Contempt Theme CSS Add Copyright notation

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    mmt2mmt · Member ·

    I purchased the CSS upgrade and want to add a copyright notice on the footer with the Contempt theme. I don’t see the option for Editor in my Appearance menu, why not? I only see Appearance>Edit CSS – is this where I make the addition in footer?

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    The only way to do that is to use a psuedo element but the problem with doing that is that not all browsers (IE in particular) recognize those which would mean a big portion of your visitors would not see your copyright notice.

    What you need to understand is that CSS is a styling document. It cannot really be used to add functionality and since the content of the footer is set in the underlying theme PHP script files we cannot change it.

    There is a trick that can be used where you put your copyright information into a text widget and style it, and then position that text widget in the footer, but sometimes this works and sometimes it does not. It just depends on how the theme is organized and how the CSS was done originally.

    At wordpress.COM, you aren’t actually editing the original CSS. What you do is put ONLY your changes into the CSS edit window and then your CSS edits are loaded after the original CSS and override the original. Especially with Contempt, do not paste the entire stylesheet as it will break all the relative URLs for the images used in the theme.

    Read this post by CSS master devblog for more on CSS’ing here: http://csswiz.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/if-you-have-the-wp-com-css-upgrade/ .

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    hallluke · Member ·

    The code below will style a text widget similar to the footer in the contempt theme, this way you can add whatever you like as footer text. Remember it is polite to credit both WordPress and the original theme designer but you don’t have to do so. You will need to make sure that the widget ID is updated by viewing the HTML source and changing the ID number shown the code below as #text-10:

    #page {position:relative;}
#footer {visibility:hidden;}
#sidebar #text-10 {position:absolute; bottom:0; left:0; margin-bottom:0; width:100%; text-align:center; border-top:1px solid #333;}
#sidebar #text-10 div {margin-bottom:0; border:none; padding:20px 0;}
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    makingwordscount · Member ·

    Hi Hallluke, TheSacredPath directed me to your posting on adding a psuedo footer to my blog. It worked great except that my Wu Wei theme has a bottom sidebar that is divided into 3 columns. I’m wondering is there a way to style this text widget to run across the bottom of the page? Maybe not?

    If it can be done, is there a way to add one more border line before this last text widget?

    Thank you for being so generous with your time.

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    hallluke · Member ·

    Firstly, and on an un-related note, please please please do not write your copy in something like Microsoft Word and then cut and paste it across into the WordPress editor. It ends up including loads of horrible extraneous tags that make no sense. I count 9 strong tags embedded in series with no content in the last one. Amazingly pointless. Either switch to the HTML editor and manually remove all the stuff that doesn’t need to be there, or use one of the “copy from…” buttons above the visual editor.

    I’m working on some tutorials for adding custom footers for users with the CSS upgrade. It might take me a while but I shall put Wu Wei on the to-do list.

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    makingwordscount · Member ·

    Thanks! Those editors are wonky. I’ve erased strong tags and they come back – I guess it all stems from adding something directly from MS.

    How do I know when you’ve posted something new? Is there an alert somewhere or do I just check back on the forum updates?

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    timethief · Member ·

    I guess it all stems from adding something directly from MS.

    When doing this kind of work you need to use a plain text editor like Nortbook not WORD http://en.support.wordpress.com/microsoft-word/

    Is there an alert somewhere or do I just check back on the forum updates?

    There is no “alert”. You can subscribe to the RSS feed dound in the right hand sidebar on froum threads. You can “member” under your username in any thread you have posted to in the forums and locate every thread you created. Hope this helps. :)

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    timethief · Member ·

    OOPS! I meant Notebook. Notepad is a common text-only (plain text) editor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad_%28Windows%29

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    timethief · Member ·

    **head desk** Notepad :(

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    makingwordscount · Member ·

    thanks Timethief – didn’t realize I could subscribe to topics. I’ll have to get into the practice of using Notepad.

    Patricia

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    timethief · Member ·

    @makingwordscount
    You’re welcome and I’m so sorry about the typos.

    Microsoft Notepad is a word processing tool included with Windows and is installed by default under the Accessories program group. Notepad is a basic text-editing program that you can use to create documents. Open Notepad by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button. In the search box, type Notepad, and then, in the list of results, click Notepad. For more information about using Notepad, see Notepad: frequently asked questions. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Notepad-frequently-asked-questions

    Hope this helps and best wishes with your CSS editing.

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    hallluke · Member ·

    Subscribe to my RSS feed and you’ll find out when I get around to working on a CSS footer for your theme. I’ve moved it to the top of my to-do list but I’m away this weekend so you might have to be patient!

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