. How to Change Your Default WordPress Theme

In this WordPress Tutorial, I’m planning to teach you how to personalize your default WordPress theme.

To customize your WP theme, all you have to do is log in to your WordPress dashboard, and under the appearance tab, click on styles and you will see a list of readily available themes (At present you have a selection of Twenty Eleven, Twenty Twelve and now Twenty Thirteen).

You will initially require to activate your chosen style by clicking on the activate tab and once triggered you can then make changes.

And something that you can do extremely quickly is to modify the header image. Go and click on the Header tab found on the left hand side under Appearance, and you should see the default image. You are now offered an option of using your own image or selecting among the cost-free header images readily available for your use.

If you choose your own header image, the measurements should 1000 pixels broad and 248 pixels high. If it’s larger than this size, then the image will be cropped to fit and you may lose a few of the image information.

WordPress ThemeTo use among the complimentary WP Theme Headers simply scroll down and you will come throughout the default images that are readily available to you for your use. There are 8 to select from.

Now if you wish to build a really simple WordPress-Blogging site and are not too worried about the sort of header image you utilize, then you can make do with among the default images. Simply select the image that you want then click on Save Modifications.

If you visit the header image sneak peek, you can see the image that you have actually simply picked. So let’s go back to the WordPress theme again and revitalize this page … it will now be shown with the newly chosen header image.

An additional extremely simple means to tailor your WP style is to click on background. This provides you the opportunity to either upload an image for use as your background, or you can simply select a custom-made color. If you go through the path of using your very own image then ensure that the image will tile effectively as that is how customized background images work.

To personalize the colour of your background try to find the Show Options then click on select color. You will be then presented with a set of default colors which can be changed by utilizing the sliding bar (dark to light) or if you know the Hex code value (should look something like this # e2e2e) then you can enter that instead then click save modifications.

To get a list of Hex codes, do an easy search in Google or your favored online search engine for Hex colour codes and pick one from there. I think there are around 256 colors to select from.

As before, once you have made the changes and clicked save, just refresh the page to see the modifications take impact and see your brand-new WordPress theme.

For those of you who are technically mined and have an excellent knowledge of CSS and how to edit your CSS file, then you can just click on Editor and you ought to be able to see the. css4 file and make some modifications directly using that file. This not recommend for beginners or the faint hearted as if you change the incorrect code then you can completely corrupt your website which would be not great to every guy and his dog.

I hope you have enjoyed this article on altering the default WordPress Theme.