Customising my static front page & removing the primary header

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  whodhavethought · Member · Oct 29, 2014 at 6:44 am

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  I have recently changed my theme to Zuki and am trying to customising my static front page but my ‘recent big post’ widget is not showing any post at all and my ‘recent post medium” widget is showing only the text of the posts and not the images.

  I would also like to remove the primary header. How do I fix these two things? My blog is http://blog.whodhavethought.com.

  Thanks, Jane

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Oct 29, 2014 at 5:20 pm

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  Hi!

  Please see below:

  I have recently changed my theme to Zuki and am trying to customising my static front page but my ‘recent big post’ widget is not showing any post at all and my ‘recent post medium” widget is showing only the text of the posts and not the images.

  I believe both of these issues can be resolved by setting a featured image for your posts following the instructions here:

  Featured Images

  The current setting for “Recent Big Post” is set as “Featured image + overlay title/excerpt”, but no featured image is available.

  Can you try setting a featured image and see if it corrects both of these issues?

  I would also like to remove the primary header. How do I fix these two things?

  Are you referring to the site logo with the light bulb? If so, you can remove that under Appearance -> Customize -> Site Title -> Remove logo.

  If you’re referring to something different, could you please clarify?

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  whodhavethought · Member · Oct 30, 2014 at 6:35 am

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  Thanks so much for your help. I’ve been using WordPress for a while now and can’t believe I didn’t know how to do Featured images!

  Can you also advise how I reduce the amount of white space between my logo (top left) and the main heading?

  Thanks, Jane

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Oct 30, 2014 at 4:10 pm

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  Hi Jane!

  Can you give this bit of CSS a try and let me know if it accomplishes what you’re looking for?

  #site-nav {
  	padding: 0px 0px 80px;
  }

  Just copy the entire thing and replace all of the default text (especially the /* and */) under Appearance -> Customize -> CSS.

  Also, just wanted to let you know that I think your site is looking awesome! I love the Zuki theme, and I think you’ve implemented it really well.

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  whodhavethought · Member · Oct 30, 2014 at 8:12 pm

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  Hi Jeremy,
  Yes, that works and thanks so much for your support!

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Oct 30, 2014 at 8:27 pm

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  Excellent! Let me know if you need anything else.

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  whodhavethought · Member · Nov 2, 2014 at 4:20 am

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  Hi Jeremy, I do have one other question: what is the css coding to increasing the font size of the widget headers eg ‘latest articles’, ‘welcome’, etc?

  Many thanks
  Jane

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Nov 2, 2014 at 7:09 pm

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  Here’s some code:

  .wf-active .widget h3.widget-title {
  font-size: 12px;
  }

  Change the ’12’ to be what you want. And here are some resources for learning CSS:

  An Intro to CSS, or How to Make Things Look Like You Like

  An Intro to CSS: Finding CSS Selectors

  And you can find some more CSS resources here:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-css/#css-help

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  whodhavethought · Member · Nov 2, 2014 at 8:00 pm

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  Thanks that worked a treat! I’ll check out those links, too.

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Nov 3, 2014 at 8:08 pm

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  Fabulous! Let me know if I can help with anything else.