I can’t get my layout to change

  • Urggh. I am getting frustrated.
    I finally figure out how to change the layout to look like I want it to look, but now, I can’t get it to display. I have uploaded it as well as editted it through the templates menu in Word Press. What am I doing wrong?
    Here is the layout…
    /* Default WordPress by Dave Shea || https://mezzoblue.com
    Modifications by Matthew Mullenweg || https://photomatt.net
    This is just a basic layout, with only the bare minimum defined.
    Please tweak this and make it your own. ??
    */
    /*Links */
    a {
    color: #000000;
    }
    a img {
    border: none;
    }
    a:visited {
    color: #CC0000;
    }
    a:hover {
    color: #593500;
    }
    acronym, abbr {
    border-bottom: 1px dashed #333;
    }
    acronym, abbr, span.caps {
    cursor: help;
    font-size: 90%;
    letter-spacing: .07em;
    }
    blockquote {
    border-left: 5px solid #593500;
    margin-left: 1.5em;
    padding-left: 5px;
    }
    /*Background */
    body {
    background: #BD7300;
    border: solid 2px #300;
    color: #000;
    font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    }
    cite {
    font-size: 90%;
    font-style: normal;
    }
    /*Heading Styles */
    h2 {
    border-bottom: 1px dotted #ccc;
    font: 95% “Times New Roman”, serif;
    letter-spacing: 0.2em;
    margin: 15px 0 2px 0;
    padding-bottom: 2px;
    }
    h3 {
    border-bottom: dotted 1px #eee;
    font-family: “Times New Roman”, serif;
    margin-top: 0;
    }
    /*Comments & Feedback*/
    ol#comments li p {
    font-size: 100%;
    }
    p, li, .feedback {
    font: 90%/175% Verdana, sans-serif;
    letter-spacing: -1px;
    }
    /* classes used by the_meta() */
    ul.post-meta {
    list-style: none;
    }
    ul.post-meta span.post-meta-key {
    font-weight: bold;
    }
    /*Give credit to WordPress */
    .credit {
    background: #D78100;
    border-top: double 3px #aba;
    color: #fff;
    font-size: 11px;
    margin: 10px 0 0 0;
    padding: 3px;
    text-align: center;
    }
    .credit a:link, .credit a:hover {
    color: #fff;
    }
    .feedback {
    color: #fff;
    text-align: right;
    clear: all;
    }
    .meta {
    font-size: .75em;
    }
    .meta li, ul.post-meta li {
    display: inline;
    }
    .meta ul {
    display: inline;
    list-style: none;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    }
    .meta, .meta a {
    color: #808080;
    font-weight: normal;
    letter-spacing: 0;
    }
    /*Entry Title */
    .storytitle {
    margin: 0;
    }
    .storytitle a {
    text-decoration: none;
    }
    /*Comments */
    #commentform #name, #commentform #email, #commentform #url, #commentform textarea {
    background: #fff;
    border: 1px solid #333;
    padding: .2em;
    }
    #commentform textarea {
    width: 100%;
    }
    #commentlist li ul {
    border-left: 1px solid #ddd;
    font-size: 110%;
    list-style-type: none;
    }
    /*Entry */
    #content {
    margin: 30px 13em 0 3em;
    padding-right: 60px;
    }
    /*Box of Title */
    #header {
    background: #D78100;
    border-bottom: double 3px #100;
    border-left: solid 1px #100;
    border-right: solid 1px #100;
    border-top: solid 1px #100;
    font: italic normal 230% ‘Times New Roman’, serif;
    letter-spacing: 0.2em;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 15px 10px 15px 60px;
    }
    #header a {
    color: #fff;
    text-decoration: none;
    }
    #header a:hover {
    text-decoration: underline;
    }
    /*Menu */
    #menu {
    background: #FFC671;
    border-left: 1px dotted #593500;
    border-top: solid 3px #593500;
    padding: 20px 0 10px 30px;
    position: absolute;
    right: 2px;
    top: 0;
    width: 11em;
    }
    #menu form {
    margin: 0 0 0 13px;
    }
    #menu input#s {
    width: 80%;
    background: #FFC671;
    border: 1px solid #593500;
    color: #593500;
    }
    #menu ul {
    color: #593500;
    font-weight: bold;
    list-style-type: none;
    margin: 0;
    padding-left: 3px;
    text-transform: lowercase;
    }
    #menu ul li {
    font: italic normal 110% ‘Times New Roman’, serif;
    letter-spacing: 0.1em;
    margin-top: 10px;
    padding-bottom: 2px; /*border-bottom: dotted 1px #ccc;*/
    }
    #menu ul ul {
    font-variant: normal;
    font-weight: normal;
    line-height: 100%;
    list-style-type: none;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    text-align: left;
    }
    #menu ul ul li {
    border: 0;
    font: normal normal 70%/115% Verdana, sans-serif;
    letter-spacing: 0;
    margin-top: 0;
    padding: 0;
    padding-left: 12px;
    }
    #menu ul ul li a {
    color: #CC0000;
    text-decoration: none;
    }
    #menu ul ul li a:hover {
    border-bottom: 1px solid #FFC671;
    }
    #menu ul ul ul.children {
    font-size: 142%;
    padding-left: 4px;
    }
    /*Calendar */
    #wp-calendar {
    border: 1px solid #ddd;
    empty-cells: show;
    font-size: 14px;
    margin: 0;
    width: 90%;
    }
    #wp-calendar #next a {
    padding-right: 10px;
    text-align: right;
    }
    #wp-calendar #prev a {
    padding-left: 10px;
    text-align: left;
    }
    #wp-calendar a {
    display: block;
    text-decoration: none;
    }
    #wp-calendar a:hover {
    background: #e0e6e0;
    color: #333;
    }
    #wp-calendar caption {
    color: #999;
    font-size: 16px;
    text-align: left;
    }
    #wp-calendar td {
    color: #ccc;
    font: normal 12px Verdana, sans-serif;
    letter-spacing: normal;
    padding: 2px 0;
    text-align: center;
    }
    #wp-calendar td.pad:hover {
    background: #fff;
    }
    #wp-calendar td:hover, #wp-calendar #today {
    background: #eee;
    color: #bbb;
    }
    #wp-calendar th {
    font-style: normal;
    text-transform: capitalize;
    }
    Here is the site… https://jhall.ttemple.org/

