eryan215

Thank you!

Thank you, cdcampbell. That is a great idea.

Back in 2008 I built a website from scratch in a text editor, and I purchased the domain name/hosting service from Website Palace. But I didn’t know how to write code for a blog, so I used wordpress for that, and linked my site to them. I assumed wordpress was hosting the blog and Website Palace was hosting the regular site. But I don’t know much! I’ll call them.

I’m going back to school soon to learn the technology I know so little about …

I figured out that I want to be on wordpress.com, but when I created the blog back in 2009 I did it in www.remarpro.com because I didn’t know any better. I think?? I will go over to wordpress.com and see if anyone can help me there.

Never mind. I have no idea what I did, but when I deleted a line from the footer page it all came back again.

sorry, my link didn’t get into the previous message. it is: https://interiorpassage.com/blog/?m=200909

I should add that I’ve read everything I can find about the Read more tab in the Documents Codex. But I did not see a solution to my particular problem.

I did what you are describing. I have the Kubrick template and on my stylesheet.css, the change I needed to make was at the very top of the page, line 5, where it says “background” (I changed it to ededed from what it was before). In whole, it looks like this:

/* Begin Typography & Colors */
body {
font-size: 62.5%; /* Resets 1em to 10px */
font-family: ‘Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
background: #ededed url(‘images/kubrickbgcolor.jpg’);
color: black;
text-align: center;
}

This changed the area outside the container where the text is. The white background for the container is governed by the “page” part of the stylesheet.

Anyway, I hope that helps.

Thank you! Index.php was exactly the file I needed to change. Now it works as I want it to.

Never mind. I changed the blue to a color that matches my color scheme and tweaked the text and decided it looks good the way it is. I’m not going to spend any more time on this image loading issue.

I worked! I moved the closing tag up so it ended before and didn’t isolate the php if statement. Now the comment is hidden again. Thanks. I learned something!

Thanks. I don’t know anything about widgets. I don’t know php at all. I am mostly guessing about where to place and insert things based on my small knowledge of html and css. I just try stuff until it works. So most of your questions I cannot answer.

However, you have given me ideas to go on; I will move the tag up away from the if statement or file the code in a text file for later use. Those things, I understand.

Thanks so much for your reply. I did reload the file into the images folder as above. I changed the CSS in the style.css file as above. But nothing changed on the theme display. It was still the same blue blob.

So I went instead to header.php and looked for something with the kubrick jpg in it. I could not figure out what to do in that file. I found a string of code that said: #page { background: url(“<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/kubrickbgwide.jpg”-<?php bloginfo(‘text_direction’); ?>.jpg”) repeat-y top; border: none; }

In that string I inserted my images/LongBantry.jpg instead of the Kubrick that was there. In this case my image did display–so it is in there–but instead of displacing the blue blob it just showed up underneath the blob and over top of all the post text. The blob itself didn’t change at all.

So I still don’t know what to do.

Never mind. Figured it out on my own.

I’m sorry, but I’m still rather new to all this and I don’t understand. If I go to “edit themes,” and then look on the right in the list of “theme files,” I do not see any “theme” folder. There is something called “theme functions,” but then I am utterly confused and don’t see the above string of code.