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Unfortunately I don’t know why that’s happening for you. I am a relative beginner at WordPress myself, all I know is that what I did on my site, worked.

It might help if you post your website address here, so others seeing this can look at what you’ve got and maybe know what is going wrong.

Ohhh sorry I didn’t see that you were asking where to find functions.php.

In the “Appearance” menu on the left hand side of your Dashboard, you will see the word “Editor” – click on it.

Once you do that, you will see in the edit window in the centre of the page the file style.css. That’s not the one you want to edit, you want to edit functions.php.

So, you will also see a list of templates on the right. In that list functions.php is titled “Theme Functions”. Click on “Theme Functions”.

Once that template comes up in the edit window, scroll down through the code to about 1/4 of the way down and you should see the text that I have copied here.

Then you can go ahead and change the width and height pixel numbers (I made it 1080 px to get it to line up) and height (whatever you want) and click “update file” to save your changes

Actually I think by default it will say 900 x 200; those numbers (1080 x 280) are what I used to get it to line up.

Between 1/4 and 1/3 of the way down, you will find

// Add a filter to mantra_header_image_width and mantra_header_image_height to change these values.
define( ‘HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH’, apply_filters( ‘mantra_header_image_width’, 1080 ) );
define( ‘HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT’, apply_filters( ‘mantra_header_image_height’, 280 ) );

…and you just change the numbers.

Be sure to ctrl+f5 (clear cache) when you go and view your webpage to see what the changes look like.

I am not 100% sure either! I read that Using Permalinks guide, and this is the one that gave me the impression that I had to download a plugin or change the coding or something complicated….

However, I just went in and changed the settings under permalinks to “Month and name” and that did the trick.

thanks,
Emma

Dashboard -> Appearance -> Editor (is the last choice in the list.)

when you click Editor, style.css is the first thing that shows, but the link for it is towards the bottom of the list on the right hand side.

The reason why it did not work was because I had not cleared the cache using Ctrl + F5.

Another member told me about this in regards to another issue, and I tried it here, and it works now.

Yep, once I cleared the cache, it showed the changes!

Thanks for that tip.

Yes it was! And it worked. Thanks!

Thanks for your reply t-p,

I tried that and it didn’t change anything.

I found #site-description and indeed the color was #999, I wanted to change it to all black, #000000, I saved changes, and nothing happened.

I realized I was using Hex codes, which I found a list of on the internet, that have six digits, but the colours here only have three digits. So i tried changing it to something with three digits…still no change in appearance.

I have followed others directions on here to try to change the style.css (space between paragraphs) and also that did not change anything….so I am starting to suspect something is wrong with the style.css?

There is a thing on my web host cPanel to “create a subdomain”.

I thought I might just be able to create a subdomain, and install WordPress a second time to that subdomain. No?

Your front page is using headers instead of plain paragraph text.

Yes it is! That is the result of my tinkering with it to make it approximately the size and spacing I want. I guess the Internet at large gave me some “bad HTML” advice!! Let’s see if we can get it right, thanks for your help with this.

So I understand what you’re saying – changing the style.css as you suggested would only affect paragraph text, not header text. However, I made these changes to the format of the front page text after I tried unsuccessfully to make the change to style.css.

Here is what I did. I found that same paragraph,

#content p {
font-size:15px;
line-height:1.7em;
}

in my style.css. Where I found it was under the heading (there are some underlined headings in the style.css) “Images”.

I changed it to look like this:

#content p {
font-size:15px;
line-height:1.7em;
padding-bottom: 20px
}

and it said it was edited successfully.

I then went to check my website and nothing changed. I tried it twice, and both times, nothing. Even on the pages such as my “About” and “Services” page which have paragraph text. The blog paragraphs did not change either.

This doesn’t help you, but I am having trouble with links too, and I am posting this here so they know it could be a bigger issue.

Except with mine, I click the link button, and the first time I click it, nothing happens. The second time I click it, the whole screen goes gray except for some of the links on left hand side of the dashboard

https://www.emmastangl.com

I actually tried both. I found that line of code within the body of the style.css document, and added in “padding-bottom: 20px” and nothing happened.

Then I added the whole paragraph that you suggested above at the end of the style.css, and that didn’t work either.

Is there a code you can insert within the text editor, like </p> or something (you know one of those!) to make more space?