wen.wainwright

I have read over the child themes several times. I’m not looking for directions, I’m trying to ask which would be “best practice.” I’m sorry, I obviously worded my question poorly. I have multiple ways of hiding it and removing it, I’d just prefer to use the best practice if possible. I haven’t been able to find a section in the codex on best practices, if there is one is it called something else? Thanks!

O.K. So I’ve decided that the problem is not in the functions.php or style.css. The problem must be in one of the other files I am uploading at the same time for the child theme. For example sidebar-header1.php or footer.php. So my final question is if it’s best to start a child theme with just a style.css and a functions.php or if it’s fine to load several files in a child theme and one of mine simply has a mistake elsewhere that causes this error but in general should be fine?

I’ll try that. In the meantime I’m deleting every last everything out of my databases, etc., just to clear out the muck. I upload child themes daily, no idea what my problem is.

I’ve tried it with and without the <?php – obviously I am missing something small, but I normally do this several times a day! Is there something else small that I could be missing/doing wrong that happens to people often?

With or without the <?php ?

Do you mean like I need to hit the backspace button to the very beginning and then re-save it?

Also this is really frustrating because it seems to break the entire site which requires a lot of busy work to get back up.

Thank you so much. I’ve managed to get two widget areas in the header, one of them I’d like to line up with the logo and I can do that in CSS. I’ll try the hard-coding on the next site. I was able to add the two widget areas using the tutorial on your blog so that’s great and I appreciate it! The only part that was hard was figuring out how to name the widget areas, obviously I couldn’t just copy your example twice and have two different things, but I figured it out.

I broke the entire thing beyond repair and had to delete the database and reinstall. So since I’m starting over (and I will validate before I come back with another question) what makes the most sense in terms of adding a row, above a header image (with the navigation below the header image and the site title/description not being displayed)? Does it make sense to add a widget area there and add via text widget or should it be a whole new div?

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Have you tried looking at your Settings -> Reading?

What is the link to the plugin for?

Without a link to your site it’s very difficult to help you.

If you want to add a border around them then you need to add a border style. Since it’s the same element try:

dl.gallery-item:nth-child > dt:nth-child(1) {
border: 5% solid #ccc;
}

I’m not sure if using the percent for the border will work very well but you can try it with pixels if it doesn’t work.

If you are in Firefox and you are using Web Developer Extension -> CSS -> display style information and then click on the different parts of your site it will display the styles that apply to that section. This is good because it shows you, separately, the styles in the parent css and the styles, after that, from the child css. I feel like maybe you were missing a colon or something here or there. To be honest I didn’t spend that much time looking at it. If the white space wasn’t there before then you’ve done something to add it. It can be frustrating and time consuming but you might want to copy your child theme style.css into a text editor and then deleting it all. Then go and add each css change into the child theme one at a time and then check to see what it impacts (or doesn’t impact) or breaks, etc. Sometimes when you’ve been staring at something frantically for hours you can’t see the trees for the forest ?? I usually wind up finding a missing bracket or something that should have been obvious. Good luck!

1. It’s possible that you need to include “Dexter” in the tags in order for it to appear when you search for it.

2. It shouldn’t appear in the movies category unless you are selecting that category. Have you checked to make sure you aren’t accidentally clicking on “movies” as well?

On the page where you write and edit posts to the right hand side there is the area where you select which category each post will appear in. Make sure that you are selecting the right categories and that you aren’t defaulting to movies (or which ever) as well.

I would look into the tags you are using to make sure that each post is searchable. This article might help: