Let’s see if we can find solutions for you here.
1 — change the padding in the footer that we added earlier so that it’s larger on the top than the bottom (right now they are even). That will cause the text to be lower relative to the overall height of the footer.
2 — You’ll probably want to make a child theme for this change. Then copy the index.php file to it and edit it. Find this spot:
<h2 class="page-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php echo esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'Permalink to %s', 'elite' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ) ); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php get_template_part( 'layouts/post-meta' ); ?>
and change it to this:
<h2 class="page-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
and save your changes. That should have the posts with no links or “meta” information.
3 — This custom CSS should remove the table borders that you have:
table th,
table td {
border-top: none;
}
Hope that helps out,
Bill