Wordpress Theme - Dark Smoke

[MedicalWebsiteDesignPros]

Wordpress Theme - Dark Smoke

Description: A dark and sophisticated WP theme with a 2 column layout, multiple widget-ready placement. Active widget-based footer. Transparent header menu and sidebar. Background picture can easily be replaced with your own dark image.



Download: Dark Smoke WP Theme.

Demo: Dark Smoke Wordpress Theme Demo.

[Donald.McMahan]

First off thank you so much for making the dark smoke theme available to the wordpress comunity, I have a question that any dummie who knows anything at all about html should be able to work out for himself, sorry but i'm not just any dummie i am one who has to ask. i would like to change the color of the sub-title from red to green. there is i am sure some little bit of code that i can change but i don't know what or where. thank you for any help you can offer and thanks again for this great looking theme

[MedicalWebsiteDesignPros]

It's really easy: in the "dark smoke" folder is a file called style.css. That .css file has all the attributes for colors, margins, etc for the entire theme. Now, the red text you are talking about appears here in style.css:

#header .description {
padding: 4px 0px 0px 18px;
font-size: 24px;
font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Verdana;
color: #CC0000;

--see that last line that says "color: #CC0000"? Well, that is the code for red. You need to change the "CC0000" to the color code for the color you want. To find the 6-digit code for your new color, go here: http://html-color-codes.com/ It should be a breeze, but write back if you get stuck.

[bcfilmmaker]

I installed the "Dark Smoke 1.8.1" Wordpress theme for a friend. We really like the look of the layout but I do have one question for you:

Is there anyway we can put a "Home" link at the top of the site? (like About etc) Most people will not know to click on the title of the blog to get back to the main page. I tried to create a "Home" Page but the permalink won't allow me to just use the main url.

Thanks for your help.

Peter

[MedicalWebsiteDesignPros]

Yep...you can...

We'll just ad a "home" link manually.

We are going to add this line to the file that generates the header:

<li><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/">Home</a></li>

So, you need to open the file "header.php" within the darksmoke template folder. You find the template folder in "yoursite.com/wp-content/themese/darksmoke/" You can open the header.php file in windows notepad or any simple text editor. It's only about 30 lines long, so it's easy to modify.

You want to find, in that header.php file, the following lines:

<div class="slim-content-box">
<ul><?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&sort_column=menu_ order');?></ul>
</div>

and you want to change them to the following, inserting that line of code from above, just after the "<ul>" tag at the beginning of line two:

<div class="slim-content-box">
<ul><li><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/">Home</a></li><?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&sort_column=menu_ order');?></ul>
</div>

Save header.php and upload it to the directory call darksmoke where the theme files reside, and you'll have a "home" link on the top menu bar.

Congratulations, you are now a wordpress coder. If you get stuck, post here and I'll email you the file and/or upload it for you.

[JayD]

Hey, firstly thanks for the great theme

I installed it for a friend when I set up his wordpress and noticed a slight bug. On the main page it looks great, but whenever you click onto an individual post or category, it pushes the footer into the sidebar and some things run out of the borders.

Not sure if it is something you are aware of or know of a quick fix for.

Thanks in advance,
Jay

[bcfilmmaker]

Originally Posted by MedicalWebsiteDesignPros

Yep...you can...

We'll just ad a "home" link manually.

We are going to add this line to the file that generates the header:

<li><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/">Home</a></li>

So, you need to open the file "header.php" within the darksmoke template folder. You find the template folder in "yoursite.com/wp-content/themese/darksmoke/" You can open the header.php file in windows notepad or any simple text editor. It's only about 30 lines long, so it's easy to modify.

You want to find, in that header.php file, the following lines:

<div class="slim-content-box">
<ul><?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&sort_column=menu_ order');?></ul>
</div>

and you want to change them to the following, inserting that line of code from above, just after the "<ul>" tag at the beginning of line two:

<div class="slim-content-box">
<ul><li><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/">Home</a></li><?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&sort_column=menu_ order');?></ul>
</div>

Save header.php and upload it to the directory call darksmoke where the theme files reside, and you'll have a "home" link on the top menu bar.

Congratulations, you are now a wordpress coder. If you get stuck, post here and I'll email you the file and/or upload it for you.

==========

Just did what you said and it worked perfectly.

Thanks again.

Peter

[TastyPlacement]

Jay,

On my installation it renders fine...can you show me the page where you installed it?

-Michael

Originally Posted by JayD

Hey, firstly thanks for the great theme

I installed it for a friend when I set up his wordpress and noticed a slight bug. On the main page it looks great, but whenever you click onto an individual post or category, it pushes the footer into the sidebar and some things run out of the borders.

Not sure if it is something you are aware of or know of a quick fix for.

Thanks in advance,
Jay

[MedicalWebsiteDesignPros]

Jay noticed a bug in the way the footer renders on some pages.

v1.9 takes care of that.

Download here: Dark Smoke Wordpress theme v1.9

[JayD]

Thanks for the fix Works like a charm now.