p2 theme error discovered
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My blog is http://sharkcircle.wordpress.com in case you need it, even though you probably won’t.
I’ve discovered a bug in p2. In settings, under “Reading, when you click the “summary” circle button that is supposed to make just part of your blog posts show on the home page, it does not work. You have the option to pick either full text or summary, and summary is supposed to just show a summary, but it does not work. It is broken. I’ve spent days and days and days created my blog in P2, after an extensive p2 vetting process where I kept asking “Is there anything else broken with it I should know about?” where no one told me of this. Now it’s too late. I can only hope this error gets fixed shortly by the P2 staff. People who still want their full posts to show up on the home page can leave it on full page, and people who want this option can then have it. This is not one of those features where it’s left out on purpose because while it’s a plus for some, it’s a minus for others. This is a feature with no negatives, that doesn’t affect anyone’s blog who doesn’t want it, and was just simply left out or coded incorrectly. This is a feature that is supposed to be included in every theme, that’s why there’s a button for changing it in the universal settings, but it’s missing. Please correct this bug so I can use my blog!
Also, a question to everyone, is there another way to make my posts show summaries (ideally controllable how many lines show on the front page) until this bug is fixed and I can do it the normal way?
Thank you!
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Wait is the summary button actually not where you choose this function? I always thought it was, even seem to remember it affecting posts before, but it’s not doing it with other themes either now, so I’m wondering if it actually can be done in P2.
This is what im talking about.
http://www.athleticsnation.com/
The first article on the home page, you look at the bottom, the whole article doesn’t show. There is a link to “Continue reading this post »” at the bottom. That is what I am looking to do. I thought the function was simply broken on p2 when the summary button did not achieve this, but now I am not so sure.
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This is not a bug at all.
The setting on this page > Settings > Reading
is for your RSS Feeds only.
Syndication feeds show the most recent items
For each article in a feed, show
Full text
SummaryTo split content in posts so only a “teaser” appears on the front page you have to insert “the more tag” into each post.
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Thanks timethief. Sorry, my mistake.
However, and tell me if Im mistaken here as well, but from google Im reading that you can use “excerpts” to achieve what I want. I have gone to screen options on my post, and clicked excerpts (it was already clicked, actually, just nothing was written in the excerpts box). Then I put the part of the post that I wanted to show on my front page in the excerpts box, and updated the post. And nothing changed at all. What I want is not just a preview, I want to be able to control what shows up and what doesn’t. Revolutionary concept that a blogger would want to control what shows up on his blog, I know lol, but I do! As I understand it the excerpt function is supposed to allow you to do that, but it’s not working for me.
Can you clarify if it is indeed supposed to do that, or not? Because if it is then there is a bug here after all.
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Some themes have “living” excerpt boxes and some do not. In the majority of available themes including P2 this function is dead. Don’t forget you are using a theme that was designed for Twitter-like conversations.
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Well the more tag seems to work beautifully. Well, the “keep reading” link at the bottom isnt the color I would pick, is there a way to change this or is it tied to the color i specified for all links? But besides that it seems to work great for my first post. I didnt realize it could be used to split the post wherever i liked as well. I was really worried this would ruin my blog and all my hard work when yet another problem seemed to pop up where I seemingly couldnt control something integral in the theme again, but it looks like this time things are finally working out. I did read on google something about the more tag changing all the posts, or some issue, why you shouldnt use it. Is there a shortcoming that i dont know about or is it all good with the more tag?
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Well, the “keep reading” link at the bottom isnt the color I would pick, is there a way to change this or is it tied to the color i specified for all links?
Yes the link color and the link hover color (orange) are throughout the theme and can only be changed by CSS editing and that will require you starting another thread in the CSS Forum, if you need help to do it.
I did read on google something about the more tag changing all the posts, or some issue, why you shouldnt use it. Is there a shortcoming that i dont know about or is it all good with the more tag?
I’m not aware of any shortcomings when it comes to using “the more tag”. I am aware that when I started using it I no longer had to spend my precious time chasing down content thieves who subscribed to my feeds and make DMCA complaints to get my stolen content removed from their splogs.
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What do you mean content thieves? People would steal your blogs?
Im thinking I do need CSS help (or is there just a way to learn it). I mean really, I know all the stuff like, where to put the brackets, how to specify font size (or ill remember when I see it again, if it’s = or :, and font-size or font size, because I think it varies from CSS to HTML and I mix it up).
Like, for example, in the next piece of code, I’ll put what I know in regular type, and what I don’t in bold.
My Sidebar {
background: “#FF0000”;
font-family: “times”;
font-size: “14px”;
font-color; “#blue”;
}I know how to do this stuff, a lot of it, my problem is I don’t know what anything effects. “Header” before the brackets would suggest to affect the top of the page, but half the “header” code in my original stylesheet did not change anything when I messed with it.
That’s the problem I have. On my blog right now, most of my sidebar text is white, but just for “recent posts,” it’s orange. I know how to change colors in CSS, I just don’t know what to change the color under.
Basically I just need to know CSS for “recent posts section in my sidebar.” Stuff like that. I know how to change the text color and font and all for my post titles too, except it’s the same problem, I dont know what code before the brackets specifies post titles.
Is there a tutorial for that? Just a quick five minute tutorial that just specifies in wordpress what governs what part of the page. Even just a list like.
• xyxyxyxyxyxy { } specifies post titles.
• qwqwqwqwq { } specifies the sidebar.
• tytytytytytytyt { } specifies the footer.
• uiuiuiuiuiuiuiui specifies the twitter widget in the sidebar.Where can I learn that? I already know a lot of the inside-brackets code, so I don’t want to spend time relearning that. And even the stuff I dont know inside brackets, it can be found on the net easily. It’s the prebrackets stuff that you cant find (or I would know it already after 80 hours of doing nothing but studying code over the last month).
Also timethief, separate question. I noticed the more tag works, except when you click to continue reading from the cutoff point, the link takes you back to the top of the full post. I need it to link me to the place where it cut off so people dont have to scroll back down to try and find their place. How do I do this?
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timethief those were last my questions if you do get around to it. If not no worries you’ve been very helpful. If anyone else would like to chime in that would be great as well.
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Hi @puckcircle: Try this tutorial. It’s for Twenty Eleven Theme, but also work for Other themes. http://allaboutbasic.com/2011/06/15/wordpress-com-theme-twenty-eleven-css-style-sheet-modification-change-site-titledescriptionpost-titlecommentsmenussidebar-and-more/ [Glad you’re experimenting things. Keep it up.]
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Thanks gaurav. I tried that tutorial but it’s just a list of codes to use for twenty ten.
The ones I tried did not work for P2, but moreover it did not explain the prebracket code. I’m looking for something that explains what means what so I can code myself without having to copy any code. I already have the copied code version of that tutorial for P2 because I wrote it all down myself when I went through the code bracket by bracket. Im looking for something that teaches what the code means. Is there any tutorial like that? -
Im looking for something that teaches what the code means. Is there any tutorial like that?
I would never ask any questions like this if I could google “CSS TUTORIAL” http://www.google.com/search?q=css+tutorial . The most useful tutorial about CSS is at W3SCHOOLS.
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