Chip Bennett

Step one: create the content that you want to display, likely as Static Pages.

Step two: go to Dashboard -> Appearance -> Menus, and create your custom navigation menu to suit your needs.

Step three: apply that custom menu to the appropriate Theme Location provided by your current Theme.

Using the Firebug extension for the Firefox web browser isn’t “learning a whole nother program”. It’s actually one of the easiest ways to understand how CSS rules are impacting a specific element on a site. (If you use Google Chrome browser, you could use the “Chrome Developer Tools” extension for the same purpose.)

Basic CSS really isn’t the purpose of the WordPress support forums. Esmi’s suggestion to use Firefox/Firebug is the standard “teach a man to fish” response to such questions.

If you need more basic CSS help, I would try a CSS forum.

You have an else :, without a corresponding if : statement. Or, you have a syntax error on the line before the else :.

Two things:

1. Post any code greater than 10 lines in a Pastebin.
2. I don’t think the error is coming from the Twenty Eleven index.php file. Note the error message:

/www/htdocs/w00db417/index.php on line 33

If the error were coming from the Twenty Eleven index.php, the error would likely read something like:

/www/htdocs/w00db417/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/index.php on line 33

Try looking in the file referenced in the actual filepath from the error message.

You need to add your own filter:

function brunelleschi_child_filter_header_image_height( $height ) {
    // set equal whatever height you want;
    // e.g. for 300px, use 300
    $new_height = 300;
    // now return it
    return $new_height;
}
add_filter( 'brunelleschi_header_image_height', 'brunelleschi_child_filter_header_image_height' );

Let’s stick with Twenty Eleven, just to rule out any Theme-specific issues.

First question: how are you applying the custom CSS classes to your list items?

Why not just use that font? @font-face is your friend. 🙂

Why are you linking jQuery from an external library, when WordPress bundles/enqueues its own version? That will almost always cause issues/conflicts/unintended consequences.

Glad to hear it!

P.S. another good sanity check here would have been to use has_post_thumbnail(), e.g.:

<?php
$homepage_has_featured_image = has_post_thumbnail( get_option( 'page_for_posts' ) );
?>

Might have saved a few pulled hairs. 🙂