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I think you got it. You do as you said to create your menu item using the fields in the Link section. Then click “Add to Menu”. And yes, less plugins is better. ??

Check out this screenshot full screen. It is showing the Appearance > Menus with Screen Options open. See the check in Links. Under that you can see an area for Links that will enable you to set a url and an name for you menu item. You can then use that in your navigation / menu.

That last statement should have been..

Installing locally on your PC will NOT allow you to host your site on the web. It is mainly used to test and develop before going live.

In that case I would start by logging into yor Dreamhost account.

You have the option of installing WordPress via their One-click install. It’s the quickest way to get you up and running, but not always the cleanest. If you want more control of the installation you can upload the wordpress zip file and extract on your site folder, create a database through the hosting control pannel and install.

Installing locally on your PC will allow you to host your site on the web. It is mainly used to test and develop before going live.

I never asked, but since you mentioned having a DreamHost account…

What are you attempting to do? Do you want a locally installed WP site for testing and development, or do you want your site to be accessible online at a domain name?

Take a look in the wamp folder. You should see a www folder. Your site files need to be in side the www folder.

It would end up being:

C:\\Users\Chris\Desktop\wamp\www\Wordpress

When you visit localhost in your browser what do you see?

If you do go to Menus and don’t see the option go up to Screen Options at the top left and check the box for it.

Are your navigation buttons created through Appearance > Menus? If so you should have a Links section to add a custom link to a menu you have created.

Where are your WordPress install files located on your PC? They need to be placed in a specific folder within the WAMP directory => wammp/www/

It’s a good practice to create a subfolder within the www folder for your site as you may want to setup multiple sites and having them in their own folders will help organize them.

You need to make sure the all services are enabled in WAMP and that you have a database created for the WordPress install.

Outside of your header image and footer image the only color being applied is through the color set on your body tag.

Line 222 in your style.css file:

body {
  background-color: #262626;
  color: #C2C2C2;
  margin: 0;
  min-width: 1000px;
  padding: 0;
}

If you remove the image layover with the following, then you will be able to set the background color on your body above.

.art-sheet-body:before {
  /* background-image: url("images/sheet.png"); -- commented out */
  background-image: none;
}

You would add the code the the end of your style.css file. Since you have the option to edit your theme files, locate the style.css file and scroll to the end and add what I gave you.

This will not affect the Portfolio color as it is more specific and will override that. It will affect all H4 elements that are within the class of .project-detail.

The CSS I provided is already in your style.css file (line 812)… I just pinpointed it for you so that you can modify the background for the content area. This does not affect the header, menu or footer area.

In addition you can add color back to the content area by just adding a background color to the same css as posted above:

.art-sheet-body:before {
  background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #555;
  bottom: 0;
  top: 0;
}

The reason your are seeing what you described is due to the content area having a semi-transparent image overlaying the background color on your body tag.

Here is the CSS code that is affecting your content area:

.art-sheet-body:before {
  background-image: url("images/sheet.png");
  bottom: 0;
  top: 0;
}

You could comment out the background on that style to remove the overlay or set the background-image property to none:

.art-sheet-body:before {
  /* background-image: url("images/sheet.png"); -- commented out */
  background-image: none;
  bottom: 0;
  top: 0;
}

It would be best for you to establish a child theme if you are not already so that changes you make will not be lost if you update the theme in the future.

Hi lemonlake,

You won’t find anything in your stylesheets that assigns HTML tags. CSS is styling the existing HTML. You would need to look into your theme template files such as page.php to locate the code, but don’t do so as you would want to learn about and create a child theme first.

If you want to target the H4 for your Project Titles you can do so with the following CSS:

.project-detail > h4 a {
  color: #000;
}