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About Me
About me : My name is Eric J. Schwarz, I was born in Illinois in 1987 and still live in the same town today. I like to think of myself as an adventurer, a sort of modern day cowboy. I seek small fortunes out in the great game of geocaching, I occasionally mountain bike, and go to my local gym to boulder during the week. I legally off-road as much as I can in my H3 Hummer, which I’m currently building. I’m not much of a Football or Basketball fan but I do love to play & watch Ice Hockey, Go Hawks! And coming up summer 2012 I plan to drive to Burning Man with my Brother, stopping along the way to see Mount Rush More, Yellowstone, off-road on Colorado’s Black Bear Pass and a few others, visit Moab, and see the place where movie 127Hours take place.Website Design : I have been building websites since 2005. I’m self taught and I have a passion for website design. For me, I believe that web design is not coding, but something to be thought of as a work of art. I create my art with HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Photoshop, Filezilla, and WordPress.
I am available for freelance work and will be excited to work on your project! You can contact me using the form located here.
Till the next Adventure,
Schwarttzy
*Last Updated on 4/6/12*
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I am also a big fan of you Adventure Theme!
Is is possible to make the background of the header transparent? Just like the sidebar?
Not yet but I add it to my list to do, you can however get the premium version open the image with Photoshop or something and reduce the opacity right now.
Hello, I am using your theme ‘Adventure’. My concern is how to switch the menu from the bottom to the top?
Thank u in advance!
Go to the theme customizer it is under the menu options.
Is there a way to get rid of the menu in the header?
No there isn’t. People wouldn’t be able to browse your website without it.
Hello:
I really like the adventure theme. How can I change the font on the header? Also, I want to use exponents in the title of the header, any ideas? I do not mind paying for an upgrade, but I do not know how. Thanks!
Hey Curtis,
The font in the header can be changed by going to the “Theme Customizer” which is linked in the admin bar. You don’t need the upgrade,but it would be much appreciated. Respond back if you have any trouble.
On the Semper Fi+ theme, how do I make the posts page normal and not 3-column?
That isn’t possible, but is now in my to do list.
Hi Eric. Love your themes, but I am currently having an issue with the title replacer that uses an image instead with the Semper Fi theme. Whenever I select an image from the desktop or drag an image into the uploader, nothing happens. Any ideas?
I have been getting a few emails about this problem and have no idea why it is yet. It could be a few different things, but I would recommend trying from a different computer. It works for me time and time again, even on other computers. If you send me an email with a temporary username and password I could try uploading it for you.
Is it possible to remove the page title from the top of the page for the Adventure+ theme? If I leave the line blank, the tab shows a blank space instead of the page name. If I put the name in the title section, the tab shows correctly but the name shows up at the top of the page. I’d like to eliminate that.
That is a feature I’ll try to work into the theme this weekend.
Thanks Eric. Also, my theme background is very light (white). The sidebar words are white. I don’t know how to find the code for that, but is there a line i should look for to change the sidebar text to black?
Well that is the point where you need the features on the premium theme to be able to change the text color.
I thought I purchased the premium theme? $15?
I’m sorry, a lot of the time I’m unaware who has and hasn’t purchased the theme. I just help them no matter what normally, just don’t tell anyone I need to get paid too. Anyway, I just looked and was shocked that I haven’t got that feature in the theme. I’ll be updating the theme tonight hopefully and will send you an email with the new code once it is done.
Hi there,
just bought the Adventure+ theme. I like to use only a sidebar on the “Home”-Page. I setup a Sidebar in the theme options, but it doesnt work. What else can i do?
Regards
Volker
Works just fine for me, try reinstalling the code and then see if any plugins are interfering with it. Then we’ll move forward after that.
Hi Eric,
ty. I just use another Plugin (Simple Page Sidebars) now. It works for me. The Plugin you provided is very complicated.
Regards
Volker
Glad to hear it worked out, and I’ll be sure to recommend that plugin next since you said it is easier.
Hey Schwarttzy,
I am using the Semper Fi Lite theme as I am building a concept site for a sporting club – as soon as they are happy with the styling, I will be purchasing the full version to enable other features.
