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Okay my bad, I thought you were looking for a mouseover effect not a ‘what page am I on’ effect. I didn’t read your post closely enough, take a look at this and it will walk you through doing what you’re trying to do with your navigation.

As Yogi pointed out you need to apply a class on the current page and then let the css dictate how that page appears as the class is assigned. I would go with ‘Method 2’ personally as it seems much cleaner in the end. Goodluck!

I’m not entirely sure what you’re getting at. The couple of times I’ve written child themes (not voluntarily) I never updated the parent theme after that point. If the parent theme updated (with say, a new version of WordPress) and I wanted to use that version I would go through it line by line and basically rewrite my child theme all over again to suit the functionality of the ‘new’ parent but I wouldn’t be trying to use an updated version of one paired with the original of the other (if that makes sense).

Where I’m getting confused is that it sounds like you’re talking about three versions of the same theme, the parent, the first child and modifications to the first child that you have personally made. If an update comes along ‘upstream’ from your code you’re going to have to let them ripple down and adapt code at every step of the way to suit. Long before I went to that much work I would scrap the idea of using another developers code and just write my own theme out using Bones or another rapid framework and update it myself as needed.

Hmm. Honestly I would just write my own child theme and not mess around with updating the origional child but I think you have the right idea with your three steps written out above. The whole point of using a child theme to me is not to end up in this type of situation in the first place, I wish I had a better answer for you.

Put the entire navigation in side a div that’s got a show/hide toggle on it? Can you clarify on what behavior your looking for here?

That would help. You might also try downloading the most recent version of Firefox and using the 3d visualized to get a better idea of exactly what elements your looking at changing and where they are in relation to each other.

Dont’ worry too much about the ‘looking like a blog’ thing. WordPress powers CNN and Martha Stewart and those don’t look like blogs so you’re probably good as long as you can get the stylesheet tweaked the way you want it.

With the clarification I can tell you that you have a margin set on .suf-flat-widget on line 2199 of your style.css. Nuke the margin (margins go clockwise top, right, bottom, left) so swap out that 8 with a zero. On line 52 you have a sidebar shell that is putting white around the edge, either kill that border-color:white or find where your shell is sized up a few pixels from your actual sidebar and set the two widths to be the same. Looks like you’ve got three containers shoehorned in there on that theme and that’s what’s causing the color issue.

Let me know if you continue to have trouble but killing those two lines fixed the issue in my firebug though it did remove some additional styling that you might want to add back in later.

Okay, so this is going to be a little on the complicated side. I’m assuming what you want to do is suppress the title on a certain view rather than suppress all titles everywhere on the blog. So what you’re going to want to do is change the name of the title container on the view where you DONT want it to appear to something original. The demo calls everything on the homepage ‘entry-title’ so you’d want to change one or more of them to something like ‘entry-title-hidden’ , then in the CSS set the class .entry-title-hidden { display:none;} and so on and so forth.

The problem with this is that it’s going to be uniform. Even posts that you give a title too will still not display that title when being called into that position where you have specified in your template that titles should be hidden.

This is a very specific tweak that you’re going to have to make on a case by case basis and it’s really hard when I don’t know exactly what page/post template you’re trying to modify. Hope that helps.