I take it’s that custard yellow you’d like to get rid of. And who could blame you?
If so it’s really simple. You just need to change this style rule:
body {
background-color: #D6CF67;
}
The only trouble is that the style is in a style block in the header of your HTML pages, and not in an external style sheet. Now, if you’re lucky it’s been hard-coded into the HTML header in your header.php file, and you can just change it. If you’re unlucky, it’s being added by a script somewhere.
In the latter case you have two choices:
- Hunt down the script and alter the colour style there
- Hard code the style rule into the body tag of header.php
Either way its messy.
All this messing about in the HTML header is doing is overriding this rule in the style sheet:
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #505050;
(Actually, there are multiple style rules for body {} in the style sheet, by the looks of it, that could do with being amalgamated into just one rule that actually works)
If you can, I’d get rid of the style rule from the header (however it’s generated) and change the rule in the style sheet. I’d tidy up the style sheet rules too, whilst I was at it.
Once again I advise, as I always do, that this is all done in a child theme. I like to think that occasionally somebody listens to me.
HTH
Cheers
PAE
thank you, I tried all that and it didn’t work, then I saw that there is a ‘background’ section on the menu I can click on and change it really easily! It just doesn’t show up on the stylesheet anywhere! The baby poo yellow is there temporarily to remind me I know how to do it.
The bits I can’t get now are the black and pale blue backgrounds just below the top menu. I’ve trawled the css, copying hex into photoshop to find the colours and I just can’t find them. I think they are technically a side bar.
I’ll investigate the header.php though I’m really pretty scared of php, thanks for the tip that it is overriding everything, that makes sense.
And good advice to do it in a child theme, thank you!
Whilst i was looking, they changed. So I take it you’ve sorted it?
Cheers
PAE
yes! thank you! it was your tip to look in the header – I could see that it was looking at another stylesheet all together so I went and changed that. I think I have it mostly under control now, I just need to sort the actual colours out!
thank you so much for your help, I’ve been going round in circles most of the day with this, I would never have thought of looking in the php files.
you are officially genius of the day! (in my book anyway) 🙂
Lisa
No problem. Thanks.
Marking the issue as resolved would be good. It helps other people with similar problems when they search the forum.
😉
Cheers
PAE
marked as resolved, thank you again!
Lisa
