Archive for the ‘Customizing ProPhoto’ Category

Why can’t I save any changes when editing my files in the Theme Editor? Why does it say “if this file were writable, you could edit it”?

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Sometimes, when you install WordPress and ProPhoto, and try to edit your theme files in the Theme Editor for the first time is says something like: “You need to make this file writable before you can save your changes. See the Codex for more information.”

This is caused by permissions set wrong on the files WordPress is trying to edit. Sometimes during the process of FTPing files, permissions get messed up. To fix this, change the permissions on the files that aren’t working to “777″ or “0777.” You can do this within FTP programs, or in your file manager. You can see how to change permissions in the end of this video about using a file manager.

The top part of my blog got all screwed up, with the bio area being overlapped

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

If your blog looks something like this:

The problem you’re having with the masthead image and the bio is because you’ve run out of room for your list of links, to fix that:

  1. shrink your font-size,
  2. shrink the space between the links, or
  3. shorten the link text (e.g. “Website” instead of “My Really Long Website Title “)
  4. some combination of the above

to shrink font size, edit line #81 of style.css, which looks like this:

#ppt_topnav li a {
font-size: 16px; /* font size of top links */
}

to change space between links, edit line #204, which looks like this:

#ppt_topnav li {
margin-right: 25px;
}