text at the page top (in header?)

  • Unknown's avatar
    proustmatters · Member ·

    1. Can I remove (or hide) the title of the page (at the top). It is unattractive to see the title repeated so close to its menu item which has (necessarily) the same name. e.g. a menu item is “Reflections” — then immediately below is “Reflections.” Can I hide it by changing its color to white?
    2. My site name is “proustmatters”. That’s fine. But, I would like the title (repeated thoughout at the top) to say “Proust and other matters”. Is there a way to do this in CSS?

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

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    jsmutek · Member ·

    Hi there –

    1) This is possible to do with CSS provided you have the Custom Design add on that lets you add CSS to your site.

    There’s a number of approaches that you could take, but the easiest would be to identify the element(s) you’d like to hide and apply the display: none attribute to it.

    For example, if the page titles you want to hide were H1 elements with a class of .entry-title you could use 

    /* Hide all Page titles */

.entry-title {
  display: none;
}

    You can identify the elements and class names by using the developer tools (if they are included) in your browser. For example, in Chrome, highlight the element you are looking to target, right click it, and choose inspect element.

    Are you comfortable with this? I tried to take a quick look at your site to provide more detailed feedback, but your site seems to be set to private.

    2) You can change your site title from your dashboard, under settings / general. This would be the best approach for this change, it’s not a job for CSS.

    Hope that helps! :)

  • Unknown's avatar
    proustmatters · Member ·

    Thank you jsmutek. You answered both questions clearly and perfectly – it works.
    BTW, I marked my site “private” because it’s still a work in progress and I don’t want small children to laugh or dogs to bark if I publish such a raw beast! Is there a way to publish but to put the site in a “maintenance” or development mode?

  • Unknown's avatar
    jsmutek · Member ·

    Awesome, I’m really glad I was able to help!

    To my knowledge there’s no maintenance or development mode for wordpress.com – you could mark pages and posts as private, but it seems like your solution is the best way to tackle that.

    Have a great day! :)

  • Unknown's avatar
    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Is there a way to publish but to put the site in a “maintenance” or development mode?

    Not at this time there is not. Your only choice is to set it to private. If it is an issue on a private site where it has to be seen, Staff, such as myself, can view your private site and help. We review all threads here in the CSS forum, so we will definitely see it. Sometimes it may be a day if we get tied up with other things, or on a weekend, but we most certainly will help out.

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