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OK, so it looks like I have done pretty much everything I can. Anyone not seeing a white background on the post area and the top three boxes in the header on my blog? I will have to wait till tomorrow to see if my school computer is still not displaying those.

I actually haven’t checked if it works. The only thing I changed really was to take out:

.categories {…}
.cat-item {…}
.current-cat {…}
.current-cat-parent {…}
.children {…}
.pagenav {…}
.page_item {…}
.current_page_item {…}
.current_page_parent {…}
.current_page_ancestor {…}
.widget {…}
.widget_text {…}
.blogroll {…}
.linkcat{…}

In my stylesheet. For some stupid reason I had left them in there even though they had no styles in them. Do you really think that will fix the compatibility issues? I guess I will find out tomorrow.

Also, is it possible for me to fix the validation errors that I still have or are they necessary?

OK, well I have fixed all of the CSS issues that were possible for me to fix. Unfortunately, there seems to be a number of errors caused by the default styles WordPress recommends you place in your style.css. Check here to see the specific styles the validator has an issue with. It seems “-moz-border-radius,” “-khtml-border-radius,” “-webkit-border-radius,” and “border-radius” are invalid properties. Why would WordPress recommend you place invalid CSS properties in your stylesheet?

Also there is a strange ul class (ul.addtoany_list) that is invalid. I do not have the class in my style.css so I guess must be generated by WordPress as well.

Thanks flamenco. I am going to get working on those CSS errors tomorrow.

Thanks, I had to tweak the elements in the header (the left box particularly) before it all validated and fixed those alignment issues I was having. I am now down to 3 errors but I can’t seem to fix them. I think its because of my doctype. I am using 4.01 strict and wordpress closes some of its own tags as if they are XHTML 4.01.

Here are the three errors:

* Line 13, column 163: character data is not allowed here

…ent/plugins/contact-form-7/styles.css?ver=2.1.2′ type=’text/css’ media=’all’ />

* Line 15, column 106: character data is not allowed here

…pplication/rsd+xml” title=”RSD” href=”https://www.blogtap.net/xmlrpc.php?rsd” />

* Line 57, column 89: character data is not allowed here

…=”description” content=”Blogtap.net – yet another blog about blogging” />

Think it’s possible to fix them without changing the doctype?

I’ve already done that. From my perspective, none of the errors could have caused everything to go center aligned.

Anyone have a solution for this?

I think I may have to redo the PHP so that I can place a div around each pair of teasers. Here is my index php: https://pastebin.com/F6Qrr88E

If anyone could tell me how I can do this, I would greatly appreciate it.

Unfortunately, the fixed width and overflow:hidden doesn’t really work.
As you can see, some of the teasers have significantly less text than others so it create huge white gaps in between them.

This works great, but is there any way I can easily do a list of pages going back like what I have on the free template I am using: https://www.blogtap.net/

Thanks a million for your help!

OK thanks.

I found a theme that does have automatic thumbnails: https://www.onedesigns.ro/featured/cover-wp/

Maybe I will study it later and see what they did.

I thought about that, unfortunately it leaves the possibility of the “Read More” link that will be placed below each export being hidden in the overflow.

I guess it is my only possible solution though?

Oh, I thought I would need to change the code in functions.php to change the size.

In that case, what do the values: set_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50, true ); and add_image_size( ‘title-image’, 50, 30 ); do in functions.php?

How do you change the thumbnail size? I tried changing the sizes from 50 X 50 to 100 X 100 in functions but I am still getting the same sized thumbnail on the front page .. and it is screwing up all my dividers …oh boy this is confusing. i am in way over my head with this php.

Never mind, I figured out why it wasn’t showing up. I was setting a thumbnail for the most recent post but the most recent post is in an entirely separate batch of code than the teasers with the excerpts. It’s showing fine now thanks!

I guess I have to research way to have it retrieve automatically.