“Very Plain Text” Theme help requested

  • Resolved christop

    (@christop)


    16 years, 1 month ago

    For any template savvy folks familiar with Very Plain Text themes by Scott Wallick … or just template savvy people. I need some pointers on how to edit the code so I can mess with the font sizes and div placements, image insertions, etc. I’ve got limited css knowldege and never studied php.

    So when I look at the theme editor, there’s so much code it confuses me. I don’t know what to look for when I want to edit text styles, insert banners, insert extra tables or something on the template.

    Can anyone give me few pointers that will help me do that?

    If you know how to mess with “very plain text” templates specifically, that’s even better.

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  • Thread Starter christop

    (@christop)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    …annny takers?

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    First of all: do NOT edit anything in the online theme editor – it doesn’t have an UNDO button!

    The right way to do it: edit files on your computer in a plain text editor and upload the result. ALWAYS make a back up copy before starting to mess around with the files.

    Everything style related should be done ONLY in the stylesheet, aka style.css. Never in the hmtl markup. (It would be a crime to spoil that nice theme with tables…)

    Don’t ask general questions. They are useless. Ask ONE specific conrete thing.

    And now some mandatory reading (and I really mean the “mandatory” part!)
    Codex, the manual
    Blog_Design_and_Layout
    Theme_Development
    CSS
    Finding_Your_CSS_Styles

    Good luck!

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