5 Changes to The WordPress 2010 Theme Anyone Can Do

The default 2010 theme that comes as the default theme with WordPress 3.0 is rather basic but with a few changes and a bit of creativity can be used for any type of site.

Although there are many chanes you can make there are 5 changes that I always make and most people will want to make.

Prior the WordPress 3.o the only way to do this was to edit the theme files which required a really good understanding of WordPress and PHP.

However even if you managed to do it or get it done it was easy to undo it by doing an upgrade.

WordPress introduced child themes in WordPress 3.0 that makes theme modification safe from upgrades as it doesn’t change the theme files themselves.

However creating child themes again requires a good knowledge of WordPress and  PHP and is beyond what most people feel comfortable with.

However the good news is that a child theme has already beed  created for the 2010 theme which we can use to make or changes without having to create a theme of our own.

In the following video I will show you how to use the 2010 weaver theme to:

• Remove header image/logo
• Remove site title and tagline
• Change menu bar colour
• Change menu bar text colour
• Change menu bar and body content text size

Watch on youtube and don’t forget to comment

Changing the text size involves modifying the style sheet which we do indirectly via the advanced options and entering our style changes between the style tags.

The line starting with body changes the right menu and main content areas to have a larger font. The #access .menu-header, div.menu changes the top menu text to have a larger font. (see below)

body,input,textarea {font-size: 14px;line-height: 14px;}
#access .menu-header, div.menu {
font-size: 16px;
}