[bowessurnames]

Sorry Skandha, you have been helpful indeed, but I’m having a terrible time trying to log into WordPress to leave a review. I just fixed my login the other day and now it won’t work again. Grrrr. Will try to get to it later. I’m out of time trying today.

[bowessurnames]

Thanks Skandha. I already had Catch Web Tools installed and with that tip was able to get it updated. All’s well 🙂

[bowessurnames]

Thanks. https://bowes.one-name.net/ and

An error occurred while updating Catch Box Pro: Update package not available.
Disabling Maintenance mode…
All updates have been completed.

Oddly it always says the update was completed despite the error, while my dashboard continues to tell me it wasn’t.

[bowessurnames]

I’ve been having the same issue from version 4.9.5.3.

[bowessurnames]

I see I need to update Catch Box Pro. It says, ‘Please Note: Any customizations you have made to theme files will be lost. Please consider using child themes for modifications.’ … I added the custom CSS under Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS. Will I lose this when I update and need to have a child theme instead?

TIA

[bowessurnames]

Thanks, that makes sense. I didn’t know if the feature was included in Catch Box Pro. I’d already tried searching plugins and couldn’t find any. Must not be hitting on the right search terms for it 🙁

[bowessurnames]

Thanks, I’ll just leave the page titles then. At least I know I’m not missing something simple to do.

What’s not showing on Firefox Mac (on my computer) are the names in the content area, which are set in bold and show in bold in the other browsers.

Re: the Heading 4 customization, what I now find is that after publishing, Heading 4s look correct on the public side, but in the Visual edit page they are in a different font, size and not bold, they way they were before adding your CSS to make them the default template Heading 4. So the CSS works on the public side, but not in my Visual editing window.

Thanks again. I’m excited about using Catch Box Pro 🙂

[bowessurnames]

Sorry for the confusion. The link is to my old website at Google Sites. I’m transferring all the content over to my new WordPress website using Catch Box Pro, and after I’m done I’ll retire the Google Site venue. The link from the site I’m retiring is just to show what I’m trying to accomplish in Catch Box Pro with the callout and word wrap concept. If it’s not possible I may have to use a sidebar to contain the widget, but was hoping it might be possible.

[bowessurnames]

Hi, Sorry to bother you again Skandha. Your code for the Heading 4 worked on the ones that had already been typed in, but when I add new Heading 4s into pages it doesn’t apply. Any thoughts how to get this to apply to all new Heading 4s?

[bowessurnames]

This page I have the names in bold. They show up in bold in Mac Chrome and Safari, but not Mac Firefox? https://bowes.one-name.net/immigration/to-australia/

[bowessurnames]

Thanks so much! Actually I goofed when I put Research. It’s Records. I’ve since changed the menu items a bit too.

Your tips did the trick. Yea!

Now I’m wondering how to turn off the “page title” (my words) that appears at the top of the content pages. It’s the same as what appears in as the menu item, but since I’ve customized the menu to show which page is active, I don’t need the page title taking up screen space. However, when it’s a subpage under a menu, then I need the title to show because the reader won’t see what subpage they’re on. Does that make sense? What is the customary way to handle this?

Really appreciate the help! 🙂

[bowessurnames]

Can I remove the “Blog” pane above the posts? https://bowes.one-name.net/blog/

[bowessurnames]

Oh my gosh, I keep noticing more. At what point do you charge for this help, or is it all just part of being in the support forum?

I’ve noticed that while all my menu links are in all caps (which I like), where the page title is repeated at the top of each page below the menus, sometimes it is all caps and other times uppercase/lowercase, and in the case of the Blog page it is in a totally different size and color. These should all be consistent. I prefer the menu links in all caps and the page title in the main body to be upper/lower, but for the life of me I can’t figure out how they got all mixed up or how to fix it. Everywhere I change the page titles to be upper/lower in the main body — menu organization or page edit/quick edit — it also becomes upper/lower in the menu links.

There must be a secret fix to this somewhere.

[bowessurnames]

This page shows the lists with too much white space before and after. It would also be good to indent the lists by five spaces. http://bowes.one-name.net/home/

[bowessurnames]

I can’t thank you enough. I’m a full-time family caretaker and its very hard for me to fit my hobby in, and I’ve fallen very behind but trying to get this website off the ground. I am transferring from a Google site. So far copying and pasting the code from my Google Site pages, with some tweaking, works pretty well.

I added font-weight: normal; to the ‘body input text’ area and that helped a lot, but it became too black, so I went with #000033 for now (will test in daylight without my blue light filter on).

I then took the bold out of the menu links in your code, and just having them in font-weight: normal was what I was after. It seems the default font weight in the theme wasn’t normal or bold but what I’d call anemic and hard to read, whatever the technical term. I hope my preference doesn’t look garish to people in these days of light gray text and low contrast. The menu links are now only bold when active.

If I haven’t overstayed my welcome too much yet, I’d like snippets of code to:

1. make the blue hyperlinks normal weight too (these are in the widgets and the ‘body input text’), and
2. change the default space between paragraphs, and between lists/blockquotes and the text before and after, from double space to 1.5 space.

My other questions aren’t so much formatting, so I’ll start another thread on them.

Many many thanks! Martha

[bowessurnames]

Well I found the template editor with the code and tried to find the right things and tweak them, but when I did nothing change on the published web pages.

[bowessurnames]

I guess I’m going to need the blue link text in bold too. The font is so anemic on its own. Not sure how anyone could comfortably read that, but maybe it’s just me.

[bowessurnames]

I really appreciate your help. I may not be stating this one right. Where you say ‘For color of main text, goto Appearance-> Customize-> Colors -> Basic Colors-> Header Text Color. Change it to any color you want..’ … that changes the Header font color, not the main text color. So when I type, say, a blog post, it’s the font color in the page body that I’m trying to adjust.

This works good:

#site-description {
font-weight: bold;
}

For the horizontal menu, I think you’re right that it’s white (I temp disabled my blue light filter). I should first try making it bold, I assume similar to the site-description but using a different #___:

#______?______ {
font-weight: bold;
}

Maybe that’s all the main body text needs too, as long as some how the text headers are differentiated enough.

Thanks again! I used to do html back in the day, but tendon problems put a stop of this sort of thing, so I don’t know anything anymore.

[bowessurnames]

Yikes, don’t know why the quote block for the ‘list’ looks so big. Now I see where the LI code is, doh.

[bowessurnames]

Hi, thanks! Here’s the link http://bowes.one-name.net/home/ I would love to have:

The font in the main text darker, probably black

The font for ‘including Bowe and other variants from around the world!’ to be same color but darker or weightier

The horizontal link text to be white (looks grey right now?). If they are already white they may just need to be bold for better contrast because the font is so thin

I’m open to ideas. If it would be easier to just change all fonts to a weightier non-serif font like Arial or Helvetica, and then just make the main text black, that might work too.

It’s going to be a text-heavy website so readability and contrast is important.

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