billfish

Thank you Tobias! This worked, and I would like to point out to the community who may be considering this plugin that the author responded to my question in about half an hour, though of course your mileage may vary.

Let me try to address this. On the front page, you have excerpts of posts. The excerpts are put there by the WP Show Posts short code. You want Read More links or buttons on these excerpts, that would allow the viewer to read the full blog entry. Is that right?

I also have blog excerpts on my front page (site not yet public so can’t show you). If you click on the title of an excerpt, it takes you to the full blog page for that category of post. Can you make this work, perhaps by styling the title so that it’s obviously a link? (Something like:

.home h2.wp-show-posts-entry-title a { }

Plus, if you go to:

wp-admin > WP Show Posts > select a Post List & Edit > Content

there are fields for “Read more text” and “Read more button class.” If you put a value in “Read more text,” such as “Read more,” I know a read more button appears in some places, I just can’t remember if it appears with the excerpts on the front page.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by billfish.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by billfish.

No, wait, that’s the wrong answer. The plugin operates by php, but what it does is to slam a bunch of CSS, media queries, and jQuery code into the served-up page headers. That should be OK to cache, right? The “dynamic” is just the CSS media queries and the jQuery operating, it doesn’t redo the page from the server.

It is php. Thank you for your prompt reply.

Likewise.

Hi – No, just worked around it, still would like it to work.

I finally accomplished changing the background color of the post box in the twenty fourteen theme by selecting all three parts of the post – header, meta (date etc) and entry – and including !important. It’s unclear to me what declarations in the theme I’m fighting a war with – maybe it’s this one:

body {
background: none !important; /* Brute force since user agents all print differently. */

But !important in my child theme wins.

The code:

.entry-header
{
background-color: black !important;
}

.entry-meta
{
background-color: black !important;
}

.entry-content
{
background-color: black !important;
}