Twenty Twelve: customisation (header, menue, font, button color)

  • Hi, I’m a total novice to WordPress and stuck with the most basic customisation. I would be hugely grateful if someone could help me with these issues:
    – how to change the font throughout the site?
    – how to change the button color from grey to white?
    – how to change the hover link color throughout?
    – how to replace the site name and tagline with my own jpg? (I tried to upload a new header image, but first of all, that sits below the menu, but I need it above, and secondly it doesn’t allow me to edit its size, so it’s always huge.)
    – how to format the menu to centred with no lines above or below?
    – for the menu, is there a way of replacing the text with my own jpg?

    Thanks a million, team WordPress!
    Nina

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  • OK, that’s a pretty long list. I don’t know what your background knowledge is with web development outside of WordPress, but you should definitely learn some CSS basics and HTML basics. Then, you will need to create a child theme, because some of the changes (like replacing the site title & description with an image file) will require you to make a change to one of the theme files (header.php), and you don’t want to directly edit the theme’s file. You’ll also need to learn how to use a web debugging tool like Firebug (a free extension for Firefox) or Chrome Developer Tools (comes built-in with Chrome).

    So once all of that’s in place, you just inspect the element that you want to change, look at the existing CSS rules, then write your own overriding CSS in your child theme’s style.css file.

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