Forever theme post formatting problem
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I’m having problems with the Forever theme — it’s supposed to support post formatting (i.e. quote, status, etc.) but it’s not working for me. No matter which format I select, when I preview/publish they all look like the standard format. I cleared my browser cache and cookies, so I don’t know what’s going on. site: http://notyouraveragecrochet.wordpress.com/
Blog url: http://notyouraveragecrochet.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The purpose of alternative post formats is to differentiate things on the main posts page, not when you view a single complete post alone.
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Well, all the posts on your homepage are standard format posts, so we can’t tell if something’s wrong. As an example, edit “whew!” and set it to image format: on your homepage the image should show up above the title and the whole post should be enclosed in a thin frame.
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That worked. Am I just missing something simple about quotes? The theme is supposed to put quotes at the bottom of the page… I’ll do a tester.
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OK I got it to appear at the bottom, but how do I get the quote to be big and bold and have that different colored background?
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Ah, you’re right about Quotes: Image and Gallery formats result in quite an obvious differentiation, but Quotes in this theme don’t change the appearance of a blockquote in the actual post, they only add a big quotation mark on the reproduction at the bottom of the page. To change the styling of a blockquote you need coding in the Text (=code) editor (or in the CSS editor if you had the Custom Design upgrade). Are you interested in adding coding?
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Darn, I was hoping I wouldn’t have to do any coding. I can try it out though. I don’t have the Custom Design upgrade but I’ll play around with some code. Thanks so much for your help, I really appreciate it!
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You’re welcome.
Here’s an example:
`TEXT HERE
You can play around with the values, or ask me if there’s something you’d like to change and don’t know how.
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Sorry, forgot to add the closing backtick that would make the code show up…
<blockquote style="font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;background-color:#efffff;margin-bottom:1.1em;padding:1.3em 1.1em .09em;">TEXT HERE</blockquote> -
That’s perfect! I edited the font size and the colors, added a border radius, and I saved it in Notepad so I won’t forget. Thank you!
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You’re welcome!
Note that the p and span tags you’ve added are superfluous. The span tag is used to modify a character, a word or a phrase inside a paragraph: you don’t use it to modify a complete block. The p tag is used to modify a paragraph: you don’t need it when you want to modify a larger block. In other words, you’d need these tags if you wanted to modify parts of the bq; in this case your additions should be part of the bq style. Instead of this:
<blockquote style="border-radius:10px;font-size:175%;font-weight:bold;background-color:#eaf5f4;margin-bottom:1.1em;padding:1.3em 1.1em .09em;"> <p style="text-align:right;"><span style="color:#e2c10b;"> TEXT HERE</span></p> </blockquote>you write this:
<blockquote style="border-radius:10px;font-size:175%;font-weight:bold;text-align:right;color:#e2c10b;background-color:#eaf5f4;margin-bottom:1.1em;padding:1.3em 1.1em .09em;"> TEXT HERE </blockquote>If you check my blog, you’ll find an introduction to HTML and various posts on formatting text etc: they might prove useful to you. (And I’m glad that unlike most users you’re not intimidated by coding!)
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