On the Stallion Layout Options page you have a lot of options for removing and moving around various elements of the Stallion theme.
Hide Header : hides the entire header area, basically everything where the header image is located is gone. Could be used in combination with the ad settings pages to remove the header area and have a large 728px wide AdSense ad right at the top in place of the header.
Site Title Link : hides the title of the site (top left corner), if you’ve built a custom header image you can hide the title so it doesn’t ruin your nice image (already seen a few sites using this feature for this purpose).
Location of Sites TagLine : Two choices for the location of the sites tagline, within the header or within the footer. You can also use the built in WordPress option to have no tagline (delete the tagline).
Search Form : Turn the search form located within the header (top right) on or off. If you turn it off and still want your visitors to have a search function add a search form widget to one of the widgets/sidebar areas.
Post and Page Dates : Turn post dates on or off for blog Posts and Static pages. Useful for non-blog like sites or blogs that you rarely add new content, having a post dated 2005 suggests the content is out of date even if it isn’t.
Comment Dates : Turn comment dates on or off, as above but for the comments.
WP Admin Bar : turn the new WordPress 3.1 Admin Bar ON/OFF for all logged in users (it’s an irritating bar 
).
Navigation Menu Options : see WordPress Navigation Menu Tutorial
Clean the Header Code Advanced WordPress Management
These settings are for advanced WordPress users who know what they are doing. The settings marked off by default will work for 90%+ WordPress users, these settings clean out unnecessary code from the head area of the code (most users don’t even know it’s there). By removing some of this code it helps protect your site from hackers and loads your pages a little faster.
The only setting you might need to turn back on is the wlwmanifest_link Off setting, this is used by users who access their site using the “Windows Live Writer”, if you don’t use this software, you don’t need it on.
If you change the ON settings to OFF without understanding what they do you’ll probably break parts of your site, lower down the list you go more likely it will cause a problem. They are here for advanced WordPress users who are wanting more control over how WordPress works (I don’t turn any of the ON settings OFF on my sites).
wp_generator Off: Hides WordPress version number security issue (OFF).
wp_shortlink_wp_head Off: Removes Shortlinks (OFF).
start_post_rel_link Off: Removes relational link to first ever post (OFF).
adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head Off: Removes relational link to Previous and Next posts (OFF).
index_rel_link Off: Removes relational link to home (OFF).
parent_post_rel_link Off: Removes relational link to Parent Page (OFF).
wlwmanifest_link Off: Removes the Windows Live Writer link (OFF).
rsd_link Off: Removes Really Simple Discovery Links (OFF).
wp_enqueue_scripts Off: Prevents WordPress from adding javascript to a site. (ON).
wp_print_head_scripts Off: Prevents plugins from adding javascript to a site. (ON).
wp_print_styles Off: Prevents plugins from adding stylesheets to a site. (ON).
feed_links Off: Removes main RSS feed links (ON).
feed_links_extra Off: Removes extra RSS feed links (ON).
rel_canonical Off: Removes canonical URLs (ON).
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Just want to design more layout
Hello, David!
I have chosen the layout (L200R200) but I want to get the flexible one when the visitor clicks to read my post. I meant that I dont want that post appear in the same layout (L200R200). I want it to change to another layout. Of course, I tried to change the new layout (L/R410) but if I chose L410, all parts from R will switch to place on L- side. In fact, I dont want it switch; I just want to disappear and appear only the one-side.
Please help me !
One more thing, I want to know how to use the custom layout!
Thank you!
Stallion Theme Design Options
Stallion SEO Theme Layouts and Widgets
There’s no way to set a layout out the box to disable a sidebar, not easily anyway (would be a nice feature mind you).
With the single sidebar layouts the Left and Right sidebars stack on top of one another.
You can set widgets not to/or to display on specific categories, posts/pages so if it was a single post you want to disable widgets really easy to do.
Under Stallion Layout set Widget Display ON.
