Urban Giraffe

I can't figure out how to change the link color off of red. I've looked through styles.css extensively... changed many things, and I can't find what to change.

I like this theme a lot. The only thing I would like is more choices of logo, but perhaps I'll get around to making some myself eventually. Thanks anyway.

I must have done something very wrong. I set the sidebars to be wide 20% and the page to be 100%. I tried to delete the logo (don't want a picture), but it won't go away and I can't even change it to the daisy. Worst of all is that the whole blog just comes out to be narrower than the width of the logo. Completely unreadable.

I love the thought of this and I hope I can get it to work.

I need help please. I love the G2 theme. It was the only one I liked out of dozens and dozens of themes. I'm not too good with PHP and such but I can dig around a little even tho I'm cautious. My problem is..no matter which post is chosen to reply to (comment on) ONLY the 1st post gets the comments. Out of 10 posts..if you replied to #10, #1 is where the comment goes.
Do you have any idea what causes that? I'm using a new install of the latest WP and a 3 column style of your theme, with widgets.
Thanks

I finally tracked down the problem I was having. It was the Recent Posts widget. When I removed it everything started working fine. I love the theme and I've been able to easily personalize it.

Wayne, have you tried going to presentation-options and going down to Top Menu and choosing to customize?

Hi,
Any idea how to make this compatible with WPMU?
I guess that instead of storing the options in a local folder, they should be saved in the database (in the user's meta info), but I'm a bit too new to this to figure out what to do exactly.
If that's too much of a hassle, is there any way to disable what is not compatible with WPMU ?

One thing. Where in the style.css do I change the color of the header text to white so it is readable on my bakground?

Best regards/falke

Hi,

It seems that, in the course of the upgrade from Giraffe to Giraffe2 you dropped the .../wp-content/plugins/giraffe/layout2.png layout. Giraffe2 only does .../layout1.png. Since I have many static pages with long content, I don't want to appear the sidebar far down on the bottom of the page.

Do you think it's possible to re-enable the "layout2" or do I have to downgrade to Giraffe (1)?

Christian

John, your new theme is really impressive! When I am able, do you take donations? :o)

I loved Giraffe1 ... and Giraffe2 looks really nice ... except that the single post and page formats are slightly off ... the sidebars are at the bottom of the post text.

John: formatting in Wonky 2 is working fine ... but the same problem (content is up above the sidebars) exists on the 'pages'.

Check out http://david.fallingrock.net/about/ for an example.

btw: Can I request an enhancement to include the google adsense content markers to be put around the comments and content? The content markers are "" and ""

Have you noticed a problem in Camino and Safari? For me, the right column elements just stretch across the page, under the header and center column.

How can I adjust the height of the header space in Giraffe2, where the title and image go? I'd like mine less high than it currently is.

Mike: Consider using sidebar widgets to include your links.

Gah! I just set the page width on the layout options to 100% and the layout was totally screwed up. The entire content of the page was scrunched up into a single column in the middle of the page. When I changed the width back to 95% the layout was normal again.

I just found your theme and am so grateful to find one that lets me EASILY add my logo to the header.

I've been playing around with the theme options, which I love, but am having a problem that others here mentioned - the sidebar is under the posts. It doesn't matter what size I make the site, it's still way down there.

Is there any way to get it up next to the post, as in the screenshot on the layout page?

Also, I had the same problem with the really narrow band when I set my site at 100% - any way to fix this, either?

Thanks so much for the beautiful theme. Barb

Whoops... finally read Annie's comments... think I found the solution.

John: As for the extra div ... I'm not entirely sure where it is ... but AFAICT, it *should* only be coming from the theme ... I didn't modify anything directly.

I love this theme. I have run across a dilemma- though it is probably just one at my end. I am trying to change the color of the background (i.e. div#wrapper) and when I do it causes my logo and logo background to disappear and revert to the grey gradient. I don't know if perhaps I am altering the right tag as I am altering #wrapper in the optioins.css. I couldn't find div#wrapper anywhere. Any thoughts?

