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?
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: