Gravel 1.5

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1. Tonya at 2009.07.26 @ 02:39

   Hi I love this theme!

   Thank you so much for creating it.

   I have one quick question/suggestion

   I have a lot of text in my header and the RSS button covers it up (I love the button and don’t want to remove it) is there any way to wrap the text? Also I want to change the header text color and have tried in the themes page and other places but I guess I’m just not as advanced as I would like to be in formating. Where whould I change the text colors?

   Again thanks for creating such an awesome theme!

2. admin at 2009.07.26 @ 10:44

   Hi Tonya,

   First of all: good to hear you like it! The problems are quite hard to solve if you don’t know anything of coding. I saw you also sent me an email, I’ll try to help you out via email.

   By the way: I will solve the bug with the rss button overlapping the text in the header in Gravel 1.6. I’ll put you on the Thanks list with a link to your website.

3. Kevin at 2009.07.26 @ 18:26

   I dig the theme and am using for my new website! But I am having trouble with inserting images and links into posts.

   When I view them through the dashboard, the images and links are there and working fine. But when visiting the site later, the images don’t appear and the links don’t work.

   What am I doing wrong?

4. admin at 2009.07.26 @ 18:56

   Hi Kevin,

   Glad you like Gravel! It sounds like a strange situation. Does it also happen with other themes? Maybe it helps if you go to the Dashboard > Appearance > Gravel Options and disable excerpts. Please tell me whether it works!

5. Kevin at 2009.07.26 @ 22:03

   That worked — many, many thanks!

6. Odette at 2009.07.27 @ 20:21

   Hi,

   Does Gravel support twitter??

   Best regards
   Odette

7. admin at 2009.07.27 @ 20:28

   Hi Odette,

   You have to install a plugin and to drag a widget to the sidebar for that. You should go to the Admin Area > The menu on the left > Plugins > Add new and search for twitter. You’ll probably find there a lot of plugins you can use. Good luck!

8. Raghu at 2009.07.27 @ 21:47

   Hi Mele,

   Thanks for the theme! How can i add a left hand side sidebar as well?

   Thanks
   Raghu

9. Melle at 2009.07.28 @ 12:06

   Hi Raghu,

   Good to hear! That would make the theme wider than the magical 1024px barrier. Honestly seen, I can’t really advise it and besides that, it would require a special customization for you. If you’d like to have that, drop me a line: mellewynia839@hotmail.com.

10. Dianna at 2009.07.29 @ 03:19

    Hey There,

    Beautiful theme. Thank you!

    I know a little about coding, but not too much about WP themes (this is my first one).
    I’m wondering … is there any way I could make the font size of the sidebar content
    larger and/or darker? My audience is a little ‘older’ and I’d like to make it easy on their
    old eyes!

    Thanks again.

11. Melle at 2009.07.29 @ 13:25

    Hi Dianna,

    Thanks! If you’d like to change it, go to the Admin Area > Menu on the left > Appearance > Editor > Menu on the right > Open header.php. Than try to find this line of code:

    font:16px/1.4em Georgia, serif;

    and replace it with:

    font:18px/1.4em Georgia, serif;

    Let me know whether it all works!

12. Dave at 2009.07.29 @ 18:55

    Hi Melle

    Thanks for a great theme

    I have a tiny problem though, in the comments someone used a smilie and it is showing on top of a word, the link is showing the pages

    Thanks for your time
    Dave

13. Melle at 2009.07.29 @ 19:36

    Hi Dave,

    I just took a look at your blog, and you’re right. I will fix this in Gravel 1.6! Thanks for reporting the bug. I’ll also put you on the thanks list!

