Editing Wordpress Blog (Looking More Professional)

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by theultimatepublishing, Sep 7, 2006.

  1. #1
    This's a category on my blog: http://theultimatepublishing.com/blog/category/internet-marketing-strategies

    How do I edit the words "Internet Marketing Classic 2"? (I want it to be another color & to be underlined.)

    How do I make the preview of the posts look better? (I want the lines "Another classic internet marketing resource!<br> What Does This Do For You?" to have a break in between, how do I do that?)
     
    theultimatepublishing, Sep 7, 2006 IP
  2. nextebizguy

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    #2
    Hopefully I'm understanding what you're asking.

    Question #1: The phrase is wrapped in an <h2></h2> tag. You can modify your styles.css to change size and color.

    Question #2: To put a space between those sentences use the <p></p> tags.
     
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  3. theultimatepublishing

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    #3
    That's the title of my post, which words do I edit on the styles.css?

    My posts look alright, it's just my preview looks messy. So when I'm posting, I should use <p></p> tags instead of <br>?
     
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    #4
    In your style.css, find the following section

    /*font styles*/
    p {
    font-size : 100%; 
    font-style : normal; 
    padding: 0px;
    } 
    h2 {
    font-size : 140%;
    }
    h3 {
    font-size:120%;
    }
    h4 {
    font-size:100%;
    }
    h2, h3, h1, h4 {
    color : #003; 
    margin: 10px 0px;
    padding:2px 0px;
    clear: both;
    }
    Code (markup):
    You'll need to separate out the h2 from that bottom grouping so you can apply additional style to it. Change it to this:

    /*font styles*/
    p {
    font-size : 100%; 
    font-style : normal; 
    padding: 0px;
    } 
    h2
    {
    font-size: 140%;
    color: #000000;
    text-decoration: underline;
    }
    h3 {
    font-size:120%;
    }
    h4 {
    font-size:100%;
    }
    h3, h1, h4 {
    color : #003; 
    margin: 10px 0px;
    padding:2px 0px;
    clear: both;
    }
    Code (markup):
    As for the <br> that's just a line break. Try using the <p> and see if that does it.
     
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  5. theultimatepublishing

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    #5
    Thanks for taking the effort to show me, didn't work for me. Maybe I didn't ask my questions clear enough.

    When you look at (http://theultimatepublishing.com/blog/category/adsense-publishing) you'll see the preview of the post in a messy state, when you click on words "Ultimate Adsense Package" or "Ultimate Adsense Secret" you'll see that the full post looks alright.

    Another thing is I'm already using <p> when I looked at my script but it didn't work, still looks messy. I just want the words "Ultimate Adsense Package" & "Ultimate Adsense Secret" (title of posts) to be blue & underlined, so that people will click & read it.
     
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    Ok, I see what you're talking about. I don't have an immediate answer for you, but maybe someone else will know. What it appears is that your theme gives you a preview post on the main page but that preview snippet is stripped of various formating tags like <p>, <strong>, etc.

    You might try not using previews and see if that works. If that is the problem, then check the .php file that is doing this preview and see if you can fix it there.
     
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    #7
    Yes, you're right! I emailed the person who developed the theme & the solution is to write a short summary in the "Optional Excerpt" field when writing a post.
     
    theultimatepublishing, Sep 9, 2006 IP