page template

[amr]

I took your default page template and changed the post area to white.
But I want one page template which would be all black - just as it is in your dark theme. How do I do it? I crerated a black page template, but it doesn't work.

[Connie]

This is generally a WordPress Question and you should try to find the answer there at WordPress.org

using different templates for pages
I am not sure if WP supports this.

[amr]

yes connie WP does. Suffusion already gives you 4 diferent templates - I just need an additional one for the dark theme

[Connie]

Sorry, I was disorientated .... I thought template for post, for pages sure...

excuse me.

You can create your own page template, give it a name and copy it into the themes-folder.

It needs this text on top:

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<?php
/**
 * Template Name: NameOfYourTemplate
 *
 * @package Suffusion
 * @subpackage Templates
 */

get_header();
?>

See here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages

As a starter, you could copy the standard-page-template and give it a different stylesheet with the dark variants

[amr]

Hi, did all that and it even shows up in my template menu for pages, but I can't get it to be all black. Urll is here
http://perspectives.apps01.yorku.ca/featured-stories/

[sayontan]

You have a lot of problems here:

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    <div id="main-col"; style='background-color: #00000;'>
 style='background-color: #00000;'>
  <div id="content">

              <div class="post fix" id="post-25" style='background-color: #00000;'>


1. There should be no semi-colon after main-col in the first line
2. There are only 5 0's in the color in the first line - there should be 6
3. The second line shouldn't be there - it is wrong, syntactically and otherwise
4. The color again has 5 0's in the last line

Instead of using a new page template you can put this in custom styles:

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#post-26 {
        background-color: #000000;
        color: #ffffff;
}

[amr]

Oh, thanks, the custom style solution did not work but correcting the template did. I have made it work on my other site, but could not here. I know abs nothing about coding, so your help is GREATLY appreciated

[sayontan]

My mistake - it should have been #post-25, not #post-26. Basically I used your post ID to provide a custom style for that post alone - this will not apply to anything else.

[amr]

thanks again, does it mean I can do it for any post? Great!
I love your theme, as you can see

[sayontan]

Yes, basically you can override the default ".post" CSS setting that applies to all posts and pages with an id-specific tag, like "#post-25" or any other such post id. A "." refers to a class and a "#" refers to an id, and id takes precedence over class. You can define custom styles using this approach.