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I came up with a fix for the Random Redirect 2 plugin. You’ll need to edit the plugin itself which is only one file: random-redirect.php. Look for the two instances of matt_random_redirect and change it to a different name. I changed mine to matt_randomy_redirect (with the “y” at the end of random). This solves the conflict with Jetpack and appears to be working just fine on my website.

I came up with a fix for the Random Redirect 2 plugin. You’ll need to edit the plugin itself which is only one file: random-redirect.php. Look for the two instances of matt_random_redirect and change it to a different name. I changed mine to matt_randomy_redirect (with the “y” at the end of random). This solves the conflict with Jetpack and appears to be working just fine on my website.

Yeah, no problem. You need to be able to access the CSS Editor in WordPress. I think that in order to do that you need to install Jetpack which if not installed already has links throughout the administration to install it.

Once that’s done, go to Appearance –> CSS Editor. At the bottom of the box add:

#content p {margin-bottom: 0px;}

And save. Hopefully that’ll do it. On my site I’ve edited the Erudite CSS file directly to do this but that’s because I’ve got all sorts of other customizations going on that won’t fit in the CSS Editor and I wanted to keep everything in one place. If you only have a few things to change then doing it in the CSS Editor is easiest and safest.

If you have some other specific questions about your design you can also contact me directly (my email address is available through my website).

A cheap hack is to skip the first line of a post and the hanging cap won’t be used. It’ll create a larger gap between the header and the text but I doubt many readers will notice it.

Or you can get rid of it entirely by commenting out these lines from the erudite.css file:

body.single .entry-content > p:first-child:first-letter, .first-post .entry-content > p:first-child:first-letter {font-size:4.5em; line-height:.65em;}
.entry-content > p:first-child:first-letter {font-size:3em; float:left; background:#555 url(../images/stripes.png) repeat; color:#fff; margin:.05em .1em\
0 0; padding: .1em ; line-height:.7em;}
body.webkit.set-in-hoeflertext .entry-content > p:first-child:first-letter {padding:.2em .1em 0;}

But then you won’t be able to use it ever. If you want some elegant solution to turn it on or off as needed, then I have no idea. Well some idea but I don’t know enough to implement it.

OK, this might be theme-specific but looking through the css file I finally noticed the line:

.entry-content a {text-decoration:none; border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;}

The text-decoration is set to none but the border-bottom has that 1px line. So I added:
.entry-content sup a {text-decoration:none; border-bottom: 0px;}

And it’s all working as expected: the underline is gone from the footnote links but all other links remain (except superscript links, but other than with footnotes how often is one going to put a link in a superscript?).

I guess the lesson is that it might not be a text-decoration issue but a border-bottom one.

Yep, I’m doing that already but that’s not the problem. The issue is that if you’re using Garamond for your posts you’ll need Garamond Regular, Garamond Italic, Garamond Bold, and Garamond Bold/Italic. That’s four fonts needing four slots (otherwise your browser will produce fake versions of those styles). And then if you use a different typeface for headers you’ll at least want the regular and an italic one (Helvetica Regular and Helvetica Italic). That’s six slots already and after the one used for lists that’s only one slot left for another header or a mono-spaced or whatever.

So my main suggestion is to add the extra slots at the “Headers” and “Main body” sections for the italic, bold, and bold/italic so the user will know that they need to upload all of those fonts in order to get pages to render optimally and also so they won’t run out of slots in the custom elements section.

Perhaps a lot of users are unaware of the fact that if they do not upload, say, an italic version of the font they’re using for the main body that their browser will just create a fake version to display when it needs italics (basically browsers just take the regular font and slant the characters over — that’s not the same thing as italics!)

Often when this sort of thing happens in WordPress it’s because of conflicting plugins. Try disabling one other plugin at a time and see if that fixes the problem. If it does then you might be able to contact either plugin developer and they might have a fix (or their support forums will).

If that’s not the problem then it might help to post a link to your site and we can look closer at it. Sometimes it’s how your host sets permissions on your server. For that you would need to consult your host (they’ll often talk about that sort of thing in their FAQs).

Can you provide a link to your site so we can see what’s going on? Also, by default The Erudite only shows an excerpt. If I understand what you’re asking this means you turned off that functionality in the theme settings: Appearance –> Theme Options –> and you checked Disable ‘Keep Reading’. Just removed the check mark and you’ll get that functionality back.

Personally I have found that this particular bit of javascript screws with the formatting when using certain typefaces under certain browsers so I’ve disabled it. Instead I use the “more” function. In your blog post when you’ve reached the point that you would like to be the extract just hit the “More” button and it’ll insert an instruction. Now visitors to the front page will see the excerpt with a link at the bottom that says “Read More” which will take them to the entire blog post.

Hopefully an answer you’re looking for is somewhere in all this.

Issue resolved.

Never mind, I discovered that by adding the following to the CSS Style Editor that it does what I need:
#content p {margin-bottom: 0px;}