First off, I have to say that I love the Arras Theme and think it’s the coolest one out there. The other day I was adding some content to my site and I hadn’t upgraded to WordPress 3.0 yet so I decided to do the upgrade. I usually like to upgrade all the plugins and themes that have upgrades available before I upgrade WordPress just to make sure things are\u00a0compatible. However, after upgrading WordPress and the Arras Theme I found that things didn’t quite look the way they did before the upgrades. Some of my issues were because I didn’t bother to check theme settings\u00a0or save theme files that I had modified\u00a0before I updated the theme. In my defense, I must say it had been a long time since I had setup the theme and had pretty much forgotten what I had done to customize it (yeah, it’s a lame defense ;)). \u00a0Anyway, here’s a list of what was different after the upgrades:<\/p>\n
Some of these were pretty obvious, but I’ll go through each one so I can save myself time the next time I need to do this. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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PHP errors on page because it was using PHP4, not PHP5<\/strong> Colors were different<\/strong><\/p>\n The site background color and the background color for the tables was different. Since I didn’t bother to check or document what they were before I updated the theme I didn’t remember what they were. So, I just forged ahead, kicking myself for not heeding that little thought that said I should take some screenshots and check settings before I did the upgrade. I didn’t think the upgrade would really change much. Oh well, I learned. First off, I needed to change the backgroud color in the “Custom Background” section under the “Arras Theme”. I just clicked the “Background Color” box and\u00a0fiddled\u00a0with the color chooser until I found something I liked. Next I wanted to change the background of the tables and after some fiddling I figured out that the color was f7f6f0 and the setting was located in “wp-content\/themes\/arras-theme\/css\/styles\/default.css”. The line that I changed was:<\/p>\n I changed the background to #FFFFFF and then I\u00a0then noticed that I needed to change it for the footer too and that was done by modifing the following line of the above mentioned file:<\/p>\n I changed the background to #FFFFFF and then I was good to go. I’m not sure I like the white but at least I know where to go to change it now.<\/p>\n Links for pages across the top (Home, Resume, etc.) were missing<\/strong><\/p>\n This one was a little strange, but I figured it out. I went to “Appearence > Menus” anc created a new menu named “Nav Bar” and then dragged the links for the Pages that I wanted displayed for the Pages section on the left to the new Nav Bar I had created on the right. After doing that they appeared.<\/p>\n Thumbnails were not displaying in the actual posts<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThis was resolved with a simple .htaccess file that I needed to configure on the server the site is hosted on. By default it uses PHP4 but a lot of stuff is using PHP5 now. The fix was easy, I just needed to create a .htaccess file in the site’s root directory and add the following line to it:<\/p>\nAddType x-mapp-php5 .php<\/pre>\n
#main { padding: 10px 10px 0; background: #f7f6f0; border: 1px solid #d3d1c7; }<\/pre>\n#footer { margin: 20px auto 0; width: 980px; background: #ECEBE6; padding-bottom: 10px; border: 1px solid #CCC; }<\/pre>\n