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If you’re having trouble making your ‘Home’ page a static page and your ‘blog’ an internal page, try this article out:

https://www.loadedpress.com/2010/11/wordpress-as-a-content-management-system

PB,
About where your nav would show up at the bottom, this shows in your source:

<!-- Page Navigation -->

	<!-- 404 Error -->

There may be a theme issue, first thing i would start with would be changing your permalinks to something other than the default and see if that does anything for you.

There may also be internal settings of this theme that you need to tweak to get everything to display properly.

BB,
Create your gradient image (view https://fashionbombdaily.com/wp-content/themes/fb/i/bg.jpg ) for reference. Create an images folder (if it does not currently exist in your theme directory (where your style.css lives) and upload your image here (this is assuming you have ftp access to your theme folder).

Then, in your style.css, add the following to the end:

body{
background: #fff url ('images/myimage.jpg') repeat-x top left;
}

(Change #fff to whatever your background color will be based on your image)

if you don’t have ftp access as above, you can link to wherever the image lives as:

body{
background:#fff url('https://example.com/images/image.jpg') repeat-x top left;
}

Visit https://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_background for more info

WM,
Ideally the css should be confined to the style.css , not inline in the page.

If you’re still set on doing it in the page, make sure to wrap it in

<style="text/css">
style stuff goes here
</style>

As for the meta information, just add that to your stylesheet

.entry-utility, .entry-meta{display:none;}

which is shorthand for

.entry-utility{
display:none;
}
.entry-meta{
display:none;
}
Note that there is no <style></style> wrapper.

Step 1.
Get Firebug for Firefox

Step 2.
Play around with it, hover over the divs and see what controls what

Step 3.
Read up at https://www.w3schools.com/

Step 4.
Put this at the bottom of your style.css file:

#wrapper{padding:0}
#topwrapper{height:5px;}
#rsslink{position:relative; top:-95px; left:0}

For a quick fix, you can add

.comments{visibility:hidden;}

to the end of your style.css

Redds,
If you wish the logos show on each page, then the footer will be the place to achieve this.

Add your <div id=”logocontent”><!– content goes here –></div> in the relevant area of your footer.php file.

Orangers,
First, there’s about 1.475 million WordPress templates. A link to your site is always a helpful step in receiving a solution.

With that said, start by removing get_sidebar() from the template file and then modifying your #content or similar in style.css to fit the new space (minus the sidebar).

Wade,
The most useful thing in the entire planet earth is Firefox with Firebug plugin. Install and play with that, you can view, highlight, and edit html elements on the page and generally play around, make a mess, and ideally solve things much faster .. as you learn what makes what work.

What you’re going to want to do in your case, is find the div or class that control your specific elements. After a little bit of investigation, it appears to be #nav-above, #nav-below, and .entry-utility. (the # represents a div id, while the . represents a class)

in your page source, it will look something like:

<div id=”something” class=”somethingelse”>The Element Controlled by Div</div>

Now that you’ve found that out, simply add:

<style type="text/css">
.entry-utility, #nav-above, #nav-below{
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
}
</style>

to your page, or to the end of your stylesheet (style.css) without the wrapping <style></style> and you should be set.