Changing your Header text in WordPress
This weblog is supposed to be about web design so let’s do just a little of that, o.k.? We’ll start with this WordPress blog. Just the simple stuff. Remember, I haven’t finished my web design classes yet, lol.
You can’t see it now because I changed it but the text in this blog header used to be really ugly:
Header before any changes
I hated the way the tag line was all in CAPS and SHOUTED at my nice friends :)
I knew that I had put my new WordPress tagline in much differently by going to my “Settings” in the “General” tab from my WordPress Dashboard.
Blog name and tag line under General Settings
See, I told you I wasn’t yelling about it at all.
Luckily, I have had just a wee bit of practice with CSS because I was able to guess that maybe the presentation of that tagline was controlled by a CSS style.
To edit your CSS styles in WP, you need to click on the “Design” tab in your dashboard, then “Theme Editor”. You’ll get a nice big box that is the editor with a list of all the files for your theme running down the side.
To edit your CSS style sheet
My template files were at the top and the styes were way at the bottom. Guessing again that my particular irksome code was in the main stylesheet, I clicked on that to open it in the editor box and scrolled down a bit to find the header section of my stylesheet.
I wasn’t exactly sure what I was looking for but thought I’d recognize it when I saw it. I think you’ll know too:
The actual code in my CSS style file
Once I spotted the text-transform line, deleted it and clicked on the “Update File” button at the bottom of the theme editor box, the problem was solved.
I also went back into my “Settings” in the General Tab and changed the name of my blog a bit.
Now my header text says “what I wanted to say” “how I wanted to say it”. That’s the whole point of editing your WordPress template, right?
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