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1. teapotteapot
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   I realise that this is a commercial theme and I should be able to get support from the people that designed it but they have closed their forum and getting replies from them is like waiting for a bus that never comes.

   I cannot for the life of me work out how to change the background colour of this site - http://www.exeterbabyactivities.co.uk

   I've been trawling through the style css and not getting anywhere at all - there is a body tag but changes I make to that don't affect the background colour. It is the outside background I am trying to change.

   Any help would be much appreciated.
   Lisa

2. peredur
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   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:

   1. Hunt down the script and alter the colour style there
   2. 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

3. teapotteapot
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   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!

4. peredur
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Whilst i was looking, they changed. So I take it you've sorted it?

   Cheers

   PAE

5. teapotteapot
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   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

6. peredur
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   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

7. teapotteapot
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   marked as resolved, thank you again!
   Lisa

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