Editing CSS

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    iain71 · Member ·

    I’ve just been looking at importing a blogger blog to wordpress as it looks a bit more intuitive.

    I’ve gotten as far as playing around with themes, and have purchased the CSS editor thing. (I do web design, so am familiar with CSS).

    But I’m not sure I’m doing it correctly – what I’ve done is start with the Ocean Mist theme (in time I’ll probably switch to the sandbox theme and build it up), and gone into the CSS editor.

    Then I copied the CSS for the theme into the CSS editor, and checked the box to say I wanted to start with that.

    I would have expected this to display the blog exactly as the original theme, but it seems to have lost its images along the way.

    So for example, images referenced in the CSS like :

    background:url(‘images/bg_body.gif’) top left repeat-x

    are missing.

    http://collinsmaps.wordpress.com/

    Any pointers as to what’s going on here, and how to get them to display again would be much appreciated.

    Cheers.

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    Hi there. I think it’s important to know that wordpress.com is a WP-MU blogging platform. The themes here were all originally coded to run on free standing wordpress.org software installs. In order to run on wordpress.com software they were “adapted” and some features were eliminated as this is a WP_MU blogging platform we cannot access and edit the underlying php and html in the templates. The themes we use here are all derived from shared templates.

    This may be helpful http://csswiz.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/if-you-have-the-wp-com-css-upgrade/

    Aside: There are also other restrictions you may want a heads up on http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/

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    timethief · Member ·

    @ianin71
    We have only a couple of members who volunteer to help with CSS and who can answer your questions but they don’t seem to be logged in right now, so I did the best I could do. When they log in and find this thread they will be more helpful than I can be.

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    iain71 · Member ·

    Thanks for that – I had a bit more of a rummage in the support, and figured it out.

    Basically its to do with the URL of the images. With the themes, the URL is pointing somewhere specific to the theme. But when you use the theme’s CSS, that URL breaks, so its a case doing some repointing.

    And I sussed that the media upload is for images that make up the blog’s layout and design, as well as the images posted in blogs themselves.

    And handily, WP displays the URL of images you upload, making it easy to do the repointing in the CSS.

    I guess as a web designer not really used to blogs, I just needed to get my head around what’s going where in the context of WP.

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    timethief · Member ·

    G’day,
    I’m glad to hear you are working this out. Best wishes. :)

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