Updated: Tolarski, a variable-width Tarski child theme

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   Clare Walker on 2011-09-18 at 19:43 +00:00

   Dear Tyler

   Thank you so much! Downloaded, installed & activated! I was beginning to despair – I was trying to make my own child-theme for Tarski from scratch, & it just wasn’t happening…

   Thanks again,

   Claire

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      Tyler Wagner on 2011-09-18 at 21:10 +00:00

      Glad I could help! URL?

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      Clare Walker on 2011-09-18 at 21:39 +00:00

      http://heartsleaf.com – it’s all chaos right now, still trying to realign everything.

      My previous fixed-width effort is at http://heartsleaf.com/wordpress/ – things are a bit more ordered there, but still rudimentary. I’m really new to all this.

      By the way, I don’t seem to be able to edit the font and link colours in your stylesheet. Do I need to do that in the Tarski stylesheet (and therefore lose my changes with each Tarski upgrade)?

      Thanks, I’m so chuffed to be moving forward with the blog again!

      Claire

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         Tyler Wagner on 2011-09-19 at 05:52 +00:00

         If you want to disable the variable-width sliding images (and just use one fixed-width image at the top), commend out the “add_action … init_tolarski_header” line at the bottom of functions.php.

         The style.css in Tolarski can override any CSS in Tarski. Just copy the CSS lines you want to change from Tarski to Tolarski’s style.css, and edit them.

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            Clare Walker on 2011-09-19 at 08:07 +00:00

            Hello again Tyler,

            Thanks for that – I might use a fixed-width image for now and sort out the sliding ones a bit later when I’ve got more time to play around.

            And as for the CSS – of course, that makes total sense. Will tweak it and see what I can come up with.

            Thanks a million!

            Claire

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            Claire Walker on 2011-09-19 at 21:13 +00:00

            Hello again Tyler,

            I’m sorry to have to ask you yet another question, but I’m having trouble with my images. I’ve been playing around with the image size in my posts only to find that they display fine on my screen but go all wonky on my husband’s. I figure I’ve got to use percentage instead of pixels, like I did with my image link in the sidebar (the plugin allows me to do that) – but I’m struggling to get it right and am beginning to tear my hair out.

            Is there a plugin you’re aware of that will help me to post the images according to percentage? As far as I can tell the basic wordpress image handling doesn’t seem to allow you to do this – or am I missing something, being a newbie ‘n all?

            I’d appreciate it if you could give me some suggestions.

            Thanks!

            Claire

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               Tyler Wagner on 2011-09-21 at 12:57 +00:00

               Sorry, I’m afraid I have no experience with that problem. I haven’t seen it. I rarely post images. The “insert media” feature seems to detect pixel dimensions and insert them for me.

               Ah, do you mean you want the images to scale as you scale the browser too? I’m afraid I never intended to do that. That’s another problem altogether. “Use Chrome” is the way you do that. A lot of browsers don’t even try to scale the images with zoom or browser size.

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               Claire Walker on 2011-09-25 at 22:11 +00:00

               Hi Tyler,

               Thanks for your response. Yes, I mean that I want the images to scale – a bit tricky! I’ll see what I can do…

               All the best,

               Claire

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                  Tyler Wagner on 2011-09-25 at 23:51 +00:00

                  The only way to do that now would be to use javascript and scale the image in software. It’s possible HTML5 canvas has support for this, but I’m not sure. Either way, that sounds very unpleasant to do.

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                  Claire Walker on 2011-10-08 at 08:52 +00:00

                  Yes, sounds frightful! I’m sure there must be an easier way to get the blog I want. Thanks for all your input.

                  Claire

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                  Sara on 2011-11-18 at 16:59 +00:00

                  How do you get rid of the header altogether?

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                     Tyler Wagner on 2011-11-19 at 01:05 +00:00

                     See functions.php. See the next-to-last line, “add_action(‘init’, ‘init_tolarski_header’);”. Instead of calling that function, write your own. Have it remove all actions.

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                     thomas on 2011-11-24 at 21:58 +00:00

                     hi,

                     this looks very interesting. I’m playing around with it. Thanks for the effort! There is one question: I’d like to have a page template that comes without a sidebar. Any idea how to get there?

                     Thanks

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                        Tyler Wagner on 2011-11-25 at 00:26 +00:00

                        Sorry, no. I haven’t even considered that. If you find a solution, please post it here.

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