Modifying a theme (desert theme)

  • Hello
    I think I’m doing quite well at modifying the Desert Theme simply through tinkering with the CSS file. Its all a bit hit and miss because I don’t really understand the CSS structure. but I’ve done a lot.

    However I’m now stuck.

    The originial theme looks like this:
    https://managedtasks.com/wpthemes/blog/index.php?wptheme=Desert+Theme

    If you have a look at https://www.bigaboutmusic.org/blog you’ll see I’ve managed quite a bit but I don’t know how to do the following – can anyone help?

    1) The Title of the single post (the usual Hello World) is in black and I can’t find the code to change (I want it to match the purple.

    2) The text:

    “Bloged in Uncategorized by admin Friday May 11, 2007”
    along with all the text in the side bar is brown (ish).
    I can’t seem to find the code for that. Again I want to change it to that purple.

    3)

    I want to change “Suche” in the side bar to “Search”
    Where do I find that?

    If anyone can point me in the right direction it would help.
    Thanks.
    Dave

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  • Thread Starter anotherbleedinmuso

    (@anotherbleedinmuso)

    Anyone? :-/

    To change the “Suche” to “Search”, find this code within your sidebar.php file:

    <h2><?php _e('Suche');?></h2>

    And change the Suche to Search.

    To change the brown in the post title to purple, find this code in your css file:

    h3 {
	 height: 14px;
    background:#C7BAA7;
	 background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-image:url(images/h2_sidebar.gif);
    margin-top: 0;
	 width:100%;
	 font-size:larger;
	 font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma;
    text-transform: capitalize;
	 color: #552704;
    font-size: 1em;
}
h3 a:link,
h3 a:hover,
h3 a:visited {
    border-bottom: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    color: #552704;
	 padding: 2px 2px 2px 2px;
	 height: 16px;
	 vertical-align: bottom;
	 padding-left: 16px;
	 background-image: url(images/document.gif);
	 background-repeat: no-repeat;
	 background-position: center left ;
}

    And change the “color: #552704;” to the hex code for the color you’d like to use.

    For the post information and sidebar title colors, you need to change the color information in this portion of the css file:

    h2, h2 a:link, h2 a:hover, h2 a:active, h2 a:visited  {
    font: 95%  Verdana, Arial, Tahoma;
	 letter-spacing: 0.2em;
    margin: 15px 0 2px 0;
    padding-bottom: 2px;
	 padding: 2px 2px 2px 2px;
	 font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma;
    text-transform: capitalize;
	 color: #552704;
    font-size: .90em;
	 background-color: #D1C7B4;
}

    Hope that helps!

    Celia

    Thread Starter anotherbleedinmuso

    (@anotherbleedinmuso)

    Thank you Celia!
    I”ll give this a try when I’ve loaded the dishwasher ??
    I’ll let you know if it works.

    Dave

    Thread Starter anotherbleedinmuso

    (@anotherbleedinmuso)

    Celia – you’re a star.
    It works.
    If there’s anything I can do for you do let me know.
    Dave

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