Ok, I am learning and figured out my last problem but do have a question again if anyone is able. I decided not to use the post.png icon (the little newspaper one) and then later decided to redesign it because in IE though the icon was deleted it shows an image place holder (doesn't in Firefox)and I don't know how to get rid of it. So, I put the uploaded redesigned image but now it won't show up in either IE or Firefox? Any ideas?

I am curious. I don't know if this is normal attribute of the new G2 theme but there is nothing in my index.php file to edit. I gather at some point something changed because that is where I edited the code for the Category Image(s) plugin and now I can't edit anything. I think that is why when I deleted my post.png icon I couldn't find anything on it in the code or in any css files and yet it shows up in the code when I view the page source. I know it is in the original index.php file but that is now all invisible to me now. How do I either get the either the post.png icon back up and visible or get rid of the image placeholders in IE (because the call for this image just isn't working)? I don't know where to go to fix this? In addition to this, if something requires I edit my index file in order to add a plugin function, how would I do this if there is nothing there to see and edit? I am befuddled! :o)

It has been many months and I am still using UrbanGiraffe as a theme base. Nothing else matches up to this.

Cheers.

I am having a similar problem. I upgraded WP from Fantastico on my webserver and something broke and I had to start over. I got the new Giraffe2, reinstalled it, installed widget plugin, activated it and Giraffe2 is not using/allowing me to customize sidebars. It shows the original installed sidebar objects with nothing on the left sidebar except instructions to insert my own items or install widget. Widget is working fine for WP Classic and Default theme. I have not installed any other theme because I want the Giraffe theme. Any help would be appreciated greatly.

Hi,
also tested the giraffe2 on WPMU - works fine with all instances - except:

at the login and registration pages on the bottom I keep getting a database warning: error - the syntax for date is incorrect configured.
I checked the DB and everything is correct. The tested other themes - and am getting no error at all - so I must assume that it has to do with the theme -
any idea why this could happen on the giraffe2 theme?
appreciate any input.
thanks
michele

Any chance we could get a "Edit post" link on the individual entries (if logged on as the author)?

David, to add the "edit post" just add:
to the idex.php file. This worked for me.
Eric

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Love your template. am using WPMU, no one there yet has used your template.
I installed it just fine, everything works in the admin and on the home page.
Have one problem: on the signup page I get in the footer a MySQL warning.
http://spacebuzz.org/blogs/wp-signup.php

I tried other templates and this warning does not show up at all. Only using the giraffe2 template [have latest version].
I would very much appreciate if you would be able to tell me how I can
a] if this is a template specific warning
b] if not - how to get rid of the warning
c] if template specific, where and what do I need to change

this is important to me, because I want to use the giraffe template as the master template, there is no other template out there that has the same wonderful features. I want to make this available to new blog users.

As far as I know no one else has yet tested your template in WPMU, I asked around in the dev forum. There are extremely few that use 3 colums, and if then they use Kubrik. Could not find anyone that is familiar with your great template.
It would be great to be able to have it work properly in MU.
Thanks, appreciate any help.
Michele

If there is not a way to get rid of the ‘Older Posts’ how do I change the formatting to allow pictures? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
http://cwguy.com/

Thanks for your response. I read your directions and tried what your response was and it did not work. When I set the theme to 10 and wp to 10 post. It would repeat the same 10 post under the “Older Posts”. Then you can set it to 9 and leave one post for the “Older Posts” and it works fine. It seems like it is messed up. But I would really like to set it by days. Also the format for the “Search” page it not the same as the archive.php which controls the archive and categories. The “previous page” and “next page” are at the top only for search and top and bottom for archive.php. Just wanted to let you know.

Also, a suggestion about an option on your theme admin screen. If you could enable full post for search, categories, and archive that would be great. I really like your theme but I had to add full posts for those pages also the edit option for posts.

