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Quadruple Blue widgets display problem

I tried the Quadruple Blue, but after I added the search widget there’s “something” missing, such as a background image and css. The default install looks great.

I tried some other widgets, same thing.

Default on the left, pic after adding the search widget on right:

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Mon, 7 Dec 2009 7:35:52
  • Christine
    • Flash Drive

    Look at the 2 pictures of the search box.

    On the left, the default template. NO dark border around the search box and instead some spacing and some background.

    After I added the search widget because I want to use different and additional widgets in that sidebar, the formatting disappeared.

  • Christine
    • Flash Drive

    Well, I have no idea what to do. I’m not a designer, I was hoping that I could use the themes provided here with the premium subscription without having to get into that.

    I’ve been using WP for about a year and I’ve made some minor modifications to themes, but have no clue what to do here.

    I specifically don’t understand why the default install looks so nice and as soon as you add a widget, it loses the formatting. I’ve only used a few themes and that never happened before.

    Christine

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    I was hoping that I could use the themes provided here with the premium subscription without having to get into that

    The themes listed individually on our themes page are fully supported. However, the themes in our theme packs are just gathered from other places. We’ve made a lot of improvements to the themes in our theme pack in the past and we’re currently working on a new version of the theme pack with even more improvements. That said, I’m afraid we can’t provide support for each and every theme in the theme packs.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • Christine
    • Flash Drive

    Thanks, I don’t know who Richard is, but I followed the theme credit link and posted at http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/01/26/quadruple-blue/

    Over the weekend I read the entire themes thread here that’s currently stuck to the top and I was looking forward to the update. Also got sidetracked reading other threads started years ago about licensing and I’m not yet at the point where I understand what really went down with Matt and I’m not sure I need to know.

    I was also looking at the Marketplace theme and from what I read here, it’s not a good idea to use it. Too bad really.

    My MAIN concern is that I will do an upgrade and then my site is down because there’s something incompatible with the theme.

    So I suppose I’m not going to use any of those themes in the Farm pack. Maybe you could note that those themes aren’t supported, or maybe I just missed that, been doing a lot of reading.

    It would be nice if one of those underemployed designers started a subscription support forum.

    I can follow a link to instructions and I can copy/paste and search for code to replace or maybe change some colors/fonts, but that’s about all I want to do with CSS.

    I’m not new to blogging, used MT and in 2004 switched to Expression Engine and my EE sites look exactly the way they looked when I started them because it’s just so difficult to make changes and support is essentially limited to developers. I remember the day when I got only a blank page because some plugin wasn’t compatible and that’s my worst nightmare.

    Anyway, I’ll stick to your themes.

    Christine

  • Richie_KS
    • HummingBird

    hi Christine

    the reason the default search and widget search are different because the original theme author (sp) did not optimize a class css for the search widget..it is an easy fix..just add this css to the style.css..

    .right_sidebar_col .widget #searchform {

    padding: 10px;

    background: url(images/bg_ul_ul_2.gif) no-repeat;

    }

    .right_sidebar_col .widget #searchform input[type="text"] {

    border: 0px none;

    margin-bottom: 5px;

    }

    cheers