Title: General Template.php Alteration
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# General Template.php Alteration

 *  [Dee Lete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dee-lete/)
 * (@dee-lete)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-templatephp-alteration/)
 * Newbie here, Using WAMP to familiarize myself with WP (familiar with HTML & CSS).
   Built a functioning WAMP version of a website using the Auberge Theme, while 
   adding cosmetic touches to a “caterory” generation page (wanted to use the header
   menu – not the category selection – I wanted to eliminate the word “Category:”
   from the page so I found it in the “general_template.php” file in the wp_includes
   folder. All I did was delete those letter in the php file and that lowered the
   header in ALL the pages about 1/2 inch from the top of the page. I even undid
   the php change, however, the gap it created remained. I even replaced the entire
   file with no fix. I replicated this issue a few times with another FRESH install
   of WP, without Plugins, & a NEW database – while looking for a fix in the CSS.
 * My questions are:
    1. Can you make test changes like this in WP php files? 2.
   As I have already made a fix as I am in WAMP with permalinks issues – is this
   a possible WAMP issue? 3. If making this type of change is not an issue & it 
   is not a WAMP issue – why did this occur??
 * Can any help?
    Thank You
 * D. Lete

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 *  Thread Starter [Dee Lete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dee-lete/)
 * (@dee-lete)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-templatephp-alteration/#post-6629697)
 * Correction if needed: question 1
    1. Can you make TEXT changes like this in WP
   php files?
 *  [bossen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bossen/)
 * (@bossen)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-templatephp-alteration/#post-6629818)
 * A good advice is to ONLY make changes in a “Child-theme” because if you make 
   changes in the original one, it will be overwritten if/when the original theme
   is updated.
    Changes you make in the “Child-theme” will not affect the original,
   but WP reads the “Child-themes” settings etc. before the original and use the“
   Child-theme” instead of the original. Does this make any sense? You can read 
   much more about “Child-themes” in the help menu and you can google it, lots of
   stuff about it. The other things I don’t know much about, sorry! 😉
 * BR Bossen

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-templatephp-alteration/#post-6629818)
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