Suggestion for quotes

  • Resolved pastor.healer

    (@pastorhealer)


    10 years, 8 months ago

    I wonder if the developer for Pluto would be willing to change the way quotes and handled?

    Currently when I try to put a highlighted quote in the middle of a page or post text all it does is indent the text. When I watch teh 4.3 wordpress update video, it shows the shortcut > being used for adding quotes with a vertical bar and the text highlighted. That would be great!

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  • stephencottontail

    (@stephencottontail)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    You could change how quotes are displayed with some custom CSS. Can you post a link to a page that shows a highlighted quote that you’d like to change?

    Thread Starter pastor.healer

    (@pastorhealer)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for your help. Sorry for the delay to get back to you. Right now I don’t have any quotes because they don’t do anything but set the text to the right by a tab distance. faithtabernaclechurch.org I would like to use quotes on some of pages on the menu. Thanks Stephen!

    stephencottontail

    (@stephencottontail)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    How are you adding these quotes? Are you using the <blockquote> tag? Can you post a page (not necessarily on your site) that shows how you’d like the quotes to look?

    Thread Starter pastor.healer

    (@pastorhealer)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    So I just posted a quote on this page….

    http://faithtabernaclechurch.org/home-2/experience/

    I showed how the new wordpress quote places a quote and then used the blockquote. When I look at the wordpress release for putting in a > before anything I want to be quoted all I get is what I typed indented. I hope I am making sense here.

    If I type >Quote here as WordPress 4.3 teaches I get this

    Quote here

    stephencottontail

    (@stephencottontail)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    To clarify, are you using the “quote” button in the Visual editor? You could make your blockquotes mimic that style with some custom CSS:

    article blockquote {
	background: inherit;
	border-left: 4px solid #d9d9d9;
	font-style: italic;
	margin: 0 1.5em 1.5em 0;
	padding: 1em 0 1em 1.5em;
}

article blockquote:before {
	content: '';
	top: 0;
	left: 0;
}

article blockquote p {
	margin-bottom: 0;
}
    Thread Starter pastor.healer

    (@pastorhealer)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    That works perfect! Thank you so much. I guess what is confusing to me is that the video for the release of 4.3 shows that I can just type an open > bracket before anything I want to quote and it will do the formatting as your css did. Is it a Pluto theme issue then that is holding that feature back?

    stephencottontail

    (@stephencottontail)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Theme authors can include an editor stylesheet with their theme to change how the Visual editor is displayed. The video uses the Twenty Fifteen theme, which does include an editor stylesheet that styles the <blockquote> tag to look like that. Pluto’s theme author includes an editor stylesheet, but chose not to specifically style the <blockquote> tag within the editor.

    Thread Starter pastor.healer

    (@pastorhealer)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    That makes so much sense now. Thank you again for your help. Your code works perfectly. There are rules about WordPress I am still learning… such as custom css. Otherwise things go bump in the night without explanation.

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