borisdejong

Thank you for the elaborate answer, once again I admire your commitment to quality. But if my problems stem from my theme and I’m using Genji, then what is wrong with Genji?

Because I can’t change the fact that my char pics are aligning differently then before, and I can’t change it back.

🙂
Boris.

I’m so buying Kerouac as soon as my client gives me the go-ahead.

Hey thanks for sticking around to help me simple_m. I’m in Europe so, it was bedtime 7hrs ago.

Anyway I think what you proposed is what Nick Haskins has been trying to tell me all along. He just kindly said ‘use custom CSS’ but i had no idea where to start on that.

You’ve just given me an idea where to start (‘increase the top padding’) and thank you for that, but I do think I’ll need more than just CSS for the blockquote.

Look if you will at the paragraph under ‘Believers in biomass’ for example. It’s not just a blockquote: it’s a header and then a paragraph in white type over the image, and then having the black type continue under the image. I love that, it creates a playful and enticing flow in the narrative.

So ideally I want to be able to add that ‘increased top padding’ attribute to just about anything: blockquotes, Header 1s, header 2s, anything. That would be GRAND.

I’ll get started on the custom CSS to see how far I can get for blockquotes and maybe a child version of the Header 1, but I really also think this ‘increased top padding’ something Nick may want to consider adding to his Content component as such as well. It’s going to be a staple food for this kind of layouting, I’m sure.

OK thank god for that, I really appreciate your help.

Also, I found out more about the nixed line breaks.
This is apparently a given with WordPress: it often auto-deletes multiple line breaks.
Because I used this all over the place to create height in your content component, I need to find another way of doing this.

What I’m after is just putting up a picture and having a paragraph of text at its bottom, to guide the reader out of the image and back into the narrative.
I’ll bang my head some more and put up the results here.

It must be possible, and without resorting to Custom CSS… I still know next to nothing about that.

OK,

I’m now going into the text editor and entering </br> instead of nbsp; …. in hope that WordPress won’t nix those too.

the effect seems to hold up under screen resizing.

you see my point is not about padding… it’s about adding text at the BOTTOM of a picture.

Man I wish I could show this to you as I explain. I feel like this is something people will use in Aesop all the time… it;s such a common formatting choice for stories.

Last question though.

You can confirm that if I want to have a content component that is X lines high, I do have to enter X number of line breaks and then close with [/aesop content] tag?

That is the way to do this, right? Or is there a smoother way to set the height of the content component?

OK…..

So the content component doesn’t HAVE a height attribute.
And I’m SUPPOSED to use those line breaks then.

But then they shouldn’t be dissappearing in my editor like this, should they???

I still have to go by every content component (which I use everywhere in the post, it’s great – and re-enter those line breaks…

that is a drag, and feels unreliable. how do I prevent this from happening again?

I used line breaks all over the place to ‘create height’ because in the content component, oftentimes, the tag ‘height=”400″ doesn’t do anything.

have you noticed that btw?

[aesop_content height=”600px” position=”none” img=”http://storyfall.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/1403041243.jpg&#8221; imgrepeat=”no-repeat” color=”#d6d6d6″ background=”#333333″]

in the code above, the tag height=”600″ does not make a box of 600px. adding the px changes nothing either.

SO i used line breaks to manually create height…. *pant pant*

now I have to re-enter all those line breaks.