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WordPress

Isha Srivastava
Isha Srivastava
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Posted by Isha Srivastava
Isha Srivastava
5,002 Points

Wordpress theme

Hi I am very much new to wordpress and want to use this wordpress theme "http://demos.press75.com/on-demand/page/2/" for my video blog, just wanted to know using this theme with wordpress.org, will I be able to do the Editing in the color of the navbar or header and the background image or anything Ui related without doing any coding and if i will have to code to change this then only css of the theme should be touched right?

Please help!!

1 Answer

paulca55
paulca55
7,284 Points
paulca55
paulca55
7,284 Points

Hi Isha, I've had a brief look at the theme documentation and it seems like you can make quite a few customisations like site hyperlink/background colours, background and header images etc just by using the 'Customizer' in the WordPress Dashboard. The menu navigation items are also created in the dashboard too so no coding is required here either.

If you plan on making quite a few customisations to the theme that aren't available to change in the dashboard, such as changes to CSS and HTML/PHP files, then you would be wise to use a Child Theme so that your modifications aren't lost when new updates are released from the theme vendor.

However if you only need to make small visual changes which only require a few lines of CSS you would probably be better off using a Custom CSS plugin like Jetpack Custom CSS (which is included in the Jetpack plugin) or something like Simple Custom CSS.

I hope this helps.

Paul