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Hi skienbob, I am afraid that might be a bit beyond my expertise…I am hopeful that another commenter might come along who might be able to assist though. I also remain somewhat unclear about the request, and so maybe one more follow up describing borders vs. content etc. (making clear exactly what the end goal looks like etc.) might be helpful as well?

Beyond that, for what it’s worth, I have had absolutely fantastic luck with Elementor’s support team…granted you have to buy Elementor Pro…but they are truly amazing.

I’ll stay tuned and then if I have any other ideas that might be helpful I’ll chime in.

One final thought, I do know that you can add borders to Sections as well…I am not sure how your page is structured currently, if you have a maroon background, or if you are using borders, etc. but you might be able to play with that.

Other settings to play with…the Stretch Section button within Section / Layout…Also changing the settings on your background image in your section: default/cover etc. Maybe you’ll shake something loose! Good luck.

Hey Bob, one thing I did not ask / clarify as well — you are using Hello Elementor Theme…are you also using Elementor Page Builder? The instructions/response I gave would be for using Elementor Page Builder, if that makes sense.

Hi skienbob, when you’re editing your page (Editing in Elementor), try clicking on the Edit Section button (blue toolbar up at top of page)…then from there, you can edit the Layout of the section. Once you are editing the Layout, you can edit the content width — you should have options for Boxed or Full Width. If you select Boxed and then set the width to 1200 or whatever you decide on then you should be good to go ??

As a follow up — the top two headers appear to be all jumbled up in the screenshot, but they actually are okay when loading in an actual page on the site, so I think I’m okay with the Desktop and Tablet versions, but I cannot seem to get the mobile header set properly.

Thank you all for your time, I really appreciate it.

Stephen

Hi Leo and TUT Support,
Excellent, thanks for taking time to respond. I think I’ll move ahead without the child theme at this point.

If I get into more serious changes down the line, then I’ll use a child theme.

Thank you for your time and advice.

Take Care,
Stephen

Okay – I have found a way in. I was not able to figure out what was going on with either MAMP or XAMPP, but but I will share what I ended up doing in case it ends up being useful for someone else:

*I dowloaded the bitnami WordPress stack and installed it.
*I clicked “login” in bottom right corner of the bitnami install in order to get into backend.
*I then logged into backend of my *online* WordPress site that I’ve been trying to work on locally and used the All-in-one WordPress Migration Plugin to download a copy of the site.
*I then imported this file to the local bitnami site.
*It all seemed to go fairly smoothly…the only thing I had to do was to turn off maintenance mode on the online site before downloading the import file in order to make sure that I could access a login screen.
*For whatever reason, the bitnami stack seems to have navigated through whatever struggles that I was having in terms of server access with the other programs.

Anyhow…I don’t know if this qualifies as a “solution” exactly, but maybe it can be helpful for someone else down the line.

Thanks all for your suggestions and time.

Stephen

Thanks Dion Designs and HudsonValleyWebDesign.

Still no luck yet, but trying your suggestions.

To this point:
I edited code to look like this:
// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘STW’);

/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’);

/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ”);

/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost:8889’);

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

/** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

I also tried all combinations of ‘DB_HOST’, ” using ‘localhost:8888’ and ‘localhost:8889’ as well as all combinations of ‘DB_PASSWORD’, ” using ‘root’ and also leaving it blank. (”).

When I go to localhost:8888 in my url field in my browser, I get a screen that says: Index of
wordpress/.

However, in the phpMyAdmin page (url = https://localhost:8888/phpMyAdmin/?lang=en) the server is identified as Server: localhost:8889. Notice that the url identifies localhost:8888 but that the server lists localhost:8889.

Might this discrepancy be the cause for my problem?

Any way to fix it?

Does it matter?

Thank you all for taking time to help.

Stephen

Thanks HudsonValleyWebDesign — I tried switching to root for the pw but didn’t have any luck.

Current situation:
Using MAMP.

I switched PW to ‘root’ and am still not having any luck.

I did notice one thing that may or may not be relevant: I have my ports set to 8888 for Apache and 8889 for MySQL.

Address for phpMyAdmin = https://localhost:8888/MAMP/?language=English

However, when I open phpMyAdmin, I saw that the server port listed at the top of the page is 8889 (Server: localhost:8889).

I don’t know if this is relevant or not.

Any other ideas or suggestions?

Thanks for your time.
Stephen

Solved my own problem – experimented by opening a php tag in front of RevVoodo’s code, so now the code looks like this, and everything works:

[ Moderator note: instead of using block quote use the backtick or the code button for PHP examples. ]

<?php // add a favicon to your site
function blog_favicon() {
echo '<link rel="Shortcut Icon" type="image/x-icon" href="'.get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory').'/images/favicon.ico" />' . "\n";
}
add_action('wp_head', 'blog_favicon');

Thanks for help walking through different solutions Andrew, glad to finally get rid of the no-longer–mysterious bubble. Take care.
Stephen

ha! That last comment solved the riddle for me – I was not thinking about the bubble as being a frame / display for text within the header, so when you made that comment it occurred to me to check within the theme / appearance settings. This was the solution:

Click:
Appearance Tab > Header;

Next:
Uncheck “Show header text with your image.”

Solved!

Hmm, same result – I followed a series of four or five edits to the style sheet that widened the margins and adjusted header / widgets etc (really good changes actually!) the only problem so far being this mystery bubble. So at this point I think that I will go back through the style sheet to see if I can figure out which of those edits brought up that bubble into the header. Below is the link for the edits that occurred – at this point it feels like finding a needle in a hay stack!! Thanks for your help Andrew – let me know if a brilliant idea emerges, but will not keep drawing you into the goose chase, as I feel I can probably weed out the culprit in my style sheet here! (hopefully, haha!!)
Stephen
p.s. – here is link to Voodoo Press for reference – kind of a cool site!

Hey Andrew – thanks – sorry, fell asleep last night right after you sent initial code!!

Okay – yes, I pasted the code into the style.css file in my Child Theme and then saved the file, cleared cache, refreshed browser, did not see any change. The code above is to give reference about where I pasted the code (does that actually matter with the style sheet?)

At any rate, it seems that the added block of code to the style sheet did not remove the mystery bubble :/

Hmm…tried pasting it in to the style sheet but did not seem to have any effect on that mystery bubble in the header. I experimented with brackets and a bit with placing it in different placements, but of course I don’t know anything about code – I just placed the string verbatim right after the initial edits to the header in the style sheet which look like this:

<hgroup>
<h1 id=”site-title”><?php bloginfo( ‘name’ ); ?></h1>

<h2 id=”site-description”><?php bloginfo( ‘description’ ); ?>
</h2>
</hgroup>

Within that group, I tried placing the “none” code before, after, and inside…

Great, thanks – here is a link to the source for the home page – perhaps there might be some clues…

https://pastebin.com/eXhhMWKt