14. Teramax at 2009.07.29 @ 22:24

    Hello!
    This is my first web experience with WP.
    I really appreciate your work, but also my friends.
    I have a little problem. If you enalble “Show the pages menu” option (I like this!), even child pages are shown too (and not only parent pages). Further on, they are added in the SAME line as parent pages. I expected that only parent pages would appear, while respective child pages are not shown at all (or, better, they would appear only if mouse is over parent page link).
    Now, if you have many pages, one line is not enough for all of them…
    Thanks for your kind reply,
    Massimo

15. Melle at 2009.07.30 @ 11:39

    Hi Teramax,
    I understand what you want with the pagesmenu. The only way it is possible to do at this moment is to disable it. I’ll consider making an option which enables you to only show parent pages, but I won’t include a dropdown menu. The pages menu is actually meant for a few pages, otherwise, everything will ‘clutter up’ fast. Thank you for your request, I’ll seriously consider including a new option.

16. Kelly at 2009.08.1 @ 06:44

    Hello Melle!
    I love the Gravel 1.5 site! I am using it on my site www.3-decades.com. I have a small problem that I wanted to ask you. I created various pages, and there is this message:

    XHTML tags: < abbr title=""> < acronym title=""> < b> < blockquote cite=""> < cite> < code> < del datetime=""> < em> < i> < q cite=""> < strike> < strong>

    I don’t know much about coding, but can easily replace anything if you want to email me. I plan on using your template for the other 9 sites (1-decade.com, 2-decades.com, etc).

    Thanks so much!

17. Melle at 2009.08.1 @ 20:26

    Hi Kelly,

    Thank you! That can be ’solved’ easily. I’ll send you an email!

18. Raghu at 2009.08.3 @ 00:53

    hey melle, i customized your theme for the website i have created. Just one problem – the website arranged gets all messed up when i try to view it in IE , it looks perfect in safari or firefox. any ideas? Appreciate it!

    www.theveryhungrycook.com

    Thanks
    Raghu

19. Melle at 2009.08.3 @ 22:19

    Hi Raghu,

    You really did a great job customizing the theme! Well done!

    Only some posts seem to cause that effect in Internet Explorer. I think that the images or some other ‘wrong’ html tags within the posts are causing this behaviour in Internet Explorer. If you make images to wide, or something else, the post is to wide and Internet Explorer 6 starts to $%^& everything up.

    But if I were you, I wouldn’t worry to much about Internet Explorer 6. Internet Explorer is about to extinct, big websites like YouTube, digg and other are already warning people, that they won’t support it anymore within a few months. This means Internet Explorer 6 is going to extinct within a years.

    Enjoy your blog!

20. Raghu at 2009.08.3 @ 23:04

    Thanks Melle for the feedback and also your comments..

    Thanks to you i had a great foundation/color scheme already done, all i had do to is write one page the ‘all recipes’ one.

    Take care

21. Fernando at 2009.08.8 @ 08:29

    Hi Melle,

    I really like the theme. I’m writing a blog in Spanish and I was wondering how I can change the page menu to say “Home” in Spanish. I can naturally have the titles of all the pages I create in Spanish, but not the home page.
    Thanks!

    Fernando

22. Melle at 2009.08.9 @ 14:55

    Hi Fernando,

    Good to hear you like it!

    It’s easy to change it! Well you open header.php in your editor and scroll down in the document until you reach the bottom. Than look for these lines:

    
< ?php wp_page_menu('show_home=Home'); ?>


    Now replace the bold part of this line of code with your own ‘home title’:

    
< ?php wp_page_menu('show_home=Home'); ?>


    Please let me know it if you got it working!

    Maybe you'd like to share your translated version of Gravel 1.5 here? Or did you customize other things too? I'd really like to publish it here, of course all the credits will go to you for that version.

23. Dennis at 2009.08.12 @ 17:45

    Hey,

    Thanks for the great theme!
    I found a little bug on my site using this theme.. The older post button appears higher then where it should be.

    Again awesome theme!

    Greetings,

    Dennis

24. Melle at 2009.08.12 @ 19:59

    Hi Dennis,

    Thanks! I’ve just took a look at your blog with the browser Firefox, but I haven’t found any bugs, could you please tell me in which browser you found this bug?

