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#1 (permalink)   05-20-2008 White Rose Active Member Company name: Brevos   Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Michigan Posts: 871 Need help in editing a WordPress template Hello, I am currently working on a WordPress theme that needs to be edited. On the page, you would see "contact" button and click on it. Once clicked, an email would pop up for you to type away. However, it does not automatically insert the any email address. How do I fix that? Thank you in advance! __________________ Brenda A. Jones www.brevos.com

#2 (permalink)   05-20-2008 Brianna Young Junior Member Small Business Design Blog: RescueTime - Indie Business Productivity   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 279 Re: Need help in editing a WordPress template Hi Brenda! Are you trying to create a link that automatically links to an email address? Am I understanding that correctly? __________________ Brianna Young, VA and Graphic Artist www.virtualsolutionsadmin.com "It's not the piano that makes beautiful music. It's the person sitting AT the piano!"

#3 (permalink)   05-20-2008 White Rose Active Member Company name: Brevos   Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Michigan Posts: 871 Re: Need help in editing a WordPress template I think so. If you go to www.deafprofessionalfocus.com and click on the contact button on top with green icon, you'd have an email pop up and not see an address for the writer to send email to. __________________ Brenda A. Jones www.brevos.com

#4 (permalink)   05-20-2008 White Rose Active Member Company name: Brevos   Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Michigan Posts: 871 Re: Need help in editing a WordPress template Another thing that I need to fix is the subscribe as well, when we click on it. it just takes you to a page that's nonexisting. I'd also love to fix the size of fonts as well, its tiny and the links are pale green which can be hard to read. What you think? __________________ Brenda A. Jones www.brevos.com

#5 (permalink)   05-20-2008 VagabondetteVA Junior Member Latest blog post: The Benefits Of Personal Time Management   Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Currently in Portland, OR Posts: 418 Re: Need help in editing a WordPress template Are you using one of the contact form plug-ins? That might be the easiest way to do this... __________________ Amanda Moore Virtual Assistant VagabondetteVA Blog

#6 (permalink)   05-20-2008 White Rose Active Member Company name: Brevos   Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Michigan Posts: 871 Re: Need help in editing a WordPress template No, I haven't heard of it until now. I will go and check it out now . Thanks for the tip. __________________ Brenda A. Jones www.brevos.com

#7 (permalink)   05-20-2008 VagabondetteVA Junior Member Latest blog post: The Benefits Of Personal Time Management   Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Currently in Portland, OR Posts: 418 Re: Need help in editing a WordPress template Oh yeah. Go check out the plug-ins section. There are hundreds of them already written which will probably do anything you could think of doing. __________________ Amanda Moore Virtual Assistant VagabondetteVA Blog

#8 (permalink)   05-20-2008 Brianna Young Junior Member Small Business Design Blog: RescueTime - Indie Business Productivity   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 279 Re: Need help in editing a WordPress template I agree with Amanda - you'll get a lot less spam using the plugins! __________________ Brianna Young, VA and Graphic Artist www.virtualsolutionsadmin.com "It's not the piano that makes beautiful music. It's the person sitting AT the piano!"

#9 (permalink)   05-20-2008 White Rose Active Member Company name: Brevos   Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Michigan Posts: 871 Re: Need help in editing a WordPress template I installed it, I'm now learning how to use it. Wish me luck! I'm having fun learning new things about blogging and how to use all those features available. Do you think the letters are too small on the website? I think it is, I will try and find a way to fix that. Will keep you posted, thank you guys! Oh, I have a question. Since what I'm using is a template, will the cform work with those subscribe and contact buttons? Or do I need to delate these buttons? I hope I'm making some sense! __________________ Brenda A. Jones www.brevos.com

#10 (permalink)   05-20-2008 jeannedb Junior Member Company name: NowAssistingYou.com   Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Michigan Posts: 254 Re: Need help in editing a WordPress template Originally Posted by White Rose I installed it, I'm now learning how to use it. Wish me luck! I'm having fun learning new things about blogging and how to use all those features available. Do you think the letters are too small on the website? I think it is, I will try and find a way to fix that. Will keep you posted, thank you guys! Oh, I have a question. Since what I'm using is a template, will the cform work with those subscribe and contact buttons? Or do I need to delate these buttons? I hope I'm making some sense! I'm guessing the cform will create it's own form and the contact button won't be needed anymore. I'm not sure about the subscribe button. Are you using widgets? Also, about the font - just changing the front from arial to verdana might be just what you need. You would change that in the style sheet (style.css) file. Let me know if you need help with the style sheet. __________________ Jeanne NowAssistingYou.com Virtual Assistant :: Web/Blog Design & Hosting :: Writer

#11 (permalink)   05-20-2008 White Rose Active Member Company name: Brevos   Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Michigan Posts: 871 Re: Need help in editing a WordPress template Super! I changed the font and I found a way to eliminate these subscribe and contact buttons. Meanwhile, I figured out how to create a mailto: for the contact button so will use that for now until I learn how to use cforms. Only one thing left is - for subscribe button - is there anything missing in the following: <a href="feed:<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory') ; ?>/images/rss.gif" alt="Subscribe Now!" border="0" align="top" /></a> When you click on that subscribe button, it just shows you a page that's nonexisting. Thank you guys again so so so much for your help! __________________ Brenda A. Jones www.brevos.com

#12 (permalink)   05-20-2008 Tess Senior Member Company name: Codehead, LLP Latest blog post: SEO Q&A   Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 8,935 Blog Entries: 3 Re: Need help in editing a WordPress template Hi Brenda, great progress on your blog! Try taking out the feed: inside your href tag - there isn't anything like that in href attributes... (where did the code for this come from?) __________________ Stuck in startup? Stop dreaming. Start DOING! Get the Become a Virtual Assistant eBook for just $29

#13 (permalink)   05-20-2008 White Rose Active Member Company name: Brevos   Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Michigan Posts: 871 Re: Need help in editing a WordPress template YAY! Thank you, it worked after I removed the feed: from the code. The code came from the sidebar.php file that came with the templates. This had been a great learning experience. Will study the cforms in next few days. Thank you all for your help. __________________ Brenda A. Jones www.brevos.com

#14 (permalink)   07-22-2008 alainafrederick Guest Company name: Click here to learn how to add your Company Name! Latest blog post: Click here to learn how to add your blog feed! My latest Twitter: Click here to learn how to set up your Tweets!   Posts: n/a Re: Need help in editing a WordPress template I recently found that plug-ins are AMAZING when trying to do these things- pre-written code is a God-send for people like me.