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thesacredpath on "How to change color of text area and ribbon on theme, Ever After?"

thesacredpath — Mon, 20 May 2013 01:58:11 +0000

You are welcome.

kiranbhatraju on "How to change color of text area and ribbon on theme, Ever After?"

kiranbhatraju — Mon, 20 May 2013 00:45:44 +0000

Nevermind, I just figured it out, thanks!

kiranbhatraju on "How to change color of text area and ribbon on theme, Ever After?"

kiranbhatraju — Mon, 20 May 2013 00:09:51 +0000

Hi theSacredPath,

Could you help me with your first suggestion? How to implement once you've created the images and uploaded them?

Thanks

unfadedbeauty on "Triton Lite - Changing colour of blockquote"

unfadedbeauty — Sun, 19 May 2013 17:26:00 +0000

Quick update, done it and it works!

Thanks again.

thesacredpath on "How to change color of text area and ribbon on theme, Ever After?"

thesacredpath — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:08:18 +0000

Let's start with this which gets rid of the ribbon.

#description-left, #description-middle, #description-right {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 transparent !important;
}

For the text, you can edit the color code and size here (I've set it to black right now). I've included the entire rule in the event you want to change other things as well, such as the font size. We can also move the location of it, or add a basic color for the background if you wish.

#site-description {
border-bottom: medium none;
color: #000000;
display: block;
font-family: 'Oswald',sans-serif;
font-size: 1.3rem;
line-height: 3.23077em;
padding: 0;
text-align: center;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
text-transform: uppercase;
}

prhayz on "How to change color of text area and ribbon on theme, Ever After?"

prhayz — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:57:17 +0000

Your second paragraph is definitely my choice. Do you need my info?

thesacredpath on "How to change color of text area and ribbon on theme, Ever After?"

thesacredpath — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:52:24 +0000

If you have created the images and uploaded them, we can help you get them implemented if you wish.

If you do not want to undertake that, we can also help remove the ribbon if you wish and restyle the text of the tagline/site description.

prhayz on "How to change color of text area and ribbon on theme, Ever After?"

prhayz — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:52:25 +0000

Hello my friend! (Thesacredpath) I could not implement your theory. I will just have to work with what I have.

Thanks so much for stepping up to the plate and offer to help. God blesses.

thesacredpath on "How to change color of text area and ribbon on theme, Ever After?"

thesacredpath — Sat, 11 May 2013 03:23:17 +0000

You are welcome.

prhayz on "How to change color of text area and ribbon on theme, Ever After?"

prhayz — Sat, 11 May 2013 01:18:19 +0000

Thanks so much for your response, my friend. I am going to give it a try.

Regards

thesacredpath on "How to change color of text area and ribbon on theme, Ever After?"

thesacredpath — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:03:06 +0000

The ribbon is made up of three different images. You will either have to create three new images or do some editing of the existing (change color) in an image editing program. Here are the images and below that are the three CSS rules you would have to enter into your CSS and then insert the URLs of the newly modified images.

http://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/ever-after/images/ribbon-left.png
http://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/ever-after/images/ribbon-middle.png
http://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/ever-after/images/ribbon-right.png

#description-left {
background: url("URL OF LEFT IMAGE") no-repeat scroll 0 0 / 56px auto transparent;
}

#description-middle {
background: url("URL OF MIDDLE IMAGE") no-repeat scroll 50% 0 / auto 44px transparent;
}

#description-right {
background: url("URL OF RIGHT IMAGE") no-repeat scroll 100% 0 / 56px auto transparent;
}

prhayz on "How to change color of text area and ribbon on theme, Ever After?"

prhayz — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:59:39 +0000

Hello everybody! Can anyone tell me how to change the color of the text area (wrapper) and the ribbon for the theme Ever After? My site is http://www.photopincher.wordpress.com.

Thanks so much

unfadedbeauty on "Triton Lite - Changing colour of blockquote"

unfadedbeauty — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:23:14 +0000

That doesn't look too complicated, I'll give it a go.

Many thanks

johndcoy on "Triton Lite - Changing colour of blockquote"

johndcoy — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:37:23 +0000

Hello,

The blockquote color is an image ( Blockquote Image ). To edit the blockquote color, a new blockquote image will need to be created. Then you can use CSS to specify the URL of the new image.