    Hope to hear from you soon,
    Melle Wynia

25. Marianna Guenther at 2009.08.17 @ 04:14

    Melle,

    Thank you for a beautiful design!

    I have two questions -

    1. Is there a way I can move main area to the left and make sidebar wider? I like to make my opt-in form bigger and the way it fits on the side bar is not that appealing. i tried ‘messing’ with style.css but the page just started looking un-even…

    2. Is there an option to make some of my pages private so they would not show up within my navigation?

    Thank you so much for your help!
    Marianna

26. Melle at 2009.08.17 @ 12:34

    Hi Marianna,

    Thank you! Besides the two issues, you got everything working nicely.

    1. Well, the changes you want to make would require customizations which you might want me to make for you.

    2. Oehw, well that’s also a hard thing to do. You can password protect an post or page, but I don’t think this will hide it from the rest of the page. What you could consider is simply not publishing them and always keep them in the ‘draft’ mode. Only logged in admins and editors can write it than, but it’s not a nice way to do it.

    I’ve sent you an email about these issues.

    Melle Wynia

27. Cheta at 2009.08.18 @ 14:24

    Hi Melle,

    Thanks for your wonderful theme, I have started using it for my personal webpage and blog.
    I have 2 questions:

    1 I would like to change the header of the homepage to “Welcome” (instead of using a welcome page as I am doing now). I have tried to locate as you suggested to Fernando who wanted to use spanish words, but sofar have not been able to find it. Is this still the way to go?

    2 I would also like to have a larger fond for both the webpage name and the tagline “keeps you posted”. Is that possible?

    Thanks in advance!
    In love and light,
    Cheta

28. Melle at 2009.08.18 @ 14:39

    Hi Cheta,

    edit: Trouwens, ik zag net op je blog, dat je ook Nederlands bent! Leuk om Nederlanders eens tegen te komen!

    Thanks!

    1. Yes, it is still the way to go. In the Gravel 1.6 (the coming new version) I’ll integrate an option which allows you to let the ‘home’ link disappear, and use a normal page as an home page. That should make it a lot easier. I hope to release the new version within a few days!

    2. Absolutely, but again you have to go to the editor. Go to the Admin area (Dashboard) > Appearance > Editor > take a look at the left bar of the page and you’ll find at the bottom of that bar style.css. Click on this to open it. Now try to find this piece of code and increase the number I made bold:

    
.header h1 {
margin:0; padding:10px 0;
color:#fff; font:40px Georgia, serif;
}


    and to increase the font size of the tagline, find this piece of code and again increase the number which is bold:

    
.header h1 span {
13px;
}


    You can find them all at the top of the style.css document, you might have to search a little. Could you please let me know it if you got it working?

    Melle Wynia

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30. Inkmoda at 2009.08.19 @ 16:21

    I like it, I hope I find a use for it. Thanks

31. Saz at 2009.08.20 @ 16:05

    Hi Melle,
    I love the site, it’s really great.
    As our website is for writers, I would love to be able to make the text of the page and posts fonts slightly smaller, to allow more content per page. Would this be possible to do? I think the headers would be ok as they are, but just the main text could do with being a little smaller for our needs!
    Thanks again, I really like the design!
    Saz x

32. Noam at 2009.08.20 @ 20:21

    Hello Melle!
    I’m using your beautiful Gravel 1.5 Them. I’m facing the same problem as mentioned above. Near the comments i have The Next HTML code:
    XHTML tags: < abbr title=""> < acronym title=""> < b> < blockquote cite=""> < cite> < code> < del datetime=""> < em> < i> < q cite=""> < strike> < strong>

    Can You please explain how can i make it vanish (Or Email me)?

    Thanks in advance
    Noam

33. Cheta at 2009.08.21 @ 12:15

    Hoi Melle, inderdaad Nederlands…
    Dit werkt goed, ik heb de header aangepast. Dankjewel!

