Thread: Customising a WP theme

I'm trying to choose a WP theme for my site. I am looking at these three:

http://wp-themes.com/decolor/
http://wp-themes.com/rgb/
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I'm going to want to add a graphic to the header. And on that third one, I'll want to change the colors of the header from shades of blue to shades of grey.

Anyone have any experience in this area?

Which one should I choose?

I really dislike that 2nd one...

Adding a graphic and changing colours shouldn't be too hard (but will depend on how the theme is coded). You'd need to edit the "header.php" for changing the graphic and the "style.css" for changing any colors, although it would be much easier if you knew what you were doing.

Give me a shout if you need help, it'll only take a few minutes for me to do.

Personally i'd go with the first one.

I like the first one. The second one looks a bit odd.

Originally Posted by tsdesigns

I really dislike that 2nd one...

Adding a graphic and changing colours shouldn't be too hard (but will depend on how the theme is coded). You'd need to edit the "header.php" for changing the graphic and the "style.css" for changing any colors, although it would be much easier if you knew what you were doing.

Give me a shout if you need help, it'll only take a few minutes for me to do.

Personally i'd go with the first one.

Thanks, ts. I'm really trying to do this myself. I need to learn this stuff, and if I keep asking people to do it for me, I'll never learn. But if I run into trouble, I will give you a shout.

Okay, so maybe the 2nd one is out. What do you think about the 3rd one?

It all depends on what banner you will be using on them, I really do think a banner can make or break as its the first thing that people see.

The third is a bit plain. The 1st is the one that I like the best. Its great that you are going to go in and change things around for yourself Im trying to get up the guts to go into my cpanel and put in a background for one of my sites, have had the pic for about 2 weeks now lol just dont like cpanels.

okay. First one, it is!

Thanks for the input.

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Originally Posted by tsdesigns

Adding a graphic and changing colours shouldn't be too hard (but will depend on how the theme is coded). You'd need to edit the "header.php" for changing the graphic and the "style.css" for changing any colors, although it would be much easier if you knew what you were doing.

About changing the graphic in the header...

The original graphic is in the image file and it's named bg-wrap.jpg Would it work if I changed the name of that image to bg-wrap2.jpg and then uploaded the new image that I want and name it bg-wrap.jpg??? Would that then show the new image without having to edit any of the header.php stuff?

If you want to change the banner then go to /images folder in the wordpress theme, and there will be header.gif or header.jpg .. Just replace your banner with that file with same name

Originally Posted by Red Hot Mama

About changing the graphic in the header...

The original graphic is in the image file and it's named bg-wrap.jpg Would it work if I changed the name of that image to bg-wrap2.jpg and then uploaded the new image that I want and name it bg-wrap.jpg??? Would that then show the new image without having to edit any of the header.php stuff?

If it was the right sized image you have as a banner then you just need to upload it with the same name (bg-wrap.jpg), then you don't need to edit any code. Replacing the image that is there already of course. The image will probably be in a folder called "images", i'm sure you'll find it

Originally Posted by tsdesigns

If it was the right sized image you have as a banner then you just need to upload it with the same name (bg-wrap.jpg), then you don't need to edit any code. Replacing the image that is there already of course. The image will probably be in a folder called "images", i'm sure you'll find it

I tried that. And was successful actually. But the original image I was using is a svg with a transparent background. When I saved it as a jpg the background turned white. So when it showed up on the page, it looked terrible.

Originally Posted by Red Hot Mama

I tried that. And was successful actually. But the original image I was using is a svg with a transparent background. When I saved it as a jpg the background turned white. So when it showed up on the page, it looked terrible.

Ah, in that case you'll need to change the css file.

Open "style.css" in notepad or something then search for "bg-wrap.jpg" and change it to whatever file you want, when you search for it it should come up with something like what i've said below.

I had a look and it says something like this:

Code:

background-image: url(img/bg-wrap.jpg);

All you need to do is change that filename to suit your image. I'd recommend saving the image as a .png or .gif file if your looking for transparancy .

So if it was a .gif you'd change that line of code to:

Code:

background-image: url(img/bg-wrap.gif);

Of course you will have to put the bg-wrap.gif image into the img folder too.

I'd go with the first one, like said above, the 2nd isn't really any good.