Overwriting theme color in Recent Posts/Widgets

  • Note: I actually have no idea which version of wordpress I’m using, obviously a n00b.

    Ok, so I recently started a makeup and beauty blog
    (https://coquetteinparis.wordpress.com/)
    and all of my widgets on the right side of my page – twitter, recent posts, etc, are showing up in gray, and red when hovered over. I’m using the Bueno theme and no matter how many times I change the color of the theme, the widgets color remains the same.
    Can someone help me to find a way (writing code or otherwise) to override the default colors on this? And please, use layman’s terms…. !

    Thanks in advance
    Gabrielle
    an American girl in Paris

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  • Thread Starter coquetteinparis

    (@coquetteinparis)

    Edit: I just want the colors of my widgets to be visible, ie: opaque and black, if possible ! It’s frustrating not being able to use images on the background.

    In your style.css file (presumably in the theme root folder), you should be able to locate this code:

    #sidebar {
width: 300px;
overflow: hidden;
}

    You can add a couple of new lines to this code if you wish:

    #sidebar {
width: 300px;
overflow: hidden;
background: white;
padding: 5px;
}

    I would consider also shrinking the headers of the col2, as I guess you want the main attention to be drawn to the content column.

    Inside style.css you can also locate:

    .widget h3 {
margin: 0 0 7px 0;
padding: 10px 0;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: #404040;
}

    I would change some code there too:

    .widget h3 {
font-size: 14px;
margin: 0 0 7px 0;
padding: 10px 0;
color: #404040;
}

    Also in red.css (if that is the color you wish to keep:

    .widget ul li a:hover {
color: #C40000;
background: url(red/bullet_hover.png) no-repeat 10px 12px;
font-weight: bold;
}

    Remove the font-weight:bold; , as I find it quite disturbing when the size changes due to the font weight.

    Btw. your site is very “heavy” (download, traffic). I use 4.74 seconds on downloading all elements into my browser. Your background image is many megapixels large! I would consider finding a tilable background image of your liking.

    Maybe you can find some here:
    https://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=1576
    ps. I dont know that site author, it was my first hit on google for “retro tilable backgrounds.

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