Changing my banner settings
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Hello,
I have found the theme I like, I need some help removing “Entries RSS | Comments RSS”, the search bar, and also the pages links above the header “Home” and “About”. Basically I only want the header on its own.
I have looked everywhere and can’t find any info on how to do it, I’m sure when I find this out everything else I want to do will become clear as well.
Thankyou for your help!
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It would require the CSS upgrade and CSS editing experience.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-css/
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/rant
Yet more money and an extreme ammount of time to learn a small bit of code just to remove something which should be an option anyway?
Why would I want a search function on a new empty blog and 2 links which just take me to some code?
/endrant
Not a happy bunny hehe, but cheers for the swift reply.
Is there a work around?
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Sorry no there is not other than choosing a different theme that does not have those elements in the header area.
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This the only theme with a logical layout in my opinion.
Thanks for the reply looks like I’m either changing services or wasting time and money.
May I ask what is this RSS feed? no one wants to be taken to pages of code.
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RSS is Really Simple Syndication. People can subscribe to it and then see your posts in a simplified manner in their browser or in an RSS reader. Many like to do this as they can put all the sites they follow into one RSS reader and see what’s new on multiple sites without having to visit each one, and they are also alerted when you publish a new post.
Once you start getting more content, the search feature will also come in handy for your visitors.
Each theme here is designed by individual designers and wordpress honors their designs by not changing them except as required to fit within the restrictions here and to support the additional unique features. For staff to add the ability to remove those items from within the dashboard would take quite a bit of coding actually.
You can always look at blogspot. They allow you to pound, whack and change as you see fit as long as you have the knowledge to do the changes (there goes your time again). And as a bonus they will gift you about 110 XHTML errors and around 80 warnings before you even add content. It’s interesting, Google tolerates massive validation errors on their own product, but is very intolerant of validation errors on other platforms. I guess that’s what happens when daddy owns the car dealership.
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Yeah, thinking positively I wanted to change the colour scheme anyway so the CSS thing would be pretty cool.
You have been most helpful!
Is there any way to lead non RSS users to a page saying they need to install / sign up for whatever this is rather than loads of code?
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your right about the search function also, as my blog will eventually cover every aspect of drumming :) just would prefer to add it in when its of use thats all.
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If you wish, put a text widget in the sidebar and tell them about it there. When you first add a widget, the rest of the widgets you see in the sidebar will disappear. That is because what you are seeing is just a sample display created by the theme itself so that the sidebar is not empty and so that you can see what it looks like. Just add in the widgets that you want to use and arrange them as you see fit.
You can also offer email updates as well via the blog subscriptions widget if you wish. That gives your visitors another option. They will get an email update whenever you publish a new post.
Digg 3 is a little difficult to customize since virtually the entire layout consists of images. That means that most of the customization ends up being done in an image editing program where you have to create new images that match the size of the existing images and then upload those images and put them into the appropriate locations in the CSS. Even the tabs on the top menu are made up of two separate images.
Digg 3 would not be my recommendation for a first CSS project.
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It’s the only layout I like that can have with links / categorys to the left and junk on the right. I’ve already got a subscription widget, I can deal with the tabs at the top, search function is ok, its just this rss feed that will confuse the hell out of all my visitors. I definately don’t want 2 different places to get to it unless they are on seperate pages. Won’t and RSS widget just lead them to the same thing showing my page source anyway?
Every single RSS link I can find anywhere on the net just leads me to the page source of whatever page I clicked it on.
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There are about 15 themes here with two sidebars, or the choice to have one or two and even have two on one side, or possibly none. Coraline, Pilcrow, Monochrome, Fusion, Elegant Grunge, Mystique and Zbench to name a few.
Go to http://theme.wordpress.com/ and click on “explore themes” and then use the feature filter to sort by 3-columns.
What browser are you using? RSS feeds typically show up with a very simple layout with a blue banner at the top.
This is one on my blog here: http://://opposablethumbz.wordpress.com/feed/
And this is what the normal site looks like: http://://opposablethumbz.wordpress.com/If you like Digg 3, then just stay with that, but do know that it is frustrating to customize due to the way it was designed especially if you start wanting to do things like make this wider or that taller and such. Nothing on Digg is straight forward.
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Google chrome doesn’t support RSS then :-) I’ll put info next to the subscribe by rmail box, saying use this if RSS isn’t working for you.
I’ve looked at all the other templates previewed and this is definately my choice, as a work around I have made the about page my biography, just stuck a temporary banner there for now too.
I’ll buy CSS so I can change the colour theme at a later date, providing it will let me download the images to change them.
Cool blog dude! Been reading it in the time I didnt reply :-)
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Seeing as your such a helpful chap, may I ask how I can have a list of links without it being titled “Blogroll” ? :-)
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In england we call toilet paper bogroll, I thought it was meant to be a joke but maybe you don’t in the USA.
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