sticky posts – removing "Featured Post"

The easiest way to do this if you already created a child theme is to add the following to your child theme’s style.css:

.featured-post {
	display: none;
}

The code will still be created, but it will be hidden from the user.

The other way is to download the file /wp-content/themes/twentytwelve/content.php to your PC. Open it in a text-only editor like Notepad, Gedit, etc. (not a word processor that would add extraneous code) and find these lines on about line 15:

<div class="featured-post">
  <?php _e( 'Featured post', 'twentytwelve' ); ?>
</div>

Just delete them, then save the file and upload it to your child theme’s folder.

The presence of the new content.php in your child theme’s folder will override the one in the parent theme and no more lines or “Featured Post.” This way, the code is not written at all.

Thank you, linux4me2.

I tried the css route. It removed the words and the lines a-ok, but my header disappeared, while the site title and the tagline, both of which had been hidden, appeared.

Did I miss something in creating the child theme?

The child themes page gave the starting lines to the child style.css file and implied that all I needed to put in it were Theme Name: Twenty Twelve Child and Template: twentytwelve in the comment section (bounded by /* and */). I did include a relevant Theme URI, albeit with an incorrect path since the example’s path was likely incorrect, but this didn’t seem to be essential. After the two comment sections, I placed the style snippet you gave in your reply.

I put the child style.css in a twentytwelve-child directory in the wp-content/themes folder and activated it via my Dashboard -> Appearance -> Themes.

When I activated the child theme, it appeared to deactivate the parent theme. That is, the child theme gave the message, “This child theme requires its parent theme Twenty Twelve.” The Twenty Twelve theme showed an “activate” link. I found I could not activate both simultaneously.

I’ll try the content.php fix next.

But I’d like to know why my child style.css fix made the header disappear. Any ideas?

I think you had an error in your child theme’s style.css. For Twenty Twelve with the name you gave to the child theme, it should be like this:

/*
 Theme Name:     Twenty Twelve Child
 Description:    Whatever you want as a description here.
 Template:       twentytwelve
 Version:        1.0.0
*/

@import url("../twentytwelve/style.css");

.featured-post {
	display: none;
}

What that does is import the parent theme’s style.css so you have all the formatting from it in your child theme. The lack of that import is probably why you had the weird formatting.

I’m sorry, I had forgotten to mention that I had also updated the @import url to show twentytwelve/style.css.

Everything you have here is exactly what I have in my child style.css, except the Description and the Version. I had changed the Version to 1.3 because that’s the version I’ve got.

I’ll go play with it some more. Maybe revert to Version 1.0.0 and delete the Theme URI line. If I figure out what I did wrong, I’ll post it here to help others.

I’ve just found that your suggestion to change the content.php file removed the words and lines – and my header is still present.

Thank you!

For what it’s worth, I tried this route as well. By switching to the child theme, it appears some of the Themes > Customize settings are reset. I went in and turned off the “Display Header Text” and turned back on the header image.