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Talian 5 (40+ options) was a big update and Stallion 6 (250+ options)
Thanks for your response,
I know I am missing. Are these new SEO features/tricks?
I must set a week for working on it.
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You are missing out on a LOT of SEO improvements and other feature upgrades.
Since you are running Talian 3 you know you can install Talian 5 and Stallion 6 independently?
Install Talian 5 for example (Stallion 6 is better), activate, test it out if you don’t like it switch back to Talian 3. Worse case scenario is some of your widgets might need re-adding though apparently in WordPress 3.3* that’s been fixed/improved, WordPress is supposed to save your old widget settings (not tested the feature).
David
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New Mobile SEO Features on Talian 5 and Stallion SEO Theme
Yes I know I can install the next versions and I am going to do that.
Thank you.
I always test on the PC before getting things live on the site.
> WordPress is supposed to save your old widget settings (not tested the feature).
Yes it works. The reason WordPress added this feature is because people are using second theme for mobile devices. So they need to switch back and forth.
BTW: If next Talian/Stallion versions will be mobile friendly (like twenty-eleven), you’d rock.
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Hi David,
I set up an Aweber opt-in box on my Stallion-powered niche site today and ran into some trouble. It looks like when the opt-in is in the sidebar widget it inherits CSS for the paragraph p tags…
I fixed this problem temporarily by using the full code from Aweber rather than the Javascript snippet. I removed the p tags from around my opt-in box’s text and used br tags instead. This works but the padding is a little off.
I put the code in using a text widget in the sidebar. Is there a way to correct this? I haven’t ever seen an Aweber form inherit CSS before!
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The Aweber code is poorly designed I’m afraid, had this sort of problem myself and the solution is as you’ve found rewriting the code or pick an Aweber form that works with your colour scheme: like I had to do with this site, if you use the “Stallion Colour Switcher” (for testing the Stallion colours) on the right menu you will see my Aweber form text colour changes!
Without seeing the site can’t be sure what the formatting issues are, but guessing it’s related to floats, the Aweber form inherits some of the float css. Easy solution for this one, surround the code with a div with a clear class (Stallion has a class that clears floats called clear).
David
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Hi David,
Thanks for the quick response and the idea to try the clear div. I gave that a go but it’s still breaking.
Here’s my site’s URL:
The opt-in at the top of the sidebar is the one where I modified the code, taking out the p tags and adding in br tags instead.
The opt-in block under the Adsense block in the sidebar is the on that I put the clear tags around. I left it alone so you can take a look at what it’s doing.
If you have any ideas that’s great, otherwise I’ll just keep using the modified one and manually update it if I make a change to the opt-in.
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I see the problem, the Stallion Connections Reloaded CSS file has this CSS:
.sidebar-box ul, .sidebar-box p, .sidebar-box .loginfm, .sidebar-box .wp-polls-ul { float: left; list-style-type: none; border: #E1D6C6 1px solid; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; background: url(images/connections-reloaded/commentsbottom.jpg) #F3F6ED repeat-x bottom; }What that CSS does is add the zigzag image (images/connections-reloaded/commentsbottom.jpg) at the bottom of widgets on the sidebars and adds other styling.
The problem is the Aweber form is inheriting “.sidebar-box p” all paragraphs within the sidebars basically.
I had the same problem with nested lists (ul, ul…) within the sidebar widgets so added the CSS below to the Connections Reloaded CSS file:
.sidebar-box ul ul, .sidebar-box ul ul ul, .sidebar-box ul ul ul ul { background: url(images/connections-reloaded/blank.gif) repeat-x bottom; }This is an override so we don’t have loads of zigzag images loaded in the middle of widgets with nested lists.
Anyway, possible solutions.
Use one of the other Stallion colour schemes, only the Connections Reloaded theme colour uses that type of image at the bottom if I recall correctly.
Remove all P tags from the Aweber code as you’ve tried.
Edit the style-connections-reloaded.css file and remove all instances of “.sidebar-box p, ” you’d have to do the same for the layout CSS file you use as well style-310r.css. Note this would mean any widgets with paragraphs (there’s a few) will not have the zigzag image at the bottom and loose the other CSS styling within that code. I didn’t see any other widgets using paragraphs on your site so if you understand CSS this might be a solution, though would make updates problematic.
You could try adding some inline CSS to the Aweber form you’d need to replicate all .sidebar-box p code from the two CSS files and override them with the settings like
#af-form-164135139 p {background: url(images/connections-reloaded/blank.gif) repeat-x bottom;}This would be a difficult task.
