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Ive tried best to scour the info on this site, eventually I was able to find where to plug this <?php suckerfish(); ?> in in the header.php to actually make an effect. The problem is, it changes the entire appearence and layout of what I want as a drop down menu.. all I want is for the page selections to be able to have a dropdown menu for the subpages, thats all. I dont want to change the appearance.
Here is my page http://atomicpetes.com/
and here is the header code
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes() ?>>
<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11"><title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); if ( is_404() ) : _e(‘ » ‘); _e(‘Not Found’); elseif ( is_home() ) : _e(‘ » ‘); bloginfo(‘description’); else : wp_title(); endif; ?></title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="<?php bloginfo(‘html_type’) ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo(‘charset’) ?>" />
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo(‘version’) ?>" /><!– Please leave for stats –>
<meta name="author" content="Fadli Nugraha" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’) ?>" title="<?php echo wp_specialchars(get_bloginfo(‘name’), 1) ?> <?php _e(‘Posts RSS feed’); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="<?php bloginfo(‘comments_rss2_url’) ?>" title="<?php echo wp_specialchars(get_bloginfo(‘name’), 1) ?> <?php _e(‘Comments RSS feed’); ?>" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo(‘pingback_url’) ?>" /><!–[if lt IE 7.]><script defer type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/scripts/pngfix.js"></script><![endif]–>
<!–[if lte IE 6]>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/scripts/supersleight.js"></script>
<![endif]–><?php wp_head() ?>
</head><body class="<?php sandbox_body_class() ?>">
<div id="universe-a">
<div id="universe-b">
<div id="universe-c"><div id="header">
<h1 id="blog-title"><a href="<?php echo get_option(‘home’) ?>/" title="<?php bloginfo(‘name’) ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo(‘name’) ?></a></h1>
<div id="blog-description"><?php bloginfo(‘description’) ?></div><!– if you want to use your logo (image) instead of text for your blog title, delete/comment the two lines above and uncomment the line below –>
<!–<a href="<?php echo get_settings(‘home’); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/imgs/site-logo.png" alt="<?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?>" /></a>–>
<div id="m-rss"><a href="<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>" title="Subscribe via RSS"><img src="<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/imgs/ico-rss.png" alt="Subscribe via RSS" /></a></div>
</div><hr class="hide" />
<div id="nav">
<?php sandbox_globalnav() ?>
</div><div id="container" class="clearfix">
I know people like me are a pain in the ass, but I dont even know where to get help! if you could lay it out to me Id be mightily appreciative. Thanks for your time fellow human!
ps. I copied the code generated on your site and pasted it at the bottom of my stylesheet.. is this correct? thanks again, take care.
[quote:2p16oqtm]… and here is the header code …[/quote:2p16oqtm]
There is no suckerfish() funtion called in your header.php file according to that though.
My stab in the dark guess would be to replace the following:
[code:2p16oqtm] <div id="nav">
<?php sandbox_globalnav() ?>
</div>
[/code:2p16oqtm]with this:
[code:2p16oqtm]<?php if (function_exists(‘suckerfish’)) {suckerfish(); } ?>[/code:2p16oqtm][quote:2p16oqtm]ps. I copied the code generated on your site and pasted it at the bottom of my stylesheet.. is this correct? thanks again, take care.[/quote:2p16oqtm]
Yep, that will work fine, although you should deactivate the built in style sheet for the plugin via the plugins settings age as are calling an extra blank CSS file now (which will minutely slow down your page loads).
[i:2tt1wm2x]Random suggestion unrelated to your menu:[/i:2tt1wm2x]
I love this theme, it looks awesome and I might use it myself some time.
If I were you though, I would change the following in your CSS:
[code:2tt1wm2x]body {
color: #4c412a;
text-align: center;
background: #beb9a5 url(‘imgs/bg-main.jpg’) repeat-y 50% 0;
}[/code:2tt1wm2x]to this (I removed ‘-y’ from it):
[code:2tt1wm2x]body {
color: #4c412a;
text-align: center;
background: #beb9a5 url(‘imgs/bg-main.jpg’) repeat 50% 0;
}[/code:2tt1wm2x]That way the background graphic will fill out the edges of the page. I viewed your site at 1920px wide and there were big bland blocks of colour down the left and right hand sides, I think if you repeated the graphic across the page it would look a lot better.
