very sorry about the confusion… I thought your question was in regards to Modularity Lite – ignore what I said above

I\’m looking into this for you now with regards to Mansion.

this one took me quite a while to figure out – but like so often the end result is much easier achieved than I thought at first. Have a look in your style.css file and find the following line of code (under the /* Navigation at rest */ section):

#nav ul li.drop:hover ul { display: block; }

Change it to this:

#nav ul li:hover ul { display: block; }

The “.drop” waits for your to click before the menu gets displayed and by deleting it the menu gets displayed upon hovering.

I think you’re best off to use a simple WordPress trick to make your picture link to something else. Go to edit your post, and then click the “edit image” icon in the top left corner of the image in question. A window opens, and at the bottom you have a field called “Link URL” – that’s where this image will link to. It can link to anything: other posts, a lightbox, you name it. Put in the URL to the “big picture” there.

To find that URL, you’re already in the right place too: click on “advanced” and in the “source” field is the URL you’re looking for. Copy and paste that for eternal happiness

You’ll have to do this for every image in every post though. Hope this helps.

You are such a wealth of information. I wish I had found your site when I first began to use Modularity Lite. Just one question that I can't find a simple solution to. Do you know how to make the nav menu drop down on a hover instead of by clicking on the arrow? Here's my site if you care to look: http://moodydoodles.com/ Thank you!

I've been messing around with the code on file "images.php" and I found this bit near the bottom:

/* If $link_to_post is set to true, link the image to its post. */
if ( $link_to_post )
$html = '<a href="' . get_permalink( $post_id ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( get_post_field( 'post_title', $post_id ) ) . '">' . $html . '';

so I tried to substitute that "get_permalink" with functions such as "wp_get_attachment_url" but had no luck, I can't get it to return a link to the image in the post.

If you know anything that could help me on finding a way to obtain this I would be eternally grateful and add a link to your blog on my website.
Many Thanks
Jack

Funny you should ask about the sidebar – I had the same problem a couple of days ago. Under Appearance – Theme Options you can do all kinds of funky stuff, including switching the sidebar on and off.

I've been reading others' questions and have been applying many of your solutions to my website, so thank you! I have one simple question. How do I activate the sidebar? I would like to add widgets. Thanks!

I’ve just had a dig through the code and I can’t find a way to make the sidebar smaller. I can help you with your Flickr images though. Have a look at the style.css file and find the /* Floats & Images */ section, under which you’ll find three declarations:

img.centered...
img.alignright...
img.alignleft...

The last value on each line ends with

max-width:950px

Change that to a smaller value and your images will be resized automatically. You may also want to add

heigh:auto

to each line so your images don’t get squashed. I don’t know which image alignment you’re using when you embed an image, so for safe measure, amend all three of them. As an example, here’s the first line of code in its entirety:

img.centered{display: block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;max-width:950px; height: auto;}

Good luck – and show us your site when you’re done

I think I know what you mean now – it’s the grey box that’s all over your content, right? I’ve never noticed this before, but now that I’m looking into this I can see what’s going on. On the original (dark) version, this grey box sets a nice contrast and border around the slideshow and the “container” class. Of course that’s not such a nice effect in your modification.

Have a look at the style.css file and find this bit of code (it’s failry high up under GLOBAL STYLES):

.container {background:url(images/repeater.png) repeat;}

This line loads an image with transparency which creates the effect. Delete this line or comment it out for future use.

Eternal Happiness guaranteed

That’s an interesting idea with the logo in place of the link. Try this: Replace line 3 (the one that starts with <?php_e…) with something like this:

<img src="http://yourdomain.com/yourlogo.jpg">

under Settings – Reading you can define how many posts will be shown – it’s set to 10 by default, but you can increase this.