If there’s other CSS inherited by the paragraphs you might need to add more inline CSS
What you add inline CSS it should override the CSS within the CSS files because it’s loaded last.
I plan to take another look at the CSS code I’m using (not the next update, the one after), to see if I can give all Stallion CSS a unique class or ID so Aweber forms and similar don’t easily inherit the sidebar CSS.
David
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I want to change my website color from Delicate to Black Stallion, but I have to add some codes in style-black-stallion.css. I can’t find it in my Stallion Theme editor. How to add css code for Style-black-stallion.CSS?
If I still use this Delicate color, the footer links are aligned to the right. How to align them at center just like Black Stallion color? Where to add the code: in footer-menu.php or style-delicate.css? What codes should I add?
Thanks a lot
Kind Regards,
Russell
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The Stallion SEO Theme has a lot of files, the style-black-gradients.css file will be in amongst the files.
I don’t use the online WordPress theme editor because it’s a pain to keep track of changes during testing. If you are planning to a do a lot of changes best to work offline in a text editor and a local install of WordPress so when something goes wrong (nearly always does) it doesn’t break your live site.
I guess you wouldn’t know how to install WordPress on your PC so the compromise is work offline and upload the changed files using FTP. In this way you can have an offline backup as well for when things go wrong AND when you update Stallion and have to make the code changes again you have the changes in a file on your PC: all code changes are over written when you update. I’ve also made changes to the css files in the next update so you’ll want to add the changes again to Stallion 6.3 files not keep the edited Stallion 6.2 files.
Edit style-delicate.css find
#footer_stallion { height: 50px; padding-top: 20px; padding-right: 20px; border-top: 2px solid #EDEEEF; text-align: right; color: #808080; font-size: 0.8em; clear: both; }Change right to center
Untested, so probably won’t work exactly how you want it.
You’ll probably need the padding-right: 20px; line edited as well otherwise the centering will be off a bit (test first with 20px then try 0px).
Might be an idea for a blank css file adding to Stallion in a future update so these sorts of CSS changes can be held in a separate file, would make updates easier. Hmm, in Stallion 6.3 I’ve added the All In One SEO Pack Plugin to Stallion, I’ve kept the area where extra header code can be added.
Theoretically you could add these changes inline like this (this won’t work in Stallion 6.2 since the All In One SEO Pack Plugin isn’t part of Stallion 6.2):
<style type="text/css"> #footer_stallion { padding-right: 0px; text-align: center; } </style>This would be unaffected by Stallion updates. I’ll check if this will work for the next update as looks like the All In One SEO Pack Plugin header code options doesn’t have a sitewide option (which is strange, you’d think a sitewide option would be the starting point).
LOL, before you try any of the above, go to Appearance >> Widgets, add a text widget to the Fifth Footer Area, add the code below to the main form box, add nothing to the title part.
<style type="text/css"> #footer_stallion { padding-right: 0px; text-align: center; } </style>It should work the same as making the changes suggested above and will survive updates.
David
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Using A Custom Graphic Image for WordPress Navigation
Hello! I am new to Stallion, so any advice is greatly appreciated!
1) Navigation from boxes to custom images – On the ‘Delicate theme’ (a good basic theme BTW for designer to hack a little CSS and make something creative), I am trying to replace the navigation boxes which I believe is “navigation.gif” then repeat X, – with a picture of a leaf. The leaf will could contain the text in the image.
The issue is I uploaded the leaf image and called it ‘navigation.gif’, to replace the gradient sliver that you use to create the top navigation boxes. However, much to my dismay nothing changes.
2) Vertical navigation -Further, is there any way I can make the navigation bar go down the side?
For example, on my current site which I created with iweb, you can see what I am trying to do with the leaf: it goes down vertically? I imagine that is a CSS ‘project’. (My test site is here: BTW.
3) For the blog area of my website, that is SEO landing pages, I might just create template pages that look different from my “business card area of my website” – Any suggestions about this are welcome. For example, is it better to use a layout with no side bars on the home page, contact etc pages, and then in the ‘blog’ area use template pages that have sidebars? I guess I want some style variation in my website, one area with sidebars and one without.
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If you mean the navigation links below the header area they are completely CSS based. In the style-delicate.css file find:
.navigators ul { list-style: none;And you are in the right place to find the CSS to edit. As you can see there’s a lot of CSS code for generating the dropdown menus and colours (all the lines starting “.navigators”). I think it would be a major undertaking to convert those links to image links and maintain the dropdown menu etc… I don’t think I’ve seen a WordPress site do this?
