Stallion WordPress Theme Feature Requests

Stallion Theme Support

You need to explain support issues in more detail than the above, needle in a haystack comes to mind. For example what where you doing when it broke, any new plugins, any error messages when logged into the Dashboard etc…

I took a look at your site and not sure what the issue is, only thing I noticed was your articles on the home page are all added to the Uncategorised category and the links are missing (the Uncategorised word should be linked).

Only time I’ve seen something like this (not seen that before, but seen similar) is when part of a database has crashed. Check your MySQL databases is running correctly, if not fix it.

You might find this SQL query helpful in repairing a table if one has crashed:

REPAIR TABLE `wp_posts`

You’d use this when logged into your control panel or similar where you can enter SQL queries (I have no idea how for your site). The above will repair the table wp_posts if that’s the table that’s crashed, if wp_term_taxonomy crashed repair it.

Also try disabling all plugins, see if it helps.

I’m reasonably confident this won’t be a Stallion issue. You can confirm this by activating the TwentyEleven theme and see if the issue remains, if it does it’s not Stallion.

Still working on the update, will be announced on the mailing list when complete.

David

Stallion WordPress Theme Feature Requests

WordPress Website Caching Issues

Either you’ve fixed the RSS feed link (the link is which loads http://feeds.feedburner.com/vivirencanadacom now) because the new feed is loading correctly (I think that’s the feedburner feed you want to load) or it’s a caching issue on your PC.

Try CTRL F5 a few times while on your home page and see where the link goes.

I didn’t see any indication of a caching plugin used, but if you are using one try regenerating the cache as well.

David

Stallion WordPress Theme Feature Requests

WordPress Custom Navigation Menu Widgets and Layouts

If you mean the navigation links below the header area they are completely CSS based. In the style-delicate.css file find:

.navigators ul {
list-style: none;

And you are in the right place to find the CSS to edit. As you can see there’s a lot of CSS code for generating the dropdown menus and colours (all the lines starting “.navigators”). I think it would be a major undertaking to convert those links to image links and maintain the dropdown menu etc… I don’t think I’ve seen a WordPress site do this?

If you play around with

.navigators a {
background: #ECECEC;
background: -moz-linear-gradient(#ECECEC, #F9F7F7);
background: -o-linear-gradient(#ECECEC, #F9F7F7);
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 0% 100%, from(#ECECEC), to(#F9F7F7));
-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 1px 2px;
-moz-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 1px 2px;
box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 1px 2px;
border-top: 3px solid #ECECEC;
color: #808080;

This generates the gradient colours, maybe adjusting them will give you something close to what you want to achieve. Looks like you’ve figured this bit out for yourself

The navigation.gif image doesn’t do what you think, for some colour schemes it’s the background image for the sidebar headings, so goes behind Categories, Links, Meta etc… As it happens that file isn’t used by Delicate, used CSS instead because the colours are simple.

The top menu navigation area would be difficult to convert to what you want, dropdown on the side, you’d probably be better building something more customised using the Custom Menu System under “Appearance >> Menus” and use the custom menu on a sidebar via “Appearance >> Widgets” and create some CSS for it. Or even use Text Widgets under “Appearance >> Widgets” if you are happy to loose some of the dynamic nature of the WordPress sidebars.

With Text Widgets you could generate a side menu similar to your other site, build the HTML as you want it linking to the pages you want to link to etc…. and add it as one or more Text Widgets to the Left or right sidebar widget area. You’d need to switch layouts to one of the 300px wide layouts under “Stallion >> Layout Options” to have the left or right sidebar area available.

With regards which layouts to use, I like the 300px wide single sidebars. On mixing things up through a site, I’m working on the Stallion 7.0 update which extends the WordPress template system. If you’ve played around with the Static Page Template system you’ll be severely disappointed WordPress core doesn’t use the same template system for Blog Posts! In Stallion 7.0 this is possible, every Static Page and Blog Post can choose a different template. Also I’ve added category templates, these generate different outputs based on category template files for each category. And I’ve added more control over widgets, currently when a widget is added to a widget area it’s shown sitewide, in Stallion 7.0 each widget can be included/excluded from pretty much every type of page type.

I’ve not added the ability to select the different Stallion layouts on a page by page basis, but want to in a future update. In Stallion 6.2 I added a Static Page/Blog Post Template (called “Static Page Blank Sales No Sidebars” filename page-sales.php) that overrides the selected layout.

Basically it’s a file that contains the content of header.php, page.php, sidebar.php and footer.php with the layout set to no sidebars (1000px wide – file style-1000.css), the left and right sidebar code is removed (so the left and right sidebar widgets don’t load at all) and the header code cut down. The idea is for users to paste an entire page into the WordPress edit form (hence sales page). This concept could be used now to generate templates for all the layouts, but without stripping out all sidebars and header code. I didn’t do this in Stallion 6.2 because the template system only works for Static Pages and most content on a WordPress site is added via Blog Posts (a lot of work for little usage). In Stallion 7.0 it’s worth creating templates like these, so might if I find the time make a start on this soon.

I’m trying to get Stallion 7.0 released this month, it’s been a LOT of work and because there’s been so many new features it’s meant a LOT of bug hunting, so these new features (and more) are coming soon.

David

Stallion WordPress Theme Feature Requests