Customizing my wordpress site

Norwood

Norwood

Yes, norwood
Oct 3, 2009
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I just made a new site with this wordpress theme
WordPress › simpleX Free WordPress Themes

Using Firefox's firebug plugin on my site, I was able to preview edit the page so that the header is taller and has my custom image instead of the title. I changed the CSS rules for
<div id="headerimg">
to make the header taller, and edited the HTML of the <h1> tag inside it to make it an image instead of words. Now I just need to figure out how to actually make these changes to the theme. To change the CSS I'm guessing I can just edit the style.css that's in my website's directory, but I don't know how to change the HTML so the image will show up instead of the default title.
 


the code for the header is (usually) in the file called...well, how `bout that...HEADER.php

of course, it will probably be mixed with php code, but all you have to do is sift through it and make the same changes you did in firebug.
 
If you're really wanting to make some changes, get Dreamweaver.
Best website editing software out there, and it can edit sites in situ if you give it FTP access.
Also has a dual code/WYSIWYG function, so you can make the changes in the code and see how it pans out visually.

Other than that, it's basically the same, but hitting CTRL+S will actually make the changes.
Then again, Wordpress also has the theme editor built directly into the admin section.
 
Hi Norwood,

The only thing you need to do is edit the stylesheet to the specs you listed earlier. The stylesheet controls how things look. The other .php files you see when you are in the theme editor just control how things are laid out. Is your Wordpress self-hosted? If so, just upload it to your server and play around witht he CSS until you tweak it how you want it. If you don't want to do that, you could always get XAMPP and run wordpress from your desktop....then once you've tweaked your files sufficiently, you can upload it.

Now how 'bout a cookie for all my nahledge.
 
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