Title: Customising WordPress
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Customising WordPress

 *  [john10001](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john10001/)
 * (@john10001)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customising-wordpress/)
 * Hello.
 * I just wondered if anyone can help me with one or two things.
 * I am trying to customise WordPress and would like to have a top header, left 
   sidebar, footer and main content. I have modified one of the themes and made 
   it active, and also changed the CSS.
 * I now have sort of what I want but not quite.
 * The side bar is on the left however there is a small gap at the top and bottom.
   I would like it to look as if there is no gap to the header and footer. I would
   also like to get rid of the line border below the header and above the footer
   that separates it from the content.
 * Also, one other thing is that the list in the sidebar seems to be an ordered 
   list with round bullets in front of the blogroll, archives etc. How do I get 
   rid of these? I thought that anything in ul tags is unordered, and in ol is ordered.
   My sidebar is all ul, but still has the round things in front.
 * The location of the test site I am trying to customise is:
    [http://tinyurl.com/8go2e](http://tinyurl.com/8go2e)
 * If you can point me in the right direction I’d be very grateful.
 * So far I have followed the advice of Urban Giraffe theme guide 1 at:
    [http://www.urbangiraffe.com/2005/04/12/themeguide1/](http://www.urbangiraffe.com/2005/04/12/themeguide1/)
   It would be great if they could add more guides that follow on from this first
   guide.
 * Cheers for any help
 * John

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 *  Thread Starter [john10001](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john10001/)
 * (@john10001)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customising-wordpress/#post-188995)
 * Okay. I seem to have gotten rid of the lines separating the header and footer.
 * I’ve not figured out how to fix the list to unordered though. I am wondering 
   if there is something in the php making it like this, and if there is a wordpress
   setting to change this?
 * Also there is a gap above and below the sidebar, before the header and footer
   which I want to get rid of as well.
 * If anyone can help that would be super.
 * Thanks
 * John
 *  [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customising-wordpress/#post-189124)
 * Hi John,
 * Glad that you got the gap issue sorted. Taking a look at your site I see that
   your sidebar lists are definitley unordered. An ordered list has some numeric
   or alphabetic order – 1, 2, 3, etc. An unordered list is just a series of bullet
   points.
 * To remove the bullets you need to change the style for the ul element within 
   the sidebar. Take a look at [W3Schools](http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_list-style-type.asp)
   for a run-down of the available types.
 * Finally, I will be continuing the guide shortly!

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