Comment problems with theme

  • Resolved randomrage

    (@randomrage)


    16 years, 11 months ago

    You know, I really like the theme I started out with, but tweaking it has proved to be tremendously difficult.

    I thought everything was great and everything was working the way I wanted it too. Until someone left a comment. Silly me, I never actually tested the comments, assuming they’d be displayed properly. I’m obviously new at this. Obviously. If someone could take a look at my site and stylesheets and point me towards what I need to edit, I’d very much appreciate it.

    Here’s a post at my site with comments. This is what I want to do:

    • Fix the comment boxes so the background isn’t white and more in the color scheme of the website
    • Either remove post titles entirely (since it seems it’s generating titles based on the first few words of the comment), OR:
    • Insert a post “title” field that will override that.

    I’m learning this stuff very slowly, so some expert help would be nice. Thanks in advance!

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  • Thread Starter randomrage

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    Okay, quick follow up:
    I didn’t check the post in seperate browsers. In IE, the first post looks fine, it looks fantastic and legible, but the second post (my follow-up) is white and unreadable.
    In Opera, where I checked first, both posts are unreadable. This is probably some bad xhtml somewhere, but I really have a hard time finding this stuff. Any help will do. Thanks!

    Thread Starter randomrage

    (@randomrage)

    After poking around with CSS validators and trying to feel my way through it, I made a few tweaks. Now, comments from normal people appear properly, but I’m still having a problem with author comments.
    The proper colors appear briefly while the page is loading, but the background turns to white by the time it’s finished loading. Take a look. I’m sure this is some screwy CSS somewhere, but I’m having a hard time finding it, mainly because I don’t know what I’m doing. If someone could take a look, please.
    Also, I’m still at a loss for what to do about the comment titles. I’d like to lose them entirely, or have a “title” field below the comment registration that will take care of it.

    Thread Starter randomrage

    (@randomrage)

    Okay, I figured it out! The theme I’m using uses multiple CSS stylesheets, and there were conflicting instructions. I removed the offending instructions and it’s working properly.

    I also found the “title” command – it calls a function called freshy_get_comment_excerpt() to make the text blow up over the post title. So, here’s my question: can someone help me put in a “title” form, then replace the comment exerpt command with the title text?

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