SWriverstone

Ok—problem solved! It was the NGFB Open Graph+ plugin. It’s the latest version, so not sure what’s going there…but thankfully it’s not a critical plugin.

Yep, I’m an idiot—found that a while after crying for help above. Thanks! ??

Thanks! That almost worked. Now my problem is that there is still some whitespace I don’t want in the area of the page where the header/title normally sits. (When I deleted the header, it removed all the whitespace too—which was good!)

If you want to look at my site, perhaps you’ll notice another way to remove the remaining whitespace? (It’s the whitespace between my navigation menu and the image slider—I want the slider to sit right beneath the nav menu).

https://coopersrock.wpengine.com

Thanks!
Scott

I’m wondering about this…does removing the whole header entry from content.php negatively impact site SEO? (e.g. can search engines no longer read the titles without this?)

Or, conversely, does simply setting display to none keep SEO benefits (e.g. can search engines still read the titles?)

Thanks!
Scott

Ahh…simple solution. I didn’t even notice there was a Trash can. ?? Yes, I had a bunch of old pages with the same names in there. Deleting them fixed it.

Thanks!

Yep, it looks fine now—thanks!
Scott

Ok, added that too. It didn’t have any effect—is it a fallback?

I’m not sure I fully understand your suggestion about the media query…but I’m working on a big monitor (an Apple Cinema Display), and when I resize the browser window (Chrome) the page resizes gracefully with nothing funky happening. (So does this mean I’m ok? LOL)

Here’s my child theme’s style.css so far…

/*
Theme Name:     Twenty Twelve Child
Theme URI:      https://example.com/
Description:    Child theme for the Twenty Twelve theme
Author:         Scott Wilkinson
Author URI:     https://example.com/about/
Template:       twentytwelve
Version:        0.1.0
*/

/*---The following line invisibly adds everything in the Twenty Twelve theme style.css into this "child" theme---*/

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

/*---The additional CSS code below overrides the same parts of the parent stylesheet.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

/*---Remove space above navigation menu so it sits snugly beneath the page header---*/
.main-navigation {
margin-top: 24px;
margin-top: 0rem;
text-align: center;
}

/*---Remove whitespace between navigation menu and image slider (or other page content)---*/
.site-header {
    padding: 0;
}

.site-content {
    margin: 0;
}

img.header-image {
   margin-top:  30px;
}

Wait—I fixed it. There was a leftover header margin addition in style.css (from a previous attempt at tweaking)…

.header-image {
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-top: 0rem;
}

Once I deleted that, everything looked good! Awesome—thanks again! You’re an enormous help to many people here! ??

Scott

Thanks WPyogi—that worked—almost! It removed the whitespace between my navigation menu and the slider…but it also removed the whitespace above the header.

Is there a way to put back the whitespace just above the header?

Scott

By the way, I’ve been using Chrome’s “Inspect Element” feature to search CSS, and I’ve created a child theme where I’ve been testing additions to style.css (and removing them when they don’t work).

My intention also is to NOT have page titles displayed.

Thanks WPyogi and Gabe for the good thoughts.

At this point, I’m leaning towards canceling our WordPress.com account and going with one of the following:
WPEngine
Page.ly
Synthesis
LightningBase
(Hope it’s ok to post those names!)

Of course at the moment I’m basing my decision only on the websites for these companies…but they all appear to offer greater flexibility (e.g. use of plugins) and better security/backup features (plus things like CDN) than WordPress.com.

And these companies still give me the psychological advantage of not having to worry about WP upgrades, caching plugins, regular database backups, etc.

I do believe (and what you said Gabe backs this up) that I could handle a self-managed site…but I admit it—I’m so busy that I’m looking for every bit of assistance I can get! Which is why the managed WordPress hosting providers above seem comforting. ??

Thanks a lot WPyogi. Since posting my message above, I discovered that there are other managed WP hosting companies that appear to be more robust (and support plugins) than WordPress.com. (They’re also a bit more expensive.)

My needs aren’t too complicated. Here’s the short list:

– ability to use any theme I want (from a reputable theme provider)
– ability to use a plugin for better organizing the media library (I really need the ability to create folders and subfolders in the library to keep hundreds of photos organized)
– ability to choose what I consider to be the best photo gallery tool/plugin
– ability to put a membership form on our website (for people to join our organization)
– possibly the ability to accept payments (though this might be better handled through PayPal)

That’s about it. The critical ones are media management-related (choosing a top-notch photo gallery and the ability to create folders/subfolders in the media library).

Right now I’m looking at providers like WPengine.com, Synthesis, and Page.ly…but still not sure if one of those would be better than going with a “manage it yourself” host?

Scott