This is a theme dedicated to the writing. Low on graphics it’s a good theme for writers, pundits anyone who wants the miain focus to be the writing.
Pundit features built in asides, random posts, 5 sidebars, rss link at the end of every post to encourage subscribers and 3 templates–no sidebar, links, sitemap.
Requires some customization, explanation on download page and Read Me.
ZIP 1.22
pundit
Many thanks to Annie at Blog de Pensées Libres : pas de conformisme ici for translating Pundit in French.
French Version
pundit12-fr
About Debra
Hi!
First of all, love your Pundit theme! I am beta testing it on a test blog and I had a few questions if I could?
1. I am trying to figure out how to add a header but for some reason it won’t work?
2. There looks like code in the header for an RSS feed, but there are not any tags or images associated with it anywhere.
3. How can you add a banner in the header to the right? I can’t seem to place it to show.
4. If I wanted the logo to take up the entire header centered how can that be accomplished?
I am a novice at code so I apologize but I really want to put your theme to good use because it really does look great!!!
@blabrmouth -
I’ll look into the RSS issue, I’ll set up a banner — 468 x 60?
by logo do you mean the name of the site or a graphic?
@admin –
I mean graphic, sorry and yes, 468×60.
Thanks for the quick response!!!
@blabrmouth –
revised zip of theme at bottom of post.
I’ve added an RSS link in the sidebar, an add div at the top,insert your own affiliate code there, this can be in the header itself by uncommenting the first ad_banner code in the style sheet and commenting out the current one.
in the style sheet you will see this
header {
width:940px;
background:#FFFFFF url(images/logo.gif) center no-repeat ;
text-align:center;
margin: 0px ;
height:180px;
upload your logo graphic, change the name and/or extension and it will automatically center.
Hope that covers everything.
Thank you very much for your help! I appreciate it! Just wondering where the link is for the download??
got it, thanks!
Hello!
Sorry but it’s me again
I have everything in place, but I noticed that in ie7 it does not show the page correctly. It only shows the title of the first post, then nothing else?? I ran it in browsershots and it looks the same in ie5.
not for nothing, it really is a great theme.
Robert
Also, I just noticed there is no navigation to other pages at the bottom of the main page so how would someone see your old posts?
Well, I see the code for previous and next posts in the index, but it does not seem to be working.
SOS donot work with Ie6
yet : the first version 1.2 in wp site is good one for Ie7/6 and now i get my site name in the head, not with this version here !
Hi Annie, you seem to have things working well, at least when viewed from my browser. What can I help you with ?
i like it, tks. i’am translating it in french… if you are interessed ?
That would be wonderful! Remember to add your name to the credits.
ok tks, now i have two things to do :
do it in masculin : ex > i have write “desolee” no “desole” do it matter ?
and to do to know it on my site not enough, if they want on francophone site not sure, and you on yours.
on the site http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/pundit#post-76 i cannot write
tks for your accept, and sorry for my so bad english !
I know french requires masculin/feminine so do it as is required.
and to do to know it on my site not enough, if they want on francophone site not sure, and you on yours.
not sure what you mean here. I think you mean when it is done you will send it to me to put up here. And you will put it up on your own site…yes?
I will upload it to WordPress with your credit attached when you send it to me
I very much appreciate your doing this .
Ok now, i have understood, you can take it on my site, the last entrie
thanks to you
a little draft, the first time i do that in my life… now about near finish…
1. Searchform.php seems to be missing. Where can I get it.
2. The background under content/features/sidebars shows up if content and sidebars are not the same size. How and where would you make a dive to put my own color behing these two columns.
John
Searchform is not required the searchbar is coded into the sidebar. If you want to change the location simply copy and paste the code to the new location.
I’m not sure what you mean with your second question but if you mean where do you change the dark gray colour it is here
#wrap (line 18)
background-color: #3c3c3c
@Debra –
I get an error when I do a search and it does not find the search. What was searchform.php intended for.
I changed the color of the wrap, When the columns are different sizes. I want a border the color of the wrap, and a white space filling down to the end of the larger column. Do you thing is is best/easier to add an extra div, or maybe a border on the wrap.
Look at http://www.featherly.com. I think the columns of different sizes looks sloppy with my changes.
Could you post the way your search code looks on the sidebar right now? Searchform is this which is coded into the sidebar in this theme
this is how it looks more or less
http://codex.wordpress.org/Sty.....earch_Form
If you want everything to look totally uniform regardless of column height set wrap and feature backgrounds to #fff that will make everything white and column lengths disappear.
@Debra – @Debra –
I will try to put a boarder on the wrap and set the backgound to white. I think that is what I want.
How do I insert PHP code?
can you send me an email to debrascot @ gmail . com and I will email you the code for the search bar.
BTW I love how your site looks.
@Debra – Thanks, I emailed the form.
