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Remove features on home page

I’m looking to keep the design of the site I’m working on very simple and would like to simply disable (remove) the ad and footer. Is this possible and if so, can you direct me as to how to do this? I would like to keep the copyright area as the footer however.

It would also be great to disable or remove the blog posts from appearing on the home page as well as I’m not planning to use the blog functionality (yet).

Thanks!

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 2:34:36
  • 3SixtyEvolve
    • New Recruit

    Hi Arrowcom

    Thank you for being a member and for using the Business Services Theme.

    I’m afraid there is no easy way to disable the footer advert area. It is currently a widget area and to change it you will need to create a child theme and copy /business-services/library/components/footer-adverts.php to it, applying any changes you’d like to make to that file.

    The same would apply for the advert area on the home page body. I tried to find the code for this, but unfortunately wasn’t able to.

    You can also check the CSS for both here: business-services_inccssbusinessservices.css

    You can read more about child themes here:

    What are Parent and Child Themes?

    To avoid the blog posts from showing you can assign a specific page to your home page by going to WP Admin Dashboard » Settings » Reading. Create a new page and place your own content in there, thus replacing the generic home page.

    I hope this is helpful. If you need anything further, please don’t hesitate to be in touch.

    Have a good day!

    Gina

  • arrowcom
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Ok thanks however I’m not a css expert – normally with themes the authors provide the exact code to add/remove to fix/customize… I’m on a deadline so I’m under the gun on this…

    If someone can direct me to the exact code to remove from footer.php to leave only the ‘bottom footer’ that would be helpful as well as any suggestions on how to remove the large ad above the footer….

    thanks

  • arrowcom
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Okay I think I may have figured this out – I removed the footer by basically opening footer.php and deleting the php stuff leaving in all of the div’s. Now I’m left with just the smaller black footer along the bottom.

  • 3SixtyEvolve
    • New Recruit

    Hi Arrowcom

    Hope you’re well.

    The best way when handling code would be to edit it rather than deleting it. So in your case to get rid of the footer, I’d suggest to create a child theme and then modify the footer in the child theme.

    You do this by copying the footer.php from the parent theme into the child theme and then modifying it. WordPress will see that you have a footer.php in your child theme and use that instead of the parent theme footer.php.

    Any template files you put in your child theme will take priority over the same file in the parent theme when called by WordPress.

    If you would like to change the look of the footer you would do it also in the child theme and this is the code that you can add and edit:

    /********************************************* footer */
    
#footer {
    
background: #d0d7d9 url(../../library/styles/colour-images/bottom-shade.jpg) repeat-x top;
    
margin: 0px;
    
padding: 0px;
    
float: left;
    
width: 100%;
    
}
    

    
#footer-inner {
    
width: 960px;
    
margin-right: auto;
    
margin-left: auto;
    
}
    

    
#footer-content {
    
width: 960px;
    
margin: 55px 0px 0px;
    
padding: 0px 0px 2em;
    
float: left;
    
}

    Hope this helps.

    Let me know if you need any further assistance.

    Gina

  • 3SixtyEvolve
    • New Recruit

    Me again :slight_smile:

    The path for the child theme folder is this:

    business-servicesthemesbusiness-services-child

    and the path for the child theme css file is the following:

    business-servicesthemesbusiness-services-child_inc

    Have a good day!

    Gina

  • 3SixtyEvolve
    • New Recruit

    Hi @arrowcom

    Hope you’re well and making progress with the site.

    It’s been a while since I last heard from you, so I will go ahead and resolve this topic, but please don’t hesitate to reopen it should you still require additional me. Just select the ‘Mark as Not Resolved (re-open)’ box below the post area (otherwise I might miss your new post).

    All the best!

    Gina