How to remove automatic title in Blogum

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  nixsheth · Member · Feb 1, 2012 at 9:51 pm

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  Hi all,

  I am a newbie and just started blog with the blogum theme. Does anyone know how I can just use my header image & delete the automatic title that it originaly comes with?

  Thank you so much in advance,
  Nik

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  ardpete · Member · Feb 1, 2012 at 10:28 pm

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  Dashboard > Appearance > Header > Display Text: No.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Feb 1, 2012 at 10:40 pm

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  @ardpete: That option isn’t present in all themes. See here:
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/header-images/
  As a rule, it’s present when the blog title is inside the header image area.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Feb 1, 2012 at 10:44 pm

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  @Nik: Link to the log in question please.

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  ardpete · Member · Feb 1, 2012 at 10:54 pm

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  Good to know! Thanks :)

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  nixsheth · Member · Feb 2, 2012 at 12:15 am

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  Thank you- unfortunatley cant do it with blogum….back to the drawing board! thanks again

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Feb 2, 2012 at 10:01 am

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  @Nik: Link to the log in question please, so I can see what you’ve added and give you a code that hides the title.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Feb 2, 2012 at 10:02 am

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  For related tricks see here:

  Customizing the blog title in Blogum

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  nixsheth · Member · Feb 2, 2012 at 11:34 am

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  http://nikitashethdesigns.wordpress.com/

  Also- do you if there is a way we can see examples of people who have used our themes?

  Thank you!

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Feb 2, 2012 at 11:53 am

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  To find other blogs that use the same theme, you copy the theme blurb from the credits and make a site-specific and term-specific search. In your case, you paste this in the Google search box:
  site:wordpress.com "Theme: Blogum by WPShower"

  To hide the blog title and tagline, go to Appearance > Widgets, add a Text widget, paste the following, save:

  <div align="center" style="top:0;right:0;width:945px;height:125px;background-color:#fff;position:absolute;z-index:11;">
  </div>

  This will create a white strip in front of the title area.

  If you don’t like the resulting empty space, I can probably work out something more elaborate that will allow you to place the Header image higher.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Feb 2, 2012 at 12:08 pm

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  PS I added this trick to the post I linked to above.

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  nixsheth · Member · Feb 2, 2012 at 9:07 pm

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  You are honestly amazing!!! It worked!! Thank you – but yes, is it possible to add some code just to shift it a little higher? Sorry to be so demanding!

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Feb 2, 2012 at 10:44 pm

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  Ok!
  Go to Appearance > Header and remove the header image. Then paste this in the Text widget:

  <div align="center" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;z-index:11;width:100%;height:180px;background-color:#fff;">
<div style="position:relative;top:5px;text-align:left;margin-left:160px;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;">
<a style="color:#000;text-decoration:none;" href="http://nikitashethdesigns.wordpress.com/">Home</a> <span style="color:#9d9d9d;">/</span> <a style="color:#000;text-decoration:none;" href="http://nikitashethdesigns.wordpress.com/about/">About</a>
  </div>
  <div style="position:relative;top:1px;">
  <a href="http://nikitashethdesigns.wordpress.com/"><img style="max-width:945px;" src="http://nikitashethdesigns.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/header1.jpg"></a>
  </div>
  </div>

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  nixsheth · Member · Feb 3, 2012 at 11:03 am

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  Absolute genius. It worked!!! Thank you so much! honestly, really appreciate you doing that for me.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Feb 3, 2012 at 1:03 pm

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  You’re welcome!

  A few months ago I worked out something quite similar for another user. You might be interested in reading this:

  Positions absolute, relative, stable(d), unstable(d) and others

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  deskript · Member · Feb 8, 2012 at 1:57 am

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  I’m very glad I found this thread. Thank you panaghiotisadam!