Background colour on Slideshow Pages

[PatrickCunningham]

First, thank you for this amazing theme. We are a charity (non-profit) organisation and we much appreciate all the effort and time that has gone into it.

The forum is an amazing help. With its help I've managed to achieve nearly all that I want. Our new site isn't live yet, but you can see it here:
http://www.ipcst.org/blog

I want to include some slideshows embedded from Photoshelter, like the one on this page:
http://ipcst.org/blog/?page_id=381

To get the black background, I ended up with the following 'custom includes':
#post-381 {
background-color: #000000;
margin: 0;
}
#post-381 .posttitle {
color: #FFFFFF;
}
.page-id-381 #content {margin:0;}
.page-id-381 #wrapper {padding:0;}

which works OK, but I need to make over a dozen similar slideshow pages. Is there a more elegant way to get the solid black background on multiple pages? I'm learning, but not very skilled at css.

Patrick Cunningham

[Colin]

Patrick,

A couple of thoughts. If most of your pages have slideshows then make that the default selection in your Suffusion options and then just do the custom styles for the pages that don't have slideshows.

You maybe better off with a child theme and create your own page template with your slideshow settings and then use that as the page template for the slideshow pages.

There are probably other ways but that is all I can think of for now.

[PatrickCunningham]

Hi Colin, thanks for your suggestions. I'll look into the child theme idea, it's not something I've used before. The site has lots of pages apart from the galleries, so changing the defaults won't work.

Patrick Cunningham

[Colin]

Patrick,

In that case IMHO a child theme is the way to go. Sayontan has written a child theme starter pack that will get you going. Then if you search on his blog and also on Wordpress.org you will find more about child themes that should get you going.