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Thanks for your comments Ipstenu. I thought moving files was more likely to break links in plugins?? – hence the plan to not have to actually move any of them, just change the selection order for the index pages in the .htaccess file file.

I also wanted a clean look to all site pages’ URLs, so wanted it all in the root, rather than a subfolder, which would then show in the URL – at least that’s what I presume happens even after a the steps in “Giving WordPress Its Own Directory”?

Actually, I do appreciate that the help here is from the gifting of someone’s free time and knowledge – and it is always much appreciated. But one of the reasons I posted this, is because I thought it was potentially an excellent, clean ‘fix’ for what is obviously a common issue for many wordpress users – probably not website designers who do heaps of them – but definitely for those like me who are just trying to change their own site… so for the benefit of others too and the development of this excellent product.

The full code I put in my child style.css was this –

/* to reinstate the page title in the Showcase template + to drop it down a bit from the horizontal menu bar */
article.intro .entry-title {
	display: block !important;
	visibility: visible !important;
	background-color: #000000 !important;
	padding-top: 30px !important;
	padding-right: 20px;
}

though I’m not sure if I need to put !important after everything – or whether I really need the visible attribute too??

OK, have done a bit more research, and it seems like the display: block is best with +/- visibility: visible !important for good measure too. So now like this –

display: block;
 visibility: visible !important;

Any comments from expert css coders out there please??
Much appreciated.

When I tried it first with just that line of php removed, it still didn’t work, but have since got it working by totally removing my child functions.php file AND when I keep it in but had no php calls and no spare lines between the php marks – so all good now. I guess I’d either written it incorrectly, or was calling a function that the new 2011 theme does anyway – so was causing a conflict?
Thanks for your help – but would appreciate your comments on this, Curtismchale, so I can learn for the future!
Cheers.

OK, I forgot about helpful plugins! have now found a nice simple one that does the trick – ‘Show Menu Shortcode’ by Bob Matsuoka.
Unfortunately it overides my font-style, and I can’t find the bit of css to correct it. I’ve tried:

#menu-site_map-container .menu-site_map .menu {
	font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif !important;
}' in all its permutations, and

#nav_menu-2 .widget widget_nav_menu #menu-site_map-container .menu-site_map.menu {
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif !important;
}` again in lots of combinations.

Any ideas – or comments if I’ve mad some obvious coding errors??

Thanks.

Hi Noahjonah,

Thanks for your reply – what I mean is that when I inspect a page which is using the standard 2011 ‘Showcase’ template, by default it doesn’t show the entry-header class. So when I inspect it in Firebug it shows this:

<header class="entry-header">
<h2 class="entry-title">example page title</h2>
</header>

where the entry-header class is ‘greyed out’ (but I can’t find any reference to it in the css that firebug shows). So I’m guessing it must be cancelled in the Showcase Template somewhere…

Actually, reviewing this again now reminded me that i could check it out in the wp Editor – so I’ve searched the Twenty Eleven: Showcase Template Page Template (showcase.php) for anything that looks likely under ‘header’ or ‘entry’. I’ve come up with 2 possible culprits, as per below:

// Enqueue showcase script for the slider
wp_enqueue_script( 'twentyeleven-showcase', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/showcase.js', array( 'jquery' ), '2011-04-28' );

get_header(); ?>

		<div id="primary" class="showcase">
			<div id="content" role="main">

				<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

				<?php
					/**
					 * We are using a heading by rendering the_content
					 * If we have content for this page, let's display it.
					 */
					if ( '' != get_the_content() )
						get_template_part( 'content', 'intro' );
				?>

				<?php endwhile; ?>

or…

// For all other recent posts, just display the title and comment status.
					while ( $recent->have_posts() ) : $recent->the_post(); ?>

						<li class="entry-title">
							<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentyeleven' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
							<span class="comments-link">
								<?php comments_popup_link( '<span class="leave-reply">' . __( 'Leave a reply', 'twentyeleven' ) . '</span>', __( '<b>1</b> Reply', 'twentyeleven' ), __( '<b>%</b> Replies', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?>
							</span>
						</li>

					<?php
					endwhile;

However, I just don’t get php script, so can’t work out which bits to edit or how!! Once I know which bit it is, I can put it my child theme – though I’m not sure how to reinstate a php function.

I think this is a likely place to solve the problem, but I need someone who understands php to advise me – any ideas??

Cheers.

Very helpful – thanks again 🙂