Jeff Sebring

I suggested this to Mark Jaquith through twitter some time ago, who forwarded to Jane Wells. It seemed well received. I’d suspect this is something that anyone who codes often does daily.

Perhaps we will see this in a future version. If not, I might take it on as a way to contribute.

@rev. Voodoo I agree 100%.

It’s just important to understand that the validator is a troubleshooting tool. A page can work just fine with validation errors.

Run my semantic html5 pages through that validator, and you’ll get a ton of errors. The validator has no idea that I use Modernizr, and doesn’t recognize html5 elements. That doesn’t make my code wrong, or make IE render it differently.

I live in Chrome Dev Tools. The computed styles tab will give you the width without having to get out the calculator if they are using ems or percentages.

For anyone to help, you will need to post a link to your site.

I don’t really understand what you mean by

I’m using a theme that doesn’t allow me to see the stylesheet,

If you have access to the server, you can open the stylesheet. If the theme is dynamically generating the css, use specificity to override what you need to.

There are 2 properties that can create underlines: text-decoration: and border-bottom:. Using borders isn’t very common, but possible.

There could be a number of things interacting with your dropdown menu, like javascript. Find out what method is being used before spending too much time hacking it.

With regards to theme support, if the theme was free, I wouldn’t expect much support without paying for it. You got a free design for you website. If you paid for the theme, there should be a forum or some kind of support available. That said, if you are trying to completely change the way the theme works, don’t expect a ton of help. You would be better off using something closer to what you need, or starting from scratch.

Though the validator is irrelevant to how a browser renders your code, it’s a great way to find problems.

You are going to need to either learn about html and css, or hire someone who does. Any advice given here is going to assume a basic level of coding knowledge.

What I gave was an example. Replace #content with an element that wraps the .textblue paragraph.

Use css specificity to target the headings. If the main content element has ID #content, use something like this:

#content h1, #content h2, #content h3, #content h4, #content h5, #content h6 {
    font-weight: 400;
}

Browsers render css differently. I would start with a good reset like Eric Meyer’s CSS Reset, or Nicolas Gallagher’s Normalize CSS.

Also, if you want anyone to look at your site, get rid of those seizure inducing flashing banners. I closed the tab after 3 seconds of that.

It sounds like you need to make use of the float: property.

Here is basically what I do for resolutions over 768px. #main wraps the content and sidebar elements:

#main {
    position: relative;
    width: 100%;
    overflow: hidden;
}

#content {
    float: left;
    width: 66.6666667%;
}

#sidebar {
    float: right;
    width: 33.3333333%;
}

WordPress has nothing to do with how browsers render css. It it simply an engine that prints content and html dynamically.

I’d be willing to bet that you have another rule set with more specificity that is controlling that element.

Try adding the parent element to your rule. Here is an example.

#content .textblue {
    font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;
    font-size: 18px;
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #1D5DA6;
}

I hope that helps.

I’m on 3.1.1

Heya Heather.

Check out Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin. This basically handles custom roles and capabilities. You can do it in a plugin or theme functions file, but its really easy with Justin’s plugin.

Regarding formatting within the editor, make sure you are using the html editor, not the visual editor. Also, if you are creating custom page layouts, you can create custom page templates, or even custom post types to create consistent and dynamic custom pages.

Good luck!

If a client changes the configuration of a site, that is their choice. This is software, not a toy that needs to be childproofed in my opinion.

In a setup where they did not have network admin access for some reason, I could see where this would be more of a problem.

If they are technically savvy enough to change url structures without consulting their developer/seo, they are savvy enough to learn to do it right.

I would actually rather them call me because they broke the site and have it fixed in minutes, than call because all their rankings are gone because they broke all their backlinks.

I’m not sure how this would be bad for a client. I don’t generally advise clients that it is wise to change permalinks, rather the opposite.

I am not using BuddyPress, just to be clear. I’ve done this on a number of sites, with all beta versions of 3.1 as well.