thewritingthing

I realized I was using the static page homepage option with no pages selected. When I switched to show latest posts, I now see my SEO plugin’s default image and the site title for a description. Thanks.

This branding was suddenly turned on with all the sites I used with your plugin. The day I posted my review, it appeared at the bottom of all my pages. Was this a bug introduced with a recent update?

When I use a free plugin, I accept some of these issues. It would’ve been less of a problem if the branding had been well-styled, but it was large and poorly formatted. It looked like CSS had not been applied.

@zsyl, thank you for the code to enable drop cap.

Thanks to you as well.

This is CSS I’ve found needs to be manually changed if you use a custom dark background. The foreground color setting doesn’t include this site text.

You’d just assign a color to these to match your foreground color setting.

.entry-title, .shrink-h2, .entry-content, .excerpt-more-link, .archive .post-excerpt:not(.sticky) .more-link, .home .post-excerpt:not(.sticky) .more-link

.wp-block-audio figcaption

.wp-block-search .wp-block-search__input

.entry-meta a, .entry-footer a

• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by thewritingthing.

Thank you! And for anyone else creating a custom dark mode, the Customizer foreground setting didn’t change the color of the more-link, search field, or block audio figcaption. I changed them via CSS though and it all works.

Thank you supernovia. I was ignoring the foreground color. It works. ??

Do you have code to keep the 2-tone effect with the “latest posts” setting while using a custom background color? When using the default color settings, a sticky post will have a different shade of the background color from the rest of the posts below it. It’s a nice effect and it disappears when using a custom color.

Thanks again for your help.

James,

Auto light and dark mode is a feature of this theme. From the Spearhead theme homepage:

“Spearhead has support for dark mode; the default color scheme has a light background, but if your operating system is dark mode the site also changes to use dark background with light text.”

https://wordpress.com/theme/spearhead

KokkieH said this auto functionality would cease to operate if a custom color theme was chosen, but it still activates.

Thank you for the reply. When I create a custom background color, I’m having trouble with the theme auto-toggling font colors depending on the system’s dark mode status. Because there is no Customizer setting for font color, I’ve used CSS to make h1-h6, p, and other text selectors show up as white. But when I change my system setting to light mode, the theme automatically changes the fonts to black on my custom dark background, making the text unreadable. Without being able to shut-off the auto-switching of font color, a custom dark mode isn’t possible.

Also, using a custom background color, the sticky post on the front page no longer has a different background color from the rest of the posts below it. Can you provide some code to retain this effect described on the Spearhead theme page?

“Sticky posts will display on the top of the page, with a darker background.”

Thank you for your help.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by thewritingthing.