Custom CSS

Custom CSS adds a sub menu to the Appearance menu in the Dashboard sidebar.

There you can add custom styles which will change the appearance of your blog.

To use the CSS module:

Activate the Jetpack Plugin (Dashboard-> Plugins)
Activate the CSS module in the Dashboard->Jetpack section

Edit the CSS in Dashboard-> Appearance -> Edit CSS

For example on this blog I’ve changed the colour of the Headers with:
.entry-title{color:#0080FF}

So all of the post titles should be blue unless you are on mobile.

You can find out more about CSS:
CSS | MDN

It might be a good idea to remember that the theme developers know a lot about design and CSS before changing things too much.

Here is a wee snippet to get rid of auto hyphens in the TwentyFourteen theme:

.entry-content,
.entry-summary,
.page-content,
.nav-links,
.comment-content,
.widget
 {
   -webkit-hyphens: none;
   -moz-hyphens:    none;
   -ms-hyphens:     none;
   hyphens:         none;
}

If you add that to the custom css there will be  no automatically hyphenating your text.

 

and this code makes the menu on this blog transparent:

.menu-item-type-custom,.menu-item-object-category {
background: #000;
opacity: .7;
}

menu-item-type-custom,.menu-item-object-category a {
opacity: 1;
font-weight: bold;
}

menu-item-type-custom,.menu-item-object-category a:hover {
color: yellow;
opacity: 1;
font-weight: bold;
}

This snippet will change the menu and post titles from ALL caps to title case on TwentyFourteen.


 .site-navigation, .entry-title, .entry-header a {
text-transform: capitalize;
}

.site-navigation a {
text-transform: capitalize;
}

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John

I am a teacher, currently working in Banton Primary for North Lanarkshire Council. I also act as Product Owner/provide support for Glow Blogs. I like Blogs.

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