Title: Modifying a theme (desert theme)
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Modifying a theme (desert theme)

 *  [anotherbleedinmuso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anotherbleedinmuso/)
 * (@anotherbleedinmuso)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-a-theme-desert-theme/)
 * Hello
    I think I’m doing quite well at modifying the Desert Theme simply through
   tinkering with the CSS file. Its all a bit hit and miss because I don’t really
   understand the CSS structure. but I’ve done a lot.
 * However I’m now stuck.
 * The originial theme looks like this:
    [http://managedtasks.com/wpthemes/blog/index.php?wptheme=Desert+Theme](http://managedtasks.com/wpthemes/blog/index.php?wptheme=Desert+Theme)
 * If you have a look at [http://www.bigaboutmusic.org/blog](http://www.bigaboutmusic.org/blog)
   you’ll see I’ve managed quite a bit but I don’t know how to do the following –
   can anyone help?
 * 1) The Title of the single post (the usual Hello World) is in black and I can’t
   find the code to change (I want it to match the purple.
 * 2) The text:
 * “Bloged in Uncategorized by admin Friday May 11, 2007”
    along with all the text
   in the side bar is brown (ish). I can’t seem to find the code for that. Again
   I want to change it to that purple.
 * 3)
 * I want to change “Suche” in the side bar to “Search”
    Where do I find that?
 * If anyone can point me in the right direction it would help.
    Thanks. Dave

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 *  Thread Starter [anotherbleedinmuso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anotherbleedinmuso/)
 * (@anotherbleedinmuso)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-a-theme-desert-theme/#post-562425)
 * Anyone? :-/
 *  [celiakyle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/celiakyle/)
 * (@celiakyle)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-a-theme-desert-theme/#post-562429)
 * To change the “Suche” to “Search”, find this code within your sidebar.php file:
 * `<h2><?php _e('Suche');?></h2>`
 * And change the Suche to Search.
 * To change the brown in the post title to purple, find this code in your css file:
 *     ```
       h3 {
       	 height: 14px;
           background:#C7BAA7;
       	 background-repeat: no-repeat;
           background-image:url(images/h2_sidebar.gif);
           margin-top: 0;
       	 width:100%;
       	 font-size:larger;
       	 font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma;
           text-transform: capitalize;
       	 color: #552704;
           font-size: 1em;
       }
       h3 a:link,
       h3 a:hover,
       h3 a:visited {
           border-bottom: none;
           font-size: 100%;
           color: #552704;
       	 padding: 2px 2px 2px 2px;
       	 height: 16px;
       	 vertical-align: bottom;
       	 padding-left: 16px;
       	 background-image: url(images/document.gif);
       	 background-repeat: no-repeat;
       	 background-position: center left ;
       }
       ```
   
 * And change the “color: #552704;” to the hex code for the color you’d like to 
   use.
 * For the post information and sidebar title colors, you need to change the color
   information in this portion of the css file:
 *     ```
       h2, h2 a:link, h2 a:hover, h2 a:active, h2 a:visited  {
           font: 95%  Verdana, Arial, Tahoma;
       	 letter-spacing: 0.2em;
           margin: 15px 0 2px 0;
           padding-bottom: 2px;
       	 padding: 2px 2px 2px 2px;
       	 font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma;
           text-transform: capitalize;
       	 color: #552704;
           font-size: .90em;
       	 background-color: #D1C7B4;
       }
       ```
   
 * Hope that helps!
 * Celia
 *  Thread Starter [anotherbleedinmuso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anotherbleedinmuso/)
 * (@anotherbleedinmuso)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-a-theme-desert-theme/#post-562430)
 * Thank you Celia!
    I”ll give this a try when I’ve loaded the dishwasher 🙂 I’ll
   let you know if it works.
 * Dave
 *  Thread Starter [anotherbleedinmuso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anotherbleedinmuso/)
 * (@anotherbleedinmuso)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-a-theme-desert-theme/#post-562448)
 * Celia – you’re a star.
    It works. If there’s anything I can do for you do let
   me know. Dave

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