Thanks
http://cwguy.com/

Hi John,
thanks for your reply.
here is the php info:
http://spacebuzz.org/blogs/info.php

I am in the process of a new install of WP MU.
I did a test install of the regular WP and of course there is no error showing.
So - it definitely is an issue for WP MU.
And that is precisely what I am interested in - to get your template working properly for WP MU.
I thank you again for your attention.
I will do a new install of WP MU on a different domain in the next hour, because I used spacebuzz.org only to test MU first.
thanx.
michele

Hi - I love it as well and came to make the same request as Kym - is it posssible to link the logo? Logos are often used as a "home" link.

Also, any added ease (other than digging into the CSS itself) for customizing the text styles, sizes and colors, would be great.

I've downloaded and installed the Giraffe 2 template. However, I usually add a picture to my posts and the formatting looks strange as a result. I do a little HTML tweak to align the picture. I also add some horizontal space to the text won't be up against the picture. The result looks strange in both FireFox and IE. Could you take a look and help?

John, I liked your Giraffe2 theme. But when I tried it on my server at

http://www.best-trade-car.com/blog2

the whole formatting gets screwed up. Can you point out how I can get rid of that problem. Thanks.

HI John, like others I LOVE your theme.

Have a major problem Ive been trying to fix for weeks.
I cannot get a PAGE to display right. Instead of the page content I write it inserts a random post.

Once I discovered that it was a left sidebar recent posts widget that caused it. When I removed the widget my About page displayed right.
So I created my own code to display recent posts in the sidebar. All was good, then suddenly the About page got screwed and it only shows random posts.

I tried taking all the right sidebar widgets out and About will still not display.

http://www.affiliatemarketingbuzz.com
http://www.affiliatemarketingbuzz.com/about/ (shows random post)

ALSO my pages don't work. From the index when I went to page 2,3,4 it still showed the exact same posts that were on the index page. If you go to one of my category pages and view page 2,3,4 they are correct and show the older posts.

So for not I removed the next page buttons form the home page because every page was just duplicate content.

NOTE: I have a couple other problems and would be happy to pay you to just get everythig sorted out and working right.

Hi,

with the latest Wordpress 2.05 update i get an fatal error when i try to use the "Ajax Calendar" widget.

Best,
Karl

I am having trouble changing the write permissions. Every time I try to make a change it says:
"Failed to save options file. Is the theme directory write-enabled?"

How do I change the the theme directory to be write enabled?

http://www.innerglobal.com

I'm looking for a way to keep the left and right sidebars fixed-width and the center content area as a percentage of the rest of the window. I think I've read that this is extremely difficult or impossible. I've been editing the options.css by hand and I'm close, if it's possible at all.

Hi John!
Ich really like your Giraffe2-Theme and use ist for my new blog. I like to customize it, but all the plugins and your configuration-tools couldn't help me.

What I want to do: In my pages and single articles the sidebar is under the text. But I'd like to have the sidebar always right on top, under the header, as in the archive and the categories-pages, but without the FWD/Back-Buttons.

Where do I have to change this? Sorry, I'm really new in blogging, I know HTML, but almost nothing about php and css. I'd be happy, if you could help me.

Thank you in advance and greetings from munich, germany, Bjoern

Another question that you might be able to help me with sometime. I think it should be simpler that the last question. Can height of the Top Menu be changed? If so, how? Thanks, Matthew

Just to recap from an earlier question -- is there any way to remove the “Recent Posts” and “Older Posts” section on the _main_ page (not the widgetised sidebar) so that the main page follows the more conventional format of just having a bunch of posts with PREVIOUS and/or NEXT links at the bottom of the page which take you to a set of earlier or later posts?

Thanks for the help John. However, I can't create another CSS file, extra.css, since I don't have access to the installation of WordPress. If you know of something else... Otherwise, I'll just live with it the way it is. Kinda growing tired of trying to find workarounds for everything.

