Comments on: Personalizing Your WordPress.com Blog

By: timethief

timethief — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:49:39 +0000

There is no 3 column option for the Inuit Types theme layout. The only layout choices are found under > Appearance > Theme Options
These may also be helpful:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/featured-postsimages-in-inuit-types/
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/header-image-in-inuit-types/

By: gettingtheremyway

gettingtheremyway — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:41:52 +0000

Hi TimeThief,
I am very sorry, because I already know this is probably the wrong place to ask you a question, but I really couldn’t find the appropriate place. (Is there a place where your readers can ask for specific help?)
I have been playing around with my http://findingpassionforlife.wordpress.COM and I cannot for the life of me seem to change the columns in the “Inuit Types” theme from two to three? I know if can be done, because I had this theme for a while with three columns. I was just experimenting with other themes, to brighten my blog for summer but now I can’t get it back to what it looked like before. Do you know where the option to change it from two columns to three is??
Your help would be sooooo greatly appreciated. I am so frustratingly annoyed by this hour long struggle to do something I am sure is simple!! Erg!
Thanks for taking the time to read!
Best,
S.

By: timethief

timethief — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:31:59 +0000

@Carla
You’re welcome. As you have a AddThis widget in your sidebar you can simply change the tittle for the text widget it’s in to “Add to Favorites”.

By: carlaspacher

carlaspacher — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:11:10 +0000

Thank you very much and sorry for posting in the wrong place. I had a couple of windows opened with your posts.

I already have the follow widgets in my side bar and wanted something that says “Add to favorites” in my side bar. If you ever run across any html for this please let me know.

Thanks,
Carla

By: timethief

timethief — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:16:26 +0000

@carlapacher
No that is it NOT what I said to you on the forum. What happened there is that you are new and inappropriately posted into a thread on a completely different topic. The thread was on the topic of CSS editing and your post into it was on the topic of using a mybloglog javascript widget. These two are unrelated topics.

The code restrictions apply to ALL of those who have blogs being free hosted by wordpress.COM, whether or not they have purchased a CSS upgrade, domain mapping upgrade or any other upgrade. We cannot use javscript and other restricted codes period. If we do then the software will strip them out to preserve security. http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/

There are mybloglog badges you can use but you cannot use the mybloglog widgets because they are javascript widgets, and there is no upgrade you can purchase for a free hosted wordpress.com blog that will allow you to use javascript or any other restricted code.

We cannot add themes to our wordpress.COM blogs as there is no FTP access. We are limited to the themes found in the dashboard under Appearance > Themes. Themes found on the internet are coded for self-hosted wordpress blogs using the software from wordpress.ORG and wordpress.COM runs on different software.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

If you have CSS editing experience, you can get the paid custom CSS upgrade and renew it annually. It will allow you to stylize the appearance of themes you find here > Appearance > Themes. The Custom CSS Upgrade, however, does NOT grant you the ability to edit the core PHP and HTML template files of any theme. This functionality is only applicable to privately-hosted blogs and sites using the WordPress.org software. If you require this functionality then consider the WordPress.ORG alternative. wordpress.COM and wordpress.ORG the differences > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

The Custom CSS Upgrade does NOT enable the permission to use advertising, any kind of prohibited code,or upload additional themes and plugins. With the upgrade, your blog will still be hosted here at WordPress.com, which means that you will not have FTP access to your files and must still abide by the Terms of Service accordingly. Also note that CSS is theme specific, so you cannot use the CSS stylesheets from other themes with the themes here at wordpress.COM.

Since there is no official support for the CSS upgrade, and precious little volunteer support I recommend that you don’t buy the upgrade unless you have at least moderate understanding of HTML and CSS because you must be prepared to do the work on your own.

If you are considering purchasing the upgrade, you can go to Appearance > Edit CSS. There wordpress has provided a preview function where you can try before you buy.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-css/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/editing-css/

Lastly wordpress.COM does not provide followers or add to favorites widgets. If you wish you can post either a blog subscription widget in your sidebar http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/blog-subscription-widget/ or a RSS Links Widget http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/rss-links-widget/

I hope this clears up your confusion.

By: carlaspacher

carlaspacher — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:04:52 +0000

Thank you for all of your great information!!! This may be a little off topic, but you mentioned not being able to use Javascript unless you have opted for the CSS upgrade it reminded me of the trouble I have been having finding html code that would create a button that says “Add to Favorites” so that it would serve as a reminder to people. Do you know of or have such html code?

Thanks so much!

Calra