The WordPress Classic Theme is one of my favorites (also the one used for this site), because it is simple and easy modify to your own taste. By default it is a fluid lay-out with absolute positioned sidebar (right) but with very little effort you can get it to look just about right.

The one aspect that is rather annoying though, is that when you disable comments on post or page, it still displays the comments footer and a message that comments are not allowed at present. Somewhat ugly if you create pages that you do not want your readers to comment on. “No problemo” says my friend and uber-l33t codemonkey … CharlVN and goes about hacking the theme. (more…)

Haven’t posted in a bit (like that’s anything new) so I am doing so now for those who follow the feed to be notified of the fact that I had a deadline for a job that I wasn’t in the mood for (still haven’t completed it) and I procrastinated some … stumbleupon FTW. I went through some of my old stumbles and this led to me toying with heromachine again, which inspired me to revamp along the that very same theme.

Here it is then … CSS guy

This is a make-over of the WordPress Classic theme

…hope that title made sense

Right … so you’ve created your navigation bar and figured out how to do roll-overs the (CSS-)only way, but there’s no attribute or style property that allows you to target the link for the page that is currently being displayed. There is a “technique” that can help us out here though … we use specificity (quite a tongue twister yes). In other words we target specific elements by including the full path from parent to the last child. I’ll explain in full below… (more…)