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  • What *should* it look like ?
    And you have removed commenting from index.php ?

    Thread Starter mrsboone

    (@mrsboone)

    Here is the index.php file…
    <?php
    /* Don’t remove this line. */
    require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
    ?>
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”&gt;
    <html xmlns=”https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”&gt;
    <head profile=”https://gmpg.org/xfn/1″&gt;
    <title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title>
    <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=<?php bloginfo(‘charset’); ?>” />
    <meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress <?php bloginfo(‘version’); ?>” /> <!– leave this for stats –>
    <style type=”text/css” media=”screen”>
    @import url( <?php echo get_settings(‘siteurl’); ?>/wp-layout.css );
    </style>
    <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”print” href=”<?php echo get_settings(‘siteurl’); ?>/print.css” />
    <link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0″ href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>” />
    <link rel=”alternate” type=”text/xml” title=”RSS .92″ href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss_url’); ?>” />
    <link rel=”alternate” type=”application/atom+xml” title=”Atom 0.3″ href=”<?php bloginfo(‘atom_url’); ?>” />
    <link rel=”pingback” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘pingback_url’); ?>” />
    <?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly&format=link’); ?>
    <?php //comments_popup_script(); // off by default ?>
    <?php wp_head(); ?>
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id=”rap”>
    <h1 id=”header”>“><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></h1>
    <div id=”content”>
    <?php if ($posts) : foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
    <div class=”post”>
    <h3 class=”storytitle” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link: <?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
    <div class=”storycontent”>
    <?php the_content(); ?>
    </div>
    <!–
    <?php trackback_rdf(); ?>
    –>
    <?php include(ABSPATH . ‘wp-comments.php’); ?>
    </div>
    <?php endforeach; else: ?>
    <?php _e(‘Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.’); ?>
    <?php endif; ?>
    </div>
    <div id=”menu”>

      <?php get_links_list(); ?>
      <li id=”categories”><?php _e(‘Categories:’); ?>
      <?php wp_list_cats(); ?>

    <li id=”archives”><?php _e(‘Archives:’); ?>

      <?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly’); ?>

    </div>
    </div>
    <p class=”credit”><!–<?php echo $wpdb->num_queries; ?> queries. <?php timer_stop(1); ?> seconds. –> <cite><?php echo sprintf(__(“Powered by WordPress“), __(“Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform”)); ?></cite>
    <!– Begin Site Hosted Tag –><script language=’JavaScript’ type=’text/javascript’>
    <!–
    if (!document.phpAds_used) document.phpAds_used = ‘,’;
    phpAds_random = new String (Math.random()); phpAds_random = phpAds_random.substring(2,11);
    document.write (“<” + “script language=’JavaScript’ type=’text/javascript’ src='”);
    document.write (“https://ttemple.org/BannerAds/adjs.php?n=&#8221; + phpAds_random);
    document.write (“&clientid=3”);
    document.write (“&exclude=” + document.phpAds_used);
    if (document.referer)
    document.write (“&referer=” + escape(document.referer));
    document.write (“‘><” + “/script>”);
    //–>
    </script><noscript> <img src=’https://ttemple.org/BannerAds/adview.php?clientid=3&n=ab90e1a4&#8242; border=’0′ alt=”></noscript><!– End Site Hosted Tag –>
    </body>
    </html>

    Err……yes…….but …. you have edited files, and say that it is not what you think it should be.
    We cannot know what you think it is, we can only know what it does look like.
    So what do you *think* is wrong ?
    If it is your CSS changes, then make this change:
    #content {
    margin: 30px 13em 0 3em;
    padding-right: 60px;
    background-color: #ff0000;
    }
    If part of the page goes red, then the css is working.
    No need to paste anything else ??

    Thread Starter mrsboone

    (@mrsboone)

    The background should be brown. I don’t have an example of how it should look.

    It is.
    background: #BD7300; is in the CSS, and it’s what I see on the page.
    Go to your page, Click anywhere on it.
    Press CTRL and F5 together.

    Thread Starter mrsboone

    (@mrsboone)

    Thanks. I don’t understand what happened, but it worked.

    Your browser was using it’s cache.
    After ANY css changes, use CTRL-F5 to force a refresh.

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