Comments on: Simpla Way: Widgets

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:57:49 +0000

Jen,
The look of this blog comes from the Simpla theme as it is provided at WordPress.com, plus the CSS changes I made. I posted about my custom CSS at:
http://changingway.org/2007/02/09/simpla-way-css/
The Simpla theme as provided for self-hosted blogs, such as yours, is rather different from the version provided at WordPress.com.
My headings are not images, just text styled with CSS.

By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:50:51 +0000

If you look at my blog, you can see that I have text widgets with the cute image headings, I can’t figure out how to get image headings for the others – archives, recent posts, etc.

By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:49:33 +0000

Are your heading images? Search, Share, Subscribe, and so on? If so, how did you get them there? I am looking to replace all of my sidebar / widget heading titles with cuter images of the same type of font that is in the header image. I have been searching and hunting for directions on how to do this. I am a few days short of paying someone to do it for me and can’t figure out where in the css file or sidebar.php file I need to be looking? Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. It seems that I want to do exactly what you have done to your sidebar widget titles.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:14:22 +0000

Spot, I didn’t make Simpla widget-ready. WordPress.com did. As for the particular widgets I use, I tried to explain that in the post itself.

By: SpotOn SEO

SpotOn SEO — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:20:06 +0000

Could you share your Widgetized version of Simpla?

By: DamionKutaeff

DamionKutaeff — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:45:20 +0000

Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I’m glad to join your conmunity,
and wish to assit as far as possible.

By: canadada

canadada — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:23:09 +0000

Hi there. I too use the Simpla theme, and have a few of the ‘probs’ of ‘display’ that you initially did…I don’t like the larger than life ‘dates’, and the headers/type are the wrong size over the date, I’d also like to beef up my ‘header’ with size and ‘colour density’…Unfortunately, I is CSS neophyte, really have NO CLUE where/what to do…just fumble along with rich text, and/or drop in Word text, doing massive labour intensive re-edit when it ‘slips’….
Is there a ‘simple way’ to get into the HEADER and TITLE sections to modify to my liking? Hmmm? Pls & Thy.

By: ees

ees — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:33:31 +0000

Interesting. Thanks. Unfortunately, the theme from the designer’s site isn’t (at least not the one I downloaded).

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:50:41 +0000

The Simpla theme at WordPress.com is widget-ready. When I just go to Presentation and click on Sidebar Widgets.

By: ees

ees — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:28:09 +0000

How did you enable widgets with this theme? Thanks.