How do I put the tags, date and post data at the bottom of my theme?

  • I’m trying to do a few things to my blog posts but I have no idea how to make it happen. I’ve posted a link to an image sort of explaining what I’d like done. Anyone who could help me would be amazing.

    Also, I’d like to put more spacing between the paragraphs and the pictures and hitting “enter” just isnt doing it for me. I’ve tried using in the html editor but no bueno. :/

    https://imgur.com/YTXUvEz

    Thanks you

    Edit: it doesnt say in the image, but I want to make the tags, date and info appear at the bottom of the post instead of the lefthand side.

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    The sizes and paragraph spacing are a matter of CSS. Moving the post meta to the bottom of the post probably requires editing the single.php template file for your theme.

    This could be a bit involved; you’ll need to make a child theme.

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

    Once you have the child theme, you can copy the parent’s single.php and move stuff around, as well as put CSS in the child’s style.css to change paragraph spacing.

    what theme are you using?

    Thread Starter davemeall

    (@davemeall)

    Sterndata, I’ll start reading that link you posted, but have been trying to do this for 2 days by reading and researching still to no avail.

    Michael, I’m using the argent theme.

    I really dont know much about this kind of stuff and would like to learn, so if you have a minute to hold my hand while i work through it, I’d love to not only do it but know how to do it and what makes it what it is. lol

    I do appreciate you both responding to help and the site cab be viewed at https://www.davemeall.com if you need further info.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    IF you’d like some real-time hand holding, please visit the WordPress IRC channel: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/IRC

    Thread Starter davemeall

    (@davemeall)

    Thanks sterndata! I’m in there now but it doesnt seem like others are. :/

    try using a browser inspection tool (I use ?Firefox’ web developer add-on) to investigate how the elements in your site are formatted.

    for example, the post meta container is formatted with:

    /* Line 1395 */
.single:not(.single-jetpack-portfolio) .entry-meta
{
  float: left;
  margin-top: 0px;
  margin-right: 20px;
  width: 150px;
}

    etc…

    one possible way to get what you are trying to achieve (CSS to be added via a custom CSS section of your theme, if exists, or via a custom CSS plugin):

    .single:not(.single-jetpack-portfolio) .entry-meta
{
  float: none;
clear:both;
padding-top: 20px;
  margin-right: 0;
  width: 100%;
  text-align: center;
}
.single .entry-meta .posted-on, .single .entry-meta .byline, .single:not(.single-jetpack-portfolio) .cat-links, .single:not(.single-jetpack-portfolio) .tags-links, .single .post-edit-link
{
  margin-top: 0em;
}
.single-post .entry-content
{
  width: 100%;
}
    Thread Starter davemeall

    (@davemeall)

    thats it!! Thats exactly what I needed and I thank you so much for that help!

    Now I just need to figure out how to do the featured image size change and I’ll be in business. Thank you again michael!

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