Title: Platform theme header/leaf/social networking issues
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Platform theme header/leaf/social networking issues

 *  [NAWO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nawo/)
 * (@nawo)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/platform-theme-headerleafsocial-networking-issues/)
 * Hi there,
 * I’m a bit of a novice to wordpress (and websites generally) and I’m trying to
   figure out how to do three things with the free Platform theme by Pagelines. 
   If anyone can redirect me or has step by step instructions then that would be
   much appreciated. I’ve managed to figure out that I need to create a child theme(
   I think) in my htdocs for some of these issues but the instructions that I have
   found are really complex and I need a ‘Dummies guide to editing wordpress themes’
   so if anyone could help I’d be very grateful. I really can’t figure out how to:
 * 1) delete the leaf in the footer of the theme
    2) make the header of the theme
   wider 3) find a good plug in to have social networking icons (not follow me buttons)
   and to then use those as a widget

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/platform-theme-headerleafsocial-networking-issues/#post-2130745)
 * 1. Copy the footer.php file into your child theme and edit it.
 * 2. Edit your child’s stylesheet and adjust the header width.
 * 3. [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/)
 *  Thread Starter [NAWO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nawo/)
 * (@nawo)
 * [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/platform-theme-headerleafsocial-networking-issues/#post-2131087)
 * Hi sorry to as stupid questions but I don’t see anything in the header.php file
   that would indicate making it bigger…am I doing something really wrong? Here 
   is the file below.
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## Tags

 * [child theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child-theme/)
 * [edit](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/edit/)
 * [footer](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/footer/)
 * [header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header/)
 * [PageLines](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pagelines/)
 * [Platform](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/platform/)
 * [social-networking](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/social-networking/)

 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [NAWO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nawo/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/platform-theme-headerleafsocial-networking-issues/#post-2131087)
 * Status: not resolved

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