Post Title Question

The link is not MY blog, as I mentioned in two of the postings above; are we only limited to asking questions about our own blogs? And again, if there IS no such ban, does the url I provided not qualify as a “very specific online setup to look at?”

But thank you VERY much for the answer to my last question; maybe I can somehow get closer now to the answers to my questions regarding the Gazette Theme.

does the url I provided not qualify as a “very specific online setup to look at?”

It does not. As you experienced: the theme behaves differently on your local install and the author’s site. Every server might be set up a bit differently.

[you write and argue so much I already forgot what was your original question… if there was any]

Moshu, I’m afraid your parenthetical claim that I have “argued” with you is misplaced, I *thought* I was trying to rephrase my questions so that I could get help.

*This* is an argument: “If I had forgotten your original answers – if there were any – I might have scrolled up the page a little.” But that would be arrogant and condescending.

Thanks anyway for the one answer, and good luck.

In general, I personally won’t look at a theme online that isn’t your own, no. I don’t have time to do that sort of thing.

Once you get set up online, if you’re still having trouble, then yes, I’d take a look. I can only answer for myself; others might look at a totally extraneous third party’s install/theme and attempt to figure out what it is you want. Up to them.

vkaryl: Thanks for the explanation – and thanks once again for the tip that title = (perma)links! I was then able to muddle through other sites and surmise that the solution somehow lies in pseudo-elements…now if I can just figure out how they work vis-a-vis entering the title in the title box. ??

Good, glad something helped. Honest, once you have a viable online setup, post back and I will try to help if you have problems.

now if I can just figure out how they work vis-a-vis entering the title in the title box

I have installed quite a number of WP blogs, installed many-many themes, designed a few themes myself… but I have never seen one case where the “post title=permalink” was not created by entering/typing it in the Title field of the Write > Write Post admin subpanel.

So, to be honest, I just don’t get what the question is.

Moshu: I didn’t state that the post title = permalink WASN’T created thru the title field. Vkaryl certainly explained that to me.

And since I’ve learned a little more from vkaryl’s answer, I’ll try improving upon the question – with fingers crossed – thus:

I’m playing with a ( certain) theme and when I enter “<h4>Any Old Title</h4>” in the post title field the post title “Any Old Title” is still black, i.e., not colored red – as I might expect from looking at the pseudo-elements in the CSS.

The fact that “the theme behaves differently on (a) local install and the author’s site,” as you said, led me 1.) to wonder if my problem had to do with permalinks, and 2.) to reference the author’s site in my original question — which I didn’t realize was a no-no in this Forum.

I suppose that I’m trying to figure out HOW pseudo-elements display post title colors (using a:link, a:visited, a:hover, and a:active, for example, to change title colors, font size, etc.) and also, if provided for in the CSS, whether any other elements that might surround post titles to control various typographic characteristics in a WP theme are relevant to my question/problem?

(There wouldn’t be a site that SPECIFICALLY describes data that can be entered on both sides of the title in the title field, would there? I’m getting the feeling that learning about WordPress is like asking how to use a stickshift in a car and being told how the car was manufactured.) ??

For starters: you do NOT put html tags in the title field. That’s a wrong approach!

If you want to style the title of your posts then you do this:
– open the template file (index, archive, single, whichever)
– find the template tag that displays the title
– put your html tags (h2, h3, h4 + class) around it
– open your style.css file and define the style for the tag/class

That’s the normal way to do it.

h4 is not a pseudo element… you would need
<h4 class="myfancy">text goes here</h4> in the html
AND
.myfancy {color: red;} – in the stylesheet

I know h4 isn’t a pseudo-element, as I indicated when I said, “I suppose that I’m trying to figure out HOW pseudo-elements display post title colors (using a:link, a:visited, a:hover, and a:active, for example, to change title colors, font size, etc.”

I thought they might have something to do with the post title colors, sorry.