Red borders appearing round pictures in Ocean Mist
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Today I’ve noticed unwanted red borders suddenly appearing round many of my pictures – my blog theme is Ocean Mist. I can get rid of them by editing each post, selecting the picture where I’ve noticed the border, choosing Advanced Settings and setting the border to 0, but this is quite time-consuming, so I’m wondering if there is any way to do it for the whole blog? I already delete the suggested link each time I upload a picture to prevent a blue border appearing, but now I’m getting these red borders instead! Thanks for any suggestions.
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The Ocean Mist theme is coded to have maroon colored borders around images.That coding is in the template underlying the theme and all templates here are shared by everyone who uses the same theme. We cannot access or edit templates. So I’m sorry I don’t know of any way you can change this throughout the blog.
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OOPS! I forgot. There is a way you can remove them and it’s by purchasing a CSS upgrade and doing the work yourself. If you have CSS editing experience, you can get the paid custom CSS upgrade and renew it annually. It will allow you to stylize the appearance of themes you find here > Appearance > Themes, but it does not allow you to change the functionality, by editing the underlying template. Also note that CSS is theme specific, so you cannot use the CSS stylesheets from other themes with the themes here at wordpress.COM.
Since there is no official Staff support for the CSS upgrade, and precious little Volunteer support, I recommend that you don’t buy the upgrade unless you have at least moderate understanding of HTML and CSS because you must be prepared to do the work on your own.
If you are considering purchasing the upgrade, you can go to Appearance > Edit CSS. There wordpress has provided a preview function where you can try before you buy.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-css/
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Please completely ignore my first comment here > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/red-borders-appearing-round-pictures-in-ocean-mist?replies=3#post-473777
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I’ve noticed those annoying borders on my blog, too, and don’t like them. They weren’t here before!
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@thedailyclick
Wordpress.com themes are not “frozen in time”. Their designers update them and the then Theme Team here will update the versions we have of these themes as well. If you do not like the borders then you will have to purchase a CSS upgrade and remove them. -
@timethief, many thanks for the suggestion, but I have no understanding of CSS, so it sounds as if I will either have to switch themes or go through all my pictures and remove the borders.
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@thedailyclick, sorry to hear you are having this problem too – you can get rid of each border in the way I mentioned originally, by setting the border on each picture to 0, but unfortunately it does take a while. I’ve been looking through the other themes to see if any of them will fit my blog without too many changes, but haven’t found a similar one as yet.
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@judyge
This post lists the maximum displayed widths in the themes > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/maximum-image-width/Have you used this http://browsershots.org to see how your theme displays in different browsers?
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timethief, do you work at WordPress? I’m not sure why you’re giving the advice to buy the CSS upgrade when it’s almost certainly just a problem with an update that WP has applied to this theme today.
I’m also getting this issue – probably started happening some time in the last few hours.
At first I thought where I haven’t specified the no border tag, but in older posts where I have actually specified no border, it’s displaying borders there too!
It’s simply going to be too time-consuming for me to update the code for all images in the few hundred posts on my blog so I’m hoping that this will be fixed.
Any news from the Theme-team?
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Ocean Mist has always had the maroon borders on linked images – at least as far as I can remember, but it could be that staff has done some changes to the CSS and this may be causing the issue.
You can turn the display of those boarders off on an image-by-image basis. Open the post in the editor, click on the image once and then click on the image edit button (mountain icon) and then click on “advanced settings” tab at the top. In the style field, put the following:
border-width: 0;Then click “update” and then click the update post button. That should get rid of the borders.
Sadly the “advanced settings” tab is not available when you upload an image, so you will have to edit the image after inserting it.
That is about the only way to get rid of the border without having the CSS upgrade and and at least a beginning level of CSS experience.
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timethief, do you work at WordPress?
No. This is a perr support forum. We Volunteers do not get paid. EWe are not privy to any information that other wordpress.com bloggers are not also aware of. We have so advance notice of any changes of any kind whatsovere being made behind the scenes by Staff.
I have been here for 4 years and the Ocean Mist theme was introduced long after I came. If my memory serves me well it has always had these maroon colored border around images. Is it possible that the Theme Team are upgrading the theme today? Of course, it’s possible but if this is the case then we Volunteers have no notice of the same being done.
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My apologies for the messed up comment above. I’m posting that whole comment again after I clean it up below.
timethief, do you work at WordPress?
No. This is a peer support forum. We Volunteers do not get paid. We are not privy to any information that other wordpress.com bloggers are not also aware of. We have so advance notice of any changes of any kind whatsoever being made behind the scenes by Staff.
I have been here for 4 years and the Ocean Mist theme was introduced long after I came. If my memory serves me well it has always had these maroon colored border around images. Is it possible that the Theme Team are upgrading the theme today? Of course, it’s possible but if this is the case then we Volunteers have had no notice of the same being done.
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I’ve had this theme for some months and had never had red/maroon borders round any of my images until they suddenly appeared today, so I am hoping maybe this problem will be fixed. If not then I will have to look at editing all the pictures or changing themes, but as others are being affected too I will hold fire for a bit. Thanks to timethief for the browsershots link.
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Thanks lance, I’m still seeing the same problem but now only for images that have links despite border=”none” being in the code.
Pictures without links seem to be working fine now.
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Hi, any update on this please?
Just to make it clear, currently images with a link display red borders around them even when border=”none” is specified so there’s currently no way users can even fix their code themselves temporarily – the red borders are displayed regardless!
thanks
Simon
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