Sorry to those who have been leaving comments and asking questions on this page, I did not set up the email notification for this website, so I did not see those messages until today(February 10, 2013), I’ll try to replay to them as soon as I can. Thank you for downloading Pilot Fish ^^
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Initial Set Up
Child Theme
Comments
Fonts
Menu
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Initial Set Up
To display the portfolio page:
Create a new page, and set the page template to “Project Archive“, then change the slug to “project“. Or add the custom link “http://yoursitename.com/project/” to your menu. You may need to update your “Permalinks” under “Settings” in the Admin Panel for the page to work.
To replace the default “Bavarian Forest” photo on the landing page:
Go to “yoursitename.com/wp-content/themes/pilot-fish/images/” and delete the picture called “home_banner.jpg“, name your desired background picture “home_banner.jpg” and upload to the same location. (upload to a specific location can be done using Filezilla or other FTP software.)
The photo size should be about 940 x 610 px.
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Child Theme
To set up a child theme:
Please add a header.php to your child theme, you can just copy my original header.php file, and add
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/style.css" />
inside the <head> tag of the header.php file. You can also download this style.css template for your child theme :)
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Comments
To add a custom avatar for comments:
Link: http://www.christine.biz/blogging/custom-wordpress-avatar/
For my theme, instead of adding the code to the functions.php, you need to add the code to the script.php file.
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Fonts
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Menu
To change the menu hover image:
This can be done through FTP. There is an image file called: menu-bg.png – download that file and modify the color then upload it back.
To center the header and menu:
In the style.css, under /* 05 – Header
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#header #logo {
margin-bottom: 20px;
padding-left: 10px;
text-align: center;
}
#header #logo .site-name {
display:block;
padding-top:20px;
}
.site-name a {
font-family: 'Fredericka the Great', cursive;
font-size: 3.5em;
color: #377687;
line-height: 1.1em;
}
.site-name a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color: #377687;
}
#header #logo .site-description {
display:block;
font-size:14px;
margin:10px 0 0 0;
color: #8CA1A1;
}
And for center the menu:
#access {
width: 100%;
}
.menu-index-container {
text-align: center;
}
and change the following (probably around line 483)
#access .menu,
#access .menu ul {
display: inline-block;
list-style-type: none;
padding: 0;
}
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Page
To add a sidebar to the “Page” template:
In the page.php file, on top right after the get_header() function, there’s one line: <div id=”content-full”>, change the span12 to span8, and add <?php get_sidebar(‘primary’); ?> right before <?php get_footer(); ?> at the bottom.
To remove Page Hierarchy on Pages:
In the style.css file:
.page-hierarchy {
display: none;
}
Hi,
Great template, but is it possible to make two colums in the content area and still have a responsive website?
regards nj
Dear Danni,
thanks a lot for this great theme. I would like to use it…and change the default “Bavarian forest” image.
I try my website on a localhost yet, i read your answers to other questioners, to use filezilla for the FTP. But to which server (address?) do i have to go?
Or doesn´t it work until there is a real landing page.
Kind regards
Gudrun
Hey there,
I would like to change the font colours of the feature title and other title text on the home page.
I can’t find the location of the code for this in the php files… so I must be looking in the wrong place!
Can you help me out?
Thanks
Hi: we are using your template, but i can not show our projects or category projects…. If we have 5 category projects and 2 or 3 projects in each category, how is possible show them?
Thanks
I am very new to WordPress and am using Pilot Fish for a coaching site. I want to use the projects page for informational purposes and want to have control over the visual order of the category picture. How can I rearrange the pictures that everybody sees?
Thanks
Hi Danni, I love your template but I am having a few issues. This stuff is a little over my head – I am trying to replace the trees image and am going to the address: yoursitename.com/wp-content/themes/pilot-fish/images/
coeur-dalene-wedding-photographer.com/wp-content/themes/pilot-fish/images/
But it just comes up with 404 error page not found…. What am I doing wrong?
Cheers
Amanda
Hi Amanda,
You should access the “coeur-dalene-wedding-photographer.com/wp-content/themes/pilot-fish/images/” from FTP instead of a web browser.
How to change the iframe default size parameters in child theme?
Hi Danni
I love your template as well. Is there a way to not have the home_banner image scroll and be fixed and show whole image?
Thank you
Belinda
I am trying to use your theme, and it’s not working correctly. When I install an image, it drops it behind ALL the contents of the page. And then the text scrolls over the image…instead of the image appearing as though it’s in a window like your preview. Can you offer any suggestions (in idiot-eez pleaze).
I followed the instructions to add a sidebar to the theme, but it won’t show up on the first page? Am i missing something?
Best
Jesper
hi danni plz can you help me ,i use your theme but i don’t khnow how can i change the logo of my website ;
hi!
I’m using your template, and I like it very much. Just an issue: I’d like to change the message written on the photo on the landing page… how can I do it?
Moreover, what if I would like to change the photo, too? I don’t undestand what you mean saying “You should access the “c………………../wp-content/themes/pilot-fish/images/” from FTP instead of a web browser”. My web site is .it
Thank you so much!
Ok, I’m sorry: I’ve been able to change the message on the landing page.
By the way, I can’t change the “hello world”… how can I do it?
Morover: how can I put the images on the single page?
Thank you!
Hi there Danni!
Love the elegant simplicity of your theme. I would like to add a blog link with ongoing posts (like you have on your website) but cannot find any info or instructions…
Thanks, Rick
Hi Rick, thank you for downloading pilot fish. You can add a page, and choose the page template to be “Blog Posts”, and add the page to be menu. Then your blog posts will show up on the page you just created. Hope it helps :)
how to make a my menu(home, about > , galeri > , contact, and comment) in center like logo?
my website
Dear Danni,
thanks for the great theme. I centered the header as described above, but didn’t manage to do so with the menu. Where exactly do i have to insert the lines you described:
#access {
width: 100%;
}
.menu-index-container {
text-align: center;
}
Which part do I have to delete or replace? I tried some lines, but didn’t work.
Thanks for your help!
Fab
Ok, found out myself, if anybody else is interested, just insert the following under the headline “primary navigation:
#access {
width: 100%;
}
#access {
text-align: center;
}
Hey Danni.
Can I expect an update where I don’t have to edit files, but can it all through theme options?
Regards
Sebastian
Hi Danni,
I think that this might be a small improvement.
I was working with a “Child Theme”, and copied your “sidebar-home.php” to the child directory. Reason for this is that I made some changes in the text and I did not want to copy the images directory from the “parent” theme (yours! ♥) to the child theme’s directory.
You use a function in “sidebar-home.php”: “get_stylesheet_directory_uri()”, which ill return the –in this case– child directory URI. Since I wanted to keep the images in one place, I used “get_template_directory_uri()” in the child directory file, thus returning the PARENT theme’s URI and NOT the current Child one!. This might work already from the original “sidebar-home.php” that you provided.
Gosh.. hope that I was able to explain myself.
Gracias por tu excelente trabajo.
Where would you suggest, should I place an rss-icon for subscription to posts?
I really like this theme but I have a problem, I installed a child theme and when I change something in the Style sheet nothing changes on my site.
Please help!
Thijs
Hello, I tried to replace the pine forest on the landing page with a photo of my own, but the pine forest photo keeps showing up.
I used FileZilla to delete the original home_banner.jpg and successfully uploaded my own to the necessary folder, but it still hasn’t changed. Does it take a minute to reload or something? Thanks for the tutorial.