How can I remove the box from around my post's title?

  • Unknown's avatar
    nyfrancis · Member ·

    The titles for each of my posts in the Liquorish theme publishes w/ a filled blue box around it. It doesn’t do that in “preview” mode. I like the title style in the preview better. How can I get rid of the box around each post title?

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    nyfrancis · Member ·

    … OR …
    Can I change the color fill of the box around the post’s title?
    The problem isn’t so much the box, as much as its color. It clashes with other elements of the page. Could it be changed to color#56A5EC ???

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    To remove the box and style the post title link like on the single post pages:

    #primary-content .post-title a {
background: none;
color: #07818C;
text-shadow: 2px 2px #FFFFFF;
}

#primary-content .post-title a:hover {
background: none;
}

    To change the box color and box hover colors (edit hover color as desired:

    #primary-content .post-title a {
background: #56A5EC;
}

#primary-content .post-title a:hover {
background: #CC4D22;
}

    If you want to change the search button on the sidebar to match, add the following and edit the colors as desired.

    input[type="submit"] {
background: #56A5EC;
}

#searchsubmit:hover, .error-page #searchsubmit:hover {
background: #CC4D22;
}
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    nyfrancis · Member ·

    Thank you, thesacredpath.
    I appreciate all your help.
    I tried it out … and your advice seems to work … except I guess I need to buy the Custom Design pkg. As important as my website is to me, I’m having difficulty justifying spending $30/yr to change just the color of two boxes — even if they do clash w/ the rest of the elements on the page. :sigh:

    I don’t know what else the upgrade pkg would do that I need for my site … unless it would enable me to change two other things:
    1.) Change the post and page titles to upper/lower case, instead of all caps. I type them in upper/lower case and they preview that way, but publish in all caps. It’s definitely *not* what I need/want.
    2.) Let *me* date the posts myself, so that info/posts can be inserted where needed. I’ve seen other sites do that and would like that option.

    (If I need to ask this in a different forum, please let me know. )

    Thank you, in advance.

  • Unknown's avatar
    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Yes, it would require the custom design upgrade to do #1.

    #2 does not require an upgrade. When you get ready to publish a post, you can set the date and time of publishing from within the “publish” module on top left of the editor page. This support document talks about future scheduling of a publish date, but the same thing works for setting an earlier date of publishing.

    I recommend setting the publish date as desired before you publish the post instead of publishing it and then changing the date. If the search engines were to pick up the post and then you go in and change the date, the URL they have would produce a 404 not found error and too many of those makes the search engines cranky.

  • Unknown's avatar
    nyfrancis · Member ·

    Thank you!
    I’ll try it out after I’ve had a bit of sleep. :)
    I appreciate your advice and will let you know what happens.

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