dbking

Hey there,

Okay, so you can adjust that by changing the padding. Below I have highlighted the class you’ll need to adjust to change the padding between elements:

From line 3207 in your CSS:

.navigation-classic .primary-navigation .menu-primary > ul > li > a {
    padding: 12px 24px;
    border-bottom: 0;
    font-size: 1.125em;
    line-height: 1.33333em;
}

The padding here is currently set to top and bottom at 12px, and left and right 24px. So you’ll likely just want to reduce the left and right padding. That’ll do it.

[Moderator’s note: I put your code in code tags, please use in future, thanks!]

Hi cilun,

If you don’t want anything to appear in the page title, or the header logo area, there are a couple of different ways you can accomplish that. The simplest is generally to open up your CSS file, find the relevant class, and adding “display: none”. That will hide the element, even if there is a default that’s meant to display if you list nothing there.

Hi Rich,

While this is true of the free WordPress.org themes, If you were to choose a theme from one of the premium theme providers, they often do include the sample data – so you end up with a full-fledged site with dummy content and photos already included. So, in other words, it really depends on where you’re getting your theme from.

Also, I do agree with you that often it’s easier to learn a new platform by editing existing content, rather than starting presumably from scratch. I think if you were to start with a theme that contains sample data, you’d realize pretty quickly that WordPress is actually very user-friendly.

Hi there,

Technically, closing php tags are only necessary when you have mixed elements – like when php that is used within an html document. If the page is pure php, then you don’t need the closing tags, and it can actually prove problematic if you do include them.

More info on this can be found in this article here:
http://lucdebrouwer.nl/why-i-dont-use-closing-php-tags/

Hi Oria,

Generally the image header dimensions are set in your functions.php file. You may also need to make corresponding changes to the relevant CSS in your style.css.

Hi there,

To do something like this you’d want to use conditional statements, in addition to CSS – so that the display will vary depending on different circumstances – in this case, based on different media queries settings. Mobble is a plugin that allows for control like this. And for more info on how to accomplish this, please see this article: http://wpsites.net/web-design/conditional-tags-mobile-devices/

Hi there,

Yes, with CSS you can always target specific locations/incidences – you just need to target more specifically in your code. What you’ll want to do is “inspect element” and see what other classes apply to just the occasion of the title that you’re trying to remove – once you’ve identified a unique class for that occasion, you would call that, along with the .entry-header in order to make just that instance not display.

It would look like this:

.some-class .post-image {
display: none;
}

-Darren