claudettepilger

Since this forum is still open, I thought I would ask. I helped my friend set up a WP site. She is a real estate agent. The site is helenhelpsme.com. I can type into the url and find it, but I can’t find the page by googling her name. Also, the Home page has that annoying error message: “This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it…” This is just a simple 2011 theme. Can anyone suggest a fix for this? At first, I thought it just needed time to be searchable (for search engines to find the page). But it has been over a week, and the message is still there.

Thanks!!

Um, Andrew, I hadn’t meant to offend you. The issue that I was having had already been fixed by someone who was kind enough to help me yesterday, the first day or two AFTER I had learned (and executed!) my very first child theme on my own. (So excited!!)
I was asking that same member volunteer (thank you WPyogi) because his fix worked, then somehow stopped working.

Okee dokey. Thank you!

Claudette

And, thanks for the CSS reference info. I do want to get more into learning to code, as I find it pretty creative! But right now, I don’t have the time to learn it and am hoping that you can spot the problem for me. (OK, call me lazy?)

Hi WyPogi,

I am not sure what happened… I made the last change you suggested, which got rid of the blog posts at the bottom of my site (drpilger.com). It gave me a nice frame around the site, all peach. Everything looked great! Then I am not sure what I did, but now the blog posts are back (I only want them on the Twitter/Blog page, where they are, just fine!). Also, somehow my bio page has a weird look — instead of white it is peach and there is weird white space beneath the header. I am going to put the code on my child page below, because there isn’t much, in hopes you can spot the problem! (If you have the time. I would really appreciate it!)

/*
Theme Name: Twentyeleven Child
Description: Child theme for the twentyeleven theme
Author: Your name here
Template: twentyeleven
*/

@import url("../twentyeleven/style.css");

/* Menu Fix to Full Width*/

body {
padding: 0 0;}

#page {
max-width: none;}

#branding, #main, #footerMenu ul, #access ul {
width: 1000px;
margin: 0 auto;
}

#page {
    margin: 0 auto;
    padding-top: 2em;
    }

#site-generator {
    display: none;
}

#colophon {
    background-color: #FBF2E9;
    padding-bottom: 2em;
}

Thank you!

Claudette

Thank you. It sounds like something to do once the easier problems are fixed!

Claudette

Great. Really. Though I struggled for hours watching you tube videos in order to figure out how to install the child theme, once it was done, the editing, with your help, was simple and effective. Thanks again!

Claudette

Beautiful! Thank you ?? Can I ask you one last question, WPYogi? I would like to also do the same thing at the bottom margin — right now there is white space down there, too. It would be great if I could have it be the same peach color, thus “framing” the whole page. And, if it is possible, while I am at it, can I get rid of the “powered by wordpress?”

WPyogi, Thank you! Will that get rid of the white space or change the color? I just realized that what I need is a COLOR change, but keeping the border… (please see my edited post). Claudette

I did it! ?? I created a child theme for drpilger.com. This allowed me to make my menu longer in Theme 2011 (rather than having a two line menu my menu extends across the whole page!)

My question is in 2 parts: When I make new modifications to my child theme, do I have to save a new file each time (I previously saved style.css and uploaded this file to my cpanel.). I want to get rid of the white space at the top of my site, drpilger.com. I want it to be the same color as the pad around the edges (the peach color).

Thank you!!!

Thanks! ??

OK. Thank you both. So, this is a two step process: I will figure out how to create a child theme. Then I will figure out how to modify the code. Can I return to this site and ask for help once I have the child theme installed? I think I will still have the issue of how to move the header up…

Hi Andy,

I have already made several modifications to my site, including installing plugins that have gave me a taller header image, and custom fonts and colors. I have deliberately chosen a menu that is beneath the image rather than over top (which limits me in choosing child templates to migrate to (or maybe I don’t understand what a “child” is).

Isn’t there a way that I can look at the code inside the site (I know where to find the header.php) and move some code around? If I just had a clear idea of what to move I would do it…

Also, I am trying to make my site wider (if you look at it it is quite narrow!)

Thank you for your help!! I really enjoy the creative part of this but I would like to get it done at some point before I retire!