Trying to set up a site

Glad you found something to work with. I’d recommend you post your questions on the theme support forum. Not trying to put you off here but realistically they would know the theme code better than anyone and should be able to help you change and/or troubleshoot those issues better than I can.

Their support forum is only for bug fixes–not for helping with CSS coding :/

Pictures of the issues I mentioned above:
https://i.imgur.com/SYdNiEi.png https://i.imgur.com/oY0AK7b.png
https://i.imgur.com/q0QaYRn.png – This is also happening on other pages without sidebars now too: https://i.imgur.com/YCyL5Vq.png
https://i.imgur.com/rI5Jsjp.png

As for the search bar, I’m looking to change the icon, the text color, the textbox color, pretty much all of it. I want to make the background color a very dark translucent blue (like how the sidebar is) with the button to be Black or Dark Blue. The drop down menu for categories also needs its background color changed along with whatever indicates it is a drop-down menu.

So which of these are bugs:

-Page with the blog entries only shows excerpts. They should all shown full.
-When viewing a single entry of a post, it centers itself for some reason which pushes the sidebar down below it.
-Static Homepage page will not center the entry. The actual text in the entry is centered, but the overall body is towards the left like the post system tends to be.
-Some issues with CSS… Text boxes remain white despite trying to change the colors multiple times
-Can’t seem to change Search bar colors
-Issues with text under blog entries… More or less, it’s not spacing properly. It essentially goes:
Posted In Category, Category A, Category B Tagged Tag, Tag, Tag, TagLeave A CommentEdit

I’m not sure why there is no spaces between the tags and leaving a comment and the Edit button…

They said the issue with viewing a single entry of a post centering itself and pushing the sidebar down and the last thing about the lack of spaces, but their update fixed neither so :/ And I know I’ve fixed these kinds of things in the past with other themes–just can’t find where to do so in this one.

Their support forum is only for bug fixes–not for helping with CSS coding

That’s interesting. The theme author posted this on the wp.org theme support forum only a week ago:

Please join our support forum, we are here to help you out for issues that occurs during theme installation and any other issues related to this theme.

And this is what they told me on their support forum:
“I already mentioned you that for free theme you need to hire some ccs guy to customize as per your requirements.”

Then linked me to some basic google pages. Essentially, unless you pay them for “pro support”, they won’t tell you what parts of the code to fix for the few issues I’m still having :/

You said the theme author has indicated these are bugs in the theme:

-When viewing a single entry of a post, it centers itself for some reason which pushes the sidebar down below it.
– I’m not sure why there is no spaces between the tags and leaving a comment and the Edit button…

Which leaves these:

-Page with the blog entries only shows excerpts. They should all shown full.
-Static Homepage page will not center the entry. The actual text in the entry is centered, but the overall body is towards the left like the post system tends to be.
-Some issues with CSS… Text boxes remain white despite trying to change the colors multiple times
-Can’t seem to change Search bar colors
-Issues with text under blog entries… More or less, it’s not spacing properly. It essentially goes:
Posted In Category, Category A, Category B Tagged Tag, Tag, Tag, TagLeave A CommentEdit

The first item (excerpts) isn’t controlled by css. If there isn’t a theme option to control that then it would require either a function or change to a theme file in a child theme. The other items (spacing and color) are probably adjustable using css. I’d be willing to help you with those provided (a) the theme author is able to fix the bugs first, and (b) you can provide a link to your site. The theme has to be working correctly before you make changes, and trying to change how your site is displayed based on screenshot images isn’t practical.

Yes, they said the first two were bugs and that updating would fix it (and I did update), but it did not fix either one. They consider it fixed though (so I don’t know why it isn’t fixed then on my end) so I don’t think any further fixes will happen in that direction.

In general, when I say CSS, I just mean anything that needs to be modified through the Editor/Coding.

Here is a link: https://seac.crystal-dreams.us

Collections page will eventually look better when I get the image borders set up x__x just wanted to save that for last. Hoping to have each one look like this: https://i.imgur.com/rm3BDWD.png

Which theme are you using now? The link you posted doesn’t look like the Passionate theme.

-Page with the blog entries only shows excerpts. They should all shown full.

You’d need to find the theme template file that displays the post content (maybe content.php) and look for

the_excerpt()

and change it to

the_content()

-Static Homepage page will not center the entry. The actual text in the entry is centered, but the overall body is towards the left like the post system tends to be.

