I have a wordpress theme that has a back-end layout styler that allows me to easily change the font, color, & look of my site. Its nice and all however the customization ends up in a <style> </style> tag in the template; inside the header. How can I tell it to save to a "custom.css" instead? The theme I'm referring to is WooThemes- Canvas.
Unless you want to dig into the php of the theme and redesign how it works, leave it the way it is. Functionally, it's not that bad. It may not be pretty, but many frameworks do custom CSS that way.
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I have a wordpress theme, and it looks good now, however, I want to add a custom html form to it. But when I put the code in it whith path to its own css and js. The form looks terrible because of the css from the theme.
Is there any plugin or option to fix this or do I need to do it by an other way?
I looked everywhere on the internet but couldt find any solution.
Any help is welcome.
Thanks alot.
CSS means cascading stylesheets, and that's because the CSS from the page cascades downwards onto all the elements on the page. You either have to manually reset the CSS before it hits your form, or you need to embed your form as an iframe to avoid the cascade.
Theme and bootstrap css will override input fields with ton's of styles. You don't have much options but to find and "ran over" problematic styles with your own.
Use !important only if needed.
I've created my website that compiles my scss (boostrap, node_modules, my own custom css) to a single file. Now I'm wondering what would be the best way of styling gutenberg blocks in the editor?
I want to keep the responsive nature of my blocks from bootstrap and my styling what would be the best approach to do this?
If I'm understanding correctly, you want the CSS file for the front-end of your site to also apply to the block editor?
If so, that's as simple as adding add_theme_support('editor-styles'); in your theme files (such as in functions.php).
I find it helpful to create a second block-editor stylesheet to use only in the editor. Sometimes I find the media query breakpoints are too different or just need to tweak the front-end styles a little for the editor. For that file, you can use wp_enqueue_script() on the enqueue_block_editor_assets action hook so it applies only to the editor.
Random and probably dumb question-can Material-Design-Lite blog template be fully installed on Wordpress? Downloaded the full template from http://www.getmdl.io/templates/blog/index.html and wondering how to use the entire file....
Thanks!
Sure it is possible! I actually was playing around with MDL and integrated it into WordPress. If you are interested you can grab it off GitHub:
https://github.com/braginteractive/MDLWP
Yes, you can absolutely make a Wordpress template using MDL. Helping you do that though... is a bit of a big task. Try looking for help around the web on just building Wordpress templates, then when are you working with HTML, use MDL classes and necessary attributes for components.
Yes. You'll probably want to do so by creating a new theme. The MDL templates provides static HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Wordpress requires PHP to dynamically add your content. You could approach this from two directions: modifying an existing theme or blank starter-theme to work with the CSS and Javascript, or adding the necessary php to the MDL HTML files (and making them php files).
You could also potentially add the MDL css and javascript through a child theme or plugin to use only select portions of it if you're not looking for a MDL Theme. At a minimum you'll need to add classes to the elements you want to affect, and watch out for potential conflicts.
Not sure of your level of experience, but here are some starting points.
Wordpress Codex on Theme Development
A tutorial on creating a theme from static html
A tutorial on including your css and javascript files
Write now there are two themes available for free
MDLWP - Free Theme and premium plugins available -
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I often use small, page specific CSS files for a page in Typo3 using css_select. These styles usually apply only to some special element on these pages. Putting these styles in a global file doesn't feel right.
Using css_select I can select a bunch of files that may be included into the page's header, so that it loads it's special styles.
Now I'm looking for a way to do something similar in Django CMS 3. The only built in solution I'd know is to create a new template which seems a bit excessive for a single page where an image needs to be handled a bit differently from all the others, to name just one example.
Is there a way to do this using nothing but django CMS?
If not, is there an app that would do that?
If not, how could an app extend the page admin form in such a way that this function could be added.
You could extend the page.
See http://django-cms.readthedocs.org/en/latest/extending_cms/extending_page_title.html
A good example is https://github.com/nephila/djangocms-page-meta
This the above package allows you to add additional meta tags to page header.
I'm creating a small WordPress theme, which has a separate control panel. This panel has a lot of color and font changes. I had no problem in saving all the data into mysql, but I can't figure out the best way to apply these changes to the design.
What I want to ask, is what is the best, most efficient and popular way to apply color and font settings?
Should I apply these changes with style="" while generating the design? Should I edit it with JavaScript? Include it in headers <style>, or maybe even edit the .css file?
The best way would be to make the changes directly to the css file. For this you would need to parse the css content. Grab a specific selector content and change it's properties.
An easy way is to output the custom properties in the page header (after the style.css in order to overwrite the default properties) or to put them in a separate css file.
Also, it my be helpful an existing Wordepress theme generator, like http://www.lubith.com