So, let me guess. You’ve just installed version 0.1.6 and wanting to rock out some name fields. Fantastic!
You installed it, set up the widget and excitedly opened your website to see this:
What the hell? This looks like trash!
I agree. This looks bad. 0.1.6 marks a big change for the eNews Extended plugin. Previously, the plugin just built a form that utilized the existing styling that StudioPress used in their themes. StudioPress, though, didn’t include styling for other fields besides e-mail address. Some themes, like Streamline, include an icon that wouldn’t make sense in every field.
The fix is easy though. I will start posting suggested CSS for the various StudioPress themes. Please note: As this is a free plugin that I provide without compensation except the thus-far non-present donations, I will entertain requests for StudioPress themes, available in the Pro Pack, that I haven’t done, but I do not have the bandwidth to assist on custom themes.
Minimum 2.0
In this case, this is the Minimum 2.0 theme. It’s an easy fix to get it to look better. Open up the style.css in the Minimum theme and change this on line 1217:
.enews #subbox, .s {
to this:
.enews #subbox, #subbox1, #subbox2, .s {
Presto chango:
That’s better!
Some folks are nonplussed by Minimum’s lack of submit button. A little freebie. In style.css, open it and head to line 1237. Change it from
.enews #subbutton, .searchsubmit {
to
.searchsubmit {
That works for some folks, but what if you want it on the same line as the e-mail address. In that case, add this to your style.css
.enews #subbox {
width: 77%;
}
That’ll give you:
Whoa nelly!
Executive
Executive Theme
Edit line 1297 to from
.enews #subbox {
to
.enews #subbox, .enews #subbox1, .enews #subbox2 {
Example in Executive 2.0
Metro
Metro Theme
Metro includes out-of-the-box support for the name fields, though if you use them in the after-post area, it may look funky. Replace the section starting at line 1427 with the following to fix that up.
Streamline
Streamline
Find the line in style.css that says
.enews #subbox {
and change it to
.enews #subbox, .enews #subbox1 {
then after the closing } of that section, add
.enews #subbox1 {
background: #fff;
}More to come, but a taste for now. You don’t have to use both fields and just need to make sure that your name field name matches what you’re mailing list provider is expecting. Have a particular StudioPress theme you want support for, submit a ticket at the plugin’s WordPress.org forum.
