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You seem to have solved the font color problem in your child theme’s css.

Check out bootswatchr.com. It lets you build a custom version of bootstrap with colors and fonts of your choice (among other things). This would greatly simplify your child theme’s style.css.

Also, you seem to have something strange going on with this link in your page.

‘<link href=”http://withaspin.com/?custom-css=1&csblog=1&cscache=6&csrev=20&#8243; type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet”>’

When I inspect it with Firebug, this link seems to be duplicating and overwriting all the css in your child theme’s style.css. This seems to be related to Jetpack’s custom css feature (http://www.wpwp.org/forums/topic/conflict-with-jetpack-custom-css-plugin/). If you have a child theme, you can modify the child’s style.css (and do a lot of other things wordpress.com doesn’t allow), so you don’t need Jetpack’s custom css feature. So might want to turn off Jetpack’s custom css to avoid injecting a lot of duplicate content for people to download.

I think what you want is in the_bootstrap_register_scripts_styles. The sequence of linked files here seems to match if I make allowances for plugins.

See codex for get_template_directory_uri at http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_template_directory_uri which warns that the function gets the parent’s directory, not the child’s and gives an alternate function.

But it would be nice if there was a way to set this in the theme customizer. If nothing else, you could point to a differently named bootstrap.min.css in the-bootstrap/css. Updating the parent shouldn’t overwrite it. (Should also be able to set the version in case people update bootstrap.css out of sync with the parent theme. And of course, all the bootstrap files should be included.)

Take a look at theme-customizer.php in the-bootstrap/inc. It isn’t hard to add things here. You’d need to modify the function above to use the values you set. Once you have it working, submit it on git so Konstantin can pick it up.

As I was experimenting last night, I found that get_the_excerpt will attempt to put the link in (even if I remove filter), and if the excerpt is short, that can mess up the HTML. I modified an example function from codex to grab the post’s excerpt text directly rather than use functions. If there is no excerpt, grab the first chunk of the article with a little extra. Then whack it down to the desired length, always terminating on a whole word.

function the_excerpt_max_charlength($charlength) {
	$post = get_post();
	$excerpt = $post->post_excerpt;
	$charlength++;

	if (mb_strlen($excerpt) == 0) $excerpt = mb_substr($post->post_content, 0, $charlength + 5);

	if ( mb_strlen( $excerpt ) > $charlength ) {
		$subex = mb_substr( $excerpt, 0, $charlength - 5);
		$exwords = explode( ' ', $subex );
		$excut = - ( mb_strlen( $exwords[ count( $exwords ) - 1 ] ) );
		if ( $excut < 0 ) {
			echo mb_substr( $subex, 0, $excut );
		} else {
			echo $subex;
		}
	} else {
		echo $excerpt;
	}
	echo ' [. . .]';
}

So, I’m trying to remove the Continue Reading link too. I put this in my child theme’s functions.php and I’m still getting a Continue Reading link. Did I miss something here? Thanks.

function remove_excerpt_more_link() {
	remove_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'the_bootstrap_custom_excerpt_more' );
	remove_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'the_bootstrap_auto_excerpt_more' );
}

add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'remove_excerpt_more_link' );

A bit confused here. In the-bootstrap’s Customize section, you can set the site title and tag text. These do affect the site.

The colors are set by the bootstrap css. You can customize colors, etc. at the bootstrap git here or use bootswatch or a site like this.

The site title in the header is a link, so inherits it’s color from the a element. So you could change the default link color using one of the sites above. If you only want to change the site title link’s color, you should be able to style #site-title in a child theme.

The site title in the navbar is set by .navbar.brand. Again, you should be able to customize this in a child theme if you wanted.

But note that if you only change the title’s color, you’re breaking the site’s consistency, which is what bootstrap tries to drive.