Changing Font Color

  • Resolved ADanner70

    (@adanner70)


    10 years, 9 months ago

    Hi. New to this WordPress world, pretty familiar with html and somewhat with css BUT having a hard time changing the COLOR of the fonts. Specifically – I want the title font to be set as the EXACT same color as when you hover over it. THANKS

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Have you created a child theme? Or installed a custom CSS plugin?

    Thread Starter ADanner70

    (@adanner70)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    I’m really new to WordPress. No I haven’t. I think I’m more comfortable with the CSS plugin idea and will look into that. Everywhere I look I hear about the child themes so maybe that’s the way to go? Which as a WordPress newbie do you recommend?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    I’d recommend going down the child theme route if you can manage it. It offers by far the greatest flexibility longer term. Just start with a single style.css file in your child theme.

    Thread Starter ADanner70

    (@adanner70)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Okay now I feel like a complete idiot. In the codex for child themes http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes it shows a “themes directory”… where the hell is that?
    I’ve looked all over the dashboard and can’t find anything showing those folders.

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    You can’t access that via the Dashboard – you need to use FTP (or other file manager) to access the files on the server. Ask your hosting company if you’re not sure how to do that.

    Also see: http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients

    Thread Starter ADanner70

    (@adanner70)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    FTP worked like a charm. THANKS.

    Thread Starter ADanner70

    (@adanner70)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    However, I didn’t make a child theme just adjusted the expound.css, switched out code for title there. Is there a solid reason to make the child theme instead???

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Yes, absolutely – your changes will be lost when the theme is updated. You should not modify theme files. We would not have suggested it if there was not a good reason :).

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    10 years, 9 months ago

    When themes update, they update every single file even if only one little change has been made.

    See the version repository for the expound theme. Every version has every file.

    So, regardless of which file you edit your changes will be erased when the theme updates. Only if you edit a file through a Child Theme will this be avoided.

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    If you don’t want to do the child theme, then use a Custom CSS plugin. But don’t make a big mess for yourself down the road.

    Thread Starter ADanner70

    (@adanner70)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    I will do a child theme. Thank you for the advice!

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