backgrounds transparent?

Can you provide a link to the site and list the areas that you want to be transparent so people can see and be able to better help you.

Great that you took the time to make a child theme, the WordPress gods will shower you with kind thoughts! haha =)

I can’t provide a link yet – it’s still in dev stage.. but seriously, I am looking to make just about everything transparent, aside from the comment box, which I am hoping to hide / toggle like the “spun” theme has…

Might be nice to have the header and foot become less transparent when hovering.. I am looking at a plugin right now that can make the entire post disappear as well – and have a toggle button to bring it back, hopefully that will work..

Thanks for the kudos on the child theme thing, piecing that together and messing with copying some css is about the edge of my skills level at the moment, but I am trying to learn more and more..

I took a quick look at the demo site and this should help get you started on your transparent quest:

#wrapper,
#access
#comments,
#respond,
#sidebar-wide,
#footer-area,
#copyright,
.entry {
  background: transparent;
}

I would recommend installing Firebug or using developer tools on Google Chrome to see how you can find the attributes you need to target. You will heaps on how a site is structures, your knowledge of CSS will get a boost and you will be able to figure out how to make more custom changes to any site.

Thanks for the heads up with this Brad!

I tried doing some like this:

#footer-area .tagcloud a:before {
	background:#222;
	opacity:0.4;
}

#copyright {
	clear:both;
	padding:1.4% 3.2%;
	background:#111;
	border-top:#333 1px solid;
	border-top:rgba(255, 255, 255, .145) 1px solid;
	color:#CCC;
	font-weight:300;
	opacity:0.4;
}

—-
(added the opacity 0.4)
to see if it was working, or I had the right things.. I do not think it is making any difference..

and tried

.entry-content a:hover img,
#attachment-nav a:hover img {
  background: transparent;
	opacity:0.4;
}

.entry {
  background: transparent;
}

But I think the theme options color choices are overriding what I add to style.css perhaps? I don’t see any changes, even when using shift+refresh – of course I could be just screwing the whole style.css child theme thing totally wrong, or maybe on little thing somewhere as well – learning is fun!

I just had a look at the top example that you added opacity to and you should see the dots in the tag cloud change and the color background in copyright change. If you are using Google Chrome make sure the browser is refreshing or you could try using adding !important as the theme might be loading over any changes you have made.

To use !important it would look like:

opacity: 0.4!important;

Hey brad, thanks for the top on the 1important thing – that seems to work to override the things that were being overridden that I was trying. Now to figure all these other parts out! Thanks again!

Great to hear it helped you out! Get to know how to use Firebug and it will make the rest of your custom super easy! Here is a video by WordPress user, kristarella on how to use Firebug, it is a little old but you will get the idea on how to use it and how useful it will be.