[cattie]

Oh, I see. So do I just remove the url(images/stripe.png) repeat part and make the background #fff (I want it to be white)?

[cattie]

Thanks for the tips, anitac and nutsandbolts! I took a look at ServerPress and I'm concerned that it's a bit over my head.

nutsandbolts, it sounds like the second option you mention is what I was thinking - setting everything up on a different domain and then moving it, or am I getting that wrong? The reason I wanted to import the content is that it needs extensive cleaning up, there are lots of categories that need to be removed and changed so that I can set up menus that make sense to people, etc. So you can't set up widgets on the test site? I was hoping to get it 100% ready to go before activating it on the "real" blog, because I suspect that something that takes you 20 minutes might take me 2 weeks.

To give you an idea of my incompetence with css, I probably spent a total of 3-4 entire weekends trying to change the color of the in-text links on my personal blog, and it took me forever to figure out how menus work when I switched from atahualpa to the genesis framework. I even hired someone to help me make the main column wider but she flaked out on me and after a month, I gave up on her.

[cattie]

Oh, I see. Thank you! I'm learning a lot here! 🙂 May I ask one more question? How do you change the size in the media library? It doesn't look like any of the items are editable (except for the file URL).

[cattie]

Yay! It worked - on almost all images. Some of the vertical images are still huge in the posts themselves, like this one for example:

Ginger Coconut Milk Ice Cream

Not sure which line in functions.php I need to change to fix that...

[cattie]

Oh ok, thank you! I just started it.

[cattie]

Hi Susan and Andrea,
I have been super busy and just now had time to try these suggestions. I changed the functions.php to
add_image_size( 'home-featured', 400, 400, TRUE );
add_image_size( 'widget-featured', 300, 200, TRUE );
add_image_size( 'header-featured', 400, 80, TRUE );
add_image_size( 'portfolio-featured', 300, 200, TRUE );
add_image_size( 'grid-featured', 320, 200, TRUE );

and I wasn't sure what you meant by "run" the Regenerate thumbnails plugin, Andrea, I had it installed already, but I clicked on edit and then save, but the images are still absurdly huge.

I do know how to set the size when placing images in posts, and these same photos looked just fine on my old theme, so that's not the problem. I will submit a ticket to prettydarncute.

Thank you both for your input!

[cattie]

I tried that and it didn't work. It turned everything back to what it was before (black with gold on hover) everywhere (site title, headings, in-text links). Or should I have added

.entry-content a{ color: #545454;}
.entry-content a:hover{ color: #d9a53a;}

to the gold-black portion of the CSS rather than have changed the original entries?

[cattie]

I'm having a similar image issue, except for me it's that all the vertical images in posts are enormous. The horizontal and square ones are fine, it's just the vertical ones. I have tried using firebug (can't figure it out) and I went into functions.php and changes things a bit, but they still looked the same. This is the part I was playing with:

//* Add new image size
add_image_size( 'home-featured', 700, 400, TRUE );
add_image_size( 'widget-featured', 300, 200, TRUE );
add_image_size( 'header-featured', 640, 80, TRUE );
add_image_size( 'portfolio-featured', 300, 200, TRUE );
add_image_size( 'grid-featured', 320, 200, TRUE );

I tried making home featured 400, 400 - nothing. Tried header featured as well, but nothing happened

I obviously have no idea what I'm doing... any advice is much appreciated!

[cattie]

Thanks Lynne! It worked, but now the site title and all post titles are gold too, and I want them to stay black (with the gold on hover). It's online the in-text links I want to change.

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