floundering – help understanding .css editing

  • theprune

    (@theprune)


    8 years, 10 months ago

    Hi, I just started using wordpress and I’m trying to work out if it’s actually what I need – it seems to provide a lot of functionality but if you want to deviate from a tightly confined theme it becomes incredibly difficult to do so. So far i’m just baffled as to what is going on – I can’t seem to make the small, fundamental changes to the layout that i want with the theme I have chosen (change menu widths etc.), so I have to make changes to the css…

    So when I got to the dashboard, then to editor I get the .css which is when I lose all understanding of what is happening (I have a basic knowledge of .css) – there are four .css files listed – stylesheet.css, visual editor RTL stylsheet.css, visual editor stylesheet, style-rtl.css. These are all hundreds of lines long (I’m just trying to make a basic front page) and seem to bear little if any resemblance to the .css information that my browser receives when I access my website (which also seems needlessly long). I cannot understand how this information can be related to the theme when it’s so simple and the css seems so long and complicated. However I can make changes through the developer tools on google chrome, just not through the .css editor on dashboard.

    can anyone give me some pointers to help me understand what is going on? I assumed that wordpress would be quicker than writing html and css myself but I seem to be wasting a lot of time just trying to work how to do the simplest things

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)
  • hellheim

    (@hellheim)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    It seems that you are trying to customize your theme via php, html, css.

    As recommendations:

    – document yourself about php, html or css. A starting point here
    – read wordpress documentation on how to edit themes, plugins etc in here

    These should get you started.
    Hope it helps

    Vivek Shah

    (@vivek-shah)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    In Firefox, use “Inspect Element” feature, it will help you to pinpoint as to which part of css,or code you want to change or alter.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

The topic ‘floundering – help understanding .css editing’ is closed to new replies.