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Modify a child theme for full width featured image on home page

ridestory — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 00:25:29 +0000

I am a big fan of how Quartz’s site works (https://qz.com/).

I found the Independent Publisher theme, where the author’s GitHub page can be found here… https://github.com/raamdev/independent-publisher

Also, the theme’s home page is here…
https://independentpublisher.me/

I have a test site running here…
https://ridestory.com/substory/

There is a child theme available for Independent Publisher. I thought it would be best to modify it to make the changes I want.

The theme includes the ability to auto-set a featured image as a post cover, with the post title overlaying the post cover (featured image). You see this when you click through to read the post.

On the home page, the most recent post is, of course, at the top of the page. But I would like that first post to be the featured image from the most recent post, including the overlaying title, linking to the full post, like what Quartz does. The second most recent post would then become the first post in the main content area of the home page. The theme already provides the option to abbreviate all posts after the first.

I hope I am explaining myself clearly enough.

I am able to do simple theme modifications but nothing like this. Please let me know if this looks possible or if too much work is required to pull it off.

I appreciate any help you can offer.

As a side note, I did contact the developer and asked if he would be interested in incorporating this or helping me modify the theme for my use, but he said he has not received any requests like mine, thus didn’t want to take the time to do it, which I understand.

Theme test drive

thewordsaves — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 02:35:13 +0000

Does anyone use this? I installed this plugin along with a new theme (tpsunrise) and was excited to work on my new theme in the background without disturbing the current theme. I made a child theme first and then proceeded to use theme test drive to modify the child theme. . .so I thought.

Every time I previewed the parent theme, it carried over the changes I thought I had only made to the child. I finally got so frustrated that I disabled theme test drive, deleted the parent theme and the child theme and then proceeded to start all over. I downloaded the theme from WordPress again, saved it and uploaded to my themes again. This time with no child in sight and theme test drive disabled, when I went to preview tpsunrise what did I find?! A version with my changes yet again!

I just don’t understand. I thought certainly this approach would bring me back to the original template. Now I am just stumped as this made perfect sense to me. Can anyone help with this please?

I am beginning to think this is just not for me and that I should go back to writing my ebook(s). . .I just want to get to the content but I cannot seem to get over the hurdle to just modify my template to how I would like things to look. I still would like to use wordpress so i must get through this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

procedure question about modifying my theme

terry5578 — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:30:06 +0000

I have a question about how you work on modifying a theme without jacking your site up. What is the best way to do this. Copy the theme and modify the copy and switch back and forth? Or try to setup a duplicate test site so you don’t mess with your site at all. But then you have to move the new theme to your main site.

I am just curious – what do you experts do?

Terry

Modifying to have different backgrounds for different posts

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:50:33 +0000

Hello,

I’ve been exploring ways to have different backgrounds for different Pages in the Sharpfolio theme I am currently using. With my very limited knowledge with CSS, I managed to modify the background in the “Style.css” file but it makes it the default background for everything. While this is ok, I’d like to try having different backgrounds for my About, Archives etc. sections. I know theres the Template option that I can assign for Pages, but once again limited knowledge with css and I read a bunch of tutorials leaving me scratching my head. Does anyone know how to do this?

Here is my work-in-progress page I am working on:
www.ray-ray.ca

And here’s the line of code I changed for the background in my style.css file:

body {
	text-align: center;
	background: #191919 url('images/bg1d4.jpg') repeat-x top; width: 100% height: 100%
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
	font-size: 11px;
	line-height: 24px;
}

Thanks for reading this and the help. Cheers.

Modifying a Theme – What file sets the #page background ?

FeralReason — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:20:22 +0000

Just getting started trying to learn how to modify the default theme but I cannot seem to find out how to change the background image for the #page div. In trying to find where this code is, I used firebug and selected this background image (kubrickbg-ltr.jpb). Firebug shows the following css for this #page div:

#page {
-moz-background-clip:border;
-moz-background-inline-policy:continuous;
-moz-background-origin:padding;
background:transparent url(https://localhost/blog/wp-content/themes/feralpots/images/kubrickbg-ltr.jpg) repeat-y scroll center top;
border:medium none;
}

Unfortunately Firebug locates this code as being in “blog (line 14)” — no filename. I’ve grepped for various portions of this code and cannot find where it is.

Does anyone know what file I edit to point this background to another image ?

Thanx, Glenn