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Embedded forum issues

KeltichiroKeltichiro
edited November 2011 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8
Hey all,

I'm having some issues with the embed vanilla plugin...I've got it working pretty well, and even using the Embed friendly theme - but there are bits and pieces of the forum still being cut off, as if the window is too small.

Any way to fix this? :( Can I make the window larger?

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  • 422422 MVP
    Answer ✓
    first off in style.css

    #content { float: left; margin-top: -10px; width: 1024px; }

    That will make embed same size as menu ?

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  • 422422 MVP
    edited November 2011
    Can you post screenpic or link?

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  • KeltichiroKeltichiro
    Sure

    http://tordrive.com/forums.html
  • 422422 MVP
    Answer ✓
    first off in style.css

    #content { float: left; margin-top: -10px; width: 1024px; }

    That will make embed same size as menu ?

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  • 422422 MVP
    Any other design style changes you want, need to be done for the particular style ( within Vanilla )

    Basically in themes, create a new folder called mytheme ( or whatever ) and inside that a new folder called design and you copy style.css from (themes/vanilla/design ) into this new folder.
    Then make changes to this style.css file, and re upload to themes/mythemes/design/style.css

    Then in dashboard, change to your new theme.

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  • 422422 MVP
    in #content if you change margin-top:-10px to -40px this will close the embed to under your menu

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  • KeltichiroKeltichiro
    oh man, you rock! I made some changes to my earlier and forgot to delete the padding left line...that fixed the whole thing LOL
  • 422422 MVP
    edited November 2011
    Then in mythemes/ create a new file called about.php

    Customize the code to suit your OWN style. 
    <?php if (!defined('APPLICATION')) exit();
    /*
    Copyright 2008, 2009 Vanilla Forums Inc.
    This file is part of Garden.
    Garden is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
    Garden is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Garden.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
    Contact Vanilla Forums Inc. at support [at] vanillaforums [dot] com
    */

    /**
     * An associative array of information about this application.
     */
    $ThemeInfo['Mytheme'] = array(
       'Name' => 'Mytheme',
       'Description' => "Custom theme for TorDrive.",
       'Version' => APPLICATION_VERSION,
       'Author' => "Joe Bloggs",
       'AuthorEmail' => youremail@email.com',
       'AuthorUrl' => 'http://tordrive.com/'
    );
    Sample about.php for you

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  • 422422 MVP
    No problems :)

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  • KeltichiroKeltichiro
    oooooh
  • KeltichiroKeltichiro
    as as the PHP file goes...

    You said mythemes/..would that also be Themes?
  • 422422 MVP
    Basically copy theme folder , vanilla to a new folder called whatever , perhaps tordrive , then do changes to the files within that folder, such as about me , CSS etc.

    The about.php must be done because in dashboard the theme activated and description stuff use the code in the about file to access your specific code, need help just gimme. Shout

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  • 422422 MVP
    Yeah wait one moment will do. Schematic for you, and post.

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  • KeltichiroKeltichiro
    Oh ok, yes please and thank you. I'm following what you're saying but I'm still a bit lost.
  • 422422 MVP
    image

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  • 422422 MVP
    actually if you are using embed friendly, perhaps better to download that instead of default, and do what I said above in the explanation.

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  • KeltichiroKeltichiro
    So I can make changes to that css file to change the colors and such to match the websites own background color? if so, which line would I be looking for? I looked but I may be overlooking it...

  • 422422 MVP
    The style.CSS within your new theme you created , controls color and styling of your forum only.

    It's quite complex working with CSS , but easy when you get going.

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  • KeltichiroKeltichiro
    edited November 2011
    is the custom.css the file Im looking for? I dont see a style.css...
  • 422422 MVP
    R u on google chat

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  • KeltichiroKeltichiro
    yep! tom.chapman10@gmail.com
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