In "Elegant Grunge" theme, how do you activate 3-column width in CSS?& Other Q's
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Also, if I want to use toolbox or something like that, you said toolbox was a good example. Is it the best example? If i want to do one of those blank canvas ones, is toolbox the best one?
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designenginer,
I’ve given up on modifying structure completely, so I’m now looking for a third theme to try. I’ve listed some ones here I liked to certain extents, with the parts I want to be able to change.
Which would you recommend given my various criteria?
(I took a look at toolbox and too much of it is incomplete. Going through everything and taking out and modifying parts in structure was one thing, but I have no idea how to add from scratch)
Thanks again.
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@designsimply, you’re actually probably more qualified to help me with this than any of the forum members, I would assume, so please help me here.
I went through all the themes, previewed each one, again.
Here is the problem I am having. First it was the width thing, but because I’ve been told the vast majority of the themes can have their widths changed, I am just operating under the assumption that every theme I look at can be widened, and then if one of the five or ten I pick that I like can’t be widened, someone will tell me and I’ll just pick one of the other ones. So the width is less of an issue now. Same concept with background color and all the other stuff. I’m just assuming it can all be changed for 99% of the themes.
The problem now is functionality. Slideshows, post function, being able to add an image at the top of each post, stuff like that. Only 20 or so themes list that they have “featured image” function or post format or sticky post, but at least with slideshows, a lot more than that can do it. So I’m back to the problem with the filter of it being inaccurate. And then there’s the whole issue of can’t headers for each post be embeded? So once again I can’t rule any theme out or in because I don’t know what it can actually do. These crucial features aren’t listed for a lot of these themes. I like some things about the P2 theme, but my slideshow didn’t work for it (no explanation of course), and I don’t know if, because it’s a special theme with real time comments and stuff like that, that means it’s programmed different, that it can’t do slideshows at all even if I change the CSS, and whatever else. Or maybe there is a code to make the sldieshow work. I have no way of knowing because it’s not listed. Once again, I am left without integral information from wordpress. And then in other scenarios, even if there is a definitive listing for something, like “this one comes with a slideshow,” or sticky post, and “this one doesn’t,” I have no idea if that even means anything, because what if for the one that doesn’t, I could just put it in using CSS? That would mean it technically does have one, it just isn’t listed. So all the listings are misleading because they don’t factor in what you can do with CSS.
So I can post a topic here about a different theme every day and get one answer per day on these questions, and then 100 days from now maybe I’ll have enough information to know what theme does what and then pick. It’s impossible. What do you suggest designenginer? This is like deciding on one car out of 100 that are being shown to you, except the auto dealer doesn’t tell you how many seats half of them have, and whether half of them have airbags or not, and then half the ones you have been told don’t have airbags can actually have them installed for 30 dollars a year right at the time of purchase, installed by the time you’re ready to leave with your car, but you don’t know which ones specifically can have them installed, because some of the cars have been designed without airbag compatibility. It’s very disappointing this is made so difficult. But here’s what I need help with.
So, when I look at a given theme, to make a decision, I basically need to know the following information for each theme:
Whether it can do a slideshow normally and/or through CSS, whether sticky posts can be added normally and/or through CSS, whether featured images, like custom headers for each post, can be added normally and/or through CSS, whether comments can be updated in real time without reloading the page, either normally and/or through CSS, whether there can be comment threads normally and/or through CSS.
Width and all that would fall in there too except that’s mostly been settled, like I said I’m just assuming all that can be changed. So that just leaves the paragraph above. These are important features and I don’t know how anyone can decide on a theme without knowing all the features. So can you please get me this information so I can make an informed decision.
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Slideshows and sticky posts work independently of the theme you’re using. You can, however, customize their appearance with CSS.
Different themes work differently. You can find a list of themes that support featured images by visiting this link:
http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/features/featured-images/To learn more about working with CSS, check out this page:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/editing-css/Finally, you may want to look at our customization forum for more CSS tips:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization/
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