Below is the CSS that will allow you to specify the background image for the blockquotes.

.post-content blockquote {
     background: url(" NEW IMAGE URL ") no-repeat scroll left top transparent;
}

Please replace NEW IMAGE URL in the code above, with the URL location of your new image.

unfadedbeauty on "Triton Lite - Changing colour of blockquote"

unfadedbeauty — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:36:15 +0000

Hi there,

I would like help with the css code to change the colour of the blockquote to pink FF3399

The wordpress site is unfadingbeauty.co.uk

Thanks.

wildwanderingirl on "Having a problem with blockquotes..."

wildwanderingirl — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:03:20 +0000

Can't work out why, maybe it's because I made up this post a little differently than I usually do (but I am pleased with the results). I can't seem to get a blockquote to show at the top, here. I tend to be blockquote-happy but this

never happens.

I will paste in the entire text here, which includes the invisible quote playing hide-and-seek. I'd give the url for this post but it's scheduled for later this month... :)

If you would be happy for a lifetime, grow Chrysanthemums. 

~ Chinese proverb

                                                    


The Last Chrysanthemum

Why should this flower delay so long
To show its tremulous plumes?
Now is the time of plaintive robin-song,
When flowers are in their tombs.

Through the slow summer, when the sun
Called to each frond and whorl
That all he could for flowers was being done,
Why did it not uncurl?

It must have felt that fervid call
Although it took no heed,
Waking but now, when leaves like corpses fall,
And saps all retrocede.

Too late its beauty, lonely thing,
The season's shine is spent,
Nothing remains for it but shivering
In tempests turbulent.

Had it a reason for delay,
Dreaming in witlessness
That for a bloom so delicately gay
Winter would stay its stress?

 I talk as if the thing were born
With sense to work its mind;
Yet it is but one mask of many worn
By the Great Face behind.

~ Thomas Hardy

justpi on "Blockquote font style on Twenty Ten theme"

justpi — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:36:03 +0000

You're welcome.
To display code correctly here, you need to enclose it in backticks (see the note on "Allowed markup").

leftbrainedwriter on "Blockquote font style on Twenty Ten theme"

leftbrainedwriter — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 22:38:24 +0000

Sorry, I forgot these text boxes support code. A visual example of what I learned.

Thanks again.

leftbrainedwriter on "Blockquote font style on Twenty Ten theme"

leftbrainedwriter — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 22:32:38 +0000

@justpi, yes, you're right, it was my bad: I had an extra

Thanks a lot for your help. I really appreciate you taking the time to reply.

justpi on "Blockquote font style on Twenty Ten theme"

justpi — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 20:17:11 +0000

What I suggested does not result in what you're reporting: you probably tried something else as well and messed things up. Check the complete list code in the Text editor - it should be like this:


	LIST ITEM ONE
	LIST ITEM TWO
	ETC

leftbrainedwriter on "Blockquote font style on Twenty Ten theme"

leftbrainedwriter — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 20:00:06 +0000

@justpi
>No that's not your only option!
Thanks - I had no idea! I'm still very new to this.

So, I tried making the ol style change you suggested the Text Editor. What happened was it indented the list (success!) and the list was un-italicized (success!), but instead of regular numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.), the list was numbered with Roman numerals (i, ii, iii, etc.), which isn't what I wanted.

I see that this bit of code works like in Word where, each time you indent and ordered list, it's treated as a new list level and uses a different numbering system (e.g. level 1 = regular numbers, level 2 = Roman numbers, level 3 = capital letters, level 4 = lowercase letters, etc.).

Is there a way to indent the entire list without changing its level so I can keep the regular numbers?

I'm sorry is this is too nitpicky. I'm just trying to learn.

justpi on "Blockquote font style on Twenty Ten theme"

justpi — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:28:33 +0000

No that's not your only option! As I said, bqs are used for quotations, not for styling anything else.

If you want all your lists indented the way bqs are, add this in your CSS editor:

ul, ol {
padding: 0 3em;
}

If you want them indented occasionally only, turn the opening ol tag to this in the Text editor:

leftbrainedwriter on "Blockquote font style on Twenty Ten theme"

leftbrainedwriter — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 18:46:55 +0000

@justpi, I'm enclosing a list in blockquote tags because I wanted it indented and set apart from the main body of the text. Since I can't just use the Tab button like in Word, this is my only option.

