Well, Kelly - when I check the site http://socialmediakelly.wordpress.com I do see the linen/red-stripe background.

If you're still not seeing this, try clearing your cache. Here is more information about how to do that:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/

Just let me know what you're seeing, and I'll be happy to help!

I see that you're using Academica now. Were you able to resolve this, or did you switch themes to solve the issue?

Cheers!

socialmediakelly @ wordpress.com with the @ symbol instead of a dot also looks like an email address (I put the dot back into your earlier post)

At any rate, it looks as though you have fixed the problem? At least in FireFox the theme is appearing with its normal background.

It's too bad you cannot change background here > Appearance > Background as Staff will not likely respond to this thread and the many other threads waiting in order of date from oldest to newest until after the weekend.

Thank you for ALL of your help and for tagging this for staff !!

By the way, the site I need help on is socialmediakelly.wordpress.com

I really appreciate your help :)

What you did was use the theme customizer on Bold Life and then chnage to Academica.

Will you please try these troubleshooting tips so we can see if we can get Bold Life back for you without you waiting for Staff help? (It's the weekend and Staff help will probably be days away.)

If you are not running one of the browsers and versions listed at http://browsehappy.com/ please try upgrading or switching first.

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If you are running one of the browsers and versions listed at http://browsehappy.com please do these four things:

1. Try clearing your browser’s cache:

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=32050

2. Make sure that you have third-party cookies enabled: http://en.support.wordpress.com/third-party-cookies/

3. Try with all browser extensions or add-ons temporarily disabled.

4. Try enabling HTTPS: http://en.support.wordpress.com/https/

If it’s still happening, let us know which browser (and version of it) you’re using by checking here if necessary http://www.whatbrowser.org/ and also post any error reports you get.

To ‘reset’ a theme, you need to delete the CSS in the Editor, make sure the “add to existing CSS” radio button is checked, then save. Things should go back to normal.

P.S. When you alter a theme’s stylesheet, you only need to put in the Editor the modification/additions to the CSS, not the entire thing.

The li code (ooops!) did not come with the original CSS, so there was no bug there, after all. I added it wrongly. Now, with your help, it's been correctly set as ".entry li".

The search-results issue also resolved beautifully. So I'm done with this blog, at last!

Again, thank you SO much!!!!

It looks like this is causing the extra space:

<br /> li {<br /> line-height: 27px;<br /> margin-bottom: 12px;<br /> }<br />

This fixes it:
<br /> .sub-menu li {<br /> margin-bottom: 0;<br /> }

From what I can tell the original li code comes from the custom.css, so you may also be able to solve it a different way, such as specifying the li attribute to the area you want, then you may not need the code solution above, but you'll have to check that.

Please note, that I don't have a way to cross-browser test this, but the li margin appears to be the cause in Firefox.

For 2:

<br /> .search-results h2.archive-header {<br /> your CSS here<br /> }<br />

On the search results page the body classes comes with a class for the search results.

1. There seems to be a bug on the menu that comes with the original stylesheet referred to in the css editor. The drop-down menu lists have an "extra" space above each cell that is over 1 line, which also causes to display a "half" cell at the bottom of the drop-down. (Hopefully I explain myself).

2. I can't find how to edit the "Search results" archive title (font-size and color).

Thanks a lot in advance to any help you can provide!

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I'm working with the theme Bold Life, and I've made a custom header image that uploads fine, and works fine for about a week before mysteriously disappearing. The image is saved in my "header" options under appearance, but I have to re-select it every week or so in order for it to continue appearing. Weird?! Not sure how to fix this, or what would cause it. I've tried different browsers, Mac v. PC, and different image formats - it doesn't seem to correlate to any of these possibilities - just randomly disappears from the site every week or so. Help, please!

Kait

Another questions -- is it possible to make the blog post author a hyperlink?

#sidebar {font-style: normal;}

Do you mean the underline from your links? if so, try this:

#sidebar a {text-decoration: none;}

If you mean the dotted line between items, try this:

#sidebar li li {background: none;}

Finally, if you mean the underline under the bold copy, try this:

#sidebar h2, #sidebar h3 {background: none;}

Good luck!
-Z

Thanks so much!!