Hello! thanks for your speedy reply! yeah, I had done what you suggest already, and whats happens is it wipes that whole section ( Home, World Travels, Radical Stuff etc) and replaces it with a big blue bar that with the selections (Blogroll, pages, blogroll) and while these do drop down its not what Im after. What Im after is to have them appear the same as before, and off the Film Reviews I would like a drop down with the sub pages of film reviews… I know its alot to ask, but even pointing me in the right direction would be awesome! also, thank you kindly for your advice on the side things! I was wondering about that! greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!!!
Hello, I have got it working, like I want, there is only 1 problem, the aesthetics.. doing this thing has changed its appearance, from what the theme had initially, to some kinda blocky 2 color thing..as well as extending the area of it to the right so it cuts off an extra part of the theme..is there a way I can just make it use the default theme appearance? thanks for your help..!!
Only 1 question! and Ill stop annoying you im sure!
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Is there a way to keep the appearance of the menu area the same as the theme originally had and still have those selections drop down?? if so, how?
” title=”Cheesy” /> Im almost there..!Hi,
I need you to hold off on modifying your site for another 20 mins or so.I’ve been trying to fix it but getting REALLLLY confused as the CSS kept changing
” title=”Tongue” />Actually … I’ve made a copy of your site now. So feel free to edit away.
You can’t see it in your page at the moment, but if you add a dropdown over the top of your sidebar it will not display. You can correct that by adding the following to your CSS:
[code:3gyqbuys]#suckerfishnav, #suckerfishnav ul {z-index:10000;}
[/code:3gyqbuys]I’m working out the problems now.
Actually, the menu still doesn’t work correctly above the sidebar. I tried to fix it, but it seems to be a tricky problem to solve. However it doesn’t look like a problem you need to fix as I assume you want the menu to only appear on the right anyway.
I don’t know what the menu looked like originally, but if you just want it on the left then set the width to a fixed width like this (I haven’t tested this at all):
[code:3q8xb2rr]#suckerfishnav {
background:#FFFFFF repeat-x;
font-size:18px;
font-family:western,fantasy;
font-weight:bold;
width:600px;
}
#suckerfishnav, #suckerfishnav ul {
float:left;
list-style:none;
line-height:40px;
padding:0;
border:1px solid #aaa;
margin:0;
width:600px;
}[/code:3q8xb2rr]Hey Ryan, I tried this last part, but it doesnt seem to have affected the site at all, (I changed width:100% to width:600px). I wish I knew how to do all this stuff, I copied the entire css and saved it and have been playing with it just making random adjustments here and there to see what happens..its a start I guess! so yeah I added the dropdwon menu. if you put this –
<div id="nav">
<?php sandbox_globalnav() ?>
</div>
-in the header where I added the sucker fish then you can see what the original menu looked like, it would be pretty sweet if it matched, althought the current look isnt so bad, apart from the menu extending over the sidebar secction.. so many things to be picky about I guess, and its quite a finicky system, this css. anyway Ill stop rambling and now I go to search your forum database about the how to fix the dropdown from dissapearing behind pictures! oh and if you want, check out my pictures from chernobyl! thanks man for your help! greatly appreciated.[quote:254jdqn8]Hey Ryan, I tried this last part, but it doesnt seem to have affected the site at all, (I changed width:100% to width:600px).[/quote:254jdqn8]
Either you did something else or you have put it back the way it was. If I can see what effect it had I could probably help.
[quote:254jdqn8] so yeah I added the dropdwon menu. if you put this –
<div id="nav">
<?php sandbox_globalnav() ?>
</div>[/quote:254jdqn8]I don’t have time to rebuild your menu sorry, so if you want advice on how to make it look like your old menu then you will need to provide me with an example page.
[quote:254jdqn8]and its quite a finicky system, this css[/quote:254jdqn8]
Your theme is particularly annoying from this perspective. it uses some annoying position effects which are messing it up.
Hey, no, I can rebuild my old menu the way it was, thats no problem. its just this dropdown was working halfway decent, except that it would dissapear behind pictures I had on my home posts (using firedox), but when someone views it on internet explorer everything just gets buggered up, there isnt even any text or pictures on the main area where there is on firefox, and alot of images end up being listed down the very right side of the page…. I dont know what to say. Im reading about it now on the forums.
I was suggesting you show me what it looks like, not go back to the old menu. There is probably no reason why it can’t look like the old menu, I just need to know what that menu looked like before I can help.
I just don’t have enough time to rebuild menus like this all the time so I ask our non-premium members to do it for me.
Hey man, so the menu on the site is how it used to look, except without the dropdowns.. how exactly do I implement the dropdowns with the same look as the current one? thank you sir… sorry to be such a nag!
http://atomicpetes.com/
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