megalin

Nevermind, I got it, thank you!

@cmshelplive, I want to do this same thing for this page: https://www.thelyonsshare.org/2015reset/
I am not sure how to find the post number so I can repeat this code in the stylesheet:
.post-12703 input{
width:30%!important;
}

Thank you!!!

@cmshelplive, that worked perfectly! Thank you so much!

That worked! you’re a hero, Andrew! I’ll try to learn Firebug before bugging all you magicians about too much more of this stuff!

What? You’re not magic? ??
Yes, I know where Custom CSS and Edit CSS are. I could definitely input the code if I figure out what code to write.
For example, I used to have this (below) before I figured out that I could set it automatically by selecting “Customize” from the Dashboard, but now I don’t know what to put instead of “body” …

body {
background:#a2d67e;
color:#a2d67e;
}

Probably a simple fix, but when I pull up Firebug on someone’s page that I like and see hundreds of lines of code, I just can’t yet figure out which piece goes to which formatting … it’s like reading a new language! Thanks!

I am still trying to learn how to use Firebug. If anyone has a suggestion of how I could change the text background color before I fully learn Firebug, that would be great! Thanks!

This is great! I’m looking into it now. Thanks again, trivum!!

@trivum, this is so very helpful!!!! I am so grateful that you took the time to read all of my rambling and make sense of it. I will fiddle around with things and see if I can make it better with your suggestions! It seems that wanting the blog posts to appear in full-length isn’t really optimum anyway.

One question – if I delete the (“fake”) Home page that I created (www.thelyonsshare.org/home) so that I just have my natural Home page (www.thelyonsshare.org), can I still keep a button on the menu to take me back to the front page? I would call that button “Home.”
Thanks again!

Thanks so much for continuing to try to help me, all! The Home and the Blog pages are both set up as pages, not categories – I don’t have any categories yet. The way I see it, there are 4 different aspects we’re talking about:

1. permalink of the blog posts: this is working fine as you can see with https://thelyonsshare.org/2013/05/06/a-fresh-start/
2. What I could consider my home page (when you just go to my website root, https://www.thelyonsshare.org): this is doing exactly what I want it to do now. It shows the first few lines of each post (since I don’t have it set to a static page).
3. The page you see when you click “Home” (or go to https://thelyonsshare.org/home/): I don’t want this one to be here at all! I just want it to be the same as #2.
4. Blog page: I want the full-length posts to show up here (https://thelyonsshare.org/home/lyonsshareblog/). The way I see it, they have to be “going” somewhere, right? If I had a static front page instead, you wouldn’t even see my posts at all as it is now. My fear is that I had initially set up that permalink as “thelyonsshare.org/blog” and then deleted that page, but I think the posts may still be directed there, if that makes any sense. Any idea how to check this?

Thank you SO, SO much for your help!
Megan

I guess this is the problem … I don’t understand your question! I would LIKE the posts to be showing up on the “Blog” page that you linked to above. But if I go into Dashboard –> Posts –> Add new and make a new post (like I did with the example “A Fresh Start” above, it is just showing up on my homepage. Is it possible to have the posts directed to the Blog page, and then the home page would also scroll through the recent posts? Thanks so much for your help and patience in dealing with a newbie!

I could make a test post, but how is this different from the one post I already have here? https://thelyonsshare.org/2013/05/06/a-fresh-start/
If there’s a reason for a new one just let me know and I will do it.