Hello!
I hope you are doing well! Here is the URL to my site: Livingleashless.com
I recently installed illdy and am enjoying the different sections below the Jumbotron. However, I only want to keep the team, about, and latest news sections. Is it possible to eliminate the other sections? Right now I have these sections repeating themselves. And how do I manipulate the picture on the team section? It is smaller than I would like it currently. And is it possible to add a picture to the about section similar to the team section, or to add a background picture or color to these sections?
Also, how do you go about changing the font size and color? I would like to increase the size and darken the color of the font in the body of blog posts and the top navigation bar. Is this just done through custom CSS or can it be changed through appearance<customize?
I am very new to web design and really appreciate any answers or insights to my many questions here. Thank you very much!
-Eric
Hi Eric,
If you want to remove sections go in appearance > customize and check the button show this section(see in attached).
If you want to make adjustments to the team picture put this css code and increase the width as you wish:
#team .section-content .person .person-image {
width: 213px;
}
If you want to make changes to the about section use this css code and update it with what you want:background image, background color, etc:
#about, #static-page-content {
you need to put here your css code
}
If you don’t know what css values you need to put, take a look on http://www.w3schools.com/ and search there for background color, background image, etc. Changing the font color is done via custom css code. I attached you a small tutorial on how to identify the classes of each page section, title, and how to make your custom changes. Again, you could use w3schools to help you in this process, or if you want we could recommend you a good developer that could help you in this process.
Thank you,
Cristian
Great Thank you Crisitan!
Both those pieces of code and the attachment are very helpful! My biggest problem is knowing the place in front of the { in order to make changes to I what I want, so the inspect element tip will be great.
I followed your directions to uncheck the sections I do not through customize, but some of the sections are duplicated. The team and latest news sections are repeated, how can I fix this? Also what is the section with the percentages? As far as I can tell, the only sections check marked are the about, team, and latest blog sections.
Thank you very much for the help!
Hi,
Inspect element tip:
- In google chrome :simply take your mouse over the elements you want and right-click to select Inspect Element(see attached) or F12
- In firefox:simply take your mouse over the elements you want and right-click to select Inspect Element(see attached) or F12
- in Edge: F12
Go in Appearance>Customize>Widgets>Go trough each section and you will see there that you have widgets active, click on the widgets and remove the unnecessary widget. This is the reason why you see repeated section. The section with percentages is the section Front Page> Counter sidebar
Thanks,
Cristian
Great thanks again for the awesome help!
When I have all of the sections unchecked except for the latest news section, it is still repeated twice. How can I go about fixing this?
It seems that is a bug, could you send us in a private message wp admin and wp user to check?
Thanks,
Cristian
Thank you for the help Cristian, I sent a private message to the Cololib contact page.
I do plan on changing things such as background pictures and font colors and families with css, would it be smart to make a child theme? And where do I find the file for the Illdy theme to make the child theme?
I see that on the new wordpress 4.7 update it is possible to customize css in live preview, do these changes affect the parent and can possibly be lost in a new update like changes made to custom css?
Thank you,
Eric
Hi Eric,
Could you send here as a private message the credentials so I could login and try to solve it?
We always recommend to use a child theme. See attach a short documentation on how to make a child theme.
Thanks,
Cristian
Absolutely, do you need both the email and password for the blog?
Hi,
Solved, the problem was from Appearance>Customize>General Options>sections order, you had there twice the latest news selected.
Thanks,
Cristian
Thank you very much! Easy problem, it will be easier to solve small bugs the more I am learning!
I am trying to make a child theme but am confused as to where to find the theme’s directory. I am looking for
/wp-content/themes, but is this supposed to be livingleashless.com/wp-content/themes? When trying to input this information nothing shows up.
I have also looked in my cpanel’s file manager under public html>wp content>illdy but am unsure what file I need to copy the code and where to make a new file.
Could please help me clear up where to find the parent file? I have read through the tutorials and I think that if I can find this file I will be able to easily make the child theme from there.
Thank you!
Eric
After doing more research I have been able to make an Illdy-child page in the file manager. It seems like it is better and faster to enque the parent theme to the child using functions.php instead of @import.
Mt questions are, is this true?
And what code do I need for the functions.php child folder. I have seen plenty of examples of the right code but then all seem personalized to the page that it is creating a child for and not a universal code for all themes.
Thank you!
Eric
Hi Eric @example99078,
We want to keep the forum easy to follow. Try to post a new thread with another subject if you have another request. In this way someone that has the same need could follow our instructions.
Please see attached how to create ildy child theme. If something is not ok please post a new thread with the subject child theme.
Thanks,
Cristian