Themes Adaptable to Existing Images That Are 510, 340, 255 and 170 Pixels Wide

  • Unknown's avatar
    buildingprovincetown · Member ·

    I would like to move my blog http://buildingprovincetown.wordpress.com from ChaosTheory (customized) to a theme that is currently supported and that has a white background. Here’s my question: I have already cut hundreds of images to fit the 510px column width of ChaosTheory, and thousands more to related widths; i.e. 340px (two-thirds of the 510 measure), 255pix (one-half), and 170px (one-third). How can I determine what themes — if any — will easily incorporate 510px, 340px, 255px and 170px images, so that I don’t have to do any further formatting or, worse, have to re-cut images to different widths? Thank you.

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  • kraftbj · Staff ·

    Howdy,

    We have two themes that are currently supported with a 510px width “out of the box”:

    http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/pink-touch-2/
    http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/next-saturday/

    Neither one of them have a white background, but since you have the Custom Design upgrade, we can change that via the Appearance->Customize area.

    Additionally, this one is close to size:
    http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/selecta/

    Many themes could be adjusted down a bit to 510px using the Custom CSS aspect of your Custom Design upgrade. We have CSS wizards over in the CSS Forums at https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization that could help you with that, if you’d like to go that route.

    I hope that helps. If you have any questions, please let me know. Cheers!

  • Unknown's avatar
    buildingprovincetown · Member ·

    Thank you so much for this encouraging and timely response.

    I look forward to trying some of these out this weekend.

  • kraftbj · Staff ·

    Have fun! If you have any questions, please let me or the folks in the CSS forums know.

    Have a great weekend.

  • Unknown's avatar
    buildingprovincetown · Member ·

    Pink Touch 2 is the answer! Thank you so much. You’ve helped limit the amount of tweaking I’ll have to do to a very manageable minimum.

    How easy/difficult would it be for this CSS-illiterate to eliminate the date “flag” that appears in the upper left corner of each post?

    As you may have deduced, my blog is encyclopedic, rather than chronological; so there is no need for the date to appear. (In fact, my publication dates are artificial — they’re designed to maintain alphabetical order among the posts.)

    I’m afraid I couldn’t find a straightforward answer in the forums

  • kraftbj · Staff ·

    It’s pretty straightforward.

    If you visit the Appearance->Customize->CSS options on your site’s dashboard, you can add, then save, the following code:

    .date {
display: none;
}

    That’ll remove the flag, so your site would look like this: https://cloudup.com/c3PAcifYHy8

    Cheers!

  • Unknown's avatar
    buildingprovincetown · Member ·

    Simply brilliant. Done and done.

    I began using WordPress six years ago as a reporter for the City Room blog on The New York Times website. I was so impressed with it as a platform that I didn’t think twice about my choice when I decided in 2009 to start a blog of my own. I’ve been a very happy customer ever since.

    But this is my first one-to-one interaction with the staff. And I must say it’s left me more appreciative and grateful than ever that I made the decision to base Building Provincetown at WordPress.

    Thank you so much for your timely, patient assistance.

    And cheers!

    Sincerely, David W. Dunlap

  • kraftbj · Staff ·

    Hi David,

    Thanks for the kind words. I’ll pass them along to the rest of the “Happiness” team—it makes our day :-).

    I hope you had a great weekend and please let me know if you need anything else.

    Cheers!

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