If you play around with
.navigators a { background: #ECECEC; background: -moz-linear-gradient(#ECECEC, #F9F7F7); background: -o-linear-gradient(#ECECEC, #F9F7F7); background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 0% 100%, from(#ECECEC), to(#F9F7F7)); -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 1px 2px; -moz-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 1px 2px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 1px 2px; border-top: 3px solid #ECECEC; color: #808080;This generates the gradient colours, maybe adjusting them will give you something close to what you want to achieve. Looks like you’ve figured this bit out for yourself :-)
The navigation.gif image doesn’t do what you think, for some colour schemes it’s the background image for the sidebar headings, so goes behind Categories, Links, Meta etc… As it happens that file isn’t used by Delicate, used CSS instead because the colours are simple.
The top menu navigation area would be difficult to convert to what you want, dropdown on the side, you’d probably be better building something more customised using the Custom Menu System under “Appearance >> Menus” and use the custom menu on a sidebar via “Appearance >> Widgets” and create some CSS for it. Or even use Text Widgets under “Appearance >> Widgets” if you are happy to loose some of the dynamic nature of the WordPress sidebars.
With Text Widgets you could generate a side menu similar to your other site, build the HTML as you want it linking to the pages you want to link to etc…. and add it as one or more Text Widgets to the Left or right sidebar widget area. You’d need to switch layouts to one of the 300px wide layouts under “Stallion >> Layout Options” to have the left or right sidebar area available.
With regards which layouts to use, I like the 300px wide single sidebars. On mixing things up through a site, I’m working on the Stallion 7.0 update which extends the WordPress template system. If you’ve played around with the Static Page Template system you’ll be severely disappointed WordPress core doesn’t use the same template system for Blog Posts! In Stallion 7.0 this is possible, every Static Page and Blog Post can choose a different template. Also I’ve added category templates, these generate different outputs based on category template files for each category. And I’ve added more control over widgets, currently when a widget is added to a widget area it’s shown sitewide, in Stallion 7.0 each widget can be included/excluded from pretty much every type of page type.
I’ve not added the ability to select the different Stallion layouts on a page by page basis, but want to in a future update. In Stallion 6.2 I added a Static Page/Blog Post Template (called “Static Page Blank Sales No Sidebars” filename page-sales.php) that overrides the selected layout.
Basically it’s a file that contains the content of header.php, page.php, sidebar.php and footer.php with the layout set to no sidebars (1000px wide – file style-1000.css), the left and right sidebar code is removed (so the left and right sidebar widgets don’t load at all) and the header code cut down. The idea is for users to paste an entire page into the WordPress edit form (hence sales page). This concept could be used now to generate templates for all the layouts, but without stripping out all sidebars and header code. I didn’t do this in Stallion 6.2 because the template system only works for Static Pages and most content on a WordPress site is added via Blog Posts (a lot of work for little usage). In Stallion 7.0 it’s worth creating templates like these, so might if I find the time make a start on this soon.
I’m trying to get Stallion 7.0 released this month, it’s been a LOT of work and because there’s been so many new features it’s meant a LOT of bug hunting, so these new features (and more) are coming soon.
David
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Stallion 7.0 is almost ready for release, the zip file is zipped and ready to go. All I need to do is test to look for code bugs missed in development.
Currently updating a dozen of my own sites with Stallion v7.0 and assuming no problems will release very soon (few days I hope).
Uploaded to one site so far
Have added the new Stallion SEO Posts Widget three times to generate the Popular Articles, Recent Articles and Random Articles widgets, you can see the new random thumbnails feature built into them as well (and all posts have thumbnails). Not had time to do many changes yet, but have activated the new built in Stallion All In One SEO Pack plugin and have added the 5 keyphrases etc… to a few posts, you can see the links to those posts are using a variety of anchor text now.
Next I think I’ll upload to my free recipe site which has 132,000 posts and NO images, will be perfect for testing the new random thumbnails feature.
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I know you are busy with Stallion 7. But for the future on your recent articles plugin, would there be any value to have a recent updated option?
Since Panda I have started to go back to my old weak posts and update and improve them. I believe a post with age has some value.
Therefore, as an added functionality to a recent articles widget could be an option to include recently modified posts. Therefore, it would spread some link benefit back to old posts you worked hard on revising and giving it some notoriety to users to let them know it has been updated.
If you want to do even more you could have a little comment bubble to the side that says ‘new’ or ‘updated’ next to each post in the widget, but it might be too much clutter. But sometimes when people have a yellow sticky note that says ‘updated’ I read it.
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Stallion SEO Posts Widget - Recently Modified
I’ve stopped development on Stallion 7.0, just ironing out bugs etc… before the V7.0 release (before the end of the month I hope).
