Balint Toth

Hello!

I think at this point the best way is to find the file itself and change it manually. Just to be sure that I understand it right, you want to change that blue planet and start image? If it is right, here is what you have to do:

First step is to create a so called child theme, for which you can find a very good description here: codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Basically you have to do this because if you make any changes inside the theme folder, it will be completely lost when you update the theme or WordPress, it will be lost.

So the next step is, inside your child themes folder, create a folder called images, and inside that, you have to put the header background image with the name of header-bg.png
The themes original image is 948x203px so you should use something similar. It is very important for the image to have this exact name, because child themes work so if you put something in the child themes folder (php, css files, images, etc) with the same name as it is in the parent or original theme, than wordpress will use yours, not the image from the theme. Everything else that you do not provide for WordPress, it will use from the parent theme.

I hope this helps, if you have any additional questions, feel free to post here.

Have a nice day!
Greetings,
Balint

Hello!

I think it is completely possible with creating a child theme and adding some custom css rules that can achive what you would like.

If you could please give me the link for your site so I could take a look, I can give you the necessary CSS code.

Greetings,
Balint

Hello!

I have installed this theme to my testing WP install, and for me it works with various picture sizes. Beside that, the theme is responsive, meaning that if you have a smaller image, it should be stretched to the proper size, depending on the visitor’s display size. So it looks like the issue is somewhere on your installation. Could you please share with me your site’s url, so I could take a look at it?

Thank you very much!
Greetings,
Balint

Hello! I am glad that I could help you 🙂

Regarding the active menu item, the CSS hover or active “states” are connected to the mouse cursor. A link on a website by itself is in “link” state. If you move the cursor over a link, than it is in “hover” state, in the moment when you are clicking to the link than it is in “active” state (while the mouse button is actually pushed down on the link). When there is a link that you have already visited (the link address is already in your web browser’s history), then it is in “active” state.

The better way to determine our current location on a WordPress site is by calling WordPress for help. In most themes, WordPress automatically adds a CSS ID or class to the menu item on which page we are currently on. In your case, this is the class .current-menu-item. So with this code, I was able to make the current menu item different color:

.current-menu-item {
  background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FCB721;
}

And it looks like this: http://d.pr/i/L3dd
Of course you can add a number of other rules to this class to achieve your wish in the site’s design.

If you have any more questions, just drop a line here, I am happy to help! 🙂

Have a great day!
Balint

Well, it is a little bit strange. If you need any additional help, or some tweaking, I am happy to help you!

Have a great day!

Greetings,
Balint

Hello!

First, the answer to your 3rd question: every change you make to a theme, it is most likely that you will lose it when you update the theme or WordPress, because WordPress has no way to recognize your modifications.

1.) To decrease the space between the menu bar and the middle ‘Welcome to our website’ part, you need to use this CSS rule:

.front-page #wrapper {
  margin: 20px auto;
}

Change the 20px value to your needs, but notice that the bottom margin (between the welcome box and the 3 boxes) wont change with this. To change that, you should create this rule:

#featured {
  margin-bottom: 5px;
}

and adjust the 5px value.

2.) The cause that your footer is in two lines is that there is a div for social icons. So in order to make that work, you have to edit footer.php. Now, the proper way for this is to create the child theme, copy the footer.php file from the parent folder to the child theme’s folder, and edit there. Open the file and find this:

</div>
	<!-- end of col-540 -->

	<div class="grid col-380 fit">
		<?php

		// First let's check if any of this was set

		echo '<ul class="social-icons">';

After the end of col-540 line delete the everything until the end of col-380 fit here:

</div>
	<!-- end of col-380 fit -->

</div>
<!-- end of col-940 -->

So the first line you have to delete is the <div class="grid col-380 fit"> (for me it is on line 58) and the last line you have to delete is <!-- end of col-380 fit -->. That should move up a little bit the copyright part. There may be necessary some CSS tweaking, but I can provide you that if you have deleted the div in the php file, because for some reason the footer menu is not appearing on my test installation, so your site will behave different from mine. Please let me know when you have made these modifications, and I can provide you the rest then.

I hope this helps.

Greetings,
Balint

Hello!

I am sorry to say this, but most likely we are unable to help you here, because the theme is a premium one, so we cannot install it for ourselves in order to help you. You should try the Elegant Themes support forum at https://www.elegantthemes.com/forum/

Greetings,
Balint

Hello!

It is completely possible, however it needs a little bit of PHP coding, but nothing dangerous.

First of all, you will need to create a child theme, this ensures that the customizations we are going to make, will remain if you update the theme or WordPress.
You can find a very detailed instruction how to create a child theme here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes but if you need any help, I am here to help you.

The second step is to open your site with an FTP editor, go to wp-content/themes/striker/ folder, and copy the content.php to your child theme’s folder (it should be wp-content/themes/striker-child/). Open the content.php file in the child theme folder with a code editor, and search for these 2 parts:

On the top part of the file (at me it is at line 13, but yours can be different), find this:

<?php if ( 'post' == get_post_type() ) : ?>
		<div class="entry-meta">
			<?php striker_posted_on(); ?>
		</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
		<?php endif; ?>
	</header><!-- .entry-header -->

and delete the entry-meta div completely, so it should look like this:

<?php if ( 'post' == get_post_type() ) : ?>
		<?php endif; ?>
	</header><!-- .entry-header -->

The second part is about at the end of the file (at me it is from line 30 to 60):
it begins with
<footer class="entry-meta">
and end with
</footer><!-- .entry-meta -->

Now delete everything inside those two lines, including them, so after the deletion there will be no <footer> part at all.

This should remove the posted by and tags info from every page where are multiple posts listed. If you want to remove these from single posts also, just let me know. Also, if you need any help regarding this, I am here to help you.

Greetings,
Balint