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wordpress help please... newbie

by brit16
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I have asked about this a while back but did not get too many replies, so I thought I would try again. I am trying to clean up the look of my site and I do not like the title being at the top. I know there are other themes that allow you to have title shown or not, but I really do not want to change themes now. This is the first site I have created so I did not realize this was going to be a problem in the beginning.

I know NOTHING about changing the php code. Any suggestions???? Is there a certain part of the code I could paste here and someone help me through changing it??? Sorry if this is an ignorant question, I am still learning. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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  • Profile picture of the author RemyMartin
    if you want to remove the title completely you can delete the line of php code or you can just delete the title in your wp dashboard under "General Settings".
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  • Profile picture of the author brit16
    If I delete the title completely under general settings will that mess with the way the site appears in search engines??

    How do I know what line of code to delete?? Where do I find it, thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author dracoboar
    There are several themews that give you more flexibility and functionality, some paid some free

    I know you dont want to switch but you are going to continue running into problems customizing a site that doesnt have a theme that caters to what you need to do
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  • Profile picture of the author englandrm
    Don't delete the code, comment it out.

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    This way you can undo it if you mess up.
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      • Profile picture of the author King Louie
        You can use the All-in-One SEO Pack plugin to change the titles of your homepage and individual posts/pages.
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        • Profile picture of the author debranighosh4
          Right King Louie,
          All-in-one seo pack is the right plugin to smake your website search engine optimized.

          brit16 i think so it is the best solution for your query.
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  • Profile picture of the author AlexisMoore
    If you just delete the title in your dashboard and leave the code it won't effect your search engine results.
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  • Profile picture of the author brit16
    Ok, so I have tried a couple of the suggestions and still have not come to a solution. When I delete it in the general settings, the title dissapears but the rectangular gray area where the title was located is still there. I want to get rid of the entire area above my header.

    I'm not sure that I understand the all in one seo suggestions. I do have this plug-in, but I am not sure how it will help my problem???

    Above my header is a gray rectangle with my title in it. I would like to remove this completely and have the header and page tabs at the top of my page.

    About getting a new theme...I wouldn't mind except there are a lot of things about this theme that I do like. I am a beginner and it took me a while to learn how to manage it. Also, one time I changed themes in the beginning, and I lost a lot of the work I had done. I am afraid of this happening again. Thanks everyone, any more suggestions would be appreciated.
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    • Profile picture of the author AlexisMoore
      It's really hard to tell without being able to see the site or even the theme that you are using. I wish I could be of more help! I think you could get in trouble for providing your url...not sure though.
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  • Profile picture of the author brit16
    Alexis- Thanks I knew this one would be hard to get answered, but I figured I would try.

    I am using the "Fudo 3.0" theme. I am very new to all of this, and it took me a while to get my site where it is. My site is ivfsuccessstories dot info if you would like to check it out for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    Just to be clear, which title are you referring to? There's obviously some confusion about this.

    Do you mean the title of your site "IVF Success Stories...." or the title of your posts eg: "2ww - Day by Day"?
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    Ah, re-read your previous posts and I can see what you want to do now. I installed Fudo on my test site and the steps you need to do are:

    Appearance->Editor

    Choose "Header (header.php)" from the templates on the right hand side.

    Then either delete or comment out the section:

    <div id="header-text">
    <hgroup id="site-name">
    <h1><a href="<?php echo home_url( '/' ); ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ) ); ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></a></h1>
    <h2><?php bloginfo( 'description' ); ?></h2>
    </hgroup>
    </div>
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    • Profile picture of the author brit16
      FINALLY!!! I have been wanting to get rid of that from day 1. Wish I would have known it was so easy, but I guess it wasn't easy to a beginner like me. Thank you so much for taking the time out to copy and paste the code and look up the theme. Thanks again!
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    • Profile picture of the author jeskola
      Originally Posted by UMS View Post

      Ah, re-read your previous posts and I can see what you want to do now. I installed Fudo on my test site and the steps you need to do are:

      Appearance->Editor

      Choose "Header (header.php)" from the templates on the right hand side.

      Then either delete or comment out the section:

      <div id="header-text">
      <hgroup id="site-name">
      <h1><a href="<?php echo home_url( '/' ); ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ) ); ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></a></h1>
      <h2><?php bloginfo( 'description' ); ?></h2>
      </hgroup>
      </div>

      another way would be to simply open up the style.css and type

      #header-text{display:none;}
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  • Profile picture of the author richgrad
    I don't understand why you would want to take away the title since it helps with SEO but hey...
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  • Profile picture of the author cannons
    Yes definitely All in one SEO plugin is the way to go.Removing the title will never work for your website. It is just a horrible move considering the SEO prospect
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