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ThemeShaper Forums User Favorites: srinair http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Fri, 24 May 2013 14:30:58 +0000 eastjane on "Moving search to top right corner" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/moving-search-to-top-right-corner#post-10084 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:52:50 +0000 eastjane 10084@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Ok I got it! Thanks for your help. I did the following: In function.php <pre><code>// This will create your widget area function search_widgets_init() { register_sidebar(array( 'name' => 'Header Aside', 'id' => 'header-aside', 'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widgetcontainer %2$s">', 'after_widget' => "</li>\n", 'before_title' => "<h3 class=\"widgettitle\">", 'after_title' => "</h3>\n", )); } add_action( 'init', 'search_widgets_init' ); // adding the widget area to your child theme function my_header_widgets() { if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && is_sidebar_active('header-aside') ) { echo '<div id="header-aside" class="aside">'. "\n" . '<ul class="xoxo">' . "\n"; dynamic_sidebar('header-aside'); echo '' . "\n" . '</ul>'. "\n"; echo '' . "\n" . '</div>'. "\n"; } } add_action('thematic_header', 'my_header_widgets', 8); function remove_branding() { remove_action('thematic_header','thematic_brandingopen',1); } add_action('init', 'remove_branding'); function my_brandingopen() { ?> <div id="header_box"> <div id="branding"> <?php } add_action('thematic_header','my_brandingopen',1); /* add search form to header */ function add_searchbar(){ include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); } add_action('thematic_header','add_searchbar', 8);</code></pre> In style.css: <pre><code>#header_box { clear: both; margin: 0 auto; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 960px; } /* Moves blog name & description to the left */ #branding { float: left; width: 620px; margin: 0 0 0 10px; padding:8px 0 1px; } /* Moves the new widgetized area to the right and levels it with #branding */ #header-aside { float: right; width: 300px; padding: 88px 0 44px; }</code></pre> Thanks for your help! Erin on "Moving search to top right corner" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/moving-search-to-top-right-corner#post-10082 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:50:52 +0000 Erin 10082@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ You need to add a searchbar to your header before you can style it. Here is how I did it: Add to function.php: /* add search form to header */ function add_searchbar(){ include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); } add_action('thematic_header','add_searchbar'); Then, style in your childtheme's stylesheet. eastjane on "Moving search to top right corner" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/moving-search-to-top-right-corner#post-10081 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:10:54 +0000 eastjane 10081@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Please help me, I am really stuck on this problem. None of the methods talked about in this post:http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/widgets-in-the-header work for me. Thanks, Jane eastjane on "Moving search to top right corner" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/moving-search-to-top-right-corner#post-9956 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:44:57 +0000 eastjane 9956@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Yes something along those lines is what I am looking for. I would appreciate your help. Thanks! srinair on "Extremely slow loading website" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/extremely-slow-loading-website#post-9953 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:18:52 +0000 srinair 9953@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ So, it seems like only those in the Indian sub continent and the Middle East are the one's affected :( thanks again! Ran a "Full Page" test on Pingdom Tools and got the following: <a href="http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/?url=www.srinair.com/&id=1862547" rel="nofollow">http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/?url=www.srinair.com/&id=1862547</a> The initial load time is like 10 seconds. Is this because I am using the index.php redirect for WordPress? I had installed WP in a sub-directory, but did not want my URL to look like "www.srinair.com/wpdirectory" when people visited it. So, followed directions found at <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory</a> to redirect <a href="http://www.srinair.com" rel="nofollow">www.srinair.com</a> to "www.srinair.com/wpdirectory". Could this be the problem? Seems like it if you look at the test chart above. Don't know. Anyone? Thanks. Sri srinair on "Moving search to top right corner" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/moving-search-to-top-right-corner#post-9951 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:14:43 +0000 srinair 9951@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Hey there, Check my site - <a href="http://www.srinair.com." rel="nofollow">www.srinair.com.</a> Is this what you want to do as well? If so, then you have to add code to functions.php in your child theme along with the necessary CSS styles in your style.css file. Let me know and I'll share with you what I have and the little I know. Sri Jamie Mitchell on "Extremely slow loading website" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/extremely-slow-loading-website#post-9950 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:13:57 +0000 Jamie Mitchell 9950@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ no i'm in Oz fast internet here. eastjane on "Moving search to top right corner" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/moving-search-to-top-right-corner#post-9949 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:11:17 +0000 eastjane 9949@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Hi I would like to move the search box to the top right corner of my site. I don't have a live site just yet so I am copying my code below. I tried the methods talked about in this post:http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/widgets-in-the-header, but was not successful. I am using the Child theme development format. My style.css looks something like this. (after all the import statements on top) <pre><code>/*Have a clickable logo on the left most site */ #blog-title a { display:block; text-indent:-4000px; width: 317px; height: 200px; } #wrapper { background:url('images/logo.jpg') no-repeat top left; background-position: 5% 0%; } #branding { padding:8px 0 1px; } /*Don't need secondary*/ #secondary {display:none;}</code></pre> And my functions.php is empty. I am new to web development. I would appreciate any help. Thanks, Jane srinair on "Extremely slow loading website" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/extremely-slow-loading-website#post-9948 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:51:56 +0000 srinair 9948@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Jamie, Thanks a lot for checking it out. Are you located in the US? I have a feeling that loading the site from India (where I am) and the Middle East (I used to live in the UAE/Dubai), takes way too long. I don't know if there is anything I can do it to fix it. Honestly, from India and from the UAE, my site can take close to a minute to fully load up. Thanks again! Anyone else has any thoughts? Sri Jamie Mitchell on "Extremely slow loading website" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/extremely-slow-loading-website#post-9947 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:40:10 +0000 Jamie Mitchell 9947@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ no problems loading here, took about 2-3 sec. must be your isp, pc or something else on your end... sometimes i get days when sites just don't load. srinair on "Extremely slow loading website" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/extremely-slow-loading-website#post-9941 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:12:32 +0000 srinair 9941@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Hi folks, I sure could use some help. I created a simple child theme using thematic (which I think is awesome!). My problem is that my web site takes way too long to load (over 30 secs)! URL - <a href="http://www.srinair.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.srinair.com</a> Hosting - EasyCGI WordPress Version - 2.9.2 (index.php in the root directory, pointing to the sub folder where WP is actually installed) Plugins Installed - All in One SEO Pack (v1.6.10.1), Contact Form 7(v2.1.1), W3 Total Cache (Disabled)(v0.8.5.1), WP-Polls(v2.5), Akismet (v2.2.7) I have tried the following to speed things up: 1) Enable GZIP compression Custom PHP.INI with the following: zlib.output_compression = On zlib.output_handler = On zlib.output_compression_level = 6 <a href="http://www.srinair.com/phpinfo.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.srinair.com/phpinfo.php</a> - In case you want to see my PHP settings. I believe this only compresses the PHP, HTML files and NOT CSS or Javascript. 2) W3 Total Cache Plugin My attempts to "minify" CSS and Javascript resulted in the style sheets screwing up and Javascript errors when the site loaded up. Enabled cache, but hasn't led to any improvements, so disabled at the moment. 3) Using the Firebug add-on in Firefox, I get a score of 73/100 after running "Page Speed". I get a red exclamation against the following: - Leverage browser caching - Combine external CSS - Combine external JavaScript - Enable compression (shouldn't enabling GZIP take care of this?) I am at a loss right now. Not an expert in PHP, MySQL, CSS, Javascript, WordPress or Thematic/Child Themes! Any help or suggestion anyone can give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Sri