The TwentyTen WordPress Theme and images

When I tried to insert the image into my content, wordpress kept scaling the image down. It wouldn’t let me place the image full size. No matter what I did, I couldn’t get the image to full size.

TwentyTen has a default maximum width set on content

After trying every normal html and CSS proceedure, I couldn’t get the image to the proper size. Come to find out, The default wordpress theme, TwentyTen has a max-width set on all the content. This max-width is set at 640px.

How to fix?

The way I fixed the problem was with one line of code added to the end of my css file:

#content img {max-width: 900px;}

The problem with this of course is that now when you add an image to a post, you could add an image 900px wide. Another way I could have solved the problem, was to place the css code in the page I was working on. It would have looked like this:

<img style=”max-width: 900px;” ……

This fix is only needed on the onecolumn-page.php template

The TwentyTen Default WordPress Theme comes with a full page template called “onecolumn-page.php”. You can choose to use this template when you are creating your page from the page editor window in your admin area.

If you found this useful, please let us know

If you found this useful information, please let us know. Better yet, if there is a better way to solve the problem, by all means help everyone out. Leave your info in a comment and if it’s useful, I will add it to the body of this post with a link to the page you fixed.

Social Networking Article

Even though this is a submitted article to an article directory, I thought it had a good explanation of what Social Networking is all about. Here is the article. Hope it helps. Social Networking Development can Enhance your Business.

I feel like I was in a fight!

WOW! I am exhausted. I guess you have to expect that with any new software.  I may be exhausted, am I’m not done completely yet, but, It was well worth the effort.

BuddyPress is a WordPress 3.0 PLUG-IN

It is not a brand new software architecture. Here’s were you get the BuddyPress Download. I put WordPress 3.0 and the BuddyPress plug-in on my Social Networking Site. Before this I had PLIGG on the site.

Themes in BuddyPress

Well, as a plug-in the download is normal, you place the directory (folder) in the wp content/plug-in folder. What threw me is the default theme is in the plug-in folder. That’s right, in the plug-in folder. Not only that, but if you make your own custom theme it goes in that folder too! Very interesting. WordPress 3.0 still shows the choice of themes in the themes admin panel, which is kinda cool!

CSS for your BuddyPress Themes

Now this is interesting. The css is actual in a folder called “_inc”. And it’s in the style.css file in the themes directory. What? Pretty strange. I know why they did it, but it kinda caught me off guard. What happens is the style.css points to the _inc folder for the css information.

The default files in your Theme

You only have to bring into your theme the files that you plan on making changes to. Otherwise it uses the files from the default theme. From what I can tell, you can’t make changes to the function.php file, but you can add to this function file by creating your own function.php file in your theme folder.

Document Outline on WordPress 3.0

Hasn’t changed much! For you guys that know what I’m talking about check out my document outline and compare it to most WordPress installations.

Overall

Overall, I love it! I am looking forward to working with BuddyPress and the new WordPress 3.0. Maybe someone more experienced than me with buddypress can answer this. I notice users can post their own articles. Can the do that from a blog, like the social line of links at the end of most wordpress posts?