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Ah right, that size is way too big for the target area ?? I actually want the slides to fit in that area proportionately (without the need to page scroll) so that I can still have the main sidebar and everything looks clean and tidy. I have it pretty close set at 500×300, still the height is slightly ducking under the screen (so you need to scroll down a bit to see the full slideshow) and the width isn’t quite aligned with the above nav menu titles (I want the slideshow to stretch end to end, from “home” to “contact”)… I guess I just need to tweak until its perfect. Is there a way to determine those exact px size amounts? Anyway, with your help its now working!!

By “upload” do you mean to the media library itself or upload as in ‘add featured image? So each time I adjust the size settings I must remove featured images from the slides, update and then delete those same images from the media library and finally re-upload via the slides ‘add featured image again for it to work properly, correct? Trying to figure out the quickest way to test slideshow sizes…

Thanks for your help, that worked great. Now it shows up on the page but still having one issue… despite setting it as 1000w x 500h for some reason I cant adjust the height of player. Do you have any idea where I would look to correct this?

I agree. I had already spent a full week (unknowingly wrong) editing the entire site exactly how I wanted it via the parent style.css and other files only to find out later about child themes. So now it is just a matter of finding the right codes for the child theme that will make the changes I want for my navigation menu bar… any suggestions of code I might add (or edit existing #access) to get me going? I’ve already tried anything and everything resembling fonts, colors, padding and deleting/moving the search box in the codes there… obviously missing something ://

Yeah, I guess I missed those threads then. I have searched Google and this forum for answers (even landed on your website a few times ;), but many tips are for different themes, wanting different results, weren’t fully explained or simply didn’t work when I tried them in the child style.css.

Anyway, I think I understand what you mean on the first bit (under #access etc in style.css) but now I’m wondering if I should have copied the entire parent style.css to the child style.css before doing any editing – you’re referencing what is in the parent style.css right? Not just little bits of code to add to a child which will make changes -or do I have it wrong? Confused. This is my first WP site and work with child themes, so I followed the WP guide and started with just the basic style.css and then have been adding bits of edit codes as I need them.

Before I do anymore editing, what do you reckon is the best way forward? Aside from adding page/post/product content in the dashboard I wont be doing much more editing to the site, so is it possible to just add some codes to what I already have in the child style.css or should I copy/paste the full parent style.css and then work from there?

I wanted that off white color in the stock 2011 footer where it says “proudly powered by…” changed to match the content area background and the following code worked by placing it at the bottom of my child theme style.css file.

#colophon {
clear: both;
background-color: transparent;
}

#site-generator {
background-color: transparent;
}

If you want it to be a different color changing it from “transparent” to “black” or #000 or whatever color you want will work. Does for me anyway.

Thanks, this is good to know as I continue on with building my site.

Thank you for your reply.

The reason being this.. I had spent a week making my very first WP 2011 theme based website(without a child theme, which I had never heard of) and had it running perfectly (or so I thought). Then upon checking the site in other browsers found issues(IE and mobile appearance issues). Upon further investigation found out about the whole idea of child themes, posted a question in forum and got a simple reply of check W3C to find out what is going on. Despite the site working fine in Chrome and Firefox, there were around 200 errors and I forget how many warnings, anyway, the advice I was given was that it would be best to start fresh and build the site again using a child theme. I’ve done just that. Obviously, I’m a total newbie with WP, but as my initial post says, all of these errors from the very beginning had me worried. I can live with the errors and warnings, however many there me be, but only if the site actually functions properly across all browsers.

My end goal is as mentioned. I’m asking questions now, in hopes of doing things right the first time to avoid issues and the need to start all over again later on down the road.

As for the one error I’m left with right now, I don’t really understand what exactly needs to be changed… my child theme style.css only has the following coding (with my name/site replacing the appropriate fields):

/*
Theme Name: twentyeleven-child-theme
Theme URI: https://example.com
Description: Child theme for the Twenty Eleven theme
Author: Your name here
Author URI: https://example.com
Template: twentyeleven
Version: 1.4
*/

If this isn’t the culprit, where do you think it might be located in the stock 2011 parent theme? Might as well go ahead and fix it if I can.

EDIT:

Created a 2011 child theme following the WP basic style.css instructions (copy/paste replacing with my child name and sites info) and activated it. W3C validation is now showing 1 error. “34 #site-title, #site-description Value Error : clip Invalid separator in shape definition. It must be a comma. : rect(1px 1px 1px 1px)”. Cant seem to find any information on how to fix this though… suggestions?