Eliminating Blog Title from Header

lmanderso · Member · Feb 21, 2012 at 12:03 am
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Hi,

I’m working on a few things:
1. Eliminating the blog name from the header, the default text.
2. Changing the “Home” button and Search box from yellow to the darker orange color.
3. For the homepage text I want to eliminate all of the commenting abilities on the text there, its not a blog post its just information about the site and I don’t want people to be able to reply.

This is a site for a gym for a low-income neighborhood in Chicago and any help is greatly appreciated. http://lawndalefitness.wordpress.com/

Lauren

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raincoaster · Member · Feb 21, 2012 at 1:57 am
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1) go to Appearance-> Header and de-select “show text”

2) Do you have the paid CSS Upgrade? If not, realize you’re on your own with it and there’s no staff support. Learn CSS first, then purchase the upgrade when you’re fluent, otherwise you’re wasting your money.

3) just edit the page and underneath the Edit Post box you can choose to enable or disable comments there.
lmanderso · Member · Feb 22, 2012 at 4:46 pm
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Thanks for the input.

1) The odd thing is that I don’t have a “show text” option. It doesn’t seem like I can attach a screen shot here otherwise I would.

2) Yes I have the upgrade and am trying to figure out some basic CSS as I go.

3) Again I don’t seem to have a disable comments feature. I may need to try a different theme.
justpi · Member · Feb 22, 2012 at 5:21 pm
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1. The “Display Text” option isn’t present in all themes. As a rule it’s present when the blog title is inside the header image area. But you can hide the title using CSS.

3. Disabling commenting isn’t theme-dependent. You do it in the Discussion module of the page editor. If you’re not seeing that module while on the page editor screen, click Screen Options (top right) to enable it.

2. Yellow? They’re not yellow in the theme you’re using at the moment.
designsimply · Member · Feb 23, 2012 at 10:20 am
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I see that http://lawndalefitness.wordpress.com/ is currently using the Titan theme.

1. Eliminating the blog name from the header, the default text.

To hide the site title and tagline from the header in the Titan theme, you can shift the text left. That way, it will still be available to search engines:
```
#title, #description {
  text-indent: -9999px;
}
```
To hide them completely, including the spacing for them above the header image, you can use this instead:
```
#title, #description {
  display: none;
}
```
designsimply · Member · Feb 23, 2012 at 10:29 am
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2. Changing the “Home” button and Search box from yellow to the darker orange color.

Did you perhaps change themes since you asked this?

I see some funny background things going on in the footer. That could have been left over from a theme switch away from another theme. Note that CSS is theme specific, when you switch themes you should remove the past CSS you added and start again.

Try this for the footer background:
```
#footer {
  border-top: 10px solid #D6813A;
  background: #FFCC99;
}
```
And remove this:
```
#header,.widget,#footer-widget-area {
  background:#253c6c;
}
```
designsimply · Member · Feb 23, 2012 at 10:31 am
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3. For the homepage text I want to eliminate all of the commenting abilities on the text there, its not a blog post its just information about the site and I don’t want people to be able to reply.

See http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/
lmanderso · Member · Feb 27, 2012 at 8:21 pm
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Thank you so much for your help. You are absolutely right I did switch themes to see if that was part of the problem, so changing the color of the search box no longer became a problem, but some other problems arose.
designsimply · Member · Mar 1, 2012 at 2:36 am
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Please feel free to create a new thread if you have more questions about the new theme you picked out. :) https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization/

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