Column width and "read more" tags
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Hello,
I bought a premium theme hoping it would be easier to edit. I want two things to change on my blog. I want to implement “excerpts” of my posts so you have to click through to read the whole thing. Everything I’ve found on this topic tells me to edit the php file which I understand is not a feature on wordpess.com sites.
Secondly I want to widen the main column on the blog. Also the recent posts menu has disappeared.
Any help is appreciated.
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Blaskan is not a Premium theme >
http://futurepilgrim.wordpress.com/
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I want to implement “excerpts” of my posts so you have to click through to read the whole thing.
You can manually insert “the more tag” http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/ into every post on any theme here. Or you can choose a theme that automatically provides only excerpts on the front page like Sight, Inuit Types, etc.
http://wordpress.com/themes/Another Volunteer will answer your other questions.
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Thank you! I read that already but I guess I didn’t pick out the “more” tag. I think what I meant was I paid for the Blaskan customization upgrade. Appreciate the help.
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CSS is a styling document used by the browser to style and place the HTML elements of web pages. It cannot be used to add or change functionality.
For excerpts, you will have to try what is outlined in this post by Panos, and in the excerpt support document. I don’t know if the excerpt function works in the theme you are using or not.
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This will widen the theme.
#wrapper { width: 540px; }Blasken supports the flexible header feature. For the header image, you will have to create one that is the same width as you specify in the wrapper width above and then upload it and choose to “use as is” when you insert it so that WordPress will not crop or resize it.
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Since I don’t yet see any custom CSS on your site, I’ll add this just in case you haven’t worked with it yet.
Go to appearance > custom design > CSS tab in your dashboard, clear out all the informational text in the editor window and then paste in the code I gave above. Edit the width as you desire. I would suggest not going much wider than 650 or 700px since longer lines are harder for people to read.
After setting your width, in the “publish” module, click on “content width” and add the same amount to that number as the increase in the overall width. That way when you insert “full-sized” images, they will insert at the maximum width possible for your new setting.
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