Recently modified is already built into the Stallion 7 SEO Posts widget. When a post is edited and saved it’s considered recently modified (updated).
David
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Hi there
I am looking at buying Stallion SEO theme David and have been reading some of these posts.
my questions:
1. Is it necessary then to understand css to change the ‘themes’ on Stallion or did I get that wrong? Sorry if I appear to be ‘stupid’ – lol I am!!!!
2. I have read about the licence etc but I wanted to ask you if my husband would also be able to use the stallion when I buy it? or would we then have to purchase two times?
Many thanks for your reply – so I can do something about it and try to get on with something.
Lee
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Currently there’s just under 30 built in Stallion colour schemes, those are all built into Stallion and can be used with two clicks of the mouse under the Stallion Colour options page.
Stallion is designed on options pages (over 300 options) where many features can be easily changed just by clicking an option or two. Many of the options were created to allow users to customize a website without having to mess with code changes, for example there’s a featured posts image slider that on most themes with a similar feature you’d be stuck with the default layout, with Stallion the slider can be set to show home page only, sitewide etc… with two locations and multiple sizes.
Stallion is all about customization without users having to edit code, I’ve added dozens of built in plugins and code snippets that solve problems and add features that would take even an expert theme developer 100s of hours to work seamlessly together (few plugins/code snippets work exactly how I want them to work and needed editing).
Imagine a website owner who wanted every feature they found interesting adding to a single WordPress theme, that’s me and unlike most website owners I have the skills to add all the features and ideas to one WordPress SEO package: Stallion is an SEO package for WordPress rather than just an SEO theme. I find an interesting feature or need a feature (I take feature requests from customers), it’s almost always added to Stallion. There are exceptions where there’s already a WordPress plugin that does everything I want and is well supported: WordPress caching plugins for example, there’s two good ones that are updated on a regular basis and work as you’d want them to work, would be nuts to add it to the Stallion package. So I do also use a few plugins: Akismet (comment SPAM), W3 Total Cache (caching plugin), Broken Link Checker (finds broken links), EWWW Image Optimizer (optimizes images), Subscribe to Comments Reloaded (allows users to subscribe to comments).
Included with Stallion are optional spaces for custom colours that do require CSS editing. These are basically empty CSS files, if you understand CSS you can create all sorts of colour schemes, it’s basically how I made the current colour schemes, started as a custom colour set and when it was as I wanted it added it into the options page. If you are happy with the built in colour schemes there’s no CSS editing required.
Stallion needs more colour schemes, in the next Stallion release (will be releasing soon) I’ve added the ability to use what is known as child themes with Stallion.
Child themes are addons to the parent theme to add new features or change current features like a colour scheme without having to edit the main Stallion themes code. I’ll be making child themes with new colours, image sets etc… and I’m hoping theme developers will also make and sell Stallion child themes. This will make Stallion far more customizable, there’s a very popular theme framework that is rubbish SEO wise that has loads of theme developers creating child themes (hundreds of child themes). With a bit of luck there will be dozens of new Stallion child themes by the end of the year.
Child themes will be optional, they are addons to main Stallion and I’ll be adding major features to main Stallion not child themes, I’ll be using child themes to add new colours schemes and image sets: the current Stallion zip file is around 8MBs in size because of all the images, not wanting to increase the zip file beyond 10MBs has limited what image sets I could add, with child themes there’s no limits :-) I already have some new image sets ready to go, for example a business set with 10 thumbnails, 8 large headers, 1 medium header and 10 banners which will be around 500KB of images.
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Each purchase entitles the user to use Stallion on as many of their own domains as they like. There’s no developer license. If I find a customer selling sites with the same Stallion ID that Stallion ID will be disabled.
If you own 1,000 sites you need one Stallion ID for your entire network.
If you sell sites running Stallion each site needs its own ID.
Basically one Stallion ID per user.
To add to this I’d consider a married couple one user, so you’d only need one Stallion ID.
David
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Thank you so much David – Bless Your Heart!!!!!!! That is wonderful – we are both senior citizens with not a massive amount of spare cash. Gotta go out right now but will buy the Stallion SEO theme just as soon as we get back.
Bless you again for your understanding.
Have a great day – we will now !!
best wishes
lee
p.s. I read somewhere around the site that you were classed as ‘a thoroughly nice guy’ I very much agree!
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reply to your reply to my wife mrs lee wright sat29th april
Just a quick thank you david for your kind offer and quick reply to my wife lee wright, today we appreciate your kindness, it has been purchased and we have both downloaded as you said that is ok , wishing you the very best of life
John wright