Remove elements from Mistylook

wheretheclientis · Member · Oct 23, 2009 at 4:30 pm
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I’m trying to make Mistylook as faux-static as possible. I’ve tried some forum solutions but have come up wanting. The blog:

http://virginiaminuchin.wordpress.com/

The question:

–How to remove the “Feeds” links from the upper right-hand corner without removing the woodsy image.
–How to remove each of the following throughout: date, posted by, category, “leave a comment.”

Any other suggestions welcome. (Note: no such person as Virginia Minuchin, LCSW.)

Many, many thanks.

The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
thesacredpath · Member · Oct 23, 2009 at 5:00 pm
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Those can be hidden if you have CSS editing experience and the paid CSS upgrade.
wheretheclientis · Member · Oct 23, 2009 at 9:10 pm
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Anyone want to walk me through it…?
thesacredpath · Member · Oct 23, 2009 at 11:40 pm
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Do you have the CSS upgrade?
wheretheclientis · Member · Oct 24, 2009 at 3:07 pm
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I do.
thesacredpath · Member · Oct 24, 2009 at 3:13 pm
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OK delete everything that is now in the CSS edit window, add the following to the CSS edit window and make sure that “add to existing…” is checked. Click the preview button to see what it looks like and then click the “save” button to commit the changes.
```
html #feedarea {
display:none;
}

#content .post-info, #content .postmetadata {
display:none;
}
```
wheretheclientis · Member · Oct 24, 2009 at 11:05 pm
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Holy! Thanks so very much.

I gotta learn how to do that.

Thank you thank you thank you.
wheretheclientis · Member · Oct 24, 2009 at 11:10 pm
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How do you suggest I go about learning basic CSS? Do you like any of the free online tutorials? Thanks again.
thesacredpath · Member · Oct 24, 2009 at 11:33 pm
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There are some references at the top of the CSS forum, https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization , and also at the bottom of the “editing CSS” support document: http://support.wordpress.com/editing-css/ .

A large part of being able to work with it officially is knowning the relationship between the markup (xhtml) and the CSS. As the wise atthe404 has said right here in this forum,

There is no trick. But doing CSS requires an understanding of the markup (xhtml). There is no way round that. The CSS applies styles to stuff. To what stuff depends on the markup. So number one read the source (View Source). Get used to it. Feel comfortable with it. Two. Understand what the heck selectors actually are. Different cats of selectors behave in different ways. SO: this is counter intuitive. To understand the CSS do not start in CSS. Start in the xhtml. Then see how they relate. Its all there. :)
There are gazillions of CSS tutorials on line.
thesacredpath · Member · Oct 24, 2009 at 11:35 pm
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The first part of that second paragraph should be

“A large part of being able to work with it effectively is knowning the relationship between the markup (xhtml) and the CSS. As the wise atthe404 has said right here in this forum… ”
thesacredpath · Member · Oct 24, 2009 at 11:35 pm
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And you are very welcome.
drrusselldcaram · Member · Oct 26, 2009 at 10:14 pm
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Hey Sacredpath,

I’ve been following this thread because I have the same issue with the Quentin theme – I wish to have the ‘time/date’ stamp and the “comments” part removed from all posts. I tried to cut-and-paste the answer you gave above, but it didnt work…

Any suggestions?

Russ
thesacredpath · Member · Oct 26, 2009 at 11:11 pm
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Russ,

The reason that did not work for you is that CSS is theme dependent. How everything is structured in the markup, and what things are called is the choice of each individual theme designer. That is a long way of saying “every theme is different.”

Add the following to the quentin CSS:
```
.meta {
display:none;
}
```
drrusselldcaram · Member · Oct 27, 2009 at 1:31 pm
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Hey Sacred,

That worked like a charm!!

I had a feeling everything was different or the advice given on Misty would have worked here!

Thanks for your help…you’re a gentleman, a scholar, and a judge of fine women and good horses!!!!
thesacredpath · Member · Oct 27, 2009 at 2:48 pm
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You’re welcome.

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