Twenty thirteen Theme changed Color!!!!

Hi There,

Do you mean the background color was orange or the text color was orange?

Twenty Thirteen theme applies different background colors to your blog posts depending on the post format. Audio and video post formats use orange. If you made a new post that is neither of these post formats, the background color could show up differently.

If you have a link to your site and can be more specific about what is changing color, people trying to help can help you easier ?? Unless the above mentioned post-format thing was the issue.

thank for trying to help ??

yes the background color of the pages were orange, now they are white!
and it’s not the blog post it’s the regular pages going thru the whole website!

link to my site, imagine just with the first page the background color being orange (now white) could not find where to change it back!

greetings from Hawai’i ??

did not take link!

site is: https://www.alohareisenhawaii.ch

sorry!

Did you make modifications to the theme’s stylesheet to include the orange colour in the background? As far as I know there’s no built-in way to change that in a permamant way. There’s been updates to most of the default themes recently, so if you’ve updated that theme, you’ll have over-written any changes that you’ve made. That’s the biggest reason for setting up and using a child theme for any changes that you make to a theme.

is there any way to put it back into orange!

the whole site looks different just because of the color change! i’m with you about the child theme but not a computer nerd rather do Retreats & Tours then laptop!

any suggestion how to get original color back?

thanx for help!

The only way to get the colour back is to re-do whatever changes you did before to change the colour.

And as much as I do understand that you’re not quite up to the whole development idea, it’s worth taking note of the child theme because even if you change it again now the next theme update will over-write your changes again and you’ll be right back where you are now. That’s why I suggested it. I’d prefer you to do it right so that it will stay with you through any future updates instead of leaving you in the same position again.

Under Appearance > Editor it will open default to styles.css.
Look for this:

.entry-header, .entry-content, .entry-summary, .entry-meta {
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 604px;
width: 100%;
}

Add in these last two lines, so you have this, exactly:

.entry-header, .entry-content, .entry-summary, .entry-meta {
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 604px;
width: 100%;
background-color: orange;
padding: 20px;
}

If you don’t like how that looks (which you should, cuz it’s cool lookin’), instead of doing that, find this:

.site {
background-color: #fff;
border-left: 1px solid #f2f2f2;
border-right: 1px solid #f2f2f2;
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 1600px;
width: 100%;
}

Delete #fff and type in orange

BUT…

That will still be over-written by any future theme updates.

I do agree that that’s the place to make changes to see how they look before you apply them correctly (via a child theme), changes done thorugh the editor are not permanant changes.

Yup. Should actually add those to the child theme’s styles.css

But for now, until she learns how to make a child theme, it’s a temporary fix, if she gutsta haddat orinj.

okay – i get what you are talking about and looked it up but got suspicious – since it’s not in the header but body i took your 2nd suggestion, changed, typed and saved but it’s still white!!!!!!

tried just orange and tried #orange; but still white – but i see we are close!

did change unter: 3.0 Basic Structure

since in this theme the Header is by itself and fine, i don’t wanna touch it!

and as i said, not a computer nerd!

thanks so much for helping – even learning dutch i guess ORINJ!!!!

i tried the 1st suggestion too but still white, it says file uploaded successfully but goes back to be the same thing again!

i see you guided me to the right departement but that ORINJ is still not there!

more insights? thanx to everybody helping!

how about change body color here, but don’t know which number orange has!

isn’t that part of the website called the body?
if that is the color for white i’d just need the O. number!

whatya think?

body {
color: #141412;
line-height: 1.5;
margin: 0;
}

orange, not orinj, I was goofing. That’s why it didn’t work, spell it “orange”

Never mind, I see you got it. I thibk that looks good that way.

One thing you might want to do, though, is bring the footer up (the orange strip at the bottom) so it is one solid piece.

Find this:

footer.entry-meta {
margin-top: 24px;
}

And change it to 0px; instead of 24px;