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p.s. – I would have kept the search box had it worked to find the specific words or subjects entered. But it didn’t, and the site is very simple and a search box wasn’t really needed.

If I have questions about making the child theme while doing it I’ll return here. I’ll do all I can on my own first. Thanks again.

OH – that’s it! Thank you! Now I understand. I didn’t distinguish theme files and CSS.

Duh! I misunderstood again and still thought I could add different code to my CSS file. Okay. NOW I’ve got it.

I’ll study the material on making a child theme and try to do it.

Thanks again for your help!

I thank you for your assistance.

I’ll work it out as described above.

I’ll come here in future before I make any changes. As I’m a novice, that seems the safest way to go.

Thanks again.

I do see the necessity now.

But when I added the plugin I had the idea that it would take care of preserving any changes I made so that updates wouldn’t erase them. I got the idea this is what the plugin and CSS area were for, whereas manual local changes in the text would be deleted.

BlueHost support generally refers me to my Dashboard or WordPress, saying they don’t support other programs.

I’ll try to figure this out myself, maybe there’s a tutorial somewhere. The last technician I worked with here told me where to get the plugin though, which helped a lot.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

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

I googled this to see if I could find something and found this to add to the CSS:

.entry-content blockquote cite,
.entry-content blockquote em,
.entry-content blockquote i,
.comment-content blockquote cite,
.comment-content blockquote em,
.comment-content blockquote i {
font-style: italic;
}

I added it and it works!!!!!!!!!!! Fantastic!!!!!!!!!! Thank you very much.

https://www.theperegrinemuse.com/PoetsInternational/currently-featuring/

Thank you! I didn’t know where to find this place. Now this how-to problem is solved!

But I tried italicizing one word manually and no italics.

So what do I do to italicize a few words or paragraphs within blockquotes? The “I” menu option doesn’t do it, nor the <i> manually — I’ve tried them both.

Okay, I’ve installed the one you mention above and “activated” it (custom-css-manager-plugin). What do I do now?

I tried pasting in
blockquote {font-style: normal;}
and it doesn’t work.

Does this plugin affect all blockquotes now so that the text enclosed won’t be italicized?

Thank you!

Can I get rid of the italics without using a custom CSS plugin? I don’t know how to work with what you suggest. Thank you.