I am wondering if in the full version, it is possible to have no front page at all, basically I just want to view the background. If I select no static front page, I just get a blank transparent bar – I want to remove that, is it possible?
Ya I can give you hand with that, I might just make the a premium feature though so that there is no need for custom coding.
Awesome, I will purchase full version.
Also, I found of the lite version at lease, that the menus fade too quickly and it is sometimes hard to click a menu option, any way to extend that?
If you dive into the CSS and edit it, other wise not. I’m a little unclear though what your talking about, might you show me a photo, or even better video, of the problem?
Hey Eric. I have looked through forums and pages looking for a way to edit page title text, then it occurred…. How can I remove the page title text from each page altogether?
Thanks
Using theme Customizer in the next update.
Hi, now I’m playing with the Adventure theme for another blog. Can you give me the HTML color code for the blue header? I’m trying to match the sidebar background to it. Also, is there a list of all of your themes somewhere?
Well it is a bunch of colors, but over all I would say that “#141726″ will work fine.
Hey, awesome theme. I was just wondering if it was possible to make the header transparent, or semi-transparent. Maybe change the levels of transparency, and if so how?
I’ll look into adding this as an option, however how soon it gets implemented it uncertain.
Hi, I would like to know how can I change the title of each page to an individual image for each individual page and/or change color of only the title page.
Thanks again!
I’m not completely sure what you’re trying to do, I would need more information.
hmm. not sure how else to explain it. Instead of a title page displayed on each page I want it replaced with an image. However, I still want each page to have its own title so ill have to make an image for each page with the title name in the image. this is a screen shot made into an example in photoshop: http://westriverkayak.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/page-title-idea.jpg
You need to add more posts to your WordPress for it to look right. The idea is that snippets 3 wide will display across the screen before starting a new line. Unless your screen is too small, then it will drop down to two and then one if the page determines it.
Hey Eric,
Love your work. Question: how can I eliminate the month and day stamp that appears on each page?
Thanks
It will be added in one of the future updates.
Hey Eric, I am have some trouble navigating through a the editorial forms.
Two questions for you. Would like to set up a reverse order on comments in a page. treating it as a review page with newest first. I downloaded Reverse Order Comments plugin but I cant find the area in the comment.php form it asks me to edit.
to give you an idea http://westriverkayak.com/about/comments/
Second, How can I change the title of each page to an image or change color of only the title page.
Thanks again!
Hey, I enjoy the Adventure+ theme. I am have trouble with my meta tag, keywords mostly. There is no header.php for me to input my meta information. Did not realize that switching themes would remove my recent meta tagging.
Could you advise me on this matter?
Try looking into the plugin “All in one SEO” for wordpress, but you can find the header script in index.php because I don’t use “header.php”
Great recommendation on the All in one! Keep climbing those mountains
Hi Eric,
Great Theme! I’m trying to remove the sidebar widget from the main page and the additional pages I only want to use it on the posts page. How do I go about doing this? Thanks!
Um… well I never thought about doing that when I wrote the theme but I can do it, look for it in a future update.
I love adventure theme, it is perfect for my blog’s homesteading topic but I can’t seem to find the option where people can post comments on my blog. Is it a problem on my end?
It’s possible on your end, if you disable the comments from the page / post then there is no way for you viewers to comment. Go to the admin section of and open up the post as if you were going to edit the post / page. In the upper left corner of the screen you will see “screen options,” click and then make sure the box “discussion” has check mark in it. Finally towards the bottom of the page / post look for the box labeled “Discussion” and then make sure that “Allow Comments” is checked marked.
If this doesn’t fix it there has to be an error(s) in the code on your server some where.
Eric,
I am a WordPress user and activated your theme Schwartzy / Semper Fi. When I did so initially the banner bar at the top was transparent (I could see the background image clearly through it). I liked that, but thought I would try out the different colour options of blue, purple, green etc. Once I did that I could not return to the transparent banner bar, even if I de-activated and re-activated the theme. Help?
Hey John,
That was an error, but I didn’t realize that people would enjoy that feature. I’ll be sure to include that as an option in an update that I plan on doing soon.
Hello Eric,
I’m from the Netherlands and maybe my English is not always as clear as I like to be. I’m new in WordPress so I have lots to learn.
