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Wordpress: why do some of the custom themes only show a post tease?

by steadypay
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On another site I wanted post tease and didn't have it by default but on this new site with another theme I don't want it and the tease seems to be stuck on by default?

I looked on the reading bit and it says show full text so I dunno why it's doing it.

I tried switching to a default theme and it shows the full text but of the two new themes I installed today it seems to do it for both.

How do I rectify this?

Also there is a theme I like pretty much except it had two sidebars. I removed one in the editor but now alot of the page is wasted. I want to move the remaining sidebar to the far right and have the main text body take up more of the page. How do I do this?
#custom #post #show #tease #themes #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author jlandells
    The 'tease' is often hard coded into the PHP of themes so if you're familiar with PHP, have a dig around in the main page for your theme and you should be able to find it. It could be that the theme is using "the_excerpt()" rather than "the_content()" to display either the excerpt of each post (if available) or the first 55 words of the post.

    Check out this page for more info:

    The Loop in Action « WordPress Codex

    In terms of getting your content to fit your page correctly, you're going to have to dig into the CSS. Since every theme is different, I can't really help you too much directly, but I can recommend a few things that might help you:

    1) The Web Developer Toolbar (for Firefox) allows you to click on individual elements on your page, and see the exact CSS that's generating it, and find which file and line to change if you want to update it. You can get this toolbar at Web Developer

    2) If you're not 100% comfortable with CSS, check out the book "CSS Web Site Design" by "Eric A Meyer". It's probably the best book that I've found on the subject.

    Hope this helps!

    Kind regards,
    -John.
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  • Profile picture of the author steadypay
    Thanks,

    I have a couple more things I wanna do which I failed miserably at yesterday...

    The text is currently on the right and the sidebar on the left by default in the theme and I want them the other way round.

    Also I'd like to change the text colour from grey to white.

    I tried editing the style.css yesterday but screwed it up and got annoyed and started shouting and hitting my head with my fist . I guess I'll try more slowly.
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  • Profile picture of the author richrajeevkistoo
    it would take you less time to just find a theme that matches your requirements, there are tons out there. Tweaking is endless...

    otherwise these guys will do it for free, check outsourcing-unleashed.com as long as it takes less than 5 hours.

    hope this helps.

    Rajeev
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