I’ve never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the kitchen, but can anyone who uses the Perch CMS (especially Perch Blog) on a regular basis explain the need for an app like Perch Feathers to do simple CSS styling?
This whole approach to styling CSS seems very convoluted to me.
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It’s simply a way to add commonly used assets like CSS or js across a site thereby (supposedly) streamlining your workload in developing a Perch site. It’s just a variation on how other CMS handle the same thing. You put whatever code you want to use in a Feather then call that particular Feather on multiple pages. You don’t need to use them.
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but can anyone who uses the Perch CMS (especially Perch Blog) on a regular basis explain the need for an app like Perch Feathers to do simple CSS styling?
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So if I don’t use Feathers, where is Perch Blog getting it’s default styling from?
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From the default blog stylesheet included with the app, unless of course you use your own ‘sheet instead. I don’t understand, you’ve styled a Perch blog in the past so how is it different now?
Todd
So if I don’t use Feathers, where is Perch Blog getting it’s default styling from?
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I used to place the Perch provided blog.css file in the FWP created CSS subdirectory and simply style that. But if I wasn’t careful the file would sometimes get deleted by accident, so I’m trying to improve my file organization so that doesn’t happen. I wonder if there’s an action I can use that would help me with this?
Quite frankly, sometimes I think I have a tendency to make things harder than the are. 
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That’s a perfectly reasonable approach in a non-Freeway world. There is an Action for including external files - though I can’t recall the name - which should do what you need.
Todd
I used to place the Perch provided blog.css file in the FWP created CSS subdirectory and simply style that. But if I wasn’t careful the file would sometimes get deleted by accident, so I’m trying to improve my file organization so that doesn’t happen. I wonder if there’s an action I can use that would help me with this?
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Another thing I failed to mention is that I’m trying to use the comments feature in Perch Blog, which looks like crap without the Feathers Quill CSS styling.
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What I would do is leave the Perch styling entirely stock, and use the External Stylesheets Action or the Upload Stuff Action + a line of hand-code to add a link to it in your Freeway-generated blog template pages. Make sure this is the first stylesheet in the page head, or at least make sure it occurs before you “reset” that sheet to your specific needs. Next thing you do is view the published page in a browser’s Developer Tools interface, and start inspecting the style names and inheritance so you know what styles to add to your Freeway template. Once you’ve made those, you can override the default Perch styles to your liking, or leave some of them alone if they work with your layout. It’s not a huge burden on the browser to have a style set one way and then another later in the same page – that’s what browsers are optimized to do, since they first apply their own default (internal) stylesheet and then apply other(s) later to alter that baseline.
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On Jun 6, 2014, at 10:10 AM, RavenManiac wrote:
Another thing I failed to mention is that I’m trying to use the comments feature in Perch Blog, which looks like crap without the Feathers Quill CSS styling.
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That sounds like a good plan. Thanks guys.
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