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@blogsloth: Maybe, if you tell us which one.

This is odd: you are not showing as the last commenter in the list. In fact this whole thread is missing!

I was going to help blogsloth but his post was in the middle of the thread while others went on about the OP. So I looked to see if he'd posted a new thread and here I am!

@wank: Whenever someone asked for a change in a theme, the answer would (very reasonably) be no because the change might annoy other bloggers using the same theme. But now they went so far as to completely eliminate a theme. Makes sense: annoying Matt is graver than annoying thousands of users...

Plese check the cutline-to-coraline-faqs thread to find solutions to your issues.

and one would think that someone with functional brains would be able to figure that out....

:-)

I would like some help with a small issue, though - the archives are not in the drop-down mode, instead all months are listed there, occupying a lot of space

I could not figure out how to change it back to the way it was - is it possible in this new theme?

Thank you

Re: 10 Aug 9:12 post above

SECONDLY --- the "Preview" button doesn't do anything, you have to bite the bullet and "Save Stylesheet" before any changes actually take place so you can see them.

this might be useful:

http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/need-sticky-post-help?replies=11#post-494760 :

tfardella
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Aug 10, 2010, 8:36 PM Delete Spam

If the CSS changes you make are not showing up when previewing the problem is most likely that your browser has cached the old CSS file and is using it. If you reload the preview window while holding down the SHIFT key it should force the browser to read the new CSS file.

"It totally makes me regret to be a loyal wordpress customer for more than two year."

Notice? Come to Canada and check my inbox. NOTHING from WordPress. And for a mission-critical blog this is simply NOT acceptable.

However, the column widths still look off to me

Too wide? Too narrow?

there's this WordPress advertisement at the bottom of my blog

Is it a Google ad? What does it say? If the footer says: Theme: Coraline Get a free blog at WordPress.com, that's the theme footer text, not an ad.

Unfortunately, I think you're talking way, way over my head. Layering rules, content-boxes, etc......it looks like English, but I can't do much with it. Not your fault....but I'm no programmer!

I think I got the primary issue resolved -- which was the center-tabbed text. While I was at it, I got the font size and the leading fixed. This is a good start.

However, the column widths still look off to me, and there's this WordPress advertisement at the bottom of my blog that I don't remember seeing before! I purchased the "No-Ad" upgrade and it doesn't expire until October 2010. It states that, "...We occasionally serve ads on WordPress.com as a way to pay our bills, purchase this to ensure that we will never show any ads on this blog."

I took this to mean that WordPress would not show any ads on my blog. But....there it is.

If there's anything that can be done about this, I'd appreciate it. If it involved editing the CSS, please be very very specific about what and where to make the edits...my resource for translating this stuff won't be available again for several days, unfortunately.

Thanks again for the attention to this stuff!

I recommend not pasting the entire CSS file in there, just paste in CSS code for rules you want to change.

So in your case, when you were making changes the original theme was causing issues since it was declared twice: once in the theme and once again in your Custom CSS. :)

I looked at your Custom CSS, and the only rules that are different from the default stylesheet are (the rest are all the same as the normal styles):

body {
font-size:82.5%;
line-height:140%;
}

#container {
width:970px;
}

#content-box {
width:970px;
}

#masthead {
width:970px;
}

Also, you can remove all the Custom CSS and it'd look very similar.

It didn't address the center-tabbed text issue, but I got some help and figured that one out.

I tried pasting in the code you supplied to put my blog's width back to what I had with Cutline, but it didn't appear to have any effect, except that it changed my text back to a center tab again!

You can paste the code that "thesacredpath" supplied above into your CSS editor at the very top, replacing this code:
body {
background:#fff;
color:#333;
font:62.5% Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
text-align:center;

BUT --- you also have to go through and find every instance of "text-align:center" and change "center" to "left" -- there are 6 or 8 places where it occurs.

SECONDLY --- the "Preview" button doesn't do anything, you have to bite the bullet and "Save Stylesheet" before any changes actually take place so you can see them.

I also changed the "font:62.4%" to 82%, which made it readable again.

And, I discovered that you can change the "lineheight:normal" to "lineheight:150%" to increase the leading back to something approaching normal. You can change the "150%" to whatever value looks good to you, I might tweak this some more.

Very, very disappointed with this whole process, especially with the response from WP.

An issue I still haven't resolved:

I now have a banner ad from WordPress at the bottom of my blog -- I vaguely remember paying for a "no-ad" upgrade, I'd like to either have that advertisement removed, or get a refund on that upgrade.

No I did not get the email and yes I was *furious* when I discovered this after via a customer that our blog (which we use as a knowledge base) was completely fucked up. I was a happy wordpress customer till you and I could not believe WordPress would do such a thing without an explicit approval and giving use the time the adapt the theme. As I said, some pages in the blog are directly linked from the feedly tool and this means that about 2000 users saw today a completely defaced blog!

WordPress lost a lot of point and karma today. I hope that you will fix your processes going forward and NO ONE WILL MESS UP WITH OUR UI WITHOUT OUR EXPLICIT APPROVAL. Or many be I was wrong and you guys not give a fuck about your customers. In which case, please let us know so that we can move to another service.

@devhd In case you don't see an email (or it goes to spam or junk), here's what I recommend for your Custom CSS:

- Change #masthead h1 to #masthead #site-title because it's only an h1 element on the home page, on internal pages it's a div element.
- You can remove #nav (it longer exists)
- Change #header_img to #branding
- Change #content-box to #content_box

Your site mods are looking nice. :)

Is there any solution to this short of going through and re-formatting every single post in my archive?

The email went out to the email address on account for the site owner, so without divulging your exact email address, I can see we sent it to (something) @ devhd.com. :)

We can help you get the site back on track.