Title: Problems with "continue reading" button Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Problems with "continue reading" button * [GnosticGirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnosticgirl/) * (@gnosticgirl) * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-continue-reading-button/) * Hi, * I’m using a child-plan of the Twenty Eleven theme, and I am having issues with my “continue reading” button – currently the text is sitting at the bottom of the button on my featured post home page, instead of the center of it! My temporary site is [http://www.esotericwisdom.cu.cc/](http://www.esotericwisdom.cu.cc/). * Also I would like to change the font and the background color in the button. I read the [codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More#Designing_the_More_Tag) but it didn’t really explain these two changes and my limited knowledge isn’t helping. Can someone please help? * Thank you! Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-continue-reading-button/#post-2812388) * Start by sorting out some of the [markup errors](http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.esotericwisdom.cu.cc%2F). [http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_a_Website](http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_a_Website) * Thread Starter [GnosticGirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnosticgirl/) * (@gnosticgirl) * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-continue-reading-button/#post-2812463) * Hi Esmi, * Thanks for posting that. When I look at the errors though they seem (to me, a layman) that they are with the HTML code related to my plug-ins (i.e. my WP Boxer Pro Plug-in and my DKOATED CTA Buttons plug-in), or my hidden content, such as post meta data and the ‘Proudly powered by WordPress’ generator. I didn’t write this HTML code! If I knew how to I wouldn’t be using plug-ins! Hence unfortunately I don’t know how to fix those errors. * There are also formatting errors regarding my navigation menu. This is what I’ve added to my style.css regarding this menu: * ``` #access { background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #CDC0B0; display: block; float: left; margin: 0 auto; } #access a { font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #848484; font-family: Papyrus, Gudea, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; } ``` * Have I made errors in that? I am not sure where I am going wrong here and further I’m not sure how to fix the code that I didn’t write. Sorry if I am missing the obvious as to what I have done to cause the errors, and to cause the text inside the “continue reading” button to sit at the bottom. Can you give me some further insight? * [John Parris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mindctrl/) * (@mindctrl) * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-continue-reading-button/#post-2812470) * It looks like a padding issue. The line causing the problem is around 1421 or so in style.css: * ``` article.feature-image.small .entry-summary p a { padding: 9px 26px 9px 85px; } ``` * Changing the first 9px to 1px seems to fix it. Not sure if there are other places affected as I didn’t look that closely. * Thread Starter [GnosticGirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnosticgirl/) * (@gnosticgirl) * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-continue-reading-button/#post-2812472) * Oh thank you very much Mindctrl, adding that to my child style.css changing the first 9px to 1px did fix it! I had not modified my Twenty Eleven template though, and prior to this there was no reference to it in my child plan, so I wonder what I did to cause that? No doubt it has something to do with the errors in my page but I am lost on that front 🙁 * Thank you very much for your help! * Thread Starter [GnosticGirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnosticgirl/) * (@gnosticgirl) * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-continue-reading-button/#post-2812473) * I would also like to change the font type, color and the background color in the button – does anyone know how to do this in the style.css page? * [John Parris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mindctrl/) * (@mindctrl) * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-continue-reading-button/#post-2812477) * The color values are located in that same block. For example, to change the button to a red background with green text, you could do this: * ``` article.feature-image.small .entry-summary p a { background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FF0000; color: #2BFF00; } ``` * Thread Starter [GnosticGirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnosticgirl/) * (@gnosticgirl) * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-continue-reading-button/#post-2812480) * Okay sweet! Thank you so much, I’ll play around with it. REALLY appreciate your kind help 🙂 *shakes hand* Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Problems with "continue reading" button’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [button](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/button/) * [color](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/color/) * [font](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/font/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 7 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [GnosticGirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnosticgirl/) * Last activity: [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-continue-reading-button/#post-2812480) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics