Blockquotes with Duster theme

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  chasmang · Member · Mar 2, 2011 at 2:37 am

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  Hi, I’m testing out the Duster theme and came across the following while reading up on some of the theme’s features:

  “You can also dress up your posts by pulling images or blockquotes into the margins with a class of “pull” and “alignleft” or “alignright”. With blockquotes you can also add a class of just “pull” if you want a more dynamic blockquote that extends out on both sides.”

  I don’t really understand what any of this means. Can anyone clear it up for me? I would really appreciate the help.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Mar 2, 2011 at 4:02 am

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  It means special blockquotes created in the HTML editor by changing the code from this:
  <blockquote>TEXT HERE</blockquote>
  to one of these:
  <blockquote class="pull alignleft">TEXT HERE</blockquote>
<blockquote class="pull alignright">TEXT HERE</blockquote>
<blockquote class="pull">TEXT HERE</blockquote>

  Images too can be placed in the margins by changing this part of the image code:
  class="alignleft [etc]
  to this:
  class="pull alignleft [etc]
  (Same thing for alignright.)

  PS Please link to your blog when asking questions, or make your username link to your blog.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Mar 2, 2011 at 4:05 am

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  PS2 Should the average user be expected to understand the paragraph you quoted? No.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 2, 2011 at 4:05 am

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  After creating the blockquote, you would switch to the HTML tab and then in the opening blockquote tag you would modify it to the following:

  <blockquote class="pull">

  or

  <blockquote class="pull alignright">

  You can see a regular blockquote, a pull, and a pull alignright here: http://medicinewheel.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/duster-blockquotes/ .

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 2, 2011 at 4:07 am

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  Should have refreshed.

  G’day Panos!

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Mar 2, 2011 at 4:10 am

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  Morning!
  (Hope you agree with PS2.)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 2, 2011 at 4:47 am

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  I absolutely do agree with PS2. 99% of people would read that paragraph and go, what?

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  chasmang · Member · Mar 2, 2011 at 2:48 pm

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  Wow, thanks for the great responses, guys. I really appreciate the help.

  Another question: I read it’s possible to expand the search bar at the top of the Duster theme. How do I do this, and is there any way to dress up that top bar or just make the blog title bigger?

  My blog is boldstate.com, by the way.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Mar 2, 2011 at 7:35 pm

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  You’re welcome.

  You don’t expand the Seatch bar, it expands by itself when you click and type.

  To change font sizes you need the paid CSS upgrade.

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  themeshaper · Staff · Mar 2, 2011 at 8:06 pm

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  @chasmang @panaghiotisadam Thanks for pointing out the failure of the Duster documentation to properly explain that feature! It’s been updated.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Mar 3, 2011 at 3:08 am

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  You’re welcome, Ian – although only chasmang deserves the credit for this!

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  chasmang · Member · Mar 3, 2011 at 5:22 am

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  Another question: I can’t seem to change the title of the Aside articles to the left. It currently says “Ephemera,” which is what I originally named it to test it out. I’ve changed the title, deleted the widget, and tried again, but it still says “Ephemera.”

  Any ideas?