Blockquote problem (does not work)
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Dear sir/mam,
when I create a blockquote and watch the preview, it seems to work fine. I get the elegant look one wants. So I save, check again using the preview, and everything still is fine.
But, when I leave the editing room and start editing something else, or just surf away, and check it again, later, the blockquote is gone. The text is still there, but no longer as a blockquote.
I even checked from another computer. I re-edited the post (curiously, in the editing room it was still registered as a blockquote), saved, checked the preview and saw the blockquote was there. But when I checked, simultaneously, from a different computer, it did not appear as a blockquote. (even after refreshing several times).I do not get this. Please help.
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Hi,
It seems that on the theme you have activated, block quotes doesn’t work at all on the blog (or posts) page, but does work properly on single posts. So, your single post A Grim Reality displays the quoted passage against a darker background, and displays a green vertical bar at the left edge of the block quote area. On the blog page, however, the background color difference and the green vertical bar are omitted.
I didn’t encounter the same effect with another theme that I chose randomly, so it would appear to be due to a design choice by the theme authors.
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Or it might be due to a glitch. I hadn’t noticed the “modlook” tag in the sidebar calling for staff attention. Sorry, to whoever put it there.
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Hi there,
@musicdoc1’s theory is spot on in this case. The blog page, that is the page that lists all of your posts with the newest first, does not display different styling for blockquotes. That’s because your theme displays a post excerpt on the blog page and automatic excerpts don’t inherit the styling added in the actual post. The same will happen in author, category and tag archives, as well as search results. It’s not a bug, but how post excerpts work.
If you click on the post title, you’ll see the single-post view, and there the quoted text appears with different styling as it should.
If you want the blockquote styling to appear on the blog page you’ll need to use a manual excerpt instead of the automatic excerpt generated by the theme. To do that, edit the post. Click on More Options. You’ll see a box marked Excerpt.
In that box, enter the text you want to appear on the Blog page of your site, and wrap it in blockquote tags. In other words:
<blockquote>excerpt text here</blockquote>Update the post. The text you enter in the excerpt box should display in the excerpt along with any html and inline CSS you add there.
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