Removing time, date author from Wordpress Fullscreen theme

I looked high and low for some widget to do the job but it did in fact boil down to changing the core code- which I hate to do but it's worked out alright this time.

The code that adds the metadata tag of time, date, author to posts in Wordpress is different in every theme as far as I can tell. Be aware of that first and foremost. I tried at least five other ways of changing this that other people noted had worked for them but which did not work for me.

Note that I am using the Fullscreen theme from Graph Paper Press. I am using Wordpress 3.2.1

I made my change to single.php

I commented out the time, date author using the code at left:

I left the navigation for prev. and next. Really I wish I could get that on to my pages... don't know why that's not an available option but oh that's Wordpress for you: making the simple into the impossible.

Here's a img. of where I made my edits. Click on img. for a large view. Good luck!

Note on using Text Wrangler with Graph Paper Press Themes

Just a note that on using Graph Paper Press themes with wordpress I had issues with Text Wrangler adding some extra code to my php and sabotaging my whole set up to produce a syntax error. If you're editing a theme produced by this company or editing Wordpress in general be wary of this text editor. If anyone has better luck please post comments...

Brighten images on Fullscreen, Graph Paper Press, Wordpress 3.2.1

I changed the mouse-out brightness for thumbnails on Fullscreen theme from Graph Paper Press. My site is hosted on GoDaddy.com so I was able to go in and directly open the file and edit it. Direct editing isn't always the best idea, but if it's a simple one word or number edit you can try it from time to time. Please note it's best to try edits offline I'm simply telling you how I did it:

Went to GoDaddy. Went to account summary. Went to hosting. Clicked on my site and "launch" button. That put me in the "hosting control center". Clicked on expanding "content" tab. Selected "FTP File Manager icon".

Went to Wordpress folder. Went to wp-content/themes/ fullscreen/ js

You want to edit the //Fade section.
You want to edit the 1st and last ("slow"0.3"); section to ("slow"0.6");

You're changing the values under fade from 0.3 to 0.6. Click on the image below so you can see everything in greater detail.

Then clicked on top left icon of disc to save file.

Done.

Linking wordpress gallery thumbnail to page or post...

I'm using WP 3.2.1.

Putting this post up after spending almost 2.5 weeks looking for some easy way to add a link form gallery thumb to page or post. Gallery has default settings that are very hard to work around and I crashed my site once in the process of trying to make some magic happen.

Simply putting this post up to steer people in the right direction: you will find that it is much easier to tinker with the style.css section of your site and adjust image postings. Here you can change the border width, margins and alignment. You can very likely get the look and feel that you are after without ever tackling the monster that is Wordpress's very klunky gallery.

There is a little wiggle room to be had ( though not enough to make me happy) that you can find by using plugins:

file gallery ( best gallery add on I've found so far. it is a student project and I have not tested it in depth simply loaded it and explored the options which I found impressive.)

and

NextGEN gallery ( which seemed to meet my needs but had lots of features that were not applicable to my goals).

If anyone finds a quick and easy way to add the feature of links to pages from thumbnails rather that the default gallery set up that WP has or file url please add a comment and link. What I'm looking from is something really simple. No deep php edits--- no creation of new editing elements unless it's some amazing plug in: simple simple simple which is what Wordpress is supposed to be all about.

Lighten Menu in Fullscreen Graph Paper Press theme for Wordpress 3.2.1

Change the color of menu items in Fullscreen theme from Graph Paper Press on Wordpress 3.2.1

Go into Style.css section... Go to menu bar on left and go to "Appearances" section.

Select sub-category "Editor". Go to Style.css file and open it.

There is a section near the top titled: /* Home Thumbs & Nav*/

Below this you will see several tags that say this:

Because the background in Fullscreen is so dark it's hard to see the menu at top unless you lighten it. It fades out when you move away from it and it's easy for a new user to get lost.

Change the color codes to #CCCCCC and your menu will pop out.

Maybe pop out too much :) Choose the menu color that's right for you.

Wordpress 3.2.1 with Graph Paper Press Fullscreen theme

NOTE: A CORRECTION HAS BEEN MADE TO THIS PAGE!!!

Next I'm going to make it so that the home page of my blog pulls images to display not just from the posts I put up but form the pages too. I'm actually all together going to ignore the use of post for this site ( unless I can think of a reason to use 'em later).

To make images form pages visible I'm going to go to the "Appearances" section again. I'm going to select the sub-category "Editor", and tweak the code a bit. I need to look for the bit of code that tells the template to pull from posts. For some people the code that affects this element may occur in other places ( I've seen other tutorials that list it elsewhere) so check around before you do this if you can't find the string of code I'm using and if you aren't using the Graph Paper Press Fullscreen theme). See below the code before I edit it:

.... see example.

so cut and paste this:

new WP_Query("post_type=page&showposts=5");

It's a one word add but I have to do it in two spots. That's it! Don't forget to go to the bottom of the page and hit the blue "Update File" button.