Changing Your Blog’s Appearance
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Tagged Under : Add new tag, customize blog, edit pages, theme editor, wordpress
To change your blog’s appearance you click on the Design Tab in the main navigation. The menu will come up with the following sub-menu:
The custom header link may or may not be there. Not all templates have a custom header. If you want to change this, click the link and change the banner. Make sure you right click the existing image and click on properties to see what the dimensions are so you know how big your replacement image should be.
Clicking onto Theme Editor will get you to the coded versions of your template where you can make changes. The big forewarning here is to make a back up of the code before you manipulate it. Copy and paste all the code in notepad and save the file to your computer and then close it. Do this regularly throughout the code adjustment to ensure you can always go back to a previous point if you screw something up. Keep in mind, you shouldn’t be messing with these pages unless you know what you’re doing.
The main pages you’ll want to edit are the style.css, header, footer, and sidebar. I’ll cover each one of these shortly.
