Adjusting Wordpress themes for Stripe Ad

[drewamp]

Hey everyone,

I just downloaded the Simple Red Theme from easywordpress.com and absolutely love it. I've been playing around with it and really love the features! Anyway, I activated the popular "MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad" (here) and unfortunately, the theme does not want to work with it.

I know for some themes, the theme will actually drop a little bit to make room for the stripe ad, but Simple Red does not. Is it possible that one of the staff could make the theme "stripe ad friendly" please? It'd be really helpful for many users, including myself. If you do not have the plugin, you can use the URL I put by the plugin I mentioned above.

Please let me know if this would be possible. I'd love to continue to use Simple Red! Keep up the great work.

Best Regards,
Drew

[nekonron]

Try going to your stylesheet (Dashboard > Presentation > Theme Editor) and look for the following code:

.Header { width: 964px; height:146px; position: absolute; margin: 0 auto; margin-left:16px; padding: 0px; border-bottom:1px solid #BDBDBD }

Increasing the height and margin might do the trick. I haven't exactly tested it out myself, but that should take care of the problem. Test around with it until you're satisfied with how it looks.

[drewamp]

Hey nekonron,

Thanks for your reply. I tried playing with the margin and height with no success. I tried multiple possible solutions, and they all seemed to fail. I'd really appreciate if you could look into this nekonron. I would love to continue to use Simple Red, but this one problem is just going to bug me.

Please, if you have some time, look into this one nekonron.

Thanks for understanding,
Drew

[nekonron]

I'll help you look into this tomorrow once I've reached home. I'm travelling right now so its quite difficult for me to play around with the theme and test it out.

So if you can be patient for another day or so, I'll definitely look into this

[drewamp]

That's fine nekonron! I'll look forward to chatting with you soon .

[nekonron]

I just got back last night so I'll try to give it a run today and let u know if I managed to get it to work like you wanted it to

[drewamp]

Awesome! Thanks nekonron .

[nekonron]

Go to your stylesheet and look for this:

/* CSS Document */
body { margin: 0; padding-top: 0; font-family: 'Arial'; color: #40454b; font-size: 12px; background: #333333 url(images/body_pat.gif) center repeat-y; }

Replace "margin: 0;" with "margin-top: 5px;"

You can adjust the value as you like. Hope this solves your problem