Under your widgets page there will be new options under many widgets (not all). If it’s a new type of WordPress widget that allows for multiple uses you’ll find lots of settings at the bottom of the widget including Hide On Checked.
If you wanted a widget not to load on a particular category you’d set Hide on checked and tick that Category. If you want a single Post not to show a widget you have to find the Posts ID.
You can find a Posts ID by editing the Post and looking at the URL of the edit screen, it will look like this
wp-admin/post.php?post=24&action=editThe post=## bit is the Post ID, so in the example above the ID is 24.
If you typed 24 in the “Comma Separated list of IDs of posts not listed above:” box that Post would no longer show that widget.
This Stallion feature doesn’t work on the older widgets, the ones I’ve marked XX are all old widget code, a few not marked XX also don’t have this option (like the Facebook widget).
You would set all widgets within a sidebar to hide one at a time.
The Custom 01 layout uses a css file (that you have to create) in the folder /stallion-seo-theme/colors/layout-custom-01.css (the file currently won’t exist).
It’s available if you want to make adjustments to a layout without editing the layout css files, if you wanted to do something to the file layout-410r.css to change the 400 right layout rather than change the file layout-410r.css you would make a copy of the file layout-410r.css and rename it layout-custom-01.css and make your css changes to that file. This means you don’t mess/break the built in Stallion layouts.
If you want even more control install a Stallion Child Theme, there’s a free one on this site. This gives more options for editing and means you don’t loose your edits when you update main Stallion.
David
Stallion SEO Theme Layout Options
Adsense
Hi David!
For the main content adsense ad, I just want it appear when the visitors click on the post to read but I dont want it appear when it is in the main home page. How can I do it?
Thank you
Stallion Theme Hide Home Page Adsense Ads
AdSense info is at http://www.stallion-theme.com/stallion-wordpress-theme-adsense-setup there’s not a built in option to disable ads on the home page per se, but there is a way around it.
Under the Stallion AdSense Options page set the Main Content Ad Unit to Off.
This disables it sitewide.
Set Sidebar Content Ad Unit Extra to On.
This adds an extra AdSense widget which you can use to replace the one we are about to use to replace the disabled one. We are going to use a sidebar ad unit as the main content ad unit so need a replacement.
Under Appearance Widgets add the Stallion AdSense Content S1 Widget (important it’s this AdSense widget) to the the Content Ad Widget Area.
This will show the AdSense ad sitewide where the main content Ad unit normally is, now use the Hide On Checked widget option I described in my last comment to hide the widget on areas of the site you want it hidden on.
There’s otherways of doing this like editing template files, but this is the only way I can think of without editing files.
David
Stallion SEO Theme Layout Options
Adsense
Hi, David!
It’s really great idea but all you adsense widget is just only one that allows to hide/show, so it is really difficult for me to design.
For your extra adsense widget, you should design it to allow to Hide/show for your next update so that I can design it easily.
Now I dont know how to design because if I change the size of ads, it will change all parts of that ads option.
Thank you
WordPress SEO Layout Options
Post Teaser
Hello David,
Could you help me about post teaser plugin? I tried to edit it into as short word as possible but it seems not change anything.
What is the problem?
Thank you
WordPress Post Teaser Plugin
If I recall correctly the post teaser plugin breaks the content at a paragraph level, so won’t go smaller than one paragraph. Also means if you wrote a 10,000 word post with no line breaks it wouldn’t break the content at all.
I don’t use the post teaser plugin anymore (still a good plugin) because I use the Stallion thumbnail feature and the post teaser and Stallion thumbnail features don’t work well together when posts have images high in the content.
David
Stallion SEO Theme Layout Options
Thank
Thank you so much. In fact, if I deactivate the post teaser plugin, your theme has deducted already the paragraph for being easy to read.
Again, thank you so much.
Your Theme with Joomla
Hi, David
In fact, I have never used Joomla before for blogging. But right now, I just received my other domain and I designed it with Joomla. Of course, it’s tough to do it. I really wonder if I can use your theme with Joomla or not.
