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Hi @carrietv Caroline, I hope you are doing well. I apologize that Mardesco does not actively monitor this forum and your question has not been answered yet. It’s been quite some time so I hope you’ve been able to find a satisfactory solution in the meantime. But I thought I would attempt to address your question.

The green heading and separator bar in the “Boldly Go Green” theme are only applied to certain widgets by default, unless the widget was saved with a “Title” field. For example, the styles are applied to the text widget, archives widget, and pages widget (even if the Title is blank); but by default there is no header or separator bar for the calendar widget or the search widget. The default widget heading is a fancy bonus feature, because Justin Tadlock, the creator of parent theme “Stargazer,” built in those default headings for some of the most commonly used widgets. For example, if you create a text widget with no “Title” field, the widget will be displayed with a title that says, “Text Widget.” Other widget types are commonly used without any heading, so he did not include a default header for the “calendar” or “search” widgets. (The same is true of widgets for custom post types and third-party plugins: they will not have a default heading.) But I tested this just now and it looks like the solution is:

From the Appearance > Widgets menu, if you add a Title to your widget (the field is blank by default) and hit Save: then when you go back and view the site again, the widget heading and divider bar should appear between those widgets. ??

I hope that helps! Apologies for the severely delayed response. Have a great day.
-Jesse

• This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by Jesse Smith (Mardesco).

minor correction, “Text Widget” was the saved title of a text widget in my test environment…