Hi,
For making theme customizations, it’s best to use a child theme so you don’t lose your changes when installing Editor updates in the future.
– The font color thing depends on if you’re using the light or dark sidebar. Which scheme are you using? You’ll need some custom CSS styles to match the color scheme you’re using. Those would go in your child theme’s style.css file. What exactly do you want to change? Widget and Post Title colors?
– You can customize the footer text by copying footer.php file from Editor into your child theme and making the edits there.
– We’ll likely not add any additional menus to the theme. I don’t see where they’d fit in with the design. You could add another menu using the Custom Menu widget that comes with WordPress, but that would show under the widget toggle and not on the main screen.
Hello!
I found a way to change the colour of the fonts in the featured post and the widget toggles – all fonts -, but I didn’t add a child theme, I installed the Simple Custom CSS plugin and added the modified code there. Now I have the same font colour everywhere in the sidebar (I will modify the hover values at some point, though)
This code:
}
.dark .widget-area {
color: #BABFC5; }
.dark .widget-area .widget {
border-bottom-color: #BABFC5; }
.dark .widget-area .widget-title {
color: #BABFC5; }
.dark .widget-area a {
color: #BABFC5; }
.dark .widget-area a:hover {
color: #BABFC5; }
.dark .widget-area .featured-post {
border-bottom-color: #BABFC5; }
.dark .widget-area .featured-post a:hover {
color: #BABFC5; }
.dark .widget-area .featured-post h3 a {
color: #BABFC5; }
.dark .widget-area .entry-date:hover {
color: #BABFC5; }
I only hope next update won’t mess it up, because it shouldn’t.
Now, I understand the menu policy (although I think a small footer menu might work above the “Powered By WordPress and Theme By Array” section).
But I have another question and I’m not sure I should open another thread: is there a way to change the middle Toggle from Featured Posts to another Widget Toggle? Because I’ve no need for the Featured Posts and I’d like to use that space still… Another widget section would suit me better.
The site is http://www.hauntedwords.com , by the way.
The CSS plugin you’re using should be fine with updates. If you make the footer.php customizations you’ll probably want to do those in a child theme.
To make another widget area instead of the featured posts would require a few customizations. You’d need to register a new sidebar location, probably in your child theme’s functions.php file, and make customizations to the header.php file so that it displays it instead of the featured posts.
Oh, brother…
That sounds more than I’m able to do. Perhaps in a few years I might manage to do it on my own. Might as well pay some bucks to get it done properly :))
Anyways, thanks a lot for your answers!
