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Wordpress and Wits End

TachTach Registered User regular
edited May 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
Hey anybody with any experience with Wordpress or heavy CSS.

I'm trying to wrangle 3 sites that have Wordpress for blogs, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to customize the basic layout to look how I want it. I know VERY basic CSS, and can sort of make some things out here and there, but no where near to the degree I need in order to easily play around with it like I can with HTML. (I'm starting to miss pure HTML coding)

Is there something, somewhere that can make it easier to tell what is going on with the code? Perhaps a visual editor like Dreamweaver, only for CSS?

I'm really going crazy here, and my wife would like for her webpage to be up and running... anybody have any advice?

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    If you have a more recent version of Word Press there should be an entire Appearance tab in the admin section that will allow you to edit CSS via the admin pages.

    Defacto wordpress usually comes with two stylesheets

    /path/to/theme/style.css
    /path/to/theme/rtl.css

    The former has most of what you need, RTL is a lot more meta CSS that you might not have to touch.

    That same admin section will also let you edit the PHP include files involved in a given theme.

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  • TachTach Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I've had a look at the Appearance tabs directly, and while it does help with getting the colors close, it doesn't really help with my layout issues. Especially with adding my own graphics and such.

    I'm looking at the templates for the header, footer, etc, and I'm assuming that's where I need to go to add personalized graphics, link buttons, etc. Not exactly sure how to go about doing that.

    Tach on
  • QinguQingu Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Tach wrote: »
    I've had a look at the Appearance tabs directly, and while it does help with getting the colors close, it doesn't really help with my layout issues. Especially with adding my own graphics and such.

    I'm looking at the templates for the header, footer, etc, and I'm assuming that's where I need to go to add personalized graphics, link buttons, etc. Not exactly sure how to go about doing that.
    I doubt we use the same CSS templates, but in mine, you want to add that stuff in the main "stylesheet" file of the CSS—not the files for headers and footers. The stylesheet file itself should have code that determines how the headers and footers look.

    For example, if you want to make a background for the header, find the header section in the stylesheet and add a url to your background property for its css.

    I believe the separate header, footer, etc files just control what text goes into those elements based on your inputs on the actual site. They don't code for the appearance.

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