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I have searched high and low for the answer to this question AND I have butchered my CSS trying to figure it out!

I want to REMOVE the far left column in the blog posts, thereby INCREASING the width of the actual post article/content.

Here is an image illustrating what I mean:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wmqfsmp39i0p1g8/imbalancequestion.png

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SELECTOR_FOR_STUFF_YOU_WANT_TO_HIDE {
	display: none;
}

SELECTOR_FOR_SOMETHING_NEARBY:after {
	content: "Contact us for more details about this project.";
}

Replace SELECTOR_FOR_STUFF_YOU_WANT_TO_HIDE with the selector of the text you want to hide.

Replace SELECTOR_FOR_SOMETHING_NEARBY with a selector that will target something one level up from the content you hid, maybe even the password form itself.

If you're not sure what a selector is, start here:
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/

You can figure out the selectors by viewing the page source. If you need help figuring them out, post a link to an example so someone can take a look.

You're saying: I can change the appearance of already existing content therefore I can replace the content with other content. This is not "by that logic" (or by any logic). CSS allows you to change how an element looks (font, color, size, border etc etc), not what it says.

Now, to be more precise, there is a trick that might allow you to change the content when it is a plain text snippet (not when it is a link like the post title), but all the posts on the front page have the same CSS selectors: you cannot target a specific post, so the most you could do with that trick is make all the posts display the same alternative snippet (which is clearly useless).

Thanks!

Is there no CSS coding that I could alter/modify to allow me to change the properties of a protected post?

CSS lets you change appearance of already existing content. You cannot use CSS to add new, dynamic content where it didn't exist before. For example, you can't add a snippet of a post to your home page for a protected post using CSS, but you could alter how the private post titles and password form field look.

Is there a big difference between customizing CSS and doing a wordpress.org custom coding?

Not really. The biggest difference is probably that you cannot use the "@import" rule on WordPress.com, but you probably don't need it anyway.

3) If number2 is not possible, is there a way to change the text on the homepage for Protected Posts to say something different than "There is no excerpt because this is a protected post" ?

That's not possible either. It sounds like what you need is access to the code to be able to customize it directly. You can get that by using a WordPress.org setup. See http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ to learn about the differences.

2) On the homepage of this theme, is it possible to have Protected Posts appear just like normal ones - not reading "Protected" and also showing a full snippet from the project text - and only once a visitor clicks on the thumb and is directed to the project page would they see that it is protected and requires password?

There is not a way to do that here on WordPress.com. If you wanted to switch to a WordPress.org setup, then you could get something like that custom coded if you hired a developer or found a plugin in the WordPress.org plugin directory. It sounds like a pretty custom request to me though (versus being able to find a plugin that already does what you're asking).

1) I protected some of the posts AFTER publishing them. Now, a simple Google search is crawling the content from those posts which I want to keep hidden from the general public. How can I stop them from showing up in web searches?

If Google crawled the post before the posts were protected, then they got placed into Google's cache which doesn't get changed very often once content is set. You can make a request directly to Google to remove such pages, but how long it takes them to do it will be up to them and they may also request that you completely delete the pages first (rather than making them private). You should contact Google directly about the issue.

I am having trouble with the Protected Posts in Imbalance 2. My site is http://www.danishkurani.com and temporary password for the posts is "press".

1) I protected some of the posts AFTER publishing them. Now, a simple Google search is crawling the content from those posts which I want to keep hidden from the general public. How can I stop them from showing up in web searches?

2) On the homepage of this theme, is it possible to have Protected Posts appear just like normal ones - not reading "Protected" and also showing a full snippet from the project text - and only once a visitor clicks on the thumb and is directed to the project page would they see that it is protected and requires password?

3) If number2 is not possible, is there a way to change the text on the homepage for Protected Posts to say something different than "There is no excerpt because this is a protected post" ?

Thank you in advance for any help!

• http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/enlarging-your-header-image-in-imbalance2?replies=4#post-790098
• http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/align-menu-tabs-side-by-side-in-imbalance?replies=22#post-764995

Keep in mind that the http://thepatternedplate.wordpress.com/ site is using the fixed width layout, so you may want to update to that layout if the examples don't work the way you expect and you want to match the style from that site. You should test and experiment with the examples to see what you can work out.

There are a couple ways to remove it. (1) Add an empty text widget to Appearance → Widgets → Header Area (no CSS needed). Or (2) remove a bunch of the header elements by adding this to your Appearance → Custom Design → CSS editor:

#header-left,
#header-center,
#header-right {
	display: none;
}

happyhappyjoyjoy2013.wordpress.com

Thanks!

Alli

http://www.r3decorate.com

That Support Document notes this:

How many posts load at a time?
Infinite Scroll loads seven posts at a time.

And that is what my Imbalance2 theme showed a few minutes ago. Now it shows this:

[ ] (that's supposed to depict a checkbox) Scroll Infinitely
(Shows 12 posts on each load)

My conclusion is that they are now forcing the infinite scroll onto themes not suited to it (those would be themes with footer widgets) or changing the way "infinite scroll" functions or both…

I use that theme for may main blog, and there do indeed seem to be some changes made behind the scenes. Not sure they include

Before, the homepage used to display posts as much as the user wanted. But now, it only displays the posts on the first line. This makes the blog look light, slim.

Take the advice from AOB above: I can see all of your posts. In fact, I am forced to to more of your posts than I want: your footer widgets are now inaccessible.

In fact somehow "infinite scrolling" settings were reset on my blog (probably also on all blogs using Imbalance2) so that it is impossible to view the footer widgets. Solution is this:
dashboard—>settings—>reading settings—>To infinity and beyond—>un-check this box: Scroll Infinitely—>update

I don' t have problems with the box but with the update something else changed. Before, the homepage used to display posts as much as the user wanted. But now, it only displays the posts on the first line. This makes the blog look light, slim.

But the demo page of Imbalance 2 shows all the posts it has. Also some blogs using this theme also don't have the problem I have.

How can I solve this, and can I remove the box with the Custom Design Upgrade?

The blog I'm trying to remove the search from is:

http://happyhappyjoyjoy2013.wordpress.com/

Thanks so much!

Alli

Alli

This is the way captions are styled in Imbalance2.

The easiest way to change the caption style is to use Custom CSS, which is part of the Custom Design upgrade. If you decide to go this route, something like this should get you started:

.wp-caption {<br /> background: transparent;<br /> }

You might also look for another theme that styles the captions to your taste -- you can check out the theme demo sites to see image caption styles for each. Theme demos are linked from the Theme Showcase.

I hope this helps!

I am new to wordpress and trying to use the Imbalance 2 theme. When I type in the caption for a photo, the photo turns into a "polarioid" with a frame and the caption within the frame. Is there anyway to caption a photo so it just appears as clean text under the photo? I haven't posted my first post yet because I am trying to work out this kink.

theecstaticflash.wordpress.com

My name is Nuno and I'm a student of Journalism in University of Coimbra. I'm here, today, representing my technical team to ask you from some help. We want to make a blog/site called Deontology Observatory.
We don't have any knowledge about html or css code and we are giving our first steps in the wordpress world. So, we have a lot of doubts and we'll be very thankful if you can help us.

First: At Home, what are the images inside a rectangle?

Second: How do we do to put our images, photos and texts like in the demo (http://imbalance2demo.wordpress.com/)? Is there any way to divide the page in two or three columns?

Third: At Home, is it possible to leave some fixed posts and vary others?

Fourth: How do we do to the images + text, inside any category, be just as like at the home page, lightning that red thing around them?

Best Regards.