Very nice theme you’ve build! I have chosen it together with a friend to build her site with. And after that I think I will rebuild my own website too. What specially is great is that the menu is sticky when you scroll down. It is really very handy to browse with.
I have a few questions and perhaps some ideas for you:
- Is it possible for me to switch off all the things what has to do with blogging? With other words, I would like to use it as a standard website.
Then I like to design one page for a contact form or put fields in for reactions/blogs. The text “by ……” beneath every page is then not necessary.
- In the sidebar on the right you can switch all things off but the main page stays the same width, is that possible to change when I use no sidebar?
- Could it be possible to change the background from the header and the footer like the pages?
- Could it be possible to put the search bar in one line above each page, in this way the pages can be wider.
- Can I switch of the fields: “Leave a reply” and “”
- Is there a possibility to change the borderline colors?
I really hope that you can give me some good tips or hope that it can be done.
Any way, great design,
Jan
- Can I switch of the fields: “Leave a reply” and “ Older Post Newer Post ”
In the latest update.
I will be working on an update that gives you a bunch of options for the Time, Author, and etc. The content is completely flexible, this theme is responsive in design, but if you want to make it wider than it is now… that would be very difficult and very low on my priority list for now. Changing the color for the borders will be in a future update, just not sure if this time around or next. Changing the background has always been possible, so I’m not sure what you are talking about here.
Message me back if you have any more questions
With changing the background I mean the Header and Footer color. You have 3 options that are very dark.
I think it is made with an image? If I could change the image (in combination with opacity) or perhaps a color with opacity that would help a lot. Perhaps if I now where the file to find I can replace it with another with the same dimensions en experiment a litlle. I’m familiar with FileZilla and Photoshop so that should not be a problem.
The version I now use is version 2.2 that I have downloaded from the Dashboard on tuesday the 12th of february. That is the newest I can find.
Hai Eric,
To let the Adventure them more look like a standard webpage with no blogging on it I have found in the index.php the subroutines to call for the Comment window and the Previous en Next window.
I simply deleted it and that works fine for me. The only thing I’d like to remove is the ‘by admin’ on each web page but I can’t find it (yet).
Could you and will you let me know where I can find that and switch it off (or remove displayed text)?
Hello Eric,
Me again
I.ve already found the text “by admin” and Ive made’comment from it and it works. Now the website is not looking any longer as a blog site.
Can I find the ‘page text color’, the ‘widget text color’ and the font type of both header texts in the style.css or in the theme-options.css?
Sounds like you accidentally delete an important tag to the theme, it could be a real pain to figure out and you might need to start from scratch.
Hello I’m constuyendo website with wordpress Adventure theme as a template seems very attractive. But I have several problems:
– Can not create new “semitransparent rectangles” to include text and images. On the issue appear only three and I would need more.
-In the tablet and mobile phone background image is cut off and how hard I try always moves
– How I can remove the buttons and newer post older post?
thanks
The latest update let’s basically do whatever you want with newer post / older post and etc. The problem with tablets is because the person that wrote the web browser is wrong, I can’t fix their mistakes. Transparent images need to be a PNG file to work and I tested it a while back with it working just fine.
Message me back if you have any questions, comments, or ideas.
Hi Eric!
I am loving the Adventure theme you created! I just wanted to ask you how I can remove the “Older Posts” and “Newer Posts” box at the bottom of each page.
I want my viewers to use the menu bar at the top instead of being given the option to click on Older and Newer posts.
How can I remove this? I am creating a website for a client; therefore, this is a time-sensitive matter.
I hope to hear from you soon!
Jen
Hey Jen,
The coming update will have the option for you to decided whether or not the “Older Posts” and “Newer Posts” on just post, just pages, post and pages, or none.
Look for the update some time before the weekend.
Wonderful! Thank you so much!!
Hi Eric, in the title banner may I use an image only instead of text as a title? I notice if I don’t use text, my uploaded banner image gets cropped way down:
http://www.babybluemovie.com/startup/projects/baby-blue-start-up-funds-3/
Thanks- Lovely theme.
I’m working on making that a reality soon.
Could you please explain what is being served that I paid $ 6 a few months ago for Adventure +.
