Issue with backgroud box

Every theme is different so I really need to see it in action. Can you post a link to your site? Or send it to me here?

I am sorry, I thought it posted it. It is: https://tsmc.church/testimonies/

No problem. Try this in your child theme’s stylesheet or custom CSS function, or with a plugin like Simple Custom CSS:

.testimonial .inner {
  background: none;
}

To remove the white border too:

.testimonial {
  border: 0;
}
.testimonial .inner {
  background: none;
  border: 0;
}

That appears to be a slideshow but it’s not working. What is the exact shortcode you’re using?

I am a noob to this. I am trying to get it to show a small, compact title, small excerpt, name, and “read more” link. I am getting my butt kicked trying to get something that will work and show the testimonies.

To answer your question I am trying all the examples that are listed on https://demos.wpmission.com/strong-testimonials/examples/3-random-excerpts/ which really aren’t helping me much with this theme. I don’t know what I am doing wrong. I think that is why I quit the last time with this. I couldn’t get it to do what the examples were showing.

If you look at what I have there, now, that will work, except I would like to have a short excerpt. Here is what I have on page:

[strong title excerpt length=”150″ more_post more_text=”Read More…” count=”5″ no_stylesheet class=”three-across”]
[client]
[field name=”client_name” class=”name”]
[/client]
[/strong]

This is the css in the child css edit area:

.testimonial .inner {
background: none;
}
.three-across .testimonial {
border-radius: 2px;
box-sizing: box-sizing;
display: inline-block;
min-height: 231px;
padding: 1px;
width: calc( 33% );
text-align: center;
vertical-align: top;
}
.three-across .testimonial:nth-child(even) {
background: none;
}
.three-across .content {
font-size: 1.5em;
line-height: 1.2em;
padding: 15px 0;
}
.three-across .photo {
margin-bottom: 15px;
}
.three-across .photo img {
border-radius: 10px;
}
.readmore-wide {
font-size: 1.4em;
font-style: italic;
margin-top: 15px;
text-align: center;
}

If I could get the box smaller, that would be great.

You’re in luck. I help noobs on a daily basis ??

Use either “excerpt” or “length” but not both; excerpt will override length. The demo CSS is meant to be a guide, not a source of copy-and-paste code.

The theme sets a minimum height on the “content” class. Undo that in testimonials with this:

.testimonial .content {
  min-height: auto;
}

Maybe remove the min-height from .three-across .testimonial until you get more testimonials in there to see what the height should be or if setting a height is even necessary.

Remove “no_stylesheet” from the shortcode. That was removed from version 1.16 but I forgot to remove it from the demo.

I did that, but one thing, in IE the white block stays. Seems to not show up in mozilla firefox and google chrome.

You said remove no_stylesheet. Do I leave class=”three-across” ?

I get no white background in IE11 (screenshot).

I am using IE9.

Do you have to? Reported market share for that version ranges from 2% – 8% worldwide.
https://caniuse.com/usage_table.php
https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2&qpcustomd=0

On certain computers, like my work computer, we have certain programs that work with the older versions (they are slow to update their software).
I have another question, on the testimonials, is there a way to add where people can add comments? I know it is another question.

Without having the theme, there’s only so much I can do to emulate IE9. Try this:

.testimonial .inner {
  background: transparent;
}

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