This is because the theme is defining two columns; one has a width of 66.6% and the other is 33.3% width. The larger column holds your content. The smaller column is used to hold the sidebar and appears to be defined even if your sidebar is not displayed.

-Some issues with CSS… Text boxes remain white despite trying to change the colors multiple times

Not sure which text boxes you’re referring to here.

-Can’t seem to change Search bar colors

Try this css:

#search-2 input {
    background: blue;
}

-Issues with text under blog entries… More or less, it’s not spacing properly. It essentially goes:
Posted In Category, Category A, Category B Tagged Tag, Tag, Tag, TagLeave A CommentEdit

I don’t see any categories listed on this post:
https://seac.crystal-dreams.us/2016/04/25/testing-lots-please/
Other than that the spacing looks like what I would consider normal.

It’s a very modified version of the child theme I did from the Passionate theme.

-I went through each content page so far and the only one that had something like that was the search page (which I do want to keep as excerpts)–I did test it and it did only effect the post length when searching so I changed it back. Still continuing through all the other files to see if I can find the one for the entries on the page normally. I’ll edit this if I find it, but just wanted to give an update real quick.

Edit: It ended up being a weird fix (it wasn’t so much just switching it as I had to replace an entire line of code from the archive that had the matching text in the home.php section), but the entries show in full now! Thank you!

-Is there any way to change that width/column alignment with a page template? So I can leave it alone for the blog page and viewing blog entries in full, but keep the rest on a different one.

-Text boxes on the Contact Form, the category bar (drop down below archives), and the search boxes themselves.

-The CSS for the Search bar color worked! Thank you! Now just the Contact Form text boxes and the category drop down menu to fix the background colors on.

-Just added the Categories to the test post–forgot Uncatergorized doesn’t show up. The problem is that it strings together towards the end… There is no space between the last Tag and Leave a Comment or a space between Leave a Comment and Edit. (And if there are no tags, there is no space between Leave a Comment and Categories either).

-Is there any way to change that width/column alignment with a page template? So I can leave it alone for the blog page and viewing blog entries in full, but keep the rest on a different one.

This would involve finding out which page templates are used where and modifying only those that you want in your child theme.

-Text boxes on the Contact Form, the category bar (drop down below archives), and the search boxes themselves.

#contact-form-11 input,
#contact-form-11 textarea {
    background: yellow;
}

#categories-2 select {
    background: red;
}

#search-2 .search-field {
    background: blue
}

The problem is that it strings together towards the end.

.entry-footer .comments-link {
    margin-left: 40px;
}

-So essentially I need to play with the pages and see which has the column ones?

Right now, I have it (on the entry pages anyway) that every page except for the Exploration Log Page is listed as a “Full Width Page”–Exploration Log Page is kept as default.

-They are the right color now and both the comments and edit links are fixed as well ?? Thank you so much!

I think the only things left now are the page alignment thing. And the weirdness when reading a direct link to an entry pushes the sidebar down as the alignment shouldn’t change from the post view beyond no other entries following it and being able to see all the comments.

You’re welcome; glad those are working.

listed as a “Full Width Page

Depends on what the theme means by “full width page”. If that’s not supposed to have space for a sidebar then there’s something else going on.

pushes the sidebar down

My guess is that’s either a theme issue or perhaps a conflict with a plugin that’s adding html or css which causes the page layout to break.

For the page, doing a quick glimpse the only real change it seems it made was to remove the sidebar, but not actually adjust the sizes so I’m guessing that’s where the problem lies.

Hmm, I don’t believe any of them change the CSS beyond the one that just adds the background. Playing around with them didn’t yield any results either.

Okay, I have no idea what I did (In Customize, I changed it from Boxed to Wide Layout–it was set to Wide before and must have switched back somehow), but Contact Form and Collections have fixed themselves so now just the Home page is the one that is still like… determined to stick to the left side for some reason.

Still have yet to figure out the issue with single posts though–no change there.

Edit: Sort of fixed the Single entry page? The sidebar is on the wrong side though…

Edit: Resaving the settings in customize to have the sidarbar on the right fixed that!

Just the Home page now not being fully centered and it is done! (well, minus the image background tables I will be torturing myself with in a bit, but I’ve done it before so I hopefully won’t need help with that :P)