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Old 11-30-2008, 07:17 PM Can someone do a minor edit to a wordpress theme for me?
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I have this wordpress theme I want to install on the 1st. I may not get it done.
Anyways, I need it to be edited so I can put a small banner up top. It does not appear to have a slot for a header banner.
I do not know how to do it. Would anyone be willing to help me out?
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Old 12-01-2008, 11:07 AM Re: Can someone do a minor edit to a wordpress theme for me?
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Can't you just go to your theme editor section and edit the "header" by adding a div for your banner? That's just html.
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Old 12-01-2008, 12:35 PM Re: Can someone do a minor edit to a wordpress theme for me?
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How do you do it?
It is like this one:
http://www.themelab.com/2008/07/21/s...rdpress-theme/
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Old 12-01-2008, 03:32 PM Re: Can someone do a minor edit to a wordpress theme for me?
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Let me start by saying I am not an expert at Wordpress but I've been getting my feet wet with changing around pre-made themes, and since no else is jumping in....maybe I can help.

Open your admin panel. Then Design >> Theme Editor

Along right hand side are all of the files(includes) that make up your basic page based on your theme. There's one that says "Header(header.php)". When you click on it the main panel will show it's code. There will be php<?php ?> mixed in with html. You can just add another div in all standard html since you won't be needing any $variables. Just don't add anything between any <?php (and) ?> tags.

In my design(and probably most) if I were to add a banner ad above my header it would be done here:

(code removed before this)....
<body>

<div id="wrapper" class="hfeed">
<!-- your new banner would go here --><div><img..(etc)..></div>
<div id="header">
<h1 id="blog-title"><span> ...(code removed after)

Just make a backup of the original code on notepad so you can restore it if you get screwed up.
If you use any id's for your div's make sure they aren't already used in your theme's css file.
Double check the path to your image for the ad as well.

Hope this helps!!
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Old 12-02-2008, 01:04 PM Re: Can someone do a minor edit to a wordpress theme for me?
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racer has explained it in a beautiful way. In case you still have a problem, leave a message here explaining what exactly your problem is (after following steps mentioned above) and i will try to help you out
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Old 12-02-2008, 09:50 PM Re: Can someone do a minor edit to a wordpress theme for me?
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OK this is my code:

<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/config.inc.php");?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
<meta name="distribution" content="global" />
<meta name="robots" content="follow, all" />
<meta name="language" content="en, sv" />

<title><?php wp_title(''); ?><?php if(wp_title('', false)) { echo ' :'; } ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" />
<!-- leave this for stats please -->

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php if($db_feedburner_address) { echo $db_feedburner_address; } else { bloginfo('rss2_url'); } ?>" /><?php /* if you put your feedburner into the theme options, the autodiscover will use that instead of the WP default feed */ ?>

<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&format=link'); ?>
<?php wp_head(); ?>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
<!-- @import url( <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> ); -->
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div class="top"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/top.gif" alt="" /></div>

<div id="body-container">

<div id="header">


<div class="headline">
<h1><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>" title="<?php _e('Home'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
</div>
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/ad_top.php");?>
<div class="TopMenu">
<ul>
<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>" title="<?php _e('Home'); ?>" id="home">Home</a></li><?php wp_list_pages('depth=1&sort_column=menu_order&titl e_li=' . __('') . '' ); ?>
</ul>
<div class="rss"><a href="<?php if($db_feedburner_address) { echo $db_feedburner_address; } else { bloginfo('rss2_url'); }?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/rss.jpg" alt=""></img></a></div>
</div>

</div>

Where would a image go?
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Old 12-03-2008, 04:50 AM Re: Can someone do a minor edit to a wordpress theme for me?
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<div class="top"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/top.gif" alt="" /></div>
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Old 12-04-2008, 01:11 AM Re: Can someone do a minor edit to a wordpress theme for me?
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Okay Chris that did not work. That put the image above not onto where I want it.
Screenshot:

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Old 12-04-2008, 05:14 AM Re: Can someone do a minor edit to a wordpress theme for me?
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Use a style rule to put the image down a line or add a <br> to drop it down a line.

I simply pointed out the location in the source for the page header, how you style it is your choice.

BTW. HTML cannot be "debugged" from a picture.
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