Theme conflict? ''the Morning after'' vs. ''Structure''
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Hello pals,
I was thinking of switching from ”Structure” theme to ”The Morning After” theme.When I checked it through preview, however, I observed problem with regard to block quotes in my posts.
‘’The Morning After’’ preserved the block quote format but changed the text into bold font.
Imagine how ugly it is for text to be in block quotes and again in bold format! (Note: I can’t open and fix every post. As many of my posts have block quotes.)
Is there a conflict b/n the two themes?
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Related question: the info in the ‘themes explorer’ is very unsatisfactory. Can any one suggest me a place to get a detailed review, at least of some themes? – I got the patience to read, but have no much time and good internet connection to use preview to explore each theme.Thanx in advance.
http://danielberhane.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Note: my blog (the one timethief linked to) also includes many theme surveys that cover lots of details – unfortunately not one on blockquotes (yet!).
How blockquotes look is the theme designer’s choice: each time you switch to a different theme, your blockquotes will change. (That’s why personally I avoid using the blockquote tag and style my quotes the way I prefer in the HTML editor.)
Blockquotes in TMA are gross. Your solutions are a) forget TMA, b) correct each one manually in the HTML editor (if you need help with that, let me know), c) buy the Custom Design upgrade and correct them once for all.
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@Timethief. Thanx.
@panaghiotisadam
I will forget TMA, b/c correcting each one is a daunting task – there hundreds of posts and i don’t know how many of them have block quotes. I better leave it as it is, at least for now.Since you offered to help, allow me to grill you via the comment space on your blog and/or emails. [First, let me read your posts on your blog]
Just two questions:
Does the Custom Design upgrade correct previous posts or future ones?Until I solve the problem one way or another – what do you recommend me to use instead of block quotes – for now?
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I am gonna look into the Custom Design Upgrade – so far, I thought it was a luxury – like colors and several font styles – which I don’t need much. -
@Timethief. Thanx.
@panaghiotisadam
I will forget TMA, b/c correcting each one is a daunting task – there hundreds of posts and i don’t know how many of them have block quotes. I better leave it as it is, at least for now.Since you offered to help, allow me to grill you via the comment space on your blog and/or emails. [First, let me read your posts on your blog]
Just two questions:
Does the Custom Design upgrade correct previous posts or future ones?Until I solve the problem one way or another – what do you recommend me to use instead of block quotes – for now?
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I am gonna look into the Custom Design Upgrade – so far, I thought it was a luxury – like colors and several font styles – which I don’t need much. -
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The Custom Design upgrade let’s you change the design of every post on your blog using just CSS. If you wanted to change the font-weight of all the blockquotes in The Morning After theme you could add the following to your Custom CSS …
.post_text blockquote { font: normal 1.3em georgia,serif; }And in one click of the save button on the CSS page the hundreds of posts with blockquotes will now have a normal font weight.
If you’re quoting something, I recommend sticking with the blockquote html element.
I hope that helps!
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@danielberhane: Ian (our “theme shaper”) covered your first question. As for the second one, I don’t recommend anything: what I can do is you tell me how exactly you’d like your blockquotes to be and I tell you how you can do that via coding in the HTML editor.
Note: Ian recommends sticking with the bq tag. That doesn’t necessarily contradict my way of doing it: you can use the bq tag and modify the result via extra coding, only in that case the code you’d need will depend on which theme you’re using (because in different themes you’d need to override different defaults). So there’s no point doing anything till you decide if you’ll switch to TMA or not.
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