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1. Haecceity
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   I'm using Twentyeleven straight from the box on a new site, which discusses quotes. So I was excited to see that there were now post formats, including a "quote" format. Great! Now I can display a post containing a quote, specially formatted!

   Except that selecting "quote" as the post format seems to do nothing. The stylesheet says that a block quote should look like this:

   .format-quote blockquote {
   	color: #555;
   	font-size: 17px;
   	margin: 0;
   }

   But it looks like any other block quote. Here's an example:
   http://www.fakebuddhaquotes.com/drop-by-drop/

   And although in the Twentyeleven theme I've added

   .format-quote .post-title {display:none;}

   the post title still stubbornly shows up. Presumably I'm missing something. Anyone care to point out what that might be?

2. Krishna
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   Are editing/customizing Twenty Eleven theme, or have you created its child theme?

3. Haecceity
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   I'm just editing the "out of the box" Twentyeleven theme. Is that a problem?

4. Krishna
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   Yes. Read the following.
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

5. Haecceity
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   Thanks. I was actually just reading that and creating a child theme (or at least copying the stylesheet from twenty eleven to a new directory.

   But ... why does the style declaration for .format-quote blockquote that's in twenty eleven not work?

6. Krishna
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   It works, try again. When learning new things, you may not get things working for the first time, every time.

7. Haecceity
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   What does "try again" mean? The rule's there in the stylesheet, and it's not being applied.

   What might I be missing?

8. Haecceity
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   Working on the child theme...

9. Haecceity
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   Well, this is where I say "duh" and realize that I should have paid more attention to what was going on in the stylesheet. It was just a silly mistake on my part and it's now sorted.

   Thanks for encouraging perseverance!

10. Krishna
    Volunteer Moderator
    Posted 11 months ago #
    

    Glad to note that you could solve the problem.

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