Color picker gone

  • Resolved desteele

    (@desteele)


    7 years, 3 months ago

    I have installed and activated the Harmonic theme, but I prefer a dark look and wanted to change the color scheme. I’m pretty sure when I was on a wordpress.com blog running Harmonic that this worked correctly. But on my selfhosted install the color picker under the theme customization only has a single selection button for the background color, and if I choose black, none of my text is visible since the default text color is black. I’ve already deactivated, deleted and reinstalled/activated Harmonic again, but the issue remains. Is this a known bug?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Moderator Kathryn Presner

    (@zoonini)

    Custom colours are a WordPress.com feature.

    If you provide a link to your WordPress.com site I can give you the CSS with your colour palette there that you can add to your self-hosted site.

    Thread Starter desteele

    (@desteele)

    Why have a background color chooser if you don’t have the option to change the font color? My old blog is at damonsteele.wordpress.com

    Moderator Kathryn Presner

    (@zoonini)

    Why have a background color chooser if you don’t have the option to change the font color?

    The background colour picker is a core WordPress feature. WordPress.com has extra functionality that is not available in core/self-hosted sites.

    I greated a Gist with your WordPress.com colour palette, so you can recreate it on your new site.

    https://gist.github.com/kathrynwp/5355d806703e96fd53064f3be0c4b4a0

    Don’t edit the theme files directly, otherwise your changes will be overwritten every time the theme is updated.

    An easy way to add custom CSS is to use the CSS editor included in the Customizer as of WordPress 4.7. Head to Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS to add your custom CSS.

    Thread Starter desteele

    (@desteele)

    Thank you so much, that is EXACTLY what I needed! I really appreciate your time!

    Des

    Moderator Kathryn Presner

    (@zoonini)

    You’re welcome!

    Thread Starter desteele

    (@desteele)

    Kathryn,

    I know this is an old topic, but I wonder if you would help me modify the code you linked me to in a very small way?

    I created a subdomain to hold my photo page and just used an additional WP install to handle, but as was the case before, I can’t control the colors easily. Your code helped solve that issue for the background, but now I want to change the header bar to be black as well. The URL is https://photos.damonsteele.com/, and I would like the header to be black with the embedded lettering to be a contrasting grey. I think the current color might be too dark.

    Thank you very much for your help…

    Damon Steele

    Thread Starter desteele

    (@desteele)

    Nevermind…I found it. ??

    Thanks…

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