Blog first displays default theme before custom one

  • Unknown's avatar
    391films · Member ·

    This has been impairing me for a long time.

    I spend a lot of time customizing my blog with the custom design upgrade I paid for.

    However, when going on my wordpress.com, it first displays the default theme from 1/2 to a second before showing My custom design.

    This looks very unprofessional for my site’s visitors.

    Is there a fix for this or a work around? I understand that wordpress takes time loading things but I cannot believe worpress devellopers let this one slide.

    I would much prefer my visitors to see a black screen for the short lapse when my custom design loads instead of the default theme.

    Please Help!!!

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

  • Unknown's avatar
    thesacredpath · Member ·

    What browser are you seeing this in? I just tried Safari, Firefox, Opera and Chrome on my Mac and none of them displayed the original theme, not even at all.

    One thing that might be causing this though is that you have pasted the entire stylesheet into the CSS edit window and then have it loading after the original stylesheet (add to existing…. button selected). That means the original stylesheet loads, then a copy of the existing stylesheet loads with whatever changes you made and then the browser has to go through and compare both of them to see where the differences are.

    At wordpress.com, the best way is to put into the CSS edit window only the specific selectors and the specific declarations you are adding to changing and anything that is NOT changing you leave out. This makes it much easier on the browser and prevents possible uh-ohs from occurring as the browser tries to sort things out.

  • Unknown's avatar
    391films · Member ·

    I see.

    I use the latest firefox, and last time i tried, the default theme stayed around 10secs!!!

    However the way I do it is I past the entire stylesheet into the edit window and then edit whatever i need in there.

    Since I’m a rooky i find this methode much easier to see what i’m doing.

    So if I took your advice, I need to put on the css edit window only what I need to edit.

    So for example, if i want to change the post title from italic to normal do I have to enter:

    .post-title h1 {
    border-bottom:1px solid #ddd;
    color:#990000;
    font-size:3em;
    font-style:normal;
    font-weight:normal;
    padding:60px 0 0 24.5%;
    }

    or only

    .post-title h1 {
    font-style:normal;
    }

    Thanks a lot for your quick (and hopefully helpful reply)

  • Unknown's avatar
    391films · Member ·

    It works!!!

    You’re my savior!

    Thanks

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