Controlling spacing in columns

  • Unknown's avatar
    bibliostatic · Member ·

    Hi. I wanted to migrate from Weebly because there are many things that cannot be automated that can be automated–particularly getting a template for the primary type of posts I’ll be doing.

    It doesn’t have to be exactly the same, but the comparing a current post with the one I’m working on here might be useful:

    https://bibliostatic.weebly.com/blog/earl-shaman-murder-by-suicide

    Murder by suicide

    You can see that all the summary material is excerpted to the front page instead of the body of the WP blog.

    However, I’d set up the posts in a very particular way and I can’t seem to control what parts of the posts show up on the front page if I excerpt them. And I can’t seem to get the post to neaten up in the way I’d like because I can’t get spacing to work for me so that there’s not too much vertical space between the blocks and the text is smaller than the body text. I need to get rid of the caption box on the stars so that the spacing doesn’t look so weird, too.

    The excerpting problem could be solved with a linking static page as I’ve got now at Weebly–I just wanted it to automatically refresh with new posts instead of having to update stuff manually.

    What I’d really like is to increase the size of the overall area of the post and make the sidebar a little more. I’ve gone through twenty or so themes trying to find one that will work a little better, and Lovecraft still seems to be the best fit.

    I don’t mind doing the work to get it fixed, but I don’t want to invest the time messing with it if the parts I want to control are baked into the themes–and then have to migrate again. Kind of in a time crunch to make a decision before the cancellation period ends.

    So the question is, can I achieve what I’m trying to do or is this one of those things where I’d have to go through WP-org and get it independently hosted?

    I just want to know which way to go. I assumed that anything I could do at Weebly I could do on WP plus more, so I was surprised that this layout is giving me such fits here.

    Thanks for any help you can offer.

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

  • Unknown's avatar
    cintiamillan · Member ·

    Hi there :)

    You can style the post in the way you like using custom CSS. Please add this code to your custom CSS:

    .entry-content p, .entry-content blockquote, .entry-content address, .entry-content dl, .entry-content pre {
    line-height: 150%;
    margin-bottom: 0.3em;
    font-size: 0.9em;
    }

    You can change the parameter value until you are happy with the end result. For example, if you would like to decrease even more the line-height, the spacing between paragraphs and the font size, you can replace the code for:

    .entry-content p, .entry-content blockquote, .entry-content address, .entry-content dl, .entry-content pre {
    line-height: 120%;
    margin-bottom: 0.2em;
    font-size: 0.8em;
    }

    To get rid of the border around the image, add this to your custom CSS:

    .entry-content img {
    border: none;
    }

    The custom CSS will work in every post, so it updates automatically.

    Here you can follow the steps on how to add custom CSS:

    https://wordpress.com/support/custom-design/editing-css/

    Let us know if you have further questions, or need extra help customizing the look and feel of your site.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

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