joycejnr

Nope, same thing with IE!

Whoops, forgot to say I’m using FF 2.0.0.1

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.

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.) ??

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. ??

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.

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.

1. The “core HTML” I referred to was in the .php, not the WP code. Apologies again.
2. What is a “very specific online setup” as opposed to the link I provided in my first posting – https://www.gazette.computersandthings.com/?

Well, let me try to rephrase my last “generic” question only, I’ll forget the first questions regarding the Gazette theme in particular. If you STILL don’t know “how on earth would anyone know what (I) mean,” I’ll give it up.

Here we go:
Is a WP “Post Title Box” in a WP theme limited in the sense that the user fills in the title in the title box, and then that title ONLY appears as a plain old title, word for word?

OR is is it possible that a title typed in a title box in the Write Post administration panel can, for example, act as a link – just by changing the theme’s code in some way?

(Depending on your answer, Lorelle’s post might be helpful for me to figure out the questions about the titles in the Gazette post anyway.)

Thanks.

I just found a post on by Lorelle that suggests that I might have asked: Is the WP post title box limited to filling in the title only, with nothing else, or do people make it more flexible by, say, playing with the core HTML?

Whew. ??

What is the distinction between looking at the author’s blog and looking at the same blog (if I had it online)? Also, I meant that my *questions* seemed generic, not the theme, in the sense that I haven’t seen anything online that pertains to not having to fill in the title post when one wants to use a heading for a post/page title.

This is my first time since joining/lurking here that I felt the need to ask a question that I couldn’t find the answer to elsewhere, and I hope everyone can bear with my ignorance.

I certainly understand that you can’t see a blog on a local installation. Is the help on this forum limited to the owners of the blogs in question? I was hoping since I found the theme on this forum – https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/73458?replies=21 – and it is not proprietary/copywrited, that it wouldn’t matter especially since it seemed to be a generic question. I should mention that I received an updated version from the author of the Gazette Theme, but he is too tied up work-wise to assist me further.

My apologies again.

I did all the above with a local installation via xampp…once again, my apologies.

Ahhhh, sorry…I should have known, but I don’t have a blog. I’m trying to understand the Gazette blog so I can use it for a blog I want to start. Should I post any of the .php files from the Gazette blog that I’ve been looking at?

As I do hope for an answer, I’d be very happy to provide a live link if I knew what it was…what is a “live link?” (Like I said, I’m a newbie at WordPress/blogging.)

Thanks,