Title: customizing generatepress
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# customizing generatepress

 *  Resolved [sandib4u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandib4u/)
 * (@sandib4u)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-generatepress/)
 * Hi,
 * I would like to customize the generatepress-theme. I followed the child-theme
   description on the wordpress page, but now I am stuck. I would like to upload
   background images for the title header and, well, the background. Also, I would
   like to access the header font. I checked the header.php and concluded that all
   modifications of the header should be done in the style.css in the section .main-
   title{ .. }. However, when I try to adjust fontsize, color and family there, 
   this has no effect. What am I doing wrong and where should I adjust these parameters?
   
   Also, I was able to change the background of the title, but not to display an
   image there. How is this done? This is my first wordpress-try, so my questions
   might be redundant in which case I would be very thankful if someone could point
   me to good ressources or just give an instruction on how to proceed and find 
   these things out in general. Thanks!

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 *  Theme Author [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edge22/)
 * (@edge22)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-generatepress/#post-5241069)
 * Hi there,
 * GeneratePress has addons that make background images and typography super easy,
   but you can also use CSS to make any changes you want.
 * For example, a background image for the site header would look like this:
 *     ```
       .site-header {
             background-image: url('URL in here');
       }
       ```
   
 * The font of the site title can be changed using `.main-title` – what’s your CSS
   look like? It should work no problem.
 * What do you mean by change the background of the title? The content title?
 * Let me know 🙂
    Tom
 *  Thread Starter [sandib4u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandib4u/)
 * (@sandib4u)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-generatepress/#post-5241114)
 * Hi Tom,
 * thanks a lot for the quick reply and the help. I saw the add-ons, but I did my
   first website last week and it is so much fun. So I would rather struggle through
   this ;).
    I got the images working – I used:
 * /images/mypicture.jpg
    instead of images/mypicture.jpg
 * in the url. I still did not manage to give the main title the font and color 
   I want. This is the lines from the style.css of the child theme:
 * .main-title{
    font-size: 50px; font-family: “Open Sans”, sans-serif; color: white;
   line-height:4.8em; } The text color is black and not white as it should be. If
   I increase the font-size the box seems to become larger, but not the font — ?
   Lasty, I am using letters with underdots which are displayed in the correct font,
   but seem to be set in boldface as far as I can tell?
 * Thanks again!
 *  Theme Author [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edge22/)
 * (@edge22)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-generatepress/#post-5241117)
 * Try adding this as the .main-title so it overrides other styles:
 * `body .main-title {...`
 * If that still doesn’t work, something weird is going on.
 * If that’s the case, I’ll need a link to your site so I can see what’s happening.
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [sandib4u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandib4u/)
 * (@sandib4u)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-generatepress/#post-5241195)
 * Adding body .maintitle{ ..} didn’t change anything. The site is at:
    [http://anyiuwa.com/](http://anyiuwa.com/)
   What I don’t understand is that the font color for the title does not change 
   when I insert
 * color: white;
 * in the main-title block of the original css even -?
 * Thanks,
    Barbara
 *  Theme Author [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edge22/)
 * (@edge22)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-generatepress/#post-5241210)
 * This is the code you want to add the color to:
 *     ```
       .main-title a,
       .main-title a:hover,
       .main-title a:visited {
             color: white;
       }
       ```
   
 * The other attributes look like they’re working?
 * Let me know 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [sandib4u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandib4u/)
 * (@sandib4u)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-generatepress/#post-5241220)
 * Oh, I understand. maintitle a because the main title that i want to be white 
   is actually a link in the main-title class? Anyways it works!
 * The only thing missing is that the letters u underdot and i underdot appear boldface—
   at least in my browser (firefox). Is there a reason for this?
 * Thanks a lot for you help!
 * Barbara
 * PS: How do you work on websites that you develop? I find it a major hassle to
   work with ftp. Do you build the sites locally on the desktop and then upload 
   or would you recommend using ssh straight away?
 *  Theme Author [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edge22/)
 * (@edge22)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-generatepress/#post-5241221)
 * That’s right 🙂
 * There’s currently CSS making it bold – you can reverse that with this:
 *     ```
       .main-title {
             font-weight: normal;
       }
       ```
   
 * I always develop client sites on my localhost – much easier.
 * Then when it’s ready I move it over to their server.
 * Hope this helps 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [sandib4u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandib4u/)
 * (@sandib4u)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-generatepress/#post-5241222)
 * Awesome! Thanks so much!
 *  Theme Author [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edge22/)
 * (@edge22)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-generatepress/#post-5241223)
 * No problem 🙂

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 * [display images](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/display-images/)
 * [header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header/)
 * [modify header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/modify-header/)

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-generatepress/#post-5241223)
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