@thescaredpath: Okay, here's what happened: I typed up my post, and there were certain parts of it I wanted to have indented as a blockquote. Two of these section were normal paragraphs, and one was an ordered list.

I highlighted each those sections and clicked the blockquote button. All three sections converted themselves to italics upon doing so (this is within the theme's CSS). But I didn't want the ordered list to be in italics, so I highlighted the entire thing and un-italicized it. But only text part of the list un-italicized. The list number (1., 2., 3., etc.) remained in italics.

When I tried the CSS change you recommended, it un-italicized EVERY blockquote. It did solve the problem with the ordered list, but created a new one with the blockquotes I wanted in italics. Even though it showed the text being italicized in the post editor, once I actually previewed it, it showed as plain text.

All I want to know is if it's possible to have the ENTIRE list not be in italics when using blockquote. Maybe it's not with this particular theme (I had no problems with this when I was using the Clean Home theme).

I apologize if I didn't explain my question properly before and appreciate your having taken the time to answer me.

justpi on "Blockquote font style on Twenty Ten theme"

justpi — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 18:23:51 +0000

Also, why on earth are you enclosing a list in blockquote tags? A bq is used for quotations only.

thesacredpath on "Blockquote font style on Twenty Ten theme"

thesacredpath — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 18:15:00 +0000

I've tried this on my test blog and if I add the CSS and then in a blockquote highlight some text and make it italic, that text I set to italic in the post editor shows as italic on the blog, so I'm not sure what you are doing.

You can't use CSS, or shouldn't use it to change just select blockquotes. CSS is meant for overall changes.

Perhaps let's start with you explaining again exactly what it is you want to accomplish.

leftbrainedwriter on "Blockquote font style on Twenty Ten theme"

leftbrainedwriter — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:56:33 +0000

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I tried what you suggested, and all blockquotes ended up un-italicized; none of the italics formatting within any of the posts overrode the CSS.

I ended up putting it back the way it was, but as you can see in today's post (http://occupiedandpreoccupied.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/places-that-dont-exist-anymore/), the numbers in the ordered list midway down are in italics even though the rest of the list is not.

Do you have any other ideas? I am new to CSS and trying to learn.

thesacredpath on "Blockquote font style on Twenty Ten theme"

thesacredpath — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 07:42:40 +0000

If you set the blockquote to normal text in the CSS, and then you make something inside of a blockquote italics within a post or page when creating it, it will be italic. The formatting you set with a post or page will always override the CSS. This will set blockquotes back to normal text.

blockquote {
font-style: normal;
}

leftbrainedwriter on "Blockquote font style on Twenty Ten theme"

leftbrainedwriter — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 06:46:57 +0000

I am trying to modify the font style of the blockquote on Twenty Ten. The default seems to be italics, which I can un-italicize no problem with a simple blockquote paragraph or an un-ordered list. With an ordered list, however, when I try to un-italicize, the numbers remain in italics. I tried to change blockquote font-style to normal, but that just made it impossible to have anything italicized within a blockquote, and sometimes I want to italicize things. Any suggestions?

meagenda on "Inline CSS for occasional change of blockquote background color?"

meagenda — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:09:58 +0000

When WordPress implemented "infinite scrolling" for Garland theme last Thursday/Friday, Garland users experienced multiple display issues when blogs were viewed in IE8 and IE9.

Since WordPress fixed the issues with Garland theme I no longer see the unwanted vertical gray line down the right hand side of the colored background when viewed in IE8, which can be seen in this screenshot:

http://meagenda.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/blockquoteie81.png

When using:


TEXT HERE

I still see a thin gray border round the color block.

But


TEXT HERE

does gives me what I want to achieve in IE8 FF and Chrome. So unless there is a more economical way of achieving this, I'll be using the above.

Thanks again for your help, thesacredpath.

meagenda on "Inline CSS for occasional change of blockquote background color?"

meagenda — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:48:35 +0000

Sorry, iww4n, I don't understand your comment.