Wordpress Blog, how to get rid of standard add-ons?

Hello there

I’m IT-manager for some schools in Belgium, and they asked me to update and restyle their site.
So it’s the first time I use Wordpress, although I am familiar with webdesigning…
I choose a new theme for the site, Wordsmith-Anvil.
Now I’m encountering a few problems and I was hoping someone could help me here.
Everything works fine, but on some pages, above “add reaction” appears a gray box which says:
"At last you are here. Be bold. Sieze the moment. Be the first to take the opportunity to post a comment here.

We have beeen waiting for you to arrive here to provide your feedback. Now that you are here, go ahead and post a quick note. We would appreciate it. "
Any ideas on how to get rid of it?

I’m also having a small problem just under the header. There’s a white <div>(like we would say in html-terms) with: subscribe & follow to link to the RSS-feeds.
Actually I don’t really need this, how can I get rid of that?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Kind regards
Maxx-iT

Ideally, dig into the code and remove those bits from the templates. Find your way to the comments.php file and look for this line (probably around line 47):


<p class="simple-red tac squeezepad">At last you are here. Be bold. Sieze the moment. Be the first to take the opportunity to post a comment here. <br /><br /><em>We have beeen waiting for you to arrive here to provide your feedback. Now that you are here, go ahead and post a quick note. We would appreciate it. </em></p>

Replace the text with something that makes sense (and is short!). Jeesh, it contains typos/spelling errors anyhow. Pathetic.

But if you can’t get to that code, then you could hide those bits via CSS. E.g.

.simple-red {display: none;}

I’m not sure of the best way to get rid of the subscribe and follow gunk, but you could go into the /inc/ folder and open the subscribe.php file and strip out most of the code there. E.g. cut out all of this:


<?php if ( isset($options['follow_disable']) && ($options['follow_disable']!="")) { ?>
        <div class="subscribetxt iestxt"></div>
        <div class="subscribe iesub">
		<?php } else { ?>
        <div class="subscribetxt iestxt">Subscribe &amp; Follow</div>
        <div class="subscribe iesub">
        <a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>"><img src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri() . '/images/rss.png'; ?>" width="20" height="20"></a><?php if ( isset($options['facebook_toggle']) && ($options['facebook_toggle']!="") && ($options['facebook']!="")) echo '<a href="' . stripslashes($options['facebook']) . '" target="_blank"><img src="' . $directory . '/images/facebook.png" width="20" height="20"></a>';  else //do nothin here ?><?php if ( isset($options['twitter_toggle']) && ($options['twitter_toggle']!="") && ($options['twitter']!="")) echo '<a href="' . $twitterurl . stripslashes($options['twitter']) . '" target="_blank"><img src="' . $directory . '/images/twitter.png" width="20" height="20"></a>'; else //do nothin here ?><?php if ( isset($options['flickr_toggle']) && ($options['flickr_toggle']!="") && ($options['flickr']!="")) echo '<a href="' . $flickrurl . stripslashes($options['flickr']) . '" target="_blank"><img src="' . $directory . '/images/flickr.png" width="20" height="20"></a>' ; else //do nothin here ?><?php if ( isset($options['foursquare_toggle']) && ($options['foursquare_toggle']!="") && ($options['foursquare']!="")) echo '<a href="' . $foursquareurl . stripslashes($options['foursquare']) . '" target="_blank"><img src="' . $directory . '/images/foursquare.png" width="20" height="20"></a>'; else //do nothin here ?><?php if ( isset($options['youtube_toggle']) && ($options['youtube_toggle']!="") && ($options['youtube']!="")) echo '<a href="' . $youtubeurl . stripslashes($options['youtube']) . '" target="_blank"><img src="' . $directory . '/images/youtube.png" width="20" height="20"></a>'; else // do nothin here  ?><?php if ( isset($options['googleplus_toggle']) && ($options['googleplus_toggle']!="") && ($options['googleplus']!="")) echo '<a href="' . $googleplusurl . stripslashes($options['googleplus']) . '" target="_blank"><img src="' . $directory . '/images/googleplus.png" width="20" height="20"></a>'; else // do nothin here  ?><?php } ?>
</div><!-- END of subscribe  -->

Otherwise, via CSS you could try hiding it, with something like


.subscribetxt, .subscribe {display: none;}

Hope that helpeth.

Worked like a charm!!!
Laughed at the typos :D…

Thanks for the help you guys!!!

Kind regards
Maxx-iT