Hi Margaret

The child theme is recommend to use when you are customizing the code from the theme itself. For example; If you make changes in the parent theme style.css and update the theme after some time all the changes will get overwritten. With the child theme you're extending it and then customize it so your won't lost anything.

All your content, pages, and changes from the customizer won't get overwritten on a theme update. It is only for code customizations.

Hi Margaret

I think you don't need a child theme because you can change the theme colour scheme in the customizer via Appearance > Customize > Theme Options. A child theme basically get installed and used for any additional code customizations that don't get covered by the theme as default.

If you do need to use the child theme you can install it without losing all the work. The only thing what could happen is a widget in the footer that get empty from its content and need to be added again. But your posts, pages or adjustments in the customizer won't get overwritten or lost.

Hi Margaret

Can you point me to the URL? Because all the green colors in the theme can be adjusted within the Theme Option panel.

Thank you, that makes it clear to me.

On the services pages you can adjust the color within the Visual Editor as textcolor.

The small text color can be changed via Appearance > Customizer > Theme Options > Custom CSS with the following rule:

.jumbotron.carousel .carousel-topheading { color: #yourcolor; }

The galleries are a bit harder because the color need to be changed on two locations I will describe the steps for each.

The hover 'view gallery' button
- Go to Ess. Grid -> Item Skin editor
- Below the skins click on the pagination page 6
- You will see 2 The Landcaper skins, follow below steps for each
- See attached screenshot for specifc steps to change the color
- Save grid settings on the top right corner of your screen

The navigation arrows
- Go to Ess. Grid and edit specific grid
- Click on the Skins tab
- Click on the small button named 'Edit Skin', a modal will popup
- Then edit line 65, 67, 77 to your color and line 91 to your hover color
- Save settings

You're welcome

Let me know if you have any questions.

Hi Margaret

Did you save the settings to make the changes live? I viewed the source code of your website and didn't see the custom included CSS line.

Hi Margaret

Can you provide me a login in a private comment? I will take a closer look

Thank you

Hi Margaret

No problem.

I just copied the CSS line into the customizer and it's blue now.

I copied the same CSS line as you, you didn't do anything wrong :) 

Probably the customizer was not getting the value from the CSS field, in some way..

Hi Marget

This is all possible with custom CSS. 

Comments
- Delete them all under the Comments tab in the WordPress admin. 
- If you click the Pages tab in the admin menu you can 'quick edit' a page. There you will see the checkbox of 'Allow Comments'. Uncheck that and save the settings. The comments are now no displayed

Where do yo want the author name removed? I will provide some CSS for that.

Thank you

Hi Margaret

You can use this CSS for it:

.post-inner .post-meta-data a:first-of-type,
.post-inner .post-meta-data span.round-divider,
.post-inner .post-meta-data time,
.post-inner .post-meta-data span.author { display: none; }

Edit: Fixed the screenshot for the comments. see the attachment.

In the source code I see this:

.post-inner .post-meta-data a:first-of-type,
.post-inner .post-meta-data span.round-divider,
.post-inner .post-meta-data span.author { display: none; }

Can you try to remove that and add this:

.post-inner .post-meta-data a:first-of-type,
.post-inner .post-meta-data span.round-divider,
.post-inner .post-meta-data time,
.post-inner .post-meta-data span.author { display: none; }

I'm a little bit confused now :)

This page is fine now? http://alaea.asn.au/wordpress/notices/ 

A single post page is displaying only the date now http://alaea.asn.au/wordpress/notice-0082016-all-members-small-aircraft-licencing/ So it's fine too?

I added a new screenshot, see attachment.

The blog layout option is only available for the page where the blog post page is assigned to. You can choose which page to display the blog posts via Settings -> Reading. When setting the 'Post Page' then the blog layout option metabox will display below the editor on that specific page.

The opening hours are checking the time settings from your WordPress install under Settings -> General. It's checking the local time with PHP if they are accord the WordPress time settings.