DIY Wordpress or custom theme help

**onlinebetdotcom** · 31 May 2023, 5:04 am

Is there a way of taking a basic Wordpress theme and making it so I can control the header color, size and a few other things?

I'm thinking about making a basic theme but not sure what is possible for making your own. I'm just using it for mainly blog posts and pages for now.

**chaumi** · 31 May 2023, 5:53 am

I think you might want something like this, but there are several others...

https://www.kadencewp.com/

**NoDepositCasinos** · 31 May 2023, 11:06 am

Originally Posted by onlinebetdotcom

Is there a way of taking a basic Wordpress theme and making it so I can control the header color, size and a few other things?

I'm thinking about making a basic theme but not sure what is possible for making your own. I'm just using it for mainly blog posts and pages for now.

Yes, you can choose a free template and modify colors, fonts, and the overall structure of the page within certain parameters.

Each template provides its own options, and you can achieve good results with them. However, if you want more freedom, it is best to use code.

**xecutable** · 31 May 2023, 1:48 pm

Easily possible with basic CSS knowledge, using the Additional CSS from the Wordpress Customize menu. Affiliates usually choose themes based on their backend capabilities, like ranking tables, review tabs/blocks etc. The frontend of any theme can be transformed to literally anything that you'd like for the most part. These days with ChatGPT you don't even need that much knowledge either.

If we are talking about the site from your gpwa name, your header's class is called ".top-nav-wrapper"

so in the Additional CSS you would put

Code:

.top-nav-wrapper {
  background: red; (red is an example you can use any color name or hex #)
  height: 50px; (this is just an example in pixels like "50px;" could be in percentage like "5%)
}

depending on what exactly you need, everything can be changed

**onlinebetdotcom** · 1 June 2023, 6:12 am

Are these features fast loading? Was hoping it was a one time price not per year.

Originally Posted by chaumi

I think you might want something like this, but there are several others...

https://www.kadencewp.com/

**onlinebetdotcom** · 1 June 2023, 6:13 am

I will look. The main thing I want to try to do is change the color of my header and trying to get recent posts in the sidebar as a widget. The widgets just don't seem to show up and thinking I must look at changing the theme.

Originally Posted by xecutable

Easily possible with basic CSS knowledge, using the Additional CSS from the Wordpress Customize menu. Affiliates usually choose themes based on their backend capabilities, like ranking tables, review tabs/blocks etc. The frontend of any theme can be transformed to literally anything that you'd like for the most part. These days with ChatGPT you don't even need that much knowledge either.

If we are talking about the site from your gpwa name, your header's class is called ".top-nav-wrapper"

so in the Additional CSS you would put

Code:

.top-nav-wrapper {
  background: red; (red is an example you can use any color name or hex #)
  height: 50px; (this is just an example in pixels like "50px;" could be in percentage like "5%)
}

depending on what exactly you need, everything can be changed

**xecutable** · 1 June 2023, 7:23 am

The code I linked will do that, simply remove the height option and just leave the background one. Pick a color from the hex table like #00000 or if you just want a color like blue, red, green, you can use a word as well.

Wordpress comes with such a widget, but the locations where you can insert it without doing a lot of coding yourself depend on the theme. These can be seen under Appearances-Widgets. If you have only Footer, then indeed you might wanna look for a different theme, perhaps a plugin (don't suggest it).

As for the themes, most themes around here are 1 time purchase, but offer updates & support up to a year, and then you have to renew. Because the volume of new affiliates isn't what it used to be, devs probably can't make enough selling themes these days, so they went towards the SaaS business (software as a service), just like most software companies out there.

In this niche, you should be making enough to be able to afford a 100$ yearly fee anyways, so don't really think this should scare you, especially when you have a year of support.

**dannyx** · 1 June 2023, 2:42 pm

The best themes are Hello Elementor, which is a completely blank page.

There is no point in buying any gambling theme like mercury, dinomatic etc By that the site is like 10000 others. Non-gambling themes can be okay, but I'm still for a blank page.

**universal4** · 1 June 2023, 6:46 pm

Many many themes allow for at least some customization of the header colors etc as well as width and more.

Just look in > Appearance > Customize to see what options are available. Some themes will offer far more than others. And the methods Xecutable showed using css override the lack of built in customizing for all themes if you happen to choose a specific theme for other reasons.

Rick
Universal4

**DaftDog** · 2 June 2023, 1:52 am

Originally Posted by onlinebetdotcom

Are these features fast loading? Was hoping it was a one time price not per year.

The free Kadence theme is extremely fast and allows you to change the header colour, among many other features.

In the side menu, go to WP Appearance >> Customize. In the Customize section, go to Header and click on the Design tab, where you can change the background colour and also the layout of the header.

In my opinion, developers that only charge a once off fee for their themes usually go missing in action after a year or two. Theme updates are essential for keeping your theme secure and up-to-date with the latest WP changes.

Kadence Pro has a yearly charge, and you can use it on unlimited sites, plus it comes with a heap of theme enhancement plugins like Kadence Blocks Pro.

**onlinebetdotcom** · 2 June 2023, 6:07 am

Thank you for all the tips. I am going to do some work over the weekend to try to edit my current theme. I might switch the theme because widgets seems to be causing a problem and not working properly.

**JadeRaymon** · 30 August 2023, 10:21 am

Just make edits with CSS using ChatGPT

**Former Member 14** · 1 September 2023, 3:37 pm

Originally Posted by onlinebetdotcom

Are these features fast loading?

You have the URL, the info is on that page's URL. Check it out yourself!

Originally Posted by onlinebetdotcom

Was hoping it was a one time price not per year.

That's a bad choice. Here's why.

A one time payment means there is no incentive for the theme developer to continue to update the theme's compatibility with the current WP version #. Way too many folks have been caught out, thinking, a 1 off payment is best.

WP is known to make radically changes to its core every so often. Unfortunately, this can severely impact a theme's layout and functionality.

Longevity is far better with a WP theme with a yearly subscription; plugins with a yearly subscription too.

Your choice BUT after seeing way too many affiliates being caught with a WP theme that's unusable (1 off payment), to those who paid a yearly subscription, I'm sure those who didn't - wished they did

**Former Member 14** · 1 September 2023, 3:48 pm

Originally Posted by JadeRaymon

Just make edits with CSS using ChatGPT

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