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Hi
Is there any neat way of making a note box float to the right of a page? At the top of this page I want to float the special offer box across to the right and flow the article round it.

I don't want to mess too much with the content because this page does really well in Google for me.

If need be I'll define a new class for it but if there's something in the theme I haven't used yet I'd rather do that. Any good ideas?

thanks
Nick

Oops - sorry wrong theme. Should be Impacto

You can, with some modifications to the shortcode in content_funtions.php and a little CSS addition.
First, modify the shortcode around line# 705 to:

// Alerts

function note_shortcode( $atts, $content = null ) {

   extract( shortcode_atts( array(

      'class' => '',

      'align' => 'center',

      'width' => ''

      ), $atts ) );

   if (isset($width)) $style = 'style="width:' . esc_attr($width) . 'px;" ';

      return '<div class="note ' . esc_attr($class) . ' ' . esc_attr($align) . '" '.$style.'>' . $content . '</div>';

      }

add_shortcode('note', 'note_shortcode');

This will give you some additional parameters (align and width) however if you pass an align parameter such as left or right, you must supply a width.

[note class="alert" align="right" width="100"]this is my note text[/note]

Then, just add this CSS right above div.note in master.css:

.note.right {

 float: right;

 display: inline-block;

}



.note.left {

 float: left;

 display: inline-block;

}



.note.center {

 float: none;

 clear: both;

}

Wow, thanks Casey. That's saved me a good hour or two.

How well do the themes play with child themes? I've done the usual simple template mods in a child theme before, but not on a theme like Impacto. Are any of the functions declared conditionally? Can I avoid having to modify theme files?

thanks again
NIck

I haven't tried the child theme approach but if you copy over and modify the layout files (in root) I don't see any reason why the backend and core functions wouldn't continue to work as expected.

The framework I've built is not the traditional WP theme framework, because I feel it passes on unnecessary bloat and unused code to the user - plus I don't like being locked in to one box model in every theme. I could probably go through and standardize a few functions into hooks, but maybe at a later time.