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Colorize the teaser text

Nasty — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:54:03 +0000

In your custom.ss file add the following code. You can put it anywhere you want but I recommend putting it at the top. Remember,
once you make the change, save it, and upload the new file to your server. Always describe what you’re doing by putting your
description between the comment tags /* */ at the beginning shown below in green. The comments aren’t shown on your rendered page and it just makes things easier for you to remember…

/*colorize the teaser text*/
.custom .teaser .format_teaser {color: #ff33ee ;}

Chose whatever hexidecimal color gives the desired effect

Colorize the teaser content

Nasty — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:45:22 +0000

If you want to get an effect similar to this…

In your custom.ss file add the following code. You can put it anywhere you want but I recommend putting it at the top. Remember, once you make the change, save it, and upload the new file to your server. Always describe what you’re doing by putting your description between the comment tags /* */ at the beginning shown below in green. The comments aren’t shown on your rendered page and it just makes things easier for you to remember…

/*colorize the teaser content*/
.custom .teaser .format_teaser { background-color: #eeeeee ;}

Pick whatever hexidecimal color gives the desired effect

Change the “link to full article” text

Nasty — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:02:51 +0000

Go to Dashboard —-> Appearance —->Design Options…

Type whatever you want to display inside the white box, hit the save button

Just teasers with no feature

Nasty — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:45:22 +0000

If you want to learn the basics of the features and teasers check out this tutorial

You can set it up so it just shows teasers with no feature article like this…

Go to Dashboard —-> Appearance —-> Design Options…

Pick 0 from the drop down list and get a look like the above homepage with no feature article, just teasers. Remember you can determine the number of teasers to show by checking out this tutorial

Using features and teasers

Nasty — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:27:00 +0000

Go to Dashboard —-> Appearance —->Design Options…

Make sure that features and teasers are chosen in the dropdown menu and hit the save button…

Now this is where you have to figure out how many teasers you want to show. Go to Dashboard —-> Settings —->Reading…

With the number 3 I have in the box that gives me the look of the above homepage. For example if I chose to have 10 posts show it would look like this…