Problems modifying Color Paper theme

  • Resolved johnreppion

    (@johnreppion)


    15 years, 9 months ago

    Hello, we’re currently using the Color Paper theme on our new website at https://www.moorereppion.com/wordpress/ (still under construction).

    I’m having a number of issues:

    1) I’m trying to change the default text colour in the main menu (at the top of the page) but I can’t find the correct piece of code to modify (it’s made all the more difficult by the fact that the theme has a “color switcher” allowing readers to change some of the colours themselves).

    2) The Archives and Search Box are set to be “always on”; even when they are not turned on in Current Widgets they are always there (if they are turned on they appear twice). I’m happy to keep the search box but, once there are enough posts, the Archives are going to stretch the page out too much. Any ideas how I could lose/control the archives?

    Thanks in advance for your help.

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  • Thread Starter johnreppion

    (@johnreppion)

    No-one has any ideas/thoughts on this? ??

    Try editing the sidebar.php to take out the archives.

    Thread Starter johnreppion

    (@johnreppion)

    Thanks Raziel.ie, I didn’t know where to look for that.

    The colour thing is still the biggest problem though sadly.

    Do you just want it to be one colour constantly? Maybe even remove the option to change it?

    Thread Starter johnreppion

    (@johnreppion)

    Yes, would be very happy to remove the colour change options entirely and just be able to select our defaults in a more usual manner. That would be great.

    If you open the theme’s ‘header.php’ file, and remove the ‘colors’ div wrap, then that’ll get rid of the option to change colour.

    To style the menu buttons as normal, you can open up ‘style.css’ and look for

    #navigation a:hover, #navigation li.current_page_item a {
    /* Loaded from external sheet */
    }

    I think you just can remove the ‘/* Loaded from external sheet */ and place styles in as normal.

    Thread Starter johnreppion

    (@johnreppion)

    Raziel.ie, thanks again. I’d already got as far as removing the colors code from the header but, as it didn’t have the desired effect globally, I reinstated it.

    I’m a complete noob to CSS so I’m really just feeling my way.

    So, if I remove /* Loaded from external sheet */, what would I replace it with? Would I need to replace more than one instance of that piece of code?

    Thanks again for all your help, sorry to be a pain.

    Thread Starter johnreppion

    (@johnreppion)

    In the end I just found a more easily customisable theme to use.

    Thanks for your help though.

    Hey there John,

    I know you’re done with this support request, but I thought I’d add in a thought for you.

    When I was first starting out with theming WordPress, I was already (or so I thought!) very handy with XHTML and CSS and knew a scant bit of PHP.

    My first attempts at theming WordPress was something of a disaster as I was trying to work with the Kubrick theme which also, like your Color Paper theme, utilizes a Theme Options to allow users to make basic theme changes without fiddling with the actual theme files.

    You ARE right in saying that the changes you are making aren’t showing up because of the color switching functionality the theme designer implemented.

    For me, I finally gave up on working with Kubrick and chose one of the plainest non-Options theme I could find and worked with that and what do you know, my changes worked!

    I guess what I’m trying to say is don’t feel too poorly about your experience. ??

    Working with someone else’s designs and coding is already one game in itself. Working with a bunch of functions along with the coding and design and working with a theme that has Options is another game all unto its own.

    Cheers!

    Thread Starter johnreppion

    (@johnreppion)

    Thanks EMG, I appreciate that. ??

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