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Breathe Version 2.1
I have just released Breathe version 2.1 which includes a lot of changes under the hood. The most exciting thing is that there is a Breathe Option page located under the Appearance tab. The options page will enable admin change the site more easily without having to know CSS and PHP. Have a play around an see if you like it.
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Welcome to WordPress Theme – Breathe
Read this Post first to help set up your Breathe Theme.
Version 2.1 is my latest release and there have been big changes. The best part is that there is a Breathe Options page located under the Appearance tab in the admin section of your site. This gives you ease of use for changing the look of the theme. It also supports Google Advertising and much more…
Changing the front page to display full articles
I have had some enquiries about changig the front page from having excerpt of stories to the full story of each post on the front page. It is pretty easy to change, this is how it is done.
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Sendblaster Email Marketing
I am a huge fan of WordPress and all things WordPress, so I was looking around for a bulk email widget that I could use to send emails to people who subscribe to one of my websites. I found the SendBlaster widget which is a widget for newsletters opt in but SendBlaster is also an email marketing tool. Best of all it is free like all good things… however the free…
Moving the seach box
The seach box is conviently located in the top right hand side of the top navigation bar, however some people would prefer to move this to another location so this a quick guide to help those that want to move it.
- Login to the adminsition area of your site.
- Go to the Appearance tab (on the left side of the screen).
- Click on Editor
- The page that appears should be style.css, if not go to…
Changing the height of the Header Image
I get lots of requests on changing the header picture height of the Breathe Theme, so this is a quick how to guide.
The default settings for the image in the head section (mountain range) is width = 950px and height = 20.2em.
To change the height it is a simple matter of changing the height in the Style.css page.
- Under the Appearance tab click on Editor.
- The page that appears should be style.css, if not…
Drop Down Menu
I have just added a drop down menu for pages in my Breathe theme. They are the ones displayed on the top navigation line. Lots of people wanted it so I just bit the bullet and worked the damn thing out. Thanks majorly to SEOadsenseThemes for publishing their article on how to use jQuery drop down menu for WordPress. I have configured the CSS styling to reflect the navigation for the…
Changing the picture in the header
This is the mountain range at the top of the page. The easiest way to change it is to make your image the same size and same file name and them upload it to the images folder.
The header image is 950×200 pixels.
The header image can be located in the images folder within the breathe folder. It is called header.jpg
Alternatively if you have already added the theme to your wordpress it is…
Version 1.7 upgrade
This update has fixed an error which was causing a header error from the functions.php file.
A comments count has been added to the front page.
I have removed the default thumbnail for posts without images, but it will still display images on posts that have images.
If you have made modifications to your Breathe theme and don’t want them over written the best way is to download the theme then upload…
