removed search box and now need less header depth

Can you link the thread that gave you the advice to delete the code under header.php?

The 8th post down, getting rid of everything to do with removing search.

Are you sure that’s the right site?

No, and I realized my mouse didn’t pick up the new link and went back to get the right link and its gone! I think it has been replace with a new page.

The page where I got it suggested going to the header.php page in Dashboard and deleting all of the text referring to search. There were, I believe, two instances with some code between them.

The issue is that these www.ads-software.com forums don’t provide support for these sorts of modifications unless you’ve set up a Child Theme.

What is a Child Theme?

Is there CSS code I can put in my CSS place to modify my header depth or change the spacing between the lines in the black box under the photo?

In future should I not modify anything – come here first?

In future should I not modify anything – come here first?

No, modify anything you want. It’s the best way to learn & you’re free to do so.

Child Themes are best explained here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

Thank you. When you say “modify anything you want” do you mean anything can be fixed?

Okay, I’ll check out “Child Themes” – thank you for the link.

Anything can be fixed, although there’s a limit as to what level of help these forums can provide. We can help out with things like “I have an error on line 48” and “There’s some empty space here”, if problems are too big then you may need to hire someone to support you.

Okay, thanks. Got it. I think I’ll come here first if it looks real risky. I hope to make good judgements in that regard.

Anyway, would you have coding I can put on my header.php page to reduce the spacing between the lines of names in the black box under my photo?

Thank you.

Try adding this to your Child Theme style.css file, at the bottom:

#access a {
 margin: 0 10px;
}

I have a plug in already: Custom CSS Manager Plugin Settings

And in my CSS area I have code already, which the plug in made possible, which makes it possible to enclose normal (no italics) text within blockquotes and more coding which makes it possible to manually select parts of the text to italicize.

Would a Child Theme be necessary given that I have this plugin? Would it be possible to add the coding you give me above without making a Child Theme?

Did you see this part: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes#Why_use_a_Child_Theme.3F ?

I read it but don’t know how to create a themes directory and so forth so I thought I’d find out if it were necessary first. I see that it is because I tried pasting the code in my CSS directory and it doesn’t work.

I don’t know how to do this:
Create a directory in your themes directory to hold the child theme. The theme directory is wp-content/themes. You should name the directory without any space as part of the name, and it is common practice to use the name of the parent theme folder with “-child” appended to it.