    It does works, THANKS! I have adjusted the code. I have noticed however, due to the hight of the header, that I can’t go over 50pts, or it will either not appear or disrupt the pagetabs. But even with that 10pt increase it feels much better to me! THANKS, Melle

34. Ed at 2009.08.21 @ 20:01

    Thanks for helping simple minds like mine have a really good looking internet site.

35. Melle at 2009.08.21 @ 21:00

    Hi Saz,

    Thanks, sure that is possible! Go to the Admin area (Dashboard) > Appearance > Editor > take a look at the left bar of the page and you’ll find at the top of that bar header.php. You should decrease the bold number (14). Could you please let me know it if you get it working?

    .post {
font:14px/1.5em Arial, sans-serif;
}

    Hi Inkmoda,
    Thank you!

    Hi Noam,
    Soon I’ll be realising Gravel 1.6 which has an option included so you can disable it easily.

    Hoi Cheta,
    Goed om te horen dat je het gelukt is, geniet van je thema!

    Good to hear you got it working, enjoy!

    Hi Ed,
    Thank you! Enjoy Gravel!

36. Saz at 2009.08.25 @ 02:16

    That’s brilliant. Thanks so much. x

37. Vinod at 2009.08.26 @ 19:01

    Hi,
    Please have a look I have installed your theme which I liked very much but my problem is that I can’t find the more button, under post what should I do , I tried enabling and disabling the options but none worked.

    Thanks
    Vinod

38. Melle at 2009.08.26 @ 20:51

    Hi Vinod,

    Thanks! I think this is an issue with the bar under every posts that has a link that says “Comments (38)”. I’ll fix this in the next version of Gravel, Gravel 1.7.

    Thanks for reporting it!

    Melle Wynia

39. Timo at 2009.09.1 @ 14:53

    Cool theme. I’m using it in my old russian cars website

40. Roberto at 2009.09.1 @ 16:08

    Love your theme Melle. I’ve used it as the tasty scaffolding for a site for a filmmaker friend of mine – thought you’d like to see it.

    vagabond-films.co.uk/

    If you’ve any ideas on how I could make the body text smaller and in Georgia font, so it matches the navigation bar let me know cos despite extensive tinkering I’m blown if I can work it out!

    Cheers!

    Rob

41. Melle at 2009.09.2 @ 17:13

    Hi Timo,

    It’s very interesting to see that you’re using it! Thanks!

    Hi Roberto,

    Well done, you have done a complete remake of the theme! It’s looks very good! Don’t know how much you’ve modified, there is an option where you can set the font to Georgia (Appearance > Gravel Options) and you have to go to header.php to find this line of code, I think you’ll understand from there what to do:

    .post {
    font:14px/1.5em Arial, sans-serif;
    }

    Please let me know it if it’s done.

    Melle Wynia

42. tony at 2009.09.11 @ 01:58

    Hi Melle: I love your theme. I was wondering if there was a simple way to make the tagline/blog description appear under the blog title instead of next to it? I think I can modify the code if necessary. Many thanks.

43. Melle at 2009.09.12 @ 17:05

    Hi Tony,

    Thank you!

    What you want is possible. Go to the Admin Area > Appearance > Editor, select header.php at the right sidebar and scroll to the bottom of the document. Search for this piece of code (please take a look at the little bold ” - “:

    < h1 id="header" < ?php if($theme_header_pagesmenu_onoff=="Disable") { ?> < ?php } ?> >/">< ?php bloginfo('name'); ?>< /a>< ?php if($theme_header_tagline_onoff=="Disable") { } else { ?>< span> - < ?php bloginfo('description'); ?>< /span>< ?php } ?>< /h1>

    Now replace this ” - ” with ” < br/> ” (remove the whitespace between the “<” and “b”!!!!).

    Please let me know it if you get it working!

44. Ricardo at 2009.09.15 @ 07:16

    Hi!:
    Use Gravel 1.6. I’m testing in www.fernandobartomeo.com.ar/blog
    I have a problem:
    When sending a comment:
    “Sorry, no posts