This updated article describes how to use the page widget to build a page menu in the WordPress header. For the background to this see the previous post Move the WordPress page links to the header that described a simple way of listing the page links on the header.
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Move the WordPress pages to the header – revisited
Monday, January 25th, 2010Move the WordPress page links to the header
Monday, April 27th, 2009The default theme for WordPress places the links to pages in the sidebar. Moving them to the header is relatively easy to do if you’re comfortable making minor changes to the code.
The first thing is to find the path to the theme that you are using, for the default theme the path is:
⁄wordpress⁄wp-content⁄themes⁄default
For other themes the path will vary so make sure you have identified the correct one for the theme you have in use.
Then using your favourite text editor open up the following files:
- sidebar.php
- header.php
Note: Before you make any changes to these files make sure you have a backup
Next look for the following code fragment in sidebar.php which is used by WordPress to generate the list of page links.
Move the WordPress search box to the header
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009The default theme in WordPress places the search box in the sidebar. Moving it to the header is relatively easy to do if you’re comfortable making minor changes to the code. The first thing is to find the path to the theme that you are using, for the default theme the path is:
⁄wordpress⁄wp-content⁄themes⁄default
Then using your favourite text editor open up the following files:
- sidebar.php
- header.php
Note: Before you make any changes to these files make sure you have a backup
Next look for the following code fragment in sidebar.php which is used by WordPress to generate the search box (What this code does is to insert the contents of the searchform.php file at this point in the page. The searchform.php file contains the code to produce the search box and the search button).
FrontPage glitches floor Firefox
Sunday, March 8th, 2009In my spare time I like to think of myself as a cyclist, and as a cyclist my thing is riding cyclosportives which are similar if not the same as century rides in the USA. One of the popular rides close to my home in Oxford is the White Horse Challenge which has a route that climbs past several White Horse figures that have been carved into the chalk of the hills around here.
The website for this ride was built using Microsoft FrontPage 2003 and looks fine if viewed with Internet Explorer but looks a real mess if viewed with Firefox.
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Fuzzy Images with WordPress
Saturday, January 31st, 2009Uploaded Images ‘Blurry’ with WordPress
Being new to WordPress I have been using the standard image upload facilities. After upgrading to WordPress version 2.7 the Flash uploader stopped working so I resorted to using the browser based version. This was annoying but not annoying enough to make me do something about it. Then I noticed that images which were fine when captured looked fuzzy when viewing the published article, specially when using Internet Explorer.
So what was going on? Well, for one selecting anything other than full size meant the images were being re-sized by the uploader and that reduced the image quality, you notice the difference in quality compared to re-sizing the images yourself in Photoshop.
