wrightj999

okay, so maybe i can jump in here with what I think would be the way to go about this, now that I’ve done some further investigating, and maybe you can let me know if I’m on the right track.

I found an option within the program called inspect element. I then was able to grab the div with the suspect H2 link I am trying to modify. I was able to see what the div id and class were labeled. So I could take the ID name and write a custom rule in my themes css like #divid h2, a:link {
css property;
}

Am i getting warm here at all? to play things safe I’m assuming it’d be best to add this change through the wordpress dash as usual.

Awesome I hope so!!..

So I have installed firebug, and I have it open. I’ve seen kinda how it works, putting a little window on the bottom and that you can switch between views of the html or the css of the page. but how would you suggest.. or what kind of tip could you offer me to get me going in the right direction to figure out how I am going to apply firebug for my purpose here? Or is there thorough documentation that I should just go ahead and read to figure this out? … and also, it will be okay to make changes to the code through this device? It will have the proper authorization to make changes? (this thing doesn’t let you change other peoples websites code does it? that would be crazy, I’m thinking not, but just had to ask)

ooooh, thanks for the suggestion, firebug seems like a powerful little add-on.

i guess i want more control over things than are possible, according to your feedback. I will give you an example of what I was trying to do, so you can at least understand where I am coming from. For my most recent post, there were no images needed in it. However, I wanted to punctuate the end of the post with the company logo.. it looked nice. However, I didn’t want it to appear in a thumbnail in the blog excerpt because right beneath the header of the blog, would be kinda redundant logo wise (as the logo is prominently featured in the header.) So I guess I should just give up on this desire? Not do-able?

so putting that in the posting html does nothing, so that answers that. hmm, so it seems there is no way to customize this, it’s all or nothing? image thumbs on all post excerpts (with posts containing images) or none at all?

is there any chance I can apply that code to a single post? I want thumbnail images on some posts, and not on others. Where could I add this to get that effect? in the html of the actual posting?

cool, I just tried your new code for fun even though I found my solution. That would be a nice look if I decide to go with smaller thumbnails, but for I like the larger size. Thanks man!!!

aha!! I put the code back that you just had me swapped out and removed “top” from after “center” and it’s perfect!! Thanks for helping set me in the right direction, I just needed to know where to look, this is a lot different from developing in dreamweaver.

Do you know how legit it is to move everything to dreamweaver in case I wanted to really customize a theme to my own liking?

okay, so I swapped that code out for yours, and now there is no thumbnail image.

okay, I will try to swap that code out and see what happens.

or do you think it is the “center top” code that needs to change, maybe just change it to center?

okay, it did work. I increased the width to 275 and more of the image is showing. But it still is kinda not centered vertically. So maybe I need to make sure all my images have a square aspect ratio and they will center vertically?

Hey I think I may have found something!! It was in the main index template:

if(!empty($inis)): ?>
<div class=”lastimage pik” style=”background: url(<?php echo $inis; ?>) center top no-repeat; width: 250px; height:200px; border: 1px solid #777;”>
</div>

These seem to be the dimensions you had mentioned earlier, u think there is any relation? Maybe I could just make an adjustment and see.

There is a bunch of CSS code in the functions.php page, but I didn’t notice anything that I thought would affect that area… even though I am no pro at this, so I am going to post the code to see if you can recognize anything:

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thanks, I will look in those places.