Thank you
Stallion WordPress Theme
It’s a WordPress theme so only works with WordPress.
David
SEO for Blog Reader Comments
Hi Dave, one question for you on the “Stallion SEO Recent Comments” widget. Til now I have been using the previous “XX Stallion Recent Comments 12″ widget.
My question is, would using the newer “Stallion SEO” widget give additional SEO benefit, in terms of not wasting link benefit on those comment links? Or does the old “XX Stallion” comments widget do the same, in terms of preserving link benefit?
If it does not do so, I’d like to switch to the “Stallion SEO” comments widget. However I was wondering if there was a way to use it without showing comment excerpts or gravatars (I don’t see any explicit feature in the widget for turning these off).
My reasoning is that I like these recent comment links in a tight compact box (with the excerpts & gravatars, it takes up a lot of sidebar real estate).
However if there is no SEO/link benefit difference between these two, I suppose I’d just stay with the “XX” widget.
Thanks much!
Erik
Stallion Theme Design Options
WordPress Recent Comments Widget SEO Version
SEO wise there’s not a great deal of difference between the Stallion SEO Recent Comments widget and the XX Stallion Recent Comments 12 widget. They are both SEO’d, unlike other WordPress recent comment widgets that add a link to the comment authors website with a nofollow link that deletes link benefit!
The new version (Stallion SEO Recent Comments widget) has more options, the gravatar and description, but the link part are identical, a text link to the comment only (no author link, no wasted link benefit).
The gravatar is loaded as a background image using CSS which SEO wise is neutral (invisible to Google), so having a gravtar/not having a gravatar with those two widgets is identical SEO wise. The description can be argued both good and bad SEO wise, depends on the site really, I use it for usability, users seem to like the comment links with description more than just the link, presumably as it gives an indication of what the comment is about so morelikely to be clicked on.
David
Stallion SEO Theme Layout Options
Thanks Dave, yes that is a good point and something to consider. Seeing an excerpt may encourage click throughs to the comment itself. Good to know the XX version is SEO’ed in the same manner as the latest.
Posted image width condensed
Hi Dave, just a quick question on images. I have noticed recently that when I upload a 540px image, the display width is inevitably crunched (for instance, down to 530 or even 506 pixels in a couple of recent posts). The image itself is not affected (it stays at 540px width), just how it is displayed on the published post.
I just started noticing this having recently upgraded to the most current edition of Stallion. This has also retroactively affected old posts and uploads.
I am wondering if there is any property in the latest edition that may be causing this, or perhaps it is coincidental, and external to anything with the theme? Have been searching online for similar issues but having trouble finding anything in the general WordPress ecosystem.
Thanks,
Erik
Stallion Theme Design Options
CSS Max-Width of Images
That’s a CSS setting called max-width within the Stallion layout CSS files so images never stretch over the sidebars.
Under /stallion-seo-theme/colors/ you’ll find the layout CSS files name format layout-***.css where the *** relates to the layout used, layout-310r.css for example is the 310px wide right sidebar layout (like I use on this site).
Within those files you’ll find this CSS code:
.content_all img {max-width: 660px;
margin: 0 0 24px 0;
}
Each file has a different max-width set, the one above is 660px for the right sidebar layout, the double sidebar layouts has it set at 560px and the no sidebars set at 970px. It’s set to take advantage of the entire content area without loading over the sidebars.
If you remove the code entirely the width of the image will determine if it loads over the sidebars or not. I find it looks unprofessional when images load over the sidebars.
David
Stallion SEO Theme Layout Options
Thanks Dave, I think I figured out what I did. I think it was because I removed the thick grey image border when I was originally customizing the CSS.
I went into the css color layout I am using (style-talian.css) and bumped out the max-width for both the uncaptioned (img.size-full) and captioned image (.wp-caption) to 100% (they were at varying values, 97.5%, 96%). Now the images are displaying with normal width.
WordPress SEO Layout Options
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