Delete Text/Fields from a Theme

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  startupinprogress · Member · Oct 3, 2012 at 3:42 am

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  Is the only way to remove and delete certain unwanted components of a theme to upgrade WordPress in order to edit the CSS? I want to remove a lot of the text fields, photos, navigation and comment section, but as I am very new to WordPress, I am unable to figure out how.

  I have no problem paying or an upgrade if it will allow me to do this, but was a bit surprised I wouldn’t be able to do this on the free version.

  Really what I am looking to do is have a very, very simple and clean splash page, with a background image that takes up the entire page (similar to Airbnb), title, and registration field overlay that captures name and email. Most of the themes I have played around with have too much going on for my liking, and I would love to remove most of what they offer, but I have been unable to do so.

  Thanks!

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  coffeemanmatt · Member · Oct 4, 2012 at 3:24 am

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  Hi,

  Yes, you’ll need to edit the CSS in order to do that. You need the Custom Design upgrade to do so:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Oct 4, 2012 at 5:57 am

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  registration field overlay that captures name and email.

  You won’t be able to capture names and emails on wordpress.com.

  Folks who leave comments on your site may leave a valid name and email. or you can have a Contact form. But there is no automatic capture of names and emails of the people who visit your site.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Oct 4, 2012 at 5:59 am

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  Perhaps you are not aware that there are different flavors of wordpress:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  Here is a link to the contact form here on wp.com:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

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  startupinprogress · Member · Oct 6, 2012 at 12:57 pm

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  Thanks for the info, and apologies for being very new at this so your patience is very appreciated.

  So my understanding is that if I went with wordpress.org, hosted the site with someone other than wordpress, and upgraded so that I can edit the CSS/PHP, then there shouldn’t be any issues with me setting up a slick looking registration field? Right now I just want to build out a splash page that allows people to enter in their email address or register w/ Facebook Connect.