Placid Rodrigues

Hi Andrew,

You have suggested Custom CSS Manager Plugin. Can it be used as a substitute for child theme functionality? Please suggest.

Hi swarnock89,
Please stop now before editing anything further in your theme’s CSS. Please go for either of the ways that Andrew suggested. You are creating a nice website and it should go great!! If you are not comfortable with using the plugin as suggested, you can create a child theme very easily in ten to fifteen minutes. Just search for it. Remember, before you implement it – 1) save your modifications somewhere and 2) delete and freshly install the Twenty Ten theme itself (since you are using it now).

Best wishes !!
Placid

Hi Void5150,

Just to make sure you are on the right way…

You may be purposefully trying to modify CSS of the theme. But if your goal is just to modify the style your site, please create a child theme first and insert all modification CSS codes there.

Best wishes !!
Placid

Hi,

If you are talking about the date tags that are showing on your website and if you want to only hide them from viewer of the sites, you can do the following:

Insert the following code at the end of all codes in your child-theme’s style.css:

.entry-date {
display: none;
}

It will hide these tags from the view. But if anyone views the html, they can see what’s in there.

Hope that helps !!
Placid

Hi jpartin1976,

In the site you mentioned, the widths are as follows:
Logo image on the left = 398px
Adsense Banner size = 728px
Total = 1126px

So, the two elements fit in the total width of the site-content of 1140px.

But that’s not the case in your site, total widths of the logo image + adsense banner ad exceeds the total width of the site.

So, you either have to use a smaller banner with “468 x 60” or you need to follow the directions I previously advised.

To save yourself from future pain, you should learn how to create a child theme. If you choose not to do so at this moment, follow these steps:
1. In your dashboard, make sure your theme is selected
2. Click on Editor under Appearance
3. Make sure you see Stylesheet under the Edit Themes heading. Scroll down to the end of the codes you see and paste the code I gave you in the previous topic.
4. Save it. Open your website and refresh.

This should work.

Best wishes !!
Placid

Hi jpartin1976,

First of all, please see the image shown in the link to make sure you want to achieve something like this:

http://postimg.org/image/qubzg0t13/

Second, please mention which theme you are using. If you are using a theme that you be updated later, you must use a child theme to retain your modifications.

Best of luck,
Placid

Hi jpartin1976,

Insert the following code in your child theme’s stylesheet:

#title-area {
  height: 150px;
  width: 970px;
}

#header .widget-area {
  float: right;
  padding: 15px 0;
  width: 945px;
}

Also, reduce the size of the Google search input to around 45 to make it squeeze into the page.

Another thing, I noticed you are using an image background “3am_bg_61.png” which is more 2MB in size. It is making your site slow. My advice would be to reduce the size using any image editor and also convert it to JPG format.

Hope that helps !!

Placid