[Theme: Truly Minimal] Orange background at Gravatars

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    iqatrophie · Member ·

    I’ve changed my theme and went for the new, fabulous “Truly Minimal” Theme. During testing and checking out I came across a strange orange background color which is shown behind all gravatars in comments that are answers to a first comment.

    You can see it e.g. → here. Check the comments.

    It’s because of the following CSS Code 

    .bypostauthor .avatar {
    background-color: #FF5C0C;
    padding: 5px;
}

    I’ve checked the Live Demo as well as the FlareThemes page. None of these show the ugly orange background color. To be honest the color doesn’t even match with the other colors of the theme. Yuck! ;)

    Could this be fixed to look like the Live Demo?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    That’s partly intentional and partly a bug.

    The orange border is supposed to be on your comments, to denote the post author, and you can change the color by adjusting the CSS.

    However, it shouldn’t be applying itself to further replies. We’ll see what we can do.

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    thistimethisspace · Member ·

    I noticed that on the theme and combined with the fact we cannot change the link colors without purchasing an annually renewable custom design upgrade (over my dead body) I rejected the theme.

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    iqatrophie · Member ·

    Hi James,

    do you mean the orange border is supposed to highlight only the comments of the blog owner? That would be okay. But why the bright orange? It pops out to the max . I understand it’s the link hover color but why not something more modest like the dark grey (#8C8C8C) which is used e.g. in the .entry-meta class?

    Adjusting the CSS means Custom Design Upgrade, doesn’t it? Unfortunately I’m with timethief on this annually renewable thing.

    Let’s say all I would change is the highlight color. Why would anyone pay 30$ year after year for such a minor adjustment? I’m sorry but I don’t see the value in it. I know it’s not your fault. Just wanted to clarify my view on this :)

    Cheers
    Martin(IQ)

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    do you mean the orange border is supposed to highlight only the comments of the blog owner?

    That is correct.

    But why the bright orange?

    I’m not sure, maybe because it stands out so much? :) You’d have to ask the designer: http://www.flarethemes.com/

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    iqatrophie · Member ·

    I’m not sure, maybe because it stands out so much? :) You’d have to ask the designer:

    I’ve checked the LiveDemo at http://www.flarethemes.com/. Especially the Post with Comments test. Not a single orange border there. That’s why I was surprised to find the orange border on WordPress.com

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    It’s hard to tell without access to their demo blog. Despite similar names, it is possible that the author didn’t comment, which is the case with our demo blog.

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    iqatrophie · Member ·

    it is possible that the author didn’t comment

    The author on FlareThemes is Tavicu a.k.a admin. The same user commented at the bottom. It’s even the same gravatar. So the author did in fact comment. His comments should be highlighted with an orange border if this is a feature of the theme and I understand this correctly.

    Are you absolutely sure the orange border is not a result of maybe the use of Gravatar hovercards or maybe some changes by some theme wrangler on Automattic?

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    I know, that’s what I mean. The theme shows a display name, so without being able to go into their Dashboard, I can’t tell if it’s really the author or just the same display name (as it is with our demo).

    We’ll look into this though.

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    iqatrophie · Member ·

    Thanks for being so patient with me. :) I’ll wait and see what you come up with.

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    You’re welcome!

  • iamtakashi · Staff ·

    @iqatrophie,

    Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

    We’ve released a fix so that only author avatar to be highlighted. Also I agree with you about the choice of color was too strong so I’ve changed it to the same color as links, and reduced the thickness.

    I hope it helps.

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    iqatrophie · Member ·

    Hi Takashi,

    It’s more than a help. In fact I’m totally impressed. If you ask me it looks absolutely perfect now. It’s more than I expected. Thanks for all the work you put in. Same goes to James as well.

    Out of interest and because we discussed it in this topic. Is the highlighting of author comments a feature of “Truly Minimal” by design or has this been added by one of the Theme wranglers?

    Cheers
    Martin(IQ)

  • iamtakashi · Staff ·

    When we make a theme available on WP.com, we optimize the theme to work better here, and we add missing features we think the theme should have. Highlighting feature was one of them.

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    iqatrophie · Member ·

    Thanks again Takashi. :)

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