Your advertising talked about additional options but I did not have.
There’s a new version out now that I’m unable to really reach all my old customers, but if you have purchased “Adventure+” in the past and contact me about it I’m give you the new code that automatically searches for updates now.
I LOVE THIS THEME!
PS- Check the word “fasioned” in copyright section.
LOL spelling errors, thanks for find it, I often get so caught-up in the esthetics of the design that things that should be obvious, are often not.
Any idea when your next update to Adventure+ will be out? Will it include the ability to adjust the layout of each page independently?
With-in the next few months I plan to completely rewrite the theme so that it is “Responsive.” Meaning that the theme will stretch to fit the smallest cell phone screen to the biggest computer screen without losing a thing.
Absolutely loving your theme, looks really good and definitely stands out from the others
Might just be chasing you in the near future as I’d really like mine personalized a little more…who better to ask than it’s creator.
I would be happy to oblige.
The adventure theme is amazing!!!
just purchased adventure plus, great theme!
-how can can I change the post background, I’d like it to be the same as the sidebar and the menu background?
-how do I change the post font color?
-Also how can I make the sidebar a bit wider and the post more narrow?
Appreciate your help.
All the theme options are in the located under “Appearance” in your WordPress admin panel. As of right now you can’t change the width of sidebar but that will be in the next big update. As for changing sidebar background to the menu back ground that is some quick CSS coding I can do for you. I plan to include changing the sidebar menu background too soon.
Thank you. I’d like to change the post background to be the same as the sidebar background. I’d appreciate your help.
Hi Eric, your WordPress Adventure is really impressive. Maybe I should buy one for my website…
Thanks for your complement and over all interest in supporting my efforts.
would love to change the colors of the post background and the menu bar at the bottom… how do I do that?
The newest version of Adventure+ does just that, and if the options aren’t what your looking for I’ll send you a new copy. I’m working out the kinks in my new shopping cart, so go to downloads and get the 2.0 version.
I have been using the plugin “Better Backgrounds” to allow random background photos but it appears it doesn’t work with your Adventure 1.4.6 Theme. I’d love to see them work together since I love the translucent menus but want the random backgrounds. I’ve not be able to figure out on my own how to make these two play nice and any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
I’ll look into it
Eric, I love your theme, and have decided to use it. I am new to word press, creating my site. However, I am unable to change the color of the footer that caries the menu (The color doesn’t blend with my site). I have went inside the editor under footer and that didn’t help. Please, lead me down the road to solving my color issue. Thanks, Greg
To do that you need to change the image “Bars.png”
Hi Eric. I liked very much your theme and I am using your theme at my site. I am using WPML to translate my site and I am getting your theme ready to be translated by that. I wonder if you don´t want to get those modifications to upgrade your theme and make it translatable using gettext functions (that’s what I am doing). Tell me if you want it, because I am using 1.4.2 but to add those changes to your development it would be better to work on the newer version.
From what I have seen, as you are a theme developer, wpml.org gives you a free account to use and test their plugin. You just have to register there. I´ve seen people above trying to translate it to French and German. I will do to French and Brazilian Portuguese.
Regards, Carlos.
Sorry to take so long to decided on this but I couldn’t make my mind up until now. I like the idea of this code and would for my theme to be translated in as many languages as possible, but I really pride myself with the cleanest and lightest written code out there. If you look at the number of pages and code I use it is very minimal come paired to other WordPress Themes, which is why I do not want to add WPML to it right now.
Now the upside to this is that if anyone want me to quick add in there language I will do this for free all the have to do is ask.
Hey, I’m using your Adventure 1.4.2 theme, and I’m looking for a good Twitter plugin. I’ve tried using the Twitter app from Twitter, but it floats outside of the right hand column. Thoughts/suggestions?
I haven’t used any of the twitter plugins yet but I try make one work.
Let me know what you come up with. I’ve found 1 or 2 that work, but they’re pretty basic and boring.
Still trying to get to it… just so busy.
Hi Eric, i wanted to put an adsense on your theme, can you suggest a good plugin for it? thanks so much!
I just updated the theme and now I have some trouble again. I can not see the titel of my blog and the menu on the bottom of the page also looks terrible.
I have no idea what to do??
