Twenty Thirteen Backround / Font challenges

  • I’m trying to change the background of Twenty Thirteen, and along with it the font-color of the basic posts and pages. Now, yes, I know that the in-frame background is easy to change, but if you open up the site on a wide screen – say 1920 – it eventually stops scaling and you get white borders/background to the entire site. I can’t for the life of me find where to change this.

    I also can’t find where to change the color (default = black) of a page title. There is an obvious section in the CSS for Post Formats, but the default font text for the title and body of just a regular Page is black. So if I want to use a black background – which they make very easy to set within the body of the site – suddenly I can’t read anything, and it’s not very easy to change. I can highlight the text in the editor and make it white, but then I can’t actually use the editor ’cause it’s white on white. And of course there’s no way to easily edit the title.

    I’ve searched high and low in the main stylesheet, and other template pages, and can’t find a single remaining reference of black or white styles – yet there they are! They are mocking me! ?? Anyone figure out how to change these? For such a modern, new theme I’m actually pretty shocked this isn’t just part of the standard options.

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  • Do not edit the Twenty Thirteen theme. It is the current default WordPress theme and having access to an original, unedited, copy of the theme is vital in many situations. First create a child theme for your changes. Or install a custom CSS plugin.

    Thread Starter wazatron

    (@wazatron)

    Thank you esmi for the advice – but it doesn’t exactly answer my question. Anyone else? Still need to know what elements to override or edit either within a child theme or a CSS plugin.

    Once you have either of those set up, posta link to your site and someone can help you with the CSS to add.

    I have the same question and I am working with a child theme. The site is:

    https://thunderpawsfl.com

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    @draekblogs, are you sure that’s the right website? There’s no Twenty Thirteen theme installed there.

    It’s running the child theme thunderpaws of Twenty Thirteen

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Can you link us to the Child Theme style.css file?

    In Safari if you click on Show Web Inspector you see the style sheet. I’m not sure how to link it to you.

    Firebug in Firefox does the same thing.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Yeah, if we look at your source code nothing is apparent that you’re even using WordPress: view-source:https://thunderpaws.com/

    click on the <head> drop down

    I don’t see a WordPress site at that URL – are you sure that’s the correct link? Also, could you please start your own thread? This one belongs to someone else.

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post

    Thread Starter wazatron

    (@wazatron)

    Hi all – sorry for the delay, there’s still a lot of construction going on.

    The site here here: thejaggedrooms.com It’s currently a fresh Twenty Thirteen installation.

    The style changes I need to make – (ahem) through appropriate means – are:

    1. The “default” post font color is black. On the site, the first two posts on the home page are good examples. The titles “The Jagged Rooms” and “Welcome To The Jagged Rooms” are black. Once the background is changed to black, they of course blend. I’ll need to make them white, and can’t figure out for the life of me where this is defined. Same with the body text of these post types (“This site is based…”)

    2. If you open the site on a large enough monitor (1920 for example) you’ll see that there is a light bordering right at the centered width of 1600. Outside of that, and the page is white. Seems like it would be the background-background-background. ?? Again, I can’t for the life of me figure out where this White is set, or if it’s somehow just picked up as white by default and if so where to change it.

    Anyhow, that’s what I’m working on through this post. All of the comments are certainly appreciated. Thanks everyone!

    I would like to know this as well. I have stared at the default style sheet, inspected the heck out of the theme in chrome and have found no way to adjust that background from the white default.

    This.

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