Thanks again,
Matthew

Okay, I unzipped/copied the giraffe2 into the proper place in my test server at home, I made sure permissions were set correctly, (well, actually wide open, but it is a test server in my own home), and I went to the admin panel and started playing with stuff to see what all could be done.

The problem I am having is this:
After attempting to upload custom tiles on the logo page not only are the tiles not used, but the logo page itself no longer displays properly?

More precisely:
I clicked the browse button to upload a custom logo, also the browse buttons for logo background and page tile, (at least I think this was what they were called?), when I clicked the button to save my changes the page just went blank. Refreshing it has no effect, and leaving/returning to the page causes it to be redrawn, but only up to the point just before the form used to upload the custom logo image.

Also:
Though the first image appears to have uploaded, it is only a fraction of the proper size and is not a valid image, the second and third image did not upload at all. I am clueless about this, but would like to get it working so that I can maybe use it on my site...

Thanks for any and all help with this.

I attempted to learn more about css, but I'm as confused as ever. I need advice on modifying the style for blockquotes. I would like to eliminate that big quotation mark that prefaces indented paragraphs, and I want to eliminate the italicization of the indented paragraphs. How do I accomplish all this?

I am in process of resurrecting an old blog and transferring it to my current site. I would like to use G2 plain with only a colored header of some kind. Still trying to get the graphic together. In the meantime, I am just using the logo background.png with the Title and Tagline right justified. This seems to work ok in firefox and netscape but IE puts and extra break after the Title so it double spaces. How do I get rid of this? Thanks much for your input.

Gerry

I am so thrilled to have found a template that I can adjust easily. Thank you so much!
I am having one difficulty though, with Wonky 4. When I or my visitors click to make comments on the current post, the comments are left for the first post I wrote days before. I'm not sure if I messed something up, but I've only tweaked the colors and graphics.
Please take a look so you understand: http://jenniferbianco.com/wordpress/
All the comments for May 3rd's Thursday Thirteen are listed under May 1st's Lost Blog.
I'd appreciate help figuring out what is wrong. Thanks so much!

Hello,
I have been playing with this theme for a while and learning wordpress as I go, however just recently when you click the post title on the main index page you get taken to a post page with a correct ttle but the wrong body. Actually, all posts share the same body text (though show the correct title text). I don't think I changed anything to cause this.. any ideas?

There seems to be a little quirk with the top nav bar just under the header. When the browser window is made smaller the navigation disappears and is replaced with a scroll bar (you can see the problem at my blog). Any idea how I might fix this?

Your theme is impressive. I don't know why your theme (or something derived from it) is not already the default theme of WordPress... just a note: why my old "links" and "archive" don't work with it? Thank you so much.

I have dowloaded, unzipped and uploaded Giraffe2 but when I go to the
Presentation page I get this error message:
"Broken themes
The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.
Stylesheet is missing"

I put the files in a directory called "giraffe2" under "themes". Did I need to do something else?

Thankyou

I did install the theme today but got the following issue with it with the display of it.

When i set page width to 100% with both sidebar at 20% and try to view my blog, it's all compressed in the middle of the screen.

if i set page width to 95% it's fine.

My favorite theme! But please help me! If I'm using my own image that I uploaded for my logo, I had to get rid of/leave blank the Weblog title and tagline under general options, otherwise they would write right over my image.
But my problem is I now don't have any title tag for my blog (at top of browser it just says Mozilla Firefox) so this killed my search engine ranking. So to sum that up, How do I add a title to my blog without it also printing on my page over my image I uploaded?

And is there anyway to add alt tags to my logo image that I uploaded? To also help with search engines...

THANKS!!!

I got an updated Greek translation, at
http://simos.info/files/giraffe2-el.po

Could you please rename the existing Greek translation from "el_SX.po" to "el.po".

Thanks!