[Resolved] Increasing space between header image and header tagline

[Melissa Lines]

Hi Tom,
Thanks again for all your help in installing GP Add-Ons this week. I’m trying to do a little tweak in the Site title/tagline of my first-ever WP blog and can’t figure it out.

The tagline text is really close to the header image and I’d like to move it up/away from the image a bit. Not any closer to the site title, just further away from the logo/image.

Is there a way to do this without editing css? (Ha! I say that as though I know what edit CSS means. I don’t know what css is and am not ready to dive into figuring it out now).

Any easy way to accomplish this little tweak? Thanks! Melissa

[Tom]

Hi Melissa,

Unfortunately, you’ll have to use CSS for this. Luckily, CSS isn’t that scary! There’s a link below in my signature that explains the various ways to add CSS.

Whichever way you choose, you simply have to paste the below in and save:

.site-logo {
      margin-top: 20px;
}

To increase/decrease the size of the space, simply alter the 20 above to whatever works for you.

Let me know if you need more info 🙂

[Melissa Lines]

Whee! I installed your blank child theme, added the code you sent me, and I can now play with the space between header logo and tagline text. Thanks – you’re right css is not that scary! 🙂

Basic question: When I add additional code to tweak this theme further, do I place it on this same Child page? And do I need to do something specific to separate the various code items that I add?

Thanks so much Tom!!

[Tom]

Each time you need to add new CSS, you’ll add it to that same file.

Unless you’ll be writing your own CSS, you’ll most likely only be copying/pasting snippets in there, so I wouldn’t worry too much about separating them etc..

Of course, there’s tons of resources out there where you can learn the basics of CSS if you’re interested 🙂

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