Title: editing
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# editing

 *  [amandal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandal/)
 * (@amandal)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-1/)
 * ok, im trying to edit a theme to my likings, i was just wondering how i would
   remove the header, and right column, when i delete the file out of my cpanel,
   all this coding show up in its place.
 * what am i doing wrong?

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 *  [Adam Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamrbrown/)
 * (@adamrbrown)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-1/#post-645462)
 * Simply deleting a file from your theme is really going to screw up the theme.
   To change things, you need to go into the files, find the relevant pieces of 
   code you don’t want, and remove them. You’ll need to know HTML and CSS, and possibly
   some PHP.
 * You would probably need to remove pieces of header.php (but definitely not the
   whole thing) and sidebar.php (again, not the whole thing), I would guess from
   what you wrote.
 * If you’ve got major changes you want to make, you may want to look around at 
   all the many, many free themes that are available.
 *  Thread Starter [amandal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandal/)
 * (@amandal)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-1/#post-645469)
 * ok, well i figured out how to remove everything that i wanted to remove, but 
   now i cant figure out how to move the entries box down and to the right some
 * my site is roflcore.org
 *  [Adam Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamrbrown/)
 * (@adamrbrown)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-1/#post-645470)
 * Some CSS help: [CSS reference](http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp).
 * Check out the “padding” and “margin” stuff. If this is new to you, then click
   on “margin” and look for the “Do it yourself demo.” Then, at the END of your 
   style.css file, put something like this:
 * `div#main{margin:10em;}`
 * But fiddle with using margin or padding, and with different measurements, until
   you find what you like.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-1/#post-645480)
 * Although, before you go any further… make a habit to check that you do have a
   whole html page:
    [http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.roflcore.org%2F](http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.roflcore.org%2F)
   Every tags should be closed.

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