Removing Dead Space Above Header 2011 Theme

Do not edit the Twenty Eleven theme. It is the default WordPress theme and having access to an unedited version of the theme is vital when dealing with a range of site issues. Create a child theme for your changes. Once your child theme is active, we should be able to help with the customisation.

Thank you Theme Diva esmi! ?? I did say I was a newbie…

I followed the wiki – many thanks for that. I have a child theme style.css and replaced the twentyeleven style.css from a fresh wp.zip install directory to make it “virginish” again. Alles Gute

I used the modified css as my child theme to keep my other changes. Easy – thanks!

I would love to learn how to:

1. manipulate the amount of space above and below the Blog Title

2. Remove the “Search Box”

3. Remove the comment balloon (? it has a 1 in it) that appears next to a post

Many Thanks!

1. That can be done using CSS. Have you tried using Firefox with the Firebug add-on? It’s a excellent tool for this kind of work.
https://getfirebug.com/

2. Copy header.php into your child them, then edit the child’s copy and remove:

<div class="only-search<?php if ( ! empty( $header_image ) ) : ?> with-image<?php endif; ?>">
<?php get_search_form(); ?>
</div>

3. Just remove the balloon image?

Esmi thank you for your posts. Your awesome.

Wow Firebug is cool! But from a quote :

Editing in Firebug is kinda like taking out the pickles from and
adding mustard to a restaurant sandwich: you can enjoy the result, but
the next customer at the restaurant will still get pickles and no
mustard.

I am using only notepad to edit my files. Do you have any suggestions or links to explain how to translate what I do in firebug to my actual code? Any suggestions such as open source editors and video tutorials that will help me quickly translate firebug actions to real code changes. If I need to buy dreamweaver and give adobe more money just break the news to me. I am having a hard time understanding how what firebug does relates to the specific file and area of code I need to access and change.

Many Thanks!