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http://totalreikimastery.com is now live... I know it needs a bit of work, so any and all comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Duane

3 Things I need help with...

On the page http://totalreikimastery.com/reiki-styles/laughter-reiki/

1) The video display is whacky <technical term>

2) Smilies/Emoticons appear as text in a box

3) To the left of the main image and title there is an empty box where a google adsense unit is supposed to appear. They appear fine in all the other places.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Duane

  • littlkj5
  • Member
  • Posted 1 year ago #

1) Are you manually entering the code? May want to try the plugin Viper Video Quick Tags, works great on my site and easy to use.

2)Smilies/Emoticons don't even appear when I am about to leave a comment (not even in text box)

3)what is your sidebar code? This will help see what the problem is...could just be code not entered right (may want to recopy code and paste it there)

Suggestion: The tag cloud is cool but no user (in my opinion) will look through it.
2) Less ads, you are making it seem like ads are all you are wanting. If you ever get ad request from sites to display their banner then thats all good but not so many from one site (adsense, google ads, etc)
3)Make top bar flush with search. Makes it look cleaner (so either get rid of pages or manually enter code)
4)Maybe a new banner?

Just ideas.

Looking good, Duane, sorry I somehow hadn't seen this post before.

1) What littlekj5 said. For some reason the video is wrapped in height and width parameters -

<span class="vvqbox vvqyoutube" style="width: 350px; height: 304px;">

2) Emoticon preferences can be set in the control panel

3) For the other Google ads, are you just pasting the custom code into a text widget?

Thanks for the feedback guys!

1) Yes, I'm using Viper Video Quick Tags... as you can see I've switched it to a self-hosted flv and the result is the same. I've tried different sizes and settings and it keeps doing the same thing.

2) I've set emoticons in the control panel, and it is ticked to convert them, but for some reason it won't. There are no other emoticon plugins installed but something seems to be blocking it.

3) Using the Google AdSense sidebar widget (basically a glorified text widget).

Re: littlkj5's comments... the tag cloud just looks cool, but you're right about its functionality. I've taken your advice and dropped one of the google ads (the one that wasn't working) and I think its better that way. Where exactly would I (re)code the top bar code to chop it down and include external pages, etc. Prolly in header.php... are there any scripts around for that? What exactly is wrong with the banner? The center image? Just not cool? What was the first thing that struck you about it?

Thanks again!!!

UPDATE:

1) I've tried several FLV plugins, none of them work, the closest was FLV embed which managed to get it in the right location, but then the video wouldn't play, so I switched to a direct youtube link which is working fine until I get a workaround.

2) Smilies are still whacky... when I enter the direct code :-) I get the smiley, but it is in a box as well... never seen anything like this...

3) sidebar widget is sorted... I removed it...

Any ideas about the smilies? Its baffling!!

  • littlkj5
  • Member
  • Posted 1 year ago #

I have no idea about the video.
Try and use the quicktags on your first site (the one your name is associated with) and see if it works there.

Much better on removing the advertising on the left side and putting a newsletter.

I have no idea about the emoticons, maybe look for a different plugin? Do you think it is necessary to even have them? Will users actually use them?

Are you going to center the google ad at the top?

Video and smilies both work perfectly in every other theme I try... so the problem is definitely theme based.

I'd like to center the google ad at the top, it coded directly into the single.php.... not sure of the code to do so.

Also like to customize the main menu bar... not sure where to do that either.

Thanks again for the help littlkj5!

  • littlkj5
  • Member
  • Posted 1 year ago #

I really have no idea about the video, can you manually embed the code from youtube? Does it work?

For centering google code do this:
Try putting <div align="center">GOOGLE AD CODE</div>
or <div style="align:center;">GOOGLE AD CODE</div>
or <div style="text-align:center;">GOOGLE AD</div.
Let me know of any of those work.

Okay so if you want to change your menu bar go into your theme editor and click header.php
Go to this link: http://uploading.com/files/3MRD42X1/nav.txt.html
It wouldn't let me put the code on here.

Hope it helps.

  • littlkj5
  • Member
  • Posted 1 year ago #

I added: <div id="navbar" class="clearfloat"> on accident to that file. Ignore that.

DUDE!! You totally rock!!!

  • littlkj5
  • Member
  • Posted 1 year ago #

Looking a lot better man.

One thing you need to change though: (http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a361/littlkj5/prob.png)
As you can see from the picture you can see the title is missing on your page. To change that go to your header.php file and add this to it:

<title><?php
//Smart and SEO-friendly titles!
if ( is_single() ) {
wp_title('');
echo (' | ');
bloginfo('name');

} else if ( is_page() || is_paged() ) {
bloginfo('name');
wp_title('|');

} else if ( is_author() ) {
bloginfo('name');
wp_title(' | Archive for ');

} else if ( is_archive() ) {
bloginfo('name');
echo (' | Archive for ');
wp_title('');

} else if ( is_search() ) {
bloginfo('name');
echo (' | Search Results');

} else if ( is_404() ) {
bloginfo('name');
echo (' | 404 Error (Page Not Found)');

} else if ( is_home() ) {
bloginfo('name');

} else {
bloginfo('name');
echo (' | ');
echo (''.$blog_longd.'');
}
?></title>

You can edit that code however you want so it displays whatever you watn.

Ah... SEO software wasn't working right... it is now! :-)

Just noticed that under "Recent Stories" on the homepage, the top story isn't showing... just half of the icon. Currently it is set to show seven, and only 6 appear... no matter what I set it to it will show one less.

Any way to get rid of the border around the RSS feed logo on the menu bar? It makes it too wide.

Still not having any luck with the smilies... :-( they work fine with other themes... just not this one...

Thanks again littlkj5

  • Ben
  • Ben
  • Posted 1 year ago #

for the smileys add

.wp-smiley{ border:none; }

to your stylesheet. I will add this to the core theme as well so that it's fixed for everyone on the next release.

  • littlkj5
  • Member
  • Posted 1 year ago #

Good to hear that the SEO is working now.

For Recent Stories make sure your code for it is:

<div id="recent">
[h3]Just <span>Posted</span>[/h3]

<?php query_posts('showposts=7'); ?>
[li][?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?] [a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"][?php the_title(); ?][/a][/li]
<?php endwhile; ?>

</div>
(change [ ] to < >)

For your RSS feed, I don't see what your asking. When I view your site it looks right. Since it is in the nav bar when you hover over the icon it will turn dark blue.

Smilies: Do what Ben said, he knows all about Mimbo Pro

Hi Ben,

That change did nothing... I tried adding:

img.wp-smiley {
border:0;
float:none;
padding:0;
margin:0
}

And that eliminated the border, but its still floating left, or not staying in line or something whacky...

Hi littlkj5,

That would not display any results at all, just the title and the a half of the icon that is displaying now.

For the RSS, I thought the hover action caused it to widen the nav bar... not really a problem as is, thought it might look better if the nav bar was narrower.

Thanks again!

  • Ben
  • Ben
  • Posted 1 year ago #

Oh - I thought the border was the issue. In that case add "display:inline;" to the css and it will be part of the sentence

Bingo!!! That did the trick :-)

Thanks!!!

I'm guessing that recent posts format error has to do with

    formatting in the css stylesheet somewhere... but I may be wrong...

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