Comments on: Create a Full-Height Sidebar and Full-Width Navigation Menu in Thesis Theme

By: Gouri

Gouri — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:59:47 +0000

Awesome. Is there a similar trick for for full width footer too?

By: Mark Adams

Mark Adams — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:06:00 +0000

What if I wanted the navigation menu to be only the width of the left sidebar, i.e. just above the content so that the sidebar goes all the way to the top?

By: Milind

Milind — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:26:08 +0000

I am not able to use tags on my pages/posts. In Visual option it shows bold but when I see the Page Source, I don’t find them. Else on Edit Skin page, if I use them, the words do get bold. So somewhere it works, somewhere not.

By: Milind

Milind — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:23:13 +0000

Hi Ashwin
Nice to see your way of easing thesis problems.
I am having two problems and would be happy if you could guide.
I use the html full width frame, but my header is around 1 cm from left, although the nav bar extends full right. I saw there are 3 boxes (may be div’s) one for header, tagline & overall container. My nav bar is below header. How can I align to left? I don’t mind padding from left, but the coloured box enclosure should be total left.
Next, in the side bar, whatever we want to place e.g. testimonials, advts, are to be keyed in text widget? If not, can you send me a link for that?
Thanks

By: Slade Powers

Slade Powers — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:08:59 +0000

i hope i’m in the right place…
i’m running wp 3.0 and thesis 1.8 and would like to know how to create a link to a text document. better said; I want to create a link in my footer to a privacy statement and a user policy, both text documents.
any suggestions? i’m really green at this. the internet tutorials have helped but press through to all issues but mine. i use dreamweaver so i create the css, html, php, etc from scratch. this is really different than from scratch. thesis does it all for you. i just don’t know where to put the 2 documents (the server, no doubt) but how to upload the docs via Thesis is the question.
Thanks to all that can help. Greetings from Santa Barbara, Ca

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:30:35 +0000

Hi Tiffany,

Sorry for the delayed response. I had a look at the CSS snippet sent earlier and here is what I suspect the problem. When you change to Full width framework the CSS Classes and their nesting changes.

So .custom #page { background:transparent; } may no longer work.

Can you please try multiple entries like…

.custom #header_area .page { background:transparent; }
.custom #nav_area .page { background:transparent; }
.custom #content_area .page { background:transparent; }
.custom #footer_area .page { background:transparent; }

Do let me know if this works…

By: Tiffany O.

Tiffany O. — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:02:11 +0000

Hello again,

I want to have a full-width nav menu and full-width header in addition to a transparent content box. Unfortunately every time I switch to full-width framework, it takes away my transparent content box?? How do I change this?? Help!!!!

By: Tiffany O

Tiffany O — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:20:24 +0000

Sure,
this is all I have in my custom CSS file right now. Thanks for your help!

/* CUSTOM BACKGROUND IMAGE AND TRANSPARENT BOX */

body.custom {
background: #8db6b6 url(‘images/sunburstbackground5.jpg’) 50% 0 no-repeat;
}

.custom #container {
margin-top: 2em;
margin-bottom: 2em;
}

.custom #page {
background:transparent;
}
.custom #header, .custom .post, .custom .teasers_box, .custom #footer, .custom #footer a, .custom #footer a:active, .custom #archive_info, .custom .prev_next, .custom #comment_list, .custom #comment_list dd, .custom #commentform, .custom #sidebar_1, .custom #sidebar_2, .custom #comment_list dt.comment, .custom #comment_list dd.comment, .custom #comment_list dl .bypostauthor .format_text, .custom #trackback_list {
border-bottom: 0px;
border-top: 0px;
border-right: 0px;
border-left: 0px;
}
.custom #content_box, .custom #column_wrap {
background: none;
}

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By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:54:00 +0000

Hi Tiffany,

Can you share with me the CSS code snippet that creates your transparent content box? That would be required to give an answer to your question

Thanks,
Ashwin

By: Tiffany O.

Tiffany O. — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:24:26 +0000

Hello,

Tiffany