Left sidebar padding between elements
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P.P.S. Hello…
Was able to make good progress re-styling Contact page, so please consider previous questions about it obsolete. Main things left is reducing space slightly between name, message, email fields. I’ve already applied .margin-bottom and .padding CSS changes for these. Best I can see remaining is that a
element exists in HTML separating the three input fields. I think these
elements have .line-height 1.5 applied to them. So, could drop this a bit, but quite difficult to find the correct selector for it. Thanks! (What would work equally well would be to find way to reduce padding or margin above ‘NAME’ and below the page’s text. -
Let me try to address your outstanding questions:
plus I have no idea about rules for customizing with sensitivity to mobile screensizes, etc. — but still learning for now.
You can learn more about using media queries that target certain screen sizes here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-css-media-queries/
http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/responsive-design-with-css3-media-queriesBut are we allowed to use PHP in wordpress.com?
No PHP can be used here and it’s not possible to edit theme files directly.
I think I came across a dropdown shortcode somewhere. Is it so?
Not that I know of.
Was able to make good progress re-styling Contact page, so please consider previous questions about it obsolete.
If you could provide a link to the page with the contact form you’re trying to style, I’d be glad to take a look.
I think I addressed everything but if I missed something, just let me know!
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Hi,
Link to page in question is here: http://skirmisheswithreality.net/contact-me/
If PHP or scripting cannot be used, then can you think of some other way to do what I’m envisioning? Specifically: retrieve user input from a couple of radio buttons and use this info to construct a dropdown list of search results, namely posts. Thanks.
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I can’t think of a way to do that type of custom dynamic display on WordPress.com — for starters, the editor strips out form and input tags, so it’s not possible to create a form beyond the built-in contact form.
You’d need a self-hosted WordPress site, and either find a suitable plugin or do some custom coding to get the functionality you want. You can learn here about the differences between WordPress.com and self-hosted (WordPress.org) sites:
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Hi, sorry for delay — holidays.
Not certain what you mean. I can use built-in contact-form options to make any variety of results desired, using a combination of sorting option (by date or by alpha or both), and category types.
The problem seems to be how to collect what user wants regarding these choices and then branching code to the correct contact-form statement.
Is this what you mean? Is there no way to collect input from user independently of a contact-form? (Or maybe no way to branch?)
Thanks.
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Excuse me… I meant to say [display-post] instead of [contact-form], though I’ve not checked the options for the [contact-form] shortcode.
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Hi, I’ve not played with Wufoo forms, but they are supported here at WordPress.com and we have a support page on using them.
You may wish to check Wufoo out and see if it can do what you are wanting.
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Hi, Thanks.
I will look into Wufoo. Meanwhile, came across this: contact-form-7.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8YaCp8jyBo
I think it can do what I want, but do not completely understand rules as to what’s legal and what is not in wordpress.com blogs. Is this thing ok? -
Contact Form 7 is a plugin for self-hosted WordPress installations using the software from WordPress.org. We cannot install our own plugins here at WordPress.com for security reasons.
See if Wufoo will work for you.
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Hi, Just an FYI…
Played around with Wufoo, and exchanged ideas with their tech support. Doesn’t look like it will work. Possible to make a form, but not to get it to do anything besides send emails.Basically what I envisioned needs 3 things:
1) Ability to solicit input from user
2) Ability to grab that user input (as variable or some other way) — i.e. to know what user selected
3) Ability to use that knowledge to execute code conditionally, so that I could do a [display-posts] with certain options specific to the user’s responses.I guess there’s no good way to do #1 and #2 in wp.com blogs; so I did not even get to thinking about #3 yet (except for PHP which was not allowed).
I’ll probably scrap this idea for now. Might try a button approach later on… Like imagine a labelled button they could click on some sort of ‘Lookup’ page… Depending on which one they clicked, it would execute the right [display-posts] command. Might look kludgy though. :)
Happy Holidays!
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Well, there is another shot…
Do you know whether wordpress.com permits you to make buttons which the the user can press or hover (in HTML/CSS)?
And if so, can the action caused be something besides a link (), like maybe ashortcode?~Thanks
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Shortcodes are converted to whatever the shortcode is meant to do, so as an example, a youtube shortcode will be converted to the actual video, so a button can’t really be used for one of our shortcodes. In general, a button can be used as a link to something else (page, site, etc.).
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