Add permanent text to top of blog

tanyaling · Member · Jun 24, 2012 at 5:58 pm
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Dear all,

I need to add a line of text about copyright at the top of my blog below the header image. Can anyone tell me how to do this? It is a wordpress.com blog so from what I understand I can only make changes through my CSS style sheet.

Would be so greatful if someone could help!

Thank you.

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timethief · Member · Jun 24, 2012 at 6:06 pm
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If you have purchased the custom design upgrade I will flag this thread so it’s moved to the CSS Forum for you.
tanyaling · Member · Jun 24, 2012 at 6:51 pm
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Yes I have purchased the custom design upgrade. So that would be great if you could flag this thread to the CSS Forum. Thank you!
timethief · Member · Jun 24, 2012 at 6:56 pm
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Done. If you search you will find that the way copyright is added to the footer using CSS is by using a text widget and absolute positioning.
tanyaling · Member · Jun 24, 2012 at 6:58 pm
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Thank you. I do have another little question. In trying to do this before I asked for help I have managed to reveal the words ‘next post’ above the post at the top of my page. I cant remember what to do to hide this again?

Hope you can help.
timethief · Member · Jun 24, 2012 at 7:03 pm
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I don’t help with CSS editing – sorry.
tanyaling · Member · Jun 24, 2012 at 7:45 pm
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So if I use a text widget can i place the text at the top of my blog?
timethief · Member · Jun 24, 2012 at 8:00 pm
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I don’t know. All I do know is that others have placed the copyright statement in a text widget and then that text widget has to be moved down and into the footer area by using absolute positioning and styled appropriately. There is Staff support for CSS editing but it’s Sunday. Please be patient while waiting.
tanyaling · Member · Jun 24, 2012 at 8:08 pm
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Thank you. I will be patient and wait for a reply from a CSS staff.
thesacredpath · Member · Jun 25, 2012 at 3:19 am
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First things first: It is not allowed to hide the theme author and wordpress.com credits in the footer. Doing so could get your site suspended.

One of the ways to add text somewhere that it normally doesn’t exist in a theme is to use CSS positioning to move a text widget up and into place and put the text in that widget. This cannot be done though when you have hidden the footer widget area. You would have to unhide that and then if you put only that specific text widget into the footer, we can then move it up and under the header image.
designsimply · Member · Jun 25, 2012 at 4:56 pm
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Please remove the following block of CSS from your Appearance → Custom Design → CSS editor because we do require that you keep the footer credits in tact. You can add a copyright statement to the footer once that is done.
```
#footer {
	display:none;
	clear:both;
	margin:0 0 24px;
	width:800px;
}
```
It looks like you’ve hidden the entire footer area in the Manifest theme, including all of the widgets. To continue to hide the footer widgets and add copyright text to the existing footer, the preferred way would be to add the following to your Appearance → Custom Design → CSS editor:
```
#footer #supplementary {
	display: none;
}
.footer-content p:before {
	display: block;
	content: " Copyright 0A9  2012 Tanya Link. All Rights Reserved.";
}
```

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