Title: How to Use Basic Plugins & Slightly Alter Theme
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# How to Use Basic Plugins & Slightly Alter Theme

 *  [snicksocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snicksocks/)
 * (@snicksocks)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-basic-plugins-slightly-alter-theme/)
 * My website, [Projectisimo](http://projectisimo.serw5.com) is in its development
   stages. I am having some problems in using the post slider plugin, Featured Content
   Slider. It is in my ‘Settings’ but I cannot find it in my website.
 * Also, the theme I am using, Zincious, does not let me write the name of my website
   on it. I would like to change that to Projectisimo.
 *  My Slider on the home page is brown and I would like to change that colour to
   Black. There are some instructions on how to edit Zincious on [this page](http://www.paddsolutions.com/wordpress-theme-zincious/)
   but, being new to WordPress and web design, I have no clue what they mean.
 * Also, for the thumbnails (or whatever you call them, the images), on the home
   page both in the slider and under it, I was wondering how to put an image in.
   Do I just put an image in my post and it will appear as a thumbnail? Thanks.
 *  I would also like to install my [Featured Content Slider](http://www.iwebix.de/featured-content-slider-wordpress-plugin/)
   onto the ‘Featured’ page of my blog.
 * Please can you help? I’m new to WordPress and am REALLY confused.

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-basic-plugins-slightly-alter-theme/#post-2685974)
 * I do not use Zincious, so take the following with a grain of salt.
 * The Zincious theme seems to come with some nice features pre-configured, but 
   does not seem that easy to customize for some of them. You might look for a different
   theme if you need to make many changes. Two that I like are [Suffusion](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/suffusion)
   and [Weaver II](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/weaver-ii).
 * The recommended way to change the site title is to edit the image file ‘/wp-content/
   themes/zincious/images/site-name.png’.
 * A ‘quick and dirty’ way to do it is to add these lines to the end of style.css:
 *     ```
       #header .title a {
         background-image: none !important;
         text-indent: 0 !important;
       }
       ```
   
 * You really should create a [Child](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes) theme
   to make your changes. If you do not, all of your changes will be lost if you 
   update your theme.
 * I think the background on the slider can be changed by adding these lines to 
   the end of style.css:
 *     ```
       div#slideshow .list {
          background-color: pink;
          border: 4px solid green;
       }
       ```
   
 * Of course, you will want to change the colors, and maybe take out the border 
   line.
 * The images seem to come from ‘Featured Images’ which are added to Posts. Create
   your post and scroll down until you see the ‘Featured Image’ box on the right.
   Click ‘Set featured image’ and follow the instructions.
 * Adding the Featured Content Slider to the Featured page might be a little trickier,
   depending on how the page works. You can try adding the ‘[featslider]’ shortcode
   in the text of your page. If that does not work, you will probably need to create
   a custom template for that page (coding required!).

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