Modify CSS Carrington Blog

  • Resolved Jannes

    (@megrim)


    15 years, 8 months ago

    Hi all

    Currently I’m using Hybrid Original by Justin Tadlock. I like the global darker frame around content with a white background. It makes the content pop out.

    But I absolutely love the implementation of the sliding comments of Carrington Blog (v2.3.1). So I want to switch. But I have one tiny problem with it: It’s too white & bright for me.

    I have been tinkering around with the css to style the background the way I like it, but I can’t get it to work. I don’t see where to set background-color to turn everything to color (say) #51555c and then have all the elements in white float on top of that.

    Thanks for all your help.

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  • govpatel

    (@govpatel)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    I just looked at the theme briefly on their website and there should be a link in admin to make color changes check in appearance.

    I just install 2.2 as that is wordpress and there is link in appearance called carrington you make all the changes from that page.

    Thread Starter Jannes

    (@megrim)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks for your reply.

    Yes, there is an admin panel for Carrington. Unfortunately there’s no option to change the global background. The only options for colors:

    Header Background Color: #
    Header Text Color: #
    Header Link Color: #
    Header Nav Background Color: #
    Header Nav Link Color: #
    Header Nav Text Color: #
    Page Title Color: #
    Page Subtitle Color: #
    Link Color: #
    Footer Background Color: #
    Footer Text Color: #
    Footer Link Color: #

    My current theme has a
    body {background: #242D36}
    How can I make that happen to Carrington too?

    I’ve reverted to v2.2 on my test site for compatibility purposes.

    govpatel

    (@govpatel)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    ok you will not be able change your background from your admin panel editor as looked and there its not in of them files.

    I do not how familiar you are working directly on server as you will have to make changes from there.

    Thread Starter Jannes

    (@megrim)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    No problem.

    I have a WAMP instance with a fresh test WP install running on my computer, and I know my way around with filezilla.

    Are you sure it’s not possible at all in just the css?

    I’ll make sure to document it all, and feed back to the community.

    govpatel

    (@govpatel)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    Yes its in one other file here
    wp-content/themes/carrington-blog/css/carrington-blog.css

    #main {
    margin:24px 0;
    background:#242D36;

    it does not have a background I added that in

    than you will have change all your fonts in admin.

    Thread Starter Jannes

    (@megrim)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    Right, that’s close to what I’m looking for. But now the content column should be white again. The content and widgets should have a white background, floating on top of a sea of #242D36.

    Thread Starter Jannes

    (@megrim)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    This is already pretty good:

    #main {
    padding-top:24px;
    background:#242D36;
}
#content {
	float: left;
	padding-bottom: 24px;
	width: 530px;
    padding-left:10px;
    padding-right:10px;
    background-color: #FFFFFF;

    Thanks for all your input.

    govpatel

    (@govpatel)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    You welcome glad that you got what you wanted

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