Changing default color in 'kitchen sink' ?

I don’t think so. But I also don’t understand why you would want to. The default colour should be set in your theme stylesheet.

Christine, I have changed every single text color in my stylesheet to #000000 but my posts are still showing up in that gray color, #666666. I have to manually highlight the text and change the color to black before I post. Can you give me an idea of what I need to look for in the stylesheet?

Thank you

I’ll need a link to your site first.

Just curious roppolo, are you currently using the Gazette Edition by WooThemes? If so, and it’s the front page excerpt box font you’re concerned with (#666 is being inherited from the body) defining a font color for “.box .post p” (as well as “.entry p”) might do it.

Or you can contact support at WooThemes for documentation and support on how to use your themes included custom css sheet.

If that’s not your current theme, then please pay no attention what-so-ever to anything I just said. ??

Clayton, I actually do use that theme. I had everything set to #000000 awhile back but lost all my customization when I upgraded. Now for the life of me I cannot figure out what I changed to make everything black by default. Could you elaborate a bit on your previous post?

Thanks

Looking at the source code, I think the theme might come with a user-editable custom css option (/wp-content/themes/gazette/custom.css) but I’m not 100% sure how it works with that theme. It’s a commercial theme, so there’s no access to it for anyone here unless they bought it.

You should be able to find documentation and support for it over at WooThemes. Sign in with your account at WooThemes and you can access the documentation and support area for Gazette. Here’s the link for Gazette:

//www.woothemes.com/support/theme-documentation/gazette/

I just looked at your source code and I see this in your css –

body{
	color: #666666;
	background-color: #ddd;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height: 18px;
}

i would change the color to #000000;

If woothemes gives you the option of setting up some custom css, then maybe do it there, that way you won’t loose your changes next upgrade.

Thanks Christine. For some reason I couldn’t see that block of code through the editor in the control panel. I downloaded the stylesheet and changed it there, then uploaded it. Unfortunately nothing changed. I’m baffled about why I have grey text on the front page.

Looking at the source code… nothing has changed. The font in that body is still set to #666666.

If you use Firefox, try installing the add-on firebug – https://getfirebug.com/

You’ll be able to see what styles are doing what.

Strange, the source code i’m seeing doesn’t have #666666 anywhere in it. I use Google Chrome, btw. Did you -ctrl- -F5- ?

Maybe were looking at the wrong site.. you didn’t give me your site url, so I had to take a guess and looked at your profile.

Is this the site you are talking about?
https://www.batonrougetoday.com/

Yep that’s the one. I cleared my browser cache and restarted. Now all the text is black like I wanted. ??

Thanks!

Yep, it looks black here as well.