If you only plan to make custom changes to CSS, you won’t have to use a child theme (unless you plan to modify other theme files).
In this case, you can create a custom stylesheet. Use a plugin like Simple Custom CSS which gets added to the Appearance menu. There you can add all the overrides for CSS that you want.
For the content part, it would be something like this:
.entry-content {
color: #000000;
}
Of course, you would change the colour to your own.
Thread Starter
TeqToo
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Oh, ok that sounds a lot easier. What about the color of the links? Is that as easy to change as the text color? The light blue isn’t quite standing out against the darker blue.
What about the Font Awesome question that appeared in my notification e-mail of the reply, but which doesn’t appear here now. Are we all good with that? I don’t have any plugins that I know of that are loading that.
You can do similar for links, so you can change the link colour globally if they don’t work for you by doing:
a, a:visited {color: #000000;}
a:hover {color: #000000;}
Oh…the font awesome. I deleted that because that opens a whole other topic that wasn’t related to this one. Basically I was saying that your even calendar plugin is loading in its own renamed font awesome icon set, but Longevity has this loading the official version. Not sure why the plugin developer renamed all the fonts, but they did this for their plugin. They did the same renaming for Bootstrap stuff too. But if you look at your source code from the browser, you will see a massive load of CSS code.
This can affect page load speed.
Was there a reason for using that particular plugin?
Thread Starter
TeqToo
(@teqtoo)
Thanks for that. I think I’ve got it in a pretty good place now, if they don’t change their minds back again. *rolling eyes emoticon here*
I just really like the way the Events Calendar works, and it does what my client needs it to do. I haven’t found another one that fits the bill like this one does. They were all deficient in one aspect or another. Is there another one you recommend that does the same thing and doesn’t add all that boatload of CSS?
Basically what it comes down to is that if you or your client experiences no issues, then I would say keep it going then. As for a recommendation, I won’t be able to really point one out. But if later you decide to look at alternatives, you will have to look around Google and of course here at .org to see if there are other options. Also make sure you read reviews, ratings, etc.
However, as I mentioned, this falls out of the main topic you first posted here so we will keep it to the current subject matter 🙂
Did you have any additional questions relating to the colour of content and links? If not, we could probably set this one as “Resolved”.
Thread Starter
TeqToo
(@teqtoo)
I seem to have a talent for picking “problem” plugins. [:-/ I think I’ve got everything working together now, at least for the present. Thanks again for all your assistance, and for creating this theme!
You’re very welcome… what is important is that you’ve got things working.
Cheers!
