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David Warren
1,803 PointsWordpress Plugin + Structural Help
Hey Guys (or Gals)! I needs some help. I've done some searching, but I think that maybe some of you might have some easy answers for me. I have two big questions.
My first question is this: Is it possible to lay interactive elements over my header? I want to use a large, banner-esque header, and then lay my menu buttons overtop. Right now I am using wordpress, with the woostore and woocanvas themes, and I haven't found any way of doing this. Any ideas?
Secondly, the website I am working on hosts a group video chat every week. The owner has been using other websites to do this, but I was hoping that we could integrate it into our own site (because we have been having some trouble with the other site.)
We need a way to host a group video chat in a wordpress site.
Thanks for the help!
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher+1 to everything Matthew just said
2 Answers
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest TeacherIf you haven't, you could look into http://www.justin.tv/ with embeds on the WP site
David Warren
1,803 PointsThank you everyone! This has been super helpful. You rock!
Matt Campbell
9,767 PointsMatt Campbell
9,767 Pointshttp://wordpress.org/plugins/avchat-3/
video chat covered maybe?
Is the header background going to be a static image or are you thinking more along the lines of an image slider?
Certainly no bother doing either, just position and style your nav bar as you would outside of WordPress. The CSS in WordPress is identical to outside WordPress, it's just getting to grips with the HTML that WordPress generates. Viewing source code and inspecting elements is your best friend there. Once you've identified the class or element you want to tweak, change the CSS directly in the theme. This is not recommended though as an update to the theme could overwrite it, so you'd need to copy your CSS and paste it back in after each update to themes.
Better, and proper way, is to use a child theme. Using a "custom" stylesheet and using the built in WordPress functions to take info from that and overwrite the parent themes CSS. Codex is your friend there.