I’m so new it’s not funny (well, maybe a little funny)

There are at least Patriotic themes for WordPress per Google, so not sure which one you’re using.
Open up the style.css in you Patriotic theme folder with notepad or bbedit and check to make sure that the opening characters /*for the style sheet are not missing. If so, replace. This is how top of style sheet should look like

/*
Theme Name: Theme's name
Theme URI: https://themeurl.etc
Description: A Theme
Author: Theme Author
Author URI: https://themeurl.etc
*/

Guess I’m newer than I thought ??

The specific theme I’m working with is Patriotic Version 1.0 by wpdesigner.com

I opened up the style.css through the WordPress admin because I can’t figure out how to open it in notepad.

I changed Theme URI to reflect my website’s name but I’m not getting the look I want.

Is there some additional information I can give you to show you what it looks like and what I want it to look like?

Thanks for the help.

Susan

Don’t change the theme URI. That is for the designer of the theme.

Right click on the graphic you want to change, and check the name of the file. Then search for that file in style.css, and change it to what you want. If you want text there instead, you’ll have to change that in header.php.

Re-reading what your problem was – if that is what is causing the extra text, the missing */ or /*, then that’s what you should change. Those are tags which enclose the comments that tell WordPress what theme name, and credits the author, etc. You don’t change the theme URI, which would make no difference anyway.

Here is the link to my site: https://www.progressiveoutlook.com

What I’m trying to do is get rid of the words “Patriotic 1.0 by wpdesigner.com” in the blue box, and replace it with what I want to put there.

Maybe it seeing exactly what the problem is will help you help me figure out what to do.

Thanks!!!!

OK – that image is inside <div class=”banner”> in your theme – not sure where that would be, I suspect in header.php.

The location of the image is:

https://www.progressiveoutlook.com/wp-content/themes/_ControlPanel/patriotic-10/images/banner.jpg

You can either upload a replacement image named banner.jpg to the wp-content/theme/_ControlPanel/patriotic-18/images directory, or you can go into header.php (or wherever) and put your text inside that banner.

I never got text banners – don’t see the point, especially when you’re using common fonts.

Please let me know if you need more help.

Thanks so very much. I’ll try to make some changes by uploading a new banner. But if that fails, I may just use a different theme until I learn more about WordPress, html, design, etc.

Susan

It’s best to start with the themes that have options that you can customize easily. The default theme is pretty boring, but you can change the header and colors pretty easily. K2 is a good theme, you can get a lot of custom looks very easily with it.