1.4.3 Address the this with IE 6 Menu bar problems
Hi, I also love this template, but after upgrading to the latest version today, when listing a category it no longer shows images in the listed posts. I liked it better before. How can I get this back?
To do this you I would have to change the code, but there is a new feature for “featured images” in the post.
Thanks Schwarttzy, I have tried the featured image option but it does not help me in the way I want it to work. Is there a chance I can download the previous version somewhere, or is it available from you? Im not good at programming!
Spent some time and thought about it and a new version is up using the similar old code. Featured Images is still use able.
You are a star! ver1.4.1?
Yep
Thank you ever so much from sunny UK. Brilliant!
Hi, Love the theme! I was able to add my own background, only since I am using my blog for my photos, I thought even the background should be my own.
I do have one question though, is it possible to move the title bar to the top of the screen rather than having it at the bottom?
It is but you have to change the code to do so (something I don’t do for free) but if you can figure it out yourself I have no problem with that.
Hi, at first- superb theme. I’m grateful to use it. I have small problem. How to make main page center after erasing sidebar?
In the theme adventure you would need to decrease the size of “#center” to 780px or increase the size of “.content” to 980px to get this to work.
Beautiful design. Thanks for your work.
hi. I really want using your theme but I use the “all in one adsense and yahoo ypn plugin” which pushes my pictures to the left or right out of the main column, How can I fix that, to wrap my pictures again. well I try to do that my self but if you have any idea? or maybe you have an adsesnse plugin that works well with your theme? thanks a lot…
Well if you could show me some pictures of what it is doing and let me see the code I should be able to help you out.
I posted the screenshot on the blog above, well I can place the adsense on the single page and “after the loop”, without using the plugin
hi, thank you for your design, it’s quite unique. but, how can I change the background picture if I choose this theme? Please do me a favour. Many thanks!
All you have to do is change the image in the image folder in the theme, make sure you keep the name the same “02.jpg” otherwise it will not work.
Hi Eric,
just want to say thank you for your great looking theme!
I’m using it now for my Geocaching-Blog (with some translations to the German language) and I really like it.
Greeting,
Jens – Team Benito
Greetings Eric,
Your theme is great and I’m using it in conjunction with Word Press and the Mike Dillard system which is amazing. I just wanted to thank you for the great work you did on this theme. I’m a business man, not a coder, and your theme assisted me in obtaining a theme congruent with my business approach. We are both adventurers in our own right! Good luck and I hope our paths cross one day! – I wish you all the best – Polar Bear Joe
Is it cold up there polar bear joe?
http://www.lemarez.nl/wp-content/themes/adventure/style.css
I saw your URL on the above style sheet. I liked http://www.lemarez.nl/ because I try to do similar things.
love the concept want to stick one of my paintings in the background…
Good job..
Hello!
I’ve been using your adventure theme and I don’t know how many people have complimented me on my website! Thanks a lot! However, today, it was “updated” and no longer works. I’m new to creating webpages and all the time that I took getting things to look right looks to be wasted. I’m sorry to complain, but is it possible to put things back to “normal” and just create a new theme such as Adventure2 or something like that? Thanks a lot.
~John
Truly sorry to here that your having problems, but the update has a lot of new code which will make things a lot better in the long run.
hello today I got an uptdate from your nice theme and I did it, but now the background picture is no longer to see.
Can you help me with this??
Have no idea what to do. I would not like if I have to change
Thank you
Sabine
I’m sorry about that problem, try downloading version 1.3.4 because I accidentally forgot to put the background in 1.3.3
Thanks for this great theme !
I just change the photo and colors (I prefer blue colors).
http://didier.misson.net/blog/2010/07/31/on-change-de-look/
Very good now.
Thanks
Didier, how did you change the background photo?
Just upload a different photo to your website with the same name as in the theme “02.jpg”
Love the site and the theme. I am using it on mine, thanks for creating it.
Very good to see you man. thanks for the amazing theme.
Hi Eric,
I found the design of your site on WordPress. I have used it for my own site.
So I have to congratulate you for this great design.
I would like also to translate in french some of the title. Would it be possible?
Thanks
Stephane
wow this is a pretty sweet looking site bro.