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susanjcunningham on "I can't have boldface or insert breaks in Beach theme?!"

susanjcunningham — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:11:10 +0000

Uh oh, my indication of the "break" code didn't show up in that post. I tried that in addition to the <P> 's.

And it sort of worked on this page:
http://susanjcunningham.com/2011/12/13/blackberrys-days-in-thailand-are-numbered/

susanjcunningham on "I can't have boldface or insert breaks in Beach theme?!"

susanjcunningham — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:08:03 +0000

OK---

At least bold does work now. The spacing issue continues.
Here you can see the problem of paragraphs too close together:

http://susanjcunningham.com/2012/07/18/indonesia-hotels-and-middle-class/

On this and other pages I have tried inserting <P> pairs, single <P> and
. Page looks OK. Save. Then a few minutes later or, occasionally, the next day, the paragraphs are squished together again and the code has disappeared. I tried putting them inside and outside the <H3> brackets.

I somehow succeeded in getting some of the spacing to stick on this homepage:

http://susanjcunningham.com/ Actually, there are too many spaces between some paragraphs but better that than too close together. I was able to insert spaces on this page with single <P> but the effect only lasted a few hours. As for the current state (which might change) … there now no <P> or anything else in the code. I guess I just clicked "Enter" from the visual view and some of them stuck this time.

Inserting
on this page:

http://susanjcunningham.com/2011/12/13/blackberrys-days-in-thailand-are-numbered/

sort of worked. It lasedt for a whole day but a slash mark ( / ) was also visible on the page. I deleted those slash marks and I’m back to square one. Some things do remain in the code, though: I thought for a moment that “ ” without the quote marks or “<H3></H3>” were adding a space. Nope, the one correctly spaced part (after the 3rd paragraph) now doesn’t have a code there at all.

Maybe I could insert spacing some how in the CSS? Along with the body font instruction? Should I just give up on this theme?
Surely someone else has encountered this problem before?

Tnx

timethief on "I can't have boldface or insert breaks in Beach theme?!"

timethief — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:42:03 +0000

Please post an active link starting with http:// to the blog wearing the Beach theme.

susanjcunningham on "I can't have boldface or insert breaks in Beach theme?!"

susanjcunningham — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:39:47 +0000

I purchased the upgrade so I can change fonts and fiddle with the CSS.

After I shifted to the Beach theme from the theme you now see, I wanted cleaner fonts and I wanted to have boldface in the parts you see now.

You will probably note that in the current state/theme of my blog, I have changed the font by hand--paragraph by paragraph. But when I ported it over to the Beach theme, I stripped all that out on my homepage, went back to default and then I added boldface in places.

I also found the paragraphs in Beach were too close together, so I inserted paragraph breaks. It looked fine. I press save and--the boldface and the extra spacing all disappear! It's just a slab of text.

Perhaps I can fix all this with CSS? I'm a novice with it, so I haven't even tried. But if it's possible, I will give it a try. Would also like to know if there are other themes with problems similar to Beach that I should avoid.

Thank you!

panaghiotisadam on "boldface sidebar fonts"

panaghiotisadam — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:43:51 +0000

@islandnotes: Sorry for the complication - didn't think of the number of posts you had. In Posts>Edit you get a list of up to 15 posts, so if you've got more than that you must repeat the process for the rest of the pages (as you've found out). Still, it's a lot faster than having to edit each individual post.

islandnotes on "boldface sidebar fonts"

islandnotes — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:07:16 +0000

Gotcha. The bit about the bulk-editing only applying to the current page of posts threw me. (Gotta say the lack of truly bulk editing across all posts is a little lame..well, confusing.) You've all been a great help. Sorry if it's off-topic, but I gotta say, my experience with wordpress.com as been a very good one so far. As a primitive fringe-dweller, on a piddly dial-up (maybe 36kbps), it has allowed for a nice "platform" indeed!

thesacredpath on "boldface sidebar fonts"

thesacredpath — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:48:51 +0000

The ones in blue are sticky posts. The ones in white are regular posts.

islandnotes on "boldface sidebar fonts"

islandnotes — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:30:39 +0000

Um, not to belabor this, but it'd seem that they ARE chronological to the extent that blue-backed posts (Ocean Mist) are at the top - albeit older than the white-backed ones below them. Pardon my low-tech rap, but what determines a white or blue background..in addition to my above query. Thanks.

islandnotes on "boldface sidebar fonts"

islandnotes — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:18:56 +0000

How do I get my now bulk-edited unstuck posts to display chronologically (below the one sticky-one that I prefer on top)? Thanks.

islandnotes on "boldface sidebar fonts"

islandnotes — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:08:54 +0000

Dang, bubel your fix is much appreciated.
However, after going with panaghiotisadam's bulk edit - non-sticky suggestion,
it'd seem my posts are now displayed seemingly random..well, not chronological,
which is preferred. So..thanks a lot in all that that implies..heh.

panaghiotisadam on "boldface sidebar fonts"

panaghiotisadam — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:21:38 +0000

And, on another issue:

http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-get-my-latest-post-to-be-at-the-top-of-my-blog?replies=1#post-279261

http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-get-my-latest-post-to-be-at-the-top-of-my-blog?replies=17#post-286824

bubel on "boldface sidebar fonts"

bubel — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:17:50 +0000

I've fixed this for you - the problem occurred in several of your latest post; the MORE tag was placed within bold and italic HTML tags (noted by aw1923), as described in http://faq.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/formatting-issues-with-the-more-tag/

aw1923 on "boldface sidebar fonts"

aw1923 — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:12:34 +0000

fix your "read more" tags on either of the last two posts. That could possibly be causing the problem.

islandnotes on "boldface sidebar fonts"

islandnotes — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:09:22 +0000

Aloha,

Anybody have an idea why from late last night, my: islandnotes.wordpress.com
has decided to display bold fonts in the sidebar and seemingly random elsewhere?