Created Custom Menus Using Post Categories

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    susandalliston · Member ·

    After several tries I ended up with an “Archive for category” title at the top of each custom menu page and above the search in each.

    Don’t understand why does this. Tried recreating posts yesterday to no avail. Trashed older posted and cleared cache in case – no joy.

    Please help me understand what I did wrong and how we can fix it.

    Thanks :)

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    rachelmcr · Member ·

    Hi Susan,

    Each theme can vary in how it shows your site’s category pages. The Fusion theme you’re using, for example, adds the title “Archive for category [Category Name]” at the top of each category page. You can see an example of that on the Photos category page in the Fusion theme demo site:

    https://fusiondemo.wordpress.com/category/a_testing/photos/

    If you’d like, you can use Custom CSS (part of the custom design features in your WordPress.com Premium upgrade) to customize things like that in your theme’s design.

    For example, to remove that category page title from your site with CSS, you can go to your My Sites page and click the “Customize” link for your site. In the customizer, head to the CSS section and add the following CSS code in the editor there:

    .category .pagetitle {
display: none;
}

    We also have some guides about CSS Basics and Editing CSS if you’d like to learn more about how that works.

    If you have any questions about using CSS to customize your site, you can post in the CSS Customization forum and the expert staff and volunteers there can give you more help with it. :)

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    susandalliston · Member ·

    Hi rachelmcr

    Never occurred to me that this would be the default behaviour. Fortunately, the CSS you supplied worked thank you :).

    Do you have any similar code for the primary widget area title?

    Many thanks :))

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    rachelmcr · Member ·

    Hi Susan,

    I’m so glad that worked for you!

    I don’t have a similar CSS code for the widget title off-hand — each theme and each element in a theme can be completely unique. The best way to find that code is to use the tips in our guide to How to Find Your Theme’s CSS. If you get stuck with it, the experts in the CSS Customization forum are the best people to give you hand with it. :)

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    susandalliston · Member ·

    Ok np

    Thanks for your help.

    I found the right element but the code didn’t work this time.

    I’ll move onto the CSS forum as you have suggested.

    Thanks again!

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    susandalliston · Member ·

    Thanks again,

    Used this code and it worked:
    li.infotext .p {
    display: none;
    }

    cheers

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