remove "recent articles" and "more articles" from oxygen theme

ilricomms · Member · May 24, 2012 at 8:57 am
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Hi guys,

I want to remove “recent articles” and “more articles” from oxygen showcase page
But I don’t want the secondary side (widget) to be removed with it

Please Help

Regards,

Liya

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thesacredpath · Member · May 24, 2012 at 9:23 am
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Please don’t post the same question multiple times. It makes the volunteers run around in circles and they get cranky.

https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/remove-recent-articles-and-more-articles-from-oxygen-showcase?replies=9

The site linked to your username isn’t a wordpress site. We need a link to the site you are talking about.
ilricomms · Member · May 24, 2012 at 10:48 am
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Sorry thesacredpath,

Here is the site – http://kmistest.wordpress.com/
thesacredpath · Member · May 24, 2012 at 11:04 am
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This will get rid of the grey block and the titles for those sections. I assume that is what you meant and not the articles themselves.

.home .recent-articles h1, .home .more-articles h1 {
display: none;
}`
thesacredpath · Member · May 24, 2012 at 11:05 am
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shoot, I forgot one of my code tags.
```
.home .recent-articles h1, .home .more-articles h1 {
display: none;
}
```
ilricomms · Member · May 24, 2012 at 11:20 am
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Thank you so much for your prompt response..

Two more questions :)

Can I get rid of the the (image above each article..?) – on the showcase page (home page)

I want the title and some description only.. NO image (featured-image) above

OR if that is not possible

Can I get rid of the whole article (empty page in the middle column)

Best,

Liya
ilricomms · Member · May 24, 2012 at 1:16 pm
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thesacredpath

Hope you have seen my message

Sorry to bother you, it is kind of urgent

Liya

Thank you so much for your prompt response..

Two more questions :)

Can I get rid of the the (image above each article..?) – on the showcase page (home page)

I want the title and some description only.. NO image (featured-image) above

OR if that is not possible

Can I get rid of the whole article (empty page in the middle column)

Best,

Liya
thesacredpath · Member · May 24, 2012 at 6:31 pm
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Liya, I was asleep. It is just now 8am where I am.

First off a suggestion: Never paste the entire stylesheet into the CSS edit window as it can cause all sorts of problems. Put into the CSS edit window only the specific selectors, and the specific declarations you are adding or changing.

It appears you have gotten rid of the featured images on your main page posts. Getting rid of all content though… I don’t understand that. Having a page with no content means the search engines will simply ignore that page. They do not pay any attention to what is in sidebars. They look at sidebars, but do not index them for their searches.

It sounds to me like you need to dump the showcase template because you are wanting to hide everything that makes it a showcase template. Why not just go back to a standard “blog” page for your main page?

One other note: Your titles for your posts are WAY too long and that is another problem with search engines. Titles need to be short and concise.

If you want an empty showcase main page with no content then add this to your CSS:
```
.home .recent-articles, .home .more-articles {
display: none;
}
```
ilricomms · Member · May 25, 2012 at 5:43 am
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Thank you so much :)

You are ryt, planning to keep them..

But I don’t know where the date and posted by went under each post on the home page

http://kmistest.wordpress.com/

What do you suggest?

Best regards,

Liya
thesacredpath · Member · May 25, 2012 at 7:15 am
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You hid the dates with this:
```
.entry-meta {
display: none;
}
```
To get ride of the grey box with the categories in it (I’m assuming that was what you were trying to hide with the above) use the following.
```
.cat-links {
display: none;
}
```
ilricomms · Member · May 25, 2012 at 9:53 am
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Thank you so much.. Looks okay now

One more question :)

The title of this – http://kmistest.wordpress.com/themes/

Is very big

How do I reduce the size?

Thank you,

Liya
thesacredpath · Member · May 25, 2012 at 10:10 am
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First off, I noticed that you have hidden the footer credits. That is not allowed at wordpress.com. You can adjust the text color and such a little to make them less noticeable, but don’t go to far as making them “virtually” disappear is the same as hiding them. Even the VIP sites here, which pay thousands of dollars a month have to keep the footer credits.

If you only want to reduce the title font size on pages, do this and then adjust the value as desired.
```
.page .entry-title {
font-size: 2.36em !important;
}
```
The 2.36em is the size that was set with the custom font you are using. You can adjust it in the custom fonts panel as well, but it would also reduce the size of post titles.
ilricomms · Member · May 25, 2012 at 12:30 pm
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Thank you thesacredpath

It is the test site, will get the credits back on the main site..

Thank you for everything..

..

How do you capitalize the first letter on the top menu?

Best,

Liya
thesacredpath · Member · May 25, 2012 at 12:55 pm
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You are welcome and this will get rid of the lowercase on the menu.
```
.main-navigation a {
text-transform: none;
}
```
ilricomms · Member · May 25, 2012 at 2:42 pm
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You are the best :)

I put back the credit

And I was wondering..

the top menu ‘projects’ has a ‘sub menu’ (but the arrow is now showing)

What should I do?

Best Regards,

I really appreciate your help
ilricomms · Member · May 25, 2012 at 4:40 pm
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Hi thesacredpath :)

And one more question…

If you see my site http://kmistest.wordpress.com/

The left site Widget title is aligned at the top the gray background..

Example: The ‘Welcome’ and ‘bio-innovate’ widget titles

How do I make it Center?

Many thanks,

appreciate it!

Liya
thesacredpath · Member · May 25, 2012 at 6:07 pm
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This is one of the problems (the missing menu item separator) when you paste the entire stylesheet into the CSS edit window. It breaks all of the relative links to images that are used in the theme design. Find .main-navigation li in your CSS and change the relative URL in the background declaration to the following:
thesacredpath · Member · May 25, 2012 at 6:10 pm
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Just got up and didn’t finish my thought. With CSS, what is best at wordpress.com is to put into the CSS edit window, only the specific selectors, and only the specific declarations you are adding or changing. That way your changes are added to, and override the existing CSS which means that the relative URLs will still work.
thesacredpath · Member · May 25, 2012 at 6:27 pm
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And on the widget titles it looks like you have that figured out.
ilricomms · Member · May 28, 2012 at 6:41 am
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Aw thanks so much..

And yes I have figured it out.. Yet, if you see the ones with the RSS link (orange) the background doesn’t seem to go with it..
Can I get rid of the background for only (RSS widget) menus?

AND :)

How about the arrow on the Featured Slide.. (the one on the black background)

Many thanks,

Liya

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