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WPyogi,

I greatly appreciate you pointing these things out for me. It explains why I still felt like some things weren’t quite right even though the “by author” stopped appearing next to the post date. ??

I think I finally have everything appropriate in regards to this issue, but now that my confidence is diminished, I can’t help but wonder if I’ll discover other dumb mistakes after I catch up on some much needed sleep. ??

Thank you for being so kind in your responses.

Thank you WPyogi for helping me to get the “by author” line removed. I used this same code before in my child theme and couldn’t figure out why it didn’t work. It didn’t for 2 reasons:

1. I didn’t notice my child theme style.css had import url(“../misty-lake/style.css”) instead of import url(“../misty-lake-child/style.css”).

2. I forgot to activate the child theme.

I assumed the child theme was active, so your informing me it wasn’t also had me to notice my error in import url file path.

The code you provided was the only one I forgot to try adding in the custom CSS.

Both of you guys, please accept my humble apology for taking up your time because of my careless mistakes.

Here is a post for example. I already created a child theme and have tried several different edits. Nothing I do eliminates the “by author” next to the date posted.

Christian1012,

In your reply, how did you get text inside a grey box?

WPyogi,

Thanks for the link. I wasn’t even aware that there is a theme forum section just for theme’s in question.

I’ll do as you said next time.

Christian 1012,

Thank you for letting me know it is possible. I tried your suggestion multiple times on multiple days. I’m stumped as to why it won’t work. I’ve read all what you’ve linked before you responded (and again now). I can’t image what I’m missing.

I don’t know if it helps to put a link to the archive.php, category.php, and the loop-index.php files?

If the echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post_id, 'thumbnail'); does end up getting added to where it belongs, then my next challenge will be figuring out how to create a functional loop-archive.php and loop-category.php file for my child theme.

I’ve made files before for child themes many times, but never have I had so much trouble as I am now.

Does it require an extended amount of time to say whether or not what I want to do is possible?

At this point, I’d be happy with a yes or no answer. Someone please respond. I’d greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

I downloaded pupul from www.remarpro.com‘s theme directory.

It seems if I could add ‘<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post_id, ‘thumbnail’); ?>’ into archive.php and category.php, it would do as it does for loop-index.php

I can tell I don’t know how to add either a loop-archive.php or loop-category.php properly. Somehow though I successfully added and edited the loop-index.php to my child theme.

If it helps or is necessary, I can use pastebin to show the contents of some files.

Changing the width and height in the style.css from this:

.wp-post-image {
float: left;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
padding-top: 5px;
width: 120px;
height: 120px;
}

to this:

max-width: 97.5%;
height: auto;
width: auto9; /* ie8 */

did the trick for me.

This update is appreciated. Can you tell me how I may prevent my thumbnail (featured) images from distorting? I tired both with and without checking “Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions (normally thumbnails are proportional)” in media settings.

Thank you! Now I don’t have to use the gallery format in order to have thumbnail images!

Never mind. I figured it out. I needed to edit all my posts to use the gallery format. If only I thought of it sooner!

Waiting is easier when I have an idea of how long it will be before the next update is available.

Is there any estimate? If it may be longer than one more month (from today – Nov. 10, 2012), please let me know.

Thank you.

I wouldn’t have waited if I didn’t know help was on the way, especially since I spent days trying all the advice on how to get featured images to work that I found online without any success.

Thank you for letting me know to wait. Waiting is easy after what I’ve been through. ??

I switched hosting companies and noticed my site loads a lot faster now. I’m glad to know that won’t be lost because of these ridiculous image replications.