pinecones

Thank you. Where is the themes directory folder?

The only thing I’ve edited that I can see being a problem, is that I forced transparent backgrounds on table content. So, each page has a content background defined in the style.css file, I wanted that a 90% opaque color, as I have a nice but not-too-busy nature background image.
So in the page coding for each page, I had to add a command of background:transparent to ever table cell. That was the only way I could find to get rid of the solid backgrounds that the page customizer defines.

However, even my blog and shop pages are turning transparent, and I have no access to their page coding (so I haven’t altered the page code to force transparent table backgrounds), which means something in the style sheet must be removing their content backgrounds.

I have changed my style.css coding, yes. Primarily I’m adjusting content size, margins, and backgrounds to customize the appearance of my site (I find the default storefront theme very ugly with far too much wasted space). I haven’t entered entirely new coding not have I deleted any. I’m just changing values.
I keep my edits very organized and color coded so I know what I did and why. I don’t touch the coding if I don’t know what it does. I haven’t touched anything menu related. I have assigned no transparent backgrounds, only rgba opaque background colors into existing color commands.

I can’t figure out how to make a child theme, as has been recommended to me, so for now I keep my edited code in one document and the unaltered original in another just in case. I’ve only been using WP for like 2 months now, I’m learning lots every day.

Maybe I could find a way to command the background image be disabled on mobile… This way there will be no background image, just a solid color. I would prefer trying that over trying to hack out mobile adaptation commands.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by pinecones.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by pinecones.

Thank you!

I haven’t explored creating a child theme yet.
“First, create a new folder in your themes directory, located at wp-content/themes”
Frankly I’m not sure where to find a themes directory. I’m pretty new to WP. I’ve always just coded my own stuff but needed a shopfront/cart feature so I made the switch.

Right now I’m working the coding in a text document and have the originals and edits saved. It’s really nice because I can organize and color-code the massive jumble of CSS code.

How can I edit my post to provide the site I need help with?

Edit:
Using !important gave me what I wanted for the footer. Woohoo! Thank you. I know HTML very well but am new to CSS, a little slow on the uptake.

I’m still struggling with the black content background on my pages. Not the master “page background”, but the background behind the content on the page. Forgive my lack of terminology there.

When I edit specific pages, even if I leave the code alone and use the editing tool to assign the background I want, the background once published is still solid black. The page-builder interface shows it accurately, but the Preview or Publish button produce different result. I haven’t changed any coding anywhere to force a black background, it’s just been like that since I created my website.

If I change the margin of the page content, say, to move its placement down on the page, I reveal the page’s default ‘content’ area, just like the blog or shop pages use. That ‘content area’ is hidden behind all of the custom text area (with black background) on the page.
So I would think that adding a background color command within the same tag that’s changing the margin of that custom content would affect its background, but nope. I’ve tried forcing a background color change into every div and every table and can’t get the black background to change -_-‘ (I delete new changes that produce no results, of course)

Edit#2:
Out of frustration I started editing things that didn’t seem reasonable. Turns out that I have to set background color to transparent for individual table cells < td >. That seems very strange to me. So now my custom pages are going to be just fine; each table will have the cells’ backgrounds set to transparent.

The problem now, is that things I can’t edit code on like the cart, for example, still have black backgrounds. I’m trying to figure out what the ‘root’ of this is. I’m assuming it’s somewhere on the style.css sheet and am looking for it actively…

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by pinecones.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by pinecones.