Title: EASY Custom CSS based on Author
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# EASY Custom CSS based on Author

 *  [mediaase](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mediaase/)
 * (@mediaase)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/easy-custom-css-based-on-author/)
 * I’m not sure if this will paste correctly with the code, so here’s the link to
   the formatted instructions: [http://www.shaneeubanks.com/blog/index.php/2006/01/04/easy-custom-css-based-on-author/](http://www.shaneeubanks.com/blog/index.php/2006/01/04/easy-custom-css-based-on-author/)
 * I had been trying to figure out how to change the text (colors and such) of posts
   in WordPress based on the author and saw quite a few different ways of doing 
   it…none of which I thought were easy. I’m not sure if this has been mentioned
   elsewhere before, because I couldn’t find it…so here is my two-step version. 
   Yes…two steps.
 * Now, this is going to describe how to do it with the default theme in WordPress
   2.0, but I use it with the K2 theme over at [http://www.crystalandshane.com](http://www.crystalandshane.com)
   to make my posts blue and Crystal’s posts pink .
 *  1. Open index.php in the /wp-content/themes/default folder and find the line
   that says:
 *  class=�entry�
 *  Replace it with:
 *  class=�<?php the_author() ?>“
 *  2. Open the style.css in the same folder and add styles based on the authors’
   names. Here is how I use it for Shane and Crystal:
 *  .Shane {
    font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.2em; color: #393B79; }
 *  .Crystal {
    font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.2em; color: #9C4976; }
 *  Just save & upload those 2 files and you now have custom CSS styles based on
   the author’s name!

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 *  Thread Starter [mediaase](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mediaase/)
 * (@mediaase)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/easy-custom-css-based-on-author/#post-311699)
 * I moved the article over to [http://www.aiostudents.com/index.php/2006/05/30/custom-css-based-on-author-in-wordpress/](http://www.aiostudents.com/index.php/2006/05/30/custom-css-based-on-author-in-wordpress/)
 * I now added the custom CSS to the titles of the post in combination with CG-FlashyTitles….
   neat stuff.

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