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Hooray! I found a reply you had given someone else regarding the problem of removing the ‘Leave Reply’ section (deleting the <? php comments_template(); ?>) so at least now that problem is solved. : )

Now I’m just wondering what to do about that annoying gap between the text (post) and the image that was caused from removing the title section…

When I use firebug, I only seem to get my own code (which of course I’m already familiar with)

I would love to be able to be able to find this out via Firebug but don’t know where/how I will find it. As I said if I click html or css I just get my own code, if I click on DOM I see all this complicated stuff that I don’t really understand what it is…

As for the Bio field in the User Profile – do you mean the ‘About Yourself’ ‘Biographical info’ section? How do I ‘pull that into my front page template?

Also can I control myself what it is going to look like (style it) and place it where I want.

At the moment I have managed to delete the ‘START’ title from my home page but the big gap is still there, how do I get rid of the gap (set the margins) Also I don’t want the ‘leave a reply’ on any of my pages except my contact page, how do I get rid of this? I have spent literally all day trying to find out where in the code/in what ‘document’ or section of WordPress this is situated but… without any luck.

Also I really need to understand how the page templates work in order to carry on with my website as most of my pages will display very different content (some will display audio tracks, music videos and images). I have read all documentation and seem to understand how it works in theory i.e. I have created a page template that my home page ‘follows’ but then when I actually want to make changes and DO something I can’t find where in the code(s) to do this…

Once again thank you so much for your help, really appreciate it

I’m actually completely stuck and confused on how to do this, I have managed to create a page template (following the instructions found on WordPress documentations) and I have set my home (start) page to follow this template and they appear indeed to be corresponding. The problem is that I have no idea to get the page to ‘behave how I want it to behave’) as the code doesn’t appear to follow the usual html/css system I’m used to (in terms of the “class” being given attributes in the stylesheet by writing .class etc)

I want to remove the “leave a reply” section all together and I was thinking that if I could get to the code, either where it currently says ‘START’ or ‘Leave a reply’ and give attributes for this section, let say that it could have the same column width as it has at the moment but give it a much bigger height and change the font size etc. then maybe this could be the section where the client could write a short descriptive ‘About Me’ piece in the WordPress section where you currently fill out the ‘title’ section… but… I have no idea how to go about this…

https://test.michellehedberg.net/

Hi again Esmi,

When I’m looking at the code for the page.php page, I came across this bit of code

<div class=”title”><h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2></div>

I assume this refers to the title section (where it says ‘START” on my home page underneath the image (see my url) https://test.michellehedberg.net/ so this should be the thing to alter if I want to remove this feature.

Normally in html/css when something is refered to as class “something” you will find the attributes for this, marked as .something in the stylesheet but I have searched the entire Delicate stylesheet and I can’t find any reference to this div class “title” so I don’t know where to make alterations + it also makes me even more confused as to how wordpress’ structure actually works.

It is clear that the attribute for this class specifies a certain font, size, weight etc. and also that it can’t be more than maximum 2 lines long but… if it is not specified in the style sheet then where is it specified?

thanks

Michelle

Hi again Esmi and once again thank you so much for helping me out,

I have managed to create a static front page so that’s great, but as for managing different content and functions on the different pages…

I went to the https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Conditional_Tags link you suggested but I’m finding it really hard to understand what they mean.

If I understand correctly, am I meant to

1. download the template.php file from the Delicate theme
2. Write ‘is_front_page() ‘ somewhere in this file or is_page( 42 ) for example (the id for the other pages

3. and then what? For example if I want to remove the ‘title’ under the image where it says ‘START’, the ‘leave a reply’ and ‘post comment. what code do I write to do that?

and if I want to make a column there instead, specifying font, size, line spacing etc, and the width of this column, where and how do I write this (I mean I know what css to write for this but do you need any additional information in this situation or… do you actually write the code in the template.php file or do you link the template.php file to your style sheet?

4. Do you upload the template.php file back into the Delicate folder or do I upload it to my Child Theme’s folder?

Have I understood correctly or misunderstood completely?

Michelle

Thanks : )

Thanks

just saw your reply on my old post. thanks!

p.s since I have you here, do you also know how to change the word ‘home’ on the home page and how to make one of the ‘pages’ a home page rather than the current one?

Thanks for this advice Esmi but it doesn’t appear to be the problem. I made the changes last night and the computer was turned off all night + I checked on a different computer and the hover is still red and the current page links blue today…

I see… yes I think I’m actually beginning to get it now : ) Just one very last thing, how do you change the word ‘Home’, I can’t seem to get at it anywhere, I feel like I have looked everywhere both in the codes (using firebug as well) and in the wordpress dashboard. Since it is going to be a Swedish website I needs to say ‘Start’ instead.

I would actually like one of the ‘pages’ to be the home page instead of the current one because it looks too blog like so if I could use one of the pages (that layout appear to be more similar to what I had in mind which would mean I will have to make less changes) would be perfect.

Is it possible to make one of the ‘pages’ your home page (how?) or will you have to change the current home page to look like the others?

I can’t tell you how much I appreciate all the help you have been giving me, hopefully I’ll manage on my own and will leave you in peace soon : )

Hi again Esmi,

I’m having problems already. I want to make the menu bar black (like the way I had it before) but I can’t find any ‘easy’ ways of doing this through wordpress’ dashboard/menu. They give you very little options, you can basically just change the color of the links.

When I look at the original theme’s code in their header.php and their style sheet I can’t figure it out either.

I thought, by adding background: #000000; to the code in the css would make it happen (like you can see below here) but it didn’t work

[CSS moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please just post a link to your site.]

Have you any idea how you can do this (you obviously do because you are great : ) but do you mind telling me is the question? You have spent so much time helping me out already I feel bad asking you again)

My URL is still

https://test.michellehedberg.net/

Dear Esmi,

That makes sense, thanks for all your help. Firebug really is an amazing invention. I think I’m finally beginning to get my head around how WordPress works now…

Hi there Voodoo,

I just saw your reply. Thank you so much for helping me out, really appreciate it.

Michelle

Esmi,

How do I do to completely ‘start from scratch’. Even now when I changed to a different theme, it appears loads of my old settings came with it. If, as you say it is bad to have added your own hand codings it might be a good idea to start ‘totally afresh’ how do you do this

Michelle