Fixing main-post formatting in wordpress.com-hosted Hemingway
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Just curious if there’s any way to reach into the Hemingway code for a site hosted on wordpress.com and fix the way it strips out formatting for the frontpage presentation of the two top-posted items. I also wouldn’t mind increasing the height of screen real estate devoted to these items.
I purchased the custom CSS upgrade thinking it would let me do this, but no dice. Leaving it as-is means my otherwise nice installation of Hemingway looks like ass, especially since links, italics and such don’t show up except on the post’s own page. Can anyone offer me any insight? A thousand thanks…
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unfortunately, CSS can’t change the elements on the page, only style them.
your best bet would be to try to port the hemingway CSS to sandbox. i don’t think there’s any other way to do it.
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Has anyone done this? Hemingway is cool, but the development of it has been slower than molasses it seems. I haven’t seen any changes in a year. I would use it if it allowed all of the cool widgets but it does not.
Porting this to sandbox would be great. If anyone has done this, I am asking them to please share the code with the public, and provide a link here as well.
Thanks.
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@brentroos
I do remember someone successfully customizing the css for Hemingway and I’m off to look for that thread for you.
Here’s the only example I could find: http://demigod.wordpress.com/
It’s referred to in this css customization forum thread http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=3264&page=2&replies=44#post-22420
Here’s the link to the theme designer http://warpspire.com/hemingway/hemingway-roadmap -
Thanks timetheif, but that’s not what I’m asking for. I’m looking for CSS for Sandbox, based on Hemingway. This link I have seen, but it is just customized Hemingway, not Hemingway for Sandbox.
I have already seen Warspire too. I’m trying to see if anyone has made a Hemingway port for Sandbox, so that I can use widgets with a Hemingway look, because the actual Hemingway theme on wp.com only has a couple of them, and they aren’t too customizable.
I guess I just need to keep Googling, but this could take a long time with Google. Or try to port it myself, but again, this can take too much of my time.
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I’m sorry what I found wasn’t helpful. I looked through all the css threads and couldn’t find an example of Hemingway port to Sandbox.
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I think Sun was suggesting that you take a shot at it. I don’t think it’s been done either.
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Yeah, I looked through too. I was hoping that someone knew of a port, but hadn’t said anything yet. Hemingway is beautiful in layout, but limited in function.
Like I said, I do appreciate your trying. There’s no need to be sorry timethief. It was totally cool of you anyway.
I can try to do it, but I’m not going to do it yet on my wordpress.com blog. I will probably install wordpress locally, and experiment with sandbox on it.
Wish me luck.
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@ brentroos
Here’s a suggestion. At wordpress.com we can have as many blogs as we want. If you got another blog that’s strictly for this purpose to experiment with sandbox in it there would be no risk or hassle involving your content. Then when you’ve got the css customization reflecting exactly what you want you could export the contents into your own install. -
Yeah, I suppose I could just use the preview thing, but I’d have to see if this would work. I don’t want to buy the css upgrade for an experimental blog, when I could just run wordpress on a spare machine.
We’ll see what happens. I’m in no rush to achieve this. Hopefully, someone else will beat me to it.
Any takers? Go for it. I dare you.
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