Hi gartwo,
those colors change because the theme was built that way.
The theme uses four colors and, with these four colors, composes complete page.
If you want to change only a few colors, you should open the file “style.css” and change colors directly from here.
PS. if you use this method you should create a child-theme otherwise when the theme will receive an update, you will lose all changes.
Best regards,
CrestaProject
Thread Starter
gartwo
(@gartwo)
Thanks.
Forgive my ignorance, but why are no color changes I’m manually making to the style.css file taking affect?
None of the color changes I’ve made using the Customizer show up in style.css … all color attributes there remain true to the default theme.
Are changes made through the customizer written somewhere other than style.css?
If I could simply change all links to white I’d be a happy camper.
Thanks again.
Any CSS changes made through the Customizer are typically written directly to the <head> section of the site, after the theme’s stylesheet is loaded. Because those CSS rules are loaded last, those rules override the theme’s stylesheet.
Your best bet in this situation would be to get a custom CSS plugin (or use your theme’s built-in custom CSS option, if one exists) and use this code:
a {
color: #fff;
}
a:visited {
color: #fff;
}
a:hover {
color: #fff;
}
Exactly stephencottontail 🙂
Thread Starter
gartwo
(@gartwo)
Thanks again,
That took care of some of it. The only elements I can’t figure out how to change now are the buttons, icons and timestamps that appear with the posts, as seen here: http://basementofthealamo.com/?p=1#comments
I want all white on black bg inside the content area.
There’s also still a black hover on the nav bar. Is there separate css that controls this, as opposed to the code that changed the a:hover in the previous post?
Much appreciative
For the comments:
#comments a {
color: #fff;
}
And for the navigation bar:
#site-navigation ul li:hover > a {
color: #fff;
}
