menu changes I don't understand

  • hi all

    i have read through so many of the posts in regards to menu changes, i don’t know if i have confused myself or what, but I am in need of some help

    my website https://www.functionfitpt.com

    my objective. I have the current menu on the first page which runs the length of the main page in black. The words are a little close together. I know under the access section in the styles sheet it where I need to be, i have found the ‘font size’ changer which I can change the size inside the menu. but there is a lot of space between the ends of the words on either side.

    I want to increase the font size and the spacing between the menu items. I have tried using the firefox plug in, but it is a little to much for me to grasp.

    also when you click on a menu item, and are then taken to that new page, the menu then increases in size and one of the menu items moves down under to increase the vertical size.

    So if anyone can help me pinpoint the changes that I need to make to get this right, that would be awesome.

    cheers

    bret

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  • In your style sheet on line 675 you have this:
    #branding .only-search + #access div {
    padding-right: 205px;
    }

    Change that padding to 10 or 20 and that will prevent your nav from going on 2 lines. I would recommend that you just play with the code styles of the menu to learn how it works, but CSS is a bit tricky especially with navigation.

    Also, you shouldn’t be modifying the nav or anything else in the theme and instead you should be using a child theme. If/when the theme upgrades, you will loose all the work that you did.

    Thread Starter an63lu5

    (@an63lu5)

    thanks for the reply, i don’t really understand what you mean by doing a child theme, and for arguments sake I won’t be upgrading the theme for at least 6 months to 1 year at which time I will most likely be hiring someone to do these changes ??

    I have changed things in the css style sheet, but as I mentioned I don’t understand all of the coding. If you have info on how to change the buttons specifically that would be awesome as well

    thanks for your reply.

    bret

    See this on Child Themes:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

    I won’t be upgrading the theme for at least 6 months to 1 year at which time I will most likely be hiring someone to do these changes

    That makes no difference at all — if you do not use a Child Theme, any and all changes you have made will be overwritten when you (or whoever) updates. Plus, you MUST have a clean copy of the default theme available for troubleshooting various problems that could arise. Don’t create bigger, more serious problems for yourself down the road, by not doing it this way now.

    This is some basic info on using CSS — which will likely be helpful:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/CSS

    Thread Starter an63lu5

    (@an63lu5)

    again, thanks for the extra info, and I will take that onboard as well, but the answer to the original questions have still yet to be answered, and these are the things are most important to me right now.

    if anyone has an answer to the above questions, that would be great and allow me to finish off what I am trying to achieve.

    regards

    bret

    Thread Starter an63lu5

    (@an63lu5)

    also, i just tried to follow the directions to create this child theme directory but I can’t seem to find what it is talking about

    i am struggling to find a directory structure where i am to save the files or create them.

    where do i find wp-content directory?

    am i supposed to go to https://www.functionfitpt.com/wp-content/themes? it is quite confusing how i do this.

    Bret

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