Paul Cracknell

Video Embed

This is a test for embed of video.

This is a test of the video embed. By default the video will not display on the front page because the excerpt call is used. If you would like video to be shown on the front page you will have to change this. See this Article to change this.…

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.

Announcement: 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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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.

1. Login to the adminsition area of your site.
2. Go to the Appearance tab (on the left side of the screen).
3. Click on Editor
4. The page that appears should be
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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.

1. Under the Appearance tab click on Editor.
2. The page
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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 …

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 …