ruthcatrin

Thanks!

Alright, re-read it all. I like the concept, but I don’t think shortcodes are going to work for what I want to do. I guess I’ll keep plugging away at it.

Alright, I’m going to have to look at this later when I’m not feeling quite so fuzzy, cause right now my brain in insisting none of it makes sense, but I’m pretty sure thats me not you…..

Part of the problem I’ll admit is that my PHP skills (or lack there-of) is entirely self taught……

I also have the feeling that if I just keep poking at the various plugins one of them will do what I want without me having to do coding, but I’ve not had any luck there either. Lots are close, but nothing seems to be quite there.

What I’ve done is create this page: https://www.scaryyankeechick.com/rss-feed/ using PHP to check each site on the list, and post a link to the site and the name of their most current post.

Ok, not entirely sure I get shortcodes, but using the plugin, I create a list of the various php coding I want to use, give them a name, and then use those names place them within the page?

I will look at it, thanks!

Needed this too. Thanks!

Not sure I understood all of that?

If you are asking if you can correspond with me about the theme I would be happy to do so, you can contact me through my blog or my email [email protected]

Thank you for your help getting the whole problem sorted out.

I had missed the rules change not requiring

@import url(“../raindrops/style.css”);

Is that the same now for all child theme .css files or just style.css?

Thank you for the margins code, I’d not gotten that far in my looking through the code yet.

You’re correct, as long as its a variable name the spelling is not at issue as long as its the same all the way through.

Making that change does not appear to make a difference in the appearence of the 100% fluid, at least on my system.

By the way, if your programming software will allow you to search for individual words do a search for the “miniman” and “maximan” as I’ve spotted several other lines where its spelled that way. So far correcting them don’t appear to change anything that I can see, but they may be attached to options I didn’t choose.

My blog here: https://www.scaryyankeechick.com/ is currently showing the 100%width option with the corrections to “miniman” and “maximan” but not the corrections you show.

When the extreme breadth is reached, is it indication of the problem that a page is not displayed in the center of a browser?

Yes, not centered, and has a maximum width far less than 100%. Correcting “miniman” and “maximan” as I stated above solves the problem completely, but I will look at the lines you show and see what happens.

Welcome!

I did figure it out for my theme (Raindrops), but whether it’ll help you….

I had to change three settings to make it work all over, in style.css:

h1,h2,h3,.h1,.h2,.h3{
background-color:#1e1e1e!important
}

and

#site-title{
background-color:transparent!important;
}

and then in reset-fonts-grids.css (this was the main one, the ones in style.css were tweaks really):

#yui-main,
.yui-g .yui-u .yui-g{
background-color:#1e1e1e!important;
}

But I have no idea how much that stays the same from theme to theme. (Note: the color codes shown are the ones I changed it too, and I added the “!important” to make sure that it overrode the original in my child them so I didn’t have to change the main one each time.)

My suggestion would be to find the Firefox add-on called Firebug, its a wonderfull little tool that made it MUCH easier to find where I needed to change what to make it work.

In theory yes, it should result in an error message, however width is one of those odd things where if the system doesn’t find a piece of code to define it then it just defaults with no error. That doesn’t mean the code is working, it just means that the system handles it without producing an actual error.

And yes I’ve updated. Thats what triggered this. Yet ANOTHER update with the width options not working correctly. Correct the spellings and presto, it works! Imagine that.

They’re just script variables and PHP couldn’t care less about the spelling as long as the code syntax is correct.

Actually thats incorrect. THE CODE DOESN’T WORK WHEN ITS MISSPELLED because the incorrect spelling results in incorrect syntax. I don’t care what the options ARE, I want them to work as described by the developer. And with the code misspelled it doesn’t work. It USED to work. Several updates ago it worked fine, then the developer decided to change it, and with the word “minimam” instead of “minimum” and “maximam” instead of “maximum” the system has no idea what the code is supposed to mean, so it defaults to its own system defaults instead of what its supposed to be coded as.

And if you can point me to a better way to get the information to the developer I’d take it, but trying to go through his or her site got me no-where. And yes I was politer about it.

And actually I’ve gotten very little help here, one poster helped me when I was creating a child theme, and otherwise I’ve ended up fixing all my own problems in the end.

Hah, thanks!