Adding CSS

aaronmicalowe · Member · Jul 24, 2017 at 8:38 pm
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I hunted around for the CSS and found this.
```
#header h1,

#header .description {

display: none;

}
```
But when pasting it into the editor, even under the html tab, it displays the CSS rather than doing it.

So I then hunted around for where the CSS should go. Found several posts saying that it’s “CSS to Appearance → Customize → Additional CSS”.
But haven’t been able to find where “CSS to Appearance is”.

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lastfarthing · Member · Jul 24, 2017 at 9:17 pm
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@aaronmicalowe
If you have a Premium or Business plan then you would want to go to Themes -> Customize -> Additional CSS. The Additional CSS option will probably be all the way down on the bottom of the left menu. Clicking on this will open a small editor where you can insert your custom code.

You can read all about Custom CSS in the support documentation.
aaronmicalowe · Member · Jul 24, 2017 at 11:09 pm
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Well, I hope there’s a way to stop the page title from blocking the main page image without having to pay money. I’ll keep looking for other ways to solve the problem.
kokkieh · Staff · Jul 25, 2017 at 10:51 am
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Hi there,

Your theme is designed to show the page title in front of the page header image, or in the case of the front page template it will show the page content in front of the header image. You can see the theme demo page as an example:

https://gorandemo.wordpress.com/

The only way to change this is by hiding the title with CSS, and you need the Premium or Business Plan to do that. If you don’t want to purchase a plan, the only other option is to select a theme that doesn’t work this way.
aaronmicalowe · Member · Jul 25, 2017 at 2:46 pm
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Ok, thanks kokkieh. I’m not in a financial position to be spending money so will look at moving it over to another theme at some point.
aaronmicalowe · Member · Jul 25, 2017 at 7:27 pm
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I solved it without changing the theme. Just deleted the page title. Fixed :o)
aaronmicalowe · Member · Jul 25, 2017 at 7:39 pm
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Even better, changed title to and that removes the annoying reference to “No title” in navigation menu.
aaronmicalowe · Member · Jul 25, 2017 at 7:42 pm
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Sorry to post multiple times. Can’t see any way to delete or edit previous posts and that last one doesn’t display correctly.

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Even better, changed title to   and that removes the annoying reference to “No title” in navigation menu.
aaronmicalowe · Member · Jul 25, 2017 at 7:43 pm
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Sorry to post multiple times. Can’t see any way to delete or edit previous posts and that last one doesn’t display correctly. Even using code doesn’t work, huh…

Even better, changed title to & nbsp; and that removes the annoying reference to “No title” in navigation menu.
aaronmicalowe · Member · Jul 25, 2017 at 9:05 pm
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supernovia Staff Jul 25, 2017, 9:41 PM

“Bear in mind that can mess with your SEO. Whatever works for you, though. I’ll go ahead and close this thread.”

Surely my SEO would be equally effected if I changed to a theme that doesn’t have a page title, as was suggested by kokkieh.

What’s the difference?
aaronmicalowe · Member · Jul 26, 2017 at 1:33 am
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Update:
I’m having to clean out the website to get rid of the theme as that seems to cause all the problems. Theme settings keep overwriting everything.

Aiming to have just a blank theme, if that’s possible and I don’t have to pay a premium just to have a blank page lol
kokkieh · Staff · Jul 26, 2017 at 8:47 am
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Surely my SEO would be equally effected if I changed to a theme that doesn’t have a page title, as was suggested by kokkieh.

There’s a difference between not having a title, and not showing it. Some themes don’t display the title, but the title is still there in the code for search engines to read and index. But if there’s no title at all, there’s nothing for them to index. That’s the only workaround without using CSS, though.

I’m having to clean out the website to get rid of the theme as that seems to cause all the problems. Theme settings keep overwriting everything.

Aiming to have just a blank theme,

It’s not possible to have a site without a theme on WordPress.com. There has to be something that tells web browsers what the site should look like when it loads.

The closest we have is with the Premium or Business Plan you can disable your theme’s existing CSS completely to replace it with your own. And with the Business Plan you can upload a custom theme, which would allow you to create a theme with no styling at all and then add it to your site. But there must be a theme. It’s how the WordPress software works.

If what you’re after is a site with content only, no “window dressing” at all, then a platform like GitHub Pages might be a better fit for you.

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