Everything looks fine with my new skin, the Thesis Theme for WordPress. Now I am ready to modify it and see what changes I can make.
This is set up really nice. The Thesis theme has a .style.css page but we, the users, do not change that, we change a .custom.css file. The custom file will control how the styles will look. For those of you who know css, the .custom.css file is more specific than the .style.css file.
I opened the .custom.css file but other than the instructions it is empty. I played with the examples and looked at the .style.css file to figure out what I want to change. I am going to copy everything from the .style.css into the .custom.css file and add “.custom ” in front of all the variables.
Copy variables from .style.css and paste into .custom.css then put .custom in front of each variable.
Now I can go in and change the variables to experiment on what I want to change.
I pasted the .custom in front of all the variables except the last group, “self-clearing floats from Dan Cederholm.” I cut and deleted this last group.
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Hi there - thanks for the tip but as I’m really not very technical can you please give an example about where to add the .custom.css? You say “in front of each variable” but I’m not quite sure where the front is and where one variable begins and ends! Thanks for you help. Pete
Hi Peter,
Good question. Here is a link to my .custom page for this blog. It’s a little messy as I did not do any code housecleaning but you will be able to see what changes I have made. Also, you can cut and paste from my page, put it into yours, then play around with it.
Actually, the one for this blog is boring, here is the one for my Top Blue Blog.
http://topblueblog.com/wp-content/themes/thesis/custom/custom.css
Rick, who helps out a LOT in the Thesis Forum, also has a link to his .custom sheet.
Lisa also had a link to her .custom style sheet.
Thanks very much! I’m a novice to all of this but I’ll have a look to see what damage I can inflict…
I know it’s like a year later but this was so helpful - thanks!
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