WordPress Theme Assistance

[ryku650]

Hello,
I have recently installed a theme called Jocasta (Jocasta Download[/url for helping purposes), and need help removing a widget that comes with the theme. There is no option to remove the widget, it is also not in the widgets part of the Appearance category, meaning I would have to go into the Editor and remove it by hand.

Editing
http://www.hollowbranch.co.cc
In the homepage, there are two widgets that come pre-installed and I cannot remove. One of them is "sponsors" and the other is "twitter".

In the style.css I see this:

p.twitter-message{
	color:#555;
	font-size:12px;
	padding:10px 0px;
	border-bottom:1px solid #eee;
}

a.twitter-link{
 	color:#2B64AF;
}

a.twitter-user{
 	color:#2B64AF;
}

Will removing that get rid of the widget?

 

[Skizzerz]

no, don't remove it entirely, instead replace it with:

p.twitter-message{
	display: none;
}

a.twitter-link{
 	display: none;
}

a.twitter-user{
 	display: none;
}

Note that this doesn't actually REMOVE the widget, it just HIDES it from view. To actually remove the widget, you'd have to edit the HTML Template of the theme to remove the HTML lines entirely

 

[ryku650]

I replaced it with your code and it is still there. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Skizzerz]

Did you clear your browser cache?

 

[ryku650]

I cleared my browser cache and the cache from a WordPress plugin I use.

 

[Skizzerz]

Odd, because I'm not seeing anything related to twitter on your website, both on the main site and when viewing that example first post.

 

[ryku650]

Okay then it the issue is with me. I'll fix that some other time.

As for the Sponsor widget, I don't know what the code is for that, what's an easy way to find it?

Edit:

I found it.

.squarebanner {
	padding:10px;

	margin:0px 0px 10px 0px;


	}

.squarebanner ul{
	list-style-type:none;
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 15px 0px;
	width:300px;
	overflow:hidden;
		}
		
.squarebanner ul li{
		list-style-type:none;
	    margin: 15px 7px 0px 7px;
		float:left;
		padding:5px;
		display:inline;
		background:#ddd;
		}

When changing the code, do I use tab or spaces? Does it matter?

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Bump.

 

[essellar]

No, it doesn't matter whether you use tabs or spaces (although there are religious wars about which to use in programmer forums). In fact, you don't need to worry about indentation at all -- as long as there's a semicolon ( after each attribute: value pair.

 

[ryku650]

Okay, thank you.

I have one more thing, Skizzers said that the twitter widget was removed after I placed the code, why is it still showing for me? I have tried clearing my cache, and there was a WP cache plugin I had which I also cleared (and now removed). I even tried changing browsers. What's wrong?

 

[ryku650]

Bump.