text in the sidebar - not sure if this is the widget in question or not). Let me know and if not I'll start troubleshooting.

Cheers :)

Andrea

Andrea Mignolo replied on July 21, 2009 02:01 to the question "Regarding Internet Explorer and left side bar" in Mignolo:

Hi Carlos,

Which version of IE are you viewing the theme in, and in which operating system? The resizing issue has to do with IE and pixel sizing - units will have to be converted to ems instead of pixels. Unfortunately this is not just a simple search and replace - it will take some finessing to get the sizing down correctly.

To move the left menu a bit higher, open your style.css file and look for #main_nav. You'll want to edit the margin property - 9em is the top margin right now, so adjust that to 8em or maybe 7em until you find the right fit.

Let me know what browser and OS you are having the other issues in and we'll troubleshoot the problem.

Andrea Mignolo replied on July 21, 2009 00:25 to the question "Want child pages NOT to appear in the top subnav menu" in Mignolo:

Hi Tom,

Apologies for the delayed response (apologies to everyone who has asked a question in the last several weeks) - work has been keeping me really busy.

To restricted the top-level pages to just the top-level categories, look for this line in header.php:

<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>

and change it to:

<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1'); ?>

Setting the depth to 1 will tell it not to display child pages in the nav listing. Let me know if you have any problems!

Cheers,

Andrea