Emmanuelle Demeules

Hi,

You put your color on this element :

#masthead .site-description

Hi,

You have to target the right element.

For the submenu you should put your custom background color on
.main-navigation-menu ul

and for the hover effect
.main-navigation-menu a:hover

Hi,

Maybe it’s just a matter of “cascade”. Can you try to put that block of CSS at the end of your stylesheet, just to test.

Hi,

You need to modify the archive.php file.

Before doing that, do you have a child theme installed? Because as we need to change a template file, we have to do it in a child theme (don’t change your theme core files because you’ll lose all your changes when you update the theme).

If you don’t, I encourage you to read the documentation about Child Theme.

And if you do, you can go further by copying the parent archive.php file into your child theme. Then, edit the file and find this part of the code.

<?php
     get_template_part( 'template-parts/content', get_post_format() );
?>

You’ll have to replace it by :

<?php
   $post_display_option = get_theme_mod('post_display_option','post-excerpt');

   if($post_display_option == 'post-excerpt'){
        get_template_part( 'template-parts/content','excerpt');
   }

   else{
       get_template_part( 'template-parts/content', get_post_format() );
   }
?>

This previous code was taken from the index.php file (from line 32 to 49) if you want to check it out.

I hope it will help!

Hi,

Content in sidebars are managed through widgets. You may check :

1. Inactive widgets : maybe a widget was put inactive. You’ll find the inactive widgets at the bottom of the Widget page.
2. Widgets from plugins : If a plugin was used to create a content info box widget, check if your have plugins that were deactivated or updated recently.

Hi,

Copy index.php from the parent theme in your child theme. Then you’ll have to remove this line of code :

<?php get_sidebar('sidebar-1'); ?>

This will remove the sidebar. Then you’ll need to make your main content full-width. To achieve this, you’ll need to change something else in your index.php file. Find the line :

<div id="primary" class="col-md-9 content-area">

and replace col-md-9 for col-md-12

Hi Sarah,

You need to work on your DIV element. Instead of having :

<div style="width: 50%; padding: 0 10pt 0 0; float: left;">

Try :

<div style="width:46%; padding:0 2%; float:left; align:center;">

Use this for both DIV. (You don’t need to put float:right;on the second one). When you want to achieve a responsive layout, use percentages instead of fixed width.

You may consider remove the text-align:justified on your paragraph as it does not give a nice result with narrower columns.

If you can add some custom CSS to your theme you may want to use a media query to add some specific rules for smaller devices. Let me know if it’s something you can do.

I hope this will help you!

Hi Sarah,

Your have two paragraphs that use fixed width (300px), so it can’t adjust automatically for smaller screens. I understand that you want to have your text the same width than your pictures, but as a first step, you may remove width: 300px; in your paragraph style. That will solve your overlapping issue.

This will break your intended layout, so you’ll have to work this another way.

Let me know if you need further help to achieve what you want.

Hi,

I just searched the WordPress Plugin Directory and found some plugins that could do the trick (search for plugins about role and permissions – or restrict author posting), but did not try any myself. So what I would do in that case is try them and see if they work for my needs.

You’re welcome. You can close that thread!

Hi,

I think if you keep your content well organized, this can work with posts only. You have to consider what kind of archive pages you need. Per example, do you want to be able to have an archive that shows all the recent posts from all classes?

For Pros & Cons, I would like to see other opinions on this matter, but for me, I tend to keep blogging into posts as it’s native to WordPress. I would create custom post types for content that does not need to be archived in the same way (by date, author, …).

So if your blog posts are organized with a parent category (to group them), then you would have a main blog, and with the category archives you would be able to have pages that shows only blog posts from class x. It will also keep your other existing categories apart from the rest.

I would try something like this :

– News
– Articles
– Featured Content
– School Blog (the parent category would be for general posts)
— Class Year 1
— Class Year 2

And if you need to have other categories under your school blog :

– News
– Article
– Featured Content
– School Blog
— Category 1
— Category 2
— Classes
— Class Year 1
— Class Year 2

You may need to use a plugin to manage which users can post in which categories.

I hope that someone else can share ideas about this. For sure you’ll have to test what works best for your needs.

Oh also, I just noticed that if you want to change the Post Title, you should use this selector :

.posts entry-header a

Hi,

You made a mistake in the way you wrote your “comments” in your style sheet. You should not use #Post Text but /* Post Text */ instead. So it would look like :

/* Hover Color */
.posts .cover-link:hover {
border-color: green;
}

/* Post Text */
.posts .entry-content {
    color: red;
}

/* Post Title */
.posts .entry-header {
    color: lime;
}

And then it just should work fine!

Hi,

You would need to edit a template file through a child theme. Do you already use a child theme?

Thanks bobtheturtle. You can put this thread as resolved then!