You need to download and install our TinyMCE Editor plugin. There is a link to the plugins on the download page. if you need some advice on how to do it then you can find that here: http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/using-plugins/

Oh, that’s what TinyMCE means! Thanks, will do that. Out of interest, what overlay have you got on this forum please, I can only find bright red and this is a bit softer?

I have no idea why it is called TinyMCE but it is the same one that Wp uses for post editing.

Our theme here is an adapted one and CSS only version but I believe originated with the red overlay in the default theme.

Thanks, done is successfully now. I will have to learn how to do a CSS one at some point then. Thank you.

I am pretty sure that all Brandon did was adjust the button colours but I could be wrong, He might be able to explain more when he is on line.

The buttons are pretty much the main difference.  The red background was changed slightly from #99000 to 8B1A1A to match the blog color but it’s hard for my eyes to see that difference. 🙂

There were some changes to the profiles menu that were tested with this theme and then added to the core themes. If you are using the latest themes those changes should be in there.

Basically you can change the button color with one entry in the overlay file. If you want to do that I can point it out.

Thanks Brandon. I only got this plug in a week or so ago but can’t see anything in profiles. Can you pls tell me how to change the colour then? Thank you

Michaela Rose said

Thanks Brandon. I only got this plug in a week or so ago but can’t see anything in profiles. Can you pls tell me how to change the colour then? Thank you

There are no settings in the SP admin menu that allows you to tweak colors. You would first start by creating your own personalized theme. See here on how to do that. http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/themes/theme-basics/creating-a-theme/

Once you have your own theme the main php or CSS file that sets the colors, spacing, font size and things like that would be in your theme’s /styles folder.

Here is the long answer to changing a button color…

If you are wanting to change your button color for example and you copied something like the default.php file you can open it in a text editor and search for

#spMainContainer a.spButton,
#spMainContainer .spButtonAsLabel {

under it you will see several entries. One of them is background: and probably looks like this:

    background: <?php echo($alt1SectionBackGround); ?>;

If you then open up your Sky-Red.php file, or any overlay that you are using, you would want to look for the entry that says

$alt1SectionBackGround    ='...';

After the = equals sign is where you would put the color you want the button to be. But you probably will see something like this.

$alt1SectionBackGround    = $alt1SectionGradient; # pick background from:....

That is because we want to use a gradient color scheme. Two different colors, the top different from the bottom. So the background entry says to use the gradient entry..

So you would then look for the entry

$alt1SectionGradient    =….

In that entry you will see a whole bunch of stuff and really start getting confused..

"-moz-linear-gradient(100% 100% 90deg, $alt1SectionTo, $alt1SectionFrom); background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 0% 100%, from($alt1SectionFrom), to($alt1SectionTo));filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr=$alt1SectionFrom, endColorstr=$alt1SectionTo,GradientType=0 );background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, $alt1SectionFrom 0%,$alt1SectionTo 100%); background: -o-linear-gradient(top,  $alt1SectionFrom 0%,$alt1SectionTo 100%); background: linear-gradient(top, $alt1SectionFrom 0%,$alt1SectionTo 100%); background: linear-gradient(top, $alt1SectionFrom 0%,$alt1SectionTo 100%); background-color: $alt1SectionBase;";

But don’t be concerned with having to understand everything on the line or edit that entry. What you want to look for is where it says to use $alt1SectionTo & $alt1SectionFrom those are the two colors that you are going to use for the gradient in the button.

Just above that entry your will see the two start stop colors defined.

$alt1SectionFrom        = '#FFFFFF';
$alt1SectionTo          = '#990000';

You can change the colors there to change your button color. Here is a site that lists a bunch of color codes you can look at or play with. http://www.w3schools.com/problem-with-post-edit-buttontml/problem-with-post-edit-buttontml_colors.asp

Here is the short answer.

Change these in your overlay to the top and bottom colors you want your button to have

$alt1SectionFrom        = '#FFFFFF';
$alt1SectionTo          = '#990000';

wow, should have just given the short!

Yes, much preferred the short answer, thanks Brandon. I assume I make that change using Theme Editor. Just tried to use the forum admin links and the links are not working. If I click on the sidebar links eg Themes, it opens all the links as normal and shows the Themes main page but I cannot click on Theme Editor or in fact any of the links, although they were working fine yesterday!? Rest of my WP admin is fine as checked. Please advise.

Usually denotes a script conflict so have you made any changes since it was working – i.e., updated or added a new plugin for example?
If not then try logging out and re-loading the site admin…

Hi, I had added the WSYWIG and a few other plugs in from your site. I logged out and back in, and cleared my browser cache etc. No change. I have deleted all the plug ins I had added and still no change.  What do I do now, none of the links are working. 

what links are we talking about here? in the admin?  you are running wp 3.3+, correct?

what other wp plugins are you running?  any that affect the admin? like GD Press Tools?

if you want to create us a temp wp account with wp admin rights we can try taking a look and see what is up… If that is workable, just pm the details to yellow swordfish and mr papa…  and link to this topic so we know what it is about… also, please give the account sp admin caps on forum – admins – manage admins

An update came up on WP today for SP forum so I did that and the links are now all working. Must have been a bug! Thank goodness for that. Am just about to launch the new website with forum for members. Makes me a bit nervous..