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I managed to correct the problems. Thanks so much for everyone’s help.

This was resolved by using the Facebook debug tool.

Could really use some help on this, thanks.

Just FYI–the child theme does not display the sidebar, thumbnail images for the recent custom posts widget, and does not solve the problem that the image and description are dropped when I try to post a blog to Facebook–which is why I changed to the Twenty Eleven theme in the first place. So unfortunately I am less than where I was when I started.

OK, thanks for the tip. I renamed the file from the FTP control panel and it allowed the child theme to become “live” on my wp themes dashboard. Then I edited the style.css file to add the code to eliminate the title/description. Thank to all for helping a rookie!

#site-title {
    display: none;
}

#site-description {
    display: none;
}

OK, copied the code posted above by mar1965 into a .txt file using Notepad and uploaded it to the new folder for the child theme within the themes directory. That is the only thing in the folder.

On my wp dashboard it still says that the child theme has no template or stylesheet and cannot be activated.

The codex sure makes this sound easier than it is! Thanks again for the help.

I followed the directions and now have a child theme listed in my FTP directory. But on the Themes section of my wordpress dashboard it says the theme has no stylesheet and cannot be activated.

I pasted the current Twentyeleven stylesheet into a new file and uploaded that but it did not allow the theme to be activated.

Sorry, here’s what I don’t understand–how exactly do I make a .css file? I can go to my hosting site and create a folder. But I don’t know what program I’m using to make a .css file. I know how to make a .doc file but am assuming I don’t use Word for this. Thanks again.

Thanks but am not sure if ravelde’s code would replace or be in addition to what is there now in the site-title area:

#branding {
	border-top: 2px solid #bbb;
	padding-bottom: 10px;
	position: relative;
	z-index: 9999;
}
#site-title {
	margin-right: 270px;
	padding: 3.65625em 0 0;
}
#site-title a {
	color: #111;
	font-size: 30px;
	font-weight: bold;
	line-height: 36px;
	text-decoration: none;
}
#site-title a:hover,
#site-title a:focus,
#site-title a:active {
	color: #1982d1;
}
#site-description {
	color: #7a7a7a;
	font-size: 14px;
	margin: 0 270px 3.65625em 0;

Also, there is no cild theme and being a rookie, don’t understand how to make a child theme. The wordpress directions are not clear enough and I don’t know how to create a new a properly formatted style.css file. I can copy the Twenty Eleven style.css file but then what do I do with it.

Last thing–sorry to sound needy but I have had a problem with images transferring to Facebook as well and no one has responded to my queries on that. Waht thread shuld that query be in? Many thanks.

Rogue plugin was the problem. Thanks for your help. And yes, wp is updated!

Was doing wp housekeeping today so will be updating. Will deactivate the plugins and see if that works. Have been using the Skirmish theme for some time, would theme suddenly cause this problem?

I should add that neither technorati nor my amazon author page accepted https://www.carmenamato.net/feed as a valid RSS feed URL.

thank you

Thanks for the response. I’m a rookie here, so where wold I get the code to add? Thanks for your help!