I got the background close the way I want it, I need to work on the sidebars.
The site looks different on safari on a Mac than Opera, chrome, I.E, and firefox. Think it is a SAafari bug?
John
I need help with search, my sidebar has the proper code, but i get the error saying searchform not found…. help.
try this
put this code into a file and name it searchform.php
well that isn’t working hang on
can you email me at debrascot@gmail.com
Please tell me a way to put cetain posts in their own category or page not the home page? Is there a widget I van download to do this.
Thanks for the help.
you can use this method to put posts into their own category
http://mattmedia.net/2007/10/0.....asy-steps/
I’m not aware of a plugin
Can I creat a new sperate Post page for users to put their own posts. I want to keep these from appearing on the home blog post page.
My site is alphaamericanantion.com. I created a page using the add a new page from the admin. But I cannot get posts to appera there only.
I would greatly appreciate the help. I am way new to this stuff.
Can someone tell me how to add another page of posts for seperate posts and keep them off of the default home page to this theme?
You would need to create a category page. Follow the information here
http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates
Please tell me how do I find the proper category # to put in the scrypts to put post to that category? Also hao do I find the proper page # as well?
Is the category # the order number it is listed on the page ie: 1, 2, 3, etc. Page is the same?
to find the category number go to Categories and mouse over the name of the category you want. In IE the number will show in alt in FF the number will show in the bottom browser bar.
or install the Reveal IDs plugin
http://wordpress.org/extend/pl.....-admin-25/
Thank You. now can you tell me how to find the PAGE ID#?
Also can you tell me where the loop scrypt code is in the Main Index using Pundit 1.2?
Thank you again.
If you look at the above reply I gave you two ways to find the id.
IN index.php everything between div class=post and < ? php endwhile; ? > is the loop
Can you tell me how to edit the home default page?
I cannot find this page listed in the admin page area.
I wanto add a logo on the right side of the header have no cle how to do this.
Also want to adjust the font in the header as well.
Am I missing this file?
http://www.alphaamericanation.com
Please tell me how to insert image/picure/logo in the header to the right of the Titile?
Thank You for the help.
HELP please,
I tried to add a log to the header and did not work. I deleted the code for the logo now the background in the header is GRAy! NOT White. I want to get it back to white. DId I delete a code for this?
I resolved the color issue, but still need to put a image in the header.
You need to create a headerleft and right to do this.
add to style.css
.headerleft {
width:500px;
}
.headerright {
width:400px;
}
then add to header.php code
div id=”header”
div class=”headerleft”
/div
div class=”headerright”
/div
/div
NOTE: I have had to take all the angle brackets off of the code to get it to display. Remember to replace them.
Plase, can you tell me how to add a image to the header of the pages so that it shows to the right of the title?
How do I place a Image/Graphic/Picure to the right of the Blog Title in the Header?
I kno whow to get code for a graphic ie photobucket but need to know here to place it so it will appear to the Right of the H1 title.
I did reply to this upthread somewhere, but in case the gremlins got it
You need to create a headerleft and right to do this.
add to style.css
.headerleft {
width:500px;
}
.headerright {
width:400px;
}
then add to header.php code
div id="header"
div class="headerleft"
/div
div class="headerright"
/div
/div
NOTE: I have had to take all the angle brackets off of the code to get it to display. Remember to replace them.
Thank You very much I will give it a try. Where do I put this code as before or after what line? or just at the bottom of the header.php and style.css
All of sudden my fonts in my posts will not publish in Bold if I choose to use this as they appear in the edit Post page. Any ideas why?
My posts do not publish with letters in Bold as they appear on m y edit page. When I publish my ost the fonts are all the same. Any ideas, Is is Wordpress?
I hae an issue with my site when I oublish a post to the website.
The Bold Fonts do not apperas as Bold. Any guesses?
The theme shouldn't affect one way or another whether you can have bold text. Perhaps a plugin is interfering with your post formatting.
Hi! I love your theme. I'm new to Word Press and plodding my way through it w/the Dummies book and becomeablogger.com. But I am having trouble figuring out how to put an image in the "About the Author" part at the bottom of the first page. Can you please help?
rename the image you want to use to author.gif. Now upload it to the theme images file. Now it should show automatically.
I am having a hard time getting my photo to show up in the about the author section at the bottom of each page. The photo appears with my posts but not on the bottom of the page. Any ideas how to fix?
Hi Debra,
Nice work!
The Pundit theme offers the look I’m after… but, please, indulge me these newbie questions…
1.Can we create our own header and include in it a “site search” (instead of where it is currently illustrated) ?
2. Can the right hand column have content and widgets placed to lend the appearance of 3 columns?
3. Can rolling text be added… and easily modified?
4. Can I add video?
5. Can we speak real-time? You have my email address… if you send me a note, I can respond with my phone number
Thank you, John