.single-post .entry-title {
font-weight: normal;
}

The Custom Design page in the dashboard has a CSS entry in the left black column, and if you hover over that and click on it a CSS edit window will appear. Paste the above into that window and you can then look at the preview of your site on the left and if this works for you, save your changes.

I have also tried uninstalling plugins, but nothing.

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But I think the problem existed prior to me doing any css work, because when I first accessed the upgrade, I was seeing the preview iteration in the same corrupted form as I eventually achieved.

But, irrespective of any of those situations, I have been refunded fully and in a few days I plan to go through the process again with a newly purchased Pinboard theme and the Customization upgrade. Maybe just a relaunch will give me a version without those same problems.

At WordPress.com, it is always best to keep the "add to existing…" selection checked and then add only the specific rules and only the specific declarations you are adding or changing to the CSS. Then your CSS will override the current like bits in the original theme CSS.

Read the post that @justpi referenced. I'm confident that the problem you experienced was simple to fix. Things at WordPress.com work a little differently when it comes to CSS editing.

Then I made the change on the wordpress.com online editing tool and clicked the Save button. Upon seeing the totally ruined layout, I first removed the change and saved again (same result). Then I copied my backup css from Ultra-edit into the online tool and saved (same "destroyed blog" result).

If you mean you pasted the entire stylesheet, then that's your problem. See this post of mine:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/where-is-the-theme-css-and-how-do-i-edit-it/

Upon retrospect, I recall that the "messed up" version was showing as the automatic preview on the online tool prior to any changes in css. The reason I hadn't thought to question any css changes to be able to work was because I had first made some changes in font (with menu selections), saved, and found that those variations had been effected without difficulty.

I will later today repurchase both the premium Pinboard theme and the Upgrade and retest (I like the theme and would love to be able to have it to function properly). I will post results again here.

I can see several things in the CSS you listed above that could blow up the Pinboard design though, such as changing from display: inline-block; to display: block; and also setting a width other than 100%. Not knowing what exactly you were trying to accomplish, I can't tell you what to do exactly, and the point is moot since you have canceled everything.

If anyone has a solution to the Pinboard customizing dilemma I would gladly repurchase.

Sam

Just to make sense of what I posted earlier, here is a screen cap of what my blog looked like with the customization upgrade in place:

http://samredman.com/afterpinboardcustomizeupgrade

Should I merely order the upgrade again? Or is this not fixable?

Sam

#masthead {
display: block
margin: 0 auto;
width: 1178px;
}

Next, I clicked save and suddenly it destroyed my blog. I then deleted that change and saved again. But, it's still the same (ruined). It now doesn't look like pinboard at all (no columns). It's quite a mess.

I'm sure it's fixable, but what can I do to get pinboard back?

blog is at http://honeytoasted.com
or samredman.wordpress.com

Here is a screen capture of my blog prior to using the "upgrade" for customizing:

http://samredman.com/oldpinboardlook

I sure will appreciate your help in getting it back.

Sam

.footer-widgets {
	clear: both;
	margin:20px auto 0;
	max-width:100%;
	position:relative
}
.footer-widgets .widget-area {
	float: left;
	margin:20px 0 0;
	width:21%;
}
.footer-widgets #second {
	margin: 20px 2% 0;
	width:53%;
}
#facebook-likebox-2 iframe {
	width: 460px!important;
}

Nice work!

There are three columns at the bottom of each of my pages and I want to make them wider so that my facebook feed reads properly. How do I do this? Is it easy? Or do I need to get a hold of someone who knows a lot more than I do - which is pretty much nothing?! I assumed that I would be able to bring up the style sheet and guess at which numbers were relevant and play with them - can't even find the style sheets. Need help!

janet

Please post your question to the forum.

i am new to WordPress blogs and i currently have a problem with Pinboard Theme. Just for info, i practiced with the twenty ten theme, just to understand the use of posts, pages, plugins, gallerys.

How can i use a picture gallery like the default Pinboard were the Morning Latte shows? currently i uninstalled the database and reinstalled WordPress on my Synology Server and my test page looks like this: http://www.ddamski.com

Thanks for any tips

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.home .author-img,
.single-post .entry-meta .author-img,
.single-post .entry-meta .author {
	display: none;
}

I'm sorry that it took us so long to respond to your question.
I could not recreate the issues you mentioned above. Do you mean the theme header?

I would like to remove the author link and the profile photo that appears both on home page and individual posts for Pinboard theme.

tried the following code

.entry-author-link,
.entry-permalink,
.entry-date,
.entry-meta {
	display: none;
}

but the profile pic remains on homepage. Also the author link and the profile pic shows up in the individual post.

I am a novice here so help would be appreciated.