• Resolved chrisk860

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    I am new to wordpress but have been building static sites for 5 years. I downloaded WordPress and then downloaded and activated Celestial Lite theme. Then I activated the celestial lite child them and proceeded to create the exact home Page I wanted.

    Now I am trying to create the many other pages I need for this site such as an about page, but when I go to edit the header image for example, I end up changing the header image on the Home Page. I have made sure that I am using the correct page template for the About Page but I just seem to be going in circles. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    The site is being created in an empty domain that is currently not being used as I don’t want to shut down the main site while I create the new one. The URL is http://www.dearrachelbook.com

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  • Thread Starter chrisk860

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    yes

    Step 1: you have your WP header uploaded for your front page and your theme option setting for WP on Every Page is unchecked.

    Step 2: Upload an image to your media library and copy the File URL safe somewhere.

    Step 3: Drag a text widget into the Page Banner widget position from your widgets admin (Appearance >> Widgets ) and then add the following code:

    <img src="your copied File URL" alt="short description" />

    Step 4: with the Display Widgets plugin installed and activated, at the bottom of your widget, you can select to show or hide on any of the pages that you will see in the list there. I generally set it to Show on Checked Pages. Choose your About page.

    Thread Starter chrisk860

    (@chrisk860)

    Thank you. I followed your instructions and that worked fine….BUT…when I went to add a DIFFERENT header to different page, the code for the about us page appears in the page banner widget, even though I am editing a different page (email marketing page) As I mentioned earlier I am looking to have different headers on every page.

    This is where that plugin Display Widgets comes in. You need to assign each widget to the page you want it to “show” on only. Do this from the widget when you have it open in the widget admin. That plugin adds some settings to the bottom of widgets.

    Thread Starter chrisk860

    (@chrisk860)

    Widget Admin?????? This is why I walked away from WordPress like three years ago. It isn’t a learning curve…it’s a mountain….without a peak. Ugh.

    If I open a certain page in my site say ABOUT, and then I click edit page >appearance, then > widgets… what am I looking for or HOW do I assign a widget to a page??

    you know the widget you did (or did you do this yet) with the image you put in your about page? Open that widget by going to Appearance >> Widgets (in your dashboard). I call it a widget admin because it’s the page where all your widgets are that you can administer in your site.

    Just out of curiosity, how much WordPress experience do you have?

    …and yes, WordPress does have a learning curve. Might want to check out wp101.com

    By the way, just to confirm, you do have the Display Widgets plugin activated?

    Thread Starter chrisk860

    (@chrisk860)

    I opened the discussion last week by stating I am new to WordPress but not new to web design. I have been building static sites for over 5 years, Yes, when I downloaded any widgets, I activated them.

    I take it you are still having problems with the banner image for your About page? Perhaps we can try this…contact me from my website and if you are OK with this, grant me access to your admin and also send me the image you want as your banner image and I will set this up for you.

    Thread Starter chrisk860

    (@chrisk860)

    How do I contact you through your website?

    It may be easier if you just email me off forum
    chris@greatpointmediadesign.com

    Then I can respond.

    Thanks again for your help

    No worries…just want to make sure things work for you, and I got your reply back via email.

    Anyway, all done. Go to your widgets area of your dashboard and see what I did for the banner on your About page (hope I got the right banner image). I also titled both of your widgets so you know what each one is in your dashboard. I just put a ! exclamation mark in front to hide the title on the front-end of your site (hence the plugin Remove Widget Title).

    Thread Starter chrisk860

    (@chrisk860)

    Now that I have the banners working correctly I need to find the component that controls the spacing of the text that I am creating as I add content. It looks like everything is double spaced and I need to change that. Can you steer me in the right direction?

    Are you referring to paragraph text?

    Thread Starter chrisk860

    (@chrisk860)

    yes.

    You can change the <p> tag css. This theme has the paragraph styling as:

    p {
    margin-bottom: 20px;
    margin-bottom: 1.250rem;
    }

    and this styles the content as well:

    #st-content-wrapper {
    min-height: 10rem;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 60px 0;
    font-size: 13px;
    font-size: 0.813rem;
    line-height: 22px;
    line-height: 1.375rem;
    color: #848484;
    }

    You can do custom css for just the <p> tag or the #st-content-wrapper container like above and just change the font size and line height. Line height is probably the one you want, so you could try something like:

    p {
    line-height: 1.1;
    }

    You could do the line height as px as well if you prefer..something like:

    line-height: 19px;

    Thread Starter chrisk860

    (@chrisk860)

    Thank you. If the reason for having a child theme installed is to not make changes to the core style sheets then I am confused as to where I should be making these edits? Am I copying portions of the main style sheet and then placing that portion inside the child theme style sheet and making the edits there?

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