Chris Fritz

Good to know! Thanks Bill. ??

Thanks for the compliment and also the superb follow-up! ?? I do not see the issue in twentytwelve, which leads me to agree with you. It’s a theme issue.

It definitely doesn’t have anything to do with the JavaScript console errors though. Those have to do with embedded videos and I actually get the same errors in twentytwelve (still tracking down the source, but it’s lower priority, since everything still seems to work). And when I go to a page without any embedded videos, like poweronlansing.com/about, then the console is clear, but I still see no testimonial text.

The theme I’m using is a child theme of twentytwelve with relatively minor alterations – some code is moved around a bit and a little markup and PHP added in a couple places. This is one of the strangest problems I’ve ever encountered. As you said, the HTML and CSS is in place, yet it does act like a CSS issue.

RESOLVED: And it turns out, it was a CSS issue. I got so desperate, that I just started removing random blocks of code from my CSS and narrowed it down to the font-family Gochi Hand, from Google Web Fonts. I’ve seen Chrome rendering issues before, but this is the first time I’ve seen a font not render at all and not even revert to a fallback. I’m now using a different font that I don’t like as much, but at least I can take my time browsing around.

Thank you again for being so responsive.

I’ve tried a hard refresh with Ctrl+F5 and the other computers I tried were all fresh installs (that I had coincidentally just done for work), so they had never even visited the site, had no browser plugins that could have interfered, and had the operating system, Google Chrome, and all runtimes updated to the latest version the day previous.

This will also load faster than an image it’ll be easier to add really nice, dynamic effects by doing this all in CSS rather than an image. CSS3 doesn’t have complete or consistent support yet in all browsers, but you can add some pretty neat text effects with it!

Mysterious! I recommend copying and modifying as needed the comments template from the Twenty Eleven theme.

I think the problem is probably in your style.css. Can we get a link to the site?

Can you provide a link to your site?

CREATING A CHILD THEME

First of all, before you start modifying the Oxygen theme, you’ll want to create a child theme, so that the Oxygen theme can update without your modifications being overwritten. Follow the link for instructions.

CHANGING THE COLOR AND FONT SIZE

Look for this in your CSS:

#site-title a {
 ...
}

That selects any links (i.e. anchors) inside this theme’s title area. From there, you can change the color and font size by modifying (or adding, if they don’t already exist) the following within the brackets:

color: #123456;
font-size: 1em;

The free Adobe Kuler webapp is useful for finding the right color and getting the hex code (that’s the #123456). For the font-size, experiment with making the 1em larger and smaller (e.g. 1.6em or 0.8em, etc).

MAKING THE TITLE TWO DIFFERENT COLORS

Right now, the title is within a single span tag. You want to edit the header.php and put another span tag with a unique id around the part you want to make different. For example, take the follow code for a website titled My Wonderful Website and let’s say we want to change the look of the word Wonderful.

<h1 id="site-title">
<a href="https://wp-themes.com" title="My Wonderful Website" rel="home"><span>My <span id="title-wonderful">Wonderful</span> Website</span>
</a>
</h1>

Now that we’ve surrounded what we want to change with a span, with the id “title-wonderful”, we can modify how it looks in the CSS. We just need to add:

#title-wonderful {
 ...
}

with whatever we want to modify in the between the brackets. For example, if we want to change the color to a nice orange, we can add this:

color: #FF8955;

Hope that helps! Have fun. ??

Can you view those comments in the wp-admin area?

Do you mean this link? Though even then, I’m not sure I completely understand the problem. Do you just want the height and width of the images to be switched?

Ok, scratch that – try this.

Hmm, then you could hunt this code down if you’d like (probably in your theme’s functions.php) and modify the colors available from there. Or even better – you could create a child theme and override the background color in the child theme’s style sheet.

If some of that doesn’t make sense to you, try doing a search for the phrases you don’t understand and the WordPress help can walk you through it. If none of that makes any sense to you, you may want to just use a different theme.

Try putting

<span class="comments-link"><?php comments_popup_link( __( 'Comments (0)', 'erudite' ), __( 'Comments (1)', 'erudite' ), __( 'Comments (%)', 'erudite' ) ) ?></span>

right after

<?php the_content( __( 'Read More <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'erudite' ) ) ?>

in your index.php file. Hope that helps! Unfortunately, you may need to use some CSS to position it and style it how you’d like.

Do you realize that the people who help out on this forum are volunteers and that not everyone’s first language is English? The fact that anyone helped you at all is a remarkable testament to human kindness.

Complaining about the help you’re getting is like eating a free meal at someone’s house and then saying, “I really don’t think it’s too much to ask that you don’t over-salt my soup.” It’s ungrateful and rude.

Can you provide a link to the page on your site where you’re seeing the problem?