customize your theme using css
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Customize your theme using CSS
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Michael Arestad@michaelarestad
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CSSCalifornia Cascading Style Sheets
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CSSBreaks Styles your site
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selector { property: value; }
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.entry-title { color: red; }
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It’s totally cool to break stuff.
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Theme Structure
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Header ContentWidget Area (sidebar)Footer
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Find a theme with these elements close to where you want them.
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Editing
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Cool.
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Dangerous.
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Neato.
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Child. Theme.
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Super cool.
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/* Theme Name: Twenty Fourteen Child Theme URI: http://example.com/twenty-fourteen-child/ Description: Twenty Fourteen Child Theme Author: John Doe Author URI: http://example.com Template: twentyfourteen Version: 1.0.0 Tags: light, dark, two-columns, right-sidebar Text Domain: twenty-fourteen-child */ !
@import url("../twentyfourteen/style.css");
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/* Theme Name: Twenty Fourteen Child Theme URI: http://example.com/twenty-fourteen-child/ Description: Twenty Fourteen Child Theme Author: John Doe Author URI: http://example.com Template: twentyfourteen Version: 1.0.0 Tags: light, dark, two-columns, right-sidebar Text Domain: twenty-fourteen-child */ !
@import url("../twentyfourteen/style.css");
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/* Theme Name: Twenty Fourteen Child Theme URI: http://example.com/twenty-fourteen-child/ Description: Twenty Fourteen Child Theme Author: John Doe Author URI: http://example.com Template: twentyfourteen Version: 1.0.0 Tags: light, dark, two-columns, right-sidebar Text Domain: twenty-fourteen-child */ !
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Editing theme CSS directly: Scary Edit CSS with plugins: Rad Child Themes: Super cool
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DEMO TIME!
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Browsers
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Your site will render differently across various browsers.
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Vendor Prefixes
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.entry-title { -webkit-transform: rotate(180deg); -ms-transform: rotate(180deg); transform: rotate(180deg); }
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Allow browsers to use newer CSS properties
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.entry-title { -webkit-transform: rotate(180deg); -ms-transform: rotate(180deg); transform: rotate(180deg); }
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How do I know which ones to use?
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box-shadow mdn
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Responsive Themes(and how to avoid breaking them)
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Media Queries
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@media (max-width: 768px) { .site-header { height: 160px; } }
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Painless changes
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ColorsFontsBackgrounds
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Not always painless changes
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LayoutPositioning WidthsPadding Floats
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Recap:Directly editing theme CSS is scary. Child themes are awesome. Use Inspector! Enjoy your customized theme.
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Learning CSS
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Questions
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Thank you!@michaelarestad