I’d use CSS for the red DEL elements
Simply add the following to the CSS
del { color: red; }
in fact, it gives me an idea for a blog i’m maintaining. 🙂 thanks!
thank you for that…. but question… where would i put that.. I know almost 0 about coding…
thanks so much!
glad I could help too.. would love to see your blog sometime too
We can’t take a look at your blog unless you give us a link.
If your front-page displays previews, it strips al formatting out first. This is part of the core WP behaviour, I think. See:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt
Also, you should make changes in a child theme if this is at all possible. This is especially true if you are modifying a default theme.
We’ll be able to comment better on the strikethrough issue when we can see it.
HTH
PAE
You put new style rules at the end of your child theme’s style.css file, as a rule.
Cheers
PAE
dang it…I keep trying to post it…its in my profile. let me try again.. not sure what I’m doing wrong but it doesn’t seem to want to let me post my blog link. In any event its at http://www.thirdailers.com THANK YOU!!
And thank you for the feedback…but treat me like the absolute novice I am… 🙂 Would that be pasted at the end of the style.css sheet? And would it strikethrough the text in red automatically? Once you see the site, you will know why both the automatic red strikethrough and the front page strikethroughs showing up is so important.
THANKS!!!
@kiran-thirdrailers
Persoannly, I like using a Custom CSS plugin for special stuff like that.
But, like @peredur said, you should add it to the end of your style.css child theme file. If you add it to your template theme, you’d loose the changes on the theme update.
Also, there are lots of other things i want to do… but I’d like to make my masthead (Header) image larger (height) than it is now… but every time I try and change the “wrapper”? dimensions it won’t show up.
Kiran,
What theme are you using?
Are you using a child theme for your changes?
And your link doesn’t work.
peter@peter-Aspire-X5400 ~ $ ping www. thirdtrailers.com
ping: unknown host www. thirdtrailers.com
Ignore the space in the hostname above, it’s to try to stop the forum software from inserting the http protocol in front of the domain.
Cheers
PAE
after a view source code – it’s a template theme
Theme Name: Cover WP
Theme URI: http://www.onedesigns.com/wordpress-themes/cover-wp
they too have a support forum
http://www.onedesigns.com/support/forum.php?id=10
PAE I might have accidentally put an errant “t” in there…. try…. http://www.thirdrailers.com
I am using cover wp theme
and yes…using a mystyle.css to make changes…
(well, most of them 🙂 i think I made a few font size changes before realizing that I needed to do it in another file)
you add at piece of code to the last line on your mystyle.css
I really wish I knew more about coding..because there are a number of fixes/tweaks I need to make to this theme… but oh well. 🙂
thanks for all your help!
It’s not that hard, if you’re using the <del> element, you can apply the CSS to that particular element, and even get real detailed but for this instance, let’s keep it simple.
Open your mystyle.css file and scroll to the bottom. At the last bit of code, enter “Return” a couple of times and insert the following line:
/* My custom style fixes */
That will be your area to add custom CSS.
After that, you’ll want to add the following bit of code. This tells the <del> elements what color they will be.
del { color: red; }
Hope this helps,
Jorge
Using a separate stylesheet is not the same as using a child theme, but never mind…
And I still can’t open your link. Are you sure the server is on the public internet?
Cheers
PAE
