janiceheppenstall

Thank you both for your advice. I contacted my host and the problem has now been resolved.

Thank you @esmi and @kori Ashton.

I have updated to WordPress 4.6 but haven’t updated anything else.

I haven’t contacted my hosts – I assumed it was a WordPress issue but I will try contacting them.

I’m also having this problem.
As with dpl, above, it only affects individual posts, not if viewed in the Home page.
https://janiceheppenstall.com/blog/

Example of issue with post:
https://janiceheppenstall.com/blog/2016/04/12/mixed-media-comfort/

Thank you – anyone – who can offer a solution.

Anyone…..? Please!

Aha! I’ve done it. I just replaced the black with a pale orange. So it shows as a slight gradient in Firefox and a solid yellow in IE and Opera.

Thanks so much for pointing that out to me. I would have realised eventually, since I can’t upload images in IE so always use Firefox for updating, but I wouldn’t have wanted anyone to see it like that!!!

Thanks again.

Oh my word! Yes, you’re right!
I was looking at it in Internet Explorer, and there is no gradient at all, just solid yellow, which is what I wanted.
Just looked at it in Firefox and see what you mean.
So to get rid of the gradient and just have the solid colour, what do I need to do to that code?

Thank you!

Thank you GraphicSmart!

And thanks for the Firebug recommendation. I do want to learn about this stuff. Actually am quite impressed with myself for getting this far!

Thanks again.

Ayman – Thank you! All done!
Thank you so much for your help.

Hi graphicsmart – sorry, I didn’t see your reply when I posted my last one.

No, it’s not the links throughout the blog I’m focusing on here. They’re a dark red and I’m happy with that.

With Ayman’s help I’ve changed the solid black bar immediately under the header image from black to yellow. – the bar that houses the links to the pages.

I now need to change the text colour of these links (to About Me, Contact Me, etc) to black. And I also need to change the colour of the search box from grey to white, leaving the text in that box black.

Can you help…?
Thank you!

PS – I think the child theme is installed correctly.

Thank you Ayman! Success!

Except that now I need to make two other changes on the link bar, to complete the look.

Firstly, I need to change the link text (to the pages) to black. Where would I find the code for that?

And second, I need to change the colour of the search box from grey to white, leaving the text black. I know the colours I need are ffffff and 000000, but I don’t know the code.

Please could you help?

Thank you so much, I’m very grateful.

Thank you! I’ll try that and report back. (I did tell you I was a beginner!!!!)

Thanks for your help Ayman.

I just pasted all that code into the editor, but it hasn’t made any difference. The link bar is still black.

I pasted it right at the bottom of the child theme. Should I paste it at a specific point?

Thank you WPyogi and alchymyth. Aplologies for the delay in responding but I have been working on your suggestions.

I have for the time being opted for the plugin and this has given me the sidebar I want. But I would gradually like to learn about CSS. I’ve now created a child theme as per your advice and it’s saved on my host server but it seems to be only 4KB…? Does that sound right?

If I wanted to use code to customise the theme, would I add the code to this child theme rather than to the stylesheet under appearance: edit on my blog dashboard? And somehow the child theme would override this…?

Thank you – again!