Formatting comment spacing?


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Peter McCormick

Posted: 3/17/2009
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I'm new to Wordpress and Artisteer but have fumbled my way along to get a test site up at
<a href="http://turfnet.com/career/">http://turfnet.com/career/</a>
. This is a companion styled to mimic our main site.

Unless I'm blind, I see no way in Artisteer to adjust the padding and margins for the comment area. I'd like to tighten up the comment spacing (reduce the white space), add a background image or color to visually separate the comments, and maybe a horizontal rule between posts.

If it requires editing the CSS file, I can do that but would prefer not to as future tweaks in Artisteer would overwrite them.

Any guidance would be appreciated.
 
Marc Smith

Posted: 3/17/2009
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As far as I know, there is no abiity to edit comment attributes via Artisteer, it would have to be done in the CSS/PHP code.

Look for the following, it may help

margin-bottom:14px
in the comments CSS area.
 
Peter McCormick

Posted: 3/17/2009
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Thanks, Marc, that's kind of what I thought. Would be a nice upgrade to Artisteer.

Anybody else have any suggestions? I have seen nicely formatted WP comments at various sites, but am at a loss how to do it between styles.css and comments.php as generated by Artisteer.
 
Marc Smith

Posted: 3/17/2009
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Peter,

To tighten up the comment spacing, just look for the line I gave you above and change the 14px value to a smaller number, then refresh the page.

You would only have to edit the PHP if you wanted to put in code, like a horizontal rule or an image of a line between the comments.