Changing background color of page in Twenty Eleven

It’s in your style.css

body {
 background: #hexdex color
}

The style.css is located in wp-content/themes/twentyeleven

No! Do not edit the Twenty Eleven theme. It is the default WordPress 3.2 theme and having access to an unedited version of the theme is vital when dealing with a range of site issues.

Create a child theme for your customisations. Once your child theme is active, we should be able to help with the customisation.

Okay I promise to get a child theme going, but I first have to correct the color I edited for a “menu-bar(?)”.

My site is https://projects.kissbrothers.com.

The horizontal bar with the “Home” and “About” links is a color I would like to change back to the original (or something else); but I can’t find out how or where I changed it originally, I think it used to be gray but now it’s red gray. I sure would like to recall how I changed it!

I think I’m supposed to go to the Appearance > Editor to get the Edit Themes window in Twenty-Ten, and find the hex code for the color, but it isn’t found there (according to my color picker it’s #665555). Where is it?

Can someone help??

Thanks

You can download a basic Twenty Eleven child theme from here.

Okay, thanks.

OOps, I was looking at the Twenty Ten stylesheet; what’s the difference between the two; I didn’t realize there were two in the drop down menu.

Boy, I have a lot to learn!

Twenty Ten is the previous default theme and, like Twenty Eleven, should not be modified.

Got it.

So, I’m not supposed to be using the “Editor” on the style.css, but instead on the child style.css after it is created. Correct?

And what are those RTL Stylesheets??

Will the child style.css appear under the Styles heading (lower right)? Could I get it there somehow?

So, I’m not supposed to be using the “Editor” on the style.css, but instead on the child style.css after it is created. Correct?

Bingo! ??

And what are those RTL Stylesheets??

They are used for sites in right-to-left languages such as Hebrew.

Will the child style.css appear under the Styles heading (lower right)?

Yes. Just think it like any other theme – except almost all of the work will be carried out by the parent theme. And you can upgrade the parent without it affecting your customisations.

Okay, so I extracted your twentyeleven-child in twentyeleven, very nicely I might add…

the permissions are 755 for twentyeleven and 644 for its files (that include style.css)

Now what ??

??

Do I just copy the whole style.css file into it and start hacking away??

How do I “activate” it?

Do I just copy the whole style.css file into it and start hacking away??

No – that’s not how it works. You only add the CSS you want to change to the child’s stylesheet.

How do I “activate” it?

In the same way as any other theme – via Appearance->Themes.

Okay I activated Twentyeleven but am not sure if it’s running through twentyeleven-child, since the name did not appear explicitly in the >Themes.

Assuming that it is… could you point to the color of that “bar”

…please. ??

And I gues I copy it from one style.css to the other style.css, then modify it. But I’m not sure what paragraph to copy.

since the name did not appear explicitly in the >Themes.

It should have done. Where did you upload the new child theme to?

Okay, good point, maybe it’s supposed to be in directory “themes” and not in directory “twentyeleven”, I misunderstood the graphic.

But style.css is empty??

I’ll do it now.

sweeet!