Banners: News Child theme by StudioPress

The News Child Theme by StudioPress has a minor issue with the WordPress Banner Rotator plugin when specifically using Flash banners in the primary sidebar. There is a solution for this problem though.

Plugin Affected: WordPress Banner Rotator plugin.
Conflicting Theme: News Child Theme by StudioPress.
Summary of Issue: The theme resizes Flash banners in the sidebar.

The Problem

The News Child Theme by StudioPress has CSS styles in it’s style.css file on approximately line #1095 which defines a fix width and height for the EMBED and OBJECT elements in the sidebar.The purpose of these styles are unknown.

As a result, any Flash banner ads using EMBED and/or OBJECT elements inserted as a widget into the sidebar with the WordPress Banner Rotator plugin gets resized, disregarding the size set inside the plugin. Here is a screenshot to illustrate:

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The Solution

To fix this problem, simply open the style.css file of the News Child Theme by StudioPress. The style.css file is located at wp-content/themes/news/ in your WordPress installation.

You can either remove the width and height style attributes or comment them out as shown in this illustration below, that will fix the problem:

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