Hi there,

The styling for the first letter is controlled in the "style.css" file, around line 173...

.entry p:first-child:first-letter {
font-size:330%;
float: left;
margin:10px 10px 0 0;
}

You can either adjust this styling to fit your specific needs or remove it altogether.

Thanks!

Chris

Follow up

The Big drop down J has many, many spaces until it reaches the rest of the word azz
It is only the first letter that is problematic. The second line of heading
lines up perfectly without the G of Green being far removed from the rest of the word.

I have tried to centre a heading and some subheadings at the top of my post.
When I preview the post, it looks perfect. When it is published, the first letter of the top heading is far, far to the left.

Jazz, Televised Carpenter
Green Planet Studios

This is how the published lines look

BIG Drop down j azz, Televised Carpenter
Green Planet Studios

Is there a general manual for the Novelist theme?

Hi Chris,
Thanks for getting back to me. The blog display page works well with the pics i.e. all the pics are aligned. But when you click the category menu underneath "blog" and go to any category, the pics are not aligned anymore. If you go to "well-being", for example, the first two post pics are aligned because that's how they appear on the general blog page (because the dates are consecutively descending e.g. 6/27 and 6/26.... But then the next page in the category is "how you just might be a shit head" and "cliquey behavior" and the pic alignment is thrown off. I figured that I would have to take the long painstaking route and make sure that when I make post pics aligned on the blog page, I would have to make sure that certain post pics would have to appear next to each other (in categories) so that the alignment is kept. But I was wondering if there was another way I could do that without having to go back and changing the order of all my pics/posts...? Like, making a default size for all pics so that no matter what size they are when uploaded they all keep a certain size. Does that make sense?

@Kindra30

what browser/os Im not seeing it kick the alignment off on this page http://wwtf.me/category/wtf-well-being ?

-Chris K

hi,
so the last issue i had was with the blog page display (of all my blog posts). well, just in case anyone is having problems, i got around it! i guess the novelist works best with a two-page display setting...? for example, before i had my blog page settings set to show 6 posts at a time, but this was causing problems with the layout. well, i set it to show 2 posts at a time, and it works fine. http://wwtf.me/wtf-blog
but now...!
i don't know if this can be resolved...all of my pics and posts display fine (2 at a time) on my blog page...i painstakingly worked to have the dimensions of each pic (that accompanies a post)lined up size-wise, but i have categories...and if you click the "well-being" category, for example, this throws the alignment of each pic off. http://wwtf.me/category/wtf-well-being
any ideas of how to fix this?

Hi Chris,
Thanks so much for the help. Ugh, I don't know. I guess when I get around to it, I'll look at uploading the original code for the theme. I'm new at all this stuff, but I'm thinking that it's pretty weird that I might have to do that considering that the changes I made were so small. I'm pretty confused. But thanks so much.

Hey Kinda,

I checked both the demo and your site when I validated, Im not validating the CSS rather than html/output of the php.

your site http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwwtf.me%2Fwtf-blog%2Fpage%2F2&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

the demo http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fthemes.themolitor.com%2Fwpnovelist%2Fpage%2F2%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.3

Im thinking its that open tag thats breaking the layout, youll need to fix all the validation errors and it should fix the site

or if you can't/dont know how to youll need to load a new copy of the theme that hasnt been modified

-Chris K

Hi Chris,
I have made some changes in the code, but they were what I thought minor. Things like font and font size, how the date is displayed on my blog, what the bottom words say when asking people to comment on my blog...small stuff. but validators will find errors in the original css of the theme as well. and i'm thinking there might not be errors in the demo if nothing is in it.

Hey,

have you modified or edit the code at all, when running it through the validator Im getting some validation error which dont exist in the demo

-Chris K

hi chris,
thanks for the help! and ooh, i didn't notice that everything is aligned straight from page 2, but is there a way to fix that since most people will use the arrow pointer to navigate? i don't have any plug-ins, no nothing, other than what the novelist came with. i'm a lot better than when i first started a few months ago, but i'm still a newbie with all this coding, etc. so i'm too afraid to do anything that even smells like major.

Hello,

so taking a quick look there seems to be a js error(which may or may not be causing the issue)

if you go directly to page 2 http://wwtf.me/wtf-blog/page/2 you don't see the alignment issue

do you have any plugins other than theme related ones Im thinking one may conflicting with the JS?

as for 3.4.1 you should be able to update fine

-Chris K

Hi guys (Justin, and happy belated b-day Molitor!),
I'm forever grateful for the Novelist and your support so far :-).
I have a question about the blog post page (i.e. when you click on "blog" on the menu and it shows up to 4,6, or whatever number of blog posts you want on one page). I have chosen 6 as my number i.e. I would like 6 posts to display per page on my blog page.
http://wwtf.me/wtf-blog
Well, it shows 6 posts perfectly on the 1st page (2 posts side-by-side), but when you click the arrow to get to the 2nd and 3rd pages (and so on), the posts stop being aligned on certain pages. one blog post may drop way down while the spot next to it remains empty.
http://wwtf.me/wtf-blog
any ideas or is this the way it's supposed to be?
also, is the novelist compatible with wordpress 3.4.1 yet?