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@keesie, thank you, but I’ve already read that tutorial and others until my eyes were bleeding. I actually have virtual hosts working, but am just wondering if there are any rules of setting of the directory that work best for development servers.

@esmi, ok, so you think I shouldn’t just drop the whole ‘/wordpress’ folder in there with all the files inside it, but copy and paste all the files inside the ‘/wordpress’ folder into ‘/mysite1’ folder?

@alchymth:
The directions that you suggestion are exactly what I tried that did not work, with the exception of the alternative technique which I will try soon. Also, maybe It would make a difference that I was trying to make these changes on my localhost with WAMP server? I don’t know why it would be this though, since everything seems to be running fine (pages and links work)

@dotnordic:
I was considering using the <!–more–> tag, but don’t want to do this with every single post, so that is why I am trying to edit the code.

@Seacost and WPyogi, thank you both for taking the time for your input, I was able to resolve this problem with this code:

.page-id-251 .site-content article {
	background-color: transparent;
}

Sorry if I did not make it clear enough that I was already familiar with using a child theme and FTP. Also, I am already fairly familiar with the codex, w3schools and css, but do have to reference these sources every once in awhile still. The suggestion to look at the page id located in the body was particularly helpful. I was originally thinking I might have to go into the html to create a more specific id for styling individual pages, but it appears this is not necessary since an id already exists.
thank you thank you thank you!

@seacoast, I also thought of using “!important”, but it doesn’t work either…so far only when I use “transparent” does it work.

Ok, thank you both very much for your time. Instead of using “none”, I used “transparent”, and it worked after loading the style. I’m still not sure why using “background-color: none;? didn’t work though, especially since it worked using Firebug.

Thank you very much! Using Firebug, I found .site and replaced #FFFFFF with “none”, which fixed the problem, but when I added this to my child theme code:
.site {
background-color: none;
}

and loaded the updated style sheet to my site using FTP, then refreshed the page, nothing changed ?? I also tried this:
#page .site {
background-color: none;
}

Didn’t work either.

Thanks again Seacoast!

That’s exactly what I needed to know.

Thanks Seacoast, I was over thinking this.
Easy quick fix.