Joe Streno

I opted for the 2 column upgrade. ??

Actually, you’re altered image above, is pretty much exactly what I want … 2:1 with the same standard alternating post layout of the standard version of Tracks. The only thing I’d want is all the meta to scale into the allotted area. Tightening up the line height might help fit all the info.

I wouldn’t mind paying for it either if that layout were part of the Full Width upgrade. ?? I really do like how the home page posts alternate in the stock Tracks home page — meta left – image right, image left – meta right, etc. It just makes it more visually interesting.

I guess I also wish I could “try” the Full Width upgrade with my content to see if I like it. Though I just may buy it anyway it to see if I like it. — $15.00 won’t kill me. lol Plus you are always so helpful. ??

Actually I will buy Full Width & see how I like it. If you figure out a way to do what I’m asking, even better.

Ben …

Figured it out. D’oh!

After I tried all you said, still had spaces. I remembered I had added 2 functions to the functions.php and when I checked , I had added both new functions within their own <?php ?> brackets. before the Tracks opening functions. That added the two empty lines to the HTML.

We live & we learn. Or we live and we don’t. ??

Double D’oh!

But my Yoast sitemaps are working again. Woo hoo!

Thanks … Joe

It’s doing the same thing for me. But to work around this issue until it’s fixed, any time I go into the visual editor and make changes, I save the post, then switch back to the text editor, and hit refresh.

The plugin is too valuable to me to turn off & I’ll work with the quirk for now —?even though it’s very annoying!

Please fix this!

That’s my 2￠ U.S. ??

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/html-editor-syntax-highlighter/

Ben,

No never used the WordPress.com Custom CSS plugin. I may have used Jetpack Custom CSS at one time. Though not sure. My blog had gone through many iterations, redesigns & updates since starting it 10 years ago. Guess if I looked closely, there’s probably a lot of “gunk” in the database.

Northwood Creative,

I had seen that post, and a few others that said the safecss “garbage” comes from transferring your database; which I did do several months ago when switching hosting companies.

Just wanted to be sure it didn’t have anything to do with Tracks, because of the Post Excerpt: Tracks Child entry in the database.

Thanks to you both. I think I’ll be brave back up my database and delete the entry hoping nothing blows up. =:o

Ben,

That’s what happens when you know enough to be dangerous & go looking! Figured if it wasn’t in content.php, or functions.php, looking for a post-meta file was probably the place to go.

At least having the proper function to search for helped, without having to scour the WP Codex.

Thanks!

Ben …

I looked in the content.php file but found zero get_the_date() functions.

I did find it once in the Content Folder > post-meta.php file, made the change there & it’s working as it should, in both the home page & in posts.

So that works for now. I await the update.

Thanks for your help.

I had added text to the child head.php and it didn’t show up in my installation. So I’m still stumped. I’ll keep trying things on my end too. Thanks

Hi Ben …

I was using Yoast SEO’s Breadcrumbs php in the parent header.php and it was working fine. When I copied the same header.php file with the same code to the child theme, and removed the Yoast code from the parent theme, it stopped working.

<!--  Yoast Breadcrumbs  -->
        <?php if ( function_exists('yoast_breadcrumb') ) {
yoast_breadcrumb('<p id="breadcrumbs">','</p>');
} ?>
<!--  End Yoast Breadcrumb  -->

I also tried adding
<strong>THIS IS A TEST</strong>
in child header.php and it didn’t work either.

DropBox link to my tracks-child theme folder. <— Please delete link when done? Thanks.

Have YOU been able to get a header.php file working in ANY theme you’ve tried?

Thanks! You rock … as usual! ??

Just tried:

li.comment.comment-author-MyUserName {
  padding: 15px;
  background: #faeeff;
}

This at least selects entire container for my comment/reply. A step in the right direction! ??

Then tried:

li.comment.comment-author-MyUserName.comment-content {
  padding: 15px;
  background: #faeeff;
}

Thinking that would narrow it down to just the comment content container … but no … didn’t work. What am I missing?

Hi Ben …

Just tried your css. It colors the entire comment area. Unfortunately that’s not what I was looking for.

What I’m trying to do is style only .comment-content that I create, whether a stand alone comment or a reply comment. I was trying to use the .comment-author-UserNameHere class as a selector, but was not successful in singling out only MY comments/replies.

I’d like to play with either styling the entire single comment/reply .comment, or the .comment-author areas. Just playing with what might look better and make my comments/replies stand out.

Thanks

I’ll second that! I get the same error too.

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 400 (Bad Request)
https://ads.yahoo.com/cms/v1?esig=1~1d05283fd37fe3ca8c3fbe8814c9bf54208864b5

I get it on both my websites where Shareaholic is installed & active.

https://www.emacconsulting.com
https://www.go2jo.com

I see the error when viewing any page source via Safari.

Any new info on this or a fix/update?

Even I’m tired after all that! ?? Thanks for the effort!

Sadly none of that works except blockquote.first for what I’m looking for. Which would mean I’d have to search WP posts Admin for “blockquote” then check the HTML for each post to see where the blockquote fell. Too much work! lol

I’d love to have CSS determine if a blockquote is the very first element in an article and act on it uniquely, as opposed to—if a block quote fell anywhere else other than the first element—where it would use the normal blockquote CSS.

Even with the blockquote as first child of article in the Tracks theme, using:

article blockquote:first-child {}

the first element blockquote is not acting on HTML Ex1 with my unique CSS. But if I change the same CSS to blockquote:first-of-type it does. So it’s not the CSS itself.

My choices now, are using blockquote.first or just setting all blockquotes to margin-left 3em. At least they’d all be uniform. That’s my final solution. Unless you get a lightbulb moment. ??

All of that, just to get to—change the margin on all blockquotes? Harumph! I feel deflated & defeated by CSS. But I’ll live. ??

Thanks Ben, I appreciate you taking the time.

@ghostcri : You’re welcome. ??

@ben: YES! I would like to take this blockquote, CSS, shop discussion to another thread. I want to bend CSS to my evil will! ?? Though right now CSS is the one being evil! };-)

I STILL want to act only on a block quote if it’s the very first thing in an article element without using a class. Trying to get the right selector is baffling me … and I’ve been researching and still scratching my balding head! =: o

Do you want to create the thread or should I?